Westgate Bike Night

Last Thursday my producer and I took a trip out to Westgate Bike Night in Glendale, AZ. Had a killer time! Check it out.


Special thanks for Stacy from S&R Creations from the Heart & Kevin from Arrowhead Harley-Davidson.

It's my first step to becoming a biker! Yeah!

Filipino Boy Nails Whitney Houston Song

Excuse me for a moment while I pick my jaw up off my desk. This is something I have never seen before. In case you missed it, a little Fillipino boy sings Whitney Houston's hit "I Will Always Love You". You will be amazed!


Now I'm sure you're thinking the same thing I was thinking "the guy holding the camera needs to shut the hell up".

It might just be me, but can the dude-chick with the man bag in the pink shirt or anyone else around this gifted little boy be any less interested in this amazing performance? It appears as if he is annoying them or maybe they couldn't hear him through the $2 sound system that is clearly marked Sony. The only person seen showing any kind of interest is a little field boy… until he runs off to chase a rock with a stick.

I don't boast about videos like this because they surface so often, but this one blew me away. Unfortunately there's a big potential for a record label to get ahold of this raw talent and ruin his life for a few shiny pennies.

I wish this little guy the best and I can only hope he has a strong family unit around him that will protect him from the thorns of a reckless music industry. If nothing else we have this video to enjoy.

Gangnam Style = Vapid Entertainment

I'll say it since no one else has the balls: We are a breed of people entertained by the glimmer of an empty discarded oil drum.

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Yes, I'm talking about all of you that have placed your hooks knee deep in Gangnam Style. How has this non-music computer derived dribble become the hottest thing in America? Do we not all take account of our own lives? We are showing the children, our countries future, that songs like Gangnam Style is what music is.

We would be entertained by dancing piles of elephant dung if it moved to a 1980's club beat.

I'm sure PSY is living up the benefits of finally striking a number one hit with the "westerners", known as Americans. Why wouldn't he!

What we have all fail in recognizing is… it's not real music. It's a computer generated rhythmic pattern put to lyrics that repeat every 2-3 bars. The song offers no substance, talent, or effort. I'm not attacking PSY, he's just the record labels billboard, but the over embraced excited that has displayed itself has me in awe. It really proves us as a vapid talentless cheer section for anything.

I will release a track, it will be called Skidrow Style. I'll wear the black pants with the skinny tie and jacket while hoping up and down on skidrow. And you know what… you'll all buy it because we wouldn't know talent if it came up, grabbed our grandmothers crotch while kicking our dads in the balls!

Embrace substance, not one hit wonder vapidness.

I'm Bigger On The Inside | AUDIBLE

An audible post by Cory Blaze

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AfterTheLevels Readers

I wanted to give a big thank you to all the AfterTheLevels readers. You have really stepped out and supported this blog. I enjoy reading all of your comments and getting emails (yes, even those that disagree with a post). This is a labor of love for me and it's amazing to see everyone from Phoenix, Arizona to Great Britain embracing AfterTheLevels a blog by Cory Blaze.

Continue to help spread the word by following the blog, listening to my weekly talk show FatGuyRadioShow and supporting our fine sponsors that support us.

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The Travails Carry On the Legacy

On August 12, 2012 Timothy Garner of the famed Timothy Garner and the Travails, out of Dallas, Texas, passed away unexpectedly from what we later learned was heart failure. Read the breaking news here.

Timothy Garner and Travails were scheduled to tour the later part of 2012. It was uncertain if the tour schedule would continue after his untimely death.

In a recent phone interview with Ophelia Garner, known as "momma garner", she informed us that the Travails will indeed "carry on the legacy of Timothy Garner". We will have more details about that hour and a half phone interview later this week.

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The touring details provided by momma garner herself, included their scheduled appearance in Downtown Natchitoches (on the riverboat) September 29, 2012. Tickets on sale now.

It indeed warmed the hearts of many to learn Timothy Garner and the Travails, now referred to as The Travails, will continue their scheduled touring in honor of the legacy of Timothy Garner.

Our readers from across the world were sadden by the news of Timothy Garners passing and many reached out to us with messages for the family. But in true momma fashion, momma Garner has a message for all their supporters: "God has spoken, now let the church say Amen".

