The Maren Moments

Hi, this is Eddie from Big Ed's Barbecue in Waukegan,

Illinois, and you are listening to the GeekCast

Radio Network. Sucker. Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is TF2 and Mike from the GeekCast Radio

Network. And if you're hearing this episode,

this is the Marin moments. That's right, Marin,

M -A -R -E -N. In 2017, Karen and I met and we

had our history together. And sadly, I'm not

going to bury the lead on this. She passed away

in 2021, not because of COVID, but because of

other things, unfortunately. And I am still extremely

sad and emotional. And I've been trying to do

this podcast for the whole year since she passed.

I've been trying to go ahead and do the Marin

moments and basically what this is is several

moments of the times that I was able to get Karen

to record with me we never actually recorded

a proper podcast but these moments are essentially

a day in the life even though it's really not

a day in the life kind of thing but they are

very like raw discussion type moments from various

times in our time together. We were together

from August 6th of 2017 to November 6th of 2021.

Technically November 5th is when she passed,

but basically August 6th, 2020. See, this is

going to be raw audio, folks. I'm not editing

this. I'm not doing it. I'm not cutting that

out because I'm already tongue -tied trying to

talk about this. We were together from August

6th, 2017 to November 5th or 6th of 2021 when

she passed. The biggest thing for us when we

were together in the relationship we were in,

being married, being divorced, That's a whole

story that I'll have to tell later. It's a thing.

But we were still together. Our relationship

was pretty much everything on the table. All

the cards. Show them all. And it worked. And

it was fun. And we made each other laugh all

of the time. And that's the key here. These moments

that you're gonna hear throughout this podcast

and this is not gonna be a long episode It's

gonna be you know, maybe 20 minutes It's not

gonna be long because it's just clips and then

me coming in front of the clips kind of thing

so Yeah, laughter really really did rule our

lives and it was so great. It was so fun and

we could always make each other laugh and we

could always end up we got to the point where

we were so matchy -matchy like I would have a

thought and then she would say what I was thinking

kind of thing so yeah the first moment is when

we were heading home to Chicago from Louisville

can Chicago Illinois Louisville Kentucky I believe

we were getting the rest of my stuff from my

old apartment at the time. And we were stuck

on the dreaded I -65. That I -65 downtown ramp

loop in Louisville, Kentucky is a nightmare.

So that's where this first clip comes from. I

hope you enjoy it. Okay, maybe. I hope that's

my group. Start screaming. Say, get me out of

Louisville. Get me out of Louisville! Anything

else you'd like to say? No. No? We need to get

home to Chicago because Louisville sucks right

now. Fucking A. We should have Facebook Live

this. That's what we should have done. I was

gonna be so goddamn hilarious! You're always

funny, baby. Thank you, honey. I just love, I

haven't listened to this in a while, and with

Karen gone, it's like, oh, I remember everything

about these moments, and I just absolutely love

them. This clip is a day in the life kind of

thing, like I said before, it's more of, I just

let the recorder go and we were kind of sort

of testing it out. This was right before I interviewed

Eddie from Big Ed's Barbecue in Waukegan, Illinois.

So... It's a bunch of things. It's Christmas.

It's moving to Oregon. It's moving to Washington.

Whatever. It's all of that, plus her asking me

at the end if I'm ready. I forgot we had this

clip. This makes me wish that I had a chance

to record more with Karen because together, we

are hilarious. I mean, like I've said before,

we made each other laugh all the damn time. So

this is a very, very raw clip. You're gonna hear

my chair squeak like you kinda hear it now probably.

And again, I hope everyone enjoys this blast

from our past. The pizza. That's what you wanted.

You had the salad. You smell like onions. Smell

like onions? I smell like onions. You're not

smelly. Come here. Give me the wifey. I can't

take it. Roll away. No, roll away. Well, I did.

No, no, no. No, you smell syrup. No? Trust me,

if wifey smell like onions... Smell these. Okay,

that smell like onion. Why? I smelled it when

I was putting it over my head. That makes no

sense. Exactly. That's silly. Exactly. I'm only

doing this to test, to see. Uh huh. Cause talk

woman talk. Hello woman talk woman. Hi husband

talk woman. Talk louder. Talk louder. Oh my god.

