Patreon Newsletter #18: April 2021! (Patreon)

It’s April already! That sentence is BONKERS.

We hope all of you are doing well and have been or are getting vaccinated soon! We can’t wait to meet folks in person again hopefully sometime soon!

From Adal:

March was gone in the blink of an eye for me! I feel like I haven’t done much at all but I’ll muster up what I can! Last week I got the first Pfizer shot so that’s been a big relief. Jemma had her birthday last Sunday, which was nice to have cause for celebration! She’s wanting to get more into making her own stuff so my mom got her a sewing machine. If you have any recommendations on things to make, send them her/my way! TODAY is also literally 1 YEAR since Jemma and I got engaged! #Rifai-Do

My birthday is creeping up (June 1st) and all I want is for Japes, Erin and myself to have the travel show we talked about, where we eat at State Fairs around the US. So please put that out into the Universe or better yet CALL UNIVERSAL and tell them to back it. Fries & Brisket have been little loafs around the house so no news with them. 

The biggest change is my sister and brother-in-law are moving to Nashville! We’re so bummed to not have them around any more (I’ve lived within 5 miles of my sister for the past 19 years!) but we’re incredibly excited for them and look forward to having an excuse to visit Nashville 5 or 6 times a year now. If you have any recommendations for stuff to (eventually) do in Nashville, please let me know in the comments so I can pass it all along to Sadieh & Doug! I think that’s about it?

Here’s what I consumed in April!

TV:

• Call My Agent - we’re now 4 seasons deep into this show! It’s fantastic. French comedy about agents and the actors they represent. It’s on Netflix and I cannot recommend it enough.
• The Falcon & The Winter Soldier
• Deadwood - finished it all!
• Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy
• RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13
• Top Chef Season 18
• South ParQ: Vaccination Special
• Last Week Tonight
• Last Chance U: Basketball
• Last Chance U: Football seasons 1 & 2
• SNL
• Bluey

Movies:

• Coming 2 America
• Brian Regan: On The Rocks
• A Chorus Line
• Every Little Step: A Chorus Line Documentary
• Jaws 4: The Revenge
• Billie Eilish: The Worlds A Little Blurry

Other Stuffs:

• I guested on the following podcasts! My episodes are either out now or coming soon! The Completists podcast. The Restricted Section podcast. The Blue Ridge Adventures Guild podcast. Garden Plots with Skeletor podcast. Concept Podcast (talking about Monster Rap!). Man Now Dog podcast with Erin & JPC.
• I played a round of the game Alice Is Missing on Discord and it’s so fun! Highly recommend checking that out. I haven’t listened to much music lately but I dug the new Wurld Series album What’s Growing. Kinda sounds like YUCK/Dinosaur Jr.. Fun walking around music.

Please let me know if you have any recommendations for me!

Love,

Adal

7:17pm

From Erin:

Hello friends!

Check out my guide to vintage shopping if you want!

Also buy yourself flowers, wear a loud sweatshirt, and put this song on repeat to bring in the spring!

https://open.spotify.com/track/4nprEnJj1hax6zEvavwP6v?si=OtV_p9lhTzuqlbL-S46eXg

Love,

Erin

From JPC:

See you later, March! I don't know about the rest of you, but I am ready for spring. I can't wait to bust out my tank tops, sit on my porch, drink Topo Chico and pretend that the impending climate crisis isn't creeping ever closer.

What else has been going on in my life? Well, in the world of plants, I thought my palm was dying because all of the leaves turned brown and it looked pathetic, but I still bought a grow light and some plant food to try to save it and I'm happy to report that it's got 3 new green sproutings and one of them is starting to open up. It seems like it might pull through! Rough winter for that palm.

For television, I've been passively watching Superstore (Mariah has been watching it and I've been in the room) and I gotta say, it's pretty funny! I haven't watched a network sitcom in a long time and I kinda just assumed that they were all bad, but this one is pretty good. Also, it features a guy I saw in an improv show in Chicago in 2007, so that's pretty cool. Other than that, I haven't been watching shit. I'm excited that John Oliver is back tho so I can get sad every Sunday night.

I finished Cyberpunk 2077 and it was just okay! One of those games I enjoyed (for the most part) while playing and will probably never think about again. Now I'm on a kick of playing some shorter games, but I'll probably play another big developer game sometime this month, I just don't know what it will be yet.

I'm still really loving the FitBod app. It's helped me stick to a workout routine this year and I'm still going strong. I'd highly recommend it for anyone looking for an at-home routine.

Hope y'all are doing well! I love you.

-JPC

Other News!:

• We have released 6 or the 7 episodes of Hey Tavern Tavern on Stitcher Premium! As mentioned before, it’s Chunt, Momo the mouse and Hornelius the Fintaur trying to help the citizens of Foon with their problems concerning love, sex and relationships! It’s got a banging new theme from Arne Parrott and a special cameo from the Audio Daddy himself! You’ll also hear guest spots from Mariah, Jemma, Sadieh and a few other folks! You can listen only on Stitcher Premium but if you use the code MAGIC you should get a free month of the service so you can binge it all!
• We’re starting to approach 5000 Patrons and hot damn we’re excited! We hope we get there and we have something special planned for when that happens!
• Speaking of something special, we have an announcement coming 4/20! So look out for that!
• This months Review Crew will be Space Jam! That should be up by next Monday the 12th!
• Our March Livestream video will be posted by this Monday the 5th!
• Friend of the show/Part of our logo creation, Emily Kardamis,  has a new book coming out! You can pre-order it here: https://corruptedgem.bigcartel.com/product/about-2019-2020 
• Take care of yourselves and others!

As always let us know what YOU recommend in the comments below and if there’s anything you’d like to hear us do on a Patreon episode!

Love you all and thank you for the support! We are perverts, bum ba dum dum dum dum dum.

Adal, Erin & JPC