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Jurassic World Rebirth, 8VENTURE, & LEGO Infinity Gauntlet

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We head to the theatre for the latest entry in the long-running film series that brings dinosaurs to life in current day, build a remarkable LEGO set that promises to be a snap to assemble, and play a modern homage to an Atari classic on a free fantasy console!

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Speaker Transcript
Jon Welcome back. Gen X grown up podcast listeners to this episode. 193 of the Gen X grown up podcast.
Jon I am John joining me as always. Of course, my buddy Mo. Hey man.
Mo Hey, how’s it going?
Jon Good. No, it wouldn’t be a show without George. Hey George.
George Hey, how’s it going, guys?
Jon In this episode, we’re going to head to the theater for the latest entry in the long-running film series that brings dinosaurs to life in the current day. wonder what that is. Build a remarkable Lego set that promises to be a snap to assemble and play a modern homage to an Atari classic on a free fantasy console.
Jon And you can’t see it on the audio podcast, but George just groaned and rolled his eyes when I used a great pun in there because he just doesn’t appreciate puns like I do. don’t know what your problem is.
George Hmm. Hmm.
Jon Is that what it is? Before have those topics i many more coming your way, of course, in this episode, before we get to that, it’s time for my favorite part of the show, which is a little fourth listener email. Look, the three of us are here.
Jon We’re apt to listen, not guaranteed. We’re apt to it. But if anybody else does, again, you can’t see George and Addy. If anyone else does, you are our fourth listener. And the fourth listener this time around is Tony C. Subject line of his email, we are the world.
Jon All right. ah here’s what Tony has to say. Hey guys, loved your podcast about the, we are the world single. Yeah. I wanted to share that there was a third musical collaboration aside from the U S and UK Canadian musicians came together and performed a song called tears are not enough.
Jon You guys know this one already?
George Yep. Yep.
Mo I don’t actually.
Jon Yeah.
George yep
Jon No. Yep.
George yep
Jon Yep, okay. ah He says, also in support for feeding the people of Ethiopia. Same idea, George did. I didn’t know that, Mo didn’t. The group was called Northern Lights, and the song was composed by David Foster.
Jon All right. He says, at the time of the recording, ah a making of documentary was being made. I suggest checking it out. You’ll see all the Canadian artists of the era, like Brian Adams, Mike Reno, Joni Mitchell, as an added touch, a verse was sung in French. Because, I guess, because it’s Canada.
Jon It almost had to. Okay.
Mo They do that.
Jon All right. So you’ve heard this. How’s the song stack up to some of the other ones, George, if you know this one? I don’t know it.
George I mean, i none of those songs are tremendous songs, let’s be honest, right? there They’re pop earworm songs, but they’re not tremendous because they write them pretty quickly because the idea is not that the song is great, it’s the…
Mo Yeah.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George It’s what the thing is behind the song, right? Like, i yeah, I mean, do they know it’s Christmas?
Jon Mm-hmm. Who’s in it? The spectacle.
Mo The novelty.
Jon Yeah. Yeah.
George i We’ll talk about it a little while, but there were some people directly affected in the famine stuff that were really mad at the title of the song. So ah there’s there’s a lot um to be left as far as the songs are concerned, but who cares?
Jon Right.
Mo he
Jon Mm-hmm. Yeah.
George ah Song good or not, doesn’t matter.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Yeah.
George They they all stack up the same in that they’re all trying to bring awareness and drive money toward people who desperately needed it.
Jon Okay.
Jon that’s That’s the most generous way of saying the song was no big deal. Thank you, George. Well, well stated. but But he did his job, right? It was for a good cause. It makes sense. All right, Tony, thank you for writing in. We’re glad you enjoyed the We Are of The World backtrack. Listen forth, listener. If you would like your your email feature here on the show, you know it’s drop dead easy. All you have to do is hit us up at podcast at genxgrownup.com. We’ll read every single one and most of them eventually make the show. And before we get into the body of the show, one more quick order of business.
Jon We have a new Apple podcast review. We get those on occasion.
Mo Oh, those helpful.
Jon Yeah, they are. Yeah, they help people to find us. When you go searching for Gen X or Nostalgia or whatever, the more reviews, apparently it helps you get discovered. And Apple is the biggest platform. So this is a review from Jimmy McNulty.
Jon Five star review. The subject was Hidden Gem Unearthed.
Mo Yay.
Jon He must mean Mo. Must be you. He says, three generation ex-nerds who make the listener feel like they’re hanging with longtime friends, discussions of pop culture phenomena, tech gadgets, movie and TV reviews, and lots of reminiscing about the 70s and 80s.
Jon That sounds like us. I may be a millennial, but just old enough to be familiar with most of the topics. Their banter can’t be beat when it comes to podcasters, and they’re hilarious. Now there they’re talking about George for sure, so we got that straight.
George Sure.
Mo Okay.
George Yeah.
Jon And he says, especially George. I was making that up. And he just said, especially George.
Mo Alrighty. That’s awesome.
Jon I missed it. Oh, I was kidding. And he was, that’s well, all right.
Mo ah ready
Jon All right, Jimmy. ah Since discovering this, ah dang it. I was trying to make a joke and it turned out to be real. He says, since discovering this about a month ago, I can’t stop binging the extensive back catalog.
Jon That’s from Jimmy over an Apple podcast. Thank you, Jimmy.
Mo that’s awesome
Jon Yeah, we appreciate it And a little jello for you, George. There you’re always left out.
George yeah
Jon And then here you are. So. ah Hey, if you haven’t yet left us a review, wherever you listen, please do. It really does help. Do what Jimmy did. Throw a five star at us. Tell people why you listen. Helps us to be discovered. All right.
Jon Well, that good business in the rearview mirror is time to jump into the body of episode one 93 right after this.
Jon that’s I literally did not know that was coming. And I’m like, probably talking about you. Oh, shit. He is.
George Before you get into this, we got an email today earlier, John.
Jon Yes, sir.
George I know you were heads down. um
Jon Uh-huh.
George Somebody named hutnick.rs at gmail.com says, I’m a fan of the YouTube channel.
Jon Okay.
George I’m also currently working in generative AI music and other content. I was interested in doing a Gen X grown-up AI generated song, but due to the controversial nature of that medium, it might be considered offensive.
George Please let me know. Let him know what, and is this a real person, do you think? Or this sent from their Galaxy phone?
Mo Hmm.
George So
Jon Hmm.
George not the not the typical spam email.
Mo I mean.
Jon Yeah. I mean, it’s kind of like a, it’s like a weird Al situation, right? Like they don’t need our permission to do it, but they’re asking.
Mo You might as well just say, sure, and I say we’re going to use it.
George I guess, is that what they’re?
Jon If they’re, if they’re a person, if they’re a person, right?
George Yeah. Yeah.
Mo Could be AI.
George Like, do you think that’s a fan?
Jon Yeah.
George Is anybody, oh, by the way, the person, their name is called TGN, the games Ninja. Does that sound familiar to anybody?
Jon Oh, I i know who the games Ninja is. if If it is in fact them, they’re a regular commenter.
George Okay.
Jon Yeah.
George Okay.
Mo Oh.
George All right.
Jon So maybe they are real. Yeah.
George All right.
Jon Yeah, i I haven’t seen it yet.
George Well, I’ll.
Jon My question would be, and do what with it?
Mo Yeah.
George Right.
Mo Like to replace our theme song or.
George well Like, what do you want us to let you know was my question.
Jon Right.
George Okay.
Mo That’s a good, that’s a good question.
Jon Yeah, because you don’t little like need our permission because you can do whatever you want with AI. You can say, make a song about 8-bit guy and it would do it. you know It doesn’t need his permission.
