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We watch the latest episodes from a video game classic turned small-screen series, marvel at the precision technology packed into a cheap measuring gadget and play the remastered edition of a nearly 20-year-old Bethesda RPG that promises to breathe new life into the established title.

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Jon Welcome back, Gen X Grown Up Podcast listeners to this episode 190 of the Gen X Grown Up Podcast. I’m John. Joining me as always, of course, is George. Hey, man.
Jon Of course, it would not be a show without Mo.
George Hey, how’s it going, guys?
Jon How you doing, Mo?
Mo Hey, how’s it going, everybody?
Jon In this episode, we watch the latest episodes from a video game classic turned small screen series, marvel at the precision technology packed into a cheap measuring gadget, and play the remastered edition of a nearly 20-year-old Bethesda RPG that promises to breathe new life into the established title.
Jon We’ll have those topics and many more are coming up in this week’s episode. Before we do that, though, it is time for some fourth listener email. And look, there’s the three of us. We’re liable to listen. If anyone else does, you are the fourth listener.
Jon And the fourth listener for this episode is Earl Woods. Now, he dropped us a line as a YouTube comment on the Breakfast Club backtrack that we cross-posted over there.
Mo Oh, okay.
Jon That’s been a couple months ago since we did that. It was the 40th anniversary of that thing, or 45, something like that.
Mo 40th.
Jon yeah for you ah Earl says, listen to this while playing the newest Civilization, which I mentioned only because I started with the original Civilization on my Atari ST just to bolster my Gen X cred.
Jon You’ve done it. On the other hand, even though I was in high school when The Breakfast Club was released, I missed it not only in theaters, but never caught up with it on home video in the 80s, 90s, the aughts or teens.
Jon It was just a couple of years ago.
Mo Wow.
Jon yeah just a couple of years ago, in fact, when the movie came out on the Criterion Collection that I finally screened the film. And you guys give me crap for not seeing classics, but at least I’d seen The Breakfast Club.
George Goonies.
Mo that’s a Goonies. Yep.
Jon all right all right, I want to open that door. Let’s move on. So, yeah, world goes on to say, and it rocked me back on my heels. It made me wonder how my life might have turned out differently if I’d seen it during its original release when I was 16 years old.
Jon I had all that angst embodied in those characters, and I wonder if seeing the film back then might have helped me weather the last couple of years of grade school up. A little better. Oh, man.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Yeah.
Mo to
Jon ah We all talked about how we relate to the different characters and maybe all of it different times. And yeah, missing it.
Mo yeah
George I think he was going to have problems anyway.
Jon You think you think Earl’s gonna have problems either way?
George He was 16 years old and in grade school, there were some issues going on.
Jon Maybe his grade school means the numbers up through 12. I don’t know. youre you i We won’t judge Earl. I don’t know. He goes on to say, in any event, fantastic discussion of the film’s qualities. And thanks for revealing some really interesting trivia about the production.
Jon And he ends it with not words, but he says, raises clenched fist.
Mo Cool.
Jon Very cool, Earl. We’re happy that, well, first, happy that you finally got that behind you and you saw it. It’s, ah I’m not going to give you any grief because I get plenty of grief for not seeing stuff, but we’re glad you saw it. We’re glad you enjoyed the episode and happy that you wrote in to tell us how you felt about it.
Jon Fourth listener, if you would like your email featured here on the show, you know it is drop dead easy. all you have to do is hit us up at podcast at genxgrownup.com. We read every single email that hits our inbox. Most of them eventually make the show.
Jon All right, with that good business in the rearview mirror, it’s time to jump into the body of episode 190 after this very quick break.
Jon Take a breath. All righty. I’m going pull up because I’ll need… I can’t remember names like you guys do. I’m going talk about mine.
Jon Oh, this just popped up. So what the heck is that Predator Badland? Is that a new series coming or a movie? You guys seen that yet?
George Mm-mm.
Jon We’re to get the ball rolling as we always do, talking about media we have been enjoying lately. Now, of course, this could be film or television or books or comics or movies or music or whatever you’re into right now.
Jon And Mo, why don’t we start with you? What have you been checking out?
Mo Well, I have been watching the number one show on Netflix right now for all time. It beat out Squid Games. It’s a show called Adolescence. Have you you guys seen it yet?
George ah seen the the logo part of it and like a brief little trailer on the Netflix app.
Jon All
Mo ah Okay.
George That’s about it.
Mo um Wow, is all I got to say about this. um
Jon right.
Mo It’s four episodes, and basically it starts off with the police raiding a house and arresting a 13-year-old for murder. And this is not a spoiler at all because they do this pretty quickly.
Mo He’s guilty. You know, it’s it’s it’s it’s they they cover that right away.
Jon Oh.
Jon Okay.
Mo The unique thing about this show is that the entire episode was shot in one take.
Jon Oh, like the single cam kind of follow around.
Mo This the entire hour long each episode was done in one take.
Jon Okay.
Mo um if you get a chance, go to YouTube. They have a making of ah this thing. It’s amazing because it’s not even like they had sets. They actually use like a home. And you see the guy carrying the camera up following him and he passes the camera off to somebody who’s already in the room so he could do those shots.
Jon Hmm.
Mo And then, you know, they have to pass it out a window for this person and they move the camera to… But they do it so seamlessly though. The one shot that… you don’t notice that it’s one shot film. Like you don’t like your brain doesn’t even pick up this.
Mo So one continuous shot like, you know, those movies that did it. There’s a couple of movies like that. World War was at 19, whatever that World War 1917.
George 1917, but that didn’t do it in one shot.
Mo No, but but the fact that it was kind of like it looked like it was supposed to be one shot, like was very obvious that they wanted to call attention at.
Jon Yeah.
Mo Oh, look, you know, this is one, you know.
Jon Right. Look, no cuts, right?
Mo Right.
Jon Or no parent cuts.
Mo No cuts.
Jon Yeah.
Mo um This one, though, was um you after you notice it at the beginning, but then after your brain just stops, it’s just like you’re you’re like following a story through the whole thing, you know, to the kid getting put in the car, to the police station, to him getting processed.
Jon Hmm.
Mo And so each episode starts and stops at in real time, in a sense.
Jon Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Mo um Each episode jumps in time, you know, different phases of this whole ordeal. But the way it was filmed, though, makes it so real that you at the end, you’re just like, whoa. Yeah.
Mo You know, you start looking at the parents and what the parents are going through. You look at the school, what they’re going through, the kid himself. You know, the whole thing is just it’s extremely, is very intense. um I heard that in Great Britain, they’re actually making this required viewing for students.
Jon Jeez. Is that where the story takes place?
Mo Because it goes… Yes. ah Yes.
Jon Okay.
Mo this is It takes place in ah London, England, somewhere. that’s going where um It’s very, ah like, it goes to things like bullying and, know, incel stuff. stuff and yeah all this all these things about the kid goes into motivations, why he did it and all that stuff, you know.
Mo And the dad is ah Stephen Graham. you If you saw him, you totally know who he is. ah He was in Snatched.
Jon Okay.
Mo He was Statham’s, like, partner. Like, the little guy, part friend that grabbed the dog and so, yeah.
George Yeah, young white guy usually wears a mustache. Snatched was his first role, I think.
Mo Oh, yep. I believe he was actually even one of the writers on it. But man, let me tell you, the me and John had this conversation. God, tell you how old this was when The Sixth Sense first came out.
