Throwback Thursday [Juicy and Penny Hardaway]

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I think you could make the point that Notorious B.I.G.'s "Juicy" is the most influential songs of all-time, certainly the most influential hip-hop song of all-time. "Juicy" is the modern template for almost every hit rap track on the radio today. Biggie told a rags to riches story, which believe it or not at the the time had rarely been heard in hip-hop. After "Juicy" every rapper began doing their own version, last I checked Jay-Z had about 20 of his own version's of Biggie's biggest hit, but their can only be one original.

Biggie's "Ready to Die" is one of the most dynamic, explosive albums to ever be released. It changed the way people thought about hip-hop. I don't think there has ever been a more brutal or honest song released than Biggie's "Gimme the Loot"

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For a couple years Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway was the most entertaining and exciting players in the NBA, alongside Shaq with the Orlando Magic, Penny and Shaq formed a duo the league hadn't seen since the days of Magic and Kareem in their prime. Penny was a point guard that could pass the ball better than anybody in the game, he also had a remarkable scoring ability. In just his second year in the league, Penny and Shaq led the Magic past Michael Jordan and the Bulls and Reggie Miller and the Pacers to the NBA Finals. The Magic would be swept by the Houston Rockets, and Shaq would go to the Lakers soon after. Penny's game was never really the same after Shaq left, but for a couple of years he played the game at the same level of Magic Johnson, and thats a pretty good comparison.

Big Sean's Finally Famous

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Big Sean had one of my favorite songs last year, the Kanye West produced "Whatever She Wants". An unsigned rapper in 2007 Big Sean decided to stand outside of a radio station where Kanye was doing an interview, hoping for a chance to meet and him and give him his demo, Kanye gave Sean 16 bars to prove himself, Sean was up to the challenge, and was able to prove himself. West would sign Big Sean soon after, Sean went on to release several mixtapes named "Finally Famous" and yesterday Sean released his first studio album.

First off, Big Sean's official mixtapes were pretty quality, but to be honest, nothing stand-out. To me, Big Sean sounded like a mash-up of Kanye, Drake, and Lupe, all of which are unique performers with their own sound and voice. I thought Sean's sing/rap style was very reminiscent of Drake, his lyrical style was Kanye influenced and his voice had a Lupe feel. However, his lyrics are very much his own, and for the most part have a distinctive feel to them. Sean's mixtapes did do their job of building interest, because they had me very curious about his first album, maybe more than most hip-hop fans.

Not to overstate it, but Big Sean's "Finally Famous" was everything I hoped for last year with Drake's "Thank Me Later", Drake released what is in my mind one of the best mixtapes of all-time in "So Far Gone" and I was royally disappointed in the album Drake would finally release, which I felt missed more than it hit. Big Sean's debut doesn't disappoint, if anything it makes me want to go back and listen to Sean's earlier mixtapes

I got the Deluxe Edition of "Finally Famous" which features 17 tracks, most of them are produced by legend N.O. Id, whose production is pretty much perfect, it is both very modern but classic at the same time. The theme of the album is pretty much incapsulated in the Album's title, Sean is finally well-known, recognized and paid, as he talks about the strange turn from local Detroit rapper to being on the same level as Common and Kanye.

Almost every song on this album hits to me, with the exception of  "Dance", which I didn't really care for, but wasn't a bad song, just didn't hit for me. However, there are many standouts, the lead single "My Last" which features Chris Brown is, as does "Marvin & Chardonnay" which features Kanye West, and I love the album closer "So Much More" where N.O. Id's production is brilliant, and Sean's flow is spectacular.

From start to finish this is a pretty brilliant hip-hop album on so many levels, the production, the guest appearances, the lyrics, and Sean's vocal styling. To me, Big Sean went from a decent performer with a lot of potential to star on the rise. I'm guessing album's like this are why Kanye chose to call his label G.O.O.D. Music, "Finally Famous" however is great music.

ESPN's 30 For 30 Box Set

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I recently got the ESPN 30 For 30 Box Set as a gift, and what a great and wonderful gift it is. I've been a big fan of these documentaries since "Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks" aired last year. It was a brilliantly crafted documentary, that for 90 minutes transported me back to when I was 12 years old watching those games live, it was fun to revisit that time in history. 

