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Right Angle: Backstage 05/16/23

Miller Lite goes even wokier than thou; entropy stalks your favorite TV programs; Scott describes a source of constant pain.

Miller Lite goes even wokier than thou; entropy stalks your favorite TV programs; Scott describes a source of constant pain… all this and so much less on this edition of Right Angle: Backstage, made possible by YOU, our dear supporters.

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A guy sent a sample of (insert beer name here) to the lab for analysis. The lab report came back, “We regret to inform you that your horse has diabetes.”The great Spike Jones satirized many music genres in the 30’s & 40’s, but crashed & burned in the 50’s. He said, “Rock-n-roll can’t be satirized because rock IS satire.”We know for a fact that Man started off personnaly communing with God in the Garden, and ends uniting to fight military war against the God of the universe. The trend line is crystal clear. It is a dampened sine wave. Each successive crest is lower than the previous crest, and each successive trough is lower than the previous trough. “We” are only on “the winning side” in an eternal sense, and only believers can even claim that. “Optimism” is only a sound outlook when viewed from the Biblical perspective just outlined.

Like Steve I only watched Greys Anatomy because my wife liked it and like Scott I reached a point that I hated everybody on it and the fact that everyone eventually had had sex with everyone else.
But right off the bat I scoffed at the first episode when Meredith gets drunk and has sex with a stranger the night before she starts a new job as a surgical intern, the night before! Who would do that? The stranger turns out to be her new boss. They could have established the same thing by having the encounter take place weeks earlier on vacation.

I liked Grey’s Anatomy until Sandra Oh left. I realized at that point that I didn’t give a damn about any of the characters. It had gotten political before then, but it was tolerable, which says a lot for me because I have no tolerance for that anymore.
I hate seeing the list of TV shows I’ve given up because of wokeness and other Marxist nonsense. It depressed me about the state of our culture.

On the topic of switching roles in commercials, I’ve seen a few in the vein of guys in speedos, but for bikini car washes, and other similar roles.

Cartoon raccoons are usually great characters. Real raccoons are annoying, destructive pests. (I agree with Justin Whitsitt)

For some reason, when Scott was talking about his “Pop” and fighting his fight, the scene with Fezzik and Vizzini talking about ambushing Dread Pirate Roberts / Man In Black came to my mind, specifically Fezzik’s line “my way isn’t very sportsman-like” about fighting “his way” according to Vizzini.

Steve, great line about the pony. (helps that I know the reference.)

I have not even had a chance to watch this episode of Backstage, but I read Miller Woke Commercial….and I had seen that one with the potty mouthed “person” crabbing about beer and guys. I have a stemwinder rant I have to get out of me soon about this “ad”. But first, I’ll watch the Backstage, maybe someone beat me to it.
I will say, Talking Frogs, Real Men of Genius, and the Colt 45 guy on the beach had zero, count em, zero bikinis visible. All 3 commercials were funny as SH!+. I might be obliged to say this “person” had very, very, VERY selective outrage.
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(Super sorry, Mr. Ott….I typed a naughty word)

Ok, I’ve seen this Backstage. You guys covered it all.
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I’ll only add that if you have not seen the annoying “your people” VRBO web ad, and it pops up, check it out, carefully with a discerning eye. 3 visuals and some voice over copy are just IN YOUR FACE D.I.E. (diversity inclusion equity).

My wife and I have been watching “The Cold War” What we saw, and we are thoroughly enjoying every episode. Bill’s injection of humor makes the series interesting and entertaining (as gruesome as it is). Excellent Job!

I made it to 30 years of marriage and then was summarily released. The Lord knew what He was doing when He allowed this to happen, however, in hindsight. Thank you, Lord!

Doctors and Nurses have difficulty watching Prime Time shows in hospitals. In “House”, I screamed when Dr. House turned to his colleague and asked him to do a retinal biopsy to prove a negative in the differential diagnoses. As if just anyone could do that, would do that, or wouldn’t think he was joking. I think it might have been the trailer for “Chicago Hope” when the lead surgeon gets promoted and threatens the Cardiothoracic surgeons for charging money for their services. As if that was ‘way beyond the pale’ is you care about your patients. And for many years it was quite obvious no one had ever consulted someone with experience about the work environment in a hospital. As doctors make less money, their sex appeal leaves as fast as their gold-digger girlfriends. No one knows how machines work in a hospital. Like how intubation restricts speech, how Ultrasound tests stop sending signals when they lose contact with the surface of the skin, etc.

