Buffalo Deuce

Tennis? Competitive Eating? It’s Buffalo Deuce

What I’m about to share can easily be a drinking game and probably is already somewhere

But I’m thinking about competitive eating / I’m thinking about the success of an interview show like Hot Ones and I’m here to talk about how we combine watching tennis with eating.

“Buffalo Deuce” Eat a hot wing/ cauliflower every time a tennis game goes to deuce…

And you watch the match with at least one other person, and the winner is the one who lasts the longest

But - then it struck me - there are like 90 pro tennis tournaments each year between January and November and these matches are all over the world?

So, maybe instead of Hot wings — you cook an authentic dish from the country / region/ city that is hosting the tournament and THAT food is eaten in copious amounts

It's time to talk about Creed -- wait really?!?!

early Creed is about as good of mainstream 90s radio rock as there was - because most of us had no idea it was Christian rock 

Growing up in Eastern MA in 1980s and 90s - you didn’t know Christian Rock existed 

I grew up on pop music and all kinds of Hard Rock - 70’s Rock, Glam Rock, elements of Heavy Metal, Grunge, etc — never EVER knew that Christian Rock was a thing.

I eventually became very aware of and immersed in hip-hop. I was aware of Disco, and Country Music and the genre the eventually became known as Yacht Rock — and never EVER knew that Christian Rock was a thing 

Heard Creed live at River Rave in 1998 — and sonically it was excellent

Quasi-Car ride game: How long does it take you to realize a song is about Jesus? Because with Creed it took like 3 years! 

A lot of times the musicianship in a Christian Rock song is very very high level. 

So, if you’re predisposed to liking Rock music — and the musicianship is great — you find yourself saying oh I like this… and then at some point by the 2nd chorus you’re like “A-HA!” this is song is about Jesus (which is fine) … but as Catholics we just really have a fire wall between Songs about God and songs we listen to about everything else

But with Creed - I go back an listen to their first album and I still don’t necessarily feel that there is an obvious reveal — and I know it’s there

So, I ask you “how great is Creed” musically on those first records?

Also, they essentially made me aware of a genre existing - but nobody seems to be anywhere close to Creed in terms of crossing over into pop rock zeitgeist 

And yes, they became a cartoon of themselves like most amazingly successful bands eventually become — but those are real rock songs from their first album

One thing I don’t like about country is the heavy literal story telling of the lyrics… I feel like a lot of Christian Rock relies on that same structure… Creed didn’t do that on their early hits in my opinion — they left room for interpretation … which is what makes most Pop/Rock Songs so great in my opinion

2021 Rock Hall of Fame Nominations - Rankings & Predictions Edition

2021 Rock Hall of Fame

First off go to vote.rockhall.com to Vote

Fan standings — When DEVO is getting more votes than Jay-Z — the fan vote stinks

Top 5 at the moment — Feb 21, 2021 — Fela Kuti, Tina Turner, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, Carole King

From 2017 Podcast —

LL Cool J did more for hip-hop then almost anybody else — he helped make it commercially viable. he pretty much invented the slow jam with “I need love”.

Going Back to Cali, Who do you love, "Doin’ it" and Mama Said Knock you out — murderer’s row of jams - plus Around the way girl, Headsprung, Hey lover, Phenomenon, Rock the Bells… my goodness he’s greatness in a can — and he’s been a TV star for like 20 years

Rage Against the Machine — too original, too politically relevant, too talented to be left out — invented a version Rap Hard-Rock and nobody really ever touched them

Tom Morello is a handsome Vin Diesel

So — really quickly — let’s go back to LL Cool J… everything I said in 2017 is still true BUT Jay-Z has taken Hip-Hop to another level… and he never really dropped off in terms of quality content for like 20 years

This is a good time to point out that there’s several bands/acts that are going to potentially cancel each other out (or become an either/or proposition)

Jay-Z vs. LL Cool J (HOVA!)

Overrated Punk / New Wave — DEVO vs. New York Dolls (NY Dolls, Man)

Dionne Warwick vs. Chaka Khan (too lose to call) — Also, Chaka sometimes gets nominated with Rufus. Give the nod to Dionne… But do yourself a favor and listen to “Like Sugar” by Chaka Khan it a SO DAMN FUEGO … WHEW!!! Bass-line is undeniable

Kate Bush vs. Carole King (gotta give it to Carole King— my over simplified reason — remakes of their songs … D’Angelo does a better job with This woman’s work than Kate Bush… Aretha Franklin did a better job than Carole King with “you make me feel like a natural women. When Aretha Franklin picks your song and makes it her own… you by extension are the winner...

Tina Turner vs. Mary J Blige — I can actually see both of these women getting in — But not this year… Tina takes it — Tina is also ALREADY A HALL OF FAMER from 1991 with Ike & Tina Turner. Let’s get her in there twice

Iron Maiden vs. The Go-Go’s — they are nothing alike — they both really don’t scream HALL OF FAMERS to me — not saying they’ll never get in. Not saying a don’t enjoy them both — but neither is in the top 5 or even top 10 of these nominations

Fela Kuti vs. Todd Rundgren — Fela is so damn unique. Todd gets nominated every year and never gets in — which means he’ll get the nod eventually — but not from me. Todd might have to start his own Hall of Fame for borderline HOF'ers

Rage Against the Machine vs. Foo Fighters — These two aren’t a lot a like either — i’m just out of comparisons. Both are great, both will get in at some point.