George Right.
Jon but
George So I’ll reach out to him later.
Jon Yeah, the thanks. I appreciate it. Just go, what the fuck, dude?
Jon Okay. Oh, and I, before I forget, did, while I was making that public or unlisted, did you send it out the back to Jonah?
George I sent out the try it now email.
Mo Thank you.
George Yep.
Jon Okay, good. Okay, good. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Unlisted now. Okay, good. for it Media. Here we go. In five, four, three.
Jon We’re going to get going talking about media we have been checking out since we last spoke. Now, of course, this could be comic books or music or television or film or whatever you’re into. And Mo, I want to talk to you first. What have you recently been watching that you want to talk about?
Mo Well, I went and saw Jurassic World Rebirth. boom who but yeah
George Mmm.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George Mmm.
Mo m but
Jon Mm-hmm. Yep.
Mo um yeah You never guess what happens in this movie. I mean, there’s maybe spoilers. I don’t know.
Jon Do people get eaten by dinosaurs?
Mo Yes.
Jon Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Mo And there are children for no possible explanation involved.
Jon Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah.
Mo There’s a bureaucrat.
Jon Oh, people make bad decisions. guess that’s going to happen.
Mo Yes, that happens. There’s a bureaucrat, of course, that you know is self-serving and you know you know what happens to him.
Jon Okay. Great. Perfect. Mm-hmm. So Jurassic Park.
Mo ah they They created a another bizarre dinosaur this time because i keep I guess every movie has have a worse dinosaur in it.
Mo I guess it’s supposed to, I guess.
George Eh, that’s kind of the formula.
Jon Bigger, meaner, weirder.
Mo Bigger, meaner.
Jon Yeah.
Mo Well, this was a mutant. So you got that.
Jon Okay. Yeah.
Mo um
George I mean, haven’t they all been mutants?
Jon Yep.
Mo Well, this is specifically like a mutant one, like they were combining different stuff to make.
Jon This one’s even mutantier than the other ones.
George Like, did he go to Professor Xavier’s school for gifted children?
Jon Oh,
George Is that what type of mutants we’re talking about?
Mo i I believe he had an extra set of arms. So just so you know, when I say mutant, that’s what I mean.
Jon it did. Yeah. Yeah, it did. That’s true.
George Well, T-Rex would be envious.
Mo oh So was i think there were useless arms, though.
Jon His alarms don’t work.
Mo I think there were T-Rex. But it was, i mean, it was just, um we saw it and I was just laughing because the director was also, and also he was doing like callbacks to the original one that was just so obvious.
Mo Like,
George Mm.
Mo ah you know Usually callbacks are pretty subtle. Like, oh, I can’t, you know, there that up but this one, they’re just just blatant. Like, oh, I saw this great scene in the first movie, so I’m gonna repeat it. You know, it I mean, kids loved it.
Mo I know had giant had dinosaurs in it it.
Jon Right,
Mo You know, for some reason, they had to get genetic material from the three largest dinosaurs specifically.
Jon right. Right.
Mo One water, one land, one air.
Jon like a video game.
Mo For no reason. I mean, yeah, it was crazy. It was just.
George They’re creating an airbender here? What the fuck are they doing?
Mo Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
Jon Yeah, I snuck out and saw it too. You know, yeah that you get the A-list. You got to use it sometime for something, right?
Mo yeah yeah, exactly.
Jon I wanted to see it. I figured you’ll see a Jurassic Park movie or Jurassic World, whatever it is on big screen.
Mo yeah
Jon and Yeah, I mean, everything you’re saying, Mo, is like, and you’re not, what you’re dancing around is like, it wasn’t a good movie, it wasn’t a bad movie. It was just a Jurassic Park franchise movie.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Kind of rinse and repeat. You know, you talked about the kids for no reason.
Mo Very reserved. Yeah, I agree.
Jon It it occurred to me, we chance to see it. This will make sense if you’ve never seen it. But when you go watch this film, There’s a small family involved. You could remove the family from the plot and make no impact on the story.
Jon It just made the movie 30 minutes longer.
Mo Yeah.
George Oh.
Jon It was just more encounters with dinosaurs by people who didn’t have guns, I guess, basically. So they’re peril, but they didn’t impact the story at all. In fact, they caused the story to be difficult because they were getting in peril that had to be saved.
Mo Yeah.
Jon But yeah, yeah.
Mo and is I guess they have to have kids in danger, or otherwise people don’t feel it or something.
Jon Maybe.
Mo and that And there was one scene that I actually laughed out loud in the theater at, which was they’re in like some really tall grass, right?
Jon Yeah.
Mo And looks empty. And all sudden turn around and they somehow did not see these freaking huge apatosaurus, like the massive huge dinosaurs.
Jon Yeah.
Mo but And there’s like a dozen of them.
Jon i Like 10 stories tall. Giant. Yeah.
Mo And they’re like they do the whole, you know, like in the first movie and when they turn the head and you see them for the first time, and that which was a good scene.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George Right.
Mo They try to do exactly the same. I’m like, wait a minute. They were hiding in tall grass? Were they like sneaking down? Were they…
Jon they They were walking backwards up to that point and hadn’t turned around, looked behind them to see these giant dinosaurs in the distance.
Mo yeah
Jon I hadn’t thought of that. Yeah, that was dumb.
Mo Yeah, I was cracking up. but Anyway, so it’s a Jurassic Park movie. It did well in the theaters, apparently, you know, for that opening weekend. It you know made this money, which means they’ll do another one.
Jon Yeah.
Mo um But all kept thinking like, in my head, a more interesting movie would be the dinosaurs get into our ecosystem, start screwing things up. Like Yosemite, raptors going to Yosemite and they’re killing up, you know, and I mean, something more like that, I think would be a more interesting plot.
Mo But this one is like they have to go back to the island and there’s yet another island no one knew about where they’re doing more experiments. And, know, it was just, you know, whatever.
Jon How many of those they got? Yep.
Mo ah Yeah, that’s the other thing, too.
George well a lot of islands around there, I guess.
Mo like I think he’s running out islands.
George I mean, they’ve kind of already done the bring the dinosaurs to American soil, so to speak, though, in the last one, right?
Jon e
Mo Yeah.
George I mean, they they were doing the whole auction thing with the evil guys with billions of dollars, and the daughter was ah was a clone herself of the wife or daughter, whatever.
Jon Yeah, that’s right. Yeah.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Yeah.
Mo e Yeah, ooh, clone Yeah, but, you know Yeah, exactly
George don’t know.
Jon Yeah.
George So, they… I mean, yeah. yeah yeah
Jon just Shrug.
George I don’t know that… I don’t know that you it know that you need it. It’s really just a name to put on the next toy. That’s all it is at this point.
Jon Sure.
Mo Yeah, I agree It’s it’s a marketing thing
Jon Yeah. It’s, it’s really, it’s been diluted so much now that it’s just, yeah, we’ll watch it because it’s Jurassic park, but it’s, it’s not that excitement anymore. It’s just the same thing again with new dinosaurs a little bit.
Jon Yeah.
Mo Yeah. So anyway, that’s what I saw. So how about you, John? Something more originally exciting?
Jon Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess it’s original enough. But so I was looking forward it. No, George was looking forward to this last time we spoke because I forgot to put it on my list and he stunned me with how quick it was coming up.
George yeah
Mo Mm hmm.
Jon And that is after two years of waiting on a cliffhanger.
Mo A major cliffhanger.
Jon Finally…
Mo Oh, my God.
Jon The third season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds premiered just a few days ago as you listen to this.
Mo hmm.