Each of the others I've seen since has been just as good in the case of "June 17 1994" a day which will live in sports infamy. It was the day the Knicks and Rockets played Game 5 of the 94 Finals, Arnold Palmer's last tournament appearance, the Rangers Stanley Cup celebration, and oh yeah, OJ Simpson's fake suicide letter came out followed by his eventual flee from justice or "Four Days in October" a time as a Yankee fan I'd rather not remember, about the Red Sox miracle comeback against the Yankees. These are so great to me because it allows me to step back and look at history I lived, but view it at a different time in my life.

Then there are the documentaries like "Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL" the United States Football League was something I heard of, but was never fully aware of, and "Pony Excess" about a time in college sports even more corrupt than things now. It's been fun watching these and the others from before my time, to learn about the things I'd only heard about up to this point, and learning the details, and the 30 For 30 Films do a great job filling you in on all the details, covering each story from every angle possible.

Each of the films has its own director, almost all of the directors are award winners. Each of the films are told in a different style, which was left up to the directors, but each story is about times in sports that aren't necessarily talked about often, but were vital, engrossing and entertaining times. As a kid I knew Michael Jordan left the NBA to try baseball, but that was all I knew up until the 30 For 30 film "Jordan Rides the Bus". There are many like stories with these films, stuff I knew, but not the details, and that is were this series excels.  

Throwback Thursday [Summertime and Big Shot Rob]

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I don't know if "Summertime" by Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff should even be considered a Throwback song, despite that it clearly is. I say that because 5 to 10 times each summer I want to hear this song. I loved the song when it came out in 1991 and still to this day I listen to like it was brand new. To me it's just as much a part of summer as baseball and cooking food on the grill.









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Robert Horry, otherwise known as "Big Shot Rob" averaged about 7 points a game and about 5 rebounds. Not the type of numbers that get a lot of attention. But it was Horry's flare for the dramatic that made him the legendary player he is. He hit just as many, if not more, high pressure game winning shots in big games than any other players of his era and won 7 NBA titles, that's more then Jordan or Kobe, with the Rockets, Lakers, and Spurs. There are some people that think that a player with the career averages of "Big Shot Rob" has no place in the Hall of Fame, I however, am not one of them. With all the last second, miracle shots, and 7 Titles for 3 teams where he was a key player he's a Hall of Famer to me.




Fun Fact: The first time I called 103 Jamz to request a song it was for "Summertime". It ended up making the top 8 at 8.

Bon Iver's Self Titled Second Album

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Bon Iver's first album "For Emma, Forever Ago" was something really amazing, a one-man, stripped down, raw debut concept album. The story of the album is well known at this point, after a break-up with both his girlfriend and his band Justin Vernon retreated from North Carolina to a cabin in Wisconsin with no intention of writing or making any music (which in my opinion is how most great music happens). Left to himself with nothing other than a guitar, a laptop, and a DVD set of of the series Northern Exposure (which is where the band name comes from) Vernon created "For Emma, Forever Ago" by himself, playing all the instruments, mixing and editing the album, as a result it had a very cosy and personal feel. The first album's folksy feel was very reminiscent of something James Taylor or Bruce Hornsby would have done in the 70's.

The album was a surprise success, selling over 300,000 copies, earning world wide critical acclaim, TV appearances, and several features on the recent Kanye West album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". The question of course was would there be a sophomore slump? The Answer is No!

There are major differences, the most noticeable is in the production, right away this is a more layered album, you kind of knew it would be, which in a way that was some of appeal of For Emma. Vernon's vocals are just as strong, especially when he hits his falsetto, which is his strongest instrument. Lyrically it doesn't feel as strong as the last album, "For Emma" was personal and reflective, its not quite the same on this album, but solid none the less. Vernon added several new instruments to this new album, a bass saxophone, horns, a steel guitar to name a few, which is definitely a departure.

Most of the tracks are quality, I'm a big fan of the opener "Perth" which has a Civil War meets Heavy Metal feel, the first single "Calgary" is really good as is the song "Towers". Most of the songs hit more than they miss, the only real miss for me was the last song "Beth/Rest" which sounds like a song out of the 80s that should have stayed there.

The reason why the second album is always referred to as "The Difficult Second Album" is because no matter how good it is, it will always be measured against the First album, which in many cases is difficult, and the better the first album the harder the second one will be judged, it isn't fair, but to quote one of Bon Iver's influences "That's Just the Way It Is"

Turtleneck & Chain

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One thing about Lonely Island is they need to do a better job of promoting themselves, I'm actually not being facetious. I was recently talking about new albums I was looking forward to, and one I mentioned was the new Lonely Island "Turtleneck and Chain" that's when a friend of mine said, "that's already out" so with that in mind, here is my late review of the album. 

