Thursday, December 4, 2025
D-Generation X & The Hardy Boyz vs. Rated-RKO & MNM: Raw, 2006-12-04
I remember John Morrison but not his partner or the valet...
Jeff Healey - I Think I Love You Too Much - Pori Jazz 1990
KB in Bad Rumor has suggested we do this tune before and I support that idea.
Jeff Healey - See The Light - Night Music 1988
This video is from the year I graduated from high school (1988) and I am only now, today, hearing it for the first time! Old dog, new music, I guess...
https://youtu.be/gwgOUzodS6E?si=kOz2Ob8JCU7EQbcT Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
Point Break
Point Break starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze is one of my favourite movies of all time, it's a top 5 action movie (with one of the greatest chase scenes in history) and I've seen it probably over 30 times at this point in my life. It also came out over 30 years ago so no point in breaking down what the movie is about, if you clicked this link clearly you already know and probably love the movie too.
But just recently something finally clicked about the movie, and more specifically about Bodhi (Patrick Swayze's character). And perhaps this is something that's known, since it's a 30 year old movie, or perhaps I'm just way out there with this, but let's see...
As much as I love the movie it was always a bit weird how far Bodhi went to befriend and help Johnny Utah (Reeves). He helps him fight off the guys that attack him, teaches him to surf, sets off Utah's relationship with the woman he falls in love with, and even after learning of Utah's true identity he still maintains the friendship, takes him skydiving, and once things fall apart he makes Utah tag along rather than kill him, in fact he never even has plans to kill Utah. Bodhi always puts Utah first even against the advice of his friends/partners and at his own detriment.
But I just took that as something to make the plot move forward, or we're supposed to think originally it's because Bodhi is enamoured by Utah because he was a former NCAA QB, and later just because Bodhi is a good, but erratic, dude who doesn't kill.
But then through some happenstance I stumbled into something while googling around.
At one point early on Tyler (Lori Petty) first tells Utah about Bodhi, she says "That's Bodhi....they call him the Bodhisattva. He's a modern savage, a real searcher."
For years I took it as a way to describe Bodhi as being a free spirit, all about nature, kind of a hippie. But recently I was randomly googling about Buddhism and one way or another it led me to "Bodhisattvas". And now I think we're supposed to take that line as a literal description of who Bodhi is.
"Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have put off entering paradise in order to help others attain enlightenment."
That's who Bodhi is and what his journey in the film is about. He's searching for people he can help attain enlightenment, which is his goal with Utah. He sees that in him and he shows him all the beauty and pain and joys and heartbreaks of life, he teaches him about humanity and people's natures, tells him to become his own master instead of a servant of the law of man.
"You can do what you want, and make up your own rules. Why be a servant to the law, when you can be its master?"
This eventually leads to Utah, as a literal servant of the law, catching up to Bodhi and after finally having a physical confrontation with him Utah is able to best Bodhi and put him in cuffs. Bodhi pleads with him to allow him to experience this once in a lifetime natural phenomenon, something that is bigger than the law or either of them.
And that's when Utah finally achieves enlightenment. He sees the world like Bodhi does. He uncuffs Bodhi to let him paddle out to the one thing he's truly wanted to experience in life.
Utah's final lines to Bodhi are "Vaya con dios"....Go with God. Normally a phrase only used in religious contexts.
The final shots of the film are Utah throwing away his badge, ending his time as a servant of the law, and Bodhi crashing and falling off his board into the wave, ending his time on earth as he enters paradise having helped Utah achieve enlightenment.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Revisiting ATW
I regret that I didn't go see All Them Witches when they played at Gabes in Iowa City back on 3-4-2022: https://prhmusic.blogspot.com/2022/03/going-to-atw-tonight.html
https://youtu.be/ YFtftd71uCE - Voodoo Chile by All Them Witches
Monday, November 24, 2025
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Saturday, November 22, 2025
THEO Gets KICKED OUT After LYING to His Parents
The COSBY SHOW'S Most BRUTAL Wake-Up Call!
This is when Cliff tells Theo not to sit on his couch.
Friday, November 21, 2025
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Break the Ice while I Pray
There's a quick look at Sato as Daniel is preparing to break the ice that is missing in this edit, right? To see Sato observing how his old friend has been training D is really a key character development for Sato.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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RVD Marathon
This video has 8 matches and some crude math says 2:30 divided by 8 means each match averages out to over 19 minutes. The first match, with the two acrobatic dives out of the ring and onto Bam Bam Bigelow - 10:22 and 11:10 - are pretty awesome!
