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We check in on the high profile sporting event that brought the world to the U.S., test drive a self-hosted application to make downloading YouTube videos a snap, and play a retro-inspired first-person shooter that pits you against a sinister cult!

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JonWelcome back, Gen X Grown Up podcast listeners to this episode 213 of the Gen X Grown Up podcast. I’m John. Joining me as always, of course, my buddy George. Hey, George.
GeorgeHey, how’s it going everybody?
JonGood, good. You would know it would not be a show without Mo. Hey, Mo.
MoHey, how’s it going?
JonAll right. Hey, in this episode, we’re going to check on the high profile sporting event that brought the world to the U.S. Test drive a self-hosted application, to make downloading YouTube videos a snap and play a retro inspired first person shooter that pits you against a sinister cult. We’re going to have those stories and many more coming your way in this episode. But first.
JonIt is time, as always, here top of the show for some fourth listener email. Look, three of us are here. We tend to listen on occasion. If anyone else makes time to do so, you are our fourth listener. And the fourth listener for this episode is Flack the Wave, who listened to us over on YouTube.
MoOkay.
JonYeah. On the Saturday Night Live Rewind that we did some time ago.
MoOh, okay.
JonYeah. So here’s what Flack the Wave has to say about that. I sadly never was allowed to watch SNL growing up myself, but I’ve gone back and watched a lot of it now. And man, it was funny. And it’s genuinely amazing how many talented people have introduced to the world.
JonYeah, we ran through a bunch of those in our backtrack of that.
MoOh my God.
JonYeah, yeah. It’s kind of crazy. It just tells you that like Lorne Michaels and his crew, they see talent, right? They see something that the world will see it eventually. i See, Flag goes on to say, i think for me, the ads are definitely the funniest bit since I’ve always loved parody product jokes.
JonSo I really appreciated the ones in this episode, like the Alexa silver edition.
MoYeah, that was funny.
JonYep. ah Where can I get one of them for my parents? He says.
MoOkay.
JonNow, he goes on to mention another sketch comedy that’s out right now called Dropout. He says, Dropout is kind of the new version of old school SNL while absolutely doing its own thing, too. It’s all improv done by ex-college humor actors.
JonOh, yeah.
MoOkay.
Jonso And since they’re on their own platform, they’re not worried about TV guidelines, which leads to some pretty surprisingly spicy comedy.
Jonit’s ah It’s kind of geared more towards Gen Z, even if it’s headed by a Gen Xer, but that doesn’t stop them from doing some seriously funny jokes. Definitely recommend checking them out if you’re an SNL fan. yeah So, yeah.
MoOkay. Dropout.
JonSo what is it called? ah Dropout. Dropout is what it’s called.
Modrop out
JonYeah. He wraps it up by saying, great episode as always. Yes, I’ve been binging the show, so all of them are kind of rewind episodes for me. This is just so much fun getting to reminisce and explore the era.
JonFlack the way. All right. Thank you, Flack, for listening over on YouTube. Yeah, we do take our show and like a week after it comes out, you can find it on YouTube. And a lot of folks are enjoying it over there. So glad Flack is too.
JonLook, if you would like your email featured here on the show, it’s drop dead easy. Just hit us up at podcast at genxgrownup.com. read every single one. And most of them, like Flack’s, will eventually make the show.
JonAll right. With that good business in the rear view mirror, it’s time to jump into the body of this episode 213 right after this very quick break.
JonLet’s get the ball rolling here at the top, talking about media we have been checking out since we last had a chance to sit down and speak.
JonNow, this could be a television or movies or film or comics or books or whatever you have been getting into.
GeorgeThank
JonAnd Mo, you found the exception to the rule, the thing I probably didn’t list in the media you could be checking out. What have you been watching?
MoYeah, it’s sports. Go figure.
JonYeah.
Moah
JonIt’s what now? What do you call this? Sports ball? Yeah.
MoYou know, I mean, if you have been living under a rock for the last month, there’s thing going on called the World Cup. And let me tell you, it’s…
JonMm-hmm.
MoThere’s a lot of things I’m enjoying it. One, I realized I actually enjoy watching soccer. i’m I’m having a blast watching the games. I mean, it really is. I mean, I i just really enjoy watching it. um The best part is our grandson came and visited for a while. who’s ah He’s a soccer nut.
MoAnd he was able to explain a lot of things to me, which made it a lot more enjoyable to watch.
Jonah So he can tell you the rules.
MoYeah, like I now understand…
GeorgeI’m glad somebody, because you know, I mentioned a whole thing about soccer during COVID in our podcast and I educated you guys. Apparently went one ear out the other, but it took the grandson.
Moah Yeah, I be yeah suppose.
Jonit’s
MoWell, that’s what he…
JonIt’s like learning a language. If you don’t exercise that knowledge, it just evaporates.
MoYeah, exactly.
JonHmm.
MoHe was explaining like the offsides rule, and we were actually the kitchen counter, and he had a ketchup bottle and some other stuff. But me and Amy were like, oh, and it suddenly made sense to us. so but um But I’m mean just enjoying the games. The games are super good. I’m really just enjoying watching the other countries here, watching them celebrate.
MoWhat I’m really kind of enjoying is I think… it’s it’s showing america in a good light it’s showing the people at least the ones i’ve seen so far like generally the people have been super welcoming super nice to the people who are visiting our country and it’s kind of nice seeing the stories that they’re going back home with which is a nice change from some of the usual stuff you know um who knew ranch dressing could be the great diplomatic thing that we need in this world right now this is
JonWere you the one that told me that Hidden Valley actually made the right size ranch dressing for carry-on luggage?
MoA three ounce. like agree Yeah.
JonLike the right volume?
Moyeah ah
GeorgeI’ve been watching a lot of this myself because I’ve been a soccer fan ever since COVID. Like I was just saying, and the thing that gets me is there’s, there’s highs and lows to every major sporting event.
JonMm-hmm.
MoOh, yeah.
GeorgeI’m not a fan of the organization who runs the world cup or international soccer.
MoOh, my God.
GeorgeThey’re, incredibly corrupt and they have been caught doing so many bad things over the years.
MoYep.
GeorgeBut the players themselves are genuinely, mostly to a man, very, very good people. And there’s just this one little feel good story that I just saw last night.
GeorgeSo one of my favorite players in this year’s world cup is a gentleman named Erling Holland. He was the striker extraordinaire for man city for all these years.
MoMm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
GeorgeAnd he’s playing for his home country right now. Well, they were playing in Dallas. That was where their game was because the world cup, it’s not just America. It’s all over all of North America. There some in Mexico, some games in Canada and a lot of games in the U S while they were in Texas. He went to a local cowboy wardrobe shop place to buy like a hat and some boots and a shirt And he brought the whole bus, his whole team, his country’s whole team to this shop.
GeorgeAnd they are all in there and everything. And they’d made some TikTok videos and everything.
JonThank
GeorgeAnd he showed some stuff on his social media. It went viral. And now all of his country’s fans who are over here visiting, as well as a whole bunch of regular Americans are going to this shop and they’re replicating his photo that he took in the shop with this special t-shirt that said, you can kiss my Dallas.
MoOh, nice.
GeorgeUm, You know, it’s just so fun to see these international players who are the Michael Jordans of their sport, so to speak, but they’re embracing the culture like Mo was talking about.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeAnd it is nice to see us getting a little bit of a favorable light compared to what we normally get in the world media.
JonNo.
JonMm-hmm. Right.
MoYeah. And I’m totally with you on the FIFA thing. Like the guy who runs FIFA, if you ever see his pictures, he looks like a freaking Bond villain.
GeorgeOh, yeah.
MoYou all he needs a Persian cat on his lap and he would be like, yeah, actually kind of is.
GeorgeYeah.
JonAnd he kind of is, from what I’ve learned.
GeorgeAnd he was not, and he’s not as bad as the guy before him, believe it or not.
MoYeah.
GeorgeLike he’s supposed to be the good guy.
MoIt’s all relative, I guess. And John, we were having lunch today. You told me something about they went to a Bucky’s.
JonYeah, the the the gas station, the Texas gas station.
MoYeah. Mm-hmm.
JonYeah, yeah. Well, I keep the reels I’m addicted to are the ones of the people from UK and Australia and everybody visiting and trying different foods and like, oh my God, this brisket and stuff like that.
Mom yeah
JonThe guys went in the Buc-ee’s and what did they say? The beginning of this little reel, they said, we’ve decided this is a convenience store that gave in to its invasive thoughts.
Georgeah
JonSo we have grocery stores that don’t have this much food in the back home.
GeorgeYou know i think one of the best things that’s coming out of the World Cup that I saw just the other day. So um there was a team that got eliminated and fans from another country who were just there at the stadium, they were celebrating that other team as they were going to their bus all dejected and everything after the match.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeAnd they were like chanting their team. It was Mexico fans chanting for Iran players.
MoThat’s right.
Jone
Moh
JonAnd amazing.
GeorgeAnd yeah, it I wish that some of our fans would take that a little bit more to heart. It’s okay to be for your team, especially during the game, but it doesn’t mean you have to hate the other team.
MoAnd competitive. and Yeah, absolutely.
JonYep.
GeorgeAnd I like that. I don’t get me wrong. I know soccer has plenty of hooligan moments and fans getting crazy and stuff. Just like with us, FSU, Florida, we have that same kind of thing, but yeah,
Mocourse.
