Remember Covid? Yeah, Still Trying To Forget About It

Episode seventeen, the last episode of season 2 for Beyond the Podcast of 1984. This episode: The episode when BCA got covid & what the heck he did during his quarantine! Too much to list! Check'er out!

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Wow. We. Man. Hey, It's me. The bizarre alien from outer space. We'll come back to. Beyond the podcast of 1984. I have lost track of the episodes. Honestly, man. I was just going through the episodes, and I don't know which one this is. I will say, while I know it episode. This is this is the season finale. Last episode for season two. Man, it's been a long time coming. So here we are. And I do apologize to my, my dear producer, but this is, it's not the end of the show. It's just the end of this season. And I wanted to do this a while ago, but a whole bunch of crap has happened. Like, for instance, it was almost two weeks ago, and I was a little over two weeks ago that I had Covid. It literally came out of nowhere. But I will say I'm grateful I didn't have, respiratorio respiratory problems, but it was just kind of freaky because as soon as I found out, you know, I was really sick. The, I'm having brain farts right now, and I'd like to blame the aftermath of Covid. I've been, really, really tired the last few days, and I kind of a hard time thinking. But the funny thing is, if you listen to my show, and I didn't even tell you this, you probably think this guy always has a hard time thinking. So anyways, I'm much better now. I tested positive. Like, what was it? I don't know, nine days ago because I took I took two different home tests two different times. Anyways. I'm back. You know, I had all these plans for, like, you know, the, the, the so called final episode of season two, and I didn't do it. And it doesn't matter. There's going to be a lot of great stuff coming up on the next episode. But yeah, I was dealing with Covid, and while I, while I was quarantining myself from my roommate, I watched a lot of movies, man, I really I caught up on a lot of frickin movies, and I'm had a great time. It was really interesting. My cats hung out with me because thankfully, cats, can't get Covid or so they say. But my my kitties hung out with me, and I watched a lot of movies. I finally got off our butts, started watching the criterion. Godzilla. Shower show. I don't know how you pronounce that show. I guess, Blu ray collection that I got, like, it's got like over a year ago. So, yeah, I started watching that. And unfortunately, when I got up to Mothra versus Godzilla on disc two, which was, what was it, I think? I don't remember. Anyways, I got to that movie and there was like these weird lines in the movie, like going at the top of the screen, almost like, like a weird kind of staticky. And it was really annoying me. So I went online and long story short, I found out that that was those were the the that was that particular disc with the three films. Then a couple of the movies, all of them were screwy like that. I was like, wow, that's really great. That Toho, you know, couldn't send a better print. Anyways, I contacted criterion because a lot of people were talking about, I want to read it, and there's people talking about like, this disc is, you know, it's not that. It's not the disc. It's the, the quality. And it's like, you know, that just really took me off or anyways, I can't take the criterion. And the guy was really cool. Get a hold of me the next day because I asked him, I said I had heard supposedly this is like the only, you know, the the, the quality that you guys got from them and said, yeah, unfortunately guy was really cool and everything. All the other discs are apparently fine, but it kind of sucks. But the nice thing is I have this older Godzilla, so all I just begrudgingly went upstairs. I didn't really want to like, you know, walk around too much because every time I'd go in the kitchen to make something like, you know, I'd clean off everything as good as I could, were like spraying vinegar on stuff or wiping it down and, you know, wearing a sock on my hand when I, you know, open the front door to check the mail. But anyways, I was kind of disappointed, but thankfully, you know, that's another, you know, reason why I live where people get, you know, they get all their movies on the latest format, like, yeah, I got all my movies on 4K now. And you know, I threw out all my DVDs and my Blu rays and, you know, oh, long time ago I threw away my VHS tapes. So that's fine and dandy, but no, I love Godzilla. I've I've never gotten rid of any of my Godzilla DVDs. I did get rid of my VHS, but I was like 20 something years ago. Anyhow, so I started watching the other movies on, the older DVDs. And then I recently had kind of a shock because I was upstairs looking at all my Godzilla Blu rays, and apparently I do not own Godzilla versus by Atlantic. I thought I did. I'm like, oh crap. One I don't have on Blu ray because I got everything else. But anyway, so I'm going to hopefully get that soon. So I was just like, oh wow, I got it on DVD though. So anyways, yeah, I watched a lot of movies. I watched, Sir Michael Caine's film pulp. I watched, you know, I just mentioned Godzilla movies. I did break down. I actually had I used Amazon Prime, and I finally saw it. Man. Oh, wow. Finally saw Fury was, And I got to do another mad Max episode sometime, but. And