5 who should get in — Jay-Z, Tina Turner, Rage, Dionne Warwick, Fela Kuti (Meters award for a friend exposed me to them)

5 who will get in — NY Dolls, Carole King, Tina Turner, Iron Maiden, Foo Fighters

Grammy Count:

Tina Turner - 8 grammys, 25 nominations, 3 grammy HOF awards and a grammy life time achievement award.

Dionne Warwick - 5 grammy, 14 nominations, lifetime achievement award

Mary J - 9 Grammys, 31 nominations

Chaka Khan, 10 Grammys, 22 Nominations

Carole King - 4 Grammys, Nominations

Kate Bush - 3 nominations

Foo Fighters - 11 grammys, 27 nominations (Dave Grohl is a Hall of Famer)

Rage - 2 wins, 7 nominations

DEVO - 1 nomination

NY Dolls - 0

NFL Playoff Team as COVID-19 Characters

NFL Playoff Teams as characters from COVID-19 (Past Pods were based on Game of Thrones Characters, Star Wars Characters and Always Sunny in Philadelphia Characters)

possibly our 5th annual? Definitely our 4th annual!

This is the widest choice spectrum in our 5 year history of this podcast — but, I still think we’ll pick 3 teams as the same thing from COVID-19

Zoom, Kobe Bryant (the only thing before COVID and a Harbinger of things to come), Unemployment/ Stimulus, Masks, Social Justice/BLM, Tok Tok/ Ocean Spray Guy on the skateboard, Election (Biden/Trump), Vaccine

Tiger King - Carol Baskin, Joe Exotic

The Last Dance

Karen’s Unhinged

Anthony Fauci

AFC: 1 Kansas City Chiefs (Bye), 2 Bills vs 7 Colts, 3 Steelers vs. 6 Browns, 4 Titans vs 5 Ravens

NFC: 1 Packers (Bye), 2 Saints vs 7 Bears, 3 Seahawks vs 6 Rams, 4 Wash Football Team vs 5 Buccaneers

NFC Teams

Packers are “the last Dance” — Rodgers “took it personally”

Saints — Roy Jones Junior from the 50+ Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones exhibition. Shadow of their best days because they’ve taken so many haymakers over the years, that it’s bound to end badly again

Bears — Rudy Guiliani’s press conference live from the Four Season’s Landscaping — you think it’s a good thing the Bears are in the playoffs, but really it’s more of an embarrassment to all almost everybody involved

Seahawks are Carol Baskin (started COVID as a potential mastermind and murder) — by November has faded from the MVP of COVID times like Russell Wilson has faded in the MVP Race

Rams are “Murder Hornets” — They are Hugh Grant’s character from HBO’s “The Undoing” with our friend Nicole Kidman. As much as they tried to make Jonathan aka Hugh Grant not seem like the murder… it’s been pretty obvious that despite best efforts that the Rams are guilty of being a tier below a true title contender

Washington Football Team — are the $600 Stimulus checks — Alex Smith is a feel good story but it’s nowhere close to enough to make anything meaningful happen

Buccaneers - "Aliens are Real” - Brady at 43 on a different team is strange. After a day or two everybody said “meh” and then like 5 months later a retired and credible Israeli Govt Official reiterates that “no seriously Aliens are real”… and then Tom Brady and his team rip off six wins in a row, because he’s an alien and what do Aliens have (the best weapons). Ipso Facto: TB12 is an Alien

AFC Teams

KC Chiefs are Fortune 100 companies and Airline Industry — they’ve always got enough juice to get bailed out - and they’re gonna keep winning because they are the 1%

Bills are the Lt Governor of PA John Federman (sp?)— things were looking ugly and then they just came in to drop the hammer, save the day, and flip the script on the AFC and potentially the whole League

Colts (Mike Tyson from the Mike Tyson Fight) - Been years since we’ve taken him serious. We question why we continue to watch Philip Rivers but as things have marched on your eyes keep telling you — he’s kinda still got it. (Shoutout to Frank Reich the true genius behind the Eagles’ Super Bowl Title

Steelers — Joe Exotic — started out ON ABSOLUTE Fire and by the end it’s pretty clear that they aren’t who we thought they were and they are not coming out of this as the winner.

Browns — They are the convergence of Jupiter and Saturn — it’s the first time in 450 years since they made the playoffs, but we’re all happy to see them briefly

Ravens — Lance Armstrong Documentary — they will never apologize for who they are, despite being flawed. Not implying that they cheat… and honestly that part of Lance Armstrong isn’t applicable. But the Ravens if they play a perfect game on offense can easily win and it won’t even be close — like Lance back in the day

Titans — they are the NBA Bubble’s eastern conference number 5 seed, the Miami Heat… They literally have to “out tough you” to win. And they likely can hang around - unless their opponent plays at their absolute best

Wildcard Card Round Picks

Saints vs Bears (this game will be way too close for Saints but they’ll eek it out)

Seahawks vs Rams (could see either team winning close or Seahawks in a blowout — going with Seahawks Close

WFT vs Bucs — I think Bucs get it done

Bills vs Colts — The Bills seem like a touch too talented to get beat in round 1 — but Colts might make them earn it

Steelers vs Browns — division rivals could go either way — I’ll go Browns in the upset

Ravens vs Titans — rematch of last year. Last Year the Ravens were the Rocketship and the Titans found a way — I think the Ravens pay the favor back this time, but that means Lamar plays his first great playoff game. If he can’t do that — Titans take it

Who’s your final four, who’s going to Super Bowl 55 and who’s gonna win this thing?

With no fans in the stands in most of these stadium — this is the hardest season of trying to pick these games — plus 2 extra teams qualified for the first time.