GeorgeIt was nice to see they’re on foreign soil, two different countries who normally wouldn’t meet, and they were cheering each other, even though it was a sad moment for one of them.
MoYeah, that was great.
JonYeah. They could learn a lot from that, right? if you If you’ll celebrate the other team when you lose, the party’s not over when the game is over for you now.
MoYeah.
JonYeah.
Moyeah The one thing I saw that really kind of blew me away it was it was Japan versus I’m not sure who because I think Japan lost. But at the end of the game, all the Japanese fans who were there from Japan pulled out trash bags.
GeorgeYeah, that’s been a…
MoAnd they pick up trash on the way out.
GeorgeThey’ve been talking about that for a while now.
JonWow.
GeorgeThey’ve done that at each one of their…
MoYeah.
JonOh, from Japan, right?
GeorgeBecause they had four matches, yeah.
JonBecause they don’t leave litter. Yeah, yeah.
MoYeah, so it’s just like, and thing is that to them, it’s just like a fun, like, all of sudden it’s okay, and they see them all taking these purple trash bags out and like, you know getting them open and they just pick up trash on the way out and they drop into the can.
JonWow.
GeorgeYeah.
JonWow.
MoAnd it’s like, i was like, wow, that’s, that’s kind of cool. I mean, we’d never see that here, but it’s kind of cool.
JonAnother thing we could learn from our foreign fans that are visiting.
MoExactly.
GeorgeYep.
JonYeah.
MoYeah.
GeorgeThere been some other ones too, like the Norwegian row chants.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeThose have been a lot of fun.
MoOh, yeah.
GeorgeThat’s, you know, Erling Haaland and that group.
JonYeah.
GeorgeThat’s why I love it. But just everybody, they even had their governmental body was doing it in celebration of their team. Like the senators or rile whatever they are in Norway, they were they were doing the row chant themselves during a session.
JonWow. Good.
MoNice.
Georgewas like, that’s awesome.
JonLove it.
Mothere’s That is very awesome.
GeorgeYou’d never see any of our leaders doing that crap, but.
MoNo, no, it was great. So like said, it’s not over yet. They’re down to the 32 right now, trying to get down to the 16.
JonMm-hmm.
MoAnd again, it’s like, and right now, I think there’s a shootout going on right now as we speak. So it says it’s a lot of fun.
JonMm-hmm.
MoBut yeah, so that’s what I’ve been watching. John, how about you? have been looking at lately?
JonYeah, so, you know, i’ve been watching a lot of new shows and movies lately, but the one I want to talk about here was the one that made me go, wait, what? It really blew me away. And so it is something I watched. now And admittedly, it’s a little bit of a hybrid. It’s kind of a game, too.
JonIt’s on Netflix. You guys remember Bandersnatch, that Choose Your Own Adventure, Netflix?
GeorgeMm-hmm.
Moyeah yeah Yeah, yep, yep.
JonOkay, okay.
GeorgeYeah.
JonThis is not that, but starts that way. So if you go to Netflix and you search for this show, this thing, this ah experience called Unhinged.
JonHave you heard of this yet? and is Okay, all right.
MoNo, I have not.
GeorgeMm-mm.
JonYou’re not gonna believe this. This is the coolest thing. So you go to it and it says, welcome to Unhinged. Scan this QR code with your phone. Look, okay, I scanned my QR code.
JonAnd now on my phone, it looks like a phone. And there’s a little touch pad there. It says says, your phone is now your controller. Aim it at the screen. Like what? So it took me a while. Oh, you aim your phone to the screen. Okay.
JonNow you are living through and experience a game. You are a girl in in a storm. The power has gone out in your apartment and something creepy starts to happen.
JonSo you’re talking with, the phone is ringing on the screen when you start this game, but you’ve got to push the answer phone on your real phone in the real world to answer the phone.
MoOh.
Georgeyou
JonAnd when you do answer the phone on their TV, it says, hello. And the dialogue coming from the character is coming from your phone in your house, in the real world, only there.
JonSo it’s like the phone is real and it’s the connection. And then you turn the flashlight and now your phone becomes a flashlight. You can move around in the world in this power outage environment and you can call people and text people in the game inside of this fake phone that you have in the world.
JonSadie Sink is the protagonist from Stranger Things, right? And Zoe Kravitz is the friend you’re talking to on the phone. There are a couple other voice actors. The whole experience, and it has multiple possible endings, the whole experience takes between 20 and 50 minutes, they say.
MoHmm. Hmm.
JonAnd when I first realized that, oh my God, like I saw a trailer for it. I’m like, oh, so you’re, you touched pad on your phone. No, no, no. It’s so much more than that. Your phone is like reaching into the screen and things are happening. And if you need to reach out to a friend, you have to push the text button on your, first I put on your readers because I can’t see the phone. Then to push the text button on your real phone.
Jonthat texts the character in the game. And it gives you that, but what was the old game, George, that like the video game that would call you in the real world and majestic.
GeorgeMajestic.
JonIt’s like that in the inside of a bubble. It just happens during this game. Not, it won’t call you any time of the day or night.
MoMm-hmm.
JonIt’s just during a session. but it is a choose your own adventure sort of thing. There’s time limited things like somebody’s banging on the door, trying to break in. You need to figure out how to get the window open to get out before they get through. And you got to click on different things in the screen, kind of like a, like a point click adventure paired with the choose your own adventure paired with a real world movie.
JonIt’s nuts. It’s nuts. And it, I know it’s kind of a game, but I have a game for the game segment. And this really struck me. I thought I was going to watch a movie. And then this amazing experience happened.
MoNow, is it only through your phone or is it phone and remote? Is it just your phone?
JonJust your phone. Your phone is the controller. They just say, turn up the volume on your phone because you need to hear what’s going on on the phone. ah yeah know as As you can imagine, there’s like a battery meter. At one point, your battery gets low. You’re like oh, damn. Oh, no. A terrible thing happens. You drop your phone and it looks cracked on the screen like like you dropped it. They just did a great job of injecting little like, oh, damn. Oh, damn. Little moments like that.
JonAnd look, if you have Netflix, it’s free. it’s it’s it It’s game-ish, but it’s an experience you can move through.
MoYeah.
Jonso it’s…
MoThat sounds it was fun.
Joni it I really enjoyed I’ll do it again. I’ll do it again for sure.
MoOK.
JonLike I haven’t shown anyone else yet. If I, you know, my wife is in the my theater with me, I’ll say, look, I’ll show you this and play it again because there are different endings and I’m not sure I got the best one. Although I’ll say I didn’t die as far as I know.
MoOK, that’s a plus.
JonI think I got out, but you can, you can die. You can. so And it’s got a twist. Ooh, what a twist. So if you’re going to enjoy it.
MoOh.
JonYeah. So definitely check it out.
MoAwesome.
JonYou got Netflix. So why not? so All right, George, why don’t round us out what have you been checking out in the world of media, man?
GeorgeYeah. Well, you know, I’m trying to catch up on movies that I couldn’t get out to the theater to watch. We don’t, we go to see maybe one movie every two or three months with us.
GeorgeSo most of the time it’s just waiting for it to hit streaming services. And this one finally did. It’s called, they will kill you now.
JonMm.
MoOh.
GeorgeYeah.
Moah
JonI don’t know this one.
GeorgeSo this one stars Zazie Beetz.
MoOh.
GeorgeI’m looking off screen because I want to make sure I get the actors right. Tom Felton, Heather Graham, Patricia Arquette, and a host of others. um
JonOK.
GeorgeIt’s…
GeorgeOh, God.
MoI know why he’s having trouble.
GeorgeYeah, because it’s like…
Moah
Georgeit’s kind of kill billish in some of the way that they handle, um, the camera movements and some of the special effects.
MoMm-hmm.
GeorgeUm, it’s horror, but it’s also comedy a little bit. Um, and I’m not sure if it’s great or not. yeah I think it’s good.
Jonhe he
Georgeah they They do some back in time, going back and forth to kind of inform the current story that you’re watching, which is it’s helpful. And I think they do that part in the right way.
GeorgeLike sometimes you’ll either start with a story and you just move forward linearly in time. And that’s the way that the story happens. Sometimes… they They start you all the way back in the beginning and catch you up to a moment that they showed you at the very beginning. And then other things like this, they they jump back and forth in the timeline of the story of the different characters to inform what’s happening in the moment. And I think this movie does that part really well.
GeorgeWhat really kind of um grabbed my attention besides the trailer, when I started watching this movie, main actors, like
Jonhmm
Georgelike a list celebrity actors are dead in the first three and a half minutes.
Jona
GeorgeSo, uh, what was that movie? It was, Oh goodness. Uh, the hunt. Do you remember the hunt?
MoOh, yeah, yeah.
GeorgeRight? Like they focused on a character and you thought that was going to be the main character of the story. And then boom, that character is dead in the first 30 seconds.
MoBoom. Yeah.
GeorgeAnd then they switched to another one.
JonOh.
GeorgeI thought that’s what was going to happen here, but there’s a twist as John loves to say in his voice.
JonWhat a t twist.
GeorgeUm, so when characters die, there’s a twist and,
GeorgeYeah, I don’t want to spoil it because if I do, then it does take away, I think, some of the fun of the film.
MoYeah.
JonHmm.
GeorgeThis is not a film that you’re going to watch through time after time after time like some of the other ones um that you might enjoy.