Join The Travails THIS SATURDAY at 4pm in Louisiana. Details contained in the flyer provided by the promoter.

Don't miss the first Travails concert honoring the legacy of Timothy Garner. This is indeed going to be a sell out show and will mark gospel history as a family that truly believes in Family Forever.


 
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64th Primetime Emmy® Awards Review

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The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards aired September 23, 2012 and for the first time in a long time I sat and watched. I'm happy to announce, I was entertained. The awards show was not the dreck I've come to categorize all awards shows.

Awards shows, as mentioned in Jimmy Kimmels' opening monologue, is normally a circle jerk of people praising their favorite person… themselves. However I have to give an AfterTheLevels tip of the hat to the production elements added to the show.

I found myself laughing and giggling. The skits where not overly done, predictable or unbelievable. They were all entertaining and shed light on the powerful acting skills of some of our great American actors and actresses.

Now, it did seem like the Modern Family - MadMen show after awhile, but I chop that up to the number of awards the shows were nominated for and won.

The Tracy Morgan twitter spoof was pretty creative and you have to give Jimmy Kimmel and the writers credit. It was different, new and picked on the needless stupidity of social media.

Jimmy Kimmel himself did a great job. His performance did not cast a shadow over my all time favorite Ellen, but I was not off-put by his hosting. I enjoy Jimmy Kimmel.

At the end of the day the show as great. If you missed any of the winners you can find them here and for the next week we will hear all the fashionistas offering their opinions on the dress of the celebrities… which happens to be the worst part of any awards show. No one gives a crap about how you feel the celebrities were dress. Its' not their fault you're talentless and can't act so you resolved to critiquing clothes.

Great job ABC.

NBA's Channing Frye; Career Ends

Breaking news: Phoenix Suns forward Channing Frye will be out indefinitely due to a diagnose of an enlarged heart.

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Channing Frye was one of the returning 6 team members from last years squad.

Details are still developing and FatGuyRadioShow's sports analyst Ryan Scott will have full details on the next FatGuyRadioShow. Our sources have confirmed this story. We will provide updates here on AfterTheLevels.com as we learn them.

NBA's Goran Dragic Training Days

On the suns.com blog, a post was released "For Dragic, Life's a Beach". I had to click and read.

So for all my readers I had to reblogg for your enjoyment. I'm excited to see this, it's gets me all geared up for the next season!

Let's Go Suns

For most of us, a summer trip to the beach involves fun in the sun, a little swimming and maybe a good book. For the Phoenix Suns’ Goran Dragic it involves weights, sweat and a whole lot of running. Needless to say it gives the phrase “a day at the beach” a whole new meaning.

This offseason the 6-3 guard from Slovenia decided to take his workout from hardwood of the gym to the sand of the pacific coast, spending his time getting in shape at the beach. Although he may look like David Hasselhoff in Baywatch as he runs up and down the Hermosa Beach, his preparation for the season was no joke. The workout was intense and his desire to put the work into becoming an All-Star was evident.

Don’t take our word for it, check out the first in a new series of videos from The NOC, an online sports network, that depicts what goes into one of Goran’s workouts.

IPhone 5... Underwhelming?

Apple announced the official launch of the new iphone 5 set to be available for purchase Friday September 21, 2012.

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Allow me to set the table that I am an Apply guy. I have an Apple Macbook Pro, Apple TV, Apple IPad 3, an IPhone, and a IPod. I live my life on Apple, I do this blog from my Apple and I'm looking to replace my Macbook Pro with an IMac in the next few months (gotta save up $1500). I strongly believe that there is NO comparing a Mac with a PC. Macs are far more superior.

When I learned Apple was going to release a new IPhone my first reaction was awesome. Like many others I waited on purchasing the 4, kept my upgrade options open with AT&T, to see what the IPhone 5 was going to be all about.

With anything Apple, there are going to be leaks and much speculation. For example, when Apple announced they were creating a new cell phone; the IPhone, there was much speculation about what it was going to be.