I’ll go with Chiefs hosting Bills in AFC Title Game.

NFC Title game is going to have at least one lower seed I’ll try Packers hosting Seahawks - but only because I have zero faith in the Saints. (Rams, Bucs, Seahawks could all go on a real run).

Packers vs. Bills - Super Bowl

Packers to win it… but let’s make it clear — Packers, Bills, Chiefs, Ravens, Rams, Bucs, Seahawks could all win this thing — 7 of the 14 teams could get this thing done.

The New York Jets are going to be sold to Gary Vaynerchuk in 2021

The Jets are the first 2-13 “Nobody Believes in us" team which is why…
The Jets are going to be sold by the Johnson Family to a new ownership group headed up by Gary Vee

0-3 - coming off 2 straight blowouts. Played Denver tough, lost by 9 to go 0-4

Then lose by 20 to Cardinals, by 24 to Dolphins, by only 8 to the Bills, and then lose by 26 to the Chiefs to go 0-8.

Something snapped in the Jets and the very average NE Patriots needed a miracle to beat the Jets by a field goal. 0-9

Game 10 - a below average by exciting Chargers team beats the Jets by 6. now they’re 0-10 and in game 11 the Dolphins stomp them by 17, now they’re 0-11

Game 12 - Gregg Williams send the house on a blitz against the Raiders. Jets essentially lose on a Hail Mary. Williams Fired (Williams was the Mole).

Williams gets Fired — but Adam Gase is definitely gonna get fired, and the Johnson’s likely give Williams some type of golden parachute and/or a wink/nod on coming back as DC next year with new HC

Game 13 - Jets get stomped by the Seahawks 40-3

Now 0-13 — something snaps again. Like that scene in “Pulp Fiction” between Butch and Marcellus Wallace. “PRIDE STARTS MESSING WITH THEM”.

Week 14 - Jets blow their number pick, but the players and the coaches avoid going 0-16 and kind of screw up the Rams season in the process (Rams had just smoked the very average Patriots)

Week 15 — Jets already essentially doomed to get the number 2 pick even if they lose the rest of their games due to a strength of schedule technicality — Jets go out and beat the Cleveland Browns — which basically ends the Browns chances at winning the AFC North — cuz the Steelers came back to beat the Colts.

Now they’re 2-13 and face the very average Patriots (whole they almost beat earlier this season). Win on lose in Game 16- the Jets get the number 2 pick.

If the Johnson’s can’t have #1 Pick and Trevor Lawrence… then they don’t want to own the team for the next decade plus any way — and now they guarantee that if Gary Vee does get the team - he won’t have Trevor Lawrence, either

Historical Fan-Fiction; laced with an Outlandish Projection for the future — but, when it comes to the Jets, no matter how far flung the theories are… they’ll likely find a way to do something even more inexplicable.

But, what about this for fan-fiction? The Jets get sold to Gary Vee… the Jaguars and Lawrence never quite make a Super Bowl… and Gary Vee’s positive thinking and outside the box thinking helps to reset the culture. Sam Darnold turns into the real deal. Jets win a Super Bowl, now that the Johnson’s aren’t around to mishandle the fortunes of the franchise.

Kitchen Quarantine Part 14 - Take out and Delivery Rankings

Take out/delivery  rankings.

Types of food, what travels well, how you’ve modified ordering and how restaurants in our areas have started to adapt

Travels well. Most pizza. Indian food (aloo gobi, tikka masala, all of it) 

Ironic blue cheese traveled well... baked Buffalo twins travelled poorly 

Fake band name of the week - Liquids on the Side or Storm Trooper Fashion Show 

Fried or grilled Buffalo wings - way longer shelf life 

Sushi on foot yes. Sushi via car - dicey 

Breakfast (less than a 20 min walk is necessary- preferably under 10)

Chicken parm - boom

French fries - need to be quick 

Pizza - always good - but within 20 better 

Tacos. Yellow door taqueria in south end. The best - travels well

BBQ brisket sandwich travled great. 

Chicken nachos - 50% travel success rate

Mandalorian Chapter 14 was Fire

Grogu aka Baby Yoda gets abducted

The Razor Crest gets nuked

Boba Fett LIVES! 

Christmas List for the New England Patriots

The 2-5 Patriots would be 4-3 at best if they still had Brady -- so who cares, moving on was still the right decision for Tom and for the New England.

Bill is still rolling the dice that this season might not finish or that other teams will get caught with bad health luck and they could be in the mix at 8-8 or 9-7 for that 7 seed

Bill chould pull a FULL TANK and lose 9 more in a row, including 2 to the Jets — just to troll them in the most inexplicable way possible

Christmas List, what Christmas List? JJ from ManCookGood says “keep Cam for 2 years 40 million and see what happens”… don’t hate it!

Arsenal and Hoffenheim take a shot a creating some "late match theatrics

Carabao Cup Leeds tied Hull in 93rd minute - game went to PK’s and ended 9-8

B36 Torshavn scored in 120th minute against The New Saints of Wales in European qualifying  - game went to PKs - think torshavn won again. 

Stoke City beat Wolves in the 86th minute of a Carabao Cup match

FC Steaua Bucharest tied a team 6-6 in Europa League Qualifying and won in penalty kicks

This stuff is everywhere - big games, big stakes, and little clubs with big dreams 

Arsenal 2-1 over West ham in 85th minute 

Köln 2 - 3 Hoffenheim // goal each 86th and 92nd minute

Luton town beat Derby in 87th minute 

Peterborough beat Fleetwood town 2-1 scoring both goals after the 90th minute 

PSV 2-1 over FC Emmen - both teams scored in 83rd and post 90th to make the result 

Europa League Qualifiers - Faroe Islands - Budapest - Podcast Notes

Europa League Qualifying 

Honved 2 - FC Inter Turku 1 & B36 Torshavn 4 - FC Levadia Tallinn 3 

Honved FC is based in the Kisbest section of Budapest. 