You, you mean medical dramas get most of the medical stuff wrong? Shattered and shaken I am to the core.
**I don’t need to post that this is sarcasm, right?***
I actually enjoyed House, but mostly because he was such a pompous jacka$$. I am the guy sitting at home when my wife and daughter are watching something and the laws of physics are defied who makes them pause the show and explain it to them. They don’t care, but I have to throw in – you know that’s BS, right? It makes me feel better.
Though I am surprised that no medical show ever really shows the difference between electrical and plumbing relative to heart issues. No matter what happens, all you ever hear is “clear” . . .whump and it’s all good. I also like when people do chest compressions and then they show the person in the hospital like 2 hours later and they are fine. No broken ribs, no issues.

Loved me some House until he started going crazy (er). Too many ‘layers’ of reality or fantasy to keep me interested. Was the same time in television where Grissom would always solve the crime in 1 hour on CSI OS LV PDQ ASAP.

I get the same feeling when watching war movies as you do watching doctor movies. The mistakes are glaring and terrible. I have a buddy that’s a retired Marine S2 Lt. Colonel, he comes over every Saturday night for “movie night”. When we watch a war movie it’s almost non-stop scoffing from both of us.

The same often goes for sci-fi. The ‘science’ in most of them is unrealistic and just plain wrong.

Movies, television shows and printed fiction are meant to be entertainment. As entertainment I can put up with a lot of inaccuracies and still enjoy the piece. But …

They can also be propaganda either intentionally or accidentally. The problem is that people who don’t know any better think they’re ‘learning’ from that kind of entertainment. They allow that ‘learning’ to impact their worldview.

FYI. St. Pauli Girl and beer.
The St. Pauli section of Hamburg Germany used to be the redlight district of town. The St. Pauli Girl on the beer label is a server. Her sisters? Duh.

Is there some other reason you’re still using YouTube for this? We now know Rumble has the ability to use unlisted videos as a private channel. It’s your show of course, but I thought that was your goal, according to Scott…to be out from under the thumb of the tech tyrants, that suppress our voices.
I’m standing my ground against these tech tyrants. Sadly, we can successfully boycott a beer, but not the very platforms that interfered with our elections. You’re a very wise bunch of guys, I think you know I’m not wrong about this.

@12:20 Bill talks about nobody being able to tell the difference between their beer and what anyone else had. We did a similar taste test.
We had the following:
Michelob
Michelob Light
Michelob Dark (it may have been called Amber or something like that, it was 40 years ago)
We couldn’t even tell the difference among those three. You’d think the Amber or Dark would have been distinctly different, but not to us 18 year old geniuses.
We could tell the difference between Michelob/Miller Lite/Bud and something called Mickey’s Big Mouth, which was in a Green bottle that looked like a barrel. It was awful. Just nasty. I guess it was technically a Malt Liquor, but it was vile.

More memories, Ron! You’re on fire. Mickey’s Big Mouth, in the green death barrel bottle, the most hideous first hangover anyone could possibly have, I know. Vile is a good adult description. As a much younger man, my best description of Mickey’s was that if you collected all the used pencil erasers from each student in your high school, ground them up to sand size particles (the erasers, not the students), put them in a vat with sugar, yeast, and water, waited the appropriate time, performed no industrial hygiene so bacteria could form, and then poured into a bottle shaped specifically to get teenagers drunk much faster…..you’d have Mickey’s Big Mouth malt liquor.

So glad someone besides me and my friends were subjected to the evil potion that is Mickey’s.
Honest question – how are they still in business? Who are the people buying it the second time?

Forget spygate, collusion gate, quid pro quo gate, BLM, Antifa….America can absorb all these punches….but Mickey’s Big Mouth is still in business…..???? We’re doomed.

