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We head to the theatre for the new film based on a short story by Stephen King, install a productivity browser extension that will change the way you view, download, and convert website images, & play a gruesome third-person horde shooter that pits you against waves of brain-thirsty zombies!

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Speaker Transcript
Jon Welcome back, Gen X Grown Up Podcast listener to this episode 186 of the Gen X Grown Up Podcast. I am John. Joining me as always, of course, is George. Hey, man.
George Hey, how’s it going guys?
Jon And not joining us uncharacteristically is Mo. Hi, guys. How are you doing? Is what he would say if he were here.
George I mean,
Jon Mo had, he’s, you know, he’s off gallivanting the planet. He has things to do. and it’s it We’ve never done this before where one of us wasn’t here before. and But we started looking at the calendar. We’re like, it’s just going royal pain to to figure out a reschedule for these shows.
Jon So George was like, well, screw Mo.
George yeah i mean We can just do it. I mean, his baby mama calls and he has to go running away so we can handle it ourselves. And, you know, the blue collar workers of the podcast world can keep earning their 50 cent paychecks and we can move on.
Jon that’s okay yeah ah that’s us
George But ah you’ve you’ve done this show without me a couple of times when I was over in the Philippines, but you had another third party.
Jon yeah right someone filled in for you that’s right yep yep
George There’s always been three voices minimum on the podcast. So this might be a little bit different, but my point when I… told John and Moe, was like, well, we can just do it, me and John.
George I’m fairly sure John and I can fill up a podcast just between the two of us talking.
Jon Oh, that’s that’s not a concern I ever had. Not at all.
George Right.
Jon Well, speaking of this podcast, in this episode, we’re going to head to the theater for the new film based on a short story by Stephen King, install a productivity browser extension that will change the way you view, download, and convert website images, and play a gruesome third-person horde shooter that pits you against waves of brain-thirsty zombies.
Jon Those topics and many more. Well, a few more. not three of us. Several more coming up in this episode.
George ah Many more, several more, few more. ah so This two-person thing is throwing you off.
Jon Some them out. ah right A reduced amount, but it will be here in this show.
George but All your adjectives and adverbs are out the window. My God, it’s anarchy.
Jon They are. That’s right. Oh, no. Does Moe become the fourth listener and the listener becomes the third? Maybe that’s going to happen this episode since he’s not here.
George Well, I mean, um he only becomes the fourth lister technically if he writes in about this episode. and we decide to acknowledge it.
Jon Or if he listens.
George ah we he might not even listen.
Jon Right. Yeah, that’s true. That’s true. but that’s you Look, you got the day off. Take the whole day off.
George Right, right.
Jon All right. ah Before we get into the body of this show, it’s time. Speaking of fourth listener email, our fourth listener this time around is Jake m He dropped us a line. The subject of his email was HBO free preview weekends.
Jon Mm hmm.
George Ooh, this must be another George is right email.
Jon Well, I wouldn’t have chosen it if it were. So let’s see then what Jake had to say.
George well There’s only two of us. What else are you going to choose?
Jon I might be right. It’ll work that way. Jake says, hey, guys, this is going to be kind of long. So, okay. Hey guys, this is going to be kind of a long one and a tangent to your recent rewind with your HBO episode. Okay. So the rewind came around.
Jon He says, I never had HBO at home with my mom, sadly, but my grandparents did.
George All right.
Jon So grandpa would always tape movies for me. That’s nice. Nice. Grandpa. The flip side of that is at my dad’s house. He had HBO and I only found out when I was a teenager that he never paid for it.
Jon Where the cable lines came into the house on the outside, lightning, it apparently flipped a switch permanently on scrambling or shifting the signal.
George Ooh.
Jon No one found out for over 20 years
George So God decided his grandpa should have HBO.
Jon His dad, his grandpa paid for it. His dad got it through lightning.
George Oh, his dad.
Jon Act act of God. Yes.
George yeah.
Jon Yeah. It sounds like something you would do, but you wouldn’t wait for lightning. You just go out there with a wrench and start tinkering with it is my expectation, George.
George No, I told the story how my father figured out that I knew how to rig the boxes, so, yeah. Mm-hmm.
Jon Yep. I know. I know. See, I knew you would tinker with it. That’s what I said. Let’s see. Jake goes on to say, now you guys mentioned free weekends for HBO and by association, other premium channels. Do you remember a time when Disney channel was premium and not part of basic cable?
Jon I certainly do. Do you?
George ah You know, I i don’t. I didn’t remember that.
Jon It was, it wasn’t part of basic for sure.
George i I wasn’t paying attention to it, though. Yeah, but that that makes sense.
Jon Oh, yeah.
George I mean, as new channels came out, they were rarely part of basic cable. They were always their own thing, so.
Jon Right. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t remember like what the fee was, but it was like always like $2.99 or something of every premium channel you wanted or $5.99 or whatever.
George Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah.
Jon Yeah. Yeah. um Well, he says, there was one weekend when I was in high school that they did this for the Disney Channel, and the cable company would always send out a list of what was going to be on. Remember those ads that would go, during the free weekend on HBO, what you’re going to see.
George Oh, yeah. Right.
Jon Yep. He says, I vividly remember seeing that one of my favorite Disney films, The Cat from Outer Space, was going to be on Sunday 8
George Oh, that was the one with the little orange tabby that had the color that had the little glow thing on its neck.
Jon Yep, says my mom. With a collar.
George Yeah.
Jon Yep.
George Yeah.
Jon Yep, that’s right. That’s right. Says my mom and I had just gotten a new VCR and I had zero clue how to program it. So I knew I must be home to hit record. My mom and I were out grocery shopping.
Jon She was trying to rush me home so I could watch and record. We pulled at the driveway at probably 7.55. I busted through the door, ran to the living room, terrifying my cats in the process.
George he
Jon I made it just in time to start. And I’m pretty sure my mom was laughing at me the whole time.
Jon It’s a good story. It really is, Jake. And he even tags on there. I never get the chance to tell this story to anyone. Well, now you have. Now you’ve told it to George and me.
George Yeah. To George. Yeah. That’s, that’s, that’s the gold standard. Tell it to George and it’s, Oh, you’ve done your job. Yeah.
Jon ah Now you’ve told it to everyone. he He’ll tell them. ah ah Jake just wraps it up by going, thanks for the great show. Keep up the backtracks and rewinds. Thank you and be well from a long time.
