HAH Wk. 5: Why Is It So Hard Not to Ramble (Rambling Man)

In his fifth episode, dD talks about Tammy Wynette's Stand by Your Man; Madre by Joaquin Sorolla and Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer; finishing The Wizard of Oz, the ghost story by Edith Nesbit, as well as continuing Anna Karenina, Paul: A Biography, and the Odyssey; a slew of podcasts, including the North American Friends Movie Club, the Symbolic World, and Good Faith Effort; Inherent Vice, the Apprentice, and Thunderbolts*; all the TV: the Pitt, Fargo Season 4, Severance, Daredevil: Born Again, and Columbo; Ultimate Spidey 16; and a birthday week with Nosferatu cake and plenty of eating out.

Chapters

• 0:00 Music
• 5:48 Visual Art
• 12:47 Literature
• 22:02 Podcasts
• 28:38 Movies
• 37:18 TV
• 46:10 Comics
• 47:54 Food & Drink

Transcript

Hello and welcome to week. Five of my podcasts habdominal aesthetic heuristic. And I wasn't really sure we were going to make it this far and given last week that I didn't get my Episode out into like, Wednesday night. I'm trying to keep the consistency up and to Also keep the quality up.

But I'm going to start talking about music this week. I'm going to talk about Tammy, Wynette's, standby or man. Um, this is on my screen playlist. It is It's our second Studio album after Your good girl is going to go bad and before divorce. Both of those are National Treasures.

Absolutely worth listening to is this Pro, I know there's a lot more in her catalog that is although I have, you know, still working my way through trying to get a climatized to all of it. Um, I used to listen to countries through the radio was a local station call itself country Legends.

And that's really how I got into country and I didn't like, take stock of what was on there. I just kind of listened because I enjoyed it and I knew which songs I liked, but I didn't really Dig, um, so getting those things back into my listening, now that that country station has, unfortunately I mean, it hasn't actually shut down.

It just plays terrible music. So, Uh, but Uh, Tongue a little bit about this album. I think it represents a lot of what I love about Tammy Wynette. And what I love about country from this period, is a general rule like one, I think country from the 50s to be 70s.

Really does a good job of. Sort of capturing a moment in American history, which is Both in the sense, extraordinarily conservative. But also can, you can see the The movements, right? So much of her album is about divorce. It's about like Relationships that are breaking up whether through, you know, divorce for other reasons, they're infidelity or various other things and I think that it really does.

I love seeing that experience from the inside the moment when divorce starts to sort of Uh, Skyrocket and I think she's got a good. Um, Sense of what causes that. It's not just It's not just silly things, it's not just the desire for another partner. It's not just Um, selfishness, but it she doesn't really talk specifically, I think about assault or sort of, you know, Abuse in any obvious way.

But obviously, there's a sense of, you know, this man's being unfaithful or Um, Or, you know, or neglectful or whatever. And I think, Yeah, I just think it's really really interesting to see. Fat from the inside. Um, I think two of the better songs on the first half are the two that she wrote Stand by your man and The fourth track on there is I've stayed.

I stayed long enough. Um, but I play a little bit. I think there there's this piece from. Uh, stand by your man, which really speaks to what I love about the way that she sings and part of it has to do with right. Her ability to sort of move seamlessly between a really quiet confidential, kind of tone and and really belting it just both of them.

So well, and she does himself seamlessly. I'm gonna play this little bit here, from stand by your man, just to illustrate that.

Yeah, I think that really represents like you can see even in that sort of like quick transition of the music from Quiet, you know, pleading of the prior line and just hitting that. Boom. And then she goes all the way up to, you know. To an amazing belt that I As good as anything is I've ever heard in that regard.

Um, I would say that some of the songs. That come after that are a little bit weak. I think. It's my way forever. You're the couple of those are kind of, definitely Um, stand by your man. I stay long enough and he keeps sleeping. My mind are the ones that I think are the the strong part of the first half.

My arms, stay open late, is maybe maybe these favorite song on the album? Um, It's actually that when you get to the second half of the album, there are several songs in a row that deal specifically with, like the experience of a child in divorce, which I think are really, really powerful.

And, Yeah, I think she was a really good job and I think it it speaks to her own experience as a woman divorce. I think like four times and just The sort of sense of what it is like for. Amerites to fall apart the the feelings of a mother about her children who are experiencing that Yeah, I just think there's some really really great stuff there.

