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IYC: I've recently been obsessed with the podcast "The Town." It covers the entertainment industry (mostly movies) as a whole and is fascinating -- (link) - MDH Jun 13, 12:19 3
- Yup. He rambles more than I do, but the podcast is great. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 12:30
- Comes out 2-3 times per week, and they pushed out an episode on Skydance/Paramount within a day. Led by Matt Belloni formerly of Hollywood Reporter. -- nm - MDH Jun 13, 12:20 1
  - ugh Matt Baloney -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 12:26
speaking of scams: I got a physical letter in the mail from Visa/Mastercard and they said I won $5 MILLION!! Just need to send in a bunch of - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 12:19
from the BB: David, it is great to hear some positive health news, even if it isn't set in stone. You know what else isn't set in stone? A kitty! 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 13, 12:17 1
- I've tried, but they usually escape before the concrete is set -- nm - rollo Jun 13, 13:42
although i think the areas of Wisconsin that will vote for fucko largely agree with him about Milwaukee, it's heartening to see the immediate pushback -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 12:04 2
- Urban/rural divide, you drive from city center to middle of nowhere the ratio of demo:repub drops about 1% per mile - zeitgeist Jun 13, 12:10
- He was only talking about the crime rate!! Stop trying to put words in our liege's mouth!! -- nm - The GOP, MAGA filth, Fox News, etc Jun 13, 12:06
Florida Panthers pilots were jokingly told by a Canadian air traffic controller to run low on fuel so the team wouldn’t be able land in Edmonton. -- (link) - budice Jun 13, 11:58 1
- do the Die Hard 2 trick -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 11:59
I'm getting hit by a bunch of catfishers/scammers on Facebook. My favorite scam profile is of a woman who - crash davis 😺 Jun 13, 11:47 1
- image search... boom -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jun 13, 11:53 [Attachment]
The Eagles at the Sphere. September 20-October 19 (8 Shows) - MDH Jun 13, 11:42 2
- I mean, their Christmas album wasn't bad, but not sure it justifies a stint at the Sphere. Plus, won't they be tired on game day? -- nm - decline Jun 13, 12:01
- Just in time for my birthday. - LFG Jun 13, 11:44
'What the hell, guys?': An oral history of Survivor's best new-era episode (from season 45) -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 11:40
the Roberts Court okey-doke: release the "good" opinion the same day you side 8-1 with Starbucks against the NLRB -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 11:39 1
- "The court unanimously rejected a rule..." -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 12:30
Tyson Foods suspends CFO after second arrest. great-grandson of founder. - budice Jun 13, 11:18 1
- ... chickenf-cker? -- nm - South Park Jun 13, 11:19
Those About to Die | Official Trailer | Peacock Original - July 18th -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 11:10 [youtube] 4
- I am all over this. Hopkins as Emperor Vespasian? Yes please. -- nm - Jovian Jun 13, 12:20
- Don't worry, Sir Tony. We'll send someone out and set up all the green screens in your living room. You'll hardly even have to stand. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 12:09
- Looks epic. Dunno if I'll watch, though. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 11:33
- Ramsay Bolton! -- nm - mud Jun 13, 11:18
oh boy, the finance coach who gave some rando $50k in a shoebox is back for more tips on getting out of debt -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 11:06
My current hobby is placing calls between Teams and Zoom. - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 10:59
Welp, the honeymoon is over! "Forty-two percent of companies have yet to see a significant benefit from their generative AI initiatives." -- (link) - decline Jun 13, 10:54 3
- The shocking news is that 58% of companies *have* seen significant benefit. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 11:15
- who could possibly have foreseen that snake oil was still the bunk -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 11:01 1
  - It will be until we let it off the chain. -- nm - LFG Jun 13, 11:14
"not a sight for a sober man!" -- (link) - mud Jun 13, 10:47 8
- He keeps talking about Taylor Swift and how he could’ve bed Pelosi… -- nm - Trending Jun 13, 11:14
- debate in two weeks gonna be lit AF -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 11:04 2
  - He is 100% going to bail on it - Jovian Jun 13, 11:15 1
    - The libs were gonna do him wrong, ambush him with a guillotine! -- nm - LFG Jun 13, 11:19
- Do you know how much better off the entire planet would be if an asteroid hit there right then? -- nm - Jovian Jun 13, 10:50 3
  - I do not. -- nm - mud Jun 13, 10:53 2
    - well, like a shit-ton better. - Jovian Jun 13, 10:55 1
      - do you mean an asteroid small enough to just take out the room? That would be swell. -- nm - mud Jun 13, 10:57
171k patients traveled for abortions last year, post-Dobbs -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 10:28 2
- I recall a report that the military only had a couple dozen medical care travel requests, not all were abortion related -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 13, 11:21
- See? Where's the problem here? - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 10:56
Golf: Scottie Schieffler got quite the burn/tan -- (link) - budice Jun 13, 10:27
The ‘House of the Dragon’ Preseason Power Rankings -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 10:18 2
- With this and The Boys dropping, picked a good week to complete my BSG re-watch. -- nm - Jovian Jun 13, 10:39
- HOTD also renewed for season 3 -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 10:27
u mad comrade? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 10:17
I think I found the solution to climate change: make the Olympics annual -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 10:08
so you can expand the courts, actually -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 09:55
inspired by the linked måneskin short: first album/cd/tape you bought? modern english, after the snow. nm but: -- (link*) - i.b.! Jun 13, 09:47 [youtube] 39
- y’all were busy while I was in meetings - nice! I meant just first recording, not all three — that’s too much remembering for me. :) - - i.b.! Jun 13, 11:58
- album - Little Queen by Heart / CD - Hounds of Love by Kate Bush -- nm - gort Jun 13, 11:11
- First CD - Slippery When Wet. Album or Cassette - no idea. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jun 13, 10:40
- First CDs were Matchbox 20 and Third Eye Blind. Can't remember casette. -- nm - MDH Jun 13, 10:38 6
  - bro, i thought you were gay -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 10:40 5
    - I got him covered, my senior year of High School, I purchased the Erasure albums: Wonderland, Two Ring Circus and then The Innocents which was the - JD Jun 13, 10:46 4
      - hey i had those too, bruh. -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 10:52
      - wild! was my most memorable music purchase ever. just a crazy day. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 13, 10:51 2
        