JonOkay.
GeorgeOnce you watch this one, its novelty is probably going to wear off, but it was still a really enjoyable experience.
JonYeah.
MoYeah, I watched this one too, and I totally understand why you have a hard time describing it. It’s it’s brutal.
GeorgeYeah.
Mothe The fights and stuff is brutal.
GeorgeIt is brutal. Like very much like Kill Bill. Like, yeah.
MoYeah. um And I mean, yeah, it was it was just a bizarre movie. I it kept my attention. I mean, I i watched it through. like I was not going to be like, yeah, I’ll finish it later.
MoAnd I had to see where this thing went because it was weird.
Jonyeah
Moum But and it was, I said, I think, I see what you mean by saying you’re not sure if it was great or not, but it’s definitely good. Like so I said, I watched it.
GeorgeYeah.
MoI enjoyed it you know, I’ve told other people to watch it. You know, well, I watched it again. Probably not. But, you know, but still, I would tell other people it’s worth their time.
GeorgeI’ll say this, John, maybe this will hook you a little bit. I don’t know if it will or not, um in case we have it.
JonWell, I am interested, so I bet it will.
GeorgeBut ah at one point of the movie, there is an eyeball that is spying on and chasing down the main character.
MoThat’s right. ah
GeorgeJust an eyeball.
MoYeah.
GeorgeRolling around and spying on…
Jondespite everything that you’ve both said, I’m still not sure what the genre is. Is it horror? Is it comedy? Is it it one of those twisty things?
MoIt’s…
Georgethey list it as horror and I think it’s listed as horror for the jump scare moments and for the gore more than anything.
JonDo they? Okay. Yeah.
MoYeah, that’s not scary.
GeorgeUh, but it’s, it’s closer to thriller ish a little bit more, but with the tongue in cheek, not taking itself seriously, kind of comedy motif.
JonOkay. Yeah.
JonGot it. Yeah. That’s good for me. Yeah. Yeah.
MoYeah, absolutely.
JonOkay. yeah Yeah. It s slipped by me. You saw it in the theater theater. Is that right?
GeorgeNo, no, no. i That’s what I was saying.
Jonno No, you didn’t.
Moeither.
JonOkay. You were saying you don’t get out to many.
GeorgeI can’t go to the theater very often, so I have to wait.
JonSo gotcha. So that you’re you’re behind on that.
GeorgeYeah.
JonGotcha. Okay. All right. So it’s out on streaming now, probably.
GeorgeYeah.
JonSo I could actually go and get it and say, okay.
MoYes.
GeorgeMm-hmm.
JonAll right.
GeorgeIt’s in the public domain. That’s what I know. So.
JonIs that what you know?
Moah
JonOkay. Well, they prop they probably got it from streaming.
GeorgeYeah.
JonSo that really goes.
MoThat’s true.
MoAll right. Well, we all have something for Tekken Toys this time, which is awesome. So, John, why don’t kick us off?
JonMm-hmm. Sure, yeah. i’m ah It’s not that i’m I’ve turned into the strictly Unraid Docker a guy for the tech and toy segment, but I do have another thing that I found through my Unraid servers Docker library, which means you could run it locally on any server that runs Dockers or install it yourself in any operating system if you’re smart enough.
JonIt solved a problem for me that I’ve been trying to solve for a long time and I keep kind of half solving it. And this I think finally did it. So very, very often I need to download videos from YouTube, not ours.
MoMm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
JonI mean, we have access to download our own by just clicking a button and you’re logged in. But I mean, you know, maybe I’m referencing someone else’s video when you use it for B-roll, or maybe you download one of those people have public domain, blue and green background swirly thing.
JonAnd it’s public domain, but how do you get it? right Because you need to then get it off of YouTube. And so I’ve had a number of different tools there’s that I’ve paid for. And they, two things.
JonYouTube is a moving target. It keeps changing its API. and They don’t care if people people’s apps stop working. They just change their API. And you have to play cat and mouse.
JonThese apps have to keep trying to keep up and update themselves. Also, I have a pretty good application, a desktop application now.
Moyou
JonBut sometimes you give it three or four videos and say, go download these. And you’re like, it’s been a while. Oh, look, it crashed. It just stopped. And I got to start over. So went looking around and I found a Docker image called MeTube, not YouTube.
Georgeyou
JonIt’s MeTube. It’s my own. And it is as simple. Like if I told you, Mo, George, I want you to design an app to download videos off of YouTube. This is what you would do. Give me the ah URL.
JonHow do you want it downloaded? Where are you want me to put it? And that’s pretty much it. You can download video in any format that is up to the format, the resolution it is. You can choose the container. So is it MP4, MKV or whatever.
JonIf it’s music, like often I’ll find kids records that I want to put my library. I just want the audio. You can download it as an MP3. You can feed it a whole playlist and say, here, chew on this playlist.
JonYou pick a location where want it to go. And it’s become for me a shortcut where I click once, drop in the URL and forget it. It’s super fast. And what it ends up doing is puts the file right in the location where you asked to put it on your, you know, your, your NAS already.
JonI don’t have to run a desktop application. i don’t have to worry about it crashing. And as far as keeping updated, You guys both have Unraid. You know periodically, Dockers will update, you know, that kind of thing. this Whoever’s running MeTube, they’re updating this thing about every day, every time the API changes.
JonI have never had a video fail that I couldn’t just say retry, and it would come down right away. So not only is it reliable and easy to use, they’re keeping up with YouTube, and now I’m able to download stuff I need in audio or video.
GeorgeNow, I know you’re talking about this, and I remember when you were telling me before how the program that you first introduced me to when I needed to grab stuff stopped working for you.
JonMm-hmm. Yeah.
GeorgeWhat’s curious to me is that program is still working for me just fine. I have to update it once in a while, like you said, because you know YouTube’s a moving target and all, but that program has never given me problems.
JonYeah.
GeorgeApparently it did you, which you know I don’t know if that’s operating system issues or weird corruption things with the program itself or who knows what, but I’m…
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeI kind of… Because you also gave us the comic book unread thing last time, that comic book docker.
JonRight. Yes.
MoMm-hmm.
GeorgeI can’t get that thing to work.
JonYep.
GeorgeLike, it it finds the comic books, but it won’t download anything for me, and I know you got it to work. It’s weird how sometimes these things work on one system, but not another, or…
Georgei never know why, but I just… i don’t know. It just… It feels like the more… I get into finding new software dockers or applications or whatever.
JonMm hmm.
GeorgeIt feels like they are less reliable than I remember software being when we were first coming up in computers. And I wonder if that is a symptom of the times because it feels like everybody puts out stuff online.
MoYeah.
GeorgeBack in the day, it would have been considered beta mode, but now it’s production. Like, oh yeah, there’s stuff that’s broken it, but we’ll fix that later on after we get some more money out of these suckers. This one, I’m assuming it’s ah it’s a Docker, so it’s free.
GeorgeYou’re not having to pay for it.
JonIt is.
GeorgeYou can probably donate to the guy or something, I guess, but
JonThat’s right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, two things, two good points there. And one is probably there’s a symptom of the times and how things work. You know, that original windows application, it worked sometimes, but as soon as it wasn’t working and there wasn’t an update, you were dead in the water until you waited for them to do an update.
JonWhereas this one seems to always be working. I don’t know why that is. Um,
MoYeah.
JonBut the other thing I’ve noticed is that I have to be like, I have to unlearn dummy things that I’ve been conditioned to when I work with Dockers because I got so used to Windows, double click, it does everything for you.
GeorgeMm-hmm.
JonAnd now you kind of have to dig in the Linux. You have to go, oh, well, you have to dig in this folder, put this configuration file there and edit it in the text editor. It’s not as hold your hand. And I’m OK because I came up in the era of computing when you had to do that before there was a UI.
JonBut I had to unlearn, like the example of downloading stuff with Mylar, I found out that there was a, yeah you have to install another Docker sometimes if you have the problem to defeat CAPTCHA because the place you get them is looking for a CAPTCHA verification and you just have to, but it’s not like you tick a box that says handle CAPTCHA.
MoRight.
GeorgeAh. Ah.
JonIt’s more like a, oh, I had to go reading on Reddit, find out what’s missing, find that Docker, connect them together. And so it’s a lot more hands-on. But in the end, what you get is something you’ve curated.
JonAnd for me, this Docker has solved the problem I had with applications that were easier to install, but less reliable to use. Fair enough. All right. So that was called MeTube. That was my new gadget. What about you, George?
GeorgeWell, um, so we just came off of Amazon prime day a little while ago.
MoOh,
GeorgeAnd, um, just like I did when I went to that swap meet that you told me about, I spent way too much money, uh, during Amazon prime day, I spent another five or $600 on different gadgets and whatnot.
JonMm-hmm.
Mookay.
JonGood for you.
GeorgeAnd this was one of them, uh, What’s nice, at least now that we have the warehouse and the sub warehouse here in town, instead of it taking a week to get to me, things are getting to me within a day or two at the most.
GeorgeThis one is something that I needed just because my setup at my desk is oddly shaped and I don’t have a lot of room for
JonGood.
Georgefor simple things to make the sitting at my desk with my lights off in my room easier. And in this case, it’s one of those horizontal computer monitor lamps.
Georgethey’re These are the ones that you’ve seen where people just set it at the on the top of their monitor and it just shines a light straight down. And it looks like a little bar lamp, almost like something you’d expect to see on a fish tank or something, but they’re very common.