Jon Fourth listener. cool. Thank you, Jake. That’s great.
George Nice.
Jon ah We appreciate that you took the time to write in and we appreciate that you found someone to tell your cool story to that would appreciate it as we certainly do. ah Fourth Lister, if you would like your email featured here on the show, you know it is drop dead easy. Just hit us up at podcast at genxgrownup.com. We read every single one and most of them, like Jake’s, is eventually going to make the show.
Jon All right, George, just you and me. We get back from the break. We’re jump into the body of this episode. Stick around.
Jon All right.
Jon There we go. All right.
Jon Oh, look, and you just told me we don’t need any extra stuff and you have two media things.
George Not really. I’m going to do a mention and then my media thing.
Jon Not really. Not really. Just just cheating like normal. OK, here we If I’ve four, oh, this is media media in five, four, three.
Jon All righty, we’re going get the ball kicked off here at the top of the show, as we always do, talking about media that we have been checking out since we last spoke. Now, of course, this could be comics or music or television or film or books, whatever you’re currently into.
Jon And George, so I can take a breath from the intro, I’m going to let you start and tell me what you have been checking out.
George Yeah, well, I’m going to do my typical thing, and since Mo’s not here, we’ve got plenty of time. I’m going to talk about two things in my media ah spot here, but the first one I’m just going to barely mention.
Jon Oh, so now it’s justified somehow. Okay. Yeah.
George It’s justified, yeah. So the first one I’m just going to make a brief mention of. If you haven’t been able to watch Reacher Season 3 yet, which is currently running on Amazon Prime or wherever you get your public domain media content from, ah I just want to say…
George go watch it immediately. If you like that type of show, the action adventure, cop procedural, high drama, a little bit of mystery.
Jon yeah
George It’s really well done. Alan Rich and I said many a time is the, probably the best physical and manifestation of a character I’ve ever seen in TV or film.
George Like he epitomizes everything that the original books were about from a Lee child, if I remember correctly, anyway, um,
Jon Mm-hmm. Yep.
Jon Mm-hmm. That’s right.
George The one thing I will say is every time one of these episodes comes out and I watch it, which right now we’re halfway through the season, I get just a little bit angrier.
Jon Yeah.
Jon Okay.
George And I’m angry because that’s one less episode that I have in this season.
Jon It’s running out.
George going to have to wait another year for season four, which they damn well better renew this thing because…
Jon Mm-hmm.
George With, you know, what happened with Jack Ryan, I was a little bit upset that they didn’t go any further than the third season, I think.
Jon Yeah.
George I wanted to see more of that because that was such a great show in and of its own right on Prime. Prime better get it right this time. I want like eight seasons of this shit. I want every Jack Reacher book to be put on TV because they’re doing a great job with it.
Jon Yeah, I read an article that the elite author Lee Child had particular books that um ah would prefer to see turned into television. And so looks like maybe they’re talking about it. if He’s going to mention that.
Jon then maybe that’s the deal. But I was going to ask you, i have not caught up with season two yet. I started it, didn’t finish it. And I heard middling things about it. I’m sure I know you’re all caught up. Do you think season three is stronger than two or yeah?
George Mm-hmm. Stronger. No, I don’t think any season so far is stronger than any other. I think they are all equally strong.
Jon No. Okay.
George They’re just different stories. um I know that some people might say they don’t like season two because they’re comparing it to season one, and I don’t think that’s fair. The only thing that’s ah comparable is the character, and the what the show is doing really well is showing the growth in the character between the seasons,
Jon and
George They’re not like, oh, season one ended, next day is season two. They’re spacing them out. There’s time between season one and two. I think it’s like a two and a half year gap or something like that.
George Same thing with season two and three. There’s now another year two or so between those. um But they’re doing a great job with it. They’re all equally great in my mind. I finished a rewatch of one and two with my son right before we started watching season three.
George um My wife and I watched seasons one together. She didn’t catch up on season two, so I have to go back and do a rewatch of that with her. But I love it so much I’m going to anyway.
Jon They don’t care. Yeah.
George Yeah, now I’m happy to do it. But the thing I really wanted to talk about with my media spot is not Reacher, even though we got into that little bit longer discussion than I planned.
Jon Okay. It’s okay.
George want to talk about a movie called The Gorge.
Jon Yeah.
George um
Jon Oh, okay.
George I don’t know if you…
Jon I’ve seen it. I haven’t seen the movie. I’ve seen it exists. I’ll say. Yeah.
George Right, so ah the main star who was one of the co-stars from the Top Gun Maverick movie is one of the main stars in this one, along with that ah Anya Taylor-Joy, think…
George Is that her name? Or Taylor Anya Joy? The girl who was in the restaurant movie…
Jon Okay. Yep. That’s her. I think so. Yeah.
George Yeah, so they’re essentially like the super secret agent people from their own governmental organization entities that are on the opposite sides of ah since a real life gorge, like a big chasm out in the middle of nowhere.
Jon Okay.
George They don’t know where it is because before they accept the excitement to go and watch over this gorge, which they don’t know what they’re watching for even, they’re
Jon Okay.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George um they’re drugged and put on a plane and they wake up right before they’re dropped in by parachute to this gorge place that they have to hike and into each one of them on their own ah thing.
Jon Just watch.
Jon Wow.
George So there’s a whole lot of mystery to it. It turns out that this is not just a tale of the two of them who are not supposed to speak to each other because they’re opposite governments or whatever, ah but they do, of course, because
Jon Mm-hmm.
George You’ve got no radio contact, no TV, no internet. You’re out in the middle of nowhere. There’s one other human being on the planet in your world at this point. what are you going to do? So they do the whole thing of, you know, looking at each other through binoculars and then they’re playing chess across the gorge and they’re writing funny poems and dancing and blah, blah, blah, all that kind of stuff. um Until one night, sirens and alarms start going off and I mean, I hate to do spoilers, but it’s been out for a little while, and, you know, I want to at least tease you a little bit.
George um Ravenous, weird, humanoid creatures come climbing out of the gorge that they have to shoot down with all these gun turrets and everything else at their disposal.
Jon what
Jon Oh,
Jon like zombie things or um aliens or.
George I mean, i i know the whole story, obviously, because I watched it, but if I go into too much of it, it could taint.
Jon OK, all right. Gotcha. Don’t tell me. Gotcha. Don’t tell me. Yeah.
