“Hey there FITWRers! Like many listeners I discovered you all through your appearances and mentions on other podcasts, namely Blank Check and Filmspotting and eventually found my way to the mothership and then headed down the rabbit hole of the FITWR Expanded Universe: Little Gold Men, Storm of Spoilers, Galaxy Brains (RIP), etc. I feel like, despite being on average 10 years older than you all (47 soon to be 48), I am the Voltron to your colored tigers as each of you, completely by coincidence, represents some facet of my personality: Dave is my political spirit animal and I often find myself laughing as I hear him hold back from damning the man and burning the motherf***er down. Patches is the nerd all of my gamer buddies wish I was. David’s sometimes detached, exasperated ennui (said with a wink and a nudge) feeds my soul from introducing me to Love is Blind to casually name dropping Pablo Larrain’s sharp elbows all while taunting us all with the legend of pumpkin pie talenti. Katey, I too grew up in the south, moved to a major city and then back to the south. In my case it was Virginia Beach to Chicago and back to Virginia Beach where I try to keep my cosmopolitan street cred here among Pat Robertson’s wreckage. Anyway, enough of my sycophantry. Thanks for getting me through a 22 day covid hospital stay in 2020, providing me with all kinds of pop cultural fodder for my students, and for always responding to my tweets whether they are as sublime as questions about Gene Hackman’s turtlenecks in The Poseidon Adventure or as mundane a a picture of Baja Blast Ice Cream. If you’re ever vacationing here on the coast, drop me a tweet, I’d love to buy you a beer! Stay Weird and Have Adventures, @ryanpshaw1975”
@ryanpshaw1975 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/21/23