#15 Crossing the Streams 2: Electric Boogaloo

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Jeff Dwoskin 0:20

Brian, thank you for that amazing introduction. And welcome, everyone to Episode 15 of the Jeff Dwoskin show. And we have an amazing show for you today. I have Ron lippitt and Howard Rosner returning by popular demand to do another segment of crossing the streams with me, where we go deep, deep into some really great shows that everyone should be watching. That's going to come up real soon. But first, though, social media Tip of the Week. Anyway. So last week, Twitter had said, Hey, now you can limit replies and I downloaded it, and I talked about it, but I could not find it. And I swear to goodness, this second, I released last week's episode, suddenly it appeared on my desktop and on my mobile. And if you go to tweet, it says everyone can reply right above the image and the GIF on the mobile. And if you click on that, then you can change it to just people you follow can reply, or only people you mentioned in the tweet can reply. So that's kind of cool. If you want to really limit yourself, I think it's a little anti the whole concept of tweeting to the world to limit people kind of makes it a monologue versus a dialogue. So I probably won't be using this feature too much, if at all, but it's there. So enjoy it if it's your thing to talk at people and not have any back and forth whatsoever. And that's the end of the social media section. As always, I asked you to please support our sponsor this week sponsor tooth bags, tooth bags when you got that thing in your teeth, or you just want to look cool when you talk toothpicks. We're here for whatever you need us for. So pick up some toothpicks. I know a lot of you have spinach in your teeth. I've seen some of the photos you've submitted. So yeah, check that out. It works great for spinach, kale, anything green, and gross are ribs, the ribs you probably needed to pick. So pick them up support our sponsor. That's how we keep the lights on. So definitely check. Check out toothpicks. They're everywhere. But buy them let me be clear. Don't just grab a time when you leave the next restaurant you're at that's not gonna help anyone. Buy toothpicks. All right. Also, don't forget to follow us on Twitter at Jeff Dwoskin show. You can subscribe and like the podcast at I Heart Radio, Spotify, Pandora, Apple podcast, Google podcast Stitcher, everywhere. Amazing podcasts can be found. So definitely do that. Tell your friends to listen in. Alright, so right now, out further ado, I present to you crossing those streams. Again. I'm here again with Howard Rosner, who almost didn't make it. This time. He's been locked in a legal battle with Alyssa Milano and the producers of who's the boss over his rightful status as the 22nd member of their fan club. Welcome back, Howard. Thanks for having me again, Jeff. Thanks for zoning. So excited to do the and of course we got Ron limpid, who has been circling the globe watching all the TVs on the little screens to report back to as well yeah,

Ron Lippitt 3:41

thank you appreciate it. Glad Glad to be here. I've actually moved from Little screens to two big screens in my basement things that were stuck here during quarantine so this has been an interesting experiment for me.

Jeff Dwoskin 3:52

Ron flies is like 4000 hundred million miles a year he's George Clooney in that in that movie where the guy comes to him and hands on the the platinum status metal card I actually have one that is run awesome so what do we what are we watching? I'll start I guess I've been I'm on my fifth watch of Schitts Creek if you guys watched

Ron Lippitt 4:13

Schitts Creek, one of my favorite shows and yeah

Howard Rosner 4:15

but it took me until quarantine to watch Breaking Bad a little bit behind on series that everybody else love

Jeff Dwoskin 4:20

we can get the bedroom bad in a second. Yeah, but she's Creek Eugene Levy son, Daniel Levine and actually wrote this show on Canadian channel and I think it became popular and everyone started watching once every season got released on Netflix that's at least when I happen to catch the last season on pop. It's just so funny. I get the basic premise of the show for anyone listening who hasn't seen it. It's basically the idea is what would happen if the Kardashians for example, as a relatable family just lost all their money and just had nothing anymore. And what would what would someone who goes from that rich to literally having nothing? What would their life become?

