Odd Dad Out

It's now officially springtime. That being said, it's time to start treating the house for those warm weather bugs. I've committed to doing my own pest control, and even bought a
new sprayer for the job. Of course, now I'm sick from the pesticides, and it's not the first time it's happened.
In the news, I've got cell phone face masks and more than a couple stories about being under the influence. Speaking of under the influence, this week's featured podcast is "Ice and the Face."

-BULLSHIT FROM THE NEWS-


-Mask Muffles Your Voice to Keep Phone Calls Private-
Hushme is a bizarre high-tech mask that blocks the sound of the wearer’s voice so that people nearby can’t hear what is being said. Hushme also features external speakers that play a variety of sounds when you speak.
http://gethushme.com/

-Belgian Church Turns into Beer Bar after Every Sunday Mass-
In Brielen, a small Belgian village of only 700 inhabitants, it was customary for church goers to meet up for a beer after every Sunday mass. That became a problem after the last bar in the village closed down, but the local priest was more than happy to keep the tradition going by turning the church into a bar after Sunday mass.

-Colombians Can Now Go to Work Drunk Or High as Long as It Doesn't Affect Their Performance-
A reinterpreted article in Colombia’s Labor Code was recently approved by the country’s Constitutional Court, thus allowing people to show up for work drunk or under the influence of narcotics as long as their productivity is not affected.

-Someone donated sixty ounces of marijuana to Goodwill-
Goodwill workers in Monroe, Washington opened a donated cooler and found five bags of weed inside. (That's 60 times the amount that's legal to possess in Washington.)


-RECOMMENDED LISTENING-

ICE AND THE FACE
http://www.iceandtheface.com/

"Ice and The Face is Rick and Sarah, respectively. It is a nsfw dystopian comedy podcast released once a week for your ear-holes to soak up and expel accordingly. We dive deep into the ridiculous shit happening in the world today and laugh heartily at all of its absurdity as it burns to the ground. We subscribe to our one rule, hilarity over feelings!"

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This Friday is St Patrick's Day. Incidentally, it's also my wedding anniversary. Of course I have no clue what I'm gonna do for that. But I do have good news for all those Irish Catholics worried about eating corned beef on friday. Plus, emoji snakes, pink water, blowjob apps and more. In Recommended Listening, I'm getting extra weird with "Bizarre States."

-Cardinal in Boston Gives the OK to Catholics Wanting Corned Beef on St. Patrick's Friday
-Reptile Breeder Makes Emoji Pattern Snake
-Town Remembers Victims of Fireworks Explosion with Fireworks Display
-Canadian Town Says Pink Water is Fine
-"O-Cast" Lets You Phone In Oral Sex, Literally

-JACKASS OF THE WEEK-
Cleveland Carjacker Caught Because He Couldn't Drive Stick

-RECOMMENDED LISTENING-

BIZARRE STATES

"Join Jessica Chobot and Andrew Bowser as they lift the veil and showcase the hauntings, urban myths, unsolved murders and general oddities that everyone has experienced but no one wants to talk about."

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MARCH MOVIE MADNESS


This week I'm devoting the entire show to the awesome slate of films dropping this month. Between the superhero epic of "Logan" and the batshit crazy "The Belko Experiment" this is shaping up to be the best march movie season ever. Keeping with the movie theme, this week's Recommended Listening is another Sanspants Radio gem, "Movie Maintenance- Because some movies just need fixing."


GET OUT- February 24, 2017
Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

LOGAN- March 3, 2017
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

KONG: SKULL ISLAND- March 10, 2017
A diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific – as beautiful as it is treacherous – unaware that they’re crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST- March 17, 2017
An adaptation of the classic fairy-tale about a monstrous prince and a young woman who fall in love.

THE BELKO EXPERIMENT- March 17, 2017
The Belko Experiment explores a twisted social experiment, in which a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogata and ordered by an unknown voice on an intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

POWER RANGERS- March 24, 2017
Power Rangers follows five ordinary high school kids who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove – and the world – is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover that they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so they will have to overcome their real-life issues and band together as the Power Rangers before it is too late.

