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 - 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 Podcast - Day 1 & 2

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 1& 2 podcast 

Places listening - France, USA, UK, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Swaziland (first time for this African Nation) 

Top cities listening Paris, Waxhaw, NC, Wellesley Hills, MA - the city in Swaziland is Mbabane. It’s the capital city. Population around 95,000 people and the country is surrounded by South Africa and a little bit Mozambique to the northeast. 

Swaziland is now listed on Google Maps as Eswatini. Renamed in 2018 — thanks for listening 

Day 1 song with a color in the title 

Cindy - Greenlight by Lourde 

Gavin - Purple Rain (live version) by Prince

Day 2 song with a number in it

Cindy 17 by Kings of Leon

Gavin Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega 

Off the bat - Cindy is strategic and Gavin is literal  

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

Coronavirus Podcast + Potholes vs. Spill Proof Cups

Massachusetts passed a hands free cell phone while driving law recently. Now i’m almost driving into pedestrians with their heads buried in their phones. When will they pass a hands free law for people walking on sidewalks and crossing intersections? 

The “touch to text function” in my car has a mind of it’s own — so not only is using my phone dangerous and now illegal, but the touch to text is saying to me, “I’m going on break, let me know if you need anything”… WHAT!?!? I need you to work like 5% of the time i’m driving - you can’t pick to go on a break when I need to utilize your service. 

Uber and Lyft drivers are ostensibly “professional drivers” meaning that they make money driving. But Uber and Lyft Drivers are amongst the worst drivers in the city. 80% of the time when a drivers is slow, confused, going the wrong way down a one way street, you see that little Uber and/or Lyft sticker on sign in their window and it’s like “that tracks”. Very onbrand. 

But calling Uber/Lyft drivers professional drivers is like calling a crummy wedding DJ a professional musician. Like yes, you’re getting money for this service but you’re not Calvin Harris or Diplo or the late great Tiesto. 

Spill proof coffee cups - very helpful. But no match for the potholes i’m dealing with in South Boston and Dorchester as I make my way to expressway every morning. I’m hitting the pothole because there’s literally no way not to do so. And the angle at which I need to hit it actually finds a way to spill an amazing amount of coffee out of a very small opening. It’s wild 

Places listening Paris France, Philadelphia PA, Mountain View, CA in the top 3 — other spots Padstow Australia in the suburbs of Sydney and Adelaide Australia, Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Barcelona, and Erbil Iraq 

Australia, as a nation coming in #3 this week and that may be the first time Iraq has checked in 

Coronavirus COVID -19 - yikes - not a great situation to say the least. 

Below Deck Sailing Yacht is sinking and Cocktail Hour Memories Part 2

Below Deck Sailing Yacht is running into the rocks

They missed on the casting of 2 key roles on the crew - the captain (I think) and the Chief Stew (for sure).

The preexisting relationship of Paget and his GF - is also a bad mix for this show. We don’t know their history, we’re not invested in their relationship “making it”. A couple nagging each other consistently isn’t great for “Below Deck” dynamic - that’s a very “Real Housewives” Energy.

The Charter Guests haven’t been compelling yet either (Cindy’s take). The guests help to stir the pot, and they haven’t done so, yet.

Cindy also said, “It’s got a Southern Charm Savannah feel to it.”

Unrelated observation - My Parents neighbors leave their Christmas lights on “all year” - and it really messes with your brain. 

Cocktail Hour Memories Part 2 

Love is Blind on Bravo - preview 

Cocktail Hour Memories, Red Sox losing Mookie is the worst & a near death experience

Cocktail Hour Memories and disliking the Red Sox ownership fiercely 

Places listening: France, US, Australia, Egypt, Canada, Russia, Indonesia, Ireland, Ukraine 

Paris, Springfield Mass, Sydney, Cork, Cairo and Toulouse

Andrew Patterson is back - first time in 2020 and man has he seen some changes since we last had him on the Freestyle 

Red Sox ownership - Jeremy Johnson felt this “reset” while painful to the fans and Mookie is ultimately something that makes sense - where do you come down on the Mookie Betts Trade?

Cocktail Hour Memories - one of the most daunting gauntlets of a wedding for the people getting married, is the cocktail hour. 

Which stinks cuz the best part of the wedding is the cocktail hour. 

Andrew only went to the cocktail hour - and he was sober - so any good stories from cocktail hour?

Andrew’s 2020 off to a crazy start — tell us about it. 

Los Angeles Post Kobe Bryant

Los Angeles post Kobe Bryant 

Discuss the vibe in LA post Kobe. Tana has unique perspective as a Bball player/fan who lives in LA but didn’t grow up there

Where were you when you heard the news? (This seems like an event people will remember forever “where they were”.) 

Reasons for this: partially Kobe’s massive fame, partially we saw him with Gigi on TV a lot lately, partially how vibrant/active his life was at the moment of his death. Partially cuz it all happened/ended in an instant. 

