So... Alright - Chicken Idioms and Emails

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

Geoff takes a look at the plethora of chicken related idioms, and answers a few listener emails as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Anyway, I say all that just to date this so that if I sound odd or weird Maybe you'll understand why kind of a stressful and tumultuous day in America. I'll say anyway speaking of America I Was thinking the other day and this had nothing I talk about today is gonna have any fucking thing to do with politics I promise you I think I might And I don't know I have a plan. I'm gonna pitch their regulation guys about a way to live life for the next four years

however, speaking of America and American isms I Was thinking of the day about chickens and how there seemed to be? about chickens and how there seemed to be so many chicken idioms. Emily and I sat down and quickly sketched out everyone we could think of. This is what we came up with. Chicken in the egg, chicken across the road, cock of the walk. When somebody's scared they're chicken or chicken shit. When somebody doesn't do something they chicken out. When someone is frantic, they're running around like a chicken with its head cut off. They have hen parties when women are getting married. People crow like a rooster when they're bragging or trying to stand out. An old person is no

spring chicken. You should never put all your eggs in one basket or count your chickens before they hatch. If you leave home, you tend to fly the coop. When someone is in a bad mood, you tend to walk on eggshells around them. If you feel like you're just getting browbeaten to death, you're henpecked. If you have bad handwriting, it's called chicken scratch. You can mother hen someone, which would be to maternalize them, I guess. Is maternalize a word? What is that? Maternalize them, I guess is maternal wise a what is that? maternal wise

Mother it is when you maternalize a person and every unfamiliar meat tastes like chicken I Was pretty happy with that list and we were just kind of joking like just kind of a it was just a silly way to spend Some time at a coffee shop but I got to thinking about later and I realized that I had missed a bunch. And I was wondering, like, it does seem like an egregious amount of chicken-based idioms. Why a chicken over a cow or a pig or any other farm animal, especially considering chickens weren't as popular back in the old days when idioms were

created as they are now. There was actually kind of a, as a meat, chickens were popular for eggs, obviously. Eggs may be the most important food to Americans in the grand. I mean, they may not, you may not, you may not pick egg as your favorite food in America, but like it really, the whole country starts and ends with eggs, if you think about it. And so I did some reading. Oh, actually first I found a way bigger list of idioms. So let me give you this bigger list of idioms.

I'll go over the, I'm not gonna pull out the ones we already said, so you might get some repeats, but this is an insane amount of idioms. And this is from judyschickens.org. This lady, Judy, and her husband compiled a list of all the idioms they could think of. Much larger than the list that my wife and I thought of. So here we go.

Birds of a feather flock together. A pecking order. Ring your neck. Ruffle someone's feathers. Run around like a chicken with its head cut off. I said that one. The feathers were flying, wake up with the chickens matter than a wet hen. That's a good one.

Winner winner chicken dinner. When you scratch out a living. When you shake your tail feathers when you chicken out said that when the early chicken gets the worm stop cackling. I didn't know that that was a chicken related but I guess maybe it is good egg, a bad egg or rotten egg, a golden egg, a nest egg. Walking on eggshells, I think we said, egg on your face, the yolks on you. He laid an egg. That means he failed to egg someone on. Mother hen, we said, hen pecked, we said, scarce as hen's teeth.

I hadn't heard that one before. Hen party at the hen house. Chicken chat. Chick flick. Well, I don't think that's related to chickens. Is it? Chick flick? Maybe if it's chicken specific movie. Playing chicken. Oh yeah, that's a good one. Chicken fight. A wrestling game. I don't know that. Doing the funky chicken. That is a dance. I don't know if that's an idiom. Nobody here but us chickens. What else we got? Roosters, cocky, cock of the walk, cock fight.

Something to crow about when you feel cooped up. When you have empty nest syndrome, I have that right now. When you're nesting, trying to do that. Leaving the nest, my daughter did that. Flew the coop, she also did that. Coming home to roost, I'll see you at Christmas. Brooding, yeah, or broody, that's when you're laying on a chicken's laying on a clutch of eggs.

