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We head to the theatre to find out what kind of Christmas movie $250 million gets you, enjoy some hand-held gaming with a classic Nintendo throwback, and explore a turn-based action game where you control a squad of wizards wearing Kevlar!

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JonWelcome back, GenX Grown Up podcast listener to this episode 180 of the GenX Grown Up podcast. I am John, joining me as always, of course, is Mo.
JonHey, man.
MoHey, how’s it going?
JonYou know it’s not a show without George. Hey, buddy.
GeorgeHey, how’s it going guys?
JonIn this episode, we head to the theater to find out what kind of Christmas movie $250 million gets you, enjoy some handheld gaming with a classic Nintendo throwback, and explore a turn-based action game where you control a squad of wizards wearing Kevlar.
MoYeah.
GeorgeI’m just saying 250 million better get me my own damn movie.
JonAll that…
JonYou wanna be in it, right?
MoYeah, seriously.
GeorgeLike in it, own it, re reap all the rewards.
MoHoly cow.
Jonit’s
GeorgeThat’s an expensive movie ticket right there.
Jonit’s It’s… It is, yeah, without a doubt. We’re gonna cover all those topics and many more in this episode. We’re so glad you joined us. First, though, it is time for some fourth listener email.
JonThere’s three of us on the show. We might listen. If anybody else does, you are our fourth listener. And the fourth listener for this episode is Ian L. The subject line of his email was TV Guide Rewind.
JonSo we…
GeorgeOh, wow.
JonYeah, episode the episode’s from a few years ago, but we rewound it, I think back in October, November.
MoYeah.
JonAnyway, Ian heard it, and here’s what he had to say. Greetings, John Moe and George. You were last again, George. Sorry, I saw you there.
GeorgeI’m always last, yeah. know Alphabetically, they never get it right.
JonI need to tell you.
JonAll right. I need to tell you how your podcast has become a part of my weekly ritual. Every day, I walk my dog for a mile in the park to clear my head and Thursdays are the best as I have a new Gen X podcast to listen to.
MoNice.
JonIsn’t that cool? Thanks, Ian.
Georgetill we do a rewind, then it’s the same shit.
JonI haven’t written in… Shh, don’t tell him that.
Moyeah
JonGeorge, come on. He says, I haven’t written in before, but your rewind episode on TV Guide was fantastic. I definitely related to all your stories regarding not moving or using the TV Guide before or after one’s father, right?
JonOr God forbid, losing the TV Guide. I too fondly remember the fall preview issue and hoping that one of those cool sounding new series would become a hit. The one memory that sticks out in my head and was not brought up was the TV Guide crossword puzzle at the end of each issue.
MoOh, yeah.
GeorgeOh, yeah.
MoThat’s right.
GeorgeWow.
MoDidn’t even talk.
GeorgeYep.
JonYeah, I remember they would compile those at the end of the year and on the newsstand, they’d have TV guy crosswords and they were TV clues, which made it awesome.
MoThat’s right. Totally missed that one.
MoYeah. Yep.
MoYeah.
JonSo, yep.
GeorgeRight.
JonOf course, i Ian goes on to say, I have specific memories of my mother screaming at me if I God forbid completed the crossword puzzle before she did.
JonI would tell her there’s one in the paper each day or the TV guide sells a crossword mag. Oh, here’s talking about it. But no, I had to leave the crossword and that week’s TV guide blank for her.
MoYep. Yep.
MoYep.
JonSo while all aspects of the TV Guide hold a place near and dear in my heart, for me, the crossword at the end of the issue is what first pops into my head.
MoNice.
JonNice. ah Thanks for taking the time to read this and please continue creating the fantastic podcasts. All the best, Ian from New Jersey. Cool.
GeorgeYeah.
JonThank you, Ian. Now he has a postscript, a PS at the end, which is really cool. And he says, by the way, PS, my 12 year old son has become a huge fan of the podcast as well. Good parenting there.
Monice Nice.
JonHe loves old video games and movies from the seventies and eighties. He particularly is a huge fan of Georgia’s stories growing up.
MoThere you go.
GeorgeWow.
JonKeep up the great work guys.
GeorgeThat may be a ah misguided youth right there. I’m not sure if anybody should
JonRight. Initially I said good parenting and now I’m not so sure.
Mobut Now I’m like, eh.
GeorgeYeah, maybe not.
GeorgeWell, what is it?
Jonor he didn’t no He didn’t say his 12 year old son Lillian.
Georgehe Did he give us his son’s name? Let me go look.
MoNo, he I think he just said it’s a 12 year old son.
GeorgeHe did not. Okay. Well, Ian’s son, I’m glad you liked the stories. Don’t listen to him anymore. They’re terrible.
Moyet. Enjoy him. Just don’t do what he did.
Jonbut that’s That’s good advice, really. Anything, anything you hear on this show, enjoy it.
GeorgePretty much.
JonJust don’t do it. It’s probably not great. Ian and Ian’s son, thank you so much for listening. Appreciate your writing in. We love that you did. We love any time one of our fourth listeners takes the time to tell us so what they enjoyed about the show or didn’t enjoy.
JonThat’s cool too. If you would like your email featured on the show, it’s drop dead easy. Just hit us up at podcast at genexgrownup.com. or Read every single one and most of them like Ian’s will eventually make the show. All right. The good business in the rear view mirror. We’re going to jump into the body of episode 180 after this quick break.
JonI’ll be the ball rolling as we always do here at the top, talking about media we have been enjoying since we last spoke. Now, you know, this could be television or comics or books or movies or whatever you’re enjoying. ah Mo, why don’t we start with you? What have you been checking out?
MoSure. Um, I’m gonna talk about a mini series that just ended the penguin. Have either of you guys caught watch that?
GeorgeMm. Yeah. It’s the HBO max thing I haven’t watched yet.
MoUm, yeah.
JonI know, I know of it.
GeorgeI was waiting for them all to finish before I watched them.
MoOh, let me tell you, it is amazing.
JonHmm.
MoUh, Um, it takes place directly after the last Batman movie, you know, the, the, the Batman.
JonOkay. Wow. All right.
GeorgeRight. It’s part of that universe, right? Yeah.
JonOkay.
MoYep. Well, it takes place like immediately at the end of that movie. Like it moves on right from that. And it’s about basically how the penguin kind of rises up to control the underworld in Gotham or tries to, you know, and all the people working against him and all that stuff.
JonOkay. I like that.
JonHmm.
MoColin Farrell placed the penguin. You would not know. I mean, makeup aside his acting in this, like you saw in the movie and his, his portrayal of the penguin there, um,
JonHe was pretty unrecognizable in the movie.
MoYeah, ah but his his acting in this and this TV series has a way of taking the most horrible characters and making you feel sympathetic towards them.
JonYeah. Yeah.
GeorgeMm hmm.
JonHmm.
MoLike, you may not still like them.
JonThat’s right.