Rewind: what were your feelings on Kobe prior to moving to West Coast/ LA?

Assuming those feelings evolved, what stands out to you since you’ve been on the West Coast/LA?

What have you seen in terms  of memorials/murals/tributes/vigils around the city that stick out or are poignant?

Has any other death in LA had this type of impact on the city since you’ve been there? 

Only person even close off the top of my head (in terms of suddenness) actor Paul Walker from Fast & Furious - but it’s not even close. [This doesn’t include homicides, suicides or overdoses - the True accidental nature of this death really makes people take a step back]

Kobe was “our age” and that makes you take stock in life being so fragile. And then the kids and other passengers and pilot news came out and that takes it from sobering to senseless. 

The other victims - have people done an appropriate job of remembering them? It’s such a had circumstance to appropriately do that. 

Anything else you want to discuss on this? 

Places listening - Paris France and Hertford UK are the top 2 cities this week. 

France, USA, UK, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Canada, Austria, Latvia, Italy and New Zealand 

Rock Hall of Fame 2020 Inductee Podcast

2020 Rock Hall of Fame 

Place listening Paris France - continues to lead the list, Mountain View, CA and San Jose CA, Amsterdam and long lost friends in Ashburn VA all checking in the top 5 or 10 places listening this week 

France, USA and Netherlands are the top 3 countries - also UK, Spain, Australia, Iran, Turkey and Iraq - based on episode 299 - not shocked on those countries listening 

Bad Boys for Life aka part 3, I’m all over it. Feel like it’s rare in hollywood to take like 7 years before part 2 and then like 17 more years before part 3. Both Spiderman and Batman have been rebooted twice each between Bad Boys 2 and Bad Boys 3

For the first time in 7 years the winner of the fan vote didn’t get inducted. And this year it was first time nominee, Dave Matthews Band.

Fans are up in arms, 1,000,000 people voted for them, USA Today is covering it — and frankly — I’m not a big fan of snubs — but this Manufactured Controversy is probably good for the Rock Hall’s awareness in the public consciousness.

Getting In: 

Whitney Houston — the second biggest oversight of the past 3-5 years after Janet Jackson and now they are both in

The Notorious BIG - this is a no-brainer for me - but the Hall Has snubbed LL Cool J - so it’s great to see them get one right. 

Depeche Mode

Nine Inch Nails

Doobie Brothers 

T. Rex - they are about to spur on a spinoff podcast titled “Who is the worst act inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame”.

I voted on November 7th - My Votes were Biggie, Whitney, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden (soft spot for Cornell), Dave Matthews Band. I felt the biggest LOCK was DMB. 

At the Time of My vote in November: 

DMB was leading with 385,656 votes  (Only the beatles and rolling stones have had more #1 albums)

Pat Benatar was 2nd with 363,191 votes (this is a huge snub as well) - 8 gold albums from 1979-1988 including 6 straight going platinum. Her “You better run video” was the 2nd ever to be on MTV. 4 straight GRAMMYS for female performer of the year. 

The Doobie Bros were 3rd with 328,435 votes  HOF 

Soundgarden was 4th with 325,264 votes (first Seattle grunge band to sign to a major label)

Judas Priest was 5th with 286,131 votes 

Depeche Mode was 6th with 265515 votes  HOF (arguably the best version of synth-pop out there) 

Whitney Houston was 7th with 247,791 votes  HOF  (Basically invented the national anthem as a spectacle at Super Bowl 25)

8th Thin Lizzy 

9th Motorhead

10th Nine Inch Nails  200,116 votes  HOF  (Godfather of pop/ industrial rock)

11th Todd Rundgren

12th T Rex 150,692 votes  HOF  (There are people saying they essentially invented Glam Rock when they left “Psychedelic Folk Music”- welp 

13th Biggie Smalls 148,173 votes HOF  (Biggie is what this is all about. Larger than life persona who did his version of music at the highest level possible). He’s always listed on the mount rushmore of MC’s - he’s gotta be in. I’m stoked and shocked that they got this right. 

14th Kraftwerk 

15th Rufus ft. Chaka Khan 68,852 votes 

Nashville Podcast

Nashville Bachelor Party Sites and Sounds 

Places listening France by a mile or a kilometer actually, USA clear #2, UK, Canada, Kenya, Seychelles, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Germany, Philippines, Tanzania, Ukraine, Maldives, Pakistan, Marshall Islands, Indonesia, South Korea, Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, Latvia, Mexico, Bermuda, Guatemala, Sweden, New Zealand.