I'm going to. And I really want to talk about this movie, but me personally, I really enjoyed it. It's taken a while to sink in. I've been doing a lot of research on it, just looking up stuff about the characters in it, and I gotta say, I really liked it. I will say Fury Road is a lot more exciting, but you know what? I think furious was fantastic. And it just it makes me really sad. And I regret that I did not see it on the big screen. I should have really tried, but I'm really happy that I finally get the film. I really enjoyed it and I ended up getting, a book, the films of, what was it called, the Films of Mad Max or something that covers all five films. And it's a beautiful book. It's like a Bible. It's hardcover. And I was like, oh yeah, mad Max for life, man. But I watched a lot of movies. You know, I, I finally watched, I got a steelbook, like, got a year and a half ago or so movie called kin, which was really cool. Yeah. So, you know, pretty much just watched a ton of movies, man. Not a whole lot going on. I finally, after like, three weeks, been playing my guitar again a lot, just going really crazy on that and unfortunately found out I was right before I got Covid. I found out that my adapter for my doctor boss is pretty much dead because I was, going to rock out one night and boss was playing for about 30s and all sudden it turns off and I'm like, what in the freaking wire? It's just like, great. So it's kind of bummed out about that. I gotta get a new, I gotta get a new adapter for it. That sucks. But, you know, I got to man. But yeah, I've been playing my guitar a lot. Hung out with my buddy Adam last weekend, as you know, trying to figure out my digital for track. So I've been really wanting to do New Year Week stuff and also some other, you know, like musical stuff or comedy crap and stuff like that. And Sunday, appeared. It was funny because by the time you guys all hear this, it's going to be really old news. You know, you've already heard about it. But hey, if you like the show and you're just curious what have been, I'll do so, yeah, I was on another episode of meaningful was a meaningful times with me, Dave, and it was fantastic. It was Andy from camp to three leg again. Paul from God Stomper and of course the great meaningful David Long for Mean Dave. And it was a really a lot of fun. We talked about our bands and what DIY means to us, and the definition of it. And then the second half we talked about Kurt Cobain, and I thought that was pretty moving. But it was a really fun episode. And if I ever get off my board and get this double LP together, which I still haven't done squat, I have found more tapes and stuff. So, I mean, that's the only progress I made. And, you know, it's really fun. It would be really funny if by the time this episode comes out, if I actually get the LP together because it could, I don't, you know, because I know, you know, Tim, you're pretty busy, man, but you're pretty fast with this. And I think that's that's awesome. And I'm sorry that I took so long with this. I just, you know, like I said, deal and Covid and and dealing with, Bill doing financial crap, but, I love doing the show, I really do. I think it's it's very therapeutic for me. It's very fun. Right now. Well, I'm probably never really focused. I'm trying to be more focused. I'm trying to be more coherent, you know, like, say, like a subject matter. I'm talking about trying not to fall off the subject, you know, and and forgetting about what I was talking about and, and trying to get back to it. I'm trying not to do that so much, you know, it's kind of hard, but, Yeah. So, yeah. What else has been going on? All I still, you know, doing my job. But watching season nine of Married with children, I think I'm probably almost halfway through that. And it's going to be sad when it's over with, because I love that show, man. I've been a fan of Married with children, I think. I think I first saw back in like 89. It's always been a joy to me. You know? I love that show. It's ridiculous, you know, makes fun of everybody. And and people are like, oh, that shows. So our fans have yeah it it was made fun of everybody. But if you, also noticed that Al Bundy, he's a total A-hole. But he usually loses in the end. But in the long run, he loves his family, even though they're all a bunch of, you know, losers. Pretty much. But I love that show, so I don't really care. I like what I like, why I'm. Why I wear, but, Yeah, what else? I don't know. I, I'm really, happy, though. I found out you don't want to talk about movies. Here is I got the cough, and Joe say, very early. What was it now? Did I get it this year? Last year, at the original summer, I can't remember. But anyways, I had ordered it. Arrow had a preorder on it, and this was quite a while ago and it was like $90 if you preorder. So I did because, I mean, I dreamed over coffee for Joe set and then they announced so I oh my God. So I preordered it right now. Arrow bought it out, but I preordered it from diabolic DVD who's awesome. Hey guys. And I was watching awakening of the beast. And then about half an hour into the movie, all of a sudden there's no subtitles and I'm like, what? And much like the Criterion Godzilla set, which I didn't know about, the, the problem was with the second disc, and that is, I went online and a long story short, I found out that there had been a screw up and every single copy that