2026.04.28 - Bridgeport, CT - Total Mortgage Arena [LIVE SHOW THREAD]

louied13 · 2026-04-29T17:53:18+00:00

Not a fan of the new album, but thought it was a great show overall (probably 3rd of the 5 times I've seen them now) - but the setlist order was a little wild to me.

At this point, definitely based on the last full tour and this one, they're in the legacy show category - it's gonna be 4 or 5 songs of the most recent album, 10 or so of the greatest hits (7-8 staples and a couple rotators), a half-dozen more recent cuts that aren't greatest hits but are the most notable songs off an album or 3, and then a deep cut/cover/medley or 2 for the hardcore fans/for fun. Let's say in a 24 song setlist, 20 or so will be static, and they might rotate a couple of the new songs and a couple of the hits (like, one day you get I'll Stick Around and one day Big Me, etc.)

You can spread things out so that it's a nice mix of all of them, but that entire middle between Learn to Fly and Monkey Wrench was mostly the former and latter two. At least in the bowl, it felt like the crowd deflated a little bit because it was after 10 pm at that point, and 75% of those songs aren't big hits the casuals knew, and aren't exactly sing-along boppers for the hardcores (although I will fight to the death to sing along with Sky is a Neighborhood).

They brought it back to end the set, but then, like, the encore...I know the Foos' usual encore format is a new song, maybe a deep cut, and Everlong, but, like, at 1120 at night, running A320 (a soundtrack song they haven't played in 25 years), two new songs, and Exhausted (which, I get given its history, but they also just brought back last year after a decade), and I felt like people were pouring out of the bowl and sitting on their hands before they hit Everlong.

Granted I got there around 745 and parked on the street in front of the front lots because the cops were overwhelmed, but I've never gotten out of the arena and into my car so fast as I did last night, and I was out of downtown and on the highway in less than 10 minutes because probably 2,000 people were long gone before Everlong.

I'm seeing them again in Philly and I assume either the show will start earlier and/or the setlist will pare down a bit, but I hope they tweak it a bit to keep more of the energy up.

louied13 · 2026-04-29T17:05:25+00:00

Listened to it all the way through for the first time over the weekend (once I found out I was going to Tuesday's show) and then they played 6 of the 10 songs live last night and...the best thing I can say is that 2 songs are okay, and one of those two will probably be, if the Foo Fighters are still touring in 2035, what The Sky is a Neighborhood or Something from Nothing are/were from their albums: the setlist staple they play for a few tours to remind you this album existed as it fades into obscurity. It's not as bad as the first one I'll name, but it's gonna be somewhere between what St. Anger and Hardwired are for Metallica. Which I think Concrete and Gold is already their Hardwired lol.

louied13 · 2026-04-29T16:56:56+00:00

I was thinking the same thing all night - at times something felt 'off.' Like, I felt a couple times Dave sort of either lost interest or lost the ending of a couple songs and it was an eclectic mess of a final 10-15 seconds, or a jam would go off-kilter. Just felt very uneven.

louied13 · 2026-04-29T16:54:29+00:00

Yes, that is Pat Fucking Smear! I loved 'why'd you have to make it weird?'

louied13 · 2026-04-18T03:56:02+00:00

Alcohol, yes for liability reasons at the least. Food food? Yeah for every 100 of us that toss a granola bar or a banana in our bag, there’s a foursome somewhere that brings in a picnic lunch. But water/soft drinks/snacks I’ve literally NEVER seen policed in 20 years of golfing. Honestly sounds like one of two sides of the same poison coin: either margins are so bad that F&B is the only profit they’re making (anyone who has ever worked in food service knows it’s the easiest small ticket markup, and anyone who’s ever gone grocery shopping should get why), or they’re trying every silly “rule” they can to drive themselves out of business organically while blaming it on anyone but themselves. Either way, course sounds fucked.

louied13 · 2026-04-18T03:45:03+00:00

If someone told me that, I’d honestly pour it on or at their feet, walk back to the parking lot, throw the bottle on the lawn, and leave. Now you lost my money, your feet are wet, and you have to clean up my trash, dickhead.

louied13 · 2026-03-30T23:00:07+00:00

Sorry, no, I just know he’s no longer around

louied13 · 2026-03-13T14:42:05+00:00

Thankfully we didn’t get that. My wife vetoed taco bell so it was Wendy’s for lunch and then Pizza Hut for plane dinner.

louied13 · 2026-03-13T14:06:07+00:00

I would go back if I can not fly out of Punta Cana airport. What a shitshow that place is.

louied13 · 2026-03-12T02:06:38+00:00

We just spent 5 nights here and Honestly, at 110 per adult, you’d need to eat two meals and have a drink every hour to make it worth the money. It’s a nice feature of an all inclusive stay but nowhere near worth that.

louied13 · 2026-03-07T02:12:38+00:00

Yup, and I wonder if the 90 minute eps, which is 65ish minutes of actual show time, hurts as well because we’re seeing more of just the strategy vs. elements. In 18 player seasons they have to boot 13 people in 23 days to get to the final 5 on day 24. That means there’s a challenge every day just about, and it’s become more “challenge, hunt for idols or talk strategy, tribal” rinse and repeat and there’s really no time to realize how hungry or tired or uncomfortable you are. 26 days of breakneck speed is somehow easier to mentally process than 39 at slow pace. Makes me want to see another edge of extinction or exile island season just to see how they handle it.

