This week on SlapperCast: Patrick and Chad discover that Houston Astros games can peacefully co-exist with live music at pubs, reminisce about the ’94-’95 Houston Rockets championship seasons, and talk about how they’re endeavoring to free themselves from their smart phones. Also: books they’ve read recently, with kudos to poet/novelist Paul Auster and Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead.

• 1994-95 Houston Rockets – Double Clutch
• Luv Ya Blue — Mack Hayes
• Lemmy: The Definitive Biography — Mick Wall
• Lemmy (documentary film)
• Lemmy buys the Beatles Mono Box
• Lemmy on John Lennon and The Beatles
• Why Write? — Paul Auster
• Boom, Like That — Mark Knopfler’s song about McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc
• Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s — Ray Kroc (the book that inspired Mark Knopfler’s song)
• The Founder — movie about Ray Kroc starring Michael Keaton

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Patrick's lucky Astros towel

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Houston skyline on 11/1/2017, the night the Astros won the World Series (Photo by Patrick Devlin)

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One Shell Plaza, 11/1/2017 (Photo by Chad Smalley)

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Houston Astros World Series Parade, 11/3/2017 (Photo by Patrick Devlin)