Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Keep Moving Podcast



What's good everyone, it's been awhile since doing one of these but it's whatever. Me and the homie, Patrick decided to start a podcast, the Keep Moving Podcast. This basically a few friends talking about whatever we want. We start out with a weekly top 5. This is where we list 5 of our favorite things from the week. Then we educate the people on what we're listening to with our weekly playlist. After that we like to introduce our guest, if we have one, then we go to our main topic which we decide behind the scenes. So basically whenever a new episode of the podcast drops, you'll find it here. Below are the first two episodes, we touch on a lot of topics so it should be an entertaining listen.





Wednesday, July 23, 2014

2 Scoops International: Joao Pessoa, Brazil

I’m going to get straight to the point, I’m in Brazil and everything is gorgeous. First of all the ladies here must eat something or maybe it’s in the oxygen because the people down here are too fine. Secondly, the food is pretty tasty. They got something called empanadas, they’re like these muffins that are stuffed with a bunch of stuff. 
The ones I ate had bacon bits (even though the menu said sausage) and cheese and these other ones had this weird meat paste (even though the menu said some type of beef) and cheese. The bacon stuffed one was straight fire but I’m not a fan of my muffins being injected with meat paste. Yo, there also this acai ice cream type stuff, it is the best thing I've had in my whole life. I can't be more serious with y'all. 
I guess acai is some kind of berry and then they put all kinds of stuff in it like nuts, bananas, condensed milk and honey. To top it all off they just give you a bunch of frozen acai to cover all your ice cream needs. 

Let me talk about the people down here for a second. Brazilians either look Hispanic or black, I don’t think there’s a certain Brazilian look. I probably couldn’t distinguish a Brazilian guy from a Puerto Rican in a crowd or a black guy depending on his complexion. But the women on the other hand... 
I just wish I knew Portuguese before coming down here. It’s like I said before, it’s got to be something they eat. Other than looks, the people down here are really nice. I’ve gotten lucky a few times where the person in front of me in line knew English so they were able translate my order for me when I’m trying to get some food. I have been mistaken for being Brazilian of few times maybe that made a difference of how nice these strangers were.

Let’s talk about the place I’m in for a second, Joao Pessoa. The city has around 700,000 people so it’s not too big and it’s not as developed as Milwaukee is. But, like Milwaukee, Joao Pessoa is on the coast except down here it’s right on the Atlantic Ocean and the water is the perfect temperature. There are a lot of slums like in the movies that are based in Brazil and a lot a palm trees. It’s currently winter down and it’s been in the 70s all week...
If the winters in Milwaukee were in the high 70s I’d actually make an effort to go to class everyday. (Low key I still go to class with snow on the ground but the struggle is real)

That’s all I’m going to say right now, I think I’m going to try to make videos about the trip so I can go more into detail with all the interesting things that happened while down here. Plus, this is about all I feel like writing to be real.

Special s/o to Parisa she came up with the name of this whole thing, 2 Scoops International, it has a nice ring to it.

Monday, July 14, 2014

The Wrap Up

What's good y'all, it's yourboy_john (follow on twitter if you like) aka 2 Scoops. Now I'd like to start doing a little something called The Wrap Up where I sort of go through some stuff that happened this past week. These will be a little longer than usual but it'll also give you something to look forward to on Mondays.
Germany won the World Cup!!!
It's about time the World Cup ended if you ask me. It's not that I don't care, I just low key lost interest when America got beat by Belgium awhile ago and because I don't really care. I'll still take anyone on in a game of FIFA though, I'm unstoppable with AC Milan. And Mario Gotze is super clutch for that game winning goal. But I sort of forgot about the World Cup this week because of that whole Lebron going back to Cleveland thing, much more important.

Cleveland has got to be the luckiest and unluckiest franchise at the same time in all of sports. 1) They get every first draft pick whenever they want and 2) They get to have Lebron whenever they want. The only unlucky part is that they still suck and will probably always suck. 
There's also word on the street that Drake is looking at houses in Cleveland. This is almost to good to be true. I'm all about Drake but he's an avid nut hugger of Lebron, so is ESPN. But that's none of my business either.
Another really important thing that happened this week is that I started playing Roller Coaster Tycoon again. That was best thing that could've ever happened to me last week. That game is such a great game, I had to tweet about it. 

