About this Episode
The hot mic pre-show discusses an adventure at Dunham's Sporting Goods, cigarette prison currency, and the alternative uses for the ol' keister. Steve believes that you don't have to keister in a white-collar prison. Brad's girlfriend, Ashley, is in studio for episode 18 and that alone makes this one special and energetic. Steve and Brad offer life and work updates, one of which is so bad that it cannot be fully discussed on the show... and that's saying something... and we collectively wonder how to define the Christmas-itis. Brad ended up back in the hospital one last time in 2018, involving high temperatures, misdiagnoses, and collapsing in the living room at the house, and Steve compares it all to an episode of Little House on the Prairie. Then we find out not only that Steve played soccer, but what we different when he did... or so he says. Pretty women hold tremendous power, and Ashley has managed to get Brad to watch all eight Harry Potter films. We reminisce about the first time we saw the first Britney Spears music video. A vicious Aaron Hernandez joke, and a discussion about some shocking news regarding the rumors surrounding his sexuality, leads to Steve dropping a dynamite Christopher Lowell reference that could be the most obscure, shocking reference made in eighteen episodes of the podcast. Ashley and Steve talk about their common ground as guitar players thanks to a Sweetwater catalog (sponsor us!), and we all deny the reports and pitfalls of a wood shortage in the world. Before the break, sponsor, owner of Blue Gold Title Research, and friend of the show Jim Ashley chimes in with a listener commentary to follow up on his recent appearance on episode 017.
After the break, Brad and Steve talk about the recent championship fight between Adonis Stevenson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk, which ended in an eleventh-round knockout and left the now-former champion, Stevenson, in a coma, and highlight how we may not feel as bad as we normally would because of his history as a Haitian pimp that abused and turned underage girls out as prostitutes. Several attempts are made to discuss the recent passing of our 41st president, George H.W. Bush, on November 30th, but things get sidetracked. The sidetracking issues include: Brad's hatred of Kirby Puckett and Kent Hrbek, Brad and Ashley's hatred of Bryce Harper, Steve's trash-talking son, sickle cell anemia, the nonsensical beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientologists, acquiring someone else's traits through blood transfusions, Steve's uncle's love of Van Halen and cocaine, and Crystal Pepsi. We learn that a certain child actor should not have been Home Alone with Michael Jackson, throw some unexpected respect at Ross Perot, and talk about how we miss Dave Markert. Steve thinks that former president Obama is a dickhole, his politics notwithstanding. Brad, Steve, and Ashley present their Top 5 Goals for 2019, we learn that head will make you do a lot of things, and we hear about appearances from the shocker, the minivan, and Horns Down. Getting drunk and then smashed, or just smashed, is alluded to... just before one of the most horrific and distasteful references in the history of broadcast media is made and Brad has to ask the Lord for forgiveness for even hearing it. Steve fills us in on his Blackout Checklist, hates Oprah Winfrey, briefly confuses Roots and The Color Purple, and talks about his personal experience with Roots outtakes. We listen to the viral video of Grover possibly being profane in a recent episode of Sesame Street before offering up our final Virginia Tech Update of the year as we close what might be our craziest show of the year... or ever.
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