Carnival Personnel

Hey, you hear the one about the Jewish guy from the Jersey shore, a son of an honest to goodness bonified WW2 hero, who was living in a Mennonites community and working at a production facility owned by the Moonies when he was (mistakenly) recruited by the KKK … Well … you’re about to. And it’s all true.   Woody has been buddies with Biff and Jacques since Bill Clinton’s first term … and Woody is hilarious but NO one can make up the stories Woody has lived … on and off the ice (Woody’s a goalie).   Woody is one of our favorite follows on the socials (as the kids say).   Woody chats all the above plus some fun hockey stories about Jacques, Bobby Hull Jr, his foray into the world of Tik Tok stardom and his 30-year battled with the scientology owned Earthlink … again … we’re not kidding.   And what would be a Carnival Personnel Podcast without some tech issues … there was a slight delay with Woody sometimes which gave Jacques a chance to talk over him like the jerk he is.   Woody on Twitter i

Jacques cousin Jimmy was hired as a writer on SNL a couple weeks back … Hear Jacques take ALL the credit for his success as Joe and he talk about Jimmy’s FIRST TV appearance on their 1994 cable access show Formal Edition (10 yr old Jimmy Also was star on Jacques band Beyond Id’s 1994 video Mind Time … Link below!)   Jacques also talks his 3rd recent LA trip where highlight was a 4 hour low key chat with Biff and their FNH brothers Guitar Center Scottie and Mr. John Taylor Fertilizer himself … oh and other highlight was Duran Duran at the Hollywood Bowl!   Joe won the “cleaning out horder landlards trash” lottery this week finding a 1983 WORKING Coleco ADAM family Computer (game system) as well as a Superman Coco mix pack (also from 1983) and … and … a non-dated “hermetically sealed” box of Cott Instant Tom Collin’s Mix!   Biff talks a BIG Non-Katana related yakusa crime story!   Chat some Chris Ellott on Letterman rabbit hole and the 1982 Sitcom that aired ONCE but lived in Jacques had rent free ever since, O

Another podcast plagued by audio issues and two guys stumbling over things they’ve heard 3nr hand or misread on Twitter!   Speaking of Twitter … Dee Synder is awesome!   Biden gets some relief for student loan debt.  GQP says its worst thing ever, Dems say it’s not enough … we say it’s a campaign promise kept… and a good start.   Jacques chats a recent TV watching session with Joe that included a bunch of Conan first (Late Night, Tonight Show, Conan) viewings, a few episodes of MTV’s Remote Control and South Parks magical 25 anniversary concert.   Are the walls closing in on Donny 3Scoops?  Georgia Election tampering, J6, Top Secret Docs, NYC Fraud …  still praying for Perp Walk.   Show on Twitter is @Carnivalpodcast Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer By Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Best Ever by Dan Cray off Best Ever on DanCrey.net

Sure we give a shout out to our friend Woody’s Insta and Twitter accounts (@WoodyLuvsCoffee), chat some shows and movies we’re watching (Lightyear was a delight). Jacques recent LA trip, doing stand up for real and his next upcoming trip to LA for Duran Duran, Biff has some Japanesse crime (?) story and we talk the amazing BBQ for FHN/Taylors Birthday party he hosted and Joe as always is the ray of hope and joy we all need in our lives …   But mostly we chatted the FBI searching Donny 4Scoops Spy Ridden resort for stolen nuclear secrets he may or may not (he did) sell to Saudi’s for … oh I don’t know … 2 billion is what they gave Jared last month … good times good times.   Show on Twitter is @Carnivalpodcast Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer By Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Donut by Beyond Id (Rod, Hunt, Dan and Jacques line up)      

Been a couple weeks which means Jacques went on another trip with his sons (this one to Six Flags in NJ and Maryland and lunch in DC with work pals from Armed Forces Ent) and management went to another European city to see Duran Duran (London this time) … two weeks means more Jan 6thhearings and wholly shit are we all Fcked!!    Hey … at least Steven Bannon is gonna be wearing a jumpsuit pretty soon.   Joe joined the podcast and while he doesn’t officially do a “self-indulgent theater” he sort of does and it’s brilliant.   Biff breaks down more crime clip from Japan … gosh what I wouldn’t give for those to be lead stories on US news!   Talk a little TV and some parenting tips and … a lot of giggling.  Not really … listen for a grown man giggling.   Show on Twitter is @Carnivalpodcast Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer By Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: All Pissed Off by Dan Cray    

It’s been a few weeks since Biff and Jacques chatted … which means Jacques took another road trip (this time a drive to Chicago with his boys and dogs to surprise Management on her birthday) … it also means it’s been a few weeks so there’s been more mass shootings. USA USA USA   Course Japan isn’t without shootings … well one shooting … assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo with home made gun.   In more - “It’s Fine … Everything Is Fine” category (aka world is on fire) they chat Row V. Wade nightmare ruling, the Jan 6 treason trials and covid is the new herpes that won’t ever go away.   Biff talks Avs winning Cup, Jacques chats watching 9 Nick Cage movies in one night (sort of) as well as parenting tips and … stuff.   Show on Twitter is @Carnivalpodcast Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer By Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Make Believe by Dan Cray

Let’s address the awful nightmare first … the missing 3-year-old Harry from Lowell last week that drowned … happened just houses away from Jacques.  Hug your kids.   Joe joins Biff and Jacques which always makes the show 614x better.  We talk the Carlin special and Ian Bagg special on Amazon Prime from a few years ago … Ian was a one time hockey pal of Biff and Jacques.  Great comic and really good hockey play … totally check it out!   We follow up from las show chatting the BBC show about folks who choose to disappear in Japan (as well as a fun crime Japan story from Biff)   Pretty long episode but each minute is as great as the last … just listen on 1.5 speed … it makes the medicine go down!   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer By Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Clowns by Dan Cray and Beyond Id