Top Cities listening - Paris, Moorestown NJ, Bernalillo NM, Atlanta, Miami, Nairobi Kenya and Portland Oregon 

Shout to out to Big Larry, Dan O’Brien, Doug Brown, Andrew Brown, The Navyator, The Aviator, Mikeviator  

People never talked about the 1900’s version of the 'teens when we were kids. Heard about 20’s -70’s - lived through the 80’s and 90’s and then came the ‘Aughts which we called the 2000s, and we never really switched to the “teens” for these past ten years. We called the the 2010’s — which is fine - but the past 7 years were the teens.

Tyler Seguin and two teammates

NHL Players in fancy suits on Bird Scooters saying stuff - that’s a wild confluence of events. 

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Christmas Past Songs from 2009 Podcast

Christmas Past (2009 Pop Song Redux) 

The return to podcasting after surgery begins

Places listening - Heavy in France, especially Paris thanks to Deezer podcast service 

We’re also on Spotify now so subscribe 

Places listening France has been number 1 for 2 weeks. USA 2, UK 3, followed by Canada, Pakistan, Cayman Islands, Egypt, Kenya, Australia, Philippines, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Seychelles (Say Shells), Poland, Peru, Netherlands, East Timor aka Timor-Leste, South Africa, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Fiji, Tanzania, Lithuania, Sweden, Bahamas  

25 countries on 6 continents — tell your friends doing research on Antartica that we want to go 7 for 7 

Little know fact - New Zealand is part of a submerged continent and Italy is also part of a submerged continent that smashed into europe and was most buried beneath it. Welcome to Plate Tectonics 

Top Cities: Paris by a mile followed by Tampa, Karachi, Georgetown (cayman), LA, Miami, NYC, Nairobi, Cairo, London, Walpole Mass, and Las Vegas  

Lightning round: Only in Boston’s twitter feed had a list of Billboard’s 2009 top songs - immediate reaction to them

#19 Kiss me thru the phone (garbage from Usher, he’s better than that)

#18 Live your life (Fire)

#17 I know you want me (Our introduction to Mr Worldwide, Mr 305, Pitbull — aka Mr. 1234 uno dos tres quatro

They skipped 16

#15 knock you down (can’t remember it)

#14 Use somebody (KOL’s coming out party was def in 2009)

They skipped 13

#12 Dead and Gone (can’t remember it)

#11 You belong to me (taylor swift’s coming out party in 2009 as well)

They skipped 10

#9 Heartless - can’t remember it

#8 Single Ladies (FIRE - prob most popular song on this list)

They Skipped 7

#6 Right Round (can’t remember it)

#5 Love Story (T Swift Killing it)

#4 I got a Feeling (Looking back, Black Eyed Peas we jumping the shark soon after 2009)

#3 Just Dance (Lady Gaga blew up in 2009)

#2 Poker Face (Like I just said Lady Gaga blew up in 2009) - this song is fire still

#1 Boom Boom Pow — this song looking back, was the beginning of the end for Blacked Eyed Peas magical run

Take aways - Taylor Swift, Pitbull, Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon were the Big Pop Music winners in 2009 - and they all kept it rolling  

Vocal Chord surgery - podcast aftermath

Gavin is on Vocal Rest Podcast

Places listening - after the US, Canada, UK, Kenya, France, Romania, Bermuda, Sweden, Colombia, Indonesia, Angola, South Korea, Greece, Austria, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Vietnam and Barbados

the top city listening Paris, Montreal, Nairobi Kenya, and Ploiesti Romania

unofficial sponsor of the week: "Text to Speech" App from apple store (more on that later)

Also shoutout to Two Scoops Creamery in Charlotte for featuring Gavin in their “it’s friday, this guy knows how to party” IG Post.

Freestyle is now on Spotify so follow it and for those of you using the french service Deezer - you can subscribe to the Freestyle there, too.

Why Gavin is on vocal rest - and how hard it is to communicate

biggest development of the week - becoming a Damien Woody fan - First Take

Gavin selected a British Accent version named “Daniel"

Fake Band Name Speed Round

Questions I can answer ‘yes” or “no” with a Ding.

Do you miss drinking a pot of coffee a day?

Do you find it difficult to not talk out loud to yourself?

Do you wish you’d paid more attention to American Sign Language in the 6th grade at Johnson Middle School?

Is it true that your cousin is Bob Piano of Axis Mundi Records?

Should people go download his music on Spotify ASAP?

Were you shocked to find out that the thing that Bob Piano and Cindy Harrington have most in common is an incredibly passionate interest in 90 Day Fiancee?

Can we do a deep dive podcast on that show co-hosted by Cindy Harrington and Bob Piano?

Cards against humanity style answers to questions - Gavin can only use phrases he’s already used to answer the following questions:

What is the recurring joke in Mike Birbiglia’s Netflix special the new one? (I saved your best friend’s life)

What’s the first thing you thought of the day after surgery? (Am I allowed to Drive today?)

What’s the second thing you thought of? (Want me to go to Trader Joe’s?)