Also, I'm amused by the commentary of the guy who described Bill Alfonso as "the verbal diarrhetic." Such a wicked way to say that the dude doesn't SHUT UP when he is working the match. I remember seeing BA as a manager in ECW and just being awestruck by his antics. I have no idea why he never transitioned to WWE like other ECW wrestlers did. He would have been a definite one person to keep an eye on when wrestling in the ring. Using that whistle after a crazy move was unique.
In fact, I can't think of any other manager ever using any other sound device to draw attention towards a great in-ring move other than BA. The closest I can think of is The New Day dude playing the trombone if he was at ringside and Big E and Kofi Kingston were wrestling in a tag team match.
Anyways, RVD is definitely one of those wrestlers that gave 1000% during each match and sacrificed his body for the audience. I know he had some legal issues and I am not endorsing any of that; I am saying that he was always giving maximum effort in the squared circle.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels | WWE Title Match: Survivor Series 1997
The Montreal screwjob happened and it changed the world of pro wrestling forever...
Saturday, November 8, 2025
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
NY Mayor Race Tightens
Cuomo Closes The Gap As Mamdani Plays Victim
By Ben Shapiro
Oct 28, 2025
If you won't give him the mayoralty of the financial center of planet Earth, it must be because you are mean to Muslims.
There is some good news out of New York. It's not a lot of good news out of New York, but it's some good news.
There's a brand new poll from Suffolk University showing that in New York, Andrew Cuomo — who is really the only hope of stopping Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race — is catching up to Zohran Mamdani. The poll found that Mamdani no longer leads Cuomo by 20 points or 15 points, but the lead is down to ten, and Mamdani is stuck at 44%.
Typically, when somebody wins the New York mayoral race, they win well over a majority. Here you have Mamdani at 44%. You have Cuomo at 34%, and you have Curtis Sliwa at 11%. There will be a lot of talk if Mamdani ends up mayor about why Curtis Sliwa stayed in the race.
The reality is that Curtis Sliwa is not going to be the next mayor of New York. And if his vote share is larger than the margin of victory for Mamdani, that will leave some questions to be asked.
1) Why is the New York City population so insipid?
2) Why didn't Sliwa drop out?
As David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, says, Sliwa "is one person in New York City whose voters could have an outsized impact on the outcome."
This is the first poll since Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the race.
Most of his support has bled to Cuomo.
Mamdani is running a terrible final week of this campaign. He has decided that his closing message is going to be that New York City is famous for Islamophobia and if you don't elect him, it's because you don't like Muslims, which is a wild statement in a city that suffered 9/11 (where apparently the only victim of 9/11, according to Zohran Mamdani, was his own female relative, who was wearing some sort of hijab on the subway and somebody gave her a mean look).
So now his final closing pitch is, "Why won't you give me the mayoralty? If you don't, it's because you're mean to Muslims."
That is the mark of a person who truly feels entitled to everything. If you won't give him the mayoralty of the financial center of planet Earth, it must not be because he's a bad candidate, an out-and-out communist, a sympathizer with jihadists, but because you are mean to Muslims.
Lest you truly believe that Mamdani is some sort of soft-hearted, wonderful person, I want to point out a clip of him from 2023. You want to know where his ideology comes from? His ideology is deeply, deeply ensconced in the Red-Green alliance between communists and radical jihadists that is characteristic of so much of the Left these days.
That quote from him in September 2023 shows him explaining that basically, his hatred for capitalism springs from his dislike of the "Zionists."
Mamdani stated:
The importance for me of international solidarity is that it takes me out of the American political landscape and reminds me just how tame some of the things that I'm actually calling for in the next board. And it reminds me of the necessity of grounding ourselves in the struggles as opposed to the fights around the struggles. For anyone to care about these issues … We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF. We're in a country where those connections abound. Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.
So you see, it's really the Jews in Israel who are tied to the capitalist interests in New York City. And capitalism, of course, is bad. If you missed it, he said, "When the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF."
This was not 15 years ago. This was two years ago. He was a full grown-ass man when he said this sort of garbage.
But if you point this out, you're "Islamophobic."
He only cares about "affordability." How is he going to deliver affordability? No one knows. But if he just says "affordability" over and over and over, then affordability will magically appear in New York City. It's like Beetlejuice. If you say affordability three times, then magically all of the rents go down.