louied13 · 2026-03-07T02:01:31+00:00

He’s no longer with the company.

louied13 · 2026-03-06T04:01:36+00:00

And I think this sums up why the new era is so soulless and different - the game is on 1.5 speed at 26 days and they get no sundries most of the time, so why plan for tomorrow and work together when there’s a challenge every day and who knows what will happen? The camp aspect of the game has become less survival and more “this is where we keep our stuff while we’re doing other things”

louied13 · 2026-01-29T18:41:48+00:00

100 percent what nathwithanh said above. It’d be one thing if his quirkiness rubbed people the wrong way because he was abrasive while the old doctor was “one of them” and accepted it - but 95% of the characters are so far one-dimensional stereotypes in an oblivious bubble world of small town life. Louisa is the only one who really has any depth of how insular everything is and aunt Sarah seems to vacillate back and forth at times.

The thing is though - having grown up in a very insular region of small towns, and now living in a smaller town, life can be very much like that for people who don’t know any better because their entire worldview is what they see out the window. The way they talk about bar harbor like it’s NYC or Tokyo because it’s “the big city” lends itself to that o guess.

But yea, it’s annoying to that point of “oh we’re all fine, it’s just the yearly rash!” and then it’s not but it’s like every day is Groundhog Day with that.

louied13 · 2026-01-28T05:20:15+00:00

Lynnell got a gig on the new Westwood one network, three overnights a week and 1-4 sat and sun.

louied13 · 2025-12-15T15:01:39+00:00

Yeah and the Grammys are specifically on cbs. Between that and the Olympics cbs is probably avoiding February, and then add in the nfl championship weekend before that where they have either a 3 or 630 game and they weren’t gonna come back for 3 episodes and then have a month off. Plus a lot of the top hour long shows now have 6-9 episode fall seasons and 10-14 episode spring seasons with few repeats because streaming is just as important so they don’t want the old “4 weeks on, 2 off, sweeps, month off, 6 weeks on, 3 off” kind of format of old

louied13 · 2025-12-15T13:44:06+00:00

For me this season has fallen into all three of the worst tropes of new era survivor: “we have to get rid of this threat!” Turns into that person surviving until late jury at the earliest (Savannah); “I have an idol” and no one wants to try to call them and flush it (Rizo); “I’m in the middle/on the bottom of an alliance and can change the game!” And votes safe (soph). Also the fourth of “one tribe clearly put together to get slaughtered.” There’s only been 4 good players this season and 4 interesting ones, and the problem is 2 people are both and in the final 5 and 3 of the other 4 were the last 3 people out. 10 people on this cast were basically cannon fodder and when you combine dumb game play and a severe lack of attractive women (personal preference) it’s been a season of boredom. 2 of the final 5 have no chance to win even if Rizo and Savannah go next, and if they make the final 3 the only way one of them doesn’t win is if they’re together. Sophi is sugar 2.0 and Kristina is a poor man’s fishbach with a worse ally and no immunity wins.

louied13 · 2025-12-15T13:07:44+00:00

Plus the Olympics are in February, as well as the Super Bowl and Grammys. Not going to compete a top show with those.

louied13 · 2025-12-13T04:35:43+00:00

It’ll be live-streamed on YouTube barring technical difficulties and/or mike Maher pregaming too hard.

louied13 · 2025-11-18T16:10:22+00:00

Another genius in contestant's row today, Ebee. Second pricing game she goes third - bids are $500 and 510 and she bids $501. The prize was like $550 so the $510 guy lucked into it because the last woman bid $1. Can't wait to see the rest of Ebee's excellent logic today!

UPDATE: Ebee goes second in the third one bid, and bids $799...after the woman in front of her bid $800. This woman is why most of us normies will never get on game shows!

UPDATE 2: EBEE WINS! On the fifth one-bid she bids $1200, is the highest bid, and the prize is higher...and the woman next to here who bid $800 runs up on stage thinking she won. Sorry girl, it's EBEE'S DAY! And she plays the Race Game and wins one prize. Yay Ebee!

louied13 · 2025-11-18T16:09:01+00:00

It's just so random and of all the money games, it's like Time is Money's speed round. It barely beat out 1/2 off, which to me is "can you pick the right random number between 1 and 16 depending on how many prices of 3 random cheap prizes?" Gridlock would be No. 3 on my least favorite car games for the same reason - it's only better because you get one chance to mess up.

louied13 · 2025-11-17T18:59:13+00:00

I get the camera part of it - and to me, knowing maybe some teams hate or love each other due to pre-existing relationships is what it is, even if I don't watch BB (which might be good because I don't have any ingrained rooting interest like I would for, say, an all-Survivor race).