Antonio Brown joins the Patriots and the Pats Fanboys let the other 31 teams have it

Antonio Brown signs with the Patriots — Pro Wrestling has come to the New England Patriots?

Places listening: Yakutsk Russia is #1 again, Cornelius, NC and Boston round out the top 3 - other cities include Calamba City Philippines, Mittagong Australia, and Dresden Germany

Countries listening: US #1, Russia #2, Philippines #3, followed by the UK, Germany, Ireland, Australia, Pakistan, France and Spain

We are closing in on 40,000 downloads - thank you everybody for listening. Share the podcast with friends - leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and Google Music Play - follow us on instagram @filibusterfreestyle

AB is a fantasy football legend, he’s a real football legend. He was having a Hall of Fame career in Pittsburgh.

He no-shows the regular season finale of 2018 for the Steelers.

He signs with the Raiders.

He shows up for camp in a hot air balloon.

His feet have frost bite from a Cryongenic Freeze chamber treatment thing in Europe.

He refuses to play with a league approved helmet for like 2 weeks.

Finally gets beyond the helmet thing… and then after all that … the weirdness goes into overdrive

He gets fined… he puts the fine on social media.

The then has an altercation with the team GM

He then says he’s sorry.

He then has some video montage paired with a phone call of Jon Gruden and AB as the audio and tweets out - Release me @Raiders

Raiders comply… and the jokes about the Patriots signing AB begin immediately.

Then like 2 hours later the Patriots actually sign Antonio Brown.

This is like the signings of Randy Moss + Corey Dillon + Chad Ocho Conco + Albert Haynesworth x 6pounds of crazy pills combined

On the spectrum of Patriots have lost their minds on one end and the Patriots are playing chess while the league plays checkers on the other end… where does this roster move rate for you right now?

With the Patriots playing the Steelers tonight - isn’t this timing and hoopla the exact type of thing they Patriots work so hard to avoid?

3 to 4 months from now — what’s the most likely result of this experiment

What does this mean for Josh Gordon? What does this mean for Jakobi Meyers?

Does it worry you guys at all that the Pats felt the need to do this?

Also very interesting that Drew Rosenhaus is AB’s agent and he was Gronk’s agent.

To me this means Gronk ain’t coming back

To me this means Edleman might have a Wes Welker 2007 type season

Both the Raiders and the Steelers are now doing the “this group of guys in the locker room are more focused” - do you buy it?

US Women's Soccer podcast

US Women’s Soccer - the most polarizing national team in history?

Maybe they are - but for all the right reasons

places listening USA - NYC specifically Manhattan followed by the Bronx both my a mile this week.

Austria and Australia were 2nd and 3rd - Graz Austria got all of their listens so hello to our friends in Graz

#1 and it’s not the topic of this podcast. I believe the USWNT deserves the same pay as the USMNT. But, that’s a whole different podcast, so all I want to do is state for the record, I think they should be paid equally for their training, appearances in friendlies and for their appearances in real competitions, such as the World Cup. (Bonuses for winning games and advancing and such, is also something we should all talk about on a different day as well)

US Team beat a hapless Thailand team 13-0 (the next biggest blowout in the group stage was Italy’s 5-0 win over Jamaica

Thailand shouldn’t have been in the tourney - but here’s the break down of the where the 24 teams came from

AFC (Asian Football Confederation) 5 slots (including Thailand) and Australia actually plays in the AFC

CAF (Africa) 3 slots

CONCACAF (N America) 3 slots

CONMEBOL (S America) 3 slots

OFC (Oceania) 1 slot New Zealand

UEFA (Europe) 8 slots + the host happens to be France so 9 slots

The Final 8 were the US and 7 European countries

The Final 16 were those 8 plus - 2 from Africa, 1 N Am, 3 Asia including Australia, 1 Europe, 1 South America

So, Europe had 9 teams in the tournament and 8 made the round of 16 and 7 made the final 8. So Unless they wanted to add a 10th European team to a 24 team tournament , Thailand had to get in — or somebody else like Thailand…

But Jamaica was rated worse than Thailand in the world rankings, as were all 3 African nations and 2 of the South American teams… but nobody beat those trams worse than 5-0. Teams exercised restraint in their dominance.

The USWNT Tried to destroy Chile - were up 3-0 and then the Chilean Goaltender started trending on twitter - because she stopped everything (including getting in the head of the Carli Lloyd for a PK at the end). Could’ve been 7-0 but only 3-mil - so the Chilean goalie took ‘em down a peg.

Third game against Sweden - won comfortably 2-0 against Sweden - all they needed was the win, final game of group stage. The control they played with against Sweden is the control they should’ve played with against Thailand. It could’ve been 8-0 and they would’ve proven the same point as 13-0.

My biggest problem was them celebrating goals 11, 12, & 13 as if they were each sudden death game winners in the world cup final.