What? It's when a chicken's laying on a clutch of eggs. I was reading the word to hen while I said eggs, and I created the new word, hegs. To feather one's nest, that's when broody hens pluck their own feathers to soften their nest. Oh, I didn't know that Chicken hearted chicken livered no spring chicken That's chicken feed

Other than that's a good one chicken feed nobody here, but us chickens a Chicken in every pot was a suggestive of prosperity The rooster may crow but the hen delivers the eggs. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs You see where I'm going with this. There's a million of them, right? I just feel like I'm reading a list Oh, well, I as I say that right as I'm done and I've completed the list. I actually have Another list. So, you know what? That was enough.. The point being, there's a shitload of chicken and egg and rooster related idioms.

And it just seems to over index. So I decided I gotta figure out why, right? And I did a bunch of Googling and reading and maybe I suck at research because you feel like the entirety of the world's knowledge, collective knowledge should be at your hands on the internet. But I'll be goddamned if I can figure out

how to get there from Google sometimes. The best answer I can give you is that, is this dumb AI overview, is that there are many chicken idioms because chickens have been an important part of human life for centuries, and their behaviors are colorful and repetitive. I guess a chicken is a interesting and fun creature.

They're easy to take care of. They're small. They don't take up a lot of space. They provide a reliable source of food in their egg byproduct. And then when they can no longer lay eggs, then they provide meat for you in that way, I guess. Whereas like, but you know what?

Cow provides milk until it provides meat. So I don't know. And pigs provide shit until they provide meat, right? Anyway, but this makes a little bit of sense. Chickens in American culture. During World War I, the Department of Agriculture encouraged Americans to raise chickens, and chicken idioms became a way to describe human behavior.

Now that I can kinda see. The government goes through, it's kinda like when you buy war bonds, or when there was like saving metal campaigns during World War I or World War II. Victory gardens were a big thing. It was a way for people to generate food at home cheaply, you know, when the country was spending all of its

nickels and dimes on the war effort. And so raising chickens at home is, I actually have owned chickens in the past. You know, it's been about 12, 13 years now, but I had seven chickens for, I think for about a little under two years. Eventually possums and raccoons got to all of them but the rooster and so I ended up giving the rooster

to someone else who had chickens to help protect their chickens because he didn't do shit for ours. Maybe he'd be better in a new environment. It is absolutely true though that chickens are easy to take care of and relatively cheap and they do provide about an egg a day. I would say in my experience, my chickens provided like each chicken probably provides

an egg four out of every five days, three out of every four days. So if you have six or seven chickens, you end up with a surplus of eggs pretty quickly. Now they don't lay forever. Chickens only lay for a little bit, like maybe a a year or two and then they kind of slow down and That's cool. You know because then they turn into all Kinds of delicious sandwiches and meals or you can keep them as pets I actually really liked our chickens when we had them They raised them from from little baby hens in the in the heat lamp and all and so you grow attached to them pretty quickly

And then they grow attached to them pretty quickly and then they grow attached to you as well. They do become like pets in some ways. And I would recommend anybody who's interested giving it a shot. It is a lot of fun. It is a little bit, it's not a lot of work, right? Like the nice thing about it is

you can throw your table scraps. They become like chicken composters, really, right? You just throw most of your food waste out there if it's in any way natural, you know And they go to town on it, which is really kind of awesome I will say my backyard was never grosser or smellier than when I had seven chickens in a pen I Cleaned it constantly. There is no end of chicken shit and they will turn a grass yard into dirt pretty quickly. And there are flies. If you don't stay on top of the chicken shit, there are flies. So it is work and there is a little bit of maintenance.

And so if you have a small yard like I did, I would recommend maybe two chickens, three max, not seven. I went overboard. I do get it, they are fun creatures and I definitely loved owning them and I would consider owning them again, probably not in the city, just because like I said, like the constraints are, it's just a little annoying

and then if a chicken gets out in the street, it's in danger and then there's dogs and cats and raccoons and possums and all kinds of predators running around, I mean it's not like there's not predators on a farm or out in the in the woods or, you know, in the suburbs as well. There are. But, you know, city predators, they got knives. Well, just in case you'd never thought about it before, that's your chicken talk. I also got a couple of emails I wanted to go over. This guy Dave sent one talking about nicknames that that was pretty funny. Dave, I hope you don't mind I read this, but he had such an interesting list of nicknames

I wanted to share them with you guys. Hey, I thought you might get a kick out of all the things I've been called in my life. I'm 26 and I feel like for my age, I have reached a pretty sizable amount of nicknames. I would agree, Dave. There are certainly some I don't remember being having been called, but here's what I have for you. Baby. All right. So these are all these are all of Dave's nicknames. Baby Blue. That's a good nickname.