Jon And you know so, of course, I’m not going to talk spoilers about the show, but I want to talk around it because of the impact that modern streaming has had on wonderful franchises like this. And we’ve we’ve touched on this before in the past. So.
Jon Star Trek Strange New Worlds, one of my favorite, but not just Star Trek shows, it’s one of my favorite shows on television right now.
Mo Yeah, yeah, mine too.
Jon It’s it’s so well made.
Mo Yeah.
Jon It makes me feel so good to watch it. I really enjoy it. Used to be a great Star Trek series was, yeah, it ran three or four or five, six seasons, but you got 20, 26 episodes a season.
Jon Well, now you get these high impact one hour episodes that are like motion pictures. They’re amazingly well produced, but you get 10 of them and that’s it.
Mo yeah
Jon So, I mean, we’re into season three right now and there have been a total of 12 episodes of this show, 22 episodes of this show, right? First season, second season, two more, not even a whole real season of like the next generation.
Mo Right.
Jon Plus we had in the end of season two, which was a cliffhanger, you know, to be continued at the end.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon And now not only is there a gap normally in streaming shows, but we had writer’s strike. We had this SAG-AFTRA negotiation stuff causing a two year gap.
Jon So, The problem with that was, look, I enjoyed the last season and I enjoyed watching the beginning of the new season. They dropped two episodes, by the way. Now, I know you guys both know this. Just for the listener, they dropped two episodes, which means they’ve dropped a fifth of the c series already this season. So they only ate more to go.
Jon But there’s this problem of, you guys remember, Next Generation, the best of both worlds at the end of season three and Picard had been assimilated.
George Mm-hmm.
Jon And we’re like, and we had to wait like four months to find out what happened.
Mo A season. Yeah.
Jon Four months, just the summer.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon and everybody was talking about it. We’re excited. I felt a general apathy in just fandom leading up to this that shouldn’t have been there because people just they’d forgotten it had slipped off the back of their radar.
Jon mean, they were excited to see what was going to happen, but it wasn’t like i remember that summer, whatever is the summer of ninety one, ninety two, whatever it was.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Star Trek fans, all they could talk about, they were dying to see the next episode and see how in it ended, but there’d been so much promotional material.
Mo she see
Jon They almost knew how it was going to play out. And like the modern structure of, of series has negatively impacted how I enjoy the Star Trek series.
Mo Yeah, I agree. I watched the first episode and I started watching it also I was like, holy crap, that’s right.
Jon Yeah. Yeah.
Mo Like, Like I knew it was a cliffhanger. I remember a cliffhanger, but then I remember what everything was going on. was like, Oh my God. Like, because you said it’s been so long that, you know, that you just sort of, it’s like, Oh, okay.
Jon Yeah.
Mo You know, um, I kind of wish now I’d gone back and watch that last season of previous the previous, last episode of previous season. Just, you know, once it kind of, Oh, you didn’t see, I should have done that.
Jon Oh, I did. I did. it helped. Yeah.
Mo You just kind of get my head back into it again.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo i mean, it was a good, it was a great episode. I love the episode, but it was, you know, like said, it’s just seemed like it wasn’t as, ah yeah It was just too long. Like you said, i think that was just the basic problem. it’ just too long.
Jon Yeah. And because they had to work so hard to remind everybody it was coming back, they had all this promotional material where you see all these people in a myriad of episodes later in the season. And it took the bite out of the show because you’re wondering who’s going to live.
Jon I know they’re in episode two and three and four. You know, it took some of the bite out of it.
Mo Yeah.
Jon It wouldn’t have happened back in the day when regular network television happened. It’s a sign of the times. I’m just, you know, old man shakes fist at clouds.
Mo Yeah.
Jon I know it’s one of those things, but yeah.
Mo Get off my lawn.
Jon it’s It’s frustrating that as much as I love this show, how the gap and modern structure really negatively impacted or at least shaded my enjoyment of the new season. and
Mo Yeah.
Jon It’s great.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Loving it. It’s good to watch. I wish it was longer and better ah infrastructure around it, I guess I’m saying.
Mo yeah
Jon So definitely recommend it. So lot more to come on that. But George, you mentioned this very briefly in our listener email. What have you been watching?
George Yeah, so i the fact that you chose a listener email that was centered around the 84 to 85 Ethiopian famine stuff um worked out well because I did get to watch the first episode of Live Aid when Rock and Roll took on the world, which is a documentary series put out by CNN.
Jon Funny.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George It’s listed as a CNN original, which, you know, it’s kind of a rare thing, but they do documentaries every now and then.
Jon okay
George And ah i enjoyed the first episode, lot of tear jerking moments, as you might expect, giving the subject matter. um What I think I enjoyed the most is this is the first documentary I’ve seen that I can remember in a while on the subject that one of the main interviewees was Bob Geldorf himself.
George um
Mo Oh, okay. Mm-mm.
Jon Really?
George he He doesn’t do a lot of interviews because he’s very disgusted with media.
Mo okay
George And you learn a little bit.
Mo and
George of the reason for that discussed in this first episode. So, uh, Bob Gelldorf is, for those of you who don’t know, he’s the guy who really got these, ah fade the, these famine aid relief things going in the mid eighties.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George uh, he was part of a, a pretty popular rock man, mostly in, uh, England and in Europe. Um, and, When he saw a ah report that was on BBC about the Ethiopian famine, he just got mad as hell.
George And that same night, he had to go to an industry event where they were celebrating fashion. And what I find really fascinating is that somebody was recording that event and
Jon Oh.
George And they got a snippet of a conversation that Gildorf was having with another attendee where he’s like, I can’t believe we’re at this fucking thing all about fashion and food.
Mo Interesting. Mm-hmm.
George And these people are starving in Ethiopia. Do you see this thing on BBC? And you can see the process, the wheels turning.
Jon Huh.
Mo interesting
Jon Like the kernel of the idea, you see it germinating right there?
George Um, You see it.
Jon oh
George Yeah. Because, you know, through the interview process of modern day interview, plus the, the found footage of the stuff from back then.
Jon wow. That’s cool. Serendipitous.
George So you go through the whole process of how they put together that first song.
Jon Is
George Will they, do they know it’s Christmas? um You see how the whole thing was slapstick put together. We have done um a full podcast on we are the world.
George That’s where the, the listener email came from.
Mo Oh,
George um And we know what that process was like, but that took months of planning and organization. The do they know it’s Christmas? They literally put that shit together in like a week.
Mo ah really? Wow.
Jon that right?
George Because they, yeah, because they kind of had to, because they did, they decided amongst the three principles. Okay. Best time to get this record out is Christmas. That’s when everybody’s buying everything.
George So we got to get this thing done now so we can get all the records printed and sent out to all the places so that people can have it to buy for Christmas.
Jon Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
George So we’re going to make it a Christmas song and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Mo and Okay, okay.
George blah And that’s how they go.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George Um, really well put together. they interview people that don’t do interviews as part of this process. And I’m guessing it’s because the subject matter is so important.
George There are interviews with Bono, with sting, um, with all the people that were big at the time that are still alive today. Of course, you know, we don’t get an interview with George Michael, unfortunately.
Mo e
Jon Right, right, right.
George Um, one thing, a little nugget that I found out, uh, boy, George is famously on the track and does this beautiful, uh, solo.
George Uh, he wasn’t even in country. Like they woke up that morning and everybody’s walking over the house.
Jon Oh, really? Oh, okay.
George Uh, Phil Collins even talks about an interview. He’s like, yeah, I just walked in. Nobody knew who I was. And they just had some drums.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George Cause he does a whole drum thing for the song.
Jon Right?