MoHmm.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeA lot of gamers use them and they have different kinds. Like my son looked at this one. He goes, well, that one sucks. You can’t change it to purple. And I’m like, well, yeah, I don’t need RGB, blah, blah, blah.
MoHmm. Hmm.
GeorgeI just needed a light that would shine down on my desk and
Jonjudge just but
GeorgeSo I didn’t have to have the big light in my room on and I can just see my keyboard that way. And just, you know, the couple of things around me. um The reason why I got this one and it’s the one from Quintus, Q-U-N-T-I-S, Mo, I’ll give you a link for you to put in there.
MoOkay. Mm-hmm.
GeorgeI got this one. There were cheaper models. This one, I think it came in around like $25 or something like that.
JonThat’s right, yeah.
GeorgeThere were some that were like $10. right?
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeThey’re just real easy. You plug them in with USB, you turn them on, you’re good. This one, however, has this little remote puck light that I’m holding up here for the camera for those who see this short later on.
JonOh, cute.
GeorgeAnd this is the remote for the lamp and it’s fully remote.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeI can put it anywhere. And it’s in that puck shape design that people like for their desktop tools sometimes. And it allows you to change not only the brightness level, but also the color from super blue cold to super warm yellow.
MoThe purple. Sorry.
JonMm-hmm.
Georgeum So,
JonBut not purple. So that’s piece of crap.
Moyeah
GeorgeNot purple. No, can’t do purple. And turn on and off, of course. So I love that I have this little free-floating puck that I can move anywhere I need to on my desktop at this time.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeI can sit down at my desk, turn on my lamp, and I can see my keyboard, and I don’t have to turn the big lamp on overhead, and I’m comfortable, And because I like working in the dark.
GeorgeI grew up when started with computers, you needed to be in a dark room. And the one thing you always had a hard time with was if you’re not a touch type of senior keyboard, seeing your mouse, those kind of peripheral things. So this works great for me.
MoSo I think I understand what you’re about. how does it mount? Like, where do you actually mount this thing?
GeorgeSo just like a webcam does on your top of your monitor, it does the same thing.
MoOkay. Okay.
JonOh, like a little clampy deal? Yeah.
GeorgeYep. And ah it’s got a little clamp on it and then it just shines either straight down or this one. It has some degrees of rotation that you can do inside the mounting clamp.
GeorgeSo you can angle it a little bit more away. But what I was worried about was like, well, if this thing is on my monitor, it’s going to put glare on the monitor.
MoYeah, see? Yeah.
GeorgeNope, not a bit.
MoOkay.
GeorgeI can have it angled straight down.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeThere’s absolutely zero glare.
MoInteresting.
GeorgeIt’s the way that they engineer the the cowling around the light that prevents it from putting glare on your monitor.
MoMm hmm.
GeorgeNow, I’m sure maybe like if you had a glass monitor or something, maybe it might have some glare, but I’ve had no problems with this one whatsoever.
MoOh, interesting.
JonYeah. Now, I was looking at the description it. It says auto dimming. Is that something like, does does it have a light sensor or something? Or have you experienced the auto dimming? I’m just looking at the description that dropped in.
GeorgeI haven’t even tried the auto dimming part.
JonOkay. All right.
GeorgeSo yeah, it’s, I just need to be able to turn it on and turn it off.
JonAll right. Got you.
GeorgeIt keeps its memory, which I like because some lighting devices like the fan in my studio office area that my, where my wife works every day, you turn that thing off at the light switch and turn it back on.
Georgeand it doesn’t remember what its setting was. So it’s the lowest dim every time.
JonOh, gotcha. Yeah. Sure.
GeorgeAnd I’m like, that sucks. I hate that. Have at least a little chip inside these things that wherever I set it the last time, that’s what I want it to be.
MoYeah.
GeorgeAnd that’s in this bar.
JonYeah.
GeorgeSo it works great.
JonCool. About 25 bucks.
GeorgeYeah.
JonThat’s not bad. Yeah.
GeorgeYeah, no, 25, 30 bucks.
JonDoes does what you need.
GeorgeYeah, it’s not not too bad. Now, the thing that Mo wants to talk about… Mo and I are both writers. We’ve both done some writing in the past. And the title of what you have listed here, Mo, looks like it has something to do with writing.
MoIt absolutely does. Matter of fact, I was thinking that this is something that you would probably like. Father’s Day just passed and my daughter’s got me this for a Father’s Day gift. is’ It’s called StoryWorth.
MoAnd what it is, it’s a website. You sign up for it. You sign up who you’re giving it to. And once a week, it sends me a prompt and I write something about it. And it’s usually something about my life or, you know, ask you a question like, oh, what’s your this childhood? there Or was it ever?
MoAnd at the end of a year, It compiles all of it and makes a hardback book that it sends you of all the writing.
GeorgeOh.
Moum It’s, you know, right now I’m thinking on week two. i mean, we just got it. um You know, and the first couple of questions are usually pretty easy. Like, you know, it’s like, you know, if you would eat dinner with someone living or dead or, you know, whatever it is. um And it’s.
JonI would eat with somebody living because dead would be really nasty.
MoYeah, it’d be really it’s kind of smelly, but they.
GeorgeDepends on who’s eating what.
Jonyeah
Moah
Jonah
Moum but they got from me because they do know I like I enjoy writing and doing all this stuff and also my daughter and I don’t how i feel about this exactly but she’s like one day you’re going to be gone want to make sure I have your stories ah yeah exactly and I want make sure that these stories are written down these things are written down and in hindsight thinking back I was like wow i said i I wish I had something like this for my dad back 20 years ago
Georgeyou’re going to be dead soon, Pops. So we need to capture some of this.
JonRight. Right.
Moyou know because it’d be something like every now and then just to pick up and read through or flip through it.
JonMm
MoAnd he says, so you end up the year, you have 52 stories that were written by the end of the time in this thing. Of course, you can buy extra copies and pay for it and send them all that if you really want to.
GeorgeOh, yeah. Yeah.
Jonhmm.
MoBut you know what they got me gives me one copy of the hardback book. um you because I can set the title of it. you know it’s It’s fun. And the cool thing about is that whenever I finish writing something and i say, okay, this is done, i kind of commit it.
Moit sends the people who gifted to me a link so they could read it right away. So they can like see like, so they, so they get some feedback about the gift as well that they, they know I’m using it and they get to kind of read the story and that kind of stuff.
GeorgeHmm.
GeorgeCan you turn that off?
MoYeah, you can.
Jonhere
GeorgeOkay, good. Because I was like, it it would spoil the surprise of the whole book at the end of the year, I would think.
MoYeah. Yeah. So, I mean, lot the stuff I’m putting in there is my daughter’s probably heard already, to be honest, you know.
Jonyeah
MoBut still, though, I mean, and honestly, they kind of like is, I guess it gives them some feedback that they, you know, I’m using it, I’m doing it, and they can see, oh, wow here’s something he wrote.
JonDeep dark secrets.
MoYou know, it’s kind of neat in that level.
GeorgeYou know, for me… Number one, i it I feel like it would be a little bit self-aggrandizing if I bought it for myself. Yeah. Although I kind of want to, right.
MoI’ll call ahll call your wife. Don’t worry. Yeah. Yeah.
GeorgeBut it reminds me of like thoughts that I had back in the day. And I remember seeing some stuff like even like TV shows is obscure on this topic as the office. I’ve seen people talk about like people say, Oh, I want to sit down with so-and-so and just record your stories, right?
Moyeah
Jonm
GeorgeAudio or video or something like this.
JonRight.
Mom
GeorgeThis kind of has that feel, but in a unique like finished product, which, I mean, i think I really want to get this for my mom.
GeorgeNow, the reason why I’m asking you, Mo, huh?
MoYou could do audio. You could do audio. I could record stories too, rather than write them.
GeorgeWell, i I don’t want to do that.
JonMm-hmm.
Georgei’m What I’m asking is how difficult would it be for a senior citizen who has some computer experience, but maybe not as much as we do, to fill in the prompts or do the writing or whatnot when they get it?
MoOh, it’s, it’s super, I get the email says, Oh, your prompts ready. You get ready to hit this button. It takes you right to the page. Once you sign, have to sign on the very first time, but after that takes you right to the page and start typing.
GeorgeOkay.
MoAnd it’s just like typing into a text box. You know, I mean, there’s no real formatting or anything. you’re just get your story down. And then when you’re, you could save drafts, know, until you’re finished. And then you’re done, it says, you’ll save it. It says, are you Yep.
MoGreat. And it says, great. And it just moves on to the next week.
JonGoing to the book.
GeorgeYeah, I think I would like to get this for my mom. Like you were talking about, you wish you had it for your dad.
MoYeah.
JonI can see that. Sure.
GeorgeI couldn’t give two shits less about my father’s stories, but my mother’s stories.
JonYeah.
MoYeah.
GeorgeThose are ones that I’d want to know.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeSo, yeah, i might ah I might buy this. And I’m looking on the website, that the link that you gave us here. It says starting at $59. I mean, obviously, starting is you know the operative term.
MoYeah.
JonMm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
GeorgeBut I wouldn’t mind… spending like a hundred or even $200 to get her stories in a physical form like that, that can be shared with me and her grandkids and down through the history.
MoYeah. Oh, also, um also, they pick the questions.
