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Behind or: A Piggyback

15 Thursday Nov 2018

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I forgot to say — because I was writing other things on Monday — that we did The Man Who Ate the Town and The Beer Dads this week (and The Less Desirables). But, on The Beer Dads this episode, we talked about teaching the kid about budgeting. Cl1JVyyWYAAbovF

I found it funny that 3B came home today during his “travel period” between Career Center and high school and needed gas. After a long discussion about his First Quarter grades not being “too hot” as he called it, he had to get back to school. I took money by school for him a little bit later.

First of all, yes, he has a large SUV that sucks the gas like fish suck water. And, he has started living here at his grandmother’s house (Ma Mère’s) during the week because his mother for whatever reason decided to buy a house in a small town 45 minutes away. So, it is a little better now as he only has to fill up weekly, not $50 worth every three days. But, he hasn’t even gotten his “after 9s” yet. Wait until he starts going places and doing things. Yeah, I’m waiting. I won’t be able to help all that much.

Some think its better that he concentrate on school and not get a job while others think he should get a job. I see both sides and have overall mixed feelings about it. He’s finally found something that really interests him and I want him to concentrate on that. However, he’s not doing “jack” in the rest of his classes that don’t contain the words “weight” and “lifting.” Money is tight and he’s going to want to do things. So, I don’t know what to do about it.

Anywhat, I digress.

Follow the link if you want to hear the episode for:

The Man Who Ate the Town
The Beer Dads
The Less Desirables

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Dad, I need gas…” – 3B

 

Rich Dad Beer Dad or: Three Out of Five Ain’t Bad

05 Monday Nov 2018

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There was no The Man Who Ate the Town or Fan Interference podcasts today. TC has a broadcasting gig that he has to concentrate on and that delays FI. There weren’t much food happenings this week so we didn’t do TMWATT. But, we did publish an episode of The Beer Dads today and tomorrow is Apartment 5B and Wednesday is The Less Desirables! So, we’ll have a good bit of podcasts this week, still.

You can always watch the Fan Interference Twitter account as it has updates and there are plenty of back eps of TMWATT if you need that. You can listen to the current episode of The Beer Dads, right HERE.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

Double Piggies or: What the Food!?

29 Monday Oct 2018

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Today, I welcomed a new co-host on The Man Who Ate the Town today, Ray Morgan. He did a great job and we had a great conversation. We talked about a few places closing (albeit temporarily) and discussed the NC ABC board. Lots of good stuff. You can hear that episode HERE. TLDNetwork

Also, we recorded two episodes of The Beer Dads and had some good conversations with great beer. You can hear that episode HERE.

I do want to talk for a second about the Ardmore Neighborhood Chili Cookoff (that we talk a little bit about today on TMWATT. It turns out that it has been postponed until January, so get your recipes ready and enter! You have an extra two months now to come up with that killer vat o’chili! Get cookin’!

Until tomorrow, happy listening!
Scorp out!

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“I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.” – Joely Fisher

Piggyback on Track or: Zesty

22 Monday Oct 2018

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I flew solo today on The Man Who Ate the Town podcast and talked a little food news and a little food views, too. I talked about Earl’s, two different restaurants with “Crab” in their name, and I reviewed Zesto Burgers and Ice Cream among other things. I also wrote a separate post today about that. Did I like it? You’ll have to read it for yourself. You can do that HERE. To hear the episode, go HERE.

Food, yeah!

Until tomorrow, keep eating!
Scorp out!

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“Serving Quality Food and Ice Cream Since 1945.” – Zesto Burgers and Ice Cream

Gettin’ Chili or: Let’s Have a Cookoff!

19 Friday Oct 2018

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This post has been coming for a few days now, so here it is! I know in my vast amount of friends, readers (locally), allies, foodies and such that there are some cooks and they like a good chili cookoff competition.

Don’t we all have our favorite hand-me-down or I-made-this-up-and-it’s-the-bombdiggity chili recipes? I know a good bit of you have done the cookoffs in the past. You want to show off those chili skills, don’t you? Yes. You do!

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The Ardmore Neighborhood is having a chili cookoff on November 3 in the Miller Recreation Center and is in need of about eight to ten more chili cooks to have the competition. The location, again, is Miller Park Rec Center, 400 Leisure Lane. There are 2 categories – meat and veggie. Cooks are asked to prepare 2 gallons of chili. Samples will be available for free, and bowls will be sold for $1. Take-out is available. Cooks are asked to bring their chili in a crockpot and supply their own ladles and extension cords.

There is no entry fee to participate and there are prizes. There will be a People’s Choice, voted by the attendees. There will also be formal judging with prizes for each category. The prizes are three $25 visa gift cards and two $15 gift cards to Panera Bread. And, speaking of judges, as of right now, we will have both Mary Haglund of Mary’s Gourmet Diner and The Man Who Ate the Town’s own Tim Beeman (yeah, you know him) and we’re checking on a few more judges. I believe that Nikki Miller-Ka will be participating as a judge, as well!

Those who are interested should contact Kathy Pearre at pearre.kathy@gmail.com Tell her that I sent you!!!!!

Again, come, bring your chili goodness and have a good time with Mary, Nikki, me and more!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“My wife makes an amazing chili.” – Michael McKean

While We Wait or: More of That Please

15 Monday Oct 2018

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I was waiting on some info to create today’s post but it never came, so I saved it and had to resort to a backup plan. We didn’t do Fan Interference, The Man Who Ate the Town or The Beer Dads today and there will be no Apartment 5B this week (off week), so that leaves The Less Desirables this week. Actually, I should have a The Beer Dads in the can that I should have played today. Been a weird one, getting caught up from Pride Winston-Salem this past weekend.