Pots and pans. That's also a good nickname. Warthog Runyon after John Runyon. I don't know who John Runyon is. Let's look him up. That could be a compliment or an insult. Don Runyon is an American athlete and politician who is representative for New Jersey's third congressional district played football for 14 seasons in the NFL played for the University of Michigan a Fat man

Davey bum beans beans is a good nickname, Mac and Cheese, Dickhead Dave, Doug, Dog, Autistic Grease Whale, he swears he's been called that, even put it in quotes, Davey Doozit, Diesel Rose, Davey Navy, Dunzo Dave, and Bubby Boy. Dave's a good name for alliteration. He says there's a few more, but he's having trouble remembering them all. Side note, I'm going to keep reading Dave's email. I think there is particularly a fascination with nicknames among Gen X men in the New Jersey, Philly area. I grew up there and my dad and his brothers and all their friends

all have like five to 10 nicknames that are constantly evolving at all times, even in their 60s. It's a way they show love to each other, whether they realize it or not. That's interesting. I don't think about things like that as... Man, it's so funny because the older you get, and this will happen to all of you if you're not already there, if you're already there, you know what I'm talking about, but you start to see things in generational lines. I never thought of nicknames as being generationally

lined like that, but I will say nicknames were a really big part of my entire upbringing. And we did come up with new and insulting nicknames for each other constantly all the time. And so maybe there's something to that. I just assumed that millennials and Gen Z and what's after that, Gen A or whatever is next, are all doing the exact same thing. But maybe maybe they aren't. Here's another email, though. This one's from Parker. I selected it. I got a bunch of emails from you all.

And thank you so much. I just picked a few of them to read because I wasn't planning on doing like a whole, you know, Q&A type thing. But these emails stuck out to me. So I wanted to cover them. My name is Parker, and I'm such a huge fan Q&A type thing, but these emails stuck out to me, so I wanted to cover them. My name is Parker and I'm such a huge fan of you and grew up watching you guys on Achieve 100 Rooseteeth. Thank you so much, Parker.

I think my introduction to the channel was Michael's Rage Quit the Impossible Game. I think that was a lot of people's introduction to Rooseteeth. I have a couple of questions and I'd love to know your thoughts. Okay, so here we go. Here are the two questions I wanted to answer for you guys.

What are your thoughts on bratwurst? Stuff bratwurst. Just had a bratwurst the other day for lunch. So as of now, my hot dog tally for the years four, starting on 11, 124. Have you had a bratwurst that topped some of the better classic hot dogs you've had? Yes.

Yeah, I kind of lump brats and sausages, Italian and Polish and hot, they're all like, they're all variations on the same theme to me, right? So I've had some really good. I would go so far as to say, like a good Italian sausage dog is. Maybe as good as the best traditional hot dog. So, yeah, I'm big into bratwurst, of course. Number two, how do you feel about American football?

I've never really gotten into basketball as much as I would love to. I really enjoy your NBA episodes though. And by the way, I have a little NBA update for you guys at the end of this one, I think I'll go through. Do you follow the NFL or college football at all? My Dallas Cowboys are having a poor year. I'm a follow-up team, the Bills are doing really well. Boy, those are two diametrically opposed teams, huh?

I do follow NFL and I follow college football. I am in a college fantasy pick-em with my in-laws that we've been doing now for, I think this is maybe the fifth year in a row we've done it, fourth or fifth year, and it gets pretty intense and pretty heated. And so my wife and I, she's more into the pick-em than I am.

On Saturdays, we don't do it this way anymore, we just load up a game. But in at the old house, we would she would set up a projector next to the TV so that she could have two football games going at all times on Saturdays to track games. And so, yeah, I follow a lot of college football. I am only a fan of the University of Alabama. And I think that should be obvious. I'm of Alabama. And I think that should be obvious. I'm from Alabama. I'm.

Kind of outspokenly bummed about most of Alabama, but the University of Alabama football is a bright spot in my life. They are the greatest college football team in the history of college football with the two greatest coaches in history in Paul Bear Bryant and Nick Saban. And I think it's going to be a while before we crest the top of the mountain again, as as happens when you have a transition in leadership and really culture, probably as a new as a new coaching system comes in and we enter into a new era. But I don't feel.