Lonely Island's first album "Incridibad" was incredible, from start to finish, up to that point I had never been a big fan of the whole "joke" song thing, I never really "got" it or enjoyed it. But "Incrdibad" was something completely different. The thing about them is if you didn't know better you would think you were listening to a Top 40 hip-hop song of the day, their music is actually really good. But the content of the lyrics is very funny and mostly very unassuming, in the case of "I'm on a Boat" it sounds like a hit rap track T-Pain hook and all, I've met people that never knew the song was meant to be a joke or farce, and to me thats the key difference with Lonely Island and other "joke" groups, it's legit music that more times than not pokes fun at what it's imitating, while itself is really good music.

So the new album "Turtleneck & Chain" has been out for a couple of weeks and it is Great! I was nervous if they could duplicate what worked so well on "Incrdibad" and they did. One thing about Lonely Island is you get to see their progress each week on SNL a lot of digital shorts end up on the albums, so you already know their will be some quality tracks, like "Jack Sparrow" which is a lot of peoples favorite song off the album, it sounds like a typical "In the Club" song but Michael Bolton is doing the chorus and sings about Jack Sparrow after having just seen the Pirates movies for the first time. 

I really like the entire album, some highlights for me are "No Homo" which pokes a lot of fun at how liberally that expression can be used, "Rocky" is a fun song, and "We're Back" is a hilarious way to open the album with a great beat from Kanye's mentor NO Id. 

Of course there are songs from the digitals shorts too, "Mother Lover" "Shy Ronnie", "Throw it to the Ground" among others, but for the second time no "Iran" which is still one of my favorite Digital Shorts, a song about Iran leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Andy Samnurg's gay romance, featuring Maroon 5's Adam Levine.

If I have one problem with "Turtleneck & Chain" it's that even with 19 tracks, it's only 38 minutes. That's a small complaint however, better to be short and sweet than to overstay your welcome.

Throwback Thursday

Larry Johnson

Everyone has heard Blacksheep's biggest hit "The Choice is Yours" at the very least because it was in a commercial with hamsters or gerbils or whatever, I can't tell the difference, dancing and driving around in cars. But their other hit "Strobelite Honey" is a pretty great song itself. Their entire album "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" is Awesome, I'm a big fan of "Similak Child" and the skit "L.A.S.M." which as a young kid gave me a misconception about what the word "ho" meant...oh to be young again. 




There were 2 Larry Johnson's the first was the 1st Round draft pick of the Charlotte Hornets. A 6'5 raw power forward that played a back the the basket post-up game. Then there was the veteran small forward that played for the New York Knicks, who took mostly long jumpers and 3's (and one very famous 4-point play) and worked with the younger players on the team. He was a big part of the Knicks going to the Finals as an 8 seed in 1999, something that had never happened before, and hasn't happened since.



Fun Fact: My mom bought the Blacksheep tape for me, they wouldn't sell it to me because I was so young. She bought it at Tower Mall, which is now destroyed

NBA Finals Wrap-Up

Dwyane Wade posing for the cameras after hitting a 3-pointer in Game 2

Lebron James and Dwyane Wade's premature celebration in Game 2

The Miami Heat led by 12, Dwyane Wade was in the corner, falling out of bounds as he threw up a shot that looked impossible. The shot went in, giving the Heat a 15 point lead. Wade left his arm up, posing for the cameras. Teammate Lebron James ran up to Wade, pounding on his chest in excitement.

I think it's fair to say that moment in Game 2 of the NBA Finals was the moment in which the entire series shifted. The Heat were the aggressors up to that point, the Mavs had been playing weak, soft basketball. But something happened as the Heat were celebrating, the Dallas Mavericks woke up! And like waking Godzilla, they weren't too happy.

Miami was celebrating as if they had already won Game 2, they had just won Game 1, and in their minds were about to take a 2-0 lead back to Dallas, and try to win the series on the road. There was one rather big problem however...there was over 6 minutes left to play in Game 2.

Dallas came roaring back, playing lock-down defense, hitting one big shot after another, while Miami realizing there was a threat started trying to run down the clock. That didn't work. Eventually Dirk Nowitzki made the game winning shot with just a couple of seconds remaining.