Ron Lippitt 4:56

So I little that happens to be one of my favorite shows to Jeff and One of the interesting things about that show is it's an entirely Canadian cast with the exception of Chris Elliott, everyone else in the entire staff production and back office for that is all Canadian. So I think that's a pretty cool thing about that show. getting popular.

Jeff Dwoskin 5:15

And Christmas is probably my least favorite part of the show. So the American is the one ruins it for me. His daughter was actually up for I think Alexis rose originally. But I think that didn't work out.

Howard Rosner 5:29

Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy just watching all the Chris Guest movies and how they act together. Our I mean, you know, Best in Show, just the two of them together. It's just amazing sight. I would imagine. It's probably pretty hysterical on a weekly basis. Oh, the two of them is to treat. Howard, you mentioned you're watching this new show called Breaking Bad. My wife finally made me watch it. And now I'm cooking meth. So you know, it's been it's been a productive period. No, I do have a show that a lot of folks haven't watched anytime I bring it up to everybody at the show. I think it's on Tru TV regularly, but it's streaming on Netflix. It's called I'm sorry. And it's, you know, quick half hour comedy. So 20 to 24 minute episodes. It's created by and starring Andrea Savage, which the name might not a lot of people might not recognize but for context. She's Dr. Angel face from stepbrothers, who you've seen in other stuff as well. She's hysterical in it. And then her husband is Tom Everett Scott from that thing you do amongst other things. It's, you know, just a family young couple going through life comedy, but she's a comedy writer also. And it's just her life story. But I just think it's a really sarcastic funny show. The first two seasons are streaming I think the third season. They either did but isn't streaming yet, but it's it's a really funny show that I highly recommend. It's a super easy watch. You can get through a season in a night. No problem. Come in that one

Jeff Dwoskin 7:00

quite a bit. We'll check it out. Ron, what's on your list?

Ron Lippitt 7:04

So you know, I seem to find myself seeking out the intense shows ahead of the comedies I love comedies through but it is funny to be the show that has my head exploding right now is on Hulu. It's with Nick Offerman called devs I don't know if you guys know this show or not. But it's a suggestion that in Silicon Valley there is a software developing a company that has a super secret division within a called Debs that has created a predictive algorithm that can not only tell you what happened in the past, but predict what's going to happen in the future and it shall we say changes everything and so it's a bit of a cluster and will mess with your head. In fact, if you look online, there's a number of crazy discussion groups talking about the the real possibility of this and what it actually means for planet Earth. So if you want your head blown away, that's devs is my recommendation.

Jeff Dwoskin 7:55

If they bring in a deep

Ron Lippitt 7:56

taking it Yeah, right. The other one that makes me crazy. I've watched that twice. It's a little older on HBO is drama called the night of with john Turturro also features Riz Ahmed rizona made his name with in the movie Nightcrawler with Jake Gyllenhaal, but the two of them it's about a young Islamic kid who gets framed for a murder he did not commit and ends up in Rikers Island, and what happens to him over the course of his stay in Rikers Island. While he's busy trying to formulate a defense with john Turturro as his defense attorney, it is a pretty scary and realistic view of what could happen to in a situation where you're unfairly convicted of a crime

Howard Rosner 8:37

and john Turturro is in it, which is worth watching anything that he's in for the most part.

Ron Lippitt 8:43

Yeah, he's excellent.

Howard Rosner 8:44

Other than Mr. Deeds?

Jeff Dwoskin 8:47

No, he's great. And Mr. De Dion. Very good.

Howard Rosner 8:50

Perhaps you underestimate the level of my stickiness

Jeff Dwoskin 8:56

Alright, so if you haven't watched it, Dexter is a great show. If you guys seen Dexter

Howard Rosner 9:06

I watched episodes back in the day but haven't seen it in quite a while.

Jeff Dwoskin 9:10

Dexter is an amazing show about a basically about a serial killer who works for the Miami police and he's a forensics expert oddly enough in blood so

Ron Lippitt 9:24

he's that's a real thing you know that yeah.

