Picking the Final Four based on Food

Drone shut down Milan airport - wow. Eff drones - they announced in English. Then again in Italian like 3 mins later. Older woman in front of me was kinda hilarious in her response.

Santa Claus sun tanning in a garden in Florence. 

Also I’ve been mispronunciations Florence’s real name for past 17 years 

Rank order of media consumed on two trans-Atlantic flights:

Vice

Blackkklansman 

Spider-Man in the Spiderverse 

White Boy Rick

1/2 of Ralph breaks the internet 

2 eps of always sunny 13 

1 ep of AP BIO 

Rate airline terminals for food & drink options, etc 

Maybe the very dangerous airport sushi rating?

Maybe the bud light draft rating or the Bloody Mary mix rating at airport bars 

2019 March Madness - Final Four - Virginia vs Auburn and Michigan State vs Texas Tech  

Fajita theory redux for JJ  

30,000 downloads - thank you 

United Kingdom 2nd place, Angola #3, Taiwan, Egypt, Zambia, Australia, Canada and Philippines  

Lukewarm NIT Takes 

It’s kind of like a nice “going away party” or like the brunch the day after a wedding. You weren’t sure if you we even going to go, but you did and had a fun time seeing everybody one more time before finally having things end. 

Great vibe, an appreciative vibe during pregame, etc

Negative - you can’t do any “canned music” or sponsor promos that get the fans excited. 

I get not allowing the home team intro, I get letting both teams Spirit teams perform, etc. - but in this day & age of dwindling attendance and tepid interest in the NIT at best… wouldn’t a dance cam, or a bevy for free t-shirts being tossed into the crowd, or a free pizza delivery help spice stuff up. 

More importantly, they only allow pep band music. Can’t mix it up with any recorded tracks over the PA. Which takes away 1) the entire Jock Jams catalog. 2) Sandstorm and Zombie Nation techno-fests 3) And pretty much any hit song from the past 5 years. 

Roseanne is back, Rant of the month & props to Van Halen

Places listening Tokyo Japan #1 city listening last week and Japan was #2 as a nation to the United States

Kansas City , Tatabanya Hungary and Lima Peru get props as well

Ain’t talkin’ bout love is Van Halen’s best overall song - it’s their most Van Halen-Esque song. 

It hits everything those guys are great at and none of the stuff they’re not.

Vince Carter- left school early. Played at UNC 3 season, made the Final Four twice.  Finished degree & Walked at graduation during the playoffs a few years later

Here’s my beef. People gripe that these guys don’t go to school, but they also gripe that he chose to walk for graduation during playoffs. 

And you can question his focus in that moment… But he’s played in the league for like 20 years. He’s reinvented his game twice. 

You can’t question his love and drive to play hoops and make money. 

Vince Carter has had the last laugh - he’s 40 years old, playing in the NBA 

8x All-star 2x all nba rookie of the year and greatest slam dunk champ ever - certainly top 3. Was picked #5 in the 98 draft 

Played for 7 NBA teams // won Gold Medal at 2000 olympics  

#11 all-time in career earning with over $167 million in salary 

Only 7 guys have played 20+ seasons in nba. Only Kobe and Vince were wings - and Kobe came out of high school - Vince went to UNC for a couple years 

Robert parish 21 seasons most all time

Kareem, Dirk, Kevin Garnett, Kevin Willis

Tom Brady’s injured hand — how much stock do you put into it?

Who you picking for Eagles - Vikings game? 

If Crystal Palace wins London Derby over Arsenal this weekend, i’m elevating CP over the Gunners in my heart and the only way Arsenal gets it back is to win the Europa League

top Nations listening - United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Hungary, Canada, Spain, South Africa and Australia

Wearing a Hawaiian shirt — for good Karma - it’s been cold in the east, we’re supposed to get 1-3 inches of snow in charlotte - which will shut Charlotte down… they’ve literally already cancelled school.

So i’m in New York walking around and it’s raining — more like misting, and a lady is walking her dog. The dog has like 4 little boots on it’s feet. like aqua socks but for a dog.

If you have time to put “water shoes” on your dog to go out in the rain for a walk- you’ve got too much time on your hands (not snow & ice, rain! Not extremely hot blacktop, rain)? Dogs descended from wolves. Wolves don’t wear shoes ever - dogs will be ok in the rain. 

And if you’re worried about our dogs feet messing up your house- maybe you’re not a dog person

You know how airports have the bag sizing apparatus- so they can nix certain bags from carry on? They should have one for passengers - and ban certain people from sitting in the middle seats in coach

Cosby Show remake — like the Roseanne remake — No Cliff Huxtable, but Claire and all the kids are in the show. And don’t call it the Cosby show, and don’t have Bill Cosby in the show. Call it the Huxtables. People would watch that. 

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