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 from LA and rooming with John… unknown if Biff and John feels the same.   Jacques’ week in LA including visits with former podcast guest Ronak and Renatezky as well as MANY visits to In & Out and Universal Studios!   Another week in the US means another mass shooting and looks like Jacques might have Biff convinced the GOP is a terrorist organization.    Biff chats NHL Playoffs and funny crime in Japan.  Parenting tips, streaming reviews and much much more … well, more.   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Go

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 will start airing in a few weeks … and now - two-part George Carlin documentary is on HMO Max!   Lots of great comedy to distract us for few hours from the nightmare the GOP Crime Syndicate is holding us hostage in … same week cheering the forthcoming SCOTUS over turning Row Vs … and simultaneously voting AGAINST the emergency to help get baby formula back to the store shelfs asap!  Clarence Thomas Wife tripling down on trying to overthrow the country (no, really, she is) and another horrible mass shooting in Buffalo by a proud white supremacist who targeted a supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood.

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 as at 4am he chased off some thieves trying to saw off and steal car parts from his neighbor’s car!   Jacques chats seeing friend of the podcast Gene Dante and The Future Stars play with Death Metal Bee Gee’s cover band Tragedy.  Jacques brags (truly brags) handing with Joe and watching Arthur (a family viewing with Jacques sister and his 14 year old son) and then them watching Animal House!  Jealous?   Crime in Japan, Girl fight in GOP and Biff does a deep dive into his NHL playoff predictions and hopes!   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @T

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   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Lepton’s Bingo Teddy by Dan Cray and Beyond Id

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 from day one was a fan of Gilbert’s podcast … which serious was always good but sometimes depending on the guest … GREAT GREAT GREAT.   We HIGHLY suggest you fall down a Gilbert YouTube rabbit hole … gotta see the YOU FOOL – Hollywood Square clip, spend an hour watching Gilbert on Howard Stern and totally check out the 2017 documentary Gilbert.   It’s been a rough time losing so many great comics … this one really hit close to home.   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening and Closing joke from Gilbert    

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 Covid is still a thing … seems Putin is still a major war criminal … and there is still crime in Japan … but don’t lose hope … there is still Moon Night, Ted Lasso and parenting tips on this weeks podcast!  You’re welcome world!   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: I-Rock by Fivehead

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 … but he really works pretty fucking hard and we’re jacked to seeing his band play Friday April 29th at Sonia in Cambridge with world famous Tragedy!   Follow Gene on FB, Twitter, Instagram and myspace @GeneDanta And check out: GeneDante.com for everything else … and buy the new record!   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: :Diamond In A Trash Can” By Gene Danta and The Future Starlets Off the album DL/Ux Closing Song: “Little Belle” by Gene Dante And The Future Starlets of the album DL/Ux    

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 really this fucking awful and … the GOP acted exactly like you’d expect (racist, performance theater) at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS hearings. Couple parenting tips and a huge recommendation to watch Winning Time on HBO Max   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: L.I.E. (Do You Wanna) by Gene Dante And The Future Starlets

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 officiant for (so this is HIS fault!) Jacques points out what a rock star Joe was last week helping pull off another "Joe's Basement - Retro Video Game fundraiser (and show case) for Afternoon In The Arts (a Lowell Mass Jr High FREE program) at Mill #5 ... with our new best friends from Boom Boom Games and how a curve ball in 9th hour meant Jacques boys after getting off stage KILLED it running the make shift snack bar!!!!!! The Ukrainian people and President Zelenskyy continue the braves fight vs Putin as Donny 3Scoops is now Don Quixote fighting Windmills (again).   THE BATMAN came out this week and cause Jacque

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 to see if we can zoom in to Professor Cooks classes the rest of this semester.   He’s wicket smaht dude.   We’re hoping someone in the Biden administration listens to this episode and brings Professor Cook on board … we don’t know if any of that stuff in Ukraine can be fixed … but we’re sure he can help!   Professor Cook is a MUST follow on Twitter at @ProfessorCook CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast       Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Other Break by Dan Cray and Beyond Id

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 Thursday May 3, 2022 (it’s a fund raiser for the Lowell city wide Jr High program Arts In The Afternoon!)   Besides chatting games … Benny and Joe chat the love of gaming magazines and grading items!   Hey … whenever you can … DON’T walk into a GameStop or order stuff on line … walking into a Boom Boom Games - mom and pop local store.  Folks in there live for games, are a notion of knowledge and just fun to chat with!   Say hi to Benny on Twitter @ Check out Benny and Boom Boom Games @BoomBoomGames85   CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast       Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabbe

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 much.   Queen Elizabeth AND Beiber got Covid … just in time to stop testing and wearing masks at Jacques kid’s school.  UGH.    Putin tries to return the USSR to its glory days (isn’t invading counties really so last mid-century?)   AGAIN … USA/Canadian woman’s hockey proves to be best rivalry in all of sports.   Jacques insist Biff watch Peacemaker on HBO Max.  Is it a great show and one of Jacques favorites?  It’s good … but the relentlessly playing and talking about 80s hair metal is right up Biff’s ally!   CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast       Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Op

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 accidently got Paul’s home number (and his willingness to chat with aa stranger for hours on the phone), to her (and her fathers) first improbable afternoon with Paul thru her close relationship with him the last 7 years of his life … this was a fun fun chat and really, we could have kept talking Paul Lynde a few more hours.   Joe who can read … read the book and came with tons of notes and questions … Jacques, NOT the best reader, bought and listened to the book twice this week.   Follow Cathy on Twitter @PaulLyndebook CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast       Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @