September Media

September seemed like a long month. Yet here we are and I only watched one TV series and zero movies? The first holiday baking show of the season is already stacking up in my YouTube TV library, so next month should be better.

Also, over the past week or so I’ve been dialing back my YouTube usage for various reasons. So that part of these posts may get leaner beginning next month.

Movies, Shows, etc

US Open
Good stuff.

Slow Horses, season four
Had to squeeze this in before season five began. Of course then I found out season five is being released one episode at a time, so it’ll be a few weeks before I start that one. Another highly entertaining and enjoyable season.

Shorts, YouTubes, etc

Eels Are Insanely Mysterious…
This is the craziest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen. So crazy that I had to go look up some of its assertions after I finished, thinking that surely some of them are made up. Turns out it is pretty accurate. Eels are fucking insane.

How Boston fooled the world with More Than A Feeling
Fooled the world into loving them.

So, we found this ruin
Only one new entry this month in our favorite series about Norwegians attempting to rebuild a centuries-old, abandoned ruin in Italy.

Stephen Revisits Will Ferrell’s Legendary Animal Expert Segment
Cilantro.

WTF Happened to Better Off Dead?
10 Things You Didn’t Know About BetterOffDead
Classic. Anyone who disagrees is horrifically wrong.

Behind-the-scenes with the US Open racket stringing team
When I watch segments like this, I wonder if slight adjustments really make a difference or if it’s purely a mental thing.

What tennis pros look at when they pick a ball
Interesting. So science tells us the fluffier ball travels slower. But they didn’t explain whether the difference in speed has a true, real-life effect on reaction times. Like does a returner have an extra half second with a fluffy ball? Or is it milliseconds and does not really impact play?

I Tried the HARDEST Race on the Planet
Training for any endurance race over just two weeks is nuts. To do a super endurance race THAT FINISHES ON A MOUNTAIN is off the charts nuts. A lot more impressive than the short course triathlons I did 25 years ago.

7 LEVELS of the PURPLE RAIN Intro!
This is fun and makes me wish I could play guitar. Or understand anything he was talking about.

Why The Biggest Mexican Restaurant Of The ’80s Suddenly Vanished
Chi-Chi’s was awesome! In the years when my mom was working multiple jobs, sometimes a special treat on Friday nights would be for us to go for a late dinner after she finished job #2. There was nothing like a chimichanga and some fried ice cream and then going home and passing out about 15 minutes into Friday Night Videos.

Finding money to pay for my family’s dinner
So much goodness in the latest edition of Beau Miles Bullshit. His wardrobe! The amazing, very brief, personal admission about 2:45 in, and then the name of the restaurant he and his family dine at to end this piece. I would go to Ripper Rooster every night if we had one!

Car Content

Lucid Gravity Review – Will this save Lucid?
Let’s hope.

Porsche vs Lucid | Going Nuclear with 2,253 HP
Insanity.

Podcasts

The Rest Is History
I’ve linked to this before, and it has stayed in my feed of pods, but I only listen to it occasionally. Their recent season about the first year of World War I sucked me back in.

No Laying Up: The Trap Draw
Another pod that I’ve been listening to for years, but I wanted to call attention to their recent conversation with Pete Buttigieg. He is the most laid back, normal sounding politician I can ever remember hearing speak. A lot of very personable pols fall apart and sound lost or fake when they get away from their core message. Not Mayor Pete. You know, if 40% of the country isn’t going to vote for him simply because of his party, I’m not sure the whole “gay thing” is big a negative as some think, and he should just run in 2028.