George And, they’re like They’re looking around and they’re like, wait, where’s George? And they’re like, he’s not here. So Bob Gelldorf calls him. He’s in New York asleep. And he’s like, get your ass on the Concord and come over here and sing the song.
Jon Oh, wait, wait. So when you said he wasn’t a country, I thought you meant like he did his part remotely. no No, no, He wasn’t there.
George No.
Jon They said, get your ass here. And he came.
George There’s no remote at this point.
Mo That’s right. Yeah, you can’t do remote, really.
George this i mean I mean, you could record in a studio in New York, but they didn’t have the song in New York.
Mo mean, yeah.
Jon All right. Pre-recorded. i mean that’s all you could do. Right, right.
Jon Okay.
George All the sheets were written by hand there in London. So it’s just…
Jon So we hopped the Concord.
George Anyway, lot of great information. If this is a subject matter that interests you, like it does me and the We Are The World stuff, the first episode, this is all about Live Aid, by the way.
George I’ve buried the lead. This is not about… the Do they know it’s Christmas or We Are the World?
Jon Right, right.
George But the documentary is showing each one of those segments in progression so that you get the full scope of how everything came to be leading up to and including Live Aid.
Mo ah Okay.
Jon I see.
Mo Right.
Jon Yeah.
George So maybe we’ll see the Canadian song in the documentary. I kind of doubt it because Live Aid kind of needs two episodes and there’s only four episodes in the whole series, but…
Jon Oh.
Jon Okay.
George really well put together.
Jon Yeah.
George CNN’s done a really good job with the editing on it. Interviews are outstanding. Uh, the pace moves along really well, but it leaves enough room for you to get emotional in the right places. So
Mo Okay.
Jon And a great documentary.
Mo Check that out.
Jon I’m in. I’m in.
George yeah.
Jon You sold me. All right. Thanks.
Jon Great. Okay.
Mo Cool.
Mo I’m going to kick off Tekken Toys today with something that’s not that exciting, but it had one cool feature. as So I need a new screen protector for my phone, right?
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo Not that exciting, right? They’re a dime dozen.
George so Okay.
Mo You can find them anywhere. um So I bought this one from Amazon. it was called up like it’s military grade, all that fun stuff. The thing that got me about it,
Jon Military, great.
Mo The thing that got me about this one is it came with the way you but you put the screen on almost guarantees no dust and no bubbles.
George Okay.
Jon Hmm. Okay.
Mo Because they did it that first they give you like a little thing to put over your phone that kind of like hold it down.
Jon That is a problem. Hmm.
Mo And you actually peel from the bottom like this thing as it’s on top of your phone, you peel it from the bottom and just slides right onto your phone like as you’re peeling it.
George Okay.
Mo It’s kind of hard to explain. If you go, go to I’ll put a link on this. You go see the instructions, but it’s like the first time. And I don’t know how long that I have a screen protector that does not have a bubble or a hair on it or something.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo So, but it said it, the way they did, it was pretty cool. And it was like 20 something bucks and they give you two. So was pretty good deal.
Jon I can only imagine like it’s creating a virtual clean room, like a picture, like where they make microchips, you know, because, because whenever I buy screen protectors, although i typically don’t use them right now, they usually say give you like two or three because they know you’re going to screw it up because you’re going to get dust or a bubble or something in there.
Mo school
Jon So it’s like, so like the extra cost, like is it glass or plastic? What’s the actual screen protector?
Mo it’s It’s some sort of military plastic, I think.
Jon Can you tell?
Mo And they say that it’s the guarantee is not going to break bla bla blah, blah, blah.
Jon Okay. All right.
Mo know, the usual.
Jon Gotcha. Gotcha. But they have an assembly to put it on to make it like perfectly square and perfectly clean and all that.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Okay. Got it. All right. Well, that’s interesting.
Mo Yeah. Yeah.
George I just have a question. So with the modern phones and the phone faces that are out there today, now I’m i’ not talking about flip or folds because I know they have completely different screen types, but your traditional tablet phone, whatever you want to call it, the Invicta glass and everything else that they come with now, it seems like…
Mo Sure.
Jon Yeah.
George glass screen protectors are kind of redundant at this point.
Mo You probably.
George I’m not talking about a case because a case around it makes sense to me because if it impacts a corner, that’s different.
Jon Mm Scratches. and
Jon hmm.
George But the screen itself in most modern phones, i mean certainly in the flagships, at least, I don’t know that you need a screen protector, do you?
Jon Yeah.
Mo Yeah.
Mo I probably don’t. I mean, quite honestly, you’re you’re probably right. um I buy more out of have a habit. And then after a while, I see how bad my screen looks, my screen potential looks when I replace it. I’m like, well, I’m glad it wasn’t my screen, even though it probably my screen would probably be fine.
George oh
Mo You know, I’m sure, you know, like you said, I think you’re totally right, George.
Jon yeah
Mo that You pretty much use like that ballistic glass or whatever hell it is, you know, on top of that thing.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo So these things are probably a little redundant, but, you it still makes me feel better. Honestly, that’s the only reason why i got it.
George okay
Jon So it’s kind of like your safety blanket for your your phone, right? You don’t need it, but it makes you feel better to have it.
Mo Yeah.
Mo Yeah. Like if I spilled, like I dropped something on my phone, I’m like, oh, it’s not a screen protector, I guess.
Jon Oh, well, I’m fine. Yeah, okay.
Mo Of course, if it breaks the screen protector, it’ll probably break my phone too. So that’s all right.
Jon Yeah, let’s not. Let’s hope not.
Mo So again, not too exciting, but put a link on in case anyone does need a screen protector for no reason like I do.
Jon Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Mo So how about what you, George? What do you got for us?
George Well, I guess mine’s a little bit more of a toy. um So this was given to me for Father’s Day, and it’s a little bit older, but it’s ah Lego set 76191, the Marvel Infinity Gauntlet.
Jon Yeah.
George So this is the one that you’ve probably seen in Walmart or Target.
Jon Mm.
Mo Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm.
George It’s in the black box with the pretty ah display and everything.
Jon Yeah.
George And it’s literally just the gauntlet itself ah with the stones in it.
Jon Yeah.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George And it’s on a little stand and everything. Now I haven’t built it yet um because I’m still behind with my cryptid Legos that I’ve got to build and whole bunch of other stuff from ah back when I got like, somebody gave me, I think the family gave me like six sets and then my wife had ah her stroke.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George So I just haven’t had an opportunity to go back so to building again. yeah,
Jon OK.
George ah This one looks to be really fun. I’m looking forward to It’s beautiful as hell. I love the ah the way that they have the gold to pieces.
Mo Yeah, looks good.
George they They almost shimmer, which nice because Lego doesn’t always do a great job with colors, in my opinion. Sometimes the reds are sometimes a little too red or the grays are a little bit too washed out maybe, but the, the gold in this one looks beautiful to my eye, at least
Mo Yeah.
Jon okay
Jon I don’t know if you’ve ever done this before. So I’m going to try to, I’m going to pitch you on this because I want you to buy it and do it because you have the, you have the toy there.
George to buy it and do it.
Mo Buy it.
George Okay.
Jon That’s right. That’s right. So you’ve got the set as a gift.
George That’s no problem. I’ve got the Gen X grownup card right here. So
Mo Oh.
Jon Right, right, right. So I know that Infinity Gauntlet is one of the select sets for which there is a lighting kit. Have you seen this?
George Oh, yeah, I know there’s lighting kits for specific sets, yeah.
Jon So the way that they work, I’ve never had one. I’ve been dying for one, but the way people have described it, and I’ve seen some people on our Discord share when they’ve done this, but… It’s not made by Lego. It’s made by this third party company who takes the Lego set and they figure out a way to trace wires in through and around and put bulbs behind stuff and whatever.