Mo ah And I remember, John, you were sitting there and you were like almost upset. You’re like, that kid actor was amazing in Sixth Sense. How do all these movies get these crappy kid actors or child actors, right?
Jon Yeah. Right.
Mo when And let me tell you, the actor the kid actor in this one, phenomenal.
Jon Hmm.
Mo Phenomenal.
Jon Well, it wasn’t long ago, George, you were watching something. It wasn’t one cut, one take, but it was also real time that you recently watched.
George The pit maybe.
Jon What were talking about?
Mo It was probably the pit, I think.
Jon The pit. That’s right. The the doctor thing, right?
George Yeah.
Jon What if that’s a trend?
George Mm-hmm.
Jon Like they’re picking up the 24 thing. Like, oh, let’s, it certainly adds a level of immediacy, I guess, to the show. Yeah.
Mo its It just made it seem very real. Like you’ were sitting there watching a thing unfold.
Jon Gotcha.
Mo And let me tell you, if you get, I said, seriously, you should well I’ll put a link in there also to the ah the YouTube video that shows like the making of it.
Jon Gotcha.
Mo But they had a scene, I’d say at the end, where it starts at the end of the school. And then it has to go up in the air over a street to the site where the girl was killed.
Jon Those are tricks.
Mo And they show how the guy was holding the camera.
Jon Yeah.
Mo He’s holding it. They attach a drone to it.
Jon Sure. And off it goes.
Mo And then he lets go and the drone takes the camera off to do the scene at the other location. mean, it was technically, I think it was really, really interesting. But just from a story, you feel for this.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo um You feel for the dad. You feel for the parent.
Jon Okay.
Mo I mean, imagine if your kid did something like this.
Jon Sounds good.
Mo And how would you feel as a parent? Like, you know you did everything you were supposed to do. is it your fault? Is it not your, you know, people telling you it’s not your fault, but you’re parent.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo Of course you can think it’s your fault, right? It is super intense, super good.
Jon Yeah.
Mo Not necessarily a feel good show, but any stretch of the imagination. But it definitely, definitely will with your time. And if it doesn’t do a bunch, of do really well the awards, I would be shocked.
Jon Hmm. Okay.
Mo So, yeah, absolutely.
Jon um I want to see it. Sounds good.
Mo So hopefully you have something little lighter, John.
Jon Yeah, probably.
Jon Yeah, I picked up on, there was a film I kind of wanted to see in the theater, but I didn’t get around to it. But now that it hits streaming, I checked out Locked, L-O-C-K-E-D.
Mo Okay.
Jon Now, if you saw the trailer, you’ll remember it right away. This is a guy breaks into a car, gets in a SUV that’s unlocked, and then he can’t get out. And he’s being tortured by the owner of the car somehow, trying to be punished for what he is.
Mo Oh, yeah, yeah.
Jon And So the guy, the kid in the car, he’s a kid, ah Bill Skarsgård. So Skarsgård are taking over Hollywood lately, all those brothers.
Mo you
Jon um He’s the kid who is, he’s he’s kind of a loser drifter guy, but with good heart. He has a daughter he doesn’t take care of very well. He’s divorced and he kind of he needs money to get his van out of Hawk. Anyways, he’s walking around town trying to find ways to scam money and he,
Jon tries to open this car door and it’s open and it’s this really slick looking suv and he gets into it he looks around can’t find anything to steal and he goes to leave and he can’t the phone rings and the guy on the other end of the phone that owns the car is played by anthony hopkins now i thought he was done being in movies but he’s got to be 80 90 now he’s
Mo Wow. I thought so too.
Mo ah she’s She’s definitely up there.
George Yeah.
Jon He’s a relic. So the premise of this movie is way better than the movie. And it’s not that it’s not well acted and it is, and it’s not that it’s not, you know, an interesting premise and it is,
Jon the The problem I had with it is it’s great for streaming, by the way. I would never recommend somebody pay money to go see it because you don’t need the big screen. It’s claustrophobic. I would say 95% of the film happens inside of this little SUV.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon Right. So there’s not much now how they shot. That would be interesting to see. you know, how do you get all these camera angles? But literally the premise is the older guy played by Hopkins, he has had things in his life where he really hates the criminal element. He’s like in the 1%, he’s a super rich guy, that’s how we afford to make this armored car that you can’t get out of, this bulletproof glass, soundproof and everything.
Jon And he literally, it’s like a mousetrap. He set it to catch someone, to have someone to punish for the things in his life that he’s unhappy with the way they did, or bad guys did things, or someone in his life was hurt. I won’t ruin it, because it is worth seeing. It’s not a bad movie, but it’s also…
Jon Let’s say in the like like the the third act of the film where things ramp up and something is coming to a head, it just gets so preachy and so like trying to make a moral and trying to trying to be philosophical.
Mo Hmm. Mm-hmm.
Jon like This guy, for being a loser, he’s incredibly well-read. you know Have you read The Art of War? Have you read Peace? He’s… they’re having like this really intellectual conversation that makes me wonder how did he end up here? If he’s so smart, he probably could have done something else.
Jon So it ends up. And then finally the end is so crazy as to be unbelievable to be like, that’s how you’re going to end what you started as an interesting premise kind of went around the corner and got a little unbelievable. And then really what kind of jumped the shark at the end to do some really bananas things.
Jon So I’m going to recommend it with an asterisk. I think it’s it’s an interesting film as this kind of, you know, limited cast, like you maybe see five actors in the whole thing. And mostly it’s Bill Skarsgård the whole way through.
Jon Uh, it’s, it’s good to watch on a, just watch it one time. It reminds me, George, you talked about the, um, uh, what was the, the Marky Mark when, where they’re in a plane, uh, ah
George Oh, yeah. I can’t remember the name of it because I didn’t care that much about it, but yeah.
Jon ah Yeah, whatever whatever that movie was, that the airplane one. Just like, i would not have enjoyed seeing that in the theater, but it is a fun just afternoon watch for streaming. It’s one of those kind of things. so I’m glad I actually missed it in the theater.
Jon So when you have a rainy afternoon, you could do worse than locked.
Mo if
Jon Just don’t go into it thinking it’s going to be what I was hoping it was, was like a changing, genre changing thing. It’s not that, it’s just okay. And you get to see Anthony Hopkins again, in the flesh. i thought he was going to be voice only.
Jon You actually get to see him, so.
Mo Okay.
Jon Yeah, it’s all right. just And certainly more cheerful than adolescence. Like said, barely, just by a little bit.
Mo Yes.
Jon All right, George, around this out, what have you been watching lately?
George Yeah, so I picked up on season two of ah Last of Us, which came out a couple of weeks ago. And oh i sat down with my wife and son to watch this because my son and i had gotten really in into season one.
Mo Sure.
George And immediately when the episode started, i realized it’s been two fucking years since season one. And i didn’t remember anything, hardly at all, of the details of what happened in season one, especially toward the end.
Jon In real time?
Mo Yeah.
Jon Wow. Oh. Hmm.
George And they didn’t help you with any here’s what happened last time kind of stuff.
Mo No.
George So we actually had to pause the episode, go to YouTube, and find a recap for season one.
Jon Yeah.
George However…
Jon Those are nice.
George what was really irritating was it was a recap from the channel that airs last of us. I’m like, why not just put this at the front of the goddamn episode?
Jon but right Alright, episode zero. Right at the front of, right?
George i mean, no, je it was literally like two, three minutes.
Jon So you can see it. It makes sense.
George You could have put it in episode one and everybody would have been perfectly fine and happy with it.
Jon Oh, really?
