Garth Brooks is truly one of the good guys in the music industry. Brooks has a reputation for being very fan centric, and regularly plays 25-30 songs, easily playing two hours plus. Brooks gets it. He knows he is where he is, because of the fans. He earned his success on the backs of the record buying and concert going audience. Garth has always tried to keep tickets affordable, unlike some of his older contemporaries like Elton John and Bruce Springsteen. Tickets to the most recent Springsteen tour have caused an outcry due to the disgusting Ticketmaster “dynamic pricing” plan,…
Author: robm
Professional wrestling has always held a special place for me. Some of my best memories and most fun times involved wrestling. In fact, I wanted to be a professional wrestler as a kid. Sadly, the fact that I am only 6’0 foot and 175 pounds sort of limits my wrestling prowess, but make no mistake, I know how to put someone in a figure 4 leglock and get a submission. As teenagers, and this is embarrassing, my friends and I created our own wrestling alliance. We made title belts, had rivalries, and wrestled at each other’s houses on the weekend.…
Cold french fries are gross, right? We have all gotten cold fries at a fast-food joint. It’s unavoidable. The lack of help most places have, and the fact that most are poorly run and disorganized often results in messed up orders and bad food. Turns out a 15 dollar an hour wage didn’t really help. Who’d have guessed? I was a fast-food manager in another life, and I certainly saw my fair share of crazy stuff in the restaurant. Yea, we used stuff off the floor if we were in a hurry, fine I admit it. And there was a…
I have to admit, I don’t watch any talk shows. None. Zero. Zip. The days of compelling tv talk are over. There is no David Letterman. No more Johnny Carson, hell not even a Jay Leno. The daytime shows aren’t any better. The View? I’d rather scratch my own eyeballs out. Good Morning America? Why would I want to watch the gapped toothed one, Michael Strahan or George Stephanopoulos? The Today show? Not since Regis and Kathy Lee. Nope, just no interest anymore. Fluff news aside, the politics of most of these shows has turned me off. Cheap political jokes,…
Would Hollywood just please stop! Stop with the watered-down remakes already! I realize the film industry, outside of Tom Cruise and a couple other franchises too big to fail (MCU) have hit the skids, especially in this age of extreme woke-ism and streaming but come on already! Stop ruining the classics! Remember Ghostbuster? No not the horrifically unfunny all girl Ghostbusters a few years ago. I’m talking about the classic 80’s movies. Did we really need another installment last year? Was it really necessary to put a CGI ghost of Harold Ramis in the movie? Just awful. How about the…
God, I love the Rocky movies. All of them. Well, not all of them as Rocky 5 can burn in Hades. But the rest, the absolute best work of Sylvester Stallone’s career. And don’t give me the Rambo crap. The first one was great; rest were unmitigated trash. There possibly hasn’t been a movie series in our lifetime that has given us so many incredibly memorable scenes and character. Apollo Creed, Clubber Lange, Thunderlips Hogan, Ivan Drago. Who can forget Drago? Amazing bad guys, and amazing movies. I even love the Creed series. I thought the two Creed movies, and…
I’m going to admit it. I didn’t know there was a women’s professional soccer league. Yep, had no idea. Probably because ESPN doesn’t shove it in our faces constantly like they do the failed experiment known as the WNBA. To be honest, I’d be more likely to tune in for women’s pro soccer than the WNBA. And I hate soccer! That tells you what I think about girls’ basketball. Yuck. Does this seem like a recurring storyline? Athlete refuses to wear nonstandard gear. Specifically, gear that DIRECTLY conflicts with their beliefs. Well, it should. We are inundated with political messages…
Cheerleaders are serious athletes. There, I said it. I’m not a big fan of women’s sports for the most part, but the stuff these high school and college cheerleaders pull off is just insane. The balance, the core strength, the hand eye coordination, the ability to be interested in a sport or game you likely know little about, all very impressive stuff! There are male cheerleaders too, of course. I’m not sure if they are men who couldn’t or didn’t want to play a sport, or found cheerleading as a good way to get college paid for, or simply sly…
Hey, Remember Shakira? The 45-year-old Columbian pop star set America and the fledgling internet of FIRE with her first American release “Laundry Service” in 2001. The first two singles, “Whenever, Wherever”, and “Underneath Your Clothes” were certified bangers, and Shakira took the country by storm. She was sexy, talented, and still appeared wholesome. Remember wholesome? I miss that too. Shakira was also an international superstar BEFORE her emergence in America. Shakira has sold over 80 million records and has a catalog of 145 songs. She is a music legend. Shakira singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, actress, philanthropist…and apparently a tax evader?…
I’m an old school gamer. Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, even pinball. I’ve owned home consoles for the better part of my life, but usually only played sports games. The time involved to get good at some of the first-person shooter and fantasy games is more than I can sit still for. Aside from the ants in my pants, when my kids were younger, I tried to shield them from the ultra-violent, ultra-graphic games. You know the ones, the games the kids were interested in. I genuinely attempted to steer them away from titles like Grand Theft Auto. I don’t…