Mo Yeah.
Jon It’s modifying your set. It’s a, it’s, it’s a mod, right?
George Mm-hmm.
Mo Yeah.
Jon It’s a hack for your Lego set, but it creates an aspect.
Mo Yeah. Essentially. Yeah.
Jon I can only imagine whenever I heard that I thought, Ooh, the gauntlet would be good. Cause I’m sure there’s gotta be one behind each of the gyms.
George Oh, sure.
Jon Have you seen that?
George Yeah.
Jon Have you considered that? or Have you given it any thought?
George No, I haven’t even thought about it really.
Jon Oh.
George I mean, usually when I get one of these Lego sets, I just like to put them together and I keep them together.
Jon Sure.
George I don’t use any of the glue that melts the bricks together so that they stay together permanently.
Mo Oh, yeah, it’s crazy.
Jon No, no, no. Right.
George um
Jon Yeah.
George but, I do like them to stay together. I don’t take them apart and build them into other things later on.
Jon No.
George I just don’t have the kind of room to do that.
Mo jesus
George But with this one, I could consider looking at one of these mod things to add to the set.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George The only thing I don’t want to do, um because I’ve seen some cheap mods that add lighting, they have you cut bricks. I’m not cutting any of the bricks.
Jon I don’t want to do that.
Mo No.
Jon I don’t do that either.
George Yeah.
Jon No, no, no.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Agreed.
George So if the mod doesn’t make me cut a brick, then I would be willing to try it.
Jon Agreed.
Jon Yeah. And the reason I mention it now is because coincidentally, you have not built it yet. So it might be easier to integrate that as you build it, as opposed, because I’m sure it’s going to make you take this part off and take this apart.
George Right.
Jon And, uh, but it’s something to consider. want to put that in your head because if you do it, I want to see how cool it looks. That was, that’s, that’s why I bring it up.
George Yeah, absolutely.
Jon So that could be cool.
George I might, I might give it a shot.
Jon All right. right, stick around. We’ll be right back. Did I jump you, Mo? You good?
George All right, ladies and gentlemen, time to talk about games. All three of us have got something on list. Let’s waste no time and get to Mo, what have you been playing for the last couple of weeks?
Mo yes
Mo So it’s a older game came out five years ago. It’s called beyond two souls. ah The reason why I got it is it’s been on my wish list for five years and it finally came down in price during like i think the summer sale and it was like five bucks.
Jon Oh, good. Steam sale. Yeah, they’re dangerous.
Mo Yeah, it seems it was like five bucks. I picked it up. um It’s very life is strange as far as gameplay. you know
Jon Okay.
Mo except And it has ah Elliot Page is one of the voice actors and it’s actually ah his likeness, I should say, ah on it.
Jon Right.
Mo um And Willem Dafoe. There’s another actor who’s in it. And his and i played I played through, I guess, the first quarter, I guess I would say.
Jon Okay.
Mo So I think I got a pretty good feel for the game. And you play this character who has like these like psychic abilities. And it’s so sort of very similar, you know, Stranger Game. Like, oh, she’s in a lab and all that stuff.
Mo They have ah like a room mess up that looks like a kid’s room, but it’s just part of this whole facility, you know, that kind of thing.
Jon Ooh, kind of Stranger Things-y. Yeah, yeah, I see that.
Mo um But the the gameplay itself is definitely, you know, life is strange in sense that, you know you get these situations, you have to decide how what to do.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo and And it does seem like it has effect. I was hoping, well, it probably might have had effect. I just don’t know it because, you know, I’m just playing through the first time. um But there’s a thing like, you you have the simple test where you’re like, oh, what card is she looking at? Like, the woman’s in the other room.
Mo And you activate your power and you actually go and like your mind goes into the other the room and you can see like the person’s cards. So you can either lie and say the what card she actually has or tell the truth.
Jon Oh.
Jon Oh.
Mo Then you get this option to just basically scare the crap out of her. You can make chairs start flying. You can make like break the glass. And also you hear it’s like, stop the test.
Mo Stop the test.
George Mm-hmm.
Mo So and it also has a thing where you actually can play it two player um because it’s like you can play the character. And then I guess where the power comes from. you know and as two separate characters.
Jon Okay.
Mo It’s, I’m not sure how it works, but I’m completely honest. I’m not sure how it works, but it is there as an option. But so far, like said, I definitely, I’m enjoying it. Like I enjoyed life is strange. Like I’m, I’m,
Mo getting really vested in this story because it’s not even even like just the, yeah I get the feeling you’re going through like a huge chunk of this character’s life. It’s not just like one situation, you know, it’s early age. And I mean, it’s, it says it’s a whole long kind of a piece on it. And it’s, it’s really interesting. And if you can find it on sale, I’d say absolutely get it.
Jon Yeah. Okay. Beyond two souls.
Mo Beyond two souls.
Jon yeah Yeah. I think it might be made by don’t nod even the people. I’m not sure, but it might be.
Mo It might be, I’ll check it.
Jon feel like I remember looking at the time.
Mo Look into that. I’ll throw a link in there.
Jon Okay. Yeah.
Mo So if anyone anyone’s interested,
Jon of course. Great. Yeah.
Mo Yep. How about you, George? What have you been playing?
George Well, ah so I’ve been playing a game that um was brought to my attention during the marathon livestream session that I did trying to help us get to the 100,000 subscriber mark ah mark a few weeks ago.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon Yeah.
George um It’s… It’s an arcade platformer in the style of the original 80s arcade games, and it’s called Anna Lynn.
Mo Okay.
George Now, Mo, you talked about your game being five years old.
Jon Okay.
George This one’s four years old, so it’s got you by a year, but it’s only $5, so it’s very affordable on Steam.
Mo Okay.
Mo Hard to go wrong.
George To me, it should absolutely be an insta-buy at this point.
Jon Yep.
George If you like old games like Pac-Man,
Jon Oh.
George Donkey Kong Jr., Elevator Action, maybe. All these games?
Mo ah John is buying it right now as we speak.
Jon I don’t know anybody that likes all those things.
George I know. I ah guess what I’m trying to get at is all those games have elements in this game.
Jon Mm.
George So, just like Pac-Man is running around collecting dots in a maze-like structure, Anna Lynn is running around in her mine platform structure collecting these little coins and gems.
Jon Mm.
Mo Okay. Yeah.
George And… All she has to do to complete the level is get all the coins and gems. Just like in Pac-Man, you just have to get all the dots and power pellets and you can complete the level.
Mo yeah
George Uh, In this one, though, instead of it being, you know, like a top-down view of a maze, this is like a side view of a mine. So you’re jumping up and down between platforms.
Mo okay
Jon Okay.
George ah The platforms are all staggered. When I talked about elevator action, there are doors on each one of the levels that the monsters who are chasing you can use to go up and down levels to try and catch you.
Mo Oh, okay.
George So when you get close to a door, monsters start popping out of that little…
Jon Got it.
Mo okay
George It’s it’s not really a door. It’s more like a a cavern passage because this is inside a mine.
Jon Okay.
George Um, but they pop in and out, they’re trying to trap you and get all, you know, just, uh, all they have to do is run into you. When I talked about Donkey Kong Jr., when you get to, um, the level two section of the game and keep going forward, there are vines hanging down from the top of the cave that you climb just like you did in Donkey Kong Jr.
Mo Oh, okay.
George So you can climb one vine and it goes slow, or you can climb two vines and you go a little bit faster
Jon cute oh even has that the one two hand mechanic oh cool yeah
George Yeah, has the one-two hand mechanic.
Mo ah Nice.
