Day Drinking on Delmarva

After Tony’s short-ish tantrum about how all politicians are essentially scum, we dive into the practice of having tattoos removed and framed post-mortem.

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Giving talks on Zoom, making more personal connections

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Until quite recently Tony thought Doug E. Fresh was one of the Beastie Boys. This just says more about his ignorance than about these performers. Also: Tourist attitudes and how to surf them.

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I don’t want to rant, but sometimes I do. I had worried that this would be one of those shows where I forget not to rant, but fortunately, that wasn’t the case. In this episode we talk about new restaurants in Berlin and my continuing introduction to the funeral business. The big takeaway for me this week is that it is really difficult to find trending funeral stories the week the Queen of England dies.

Big shot funerals bore me even more than just attending a regular funeral for a perfect stranger, so I didn’t really want to expose myself to the pomp, let alone the circumstance.

I think it’s a fair critique of our society that we are so enthralled with famous people that we forget that the best of them are just people who are good at their jobs and the worst of them use their power and influence to make the world worse.

Mostly, I ignore famous people unless it is unavoidable. It’s my little nod to the notion that we should be the change we want to see in the world. I know I’m technically wasting my time and that I’ll be really bad at Trivial Pursuit in another decade, but not having too much nonsense about what famous people think occupying my head is worth it.

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I wanted to write more this week, but time was not my ally. There’s lots of good stuff in today’s show, but I wanted to ask about Def Leppard.

I was home for Labor Day weekend and my brother was playing one of those countdown shows on Spotify. It was the Top 100 Cassettes of all time. The premise was that people voted for the best cassettes they bought and the DJs (actually former VJs) chose the music from those records.

Hysteria ranked higher than Pyromania which is totally unacceptable. Setting aside Def Leppard fans, I’m curious how those albums rank. They’re important because they straddle the transition from Heavy Metal to Hair Metal as far as sound if not look.

I gave up on Def Leppard and “metal” generally by the time Hysteria came out. My brother did as well. Our wives, who are only a little younger than us enthusiastically defended Hysteria (this is the part where I don’t make a misogynistic joke).

The difference is really between people who heard a record in grammar school and people who heard it in high school. Or maybe it’s better to say “middle school” to capture the 9th graders as well.

If you have an opinion, I’d love to hear it. You can comment below or shoot me an email. I excluded Def Leppard “fans” because if you know more than these two records (except maybe Long Through the Night), then the band appeals to you at a different level than it does the casual listener.

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Worcester County kicks off a Disney™️-themed year and Todd celebrates his birthday and the shows of the summer.

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Todd and Tony discuss their mutual inability to be productive where marijuana is concerned.

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Tony returns from his road trip, Todd returns from his bus trip.

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Todd improves his mind and body, Tony melts down a bit over Cambridge sunsets

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I’d like to pretend I’m sending this out on Sunday intentionally. I had everything so ready to go for posting this week that I forgot to hit the “Go” button. Sorry about that. In this episode, Todd talks about the bikable parts of the Delaware Beaches and I recount my battle with a dead, cooked snake in my dryer. Also, I grow cherries.

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