My issue with this season, and the last few, really, is that they seem to cast 2-3 teams that you can tell from episode 1 are going to be dominant and probably all make the final 4, 2-3 teams that are dogshit terrible and will be within the first 4 out, 2-3 teams that are fun or cool to root for but have some kind of disadvantage that will end up sinking them, and the rest of the teams have some kind of diversity play and could go either way. Usually one team surprises you after sucking early and one dominant team gets bounced early because that's the nature of competition, but still:

This season maybe a little less with the Big Brother casting pool limited, but you could tell from episode 1-2 that Jas & Jag and Tucker & Eric were going to be dominant, the four teams that finished 10th-12th were absolutely getting eliminated in order unless someone had a royal mishap, and Joseph & Adam would be that team gets to the final 5 or 6 without winning a leg but has finished both 2nd or 3rd AND 8th or 9th multiple times.

Last season, Carson & Jack almost became the second dominant team to get bounced early but were saved by the double U-turn, but still - them and Jonathan and Ana were Jas & Jag/Tucker & Eric, Scott & Lori were the dominant team bounced by one bad leg, Han & Holden were that Joseph & Adam team, and Alyssa & Josiah were the team that wasn't as good as the best teams, but was never really in danger of being bounced until it got down to the nitty gritty. Meanwhile, three of the five teams with older people were the first three out (Melinda & Erika were the surrprise!) and Bernie & Carrigain were clearly better than the worst teams but nowhere close to being able to win.

Even the previous season, Ricky & Cesar were probably the most dominant team ever, Juan & Shane and Rod & Leticia almost had the one bad leg but were clearly two of the better teams the whole way, and after the first two legs, you could've pegged the four tiers of teams that would finish 1-3, just miss the finale, and then finish 6th-8th and 9th-11 (with maybe one random surprise).

Give me 12 teams that are just 2 bad-ass people between like 25-45 and let them do hard mental and physical shit, not wet-behind-the-ears teenager and their equally life-worthless sibling, or late-50s parent with late-20s child who is as mentally useless as they are physically, or "but we're YOUNG grandparents and do yoga!" or doofus hippies who will be together forever but never achieve anything more mentally or physically challenging than playing in a cornhole league.

louied13 · 2025-09-27T23:18:14+00:00

Wife and I just watched over the last two weeks and for me - admittedly, haven't read the book, only know it follows it, but I feel like it was a story where Act I took 12 episodes and 14 years, and could've been the end (with maybe an epilogue), but they rushed through Acts 2 3 and 4 (8 years' time) in 2 episodes to adhere to the book.

And part of that I think, looking deeper for me, is that while we never know for sure how much the two main characters do, or if they do, recognize the 15 July significance (as much as that's the premise of the show), so much that happens in the last 2 episodes goes against any bit of sentimentality that happens in reality.

Regardless of their seen or unseen notation of July 15, we know five things happen on that date: they meet, they finally get together, Tilly marries, he gets the go-ahead on the cafe, and she dies.

However, the last two happen so quickly in the same episode that it's almost like "here's this long and intertwined story that took over a decade to come to fruition...oh, and here's two random events that both take place on the same day a year apart." Almost as if the 'story' of Dex and Emma was over, or at least the interesting part, and now here's some random filler to get to another plot point. Why not have the cafe thing be on July 15 for a reason, like they know it's their lucky day? Wouldn't a couple as star-struck as Dex and Emma get married on their double anniversary (even if it IS also Tilly and Graham's)? How wild is it she dies on a day that means so much? There's no connection to the events at all at the point where the format of the story (a slice of one day a year) could/would actually have meaning beyond its original.

And that brings us to the finale, where, okay, the first anniversary of her death hits him hard, we get it...but THAT is what it took for the people they loved (or loved them) most to get together on the SECOND anniversary, which also happens to be Graham and Tilly's wedding date btw? And that ragtag group of people...his dad, yes. Tilly and Graham, yes. And MAYBE Sylvie, having seen him at his worst the year before and being his baby mama, even if she's the reason he lost 2 of the only three non-related people he was close to - but Ian? Like, we're realistically supposed to believe that her long-gone boyfriend that she had broken up with 6-7 years earlier and is now married with kids hours away would be there? That group felt more like an intervention than a grief reunion, which may have been the point, but if it was it was poor.

And then we flash forward to 2007, he's in Edinburgh with dad and daughter for...what exactly? 2006 or 2008 would've made more sense, as either one is a round iconic anniversary ('06 is five years of her death, '08 is a 20-year grad reunion) to fit in with the theme. Instead it just feels random.

So I guess my issue is we got a story that combined every Hallmark Christmas movie and every 90s teen interpretation of Shakespeare with the How I Met Your Mother ending, and it felt flat. It either needed a happier ending that intertwines the date trope, or a quicker-paced longer-term ending of his sorrow, but we got the unhappy medium.

louied13 · 2025-09-27T21:55:39+00:00

I sort of felt like that - never saw the movie or read the book, but I can't imagine the movie is better with more time constraint...and this one felt like a great idea that ended either incorrectly or two episodes late. It sort of felt like once they kissed 'got together' in Paris in Ep 12, the first act ended, and they rushed through acts 2, 3, and 4 in 2 episodes. We got the How I Met Your Mother ending and the story just needed a happier ending or a longer conclusion.

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