MoYou know, you may, but you’re like, okay, I get it. Like you’re like, okay, I feel a little bad for this person now that because the XYZ happened. Um, it does a great job of doing this, like a little bit of backstory, a little, you know, four stories, a ton of surprises that, you know, that kind of fill it when you see the surprise, like, Oh, that explains a lot. You know, like just sort of like, it’s like a big puzzle. It fits together.
MoAnd apparently, I think this is almost like a intermediate to the next Batman movie was what I heard is that this is like almost like the a middle segment, then the next Batman movies and pick up after this series is done.
JonHmm.
MoSo it kind of fills in this gap space in between. But let me tell you, I mean, the acting, um there’s a. a person who plays like one of the gangster’s daughters, you know, who’s like kind of rises up a little bit. And she also like she plays a crazy person. Like you just look at her like, oh my God, she’s nuts. Like you would not want to be alone with and with an elevator with her. ray And you’re like, yeah, she’s she’s she’s losing it though. But just amazing so writing amazing series. um I luckily caught it.
Moearly there but It’s like one of those things like, George, you know i tried to I binged it, we watched like five in a row, and then we’re like, oh crap, we caught up.
GeorgeMm hmm.
MoAnd then we had to wait each week.
GeorgeRight.
JonOh no, yeah.
GeorgeYeah.
MoAnd we had to wait each week for each one to come out. and ah But it so it was one of the shows though that we look forward to every week dropping.
JonIs it still going on or is it over now or is it in the middle still?
MoIt’s over, it’s over.
GeorgeNo, it’s over.
JonOh, it’s over now.
GeorgeYeah.
MoIt’s all over, it’s all over.
JonOkay.
MoAll all the episodes are out there now.
JonAnd did you say how many it was like eight episodes or something? Did you say that eight or 10?
MoI think it’s 10? No, 8.
JonOkay. eight All right.
Mo8.
JonThat’s not a huge investment, especially if it’s quality as it sounds like, as you said.
MoNo. Oh, it’s yeah, it totally is. And just just again, just the acting and everything in it just makes it totally worthwhile. So if you haven’t checked it out yet, you can now check out the whole thing.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeI think it’s really interesting how streaming television in particular has morphed into this specific set of episodes and we’re all accustomed to it. So with network TV, we’re always used to anywhere from 22 to 26 episodes in a season.
MoMm hmm.
JonI know, yeah.
MoYeah.
GeorgeNow it’s eight, 10 or 12. Those are the defaults.
MoYep.
GeorgeThe only time it’s less than eight is if it’s like some kind of mini series, which I find hilarious that three or four is now the mini series, or
MoOr, or British.
JonThey’re all mini when they’re eight or 10, right?
GeorgeYeah, it’s, you know, it’s weird and I’m kind of liking it because it gives some of these actors and crew members and writers and everybody else an opportunity to do more than one thing in a given year.
JonYeah.
MoHmm.
GeorgeBecause a 20 something plus series takes up your entire year and then you just need to decompress because they’re working like 12, 15, 16 hour days on those things.
MoYeah, they give a couple projects.
JonOh, right. Mm hmm.
Georgeyou do 10 episodes and then you go do a movie. So I get to see it a couple of different things or you you do all the music for this one series and then you can go do the music for a video game that I’m playing.
MoYeah.
JonMm hmm.
GeorgeI love that we’re getting quality but in smaller sample sizes so they can spread out and do a number of different things which is probably helped by the fact that there’s 17 million streaming platforms out there now.
MoMm hmm.
MoYeah, you’re kidding.
JonI had taken it for granted until you pointed it out, but that’s probably why they could get a Colin Farrell to do a TV series.
MoYeah.
GeorgeMm hmm.
JonOr that’s probably why we see so many big name actors in TV series now, because it’s not a year round commitment anymore.
MoThat’s a good point.
MoRight.
Jonthat’s Yeah, I see your point. You’re like, maybe it’s it’s good for you in that you get to see more stuff from these people, but it’s good for them, too, that they’re not locked into something. They can say yes to more stuff and we get more really good talent on screen.
MoYeah, no, absolutely.
JonThat’s cool. Yeah.
Moand And again, these eight episodes, it’s a very, set it’s like one story.
JonHuh? Yeah.
MoYou end of it, you’re like, ah, okay, that’s, i I get it.
JonMm hmm. Yep.
MoThis is a good one story.
JonReady for the next movie.
MoIt could be, yeah, it could be, if it stopped right there, I’ve been happy.
JonGot it.
GeorgeYeah.
MoLike, okay, you know, it completed everything. So again, if you haven’t had a chance to check it out, check out the Penguin.
JonCool.
MoBut, so John, yours, I am extremely curious about. Cause, uh, this is a Christmas movie I say with question mark in my head.
JonOh yeah, it is. that that’s what they That’s what they tell me, yes.
Mobut
JonI was looking forward to this movie, Red One is the name of the film. It stars J.K. Simmons, it stars Chris Evans, it stars Dwayne Johnson, it stars Lucy Liu, and a bunch of other people, but those are the big names I can think of.
JonIt is a Christmas movie, most certainly. And i as I mentioned in the tease, it cost a quarter of a billion, billion with a B dollars to create this movie.
JonAnd that’s, I’m sure that’s all the budget that’s, now I don’t know, maybe it’s not all the budget, but it’s, you know, talent and effects and everything.
GeorgeI mean, at least 200 million of that went to the rock, so.
Jonwhat He certainly had a payday. He certainly had a payday. And I think I said what I was looking forward to it a couple of weeks ago, I’m really cautious because I’m starting to see the reviews and they’re like, Oh, it’s such trash. Oh, but when I see that, I’m like, I had already decided I was interested. I want to see it. And so I bought the tickets and I said, let’s go see it. Ironically, we know it’s going to be junk. Let’s just have a good time.
JonSo I went in expecting nothing.
MoThat’s good though.
JonAnd I, yeah, and I came out the other end thinking that the majority of professional critics have their heads up their asses and wouldn’t know a good time if it smacked them in the face.
JonThis is a fun movie. You said, question mark, is it a Christmas movie? it does Look, it’s not full of holly jolly. It’s not full of jingle bells and tinsel and everything. The premise is, look, Christmas is these people’s full-time job. They live in the North Pole in this bubble where nobody can see them and Google Maps can’t see them in anything. But year round, they’re working toward Christmas, just like you would kind of think, you know, Santa.
Jonjust like you would kind of think Santa does with his elves and everything and working.
MoRight.
JonAnd what happens is there’s all the mythology around Christmas that you know about, right? There’s the winter witch and there’s Krampus and there’s all this stuff. They’re all part of his circle of people that he knows and stuff is going on.
JonAnd this particular, a red one by the way, is the name of Santa’s sleigh. Like we have, you know, Navy one and Air Force one, right?
GeorgeYeah, it makes sense.
MoOh, that makes, okay. Yeah, it makes sense.
GeorgeYeah.
JonSo rick now they nicknamed Santa red, that’s fine, but his sleigh is red one when he’s in it, right? that’s What happens, you see in the teaser, you see in the trailer or whatever, is that Santa Claus gets abducted.
