Category: Morning Babble

morning babble / Friday 05-06-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Lost 7.6 lbs – what? Burger King? Whopper Melt.

240 days until EXIT PLAN

Mother’s Day on Sunday / Hanging with some friends on Saturday night / and tonight is something special for my family: Black Pistol Fire at the Foundry in Philly! The kids are coming. Elliott’s 2nd real concert. Violet’s 1st one. Kevin and Eric – we’re the parents with the 2 little ones.

Music News: Eminem and Dolly Parton are in for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Like both of them. The class is rounded out by Duran Duran, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon, Pat Benatar, and Eurythmics. Some of my favorites who were nominated but didn’t make the cut: Beck, A Tribe Called Quest, and Rage Against the Machine

New Music Friday:

• I talked about not having it this last Friday, but we did get the song this past week. I’m talking about “Hold My Hand” – the new song from Lady Gaga that she made for the new Tom Cruise movie Top Gun: Maverick, which is out for Memorial Day weekend on May 27th

• Awolnation dropped their full album – Today – the single that is being pushed is “Take a Chance on Me” which features Jewel. Yes – that’s the ABBA song. This new collaboration album, My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers And Me contains 11 tracks with help from Hanson, Rise Against, Grouplove, Jewel, Brandon Boyd from Incubus, and Beck. I saw that a song from the late 90s that I enjoyed “Flagpole Sitta” was redone. Definitely, an upbeat fun album that can be played through and through this weekend. Again, it’s called My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers & Me from Awolnation.

• Last night, A$AP Rocky released a video to accompany his new song track “D.M.B.,” which features him and Rihanna — prior to her pregnancy. In the video, Rocky wears grills on his teeth that say, “MARRY ME?” Rihanna’s teeth, in turn, bear the message, “I DO.” Teeth jewelry making the proposal. Who’s says romance is dead? Oh yea, the acronym for the song “DMB” is “Dat’s My B****h”. Click here for the video.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something” – by Eminem

morning babble / Thursday 05-05-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

HAPPY FRIDAY EVE and HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO! – wish I could join everyone who is going out and about today to celebrate. Good ole days – Reminds me of my radio days where my job was to go to a bar, broadcast live – all while drinking, eating nachos, and hanging with people that enjoyed the music I was playing.

241 days until EXIT PLAN

I ran and it hurt again. Yesterday was a lower body workout. My quads, calves, you name it were burning when I woke. That app with Igor Voitenko – well, worth my ten bucks for the month.

Otherwise, with the LoCARB & MEATY MAY – I’m feeling good / Weighing all my foods / Avoiding sugar. We were over at my parents house (Nana & Pop’s) because our washer is broke, so that’s what you do – hey guys – please welcome us every day until the repair guy can visit us in July. My daughter comes with me and hits the candy dish. You know if you have one, you want another and then another. I was good. She wasn’t, but she did get some for her big brother – so that was nice.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – by Rosa Parks

morning babble / Wednesday 05-04-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

May the 4th be with you.

I so wanted to have my Empire video up and available. BUT – you can still click here and go read it for yourself!

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Welcome to AMA Wednesday –

“When are you doing the next push-up challenge?” This weekend. Plan on doing it every weekend. Until – hopefully, I hit the number 30.

“When’s the next weigh-in?” Friday. I’ll do it Fridays and Mondays.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I was a little suspicious because he was a ‘Star Trek’ guy.” – by Mark Hamill

morning babble / Tuesday 05-03-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Igor Voitenko‘s workout is making me hurt today, but I ran!

243 days until EXIT PLAN

PODCAST TUESDAY!

I’m sorry, but Tim Ferriss did it again. He had Tom Morello on from Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave and so much more.

Joe Strummer of the Clash
Are you taking over or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards or are you going forwards?

The book he gives out the most – Watership Down by Richard Adams

In a way, he does have his very own podcast on SiriusXM and I’ve talked about it before: Tom Morello’s One Man Revolution on Lithium

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The struggle ends when the gratitude begins” – by the Instagram of Tim Ferriss – not sure if it was him – he flashed a bracelet with that quote

morning babble / Monday 05-02-22

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I ate so much on Saturday – Dunkin / Wendy’s / Pizza and Wings at night / I wanted ice cream but I couldn’t fit it.

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LoCARB & MEATY MAY / + Push-up Challenge

Bring Sally Up Push-up Challenge

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There’s a difference between being happy and being distracted from sadness” – someone

morning babble / Friday 04-29-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

On Monday – I’ll go over all my new goals for the month of May. Several.