What would follow in the next 4 games was Miami crumbling when it mattered most, missing big shots, big free throws, playing sloppy defense, committing big late game turnovers. Dallas capitalized by doing the exact opposite, Dirk and Jason Terry making big shots, Jason Kidd playing great defense and taking care of the ball, Tyson Chandler getting huge rebounds. While Miami did win Game 3 on the road, they did their best to give that game away too, if not for a last second Dirk miss this series could have been over in Dallas last Thursday.

If you read my NBA Finals preview (which you can do by clicking here) you saw me say that the Heat were going to win in 5 Games. I stand by that, I truly believed they should have won in 5 Games if Lebron, Wade, and Bosh played up to potential. But I did put a disclaimer in my preview, I said the Heat would win if Lebron and Wade played the way they played all Post Season long, and not let the Spotlight of the Big Stage blind them. They were blinded. Lebron James especially, never can I remember such a superstar of any sport coming up that small in the championship, it wasn't just that Lebron wasn't scoring, he also wasn't playing defense, he wasn't passing the ball well in late game situations, he wasn't even making his free throws.

Wade and Bosh had decent enough series, we won't hear much about how they played in the Finals. Lebron James however, thats a different story. That's two times Lebron has been to the Finals, and he still has nothing to show for it. This is the guy who calls himself "King James", this is the guy that has "Chosen 1" tattooed on his back, this is the guy that elected to wear number 23 and steal Michael Jordan's pregame powder toss ritual, and this is the guy that wanted to have a 2 hour special call "The Decision" on ESPN just to announce the team he would "take his talents to". So over the next couple of days and weeks, we will hear a lot about how Lebron failed on the biggest stage of his career and how even with the help of Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh he still couldn't get it done. I for one can't wait to hear all of it.

So, congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks, they faced arguably the 4 greatest superstars in the NBA (Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Dwyane Wade and Lebron James) on route to winning their Title, the first title for some guys that really deserved it Dirk, Jason Kidd, Shawn Marion, and Jason Terry. They played great team ball, and they deserved this title very much. The only downside is this will be looked at more as a Miami Heat collapse than a Dallas Maverick victory, but I'm sure the Mavericks fans, players, and coaches could care less about perception, they are just happy to have won.

At the end of the day, I was wrong with my prediction, but I could care less, I'm just happy to see Lebron James and his Heat lose. Its not completely that I'm a "Hater" of Lebron or the Heat, its just that I don't like a lot of the things about the Heat, I don't like the way they came together, I don't like the privileged attitude they played with night after night, as if the title was just due to them and I didn't like the way the celebrated every mini-milestone they ever had, and I'm pretty sure if the Heat could do it all over again, they would have waited until Game 2 was over to celebrate their win, not with over six minutes remaining.

Skip Bayless

Skip Bayless is a Hater! Skip Bayless is a jerk! Skip Bayless is bitter! Skip Bayless is Angry! Skip Bayless is a lot of things, most of them would be considered unsavory, and yet he is probably the most talked about, well known commentator in all of sports. Most of that is because he is mentioned by more athletes than any other sports commentator since Howard Cossell. 

Just recently Lebron James, arguably the biggest name in the NBA talked at length about Skip Bayless, saying that Bayless inspires him, because Bayless' comments about James have been so harsh that he works harder in workouts just to prove Bayless wrong. Never has a sports commentator had that much power.

When Shaquille O'Neal retired last week he was asked about his relationship with commentators/reporters, which given Shaq's media-savvy nature was overall favorable, except in the case of Skip Bayless, when Shaq said he wanted to "kick Skip Bayless' ass"

So what is it that Skip is doing that can anger and inspire some of the biggest athletes to ever play in all of sports?

One thing Bayless does is simple, he tells the truth. In a time when professional athletes are coddled and surrounded by "Yes Men" and most analyst just talk about what a "super job" they are doing, Bayless is very honest with them, more times than not, he never says anything just to be insulting, he points out the obvious, that fans see, but commentators rarely point out because they know that player, or it would jeopardize the relationship they have with that player, and may result in not being able to do an interview with them later. Skip Bayless just doesn't care about that kind of stuff, he calls things as he sees them, and like it or not he's right about 90% of the time.

Another reason is simply a byproduct of the format of his show 1st and Ten, a show in which Bayless debates the topics of that particular day. Bayless sits across from another report/athlete/commentator or sometimes even rapper, and the two debate. However, the person sitting across from him is nearly always a typical reporter, (Steven A. Smith being a regular on the show, that is an exception) coddling the players, being the "Yes Men" so they can still get that interview with Terrell Owens or Lebron James. As harsh as Bayless' words are, they come across as more harsh, because he is sitting across from the type of reporter that the athletes love, making Bayless' comments really sting.