They Showed up inferior players, the way an older sibling ruthlessly destroys their younger sibling. They punched down - and that’s a factor later in podcast

USWNT also struggled mightily with Spain. Spain played an incredibly physical game and dared the refs to call Penalty Kicks… and the refs did. Megan Rapione scored both kicks, and that was important, because Spain scored on some poor defense and goal tending by the US.

So the Mighty team that smoked Thailand, and tried to embarrass Chile, played safe vs Sweden and then was in a dog fight vs Spain. As the games get bigger and the teams get better, beating Thailand means less and less… but the bullseye you put on your own back isn’t going anywhere.

Now the US plays France in the quarters and France is great at home. US is the better team, but we shall see. Winner of this game is the favorite to win the World Cup.

But now politics come into play. Megan Rapione is very vocally opposed to the way the current administration is treating many of our citizens and many of the immigrants who are legally in the US, let alone how they’re treating folks at the border, people of certain religions, people of most races and ethnicities and the LBGTQ+ community.

So, the USWNT are saying they wouldn’t go to the the White House win or lose invited or not. And I feel like this is interesting because they are calling out an administration that makes a living out of “punching down”. The way we treat each other in this country and the way we treat people who are in at risk demographics is MUCH more important than how the USWNT played against Thailand … but ironically them being the “bully” to Thailand and taking joy in it… That’s right out of the playbook of this administration since it took power in January of 2017.

So here were go - there are 4 distinct schools of though on how people feel about the 2019 World Cup USWNT:

#1: Love that they beat Thailand 13-0, hate that they won’t go to the white house (Likely Moderate Republicans)

#2: Love that they Beat Thailand 13-0, love they they won’t go to the white house (Likely Libertarians)

#3: Hate that they Beat Thailand 13-0, love that they won’t go to the white house (Likely Far left Democrats, Green Party)

#4: Hate that they Beat Thailand 13-0, hate that they won’t go to the white house (I actually think this category may not exist in real life, but it’s plausible) Tea Party/ Fan Right folks aren’t very likely to watch soccer - cuz it’s for Sissies (so, i’ve been told)

But if we think about most of our national teams — we care about them as a nation, once every 3 to 4 years at best. The casual american non sports fans isn’t talking about them much. But, right now, they are — so whether or not this team is polarizing, people have an opinion — and that’s genius for a group that is trying to heighten awareness of the “equal pay movement”.

Crazy or Crazy like a fox - they’ve made the most of this world cup appearance, even if they lose to France. And if they keep winning - the snow ball of momentum is only going to grow.

But they’ve got to keep winning — so I hope they saved enough goals to eek out 3 more wins — cuz they certainly didn’t need all 13 they scored in game #1 - but i’m pulling for them to figure it out.

Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 1 podcast

Game of Thrones Season 8 - Bran is going to build a new wall perhaps. Like the old “Bran the builder did, using magic like 1,000’s of years before.

Places listening: Canada, The United Arab Emirates, France, Spain and Italy. 

For the first time in a long time no Ashburn, VA this whole week… do you guys in Ashburn hate Game of Thrones? Did you move? Let us know.  

#DragonSeason 

Dan O’Brien has had “brutal sound quality” — we’ll see if we can engineer a solution. 

Wine, Wall & Dragons Season 8 Episode 1

opening - little kid running in the snow - the unsullied have come to Winterfell- and there’s thousands upon thousands of them.

Jon and Dany ride together to Winterfell - Arya sees Jon for first time and she sees the Hound and Gendry - Family Reunion for Arya.

The Two Dragons make their entrance  - dramatic as always. 

Bran is waiting for Jon - the whole crew is. Its amazing how far flung all of these characters have been until this moment. 

Bran breaks the news on Ice Dragon - and wastes no time doing so. 

Lyanna Mormot throwing lots of shade at Jon for “bending of the knee”. 

Sansa is worried about groceries  - seems about right. 

Tyrion and Sansa have their first awkward convo since Joffrey’s wedding. Sansa gives Tyrion some hot truth on Cersei bailing on him.

Jon and Arya reunion got a little bit dusty in my house - "You used to me taller”, line was good. 

Kyburn tells Cersei the dead have broken through the wall — and she says “good”. Euron has the Iron Fleet off the shores of King’s Landing. 

Yara - still a prisoner.

Golden Company - 20,000 men 2,000 horses - zero elephants. Captain Strickland is the leader of the Golden Company - nothing like a new character with 6 eps left. 

Bronn in the house of ill repute as usually / Kyburn with the C-Block and wants to make a deal to do so. She wants Bronn to kill Jamie and Tyrion with a cross bow. Weird Flex. And she cranked Euron Greyjoy and lamented about not getting Elephants from Golden Company 

Theon is breaking Yara out of jail — wow first episode. Yara and Theon are making for Pyke and the Iron Islands. 