Mo the
Jon Yeah.
George You wouldn’t have made me go outside of the episode. It almost made me not watch the fucking episode at that point.
Jon Oh.
George Cause I was kind of pissed. Uh, After I got over that, we decided to go ahead watch episode one. We liked it. It was fun. it was good. It brought you back into the world right away. And of course, you can see some things that are going to propagate throughout the entire season that they um give you a little snippets and hints at here and there.
George ah The girl has grown up. I will… give you a slight spoiler, although it shouldn’t be terribly ah big spoiler. I think they kind of had to do it because of the, a, the games, even though I understand that season two is going to go off on a different path from the games themselves.
Mo Yeah.
George Uh, the girl and the guy it’s five years now from the end of season one.
Jon Oh.
George So they’re five years further into the future.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo Yeah. Mm-hmm.
George uh, That does help because you can see that ah she’s aged, and I think it would have been weird if there wasn’t some kind of time jump. I know it’s only been two years, but I think um it does help at least make that feel a little bit more realistic in my mind.
George ah The new characters where they’re living at in Wyoming with his brother and the townspeople and everything… They introduce them back again to the story. um There is a really ah interesting character played by Catherine Moriarty, I think is her last name, the mother from ah Home Alone.
Jon Oh, sure.
George Yeah, so she plays the wife of a man that ah Pedro Pascal’s character had to kill in season one near the end of the series, and she’s now his therapist.
Mo so Yeah. yeah
Jon Ooh.
Mo Yeah.
Jon That’s twisted.
George Yeah, yeah, and she lays it all out in Front Street in the session that they have in the episode.
Mo Yeah.
Jon that’ certain
George ah The girl and Pedro Pascal, they are at odds right now because she’s an 18, 19-year-old girl. She’s rebelling against him, as teenage girls often do with their fathers.
George But there’s also an element of his guilt because he doesn’t necessarily tell her all the truth about the fireflies, and they come back into the picture in this episode. So there’s a lot going on.
George It’s a very deep ah series. i If you don’t go watch that catch-you-up thing on YouTube, you kind of almost have to go back and watch at least the last few episodes of season one.
Jon Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Jon yeah
George Otherwise, you’re probably going to have a hard time catching up. It’s a good story without that, but you kind of really need it.
Jon That’s kind of the nature of of so much streaming television these days. but Now, I know this has been a little bit of an exaggerated break because we had the SAG after strike and the writer’s strike and everything between the last season of so many things and this season of them.
Jon But it’s not uncommon. I mean, even starting with like Sopranos, like I feel like even those had longer gaps and used to be what you’d watch 26 episodes and it’d be like the summer off 8, 12 weeks and you’re right back into it.
Jon So you remembered it.
Mo Yeah.
Jon We didn’t forget that Captain Picard got assimilated. That was easy to remember, right?
Mo Sorry, Trey.
Jon It was it was just a couple months ago.
George Well, it was it was always but also easy because they said last time on Star Trek Next Generation.
Jon Last time.
Mo asartra
Jon That’s right. That’s right on top of that.
George so
Jon Yeah, they I get that maybe they want to make it seamless. Maybe they’re thinking, well, that’s that’s only a problem for the people watching it in your real time. The people that watch this binge it in two years, they’re going to watch it all.
Jon But there’s no harm in putting something there to skip. It’d be nice to have a refresher.
Mo Yeah.
George I mean, if yeah, if, if you’re going to binge it all, you probably binged season one already because it’s been two fucking years since season one was out.
Jon Mm-hmm. I know.
Mo yeah
Jon Yeah.
George So I don’t know how many people, i mean, there probably a few who went back and binged season one before this started.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Yeah.
George um I’m not one of them because hell, I didn’t realize when it was coming out until like a few weeks before,
Jon Couldn’t get ready.
George ah yeah It just, to me, there’s series who do this well and series who don’t do this well. They did not do this well. but
Jon Mm-hmm.
George Battlestar Galactica, the reimagining, did it perfect. Every single episode.
Jon Little recap.
George Last time on Battlestar Galactica, every single episode had that.
Mo yeah
George No matter what part of the season and or what episode. Maybe that’s overkill, but it took them literally… 30 to 60 seconds to get a viewer invested in an episode.
Jon Yeah.
Mo yeah
Jon Yeah.
Mo And yeah, I totally agree with her you’re saying. They should have done a last time on or last season on. But, you know, I’ll say one thing about Battlestar Galactica that was pre-streaming and it was episodic, you know, and people watch it week by week.
Mo So you kind of did that a little bit of reminder, like what happened last week?
Jon And they did it better.
Mo And but they did it really.
Jon Yeah.
Mo said they I think they did do an excellent job of catching you up every episode, though.
George Yeah, but there’s only a week between those episodes in most cases. There’s two years between the two episodes in this.
Jon Yeah. Yeah.
Mo Yeah, I know. That’s kind of crazy, isn’t it?
George I mean…
Jon Well, and the hell of it is they produced the thing. They just didn’t put it on the episode. Like you said, the work was done.
George That, yeah, like, if it had been somebody else’s catch-up, I’d have been like, okay, you know, they didn’t make one. But this came from Max. They made it themselves. It’s on their YouTube channel.
Jon They knew it was a problem.
George Like, okay.
Jon They just…
George Yeah. Yeah.
Jon Well, I’m definitely going to watch it. And now I’m also going to go and watch the recap before I even try. Because i don’t want to get pissed off like you were at your TV. i’m but
George Mm.
Jon I know how to enjoy it. Thank you for taking the brunt of it for us so we can just be happy.
Jon All right. That’s cool.
Mo So to kick off this week’s Tekken Toys, George, are you still going down your unraid journey?
George I journey, you know, self-torture, whatever you want to call it.
Mo Saga.
George Um, I’m definitely still involved in it. I’ve, I’ve done some, uh, a whole bunch of different configurations, dockers and everything. VMs I’m playing around with now.
George Um, i I kind of wanted to get back because I had forgotten I configured this one tool in my R compendium of applications.
George So there’s Sonar, there’s Radar, there’s Prowler, there’s all these different R’s out there that help us with our media gathering ah exploits.
Jon Oh, I
Mo Yeah. or
George um One though that I’d forgotten about, like I said, is called Bazaar, and it’s the one that grabs all of the subtitles for you.
Jon didn’t know that.
George So…
Mo Oh, right. Yeah, yeah.
George It’s a useful tool for somebody like me who, i when I watch a movie, and we’ve talked about this with Andor and other things, if there are foreign speaking parts, I want to see the subtitles to those so I can understand it I don’t want to you know turn on English subtitles that are like every subtitle thing throughout the entire.
Jon Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
George I just want to see just the foreign parts. That’s what forced subtitles are. ah Whatever the primary language is, it only shows you the subtitles in the language when that primary language is not being used.
George Bizarre allows you to configure a policy, for lack of a better term, or a profile in their nomenclature that says, okay, For everything in your movies folder, for everything in your TVs folder, or whatever you know subset of that you want to designate, go find this subtitle language profile.
George You can say English or French or German or whatever else you want, or you can say forced, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Jon Right.
George blah Well, um I did it, and I configured it for everything.
Jon Oh, is that bad?
George So, uh, it’s in the process of downloading over 7,000 subtitles
Mo Yeah,
Jon but their text, that shouldn’t be the worst thing.
Mo it looks like they’re small, but…
George right now. Um, they’re, they’re not, they’re not big. Uh, it takes a little while for it to find them, you know, cause it’s, it’s gotta, you know, go out and grab them.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo You’re right.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George It doesn’t seem to use torrent though. ah
Mo Mm-hmm.
George when you set up what you might think of as indexers in Prowlar, you set up things like Yiffy subtitles and opensubtitles.org or.com now, because the.org is a pay one that you have to sign up and pay monthly for. Anyway, you sign up for all these different um free ones or pay ones, and you add those in. So it goes out to those services, gets them directly,
George And because you tie this in with sonar and radar, it directly names them and puts them in the appropriate place in your movie or TV folder structure.
Jon Hmm.
Mo Okay.
George So it makes things a lot easier if you’re very interested in getting good subtitles for your movies that don’t have them already burned in.
Jon But…
Jon So, I didn’t know this particular… r My pirate-ass inflection there existed. Of course, I know the Prowler and the LIDAR and the Sonar and the Radar and everything that we have used to acquire media and get it positioned where it needs to be.
Jon and on a different angle, I don’t care about four subtitles myself. I’m okay because if they’re not there, I’m usually assuming they want me to not understand. Maybe it’s somebody speaking to somebody to confuse another character.
Jon So it doesn’t bother me so much, but but I understand why it does you. From another angle though, My wife is addicted to subtitles. Like she doesn’t like to watch shows unless they’re wrong.
Jon And part of it is she’s just grown accustomed to it. Part of it is her hearing is not as good as it used to be.
George Mm Sure.
Jon And so it’s not like she can hear fine, but like not as crisp as you would like, you know, maybe a little muffled.
Mo Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Mo yeah
Jon And so she finds it much more comfortable to just leave them on all the time. When we watch shows together, I turn them on for her as a courtesy.
George sure
Jon You know, i have to fight to not read them. Like I stopped, I stopped watching just read. and So I don’t, but, As you mentioned, you can, this thing allows you to not just go and get forced, but you could just get English for everything.
Jon Something, there are plenty of series that I can’t find subtitles for.
George sure
Jon Because, you know, inside of Plex, you can go click, search for subtitles, and it goes, er I can’t find any.
George Right.
Jon But having a tool like this, i don’t have to go hunt them down. I was, yeah.
George You don’t. And it will not only will it take the subtitles in whatever language you prefer and put them wherever you need them to, it will apparently actually tell Plex, if you have Plex configured this way, to just automatically turn them on.
Jon Hmm.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Turn them on. Oh, man.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Ooh.
George So you can you can go as far with this as you want.
Jon Ooh.
Jon Okay.
George ah You can configure this as much as you want. It doesn’t have an API like hook into Plex, but apparently because of the way it and Sonar and Radar and Plex are all tied together, i was just watching the other day and I was watching The Martian because The Martian is 98% English only.
Jon Yep.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon They can pass some data somewhere.
George But there is like two scenes where these Chinese…
Mo yeah
George ah astronaut expert head leader people are talking where they’re like, why didn’t they come and ask us?
Mo Oh, yeah, yeah.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George Well, our rocket is, you know, like a they don’t know that it exists and blah, blah, blah.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George You miss probably a two minute or three minute conversation that does inform the story if you don’t have four subtitles in that movie.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Gotcha. Mm-hmm.
George So this totally solved that for me. No problems. And as long as you’re willing to, you know, download 7,000 subtitles, I guess you’re good.
Mo Hmm. Hmm.
Jon I was really hoping you were going to say the scene where the Martians are talking, but you didn’t. You said the Chinese.
George No, no, no, not in that movie.
Jon So, oh, well. Oh, well.
George So it’s a, to me, it’s a good piece of tech.
Jon I’m in.
George John, I think yours is absolutely a piece of tech, but some people might consider it a toy depending upon how they’re using it, I guess.
Jon Yep.
Jon Yeah, I suppose so.
Mo he
Jon and And honestly, I’m very late to the game here and I’ll acknowledge that. So we all have 3D printers. However, you and Mo, you have been in the designing, like you make things from from scratch.
Jon And so you needed at some point long ago already, a set of calipers because you have to measure, it it’s not enough to go, it’s about five millimeters.
George Right.
Mo Sure.
Jon No, no, that won’t do. Like you need to know down to the 10th or 100th or whatever.
Mo No, you know exactly.
George right
Jon And I still haven’t really dove into that part of 3D printing. However, in collaborating with my friend, Paul, who does all the 3D design and makes all of the add-ons for all the gaming gadgets, he and I were working together and he’s like, I want to make a thing for this thing I don’t have.
Jon Can you measure it for me? And I’m like, I don’t know how. So I went, I figured at this point I ought to have a set of calipers. And so I’m thinking, well I don’t want to spend a bunch of money. don’t know expensive they are.
Jon So this was my discovery of what the hell these things, how well they work and what they do. Went on Amazon, of course, browsed around and I found a pair of digital measuring calipers, by which I mean it has ah a readout on it.
Jon ah Really nice stainless steel batteries, extra pieces to it and everything. It was like $12, $12. twelve nurse
George Yeah.
Jon twelve dollars
Mo yeah Yeah, they’re not… Like a really good one’s like 20-something for a really, really nice one.
Jon and And here’s the part where I’m excited about things that you guys are going to yeah.
George Right.
Jon And I’m like, oh, I guess they’re all kind designed like you can measure the inside of something or the outside of something based on how you put the little teeth in there and do stuff.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George Mm hmm.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George Yep.
Jon And then there was this freaking plunge tool where you set it on the end and push it down.
Mo Yeah, you see how deep it is?
George Right. right
Jon And this little needle comes out the bottom. And I’m like, what is this magic? Yeah. And then this thing that’s $12 that probably couldn’t have cost him $4 to build to sell it for that price.
Jon The precision that it has, can’t believe you can get thousands of a millimeter, Yeah. where has technology come from in the measuring space how does it ah like i can’t imagine the precision required is it just using like electrical signal like does it get magnets or is it literally a dial that’s that precise i don’t know you know you’re welcome to tell me but i was donened by i figured well i’ll get one and it’ll be a piece of crap but at least we’ll get close right No, I did it. And then when I met up with Paul at the Midwest Gaming Classic a few weeks ago, he showed up with his fancy engineers, $100 calipers. He’s like, oh, yep, measurements are all right.
Jon It was the same measurements with his expensive ones. And I really couldn’t believe that that’s that’s what you could get for such a cheap price. And it works just as well as the expensive ones. I guess the technology has just improved.
George yeah I mean, I can’t speak for the ones that Mo has, but the ones I got, I picked up for $3 because they were on one of those coupon sites where you can put in a code from that works with Amazon.
Mo Oh, okay.
Jon you
Jon Right.
George And i think they were normally like $15, but I got them for like $3 or something like that. And I’ve had them ever since. And they do every single thing that you’re talking about and they do it well. And i haven’t had any problems with any of the measurements they’ve provided me. Now I notice that…
George If you are, say, squeeze, like you’re trying to get the outer dimensions of something and you squeeze those pinchers really tightly around it, you can make that thousandth of a millimeter thing really change its number if you squeeze hard enough.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Go crazy. Yeah, I guess. Yeah.
George But there they’re solid enough that if if you’re off by a thousandth of a millimeter, you need the hundred dollar ones that your friend has.
Jon Then don’t buy the $12 calipers, frankly, right?
Mo Yeah.
George Yeah.
Mo Yeah. I mean, seriously, because I bought mine, maybe it was like $18, $19, whatever. And it’s a little bit long.
Jon Really? Yeah.