JonAnd J.K. Simmons, as you know, is currently a ripped old man and he plays a ripped old Santa, you know, and he’s like, got a carb up, he’s eating cookies. Like, you know, it takes 436 million calories Christmas, you know, the Christmas night when I’m going on Christmas Eve.
GeorgeYou know, I have never seen JK Simmons young. Like the first thing I ever saw him in was Oz.
MoNo.
GeorgeIt was 30 years ago and he was old then.
MoYeah.
JonYeah, he was pretty old, yeah.
MoHe was old. Yeah, he was.
JonAnd he’s never been in better shape than he is now in his sixties. you know he
MoYeah. He looks kind of the same to be quite honest.
GeorgeHe can’t be in his sixties. He’s got to be a 235. Don’t tell me he’s 60.
MoYeah.
GeorgeThat’s only 10 years off of me. There’s no way.
JonAh, I don’t know. yeah he But he sells it. its Dwayne Johnson plays basically the head of security for Santa.
GeorgeYeah.
JonAnd when he gets abducted, he has to go and find out, well, what the hell? And he he drafts this normie, this regular human, Chris Evans, who actually is like a tracker and a a mercenary for hire kind of thing.
JonHe knows how to find people. Through a series of silly circumstances, they get connected up. And I’d say Chris Evans’ character is a little bit responsible for the information where to find Santa.
JonAnyway, it’s all in there.
MoHmm. Okay.
JonI don’t want to spoil the movie because it absolutely should be seen.
MoOkay.
JonI looked at Rotten Tomatoes when I got home. I did want to look before, but I just heard bad things. I got home. Critics was like 31 percent. Audience? 88 percent.
MoWow.
GeorgeMmm.
JonAnd that feels more like it. It’s not a 100% movie. It’s not cinema, but by God, $250 million, dollars too much money for any movie. A lot more can be done with that money.
MoYeah.
JonBut now that it’s spent, I’m surprised as anyone that Red One is a great movie. It’s so much fun. If you’re looking for, you know, something new and different and something, no, it’s not that, but it treats Christmas in a way that makes it more grounded.
JonThere’s real stuff. These people have real jobs and real lives and there’s security guards and everything because so Christmas is important. And essentially, Chris Evans helps the rock to save Christmas.
JonThat’s what happens in red one. so
MoI said, okay.
JonYeah, if you heard the reviews and you weren’t gonna see it, forget those. Treat yourself. Before Christmas gets here, you should go out in the theater, I think. I would i would pay money to see it again if I had to. It was that good.
MoSo it sounds like one of those cases where they’re taking the movie too seriously, the critics, is that what’s happening? Like they’re just taking like two, two crit, like not just saying it’s just a fun movie, but some movies are just fun movies to enjoy.
GeorgeI mean, so. Let’s be honest, the the landscape of movie critics is not what it was when we were growing up. the Anybody can be a movie critic and be a professional one by writing an article on some goddamn blog somewhere that somebody spends five cents to click on a damn ad to go read.
JonFair.
MoYeah.
GeorgeAnd now you’re a professional movie critic and you can probably get listed on Rotten Tomatoes in some way because their whole model is the more the merrier for their rating system because they want more.
JonYeah.
MoYeah, true.
Georgetruth of the matter is I think there ought to be an exam, a license that you have to get in order to become a movie critic because it’s that important to me.
Jonhu Right? Credentials.
GeorgeI love movies and I’m very fed up and flustered with the current situation we deal with.
MoYeah.
GeorgeWe don’t have you know Ebert and Cisco on the afternoon TV anymore with their thumbs and granted I didn’t agree with a lot of their ratings either but still
JonMm hmm. Mm hmm. Right.
GeorgeIt felt like it was um more legitimate back in that day, and now it feels like it’s just any s schmuck with a keyboard is a movie critic at this point.
JonWild
MoYeah. Yeah. I agree. Cause also when, like you said, the Cisco and the Ebert, at least there were some like, you knew what they, you knew what they liked. Like you knew what their opinions were generally, but even then, you know, they would sometimes say like, okay, this isn’t an Oscar winning movie, but it was a lot of fun, you know?
GeorgeSure.
JonYep.
GeorgeRight.
MoAnd know you don’t really hear that much anymore in critics. It’s always like, you know, Oh, you know, $250 million, dollars you know, it was all special effects. It’s all CG. I’m like, and that’s a problem because
GeorgeAnd the internet, so the internet started being about building stuff up.
JonYeah, there was special effects.
GeorgeIt’s just become tearing stuff down now.
MoYeah.
JonThere, yeah. There are special effects. There are explosions.
MoOf course.
JonThere’s some great practical effects. Look Oppenheimer, this ain’t, but it is a good time and it was fun.
MoOkay.
JonI definitely recommend it. You should go and check out red one while it’s in the theaters, if you can.
MoAwesome.
JonAll right, George, how about you? You have a festive Christmas series for us to watch?
GeorgeNope.
JonNope.
GeorgeNope. I have a meme titled TV series that was suggested to us in our Discord server, genexpronup.com slash discord.
JonOkay.
JonHmm.
GeorgeAnd I’m just going to say right off the top of the bat, fuck discord.
JonHmm.
GeorgeOh my God.
GeorgeThis series, which by the way, there are now three series that I know of having a similar or exact same title. The series is called, It’s Florida Man. So be careful if you’re out there searching for it.
GeorgeYou gotta find the 2024 series, It’s Florida Man.
MoOkay.
GeorgeThere’s a 2023 one that I think John knows about that’s like a real life serial killer kind of thing or some kind of, ah there’s another one that’s a comedy special out there anyway.
JonMm hmm. Yep.
JonWell.
Georgeum It’s Florida Man, which is a ah meme, as we all who live in Florida are readily aware of, I’m sure, every late night comedian loves to poke fun at the crazy news stories that come out of Florida.
JonMm hmm. We know.
MoYeah, yeah.
JonYep.
GeorgeWell, this series takes those news stories, some of which you may have heard, some of which you probably haven’t heard of, and it creates a reenactment scenario with B and A list celebrities while the people who live the event are telling the actual story on camera.
GeorgeSo it goes back and forth. And I think it’s kind of clever that they they know they’re playing this tongue in cheek.
Jonoh
JonMm hmm.
GeorgeThey have some scenes where the real life person will say a line and it’ll so flash over to the reenactment and that actor will say the exact same line right then.
Moah Okay.
GeorgeIt’s it’s very funny. But the first episode is what I’m gonna talk about because it’s the one that upset me the most. And you guys who listen to this podcast know it takes a lot to upset me when it comes to entertainment or media comes in.
JonYou made me watch this, George, damn it.
Mobut I have not.
GeorgeI did.
JonYou did.
Georgeah They made me watch it, so fuck you.
Jonbut So I did a little blowback.
GeorgeThat’s, yeah.
JonSure.
Georgeah The first episode, Mo, if you haven’t watched it yet,
Georgeinvolves a man who wants to earn enough money to go see a DJ in concert somewhere, so he posts an ad on Craigslist, first smart movie made, saying, I’ll do almost anything to earn this money.