Honved means “Homeland Defense” // formed in 111 years ago (August of 1909)

14 time League Champs most recently in 2016-17

8 time Cup winners including 2019-20

They won the now Defunct Central European Cup in 1959 

FC Inter Turku aka Football Club International Turku - based in the city of Turku Finland (Southwest coast of Finland) 

They’ve won 1 league title (2008) and 2 Finnish Cups (2009 & 2018) 

play in a 9,372 stadium 

Founded in 1990

Made the Champions League once in 2010

Call the game highlights 

B36 Torshavn of the Faroe Islands 

Semi-professional team - playing in the Europa League Playoffs 

They’ve won 11 Faroe Island Premier League Titles (2015), 6 Faroese Cups (2018) and 1 Faroese Super Cup (2007)

Based in the capital city of Torshavn - founded in 1936 hence the B 36 in their name 

49 all-time European Matches - 5 wins, 10 draws, 34 losses 

FCI Levadia Tallinn based in Tallinn, Estonia. Founded in 1998 moved to Tallinn in 2004 

9 League Titles, Record 9 Estonian Cups, 7 Estonian Super Cups 

Call the game highlights 

Kamala Harris and the Boston Celtics in one place

Celtics vs. Sixers - playoffs

Have you watched most recent episode of Below Deck Med?

Phillies vs. Red Sox? How are Phillies this season? 

Dan likened this season to a death march, why? 

Celtics took game 1. Gordon Hayward is out for a month. Celts can’t rebound. 

i think this goes 6 and either team could still be the winner

Flyers vs. Montreal - gotta pull for the Fly Guys in that one. Flyers are up 3-1 

Bruins somehow are 2-0 since Tuuka Rask Left and lead Carolina 3-1. 

You gotta fight fire with fire with people like the current President — think it’s an awesome pick

Before Biden Picked Harris - where did you have Harris ranked on his potential list of running mates? And Why?

Who else did you like from that potential list of running mates? 

I was surprised that Harris’ campaign didn’t get more traction during primary season… any thoughts as to why that was the case? (Bernie and Biden seemed to take the air out of the room in a lot of ways, perhaps?)

Tim Kaine was a “milk toast” uninspired pick for Hilary in 2016 — Kamala Harris is NOT THAT for so many reasons.

Here’s a tweet from day 2 on the VP ticket - “Trump inherited the longest economic expansion in history from Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And then, like everything else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground.” 

PSG crushes the dreams of Atalanta in excruciating fashion

That Time Atalanta was about to upset Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and then PSG scored 2 goals with 2 minutes left to crush the dreams of Bergamo Italy. Football is a cruel  sport and we caught and shared the ending. 

Places listening 

Paris France #1, Arlington VA #2 and Moscow #3  

UK, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia ,Australia and Fiji 

Suva, Fiji

Icod De Los Vinos, Spain (actually the Canary Lines) 

Tofol, Micronesia 

Brussels, Sydney, Barcelona, London and Chandler AZ 

Atalanta first ever Champions League Campaign 

Team is 112 years old  from the city of Bergamo in Lombardy Italy

Their game in February is seen as one of the largest super spreader events in the COVID-19 pandemic 

PSG - founded in 1970 

Have made round of 16 or QuarterFinals in 9 of the past 10 seasons 

Haven’t made semis since 1995 

They’ve got Neymar - the most expensive free-agent transfer of all-time (at least when the deal was done) - gotta be heavy favorites 

Red Sox are a mess in 2020 - which is on brand for 2020 w/ the "Sportz Jerks"

Red Sox stink but MLB baseball is back (for now)

Let’s start with former Red Sox cult hero and Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly throwing behind Houston Astros Batters. 

Jeremy - every MLB team should have a guy on their roster like Joe Kelly, tell us why? 

Leave it to the red sox to beat Jake De Grom - At least Eovaldi is getting run support.  

Blame Pie - we go down the payroll and assign blame 

Active Payroll is $115 million, the injured reserve payroll is $52 million (so almost 33% of the salaries)… and if you adjust the salaries for the shortened season… $43.7 million for active payroll and $15.7 million for injured reserve, so either way over 25% of your salaries are going to dudes who are injured 

JD Martinez - I’m going with Base salaries not adjusted - he’s at $23.75 million

Xander Bogaerts - $20 million

Nathan Eovaldi - $17 million

Jackie Bradley Jr. - $11 million 

Martin Perez - Pitcher - $5.5mil

Kevin Pillar - $4.25mil 

Christian Vasquez - $4.2mil

Jonathan Lucroy - $1.5mil

Brandon Workman - $3.5mil

Andrew Benintendi - $3.4mil

Matt Barnes - $3.1 mil

There’s a bunch of dudes I don’t know or care about but we can go through them 

Mitch Moreland $2.5mil - play him

Rafael Devers - $692,500 - play him 

Alex Verdugo - $600,000 - play him

Michael Chavis - $571,000 - play him - but not a 1B

Chris Sale - $30million 

Dustin Pedroia - $13mil

Eduardo Rodriguez - $8.3million (he’s only on 10-IR — he pitched well in 2019 relative to these other guys)

Paying David Price - $5.9mill (and he counts $16,000 against the luxury tax)

Paying Pablo Sandoval - $5mil 

Paying Manny $2million in deferred money - that’s ok 

Rusney Castillo is getting $14.27 million this year in a “buried minor league contract” 

Who’s on the trade block - Xander has a full no trade clause 

Eovaldi ? is he worth a flyer for a contender? 