particular Blu ray. Yeah, 33 minutes into the film. Also, there's no English subtitles. So, I ended up like, what could I do? I talked to arrow and they were cool and everything, but then I didn't really hear much. They're just like, yeah, you know, you know, thanks for the support and all this. And I'm like, hey, man, I'm just trying to find out. Is there any way, you know I can get a replacement please? So what I did is, you know, I talked to him off and on and I took a screenshot because luckily, you know, I have an account with diabolic DVD. And then, of course, you know, my information and what was really cool, and, I mean, I gave him my address and I said, well, just in case that this works out, there's my address also, boom, I don't know, or I it was like less than a week later I got, replacement. I was like, wow, man, you guys are awesome. I mean, that's one thing I want to do, right here. I want to shout out to, arrow for being really cool, you know, get me a new copy there. And also always links to criterion, you know, because I think it was like last year I got the Z Ichi the Blind Swordsman Blu ray collection, and one of the disc was really glitchy. And unfortunately you go through Amazon, so there's nothing they could do because it was like months later, you know, you have a 30 day warranty. And anyhow, criterion were really awesome. And you know, I had to take a picture of the disc and everything. But no, they were really cool, man. They sent me a new one and I'm very grateful. Worked beautifully. So seriously, if you you want to order your order movies, you know, it's best to try to order from the companies directly if you can. And if you don't, you know, diabolic DVD just, you know, you know, make sure you're like, a member. What a rito. You have an an account with them, everything. But those guys are all really cool people and everything. And I didn't actually have to talk to, diabolic DVD. It was just arrow. But anyhow, so that that really made me happy. That, to me is really awesome service. Very cool for their fans. And I really respect you guys. And, I'm a movie junkie, man. I'm a big time movie junkie. And and, sometimes it drives me a little crazy. So think if I was, like, a millionaire, I'd probably go nuts. And I've dreamed of of going into the criterion closet, like. Oh, yeah, pick what you want to be. Oh, God. It's like going to have, like, two giant shopping carts worth of films, man. Because, yeah, Criterion's awesome man. One of these days, I should do it. So just maybe I'll do an episode. Just talk about my Criterion Collection. I don't have, like, you know, a million other films, but I will. I've got quite a few. A lot of, DVDs and so Blu rays. But I just I love their quality. I've got, an old, demo of its Janus. Look at this Japanese. I think it's called the horror that came to Shikoku or something like that. And it's really badass. It's got four Japanese films. They're not all horror. But anyways, it's, Really, it's a beautiful set. Really pretty cool package. And kind of, I don't want to say generic, but just very simple, you know, bunch of stuff, but, yeah, I'm just I'm really tired right now. And, you know, I know this is a very uninspiring episode, but like I said, I've been zoned out a lot. I'm usually tired a lot, especially later at night. But because of the Covid, you know, the after after with baby, baby Boomer, the after, is it right. Is that the right word? Aftermath. You know, it's kind of hard to think clearly, but I really wanted to do this episode and I apologize to you, buddy. I know I'm talking about fourth wall here to my pal Tim, though, so I didn't get to see a lot sooner. I am planning on starting on season three very soon, and season three is going to be a total blast. Trying to plan out stuff. I've got some episodes planned out. I'm not going to say anymore what they are. I'm just going to do them so you can listen to them if you want. And I'm trying to figure, like I said, my brains is kind of going through drugs, but, the website, which I have not been doing a while, I need to go to it. Well, of course, there's probably not any comments or anything right now, which is understandable because that hasn't been mentioned, till this season. You know, the, what was it? Betty Poe, 1984 dot Buzzsprout. Yeah, that's that's the name I actually remembered in a while, but that's where you can go and leave comments. Questions. Good bad words. Whatever, man. We'd love to hear from you. And, we got buttons. Do we already mentioned that in all the episodes? So anyways, I want to do my best. I try to, you know, promote all the stuff and, August last month, which just passed, kind of bums me out a little bit. It was my band, the earwigs 34th anniversary and I did not do squat except send my buddy Mr. Tim a bunch of, old logos for, to get some buttons. So if anybody's interested in those, let me know. They're. They probably been out just by the time you hear this. You know, you time travels out there. You know, it's like, oh, they've been out for a while now. I'm just hearing this episode. Well, yeah, because I'm kind of a slow poke and. For those who just get on here. Oh, yeah. This is a radio show and all this little radio. So, like, oh, for those who are just joining us or you're in the middle of the series season two finale or beyond, the podcast of 1984. And I'm sitting here in my diaper watching dancing teapots and