Everything that was leaked about the IPhone 5 turned out to be true. Bigger screen, new glass, etc. For some reason that didn't sit well with me. I was glued to my Internet last week for the unveiling and walked away feeling like I just waisted my time because Apple told me everything I had already heard. Leaving me... underwhelmed with the IPhone 5.

As mentioned on the last episode of FatGuyRadioShow, there is nothing about the IPhone 5 that makes me want to run out, use my AT&T upgrade or stand in a long line to get one.

I like it when Apple can throw me a curve ball. When the IPhone 4 was being hyped and speculated there was nothing said about Siri. So when Apple released Siri I jumped out my seat. It was something different and new. Until we all learned that Siri was useless.

This time I truly feel that Apple blew their wad with the leaks and speculation. The only welcomed unrest is the screen size. It's setting us up for a mini IPad to compete with the Kindle & the Galaxy. Again speculation.

I expected more Apple, I'm sorry to say... I expected more.

Late Night TV Commercials

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We have all, at some point, stayed up late into the night watching TV. Have you ever noticed that more food commercials come on late?

Your sitting there on your couch or laying in your bed watching a made for TV movie, when all of a sudden... staring at you is a mouth watering six dollar burger from Hardies. So what does your mind want to do? Make your body feel hungry.

Or if you are dieting, like it seems I always am, you get the worst hunger pains on the planet at 1am. It also doesn't help that you can get the burger at 1am because most of the places advertising are open.

An open late drive thru should be for potheads and homeless people trying to score some scraps. It should not be there to entice you to get up from your comfort zone, throw on the elastic waist sweatpants, hop into the car and drive to the nearest 24hour drive thru.

However, we all do it and every single red blooded American that's not the HodgesTwins are guilty of it. If they didn't make the food so damn accessible, we wouldn't crave it at 1am. Damn thin-hipped marketing genius.

Women, We Smell You

Sophisticated women of the world, I have an announcement that you may not want to hear: Guys can smell your feminine odor.

Sitting with your legs crossed or trying to cover it with perfumes does not work. We smell it and we don't react. Why don't we react, because the first thought in a guys mind when you smell something rank, like a woman's fun hall... is that me?

This is an inconvenient truth, but if I didn't tell you, you women would walk around the world thinking no one else can smell this like I can so I'll be okay until I get home. Wrong! The moment you start smelling the seepage we smell it.

Guys also know when you've tried to clean it up and failed at it. Admit it, some women don't know how to clean up that swamp monster down there. We can tell when you've scurried off to the restroom and tried to rid yourself of the Korean fish market, to only return smelling like soap and funk. You just created a new dance, the soapy Korean fish funk.

Women I hope I've helped you a little, we know - when you know so just go with it. Besides most guys don't really care, we're just not going anywhere near your lady marsh land.

Bandwaggon Sports Fans

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1. Bandwaggon Fan: Switches support to whatever team/game/allegiance/belief happens to be successful at the time

Source: UrbanDictionary.com

Sitting at a local sports bar and grill tonight, I happened to enter a conversation that lead to a friend of mine admitting he was a Lakers fan. As a knee jerk reaction I ask "What part of LA are you from?". He replies, "I'm not, I'm from Phoenix". Bandwaggoner.

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On the last episode of FatGuyRadioShow, you can hear it here, my co-host lil D admitted the same thing. Except it was concerning his favorite football team, the Green Bay Packers. Again, asked what part of Wisconsin was he from. I knew the answer to that question because lil D also happens to be my brother.

I understand being liking other teams, but the sports fan creed is to be a fan of your home team. Some may ask what if I live in a state that does not have a home team? Then the creed states you cheer for the team in the nearest city. Is this "sports law", well diehard sports fans would say it is law.

A true sports fan must always have their home team at heart. Winning or loosing, but when you cheer for another team solely because that team is more successful, than that makes you a bandwaggon fan. You are doing it just because its hot. I would go out on the limb to say you're not a true sports fan because you don't understand the rules of engagement.

I was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ and being a guy that loves basketball I am a fan of my home team the Phoenix Suns. Most people familiar with the NBA understands the Phoenix Suns don't always play at their best, hell, I've even classified myself as the beaten wife of the Suns. When they loose its like getting punched in the face. However that does not challenge my allegiance to my home team.