Don't make me go to school is probably one of the highlights. Um, Yeah, so I mean, that's Tell me why not? I think she's an amazing artist. And if you're not already listening to him, why not? You have like should I'm going to stop here and come back and talk about visual art here in a little bit.
Hey, welcome back. So now I'm jumping into my section on Visual art. Let me talk on a little bit about a couple of items. One is something I found. Going back to Twitter. Again, going back to Um the stuff that I've found on there, this one again is from Wiki Victorian, it's one that kind of stuck with me as I've looked at it several times.

Um, it's called Madre by Walk-In soroya. For 1985 Wikipedictorians, generally going to be giving me these this era of art. So it's you know, hopefully I'll find ways to find more Variety in that. But this painting is, is fascinating it as Picture of a young mother in bed. Next laying next to her, presumably very young child and I see very um yeah I want to say it's we're looking at Born recently sort of situation, um, But, Um, I I find the competition for this really interesting, just the way that it is.

I mean, it's Almost all some shade of white. Except for the Uh, of the Baby, you know, the mother and of her hair. I mean for the most part it's really very Very white. Um, Which, There's some logic to. That in this sort of bedroom scene, but I really, I love the way that a contrasts me.

Sort of the, the dimmer white of the wall, maybe a little more blue and a little uh, brighter out, the lace. Um, under an apparent light source of window or something.

Um, you know, it's just an image of Purity and of sort of this extremely Homelike image of this young woman. Um, Her face is torn towards her child. She she appears to be asleep, so does the child and I think, um, yeah. I think it's a really beautiful image of Of motherhood of.

Sort of domestic life. And yeah, I don't know. I don't really call me this. Um, you'll have to look at it more. To sort of see if it's anything. Missing. I don't think there's a ton to it. Visually, in the sense. Um, But I think it's it's the the minimalism of it that really, that really speaks to me.

Um, A second one, I'm going to talk about this week is

The second one I'm going to talk about this week is again from that famous artworks. Section looking at again at Johannes Vermeer. The second one is the probably more famous. Go with a pearl earring, one of the things I've noticed about early is that it seems to somehow like It's not giving necessarily like, A fully.

Realized image, I say that in part because I noticed that the The background. Go probably hearing is extraordinarily. Dark in the the version. Shown here. Um, The version, I'll be linking to. Is many more accurate. It's got There is something about the background, it's extreme. It is extremely dark, it's not almost nothing in the background.

In a sense. Um, The actual painting itself is a little bit, has splotches of blue, I think a dark blue but it's, it's got a little bit more texture to it the background. But, um, The version on here is truly pitch black. Um, Yeah, I don't know what about this image?

I think. Not like them. At least, I think a lot of this image is the way that they manage to represent. The feeling of being looked at. I mean, the the person who is Being painted is staring directly at the The viewer of the painting. In a way that is, It's kind of captures you a little bit.

Um, her hair is covered completely as talked about a little bit with Dutch painters in. Thing about it, although the style of the head covering I want to say looks like it has some Origins. I want to say in the Middle East, I don't know enough about The clothing to save at.

Um, and the the actual clothing below is Um, Intimates, a very slight frame but also is very it feels bulky. Like the frame of the person feels light, but the frame of the actual Clothing skills. Bulky again, it's that sort of orange. Yellow. Um, what seems to drop in a lot of?

Not just here's what I think Dutch painters in general in this period. Um, as like a pigment Um, That comes from but I finally fascinating. And yeah as a girl with uh with an earring, that appears to be a pearl. Um, Hang down. But yeah, this is very lifelike.

Her lips and eyes are extremely Yeah, you can feel you can feel her looking at you in a way that um A certainly very times my life is probably felt like very Personal almost kind of a little bit. Like she sink the review. But yeah, one thing I want to know was that the The title listed here in Dutch is

Um, which in My limited understanding of Dutch suggested that actually means something more like Girl with a pearl or girl with the Pearl. Um, I think it is a bar, because desvah Uh measure met in Peril would be groweth up Pearl so it's girl with the Pearl which I think is I don't know.

I don't know why it feels different to me but it does. I'm always one way by the translation of things like that where it feels like a really natural thing to just Transit. It very simply. Um, It's not how people do it. I assume Peril doesn't actually mean earring or just means purple.

