Wingin’ It #65
Michael, Evo, Jack, Sheila and Lorrie. The pool party scared off everybody else.
First Drink of the Day: Anchor Brewing Company’s Liberty Ale for Evo, Anchor Bock for Jack, and for Mike, Sam Adams Chocolate Bock.
- Also on this show:
- Evo, apparantly having drunk some Lazy Bastard, wants you to stitch together some promos for us.
- Don’t miss the blockbust duel of the year: The Clash of the Ego, Without Evo.
- Evo comments on the comments listeners gave on the flickr pics.
- We’re out of beer openers. So, if you’re waiting on your order, more are on the way.
- Evo and Sheila are gonna go see Nacho Libre. Also, if you’re not a fan of Tenacious D, what’s wrong with you?
- A Haiku Moment: Fight something or other
- Evo talks about a South American culture that has a unique sense of time.
- A Geek Fu Essay: Does a Good Theme Trump Bad Game Design?
- Evo cleans out his game closet, and makes a million dollars on Ebay!
- Scifi Poetry Slam: The Divine Matrix
- Poonini talk.
- Evo talks about an East Indian minister’s gift to his new wife. Evo, reading all this news? Sorry ’bout that, just passed out a little bit.
- Matt goes to Hell. Michigan, that is. Matt sends us some postcards from the 6/6/06 party.
- Mike and Evo forgot to give many mad props and muches shoutouts to Classic Candies for the fudge they sent.
- Oh, I’m sorry, did you miss that? That’s… Classic Candies; 300 West Apache Trail, Apache Junction, AZ 85220; phone: (480) 982-6008).
- A bonnie lass yearns for her long lost man in white.
- Mike needs all the calendar pics by the end of June.
- Joe’s taking a mental health month. And the guys; schedules are hurtin’ in July. So, what could they possibly do?
- Jack’s comment section for his Mur Lafferty interview… hawsome!
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Promos:
The Dragon Page With Class
Does My Geek Look Big In This?
June 20th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
The “air” candy is sponge candy. Glad you guys enjoyed it.
June 21st, 2006 at 5:16 am
Listening to the show now….
Uh-oh. Mur pooh-poohs Evo’s passion - Killer Bunnies!
I’ve never played Killer Bunnies myself - what’s the group’s verdict? Is Evo crazy or is Mur off her rocker?
Hey! Apples to Apples rocks! Especially after a few drinks. Don’t let that one go.
June 21st, 2006 at 7:00 am
Still listening, and bit about the article about people seeing time going to wrong way.
I don’t have the books to hand, but wasn’t this a joke by Terry Pratchett in the Discworld novels. That Trolls, see time running backwards, and because they turn to stone during day, and wake up at night, look forward to the great dawn of time, when time will end.
I think it was in one of the early Rincewind books, either the Colour of Magic or The Light Fantastic. I seem to remember a bit about trolls in there where rincewind and twoflower build a camp in a cave mouth and it turns out to be a troll’s mouth.
Anyway just thought I’d mention it.
Anyone with more encyclopediac knowledge of Dsicworld, or the books to hand might be able to clarify
June 21st, 2006 at 7:21 am
I totally agree with Mur, but I can accept that Evo is… different.
June 21st, 2006 at 7:30 am
*heart* *heart* *heart*
June 21st, 2006 at 7:32 am
Love all around from Alvie.
Love is in the air…
June 21st, 2006 at 7:48 am
Nice show guys, great to hear the ladies in there (and Lorrie getting all “teacher” on us). Sorry ’bout my little rant on the VM comments.
Mike, bring the cutlery, but keep in mind, I like to mess with expectations a little (just as Evo).
June 21st, 2006 at 7:49 am
Damn, urm, STRAIT, Ditto.
w00t! Aint no poem like a Bobby G. poem cause a Bobby G. poem dont stop!!!!
June 21st, 2006 at 8:18 am
This show is hawsome.
June 21st, 2006 at 8:38 am
LOL Check it out, two more to listen to!
WTF?!?!?
June 21st, 2006 at 9:17 am
I like hawsome.
Mike- do you not have the last Get Your Geek Off? 2 weeks in a row we have gotten skipped. Should we be taking the hint?
June 21st, 2006 at 9:21 am
Well one assumes that M&E are under contract to produce Slice for XM, so that can’t be avoided. For Wingin’t It! I think I’d vote that we all just take July off, the pool party can fade to become mythical, and we can come back with renewed hunger in August.
I certainly need a vacation!
June 21st, 2006 at 9:22 am
Probably….
No No, GYGO is terriff. Im sure he just forgot…
Isnt that right, Mike? Dont make Smarty angry…
You wouldnt like her when shes angry..
I mean, I would.. but you wouldnt.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:23 am
Doh!! Son-of-a……
I’m sorry Andrea and Jeremy. I forgot to put it in the spot server from last week.