Throwback Thursday

Joe Dumars

Throwback Thursday was started by a friend of my brothers, named Jamie (cool guy, ex-NAVY and sells great jerseys at good prices) some time back. Basically he would post old-school hip-hop songs on Facebook and call it Throwback Thursday. 

The idea caught on, eventually the world famous Mike and Bob Show started doing throwback Thursday, Bob would post some of his favorite old school songs on the Facebook, even I started posting some songs as well, and at one point it seemed like half of my friends on Facebook were posting old school rap tracks each week. 

Since the Mike and Bob Show has faded away so has the mass appeal of Throwback Thursday. But this is something that I want to bring to this wonderful Blog. Check back each Thursday for my Throwback Thursday song of the Week. 

Also, I'm gonna be putting my own spin on things, and post my some of my favorite NBA players from the past.

Today, I'm going with two of my personal favorites, "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" by the Geto Boys. Which was and still is to this day, one of my favorite songs. And Joe Dumars, Dumars was part of the "Bad Boy" era with the Pistons, along side Bill Lambere, Dennis Rodman, and Isiah Thomas to name a few. Dumars was one of the best scores I'd ever seen, an extremely tough defensive player and a great pure shooter, who helped lead the Pistons to back to back NBA Championships. 

Fun Fact: Speaking of my brother earlier, he's had the same Joe Dumars basketball card since he was about 10, some 15 years later it's still prominently displayed in the center of his refrigerator.

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Karmin Covers

Youtube is loaded with talented singers doing covers of popular songs, there are tons of girls doing Taylor Swift covers that look just like Taylor Swift and sound better than her, just like there are plenty of men and women doing Lady Gaga covers as well. So the idea of people doing covers of pop hits isn't the least bit new.

But then there is Boston duo Karmin, made up of singer Amy Heidemann and keyboard player/singer Nick Noonan. They take an idea that shouldn't work, two white folks doing covers of predominately Rap songs, and make it work. There is a tendency especially when white girls do covers of Hip-Hop songs on Youtube that no matter how seriously they are taking themselves, it comes across as a joke more than anything else.

The difference here I think is actually two things, first Amy Heidemann is actually very talented, that much is obvious, the other is that instead of doing a straight covers of these songs Heidemann and Noonan add their own spin to these hits. There are some people, myself included, that prefer their cover of Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now" over the original, when Heidemann takes on the challenge of Busta Rhymes' fast rap verse and succeeds with flying colors.

There Youtube Page is loaded with videos, covering artists like Lady Gaga, Pink, Adele, B.O.B. Katy Perry, just to name a few. Its definitely worth checking it out, but a fair warning, with Karmin's style and the infectious vocal styling of Amy Heidemann you may end up looking at their page for quite a while.

The Retirement of Shaquille O'Neal

When I talk to "old-timers" and they talk to me about how dominate Kareem was or Wilt or Russell, I normally shake my head in agreement, because as great and dominate as they were, (I am a firm believer in numbers telling no lies) one thing is for certain....I never saw them play. Play live at least, as a huge Lakers fan I've seen plenty of video footage of all three mentioned earlier, which as dominate as they were, fair or unfair it does detract from seeing on video vs. seeing live as its happening.

I always felt the way those "old-timers" feel about Kareem or Wilt or Russell about Shaq, to me Shaq was the most dominate, most explosive, most threatening big man I've ever seen, and I like to think I've come from a pretty good age of Center's in the NBA, Hakeem, Ewing, Robinson, Duncan, etc, but to me Shaq was always heads and shoulders above the rest. 

His size was always intimidating, he stood 7'1 over 300 pounds, but that was only half the story, he had the skill of a 6'7 power forward, the ability to drive the lane, to pivot unlike any big man I'd seen at his size, and most impressively, his post-up game was as good, if not better than anyone thats ever played this game. In my mind, only Charles Barkley posted-up as well as Shaq.

Shaq won 4 titles during his time in the NBA, a very impressive feat, 3 of those titles coming with the Lakers, the other coming with Dwyane Wade and the Heat, the year he was traded to the Heat, Shaq won 3 NBA Finals MVPs and one Regular Season MVP, and as ESPN's Skip Bayless said recently, from 2000-2003 (during LA's three-peat) there wasn't a more dominate Big-Man in the NBA.