George um The gems, besides the coins that are out there, the gems are like the power pellets in Pac-Man. So you hit those, all the monsters turn blue, just like they did in Pac-Man with the ghosts, and you kick them off of the platform.
Jon oh
George And then they regenerate by falling back down the mine shaft onto the play field and start coming after you again.
Jon Okay.
George So very, it is, it’s a lot of fun.
Jon That sounds great.
George It’s very difficult. I’m not going to lie. It’s got that retro Dodo or whatever that game is feel, um but not quite as frustrating.
Jon Donut Sure. You weaklings. Mm-hmm.
Mo she’s
George So that’s why I’ve still continued to play this one.
Mo That’s good. I may play it then.
George Yeah. Yeah. For $5, I think it’s well worth a play.
Jon you weaklings
George um We’ve done it in that one live stream because somebody literally, um somebody in the stream in the chat said, George, have you ever played Annalyn? I’m like, no, I’ve never. And then somebody else in the stream bought it for me so I could play it in that stream.
Jon Wow.
George um
Jon Wow. It’s a good gig.
George I think John could do a video on it or a live stream. It’s certainly worth it, just like a lot of the other games that we do in those formats. For five bucks, if you like any of the games that I’ve talked about, it’s well worth it, my opinion.
Jon Yeah.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Yeah.
Jon Yeah. Since you mentioned it, it’s on my list to look at. So I’m probably gonna live stream it before long, like you did, because it sounds it’s in right in the vein of those things that I love.
Mo Yeah.
Jon So, yeah.
George Mm-hmm. Yeah, it’s it’s a well-done modern retro game.
Jon Yeah.
George And that’s, we’ve talked about on the podcast before, just because you throw pixels at something, don’t make it a retro game, right?
Jon Not enough.
Mo Does it make it retro?
Jon Yeah.
Mo Yeah, absolutely.
Jon Yeah.
George This absolutely feels just like I would put a quarter in a machine to play this and I would get beat in 30 seconds and be putting another quarter right behind it
Jon Yep.
Jon Going again.
Mo Okay.
Jon Yep.
George Yeah. lot of fun. But now that’s the retro ish game that I’ve been playing. John, you’ve been playing another game related to our retro gaming pass.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Absolutely right. And you just, what did you say? Something about a modern retro game done right? This is another one of those and why I wanted to highlight it here.
George hmm.
Jon It was actually suggested to me by, I think it was suggested by ah regular ah viewer and commenter and contributor over on the live streams named Tork, T-O-R-Q.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George Oh, yeah, yeah.
Jon think he sent me a message and at one point and said, have you tried 8 Venture?
Mo Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Jon Now just picture a adventure, but there’s an eight instead of the AD. So it’s eight adventure named such because it’s on the Pico eight platform.
George Right.
Jon now if you’re not familiar with that, I don’t blame you. Not a lot of people are, but once you discover it, it’s really awesome. They call it a fantasy console. What it is, is a set of APIs to help you make your own little pixel art games.
Jon So it kind of takes the programming heavy lifting out of it so that people that are creative and have ideas to make games can make them on this Pico 8 platform.
Mo Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay.
Jon And George, since I just cost you money buying the mod kit for your glove, this game is free. doesn’t cost you anything to play.
Mo Oh, good.
Jon So…
George I mean, that’s good, but you didn’t cost me money. You cost Gen X Grown-Up money because I’m not using my card for it.
Jon I see. We’ll have to make it back somehow. So I’m saving money on this end. So… So what adventure is, since it sounds like ad adventure, it is. It is an homage to a spiritual. Look, it’s not affiliated with Atari in any way, but think of the original 1980 Warren Robinette cartridge Atari for your Atari 2600.
Jon Think of the 1980 Warren Robinette cartridge adventure for your Atari 2600. It’s that idea. You start in a gold castle. The gate is locked and you’re a dot.
Jon But after that, it all goes sideways from there. It doesn’t overdo the world, but it adds little elements, different monsters, different.
Mo Yes, it’s the
Jon What did we always say about the dragon? Oh, look, he looks like a duck, right?
Mo yes it’s the duck
Jon The main antagonist in this game is a big yellow rubber duck. He’s pixely, but they just went ahead and made the enemy a duck. There are new castles to explore. There are enemies to explore.
Jon You’re able to, you know, you grab the arrow sword in Adventure and you’re kind of holding it out in front of you. You can hold down a button and rotate what direction it’s pointing rather than just off to one side. You do that with any element.
Jon But beyond just playing the game, opening up castles, getting the chalice,
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon the spirit of adventure, the discovery of adventure that some people that never played it long enough to find the secret dot and the Easter egg in the secret room and everything. There’s hidden stuff in this game. You can find, there’s not one, but two hidden dots that you have to find and bring together in the same place in order to open up a secret room.
Jon There are ways to get into castles without using keys, which are kind of these meta achievements you can make. If you love the original adventure, there’s no reason not to go and try this out. You can play it for free in a browser. You don’t have to download anything. You just jump in, start moving with your keyboard and one button, two buttons on your, your keyboard.
Jon It’s like adventure.
Mo Yeah.
Jon It’s like the way we remember it, but amped up to 11, right? It’s just all this extra stuff in adventure. It doesn’t do anything to sully the idea of it. It’s an homage. It doesn’t try to be the same game.
Jon But I loved it the same way I love adventure. And I’ve gone back to play this again. It’s like, well, I never found this. I never figured out what to do with this kind of thing.
Mo you
Jon And at the end, what do you do? You bring the chalice back to the gold castle. That gives you a time. Congratulations. Then you can try it harder or go back again. So it’s called 8-Venture. Like I said, Mo, I’ll give you a link, throw down in the show notes.
Mo yeah
Jon Look, if you’re listening to this at home and have nothing to do, go now. It’s free.
Mo Yeah.
Jon doesn’t cost you anything.
Mo Awesome.
Jon I bet you’re going good time. And plus, I’ll give you a link to the live stream we did where we played this. you can go and check it out if you just want to take a look at it. Both are are available. So that’s it. Ed.
Mo awesome
Jon Cool. Thanks. All right. All right. Looking forward. I have to read this. Forward in. Five, four, three.
Jon As we come in the back end of the show, we always like to take just a moment here at the start of this segment to talk about the things we’re either looking at right now or looking forward to between now and the next time we get together. So don’t we start with you, Moe?
Jon Let us know what you have on the horizon.
Mo Yeah. um I mean, me watching more Strange New Worlds, right?
Jon Of course.
Mo um
Jon Oh, yeah.
Mo it’s yeah it’s That’s definitely looking forward to seat a short season.
Jon 100%. Mm-hmm.
Mo It’s going over before we know it, you know unfortunately, but still looking forward to watching those.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo so ah New season of South Park, season 27, if you can believe it.
Jon Yep.
Mo July 23rd, that’s crazy.
Jon Yep.
Mo I can’t believe it’s 27 seasons of that.
Jon <unk> I’d said a couple of weeks ago it was coming up, but probably delayed. And sure enough, it got delayed. Yeah.
Mo yeah guys ah But what I’m most looking forward to, surprisingly, yeah actually, is the Fantastic Four First Steps. You know it’s coming out on the 25th.
Jon Hmm. Okay.
Mo i I just like the look of the movie, like the art deco, the style. I don’t know.
Jon Mm hmm.
Mo really like it. I think it’s it’s it seems very, i know, i something about it just really appeals to me. um It seems like they got some really ah fantastic actors in it.
Mo you know And so knock on wood you that they do this movie well, which no one has ever able been able to do ever. So maybe this is the one that actually makes it a decent movie. So I’m hopeful.
