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The tasty history of Doritos. The historic Live Aid concert event. Sports teams that were rebranded as others.
Episode 252 is chock full of GenX nostalgia to try to keep you cool in the July heat.
It starts with one of the most historic music events ever. Live Aid was a one-day event featuring many legends of the day. Taking place in 1985 and on two separate continents, it raised money for famine relief while also creating some enduring musical memories.
Six decades of snacking. We celebrate Doritos, which burst onto the scene in 1966. From simple toasted corn tortilla chips to more than 100 flavors worldwide, Doritos have been a staple of after school, sporting event gatherings, teenage parties, and more for most of many of our lives.
Countless sports franchises have been in the same city for decades. Some have left their original cities but kept their name. For this Top 5, we are looking at teams that not only left their original city but also were rebranded. Growing up in New England, the Hartford Whalers hockey team was front and center on this list. Do you have any favorite rebranded sports teams?
Survey says we have a brand-new This Week In History and Time Capsule, looking at the 50-year legacy of the game show Family Feud.
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1. A shocking event occurred.
I was trying to find an old post in my Facebook archives when I
noticed a tab for live videos I had shared. To my incredibly happy
surprise, a livestream I had done in 2018 on location during a
terrible winter storm was there. When recording it my phone’s
battery had died. I was unable to find the footage and sadly assumed
it had been lost since I didn’t officially ‘end’ my stream. But
lo and behold there was the stream from March 4, 2018, in my archives.
I swore I had looked high and low through my archives trying to find
that stream without success. Obviously, if I knew I had it I’d have
shared it sooner than 8 years later. Oh well, here we are. I have my
own sort of ‘found footage’ I can share. By the time you read
this, it will be all over my social media.
2. Another pleasant surprise
was bumping into an old coworker at the grocery store. I recognized
his voice before I saw him. He is a very nice guy but can be kind of
loud and animated when he speaks. This became apparent when he was
explaining how he got called into work on that day. He was at a
self-checkout stand and a couple were standing behind me. They were
so mesmerized by him that they didn’t notice several other
self-checkout registers were open. The man even said he was in total
agreement about my old coworker's situation. We all had huge smiles on
our faces. Well, except for my old coworker since he had to go to work.
3. I had been dreading getting
my car inspected. It’s not that my car is in bad shape, it actually
runs really well for being over 150K miles. I just had a sneaking
suspicion my front tires might not pass. But you can’t not get your
vehicle inspected so I went and boom failed. Now I get to drive
around with that lovely red R sticker until I can get the tires
replaced and get a follow-up inspection. Yay.
Yes, it looked like this, nice.
4. The first really nice
weather day of the season came with a high hitting 58. I took this
opportunity to go for a run/walk after work. Since I am training for
a 5K I try to run that distance each time. I was able to find a good
stretch of the bike trail to make the 3.1 miles. It did however end
in a cemetery. I guess it was appropriate because if my body felt
terrible I could just lie down for the ‘big sleep’ next to the
rest of the citizens of the cemetery.
5. A big shout out to Doritos
for making their chips healthier. I grabbed a mini bag of chips and
noticed that the total calories on the bag had gone down from 400 to
390. Wow, good job. Oh, wait, no, they didn’t make them healthier.
They’re just giving you less in the bag. Don’t worry though they
still cost the same for less. Greedy corporate scumbags.
6. In setting up the
appointment to get my tires for my car so it will pass inspection the
tire place asked me the exact size of my tires. Obviously I don’t
have that info stored in my brain. I went running downstairs while on
the phone. I opened the storm door and it smashed into my hand. I had
to do all I could not to yell and swear while on the phone and also
in the front yard. I saved the swearing for after I got back inside
and off the phone.
7. Getting the new tires was
of course filled with colorful characters in the waiting room. There
was the skinny young guy with a mustache who paced around the waiting
room like he was waiting to become a father. There was the
middle-aged chunky guy who visited the vending machine 3 times in
less than 45 minutes. I mean come on are you that hungry? Oh well, at
least I got the tires without issue.
8. It was a lot of driving and
waiting. It took 45 minutes to get to the tire shop. I waited an hour
for them. It was 45 minutes back home to get the car reinspected. I
waited 40 minutes for that. Sure I got everything squared away but
when I was off-Cape all I kept thinking of was places to go get some
cool photos. Then I would get slapped back to reality when I realized
I could do that but with the big red R sticker on my car, I’d be
getting a cool sunset shot while being written up by the cops.
This is the place I've gone 3 times now, highly recommended. Used Tire Warehouse Wareham, MA
9. I was out for a walk on a
drizzly foggy morning. I looked way up ahead and saw a car slowly
driving toward me. This would normally not be a big deal except for
the fact that I was walking on a bike trail. I took out my phone to
start filming it and when it got closer I realized it was an unmarked
police vehicle. I didn’t want the headache I’d cause if I filmed
it and shared it. Still, what the actual hell? Cops are using the
bike trail as a cut-through? Or did this guy just not care that he
might be endangering people by driving a car on a bike trail? You’d
never see a firefighter doing that, just sayin’.
