A hang up ... aberrant mermaid behavior ... tivo knows your party affiliation ... not a strong heartbeat away from being president ... the experienced commander of the Alaskan national guard ... kill minus nine ... the symbolic politics category ... only men do that ... I was excited about election in January ... choosing between two people ... padding maverick credentials ... letting the think quietly die ... I really want trains ... nobody makes money on passenger trains ... weekly pick: Walter Jon Williams, ``Dread Empire Falls'' ... weekly pick: LooseStitch ... weekly pick: Shazam ... weekly pick: five-axis mills ... the dread hexapod

Plane shifts ... awaiting developments ... ``We're not there yet'' ... soccer season ... little tiny kids playing soccer ... landing a 747 on a soccer field ... funeral in L.A. ... how to live as if you might die today ... how to eat a peach ... the best coffee in the world ... you've got two pounds of what?? ... weekly pick: backyard soccer ... weekly pick: Breaking Bad ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... TV vs. film ... HDTV for the Olympics ... moms and golf ... ``Look, kid...'' ... what happened to the guy who drove the white Bronco? ... Kopi Luwak ... the Jacu bird ... weekly pick: cucumber vodka ... how ice forms ... argon ... CO2 sequestration ... Lake Kivu (note: he really meant Lake Nyos; Lake Kivu is the bigger one) ... the giant death-belch ... weekly pick: Dow High-Load 40

The dreaded Skype upgrade ... Richard's grandfather is turning 95 ... huckleberries ... when I'm 95 ... talk to somebody who was involved in World War II ... The Battle of Leyte Gulf ... flying the Hump ... the Scotty moment ... Lord Mountbatten's plane ... ``Who's flying??'' ... weekly pick: parasailing ... the jet ski with your name on it ... Russia and Georgia ... Talisker 10 ... weekly pick: the Glencairn Glass -- cobhthaighceltique.com ... champagne coupes ... weekly pick: The Audacity of Hope

The killer app of Tivo ... freakin' Chinese alphabetization ... let go of your expectations ... taking off on a normal ... asteroid screen burn in ... that's what staying up late is for ... did you get it? ... this is going to hurt – a lot ... I don't know how to tell you this ... gently escorted with reasonable force ... Labrador-pitbull-MikeTyson hybrids ... local politicians hang on by their fingernails ... oh, that was totally worth it ... Spitzer's VP ... too sexy for his party ... ratholes in 4-space ... weekly pick: Olympics Opening Ceremony ... stuck the landing ... China is PEOPLE ... I want 2,000 like this by money ... setting the bar pretty high ... China's been around the block ... his parent is a broad ... demonstrating his mortality ... hey Mr. Normal ... ``Elderly Man River'' ... nobody can't forget Peggy Lee ... Bear might be confused with a class act ... after several bottles of Robitussin ... weekly pick: Hilton for Pres Video ... weekly pick (minor): iPhone lighter app ... weekly pick (major): google reader ... breaking away from the grind of recreation ... weekly pick: Gail Carson Levine, ``Fairest'' ... scary facebook photo ... facebook slap on the butt ... hooo kay ... don't make me look contemplative at you

Hey folks!  Do you feel like you've been doing the Time Warp the past few weeks?  We sure do.  (If you don't know what we're talking about, you really, really need to go see the Rocky Horror Picture Show... but not right now.  Go see it at a theater.  At midnight.  And tell everyone there that you've never seen it before.  Trust us.)

Anyway, our summer schedules are all over the place.  Some of us have family camp obligations, others have trips, and so on.  So our Four Guys... has often been and we've had difficulties getting the files moved around and uploaded in a timely manner ... you've been getting our weekly recorded show... less than weekly.

We're sorry.

Not just because we kind of sort of promised all of you a somewhat regular product.  ("Regular" in the "every week" sense -- clearly not in any other sense!)  but we value it ourselves. 

We Shall stabilize our schedule, rest assured.