It's far too similar to the English word, seemed like to be anything else. Yeah. I think I'm going to leave it there and I'm gonna come back here in a little bit. And we'll talk about literature, thanks for listening.
ll right guys. Welcome back. So I'm gonna talk now. About literature. It has been, I don't know, not the most, I don't, it's been a good week. I think, in terms of my just getting this and things I really enjoy, I finished Wizard of Oz, which is fun. I, I would say the thing that's stuck out to me towards the end is I kind of ran through it because I was ready to just be covered as you finish something.

But the thing that gets me is the extent to which it seems like bomb really doesn't have any interest in alligating it or make the teaching lessons like at the end. They all kind of split up and everything is wrapped up in a nice bow and I I just I do let joy that everything is rapping on ice bow.

Everybody gets everything they need and there's no there's no attempts to do what the film does, right? Where it. It sort of all agorizes a or turns it into a lesson about How to deal with people or whatever, it's these very happy for it to just be this sort of nonsense like all fantasy story and I very tale as how he describes that.

I really happy with the way with a way of ends. It's a weird book, but, but I do genuinely enjoy quite a bit. Maybe more this time than last Has shed some interesting light on. Where exactly, which it goes without? I'm excited to see part two. I haven't learned anything about it because I enjoyed watching the first one.

My wife a lot, really knowing anything. So you know that's that's what that is. The other thing to mention, even if Nesbit finished the first ghost story, it's Full thumbs up, seal of approval. I think she kills it. I think it's not overly complicated but it's a really, really enjoyable.

Is a really, really enjoyable ghost story that you know. I think it's it's a purpose. It seems like is to sort of rag, on purely that sort of pure scientific, like we know better than all of these old fashioned traditions. And yeah, that's entirely my on ironic opinion that we should stop.

We shouldn't we should acknowledge the limits of science. And just say, like, you know, we don't know whether X thing happens or not until we actually looked into it, we can't decide. I had a time that I think this is to Two fantastical to be real. Because, you know, there are more things in the heaven and earth ratio than our grouping of philosophy.

So, yeah, that's been very fun. I'm still very much enjoying it. I got to the part in Anna. Karenina where you're starting to kind of get into varieties head. And yeah, just, I just like him a lot more of this time. I think I have always thought of him.

I thought of him more more as a pityable character. And maybe I'll come back around once I've gotten a little deeper and, but just the way and part of it is is pretty well, he's he's a guy who doesn't know any better, right? He hasn't ever really been given a good moral sense in a real in a real way.

I think he's his father's dad. And I think, you know, there's just a sense so much he doesn't really know any better but also yeah, the way he treats Kitty in the way that he kind of messes up, kitty 11s stuff, just by being I mean, somebody who's it's hard to understand how a person could truly be.

So thoughtless, and not be evil, it's genuinely a little hard. So Yeah, I think that book is still going well, I'm like still like eight or nine percent into it but I love titty and leaven I'm so excited to see them. Come back together again. I'm so excited to see all of this story play out over again.

I'll admit that to me, the anachronana ronski deal is Is the less interesting part of the book, but I like the way that it creates contrast for the story that Timmy Willy matters. Paula biography and jump into that for just a minute, talk about, I it's the thing that's about.

What's interesting to me, there is a section. So basically, between the moment of the road on the map or the Damascus and what sort of what right sees as the beginning of is public ministry, he understands there to be like a A, the best way to describe it is a A like huge gap of like 10 years, but between Paul's road to Damascus thing and, and his sort of beginning of his ministry was I think is fascinating.

I haven't read accent in a while. I actually started rereading acts because I'm a three chapters into a, but I started it because I was just like I need to know this story again and I need to know why it seems so obvious to him that he would without questions or describe this link the period of time where Saul of Tarsus is, you know, hanging on toxis waiting for, you know, waiting for his life to begin like a punzel in the beginning of tangled.

Oh, I just think, you know, it's something I recognize as being in the story, so yeah, I'm excited to be deeper into that, but I do love that. He's, he's seems to have the similar sense that I had. About Paul's experience going to Arabia. He, he, he actually bolsters that in an interesting way his argument is that when Paul is out describes going to Arabia like, the he is saying, That he is saying that.

He has gone out to The sorry. I'm gonna say not horror of Mount Sinai to re-engage with the sort of the, the god of a cut, the covenant, and to certify, figure out what's going on and that's where he receives the gospel. According to being according to his own description, right?

He receives the gospel not from any human being but from God from Christ's directly and idea that he does that. And in the deserts of Arabia again, what he's saying in at the place where Moses received the thing commandments where this sort of one can expect to find God.