George Yeah, yeah. So…
Jon Yeah. OK.
George Is it cinema? No. This is not cinema. Is it a fun, distracting action film with a little bit of a heart and some science fiction thrown in?
George Absolutely. So…
Jon Oh, yeah, I you were going to say no again. I thought you setting me up.
George No, no. yeah it It definitely is that. So if you’re interested at all in having like an hour and a half, two hour distraction one night, um maybe with a significant other a friend or a group of friends, even, it’s a fun film to watch. The two main actors in it do a serviceable job.
George um It even has, ah oh, what’s her name from Alien? Rick Ripley. I can never remember and that actress’s name.
Jon Sigourney Weaver.
George Sigourney Weaver, thank you. Sigourney Weaver is in this as the higher up on the guy’s American side. um
Jon Okay.
George So… Yeah, it’s it’s a fun little film. ah It came out of nowhere. It’s one of these, i think Netflix is where it was at. um So it’s one of their in-house production things, and it’s well worth it. It’s it’s a good, fun, science fiction, horror-ish survival action. Boy, it’s got a lot of things to throw in there.
Jon There’s a lot of descriptors.
George But yeah, I mean, if you have time, I highly recommend checking it out for some fun.
Jon Yeah.
Jon Okay. All right. I mean, I have it because someone asked to ask to see it. So I grabbed it for them, but I just looked at it. I had no idea what it was about. I’m just like, i don’t know. So now I do.
George Yeah. Yeah. It’s pretty, it’s pretty sporty, but I know the thing that John wants to talk about, this guy has got popcorn buckets and he’s been posting all about it on the discord channel, genxgrownup.com slash discord.
Jon There you go.
George And I could not imagine that you weren’t going to talk about this item in your media segment this time.
Jon Zing.
Jon Nope.
Jon No, not at all. It’s about a monkey. It’s called the monkey. It’s based on a Stephen King short story called the monkey and I was dying to see it. I can hear my cat meowing. I’m going to shut the door so he’ll shut up.
Jon You can’t cut down the hall like a fucking echo chamber. He meows and I’m sure that picked it up, but I’ll have mute it. Could you hear it? Could you hear meowing?
George I did not hear it at all.
Jon No. Okay. Yeah. Haha. You’re outside the door now. Dumbass. Okay. called the monkey. um
Jon And you’re right, George, I was looking forward to this probably way too early than I even should have. You were talking about it on the show, something I was dying to see. ah It’s directed by Osgood Perkins, ah who is the son, a grandson, I forget, of Anthony Perkins.
Jon So he has his horror lineage, comes by it naturally.
George Oh, wow.
Jon And of course the story, short story by Stephen King. It was part of a Night Shift, I think. ah that you know That collection had the mist in it and all this, anyway.
George Right. Mm-hmm.
Jon So I was excited to see it. Let me start up front and go much like Osgood Perkins last film. We talked about long legs, which was set up as something, the greatest horror movie of all time. And we kind of thought that, and we talked about how that might’ve tainted our perception of it.
Jon This is not quite that other than it’s kind of set up to look like a horror movie. The original short story was horrible. It was a terror. But this almost isn’t. I mean, it’s a comedy horror, but it’s so barely horror.
Jon I did enjoy it. But so here’s the the premise, if you haven’t familiar with the the story, is that ah this young man, when he was little, comes by way, inherits this toy monkey.
George you were You were struggling to say that you enjoyed it the right there.
Jon ah Yeah, a little, a little. i don’t want to mis misrepresent, right? Comes in possession of this toy monkey. And in the book, it’s actually he has symbols, you know, clang, clang, clang symbols in this in this show. He has a drum. But either way, when the monkey plays his instrument, whatever it is, plays the drums in this case, someone dies a horrible death.
Jon He’s basically he causes people to die. This monkey when you play with it. ah and When he was a young kid, he they tried to get rid of it. But, you know, it’s a myth, myth, mystical, weird magic monkey. So it came out of the well he threw it into.
Jon And so this the story here is about an older man now grown up who is estranged from his twin brother and the monkey things. People are starting to die in the town where the monkey was last seen. And it pulls the people there and they’re they’re investigating it.
Jon The actors do a great job. They really do. Like a Theo James, ah Christian Convery, Toliana Maslini, I’m sorry, Toliana Maslini are in it.
Jon ah They’re not big actors, but you’ve seen them in stuff. And they’re really, they do serviceable jobs in this. The problem, again, is I think how this movie is positioned. It felt like in the all of the trailers, a horror movie.
Jon But by the time you got to it, it was fun. It was like my Final Destination. People were dying in crazy, crazy ways. But you almost, like Final Destination, how like you see it coming and you you see the buildup and like, oh oh, these just kind of happened by surprise.
Jon They were crazy, but they weren’t like the anticipation wasn’t building. And in the end, they’re so ridiculous. They muted the horror to the point it was just a good crowd reaction film, but not a horror movie, if that’s what you’re looking for. And I missed that in kind of how they presented it to us.
George So I’m going to take issue with just a little of how you went about that. Only because you talked about the director, his former project being Long Legs, which…
George You and Mo, I know, don’t feel like it was a horror. I’m the dissenter in the group. I feel it was the best horror movie that I’ve seen in a long time.
Jon Oh, okay.
George Um, I really liked long legs and I thought I made that point clear in the time we talked about it on podcast.
Jon All right.
George Maybe I didn’t, but, um,
Jon Yeah. well Look, i i we both liked it. We just didn’t feel as horror like you do. Yeah.
George Yeah, and I feel like horror, just like all the other genres, has a wide range. If you’re going to say science fiction, that has a wide range.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George If you’re going to say drama, that has a wide range.
Jon Yeah.
George So horror, I feel like, especially in this day and age, has a wide range of things that can fit under that umbrella. And there’s a ton of subcategories.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George If you look at Netflix and all the different subcategories of different subjects, thatll you’ll understand what I mean, the genre subgenre.
Jon Right.
George whatever you want to call it. But um I haven’t seen the monkey at all, but I love some Stephen King and the collection that this came out of, if you’re right, that it came out of the same one that the mist was in.
Jon Sure. Mm-hmm.
Jon Sure. Yeah.
George The mist is one of my favorite stories of Stephen King’s of all time.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George I felt like that, that Thomas Jane ah movie was a great adaptation, expanded that story.
Jon Yep.
George I really love the ending that they put on that one ah in the movie.
