We open episode 92 with another round of booze where we talk a bit about Old Grand Dad bourbon and the Bottled in Bond thing. Phil went to a whiskey tasting. John also does a taste comparison between two different High West ryes.

A mercifully brief post-Super Tuesday chat.

Celebrity crushes.

Phil had a salt bath.

Kitchen equipment.

More talk about what shows we watch and John is making some “Goulash”.

Kenny of All Trades and BBQ With Franklin

The Song: “Furtherer and Fewer in Between”

We open Episode 91 with just your two hosts; a simpler time.

Phil and John took several weeks off of booze and sure, why not talk about it?

John went on another cruise. Fortunately for all of you, he doesn’t spend too much time talking about it.

After our beverage choices (Phil has FUYU Japanese Whiskey and John has Johnnie Walker Double Black , we get into a segment about stuff we’ve been watching.

Also mentioned: Herbst Eatery & Farm Stand

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime)

Silo (Apple TV+)

Pluto (Netflix)

Invincible (Amazon Prime)

And the 2018 film, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot

The Song: “Dancing and Having Soup”

Episode 90 is a free-wheelin’ doozy of a season finale of Season 9, for those following along at home. With Special Guest Mr. King!

Monsieur King (Monsieur is French for Mister) is a friend of Phil, friend of the show and the friendly creator of the World-Famous podcast, Sleep Baseball! 

King is drinking a Coors, John Buffalo Trace Bourbon, and Phil tries a Shanky’s Whip.

We talk about King’s show and his upper-Midwest inspiration.

Driving through parts of Michigan and various parts of the McDonald’s menu.

We discuss adding “ways to support the show” and the old Jerry Lewis Telethons.

Somehow we accidentally kill Henry Kissinger.

If you find yourself enjoying the show and want to support us, you can buy us a "coffee"!

The Song:  “Henry Kissinger”

Episode 89 retreats back to Phil and John talking about even less important things.

“Space Poop” episode download stats update.

We reflect on Episode 87.

More-than-is-warranted talk about the State Fair and cookies.

John went on an Alaska cruise and blabs about it.

Phil and John recap the Peter Gabriel concert they recently attended.

The Song:  “Josh Rogaine”

For Time to Lean’s Halloween Special, aka Episode 88, we were joined by special guest, Randy Grimley!

Randy and Phil go way back to SDSU theater days and Randy shares “highlights” from his illustrious past. 

Randy was an all-star newspaper carrier. 

Randy talks about his time serving on his local school board.

We ponder which 5 cent coffee is better, Wall Drug or Al’s Oasis?

We all discuss spooky movies.

The Song:  “TTL Halloween (2023 Remix)”

Episode 87 is a Very Special Episode featuring Phil and John’s recent visit to Rapid City where they got to tour the construction site of South Middle School. A new building is going up and we’re joined on the call by Rob, Elizabeth, Meghan, and Jennifer K who all talk about their experiences there.

Phil reads some comments he gathered from other former South students

John did not attend South but assured everyone that his Jr. High experience was just as crappy as everyone else’s. 

The Song:  “Rebels” (Featuring Michael Johnson)

Episode 86 features a return appearance of Bruce K!

John samples some new-to-him Thomson single malt whisky.

Bruce feels that Jim Beam tastes like walnuts and doesn’t like Canadian rye.

The Dick Van Dyke show episode John mentioned. 

John and Phil talk about the Scotch tasting they attended where they met the head distiller of Lochlea.  Phil doesn’t comment much because he left his mic temporarily muted. Sad!

Bruce has retired from public school orchestra teaching. Many long-winded stories follow, mostly about international trips and rotting food in instruments.

The Song:  “There You Have It, There You Go”

Episode 85 wheezes to life with some talk about the number of high schools in Rapid City and the action at the Minnesota Legislature.

We make excuses for not getting more episodes out.

Phil is enjoying Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond and John pontificates about Compass Box Orchard House blended malt.

Phil talks about his recent choir concert (The Apollo Club men’s choir) and John recaps his recent Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra concert.

We discuss the remake of the “classic” Bob Reel Beer jingle.

We’re almost ready to discuss Star Trek Picard.

We attempt to launch a new segment:  “John’s Old Tech”.  Part One:  The Betamax!

Wikipedia article

The first machine we had access to.

This guy explains the VCR formats better than John did.

Phil’s been watching all the “Friday the 13th” movies.

The Song:  “Bob Reel Beer ‘23”