MoOh, God.
GeorgeSo of course he gets hit with a bunch of requests that everybody can imagine are very sexually deviant and everything.
MoYeah, what could go wrong?
JonMm hmm.
GeorgeAnd he’s turning all those down and saying, I don’t want to do any of that kind of stuff. And then he gets a email from somebody says, I have a fantasy that I need help fulfilling. It’s not sexual.
GeorgeWill you please help?
Mojesus um’ I’m cringing already.
GeorgeNo, you’re not cringing enough, sir.
MoOh, Jesus.
JonAll right.
GeorgeThe actual fantasy that this man wants to complete is to have someone come to his house, cut off his toes, and eat them in front of him.
MoMm-hmm. Oh my god.
GeorgeI’m not joking. This is not hyperbole in any sense of that word. it is an actual fact and they have documented photographic evidence to prove the real event happened.
MoOh my god.
JonYeah.
MoOh. Oh, my God.
GeorgeNow I’m not going to spoil it any more than that because you need to go watch the episode to find out how everything turned out.
JonInsane.
MoOh, um spoil it.
JonNo.
MoLet me spoil it.
JonRight.
MoI don’t want to, though.
GeorgeBut they have arguably In that episode, the best cast selected for the roles of the real people.
Jona
GeorgeThey start off with a real skeevy guy who was the arcade attendant in Stranger Things.
MoHmm.
GeorgeHe plays a character at the beginning who then switches ah to the father from the Fresh Off the Boat TV series, who was also Asian Jim in one of the intros of The Office.
MoYeah.
JonYes, yep.
Georgeum just that juxtaposition when they switch that character is brilliant in my mind. The people who are producing and directing this series are doing something right because I watched the second episode, which is all about a, uh, a guy who decides it’s his mission in life to go swim in a lake full of alligators.
MoOh God.
Jonso not Not everything, something.
Mono
GeorgeHe’s Florida man.
JonThat should go great. Yeah.
MoI’m sure it ended well.
JonJeez.
GeorgeWell, I’ll say he was doing the interview. That’s as much as I’m going to give you.
MoHe made up his toes.
JonRight. how How much of him was doing the interview is the question.
GeorgeYeah.
JonThe same thing happened to me that’s happening to you right now, Mo. George told this part of the story and said, I don’t want to spoil the toast story for you. You’ll have to find out. And then I had to find out. And then I watched it. And it is good.
JonIt is well-produced and it is funny.
GeorgeAnd I didn’t spoil it, did I?
JonNo, you didn’t.
GeorgeWith that description, I did not spoil it. There’s plenty left on the bone.
JonNope. Oh yeah.
GeorgeHa ha ha.
MoOh.
Jonbut oh Oh, you give me shit.
MoOh. Oh.
JonThat was terrible.
MoOh.
GeorgeThat was a good one. That was a hell of a lot better than that’s what she said 700 times.
JonOh, I don’t know.
GeorgeYou could have said that’s what she said to it.
MoWow.
JonAgree to disagree.
MoOh.
GeorgeBut yeah, it’s, it’s called it’s Florida man. I don’t know what network it’s on.
JonYep.
GeorgeI found it in the, you know, out in the ether verse, you go figure it out for yourself. I, good luck.
JonOr, or don’t your choice.
MoYeah.
MoI’m going to kick off tech and toys with something that you guys will not be able to relate to at all because it’s an Apple product.
JonOkay. and Okay.
MoIt’s emotional.
JonAll right. It’s the motion.
MoSo my daughter just had a birthday and so she actually wanted an Apple watch for her birthday. And unless I get like eight people to go in it with me, that wasn’t going to happen ah because they’re freaking expensive as hell, as you know.
JonOkay.
Moright But they actually have a cheaper version called the Apple Watch SE. which was like 200 bucks.
JonOkay.
MoSo I was like, okay, it’s more reasonable, right? Um, and it does almost everything that the latest Apple watch does with a couple of exceptions, which I’m not even sure make a difference.
MoYou know, uh, like it has, the you know, the thing where the features that it misses is a couple of the biometric stuff, which I’m like, okay, you know, I don’t need something, you know, monitoring my stress level constantly.
Jonright.
MoUm, the always on feature now, like remember the original Apple watch, you had to like flick your wrist for it to turn on.
JonMm hmm.
GeorgeMm hmm.
MoYeah, this one, you still, you have to do that as well now. And a couple other smaller features, like, you know, it’s like maybe the screen isn’t quite as nice, but the processor and everything else is almost the same as what they put in their, the latest Apple watch.
MoSo, you know, I was like, she has it.
JonHmm.
MoShe’s completely happy with it. Uh, so I’m just trying to figure out like, I’m not sure why I would buy the more expensive watch to be quite honest.
JonHow much does the full price expensive modern watch cost? Like a grand or more?
MoOh, 500 up to 1,000, depending on which one you get and what features and stuff.
JonHmm. Yeah.
MoThey feel like they have like a stainless steel one that’s like super expensive and all that stuff. So you know I’d rather much rather spend a couple hundred bucks, and then that way if she you know if it does get destroyed, it’s not a big deal, than spend like 500.
JonYeah.
MoEven I’m not going to spend that much on a watch.
JonDo you know, are they, are they compatible with things other than Apple? Cause like, I know Samsung watches can be used with Apple if you want to, but like not everything works. Do you know how errors Apple tied into Apple watches?
JonDo you know?
MoI’m, I’m pretty sure they’re just tied in, but I’m not a hundred percent. Cause I, I never actually investigated that.
JonHmm. Yeah. If it does work, it probably is a subset of the features, which is kind of what happens the other way.
MoYeah, I would.
JonSo yep.
MoYep. Yep. So again, so if you’re looking to get somebody, uh, you know, not too expensive present, you know, Apple watch isn’t a bad way to go.
JonHmm. Yeah.
MoSo that’s why. So what do you got, George?
GeorgeWell, um the thing that I have came about because I have this um these Google alerts that give me news information that I use in the bit by bit videos. And I got an alert that something was available on Woot dot.com, which I guess had been off Woot.com for a while. it’s Believe it or not, John, you know these these products pretty well. It’s a game and watch.
MoOh, wow.
Georgenew release it’s for Super Mario Brothers and it’s the Nintendo version I guess there’s multiple versions of these things for maybe you play Mario Brothers on different platforms or something but what you get in this is you get Super Mario Brothers you get Super Mario Brothers 2 and you get another game that’s like looks like it was really on an original Game & Watch where it’s Mario juggling these balls over his head
JonSo sure.
MoYeah, yeah, yeah.
JonHmm.
JonHmm. Okay.
JonOh, yes. Yes. Yep.
GeorgeUh, and I think it’s just called balls.
JonYep. I remember that one. I think it is. Yep.
GeorgeUh, and then the fourth little application on there is just a clock, which is in a Mario brothers font and theme.
JonYep. Balls.