Anywhat! While I await the info I talked about, I decided to play another video from Ami Kim that wowed me for this past “Sounds Like Saturday.” She seems to be a big Iron Maiden fan and I thought of one of those, but playing on the same theme from Saturday, here she is doing another song from Creatures of the Night. Enjoy!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Take the reins of power and seize them, draw the battle lines. Armageddon’s just a matter of time. Tear down the voice of reason, let the arrows fly. Your freedom’s just a state of mind, yeah. Better watch out ’cause I’m a war machine.” -“War Machine” (Simmons/Adams/Vallance)

A Heck of a Sis or: One of the Good Ones

11 Thursday Oct 2018

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Here’s your annual reminder that today is my sister’s birthday. As the title suggests, she is one of the good ones. While being a thorn in my side as we were growing up, she’s turned out to be one of my biggest fans… and one of my biggest critics, however, that’s brother/sister privilege, right? She gives me flack and no slack but she’s loving about it. I know that sounds like I’m pulling negatives, but I’m not. It’s actually things that make her extra endearing because she does it out of love. I guess I’ve always needed that.

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I meant to mention her on The Less Desirables last night, as I know she listens to that show. But, it was hectic. I did get to mention it on both The Man Who Ate the Town (I’m not sure if she listens to that one or not) and The Beer Dads (she does listen to that one).

I won’t say which birthday it is, but if you look back one year… you’ll be able to figure it out. Let’s just say there’s a “4” in it. She’s a good woman. A good mom. A good wife. Here’s to her. Happy solar circumnavigational anniversary day, sis!!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Named by her brother for two girls he had crushes on in 1st grade she has wreaked havoc on his life for (XX) years. In all honesty, she’s been one of my biggest fans and I do love her so…” – Me on The Man Who Ate the Town

Triple Piggyback or: Logolicious

08 Monday Oct 2018

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This week will be one of those weeks where we record, produce and distribute all FIVE of The Less Desirables Network shows. Today was three of them. Fan Interference was first today and we talked a lot about the NFL, MLB and college football. You can hear that HERE.man who ate the town Stallone

Up next came The Man Who Ate the Town and my pal, Timmy VO, and I talked about several restaurants/food trucks closing, food history and such, plus we tasted Padre Azul’s Añejo tequila. Great stuff. Also, I got a brand new logo designed by my pal, Stallone Frazier. He did it right, too. This means that I can finally get biz cards for TMWATT and get Machine Gun Graphics to make me some t-shirts for it as well! You can hear the episode HERE.

Lastly, we recorded the first The Beer Dads in a few weeks. We talk about how young is too young for kids to be paid influencers. We had a great brew, too. Listen to that ep right HERE.

Again, you can hear each of these on the Network website, or anywhere you listen to podcasts, including Spotify! Thank you so much for listening!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Due to financial reasons [sic], we have made the decision to close permanently; effective immediately. We have loved serving you and will miss you all very much. Thanks so much to all of you who have supported us faithfully and for our fantastic staff. It was a very hard decision to make but we felt like it was our only option at this point. Thanks again.” – Roots Restaurant

X Marks the Spotify or: Finally!

05 Friday Oct 2018

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It has finally happened. I have been trying to submit The Less Desirables (the whole network really), to show up in Spotify for about four months, now. For whatever reason, it wasn’t showing up. Today, my friend Kandi (who is on the developers’ group) told me they got their shite together and I should try it again.

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I submitted all five TLD Network shows (TLD, The Beer Dads, Fan Interference, The Man Who Ate the Town, and Apartment 5B) and Rule One: A Phoenix Rising Podcast and all six of them were accepted and you can now, and I say FINALLY, listen to all of them on Spotify. I’ve been asked about it for a while and I just kept saying, “I’m trying…”

I can stop trying. They’re on there. I’m happy and proud of this. It’s more availability of the shows and that’s a good thing!

So, I know a lot of you are Spotify listeners and now you can listen to our podcast goodness. Just look up the names, I can confirm they’re all there. I checked. Or…
You can link to them here:

The Less Desirables
Fan Interference
The Beer Dads
The Man Who Ate the Town
Apartment 5B
Rule One Podcast

Until tomorrow, keep listening…
Scorp out!

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“Irrational conversations with the cool breezes of Anytown, USA…” – Apartment 5B

Piggybackin’ or: A Comfortable Hug from an Old Friend

01 Monday Oct 2018

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Hiya! I’m pigging today about The Man Who Ate the Town.

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Timmy VO was on and we had a lot to talk about. In fact, the show went around 45 minutes, which, for this show, is long. But, the conversations were fantastic, at least we thought so. We talked food, restaurants, happenings, and (yum!) tequila.

We do a section called “Tequila Time with Tim (J).” Tim and his wife are both big tequila fans and they don’t really do cheap crappy rotgut tequila. They do real tequila and Tim has taken the task to talk about and present tequila on the podcast. Today we had Casamigos Reposado. Casamigos was started by George Clooney and a few of his friends. They sold to Diageo last year. This had no burn, only a warm, earthy flavor that reminded me more of cigar scotch then tequila but the salty undertones that tequila is known for are certainly there as well.  It was great. I equated it to an old friend offering a comforting hug.

We also talked about Billy Bob’s Silver Diner’s destruction, its replacement, more about Honky Tonk Smokehouse, Bar on 4th being sold, Crazy Crab, Urban Soul on the Farm from Soul Food Sessions and more. Give the ep a listen HERE.

We appreciate the listen!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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““As soon as I got involved and revamped the menu and reorganized the restaurant, I realized it could be a franchise concept.” – Alex Kozakos