Jon Okay. Oh,
George I don’t want to let myself be dissuaded by you saying it’s not horror because kind of want to feel like it.
Jon oh no. No.
George So I’m going to wait and watch it on my own. I hope other people do as well. But ah I think ah the grandson or son or whatever, nephew, uncle, aunt, whatever Perkins is of Anthony, I hope that he continued in that long legs tradition because that was a great fucking movie.
Jon So i I, at no point was I trying to dissuade anyone from seeing it, which I understand your point there. Uh, but maybe I could tarnish it and make you not want to see it through, you know, the things that I said,
George Mm-hmm.
Jon I guess if i had to put it on a scale, like this is less horror than Longlegs was. Now, Longlegs was super serious. This one almost feels silly at times. and And I think he was going for that, but it doesn’t pick a lane.
Jon Like there are things that happen, even stuff you saw in the trailer that is like, that doesn’t have any real context. Like I’m at a funeral and things are really tense. And then you have the little young priest that comes up to the microphone and goes, oh, you know, like there’s no reason for it.
Jon Or it just feels like silliness for silliness sake. And that’s kind of what dampens the horror for me. But as you said, I don’t discourage anyone from when i’m seeing it.
George ah
Jon I did enjoy it. I don’t need to see it again right away, but I’ll watch it again later for the crazy kills. You know, that’s that’s the thing that will bring me back.
George and So comedy horror has a place though. Would you say that it was as good or not as good as say a child’s play comedy horror kind of thing?
Jon Oh, got some latency here.
Jon don’t see you moving.
George I I’m back now.
Jon Hello.
George Do you hear me?
Jon Do you see me? Oh, there you are.
George Are you back now?
Jon Yep.
George i it yeah I did a disconnect on my side too, but I was talking in UFROs on my side.
Jon And it’s still recording. Yep.
George It was weird. so
Jon Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
George I am on Wi-Fi on this laptop, so it might be.
Jon So it
Jon might be. Yeah. It’s all right. So the last thing I heard, I don’t know what you said or if you got all of it in there. The last thing I said was that it dampened down the horror. Did you have a and response to that?
George Okay. um So my… Yeah, I did.
Jon Okay.
George um So I was saying…
Jon Okay.
George You talked about it being comedy horror and disjointed. Would you say it was as good, better, or worse than so another comedy horror like Child’s Play?
Jon Hmm.
Jon Hmm. ah I enjoyed this more than Child’s Play. Yeah, yeah. It’s definitely a better film. You just said, you know, the gorge was not cinema. This is closer to cinema than a Child’s Play.
Jon ah It just, again, it’s more goofy than it is horror.
George Right.
Jon So the comedy, horror put comedy first. It’s not a horror comedy. It’s a comedy horror and maybe I’ll acquiesce. So, yeah.
George Okay, so maybe a Renfield kind of feel?
Jon Yep. Yep. That’s, that’s a pretty good, that’s an app comparison. Yeah. Yeah. There’ve been a few of those lately and that’s nothing wrong with them. I just want to make sure people go into it open wide and they open eyes and they know what they’re getting.
George Hmm?
Jon So, all right, that was the monkey. That’s what I saw. We’ll be right back. I’m not sure how are we’re going to get in and out. Not enough voices. Just jump out.
Jon I said at the top of the show that this is episode 186. For the last 185 episodes, our buddy Mo will kindly introduce this Tekken Toys segment. However, since he is AWOL from the show, i what does he say?
Jon Here’s Tekken Toys? i don’t i don’t know what Mo says. I i don’t have it memorized.
George and
Jon So
George I don’t listen to him, so I don’t um’t pay attention to what he says.
Jon thats that’s not the reason I don’t know, but I get that’s why you don’t know. Then I, damn, hope Mo doesn’t listen. ah
George I mean, I don’t think that’s news to Moe if he hears it.
Jon ah ah So what I’ll just do is go, no, it’s it’s it’s fair. That’s fair. I’ll just go, hey guys, time for Tech of Toys.
Jon Mo here. George, what you looking at? that’s That’s all I got.
George Well, you know, ah What I’m and so I I knew we had this tech and toys segment coming up and John was explicit when I pitched the idea of he and I doing the podcast that we both better have something for every segment.
Jon ah
George So I’m like, well, shit, let me go find a tech or toy thing. ah And I didn’t have any toys. I didn’t have any physical tech. So I went to my resource of all resources for tech. It’s a YouTube channel called Brett in Tech, actually, that used to be called something else. He changed the name.
George But he often does these five useful things you need to use today or seven great websites you never heard about kind of videos, right?
Jon OK.
Jon Oh, yeah.
George Uh, so I went back to one that I remembered seeing a few weeks ago where he talked about Chrome extensions and some useful ones that you could use.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George And I’m like, let me go back and look through that one. Cause I think there was something in there and sure enough, there was, it was this Chrome plugin called image. I, and the E at the end of image is shared with the first E and I, so, uh, it’s image.
Jon Give me a jar.
Jon Yep.
George I that way.
Jon Image-y.
George Um, Yeah, so this is just a Chrome plugin that allows you to download in multiple format types every image on a website.
Jon Image-y. Yeah.
George Now, you can always right-click an image and go save image as, and as John will attest, you often get that fucking web pee bullshit.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Freaking WebP, go straight to hell, WebP. I don’t know what you are. You don’t belong on this planet.
George Oh, John hates that thing.
Jon you’re like You’re like micro USB. You’re dead to me. God damn it.
George So we have found some other tools that we use. There’s one called save image as ping or something like that, that turns anything into a PNG file, which is very useful for us when we’re creating thumbnails and need some graphics from the web or something like that.
Jon Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Jon Right.
George But ah image eye is a little bit, more robust of a tool than that save as ping or even some of those sites that you take an image that you’ve saved and can convert it to something, which is an extra step, right?
Jon OK.
George You download it, then you got to go somewhere else and convert it.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George ah This tool, ah unlike file converter, which is a plugin after it’s been downloaded that you can use to convert to something, this is in your browser.
Jon Yep.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George Like we said, it’s a Chrome plugin. When you click it, The first thing it does is it pops out a little side panel from the side of your browser and just floods every image that’s on that website into that little sidebar.
Jon Yep.
George And you have a little scroll that you can scroll up and down and you can click on any single image that’s in that website and download it as a JPEG or a ping or as its original format or any number of different things.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Right.