Jackie Bradley? same as Eovaldi? 

Underrated Prospects

Baseball Analytics is “dead” in a 60 game season. 

the manager Roenicke, seems to be going out of his way to “out do” Bobby Valentine as worst 1 year manager of the 21st century for the Red Sox. 

Airing of Grievances 

Predictions going forward — As Clubber Lang said in Rocky 3 - my prediction is pain! Red Sox are tanking 

It didn’t have to be like this - it started with the overreaction of firing Alex Cora and the Mookie Betts deal with the Dodgers was an exclamation point! But lots happened along the way.

Moreland got benched the day after 2 homers - team can’t score 

Verdugo vs. Lefties rant from Andrew 

Benintendi, Pillar, What else 

Kitchen Quarantine Part 12 - Summer foods and hating on Gazpacho

Part 12 

Peak Summer Time / Heat Wave Cooking Tips 

Shellfish

Grilled Bread 

Ceviche

A Surprisingly Aggressive take on gazpacho

Boozy Summer Cocktails

Funky Cheese and Fruit

Corn

Tomatoes 

Sweet Drizzles

Toasted Nuts

Herb Uses

Peaches, Peaches, Peaches

Mangos 

Toast Ovens

Morning Prep: Boiling and Blanching 

A-Rod 3D Chess with Ben Affleck.  A-Lo and Robert Kraft buying the Mets 

Kitchen Quarantine part 11 - Technology in protests and social justice

5 Commitments to making change to systemic injustice & racism today and every day 

Vote and encourage others to vote if they’re eligible 

Advocate for anti-racist policies by reaching out to you elected representatives 

Educate yourself and educate others on systemic racism 

Donate to anti-racist organizations and/or those which are committed to fighting for social justice and civil liberties (I started this in 2017 when the current president took office) and this week I doubled down and became a sustaining monthly donor of a second such organization

If you can’t donate - signal boost and amplify those causes so that others will learn about them

Check In - with friends and loved ones adversely impacted by racially charged attacks and systemic oppression and racism 

Places listening: France, USA, UK, Australia, Russia, Germany, Brazil, South Korea, Spain, The Philippines, Canada, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ukraine, and an “undefined country” (what the EFF does that mean)?

How was golf?

How was the camping trip? 

We should do a “picnic hack” episode 

Fake band name of the week “Pack a Helmet” 

Part 8 - Kitchen Quarantine - missing food and places from "back in the day"

Kitchen Quarantine Pod with Man Cook Good

Part 8 - day 63 in quarantine 

Things you miss from the pre-COVID eating experience 

places listening France, USA, Ireland, UK, Australia, Russia, Portugal, Germany, Norway, Austria, Iran

Paris, Philly, Dublin, Ballarat Australia, Barreiro Portugal, Oslo Norway, Oldenburg Germany

Magnolia Smokehouse - brookline village - been going since 2003 — so great

miss sushi

miss bar scene at so many spots legal seafood, davios, del frescos, capital grille 

miss sharing crummy pizza with people 

miss doing yard work and grabbing some seafood at the cape

where does ManCookGood grocery shop? 

30 Day Song Challenge Podcast - Days 16-30

Day 16 - A classic favorite 

Ben E. King - Stand By Me

Shout Pt 1 & 2 - the Isley Brothers 

The Weight by the Band 

It’s 9-7 in favor of Cindy 

Day 17 - Karaoke Song w/ friend 

Take me home tonight 

Lady Marmalade 

Hunger Strike 

Wanted Dead or Alive 

Friends in Low Places 

No Woman No Cry 

I remember you - Skid Row 

Podcast Idea — Ranking Playlist on spotify and beaking them down

Day 18 - A song from the year you were born - 1978 vs.1983 - Roxanne by the Police vs. Africa by Toto  ( shoulda found some Fleetwood Mac)

Day 19 - Rubbish 

Day 20 - Rubbish 

Day  21 - A song with someone’s name in it 

Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam

Call me Al - Paul Simon 

Come on  Eileen - Dexy’s Midnight Runners 

Cindy, I’ll marry you one day - Robert Plant 

My Michelle - Guns N’ Roses

Allison - Elivs Costello 

Gloria - Laura Branigan 

Help Me, Rhonda - Beach Boys 

Brandy - Looking Glass

Janie’s Got a Gun ( Jane Says)

Jenny 867-5309

Karen - the national (of course there’s a song named Karen)

Lay Down Sally & Layla (Clapton and D + Domino’s)

there’s a song called Lindsay quit Lollygagging - Chiodos (What a name?!)