That kitten is back on the escalator again. Get

you out of Louisville. Get me out of Chicago

land. Ain't that the truth. Get me out of Illinois.

I told Pam we wanted to be in Pacific Northwest

by the end of spring. Yeah. Supposedly. Because

she's like, oh, I asked her if she was ready

for the snow. She goes, yeah, I guess. We'll

probably be somewhere warmer. I said, oh, where

are you going? And she goes, nowhere. We work

too much. That's not right. I mean, I understand,

but that's not right. Yeah, no. No. Yeah, by

the end of spring, hell. By the end of December.

Most likely, yeah, but... Well... Didn't wanna...

I know. Total freak out. People aren't gonna

freaking know until we're actually out there.

Out there. I don't think so either. I mean, unless

you've told Sandy. I don't know if I told her

exact timing. But I did tell her yeah No more

of this in -between shit. Yep. It's going to

be out there. We go. Yep Because he's an open

box and he's not in a oh he's in it He's not

in a you know protecting a molded molded thing.

Yeah knows like why is he hiding? I get that

he's old and shit and he doesn't want to be seen.

I can relate. So, that bookcase is coming. That

one is trash. That's dead, yeah. This? Is it

good enough, do you think, to take? Yeah. Okay.

So we'll take that. Because that's essentially

my pop shelf and that's my memory. Right. Yes,

there are CDs and shit on there. Right. Books

and whatever. Yeah. Hello, all the pictures,

my helmet. Yep. All that. But yeah, essentially

what I'm probably gonna do is I'm gonna trade

that for what's downstairs for this TV. Okay.

What we used to use for the TV that we sold them.

Right. You're gonna put this TV down there. They're

not bringing that thing off. No. When we move.

Yes. Getting rid of this. Yes. Keeping the thing

downstairs for this television. Okay, fine. No.

Not, no, no. I was like, why would you do that

for two weeks? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. When

we get rid of this, it's gone for good, but this

TV now needs a new home unless I put it right

here, which I can't because we now have the printer.

So the thing that's downstairs that we were using

for the other TV that we don't longer have will

now be the home for that. So we are bringing

that piece of furniture. So I just want to, like,

in my... Hello. I mean, it's either that or we

find something else and something better and

something newer. I know. But that thing is perfect.

Exactly. That thing's perfectly fine. Just dust

it off and do a pledge down on it or whatever.

It'll be fine. It's fine. Yeah. The drawers are

fine. The shelf, the open unit thing is good.

Yep. Okay. I'm just trying to make sure if I

need to adjust the microphone or if I need to

have him shout or something, because the distance,

like for me, watch your foot. When I have it

over here, it's like right here by my... And

I'm sitting here like this, or I'm sitting back

like this. Right. And the directional is picking

it up from here, even though I'm putting more

inflection than I would normally do. You see

the waveform getting louder as I'm talking. Well,

not that he's going to want to be like right

up close, but maybe if he's like this. Yeah,

maybe. And then that's kind of more, maybe just

equal distance back, and then there. So. Let's

try this. Okay. Oh, my back. Hello, Husby. How

are you today? I'm broken. Me, too. I'm a living

dead boy. I'm a living dead girl. We matchy -matchy

all the time. Nice to meet you. Uh -huh. It's

meet you. It's beat you. You don't have a BMW,

I don't beats my wife. You know what BMW is backwards,

right folks? Wanted Mercedes -Benz. Yes, well...

They're still over there. They've been over there

all day. The car for the neighbors over there.

Hasn't been there almost all weekend and then

yesterday it showed up. Well, I shouldn't say

all weekend. Is it the old owner? The black car.

Yeah, okay. So they haven't closed closed yet,

they're just pending. No, it's still pending.

Goddamn next door neighbor house goes pending

12 days. Meanwhile, we're on for like four or

five months here. Yeah, bastards. Still sitting

at contingent. Well, normal closing time is 45

to 60 days. He's an XL. For when yep, yeah What

are we gonna get her I Know I don't know I Feel

like that's so lame, but it's a place. I know

they like it's like oh what that fresh You're

going to go to my room Scoozy! Go to the room.