George You can even batch download everything that’s on that website, which might be useful to some, ah not for me, but it has a lot of functionality.
Jon Ooh.
Jon Mm-hmm. Right.
George It’s totally free, 100%, just like a lot of plugins are these days. I haven’t tested it long enough to give it my true seal of approval because, you know, there could be something in it that corrupts or has some kind of cookie things in it that shares your information with Putin over in Russia or some shit that I don’t know about, but…
Jon Mm-hmm.
George On the surface, it’s ah it’s a fairly ah solid plugin.
Jon It’s just a nefarious plugin.
George It does what it says, and it does it quickly. like It doesn’t take long. It populates that whole list in under 20 seconds on most of the webpages I’ve been to, at least.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon I’ve spent even less time with it than you, but I have spent some time with it only because I saw you were talk about it. like, oh, what’s this? That George probably something cool because usually you have, it’s a plug in, like everything I’ve adopted and the ear trumpet I’ve adopted, all those things, those tools.
George e
Jon So wanted to check it out. And like you, as I went to some random page and I clicked on the button and yes, lit it open. and And like every image, and none of it there. it listed its dimensions and you could sort by the biggest or smallest and all that.
George Right.
Jon So like like you, I don’t see it as being something I need to batch download every picture on a website and just pillage it.
George Mm-hmm.
Jon But to be able to go, oh, I need the high resolution version of that or let’s see if this has transparency or whatever.
George Mm-hmm.
Jon I can see it being very helpful. Not often, but when you need it, by God, you need it. And I’m going to keep it installed for a while to see because I think it has potential.
George Sure.
George Yeah. And that’s the way with most of the plugins, right? You try them out for a little while. Eventually you either forget that you have them. And when you see them later on, you go and uninstall them or you use them religiously forever.
George Like we do some of our other things, like um the one that you do that makes all your browser stuff, the dark shade, or I use my last pass plugin religiously for all my password stuff.
Jon Mm-hmm. Yep.
Jon Mm-hmm. Yep.
Jon Mm-hmm. Me too.
George So, you know,
Jon Yeah. yeah
George I don’t know which way this one will go, but hopefully it’ll turn out to be a very useful tool for me. Now, ah that’s what I had for Tekken Toys. So per John’s rule, he also has to have something in Tekken Toys.
George And ah the thing he has is also useful.
Jon I Yeah. Yeah.
George kind of think it’s something that Mo recently bought too, or at least in the same vein.
Jon Yeah.
George I think he picked up a few episodes ago, but we’ll see if John’s writing his coattails or not.
Jon Yeah, I don’t think I am. I don’t remember i’m talking about this specific thing. but But also, I’m going to also pull a George and kind of talk about two things that I picked up at the same time for the similar purpose.
George Ah.
Jon ah So here’s what happened.
George he
Jon ah if If you saw on social, I know, George, you saw. We talked about it. ah But last weekend, I went out to an antique mall and I got a whole bunch of those vintage 80s desktop stuff.
George Oh, right. Yeah.
Jon ah arcade toys, you know, it’s like the the bowling one and the blip and all that kind of stuff. I had just a mother load of them.
George Right.
Jon ah Well, you get those things home and now you’re like, well, let’s see if they work. Let’s see what’s if they’re going to function properly. And ah right away, a couple of them didn’t work. And I’ve already progressively got them to work, which is a little bit of of of tinkering.
Jon But the first thing I did was realize my limitations. And I said, well, I have a voltmeter that I think I borrowed from Mo moe about 12 years ago. And he doesn’t know I still have. It doesn’t work very well.
Jon And I don’t know that much about electrical. Like I know, you know, like there’s volts and amps and ampere and caps and, you know, ohms. And I just, I have a vague understanding. I’m dangerous. I know enough to be dangerous.
Jon So I called a friend. I phoned up our buddy Thanos, who has experience as electrical engineer.
George Ah!
Jon And I’m like, just pretend I’m four and explain to me because one of these toys I had, it the batteries wouldn’t work, but it had a ah DC in that you could plug into.
George Ah, okay.
George Oh!
Jon But unlike most DC plugs, this had negative in the center, not on the outside shield. So I’m like, I…
George oh
Jon So here’s the problem. I have have a voltmeter that doesn’t work well, so I can’t test the traces. and I didn’t really understand how to test them until Thanos helped me out. And now I need to be able to bypass these batteries and find something. So the two things I picked up that are now gonna be seen probably in a number of other videos in the future as I get more thrifting things,
Jon ah The first is I got this new voltmeter. It’s ah by Andeng, A-N-E-N-G, is some random five-letter word that’s from overseas probably. But it was only, want to say it was only like 10 or 15 bucks.
George Yeah, right.
Jon Not only is it a standard voltmeter like you’d expect with the dial and the two probes, but it also has all these extra adapters like alligator clip versions and super fine point versions.
George Oh, yeah.
Jon Like if you’re testing pins on ah an IC, you need to super tiny ones that look like needles almost. They’re protective ends so you don’t poke yourself.
George Right.
Jon ah So all these extra adapters for the voltmeter. So now I have a good one. And the other thing I picked up that after getting advice from Thanos was a universal power supply. Now, I think this is the thing that ah you thought maybe I’m biting on Moe, what he did.
Jon This is a this is this block you would.
George Yeah.
Jon Yeah, you kind of screw into your desk, maybe if if you want it permanent. And it’s got a dial on it that says, how many volts do you want to put out? Five, 5.2, 5.3. five point two five point three Like you can put how much voltage you want.
Jon It’s got, you know, you’ve seen these, the cheap ones that have like all these little tips for all the different shapes that you have. And you can change that out for tips, or you can again, put probes on there.
George Mm-hmm.
Jon So you just want to send something power by, you know touching a couple of leads. You can do that. It even comes with pretend wire ends. So if you want to just quickly solder something on, you don’t have to kind of rig something or get an extra wire.
Jon They provide you with leads that are pretend for soldering so that you can tap them on there.
George Oh. oh
Jon So also about 17
Jon Hugely functional. So two cheap things. Now, of course, I found both of these at Amazon. So I will put links in the show notes that hopefully Mo will come back and realize are there. So he’ll put them down in the show notes that when he comes back and finds out about this show.
Jon But those are minor, both techie things that I had to pick up because I had a blind spot and an inventory hole where I don’t understand how to use it. I don’t have the tools to really test and fix these things.