Lola - the Kinks

Marcarena - Los Del Rio 

Maria Maria - Santana 

Mary Mary - The Monkees

Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett 

Oh Sheila - Ready for the World 

Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry 

Ophelia - The Band 

Peg - Steely Dan 

Rosalita (Come out tonight) - Bruce Springsteen 

Rosanna - Toto 

Stacy’s Mom - Fountains of Wayne 

Suzie Q - CCR

Sussudio - Phil Collins 

Tessie - Dropkick’s 

Valerie - Steve Winwood 

Wake up Little Susie - Everly Brothers 

Whole Lotta Rosie AC/DC

Wyona’s Big Brown Beaver - Primus 

Along Comes Mary - The Association 

Jenny Was a Friend of Mine - The Killers 

Johnny B Good - Chuck Barry 

Captain Jack - Billy Joel

Dropkick me Jesus (Through the Goal posts of Life) - Bobby Bare

Duke of Earl (Gene Chandler)

Hey Joe - Hendrix 

Hey Jude - The Beatles 

Jeremy - Pearl Jam 

Jessie’s Girl - Rick Springfield 

Jumpin’ Jack Flash - Stones 

Levon - Elton John 

Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

Mickey - Toni Basil 

Sam’s Town - The Killers 

Jenny Was a Friend of Mine - The Killers 

Stan - Eminen 

Tom Sawyer - Rush 

Uncle Johnny - The Killers 

What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? - REM

Day 22 - A song that moves you forward

Florence + the Machine - Shake it Out (GV almost picked Dog Days are Over)

Gavin Picked - All These That I’ve Done by the Killers  (shoulda picked Dog days are Over by Flo)

50 Inspirational Songs for Entrepreneurs from Business news daily dot com (Aug 17, 2018)

Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding 

Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder (Song is so good it should be by Rick Astley) 

Day 23 - A song that you think everyone should listen too 

Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry (as good or better than most Journey Songs)

Let the Music Play - Shannon 

Day 24 - a band you wish was still together 

En Vouge

Traveling Wilbury’s 

Destiny’s Child 

Blink 182 

Velvet Revolver 

So many bands of dead people 

Dat 25- A song by someone no longer living - the eddie money bowl

But, again - so many choices 

Day 26 - A song to fall in love to

so many choices 

Leather & Lace vs. Counting Crows 

Day 27 - A song that breaks your heart 

So  lonely by the Police vs Dave Matthews BS 

Day 28 - Slow Night So Long - Kings Of Leon vs. Lord Huron “wait by the river” 

Rosco P picked “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” - U2 for his Day 27 song  (Song that breaks your heart) and Chris Cornel Sun Shower on Day 28

Day 27: So Lonely vs Dave Matthews?

Day 23: Oh Sherry loss was tragic to the very good but still wtf, “Everybody wants to rule the world” 

Day 22: Florence + The Machine vs. All these things I’ve done (Shoulda picked florence vs. Florence)

Day 18: Roxanne vs. Africa by Toto

Day 15: Cover song - whitney houston w/ Kygo — should’ve done “Proud Mary” Tina Turner covering CCR

Day 1: Purple Reign vs Greenlight by Lourde - (if i had known how this thing was going to be judged then, I would’ve been a lot more careful with this choice) - Wasn’t ready for game one - got overwhelmed by the situation 

Day 29 - Song you remember from when you were young

Both of us tried to pick “The Longest Time” by Billy Joel — 80’s doo top Joel

Cindy went with La Isla Bonita by Madonna

Rosco P picked Peter Piper (Run DMC) - nice pick

Day 30 - A song that reminds you of yourself 

Shania Twain - Man! I Feel like a woman! 

The Bleachers - I wanna get Better

Andrew Patterson and Rosco P are picking each other’s songs

Cousin Steph - Ramblin’ Man 

30 Day Song Challenge - Days 15-21

Day 15- Cover song

Love Rollercoaster - Red Hot Chili Peppers 

The Joe Cocker All-Stars: Cover songs that are either vastly superior to the original or just completely original musical arrangements 

Joe Cocker "Get by with a little help from my friends”, “You are so beautiful”, “The Letter” and “Feelin’ Alright” 

He’s the king of the “Cover where the band makes it there own”. 

UB40 is a great example of this with “Red Red Wine” - which is a PERFECT COVER in my opinion

Rod Stewart was really good at this as well. 

Boyz in the Hood By Dynamite Hack - another great example 

Take on Me - Reel Big Fish - another great example 

In Bloom - Sturgill Simpson  

Ryan Adams “Wonderwall” and like 10 other songs by him 

Johnny Cash "Rusty Cage” 

I will Survive by “Cake” 

Gin and Juice - The Gourds 

You Really Got me - Van Halen (honorable mention to Diamond David Lee Roth for “Just a Gigolo” 

Faith - Limp Bizkit (hate it, but gotta give ‘em credit) 

Straight Away Covers

Ring of Fire by Social Distortion 

You might Think by Weezer 

Hurt by Johnny Cash 

Voodoo Child - Stevie Ray Vaughn 

Here’s a straight ahead cover the STINKS — Phil Collins - Can’t Hurry Love — THAT’S how you make a great song WORSE! KARAOKE Style 

Carless Whisper by Seether - that’s exotic dancing music right there 

Smoking in the Boys Room - Motley Crue 

Land of Confusion - Disturbed 

Covers in which you thought they were the Original 

Whitney Houston “I will always love you” All-Stars  — This song isn’t even great — SHE IS JUST SO TRANSCENDENT and her voice is impossible to explain with words 

Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin Cover by Kris Kristofferson 

Urge Overkill “Girl you’ll be a woman soon” 

Nirvana "Lake of Fire” - really any of the covers off of the unplugged   

Gary Jules and Michael Andrews "Mad World” 

Take me to the river - Talking Heads — THAT WAS AN AL GREEN JAM???? I’ve since really enjoyed learning of this Jam and now think the original is pretty fire in it’s own right.

