In this episode:
- special guest Joe in KY,
- the digitally remastered episodes of Star Trek,
- the Star Wars movies,
- After Hours (1985) starring Griffin Dunne,
- video games vs. action figures,
- board games (Mouse Trap, Electronic Battleship, etc.),
- old video game consoles (Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision, Nintendo Entertainment System, etc.),
- the horrendous state of arcades,
- Zork and text adventure video games,
- children’s TV shows in the 1970s vs. today (Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Battle of the Planets, Pokemon, etc.)
- Empire Records (1995) starring Liv Tyler,
- Rob being bored by The Dark Knight (2008),
- Bruno (2009) starring Sacha Baron Cohen,
- celebrity birthdays (Bill Cosby and Ringo Starr),
- a celebrity death (Billy Mays),
- Steve Martin’s filmography,
- our movie review of Henry Poole Is Here (2008) starring Luke Wilson,
- and Short Time (1990) starring Dabney Coleman.
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Guys..thanks again for having me on. It was a blast!!
Hi Joe, you’re welcome! Thanks again for being our guest! It was great talking with you, though I forgot to ask you to do your impersonation of the Macho Man crying.
By the way, we can’t keep up with all of these celebrity deaths. Every time we post a new episode, another one dies. This time it’s Walter Cronkite.
And I might have to buy the Electric Company on DVD. “silent-LY”
Wow how could Joe live through the seventies without having Shogun Warriors or Micronauts or Buck Rogers toys? Maybe he did but if he mentioned them after the first thirty minutes of the show I didn’t hear it because I sat down and my MP3 player sucks.
I was in the middle of typing a long comment and Safari on the Mac lost it. Thanks, Apple.
Esteban, Joe didn’t mention Shogun Warriors, Micronauts, or Buck Rogers toys. I’ll have to ask him about those.
The main toys I had from age six and up were Transformers, Gobots, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and video games (Atari and Nintendo stuff). I also had a bunch of vinyl records and cassette tapes. I was really into music and video games and riding my bike.
I never owned any G.I. Joe, Ghostbusters, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures, race car tracks, or remote controlled cars. I did have a few creative/artistic toys, like Legos, Construx, Lite-Brite, and an Etch-a-Sketch Animator. I also had a few random Star Wars and Rock Lords figures and a small rubber Voltron.
Esteban,
I really wasn’t into the figure toys growing up. I was more attracted to toys that actually did something..lol. I was into science and art so I was asking for things like Etch-a-Sketch, Spirograph, an erector set, etc. One year I forgo any request for toys if my parents bought me a microscope! Then it was the same for a telescope. I just found stuff like G.I Joe, Shogun Warriors and the like uninteresting.
i‘m so glad you mentioned ‘battle of the planets’! one of the first shows i watched (aged 5). make sure you now watch ‘gatchaman’ – the uncut versions – quite sophisticated but surprisingly violent for a cartoon. the edited version for the younger audience really doesn’t hold up. to me at least, it was the precursor to all the action cartoons – ‘masters of the universe’ onwards.