Jon And I’m trying to get out of my comfort zone and learn how to do that. The first step. was good tools. So that’s what i picked up.
George nice
Jon You’re good. Let that go. You’re good.
George yeah yeah i’m good games five four three all right time to talk about games get this damn episode out of the way because there’s only two of us and i got shit to do so john what the hell have you been playing since the last time we did one of these podcasts that you always wrote me and mo into
Jon right. Perfect. Okay. Well,
Jon I mean, well well i mean
Jon If you want to go, I’ll just wrap it up. I’ll be a show of one. That’ll be great.
George but
Jon most
George Let’s get this shit knocked out in 10 minutes.
Jon George has places to go.
George Let’s go.
Jon All right.
George Oh.
Jon ah Yeah. so listen, so back in and holidays time, I was contacted by a company called Roasty Buds. And initially I’m like, it was just like a weed company, you know Roasty Buds.
Jon yeah No, no, no.
George right
Jon This is actually Buds as in coffee, coffee beans. And turns out they were doing a collaboration.
George oh
Jon ah You know, the X, you put the X in the middle something like King Kong X Godzilla or Atari X by arcade.
George Sure.
Jon There’s a collab. So this is Roasty Buds X Atari. They were collabing on something.
George ah
Jon So two things they’re doing. One, they’re putting out a special Atari gamers blend of coffee.
George Okay.
Jon both like you get just, you can get a bean, you can get it pre-ground in the thing, or you can get the little K cups or whatever. ah Now, I don’t know what that’s got to do with Atari personally, because it’s like gamer fuel.
Jon youll This Mountain Dew will help you get kills in Overwatch or something, right?
George Right.
Jon but But it’s Atari branded. It’s no worse than the Atari hot sauces that came out last year. So it’s fine. It’s fine. but But in addition to their coffee blend, um they developed in-house,
Jon an Atari Modern VCS exclusive platformer game called Roasty Buds Special Brew. Now it’s exclusive to the Atari VCS. So it’s not on Steam, it’s not on PlayStation 4. So this is an exclusive part of this collaboration.
Jon ah And when they contacted they said, hey, i was so would you like to try this out? like, well, I’m not a big coffee guy, but I do love Atari and I do have a VCS. ah But I had not gotten to playing the game until just this past week.
Jon So I plugged it in, downloaded Roasty Buds. And I honestly, look, it’s a promotional thing. In my head, I’m thinking, ah what the Chester Cheetah video game, Cool Spot, the 7-Up silly game or whatever.
George Like Cool Spot?
George Yeah.
Jon So it’s not that I prejudged this. I just didn’t expect a lot out of a game that’s a promotion for coffee, right? I’m pleased to tell you that my expectations were far outstripped by the cool performance of this little game.
Jon First of all, it’s ah it’s in the vein of kind of games we tend to like, indie style games that kind of pixel art, like the squint, they kind of could be on the NES or the Super Nintendo or something, right? They’re intentionally pixely.
Jon And the the premise of this game, it’s a level-based platformer and you play as a little coffee bean.
George Okay.
Jon Your job is to free the other coffee beans in these like puzzle warehouses that you go through. and There’s obstacles and fireballs and stuff to dodge. you know As you free each bean, they become like a lemming.
Jon They follow you wherever you go. And should you die, the next one in line becomes the one you’re controlling. The object is to get as many of the beans up to the top of the screen Along the way, you can you can pick up these little think theyre little leaves or peppers or something, and you get enough of them.
Jon You can pull a trigger and go into like bullet time so everything is really slow. You can pick up special hats to give you immunity powers. And the entire goal, you get to the top of the puzzle. How many do you save?
Jon This giant grinder comes up, and every bean jumps in and is shredded into dust. Ha ha ha!
George ah So it feels a little bit like Lemmings then.
Jon It is, except you’re controlling one of them. Whereas lemmings, you would tell them all where to go.
George Right.
Jon They’re all controlling the lead one. So kind of the lead, like what if you drove the lead lemming? Kind of like that, yeah.
George Nice. Nice.
Jon Yeah, it’s a series of puzzle games. like Right now it’s on sale. I’m planning on doing a live stream on YouTube but before too long. I was just, I hadn’t yet looked at it to know how great it was to go live. So keep an eye out. If I know what it is, I’ll give it to Mo to put in the show notes, put a link in here if it happens before this this episode is published.
Jon ah But if you have a VCS and you haven’t had like me, a good reason to turn it on. in a long time. Some some of our fans over on Discord, they use it every day. I just haven’t because there was no reason to.
Jon This is exclusive. You can only play this on your VCS.
George Yeah.
Jon ah Yeah. So if you log in, you should check this out. Roasty Buds, a special brew, part all part of the Atari Roasty Buds Coffee collaboration. All right. George, how about you? What have you been playing in games?
George ah Well, I play in a game that’s not an exclusive to any platform. I believe it’s on all the majors, including PC, where I played it through the Epic Store, thanks to a free giveaway, I think through Amazon Prime, because I certainly would never have paid um any money for a game these days.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George I’ve got too many damn games that I don’t play as it is, so I’m not into buying games unless there’s a super special reason.
Jon Yep.
George This game, um um might have paid for Had I heard about it and had I had time to play it when it came out. So game’s been out for a little while.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George I can’t even remember the date at this point, but it’s called World War Z Aftermath.
Jon don’t like the movie World War Z, kind of.
George And so the movie World War Z, yeah, well, originally book, but yes, the movie as well.
Jon Okay. Right, right, right. Yeah, that’ll read.
George um Yeah, that should be your new Tekken toy. ah Anyway,
George um this is essentially a horde shooter, as they call them, um in the same vein and style as Left 4 Dead. You get four characters on your team,
Jon Oh, there you go.
George Right.
Jon Oh.
George That’s the thing that you love.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George I know i do as well.
Jon Oh, yeah.
George um But it has a ah extra element as everything has to these days. It has this whole ah team mode as well, where you can log on and play online ah with other people on your team and against a whole nother team.
George So there are zombies that are chasing everyone, but at the same time, you’re fighting against another team too.
Jon Oh. Mm-hmm.
George I tried that for about five minutes and realized, yeah, I’m about 30 years too old for that shit.
Jon Oh.
George because I literally died seven times in under three minutes. It was just like pop, pop, pop, pop. I was just dead every time. So I am not skillful enough to play in those arenas anymore.