I love Florida, I really do. The sun, the sand, it’s my preferred retirement destination. Someday. Of course, first I have to wait to actually retire, and then make sure these climate alarmists aren’t right (they aren’t). I don’t want to move somewhere that is 120 degrees year-round and sinking into the ocean! Of course, if you believe the “climate science” that should’ve already happened, so I think I’m good there. I will definitely need to keep an eye out for pit vipers, lightning strikes, alligators, panthers, monitor lizards, and Burmese pythons. Yep, I sure do love Florida. Did I…
Growing up we were bombarded with public service announcements. Way more than we see now. Woodsey Owl telling us not to pollute, “Iron Eyes Cody” (who was Italian, not Native American) urging us not to litter, the famous ads with dolphins grabbing cigarettes out of an unsuspecting person’s mouth to the tune of “We mind very much if you smoke”. Yes kids, in the 70’s we literally had dolphins with cigarettes. Good times. My personal favorite was Smokey Bear. Many people may know him better as Smokey THE Bear, but “the” isn’t his middle name. It’s just Smokey Bear. Show…
We all use Facebook for the most part, don’t we? Whether we like to admit to it or not, we all sometimes do. I never intended it to be for more than just keeping up with far flung relatives. Then it morphed into old high school friends (if they were really friends, I would’ve seen them since 1985), then eventually that girl or guy from work you talked to twice. You get the picture. It wasn’t until the election cycle in 2016 that Facebook really turned ugly for me. Political arguments, clear efforts by the platform to suppress certain candidates,…
You ever heard the old cliche, “you don’t take a knife to a gunfight”? I assume that’s good advice, though better advice would be to avoid gunfights at all costs. Unfortunately, in some of our larger, progressive run cities, it’s getting harder and harder to avoid either. I suppose if I had to choose one, I’m going knife fight. At least I have a sporting chance of outrunning a knife rather than a bullet. Sadly, if I know myself, I won’t run from either. Better brush up on my knife skills! I have family in Chicago and based on recent…
The wheels on the bus go round and round. Or at least they are supposed to. That is, unless the bus is on fire. Democrats dream big, don’t they? Wind power, solar panels everywhere, electric vehicles. It’s a shiny, clean future under Dem leadership! At least that’s what they would have you believe. Truth is, solar is unreliable and inefficient, wind depends on wind, hydroelectric is good, but gotta have a river, and electric vehicles have to be charged somehow. Usually by coal fired electricity. Electric vehicles also have a dangerous element lurking in every one. The batteries. The lithium-ion…
Man, I love a feel-good story. We just don’t have enough of them! Rest assured, there are still good people, doing amazing things to help other people. I coached over a dozen years of little league baseball. From age 7 all the way up to age 16. It was a passion of mine. Bear in mind, baseball, especially traveling teams can be very expensive. The parents and community don’t always have the means to pay for everything. Fundraising is huge in youth sports. Candy bars, wrapping paper, discount cards, anything to defray the cost associated with equipment, lodging, travel and…
It’s always something, right? Brandon and his cast of idiots just can’t seem to get right. Supply chain issues, high gas prices, a short labor market, are just a few of the factors contributing to grocery store shortages. We all remember the great toilet paper shortage of 2020. Who wants to go through that again? Thankfully there wasn’t a great sock shortage in 2020. Just kidding! I get enough junk mail from the post office that I’m set until after the election cycle! All joking aside, it was a real concern. I remember not being able to find crackers, milk,…
Every used car comes with risks. Maybe you are buying a car that’s been wrecked? Perhaps your used car was a flood victim that’s been cleaned up and resold. There are an endless number of scenarios possible. Unscrupulous used car dealers will resort to a lot of dirty tricks to move cars. Everything from physically altering the miles, to physically altering the vehicle itself to hide obvious defects is not at all uncommon. What you don’t expect however is the original manufacturer screwing you out of options. The way new vehicles are nowadays, they come packed with optional features and…
You just have to watch every word you say these days, don’t you? You literally never know which marginalized group you might offend, after all there are so many of them! Even jokes are now off limits. I can see perhaps, if you are making fun of someone to be mean, or attempting to belittle a person because of a physical characteristic, but a joke? Come on, where does it stop? Even terminology that was once considered appropriate can now be taboo. How can you know? The rules change so quickly in the rush to be offended that we can’t…
It used to be in America that flying was a big deal. If you see old pictures or video, you see men in suits, ladies in dresses, lots of hats and people ripping cigarettes. Hey, flying has ALWAYS had its drawbacks. What you didn’t see was people bringing their own snacks, trimming their toenails, taking their shoes off, or dressed like they don’t own a mirror. In short, it used to be considered classy to fly. I guess those days are over. Been on a Spirit flight lately? Or as I like to call them, Break-Your-Spirit Airlines. It’s sketchy at…
