Sorry But You Can Have My Identity. No More Bro Hugs Please. And Tony Hawke!

Ever wondered how music can rise from tragedy? Join us as we revisit the iconic formation of the Archangels after the untimely death of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Reflect back to their legendary 1992 performance at the Four Winds in Wilmington, and feel the pulse of Austin, Texas' vibrant music scene. We'll also dive into the complexities of modern security measures — are passwords and authentication processes driving you nuts too? Plus, I reveal my unexpected love for ESPN’s X Games and skateboarding coverage, and share a candid critique of the WNBA. Throw in a little humor about my recent hernia surgery, and you'll understand why painkillers and stool softeners are now comedic highlights in my life. 

Switching gears, get ready for a hilarious and baffling breakdown of cricket that will make you scratch your head in wonder. Today’s Poetry Corner features none other than the legendary Phil Collins, reading his evocative piece "I Don't Care Anymore." This segment is a powerful ode to defiance and emotional detachment, offering a poignant pause in our otherwise lively episode. Wrap it all up with my light-hearted rant on the ridiculousness of ‘bro hugs’ and ‘fist bumps’ in sports culture, and advocate for the return of the good old handshake. Tune in for a ride through music nostalgia, modern frustrations, sports culture critiques, personal tales, and poetic reflection guaranteed to entertain and resonate.

Chapters

• 0:00 Musings on Life and Entertainmen
• 7:40 Cricket and Poetry Corner Musings

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

I'm just living, living in a dream, without a sound. 1992, the Archangels Living in a Dream. And it's when you hear bands like that that when I hear the Archangels Living in a Dream. And it's when you hear bands like that, that when I hear the Archangels, I just want to move right now to Austin, Texas. And the Archangels were formed after Stevie Ray Vaughan died. They formed in 1992.

Speaker 1: 0:37

Doyle Bramhall II, charlie Sexton, friends of Stevie Ray Vaughan, drummer Chris Layton, bass player Tommy Shannon Wow, so special. Never made it that greatly big, I don't think. But down Texas way, san Antonio, austin, texas, all of that they still play Takes me back because it's the real thing. Takes me back Because it's the real thing. Just listen, the Archangels. I saw them at the Four Winds in Wilmington. They did a show there in 1992. A friend of mine, charlie, ran the Four Winds at the time. He said come on down, blade Brought a couple of friends and we had a time of our life.

Speaker 1: 1:43

Listen, this is what I hate. Since I am a hater, might as well go on with it. Passwords I hate passwords and I just cannot wait until we get to the six-step authentication. I just can't wait. I can't get enough of that two-step authentication. I'm here to tell you Password, two-step identification. I cannot wait until our passwords will have to be three capital letters, four different characters, four umlauts and two different Anatolian. Ancient Latin contractions In Renaissance Latin. Now, not medieval Latin, renaissance Latin. You know? Go ahead, evil hackers in Dubai, just go ahead and steal my identity. Would you do that? Please go ahead and take it. Already.

Speaker 1: 2:30

Espn has the greatest big balls who, in the ESPN programming department, decided to have some quote-unquote professional skateboarder segment where he describes how he dragged his arm two-thirds of an inch, making his 36 degree round off on the 14 percent down gradient ramp in the finals of the latest tournament in Bakersfield, california or somewhere, which caused him to take a spill and end up on his body prox knee pads. But see, now I know who Tony Hawk is and he did it, and he did it, and he did it and he finally did it and it was a grand victory. It was fascinating, it was totally entertaining. Espn has big balls, are you kidding me? Yeah, look at this Tony Hawk. Everybody who would air that and make it successful and entertaining. Espn is the media ruler of the world. They made skateboarding interesting and then they created the x games. That being said, they also created a shit show called the wnba.