Doing it now… It’ll go on Saturday. Promise!
June 21st, 2006 at 9:27 am
Sheila and Lorrie, are much funnier than Mike and Evo…
Oh wait, I didn’t use my inside voice! Argh.
June 21st, 2006 at 10:12 am
All I know is that Killer Bunnies is damn hard when you are drunk and your female opponents keep fondling their breasts. I’m pretty sure that was part of a winning strategy though. LOL
June 21st, 2006 at 10:12 am
Boom! Youre banned Gil!!!
Not that I dont agree…
Theyre much better looking as well.
June 21st, 2006 at 11:04 am
*pout
June 21st, 2006 at 11:07 am
Oh, Alvie, still haven’t finished…I promise I will tonight!!
June 21st, 2006 at 11:15 am
Worry not…
Itll be worth it…
June 21st, 2006 at 11:24 am
Apples to Apples = Fun
June 21st, 2006 at 11:48 am
Andrea & Jeremy. Send me that GYGO file again.
I think it got dumped during the pool party, because it is not where I left it.
Another casualty of the day I think.
June 21st, 2006 at 11:49 am
Mike, did you get my Calendar Pic?? I never got any confirmation….
June 21st, 2006 at 11:51 am
Jeremy my dear– will you send that to Mike since HE DOESN’T LOVE US!!!!!!
I sent Mike 2 calendar pics and he dumps GYGO. WHATEVER!
June 21st, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Thats, WHATEVAR.
June 21st, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Shit you guys… I love you all, and yes I have the picts.
Too much to do, and I’m only one man to do it. (Damn, I need an intern)
June 21st, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Mike, if I was 18 and a girl Id do it.
Er, I mean… WHATEVAR!
June 21st, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Im 32 and female, can I apply?
June 21st, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Hell yes!
Oh, you were talking to Mike…
June 21st, 2006 at 1:57 pm
hee hee.. depends on what your hiring for Alvie. I would rather live in Colorado then Arizona. No offense Mike, I dont do well in the heat. But you know I heart you.
Wow you know I really should see if my husband minds moving before I apply for all these jobs.
June 21st, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Mmmmm, dat be smart.
June 21st, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Andrea doesn’t do well in heat?? I’m a little onfused here. GYGO got mennegayed. Mike does heart us all and we heart him back cause he’s so heartable. Ditto for Lorrie and Sheila, now Evo-well with Mr. Terra-definitely more of as cerebral kind of thing.
June 21st, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Andrea you should try the mountains of Arizona, quite delightful weather….well except when the trees are all burning down around you.
June 21st, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Talking smack about the 3 Stooges-that’s going to far. Ok-Evo my midget Mexican wrestler against yours!
June 21st, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Strongbad Uber Alles!
June 21st, 2006 at 4:26 pm
I’m still pumped about the Alvie verses Jimmy - Dual of the Fates!
June 21st, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Alvie is a wuss, I putting my money on Jimmy.
June 21st, 2006 at 5:16 pm
Jimmy any day of the week. I bet 5 magerzine perscriptions on him. Alvies got no booblies.
June 21st, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Must…..not…….kill…..
June 21st, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Hey, leave Alvie alone you sons of bitches.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Did someone call us sons of the Spanish Inquisition Bitches? Hey Lorrie and Sheila-Niagra Falls.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:23 pm
w00t! Got me an Andreanator!
Shell. Be. Baak.
June 21st, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Alvie-You going down chump-Jimmy gonna open a whole truckload a whupass on you son.
June 21st, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Now that I think about it-it’d be nice to se Andrea against Ian in duel of the fates. Seeing as how they both wear skirts and all. My money’s on Andrea for sure.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:19 am
I’m the Andreanator, Im here to pump you up. Ok no really, it is 4 in the morning I seem to have become an insomniac these past 2 nights and thats not funny at all. So I have accomplished great things this evening and decided to take a break and visit you all.
Mark I like the duel of the fates idea. I would win that match, but for one reason only. I would take my shirt off to distract him and then he won’t know what hit him.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:38 am
Andrea-Indeed. Your proposed attire causes my neck to stiffen just thinking of that kind of impact. This whole distraction concept kind of titillating actually. mERITS FURTHER RESEARCH. Sorry you’re sleepless in Chitown but glad you’re being productive.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:38 am
AHHH, but he would. And he would like it!
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:06 am
Once a woman starts in with physical violence hse is no longer a woman and is free to be punched in the mouth…
Uh-oh…
Fuck. Gotta stop typing out loud.
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:10 am
I love the Andreanator…
It unfortunate she’s powered by crack.
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:36 am
Funny I thought she was powered by sitting in traffic and alcohol.
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:47 am
Vodka is what powers me. Do not listen to Alvie. He tells lies.
