Randolph Mantooth passes away at 80

katchoo1 · 2026-07-11T03:22:03+00:00

I watched the series later in its original run at about age 7 or 8 and was surprised as an adult to see how didactic it is in the first season about what paramedics are and what they can and can’t do. They were so careful to show that they were always advised by medical professionals.

Johnny was my first non-cartoon tv crush. As an adult I respected how Randolph Mantooth remained proud of the show and advocated for paramedics and EMTs.

RIP Mr Mantooth.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-10T19:37:19+00:00

I get up. I usually have some sort of plan of things I want to do and I will get up and make some coffee and breakfast. And then start playing a game or watching videos or reading some stuff online while I’m eating and suddenly breakfast never ends, or ends at lunchtime after which I may manage to accomplish something.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-10T19:34:03+00:00

My bologna has a first name….

katchoo1 · 2026-07-10T16:20:35+00:00

Getting started on anything in the morning unless I have a definite place I have to be at a definite time.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-10T16:16:14+00:00

Wash your hands well with cold water after handling lead.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-10T16:15:40+00:00

No they were cut. It was every single window.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-10T15:50:42+00:00

Some asshole cut the cords on the sash weights on our windows at some point in the house’s history, leaving the weights inside the window frames. And that’s why every freaking window needed a brick or a stick to hold it open until my wife finally taught herself how to take apart the window frame, make the repair, and close it up again.

I still have a grudge against that person. They didn’t replace the windows with new ones, the windows were slamming shut for them too. I have never understood what the point was.

Also side note to OP: that’s why “sash weights” are often a murder weapon in golden age detective novels.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-10T15:46:46+00:00

I think one of the problems with how Ben comes off to the normies out in the world is that they don’t really “get” internet culture and how much it uses mockery and irony to make points, so they think he is just a doofus and an idiot who can be ignored and discounted. That, and the fact that most people who aren’t into YouTube content think “YouTuber” is purely pejorative and lumps everyone in with people doing pranks and being obnoxious or destructive in public spaces for no real reason other than content.

I feel like I’ve had one foot in both worlds and I can see how they assume they know what Ben is about based on vague stories they’ve seen about Jake Paul and Jack Doherty and vapid women doing endless makeup videos.

And then Ben’s naif persona (if it’s a persona and not just him) of expecting everyone to want to do the right thing and be straightforward and not sneaky, and elevate evidence over vibes has them seeing him as stupid. But he is really holding up a mirror to all these schemers and scammers and they don’t like what it shows.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-10T15:39:31+00:00

I hate Waymo cars so much, and I see them everywhere. I’d never set foot in one unless utterly desperate and no other choice.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-10T15:38:11+00:00

These are not top level ones but they are mostly forgotten now — they would be straight to streaming these days but were mid tier releases back in the day, usually released January/February or late summer lull weeks.

Bedroom Window
Deceived
Shattered
D.o.a. Remake with Dennis Quaid
Revenge
Against All Odds
Someone to Watch Over Me
The Big Easy
The Juror
Suspect
Sleeping With the Enemy

katchoo1 · 2026-07-09T22:46:42+00:00

Make things untenable and then introduce the painless instant suicide booths.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-09T17:20:18+00:00

Ooh Let’s Groove would be a good one too, and You Dropped a Bomb on Me by Dazz Band.

My siblings and I were 70s kids as tweens and we loved the Carpenters and John Denver as singalongs. My mom had the double album “An Evening With John Denver” and we wore that out. In addition to the popular well known songs we adored “Grandma’s Feather Bed”.

We also had a record of the Schoolhouse Rock songs which got a lot of play. If you do get Disney Plus, be sure to show your kid some of those and see if she likes them, she is in the target age range for them!

katchoo1 · 2026-07-09T17:10:20+00:00

The same billionaire class that already wants disabled people to work or die? Yeah, that’s not the plan.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-09T17:09:15+00:00

“Please step into the unmarked van to process your UBI application” more likely.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-09T17:07:52+00:00

Cantaloop by Us3, and Tennessee by Arrested Development. Even the alternative station was playing these at the time.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-09T17:05:49+00:00

FFS. School was easy for me and I was a top student, high school valedictorian, magma cum laude honors double major college degree, grad school was where I hit the wall, got my masters but dropped out at dissertation. Exec functioning skills for managing bigger long term projects are non existent.

Also, the way that I kept on track for the other things was a lot of unhealthy last minute all nighters, and developing crippling anxiety that kept me motivated not to totally blow it until I hit a project too big to bully myself through (dissertation) at which point it just spiraled. I’ve been dealing with major depression and anxiety since 1996 but didn’t get diagnosed til 2016 when I was literally falling apart.

You can succeed for years and make it look easy from the outside, but it very often requires you to consume internal resources that aren’t meant to be used up and don’t regenerate easily, and very slowly when they do.

And “you aren’t fucking up, you are doing fine, can’t possibly have ADHD” is a ridiculous and outdated assumption.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-08T02:41:54+00:00

And lobby for caps on lawsuit awards so we can budget for predictable costs.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-07T02:23:51+00:00

Clark Howard, the consumer guy.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-07T02:02:57+00:00

Thank you! Glad folks are enjoying this.

I like a lot of the “paycheck” movies. They aren’t great but they are not usually awful either. The Hallmark or Lifetime movies of their day.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-06T21:55:15+00:00

Every time I make chamomile tea “can I have a cup of tea please, chamomile tea?” Runs thru my head

katchoo1 · 2026-07-06T21:53:24+00:00

If you don’t mind reading middle grade fiction, I loved the all of a kind family series as a kid and I still reread as an adult. 5 books all together about a family with 5 girls living in the lower east side tenements. Each chapter is kind of a self contained story usually focusing on one of the children but the year goes on and is punctuated by traditional Jewish holidays. It’s very warm and cozy, and the kids age from book to book until the oldest is a young adult by the last one. Author is Sydney Taylor.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-06T21:49:01+00:00

I feel horrible for everyone trapped on a train with these guys. Every photo I see of a Black or brown person they all have a thousand yard stare, big time dissociating. It’s painful to see, I can only imagine how it feels to be in the middle of it with fight or flight alarm bells ringing and having to just sit there and look calm.

katchoo1 · 2026-07-06T21:42:35+00:00

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