Tainted Love - Soft Cell — i just thought the “where did our love go part” was a cover  during the outro 

"It’s my Life" No Doubt 

My top 5 

Signs by Tesla 

Scarlet Begonias by Sublime (Honorable Mention)

Gypsy Kings - Hotel California - in Spanish and from an iconic scene for the Big Lebowski (honorable mention) 

All Along the Watch Tower - Jimi Hendrix 

Knocking on Heaven’s door - GNR 

Sweet Dreams are made of This - Marilyn Manson (honorable mention) 

Blue Monday by Orgy 

Mony Mony - Billy Idol (this is my #6) 

It’s My Life - No Doubt 

Nothing Compares 2 U - Prince cover a song he wrote and gave to somebody else to make famous - In addition it’s been covered by Chris Cornell, The Dixie Chicks, Capital Cities, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies and More 

No Woman, No Cry - The Fugees 

Red Red Wine - UB40 

Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann (stole it from Bruce Springsteen and made it a bigger hit) that one’s for your Rosco. In addition - Manfred Mann took Bob Dylan’s Mighty Quinn to Number 1 in the 1960’s 

Fun Fact: Bob Dylan covers being better performed by somebody else are plentiful - Guns N’ Roses, Manfred Mann, Jimi Hendrix,  the Byrds with Mr. Tamborine Man 

Day 16 - A classic favorite 

Ben E. King - Stand By Me

Shout Pt 1 & 2 - the Isley Brothers 

The Weight by the Band 

It’s 9-7 in favor of Cindy 

Day 17 - Karaoke Song w/ friend 

Take me home tonight 

Lady Marmalade 

Hunger Strike 

Wanted Dead or Alive 

Friends in Low Places 

No Woman No Cry 

I remember you - Skid Row 

Podcast Idea — Ranking Playlist on spotify and beaking them down

Day 18 - A song from the year you were born - 1978 vs.1983 - Roxanne by the Police vs. Africa by Toto 

Day 19 - Rubbish 

Day 20 - Rubbish 

Day  21 - A song with someone’s name in it 

Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam

Call me Al - Paul Simon 

Come on  Eileen - Dexy’s Midnight Runners 

Cindy, I’ll marry you one day - Robert Plant 

My Michelle - Guns N’ Roses

Allison - Elivs Costello 

Gloria - Laura Branigan 

Help Me, Rhonda - Beach Boys 

Brandy - Looking Glass

Janie’s Got a Gun ( Jane Says)

Jenny 867-5309

Karen - the national (of course there’s a song named Karen)

Lay Down Sally & Layla (Clapton and D + Domino’s)

there’s a song called Lindsay quit Lollygagging - Chiodos (What a name?!)

Lola - the Kinks

Marcarena - Los Del Rio 

Maria Maria - Santana 

Mary Mary - The Monkees

Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett 

Oh Sheila - Ready for the World 

Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry 

Ophelia - The Band 

Peg - Steely Dan 

Rosalita (Come out tonight) - Bruce Springsteen 

Rosanna - Toto 

Stacy’s Mom - Fountains of Wayne 

Suzie Q - CCR

Sussudio - Phil Collins 

Tessie - Dropkick’s 

Valerie - Steve Winwood 

Wake up Little Susie - Everly Brothers 

Whole Lotta Rosie AC/DC

Wyona’s Big Brown Beaver - Primus 

Along Comes Mary - The Association 

Jenny Was a Friend of Mine - The Killers 

Johnny B Good - Chuck Barry 

Captain Jack - Billy Joel

Dropkick me Jesus (Through the Goal posts of Life) - Bobby Bare

Duke of Earl (Gene Chandler)

Hey Joe - Hendrix 

Hey Jude - The Beatles 

Jeremy - Pearl Jam 

Jessie’s Girl - Rick Springfield 

Jumpin’ Jack Flash - Stones 

Levon - Elton John 

Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

Mickey - Toni Basil 

Sam’s Town - The Killers 

Jenny Was a Friend of Mine - The Killers 

Stan - Eminen 

Tom Sawyer - Rush 

Uncle Johnny - The Killers 

What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? - REM

30 Day Song Challenge - Days 9 - 14

Day 9 - Song that makes you happy 

Shipping Up to Boston

Take me home tonight

Paradise City 

I Wanna dance w somebody

All Night Long - Lionel 

Pour Some Sugar on Me

Celebration - Kool & the Gang

Dirty Water

Happy Together - Ernest Goes to Camp

I really like it - Ma$e and Harlem World

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves 

Day 10 - song that makes you sad

Let her Cry - Hootie & the Blowfish 

Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby

Hurt - Johnny Cash 

Pictures of You - the Cure 

Keep for getting we’re not in love anymore - Michael McDonald 

Amazing Grace - Bagpipes  - the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

Killing me softly - Roberta Flack 

Day 11 - review all of the songs above — 

Capital Cities - Safe and Sound? 

The Killers - Mr. Brightside 

Mandolin Rain

Paradise City 

Sweet Child of Mine

Shipping up to Boston

Down Under - Men at Work

What I Got - Sublime 

You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC 

Miss Jackson - Outkast 

The Bucket - Kings of Leon 

You Be Killin Em - Fabolous 

Changes - Tupac 

Your Love - Josie 

Juicy - Notorious BIG 

Day 12 - A song from your pre-teen years. 