He has no idea how he's going to do anything. But that doesn't matter. The reason people support Mamdani is because he's "fetch" and he's "brat."
There are a lot of idiots in New York, and those idiots in New York are fully on board with the idea that if you don't vote for Zohran Mamdani, it must be because you are some sort of racist, or because you hate gay people, or because you are one of those "capitalist tools."
One can only hope that the non-idiots in New York will show up to vote.
The rest of the country doesn't.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Why Democrats will pick AOC for 2028
Ben Shapiro is making sense in this video.
I sincerely hope that the Democrats put Kamala Harris for POTUS and AOC for VPOTUS.
DO IT!!! PLEASE!!! DO IT!!!
BATMAN vs 20 GOTHAM CRIMINALS - Jubilee Parody
"Safe? No one's safe!" - The Joker
I have to admit that The Joker does make sense...
Ouch! That hurt to write!
Liberty DeVitto Plays "You May Be Right" - Billy Joel
As cited on the albums that shaped my musical tastes - Ten Albums that Have Influenced my Taste in Music, this is pure awesomeness!
https://youtu.be/ smsTKhTMfMY - Liberty DeVitto Plays "You May Be Right" - Billy Joel
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Sly Breaks Down His Iconic Characters
I'm familiar with all but the last 3 of this list of characters. I vaguely remember seeing Cobra - I remember that Cobra was a policeman and that he was after a serial killer; other than those dim memories, the plot escapes me. I do remember that Roger Ebert (of the Siskel & Ebert movie review TV show) did NOT like "Cobra" the movie.
https://youtu.be/?si=lA2lSD5PAhlLl4tX
https://youtu.be/ s9sM3iSFD-w - Sly Breaks Down His Iconic Characters
Friday, October 24, 2025
Two and a Half Men - Out of Context for 40 Minutes
Honestly, I don't remember if I ever gave the Ashton episodes a chance...
https://youtu.be/ 83oFtz5ARdk - Two and a Half Men - Out of Context for 40 Minutes
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Metallica’s most hated song to play live
https://youtube.com/shorts/gx7cMWaVtnQ?si=KTB1zNp73cndlJm8
Escape is a fantastic tune that doesn't deserve the hatred from Papa Het..
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Steiner Brothers vs. Nasty Boys | NWA U.S. Tag Team Title Match: WCW Halloween Havoc 1990
I met Brian Knobbs at the Casey's on 33rd Ave in Cedar Rapids, IA, after the Nasty Boys wrestled at the Five Seasons Center the night before. He was a nice guy and even signed a piece of paper, telling both of my kids to "Stay Nasty!"
Monday, October 20, 2025
Trump mocks ‘No Kings’ rallies in vulgar social media post
https://youtu.be/-WJod40GImo?si=OjAfXUDRdZJ7tmVl
I guarantee you that Trump didn't create the video. The woman in this video says that not taking the "No Kings" protesters seriously is good for Democrats and I can't disagree more. The Libs out protesting against Trump are not serious people. They can't define what a woman is and they claim that you should believe the science while saying that a boy who says he's a she *is* a she. They refer to "pregnant persons" instead of "women" and it's exhausting...
