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After a couple years off (thanks Covid) Biff, Jacques and the FNH crew comprising the John Taylor Fertilizers Hockey Franchise Club LLC Inc returned to the annual Memorial Day Phoenix tournament.  And the one on-ice highlights has to be Jacques 2nd assist on the ONE goal the team (AST) scored last in game 3.  Off the ice … the highlights were pretty endless.  Jacques enjoyed the drive with Biff fr...

After a couple weeks off, Biff Joe and Jacques are back.  After 30 years off … so are the Kids In The Hall. And their still Gods.  Season 6 is streaming now on Amazon Prime as is “Comedy Punks”, a 2-part gloves are off and tissue boxes are on documentary with and about the KITH.   Seems a dying and in Covid lock down Norm MacDonald left us all a going away present in form of a new special that wil...

We start of on a real somber not as Jacques chats the passing of college buddy/occasional band mate/amazing song writer/musician and one of the nicest guys you could ever meet, David Mirabella (front man and lead guitarist of The Rationales.) Dave was guest way back on CP (Ep. 7).  You’re missed and loved Dave. May the force be with you brother.   Biff chats his Batman like crime fighting skills a...

Before Elon buys Twitter and ruins it for everyone … Biff and Jacques figured they’d chat their favorite twitter follows now!   They had a couple of the same on their list and a couple pretty interchangeable ones.    This was a fun one to prep for … was NOT easy getting the list down to 10!   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   O...

Joe and Jacques have ANOTHER bitter-sweet chat about yet ANOTHER comic they LOVE who BAMB … GONE.   The GREAT (now late) Gilbert Gottfried past last week and we’re gutted.  From Joe and Jacques’ early (maybe 1994) collaboration … Joe did a Gilbert impression that Jacques LOVES (Joe down plays it but it’s pretty great) and some of the best CP Self-Indulgent Theaters involved Joe’s Gilbert!   Joe fr...

Taping on Biff’s birthday they chat Biff’s birthday fishing story … THIS really is a good one.  Oscar’s suck and Grammy’s suck.  Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at Oscars … and Grammy’s slapped the times up movement giving Lewis CK an award … WTAF. Hey despite the GOP pulling out all the racist and crazy cards they could … Judge Ketanji Brown is NOW the first black woman on the SCOTUS!!!! Seems Covi...

Actor, Front-Man, Writer … and over all good guy – Gene Dante chats with Joe, Biff and Jacques about his love of acting, writing … and Paul Lynde!   From his European touring roll in Rocky Horror, to his Bauer hockey commercial, to his band (Gene Dante and the Future Starlets) new double album “DL/Ux” – it was a real fun and funny talk.   Is Gene the hardest working man in show business … maybe …...

Proud Papa Jacques brags a bit about his sons STARING roll as Phineous Trout in his Jr. High’s production of Willie Wonka Jr.  Joe breaks down the Gayest Episode Ever’s break down of 31 years of Simpson’s LGBTQ references!  Biff breaks down the winners/losers of the NHL’s trade deadline moves and a real (bad) news story from Japan (but still with fantastic animations!)    Is Covid over?  Is Putin...

Is Joe stopping in to chat on this weeks’ podcast the highlight … Maybe.  Maybe not.  Is Joe’s Self-Indulgent Theater from Ep. 116 (10/7/19) a Don Adams/Don Knotts mash-up/duet of Ice Ice Baby the highlight … YES! Biff, Joe and Jacques chat a couple tragic anniversaries this week … the 3/11/11 Eastern Japan Tsunami … as well as Jacques 2014 marriage anniversary to Management (which Biff was the of...

Where Putin’s calendar reads 1936 we asked Political Science professor from the University Of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Doctor Chris Cook to come on and help try to make sense of a world that refuses to make any sense.  Dr. Cook and Jacques cross paths years before in college … which Jacques has apologized for which Dr. Cook graciously accepted.   This is a supersized sideshow that has us wanting t...

Looking for a podcast chatting Starfox 64 and Rogue Squadron 64 … look no forward.  Owner of Boom Boom Games in Billerica MA, Benny – chats flee market finds as a kid and as a young adult that built his love of gaming … and inventory to start his store!!   Ben, Joey and the crew from Boom Boom Games are helping Jacques (and Joe) host the next Mill # 5 Retro Video Game (Joe’s Basement Night) this T...

Jacques talks how AST is a good person and a good friend as he suggests the BBC show “The IT Crowd” and his 1981 Minnesota State Hockey playoff game on YouTube … and how Joe is a bad person who suggest he watch the (also a BBC show) Derek, because he knows it will make Jacques relentlessly cry … Niagara Falls Frankie!   Both agree SB halftime show was AMAZING … the Rams SB parade … um …  Not so mu...

Nothing says happy Valentine’s day then listening to a podcast about Paul Lynde … I THINK!    Joe, Biff and Jacques talk about one of their all-time favorite television personalities, Paul Lynde with author Cathy Rudolph about her amazing relationship with and her book - Paul Lynde, A Biography.  His Life. His Love(s). His Laughter.   From the crazy way 17-year=old high school junior Cathy acciden...