GeorgeThat’d be awesome.
Moum It gives you sample, it gives you a whole bunch of questions you could pick from, but they could put their own questions in themselves.
GeorgeWho can put their own questions?
MoThe people who get you who get the gift for you. So my daughter’s actually added some personal questions that they wanted.
JonOh, so you can make specific questions.
GeorgeSo I could put the questions in for my mother.
MoYes.
JonOh, neat.
GeorgeOh, that’s great. That would be awesome.
MoYeah. I mean, it gives you Sam, it gives you you, know, you could just say, give me the next random question. I’ll do that as well.
GeorgeRight.
MoBut they says like, you know, if they had their own question that they, speak or something, or story, my daughter specifically wanted me to make sure I wrote down, she could give me exact prompt for that to make sure I got it.
Jongo. George could put in, tell me the recipe for those pork chops.
MoExactly.
GeorgeYeah.
MoYeah.
JonYeah.
MoYeah.
GeorgeI would put in some recipe questions occasionally.
Moyeah
JonRight? No kidding.
GeorgeAbsolutely.
JonNo kidding.
GeorgeAbsolutely.
JonYeah.
MoSo I thought it was really neat. It was very thoughtful.
JonIt is cool.
MoAnd, you know, again, and honestly, it’s like, it’s one of those things that every week, it kind of like a little tweet, like, oh, that’s right.
JonYeah.
MoThey got this for me, you know?
JonOh, yeah. Neat.
MoAnd it gives me an excuse to write because I want them make sure that, you know, they read this.
Georgelike a year-long gift with a really good payoff at the end, it sounds like.
MoSo i have to do it. Yeah, absolutely.
JonYeah. Aw.
MoYeah, I love it. So it’s called Story Worth. So if you get a chance, to take a look.
JonStory work.
MoI’ll put a link in the show notes, of course.
JonThere you go, Grandpa Mo. Put your story in print.
MoBut yep.
JonWonderful.
Georgehe
MoYeah, because one day I won’t be here.
JonThat’s what we’ve heard.
GeorgeJust like the previous two segments, we all three have something to talk about in the game segment this week. John, you’ve been first every time.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeWhy break the streak?
MoHey, absolutely.
GeorgeLet’s go ahead and let you go first this time as well.
JonWhy bother? yeah
MoJust go for it.
JonYeah, sure. So the game I’ve been playing and ah playing quite a bit, actually, i think I’m almost done with it, is called The Darwin Paradox. I mentioned this maybe…
Molike the title. Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
Joni don’t know, a few months ago when it was about to be released. I think I was looking forward to it once. However, being cheap, it it came at like $29. I’m like, I can wait, I can wait.
JonWell, finally, there was a sale, not even the most recent sale, even before that, couple of weeks ago.
GeorgeThank
JonIt was like $14.99. I’m like, sounds like a great weekend purchase. Let’s do it. So in the Darwin paradox, you are an octopus, a very cute little octopus. And so what’s happening?
JonYou’re swimming underwater with, I guess it’s your sister octopus. I don’t think it’s like your mate or anything, but this pink octopus because you’re a blue octopus.
MoThank you.
JonAnd she’s like teaching how to be an octopus and how to you know shoot ink and how to ah camouflage yourself and stuff like that. And then fishermen come, but the fishermen are actually a UFO sucking up all this fish and all this wildlife from underwater.
JonAnd this story is evolving whereby aliens from outer space, are putting this mind control serum into food they make, like canned fish, that they’re giving out to humans so they can take over the planet.
JonAnd you’re not so interested in saving the humans and the planet, but they also captured your sister, this other octopus.
MoYeah.
JonSo you, as this little tiny octopus, who can’t be much bigger than a cantaloupe it compared to the rest of the world, has to navigate a lot of crazy platforming and puzzle solving, working our way through this alien food manufacturing compound,
JonYou can shoot your ink. If you’re swimming underwater, you can cloud the water to stop these like sensors from seeing you. Or if you’re up above the water, you can shoot things like to short out electronics or whatever.
MoMm-hmm.
JonThe camouflage is awesome. Any texture you’re on, you pull this trigger and you squish down real low and like the texture wraps over you and you they don’t see you. They can step on you, but they can’t see you if you’re out of the way.
JonIt is a lot of puzzling. It is a lot of, and I’m talking platforming. Like, it’s not easy. You’re going fail a bunch and squish that little, every time he squishes, his two eyeballs roll around, like dingly, like marbles on the ground.
JonBut it’s satisfying. And it looks like a Pixar movie. Like the entire thing, it doesn’t look like pixel art or cartoons. It looks like you’re in a Pixar movie. The aliens, the squid, i always call them a squid, the octopus, all the environments and everything. Satisfying platforming, an interesting story. Every little newspaper you find, stop and read it because it’s hilarious. It’s all full of puns and People like, we and we enjoy making human food for humans to eat with their human mouths. And somehow no one in the world knows they’re aliens, but it’s very satisfying. And Darwin’s Paradox, I recommend it.
MoI have questions. um
JonYes, I’ll try.
Georgehe
MoOK, the startup. Is it Metrovania style? Is it side scroller?
Jonno.
Mois it?
Jonno So it’s it’s not a Metroidvania, so there’s not a lot of backtracking.
MoOK.
JonWhen you get to a new area, you’re in that new area. You know, it’s not like you get an ability and come back. You gain your abilities gradually throughout the first couple of levels. Then you have them all throughout the game. Each environment is a new kind of a challenge. yeah You know, maybe I’m in the factory. and There’s all these gears and I have to leap from gear to gear. He’s he’s like a suction cup, right? He suctions onto whatever he’s hanging from. But there’s sometimes there’s green goop.
Jonthat he gets on him, that means he can’t suction cup. So it just, it nerfs that ability for a little bit. So each environment is its own challenge. And once you get through it, you’ve solved that. won’t have to go back to it. You move on to the next thing. So not a Metroidvania.
JonIt is kind of side-scrolling. It is that 2.5D, like there are things in the in the foreground and background, but you’re on one plane.
MoOkay, yeah. what’s
MoOkay. um So as you answered my next question, which was just no real backtracking this way. It’s just pretty, you go you go forward in this one and
JonNot really. Not really. I have seen places where you’d come back through the same area again, but that’s not your choice. It’s because you’ve gone to the end and now it’s filled with water and you’re working your way back through it or something. you know it’s
Moand you And you said it’s not frustratingly so difficult.
JonIt depends upon your tolerance for platforming.
MoOK.
JonThe platforming can be very challenging. My wife would not play this game. She likes to look at it, but she’s like, that’s too stressful. She doesn’t like to be pressured. Like the wall is coming at you’ve got figure out what to do or you’re gonna get squished.
GeorgeOh, yeah.
MoOh, gotcha. OK, OK.
JonShe doesn’t like that stuff.
GeorgeYeah.
JonShe likes to sit, look around and be meticulous.
MoAnd think about it. and Yeah.
JonSo there are areas that force you to do things quickly or you’re going to get squished and figure it out. And that’s some trial and error. So I would call it a medium to medium plus difficulty platforming in those environments.
MoOkay.
JonYeah.
MoAnd how far in do you think you are?
JonI think I’m probably over three quarters of the way. I feel like I’m on the back end and I probably put about six and a half hours into it maybe over the course of a couple of weekends.
MoHmm. Okay. So pretty quick.
JonYeah. Yeah.
MoOkay. Huh.
JonWell, I don’t want a 20 hour adventure. don’t time for that. yeah So I actually like, I start it.
MoYeah, yeah, yeah.
GeorgeHehehehe.
JonI feel like I’m almost near the end. I think I’ll finish it as opposed to most games. I start to go. That’s beautiful. I wish I had another 40 hours and I just don’t, you know,
JonSo, yeah, check it out i don’t I don’t know when it’s on sale, but it’s well worth its price. And now it’s getting to be, you know, six, eight months old. So it’s probably going to be settled at that nice discounted price. so
MoOkay.
JonAll right. ah Mo, let’s move along to you. What have you been playing?
MoSo speaking of the 40, 60 hour games, so this is what it’s called.
JonOh, there we go.
MoKingdom Come Deliverance 2 is the second so set.
GeorgeOh, yeah. yeah
MoUm,
JonOh, yeah.
MoThink Skyrim without magic. if If people out there who are familiar with Skyrim, it’s basically, it’s an open world RPG, but you’re playing, but it’s, it’s very realistic.
JonMm-hmm.
MoIt’s like medieval times. You’re a knight um who’s kind of going through and these factions are at war. You’re trying to help them. um Very, very story driven. Lots of,
Molike story cut scenes and stuff like that.
JonThat’s good. Mm-hmm.
MoAnd it’s one of those that you could kind of even determine what kind of person you are as the game goes on. And it helps enforce that. Like if you’re the person likes to talk a lot, the more you use it, the better you get at it.
Moso and so like So now like you know your speech, if you don’t like, you rather talk your way of it than fighting, then it goes up. You could also fight with swords, which they make challenging in this. This not a simple like button mashing at all.
MoIt’s like pick a direction, then strike. And you know you’re trying to look where the people are guarding and da, da, da. And when they try to strike at you you, have to block and all that fun stuff. um it’s I can see why it won all sorts of awards. came out a year ago. It won all sorts of awards. I got because right now Steam has their so their summer sale going on.
GeorgeYep.
JonMm-hmm.