George Yeah, I hope so too, but I think they really made a mistake by putting Pedro Pascal in there instead of John Krasinski.
Jon I agree. now I haven’t seen Pedro Pascal yet, but we’ve seen Krasinski’s portrayal, and it was awesome.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Yeah.
George Yeah, I’m no knock against Pascal. He’s a great actor.
Jon Yeah. Mm-hmm.
George He’s being overused right now, and he is not Reed Richards.
Jon Yep.
George Just that simple.
Jon Yeah.
Mo Well, I’ll see. yeah maybe Maybe he’ll surprise us, right?
Jon It’s going to be a reach. Yeah.
Mo It’s possible.
Jon Yeah.
Mo you know he say He’s a good actor, so maybe he’ll pull it off.
Jon Yeah.
Mo i don’t know. We’ll see. But how about you, What you looking forward to?
Jon Sure. Yeah. So a brand new game just came out. I hadn’t a chance to play it yet, but I just got my shipment from Bandai Namco. It’s Shadow Labyrinth. Remember the short in Secret Level that was like a dark version of Pac-Man called Circle where he was consuming the entity?
Jon And this is that game that that short was based on where Pac-Man is this dark dystopian monster who’s consuming everything.
George Mm-hmm.
Mo Oh yeah yeah.
Jon It just came out. I have not pushed start on it yet. I haven’t put in my code into Steam yet. I got the nice collector’s bundle. Eager to play it. and we’re going to do it live in a few days on our live stream.
Jon But I’m eager to play that. um And that’s out right now. You can go and get it right now. Tons of platforms. Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and everything. ah The next thing I’m looking forward to is coming August 1st. Oh, man.
Jon The naked gun. Does this is this?
George Oh, no.
Jon Yes. Yes.
Mo I know. i’m with you.
George Don’t look forward to that Liam Neeson bullshit.
Jon Oh, that thing looks so on brand.
Mo I’m with you, George. Yeah.
George No, it doesn’t.
Jon I am so excited.
Mo Oh.
Jon It does it.
George Oh, my God.
Jon Oh, well, you could be wrong, but I’m going to love it because.
Mo It could be. Does that need a remake, though? i don’t know.
Jon ah Well, here’s the thing I’m intrigued by.
George I mean, we got three series already in it, right? I mean…
Jon I know.
Mo hmm.
Jon Yeah. Well, you know, Neeson’s comedic, Neeson’s comedic timing and presentation is awesome. I think about him in Ted too, when he was buying the fruit loops at the, at the grocery store.
Jon And if you remember seeing that in Ted too, it’s surprising how good he is in comedies because he’s so typecast as this, this heavy.
George oh
Jon And I think he’s going to be great in this. The trailers look great.
George He’s not typecast. He has no fucking range.
Jon i disagree. ah dis it Well, we’ll find out August 1st, cause I’m gonna be in the theater watching it.
Mo yeah
George You’ll find out I ain’t watching that bullshit.
Jon So but suck
George Hmm.
Jon And the last thing I’m looking forward to, and the thing I’m looking forward to the most and have been looking forward to for years, the 14th season of King of the Hill comes out on Hulu on August 4th.
Jon 14th season, yeah.
Mo Wow.
Jon After a 15-year hiatus, it was canceled back after season 14.
Mo Has it been 15 years? Jeez.
Jon ah Yeah, yeah. It’s a time jump. There’s eight years in the future. So characters have grown older and evolved. It’s a different world. And we get to see those characters again. Now, sadly, some of the voice actors have passed away. So we have some replacements in there, but it’s still Mike Judge at the helm. He’s still doing the primary voices of Hank Hill and Boomhauer.
Jon And I love love, love, love, love that series. And I’ve been apprehensive about are they going to do with a revival? But everything I’ve seen so far, it feels on brand now. Super excited for that.
Jon I think they’re dropping it all at once on August 4th. So you know where I’ll be August 4th.
Mo Okay. Yeah.
Jon So checking that out. So George, how about you? What do you got coming up?
George Well, ah first off, just a little bit lighter of fare, Happy Gilmore 2 is coming out on Netflix July 25th.
Jon Oh yeah.
George I, I’m an Adam Sandler fan. I know a lot of people don’t necessarily find him very funny, but I do. And i find him endearing funny to me. Um, I thought happy Gilmore deserved a sequel if they were going to do it, you know, 10, 15 years ago, we didn’t get it.
George Obviously I’m glad that this whole Netflix deal that some of these comedians like Adam Sandler and Chris Rock have signed are doing some of these kinds of movies on Netflix that they wouldn’t necessarily get an opportunity to do.
Jon Mm-hmm.
George with a traditional movie studio so i’m looking forward to that i think it’ll be fun um another one that i’m looking forward to that actually will already be out by the time you get a chance to listen to this but i haven’t gotten to watch it yet uh there is a new documentary on one of my favorite musical acts of all time billy joel and so it goes coming from hbo
Mo Oh, yeah. I’ve seen a lot of news about that. Yeah.
George Yeah, July 18th. I think the reason why I’m looking forward to this is because most of the Billy Joel documentary kind of stuff focuses on the music. This one might focus more on him and his life.
George So I’m very interested to see if they tackle the subjects of the whole bankruptcy and him being stolen from, the marriages and divorces, the kids, all that kind of stuff.
Mo Mm-hmm.
George I really hope that that’s what this one focuses on because… I don’t need another documentary to tell me what Captain Jack is about or, ah you know, Piano Man’s fifth retelling.
Mo Yeah.
Jon Right. Right. You’ve been through all that. Yeah.
George Yeah, I don’t need any of that.
Jon ah yeah
George ah Thing I’m looking forward to most, and I’m sure it’s going to happen in the next two weeks, is the one million sub mark for Gen X growing up on YouTube, ladies and gentlemen.
Jon but
George We can make it happen right here. We got a million listeners on this podcast, I’m sure. So just head over to that secondary thing we do called the YouTube channel and click subscribe if you haven’t done it yet.
Jon just
George And we’ll get to that million before you know it.
Jon right around the corner yeah sure in a couple weeks sounds right you know what
George That’s right.
Mo Yeah. Well, we need like,
George It might already be there by the time you hear this. I don’t know.
Mo Yeah, we only need, 890,000, something like that to get there?
Jon a pittance it’s easy now i have some new now i have a new patron no
Mo We could do it.
George A pittance.
Jon Now, I have a new patron to welcome to our fold to support us over on Patreon. Before I do, though, I know that more often you’ll get questions from our Patreon supporters to ask us here on the show.
Mo Oh, yeah.
Jon Do you have one for this episode?
Mo Yeah, I do. And it’s from a ah longtime supporter, Power Driven. ah He’s been around forever.
Jon Oh, power. Yep.
Mo He’s a fantastic supporter. And so he asks, what were your favorite go-to snacks, sweets, and go-to quick foods growing up?
Jon Mm-hmm.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo What is still around? What is no longer available? And which ones you crave and or still eat or miss?
George Hmm.
Mo So one popped in my head almost immediately, which was, um do you guys remember the marathon bar?
Jon You want to go? Go for it.
George Yeah.
Mo it
Jon Yep.
Mo which it was a long, for those of you kids out there who don’t know, it was a long, almost braided caramel with chocolate.
George Mm hmm.
Jon Yep.
Mo um And it was like long.
George Yeah.
Mo And the the commercials were like, you two people to race to see how fast they can eat them and all sorts of stuff like that, which were great.
Jon They’re super chewy.
Mo Yeah, super chewy.
Jon Yeah.
Mo And man, that sent me to the dentist more than any other candy out there.
George Yeah.
Mo um And I don’t think they make them anymore. I’ve not seen them in forever, but.