10. Speaking
of bike trails. A different day, but the same foggy drizzly weather
(yay Cape Cod). I was heading toward the western end of the Cape Cod
Rail Trail. It goes through a golf course and then ends at a main
road. However, the plan has been for years to continue to rail trail
from Yarmouth into the next town Hyannis. Finally I saw the
beginnings of the process. There was a long stretch of cleared trees
heading off to the side of the trail. It is exciting news. Although
to be real I don’t expect the trail to be fully finished for a
year. Maybe for Summer 2026? Oh well, I know that I’ll be running
on it as soon as the asphalt is dry, and there’s nobody around.
1. At my work we have
something called compression therapy. You get wrapped up in these
pads that squeeze your body stimulating the lymphatic system to get
moving. It is great for your overall health. When you do this therapy
it is 30 minutes you relax and then when the session is done someone
comes in and unwraps you. If somebody has done the compression
therapy enough they might feel comfortable enough to start unwrapping
themselves to help. A person was doing that before I
got in the room to assist them. It all seemed fine until I went back
in to clean off the pads. It was then that I noticed the splatters of
blood on different parts of the various pads. It looked like a crime
scene. The worst part was there was another person set to use the
compression therapy and as I wrapped them in the pads I kept noticing
other drops of blood I had missed. I had no poker face and was
horrified.
2. The only thing that could
possibly rival the bloody good story above at work this week was the
following. My boss got a great deal on a used mannequin. He intends
to use it to display clothing featuring the business logo on it.
Makes sense. The funny part was how it arrived. It was in pieces. So
bringing in the top half and the arms was fine. However, nothing
could prepare me for the sight of my boss walking in with this naked
ass mannequin bottom up near his face. I couldn’t have written it
any better. We ended up stashing it for a while in the compression
therapy room but kept the door closed since it looked like we had
killed and dismembered someone in there.
3. Only I could vacuum a room
for several minutes not realizing the hose wasn’t attached. Granted
I wondered why the vacuum had such terrible suction but it wasn’t
until I turned around and saw the disconnected hose on the floor that
it all made sense. I have said it a million times, I was born blond
so don’t be shocked at stories like these.
4. I spent an evening tearing
up an old carpet and then slicing it into strips with a box cutter. I
was so focused on getting it done right after work that I didn’t
bother to put any sort of mask on to protect me from dust. Eventually, I brought several contractor bags of rolled-up carpet slices outside.
My body was exhausted from the workout. Then later on while relaxing
not wearing a mask came back to haunt me as I got a major bloody nose
from inhaling all of that dust and whatever else was underneath the
carpet. Oh well, at least it got done.
Yeah, it was a little like this.
5. In the coming weeks I am
shooting the scenes for my first acting gig. It’s funny because I
made tons of skits as a kid with my camcorder and craft scripts for
my podcast weekly yet trying to get lines I didn’t write memorized
is really tough. I printed out all of my scenes and have had trouble
getting the lines down. One solution I had was to print them out
again, only in a much bigger font. It’s like speaking to a dog, and
then saying the words again slower like that will suddenly make the
dog understand you.
6. I could be on the strictest
of diets but will never not be a sucker for a new flavor of Doritos.
I have loved them since I was a kid and any time they release a new
flavor I will try it. The latest proof of that is the Late Night
Sizzlin’ Cheeseburger flavor. I definitely enjoy them. Every now
and then some Doritos are okay, but when I see there are more flavors
in this Late Night series that’s when the ominous music starts to
play and I feel my pants begin to get tighter. Oh well, six-pack abs
are overrated anyway, right?
Dangerously good.
7. Did my first real interior
paint job this week. A subtle gray paint on half of my apartment.
Luckily I wore clothes I was cool with throwing out because to no
one’s surprise, I got paint all over me. Also, put in new flooring in
the form of carpeted tiles. That was fun as well but hell on the
knees. The room does look a lot better but my body needed a day to
recover for sure.
8. I was under the impression
on Instagram that once things you post on your story are gone (after
24 hours) nobody can see them except you in your own archives.
This week I had some random person like a story of mine from 5 ½
years ago. Not sure how they got to see it. It was very creepy and
suspicious that I immediately blocked them just to stop any weirdness
before it really gets going. I mean you need to be a special kind of
weirdo to deep dive someone’s IG story back more than 5 years.
9. This winter has been one long hibernation. It’s like I’ve
done a lot of work, content-wise, but I feel like I’ve been holed
up. I don’t know if it’s the cold. I don’t know if it’s being
busy with work. I don’t know if I need a change physically to gain
energy. Maybe it’s my diet being bad and my body doesn’t produce
the energy from bad foods. One or all of these things need to change
soon. This blah chapter feels like it’s run its course.
10. Being called ‘sir’ by
someone much younger is still a very weird thing. I don’t feel that
old (most days) so I definitely don’t feel like being called ‘sir’
is warranted. But I’m also not going to be some mid-life crisis guy
who corrects someone young who calls me sir. It actually shows
respect for your *ugh* elders. I mean I call people much older than
me sir. Wait, so I guess I’m much older than these people? Man,
it’s time for a nap followed by dinner at 4pm.
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