Georgeyeahp
MoUm, and so it was like 60% off. So I got the game for like 19 bucks.
JonOh.
MoI have my, eye it’s been on my wishlist since it came out, you know? So this is the cheapest I’ve seen it. So I said, let me give it a shot. I’m playing with it. It’s, it’s, it is fun. Um, I’m like thinking now, like, do I have time for this?
JonYep.
MoJust like you’re saying, John, cause I’m sitting, I’m like, wow.
JonMm-hmm.
MoCause even I am playing it. I’m, I’m really engrossed in it. I’m like listening to story and I’m like, I got to do something. I got to go make dinner. I got to go do this. Or I got, you know, working on something for GXG. Or I got these other things to do. But this is a really interesting story. So I want to kind of keep with it.
Moum So I guess in that sense, it’s very good because it definitely sucks me in and wants me to keep progressing through the story, you know.
JonRight.
MoBut um I’m hoping I’ll finish it. I’m not to say I am. And not because the game is bad or anything else. It’s just, it’s a big commitment when you play this particular game, you know.
JonYeah. Time commitment. Yeah. I see it. So did they know you said it’s like a 40, 60 hour game?
MoYeah.
JonLike Skyrim, it’s how much you want to pull out of it, right? Because there are often tons of side quests and additional things you could choose to do.
MoYeah, this one, that’s not so many side quests.
JonIs this like that? Really? Okay.
Moit’s It’s pretty much you’re just kind of moving straight ahead on this one.
JonOkay.
MoSo you’re basically just following the story. So it’s almost like a choose your own adventure kind of thing in the sense that it’s like, you know, you’re just following the story. But things you do at A definitely screw things up at Q possibly when you get there, you know, and will change the way it does.
JonRight. Yeah, that could be good. That means there actual there’s actual ramifications for choices you make, which I like those kinds of games, yeah.
MoYes, absolutely. Yeah. So it it looks like it’s going lot of fun. If I was about to take two week vacation, I probably would spend a week playing this um again.
Mogoing to keep um I haven’t stopped playing. i’ I’m going to keep playing with it, but i just have to understand that when I start this, it’s not going like a 15 minute thing.
JonRight.
MoYeah.
JonYep, never is.
MoSo if you like that thing, I’d like to say love Skyrim, you know, but back in those days, it was a lot easier for me to play a six hour game. So if you like that kind of style, though, it’s definitely worthwhile.
MoBut again, it is going to be a commitment.
JonMm-hmm.
MoSo. so that’s what I have. So, George, yours is I’m curious about yours. What’s going on with this one?
GeorgeWell, you know, if either of you went to my live streams, you wouldn’t be curious right now because we already played this on a live stream on Thursday night. ah No, but this was um this is a game that came to me because I got an article on Bit by Bit that Atari and Infrograms, that old company that Atari recently purchased, they are releasing this game later this month on consoles.
MoOh.
GeorgeSo Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch sort of thing.
JonYep.
GeorgeBut the game has been out for… four years now. It’s called Cultic. It’s been on PC and Steam for that whole period of time. And it’s a very popular, what they’re terming now, they’re calling these things boomer shooters.
GeorgeSo it’s a first-person shooter that is done in the style of the games that we grew up with. So just like Darkenstein 3D was very much like Wolfenstein, this is an even earlier design system.
MoOh, OK. So Doom Wolfsign. OK.
GeorgeLike, what you might have expected to see on a DOS platform or Windows 3.1 even.
MoOh. Wow.
Georgeum Like, very, very pixelated maps and graphics. For instance, when you kill one of your enemies, they turn into these very flat 2D shapes.
GeorgeSo when you walk up, they’re paper thin, but you can see they looked full when you were facing them and they were running at you and everything.
Moah
GeorgeBut the storyline seems to be that I don’t know why you wake up in a graveyard, like you’re resurrected in like a mass grave and you start going down this pathway.
MoOoh.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeYou end up at this, like, it’s like a warehouse sort of thing, but you finally find a little note from a private investigator who has gone there to try and find out about the disappearance of some young woman.
GeorgeAnd it looks like maybe this place is some kind of, um, like a, not a cultural center, but like, you know, the local YMCA kind of place where people would hang out, you know, kind of thing.
Georgeum But cultists have taken it over. And this thing is bloody and gory in the best DOS ways it could be. um
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeIt’s fun. The weapons are interesting. The UI is very easy to pick up on. I saw the game in the article, went and watched the trailer.
GeorgeI’m like, you know, I just finished seventh guest remake. I need a new game for my Thursday night live stream.
MoYeah.
GeorgeSo this looks like it could be worth it. So I went and downloaded the demo. The demo is much weaker than the then the main game if you buy the main game. So keep that in mind if you decide to play the demo for this. But it like when I first picked it up and started playing, even though I went through the entire demo until I couldn’t go any further.
GeorgeAnd I’m like, holy crap, that’s fun. That’s going to be a blast. And it was.
JonI did watch a portion of your your live play and lots of red squares, whether they’re explosions or blood or what have you. Lots of red, red orange and yellow squares on the screen as you blow the crap out of people, I noticed.
GeorgeYeah.
Jonand But I have a question about Boomer Shooter. Are they saying, are they saying, okay, maybe some boomers got in and played some of these games.
GeorgeWe’re not boomers. I know.
JonAre they saying, okay.
GeorgeThey’re calling us boomers. Yes, we are boomers to the younger generations.
JonI
MoThe
GeorgeYou can get over it. Unfortunately, it’s just, we’re not going to shake that term now.
Joni mean, okay. Boomer just means old and out of touch, I guess, because maybe you could call Gen X that, but we’re not boomers, but okay.
GeorgeYes. Yes.
JonSo at for what,
GeorgeWell, think about Gen X. Gen X is also the forgotten generation, so they don’t remember the damn term anyway.
JonJust don’t worry about It’s right.
Georgeso
JonIt’s like, I don’t mind being associated with these cool old pixely games, but I also don’t like being forgotten.
Moterm itself
JonInitially when I heard boomer shooter, I thought, Oh, it’s cause you have cool big shotguns. No, I, it just made the connection and I don’t care for it.
Georgeyeah
GeorgeI mean, you do have a shotgun in this game, but yeah, no, it’s, yeah.
JonI know you do. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
GeorgeNow, it maybe because Gen X shooter isn’t as alliterative as boomer shooter, you know, maybe that’s part of it.
JonIt’s not cool sounding.
MoThat’s true.
JonThat’s true. Yep.
GeorgeIt’s just easier for the young folks to focus on. Whatever gets them to these games is fine with me.
MoIt’s short.
JonI guess we’ll just suck it up and take it.
MoYeah, that’s true.
GeorgeYeah.
JonYeah.
Georgei You know, i knew I even did a video a long time ago, a short or something on our channel, where I was like, we’re not boomers, we’re Gen X.
JonYeah.
JonYeah.
GeorgeAnd I got flack for doing that video. even But I…
JonShut up, boomer, is what they all want to say, right?
GeorgeExactly. My kid says it to me every now and then when he wants to make sure that he gets in trouble, I suppose. But it’s this game, just like Darkenstein was, and just like Seventh Guest Remake was, it it brings me back to an era of games when I got to sit down and play games for the enjoyment of games.
JonNo, yeah, it works.
MoMm-hmm.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeAnd it helps me to enjoy games now. It’s been a long time. that I was not playing games at all. I just wasn’t. i was I was picking out something and talking about it for the podcast, but I wasn’t playing games.
GeorgeBut these Thursday night live streams and these last couple of games that I’ve put put on those Thursday day live streams have brought me back to this place of just enjoying.
GeorgeI’m not a first person shooter guy, but I was back in the day.
MoYeah.
GeorgeAnd these games are just like that point and click solving adventures. I love those types of games. And that’s what seventh guest remake was. So games like this just make me enjoy it.
GeorgeI’m glad that they’re building these things. This guy, it was a single developer guy who ended up getting published and this thing got big, I guess. I don’t know how we missed it.
MoNice.
GeorgeI mean, this game, it came out when we should have, yeah, just 2022.
JonYeah. Yeah.
MoYeah, it’s years ago.
JonRight.
GeorgeWe should have noticed it. We just didn’t.
MoYou would think, yeah.
Georgeum it fell through the cracks so to speak but i’m glad that you know atari picked it up because i would have never seen the news article yeah m he
Jonand wouldn’t have seen it. Yeah. Right. I’m going to put you on the spot, George. I know you tore through Darkenstein and I know you tore through Seventh Guest repeatedly on live stream series and finished them up.
Georgee
JonYou going to do that with Cultic, you think?
Georgei’m gonna finish it yeah absolutely
JonAre you?
MoOkay.
JonThat’s cool.
GeorgeYeah, I was a chatting.
JonAll right.
GeorgeThere’s um ah one of our viewers, Tin Mancer. He comes on our live streams sometimes.
Jonhere Yep. Yeah.
GeorgeHe’s apparently played this game all the way through. And there are two games of this. They’ve done a part one and a part two. This is part one.
JonOkay.
GeorgeHe said there are 12 maps in part one. I’ve finished map one in the first live stream.
JonOh, okay.
GeorgeI’m hoping that I can get a little bit better at the game and finish other maps faster because he said the game should take you five to seven hours. Well, that took me over an hour.
Jonand Okay.
Georgethat first map.
JonAll right.