Rosco - Nothing but a good time - Poison  

King of Wishful Thinking - Go West 

C’est la Vie - B*Witched - Steph Viano

All that She wants - Ace of Base 

1987 - Top 5 Billboard 

Walk like an Egyptian - The Bangles 

Alone - Heart 

Shake you Down - Gregory Abbott

I wanna dance with somebody - Whitney Houston

Nothing’s Gonna stop us Now - Starship 

1988 - Top 5 Billboard 

Faith - George Michael 

Need you tonight - INXS

Got my mind set on you - George Harrison

Never gonna give you up - Rick Astley

Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N Roses 

1989 - Top 5 Billboard 

Look away - Chicago 

My Prerogative - Bobby Brown 

Every Rose has its Thorn - Poison 

Straight Up - Paula Abdul

Miss you Much - Janet Jackson 

1990 - Top 5 Billboard

Hold on - Wilson Phillips

It must have been love - Roxette

Nothing compares 2 U - Sinead O’Conor

Poison - Bell Biv Defoe

Vogue - Madonna

1991 - Top 5 Billboard 

Everything I do, I do it for you - Bryan Adams

I wanna sex you up - Color Me Badd

Gonna Make you Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C+C music factory 

Four and Five were so bad — so 6 was EMF “Unbelievable” and 7 was “More than words” Extreme

1992  - Top 5 Billboard 

End of the Road - Boyz II Men

Baby got Back - Sir Mix-a-lot

Jump - Kris Kross

Save the best for last - Vanessa Williams

Baby-Baby- Baby - TLC 

Day 13 - song from the 70’s 

Brick House 

Jungle Boogie 

Stairway to Heaven? 

Sweet Emotion 

September - Earth, Wind and Fire

Because the Night - Patti Smith 

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple 

Rolling Stones -Tumbling Dice

My Sharona - The Knack

Bee Gees- Stayin’ Alive

Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

Gladys Night & the Pips - Midnight Train to GA

Marvin Gaye - What’s going on

Black Sabath - Paranoid

Al Green - Let’s Stay together

B52’s Rock Lobster

Jolene - Dolly Parton

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

Rapper Delight - Sugar Hill Gang

Stairway to Heaven

Thunder Road - the Boss

Superstition - Stevie W

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Don’t Stop til ya get enough - MJ

I will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 

Any Donna Summer 

Day 14 - Song you’d like played at your wedding - Every little thing she does is magic vs. Faithfully. 

Gronk Traded to Tampa Bay - WOW

Lions are trading for and signing all of the Patriots nobody wants… The Bucs are getting Hall of Famers to fall into their laps

Andrew Patterson - Tweeted earlier today- let’s unpack that.

Also - school just got cancelled 

Kitchen Quarantine Part 4 - on the 35th day you get Oaxaca style Take out

Kitchen Quarantine Pod with Man Cook Good

Part 4 - 101 Straight meals cooked 

Places listening: France, USA, tie in third Spain and United Arab Emirates. Following by the UK, Ireland, Egypt, Poland, Kuwait, Indonesia, Portugal, Argentina, Germany, Belarus, Australia, Japan 

We should start dining at ethnic restaurants of based on places listening… maybe that’s “Take Out quarantine” 

Paris is the number 1 city - Merci! 

Interesting cities listening around the globe - Barcelona, Dublin, Dubai, Toulouse, Ajman City (UAE), Warsaw, San Fernando Argentina, Elizabeth Hills Australia, Alexandria Egypt, Porto, Minsk, Wroclaw Poland, Purworejo Indonesia, Saint-malo France Cairo, Kuwait City, Chieming Germany

And Since Belarus is listening - here are some  Belarusian Premier League scores - cuz they are still playing soccer games in Belarus.  

Belshina tied Smolevichi 1-1 

Shakhtyor Soligorsk lost Slutsk 2-1 despite  a red card for Slutsk  

We are over 99,000 downloads — I don’t know what happens at 100,000 but thanks for listening and spreading the word. it means a lot to us 

After 101 meals JJ got mexican style take out from Quiadaiyn in Los Angeles - I’ve been there. Oaxacan style to be exact 

What’s it feel like to take a break after 101 straight meals and 35 straight days?

Cindy breaks down how to properly sterilize takeout boxes and groceries 

Segment: What are people cooking tonight? 

Can of Beans recipes? 

30 Day Song Challenge Podcast - Days 3, 4 & 5

Day 3 - song that reminds you of summertime - if you pick that “Summer Lovin’ song” from Grease — that ain’t it chief 

Pretty much every song from Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers (Scar Tissue for starters)

By the way also by RHCP

Soul to Squeeze by RHCP

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

Anything by Rusted Root

Get Lucky - Daft Punk 

One More Time - Daft Punk

Pour Some Sugar on me - Def Leppard 

You Could be Mine - GNR (Terminator Two)

Enter Sandman  

The Entire “Beats, Rhymes & Life” album from A Tribe Called Quest 

Anything off of Vampire Weekend’s self titled 2008 album 

Turn down for What - Lil Jon

Day 4 - A song that reminds you of someone you’d rather forget  (Release - Pearl Jam, Ridin Solo, Break Your Heart)  Don’t Cry, Estranged, or Cee Low Green’s Forget You, Everything about you - Ugly Kid Joe, Motley Crue - Don’t Go Way Mad (Just go away).

Day 5- A song the needs to be played out loud (Beautiful Day by U2 - Bernard Story)

Safe & Sound - Capital Cities

I Wanna Dance with somebody - Whitney Houston 

Lit - My own worst enemy 

Thunderstruck - AC/DC

Hot in Heeeere - Nelly 

Livin’ on a Prayer 

Josie aka Your Love - The Outfield 

Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard 

Juicy - Notorious B.I.G.

Mr Brightside - The Killers (Honorable mention to "When you were Young” and “Read My Mind”

Despacito - Beiber, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee 

Just a Friend - Biz Markie