JonHmm.
JonHmm.
GeorgeIt was under $50. I think on Woot, I got it for like 35. I see it on Amazon right now for like 45 or 46.
JonHmm.
MoOkay.
GeorgeIt is a lot of fun. It’s literally pocket size. You stick it in your pocket, you take it when you play. It’s very easy to use. The buttons are simple and I’m really enjoying it. When my wife goes to therapy, I bring it along with me. And then the times when I don’t have to be doing something, I just start playing super Mario brothers and it’s a lot of fun and I still suck at it.
MoSo the old gaming watches, I remember, were very ah with like the liquid crystal displays, you know, the very boxy stuff.
GeorgeMm hmm. LCD. Yep.
MoIs this the same or is it color? Is it?
GeorgeSo it’s full color.
Mookay Oh,
Georgeah It’s just like you’re playing on a Nintendo on your color television when you’re playing Super Mario Brothers or Super Mario Brothers, too.
JonHmm.
GeorgeWhen you’re playing the balls game, it’s like the LCD.
JonBalls.
MoOh, OK.
JonHmm. Okay. I was curious. I have one. I think got the Zelda one. Maybe I picked one of those up when it was on when it was on sale.
GeorgeHmm.
JonLike you, you know, you kind of did.
GeorgeYeah.
JonWe’re similar ages. You’re just a couple of years younger than me. So it makes me wonder Did you play Super Mario Brothers in the day when it was new on Nintendo? Cause I never did.
JonOr are you exploring it for the first time now? Where do you fall?
GeorgeI did not play when it was new.
JonOkay.
GeorgeI think I played later on actually after you and I met in the mid to late nineties by, I think I rented either an NES or an SNES from blockbuster and played it that way.
JonOkay. Oh, okay.
GeorgeSo I never owned the system. I played it for a little while by renting it through blockbuster and I played other games as well, but I’m, I’m not good.
JonMm hmm.
GeorgeLike I can get past the first level and that’s about as far as I can go on super Mario. brothers and I cannot jump to the top of that damn flag to save the life of me. But this is a fun little game and it’s, it’s not terribly expensive.
GeorgeOf course you’re not getting 500 games with it, but they seem to be the real true Nintendo cartridge licensed versions.
GeorgeBut as old as Super Mario Brothers is, what you want to talk about next on the list, John, I think is even slightly older.
JonYep. Yep.
GeorgeAnd for our American audience, maybe even a little less well known.
JonOh, a hundred percent. You’re absolutely right. So i I’m as ignorant to it as most people in the States are, but over here in the States, we had a thing called the Timex Sinclair, which was this little home computer, a tiny look.
MoOh yeah.
GeorgeMm hmm.
JonIt almost looked like a calculator and branded Timex didn’t help it any, right?
MoMatches.
JonBecause like, well, Timex makes watches and calculators and stuff. But essentially, as I’ve come to learn over in Europe, especially in the UK and Australia and some other places around other parts of the world, the ZX Spectrum, I’ve been educated, it’s not called the ZX Spectrum, that’s an Americanized thing, the ZX Spectrum
MoZ.
Jonwas for them, in a lot of cases, what the Atari and Commodore 64 were to us in home computers. And just last week, I guess, PlayOn and Retro Games Limited. These are the companies that put out the A500 Mini, the 400 Mini, the Commodore 64 Mini and the Maxi. They released what’s called the Spectrum. Now, this is not a Mini. It’s the full size of what was already a little home computer.
Jonyou could I wish I could show you a picture, but it’s a podcast. You can’t see it, but it looks kind of like a big calculator. It has big rubber buttons on it. The keyboard works on this. The way people use it initially, the ZX Spectrum was released ah into schools.
JonIt was a low cost computer that people could learn programming on in the education system.
GeorgeThank you.
JonBut very quickly, when a low cost computer comes along and kids find out how cool it is, they start asking for it to have at home. And it became the de facto home computer video game console for parts of the world that aren’t North America.
JonAnd with this new release, so what Retro Games Limited has done is you have basically two products in one, like the other releases they’ve done.
MoOkay.
JonYes, it’s an emulator that has, I think almost 50 games on it, Great games of manic minor and snake bite and renegade and all this stuff that I didn’t know I’m learning actually pretty fun games Also, though if you want to deal in the programming environment You can actually change a switch in the software to when I boot it up It comes up to this blank screen ready to start typing and doing basic you can save programs off to the the thumb drive if you want to and The Spectrum never even, look, it wasn’t meant to be a game machine.
JonIt didn’t even have its own bespoke controller. So you can use pretty much anything. If you had the old Spectrum, you had to buy a card, like a serial card or something to let you use controllers. But now you can plug in pretty much, I probably got my 8BitDo controller or something, works like a charm.
JonSo since I got this, I add did a review. Mo, I’ll throw you a link both to, yeah, to do their site over at Retro Games Limited, also my review that I did.
MoOh, awesome.
JonI had a lot of fun with this thing. I wasn’t, I didn’t know what to expect really. I want to say I didn’t expect much. I expected a lot of the company, but I had no nostalgia for this product, but I was grinning the whole way through. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about in television how we never paid attention to it. though I didn’t, at least when I was a kid and I’m discovering all this new stuff. Here’s another computer platform, thousands of games, and what a great way to explore them without having to know how to get an old thing hooked up to a modern display.
MoSo did it have any games that we would like to they have different games of what we had here or they similar games or they kind of knock off games like what did they do?
Jonhu Yeah, ah similar kind of games, like there’s a game on there called Phoenix, P-H-E-E-N-I-X.
MoOkay Gotcha
JonIt’s very clearly the arcade game Phoenix written by someone else. A lot of knockoff things. The thing about the Spectrum that I’m learning, and the ZX Spectrum is specifically, is that because it only had a cassette interface,
Jonanybody could write programs, put them on a cassette and sell them at their corner store. And so there were like pockets of software developers, because there wasn’t distribution, there wasn’t the internet.
MoRight.
JonAnd so in areas, just independent devs would put it on a cassette and sell it out of the corner store. And that’s how, you know, and then piracy and tape copying that we all know about would spread things around. And that’s the sort of things they have included here to play.
MoOh, interesting.
JonYep. So again, check out the videos. It’s really cool. And it’s something you probably don’t know anything about, but if you like old computers and old games, I bet there’s something in there that you might enjoy.
MoNice.
JonCool. Great. Groovy.
GeorgeAll right. Well, we were talking a little bit about it as we went to break, so we’re going to talk a little bit more about games in our game segment. Specifically, John, I think you want to talk about some ZX Spectrum games.
JonYeah, that’s really what I’ve been playing the majority of. And I was getting ready for the podcast. I’m like, what have you been playing? Oh, no, I’ve been playing all these old Spectrum games. And none of them individually is something I’m like, oh, here’s the biggest thing.
JonManic Miner, probably the most well-known game. I did a Friday Plays of Manic Miner not too long ago because I heard the Spectrum was coming out. um And it’s ah it’s weird. Often you’d go download a new game off of Steam or off of Epic or GOG and explore a brand new game or a modern remake of a game.