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:00 am
I do not…
Am I lying?
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:16 am
your right Alvie, Im sorry.
Alvie does not tell lies
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:19 am
She’s lying…
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:34 am
*head explodes* ah much better
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:02 am
No its not… liar.
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:14 am
Mur’s dissin’ on Killer Bunnies? *sigh* Say it isn’t so!
She’s right though, the game starts to suck after too many turns with no bunnies.
The way we play is to start everyone with one regular non-special bunny down in the circle right from the beginning so everyone at least starts with a bunny…
~Sharon
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:27 am
I dont lie, you liar.
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:43 am
I never said you lied!
Im lying.
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:49 am
liar
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:58 am
Am I?
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:16 am
yes
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:22 am
Listen closely. “Everything I say, is a lie.” LOL
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:26 am
Rhett you are a walking contradiction.
This upsets me.
My dear Andrea, I suggest we focus our energy upon the true threat…. Rhettro.
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:36 am
Yeah, Rhettro you are such a liar.
You should be more like Alvie and I. We do not lie.
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:37 am
Look!!!! A flower that goes to its bunk!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060621/ap_on_sc/china_lonely_orchid
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:39 am
Oddly, I envy this flower…
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:45 am
Clearly, this is ANOTHER indication of mainstream media listening, in secret, to WI!:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13154600/
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:45 am
I know. Its kind of cool. Lucky flower.
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:55 am
thats funny Alvie. Roller Derby is hot. If I was a tougher biyatch I would do it.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 pm
You should do it anyway.
Then send pictures.
Then Ill go to my bunk.
Then Ill ask for more pictures.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Alvie, I appreciate that, but I would get my ass beat.
Let me add more weightlifting to my daily workout first.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Mmmmm, ass…beat…
Shit I was going to lunch…
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Oh Alvie, we keep ending up here. Go enjoy your lunch.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Fast girls? That’s got my attention. LOL
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Andrea, Alvie, Mark, et al.–congrats on breaking 1200 comments on Jack’s last show post. Going for 2K this time?
….umm…so where exactly do you all keep your, you know, lives?
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Ha ha very funny Charlie.
See you make jokes but Im sitting here posting stupid ass snarky comments and making a very nice salary if I may so so myself.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Congrats on that…I just spent the morning playing with my kids…this afternoon I’ll be drinking sweet barley juice with Mike…AND I’m posting stupid ass snarky comments. Tomorrow? ’bout the same. See, I’m a school teacher. Not having a life…I call it “summer”.
Wait..I don’t get paid for that
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:59 pm
hee hee. Thats hawesome Charlie.
Well our boss keeps telling us- enjoy the quiet now in 2 weeks you’ll be swamped. So dammit I’m going to enjoy myself these 2 weeks.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Ha Ha Charlie!
See you make jokes but Im sitting here posting stupid ass snarky comments and barely making a living for me and my family if I may so so myself….
Um, wait thats not cool at all. Youre right.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:01 pm
I totally get the school teacher vibe from Charlie. LOL
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:08 pm
Now we really know why Charlie drinks.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Charlie-san you velly funny. Next time I take you to restaurant where they make special egg drop soup. I have waiter drink one of beers you reccomend and go and piss in the bowl in the kitchen and see if you can tell. I have no more time for stupid comments now that I am writing DeadPan cookbook.
Life? I jusr installed yesterday ‘06. This is one of my perks for being my own boss. Alvie-when are we going to start acting like deaf mutes and selling those pencils with Charlie’s comments on them?
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Charlie-almost forgot yor an Iower boy. You guys are good wrestlers and writers. Never could understand the tie-in? Hope to ge to try some of your killer barbecue some day and Have a couple of drinks, no egg drops.
PS-The belch on your bumper-who dod the research for that? LOL
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:50 pm
So swamped at work right now. Only posting cuz I can type hella fast thanks to the Monster Energy Drink.
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Rhettro & ditto — I’m not one of those teachers with a flask in their desk. I just wish I was.
Mark–wrestling comes from subduing all those pigs. Writing comes from processing the angst of realizing you just wrestled a pig–and “felt it move”.
Mike–thanks for drinking with me
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Charlie-wrestling with pigs and writing about it,so we don’t have to. So glad you are teaching the youth of Phoenix. Or… Ha. What’s in the flask teacher Charlie? That’s what I wan with my barbecue.
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Well Mark, next time you swing through Phoenix, I’ll barbeque the pig,we’ll wash it down with the flask. Oh, and a beer. I’ll definitely pass on the special egg drop soup though…
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Mark belches showing approval of Charlie the pig-wrestling teacher. Deal!
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:32 pm
PS-Did Mike’s board shrink when he found out that you had a much “bigger dvd” collection than he did? You can tell the men from the boys by…. how loud the men yell when boys touch their toys.
