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 

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. 

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  

Wine, Wall & Dragons - Season 8, episode 3: Game of Thrones Podcast

Wine, Wall & Dragons Season 8 Episode 3

Places listening

#1 city is Helsinki Finland other cities abroad include London, Sheffield, Makassar Indonesia, Valencia Spain, Casablanca Morocco, Ipojuca Brazil, Quetta Pakistan 

Shout out to whoever listened in key west as well 

Tonight Dan Ruttle and Dan O’Brien are watching episode 3 of season 8 together. This is the battle of Winterfell episode, rumored to be the longest battle scene ever filmed on TV or in cinema. 

Both of them have mentioned that they aren’t going to take any notes.

I’m going to try and take notes - but just maybe i’ll just keep track of either characters dying or major plot twists and see where the conversation takes us. 

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Unofficial Sponsor of the week Topo Chico Mineral Water - hecho en Monterrey Mexico and it’s really good stuff. 

opening - No scenes from before - straight to the intro 

Sam is freaking out / pre battle silence really  for everyone 

Dolorous Edd - for Effs sake, you took your time

Jon Snow and Dany on a cliff Melissandre by herself on a horse - And lights their swords on FIRE! The Dothraki have fire swords. Davos is still skeptical - but opens gate for her. Yikes.

Messandre seeing Arya is a weird moment 

Where Mormot, Ghost and the Dothraki running to? Or certain doom. 

Holy shite a wave of zombies 

Dany strkes early with Drogon to burn a bunch of em. Jon is on Rhaegar. There’s just cold weather everywhere. 

Dolorous Edd is dead 

Sansa in the crypts 

Jon and Dany need Googles for this blizzard dragon ride

Bran’s just waiting 

The Unsullied are selfless heroes of the night in the early going 

Uh Oh Dany can’t see the sign to light the trenches - Grey worm sees melisandre - and she’s trying to light that trench — dramatic pause but it works

Theon just WAITING while Bran is LURKING

Bran goes full raven - Night King is riding Visereon - They dead are all jumping in the fire - prob to build a bridge — YUP! 

Jon is going after Night King on a Dragon 

Winterfell worst place to be in westeros tonight for sure

The hound is having a moment 

Arya double edge swords a bunch of wights 

Ice Giant shows up 

Lyanna Mormot killed Wun Wun’s twin - nice move 

Dragon Fight - above the clouds -

Lot of wights on the Winterfell Library - Arya sprinting 

Berric and Hound save Arya - Berric Dies a noble death - Melissandre and Arya with a face to face - Arya runs off (what’s she up to)?

Jon needs a saddle for this Dragon Fight 

Wait Night King fell off  - Dany burned him point blank — he said not today. WOW!

Jon’s coming after him on foot — let’s go - he’s gonna raise all the dead again - Lyanna Mormot is a WIGHT, DOLORUS EDD is a WIGHT 

How can they win ??? 

The dead in the Crypts are rising - as predicted by EVERYONE on earth 

The Dead are attacking Drogon - Dany falls off - Mormot Saves her again 

Everybody is getting overrun - they weren’t ready for raising of the dead move 

Bran comes back at the exact moment night king roles in - Thanks Theon - Theon you’re a good man 

Theon charges and gets smoked by Night King ARYA!!!!!! TIMES A MILLLLION for the WIN 

Petyr Balish’s Dagger - WINS THE WAR! 

Jorah’s dying - Dany is bummed — Drogon is back - Melissandre wants off into the sun rise - and dies upon removing necklace 

Bird Box podcast movie review. The Mule movie review. Happy New Year 2019

Bird Box on Netflix ends 2018 in the meme hall of fame 

Did we watch this movie because you the fact that it dominated the “meme” scene on instagram between Christmas and New Year’s

Did we like a Sandra Bullock’s performance? What’d we like about it. 

What happened to the Police academy recruit and her Tall blond junkie paramour? Where’d they go? why? did they make it? why no closure? And here’s why I ask, “The OB/Gyn lady from the beginning of the movie came back at the end, so if we’re randomly closing that loop, i feel like we should’ve closed the one of the police girl and her junkie BF.”

Why were certain people “immune to the mass suicides”? The only quasi-explanation we got was “people who aren’t right mentally” are totally fine. But they also think that 1) whatever they’re seeing is beautiful, and they're compelled to show everybody "the beauty”. But, they are somehow cunning enough to fein victimhood even though they know they are making people kill themselves, and seem lustfully determined to let them kill themselves. 

They never really explained “what the evil spirits were”. They essentially used “sound, wind effects, and creepy music” in place of a true villain or monster (which is creative). 

The spirits not being able to “come inside the houses” also seemed a little flimsy… but I get it. 

John Malkovich was being John Malkovich 

using the car to go to the grocery store — the most far fetched thing — that “GPS NAVIGATION” works well enough to drive you to your destination while you’re blinded. 

The Birds “knowing people were good ad bad” i guess we needed that part. Since it’s the name of the movie 

Was this movie short on explanations because it was haphazardly created, or were they “crazy like a fox” in knowing that they’ll likely make a sequel? 

The Mule review: Had an interesting premise, had a strong cast, and somehow it never quite became the movie we hoped.

Seemed heavy handed in the plot twist movements. Clint missed his daughters wedding for a flower convention. wouldn’t you choose a wedding day that is mutually agreeable for the parents of the bride? Wouldn’t you do so out of “season” especially since they lived in Peoria, Illinois and therefore have a winter/ no growing season. 

The relationship between Clint and Bradley Cooper was really “Chummy” and his relationship with the Cartel prior to Andy Garcia’s character getting murdered was really chummy. 

The grand daughter’s relationship with Clint’s character was way too manufactured and the way in which she called him to say that his ex-wfie was sick and her acting in that scene, not strong. Felt like a Lifetime TV movie in terms of quality. But, somehow Clint and Bradley Cooper and Lawrence Fishburn and Andy Garcia are in the cast. 

I’m not sure I buy the whole “started muling” in 2017 after he lost his business… would have been more interesting if he’d been  mule the whole time and that’s why his family life was garbage. The fact that he put family over business and somehow was still Broke at between 2005 and 2017 because the “Internet” killed the mom and pop flower business… that took my interest level down a few pegs for sure 

Clint confessing to everything at the end - seems like the right move to save his family. If he gets off on probation that Cartel definitely comes after him.

The overly stereotyped messaging in this film was basically, if old white men wanted to be mules and the Cartel would just let them meander around at their own pace, then they’d be #1, also seems like wild hyperbole. 

Rank the places listening in terms of where you’d like to visit next: Ashburn, VA / Atlanta/ Toronto / London / Angeles City Philippines/ Willemstad Curacao / Athens / Cape Town / Christchurch NZ / Orebro Sweden / Schwabisch Hall Germany / Sao Paulo  

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.