MoMm hmm.
JonWhat I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks is digging through these games that I’ve never heard of and finding out just how similar the DNA is between this side of the pond and that side of the pond. Look, fun is fun.
JonFun is fun.
MoYeah.
JonSo those are the things that I’ve been playing. Hopefully you guys know maybe you have something that’s a little more modern to check out.
MoYeah, actually, I do. It’s a game called Tactical Breach Wizards.
JonHmm.
MoWhich, okay, doesn’t sell you much.
Georgeso Okay.
Moum i I know.
JonThose don’t go together.
MoAnd I found it just from ah an article I got where the guy was doing like kind of the year’s best games. you And this was on that list.
JonOkay.
MoAnd then they said it’s a lot like XCOM 2, which is a game, one of my favorite computer games I love.
JonYou love.
Moyou know It’s a tactical squad kind of thing, except instead of like SWAT members, they’re kind of SWAT members, but they’re wizards too. ah um It’s an independent game ah and it’s gotten great reviews from like Rock Paper Shotgun, PC Gamer, all these people are raving about this game and it has like great reviews, overwhelmingly positive on Steam.
Mo20 bucks? I was like, yeah, I’ll give it a shot. You know, it’s the right price range.
JonMm hmm.
MoAnd it is, it’s fun. It’s very like tongue in cheek. Like there’s a lot of dialogue. This is hilarious. Like them talking to each other and they somehow integrate the whole wizard aspect of it into this tactical swap kind of, you know, breach into a room kind of situation because, and they do things like one of the wizards has a temporal magic where they can actually sit there and see you what’s going to happen next.
JonOK.
Moand see the outcome of their movements and be like, oh, I don’t like that.
Jonah
GeorgeAh.
MoRewind and you could do something else. You know, um you know, other people have like the fireballs kind of thing instead of rifles, you know, shooting guns at each other. they But they are, you know, actually battling people who sometimes have guns and that kind of stuff.
JonLightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, like a larper’s.
MoYeah, seriously.
JonYeah.
Moit’s um And it’s it’s a very it’s now the thing is like you look at something like XCOM 2, which that was very open ended, like it’s there’s a million ways of kind of solving these things.
JonMm hmm.
MoThis is a much smaller game. Like the the the maps are much, much smaller.
JonOkay.
MoLike there’s just individual rooms can move one room to the other. and it’s almost like you’re kind of solving like a puzzle like okay what’s the best way for me to use these guys to get in there no one gets hurt you know and you wind up kind of beating up the bad guys but I would say I’ve been playing it I picked up earlier this week and it is a blast
JonAs you described the ah the I don’t know the the the weird mashup of a tactical game and the wizards make me think immediately of like an RPG. Is there any kind of RPG element like you learn new spells or level up your kind of guys or is just like a wizard is just kind of the kind of class that they are? How does that work?
Moum They do have like a a level up. like So you do so a certain remissions, you get some points, and then you could level up your spells that you have. You know like you’re you have a ah lightning bolt one that will jump to multiple people.
JonOkay.
MoYou could level it up so it goes to more people, or it’s stronger, or it knocks back people.
JonOkay.
MoSo there is some customization and so that you could do. And you know and sometimes and sometimes I’m like, eh, I’ve restarted. Because you could remap them anyway. You think you could deduct the points and re-add them to a different area if you don’t like it.
Moum And the graphics aren’t as intense as as like Xcom and some of the modern ones. it’s so It’s a much simpler graphics, but it’s effective.
MoAnd it’s fun. And it’s like I said, it’s just a thrill to play.
JonOkay, so very light RPG, if any more, just like leveling up kind of stuff.
MoYeah.
JonOkay, I get it.
MoYep, exactly. like So that’s why I got what you got, George.
GeorgeWell, uh, so in order to keep my streak going, like I mentioned last time, I’m just picking out whichever free game that comes out for either, uh, the Amazon prime games or on Epic or grand old gate, whoever has free games.
GeorgeAnd I’m just looking at the one that looks the most interesting to me out of the list and trying that out for a week. And then I’m going to decide if I want to keep it around or if it’s something I’m going to uninstall. Well, this time I found one through Amazon Prime that gets added to your Epic library because that’s one of the things Amazon Prime does.
MoOkay.
GeorgeThey add a lot to GOG or ah Epic as well as their own library, um a game that’s definitely going to stay on my computer for quite a long while.
Jonso yeah
Mooh
GeorgeIt’s called House of Golf 2, which is interesting because I can’t find House of Golf 1 listed anywhere by this company. Maybe it’s just tongue in cheek, but this is essentially a mini golf puzzler type of game where you’re playing in these interesting ah kids like bedrooms kind of places and just these interesting locales and stuff with Different objects in the room being the obstacles you have to go around and you’re playing a game of mini golf that you do have to try and you know Get the lowest score possible just like you would in any game of golf ah certain objects help you like a if you get within a certain circle of a cannon then the cannon will suck up your ball and and shoot it out across the The place where you’re at and put you in a better position to make a hole in one or part two or whatever
JonHmm.
Georgeum
JonHmm.
Georgeyou in order to play more levels, you have to get proficient at the level you’re in, which I like.
MoOkay.
GeorgeIt doesn’t just say, here’s all the levels, play whatever you want. You actually have to develop some skill with the interface and understand how they want you to play the game to get better at.
JonHm?
MoOh
GeorgeThere’s apparently also tournaments that can be held. There is a friends list ah situation involved.
Mowow.
GeorgeI think you can also do local co-op. You may be able to do online co-op. I haven’t explored that part yet.
MoMm
GeorgeBut for the grand price of free, it’s a damn good game, especially because this game just came out this year as a $30 game.
Mohmm.
Mowow
JonOh, wow.
GeorgeI don’t know how they worked out a deal with Amazon already to be a free game that Amazon basically puts in your Epic library forever to own at that point, but it’s well worth the free price.
MoWow.
GeorgeI don’t know if I would have bought it at 30,
JonRight.
MoOoh, that’s what it was going for, huh?
Georgebecause I don’t and don’t buy many games at full price anymore, especially anything over 20 bucks, but I might have to consider it if I sat down and played this game with someone and then they told me, okay, it’s $30 to buy. I might be kind of upset ah trying to decide whether I was going to buy it or not.
JonHmm. It already sounds like something I would enjoy. The question I had for you about it is, it sounds like maybe one of those games that’s easy to pick up for a short play session and put down since it’s kind of based on holes. Is that true? Or does it make you feel like you got to kind of keep going and keep playing? Cause you also mentioned the skill element.
GeorgeYeah, I mean, I think I played for 10 or 15 minutes to complete the nine hole tutorial. Then I had to go back and redo the nine hole tutorial because i I just made par.
GeorgeI didn’t do well enough to get a trophy.
MoOh better, yeah.
JonOK.
GeorgeAnd you have to get a trophy in order to advance to the next course.
MoOkay.