I usually fascinating and I some of it I still don't totally understand or I mean I definitely did not have any ideas that's night or horror of or which around we're talking about is out there but honestly very, very interesting take and I think I'm continuing to really Out the book.

I'm gonna do right nerd, and I'm probably gonna stay that way. That's not, that's not new. The Odyssey, I am really enjoying Telemachus is just arrived and had this whole feast, with MLA as his house, mental illness is saying he's explaining, you know, all of the explaining how great Odysseus is but also just the sort of tragedy of this original war for them and the process of trying to get home.

And, yeah, I'm really loving where I am. I, I'm hoping to dig a deeper and as we go

I think that's where I'm going to leave it. I also look, I was in the hillbillyology again, but I, I'm gonna be honest, I, I don't think I'm getting new feelings or thoughts about that book. I mostly just have the same thought, which is that I really enjoy, when he's talking about his family.

And I really dislike when he's trying to You do. I don't know if sociology or something, I think usually bad at it and I think it's Amateurish, but I I mentioned to see where he's going to go Ive. Only because, you know, He's the enemy. So that's where I'm gonna leave with literature at this stage.

I'm gonna be jumping in next to podcasts. Thanks for listening.
All right, welcome back. So I'm gonna talk about podcasts for the week. It's, it's an interesting week because I there are several that I've started this week, but not a lot that I would say. I'm likely to keep going with a couple of things that I picked up, honestly.

I even remember why they had a good saving getting saved on Spotify, but they weren't great that most important. So I listened to like maybe sure 30 minutes of the North American friends. Movie club. I think it's some comedians. It's not anybody that who I really recognize and I don't know why I picked this up.

I started listening to the one about Ninja Turtles changing, the turtles mean mayhem, which is a great movie if you haven't already seen it. But I was just honestly the vibe wasn't there? So no. No, shade on them blade, don't. I don't really enjoy it. Um, The other one that I picked up this week that I do maybe held a little more negative to say about is one called the symbolic world.

I I don't totally know where I figured this out. I found this guy. The podcast is put together by a guy named Jonathan Padgio. I think, maybe you said, Twitter connection, I was kind of hoping for something. And I listened to the most recent episode of the time, the contourers you over Christ is king and, um, Yeah, he just seemed both.

Unaware of like the fuller history of crisis. The phrase Christ is king, the idea of Christ's kingship. He kind of said, a lot of things that I would argue are don't show that he has a good grasp over that, you know, that in scripture that in in Christian history.

But then specifically somehow in, I don't know like 12 minutes somehow I don't know exactly how long it is just absolutely fails to address the The the real issue which is that people are using it as like a form of Christian nationalism. He don't think he even uses the term Christian nationalism, he definitely doesnt really, get to write the problem, right?

He saw the idea of culture being about exclusion and inclusion, but he doesn't talk about as that Christian nationalism, fundamentally when it plays out in the United States is Really about Excluding people from the already existing poverty of the United States who don't happen to be Christian, right? It's intentionally trying to push them out of the mainstream, trying to make Christianity dominate the mainstream.

And so when one of those idiots, says Christ is king of very true statement and doesn't understand what Christ has came means, right. His understanding that the kingship of Christ is fundamentally servant. Oriented he came not to serve, but to be served, right? They want Christ this king to mean.

We Christians are by right in charge of everything and are in charge of everyone else and everyone is not a Christian. Yeah, forget that. Who cares. Who cares about them? And that is I'm gonna leave like a really, really messed up thing to take from Christianity and very, very frustrating that he doesn't seem.

He doesn't seem. I don't know. It doesn't seem like he to me, like he's interested in getting it, but he definitely doesn't get it. And that's, you know, that's why I didn't. I listen to all, but to him two minutes of the episode, it sounds like he was rapping things up.

So that's my, you know, that's my takedown, I guess. But I'm the other one that I do want to talk about and I didn't finish this one because it didn't have time or I didn't come together but one called good faith effort. I know a couple of these guys are I know about a couple of these guys from Twitter already lamb.

Especially and he certifying about Genesis and the Hebrew in Genesis and talking about a lot of the sort of insights that can be gained by reading and Hebrew and by digging a little deeper and I believe oil. Jewish. I I'm pretty sure he's Jewish. I'm pretty sure he is.