RECOMMENDED LISTENING:

MOVIE MAINTENANCE
http://www.sanspantsradio.com/movie-maintenance/

Equal parts fan fiction, review show and armchair producing as we look at Hollywood’s greats and not-so-greats. Join us as we propose a very simple premise; we can do it better. Movie Maintenance - because some films just need fixing.

All links and trailers available at http://odddadout.blogspot.com/2017/03/odo-52-march-movie-madness.html

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Completely by coincidence, all my news stories this week are "work" related . There are some questionably awesome stories, and then there's the idiots. Whether it's just poor judgment or doing something monumentally stupid, that group are now experts at how to lose a job. Some even went the extra mile and got arrested.



BS FROM THE NEWS

-Chinese Power Company Uses Fire-Spitting Drone to Burn Trash Off High-Voltage Wires

-Swedish politician proposes paid sex breaks for workers to boost fitness and childbirth

-Plumber fired after taking a picture of customer's dildo and sharing it online

-Nursing Home Worker Accused Of Giving Lap Dance To 100-Year-Old Man

-Man Stabs Himself in the Hip So He Could Skip Work, Gets Arrested


RECOMMENDED LISTENING

"Alice Isn't Dead"

"A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman."
http://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead

Full links at http://odddadout.blogspot.com/

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IS IT SPRING ALREADY

It's only February, yet I've already had to have the a/c running in my house for weeks. I've had to get back into full scale yard work. And I'm starting to see the evil death critters from hell, scorpions, around the house again. I don't want it to be spring yet. On top of that, in AZ we have spring training baseball. It may be great for the local economy, but it absolutely sucks for traffic. I just want winter to go on for a little longer.

BULLSHIT FROM THE NEWS


KKK Leader Murdered by Own Family

The wife and step-son of a self-proclaimed Imperial Wizard of the KKK have been arrested for murder. The pair have admitted to shooting the man and dumping his body.

Army Command Post Issues Memo Banning Nickelback Music

An Army command post in Washington state has issued a memo banning the playing of Nickelback, Smash Mouth, Creed, Korn and Slipknot.


Young Lottery Winner Says $1.6 Million Prize Ruined Her Life
A 21 year old woman in the UK is planning to sue the Euromillions lottery after she says winning $1.6 million at age 17 ruined her life.


JACKASS OF THE WEEK


Landlord: Tenant violated his lease by dying

A Seattle woman is fighting to get her brother's security deposit and last month's rent, to pay for funeral expenses, after he died of a heart attack. The landlord is refusing to return the money claiming that his death violated his lease and forfeits his deposit.


RECOMMENDED LISTENING

http://www.sanspantsradio.com/plumbing-the-death-star/

"In which we ask the important questions in pop culture and dissect fictional universes. Because seriously, who deals with super weapon sanitation and imperial employee agreements? If you’re looking for serious discussions, this isn't the podcast you're looking for and we are so sorry about that joke."

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Valentine's Day is here so I've committed to focusing the entire episode on the holiday. The problem with that is, in a very general way, I'm no good at Valentine's.
It's not that I am not romantic. The problem comes mostly in that I'm too practical. I dislike giving flowers because they barely last a few days before dying. Chocolate seems very impersonal. There's a million different heart shaped boxes of candy out there, and everybody has particulars about box chocolates. Don't believe me, just look at any variety box of candy after a couple days. You'll find a lot of the same things left behind.
Ultimately my failure boils down to a simple fact: I'm not that creative about gifts and the good ones are STUPID expensive.

VALENTINE NEWS


Pokemon GO has special Valentine's Day update
Pokémon GO is keeping up its habit of introducing holiday themed updates with a Valentine's Day event. To celebrate Valentine's Day, Pokémon GO 's first in-game event of 2017 began February 8 at 7pm and ends at February 15 at 7pm. Among the features are increased candy and the spawning of more "Pink" pokemon.