Speaker 1: 3:51

And so, speaking of big balls, I'm just sorry but it's just another medical issue report from me. It's life with blade guys. I just had, quote unquote recurrent hernia surgery same hernia surgery I had fixed a couple of years ago, had a double inguinal two years ago, but now I gotta fix one of them. And the surgery takes place directly beside your private area, right next door, within an inch, and they cover up the hole in your stomach lining where the intestines pop out. You know, and you want that covered up. Now I've played baseball with guys that put tape around their hernia that they haven't fixed yet when they're playing a game duct tape but they slice into your stomach area, right next to your package, and they put some kind of mesh on top. You know, I don't even want to know, I don't even ask the surgeon, just do it. And the surgeon surgeon says this afterwards you'll feel a nice enlargement of the testicles. So sure enough, when I'm able, I grab a look. See, when I wobble into the bathroom at home and I, I surely, am in possession of these great big testicles, took a picture of them because I'm proud of them. Thank you, doc. For once in my life I have great big testicles. I was thinking about using them as a profile picture on a dating website. I can see the women flocking now Can't get enough. Who would turn that't get enough? Who would turn that down? What ladies would turn that down? Men and women alike all over the world would be looking on in amazement. I'd be a dating website stud.

Speaker 1: 5:40

Listen, I thank the lord above for pain pills and stool softeners. I do. I'm on the last of my pain pills now and it took me just a half hour a minute ago to induce what stool softeners are supposed to induce without much pain. This time it's Oxy. I mean small little doses like five milligrams or something. But painkillers just rule. They make surgeries next door to your private area fun. It's an unabridged miracle. It is Quickie IBS.

Speaker 1: 6:18

Listen, I suffer from irritable bastard syndrome. Little things bother me more and more and more as I get older. Things that didn't used to bother me before bother me now, and it's embarrassing to admit, but I'm doing it. Look, I don't ever want to see another bro hug, ever again. Bro hugs, you know I watch a lot of sports, so that's what men do when they greet each other, they don't even know each other and they're hugging each other. No more bro hugs, please. No more fist bumps. I don't even like those and I don't like the jumping chest bumps either. You know, if they do it and the pros, all the college kids copy it, and the high school kids and even the little leagues copy it, stop it. Stop with the chest bumps and the fist bumps and the bro hugs. Just stop it. If you feel a need to touch another man, why don't you do it like the hockey players do? They shake hands. Ibs, there's no cure for it.

Speaker 1: 7:19

They have these groups that play cricket out here in Arizona in the desert. These Indian guys come on out and they play for a while and I sat at least three times in Washington. Try to figure it out impossible. You know. They have E equals MC squared and quantum mechanics, which is rocket science, and they have the rules of cricket. I don't know which is more difficult to figure out.

Speaker 1: 7:40

In cricket you have two sides one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's. I don't even know what an out is, I can't tell by watching when they're all out. The side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. You know it occurred to me I've never even heard a cricket score. You know, I read about these cricket finals, you know, and I think one of the scores is 169 to 8 or something. You gain points, you lose points impossible. And you want to like it, you want to embrace it, but you can't.

Speaker 1: 8:32

And today's poetry corner piece is entitled I Don't Care Anymore, from the famed and acclaimed author and poet, mr Phil Collins. Please allow me to read verse one, and, as always, I ask that you employ silence for the benefit and the respect of the others listening into today's Poetry Corner. Poetry Corner, verse 1. Well, you can tell everyone I'm a down disgrace. Drag my name all over the place. I don't care any more, because I've been talking to the people that you call your friends and it seems to me there's a means to an end. They don't care any now. I won't be there any now. Get out of my way, let me Any. Mao, no Mo, no Mo, no Mao. Thank you for observing silence. And that concludes today's Poetry Corner. Join us again, won't you? Well, you can tell everyone I'm a dumb disgrace. Drag my name all over the place. I don't care anymore. You can tell everybody about the state I'm in. You won't catch me crying cause I just can't win. I don't care anymore. I don't care anymore. I don't care anymore. I don't care.