GeorgeSo that puts me at the 12 hour mark, but yeah, but, um, but very fun to pick up simple controls.
JonWell, yeah, it’s getting used to it.
MoYeah, it’s the first one.
JonThere you go.
MoYeah.
JonGetting used to it. Yeah.
GeorgeIt’s not very expensive, even without sales, it’s only 10 bucks, but with sale right now, it’s like seven 50.
Mookay.
JonOh, nice. Oh, hell yeah.
GeorgeSo it’s a solid price for the amount of enjoyment.
MoYep. Yep.
JonAs we wind out the back end of this episode, you know, we always like to stop here toward the end and take a moment to talk about the things we’re either looking at right now or looking forward to between now and the next time we get together. And I do want to start with you this time, Mo. What do you have on the horizon?
MoLet’s see. There’s the new movie, Evil Dead Burn. It’s another movie in the Evil Dead sequence, but you know I’m going to let George talk more about that later because it’s a weird one.
GeorgeAll
JonMm-hmm.
Georgeright. Yeah.
Moum Then the Odyssey, which has come out the 17th of July, which is Christopher Nolan.
Georgeall right
MoHe’s basically doing the Odyssey, you know the classic book. um Matt Damon’s in it, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway. It’s
JonMm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
MoHe doesn’t do movies halfway, so i’m expecting a big movie. now Whether it’s good or not, I don’t know, but I’m hoping that it’s somewhat entertaining. What I’m absolutely most looking forward to by far is the third season of Silo, which starts actually as we’re talking right now, seventh July 3rd.
GeorgeMm-hmm.
Moum I read all the books. They’re all amazing. The show is doing an amazing job of turning those books into a TV series. The season three, if they follow, should talk about the origins of the silos and gets into that whole thing, too, which is going super cool.
MoSo um ah I’m hoping the quality stays up there. And ah but again, i know I’m going to hopefully tear to those. And luckily, those are once a week shows. So i it forces me to kind of parcel them out.
JonOh, yeah. Yeah.
MoYou know i have to enjoy it week by week, which I don’t have a complaint with with this particular show.
JonParse them out. Yeah.
MoSo that’s what i’m looking forward to. How about you, John?
JonYeah. So this one caught me by surprise. So remember last year after decades, King of the Hill got a revival. Season 14 of King of the Hill came out.
GeorgeRight.
MoYeah, yeah, yeah.
Joni haven’t I haven’t been in the right emotional space to watch that yet. I have such an affinity for it. I’m so worried about what they did with season 14.
MoOh, you haven’t watched the game watch a new one. Oh, oh, OK.
JonI’ve not watched it yet. Yeah. It’s not that I’m mad at it. I’m just like, I’m not ready.
MoOK.
JonYou know, it’s not a Firefly situation. not keeping it new. It’s just one of those like I’m not ready.
MoOK.
Georgehe
JonBut I knew it wasn’t just one season. And by God, on July 20th, a 15th season, 10 more episodes are dropping on Hulu.
MoWow.
JonSo now I’m going to be 20 episodes of King of the Hill behind.
MoYou have to start.
JonI’m going to try to get emotionally ready so I can watch some of it, I think. But I’m looking forward to that. Then I found out that my buddy Ricky Bobby, Will Ferrell, has a new series on Netflix July 16th called The Hawk.
GeorgeOh, Lord.
JonHe was the 2004 world’s best golf superstar.
Mohaven’t heard of this one.
JonHe’s trying to make a comeback and he’s just an, he’s an old has been, but he’s that Ricky Bobby kind of over the top, hyper self-confident, despite the fact that he doesn’t have the skills anymore.
GeorgeOh.
MoOkay.
JonAnd there’s a, of course, there’s a current hotshot golfer that is trying to take all of his glory and he’s up against and,
MoYep.
JonIt’s Will Ferrell doing Will Ferrell shit. I so want to see this. It’s coming July 16th to Netflix. So if you haven’t heard of it, look, it’s sports ball and I still want to see it. What’s that tell you? Right. So and this is on the extreme edge of looking forward.
JonBut the day we next record is also the premiere of season four of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, July twenty third
Moyeah
GeorgeOh yeah. Right.
Moyep
JonWe’ve been waiting a long time for it. Now you might already know Strange New Worlds is over filming wise, but we have a season four and an abbreviated season five coming eventually. That’s all been filmed.
JonSeason three was a little bit of a misstep for me. In some cases, I understand season four is kind of writing some of those ships and doing more Star Trek stories and fewer weirdo stories, which are okay to 26 episode run, but you got 10 episodes.
MoOh, good.
JonYou got tighten that shit up.
MoMm-hmm.
JonAnyway. Strange New Worlds is coming back on Paramount Plus July 23rd. So, George, what about you? What do you got coming up?
GeorgeOh, first of all, I just, the Strange New Worlds thing, i just watched season two, episode eight, the musical episode.
Jonm
GeorgeFavorite episode of Star Trek ever at this point.
JonI love it.
GeorgeI love that episode.
JonIt’s a love-hate. It’s a love-hate, right?
GeorgeOh, love that one.
Jonyou never Some people don’t like it. It’s tremendous.
GeorgeBut…
JonI have a soundtrack in my library, i dude. Yeah.
GeorgeI just meant to, I just wanted to throw that out there because we don’t have an opportunity to talk about it, but, uh, what stuff I’m looking forward to as Mo mentioned, silo season three, very much a fan of that series.
JonYeah.
GeorgeUh, I didn’t read the books like Mo did, but the series is captivating to say the least.
MoAmazing. Yeah. Wow.
GeorgeUh, Mo already told you July 3rd, uh, today, Apple TV, uh, Dark Side of the Ring, season seven. Vice TV is still producing series, apparently, even though they’ve gone into receivership or I don’t know, maybe somebody owns them now, whoever.
JonWow. ah
GeorgeBut this comes out on Vice TV July 7th. And this is… Exactly what the title says. They take stories from the world of professional wrestling and they tell you these dark stories, you know, wrestlers who have gotten into drugs or been killed or done bad things to other people.
MoOkay.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeAnd they’re all fascinating. They’re documentary style stories that they, you know, it’s just an hour long episode format, but um yeah yeah if you’ve seen any Vice TV documentary series, you know what to expect with this one.
Jonyeah
JonThat’s funny. you I know you talked about this before, but I didn’t remember it first. and I’m thinking, is this some cool Hobbit thing that I haven’t heard of? Oh, not that ring. Not that ring.
GeorgeNo, no, not that ring. No. Yeah. And then finally, Mo said I would get a chance to talk about it a little bit later. The thing I’m looking forward to the most is Evil Dead Burn, July eighth I’m definitely looking forward to this.
GeorgeThis is, they’re calling it a standalone sequel to the previous two modern Evil Dead films. So there was the Evil Dead in 2013, which was kind of the reimagining that they did.
JonMm-hmm.
MoYeah.
GeorgeAnd then there was the Evil Dead Rise, the one in the apartment building that just came out a couple of years ago.
JonYep.
MoYes.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeThis is another story in that universe. Essentially, there’s going to be a family reunion in a secluded house and they’re going to find the book and blah, blah, blah.
MoOh.
JonOf course.
GeorgeNow, Why I’m interested in it is because Sam Raimi is back on board, at least as a producer on this, not as a director.
MoOK.
GeorgeSo I’m hoping that he can have enough influence in this film that it will bring it back to the Evil Dead roots just a little bit.
JonRight. Hmm.
GeorgeI mean… I think my last favorite evil dead thing that I watched was ash versus the evil dead. That was pure evil dead storytelling from beginning to end.
MoYeah.
GeorgeI love that series. Um, I hope that this thing gets back there. It feels like with the last couple of them, they’ve tried to be too serious. That’s not pure evil dead to me.
MoNo humor at all. Yeah.
JonYeah, like the super horror.
GeorgeYeah. There,
JonYeah, yeah.
GeorgeYeah, there needs to be… i When it’s that way, it’s just another horror franchise.
JonYeah, I need the levity.
GeorgeWhat made Evil Dead stand out was the comedy.
MoMm-hmm.
MoAnd some of the ridiculousness of it.
JonThe goofiness. There’s something fun in it.
Georgeyeah Exactly.
JonYeah, yeah.
GeorgeThe tongue-in-cheek, the ridiculousness, you know the wide-eyed zoom shots with the camera tilting everywhere.
JonYeah.
MoYeah.
MoMm hmm. Mm
GeorgeThat’s what makes Evil Dead. I could watch 20 movies of that style of horror rather than watch the last two over again.
Jonyeah
Mohmm.
GeorgeSo hopefully July 8th, we’ll all get a nice surprise and go back to the roots.
Jonfind out.
MoNice.
JonYep. right. Before we get out, I do want to thank a brand new supporting patron. But before we do, you know, one of the benefits is a chance to ask us a question here on the show at right at the end of the episode that we answer. And I see you have one on deck, Mo.
MoYeah. So this is a question from ah Susan’s actually been a patron for a long time. This is a question we’ve talked about, but don’t think we answered it.
JonHey, Susan.
MoActually, this part of the show, which was, was there an arcade game? What?
GeorgeNo, I’m just putting my hand up for when you finish the question, because i already read it.
MoOh, okay.
GeorgeI want to answer first.
Jonah
MoOkay. Okay. So the question is that George is biting at the chomp to answer. This is, was there an arcade game that you wanted to get good at, but never could?