Terminology the he is we're going to urbanics to. I'm not sure if he's orthodox or if he's or his particular denomination. But I I get since though, that's true and it is it's really cool. What they're doing. They've got some great insights. None of which I'm gonna bring to you today because I haven't finished it and I would love to take some more time with it, but I'm Yeah, I really like what he does.

I like what he does on Twitter, I think he's got some really great insight to the book and to the book looks the Old Testament and particular jazz so that I've seen and yeah, I think it's almost thing is where we Christians. Really have to be Willy and ready?

I think so many Christians seem so nervous about the idea of getting information of getting understanding from Jews about the book that belonged to them. The book, they wrote the books that they had been reading a lot longer than we have, and they have made some better sources on.

So I I I love what I am doing. I hope that anybody who's interested in in Scripture and in Hebrew in the Old Testament. Again, are what we call the Old Testament. In this case, the Torah You know it takes this and runs with this podcast, good faith effort.

Again I've only listened to like a third of one episode but I am so far really enjoying and thinking it's got some really good stuff on. That's we're gonna leave it for now and I will come back I think next with the movies and TV. Thanks.
All right, welcome back. So this is my movie section. It is uh not particularly I have three movies. Uh, so about as much I've done so far. And honestly, Three that Cover come out of nowhere for me in a way that I, I really liked all of them, and I think all of them are relatively highly rated.

Um, one is that I, uh, The first one. I actually, I just there's a couple movies by directors, that I really, really enjoy that. I for whatever reason have just kind of skipped it just kind of didn't happen for me. And, um, The first one I'm going to do is um PTN orson who I'm a huge fan of Um, his movie inherent Vice from 2014, um I remember being really excited for this movie and I just for whatever reason did not watch it when I came out.

Uh and here, huge regards. I mean, huge regards. It's absolutely, it's a good movie. It's a solid film. Um, it's not certainly Uh, his highest rated for me, I only end up given it at a 27.5 out of 30. Which, um, For. Them as, you know, Passable, but not like.

Not gonna blow anybody's mind in terms of, Its final. Spot. I think I put it at number 304, so again, I think respectable in a list of Uh, just under 1300 but it's You know. Not again, not a World Shaker, maybe. Actually the surprise World Shaker of the week for me is the second one that is The apprentice.

Um so the movie that got made last year about Trump. I mean I didn't watch it at the time because I don't even know. Honestly, I missed far too many things. Sebastian Stan is down in the last Five or six years. I need to remedy that But my wife honestly I told her that Sebastian Stan.

She's a weirdly huge Bucky fan. On date to keep out of that. But She heard that he had played Donald Trump and was just so early fascinated that we rented it sort of want to win. We honestly were in the middle of something else and we stopped watching it to go over and find this movie.

And, Yeah, I was really really impressed with it. One Sebastian Stan. Absolutely captures the essence of Donald Trump, in a way that I would not have guessed possible and, you know, Jeremy Strong who's obviously amazingly talented, if you've seen succession. Um, Roy Cohn. Who if you've never seen the documentary, where is my Roy cone?

Um, I don't exactly how many years ago that came out, but it's about this guy who was involved in the Red Scare. He was involved in the Nixon Administration and he's just like one of the most deeply and profoundly evil human beings. He's maybe over existed and it turns out he was the Hong Kong's mentor.

As a as he was sort of coming up in the real estate world in New York. Um, and the film really follows Donald in that, 70s to 80s range, and when he's just sort of getting off the ground, we'll be coming this known figure. And Um, Yeah, it's just I think it was a really good job of giving you a sense of The the sort of tactics and the ways of thinking about.

Relations up to law, the relationship to Civil Society. That makes Donald Trump such a terrifying individual. Um, And I honestly love. I love it as a portrayal of just anything, and obviously, I think I give a lot of points to it for wisdom. I think it has a really, really good sense of What's wrong with Donald Trump and why it's, you know, maybe killing our society.

Um, both just in terms of like sheer stupidity, but also, Um, And sort of like the inability to Adjust a misconception. Um, but also just in terms of, you know, willingness to do. Anything to accomplish whatever your goal is, right? And the real, you know, the fact that this guy Despite all of his seeming disinterest in politics.

Eventually got there is Yeah, I mean to play. It's a playground in our world. You're you're all living in it. Um, so uh, that's probably the big one that one ended up coming in at number 77. So it is officially I want to say the second highest movie for me in Of last year of 2024, I think that's 24.