Boomer Selma and the GOP’s Secret Weapon - checking in with EE
No Kings has come and gone and was, thankfully, a peaceful protest of mostly white retirees. The Boomers are ever in need of their Selma. What struck me most is that while there was diversity of sex and race and ethnicity, the crowds were everywhere still mostly older white people. These people's fathers stormed the beaches of Normandy and fought the actual Nazis, then came home and started families, then joined together in the Civl Rights movement while their kids were partying in high school. Now the kids need their moment to be like dad. They had a summer of love. They want a summer of mattering. They have no bridges to cross in Selma. So they show up with silly signs and dumb chants for pretty much anything. Now, it is to protest that the democratically elected President of the United States and the democratically elected Republican controlled Congress that empowers him are allowing that elected President to behave like a king, and the only thing to stop him are, ironically, life-tenured unelected judges who are kings in their courtrooms and boomers marching in the street with their grandkids. Their alternative is actually worse — a progressive brigade of socialists who'd take away the local choices of communities for a technocratically operated Washington demanding everyone everywhere comply with their demands from the cars you can drive to the food you can eat to the fuel you can use to power your stove, all while compromising your daughters' safety in her sports and bathrooms. They're even normalizing Nick Fuentes, the white supremacist now, or at least The Drudge Report is. Fuentes was radioactive, but now he is publicly claiming there's something wrong with Trump. So whoever runs the Drudge Report is happily sending Fuentes traffic. Politics makes strange bedfellows. Undoubtedly there are those there who really are concerned with the President, his behavior, and those around him who flout norms, blow up speed boats in the southern Caribbean, and say the F-word during presidential Q&A's with reporters, among other things, but too many of them are just upset their side lost and have decided to cosplay as Civil Rights crusades with too few bridges to cross. One of the very great ironies of those who funded and organized the "No Kings" movement is how so many of them also supported the effort to tear down statutes of our founding fathers, have vilified this country as founded on racism and support of slavery, and want us to be very much more European where kings and queens and dilettante pretenders to thrones still roam. Word came over the weekend that the President might start walking back some of his tariffs because of the impact they are starting to have on consumers. Automakers are signaling they can no longer keep absorbing costs. Small businesses in a CNBC survey say they have frozen hirings and pay raises. And grocery prices have started to go back up as we reach the season where we start importing more agricultural products. Even beef, through drought, processing problems, and 75% tariffs on key countries that import beef, is starting to go up. The President's team is listening to those who suggest these tariffs, directly impacting consumers, could help Democrats. I keep telling Republicans that their present economic policies are not good for consumers. The growth of the economy is actually very anemic when you take out data centers and the AI that those centers are related to. Small businesses actually are struggling right now. Tariffs are playing a big role. Here's one key fact — if you take out AI and data center investments, the economy of the United States only grew by one-tenth of one percent for the first half of 2016. We've got a Potemkin village of an economy right now, and the GOP risks the wrath of voters if the buildings collapse. When Nvidia invests $100 million into OpenAI, which then buys $100 million in chips from Nvidia or buys AMD stock to publicly announce it so the stock goes up, then using that stock growth to fund chip purchases, something is really wrong with the economy. When so many private equity groups are pushing individual investors to invest in new products via 401(K) funds, etc., that are dubious, we have problems. They are not Donald Trump's problems or fault, but will become his if things go south. He, after all, is President and, fairly or not, the presidents all get blamed. Blame will come, regardless, from MSNBC. Hilariously, over the weekend, progressives on social media showed MSNBC aerial footage of a massive crowd formed at a "No Kings" rally. But it was from Trump's first term, not this term. MSNBC, of course, is a secret weapon for the GOP. On Saturday, Senators Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy stood on a D.C. rally stage with a political activist who has previously and repeatedly chanted "F— America," called for violence against Jews, cheered on and defended cop killers, and regretted that Trump was not killed in the assassination attempt. When Donald Trump met with Nick Fuentes, I and a large number of conservatives very vocally criticized the meeting. MSNBC and CNN gave it lots of airtime. Neither network thought it was relevant that the No Kings protests were turning the stage over to an activist who seeks to end the United States or who supports cop killers. And now Drudge is sending traffic to Fuentes. The new right is, I think, far too willing now to hang out with unsavory characters and bring them into the movement, in large part because the Left has long done that. Obama got his political start in the living room of a terrorist and fraternized with Jeremiah Wright. The media gave him a pass, so parts of Trump's coalition think they should do the same. Except, at the upper levels of the White House and the GOP, they understand that the major media would give wall-to-wall coverage of Trump hanging out with unsavory characters. The same press, however, excuses the left's excesses, which fosters even more excess. The American people no longer just rely on the press corps for their news. So the people understand the Democrats' New York mayoral candidate socializing with an unindicted co-conspirator of the first World Trade Center bombing raises red flags even as MSNBC ignores it. The American people understand normalizing those who champion cop killers is a bad thing. But the progressives, in their bubble, are not called to account by MSNBC and rarely by CNN, so they keep fraternizing with America haters. That, in part, is why the No Kings protests will do little to shift American opinion. As much as the public does not like Trump, they really hate the Democrats. The dislike of Trump is unlikely to drive Americans towards a group they hate even more. But that group does not realize how much Americans loathe them because the news media is incapable of making their own team account for their sins. Boomers can have their Selma moment. The GOP needs to pay careful attention to the economy. But let's not pretend some political wave is being shaped by the cosplaying progressive grandparents. Most Americans this weekend were more interested in football and their grill than turning out to pretend they were doing something meaningful. Personal note: This has been a bit of a challenging weekend. I'll be on air today for most of the show, but the last hour will be best of as I tend to the family. My wife was admitted to the hospital on Friday and is still there. My son is down for the count with both a virus and a sinus infection. I'm on Doctor Husband/Dad duty. Prayers are especially appreciated for my wife. She is battling Rhabdomyolysis. Her cancer scans were supposed to be tomorrow, but they'll be put off now. You're a free subscriber to Erick Erickson's Show Notes. For the full experience, become a paying subscriber.