Oklahoma town to cancel Valentine's Day dance due to anti-dancing law
A Henryetta, Oklahoma shop tried to hold a Valentine's Day dance to raise money for renovations. Unfortunately, the town has a city ordinance that prohibits dancing within 500 feet of a church. Guess who the neighbors are...

Central Michigan University apologizes for Hitler Valentine’s Day card
Somebody decided it would be funny to make a Hitler themed Valentine's card and hand it out at a school function. The school has said that this was, obviously, not a sanctioned incident

Recommended Listening

Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks
http://darkangelsandprettyfreaks.com/

Married couple, Annaleis and Neil C live together in Northern California with their pets and egos. Both have a wide variety of interests including animal welfare, video games, comic books, reading, music, Jamaica, podcasting, travel, NASCAR, and other crap. These two started podcasting because they couldn't seem to get enough of their own voices. Hearing the beautiful sounds made by their mouths, they were inspired to allow everyone to experience the joy, so they began sharing their sweet vocal love with the masses...

Don't let the name and logo fool you. This is, at its most basic, a couple's comedy show. Their theme song says it perfectly, "They only talk about themselves, I figure I'd warn ya." Honestly, I'm ok with that. These two may just sit around talking about "whatever" as a couple, but it works because they're funny. Considering we do a similar thing on "Mom and Dad Cuss" how could I really have a problem with it. You can't fake the authenticity of a married couple picking on each other and fighting with the dog's chew toys. It's like hanging out with your cool married friends every week.

http://odddadout.blogspot.com/
https://twitter.com/odddadout

http://darkangelsandprettyfreaks.com/

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I had a very upsetting encounter at work with what can only be described as a bully. A great big gorilla looking guy decided that he wanted to cuss me out and push me around for being professional and doing my job. As much as I wanted to cuss him out in return, my professionalism beat out my temper. Unfortunately I'm just not a very intimidating looking person and I've kinda been pushed around for most of my life.

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On February 13, 2010 Adam was the victim of an "aggravated robbery" in which he was held at gunpoint and beaten over the head with a bat. After 7 years we are now sharing the most complete version of this story as it is a major part of who we both are today. It is not pretty, it is not funny. We make a few jokes to relieve tension, but it is still quite a heavy and dark tale to tell for both of us. We intentionally avoided names out of respect to others involved, and did not get into the court case involved, although it has already been settled.

If you would like a link to the video mentioned, email us [email protected]

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Congratulations to Daniel J. Lewis from "The Audacity to Podcast" on the birth of his first son, "Noodle Baby."

The birth of "Noodle Baby" inspired me to talk about the idea of how having kids kills your podcast. Of course I can't keep to the topic at hand and go on talking about general Dadness. I love being a dad, and I love being a podcaster, but those things do in fact butt heads at times.
I have missed many weeks on this show due to family life, but that is part of the trade off of wearing both hats. Something has to take priority, and in my life that is always going to be my family.

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This week I've got a story about a mom who built her entire family home by hand using YouTube. I'll cover some fun entertainment news, and in "Recommended Listening" I'll probably spend more time talking about this week's show than it takes to listen to it.

Mother of Four Builds Dream House by Hand Using YouTube

-ENTERTAINMENT NEWS-

Giant Alligator video from Florida park.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Guillermo Del Toro reaches out asking how much fans want Hellboy 3

New Power Rangers Trailer shows EVERYTHING

-Recommended Listening-
http://thestorybehindpodcast.com
Normally I'd write something about the show but Emily puts it so perfectly herself:

The extraordinary history of the ordinary. Do you like trivia and fun facts? Have you lost hours to Wikipedia rabbit holes? Do you ever wonder about the history of everyday things in your world? The Story Behind ... is the show for you! Warning: Your friends might tire of you starting sentences with, "I learned on a podcast ..."

I am a fan of strange trivia, and this show has that in spades. Whether it's the many origins of pretzels, or a deep dive into the legend that is Betty White, Emily always delivers great information with just a pinch of humor. Her pun game could only be matched by my wife's. You will come out of every episode smiling having learned something cool. Five stars all the way.

-Small Things-
http://www.smallthings.net.au/

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