Um, The highest highest being perfect days. But really it's only marginally behind Um, And very, very good movie very highly recommended. Um, Sebastian Stan. Absolute hats off the man. The man is somehow creating like the perfect balance of. Being an MCU character and being in the movie with them, like a movie, or TV, show with them, like every year and a half.

And also somehow producing just an amazing body of work as like, uh, character-ish actor the character but like a A fantastic indie movie actor. I mean, I don't know. You can say aytony was Indy but I really feel like he's doing some amazing stuff and I'm honestly missing some of it and I I'm gonna fix that at some point in the near future.

Uh, the last one to mention in this one won't take probably these long. This is the new Thunderbolts. Who watched the night after? Because I have from my birthday. Thanks Marvel for continuing to put movies out on my birthday or thereabouts. But, um, Yeah, I I think this one is really good.

Uh, I gave it a 27, which again, not not World shaking. Um, But you know, a very solid film, it puts it in pretty good. Hawk number 482 within the overall Mcu like list. I sat online. I think it's somewhere between like Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the WASP which again not A world breaker, but I love.

Oh, I love Lawrence Pugh. I think she does an amazing job in that role. Uh, David Harbor, absolutely him. Those two have amazing chemistry as father and God Roche, I don't even know how that happens. I don't know how much older than her, she is He is, but I just absolutely think that they kill that.

And, I mean, the star of the show, I mean, certainly Sebastian is very good. The star of the show though is Philip Pullman that kid who I've seen in maybe two things before this. Um, yeah, he's really got a lot of, he's got chops in a way that I really wouldn't have guessed and for him to be able to show that in this kind of a role.

And be able to do such a good job. As Is really impressive. What everybody? Why? It Russell also very good. I think you I love planting him. Play that part. I think he's a really good job with it and I think he's honestly better here than he is and uh, Falcon winner Soldier.

So, Um, Yeah, a lot of pieces but I think it works really well and I was I I was happy to see the century. I'm a little sad that we didn't get all of his sort of deal, but I'm hopeful maybe some of that I'll come through in the, Fantastic Four and various other things.

Um, maybe we'll get some of that, but Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited about I'm excited about the MCU. To an extent that is certainly less than I was in the, you know. Lead up to end game and the aftermath, but is definitely a lot higher than I was a year and a half ago.

So Um yeah, I take that for what it's worth. Um, I'm going to leave that here, and I'm going to come back here to talk about TV and just a little bit. Thanks for listening. Bye.
All right, so for the first time now, I'm actually splitting up the movies and TV sections, because I actually have enough to talk about to fill them up. I mentioned the movies. But for me, this week is also been some really good TV. You know, my wife have gotten into the pit recently and yeah, the second hour I'm gonna only like two hours in.

But I really, I think that's really great and I'm starting to see what people are really enjoying about the show. I think my wife has as a better professional has commented on the ways in which it feels a lot more realistic and serious than what maybe we've seen before.

And a lot of other shows of a similar type, she's a fan of and as I am my mother was a nurse and we both have sort of a an enjoyment want to say a passion. But I don't want to overstate it for like medical dramas. I think Good.

Well done. One is really, really enjoyable and we love house and a lot of other the classic ones. But yeah, I mean to find one that really does actually seem like it's Yeah, really needingfully. Portraying the rule of doctors and nurses and the ways in which people interact and and the teaching hospital needs.

So they can have like way too many doctors in a room to give in time way more than you would see and most medical practices maybe but it is. It's very enjoyable. And yeah definitely want to shout that one out. I think I'm the last person to do it so not anything to shoot right home about my person my opinion anyway but Fargo is the other one.

We we finished the four season of Fargo. Finally, it took us a while. Feels like if feeling like a long season, it's one of those things where at episode five you're kind of like oh, the season is almost over and then you get there, you look and doing like oh no, there are 11 episodes and it's not, there's too much.

I don't think that there's too much. I just think that I don't always see that all the twists and turns coming and I think Yeah there's a lot of things about season 4. I love Kansas City. The fact that it's it's got that connection. Just the fact that it is centered.

I love Chris Rock, I love all the people. I love Oh my gosh, if you guys shorts and Jason shorts and brands first name. Jason, Schwartzman is amazing. The guy they got for Gaetano. I feel like I haven't seen him much since but oh gosh, he's so good. He's so funny.