We’ve now got 3 queens - in the realm. 

Davos - proposing a marriage between Dany and Jon — eek — when’s Bran gonna break the news. 

Is Jon going to ride Rhaegal ??? HOLY ESS! Jon’s riding a Dragon Ep 1 — BOOM! 

Water Fall love scene - call back to the old wildling watering hole. Drogon EYE BALLING Jon Snow. he’s a peeping tom! 

Gendry, Hound and Arya reunion. It was pretty comical. 

Jon Snow and Sansa — doing the old “you bent the knee” argument, again. 

Sam Tarly ! With Jorah and Dany! BOOM! Then she learned she burned his dad and brother. Tough look, tough moment. 

Sam and Bran gonna talk. Sam is going to have to tell Jon. This is going to get complicated AF. Jon is Aegon the 6th — hell of a moment. 

Tormund, Berric and the boys - walk into a murder scene 

The Umber Boy is dead and the Night king had him pinned to wall. He’s a wight - and it’s creepy AF. 

Jamie arrives in Winterfell - Bran is eyeballing him from Jump Street. 

2019 NFL Playoff Teams as Game of Thrones characters (Part 1)

2019 NFL Playoff teams as Game of Thrones Characters 

Congrats to Dan Ruttle on winning the Filibuster Freestyle Fantasy Football Championship - the aptly named “Valaryian Steelers” 

Places listening: Ashburn, VA Boston, MA Cembo Philippines  Tucson, AZ and more 

Philippines, France, Canada, UK, Egypt, Portugal, Indonesia 

Indianapolis Colts - Theon Greyjoy (at the end of season 7). They started 1-5, there were question marks if they’d ever get back their pride (deflate gate, Andrew Luck injuries, Owner having public substance abuse issues, Josh McDaniel big timing them at the alter). this is all like Theon’s run of bad decisions, spineless decisions and dishonorable decisions, but on Dragonstone, theon Head butted his way back to the respect of his men, and is now on the hunt for his sister Yara. IN essence he’s got his mojo back and the Colts do to. I don’t think they’ll have any shot at the throne, but they’re once again an interesting component of this narrative 

Houston Texans - Berric Dondarrion - they were 0-3 and seemed dead. Deshaun Watson had a catastrophic leg/knee injury - but he regained his form and the Texans regained their’s. I’m not sure that Bill O’Brien is Thoros of Myr - but either way, as reincarnations in GOT go, i’m not sure the Texans are ready to be Jon Snow or even the mountain in terms of rising up… but at the very least — they’ve got a new lease on life for sure. 

Seattle Seahawks - The Seahawks are Jorah Mormot. They rose up from disgrace back in the day to become major players under Pete Carroll. Then they were cast aside, and left for dead (gray scale), but somehow found a way to get cured, cleanse themselves and get back onto the right side of the narrative. I’m not sure that they’re road this year leads them all the way to glory, but they’ve got  mix of luck, skill and knowledge that could keep them alive. 

Dallas Cowboys - I’m going with Tywin Lannister (father to Jamie & Cersei and allegedly Tyrion) because I think Jerry Jones is more like Tywin Lannister than another NFL owner. Overbearing, always asserting himself into the narrative, seems to have the deepest pockets and eventually get his way. Some love him, more fear him, but most just can’t stand him.  

George HW Bush, Christmas Music hot takes and Portugal

The Azores are like the Revis island of Europe. All alone but more than enough to win the day. 

Swimming in the ocean downtown, driving into two different volcanic craters, black sand beaches, hydrangeas everywhere, New England like weather unpredictability, I also drove for the first time outside of America. Interesting. 

Ponta Delgada is like if Ireland, Puerto Rico, has a baby with Portugal- the geography and weather are like a weird combo of Ireland and Puerto Rico. 

Places listening: Canada, Philippines, France, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Italy, Kuwait, Malaysia , Jamaica, Mozambique, Gabon (1st time), Tanzania, New Zealand and more

Top Cities listening: Ashburn VA, Ugong Philippines, New Liskeard Canada, Athens Greece, Kuala Lumpur, Maputo Mozambique 

Is Christmas music the original Christian Rock - I mean not quite / cuz one is about Santa (mainly) and one is about Jesus... but there are a ton of Christmas classics that do have religious lyrics “oh come all ye faithful”, “silent night”, “little drummer boy”, “joy to the world.” - so I’m going with kinda 

If Steve perry said. I’ll play faithfully for your wedding ceremony and oh Sheri to kickoff your ceremony... but in the middle we need to play my whole newest album... are you in?

Feel in love w the Fast & the furious: Tokyo Drift In Ponta Delgada. Tokyo drift = fake band name of the week 

The actor who played Han, Sung Kang, is so beloved to me after fast & furious 4, fast 5, fast & furious 6 - that watching him in Tokyo drift was enough to get me excited. 

