Avoiding Chores

This week the boys get back and compare notes from another week of isolation during the COVID-19 outbreak. We talked about how life is in our areas, the lineup and what we are watching on the streaming services. The post Episode 21 – Business Continuity Plans appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

We are back after a LONG break, and what better way to spend a friday night is to stumble with technology and use new tools to continue the hangout. The post Episode 20 – Isolation Edition appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

That’s right! The band is getting back together cause too much monkey loose from a cocaine experiment news to not talk about!   The post Episode 19 – Monkeys loose in a lab from a cocaine experiment appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

We are halfway through our deep dive into the 80’s where as teenage boys we were into wrestling, new coke, compact dics. Windows 1.0 came out, some of us started to get into the PC computers, dialling into BBS and downloading stuff like tetris.     Want to be a sponsor of this podcast? contact […] The post PART 6 – Deep Dive Into The 80’s – 1985 appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

1984 was a big year, we were 12 and 17 where music took over our lives. So much pop culture came out in terms of movies, books, tv and the LA olympics. But on the flip side you had one of the worst man made disasters in India with over 20 thousand people dying. AIDS […] The post PART 5 – Deep Dive Into The 80’s – 1984 appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

Here we go as we deep dive into 1983, a big year for music for both of us. We talk about the big albums, yes LP’s not as much cassettes. We also talked about how close were to nuclear war with some major events happening over the pacific. But we can’t forget about some of […] The post PART 4 – Deep Dive Into The 80’s – 1983 appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

Here we go as we deep dive into 1982, part of our series into this decade. We found out that this year was a big year for us. E.T. of course was a big movie at the time, you either watched it in a cinema or at the drive-in. The top song that year from […] The post PART 3 – Deep Dive Into The 80’s – 1982 appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

Oh yeah! part 2 of our deep dive into the 1980’s focusing on the year 1981 with Jocelyn. We focused a lot on the movies from that year. That year where movie ratings started to matter, where some of us could sneak into movies while I was getting shocked by Raiders of the Lost Ark. […] The post PART 2 – Deep Dive into the 80’s 1981 appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

Oh yeah! part 1 of our deep dive into the 1980’s focusing on the year 1980 with Jocelyn. That was a long time ago, I was still a kid, Jocelyn was just getting into the swing of things as a teenager and discovering things like booze, drugs and women. He would say that he was […] The post PART 1 – 1980 appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

With Stranger Things coming back for a second season on Netflix, Jocelyn and I talked about how the 80’s itself is coming back hard. So we asked ourselves; what was the BEST year from the 80’s? You know what? we couldn’t do it! So we decided to do a DEEP DIVE into the 80’s in […] The post The 1980’s Are coming Back! appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

  We reflect on the 80th anniversary of the publishing of the classic book The Hobbit. We talked about when we first read the book, how the Peter Jackson movies nailed it with Lord of the Rings, but kinda whiffed it with The Hobbit trilogy since the book originally came out as a children’s book. […] The post Frodo Lives! appeared first on Avoiding Chores.

After last episode where we talked about the movie IT, we continue the discussion about how we don’t have that urge to watch horror movies anymore as compared to when we were younger. Both of us were huge horror movie fans and we share some scary movie stories and some of our favorite films such […] The post How Come We Don’t Want To Watch Horror Movies Anymore? appeared first on Avoiding Chores.