So such a good actor. So intense like his ability to do all, that is amazing. Yeah, it's the whole, the whole cast of Timothy Olyphant being in there. Benjamin Shaw. I just, I love everybody in this season and I think it's really good. I love the sort of discussion of I don't think Andrew Bird it because I love to do word as you may remember.

Um, but like, the way that they, you know, play with the concept of race and they talk about the ways in which it has been malleable throughout time and the ways in which it's malleability helps us to see That race is a construct that isn't is built for the purpose of oppression, right?

It doesn't exist for anything else. There's no Pre-existing idea of race. There's just The, the ability to operate other people. Yeah, I just it's it's fun on every level it's and it's got everything I think. I feel like I want from a season of Fargo and maybe my favorite honestly I love Jesse plans and His wife.

My wife actress is all time. His name is Kirsten does. I love them so much but I do think that's genuinely value. I favorite apparent season. I'm excited. I just haven't seen these in fact yet so John Hamm is a big draw and the fact that he's and it means the it could definitely jump it but I think it's it's fair season so far.

The other one, we just finished severance I feel like that one's too new for me to talk in a detail about but I do think. Yeah, it's amazing. I I love I've been really enjoying it, my wife is so into it that she's now very deep into the severance podcast, which I had a whole, I had not yet followed her down and yeah, it's it's been amazing, Ben Stiller.

I'm so glad that he's doing like and so glad he's doing the things that he wants to be doing, and I'm just so happy for him. I like basketball a lot. I yeah, and everybody in that show is amazing and I won't blame it, right? I've also been watching the finished a new Colombo.

Again, if you have not seen watch Colombo, it's just this like perfect murder mystery show. I love the fact that the murder is entirely solved. Everybody knows who did it. Like in the first half of every episode and it's always like before Colombo even shows up Clover, doesn't show up into the second half of every episode and during the first half, you get to see these people trying to get away with murder.

And then the second half, you get Columbo, just breaking them down by being the most annoying. Difficult and frankly a little bit and saying in person, but he somehow uses that he uses his frustrating demeanor to break people down and get them to either confess or to give themselves up and away that is It's just really, really compelling and Yeah, it's moving you to see.

Yeah, the crime from me and I really love that part of it. So again, if you have not watched Columbo, one of the great classical shows that I genuinely think more people should be watching. I don't most people don't like streaming off like old TV TV from before then 90s.

So I think two tunings that are watching friends so who can say or cheers or whatever, but The last one I want to mention for this week is Daryl. Oborn? Again, I've been keeping up with that and finished the first season. I think they're doing amazing job. I, I love that.

The first season ended on sort of cliffhanger, I love the way that they have played, you know, the, the Murdoch Fisk relationship. I, I'm very sad. They killed the character. They kill. I don't want to get that right. Anybody who doesn't see any, but like, I'm very sad. They kill them.

I love that actor. But I, I think they've just done a really good job of

Yeah, building out the reasons, and the sort of background of fisk is mayor and all that and and making fisk. I mean, you could say he's Trump desk, but I think at the end of the day like they make him kind of a scary Volatile figure in a way that I definitely someone with the Netflix series did so well.

But frankly the best thing and think of most excited about is I'm so excited for them to just stop having Matt Murdock be on the fences to whether he's there or not just wanted to be daredevil and I don't really like, okay, I wanted to be darable and I want him to be gleefully.

I wanted him to love and enjoyed being darable, and also being a lawyer and like the fact that those students are kind of in conflict. I wanted to enjoy that rather than simply just like, agonizing over it. I'm really excited for them to get to that because, honestly, that's the daredevil that I enjoy the most.

That's what I'm gonna leave it. And I will come back here, guys and talk about comics here in a little bit.
Hey, welcome back. So, now I'm gonna be talking about comics for this week. It's lightweek free conflict day this week and I, I mean, it's almost nothing came out that I actually read I also didn't read the world's finest annual because I know that it's part of some stuff that I'm not sure, I'm gonna, when I'm gonna be able to get away, I found to be able to get all of our.

I'm gonna get all of it, however, it goes, but the only one still don't really have this week is ultimate spider-man. Number 16, this is Honestly, really a really fun issue. My, the guy in my comic book shop was like, this is a really good one. You should be really excited about it.

And I was like, sure, I've been it's great but like, Honestly a yeah, so big reveals nothing. I'm gonna give away some characters that, you know, ending up doing things that you're gonna be. I mean, if you're in reading so far, probably you really surprised by. And yeah, I just, I love the way this whole thing is continuing to develop the Spidey's rogue salary and all the connections.