BIG DAY … Duran Duran finally gets R & R HoF nom!  Jacques insist all go watch Letterman on Late Night w Seth from last week but NEVER watch Mask Singer … not cause show sucks (which it does) but cause producers are D-Bags.  Biff breaks down an adorable (not so much a high speed) police chase in rural Japan.  Brady retires and goes out on some drama with Pats, Pats nation … totally expected and Br...

Biff lives in LA … Jacques in Boston … both fully vaxed both have taken Covid pretty seriously … BOTH run of luck has run out … not as much as Meatloaf’s has .. but both got Covid last week!   They talk the passing of the great Bob Saget and Louis Anderson this past week as well.   Jacques finally sees Ghost Buster Afterlife and Joe was right … 2nd best Ghostbuster movie!  Jacques also binged The...

This is a Re-Posting of Sideshow 61 from Jan. 21, 2021   TODAY IS THE DAY … FINALLY, the Boston Bruins retire Willie O’Ree’s number 22!!   The NHL needs to retire his number league wide!     Biff and Jacques chat the Great Willie O’Ree. The Bruins, a little late to the dance, are finally retiring Willie’s #22 he wore in 1958 when he broke the color barrier.  Biff tells of a personal interaction wi...

Biff heard this fun draft concept on a hockey podcast and we gave it a try. There were 8 categories and you can’t pick a favorite movie within a 5-year window in either direction and you can’t pick a movie if the other one had put it out there first.  Confusing … a little but not really and you’ll get it within the first few picks. TOTALLY FUN doing the homework and putting this episode together …...

Biff and Jacques, after the hilarious opening jokes, chat the passing of the legendary Sidney Poitier, the Elizabeth Holms verdict and they horribleness and heroism of Jan 6th last year.  Jacques talk Spider-man movie he just watched … the 1977 one!  Turns out Covid is still fck everything up … everywhere.  Will Covid hurt playoffs … of course … in every sport … Djokovic is an asshole btw.  Parent...

What a perfect way to end a “everythings fine, nothing to see here” year.  We WERE set to do a end of year sideshow – best of worst of list thing … BUT just before zooming in together … we hear the great Betty White past well … just did a regular show.  The Ghost In The Machine really didn’t want Biff recording this week as you’ll hear if you can make it to the last part of the podcast! Jacques ch...

Would it really be a Christmas Spectacular without Joe … NO!  So, Santa worked his magic and Joe joins Biff and Jacques to chat best/worst Christmas movies, tv specials, songs and food! We also chat the Beatles Get Back 8 hour special and need at least 8 hours to really cover it!  Talk covid ravaging the sports landscape (as well as the Lowell schools and the world as a whole STILL) and Biff bring...

FIRST, a big thank you to Jacob, Tucker, Pat, Brady and Aiden for being rock stars and doing interviews with me at the Joe’s Basement Retro Video Game Night at Mill # 5 in Lowell (inside Coffee and Cotton) a few weeks ago. Second, again, huge ups to Joe, Bryan from Replay’d in Allston Mass, Management (Jacques’ wife), Darcie from LLAMA and Brendan and Jim and Julia Malakie from The Lowell Sun. In...

Jacques 11 year-old son (Eggzy Boi) learns how to manipulate the media (aka the Lowell Sun) and Jacques for better or worse founds Joe and his 1995 sketch portfolio they sent to SNL, Conan ... ect … SHOCKING they weren’t hired! On the light side of the force, we chat Sesame Street’s FIRST Asian puppet, CP single handedly bringing live back to Hammer Films and how Jacques watched Tommy Boy together...

After weeks of talking about it ... Jacques’ first event at Mill # 5 (Joe’s Basement – Retro Video Game Night) happened… and it 1000% wouldn’t of happen or gone nearly as well without Joe playing super hero and making so much happen! It’s Thanksgiving this week … Not a favorite of Biff or Jacques .. but both do plan on eating stupid amounts of food over the holiday weekend! Japan Princes Mako mayb...

Our new best friend Bryan from the retro video store REPLAY’D (Allston MA), chats with Joe (yes, Joe) and Jacques (sadly  … Biff has a real job and couldn’t join the geek fest) about this Wednesday Retro Gaming Night at Mill # 5 in Lowell, THIS Wednesday (event is called .. you guessed it, “Joe’s Basement”!) Fun chat about how and why Bryan started a retro store 12 years ago and how this is one of...

Did I lie to Joe and say we had a retro game store owner zooming in to talk Retro World in Hartford this past weekend … NO … that was really the plan … did it work out where Biff and I got Joe for the whole show and our lives AND the podcast are much better for it … survey says YES. Big week as Joe found Jacques a “vader model” 2600 Atari WITH  12 games for FREE for Jacques on Craigslist, which Ja...