        chorus was the last one i bought - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 10:53 1
        
        I think Cowboy is solid. Then there was Loveboat which wasn't even released in the US but did have one of my all time favorites on it. -- (link) - JD Jun 13, 10:58 [youtube]
- Whodini - Escape -- (link) - JD Jun 13, 10:37 [youtube] 2
  - First CD: Depeche Mode - Black Celebration -- (link) - JD Jun 13, 10:51 [youtube]
  - Very nice. I still have the vinyl of this one. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jun 13, 10:42
- He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper -- (link) - znufrii Jun 13, 10:36 [youtube]
- I'm pretty sure it was the Carpenters. -- nm - pmb Jun 13, 10:19
- Meet the Beatles...1st 45 was Snoopy and the Red Baron Royal Guardsmen...hey I really liked peanuts. -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 13, 10:13 2
  - first CD was Ladysmith Black Mombazo (I was digging Paul Simon and they were featured, liked afro beat in general) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 13, 11:56
  - 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more. The bloody Red Barron, he rolled up the score. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jun 13, 10:43
- no idea. it was over half a century ago. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 13, 10:13
- I think the first concrente blonde album. I also bought upstairs at eric's on the same day I think. (and bourgeois tagg, ye gods.) -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 13, 10:11 1
  - I throw up my hands - LFG Jun 13, 11:21
- with my own $ I think it was Doors Strange Days in '67, but I already had gifted Beatles and Hendrix albums at that point. -- nm* - mud Jun 13, 10:09 1
  - my first two CDs were with my first player in '84: Bowie Ziggy Stardust & Kate Bush Kick Inside. -- nm - mud Jun 13, 10:12
- LP maybe Sports by Huey Lewis; Cassette: no idea; CD: maybe August and Everything After by Counting Crows. I know it was part of a Columbia House orde -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 10:06 2
  - My "first" cassette was probably actually my brother's first, and that's likely "Sports" or a compilation called "Let's Beat It". -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 11:00
  - Cassette might of been the wrestling album that the WWF put out maybe -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 10:09
- CD: Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. I don't remember the first record or cassette I bought. -- nm - Krusty Jun 13, 10:01
- first “real” album I bought myself, Queen “News of the World” -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 10:00 1
  - cassette no clue, cd: Songs From The Big Chair I think -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 10:01
- First cassettes: REO Speedwagon (Hi Fidelity) and Cheap Trick (Dream Police). First CDs: Front 242 (Headhunter) and NIN (Pretty Hate Machine). -- nm - JaxSean Jun 13, 09:57 1
  - I got Hi Fidelity as a prize at some tournament - it was the kind with a prize table and you went up in order and picked what you wanted. -- nm - Andie Jun 13, 09:59
- I can't remember album, but i *think* the first 45 I ever bought was Our Lips Are Sealed by the Gogos. I had others bought by my parents, but i - Andie Jun 13, 09:57 1
  - on this topic, why does no one make a 45 rpm adapter round bathmat? i want one. -- nm - Andie Jun 13, 10:02
- First three, really: Queen - A Night at the Opera; Pink FLoyd - Dark Side of the Moon; and Led Zepplin - IV. All on cassette. - ReluctantCynic Jun 13, 09:56
- Chipmunk Punk on 8-Track -- nm - Dano Jun 13, 09:55
- StormFront from Billy Joel? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 13, 09:53 1
  - I think this might be mine also. Definitely the right timeframe -- nm - oblique Jun 13, 10:14
- Duran Duran Rio was the first one I owned as a gift, Xanadu soundtrack was the first one I bought for myself. - Max Jun 13, 09:50
- The Rocky IV soundtrack. -- nm - Reagen Jun 13, 09:47
Current earworm Go! - eag Jun 13, 09:44 15
- Swan Song by Lovebites -- nm - gort Jun 13, 11:11 1
  - Well, now it is Love Bites by Def Leppard from my first CD Hysteria. -- nm - LFG Jun 13, 11:13
- Houdini - been in my head since it dropped. -- nm* - Turd Ferguson Jun 13, 10:39
- Father, can you hear me? -- (link) - JD Jun 13, 10:33 [youtube]
- Hand me my nose ring -- (link) - znufrii Jun 13, 10:33 [youtube]
- Lissie -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 13, 10:26 [youtube]
- Out of nowhere it's "This Town" by Go-Go's -- (link) - Dano Jun 13, 10:13 [youtube]
- Got a Soundwaves email about an art auction, and this was one of them, now it's stuck. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 13, 09:59 [youtube]
- espresso. nm but: -- (link) - i.b.! Jun 13, 09:52 [youtube]
- ~ shop at Macy's and love me tonight ~ -- (link) - Max Jun 13, 09:46 [youtube]
- -- -- (link) - Reagen Jun 13, 09:46 2
  - !!! -- nm - JD Jun 13, 10:41 1
    - Also this one -- (link) - Reagen Jun 13, 10:47
- … -- (link) - David Jun 13, 09:44 [youtube] 1
  - And… -- (link) - David Jun 13, 09:45 [youtube]
I had a weird dream last night that I was playing basketball and I was killing it. I scored loads of points and then the dream ended. I don’t follow - Loyola Jun 13, 09:43 1
- My weird dream last night was being elected prime minister of the UK - znufrii Jun 13, 11:03
I am very happy for David's health news! And thank you all for the birthday wishes! - ty97 Jun 13, 09:40 6
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 13, 10:14
- happy birthday -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 13, 10:13
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - pmb Jun 13, 09:58
- Happy birthday! -- nm - David Jun 13, 09:45
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Loyola Jun 13, 09:44
- uh huh -- nm - LFG Jun 13, 09:43
yay for good health news, David!! — nm - i.b.! Jun 13, 09:34
The good news is that they found the 3 stars of the Blair Witch Project! -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 09:33 1
- it's not even the profit participation, they were told they basically had to 'stay dead' following the release, so they couldn't capitalize on the - Andie Jun 13, 09:48
happy birthday, ty97!! :) - 🎉— nm - i.b.! Jun 13, 09:30
83 and sunny, going up to 87. Maybe should have tried to get out for a run earlier this morning, huh? - znufrii Jun 13, 09:28 1
- I have a two hour all staff at ... 3? I was going to go for a walk during but this weather is some bullshi*. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 13, 09:29
“milking us for work from home” — nm - i.b.! Jun 13, 09:26 10
- when you do in person technical support with users, WFH isn't the same as being in the office -- (edited) - oblique Jun 13, 09:29 4
  - I can see some of that new info being potentially problematic. do y’all not have remote access to computers? — nm - i.b.! Jun 13, 09:33 3
    - we do. it works for a large amount of support that the team does but we also support the entire building of people all working here as well as - oblique Jun 13, 09:35 2
      - conference rooms are a different (terrible) beast. — nm - i.b.! Jun 13, 09:42 1
        
