FOTS 33 @FrogAvalanche the absentminded rascal

Friends of the Show Episode 33 with Hoppers @FrogAvalanche “—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Yours arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.” – T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land This week’s friend is a delightful Aussie from the land down under I’m talking of course about Hoppers @FrogAvalanche. IF you don’t know he is one of the super OG original nice twitter accounts, where he ran a long running ‘Twitter feature’ series, promoting all kinds of great accounts, once a week, for so so long! Australia Chat Hoppers Stories: -Walked home from work (I live close 3km away) and saw my car wasn’t in my drive-way. Thought it had been stolen. Goes to call police. Remembered I’d driven to work that morning. -Turned up to work in two different shoes. Two different colours, brown and black. -Called in sick on a day I was not scheduled to work. -Ive gone to the wrong cinema on the wrong day to see the wrong film. -The first person I followed on Twitter, followed me back after six months. Then deactivated forever two weeks later. -Was challenged to become a vegetarian for a month. Chipped a tooth on my first meal (some nuts). Quit it immediately. -Drove all the way across Australia, only to realise when I was setting to return back a week later that I didn’t have enough money to do so. -Went to Green Bay to see the Packers. On a week they were in Buffalo. -While in Milwaukee being sad about not seeing the Packers, I did laundry at a laundrette. And forgot to check pockets or the whereabouts of my passport. Washed my passport. Had to cancel all my holiday to get to LA for the Australian Embassy. -Took five days to replace the passport because I had to get my ID flown over. Moped in LA drinking beer and writing mopey postcards. -The plane flying me home, finally, got damaged docking – another three day delay. -Hired a car in Arizona, and promised myself to drive well on the 600 mile journey. Got pulled over by a cop in 2 miles for an illegal u-turn. Got so stressed after that, I got lock-jaw after 100 miles because clenching teeth. Teeth! Hopp’s Tweets: Baby Lawyer: Did you steal the victim's nose? Accused: No. *cries into palms Baby Judge: O, great, he's disappeared again. — Hoppers (@FrogAvalanche) August 30, 2014 My pick: *pours a shaker of salt into the ocean* You're free now — Hoppers (@FrogAvalanche) August 26, 2014 Hoppers’ Picks: 8 ropes. *scratches out* 19 wires. *erases* 875 tiny pieces of thread stuck to your shirt. *crosses out* 2 chainz. *gasp* "MOM COME QUICK" — ethan is the worst (@NotGoodEthan) November 21, 2013 [Dentist waiting room] Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth- Other patients: teeth, TEETH Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH! — Bear Knee Sanders (@LeBearGirdle) August 17, 2017 Questions from Twitter From lovely Friend of the Show BEX – What's does your ideal/favourite type of breakfast burger? – What's the best road trip you've taken to the 12 Apostles with an English person via a Cheesery? – Do frogs still favour lilypad seats, or are these now considered kitch/old fashioned? — The Lady of Whatever (@Bexdora) November 24, 2017 From FOTS TOM – check out INTERESTED in music PODCAST @InterestedPod would you rather have a tasteful lower back tattoo of shane warne’s face or knuckle that say gday mate — corpse sexpert (@trojansauce) November 23, 2017 From FOTS @notabeanie is a spinach lasagna still a lasagna do the toilets really flush the other way in australia if two's company and three's a crowd, how many frogs is a avalanche? — The Hon. Justice Beanie (@notabeanie) November 23, 2017 From FOTS Malt_Skull 1) are there any weird lasagna tricks that make for good lasogná? 2) you use that nutribullet much? 3) have a great day — skul (@malt_skull) November 23, 2017 From FOTS Andrew Nadeau 1) When are you coming back to America? 2) Where did Hoppers/Frog Avalanche come from? — MehGyver (@AndrewNadeau0) November 24, 2017 From last week’s guest @FeelingEuphoric Rads You’re suddenly transported into a children’s nursery rhyme. What nursery rhyme are you in? And why? — Radolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (@FeelingEuphoric) November 25, 2017 From Soo Zee What does cheese say when it's having its photo taken? — soo zee (@geniusindisgize) November 27, 2017 SPEED ROUND QUESTIONS Mate! What’s your favourite: Type of frog? Beer? Ablett? Concentrated yeast extract? Place to visit in WA? Video game? Antipodean tweet contest? Trilingual furniture seller? Good chat. pic.twitter.com/pLXMPl5Erx — Guy Incognito (@ShutUpThatsWho) November 26, 2017 Question from Cat – have you ever met Darren Hayes from Savage Garden? Thanks so much to Hoppers for joining me this week!