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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 20h

Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 23h

I assume @pftompkins.bsky.social didn’t really know @murderxbryan.bsky.social before recording today’s episode of Guys and hearing him react to getting to know him was absolutely hilarious. Great episode.

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Guys: Episode 141 - Knife Guys with Paul F Tompkins

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 1d

GOMS

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 1d

My friend sent me a text that read “Sweet Jesus what is happening” at the exact same time I posted this

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck is happening?

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 1d

We’ll see!

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 1d

I’m currently listening to the game on my phone in my car at Southcenter after getting off of work and discovering my car won’t start. Waiting for a jump start or something from AAA.

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 2d

I’m planning on ditching Spotify soon because of all the reasons but just haven’t done the work of moving all my and my kid’s playlists over to Apple yet but it needs to be done ASAP.

Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 2d

What the fuck, I was listening to my Release Radar playlist on Spotify and there is a new Screaming Trees song and I figured it was a B side or unreleased track since Mark Lanegan has sadly passed away, but instead, it is AI slop sounding bullshit being published on Spotify as Screaming Trees

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 2d

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 2d

We just talked for a good hour about why we hated it, what worked, what went wrong, and it was a productive, smart conversation. But I just needed to boil it down to the more crude, stupid sounding review above for social media.

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 2d

Stereophonic fucking sucked. What a shitty play. Seriously aggravating.

Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 2d

I am at Stereophonic at The Paramount and I listened to the game until the show started and I heard Cal Raleigh’s homer to tie it up but missed the next two runs. This confirms that I am not allowed to watch a game.

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 2d

And I am working from 11-7 tomorrow so I won’t be able to watch game two.

Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 2d

I am at Stereophonic at The Paramount and I listened to the game until the show started and I heard Cal Raleigh’s homer to tie it up but missed the next two runs. This confirms that I am not allowed to watch a game.

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not sure how to confirm whether Dion Earl is still in prison or not, but he should only be about 6 years into a 12+ year sentence. A real piece of shit

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never been more for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social after hearing this.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t really know her, will give a listen, but she seemed thrown off by the size of the crowd and stage and wasn’t at her best.

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 3d

Sitting here at home thinking about my Chilaquiles Trio breakfast yesterday at Girasol Cocina Mexicana in Monrovia, California.

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 3d

I actually did wonder if that was maybe the case. It doesn’t entirely surprise me considering how unbelievably packed the place was.

Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 3d

Back in Seattle. I do love it here, but Los Angeles, warts and all, kind of got its hooks in me again this past week. Damn, it was so good.

Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 4d

I was at Chappell Roan last night and the opening act, Hemlocke Springs, stopped in the middle of a song because something distracted her in the crowd and then realized that there was a fight. Didn’t expect fighting at Chappell Roan.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 4d

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 4d

Just went through a TSA checkpoint and there is a video running on repeat from Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the shutdown and delays at airports. Someone very obviously put a chair in front of the TV playing it to block it from view. I was only able to get bits and pieces of it.

Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile, I may never leave The Rose Bowl parking lot. Haven’t moved an inch in half an hour or more.

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s where I was sometime near the 15th inning

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Brandon Sparks @dubseasparks.bsky.social · 4d

Every game I have been able to watch over the last couple weeks has been a loss. I’m too superstitious for this shit.

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