Mo It’s like usually they’re six inches. Mine was like eight inch ones, you know. But for that much, for $18, it came with two extra batteries.
George Right.
Mo I mean, it was like like not expensive at all.
Jon Yeah.
George Mm-hmm.
Jon Yeah. yeah
Mo i said And they just, it it kind of amazes me too that like, you know, I remember my dad back in the day, he had calipers, but they were like, The one had a little style on it and, you know, he had to calibrate it and, you know, it was all analog, you know, and, and his, I mean, the ones he bought back then were probably something like probably close to a hundred dollars because he needed solid calipers, but for analog, it had to be that expensive in order to work well.
George Right, yeah.
Jon Right, yeah, right.
Jon Yeah, yeah.
Mo So, you know, technology.
Jon Right. And I had to be educated on like, yeah like you said, George, don’t squeeze too hard because you can influence it because you don’t notice it’s compressing, but it’s probably squishing something too.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George Right. Yep.
Jon You don’t know. And although it has the auto off, mine had extra batteries, some accessories. I don’t know what all it had, but I was just stunned. I’m late to the party, admittedly, on this one. But it’s okay, George, you’re late to the party on Unraid.
Jon So this is my thing that i’ I’m the third of us to get.
George yep
Jon i don’t know how often I’ll use it, but the one I got, I’ll give Mo, I’ll give you a link you can put in there. If you’re even vaguely interested, these cheap ones will do pretty much what you need up until you, if you, like you said, if you need more precision, buy the expensive ones.
Mo Sure. Yeah.
Jon You’re not talking to this, talking to us about this anyway. All right, stick around.
Mo yeah
Jon We’ll be right back.
George All right, it’s time to talk about games. All three of us have something on the list. So Mo, let’s start with you. What have you been playing since the last time we talked?
Mo Yeah, so um I’m playing game, Oblivion Remastered. So Oblivion is a game that it was the Elder Scrolls series.
Jon Mm.
Mo It’s the fourth of the series called Oblivion.
Jon Yep.
Mo I… was all 100% in on this game when it came out. I played it, God knows how many thousands of hours. um So what they did was that Bethesda, the company that made it, they went and they just basically they redid all the graphics to update all to modern graphics.
Mo And they tweaked the gameplay little bit to make little bit better. But that’s about it. You know, um I saw it.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo It’s and it’s it’s going for 40 bucks. I mean, it’s not it’s going for like a premium price point to.
Jon That’s like new price. Well, almost new.
Mo Yeah, pretty much. Oh, little new games now like 70.
Jon I guess, yeah.
Mo Ridiculous. But still, but 40 bucks is still a lot. I got it because I love this game so much.
Jon Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Mo And I started playing with it. And i like say I know two hours it passed.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo I mean, it. it just It just shows me like how… you know And I’ve just been playing the latest Assassin’s Creed on top of it, right? So I’m doing a different like direct comparison between the two.
Jon Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Mo And I can tell you it’s like the the things that made Oblivion a great game… or the same things that, you know, Assassin’s Creed is doing now. They did it first. Like, okay, so maybe it didn’t have like, you know, you have 20 people walking around in this town. You have like four or something like that, you know, or they do things like that. But the story elements, the gameplay, the sucking you into the characters, it’s all there.
Jon i don’t play pa I know people that still play ah but Oblivion, the original one.
Mo Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Jon Yeah, almost 20 years on. ah You had mentioned, and I wonder if you can put you on the spot here, you mentioned they had changed the gameplay somewhat. And you play the old one and the new one.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon I wonder if you had like an example or two of what they did. I’m guessing it’s like quality of life things or modern mechanics. What what kind of things did they change outside of just a reskin?
Mo um The stuff, I mean, is really small, actually. They said it was things like the um the gameplay as far as like the smooth, the controllers. ah You can use your full user controller now for this one, which when I play back in the day, I used a keyboard, although it did come out for the Xbox way back when.
Jon Okay.
Jon Okay.
Mo um Besides that, know, I’m not really sure. I can’t really tell you. I haven’t really seen anything that’s that different. You know, like said, like the bad guys are not as smart as modern games.
Jon Okay.
Mo You know, like, you the modern game ones, you know, they’re hunting for you.
Jon Yeah.
Mo They’ll hunt around stuff.
Jon Older AI. Yeah.
Mo This one, they pretty much just charge at you, you know, things like that, which is fine.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo Let’s show you, though, it’s sold. I forget how it is but like one of the top sellers right now on Steam, which is kind of crazy.
Jon Yeah.
Mo You think about it you know, and everyone’s wondering, it’s like, you know, if you come up with a really good game and really the only thing that really needs to change is the graphics.
Jon For ancient game.
Jon Yeah, I guess.
Mo ah Why not? you know Make couple extra bucks on it. So yeah, I definitely see me going back to this thing and playing it playing it all the way through again. Because like said, it still the storyline still pulls you right into it like it did back in the day. just the graphics are better.
Jon And you know what will spoil you? You can never go back to the first one now.
Mo I know.
Jon Because you remember it as pretty as you’re playing the new one, but if you go back and watch the old one, it’s going to like shit. You’re like, I can’t.
Mo It’s going look like crap.
Jon but How did I ever play this?
Mo I know how I got to it. But yeah, definitely.
Jon Yeah.
Mo If you’re a fan of the original game, definitely worth the time and the money, in my opinion.
Jon Okay. All right.
Mo So how about you, John? What are you playing?
Jon I have been playing casually, which is the best kind of game to recommend to old people because it’s not hours and hours to invest.
Mo Hmm.
Jon A game that my daughter gifted to me. I think it’s like $4 if you want to buy it. It’s called Buckshot Roulette. Now, it’s ah literally you play through the whole game in 15 minutes, but it’s designed to play again and again and again.
Jon So it’s really interesting kind of hard to explain art style.
Mo Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jon It’s a little bit ancient. Oh, you know what it looks like? It looks a little bit like a if you rezzed up, Another World. You know how it was kind of cel-shaded a little bit and kind of grainy, pixely textures?
Mo yeah
Jon It’s not like super pixely like that, but like ah kind of doubled up from that. Not super smooth, but it’s designed to look gritty and grainy like it’s maybe shot through an old camera or something. The premise is super simple.
Jon You wake up like you’ve been captured and brought into this Roulette game where you and this evil guy across the table from you are presented with a shotgun, some tools that you can use, and you gotta pick up the shotgun and either shoot at your opponent or shoot at yourself.
Jon It’s up to you.
Mo Oh, okay. Roulette. Got it.
Jon It’s roulette right with a shotgun.
Mo With a shotgun.
Jon Every level. ah Yeah. Yeah.
Mo Seems like you’re always losing that one, but go ahead.
Jon every Every level. They open up this little chest. It’s really dramatic. They open up with this little thing and show you the shells are going to put in either red shells that are live or gray shells that are null or they’re bad.
Jon So they you load up a certain number of shells. You have to remember to nobody’s keeping track for you. i’m like, OK, there’s two good ones and three bad ones. And in the beginning, you’re just kind of like taking your best guess and you’re like, well, I’ll shoot at you or me and try.
Jon But once you get the second round, they start giving you presents that you can use, these tools, like a magnifying glass that you can spend to see what the shell is next in the chamber. So like if it’s a dud, there’s a special rule. If you shoot yourself and don’t die, you get a free second turn.
Mo it’s Okay.
George Bye.
Jon Right, so you know what the next next one is, but you know what the next one is. There might be a cigarette you could smoke, and it I think it gives you back a health point. There might be a, ah there’s handcuffs that you can bolt onto your opponent to make him lose a turn.