MoAnd George, what do you got?
GeorgeOh, here we go. Yes. Defender. I wanted to be good at defender and holy hell, is that a difficult game?
MoOh, my God.
GeorgeEven to this day, maybe even more difficult for me now that I have slower and older reflexes and arthritis in the fingers and whatnot, because that’s a game.
Mohmm.
GeorgeIt was, it was different for me at the time because other than space invaders, I think it was the only game at the time when I first found it that didn’t have a joystick. Every other game that I played, I remember having a joystick, but it was all buttons, you know, and,
MoUp, down, Mm-hmm. Yeah.
GeorgeAnd it was a lot of buttons. It was forward and reverse and turbo and hyper and fire and all this stuff. I love that game. It was visually, it was beautiful.
GeorgeThe sounds in the game were awesome, but I couldn’t play that thing for more than 30 seconds without needing another goddamn quarter.
JonMm-hmm. It was Williams. Yeah.
GeorgeThat game is just brutal. I love that game and I wish I could get better at it.
MoNice. Nice.
JonYep.
MoHow about you, John? What do you have?
JonYep. I’m teed up. You ready? Here’s mine.
Mogo for it
JonDefender.
Georgeah
JonThat was the the first thing that popped in my head for so many of other the reasons. And it has a joystick, but it only goes up and down is all it will do. It’s like a little up and down.
MoGo for it.
GeorgeOh, does it have a joystick?
MoYeah, it’s up down that you have the buttons.
GeorgeI didn’t think it did.
Jonand And then like, but then there’s like thrust.
GeorgeSee, that’s how bad I am at the game.
Jonbut I know there’s thrust, fire, reverse.
GeorgeJesus Christ.
JonYou got to hit a button to turn the other direction. And then Stargate came out and that added a button in Vizzo. You just let pile them on.
GeorgeOh, yeah.
MoOh, yeah.
Jonyou have hyperspace and smart bomb and wipe my ass and all these different buttons. The problem is I couldn’t, like, ah I know what I want to do. Like, I need to reverse. Shit, where’s that button?
JonI’m dead.
MoYeah.
JonOh, smart bomb. I need that an emergency. Where is it? No, I’m dead. Right?
GeorgeLike you had to be a good touch typist to get good at that game, right?
MoYeah.
JonYeah, you had it was like learning to type on a different kind of keyboard. Yeah.
MoYeah.
JonAnd the people that knew how to play, I know they weren’t thinking about the controls.
GeorgeYes.
JonThey they got a feel for them.
GeorgeMm-mm.
JonThey had muscle memory.
MoYeah.
JonAnd the problem is, I think it was too expensive to get that muscle memory for me. Some people picked it up fast enough that they could and people that were could play it could play the hell out of it.
MoMm-hmm.
JonAnd it was ah it was like watching a pianist.
Moyeah Oh, yeah.
JonRight. They were just they were just massaging those buttons and tearing through this game.
MoMm-hmm.
JonAnd yeah, it’s noted as one of the hardest games. I know a lot of people are going to say probably Dragon’s Lair, which, George, you mastered. And I was OK at.
MoYeah.
JonAnd I think if with a little investment of time, I could do it again now. Defender, I never got good at and I never will.
GeorgeYeah.
JonAnd it’s again, it’s Williams. It looks and sounds so beautiful and it’s so frenetic.
Georgee
JonAnd when you’re playing well, you look like a genius and I’m just look like a dummy because I i love it.
GeorgeI wonder, and wonder if we could practice with our R10 Pro controller.
JonLove it.
GeorgeI wonder if maybe i could remap the buttons in a way that I could get good at the game in emulation.
MoGood, right?
JonYeah. You could, but you’d only do it there because then you got to in the real world, that muscle memory wouldn’t work is a problem.
GeorgeRight. Yeah.
MoIt would be different. Yeah.
JonYeah.
GeorgeWe need to contact Fightbox and tell them to make a Defender Controller!
JonMake a defender.
Mo<unk> All right.
GeorgeSee? Oh.
JonYeah, right?
GeorgeWorse.
MoSo let me tell you mine. This is not planned. It’s Defender.
JonI knew it would be.
Georgeah hu see
MoOkay, here’s my reason, though, why Defender.
JonOkay, lay it on me.
MoMy brother was great at it.
Jonoh Oh, kicking your ass.
MoOh, my God.
Georgeworse
MoWatching him, and the thing is, like you said, watching him play was just like, it i was it was I was in awe of watching him play.
JonYeah.
JonIt was a show. When somebody’s good at it. Yeah.
Moyou know Whereas I’m half the time shooting the people as the aliens are lifting them up.
GeorgeRight.
Jonyou’re You’re not supposed to do that, Mo.
Moyeah And the fact that like you could you could wind up going so fast across the screen,
JonMm-hmm.
Moyou’re out of control.
Georgee
MoSo much is going on. Like it’s like sensory overload visually that, and the game just keeps getting harder, you know?
JonYeah, yeah.
GeorgeYeah.
MoAnd so I’m watching my brother play and, and just, I mean, I would literally sit and watch him play for hours. Like I could just sit and watch him play, you know, because things that look impossible, they could somehow do you know, like, oh, I’m going to get this person, shoot this, and then pick up the person as they’re falling, you know, and grab and drop on top of this mountain, you know, before I move off to this other part, it is just, again, it’s like a game that I think is the same reason you guys said.
JonYeah. Mm-hmm.
JonMm-hmm.
GeorgeRight.
MoThe people who are good at it looked amazing in the arcade, right?
JonMm-hmm.
MoThey were like a tier kind of up for most people, you know, being good at Asteroids, like yeah, for whatever, you know, being good at Defender, people are like, whoa,
JonYep.
JonYawn, five buttons, not impressed.
GeorgeRight.
MoYeah, exactly.
GeorgeYeah.
MoSo it it was funny because it was the first it was absolutely the first game that popped in my head when this question came up.
Joneasy Popped in my head and I wasn’t changed. It wasn’t coming off of it.
Georgee
JonIt’s because it’s number one by a huge margin.
GeorgeNope.
MoYou know, and I was even. Exactly. i was trying to think it was number two, like i because as you guys are talking, i’m like, is there a second one?
JonYeah.
MoAnd I’m looking. I’m like, no.
JonNope.
GeorgeI mean… Like maybe like for me, maybe like Tempest might’ve been a distant second, but I just didn’t get a chance to play it as much, but there was no question what was top of my list.
MoYeah, maybe. Yeah.
JonYeah. Yeah.
GeorgeAnd ah we didn’t even mention, like, I know we talked a little bit about the reverse, but that screen shift when you did reverse would almost make you throw up if you weren’t careful.
JonYep. Agreed.
JonOh, yeah.
MoOh my god.
JonWhips around.
MoBecause it slides. Yeah. Because
GeorgeHoly crap, the whole screen, and it would just throw your equilibrium off. It was nuts.
Moyour ship went to the side a little bit, then it came back to the middle.
GeorgeYeah, yeah.
MoOh my god, yeah.
GeorgeOh, so good.
Jonah
GeorgeAnd everything was so smooth.
Jonah
GeorgeLike the laser beams that would fire from your ship were so smooth.
JonBeautiful. With the little trails on them.
GeorgeOh my God.
JonYeah.
MoOh, and the sound too was amazing on that thing.
GeorgeOh,
JonMm-hmm.
Georgee
MoYou know, things are falling.
JonOh, damn.
MoIt’s…
JonSusan, you struck a nerve.
GeorgeI feel like we need to do an episode on defender at this point.
Moi know
JonYou struck a nerve, Susan.
MoYeah, great question.
Georgehe he
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JonMm hmm.
MoAnd your question will be answered right here on the show.
JonThat’s right. And that’s exactly what Willie N did. Willie N headed over to patreon.com slash Gen X grownup, opened up his heart in his wallet, set up a regular monthly pledge. I know Willie came in at that level to make sure he gets an ad free version of the show with a private feed. So you can hear this very podcast with none of the commercials in it. So that’s good stuff. Willie, thank you so much. We appreciate you and so many other folks that keep us solvent and keep us producing.
Jonthis show. All right. That then is going to wrap it up for this edition of the show. Don’t worry though. We’ll be back in two weeks with another one. More importantly, next week’s our backtrack where we pick a single nostalgic topic and dig in deep. Let’s see. Moe, would you like to do the honors?
MoOh, sure. This is easy one. Bueller. Bueller. Bueller. Of all the movies Gen X, other than Breakfast Club, I think this is definitely one of the most iconic movies out there from that time.
JonYep.
Mothat When we talk about movies from the 80s, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was probably one of the most talked about movies that whole summer for ah a whole slew of reasons.
JonYep.
Moyou know Matthew Broderick, one of his earlier roles that I think really just shot him to stardom.
JonAnd that still is amazing today.
MoA great story. Yeah, John Hughes. I mean, as it was just a phenomenal movie. So that’s what we talked about in the next Backtrack.
JonYeah, that’s going to be good. You don’t want to miss that one. Until then, I’m John George. Thank you so much for being here, man.
GeorgeYes, sir.
JonFourth, not fourth listener. Mo, i forgot Mo was here. Mo, you know, I appreciate you, man.
MoTake
JonFourth listener, it’s you. We all three appreciate it. Most of all, we cannot wait to talk to you again next time. Bye-bye.
GeorgeSee you guys.
Motake care, everybody. I’m
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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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