George HW Bush passes away. 94 years old. Rest In Peace. “Read his letter to Bill Clinton from Twitter”

Turning 40

To Quote Mike Gundy, “I’m a man, I’m 40!”

Places listening: Turkey #2, Mexico #3, Spain #4 - UK, Russia, Colombia, Philippines, Ireland, Germany, Egypt, India, France, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Dominican Republic, Libya, Senegal, Belgium and more - awesome stuff 

Also - an interesting influx in the amount of downloads in Saudi Arabia lately - that’s interesting timing 

You know the “birds fans” come out when we talk eagles - ambler Pa, cherry hill NJ, and philly were 3 of top 4... Mountain View Ca #3. Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir all rounds out top two cities. Three tukish cities pretty amazing 

Do me a favor and subscribe to the podcast on apple podcast, follow us on twitter @gavinviano and tell 1 friend to check out the podcast 

I’m going to keep grinding on this thing, trying to grow it - and when the freestyle turns 4 this january — Drew Brees (saints QB will turn 40) which means if the saints make Super Bowl, we’d have 2 different 40 years old’s start at QB in consecutive super bowls. I think it’ll happen. Also, why does nobody give Drew Brees the same “ageless wonder” credit they give Tom Brady — he’s also basically 5’11’’ - what he does is amazing 

Biggest issues w jay bilas’ “restructuring of college basketball”

If we take out amateurism- what happens to “max years of eligibility” - if it’s a business- you can’t tell employees they’re too old 

If we downsize division 1 - then many average teams that pad their win totals currently, will be exposed as being bad. Fans don’t flock to see bad teams.

Down sizing also makes it “minor leagues”. Americans don’t like minor league sports en masse. 

College basketball being an “open entry national championship” is the best thing it has going for it. Limiting d1 teams to like 80 is bad Idea. 

Only good way to downsize d1 - would be adopting soccer style promotion and relegation - and March madness would still need to be open entry- in fact it could be like the FA cup. That actually could expand March madness

Players should get to profit from their likeness. Period. Open market decides what they are worth. If they want a salary they should go to the G league or play overseas. If they’re not good enough to get endorsements and/or play in a professional league, then guess what - they’re not professional 

Americans don’t like minor league sports. You remove amateurism ethos- I think you kill the mystique and kill the golden goose 

I hate when 23 year olds on instagram try to give sage drinking advice to their 19 year old selves. Me at 19 vs me at 23. Listen if you can’t find an extra gear at 23, you’re doing it wrong. 

The only thing that should slow you down before age 27 is lack of money and/or having a child - anything else - you’re doing it wrong. 

Instagram

You’re allowed to complain a tad at 27 and then every three years after that. 

Why can’t Biggie say “gats in holsters” w/o getting edited - but anyone can buy a gun. How can a country so in love w guns - allow censorship around talking about guns in  pop song. 

Best rock: pop songs featuring bag pipes. 

Long way to the top of you wanna rock n roll

Shipping up to Boston 

Back in the highlife again

So I married an axe murder version of do ya think I’m sexy (rod stewart) 

Amazing Grace (not fair)

Malibu has essentially burned down and we’re thinking about everyone effected by fires there and elsewhere. 

Thanksgiving is the best holiday to enjoy with your friends and family. Enjoy!!!

Most Overrated Bands of all-time (prep show)

Most overrated bands/performers of all time

places listening: Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Canada, UK, UAE, Russia (high vladimir), France, Ireland, Brazil, Switzerland, Mexico, Iran, New Zealand, Trinidad & Tobago.

top cities: Ashburn, VA, Seattle, WA, Charlotte, Alingaro Philippines, Dubai, Brisbane, Montreal, Karang Indonesia, Auckland NZ, Carmona Philippines, Monterrey MX and plenty more 

Red Zone Channel is marvelous — there’s no game I’d rather watch on it’s own, instead of watching 7 hours of the Red Zone channel passively. 

Tom Coughlin owns Bill Belicheck like Matt Damon owned Teddy KGB in Rounders.

Rap beef with Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly ( Mac Miller // unfortunate comments made about his demise and a rap beef from Curtis Fingers)

Post Malone, G Easy

people essentially have come in at different periods and ruined genres of music — jazz, the blues, disco (bee gees, are we finally at a point in hip-hop, in which the next generation of performers go to a different genre?

Inherently every overrated artist is classified as “pop” - because you really can’t be overrated if nobody collectively knows who you are. Is that fair? 

So, i’m not sure we need a pop category — but i think 4 quadrants of music are worth placing people in

The Foo fighters are properly rated — I had them as slightly overrated, then saw them live and realized they are so great live that i had underrated them — i think they’re properly rated.