Jon There’s all these modifiers that you can add on. But it’s a it is roulette, it’s Russian roulette, but it’s a smart person’s Russian roulette that you’re playing against this evil bad guy across the table. And toward the end, you get more hit points and more twists are thrown in there.
Jon For $4, it’s just such an easy thing to play. And yeah, it has online multiplayer. You can hook up with a friend.
Mo Oh, geez
Jon You can host it. George, you could join me. Or Mo, you could join me. And we could be the ones sitting across the table from one another. And it’s a mind game. Just like Russian Roulette is anyway. or It’s this mind game. Like, okay, well, you looked in the chamber, but you didn’t choose to shoot yourself. So you know it was. So what’s the other one must be?
Jon What are the odds now? There are all these sorts of things. And the thing I like most, not the thing I like most about, I like the game a lot. One of the things I like a lot, a lot, one of the things I like so much about it is that it’s so quick to play.
Jon When you finish, you either, you lost, if you win, they open up this big chest of money, like you won a whole bunch of money for what you did. Or if you lose, you’re dead and you got to try again. And it’s one of those you could pick up and play just because I have 10 or 15 minutes to play a game. And I feel like trying it out without having to make a huge commitment.
Jon And it has replayability.
Mo What platform is this on?
Jon I’m playing it on Steam. I don’t know where all it is. It’s $4 on Steam right now. I honestly didn’t look. It’s by a company called Critical Reflex, and they have a number of…
Mo Hmm.
Jon They tend to do this art style of game and a number of different ones like it, but this is the one… know where my daughter found it, but when she found it, she’s like, you’ve got to play this. I’m sending it to you. So I downloaded it. It took a few weeks before I got around to it, but she was right.
Jon It is fun. So… If you’re looking for something small to play that’s easy to get into into and out of or play with a friend, do Buckshot Roulette. You could do worse. All right, George, how about you? What have you been playing?
George Yeah, so I’ve been playing a 13-year-old game in much the same fashion of what you’re talking about. It’s quick to get into.
Jon Nice.
George It’s easy to get out of. um It’s called, I’m going to mispronounce this, I’m sure, but Botanicula, I think, is how you pronounce it.
Mo Okay, that’s as good as any, yeah.
George So like botanical.
Jon Yeah, that’s what I’d say.
George Um, ah so it’s from a company called, um Manita design again, i’m going to mispronounce that.
Jon Sounds right.
George Um, they have created several of these types of games, but this is one of their ones from 2012 when it was first released. It’s still $15 right now on steam for the base game, or they have a collector’s edition, which gives you artwork and soundtrack for $18.
Jon Oh.
George And I normally, I don’t even mention that because who the hell cares about artwork and soundtrack from a video game. But this time it’s one of those games that you might actually want it.
Mo Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Jon Oh, really?
George This game, it’s a single player point and click, fun, lazy exploration game where you are a group of five character creatures that live on a tree in this real world or this weird world, I guess is a better way to say it.
Jon Hmm.
George And you’re trying to explore and find out why there’s this little black fuzz ball that’s draining the life out of your tree.
Mo Oh.
George And you’re going around and because it’s point and click, you don’t know what things you’re supposed to point click on. There’s no verbal language. There is no tutorial stage really to speak of. It’s just when something is clickable, your little pointer changes to a hand icon and you can move to different parts of the branches and The branches all go in different directions and stuff.
George So you’re basically wandering all over the street. And at first you don’t even have a map. You get that kind of later, like in the second half of stage one, I’ve gotten to stage two, I’ve played this game for a little over an hour so far.
George And I find that because their save system is super quick, you literally go down to the bottom of the screen, ah menu pops up, you hit save, you click on a space and you’re back in the game immediately.
Jon Are
George um When you want to quit, you just hit close and close game and boom, the game shuts off. I love that because I’m so freaking tired of games not wanting to close themselves out or making you go through 20 different steps and stuff.
Mo He he he he he.
Jon you sure? Are you sure?
Jon are you sure
George Simple little things like that are… very important to me when I play games now. This is what makes me keep coming back to this game. I got this for free through the Amazon Prime Epic Free Games stuff.
Jon Oh, right.
George That’s how I ended up finding this game.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George It was just on that just like a week or two ago. I said, okay, i’m going to pick a game from my free stuff and play it. Boy, I’m glad I did because now…
Jon Mm-hmm. Nice.
George I’m going to go back and look at this company’s other games and probably buy and play some of them just because of how much I’ve enjoyed this game so far.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George And I’m only in stage two.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George I don’t know how big the game is because I haven’t looked anything up, but it feels like it could be super tiny or really fucking big.
Jon Now, I haven’t gone to look at any screenshots yet, so I’m going to ask you what can be a difficult question, but um it’s the one I’m most curious about.
George Mm-hmm.
Jon All the mechanics around it sounds really interesting me. Is there any kind of way you can describe the art style? Because that’s really important to me in games like this.
George Yeah, I would say it’s like a water-colored version of Limbo.
Jon Ooh. Oh, now that’s intriguing.
Jon I’m not sure what that looks like, but the description is intriguing.
George But with also some panels that maybe are glowing through parts of the screen.
Jon Hmm.
George So like some of the branches have these white glowing lights and the, the fuzzball evil character, he’s like, he literally looks like a character I used to draw a comic book of when I was like six years old called the fuzzies.
Jon Okay.
George And it’s just this black fuzz. fuzz ball that has these spindly little thin legs popping out of it that he can maneuver around.
Jon Hmm.
George And you’re going around all these creatures and some of the creatures look like little acorns, but they’re misshapen. And some of them look like little twigs, but they’re misshapen. And some of them look like little worms with feathers coming out of them, but they’re misshapen.
Jon Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
George Everything is slightly off from our world. but it’s so charming. There’s this one little scene where you you come to a part of the branch where there are these little creatures who kind of resemble seahorses with…
George with snouts on the front of them and when you click and hold your mouse on one of the creatures his his snout gets bigger and bigger and bigger and then he starts making a sound like a musical sound like a humming sound and then two or three of his friends come by and when you eventually you get all of them to sing at one time and then a giant one comes in
Mo Okay.
Jon wow
George And when the giant one comes in and you make him sing, you get pulled into his snout and you’re inside his belly where there’s another little creature like him that has the key that you’ve been looking for.
Jon and This is the thing.
Mo Huh.
Jon I’m just, this whole true. I’m guessing you said no instructions, no tutorial. Is that just something you had to discover by screwing around?
George Yeah. Yes.
Jon That’s, that’s kind of cool. And I’m looking at screenshots now. It looks really pretty.
George Yeah.
Jon Subdued, understated, but pretty. Yeah.
George Yeah, and some of the some of the things you discover are just for discovery.
Jon Huh.
George They’re not anything that help you in the game.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George And some of the things do help you in the game.
Jon That’s kind cool.
George So you really need to point and click at everything that you can
Jon Right.
George And it just, it mesmerizes me a little bit. The music that’s in some of the scenes, just there was this one scene that I was playing just a little bit before we started recording this podcast.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George And I literally caught myself kind of dancing in my chair a little bit because the music was just so happy.
Mo Thank you.
Jon Is there any video video footage of that perhaps?
George And no, there’s no video footage of that.
Jon No, damn it.
George I can barely get my camera to work for this podcast.
Jon Okay.
George um
Jon Okay.