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Lady Gaga has announced “Hold My Hand,” a new song that she made for the new Tom Cruise movie Top Gun: Maverick. We got a snippet of the song. Clip. That’s it. That’s all we got. The single—out Tuesday, May 3rd. The movie – out May 27th

New Music Friday:

• The Bieber Boy – Justin – joined up with Don Toliver for the new single “Honest”. And, of course, there’s also a video that dropped too. But what do you do when you’re a good looking dude in Hollywood – that’s right – you cover up your face. (Video). Nice orange mask – I kid about Jusin Bieber but he really is doing a lot of good in the world with his tour – raising awareness on important issues like criminal justice reform, climate action, voter registration, and now, mental health awareness. Via Yahoo entertainment, the “Biebs” and online therapy platform, BetterHelp, have partnered to provide free access to therapy for Justin’s 250+ person touring crew and for his millions of fans, the latter of which BetterHelp has committed mental health services of up to $3,000,000 in value.

• Wilco announced a new album will be released on May 27th called Cruel Country. But today, we get a new single from them: “Falling Apart (Right Now)”. Apparently, this new album was almost entirely composed of live takes recorded at the Loft in Chicago—a method not employed by Wilco since recording Sky Blue Sky. Last week, I mentioned that Wilco announced multiple deluxe reissue editions of their 2002 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in honor of the album’s 20th anniversary. The super deluxe edition includes 82 previously unreleased tracks. That’s not out until September 16th. But again today, you can go enjoy their newest single “Falling Apart (Right Now)”

• We get a whole new album drop from Future today – titled: I Never Liked You. There’s 16 tracks, it includes features from Young Thug and Gunna with the song “For a Nut” and a pair of appearances from Drake “I’m on One” and the other single which is being pushed today on Spotify “Wait for U”. There’s also a video that was released at midnight for the song featuring Kanye West and Future “Keep It Burnin” was released last night. (Video) As you can see, there’s a covering up your face theme happening. Whole Future album today.

• We got a new song from Sam Smith – not necessarily my jam or a sound that I double click on, but the guy is talented and this song is very well done with a solid message. The song is called “Love Me More.” But the lyrics . . . I’m going to read some: “Have you ever felt like being somebody else? / Feeling like the mirror isn’t good for your health? / Every day I’m tryin’ not to hate myself / But lately it’s not hurtin’ like it did before / Maybe I am learning how to love me more.” Video. See good stuff there from Sam Smith.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash.” – via Maverick & Goose’s Superior Officer

morning babble / Thursday 04-28-22

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HAPPY FRIDAY EVE!

248 days until EXIT PLAN

Working on my plans for May – like packing a snowball. So many goals, but not one overall theme. This past March – I called it Meatless March / April Drought – didn’t drink alcohol for the month / Cold Showers in July / Muddy November

No Carbs / Low Carb / Meat / Push Up Challenge / Jiu-Jitsu / Maybe an overall theme of Kicking the Dad Bod.

Although, if I go on to TikTok and see all these women saying how they love the men with the Dad Bods . . . hmm – maybe I am yummy.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The move that you’re afraid to make is the one that will change everything. Trust yourself and do it.” – by Mel Robbins

morning babble / Wednesday 04-27-22

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I have some paperwork days coming up and I cannot wait.

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Welcome to AMA Wednesday –

Bathroom questions:

1. Whatever happened to the Battle of the Soaps?
2. Are you a morning shower person or an evening shower person?

My winning bar of soap is Moonlight Magic Honey Soap from Sassy Bee. Go get your own and click here!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There is no elevator to success; you have to take the stairs.” – by Julie Rice

morning babble / Tuesday 04-26-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

So – Elon Musk – you’ve had to have heard of this guy by now. Oh, Twitter World. Gonna be a ride over there. I just found out that Walter Isaacson who is one of my favorite authors – he wrote Benjamin Franklin – An American Life – I read it. I listened to his biography on Steve Jobs as well as The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race – that was a crazy one because of how it came out during the middle of the pandemic and how important it was for the vaccines to be made. Anyway – Mr. Isaacson is doing the life of Elon Musk – middle of it right now. Only the middle.

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PODCAST TUESDAY!

I use Overcast App for my podcasts and they just changed the layout of how they list and store your apps. Initially, I wasn’t liking it initially, but they tweaked something that made me happy again. I track around 34 podcasts right now and that’s too much. It’s like your email box holding over 1000 emails. I don’t have one to truly highlight today, but when I get behind and I don’t fell like following any of the news. Tim Ferriss.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.” – by Beverly Cleary

morning babble / Monday 04-25-22

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GOAL SETTING MONDAY & REVIEW –

I’m sort of all over the place today.

My employee called out on me today. Big Boy Pants needed

Quality of life – Brodie

Probably best to go watch the video!!!!!!!!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The place to be happy is now. The time to be happy is now.” – by Robert G. Ingersoll