It is my room, you know. Just legal, uh, rental

agreement here. Anyhow. Deforced. Exactly. Deforced.

2019. Bigger shitstorm than the president. Well,

I don't know about that. Not really. I don't

think anything can be that bad. Not really. I

keep, sadly, they're not in my size at all. I

keep seeing shirts like, Seinfeld and Costanza

2020. 2012, yeah. 2020 now. That's what I meant.

What was the one? Pinky and the Brain 2020, or

there was another one I saw that I really liked,

and I'm like, damn it, my size. Do you have everything

you need for him? Like, if he were to ring the

bell right now, everything's okay? No, I still

have to write the intro, but... Get to work!

Well... It's not a hump. It's a really bad hump.

Uh, it's not a really bad hump. Get to work.

Alright, Karen, alright, I hear you, I hear you.

Next up is our reaction to the KFC Lifetime mini

movie. Oh my god, first you're gonna hear the

trailer for it and then you're gonna hear us

reacting to it. It is hilarious. And now, the

premiere of a lifetime original mini movie. A

recipe for seduction starts now. This pipe and

hot love affair of deep -fried romantic goodness

is presented by Kentucky Fried Chicken. What

do you want me to say? You want me to talk about

this nasty thing I just watched? This waste of

19 minutes I can never reclaim? Yes, but you

have to talk louder. A recipe for love, a...

Recipe for seduction. Recipe for seduction, a

lifetime... Time slash KFC mini movie. Mini movie,

people. That's what they're calling it. Mini

movie. At first, when I heard about this thing,

I thought it was going to be a full length, one,

two, three hour, hallmark type movie. My lovely...

wife, Karen, has just watched this 19 minute

catastrophe. Yes. What do you think? I have not

seen this yet. I think I need to gouge my eyes

out. It was horrible. It was as bad as you think

it's going to be and then worse. It's like a

really bad Soap opera? It's not a Hallmark movie,

Lifetime movie type of thing at all to me. It's

more like a single episode of a very bad soap

opera that only lasted for one episode. Because

of how bad it is. Basically, oh, what was this?

Not passions. Yeah, whatever. I don't remember

what those things. Anyway. So I'm trying to describe

this to him and I said, I can't decide what's

worse. The acting the fact that there's a mini

movie sponsored by KFC About KFC about KFC or

Mario Lopez's fucking hair in this goddamn thing.

I Don't know what they did. I don't know what

product they use. I don't know how they put it

on him But like the other leading man character,

whatever has like a natural grain hair effect

Whatever they did to Mario Loves looks like they

dipped their hands in white paint and ran them

through his thing like ran their fingers through

his hair through his Little Colonel Sanders,

whatever the hell facial hair thing he has. It's

disgusting. It's it's distracting and then the

plot and the thing and the acting and it's just

I can't so I'm sitting out here eating lunch,

watching Star Wars The Clone Wars with my headphones

on. I hear her through my headphones say something

and I'm like, did you say something? So I took

my headphones off. She's like, well I'll never

get that 19 minutes back. Yeah. It's bad. And

I have stopped myself from looking online to

seeing what people say about it because... It's

bad. And I knew it was going to be bad. And I

knew it was gonna be cheesy and whatever. I didn't

expect it to be that bad. I didn't expect it...

Yes, I expected the acting to be very, you know,

overdramatic and whatever, because hello, it

is what it is. But that hair job, what were they

thinking? Like, if they're trying to make him

look like Colonel Sanders, just go for the full

whiteout. Or, you know, or just let him be his

younger version of himself with the hair on his

face doing the Colonel stash and chin patch,

soul patch thing. That's fine too, but instead

it looks like they... It's just... No. No! Norm

MacDonald, Jim Gaffigan, insert any other person

that has been in the KFC commercials probably

did a better job than Mario Lo - Slater from

Saved by the Bell. This is what his career is

reduced to? Are you kidding me? And again, I

have not seen this. I'm actually gonna pause

this recording. I will waste 19 minutes of my

life that I'll never get back. I'll have a heart

attack and never be able to finish this podcast

episode. But I'm gonna watch this thing and...