Jon They had your number.
George um But the Left 4 Dead part has co-op where you can play online with friends and you can invite them to your room. So it’s remote co-op ah or you can play with three computer driven characters, which I did to test out the game for this podcast.
Jon Yep.
George It’s a fun little game as long as you’re willing to deal with the first load.
Jon Oh.
Jon The first.
George So the first time I installed the game through the Epic store, no problem, it installed in a relatively decent amount of time.
Jon ah
George I went to load the game, start the game for the first time, and it did this load screen where it said it was like optimizing shaders and all this bullshit that you know is probably…
Jon Oh, yeah. ah
George That took literally 20 minutes.
Jon Yeah, I’ve seen that before.
George i had I had not experienced that before, so I was kind of irritated by that.
Jon Yeah.
George Then, when the game finally did load, all the online stuff was not accessible. It kept saying, sorry, can’t log into blah blah blah servers or something, and I’m like,
George okay, well, you didn’t tell me what to do. You didn’t show me anything to do. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this? All right. So I played just local co-op with a couple of ah the computer generated character kind of guys that were on my team.
Jon Right. Yeah.
George And it was fun. It was, it was serviceable, had neat little tools, great environments, way more environments than say a left for dead or left for dead to, or even blood for dead or whatever the hell that thing was.
Jon back for blood
George um Back for blood. There you go
Jon blood Blood for dead. That’s a pretty good name.
George So,
Jon It’s good. Yeah, it’d work.
George Right?
Jon Oh.
George so new That’s a new title I’m working on. So it was really fun, but I was very irritated at the online component not being there. Now, you know, i got through to it because I said i died, you know, seven times in three minutes or whatever.
George um Turned out that the game has to go through your firewall. And the little prompt that needed access to go through my firewall was behind the game window.
Jon oh
Jon Was behind it. Oh, yeah. i’ve
George So I didn’t see it until I was closing it down.
Jon yeah I’ve done that to myself before.
George And so then I said, yes, of course, allow yourself to go through the firewall.
Jon Right.
George Then the game, not only.
Jon And now you’re like, I apologize, World War Z, for all the shitty things I was saying about you under my breath.
George Well, no, I’m not apologizing. They should have made sure that that fucking thing went to the front of the, that’s an easy programming thing.
Jon Oh, no. Oh, all right. They.
George That’s their fault, not mine. Uh, but anyway, ah so I loaded it the second time and number one, no more 20 minute load time.
Jon Okay.
George It loaded right up to the menu, which was great.
Jon Right.
George And then I got to play it. So I started to wonder, I was like, did they do all that shit just to make me appreciate it when it loaded fastly? Like, like, like, was that to set expectations so low that everything will look great in comparison afterwards?
Jon nefarious.
George But It is a fun game.
Jon ah nefarious
George Yeah, I think it’s like 30 or 40 bucks though. So, you know, catch it when it’s on sale. I think I mentioned it to you and you said it was like 10 bucks somewhere or something at the time you were looking at it.
Jon Yeah, I looked on is There Any Deal? And there was some store at the time that you can never be sure of these go up and down. and When I looked the other day, it was worth 10.
George Hmm.
Jon And I was kind of asking you to kind of gauge it. Like, do you think it has the value of like 10 bucks? Maybe?
George i see I think it’s an easy buy at 5 or 9, 10.
Jon Right.
George Yeah, probably. um Not 15 or 20, though, I don’t think.
Jon Right. Okay.
George If you’ve got a 10 spot to throw at it, yeah, as long as somebody else you know has the game.
Jon To play with. Yes, it’s not all computers.
George Yeah.
Jon Because we played the living crap out of Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 back on the old 360 days.
George Mm-hmm.
Jon And so like having something new like that, that’s, you know hop in, hop out, kind of cooperative thing, that can be a lot of fun.
George Right.
George Yeah, I think it’ll be fun.
Jon right.
George So those who are on our Discord channel, genxgrownup.com slash Discord, who might want to get together and play some World War Z, Left 4 Dead kind of combat, I’m down for it.
Jon Double zing.
George I have the game now. I just have to add you as a friend somehow in that world. i don’t know.
Jon Wow.
George ah
Jon You’re be George’s friend.
George Figure it out.
Jon Finally.
George Yeah.
Jon ah Cool.
George But it it’s a good little bloodbath horde shooter game.
Jon All right. I’ll check it out.
Jon Lovely. All right. Last segment.
George All right.
Jon Here we go. Oh, yeah.
George So the the next backtrack, it this is the thing where we’re talking about 800 numbers, calling cards, that kind of shit, right?
Jon Yep. Yeah. Freaking.
George Okay. All
Jon of Yeah. 976 stuff. And just, yeah.
George right.
Jon Goofy.
George right.
Jon All right. Still no Mo. and We thought maybe he would show up midway through, maybe make a surprise appearance. No, still just me and George. So we are going to wrap up the show. We’re going to wait for him anymore. We’re just going to finish it up. ah you know you’re In this last segment, but you always, you know, we always like to take a moment to talk about the things we’re looking at now, looking forward to between now and the next time we get together.
Jon And I’ll start it off this time. i Usually pitch to Mo here, but I’ll start at this time. ah The first thing is a new film coming March 14th to theaters called Nova Kane. This is with ah Jack Quaid.
Jon And basically he’s guy who cannot feel pain. And so he ends up fighting a bunch of bad guys to save a girlfriend. It looks like a lot of fun. So ah the next thing I’m probably, I know I’m looking forward to prematurely, but they haven’t given us a solid date. What I do know is sometime in 2025, there is a new podcast adjacent audio fiction coming officially from Star Trek called Star Trek Khan.
Jon This is what evolved from, they were going to do this mini series called Star Trek City Alpha that covered the time between Space Seed and Wrath of Khan.
George Right.
Jon Well, that died. but it was resurrected as an audio fiction, multi-episode podcast presentation. It’s been entirely recorded. Post-production’s done.
Jon It releases sometime in 2025. They’re not saying when, but I’m, yeah I’m imagining, you know, full sound effects and music and they have a professional cast.
George Ooh.
George Shit. They might get me to listen to podcasts again.
Jon It’s not just like a reading a book, right? Right. This one doesn’t do it, but that one might. So yeah, I think you will. Yeah. ah The thing I’m looking forward to most and that I actually have concrete date for is March 7th. There’s a new film called Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson, where he’s apparently from the trailer.