The upshot is, the newly posted episode ("The bacon atom") is actually last week's episode... and there won't be an episode this week, because neither of the Guys who can record episodes is available.  The overall frequency of episodes won't suffer, because we posted two last week ("The Habanero Infusion" and "Hunny").  Of course, we posted those because we were behind a little, but... well, like we said.  Summer Happens.  Craziness.

Anyway.  The erratic schedule has been detected and will be handled.  Enjoy the new one... and if you'd like... relive one from the archives. 

Until next episode.... "Stay cool".

– The Four Guys

Korean soup slurping ... but not in Ohio ... a new center of the universe ... the problem is: house guests ... I'm sorry, I don't have a microphone ... biologically, they are kittens ... all right, fine, play with the tail ... Weekly Pick: Dr. Horrible's singalong blog ... where is my writer now? ... 4 hours by myself ... vocal Joss Wheden fan club ... Weekly Pick: Letters from Iwo Jima ... a pool of Ludlum ... cliffhanger-resolution-cliffhanger-resolution ... PG-13 had more stuffed in ... jazz and ribs festival ... 14 pitmasters ... Weekly Pick: bacon infused bourbon ... tragic what happened to the bacon ... little bacon atoms ... the five of us will vote and replace barium with bacon ... mmm ... bacon, lettuce, tomato, and avocado ... Paula Deen is trying to kill us ... deep fried butterballs ... doughnut burger ... you want balls with that? ... Weekly Pick: Barbara Cleverly, Folly du Jour ... Weekly Anti-Pick: the dangers of good coffee

``Hunny!'' -- mike not on ... the command voice ... ectomorphs ... gotta do something with 3 clones ... planting a few shills ... Oklahoma as Mendocino ... if I only had a Dave ... 364 days off ... artisanal honey ... the farm of gooood ... Bear likes hunny ... snake marinade ... yeah, that ... Slow Food Nation ... flat out competing at minigolf ... 7 year old threats ... Weekly Pick: Alexander Smith, ``No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency'' ... Weekly Pick: catchphrase ... Weekly Pick: the Dark Knight ... Weekly Pick: Ben & Jerry's ``Half-Baked'' ... egg-recipe stir in central Ohio

Four Guys at once ... a stomach ailment ... ``colon'' is punctuation ... the old soldier's having problems ... the habanero infusion: a novel ... do you need a licence for that? ... that's funny, I can't move my face ... to form a greater evil ... a strong drink, diluted with vodka ... cigarette butts? ... duck infused vodka ... at 9:00 a.m.? a little bracing ... mashed potato infused vermouth ... diabolical references ... lavender ... my wife's duck fat ... duck gifts ... foul is a historical misspelling ... producers of goosh ... tasty, tasty murder ... gotta motivate the others ... Christmas means carnage ... surprising empathy for robots that don't talk ... Weekly Pick: www.weffriddles.com ... to hit a ball pitched by you ... outfielder splits atom ... dave paper ... Weekly Pick: www.skreened.com ... high human-rights content ... Weekly Pick: foldershare ... Weekly Pick: Much Ado About Nothing ... kissing for pay ... Bonus Pick: salt salish: smoked fine saltworks ... tupperware container of BBQ on the beach ... smoked coke

Richard is AWOL ... Dave is on Fire Island ... cats and kittens ... kids who turn off at 9:30 ... mosquito fogging ... constant change at the beach ... the doo-dah parade ... being proud of your country ... last week's show ... barista jam ... infused vodka ... Slow Food Nation ... coffee-infused honey ... weekly pick: Nicky's Clam Bar in Bayshore ... weekly pick: Intelligentsia, Stumptown, Counter Culture, Terroir ... weekly pick: infusionsofgrandeur.net ... weekly pick: Firefox 3 keyword bookmarks thing ... sailing is neat

If three guys take a walk in the woods and no one is there to record the show notes, does anything get written?