androgynous women dance around and something like that. I don't even know what I'm talking about. Something I, I'm seeing on the television. Oh, a dancing, singing furniture, apparently, but it's on mute, so I can't hear it. And maybe that's a good thing, but, Yeah, man. Just, you know, this whole year, dealing with health, dealing with health issues, dealing with issues of health, wow. And for the last several months, I've been reading Howard Zinn's, The People's History of the United States, which is a really incredible book. It's definitely an eye opener. Makes me more disgusted by a lot of things in this country. This foul man, foul and I must apologize for my demur here. I but I just like I said, I've been really tired lately, but I'm trying to do stuff, man. Eat some cereal earlier, which I'm not doing anymore. I, I stomach got really upset and for hours it was really upset. And I've just been really screaming oh, oh, oh it's I gotta get cut out, man, I hope not. I just got assimilated, by, alien monster. Duh. But anyways, yeah, if you're experiencing health issues and you know, you shouldn't be eating certain things or drinking certain things, it's probably a good idea to take that advice. I mean, I know it's easier to just go and I don't care. And I think as I do care, but I thought, oh, I've, you know, I've made all the cereal before and I've had no problems, but for some reason I had some earlier and my stomach, really, really upset. And I felt horrible for hours. And I got to work and I just wanted to take a nap. I mean, I'm not kidding. I lay down and I almost conked out, so I just I did not feel good, man. I felt like garbage. Just my stomach, you know? But, you know, and of course, now being September, well, last two weeks, you know, the sun's been going down a lot earlier. Now, it kind of makes me sad because I'm like, what the flip that I do this, you know, this summer, did I do anything? And it's going from, like, being really super hot, dry to cooling off. I mean, yesterday it was really hot. I actually appreciate it. I liked it. I'm not a big fan of, like, Super Heat, but, you know, just I don't know, because I was just thinking, oh, eventually it's going to get really cold again. I mean, a lot of rain, slush, snow, all that crud and wow, man. But yeah, sun's going down a lot earlier now and just, you know, as part of the changes of, you know, earth and nature and all that, but it's just, you know, it makes me think about my own life. You know, I'm getting older. I'm getting really gray in the face. I still haven't met my dream lady. I wish I would still know dreams about her, which kind of makes me sad. But I think about her every day, so I don't know. And then you hope you know. And before you go to sleep to think about something. Enough. You have a dream. But I've learned if you don't really think about something, a lot of times you'll have a dream. About whatever it is you're thinking you know you're not thinking about. Does that even make any sense? I don't make any sense, man. Maybe we can get, like, a musical eruption here or something by the earwigs, I don't know. Wow. But, yeah, my brain is just going ding ding ding ding bing bing bing bing bing. La la la la la la la. And yeah, I don't know, man. Time is going by really fast and just kind of up to the usuals as usual, as you know, hanging out with my cats drink a lot of bubbly. You know, since I can't drink beer anymore, I need I need a lecture to figure out when. And I find out I was diabetic because that was the first day I found out. The same night I drank beer, and then the next day that was it because I was like, never again. And I haven't touched it since. It's been months. But honestly, I just, I don't know, I don't remember. It's been about I keep think it was like five months probably hasn't been that long. But, yeah. So this is, I feel like I'm doing a comedy show. You know, you're doing comedy and trying to be funny, and you're not really getting anybody's attention. I don't know, I'm probably not impressing anybody out that list to this. But, hey, if you're laughing, if you're enjoying this, then I thank you very much, man. So thanks. And I do want to extend my gratitude to everybody that's been really cool to me, you know, and like you're kind words always to my family and my friends and my kitty cats who give me so much love every day, man, come home and they're waiting for me. And it makes me really happy, you know? But, but but but I keep saying but and, And I'm not the only person, man, you just watch. I've watched some interviews of people that laugh because people consider going, oh, whoa, whoa whoa, oh, I like what I'm doing right now. I probably would have been more excited. If it wasn't so tired, but, yeah, I'm just. Wow. You call this the sleepy episode call? Rumple is something dumb like that. But anyways. So, yeah, I'm pretty excited. I mean, I'm really excited. I even already died the day. I don't want to say I'm excited. This is, the last episode of this particular, you know, season two. And it's kind of funny that it's even called season two because it's not a TV show. But anyways, so here's, A lot of stuff planned out for the next one, but I don't know, I think there's been a lot of cool episodes here, and, hopefully people will enjoy it. And, you know, once, like all my heroes before me, I hope that maybe I inspire somebody. And I know there's like 10 