OK, tongue in cheek jokes about Conan inventing podcasts aside, lets give some mention to the predecessors. My morning first-listen is Rachel Maddow - though those who don’t agree with my choice, there are Fox podcasts as well - which is just an audio lift of the show. And The Daily Show, which also puts out…

Yeah, I put Nate on Nate... There was the whole talk with Ted, but when Richmond won and that pissed Nate off - he complained that Ted was giving Nate credit for a scheme to set him up to fail but everyone wanted to stick with and won (so, success for Nate), but that just made him madder... that was the moment for me…

This is why I am often quick to dismiss conspiracy theories... you stop to consider how many people it would take to pull it off - say, the thousands to fake the moon landing as well as foreign powers who spy on us and would love to embarass us - yet this was a guy in a side office getting a BJ, just 2 people in the…

As for the “is” exchange, Clinton was trying to “lawyer” his way through a question, but I think many people would try to do the same. The context, they were asking if he was lying when he told aides “there’s nothing going on between us”. The gist of his “depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is” was that if one reads…

Additionally, one thing not mentioned by any conspiracy person is that WTC 1 & 2, as well as WTC 7, had very unique engineering to them. WTC 1 & 2, to create an open floor space without frequent columns, was at the most basic, a tube handling nearly all the weight with a smaller tube inside, with the floor asking as…

You point out that they call out “Ted!” like he’s Norm without mentioning that Norm is Ted’s uncle? Well, I mean the actors are uncle-nephew.

Yeah, doesn’t sound like it works. I can sort of get why they tried the typewriter and not showing mom talking to daughter... HIMYM kind of got locked into how the series ended by pretaping the kids side of it before they aged out of being the teen kids of Ted as the show kept going. Finding a way to tell the tale to…

And boys... elementary school got out at noon on Fridays, so I always had lunch while my mom had the cliff-hanger end-of-week episodes on, and got addicted.

I think one reason the Mandalorian worked, and Bad Batch, and Rebels and such is they take place in the Star Wars universe, but they’re not trying to recreate Star Wars as Lucas made it... I think the best thing Favereau explained in the behind the scenes stuff was they’re not watching Star Wars to create, they’re…

I did like the sponsor on Ooli.... because that is a thing. In a fairly isolated country with the population of Ann Arbor or Trenton-Princeton, they did develop an app to check how any 2 people might be related to each other, namely to avoid awkward pick-ups.

I think Bucky is so focused on stopping these Super Soldiers because it is a bit of his legacy, the bad past he wants to get past. He’s been the one driving the hunt while Sam’s been trying to be more cautious. So, I can see him seeing Zemo as a necessary tool to get there... maybe if he waits a week, he can find…

Jess Oppenheimer had an unfinished memoir his son completed after his father died that I recommend, Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time. 

Well, back in the 90s, Law & Order did a crossover with Homicide: Life on the Street, which had one fave scene of Andre Braugher and Chris Noth jawing with each other about Baltimore vs. New York City. And, opened the door for Richard Belzer to take his character to SVU.

Well, to be frank, “Tears in Heaven” was about him not being able to keep his son in the home...

I felt one thing going on with the ISA was they weren’t really working as a team. Everyone seemed to have their own agenda. Hell, Tigress killed Bowin a few hours before because her parenting was badmouthed, and Sportsmaster had dismissed her as “where is the fun in that”? I mean, in the splash-page shot, maybe having…

Some of my observations:
- didn’t care for Mike at the beginning - rightfully complaining about not being told anything, then when Pat tries to, complains he’s being treated like a kid and blows him off.
- I dug Crusher’s bouncing the baseball bat behind his back, that was a kickass move.
- I like the mom’s arc, not just…

I have no idea how they wrap it up... but I think they need to do something that kills or removes Brainwave and has the ILA memories wiped... not sure they can have Season 2 where they know the JLA and family’s identities.

In terms of superhero universe characters, I get that she isn’t blinded by it. But what looks like a super-bright light in Brec Bassinger’s face on set and looking natural, that may be a real superpower.

“You’re luck I’m busy”...

I loved the scene where he volunteered to take Courtney’s anger about her had (Brec Ballinger also did great in that moment), and while Pat has seemed a mild hero, or an intellecual one at best, they sold it that he took down Geoff Stults, who has 4 inches on him, with once punch, and his…

Ooooo, got me thinking - any other things we’ve seen Courtney take? Is it just Thunderbolt left at this point?