All the ways that sort of old characters are being reused, and reworked and revamped. Yeah, it's exciting. So if you've not already been reading it, anybody who's not already reading it. If you're not reading comic books and you're not reading alto inspiring, I don't, I don't want to tell you, you're, you're behind the times.

So, that's all I've got for this week. I will probably have a lot more next week, but yeah, thanks for listening.
All right, welcome back. So I'm finishing up here with food and drink. It's been a busy exciting week my birthday week and my wife made me a fantastic cake. I'm gonna link where we got the original recipe. It's from a tweet, it's called a nosefarato cake. It's got this like blackberry sort of jelly in the center and sort of Earl Gray.

I want to say Earl Gray and and Oral gray and like lavender, I'll double check that. Maybe I'll come back and we record this but I Yeah, really fantastic cake. Anyway, if is great of making cakes. Anyway, it may be the recipe was a little weird and off but I I think she had a great job and I really, really enjoyed it.

We we had a lot of good food this weekend because we kind of went crazy. We visited checkers, one of the first times that I had been, I actually went last week, but I? I went earlier in the week than my birthday but I just like kind of on a whim like grandpa.

Once told me that that was the best place to get produce in town and boy, was he right? It protest is already fantastic. This was just I don't know what like a decade ago, I'm grandma told this but it is a great place to get photos and honestly they have amazing like you know international foods whether it's the sort of the Mexican stuff or the Asian stuff, they have great sections honestly suck.

Like I've never seen a place with such density of choice like In the same amount of space as other places would put like three products. They're putting 10 and it creates an environment. Well, it's just genuinely amazing. Options and like the ability to choose. What you're looking for and I just honestly very happy about it.

Very happy to have. Found it. I think it's honestly gonna be our grocery store going forward. I got some good dates while I was there. They have a good sort of like they're Eastern South Asian section and I the dates were these were great. I'm gonna keep going back to that section to find exciting treats and things like that.

We had Gordy's pizza on, I want to say Friday and that you know, if you've ever had a glory days is one of the Topeka legends and I absolutely I can't you know, I can't say enough how good their pizzas are but I've got the baked potato one which I I think is really amazing.

It's it's got ranch as the main sauce and to me my instinct is that sounds gross but it's amazing and I don't know why it's so good and I really can't Yeah, I can't place why I enjoy it so much, but yeah, they have a bunch of fantastic specialties.

I think the the Greek one was definitely really good. And yeah, I just think there's quite a few like really solid options, and that is, you know,

I ended up having the Waldorf this time with has like, apples, free dry, cranberries and chicken and it's, it's fantastic. Yeah, as I can't, I love, I love pizza with, you know, like not also like a balsamic glaze and some like walnuts I think I love it. It's one of my favorites.

Yeah. But they have a million good ones of you know the stockyards of combo or works. All of those are amazing pizzas. So yeah if you've not if you're not if you're in the area and you're not eating glory days from pattern, it's a huge mistake. Um, We actually went out for my birthday dinner to a place called fork and tumbler, which I honestly picked largely because it's just seemed like maybe it would be a little more expensive than what we'd normally do and it's got amazing ratings on Google maps.

So, you know, sometimes I take, I'm already on Google Maps. I, I think that, you know, some solid solid info on there, but we had, it's, they have one of those like really small menus that like, was like a very limited number of options. And we had some some pretty pretty fantastic stuff.

Like I was I was a big fan of my wife. I think didn't love the hurl lasagna as much, but it's a huge lasagna for not that much and I think I want to say it was like 14 dollars and I thought I was pretty good mine. I actually got the sandwich.

Yeah, I thought that it was really solid and I had some really good meat and I was really impressed. I'm so yeah, strong positive thumbs up for fork and tumbler as a local restaurant. I'm yeah, it was a good week. I really enjoyed the stuff we found and yeah, you know I I encourage you guys to you know, find cool weird stuff that you enjoy eating and you know, splurge hair in there.

I I'm not a, you know, financial guru but I I think the value of occasional spurge As is really good. I think both, you know if you're mental health and also just like for your For your enjoyment of life and other world. I think that's, you know, that's worth doing that is what I'm gonna stop.

That is the end of my podcast for this week. Hope you guys have enjoyed and yeah keep enjoying good things and a happy Easter it again.