As great as Shaq was on the court, he was just as good, maybe better off the court. Always quick to crack wise and have fun with the media, Shaq set the stage for the modern day athlete, believe it or not there was a time when there was a line between Sports and Entertainment, Shaq helped blur that line creating two Platinum Rap albums, starring in several films, some critically acclaimed, like "Blue Chips" others, not so much like "Kazzam". His blurring of those lines helped pave the way for guys like Terrell Owens, Chad Ochocinco, and the like who became just as well known for their off the field shenanigans as they have for what they do during game time. 

In many ways my feelings toward Shaq have been mixed throughout the past couple of years, after all this was the guy that thought he was better than Kobe Bryant, which to Lakers fans is almost like the Beatles saying they were bigger than Jesus. Kobe bleeds purple and gold, Shaq merely played for the team. Shaq was the guy that often did everything in his power to besmirch the Lakers franchise year after year, joining with whatever team he thought could knock off the Lakers that particular season, the Suns, the Cavs, the Celtics, he bounced around from team after team hoping to give a black eye to the Lakers.

Finally Father Time caught up with Shaq, unable to do suit up, let alone be the dominate player he once was had to have been a struggle for him this past season. As a kid and a Lakers fan I still remember one of the happiest days of my life was the day Shaq signed his (at the time) record setting 100 Million Dollar Deal. His time in LA would turn out to be exactly what the Lakers needed after a decade of malaise and Elden Campbell. Shaq and Kobe would form the BEST 1-2 Punch the NBA has Ever seen, and lead the Lakers to a 3-Peat. 

For all that Shaq has done in the past couple of years to give the Lakers franchise a black-eye, during his retirement ceremony he said that he "Wanted to remembered as a Laker...and... go to the Hall of Fame as a Laker". For all Lakers fans who have had a sour taste in their mouths over the past couple of years when Shaq's name was mentioned, this went a long way to repairing those feelings.

So I bid a farewell to Shaquille O' Neal one of the most charismatic, exciting, and entertaining players the world has ever seen ...Next Stop, Hall of Fame.

The Origins of Dutch/Dillon Day

Perhaps the reason I enjoyed the Mike and Bob show, or currently enjoy the Bob's Boneyard podcast so much is very egotistical...they talk about things I really enjoy. Whether they be sports, TV, movies, or weird guys with beards going into dangerous neighborhoods armed with guns, I always enjoy listening to the dudes talk about things I really like. 

This really came to be over a year ago if I'm not mistaken when one of the host Manny Fresh, also known on Facebook as Tug Johnson, whipped out his flashdrive and started watching Predator, what would follow from that encounter was legendary, the dudes started talking about Predator all day, everyday, getting, or trying to get, stars from Predator, and the new Predators on the show to talk about Predator. And after about a month of talking Predator the dudes on June 2, 2010 had what they called Dutch/Dillon Day, a day to talk about and dissect all things Predator, and of course dress up as either Dutch or Dillon from the movie, which meant either a Red Polo and khakis such as Dutch wore, or a pair of khakis slacks, with a white button-up shirt, sleeves rolled up and of course a tie like Dillon. Keep in mind, this was a radio show that was on for almost 10 years, and up to that point had literally done 1 themed show, and that was the day Nipsey Russell died. So them doing an entire 3 hour show devoted to all things Predator was unheard of, but wonderful.

All this coincided with my own rediscovering of Predator, 1 of my favorite movies as a kid, I've had it on almost every format, VHS, DVD, and now Blu-Ray, it was one of my favorite movies to quote, and I would watch it often on VHS as a kid, along with Back to the Future, and the Star Trek movies. The dudes talking so much about Predator re-ignited  my love for the film, all of a sudden I was watching nothing but Predator, Predator 2, and went to see Predators with a fun group of people, with bells on. So when the first Dutch/Dillon day came around I fully embraced it, it was a chance to dress like Dutch for the day (but in my case I looked more like someone that worked at Target) and talk about all things Predator all day. And of course watch the movie. 

So here we are with another Dutch/Dillon day upon us, so iron those red polos, blow the dust off your copy of Predator, and have fun conversations with your friends and loved-ones about the Greatest Action Movie the decade of the 80s gave us.

All though its been said many times, many ways, Happy Dutch/Dillon Day to You!