Phoenix has about 65% of is population is from other parts of the country. I have friends that are from Chicago, so when we sit to watch a Suns vs Bulls game, I expect them to root for the Bulls. Why? It's where they are from. But when I sit next to a guy born in Tempe, AZ and he claims to be a Bulls fan I call bandwaggon.

The worst type of bandwaggon fan is the one that won't admit it. The guy that argues you down about them being a bandwaggon fan. Those guys are the worst. I loose more respect for a "fan" that refuses to admit he's only a fan of another cities team because they are better than his home team.

Be proud of where you are from and with doing so you cheer for your home team. Simple as that!

Man Gives Money on Street Corner


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Bill Blackley stood on a corner in Winston Salem, NC and hands out $5 bills to passing motorist.

Why, because he got the money from his wife for his birthday and he thought there were other people that needed the money more than he did. This guy is a cool dude in my book.

It's obvious that $5 is not going to change someones life, however in the days of greed, corruption, anger, and theft taking a couple of hundred dollars standing on the street corner with a sign that read "I have a job. I have a home. Could YOU use $5". To people passing by he bought a couple of people lunch that day.

Its reported that a lot of motorist asked Bill, "what do I have to do?" To which Bill would reply, "take it out of my hand".

I'm not sure about you but an extra $5 in the day is a blessing and you never know, someone could have driven by that was $5 short on their light bill and now they got it by running into Bill Blackley.

Email Address Trust

Many people have done it, you post something on Craigslist or a classified website and you get a response within 30 seconds of your posting from an email "fakename1940@email.com".

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In the days of computer hacking and big brother, do you trust an email that ends with a weird sequence of numbers on a general pop server like yahoo.com, gmail.com or msn.com? I've heard stories of people responding to an such an email address and their computers crash the next day.

One thing a lot of us that are not tech savvy don't know, your information is attached to every email you send out. From your location to your computers IP address. It's not a secret, the world wide web has everything about you.

I don't trust emails that are on a general pop server and do not consist of a believable name. My email for everything I do, business and personal, consist of my first and last name. I have a common name  and I only use reputable branded pop serves. Understanding that some people don't have access to branded pop servers, but if you must use a general pop server, I would be more prone to respond to "lucysunclefather@gmail.com" than I would lucys1944@gmail.com. It seems less believable.

Besides, I know some script writers out there that can create 1,500 emails in under 30 minutes just by adding a number at the end of an innocuous name.

Just be careful responding to emails from people you don't know personally.

Attack on US Tobacco Users

Many of you work or have worked for an organization that recently may have adopted a tobacco use policy. The policy may have resulted in the avoidance of tobacco use on company property. I have a problem with this.

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If you are working in today's America there's a 98% chance your job has stress. Maybe you are stressed trying to hold on to your job or stressed because of the responsibilities of your job. Whatever it may be there is stress.

People deal with stress differently. Some drink, some beat their love ones, and some choose to use tobacco. Have you ever thought how less stressed you were when in the middle of your day you could walk 10-15 feet to an outside shaded area and enjoy a smoke? Life was a lot easier in those days. Also, lets not overlook the fact that 99% of smokers understand the health risk involved with using tobacco products.

Never Forget 9.11

Honoring and remembering everyone on this anniversary of September 11.

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Pizza Guy That Bear Hugged Obama Is Famous Now


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Remember the dude that owns a pizza joint and bear hugged the president yesterday and miraculously didn't get taken down by a swarm of Secret Service agents?
That dude is totally famous now.
Port St. Lucie resident Scott Van Duzer has been caught in a media frenzy after the big hug since yesterday. He's even going to be on Anderson Cooper.
Also, he's a registered Republican who voted for Obama in '08 and is planning to vote for him again this year.
Suck on that, Joe the Plumber! 
Van Duzer swears that he never got permission from the Secret Service to go all Thunder Lips on Rocky on the president. And that it was all spur of the moment.

Cars Should Come With LED Signs

Have you ever wanted to get a message to a dumb ass driver? Maybe someone who is driving so slow there's a line of traffic stacking up a mile behind them on a 2 lane highway. If you've ever felt this way, especially during rush hour traffic, I think I have a solution.