If I need to gouge my eyes out, good thing I'm

already legally blind. Yeah, seriously. At least

you can't fully see what I fully just saw. Oh,

and then what I really love is, like, coming

up next, you know, after the - after the little

mini movie, Mario Lopez and Feliz Navidad. I'm

like, okay, I gotta go now. Bye! There's only

one Christmas movie. Christmas hallmark whatever

Whatever insert whatever channel movie that I

actually enjoy with him in it and it's not has

nothing to do with him It has to do with the

fact that it's Melissa Joe. It's fucking Clarissa.

Yeah holiday and handcuffs Yeah, I love that

one because she basically kidnaps him. Yeah,

and she basically does all this shit to him That's

the only one I really care for but I mean what

the hell Mario Lopez will be back after this

Dinner's ready when you are Colonel Sanders boys

and girls make it really big Good chicken. Colonel

Sanders has lived on through many actors at KFC.

There's now been nine comedic colonels just since

2015. Howdy folks, it's me, Colonel Sanders.

And the newest addition to the Colonel family,

Ray Liotta from the movie Goodfellas. To become

a member of a crew, you've got to be 100 % Italian

so they can trace all your relatives back to

the old country. And now he's part of the KFC

crew. He recently hit the screen with his split

feelings on KFC's new chicken choices. Seems

like the best idea is if we just try both. Who

said that? Let's take a look back at some of

the colonels, starting with comedian Daryl Hammond.

Hammond played the Colonel till fellow SNL alum

Norm MacDonald jumped in his shoes just three

months later. Howdy folks, I'm the real Colonel

Sanders. Then in 2016, out of nowhere, Jim Gaffigan

swooped in. No more Nashville hot chicken, no

more Colonel. I mean, what are you gonna do?

It's not like you can find another Colonel, right?

It was easy actually. That summer they hit the

beach and found legendary actor George Hamilton.

I'm feeling a little extra crispy. Bob Riggle

jumped into the bucket of Colonel's. Here I come!

But it was game over only a month later when

Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser crooned his way

onto the scene. It's KFC's Nashville Colonel!

At the beginning of 2017, KFC went back in time.

Hello! Casting Billy Zane, one of Biff's sidekicks

from Back to the Future. New KFC Georgia Gold

Honey Mustard BBQ. As the Gold Colonel. It's

finger licking gold. Finally, we've hit the bottom

of the bucket with the latest take on the late

great chicken icon. Rob Lowe's astronaut colonel

is hoping to keep KFC's marketing scheme flying

sky high. From the ball field and beach to zero

G's. Spicy. Crispy. Spacey. That's a bucket full

of KFC colonels on the lowdown. Well folks, I

guess we never recorded part two of the KFC mini

movie. with my reaction to watching it. Basically,

it boils down to I agree with whatever Karen

just said just now in her opinion. Her opinion

and my opinion are the same opinion on this matter.

That Mario Lopez KFC mini movie was so bad. Just

so bad. Up next is something we were trying to

do. To help Karen's doctors out in the Pacific

Northwest Understand what was going on with her

ailments And I was trying to film it and I kept

saying the wrong day and the wrong year and the

wrong everything So that's just a little clip

coming up next We are recording this is Sunday

March 19th March 19th Fucked. No, no, no. This

is Sunday, August 9th. No, shit. I can't even

do an autopsy video right. This is Sunday, February

9th, 2027. I don't know. All right, so Sunday,

September 19th. 2021 at just after noon -ish

Pacific time, Karen Blanchard. Say hi to the

people! Hi people! And the last little clip before

I close this out is Karen as Cousin It from the

Addams Family. So we were in whatever stores

we were in that day and we ended up going to

I think GameStop or somewhere, wherever there

are Funko Pops. And I saw Cousin It, and I was

like, ooh, I want that pop. That's a cool pop.