In the mid 70’s I worked in a liquor store in southwest Wyoming. The legal drinking age in Wyoming was 19 at the time. We sold more Mickey’s Big Mouth than any other single beer and every drop went to Utah!! Never did understand the attraction.
The one beer we never had repeat customers for was Billy Beer. If any one would like some I bought a case as an investment. I some one as Billy Beer posted on eBay a number of years ago but no buyers. Too bad Jimmy Carter wasn’t more popular!

I think my brother did the same with a case of Billy Beer. Pretty sure it got lost in one of his moves. Or maybe it was stored at my parents house and lost along with all of the baseball cards that would have allowed me to retire by now.
**SIGH**

So… who sowed, tended and harvested the hops for the beer? Men. It was a collaborative effort. I’m so tired of companies forcing their virtue-signaling on everyone for ESG scores.
Aren’t they also body-shaming the women in the bikinis who made the conscious decision to pose – for what I would assume – a handsome paycheck?

They’re also vicious and vile tempered. Bill’s attitude reflects a city dweller’s view who never had to deal with them up close and personal.

I hate them. Except Rocket of course.

As far as I’m concerned they only have one redeeming value. Their pelts used to be worth about $35 each or so*. A little more for the really big ones, a little less for the smaller ones. I made a few thousand dollars on raccoons in my younger days. When I was in high school I trapped and hunted, that was my ’employment’. I made considerably more than kids working for the then $1.75 minimum wage at ‘regular’ jobs.

(*I just checked and they’re only worth between $2 and $9 today. Not even worth the trouble of skinning, stretching, drying and selling but still worth the cost of a .22 LR to be rid of.)

Last fall I had a family of them get in my chicken pen and killed 10 chickens. I got vengeance over the next 3 nights using the bodies of the chickens they killed. It was like living in Nam around here lol

I don’t have chickens but I have neighbors that do. I shoot predatory vermin on sight.

I also have a serious rodent eradication program in full force at all times. The neighbors with livestock perforce have to keep livestock feed on hand. Which is a magnet for rats and mice. It doesn’t matter if it’s chickens, cows, goats, horses or llamas … The feed that livestock eats is also a perfect subsistence food for rodent vermin. Which I also shoot on sight if they don’t get poisoned or trapped.

I do not hold this against my neighbors in any way. It’s not their fault that rodents love that kind of feed and it’s not their fault if the livestock are a little sloppy about how they eat it. Besides …

I love the fresh eggs and such that I get for joining them in their anti-vermin efforts.

🙂

Oh yes. The chicken feed brings all the rats and mice. And the mice bring the snakes. Of course my wife is terrified of the snakes. I don’t mind them so long as they keep to themselves and don’t sneak up on me

I use large glue traps for the snakes. They’re pretty cheap on Amazon. I only put them places were the snakes should not be, like the attic, the tool cabinets I have outdoors (I have a work area set up under a 12’x12′ awning), my generator shack, stuff like that.

Where I live most of the snakes are non-venomous. A few miles from here are habitats that Copperheads, Water Moccasins, Cane and Diamondback rattlers like but I’ve never seen any in my immediate vicinity. If I do, they die on sight no questions and no hesitation.

If they stay out of places they should not be, I mostly leave the snakes alone. We get a lot of Eastern Garter and Rat snakes (Rat snakes common name is Black Snake) and a few others. They eat vermin so we’re more allies than not.

My sister lives about 100 yards from my place and she had a big Black Snake in her attic. Her mouse problem went to zero while it lived there but … The attic is not a place a snake should be so I trapped it for her with glue traps.

It was big enough that even a big glue trap (10″x24″) wouldn’t hold it but the trap prevented it from crawling into places where it could hide. I disposed of it for her.

I had a Black Snake that thought for some reason living under the finish mower deck on my tractor was a good idea. That turned out about as you would expect, lots of snake burger.

