Is Podcasting Greater than WrestleMania? What Will Happen When It Is Up Against the Cubs?

 *Blog post started on February 10, 2020.

I think I may need to quit following the Nine Inch Nails Facebook group. It seems "Everyday Is Exactly the Same." There is also the fear that the Marilyn Manson situation will take down Trent Reznor, but I digress. If I keep down that rabbit hole, we will get into my thoughts about Armie Hammer as a patsy to reinforce QAnon's thoughts that liberals are cannibals and how that will lead to celebrities actually eating people. If morons are going to believe hearsay as irrefutable facts, celebrities might as well start doing that because it is expected of them.

That little opening just lead me to spoiling "The Hunt". This comes after eventually giving away the writer/director's goal of "Paradise Hills" in my latest "NinetyForChill.com - The Podcast" episode (5: Welcome To the Friend Zone Biblical Style). Hit play down below for that.

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The point is, "I believe I can see the future, because I make the same mistakes". At least no one will confuse my quotations from this blog for being those of Johnny Cash.

It has been an exhausting few days. Sleeping in is not really a thing when you have cats. The podcast is requiring me to watch a movie each night. Between wrestling and "The Daily Social Distancing Show", the movie start times will take me into the wee hours of the morning. 

Getting to bed before 2 am is a challenge because despite the movies being under 100 minutes, pausing to take notes and many times the need to record my visceral take on a features can make everything a two-hour affair. But if I did not mention so many movies on the prior podcast, would it even have been 20 minutes (19) long if I did not add those reviews in post?

This exhaustion maybe hindering my enjoyment of WrestleMania season. I try my best to only have a big meal a day, and with my podcast being finalized during Monday Night Raw, it is easy to get through that evening with a the Great Value Glucerna knock off. I ain't got time to snack.

Am I watching much of Raw? Probably not as much as the McMahons hope. Not because of my attention being dedicated to my podcast, it is just difficult to know when to jump in.

I skip the first half hour because of the 20-minute opening promo. At 7:30 pm (CST), I tune in, but cannot recall seeing anything spectacular the last couple of weeks. That must be my official disapproval of the Retribution angle. When 8:00 opens with an effort to get Lacey Evans over, "Family Guy" is my cable destination. If there is a great story about the Griffins at 8:30 on TBS, USA should be glad that I can only take so much of Peter's laugh, so I will be back at 9:00 to spend the next hour frustrated. Randy Orton being your main event two weeks in a row does not restore confidence in the product.

I am starting to have more faith in the Impact product than WWE's. Their problem is that they are still relying on disqualifications and count outs to stretch out stories. Because of that, Impact still gives off a WWE light vibe. Tony Khan is not going to buy Impact, so we are not going to see a change in the booking style of Impact.

Once AEW can tour again, they will not need the interpromotional drama. If Khan's booking style has yet to rub off on Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions, it is not. So I need energy to watch their product. Tuesday is usually an off campus trip for lunch, so a Glucerna should be my evening meal. But after a three midnight movie stretch, I lack the energy to make it through the broadcast without real food.

And of course, once I open up the box of Cheetos Mac 'n Cheese and put the water on the stove, the AEW content comes on. After the paid ad, I could have turned on "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End", watched Trevor Noah off the DVR, and be in bed by 11:30 pm. Was I supposed to just let the Cheetos pasta go stale and waste the water. The water mainly, yes, I have zipper bags for Chester's stuff. Regardless, waste not want not.

Which leaves me pondering about whether I eat the Wing Stop wings I was going to save for last night, tonight. Three-fifths served as lunch yesterday, I just left the other eight nuggets (Wings have bones.) in the bank's fridge. The idea was to snack on them last night. Tonight, my take on TGI Fridays Wings will be prepared (It is a sauce second to Gardner's Pizza and Wings.), but are 12 really going to hold me over?

AEW being more like a sport leads to sporting event eating habits. After you spend $7 on a hot dog, you might as well surrender your wallet and buy an overpriced pretzel. I would be so broke if I was a beer drinker at a ball park. That money is meant to be spent on comic books and used video games from the shops three blocks away. Unfortunately, the Ricketts's re-imagination of Wrigleyville may end up leaving me with high priced drinks as my only option.

And that is why I hate evening baseball on the Northside. Being from Downstate, to catch a game live, I am going to need to take a day. Why not play during the day any chance you get. There were only suppose to be 27 night games a year anyhow.

It is a great home field advantage when you catch a team playing on the west coast that needed to play into the wee morning hours only to have to play ball eight hours later. Most of the bars around the park stay open to 4 am anyhow.

The most recent reason for day baseball in Chicago is that mean my podcast will not take away from my enjoyment of the Cubbies. When the Cubs play while I am work, it sucks that I cannot watch them, but that is the hand fate dealt me. Evenings, how can I focus on producing my podcast and the greatest franchise in all of sports (I said greatest, not the best. I probably should have used beloved. Fuck the Red Sox)?

Does anyone have any pointers on maximizing movie viewing time to live a normal couch potato life? If you do, send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. This is probably the simplest thing I will ask for advice on from my readers. Let us develop a report...

So that you will be cool when I am more aggressive about asking for your help with my low-budget, pro-wrestling, zombie-comedy feature "Main Event of the Dead". If you need a script treatment or have any pointers on getting the flick out of development hell, email russthebus07@gmail.com.

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