Jon So but we actually talked about the Marathon Bar years ago, and we discovered it’s still made in the UK under the name Curly Whirly.
Mo Curly Whirly.
Jon And we even ordered some. Now, this has been like five years ago.
George Ah.
Mo Oh.
Jon But you can still get them. It tastes just the same. It’s not in the US, but you can order them. And I found them on Amazon, I think. Curly Whirly, Mo. You can hook it up.
Mo Okay, I’m going to take a look.
Jon You can make it happen.
Mo ah Right now, to look up right now.
Jon Yeah.
Mo So how about you, John?
Jon Yep.
Mo What’s your answer to that one?
Jon Mine’s easy. Yeah. Two things. One that’s still around. One that’s not. ah And so the one that’s not around anymore. I love I’m a peanut butter freak. I love peanut butter sandwiches and just peanut butter in general and Reese’s peanut butter cups.
Jon I think it was, might’ve been planters even made these things called PB crisps that were these little fake peanuts.
Mo PB crisps.
Jon Like they were in the shape of a peanut, but it was like soft wafer stuff with two little dollops of peanut butter inside where the nuts would be, right?
George Huh. Okay.
George okay
Jon So- In the bag, you pull it out and it looks like a peanut, but it’s really like this wafer with little two little dollops of peanut butter and just pop it in your mouth. And it’s creamy and crispy and light and wafery and they’re gone.
Jon It’s one of those like lost snack foods that are gone. And like I still crave that thing. You know, nothing quite hits like that does. The other one that I always enjoyed was ah really simple. and Everybody still makes them. And that’s ah the…
Jon The fruit pies, you know, the little, the little, like, you know, four inch by three inch.
Mo Yeah.
George ah Hostess fruit pies.
Mo Yeah, yeah.
Jon Yes. Little fruit pies.
Mo The hostess.
Jon Do you know those things cost like three and four bucks a piece now when you go to the store?
Mo Yeah.
Mo Whoa.
George Yeah.
Jon It’s ridiculous. They used to be 50 cents. I could walk in the store with ah
Mo ah You can’t tell me they actually added fruit now.
Jon no No, no, no. No, they’re just more expensive and smaller, probably.
Mo Yeah.
Jon I would walk in a convenience store with a dollar and get a little thing of milk and a fruit pie and have like 12 cents change and walk out of there.
Mo Yeah.
Mo Yeah.
Jon and But yeah, fruit pies, PB crisps. Those are my two.
Mo Nice.
Jon One you still get, well, if you’re to pay for it, one you can’t. How about you, George?
George I, it’s a difficult question for me because we own the grocery store growing up. So I had a sampling of pretty much anything you could think of.
Jon Mmm. have everything.
George Um, everything that I can, that comes to the front of my mind is around in some fashion or another. so I’m trying to think of things that are unusual. Like I would say goobers, but there’s still goobers around.
Jon Mm-hmm. Yep. Mm-hmm.
George you get them at the dollar store. Now they’re just not sold in theaters like they used to when I was kid. Mountain Dew is obviously split off and become flavor hell now.
Mo Yeah. Okay.
George I loved Mountain Dew growing up. I guess um if I had to pick two things that are, eat one is unusual, but it’s still around. It’s just hard to find. There were these little plank cookies and they had three flavors to them.
Mo okay
George And they were hard as rocks, but I loved them. And I loved the gingerbread one the most, but there was a banana flavor, a strawberry flavor, and a ginger flavor. And they came in these ah thin, long packs that were maybe slightly bigger than an original Hershey bar, not the modern small Hershey bars.
Mo Hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
George um And the edges of the cookies were like little semicircles around the edge, like you might see the frosting on a birthday cake from Publix kind of shape.
Mo he
Jon I got it.
George um And there were two of them in the pack and we sold them. ah A pack was a quarter. I think now they’re like 50 cents or 75 cents, something like that when you can find them. ah The other thing is absolutely not around anymore, ah but it was a franchise pizza place called Pizza Inn.
Mo Mm-hmm.
Jon Oh, yeah.
Mo Mm.
George I loved Pizza Inn Pizza. It was that crispy wafer pizza. It wasn’t deep dish or soft crust or any of that stuff. And the only thing that’s kind of like it in the modern era is Shakey’s Pizza.
George Shakey’s does a cracker crust type of pizza, um but that’s mostly in California.
Jon Yeah.
George So can’t really find it over here on this coast. But yeah, I would say those little wafer plank cookies and then the ah Pizza Inn.
Jon Hmm.
Mo Plank cookies. Awesome.
Jon I want to try the cookies.
Mo All right.
Jon Those sound interesting.
Mo Yeah, they do
Jon And you can still get them, you said? You’re still out there around somewhere?
George There’s like this store that’s it’s called Fresh for Less down here. It’s like a knockoff Winn-Dixie kind of place.
Jon Okay.
George And they sell them there. So somebody is still making them somewhere.
Jon All right, they’re out there.
George Or they’ve been in a warehouse since 1985 and they’ve just been unloading them to the store.
Jon Okay.
Mo Can you tell the difference?
Jon Old stock. they They never go bad.
Mo Oh, that’s awesome. Thanks for those answers. And thanks for that question, Power Driven. And hey, if you want to get your question on the show, it’s super easy.
Jon Mm-hmm.
Mo Just go to genxgroup.com slash Patreon. As little as a dollar a month. Send me your question and we’ll answer it right here on the show.
Jon Yep.
Jon We’ll do it. Yeah. And I’d mentioned, I wanted to welcome a brand new patron, semi long time listener, I think probably the last year or so, we discovered one another and he’s been super active um everywhere that we put stuff out.
Jon ah He goes by 1969 Eliminator, which is his favorite car. Yeah.
Mo you
Jon but it’s also his screen name and handle. And he did just what you suggest, Mo. He, he headed over to gen X grownup.com slash Patreon, opened up his wallet and his heart and set up a regular recurring small monthly pledge to help support what we do here on the podcast over on that.
Jon Apparently a YouTube channel, according to George, we have a here.
Mo yeah
Jon Yeah.
George Yeah, somewhere.
Jon Uh, and the website, everything that we do, it goes to support everything we do goes to support us. So thank you. 1969 eliminator. We love that you did that. We love that you’re joining this roster of amazing supporters. That then is going to wrap it up for this edition of the show. Don’t worry though.
Jon We’ll be back in two weeks with another one. And next week, well, that’s our backtrack as we pick a single nostalgic topic and dig in deep. George, you’d like to do the honors and let the fourth listener know what’s coming their way in next week’s backtrack.
George Well, much in ah keeping with that Patreon question, Valkyrie needs food. We’re going to tackle some ghosts, some little stone lobbing barbarians and talk all about Gauntlet from when did that come out?
Jon Yep.
Jon Gauntlet.
George Like 83 or 84, maybe 85.
Mo 85. It’s 85. Yeah.
Jon eighty five 85. 40 years, I think.
Mo Always man.
George eighty five
Mo yeah
Jon Yeah.
George Wow.
Jon Yeah. Mm-hmm.
George It was on the trailing edge then. that’s Gauntlet’s a great game. There’s been a couple of different iterations of it over the time.
Jon Yep.
George We’re going to dig deep on Gauntlet when we come back next week.
Jon That’s going to be fun. Don’t want to miss that one. All right. Until then, I’m John George. Thank you so much for being here, man.
George Yes, sir.
Jon Mo, you know, i appreciate you.
Mo he fun man
Jon Fourth listener, it’s you. We fourth listener. It’s you. We all appreciate most of all, though. We cannot wait to talk to you again next time. Bye-bye.
George See you guys.
Mo Take care, buddy.
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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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