Jeff Dwoskin 9:27

Oh yeah. Always make it official. My take on that my The reason I bring up Dexter is if you haven't watched it, is there's eight seasons. It famously has one of the worst seasons are series finales of all time, just, it's it's,

Howard Rosner 9:41

it's always listed in the top 10 worst series finales ever, along with the sopranos.

Jeff Dwoskin 9:46

So to me, if you want to watch Dexter and keep it perfect, you watch season 123 and four, and then the rest of it doesn't exist at the end of season four, it is really the perfect ending to that series and then it just went downhill I remember watching it as I was watching the end of the last season of Breaking Bad they'd be kind of like back to back right switch channels to watch the to the level of storytelling on Dexter gets so bad at the end. It may have been exasperated by the fact that I was watching Breaking Bad either before or right after it so I couldn't handle it. But it just they lost it at some point but if you watch the first four seasons it's perfect. It's perfect

Ron Lippitt 10:31

it's it's like every Stephen King novel it's like amazing story and that he just gives up on the ending the I don't know which season it is but the john Lithgow that season for that is brilliant.

Jeff Dwoskin 10:43

Yeah so the end of that season which has the big thing at the end I don't I don't give it away because that's why I'm saying watch it but like that to me is that's perfect in itself right there. What else you got Ross?

Howard Rosner 10:54

This jump combined. I know it's the current show that's still out there. But I think it's what season five now for recording this right now in lieu of walk the new episode that's on tonight. But billions on Showtime is one of my favorite shows now of all time, Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis, he doesn't ring a bell. He was the main character in Banda brothers called Giamatti is brilliant. And then Maggie siff. And it's the show is really simple. It's Paul Giamatti in season one is the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, his wife is a private therapist, her therapy practice is within the financial firm. It's actually a hedge fund of Damien lewis's character, and he's living on the fringes and edge of illegality at all times. So here you have the US Attorney whose wife works for this guy who's illegal, and they're battling against each other in all kinds of ways. And I just think it's a brilliant show. It's a relevant show in a lot of ways with financial dealings that go on in Manhattan for certain, but the show's just great. The characters are awesome. They brought in some great extra characters along the way. I mean, this year, you've got Julianna Margulies that's now on the show. And it's it's just awesome. They're Jeffrey Dimon who plays Paul Giamatti. His dad is so frickin good in that show, but it's just well acted it's well written and Maggie siff is just amazing.

Jeff Dwoskin 12:29

going to take us out Ron you got was just

Ron Lippitt 12:31

gonna ask are either of you Peaky Blinders fans? I haven't seen it. I've heard of it. So it's, you know, Irish family drama, you know, obviously murder, intrigue, crime, that whole thing. And I gotta tell you, I don't know how many seasons it is. It's a great show. And I've actually watched all the way through but I didn't get until maybe into the maybe the third season before I realized it's an Irish version of Sons of Anarchy. It's exactly the same story. It's exactly the same story of Sons of Anarchy only with Irish accent. So if you've seen Sons of Anarchy, which I highly recommend, by the way, I think that's a fantastic show. I do recommend Peaky Blinders and I think you would enjoy that quite a bit.

Jeff Dwoskin 13:09

All right. Well, I think we've given everyone a lot of stuff to watch. So let's sign off. This is Jeff Dwoskin, saying goodbye, Howard.

Howard Rosner 13:17

Rosner saying farewell.

Ron Lippitt 13:18

And Ron Lippitt too doo loo guys

Jeff Dwoskin 13:20

I will catch you guys next time on crossing the streams. All right. Well, that was fine. catching up with Ron and Howard and talking about some awesome TV shows. Hopefully you heard something new. Or maybe you got encouraged to try something you had heard about. And now you're gonna go watch it. Let me know. Love to hear comment to me on Twitter, Instagram, anywhere you want. That'd be awesome. Love to hear it crossing the streams only available on the Jeff Dwoskin show, mostly because it was rejected. It was completely rejected everywhere else. We shopped it around and everyone said no, this will never work. But here it is on the Jeff Dwoskin show working. Yes. All right, glad you enjoyed that.

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