George It’s, it’s a very fun game. Even at the $15 full price that it’s listed at right now, I think it’s worth it. I don’t know if I’m going to get 15-hour Corey’s worth out of it, but I don’t really care because it’s already given me $15 worth of happiness.
Jon Yeah.
Jon Wow.
Mo Nice.
Jon And for free for now.
Mo Yep. Toss.
Jon So that’s cool. I’m going to have to check it out. Nice. Thanks.
Jon Okay.
Jon As we are rounding out here the show, getting to the last segment, we always like to stop here and take just a moment to talk about the things we’re either looking at or looking forward to between now and the next time we get together to do the show.
Jon And Mo, why don’t we start with you? I’d like to know what you have on the horizon.
Mo Sure. ah There’s yet another Star Wars show coming on Disney Plus called Tales from the Underworld.
Jon Hmm.
Mo ah It takes a couple of the villains from the animated series, and it’s it’s limited. It’s only like four or five episodes, and just kind of continue their story and see where they went, which, you know, as I love the animated series they did, so I’m looking forward to that.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo There’s a show coming on Netflix on the April 30th, so I think just…
Jon I’m sorry, I was going to go pause you. Remember to say where it is and when it’s coming out. i mean, you have the information there because often they’ll miss that.
Mo No, sorry, sorry.
Mo So I’m always looking forward to something coming on you know with Star Wars, but it’s coming on Disney Plus on May 4th.
Jon No, that’s that’s the the Star Wars day, right?
Mo um
Mo Yes, it is.
Jon Oh, yeah, May the 4th, right.
George Yep.
Mo May the 4th. um There’s a show on Netflix called The Internat, which is coming on April 30th.
George m Yeah.
Jon Oh.
Mo I don’t know much about it, but want to see it because it’s basically it’s like an alien invasion and there’s like millions of people have died and, you know, people trying to survive us. I’m i’m i’m already on board.
Jon don’t know if that sounds okay.
Mo ah That’s coming out the 30th and Netflix, but what I’m really looking forward to, and i hope it doesn’t let me down is the Thunderbolts coming up May 2nd.
George Yeah.
Mo You know?
Jon Hmm. Oh, well, that was, it that was a kind of a man from George. All right good.
George Well, no, just because I wanted to go see it at CMX Studios because I have a free birthday pass and a free anniversary pass, but they have some kind of deal with Disney. You can’t use any vouchers on Disney movies in the first two weeks.
Jon Oh, you can’t use. Oh, I see that. That’s why he soured. Okay.
Mo Oh, it sucks.
Jon Sorry.
Mo But anyway, it’s, um it you know, I love a story about like the B characters, you know, and they make them interesting to me.
George Yeah.
Mo And like said, to me, sometimes they’re more interesting than the main characters because they have a lot more flaws.
Jon yeah
Mo So, you know, definitely looking forward to it. heard a lot of good things about it. And again, I’m just hoping it doesn’t like, you know, disappoint us, but we’ll see.
Jon yeah
Mo How about you, John?
Jon Okay. Yeah, I have a few things i’m looking forward to. The first is a single episode of a series we watch. Now, you guys turn me on to Ghosts, the U.S.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon version of the U.K.
George Mm-hmm.
Jon series about the people that live in this manor and the girl can see the ghosts. And I am addicted to this show. It’s one of those that when it drops, I’ve got to watch it right away because it’s so much fun. I’m most intrigued, though.
Jon There’s an episode coming right at the end of this season on May 1st on CBS. ah The episode is called Kyle. And as a guest star on there, Ben Feldman, who was on Superstore and Silicon Valley.
Mo Oh, yeah, yeah.
Jon Yeah, he is there and he’s another guy who can see the ghosts.
Mo Oh.
George Yeah.
Jon And this, we’ve met lots of other ghosts and ghosts have found new powers and they found surprisingly interesting ways to expand on what should be a canned to show.
Mo Right.
Jon But now they’re bringing in someone establishing that Sam is not the only person in the world who can see these ghosts and we’re going to meet one. And so apparently that’s going to strain their marriage because now she has someone who can talk to the ghost with her.
Mo interesting
Jon And so the husband is more left out. Anyway, that show is just so clever and it’s funny and it’s heartfelt often, which is weird for what you think would be a goofy show. I love it. And that’s this episode in particular.
Jon I’ve read articles about it and I’m fascinated about what it’s going to do to the show, kind of blow it open and do more things. But yeah. That’s coming May 1st. As I said, there’s a film coming out in the theaters called Clown in a Cornfield.
Mo Oh, jeez.
Jon it It’s what it sounds like.
Mo Children of corn.
Jon It’s a goofy Pennywise-like clown who was the mascot of this town, and now he’s forgotten, but now he’s somebody’s dressed up as him maybe, or maybe it’s him or Supernatural. I don’t know.
Jon It’s just a silly clown, and and he’s often in a cornfield, people hanging up like scarecrows, as you might imagine, stupid shit like that. I want to see it May 9th in theaters. And I’m going to keep this on the list until we get there because it’s coming up faster than you think.
Jon Mostly looking forward the 2025 Southern Fried Gaming Expo up in Atlanta.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon We’re all going to be there June 20th through the 22nd. Wrestling and free play games and board games and RPGs and mini painting and panels and so much stuff to do.
Jon um If you’re interested in going… Whether it’s to see us or not, you can head over to GameATL.com and you use the promo code GenXGrowenup, all one word, no spaces, for $5 off your admission to the show. So if you’re thinking of going, save a little money on us.
Jon SFGE, love it. George, how about you? What you got coming up?
George ah Yeah, one that kind of shocked me. I didn’t expect it to get a season two, and that’s Walking Dead Dead City.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Huh.
George ah This is the one that centers on um Negan and ah I can never remember the lady’s name, but ah the one who had the son and Negan killed, yeah, Maggie.
Jon Huh.
Mo Maggie. Maggie.
George ah Anyway, um it’s… Their story, they went to New York to save the boy that Negan orphaned and so on and so forth. I don’t know why it needs a season two, but it’s getting one. It’s May the 4th on AMC, so I’ll check it out.
Jon yeah. All right. That
George Uh, another one, John, in your scars guard library, murder bot season one, May the 16th, Apple plus as Alexander, as the eponymous robot who decides that he becomes self-aware and he decides to give himself the moniker of murder bot.
Jon looks. Yeah. all right
Mo Oh, yeah.
Jon that looks yeah
Mo Yeah.
George That’s as much as I know. And that’s as much as I need to know to want to watch this series.
Jon It looks cute. Yeah.
George Uh, but then probably something that I’ve looked forward to more than I thought I should and still do. And God, please don’t let this be the last season. Love, Death and Robots season four, finally coming out on Netflix, May the 15th.
Jon Yeah.
Mo Oh, yeah.
Jon Yep.
George I think it’s been at least two years, maybe more since we got season three.
Jon They’re always great.
George Um, Every now and then I go back and watch some of my favorite episodes from that series because all the episodes are self-contained.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George They don’t bleed into one another. It’s one of the things that makes it so great, even though they have these three little robots that are kind of the thing that tie the whole storylines together.
Mo The thread, yeah.
Jon Yeah. Yeah.
George um It’s just a great series. It gives a lot of artists an opportunity to showcase not only their storytelling abilities, but their graphic abilities and ah just…
George Bend the normal spectrum of what animation normally is and put it into different ways, like super hyper-realistic stuff all the way down to almost like block characters.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon Yeah.
George It’s just a brilliant series. It deserves a place in society, and I hope they keep making more of these seasons as we go forward.