Other than that, I mostly leave the snakes alone. I don’t have a lot of snake problems because the poison I use for rats and mice is very potent. It’s Eaton’s Top Gun and the sort that kills quickly with just one little bite. A bait station stays usable for a long time without being refilled because unlike the anticoagulant poisons it doesn’t require multiple feedings to end a varmint. The vermin don’t seem to ‘wise up’ to this poison and stop eating it like they do with anticoagulants. Just a little nibble does the job. It’s a neurotoxin and not something you want to leave laying around where the neighborhood pets can get at it.

I’m thinking the snakes find the poisoned rodents in their final stage of neural impairment and eat them. Which probably poisons the snake too.

Another sort of nuisance pest we get here is lizards. Both the Big Mouth Lizard (Red Heads) and the little Blue Tailed Lizards, the kind that drop their tails and get away while the predator is preoccupied with the tail.

Glue traps work good for those too.

Ron SAE addressed this opportunity to make a commercial fun and funny instead of adversarial and preachy. Just giving credit where credit is due.

When in ancient times women were the beer brewers it’s doubtful they were also the beer drinkers. They just made beer to make their men bearable. It goes hard on a man not to have his pot of beer at the end of the day. If he doesn’t get it, it goes hard on everyone around him.

As for Jim Croce and earworms … I have a huge music collection and it includes everything Jim Croce ever did. The way to kill an ear worm is to find the song and listen to it all the way through. Twice if that’s what it takes.

Actually, …..
Back in the day, especially the middle ages, water was foul, dangerous, life-threatening. Calories were hard to come by. Men, women, and children in the Middle Ages in Europe got much of their hydration and lots of their calories from beer. That’s one of the reasons Titian’s portraits of women showed them as “zoftig” with rosy cheeks.

Yeah, I actually knew all that. My comment was meant to be more humorous than it was intended to be historically accurate.

Turning grain into beer is one way to make that grain into useful food that resists spoilage. Plus the practice has some nice perks that go along with it. Flavor and alcohol are a distinct improvement over ground gruel.

Moonshiners originally brought their craft over from Europe and it wasn’t so much that an alcoholic drink was the be all and end all of the practice. You can get ten wagons of corn distilled down to one wagon of whiskey so it was a way to bring their corn (or other grains) to market with cheaper transportation and value added by labor. Which meant higher profits through sweat equity.

Same thing with the dairy industry. It began in the northern European areas that had short summers and long winters. You could eat your cow sometime during the winter or you could keep it alive and feed it stored grass which is not a food to humans. Whereupon it would continue to feed you through the entire winter by supplying milk that could be consumed as is or made into things like cheese and yogurt.

All these great inventions; beer, whiskey and dairy products are a result of human beings finding ways to make their food supply more functional and preseveable. There are many examples of such things in our history.

So I’m fairly familiar with all that, my apologies for the historical jibe.

I have found it very usefull to quietly sing, or loudly if you’re inclined, the most hated song you’ve heard in your lifetime. Not only will you extract the earworm, but you’ll never ever keep repeating the one song you hate the most! Win – win. My earwork extractor is Rita Moreno’s “America”….I can’t think which is worse, being tied down and forced to listen to that song all the way through….or forced to drink a case of Mickey’s Big Mouth malt liquor.

RR – The only problem with your earworm solution is that Rita Moreno was such a hottie. I don’t want to associate anything bad with her.
My wife and I (29 years at the end of July) actually play an evil game of giving each other ear worms. She gets me, my bride does. And I agree completely with Scott about how blessed I have been and how I look forward to seeing her every day.

THIS Rita Moreno? Next, you’ll be singing Steisand’s Memories……..another horrible, horrible earworm. You’re welcome Ron

Well, I was thinking this Rita Moreno. You know, from back in the early 60s when we were clearly much less racist than we are now. /sarc
Had a girl in HS who looked a little like this photo. Her brothers let it be known that she was strictly off limits. Dad was a contractor and bodies would never be found. We believed them.

If the brewery isn’t at least 1,000 years old, they’re amateurs and you’ll never mistake one brewed by an amateur for one brewed by a monk.

“That’s heavy shit?”
“Shhh…nah man it ain’t. But when you got a name like Leroy Brown, people expect you to be bad. Ya know, like the song?”

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