Cars with LED signs that can display your message of discontentment for the idiot driver.

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I know this will never happen, but my point is, when someone is so much into their own world; they can give a rats ass about the people around them they deserve a sign. One that reads, "hey dumbass pull over" or "the peddles on the right".

In Arizona road rage is an ever rising concern for our police force, unfortunately I can see why. Some of these people on the roads are so incompetent in their driving, I wonder if they actually have a licence. If they were granted driving privileges in Arizona, who the hell gave it to them?

There should be a cut off age for driving in this state and country. Or at least after a certain age your drivers license goes from expiring every 700 years to every year, with a mandate of a vision, response, road comprehension, and IQ test. I know that many people with grandparents are going to be upset about that last comment, but suck it up; they're old and can't drive any more. We all know the reason you want your frailass gram-grams to keep driving - it voids you having going the extra mile to get her to her 15th doctors appointment of the week. But I digress.

Men Can Do What They Want | AUDIBLE

An audible post by Cory Blaze
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Review: COMA Premiere on A&E Part 2

September 4, 2012 A&E concluded the two part series of COMA. My initial review of the first half can be read here. 

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I present to you my final review. 

The series as a whole was riveting and completely believable in the sense I could envision a medical provider doing such a thing now a days. The movie made some interesting points about medical service, insurance, doctors compensation and finding a way to revive a dying industry.

However the questions I posed in my previous entry are still left standing. The conclusion of the series left me wanting more of a conclusion. 

Some questions consist of, how did the old lady running Jefferson Hospital die? All I saw was a struggle, a cut away then a needle in the neck. I wanted to see the struggle. What about the black chief of medicine; after he saved the medical student then admitted to the detective he knew where she was what was the fall out from that? And were we set up for a parts 3/4 taking into consideration the text revealed at the end of the movie "join me - china"? 

Roseanne for President 2012

Roseanne Barr for President 2012... it's crazy enough it might work!

Known for her outspoken persona and famed by the hit TV show Roseanne, Roseanne Barr makes headlines again with her recent twitter rant directed at billionaires...
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We now know where Roseanne stands on one of the big issues regarding the 1% of Americans.

Review: COMA Premier on A&E

Monday September 3, 2012 A&E premiered their latest mini series; COMA staring Lauren Ambrose. A four hour mini series about a young medical student who discovers a sinister plot when routine procedures send seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table.

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Never being a person who's attracted to a four hour mini series on a cable network, COMA from the first advertisement, had me highly interested. With my past experiance in the healthcare industry, specifically in a hospital enviorment stories like this are a draw. My interest was not in vain.

Lil D Hangs Shirt

My lil brother also co-host of FatGuyRadioShow is forever entertaining to me.

He wanted to hang a t-shirt in the studio so we all allowed him to. Well I whipped out the camera because I knew this was going to be entertaining. Here's the results:


He's a baboon, but somebody loves him.

I Told the World I'm Single

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On the latest episode of FatGuyRadioShow I released to the world that I was single. Not only did I release to the world I was single, I allowed my little brother Daniel to assist me in creating an online dating profile through match.com. We called it the Match Maker show, but titled the show "You Need A Women".

I've been doing radio for some time now and I have never been more uncomfortable about a show before in my broadcast career. There has been some very personal nuggets dropped on past shows, but for some reason this show just had another level of nervousness. 

Airing your personal feelings about what you look for in a woman. In addition to owning and identifying what you do personally. 

Japans Breast Squeeze Fundraiser

Someone make sure my little brother, co-host of FatGuyRadioShow, is not reading this post.

I've always wanted to travel to Japan for it's culture, food and technology. But this takes the cake!

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In Japan, the adult-film industry host the most brazenly brilliant AIDS fundraiser. Make a donation to the AIDS foundation and during the Erotica Will Save the Day event men get to squeeze a Japaneese adult-film stars breast.
Geniuses.

All participants had to be over 18, submit to an id check, wash and sterilize their hands, and got up to two squeezes per hand. Brilliant!

I do have one question, what do the women who donate get to squeeze? Hmmm?

Think I'm making this up, here's the full link from our friends at MSN.com