Jon Yeah. Yeah. i I love it too. I didn’t know knew this another season was coming. Oddly, you know, the internet works right about the time I read that you had it on our list here. I saw a trailer pop up and I’m like, are are they reading my screen?
Mo Mm-hmm.
George Right.
Jon How do they know? I just saw about that. So, but I learned it first from you. Okay. Before we wind up the show, I want to thank another of our longtime patrons, but before we do, I know Mo, one of the benefits of being a supporter over on Patreon is a chance to ask a question right here on the show and have all three of us answer it. Do you have a new question from a patron this time?
Mo Yeah, I do. This is from Joe, who’s actually submitted some questions before.
Jon Okay.
Mo ah He starts off with, love your podcast. Always was a great way to start.
Jon Love you, Joe. Thank you.
Mo And he said, I was wondering, what podcast do you listen to regularly?
Jon Oh, okay.
Mo I thought it was pretty straightforward one. In fact, I’ll start off with this one.
Jon Okay.
Mo So there’s a couple I listen to regularly. One is Radiolab. ah That’s from and National Public Radio.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo It’s just interesting stories. That’s pretty much all it’s about. It’s just interesting stories.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo Every episode to me is interesting. Just love listening to it. They’re always original. um And the other one is… It’s called Ologies. ah And this has been out for a while. It’s actually somebody who just brings a scientist on and they talk about one thing.
Mo And it could be locomotives.
Jon Okay.
George o
Mo It could be grasshoppers. It could be this.
Jon Sure.
Mo But you the person who’s asking questions, she’s so excited to be asking these questions. And the people answering are so excited to be answering. it’s It’s very infectious. ah This is just a great show.
Jon Okay. Cool.
Mo And you might learning it a lot. So how about you, John? What do you listen to?
Jon Yeah, I have a lot of stuff I listen to and I just want to run through him real quick because it sounds like Joe’s looking for recommendations from someone who makes a show and what kind of stuff and real quickly and for different reasons.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon Of course, I listen to 1980s now, which is currently on a little hiatus. It’s about to kick up again. I co co-host that one along with Will and Kat. Of course, I love listening to that, even though I’m on it. It’s it’s a great fun.
Jon But a regular show that I listen to a lot is Stuff You Should Know. so It’s much like your ology. It’s a different topic every episode. And they ah talk about could be anything. It could be cabbage patch kids or it could be blood transfusions or you never know. Just dig into something.
Jon ah There’s a great one called Criminal hosted by Phoebe Judge where they interview a criminal and talk about what they did to break the law and how it happened and a bank robber or whatever.
Mo e yeah That’s cool.
Jon um And then one, George, if you’re not listening to it, it’s awesome, called Office Ladies. Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey host that.
George Mm-hmm.
Jon And they go back episode by episode and talk about all the behind the scenes of The Office.
Mo That’s always fun.
Jon Yeah, it’s great fun. It’s great fun. ah Into the Vertical Blank is a great one listen to regularly. The Legend of Sword Quest was a limited one lately. But those are the ones I mostly I’ll go back listen to regularly or the limited like Legend of Sword Quest I’ve re-listened to because it’s very intriguing.
Jon That’s my list. I’m really curious what George has because he notoriously doesn’t listen to podcasts. I wonder what he has, if anything, on the list.
George Yeah, so you’re right. I haven’t listened to a podcast in two years.
Mo Wow.
George um
Jon Including ours.
George Yeah.
George I just don’t have ah don’t have the ah ability or the desire to listen to them when I’m sitting here in my room, and I don’t really drive anywhere. I work remotely.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George I take care of my wife, so I don’t really go places to listen to them when I’m in the car.
Jon Yep.
George But when I did listen to them and I was driving regularly, Some of my recommendations first would have been escape room. It’s a great podcast by a great poop group of people.
Jon ah Yeah.
George Uh, I know these two guys have probably never heard of it, but check it out.
Mo but
Jon Never.
George It’s a lot of fun. There’s four episodes out and I heard that somebody’s trying to write more episodes on it, but anyway, uh, Tannis black tapes, rabbits in the last movie, they’re all kind of in that same universe,
Jon Rumor.
Jon Yep. Mm-hmm.
George Those are great series to listen to. They’re all over at this point, but they were really ah infectious. I like fictional podcasts. I don’t really care about ah reality-based podcasts or the criminal ones or any of that kind of stuff.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Okay.
George Impact Winter, that’s another really good one that I listened to. Blackout, Remy Malek was on that one.
Jon Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I listened to some of that.
Mo don’t know.
George Good series. Limetown and Homecoming, of course.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George um Heads of Sierra Blanca.
Jon Yeah.
George That was a really good fictional podcast that I liked.
Jon I listened to that too.
George Passenger List, another good one, um kind of in the vein of Lost a little bit. ah What else? White Vault was solid. um I’ve heard of that 80s Now podcast, but I’ve never listened to it.
Mo yeah
Jon Never listened to it. We know. Yeah.
George No, no. um But those are all ones that I like. And then fictional, which takes, um it takes like old stories and kind of modernizes them and does a retelling a little bit in a modern field or any, it’s a solid series.
Jon okay
George If you’re looking for recommendations in the fictional realms, though, those would be my recommendations.
Jon Nice. Okay. Good question, Joe. Thanks.
Mo Yeah. So thanks. um Thanks for that question, Joe. It was fantastic. Again, we always love hearing from our amazing patrons out there. And if you want to get your question asked in the show, it’s super easy. Just go to genxscope.com slash Patreon.
Jon Yep.
Mo As little as a dollar a month, submit your question and we’ll try to answer it right here on the show.
Jon And before we go, I want to, you know, often I will thank new patrons who come online. ah This episode, I just want to take a moment to thank a legacy patron, someone who supported us for years and years and years.
Jon just want to throw a thanks out there to Anthony Great.
Mo Oh.
Jon He has been a supporter at one of the top tiers at our stakeholder level. He really believes in what we do. He’s very supportive of us. His generosity is unparalleled in terms of ah how how how much he has invested his time and energy and his wallet in making sure that we continue to do what we do.
Jon Anthony, you are in an elite crew of people that we could not have continued to do this without. We’re so grateful that you did. If you would like to join Anthony, doesn’t have to be at that top level for as little as a dollar a month. That’s all it takes.
Jon Head over to patreon.com slash Gen X Grown Up. Open up your wallet and your heart. Fill out a couple of forms and you’re on the road and you can drop Mo a line and get your question answered here too. Among the many perks.
Jon Okay, that 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. But next week, well, that’s our backtrack. We’ll pick a single nostalgic topic and dig in deep.
Jon Let’s see, Moe, would you like to do the honors and tell the fourth listener what’s coming their way next week?
Mo Sure. what What? Me worry? No, if you if you know what that’s from, we’re going to be diving deep into the warped and wonderful world of Mad Magazine.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo It’s going to be fun.
Jon Yep.
Mo It’s talk about parodies.
Jon Yep.
Mo It’s going to be amazing.
Jon Yeah, it changed the face of parody in a lot of ways.
Mo Yeah, absolutely.
Jon It’s, yeah, yeah. So I can’t wait to talk about that. Fourth listener, we hope you will join us for that one. Until then, I am John George. Thank you so much for being here, pal.
George Yes, sir.
Jon Mo, you know i appreciate you.
Mo Always fun, man.
Jon Fourth listener, it’s you. We all appreciate most of all, though. We can’t wait to talk to you again next time. Bye-bye.
George See you guys.
Mo 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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