I’m not a huge fan of flying. I suppose it’s preferable to driving 15 hours but given the option I almost always prefer to drive. It’s not that I consider air travel unsafe or anything, but it can be a pain depending on which airline you choose. If you are on a budget provider, like most of us budget minded folks would be, there are certain challenges that can arise. Delays, old planes, mechanical issues, understaffed airports, snakes in the airline food. Wait, what? Some airlines still serve food? Oh, the other part; snakes! Recently a flight attendant on a…
There are certain things in life most people really want to believe in. Ghosts, UFO’s, the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, honest Democrat politicians. Just kidding! No one believe that Dems are honest! Bigfoot however, yea I’m all in on that. The naysayers, besides just saying “nay”, will point to the fact that despite countless man hours of effort, and advanced technology like night vision and heat sensitive equipment, we still don’t have a squatch in a cage somewhere being poked and prodded by government bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci. I say, stop being so negative! We are constantly discovering new species…
We are all “sick” of Covid, aren’t we? Most of us have had it numerous times, with very minimal effects. I have had it three times, including as I am writing this. It is just a fact of life at this point. Unfortunately, some people still die. Now, let’s be real, almost all of those people have underlying issues that heavily contribute. Doesn’t make it any less sad, but a fact is a fact. Unfortunately, the government continues to attempt to push all the things that have proven NOT to work. The vaccine and boosters, social distancing, masks. Speaking of…
The truth is out there. Maybe. Maybe not? My assumption is we ARE being monitored and visited by forms of life not native to our planet. To assume we are the only living species in an ever-expanding universe is a bit arrogant in my opinion. Too many people have seen too much of the same thing to write it off to crazies or coincidence. If 5 people saw someone rob a bank, the robber is going to jail. Yet hundreds of people, or more see the same phenomenon in the sky and people say, ‘nah’? Sorry, that doesn’t work for…
There’s an old saying that goes something like “God works in mysterious ways”. I assume this to be true. God doesn’t really go around flaunting his enormous power, unless of course you want to count space, nature, childbirth, etc. little stuff like that, you know? https://twitter.com/6ixbuzztv/status/1551941136389906432?s=20&t=QaAgTNE3q9wyOx1A4GTWKA No, sometimes God creeps around and drops subtle hints. Maybe it’s finding a 20-dollar bill on the street when you are almost broke. Maybe it’s getting a sweet parking spot close to the door right before it pours rain? Like I said, it can be super subtle! Sometimes it’s not so subtle though, like…
We complain about America all the time, don’t we? The big cities are ridden with crime, there’s danger around every corner. We are rife with racism, trans and Asian violence, white nationalists, BLM, Antifa! I’m scaring myself just thinking about it. Sort of make you want to get a cabin in the wilderness, you know, get away from society. Bad idea! Bears, rattlesnakes, alligators, oh my! Well, just when you think America is the most dangerous place in the world, India says “hold my beer”. Assuming of course they drink beer in India. I have no idea. India is a…
Is the International Space Station still a thing? Seems like in the last decade or so, with the advent of somewhat private “space” travel by the likes of Elon Musk and Virgin head Richard Branson that the space station has almost been forgotten about. When the space station was conceived and began in 1998, it seemed almost inconceivable that humans would be living and working in space. Now? Yawn, those guys still up there? That’s what we do. What was once a miracle of science and humanity becoming yesterday’s boring news. This is nothing new to a society without imagination…
I used to be a huge fan of Jeopardy. Not because I was any good at it, rather it kept me humble. Half an hour an evening was all it took to remind me that I’m not very smart. Probably could’ve just asked my friends. Oh well. I fell off Jeopardy when legendary host Alex Trebek passed away. That was super sad, watching Trebek deteriorate, knowing he was dying. What is: “I teared up on his last show?” Subsequently, in a genuinely brilliant marketing ploy, Jeopardy began rolling out guest hosts. Joe Buck, Aaron Rodgers, Dr. Oz, LeVar Burton, Katie…
It’s a shame what our larger, Democrat run cities are turning into. I used to love visiting Chicago, Los Angeles; even San Francisco was ok. Just ok, kind of dirty and way too cold, but I digress. Since 2020 however, any time I have been to Chicago in particular (I have family there), it seems to be going downhill fast. Rampant crime, gunshots at night, trash on the street even in the good areas, sketchy people everywhere, drug use on the street right out in the open. It’s basically a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Nice job Lori Lightfoot! Don’t worry about Lori…
Remember 2020? You know, burning cities, BLM, Antifa, Covid, defund the police. Good times, right? Well, for the liberal elite, it wasn’t that bad. Quarantine in your mansion, sneak out to dinner and parties unmasked with your elite friends and put Black Lives Matter on your Twitter bio. Unfortunately, the liberal elite and Hollywood set didn’t REALLY feel it like the rest of the nation. Of course, even if they didn’t feel it, they sure didn’t mind letting you know how you were supposed to act and feel! Thank God for Hollywood and their strong moral compass! Actors, late night…