It's weird. I've watched football my entire life. I don't feel capable of speaking about it intelligently or semi intelligently like I do with the NBA. And for that reason, I tend to not bring it up too much. I do watch NFL. I have never really had an NFL team growing up in Alabama. I'm in kind of a similar boat with football that I was in baseball and basketball, which are two sports that I like more, honestly. But I still love football. And I watch Red Zone all day, most Sundays,

or at least it's on all the time. I usually have, you know, I've got stuff going on in my life around it, but we keep Red Zone on all day on Sunday it is, uh, it's how I consume most of my NFL except for the Detroit Lions who I have decided, as I was saying, I, uh, getting ahead of myself. I growing up in Alabama, it's hard to root for professional sports teams. You can root for the Braves or the Atlanta Hawks or the Atlanta Falcons, or you could root for, I guess now the New Orleans Pelicans

and then the Saints, right? But when I was growing up, the New Orleans Saints were one of the worst and most embarrassing teams in the history of the NFL. And I don't know if you know this, but people in Alabama, maybe just my part of Alabama, hate Georgia. Anything other than a Dominique Wilkins human highlight reel fan when I was a kid and a Dale Murphy fan as I was a kid, anything else was kind of out

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First off, longtime fan of several things you've helped create or been involved with, Rooseteeth, Fuckface, Regulation, Anima, Breakshow, etc. Thank you so much. It has been a great source of entertainment for me over the years through various life stages. Sincerely, thank you.

Now for the long part. OK, how do you balance work, life, hobbies and desires? This is actually a pretty meaty email that gets a little personal. So maybe I won't go deep into it. But Philip essentially says that he's in his 30s now and finds himself at an odd spot. The transformation of what was once a passion into work

has changed his perspective towards it. It's very much a job and not something I necessarily find creative fulfillment through. Philip goes on to say that he's got some hobbies that he's held onto throughout the years, collecting cards, playing guitar, music, and has tried to build them into something that justifies the continuation of them as hobbies.

He mentions he's actually started some social media channels and made a little bit of side money doing them. And while they're not necessarily any need to justify something that you enjoy It certainly helps when you put it in the context of work family and other things that quite literally pay the bills In some recent podcast you've mentioned having ambitions for things that haven't quite made it to where you want them to be like the break show I definitely have similar ambitions in different areas and hobbies. I'd like to grow into bigger aspects of my life I'm curious your take on all this as someone who's built several successful businesses and raised kids that are a stage past where I am How do you and how have you prioritized all these different things in the past?

What would be your advice to individuals in a similar stage? Goddamn Phil, that's not an easy question to answer. I don't know how to give good advice here. I am driven by a compulsion that I don't fully understand and I have been as long as I can remember it. Because of that, my desire to, an even desire my compulsion to do this to create to make stuff It clouds everything else, you know, and so It takes a lot of work To strike a balance Because I'd rather make this content than do anything else on earth

Including a lot of my hobbies because I'd rather make this content than do anything else on earth, including a lot of my hobbies, you know? And that's not healthy, that's not good. And so you have to strike a balance. And it took me a long time to figure that out and to learn it. And I don't know that I struck that balance well early on, but I will tell you, as someone who is on the other side, who is empty n other side who is empty

nesting who has raised a kid who has been through this and is now kind of on the back nine of that portion of his life the most important thing it sounds so cliche I'm so sorry I don't know if you know this might not even come out I might just cut this question altogether because I'm not sure I'm providing any insider help at all here, Philip. But the most important thing out of all of it is time with the people that matter. And anything that gets in the way of that,

I would figure out a way to de-prioritize to the degree that you can. Because, and this is, you know, speaking as an empty nester, but no production I ever did was worth the time away from my family to do it. And that's gonna be the case for just about everything in your life. And it's difficult because you want to work

to provide for your family and you see opportunity and sometimes that opportunity takes you away from your family, but you recognize that that opportunity provides for your family. So you're trying to strike a balance of like time and not even energy and focus away from family at periods to focus on the career For the greater good of the family, right? It's a it's a hard balance to strike and I definitely have been on both ends of that pendulum

The best thing I can tell you in this rambling attempt at providing you any sort of insight or information is that? At the end of the day looking back on this 22 year entertainment career and everything that led up to starting that career, all the groundwork that went into it, is that the things that matter most to me looking back on it are the people that are still in my life. I will say, you shouldn't have to make money off of a hobby to justify doing it.