Jon The trailer looks so good. I’ve stopped researching, but apparently he’s multiple clones of himself named Mickey one, two, three, four, all up to 17. And it’s it’s one of those like madcap,
Jon out of left field, kind of weird looking art house films that looks so good. And Robert Pattinson has done so great as Batman ever since his twilight days. He’s only um stepped up my respect for him in terms of the films he does.
Jon So yeah, Mickey 17, March 7th. I’m looking forward to that the most, George, how about you? What do you got? You’re looking forward to.
George A couple of that are already on your list. Novocaine, of course. I’m looking forward to that as well.
Jon Yeah.
George Love me an offbeat superhero kind of film.
Jon Yep.
George Those are always fun. It feels like it might be in the kick-ass vein, but a little bit more serious, which will be nice.
Jon Sure.
Jon Yes.
George Mickey17, you say it’s Robert Pattinson. I swear i saw Dom Hall, whatever that guy’s name is, um who was the older a brother from the Harry Potter films.
George I thought it was him in that role, but you’re yeah I’m sure you’re 100% right and I’m wrong, but… uh, either way that the premise of that movie looks tremendous.
Jon Huh.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George It looks really fun. And, I love that kind of thing.
Jon Yeah, it looks funny. Yeah.
George Uh, the thing I’m looking forward to the most though, is something that will have aired a couple of days before this podcast drops, but I haven’t gotten to see it yet. So that’s I’m still looking forward. Uh, daredevil born again, season one.
Jon Oh, yeah.
George Now this is the new, ah Disney plus version of the great Netflix series.
Jon hmm. Mm
George It had like three, seasons, maybe three, four, three seasons, I think. Back on the old Netflix days when they had Marvel on Netflix, we had
Jon hmm. Right. Yeah.
George uh, Daredevil. We had Iron Fist. We had Power Man. had Jessica Jones. We had the Defenders.
Jon hmm.
George We even had Punisher. A lot of the characters from those series are already, ah known to be in this. We’ve got Kingpin again.
Jon Oh, really? Okay.
George Um, we, we saw Punisher up on stage at the Disney plus conference and everything.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George so there’s going to be a lot of great, uh, people coming back to that series.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George i I can’t wait. That’s on March 4th on Disney+, plus the day after my birthday. So i am I’m going to have a really good birthday-long celebration there watching some ah Daredevil for sure.
Jon No. There we go.
Jon Yeah. Isn’t that, isn’t Vincent D’Onofrio? Is that the guy who’s kingpin? Is that right?
George He plays Kingpin, yeah, absolutely.
Jon If I’m remembering correctly?
George Absolutely.
Jon Oh, he’s terrifying. He’s just such, he’s so ominous in that role. It’s yeah. Yeah. i might have to check this out.
George I mean, anytime you get a Marine who goes crazy and blows his you know instructor away from one movie and then he becomes Kingpin 20 years later, it’s a great path.
Jon Right. And Edgar bug in the men in black. That was great role that he had.
George Right, yes.
Jon Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. There’s a lot of good stuff. A lot of good films, lot of good stuff coming out and, and even more on the horizon stuff that I almost pulled back. I’m like, no, save it for the next episode. So we’ll have plenty to talk about before we jump out of this show. Uh, as I like to hear at the end, before we leave, I want to thank some more folks who have added their, their,
Jon I want to thank some more folks who’ve thrown their hat into the ring to support us financially over on Patreon. And these are folks that have set up a regular monthly pledge. Could be as little as a dollar a month, a $5 a month, whatever you can do to help us keep the show on the air, to keep YouTube videos coming, the quality content we provide you on the website as well.
Jon And it cannot be done without the support of these generous patrons. And I want to welcome two new patrons this week. Power Driven, super fan over on Discord. he He had not joined us yet. He was waiting until he was financially in a position where he could, and he jumped right in with both feet. Thank you, Power Driven.
Jon And Brian J. ah Brian, he supports me over on my vlog quite frequently. He’s commenting on every video. I know he’s a podcast listener, and he also…
Jon jumped in, headed over to patreon.com slash Gen X grown up, opened up his wallet and his heart and said, I want to support what you guys do, especially George and John Mo. Not so much because he’s not here, but we do.
George No, he’s never there.
Jon Thank you. Power driven. Thank you, Brian J. We so, so much appreciate you. That’s going to wrap it up for this edition of the Gen X grown up podcast. Don’t worry though. If you were worried, don’t worry. We’ll be back in two weeks with another episode. And next week, we’ll, Well, that’s our backtrack where we pick a single nostalgic topic and dig in deep.
Jon George, would you do the honors and let the fourth listener know what’s coming their way next Thursday on the backtrack?
George Absolutely. It’s time to get out your WCI calling card, dial some 900 numbers and do some phone freaking because we’re going back to the Gen X era of phone fun, ladies and gentlemen. hundred percent 100%. We’re going to talk all about the crazy stuff you used to be able to do with phones that people have forgotten or don’t know how to do anymore. Maybe aren’t available. Stuff like…
Jon Or don’t need to do.
George uh, star.
Jon Hmm.
George Yeah. Like calling some people back, you know, automatically with the star six, nine or seven, two or whatever. Fuck it. Well, I don’t remember, but doesn’t matter. We’re going figure it out. We’ll bring all the information to you is the way we can do it.
Jon We’ll remember what it is before next week.
George It’s or not either way.
Jon ah or other way
George It’ll be a fun podcast.
Jon It will be.
George Yeah.
Jon That’s going your way this Thursday. we hope you’ll and Mo will be back. He’ll be back. So if yeah I’m excited, look, some of us here are excited to have Mo back.
George ah
George Maybe we might get such a response from this podcast.
Jon Oh,
George We might not need Mo anymore. That’s all I’m i’m just saying.
Jon oh
George He might just go off to his, you know, his sugar mama and never come back.
Jon Poor Moe. Poor Moe. We’ll all be back next Thursday.
Jon I hope you’ll join us for that episode. Until then, I am John. George, thank you so much for being here.
George Yes, sir.
Jon Fourth listener, you… i don’t know how to end the show. Fourth listener, we appreciate you most of all. Well, sorry. Moe, we appreciate you. You betcha. Always fun, man. And fourth listener, it’s you. appreciate most of all. We can’t wait to talk to you again next time.
Jon Bye-bye.
George See you guys. Take care, everybody.
Jon Take 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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