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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 Brian Flores shining much needed light on NFL BS Rooney Rule!  Biff’s watching Demonslayer S2 and Jacques binged Pennyworth and Boba Fett.   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: Laid by Beyond Id

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 IT crowd upon a recommendation from their pal All Star Tommy.  Jacques also loving Peacemaker on HBO Max and Biff’s … watching endless hockey … even on HULU?!?!?!?   They talk Jacques loving KFC’s new Beyond Meat Chicken Nuggets and a weird funding the police story in Japan.   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: Build The Wall by Dan Cray Video for Build The Wall - https://youtu.be/BZnlObttN-Iz

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 with Willie in Santa Monica, CA a few years back.  Biff also points out while Willie’s number being retired most likely was a positive step brought on by the BLM movement, the NHL has a long way to go to make their “Hockey Is For Everyone” program a true outreach.    We highly suggest following (and donating to:) https://blackgirlhockeyclub.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackgirlshockey   CP: Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast   Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4

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 … hoping for more of these type shows in the new year! 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: Watered Down by Five Head John Hunt of Fivehead on twitter is @wykydseptyr

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.  Parenting tips and a song from FIVEHEAD. Biff gives should out to @verberohockey 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: Three Plus Minutes by Five Head John Hunt of Fivehead on twitter is @wykydseptyr

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 chatted his (with friend Renatezky in from LA) trips to NYC and skiing in VT, chatting covid (surprise surprise surprise) wreaking havoc all over and really hitting sports world. Biff highly suggest checking out Pui Pui Molcar and Aggretsuko on Netflix, Jacques AND Joe demand you watch the Bob Einstein special on HBO Max! Jacques met or came within a reasonable margin of most of his 2021 goals and set his 2022 goals … like you care … like you care.  No, really, don’t pretend! CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast       Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacque

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 brings us another Japan major crime story … Bridges over troubled waters AND a car going over Niagara Falls this week. 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: Laid by Dan Cray and Beyond Id

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 the words of Tommy Boy, “let me tell you why I suck.” Apologies to ALL.  I was plagued by tech issues and stupidity recording and editing this episode … all self-inflected wounds … I lost some files ... I hit record when not talking and hit pause during other interviews … truly, one fumble after another.  DOH! And I promise this IS the last time I’ll mention the November event … because over next month plus we’ll be plugging our next Joe’s Basement Retro Video Game Night at Mill # 5 in Lowell on Thursday January 27, 2022 (wow … 2022) to benefit Afternoon In The Arts in Lowell.  Thanks again for putting up with me

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 with Joe (and how Biff plans to watch UHF with Joe his next visit here!)  On the Darkside (reluctantly) we chat another school shooting, Row v Wade (and how it really just effects poor folks) and how Lowell schools are #1 in state with Covid rates. Also chatted … Bruins Marchy and the slewfoot double standard, MLB lock out and us not caring and … are we fans of the TampaBucs (off the field?) 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: Recess by Dan Cr

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 maybes NYC her home, Joe’s NEW Craiglist finds and Jacques hasn’t climbed out of the horror Hammer Films rabbit hole he now calls home. Yes, we touch a bit on the unthinkable horrible court ruling in WI that broke just before we record … I guess murder is legal in WI now (note: only if your white is it legal.) All this and … a tad bit more … 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: Sober by Dan Cray and Beyond Id  

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 the few industries that sky rocketed over covid (and how some scumbags are … being scumbags jacking prices to stupid levels). We recap last week’s Retro World in Hartford Joe and Jacques (and their wives kids) went to. If you’re in the Boston area … you gotta go to Replay’d and say hello to Bryan … if you’re NOT and you have ANY gaming needs … hit Bryan up at: https://www.facebook.com/Replayd/ https://www.instagram.com/replaydallston/   CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast       Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan

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 Jacques will use on Nov. 17th at Mill 5 in Lowell for his retro gaming event, called Joe’s Basement (nope, not kidding)… Joe, Jacques and their wive’s kids all drove the 2 hours to Hartford for Retro World… Jacques 1st time … Joe’s … 10th(?) … totally awesome.  The all chatted Joe and Jacques taking in recent guest Greg Boggis’ first live show in 20 months, Mondo Comedy (at Luna Theater inside Mill 5 in Lowell) and yes, Jacques “borrowed” a joke from that show to open the podcast this week. Biff… had a sort of scary, real crime, clip to break down from the home land this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaKfAWAd

Jacques family IS Halloween year-round … but actually Halloween is just extra special… Special like the Paul Lynde Halloween Special that Jacques watched again with Joe post his family’s covid safe out door Halloween Party (and really EVERYONE should get to watch Ghostbusters with Joe at least once in their lives!) On sad / tragic side of life … death on a film set, passing of actor Peter Scolari and Joe Manchin is still a GOP prick. Biff talks the return of the NHL to national TV coverage and how good TNT is at it and how good Wolfgang Van Halen is at dealing with trolls.  Biff also talks a little Shout Factor TV and Jacques talks Only Murders In The Building. Mel Brooks has a new History Of The World and Donny 3-Scoops tries to have a new Social Media platform.  Parenting tips, Crime In Japan story and much much … well much more … well … a tad more but not really.   CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast       CP on Instagram: @Carnivalpersonnelpodcast                      Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHocke

A staple in the New England comedy scene, comedian/host/MC Greg Boggis chats with Biff and Jacques about his years in comedy, what he did to keep the jokes coming over last year and a half of the world going sideways and how excited all are about the buzz around Greg’s Mondo Comedy live shows coming back to Mill # 5 in Lowell staring Oct. 28! https://lunalowell.com/movies/the-return-of-mondo-comedy/ Greg’s Webpage is – BoggisComedy.com Twitter and Instagram: @BoggieNews Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Mind Time by Dan Cray and Beyond Id

James Tiberius Kirk is going up to space … for real.  Jeff Bas-hole in a smart PR move is taking William Shatner into space! Jacques and Biff talk giving blood and how people who put spoilers on line less then 3 hours after a show airs at 3am EST really need a good beat down (well … that’s how Jacques feels …) How dumb are these Tik Tok challenges and how dumb are the kids who knowingly break the law, tape themselves and post it just for the 8 seconds of fame. NHL and NHLPA doing something right for once … Carey Price and the Players Assistance Program. Covid Update, Some of TV yapping, parenting tips and well that’s about it. Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Mark by Dan Cray and Beyond Id

The great Norm Macdonald past away a few weeks ago …Or so the German’s would have us believe.  One of Joe and Jacques’ all time favorites.  Biff, a big fan as well. We chat seeing Norm live in 2019, go over some of the all-time greatest late-night talk show moments – Chairmen of the Bored, The Moth Story, The Congratulations gift basket … as well as his lasting impact on SNL News and of course … Turd Ferguson. Joe also talks “Dirty Works” and the movie is could have been. Joe on Twitter is @Optigrabber Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id

All it took to get Joe to come back for a couple episodes was to have one of our comedy heroes to pass away!  Worth it? Maybe.  With news of the great Norm MacDonald leaving this plane of existence way to soon had Joe zoom in for this week’s CP and next week’s Sideshow. Jacques tells of his Pandemic Unemployment Assistance tale of woe … with a happy(ish) ending.  Friend of the podcast Renatezky was in Boston for week and Jacques and his family FINALLY did the Boston tourist stuff they’ve talked about doing for years … like seeing the Gardner Museum (This Is A Robbery on Netflix art heist museum), Duck Boat Tour, Tea Party stuff … Biff (sort of) breaks down the do’s and don’ts of the word “Oriental”, breaks down another awesome national crime in Japan news clip and also has another “see if the round-eyed co-host can tell Japanese woman apart / guess which is the porn star” game. Biden won AZ … again.  Justin Trudeau won Canada … again. Joe’s watching “Only Murderers” on HULU, Biff is watching “Dexter” and

Round 3 – This week Biff and Jacques debate their favorite Musical Geniuses and SHOCKINGLY they don’t have the exact same list … but there was a lot of agreement on this one.  Did Bowie beat out Randy Newman?  Did Prince beat out the great Dan Cray … guess you have to listen. Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: DKNY Bag by Dan Cray (of the Suburb EP) DanCray.net

Jacques recaps seeing Patton Oswald kick off his new tour this week.  Also, YES, Aretha Franklin was, is and always will be The Queen (highly recommend checking out the docu-movie. “Respect!”)  Sussy Buka … something Jacques’ 11 year old says (from some YouTube meme from Breaking Bad) which Biff breaks down the origin of. Blues Clues turns 25, Elizabeth Holmes trial starts and on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 … Texas moves to become the US version of The Taliban.  NFL season starts (Jacques says Pats go 10-6 and lose in wild card round) and Brady starts season by … being Brady. A Self Indulgent Theater (Jim’s Theme) Parenting times and … well, that covers it. Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Moe by Dan Cray and Beyond Id

Biff and Jacques had a blast yapping favorite rhythm section players last side show they decided Round 2 … be singers and guitarist. Sure … couple obvious picks … that are total clichés … but come on … if your list doesn’t have Jimi … then you need to have a big slice of STFU sandwich.  No … Jacques picks weren’t just on his list to annoy Biff … He really loves them … but yeah, annoying Biff IS a bonus. Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4   Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Gouge Away by Pixies