Everybody has to have hobbies. You have to have a way to decompress. You have to have a way to distract yourself from the stresses and the pressures of everyday life. You have to have a place to let your brain and your thoughts and your mind and your creativity play or even turn off so that you can do some fun repetitious task. My brain is not, I'm not doing a lot of thinking when I'm playing Call of Duty.

You have to have those mental release valves in your life and you should never feel guilty about them. You shouldn't take food off your family's table to fund your rock climbing passion, but I don't think you're doing that. You are allowed, your kid's gonna grow up and he's gonna wanna play baseball, right? And so you're gonna buy him pads

and you're gonna buy him a glove and you're gonna send him off to Little League and you're gonna support him and you're gonna pay the Little League fee and you're not gonna expect that kid to pay that back in some way. That is a sunk cost so that he can or she can enjoy an activity and grow and learn

and flower, right? You gotta allow yourself that same grace. So I guess that would be one thing. Don't like, don't go broke, you know? Don't become addicted to collecting cards and then spend all of your family's money on cards. And then suddenly you guys are in deep shit or anything. You know, be responsible.

Everybody's got to be responsible, but don't feel like every hobby doesn't have to generate revenue. That's a weird American thing we have. It's developed in the last generation or so. I'm definitely a victim of it. But hobbies are hobbies. Unless you want to turn it into a career. More power definitely a victim of it. But hobbies are hobbies. Unless you want to turn it into a career, more power to you if you do. It sounds like you did that in some facets already.

God knows I did. But let a hobby be a hobby. All right, I'm going to do two more emails. This one's from Colton. Jeff, I love the NBA episodes of someone who's finally getting into basketball and hearing about it from someone who seems to know about every player in the league. I don't know if I know about every player in the league, but I know I know something about most players. For more context on where I'm coming from, the Timberwolves were my childhood heroes. Like my mom still has shitty artwork I made in the first grade about how I wanted to be a Timberwolves player when I grew up. I'm sure the Wolves have been good for a while and I'm late to the bandwagon, but better late than never.

They haven't been good for a while. They've been getting good. They've only been good for probably, well, honestly, they were good two years ago and then last year they weren't good. It wasn't their fault. They were beset by maybe the worst season of injuries of any NBA team I've seen. It was insane. DDV has been a joy to watch so far. I assume he's talking about Dante DiVincenzo, who was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves in that trade with Julius Randall from the New York Knicks for Carl Anthony Towns of the Timberwolves who went to the Knicks. But even as a new arrival to the bandwagon, I feel a bit weird cheering players that just arrived. Does that feeling wear off a few dozen games after a trade, or do you just get used to it

after watching so many trades happen and seeing players come and go? I guess I'll see. Yeah, all the above, honestly. It depends on, I think it's, it depends on your, how much insight you have into the NBA, outside of your team. If you are not familiar with Dante DiVincenzo in his game

and suddenly he's on your team, I think it's totally valid to not feel like wearing his number in game one. You wanna figure out who he is, you wanna watch his play style, you wanna learn if he's a good teammate, you wanna learn if he's any good. You wanna see how he integrates into your team and their culture.

And that takes time, you know, in the same way you're meeting this player. Not to get silly about it, but if you're not familiar with him in the larger NBA context, you're meeting this player in the same way you meet a new coworker. You know, you're supposed to root for him if you like him. There are players who play on teams that I love that I don't like, you know? I haven't always loved every Celtic, if I'm being honest with you. You know, you're also you're not rooting for the player necessarily. There's different kinds of NBA fans, right?

There are people that just like a player. There are Steph Curry fans, there are LeBron James fans, and there are team fans, right? I like the Boston Celtics. Whoever is on the Boston Celtics, I'm going to like and I'm going to root for. I would be excited about Dante DiVincenzo coming to my team because I am familiar with his game as a New York Knick. And before that, I was familiar with him as a Milwaukee Buc. So if you're somebody who knows kind of the NBA at large,

it might make sense for you to be incredibly excited for Dante DiVincenzo, a really, really solid glue guy and like a really fierce competitor. I can see being very excited for him coming to my team. So it's like, you know, it kind of comes down to if you don't know the guy, he's got to prove himself to you. If you're familiar with them coming in, then you are going to have preconceived notions. You can be very excited or you could be, you know, really bummed. I wouldn't be super excited if Russell Westbrook became a Boston Celtic

this year, you know, no offense to Russell Westbrook, the guy who averaged a triple double three seasons in his career, something that had only been done once before by Oscar Robertson. But at this point in his career, he's not a dude I would want on my team. And there's a lot of players like that, you know? It is what it is. But I will say you have a good player in Dante DiVincenzo

who's got a really fierce competitive attitude and I think will pair very well with your team. Now for your team though Let me give you a little bit of insight I have no idea if you guys won that trade or not or if either team won that trade it's too early in the season and The teams are still figuring themselves out but you have every reason to be excited because you have Anthony Edwards on your team and he is

primed to be one of the five faces of the league going forward for the next ten years You're gonna be looking at Victor women llama Jason Tatum, this is in no order by the way. I'm just listing names Victor women llama Jason Tatum Anthony Edwards Jamarant and Jason Tatum, Anthony Edwards, Ja Morant, and... Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, definitely SGA, Shea Gilder's Alexander, Luka Doncic, obviously, and then maybe Paolo Banquero as like the marketable faces of the league. I think Luka's going to be to be pretty important to the league for a few years, but I also get the impression that they're really kind of hoping that John Morant

or Anthony Edwards will take that leap and really just, I think the NBA tends to want to have an American as the face of the league as it were, you know, and I think that probably Anthony Edwards, Jason Tatum and John Morant have the best shot at that. Tatum has the cleanest record of the bunch, but he's. He's the driest of the bunch, the least charismatic of the bunch. Anthony Edwards is easily the most charismatic, the most Michael Jordan ask the most boisterous and fun. But, you know, he's kind of his own worst enemy sometimes and then speaking of their own worst enemy John Moran is probably the most exciting one to watch. He's

he's the he's the face of dunking in the NBA going forward, but he also can't stay out of trouble. So who knows, you know, who knows? We'll see. It looks like I am running out of time and I never even did my NBA wrap-up. So let me just blow through that really fast. NBA, here's your NBA update. There are four good teams in the NBA right now. The Cleveland Cavaliers, the Boston Celtics, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and I can't believe I'm saying it, but the Phoenix Suns.

They are echelons above everybody else. Golden State is somehow just like vibrating right under that and it's gonna be interesting to see. Buddy Hield has really worked out well for them so far early in the season. Like Clay Thompson who, right? We'll see if Phoenix can maintain at that level as thin as they are.

I think it's pretty clear that the Celtics and the OKC are the two top teams in basketball, but the Cavs have been so fucking strong out of the gate. It's fun to watch. Also, interestingly enough, keep your eye on the Nets. I put them at the bottom of the NBA barrel this year, but those motherfuckers are four and four somehow, and keep beating teams they're not supposed to beat.

So it could just be early season nonsense, but keep an eye on them. Also, Portland is three and five. I I didn't expect them to be that good. I know three and five doesn't look good. Three and five is not good, but that's how bad I thought they were. Also, the Tatum Disrespect Tour is in full swing. He has owned the NBA in the first quarter.

No one is even close to his first quarter output. He's currently averaging 30 points a game. He is fourth on three points made per game right now with 4.1. And then his buddy, Peyton Pritchard, our sixth man of the year, impending is right behind him at fifth place with four. The Milwaukee Bucks and the 76ers, two of the Celtics biggest threats. It's the Knicks. I would say the Knicks, then the 76ers, then the Bucks.

Not worried about the Bucks and the 76ers right now. They're both in last fucking place. I know it's not gonna last. I know they're not gonna stay there, but the Bucks and the 76ers are fucking 14th and 15th in the East right now. Hallelujah. How awesome is that?

Also surprised, the Detroit Pistons, my adopted home Detroit Pistons are three and five. Once again, I know three and five is not an impressive figure, but think of it this way. Last season, they got their third win on December 30th. I'm recording this on November 6th, so two months from now, they had to play 32 games to get to three wins last year. This season only eight. That's improvement.

And with that, I have got to get the fuck out of here. Let me give you guys a song of the day and then eject. How about a Batman with the Devil's Hand by the Lillingtons? That is a fun song. I don't think I've done it before Enjoy it easy to sing See you guys next week