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No Matter What You Never Go Full Hedgehog

Tonight's episode is brought to you by bourbon.

The boys are back from their respective vacations and have a LOT to catch up on.

This week's topics include:

• Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder books
• Donald Westlake
• Hard Case Crime
• Highlander
• Liam Neeson
• #culturebitches
• COVID
• The Magnolia compound in Waco
• Ojo Pescado
• Stephe's recent trip to a comic con
• The economics of comic con
• What If (a LOT of What If)
• Richard Dragon - Kung Fu Fighter
• The MLB Field of Dreams game

Oh yeah, and Bruce got the Rodecaster to work so we've got lots of fun drops.

Enjoy.

Bruce and Stephe March the Podcast Into the Sea

Stephe STILL hasn't watched Black Widow, so we won't be talking about that as originally planned.

We do, however, discuss the change of the Cleveland Indians into the Cleveland Guardians.  Then we discuss other franchises that may be in danger of similar rebranding.  Stephe is able to save both the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Blackhawks, if the fanbases will work with him.

Then we dive into other subjects:

• Beard Talk
• The Death of Dusty Hill
• ZZ Top
• Teaching kids how to drive
• How we learned to drive
• Finding Vans for Bruce's 86 year old dad
• Tim Matheson aka Otter
• Virgin River
• Outer Banks
• This Is Us
• Minor League Baseball mascots
• Whataburger Field and collection
• Stephe's Mexican love life

And finally, "What's Adjacent to Stephe's Desk?"

Time for vacation.  See you in a couple of weeks.

Stephe Became Friends with Billy Zane and Bruce Has Many Questions

Episode 25 marks the one year anniversary of the boys' venture into podcasting.

 

Join in the celebration as they discuss such topics as:

• The podcast's new original theme song courtesy of Suburban Curse
• "What's on Stephe's desk?"
• Bruce's son's new tattoo
• Loki
• AEW
• Yacht Rock Revue
• Taking wives to Cons
• Danny Trejo - Stand up Guy

We also take a deep dive into the mystery that gives this episode it's title.  How did Stephe meet Billy Zane?  Did they just become best friends?

All this and more on the 25th episode of SlurpToast

Oh My God - I Fell Asleep at the Orgy

The boys are bag with yet another pop culture grab bag that this week includes, among other things:

• Bruce's weird dream about Elizabeth Banks
• Stephe's issues with Burger King
• Sleep APNEA and sleep studies
• The Amazing Origin of Jizzhead and Chest Mange
• Transmetropolitan
• LA Originals
• Fight World
• Loki
• Mystery Inc.
• Used Cars
• Kurt Russell and Jeff Bridges
• The Big Lebowski
• eBay
• Funko

We also discussed the one and only Mojo el Diablo.

And we ended the show with a rousing edition of "What's on Stephe's Desk."

Lean Into the Weird aka Slingblade on Steroids

The boys are back with another episode.  As Stephe works through an artistic crisis brought on by Cris Cyborg, the discussion turns to:

• Allergies
• Suburban Curse and the Noise Complaint
• Texas Politics
• Bloodline
• Teen Wolf
• Alex Jones
• La Mano del Destino
• The Scumbag Vol. 1 - CocaineFinger
• Loki
• Modok
• Patton Oswalt
• Black Widow
• Cygor and other monkeys
• Al Madrigal
• The life of a dance dad
• Funko

I promised a link to Alex Jones Indy Rocker.  HERE IT IS.

Also plugged Stephe's buddy's online store.  HERE THAT IS.

You know what?  For an episode with not notes to work from, this one came out pretty damned good.

 

I Like Getting Touched in a Special Way

After a bonus week off so Bruce could get his kids graduated, the boys are back, playing catch up and discussing stuff.

What stuff you may ask?

How about:

• garage bands
• bland MMA fighters
• Hulu's Modok
• revisiting stuff we loved from our youth, specifically Real Genius and Fletch
• The Negro League Museum
• home repair
• Stephe's battles with a gopher
• Moon Knight
• The Eternals
• Kyle Kinane
• Stephe's daughter tap dancing to RATM
• Jim Thompson

All this and more on the latest episode of SlurpToast

Remastering Elvis in the Age of Hot Topic

The podcast turns 21 and welcomes its newest sponsor, King Fu.

Then the boys talk about a whole slew of topics including:

• Elvis impersonators
• MMA
• Cheaters
• Recasting Smokey & the Bandit for the new weed culture
• Stephe's misadventures with dial up porn
• Umpire Angel Hernandez
• Greg Rucka's Lazarus
• Invinicible
• The Marvel Superhero RPG
• Adult Swim

And we end things with another look at what's on Stephe's desk (spoiler alert - its a toy).

It's a lot, but it's well worth your time.

Never Go Full Marple aka She Sits a Mean Dick

Recorded April 28, 2021

Postponed due to Covid vaccines and called on account of inclement weather, we hit episode 20 with no script and, as usual, almost no clue what we are going to talk about.

It doesn't slow down things as we rush headlong into discussions about

• Covid vaccines
• Falcon and the Winter Soldier
• The future of the Netflix MCU
• Shang-Chi
• Sports radio
• Letterbox'd
• Nobody
• Ong Bak
• Action movies in general
• Stephe's discovery of the Brokenwood Mysteries on Acorn
• Mare of Easttown and its similarity to Broadchurch
• The Nevers (aka Steampunk X-Men)

And to wrap things up, we play our first ever game of "What's on Stephe's Desk?"  The answers may surprise you.

And we got it all in before the Central Texas weather took Bruce down again.

...Because of the Ball Gag

Recorded April 8, 2021

Episode 19 is in the books and coming at you in that SlurpToast style to which you've become accustomed.

We start out with some work chat and then segue into what are becoming regular segments for us:  baseball and Moon Knight.

After that we touch on whole range of topics including, but not limited to:

• Batman (specifically how he lost his money)
• The Metal Men
• Bruce's colonoscopy
• Invincible (the animated series on Prime)
• King Kong (76) aka Rape Ape
• Kong v. Godzilla
• Why comics are still sold as single issues
• Falcon and the Winter Soldier
• The upcoming Loki series

We try to end the show on a classy note with Stephe discussing the book he is currently reading, Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It.  You're welcome for the plug James Geary.

It Translates to the Infected Sandwich

Has it been two weeks already?

We've got a full slate this week.

The topics we discuss include:

• The Snyder Cut
• Falcon and the Winter Soldier
• Moon Knight
• Jim Lee in charge of DC creative
• Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Fate
• Chumbawumba
• Covid-19 vaccines
• Fantastic Four Sex Jokes
• Marvel Lucha Libre Pops
• Funko Soda
• Spring Training
• Godzilla v. Kong

And our main topic is a discussion of how long television shows should go one.  Stephe's recent first time binge of Community leads us into a discussion of why shows go on long after they are vital, shows that have stayed too long, shows that stayed strong until the end and what the differences can be.

We got really into it so this one goes a little long.