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The Worst Of The Worst
Here Are 'The Worst Of The Worst' Arrested By ICE During The Dem Government Shutdown
https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-worst-of-the-worst-arrested-by-ice-during-dem-government-shutdown
https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-worst-of-the-worst-arrested-by-ice-during-dem-government-shutdown
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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R-Truth to Suplex City: Raw, Jan. 13, 2020
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Derek Roddy Drum Cam-Piper's Pub-Pompano Beach, FL-2024-09-01
You can ignore the "vocals" in the background... I do!
Thursday, October 2, 2025
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Monday, September 29, 2025
ICE Seizes an Immigrant Worker at Bread Garden Market in IC
From https://littlevillagemag.com/ice-seizes-an-immigrant-worker-at-bread-garden-market-in-iowa-city:The agents in plainclothes first attempt to seize González while he is working in the Bread Garden’s outdoor seating area, and an obviously frightened González, who is shouting for help, retreats inside the market. He's tackled by both agents and is held down on the floor, and one of the agents kneels on his head as he continues to call for help. As the agents struggle to handcuff González one of them unholsters a Taser and appears to be about to use it on González, while people shout at him not to do it. The Taser is not used. The video ends after González is forced into the unmarked minivan, and the minivan drives away.
Gonzalez retreated from authorities after being approached.
He's in the wrong.
The reason ICE Agents don't want to be identified is simple - after shootings at ICE facilities, they are doing a job that, like it or not, needs to be done.
I am not saying that this incident was justified and I won't say that it was because nothing in the article indicates why ICE decided to pick him up.
I assure you that no one cares if it was lunchtime or busy or whatever.
This story makes him out to be like this hero.
ICE doesn't target or pick up heroes unless they are not actually a hero...
Also, the title of this article makes it seem like ICE seized a worker who is originally from a different country. Why would ICE, whose focus is on dealing with illegal immigrants "seize" anyone who is not illegally in the country?
Van Halen I Biloxi, MS
https://youtu.be/ 5iR94rpjhtA - Van Halen - 24 July 1982 - Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, Mississippi
From a Facebook post:
To my dear brother JJ, this one's for you. Here we have a totally unheard, un-circulated soundboard recording, capturing the Van Halen concert in Biloxi during their Diver Down tour (Hide Your Sheep tour) in 1982. Not even an audience recording of this show has circulated previously. Due to being so early in the tour, this is one of very few recordings that documents this earlier setlist arrangement, which would soon be significantly reorganized sometime between July 27th and 30th. This Biloxi recording starts a bit late, a little over a minute into Romeo Delight, but over half of the song was still captured. The first side of the 90 minute master tape runs only about 35 seconds into Somebody Get Me A Doctor, and while no songs are missing in between, it seems it took a while to realize to flip the tape because the second side doesn't start again until about a minute into Cathedral. Luckily, this recording captures the remainder of concert.
Van Halen 24 July 1982
Venue: Mississippi Coast Coliseum
Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
Source: Soundboard (Master) Lineage: Maxell UDXL-I C-90 cassette > Nakamichi DR-1 (azimuth adjustment) > Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD > Audacity (24-96) > FLAC 6
01 Romeo Delight (cut)
02 Unchained
03 Drum Solo
04 Dance The Night Away
05 Runnin' With The Devil
06 Dave Talks
07 Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
08 Hang 'Em High
09 Little Guitars
10 Bass Solo
11 Jamie's Cryin'
12 Dave Acoustic Solo
13 Ice Cream Man
14 Somebody Get Me A Doctor (cut)
15 Cathedral (cut)
16 Secrets
17 Drum Solo II
18 Everybody Wants Some!!
19 Intruder
20 Pretty Woman
21 Guitar Solo
22 Keep Playin' That Rock N Roll
23 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
24 Bottoms Up!
25 You Really Got Me
26 Happy Trails
27 You Really Got Me (Reprise)
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Thanks to my brother EDGE at G101 for the share. Enjoy and play this loud JJ.
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