        the.worst -- nm - oblique Jun 13, 09:44
- seriously. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 13, 09:27 1
  - I blame a lot of it on the fact the company is a construction company. They have an overwhelming preference for being "hands on" - oblique Jun 13, 09:40
- "work" from home (air quotes I always use) :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 09:27 2
  - sigh. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 13, 09:27 1
    - indeed. - i.b.! Jun 13, 09:28
Leasor: here's a part, fix your printer. Me "why'd you pick me?" Leasor: "you sit near it" - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 09:26
Latest XBox Update remembers up to 10 WiFi Networks, Desktop Background, Cloud Save improvements -- (link) - budice Jun 13, 09:19 2
- speaking of gaming, ya' gotta love seeing Fallout 4 in the top 10 list of downloaded games for May -- nm - decline Jun 13, 09:25 1
  - okey dokey -- nm - LFG Jun 13, 09:42
You can skip Hot Ones this week. It's Shane Gillis. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 09:17 10
- who is Shane Gillis? -- nm - decline Jun 13, 09:18 9
  - some lame comedian that hosted SNL. -- nm - LFG Jun 13, 09:22 4
    - To be fair, there's a bit more to it than that. - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 09:31 3
      - I gave a summary. -- nm - LFG Jun 13, 09:35 2
        
        and I stand by my take -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 10:11 1
        
        All true. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 11:13
  - talentless hack -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 13, 09:22
  - he's the guest featured on Hot Ones this week -- nm - decline SI Jun 13, 09:20 1
    - thanks for clearing that up -- nm - decline Jun 13, 09:21
  - Let's keep it that way. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 09:19
Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Hong Chau, Alfred Molina, Ving Rhames, "The Instigators" from lover of streaming movies Doug Liman. Apple TV+. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 09:14 [youtube] 2
- I watched the new Roadhouse movie the other night. It was pretty terrible -- nm - decline Jun 13, 09:18 1
  - Sequel greenlit! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 13, 09:19
it must have been the roses -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 13, 09:11 2
- it must have been love -- nm - LFG Jun 13, 09:12 1
  - It wasn't me. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 13, 09:54

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