Legends = Includes Classic Rock, Hip Hop, Country, Singer Song writer, Etc:  Pre 1991

The Doors, Bruce Springsteen, Kiss, The Ramones, Pink Floyd, Eagles

Can we quickly discuss the hot take cindy harrington had, related to your disdain for Bruce Springsteen

Steve Perry alledgedly has a new song — I’m shocked and amazed at this news 

Alt Rock and Newer Rock

Stone Temple Pilots are overrated but Scott Weiland is either properly rated or under rated 

What’s your thought on Sublime / Bradley Nowell ? Properly rated 

Limp Bizkit (3 dollar bills ya’ll was ok), Godsmack 

Linkin Park 

Green Day??????

Blink 182? 

Radiohead 

Dave Matthews Band 

U2

Bob Dylan

Hip Hop

Pitbull (as an entertainer maybe not, as a rapper… yup)

Warren G

Kanye? (Not as a producer)

Soulja Boy 

Akon - was replaced in like 20 mins 

Lil Wayne, Beastie Boys??? That’s a hot take! 

Country / Boy Bands / Teen Sensations / Etc 

Britney Spears, N’Sync (Here’s my hot take on this one, no Justin Timberlake, that band would have been less successful than 98 degrees and O-Town. Amy Winehouse, Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith  

Rosco’s list - Dr. Dre. / Mary J Blige 

1992-2015 — anything in 2016 -now is too in flux in my opinion. 

Southern Charm Season Five Finale

Southern Charm Season 5 season finale

Fake band name of the week - Non Sequitur Explosion in honor of the last 3 mins of Southern Charm Season 5

Places listening - Hinsdale, IL / London, UK / and Ashburn, VA

Spain, Germany, Russia, France, Australia, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates - so FLY EMIRATES

Did anybody have better turnaround from season four to season five than Craig? 

Following up — it’s not like Craig’s improved “who he is”, it’s that he’s just having more fun “being Craig” and so are… do you both agree?

Biggest post-season heel turn — Austen has made a comeback of late — but it has to be T-Rav right? 

No matter how you answer this — I think that Chelsea is essentially the breakout star of Season 5 (in terms joining the cast late and rising quickly. But, Is Chelsea America’s sweet heart —or like a “secret sniper” She kind of finds a way "stir the pot”, she always messes with Austen’s lady friends in a “who me type of way”.

I know you ladies love Katherine  - I’m glad she’s growing up but here’s a hot take — she’s Boring AF. Prove me wrong.

Ashley - most hated character of season 5? Anybody else even close? 

Burned out quickly award - Naomi. Called out JD on Ep 1 and 2. Called out Elizabeth on Ep. Called Peyton a Thirsty B in Episode 4. Then she apologized to Peyton, and when she tried to resume her “bashing of Craig” - single Craig completely flipped the tables and kind of swayed most nuetral viewers to “team craig” in my opinion.

Favorite moment / scene of the season? 

Is it time to give Shep a break? I think he’s boring and he’s a two-trick pony. We’ve seen his tricks for 5 season plus relationshep. Solution - can we put Shep on Below Deck as the host of a Charter Party (as a client) - and see if hilarity ensures? 

Does Cameran come back stronger in season 6? 

How do we feel about the theme song singer getting to “scat and freestyle over” the previews this season. 

T-Rav is fired from Southern Charm. What were your initial thoughts? Do you foresee any type of opportunity for T-Rav to return to southern charm

Running Notes from the “Ho, Ho, Ho” Episode  

Cameran visiting Craig’s house — “was a pig sty” - Craig hasn’t cleared “Character and Fitness” yet, to be declared a lawyer. 

Craig’s pillow game gets hammered by Cameran

Ashely is mentioned as a “polo rat” / High end “date” if you will. 

Austen doing Karaoke ???? Tux store guy zings Austen - ZING

Craig with the Zipper and the Hanger routine — can the camera guy help him?

Ashley is just really the worst out there? 

Has PETA filled against Southern Charm yet — lots of mink and fur coats and shales? are the fake? 

The return of Jennifer - where’s she been all season. She’s looking really good.   

Austen calls Ashley Cruella DeVille - Whoops !! 

Peyton is at the Ball ?! Welcome back from the Bench

Jason’s Debut on the show on FaceTime

Someone didn’t finish their brussels sprouts - that’s a huge problem! 

Austen drops the Escort BOMB ! I think Whitney Slipped him a $100 bill to say that at the ball.  

Austen calls Ashley a gold digger. Jennifer is LIGHTING Austen up

Craig’s date calls Ashley the “maybe nurse person”. 

Wilson says, “You know its a party not going in your favor, when everybody’s talking about you being a…” 

Kathryn and Patricia speak for first time - it’s nice — but i’m getting the meat sweats. But, it went well. 

Naomi says “eff off” and Craig says “you’re not being very mature”. 

Ashley and Kathryn face to face - Ashley is the worst. Kathryn lights her up.