GeorgeOnce you get to the next course, I think it opened up three of them. um So all in total, I’ve spent about 45 minutes with the game so far. picking it up and putting it down.
GeorgeIt, I won’t say it’s as quick and easy as say, um, utopia must fall is in that regard, but it’s pretty straightforward.
JonMm hmm. All right, right.
MoOkay, yeah, yeah.
GeorgeUh, it does do auto save. So I think that if you left a course unfinished, when you came back, I believe it would start you in the same place.
MoOh, okay, okay.
Jonwhich is very helpful. That helps that pickup put down scenario too.
GeorgeYeah.
JonCool. All right.
GeorgeI mean, I haven’t tested it yet because I’ve, as I said, I’ve completed each course I’ve attempted so far, but, uh, it, it looks like it might have that option and it’s cloud saving. So you don’t have to worry about losing something if your PC does.
JonRight.
MoYeah. And each course, is it like 18 holes, like pretty typical miniature golf kind of setup?
GeorgeUh, so far it’s nine holes.
MoOh, nine-hose, okay, okay.
JonOkay.
GeorgeYeah. On the tutorial.
MoThat’s probably better.
GeorgeUm, I, I haven’t played one of the, uh, the next level whole, uh, courses yet, but We’ll see. I mean, it looks to me like 18 holes would feel a little long.
MoYeah, I can see that.
GeorgeUm, but if I could walk away from the game, come back and it brought me back to the same place I was at, I wouldn’t really mind that much. I could play it for 10 minutes or so, play like five or six holes and then come back.
MoYeah, I get it.
GeorgeSo toy story is what it feels like.
JonWhat about the art style is like realistic or cartoony or what’s it look like? I like that. Oh, neat.
MoOh, okay, okay.
JonYeah. Like kind of shiny and toy like.
GeorgeYeah.
JonYeah, I get that. That could be cool.
GeorgeYeah, yeah, it’s kind of fun. It’s the obstacles and all the um all the different things that enhance or degrade your ah play of a whole are well thought out, I think, and there’re they’re well represented.
GeorgeSo a thing that would slow you down looks like a puddle of oil. And a thing that would ah speed you up looks like one of those things on a Mario Kart track that you run over and your kart goes faster.
MoOkay.
JonThe boost pad things.
Georgeso
JonYeah, yeah, sure.
GeorgeYeah. All the things feel very intuitive. Now, the one thing that might not feel intuitive, I’m only playing this with a mouse.
JonMm hmm.
GeorgeI know you can play it with a, with a controller, but with the mouse, you have to hold the left button down and then push the mouse forward to increase your speed.
JonAh.
MoOkay.
GeorgeNow in every golf game I’ve ever played, you pull back to raise your power level and then let go of the mouse and your club swings forward.
JonMm. Back. Yep.
MoYeah.
GeorgeSo that feels,
JonHmm.
Georgeweird to me, and I find myself having to be careful about my aim when I’m doing that.
MoYeah, I can see that.
GeorgeThere is the right mouse button which slows your aim, which makes it a little more forgiving, but that’s the only mechanic that I think they probably they probably got a little too in inventive.
JonYeah.
JonMm hmm.
GeorgeIt’s okay to do what everybody else does, but the rest of the game is a blast.
JonNice, house of golf too, and free. I’m gonna go get it.
GeorgeMm-hmm.
JonThanks.
Jonas we round out the back end of the show, you know, here, we always like to talk about the things we’re currently looking at, or maybe we’re looking forward to them between now and the next time we get a chance to speak.
JonAnd why don’t we start with you, George? What do you have on the horizon?
GeorgeYeah, um well, first off, I’m kind of looking forward to a little bit, making more bit by bit content for the GenX Print Up YouTube channel. um it’s it’s I’m finding the legs of the thing. I’m not sure if it’s going to attract enough of an audience, but so far I’m enjoying doing it. um Of course, after talking about it in the last segment, I’m going to try and enjoy a lot more free gameplay.
GeorgeI’ve got thousands of titles out there and these services just keep adding more to them.
JonYep.
GeorgeI might as well take advantage of that and get a little bit of, you know, 15, 20, 30 minute gameplay sessions in where I can. But the thing I think I might be looking forward to the most is on a service that I no longer subscribe to, so I’m going to have to figure out how I can watch it.
GeorgeBut ah Disney Plus on December 3rd is releasing Star Wars Skeleton Crew Season 1.
JonMm hmm.
GeorgeJohn, this looks to be like a live action maybe slight knockoff of Star Trek Prodigy. It’s a bunch of young kids having to come together and survive in a sci-fi world that we all know and ah it’s got some interesting choices.
GeorgeI think it’ll be fun though. It looks like it might have hit the mark with its intended content and audience. So
MoNice.
Georgeah Star Wars skeleton crew season one, December 3rd on Disney Plus is what I’m looking forward to the most. John, how about you?
JonYeah. Yeah, you know, it wasn’t on my list before. But just a couple of you and the other day, somebody else was mentioning the skeleton crew series to me. I’m like, well, maybe I need to pay attention to that.
JonBut so that wasn’t on my list. But it is now. um I’m looking forward to a film coming out December 6, called werewolves.
MoYeah, I saw that.
Jonah From what I’ve seen in the trailers, it’s almost like it’s a werewolf zombie movie. like Lots of people are werewolves, not just like a werewolf is out there.
GeorgeHmm.
JonSome you know blood moon or harvest moon infected people a year ago.
MoIt’s like making people turn, yeah.
Jonand now they’re all turning into werewolves. like It’s a thing spreading.
GeorgeOkay.
JonIt’s a different kind of werewolf movie. I’m interested. I’m going to go see it. you know and It’s December. Time for werewolf movies. Why not?
MoSure.
JonI just discovered a series that I didn’t know existed called The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd on the History Channel.
MoWhat?
GeorgeAh, okay.
MoOh.
JonThis has been out for a season. I learned about it because a second season just started. This is like like William Shatner does the unexplained or even going back to Leonard Nimoy who did in search of these are weird, creepy, unexplained phenomenon.
MoIn search of, yeah.
JonThis first one talks about ah like the Bermuda triangle type areas around the world. There’s one up at Lake Michigan. There’s like a big, you know, mysterious planes and boats disappear. And it’s,
JonDan Aykroyd is perfect for this. If you know his persona, like he wrote Ghostbusters because his father was like a paranormal researcher and stuff like for real, and he leans into it and he’s really entertaining.
MoUh huh.
JonI’ve watched one episode and I’m hooked.
MoOkay.
JonThere’s a full season out, maybe eight or 10, and the second one just started. um But the thing I’m most looking forward to, ah It’ll be over by the time you hear this, but tomorrow for me, last weekend for you, ah Free Play Florida down in Lakeland.
GeorgeAh.
JonIt it ran November 22nd through the 24th. I’m going down there for one day for Saturday, because it’s just about three hours south for me. ah It’s like just the arcade part of Southern Fried Gaming Expo all by itself.