billion podcast out there, but honestly, I don't carry it anymore. It's like just having fun and appreciate the, opportunity to do this. I know I've always say that in every episode, and I was kind of dragging on, man, I could just cut this short. Right now. It's I'm going to cut this out in a couple of minutes. But, because I know those episodes are really weird. It's just not it's not manic. But I've got a lot on my mind, you know, I'm still on some other crap and little bit of sadness or Dom some Dom things, but that's usually I am. You know, I'm kind of. It's like I'm a kind of a sensitive guy. And don't forget a boy and loves, song sensitivities, ignorance. I almost agree with it because it sucks sometimes. I wish I didn't have any sensitivity, but I do. I was born this way. I'll probably die this way. And I've got rarely anybody said that sensitivity is good. I got one, dear friend. She said that I appreciate you. I don't know if you're ever going to hear my show. I doubt it, but if you do, I hope that you enjoy it. But. Oh, well, probably not. But that's cool, man. Just zoned out. Dead silence in the world. Sky is black. I'm sure there's a scattering of stars about, who knows, maybe even a maybe even a planet is visible up there, but, yeah. Rather than all what I've talked about. Not a whole lot going on, man. Sounds like a late night radio show, But, you know, life is interesting. And, it's like. It's what I like to call the show beyond the podcast in 1994. I love the word beyond because I think what's beyond, you know, when I was, a lot younger, I live in Idaho, and this is going to be one of my last things before I, get out, get out of here. And this episode is when I lived in Idaho with my grandparents and all our dogs. And cats and horses and chickens and all that. Right there outside. Right outside the big wide window you could see across the freeway and there's this big, beautiful mountain. And I always wonder what was beyond that mountain. I always picture a huge spaceship coming out from the clouds or a distant land with some something just incredible, you know? And I think about that a lot. And I'll never forget when I was, you know, during that time, also, I'd be in my room like half asleep and you'd hear the sounds like really late at night, like the logger trucks going down the freeway. And you hear that bird that was just frickin incredible, man. It's like one of my favorite memories, but it was just so magical. And it's like, feels like yesterday. And this is back in, like, it's like 34 years ago. So kind of makes me sad. Do you know what I mean? It's like life, man. And I just I don't want any regrets, man. So I always want the same people. For all your kind words. And big thanks to Tim. I love you, brother. And Adam. You're a good dude. I love you too, man. All my friends. Greg. Jared. Really? You're awesome. John. You know, I mean, Dave, think of so much for having me on your show again. Oh, you guys kick kick my ass. You guys are awesome. I love you guys. And, of course, thanks again. It's been quite a while, but, well, at least by the time this episode comes out about Heavy Haul podcast, my old buddy will and you guys will have gotten all your packages way after this episode. It's come out, so I hope you enjoy everything. Working on new gear, wigs, stuff, trying to figure out my guitar, you know, trying to figure out a record that on the on the digital for track. But yeah, I'm working on new stuff, trying to get stuff together. I'm being slow, but it's happening. So I just want to thank everybody. I really appreciate your kind words and the love and the support. And you know, especially, you know, to the very special people in my life that always compliment me. And I'm nothing nice to see, even when I like kind of trash on myself. That means so much to me. I love you very much. So until you know this is it, this is it for this episode. So man, like I said, the next season is going to start out a lot sooner. It's going to be crazy. It's going to be fun. It's gonna be a lot more upbeat than this. I'm probably going to be more awake. So it's definitely it's going to be, more exciting, man. It's going to be, you know, the bizarre alien. This is just the bizarre alien in, near sleep mode. So. Hey, man. Thanks for listening to the show. And check out the website. Please leave your comments. We'd love to hear from you. Like I said, we got buttons. Do. And, until next time, stay safe. Take care. Don't forget to change your underwear and keep the filth. Keep watching the skies. And as always, if my purple hair dream woman is out there. I been waiting for you for a very long time. Maybe I'll see you. Maybe I won't. But at least you're in my dreams by heart. So that's something. And always a big love to my kitty cats too. Thanks for being a fuzzy brights. So anyways, everybody, thanks for listening to the show. And, will I like to say we'll see it next time? Well, I can't see you, but anyways, whatever we do. Yeah, we'll be back. This has been the bizarre alien year on the podcast, the 1984 season finale of season two, and I'm currently being hypnotized by the very beautiful opera singer. Holy smoke. Sorry you're not as beautiful as my girl, but you're beautiful. Okay, anyways, I'm out of here. FA la la la la la la la la la. Credits. Rolling. Produced and edited by Tim Madsen, featuring the Indo Pacific host. The bizarre Alien from Outer Space.