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:58 pm
[yup]You’ll have to take that up with Mike[/yup]
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Charlie, you impressed both Smokin Joe and my self with your incredible foodstuffs. (I think your other half helped, and if so, Thanks!) Joe wants to come over and bring some “Special” growlers that we didn’t bring for the “beer gang rape” that was the pool party. What do you think of a AB with Jalapeno and cumin? Now that’s a beer with cajones.
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:11 pm
I’m normally not a “chili” beer fan, but if anyone can pull it off it’s the folks at Stone. Come on over! Oh, and Carolyn helped by, uh…OKing the purchase of huge quantities of meat from Costco…yeah, that’s the ticket…
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:35 pm
No Jalapeno beer from me-just some mystical spirits from the orient……
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Charlie I am not a huge pepper fan, but if you ever do a pepper show you need to include Rogue’s Chitpole Ale. It was incredible when I tried it the pepper was there, but so subtile I think you could miss it if you had it with too spicy of food.
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Er pepper in beer fan, I love spicy food, just not usually in my beer.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:45 am
I’ve had some good beer chili combinations, but I prefer to use a bit of vinegar.
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:26 am
Beer in chilli, sounds good. Chilli in beer, not so much. LOL
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:55 am
You know what sounds good? Chili in chili in Chile. In the mountains, where it’s chilly. Oh, and beer. Hello…is this thing on…?
June 23rd, 2006 at 1:09 pm
100!!!!!!
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:01 pm
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CNBC/TVReports/AnheuserBuschTakesShotAtHardStuff.aspx?GT1=8283
GOOD! Now maybe theyll stop making beer…
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:30 pm
No, Alvie…like Disney, AB’s ultimate goal is complete global domination. Therefore we must drink good beer and piss on Mickey Mouse.
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Have you tried the Starbuck Coffee Liquer? Its actually not bad, like a slightly sweeter Kahluah.
June 23rd, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Starbuck’s…I forgot about them….
June 23rd, 2006 at 3:51 pm
All part of their plan Charlie, all part of their plan.
June 23rd, 2006 at 4:18 pm
I will not contribute any more to the Evil Empire. Anytime you get a McDonalds or a Starbucks on practically ever corner, it’s a sure sign of the Four Horsemen.
However, if you put an Irish pub on practically every corner, hmmmm….Heaven!
June 23rd, 2006 at 5:22 pm
So we have McDonalds, Starbucks, AB, and the Bush Regime as the four horsemen?
Lesse: Death, Famine, Pestilence, War…
Yup, thats bout right.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:05 pm
I take that back. Disney makes a much better Famine than does Starbucks.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Mark feeling somewhat co-conspiratorial blurts out,”It was the Burger King guy killed President Kennedy. I promised not to tell but I got wired on some expensive Starbucks coffee, raped and pillaged a village here in an Asian 3rd world country,then went whoresback riding with Dubya.” When we got to DisneyLand in HK we threw up on Mickey’s shoes and started laughing our asses off. Ah, glad Sat is here I need some rest.
June 25th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Starbucks is actuallly a really green company.
June 26th, 2006 at 7:36 am
Jeremy, they may be green, but they are extremely predatory. They are the WalMart of coffee shops, driving out small local stores just because they can.
June 26th, 2006 at 8:56 am
I concur on the predatory part, but not the Wal-Mart part. Wal-Mart has way too many really bad practices that Starbucks does not use, like paying their employees so little, and asking the local governments to partner with them and help subsidise their taxes, and have built in welfare assistance becasue so many of their employees make so little they need to be on it while they work there, ruining the economy of small towns by building two stores then closing one, trucking all the cash out of state to their home state (thereby actually draining the local economy), leveraging below market prices out of manufacturers by threatening to undercut them with their competition thereby forcing many manufacturers to outsource to keep costs down thereby distroying American Jobs…shall I continue?
People go to Starbucks for a reason, so its up to the consumers to choose their local coffee house. They don’t do it with pricing, I guarantee you that; their coffee is usually more expensive.
June 26th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Well, perhaps my comparison to WalMart was overblown. On the other hand, I’ve seen Starbuck choose locations that are within doors of other coffee shops and then offer incentives to get people to buy coffee there. I don’t like that practice, but that’s beside the point. Anyway, enough about that.
You’re right about the price. IMO, people tend to go to Starbucks because 1) they are lazy, 2) many can’t tell the difference between quality coffee and OK coffee, and 3) people prefer brand-names.
June 26th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Well Starbucks only move into neighborhoods where the median income is of a certain level. There was a period of my life before my husband and I started making decent money that when a neighborhood became too expensive for us and we would move to a cheaper neighborhood. Everytime within 4 or 5 months of us moving a Starbucks would open. Starbucks is a sign of status I think, and I think that is why people like them. I think their coffee stinks- I only go for their espresso.