Ever since opening John's Fun Place to the public, I've been able to live again. Such a great feeling. When I was little my theme parks were lame because I didn't know then what I know now. But now as grown man my brain is full of things that should be put into a theme park. Hence the giant system of swimming pools carving through the park like it's the Mississippi River and all the tigers and camels walking around. John's Fun Place is so fun you'll never want anything else in your life, facts only.


Here's some tunes I ran into since my last post, it's been awhile. Happy Monday.

Buy The World - Mike Will Made It feat. Future, Lil Wayne and Kendrick Lamar


Old English feat. Young Thug, Freddie Gibbs and A$AP Ferg 


Seen It All - Jeezy Feat. Jay Z

Monday, June 30, 2014

USA vs Belgium preview and prediction

America wins 2-1, so simple it hurts. There's no reason why you would even think about the result. What's the first thing you think of when you hear Belgium........waffles. Let's see what the authority over American breakfast has to say about that.
There you have it, if the Waffle House doesn't believe in Belgium waffles neither do I. Anyways that was the prediction part, now for the preview.

AMERICA


Team USA is so good at soccer. We basically gave the Germans first place in the Group of Death. We didn't need to win that game to advance anyway. So I'm not worried, you saw my prediction, everything will be good.

BELGIUM


I like this team. Hazard is the man to watch on the pitch, his name his cool and he's solid player. They're pretty fun to play as in FIFA too. A special s/o goes to Fellaini aka Afro Thunder. I'm mad he's the only one the team with a fro.

UPDATE: Fellaini isn't the only one on the team with an afro
S/O to Good Guy Gee #GetGeeTo1k

Side Note: Top 5 places to eat before you die:
Chick Fil A
Waffle House
In n Out Burger
Gates BBQ
Culvers

These places are regional, especially Gates BBQ (there's only like two in Kansas City) so you have to be in the right place at the right time you want to eat at these places.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

NBA Draft Preview

So the draft is among us and what better way to predict how good this draft class is going to be than to go only by these pictures they had to take.

Jabari Parker
I can tell that Parker finds time for business and pleasure. He's in a full suit and he's dribbling a basketball, the perfect balance of work and play. I'll bet you a million dollars that he'll go to a party during his NBA career but not until he wins a championship ring. Parker has his priorities straight.

Andrew Wiggins
I can already tell this guy is in to win and only win. The photographer told Wiggins look natural and Wiggins naturally hit the power stance. This guy was born to play basketball. His shirt is untucked because who plays basketball with their shirt tucked in, no one. Oh and you think he naturally held the ball to show the Spalding logo, of course he did.

Dante Exum
Dante Exum? Oh yea, he's that Australian guy. Looks like he's got good passing form so he'll be a solid guard for whoever drafts him. I still have no idea who he is. Hey, I bet you that I can google videos of his highlights faster than you can.

Doug McDermott
Wow he's white. I know he went to Creighton but come on. Anyways, McBuckets won't give your coach any problems. Clearly the rules of this photo shoot was to sit on the stool and smile while holding a basketball. Out of all the draft prospects, McBuckets was the only one who listened. He's the safest pick in this years draft.



Sunday, June 22, 2014

USA and Portugal Tie 2-2


Ok, so lets start out with the positives, our president is black and America is the best country in the world.

Now with the negatives, we didn't win because this happened......

There was like 10 secs left in the whole game. I was 10 secs away from crip walking all the way to Brazil. I was 10 secs away from being happy for the rest of my life.

After considering all the pros and cons Team USA has something that Portugal doesn't, a rapper. American hero Clint Dempsey, I mean, Deuce (his rapper name) can spit mad bars.



Is that the guy whose scored 4 goals in 8 World Cup games? Yes, yes it is. I like our chances, all we need is a tie or we can advance with the tiebreaker. Please bring Germany on a sliver platter, thank you.

P.S. This may be the most American tweet ever.

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Kirko Bangz can ball


This is the same guy who has that one song that sounds cool. You don't know what song I'm talking about, here you go.


I always wondered what one hit wonders did after making their one hit. If you're Soulja Boy you continue making garbage songs. But if you're Kirko Bangz you play in celebrity basketball games and get buckets.