Well, Karen had long hair. Karen's hair at the

time was long enough where she could basically

cover her entire face. If you go to geekcastradio

.com and you go to this post, you'll see a picture

of Karen as Cousin It holding the pop. And I

just love... her so much for embracing my funko

pop fanaticism and yeah that's that's gonna do

it so that'll be the last clip okay do it louder

my wife has turned into cousin it I hope everyone

has enjoyed this. I have enjoyed going back and

listening to these clips because I haven't since

we initially recorded them and some of them were

actually video clips that I exported the audio

out of. Like I said, the the quote -unquote autopsy

video and it wasn't an autopsy video people we

were trying to she had something on her arms

that we were trying to show the doctor and All

the things that were popping into my head was

every true crime thing we've ever seen, between

forensic files and autopsy with Dr. Michael,

whatever his name is, I forget what his last

name is at the time, at the time of this recording

and all that, so... Yeah, it, uh... God, I miss

her. I'm recording this on Christmas Day, 2022,

and... It's been a year and over a month since

Karen died, and... Oh, God. This isn't how it

was supposed to be. I mean, I know things happen,

I know life happens and whatever else, but once

you find the one you love, you're not supposed

to lose them after only four and a half years

of being in love. Karen and I really never fought.

We fought a few times. We argued a few times,

but most of the time we were simpatico. We were,

as she would say, matchy -matchy. And yeah, not

having her here anymore. It's... Somebody please

take this knife out of my back. See ya. Like

I said, folks, I... Hope everyone enjoyed this.

I enjoyed putting this together. I have laughed

so hard while working on this because I remember

all the good times that we had and... Merry Christmas,

everybody. Hold on to the ones you love. You

know, always check in on the ones that you love

because you never know when they're gonna be

gone. And yeah, I... This was the Marin moments.

The reason why this was the Marin moments because

Mike and Karen We were trying to figure out our

our combined name and Marin was the only real

solution because Mike and Karen like kike kike

that no that doesn't sound right So, the Marin

moments, plus we both love the Thomas Rhett and

Marin Morris song that they did. What was that

song? Oh god, it's... I'm blanking on it and

I shouldn't blank on it. What's the name of that

fucking song? What's the name of that fucking

song? Right here on Geek -Ass Radio Network.

Oh no, I'm in the right playlist. Holy crap,

you guys are hearing me do live audio things

that I'm probably gonna cut out, but where is

Thomas, not theory Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, where

are you Thomas Rhett? Craving You, that's what

it was, Craving You by Thomas Rhett and Maren

Morris. So yeah. Oh man. I know people say it'll

get easier over time, and even though it's only

been a year, It's not easier. It's not going

to get easier. I've told this story before and

I know I'm rambling on at this point, but It's

just what I do if you've listened to any of my

podcasts that are actually fully edited and a

full Production type thing even though this is

also a full production type of thing I did very

little editing on this because I as I said in

the beginning I wanted it to be as raw and as

real as I possibly could get it to be So yeah,

I ramble a lot, and now because I'm rambling

on things, I don't remember what in the hell

I was gonna say. This has been The Marin Moments.

We'll catch you next time when I talk to Tony

Wolf in episode 313 of Geekcast Radio. Because

this was episode 312, Chicago area code, and

Karen was from Chicago, so... That's why I kind

of switched these around. The one thing we always

said to each other, and I don't know how we came

up with this, I think we were watching something,

it was probably had to do with Buzz Lightyear

most likely, but we were always trying to one

-up each other when we would tell each other

that we loved the other person. So, I love you,

I love you, I love you more, I love you most,

and so on and so on. So our saying was, you know,

We combined all of that and then turned it into

a Buzz Lightyear saying I love you more most

infinity and beyond And that's still true even

though Karen's not here anymore Like I said a

second ago folks hold on to the ones you love

Be with the ones you love talk to them call them

write them a letter write them an email Get them

on a Skype call. Get them on a whatever call.

Oh boy, my phone just went off. Great. Do whatever

you gotta do to keep your loved ones close to

you while they're here. Because one day they

won't be and that really really sucks. I am TFG1Mike.

You can reach me on Twitter under that name,

at TFG1Mike. You can follow me on Instagram if

you like. At TFG1Mike Presents. And Unleash the

Geek in You and I will catch you next time. We

should have Facebook live this that's what we

should have done Hey everybody, it's Chuck and

Stacey from VO Buzz weekly and you are listening

to geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek geek

geek geek geek geek