JonAlthough it’s been growing in recent years. It just moved to a bigger venue. They have a bigger arcade, more vendors. I love these kinds of things. You’re talking about George looking forward to more free gameplay.
JonAnd I’m like, I’m looking forward to more free gameplay in an arcade with everything on free play.
GeorgeRight.
JonSo I’m headed down there. It’s a great show. And I’m going to go down for a day and check it out.
GeorgeYeah, just to let you know, I think one of the reasons why it has grown over the last couple of years, it was sold.
JonOh, was it? I didn’t know that.
GeorgeYeah. The original guys who ran it. And I only know this because of my local arcade here in town. I’m really good friends with those guys now and they’re going to free play Florida.
JonOh, sure.
GeorgeThey’re going to take a pinball machine down there, which John, you might have an opportunity to purchase. It’s the Star Trek TNG pinball. They’re going to be selling it down there.
JonOh, that’s a good table, too. I’m not buying it, but it’s a good table.
GeorgeYeah. Right. ah But ah he was telling me that it just recently sold so it has new ownership and maybe that’s why it’s expanding and growing.
JonMaybe they’re doing more with it. Yeah, it certainly has grown the last last year or so if for sure, yeah.
GeorgeYeah.
JonAll right, and finally, Moe, how about you? What are you looking forward to, my man?
MoSure. So, um, also Star Wars skeleton crew. Yeah. Same thing, George.
JonSure.
GeorgeYeah.
MoI just saw it. I’m looking at my cup, you know, when it’s Star Wars. So, you know, I’m just going to see it no matter what. Um, but, uh, the next thing is a thing called creature commandos.
JonHmm.
JonHmm.
MoI don’t know if you guys heard of this. It’s an animated series on max and it’s basically suicide squads DC universe. Except instead of the villains, it’s like Frankenstein’s bride and the werewolf and
GeorgeOh, so it’s universal monsters.
MoYes. And it’s, um, and it it it has, and it is the same DC, like the DC world because of the woman who’s in charge of suicide squad.
JonAh.
MoI forget her name. Uh, she, but you know what I’m talking about.
GeorgeOh, um, goodness.
JonYeah, if George don’t know, I don’t know.
GeorgeI can’t remember the character name either.
MoYeah. Anyway, Waller, Waller, Waller.
GeorgeWaller.
JonOh, OK, sure.
GeorgeThere you go.
MoYeah. She’s over this group too. So, and it looks as bloody as invincible does.
JonHmm.
GeorgeOkay.
JonMm.
GeorgeOK.
MoYou know, so it’s and animated.
JonWow. And also animated, you said, right?
MoSo, you know, in DC and animated, they have a pretty good track record.
JonHuh.
MoSo I’m definitely going to check that one out on the 5th of ah December.
GeorgeMm hmm.
JonHuh.
MoAnd the thing I’m really looking forward to, I can’t believe I’m even saying this, is another superhero movie, Craven the Hunter.
Jonoh
GeorgeOh, yeah, yeah.
JonYeah.
Moum It stars of the guy who is in Kickass. ah What’s his name?
GeorgeYeah.
Moum Aaron Taylor Johnson, the guy who played Kickass.
JonOK.
GeorgeKickass and bullet train, you know.
MoYeah, Bullet Train and he was in the last Avengers movies and stuff. But anyway, he um so he’s Craven, um who, you know, as a comic book, I never liked his character in the comic books.
GeorgeYeah. Quicksilver. Yeah.
Jonoh, yeah.
MoI thought he was just kind of silly, um but they actually made him look pretty cool. And it looks also looks really violent. I mean, the trailer has like
GeorgeIt looks really grounded too.
JonHmm.
MoYeah, you know, um, he stabbed people in the neck and it looks pretty crazy, but, uh, it looks like, it looks fun. You know, like you were talking earlier, John, about, you know, the movie you saw, Red One, you know, it looks like it’s going to be a fun, entertaining movie.
JonYeah, just fun.
MoSo that’s kind of what I’m looking forward to.
JonYou know when I saw that trailer for Craven, mo I had that thing where like, oh no, they actually made the comic book costume not look doofy.
MoYeah. I don’t know how they did that, but that was really well done.
JonSomehow, yeah, yeah, that was interesting. So that’s that’s having no comic book pedigree. That was the thing I most recognized. Like I know what he looks like and that looks pretty cool, so.
JonOkay, that is gonna wrap it up for this edition of the Gen X Grown Up podcast. Before we leave you though, we wanna thank some more amazing Patreon supporters. Now, you know, we have a roster of amazing folks that already support us regularly, but they just keep coming. More and more devoted Gen X Grown Up viewers and listeners are going over to genxgrownup.com slash Patreon.
Jongetting out their wallet, signing up for a regular monthly pledge to support what we do for as little as a dollar a month. That’s all it takes.
MoThat’s cool.
JonAnd a couple of folks who just did that, Tony C and Rich B. Two more folks who, again, listen to the show or watch us on YouTube, know that what we’re doing is given for free, but willing to be generous and help support us so we can keep doing it for free.
Jonand we love you for that. Tony Rich, welcome to the squad. We love that you did. You’re joining an amazing group of folks. If you would like to join Tony and Rich, it’s super easy to do. Again, patreon dot.com slash Gen X grown up. Sign up for as little as you like or as much as you like, we won’t stop you. We’re certainly grateful for your support.
JonThat’s going to wrap it up for this edition of the Gen X Grown Up podcast. Don’t worry, we have another one coming in two weeks, but next week, that’s the backtrack. We pick a single topic and dig in deep. Mo, you want to tell the fourth listeners what’s coming their way next week?
MoOh, absolutely. It’s our fifth annual Geek Gift Guide. I actually went back and checked how many we’ve done.
JonWow.
GeorgeWell.
MoThis is our fifth one, our fifth one that we have done.
JonFifth annual. Wow.
Moah So me, John and George, we kind of looked through all the stuff that we would like and find things from every price range from under 25 up to a couple hundred bucks, and we give our recommendations.
Moand it’s been pretty well received and we’re actually doing it earlier than normal this year so you actually have time to go buy these things and so you actually get to act on these yeah so we actually remembered to do it earlier this year so yeah check it out it’s our 2024 geek gift guide yeah
JonIf you can act on it, yeah we learned how to plan a little, yeah.
Georgehe
JonYeah, I was looking at the information. You guys have kind of stacked, get ready for the show. I want a bunch of that stuff that you’ve already listed. So I think it’s going to be fun.
Georgeyeah
JonBe sure to join us for that when it should be a good time. Until then, I am John George. Thank you so much for being here.
GeorgeYes, sir.
JonMo, you know, I appreciate you.
MoAlways fun, man.
JonFourth Lister, you’re the one we all appreciate most of all though. And we can’t wait to talk to you again next time. Bye-bye.
GeorgeSee you guys.
MoTake care, everybody.
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Mo As someone who barely manages to squeeze in as a GenXer my memories include more of the 70's than those younger GenXers. Reading and movies are my passions with some video gaming thrown in there for good measure!

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