Podcast
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New Year’s Resolutions
Happy New Year! This week, we talk about new year's resolutions.
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The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron is a 2023 animated feature from the legendary writer and director Hayao Miyazaki, and produced by Studio Ghibli. The movies tells the story of 12-year-old Mahito who, after moving to the country to escape Tokyo during the war, enters a mysterious tower at the behest of a strange talking heron.
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Spotify Wrapped
The music streaming service Spotify is out with their yearly summary of each user's musical tastes and highlights. The feature, called Wrapped, is very popular, and is the talk of the lunch table on the show this week.
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Alphabet Stoop
This week we review a brand new word building game called Alphabet Stoop by game designer Charlie McCarron and Pops & Bejou Games. The game is for 2-5 players ages 6+.
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The Marvels
The Marvels is a superhero film that combines the forces of Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau, and Ms. Marvel into a team to fight against the enemy Kree's plans to fix their homeworld by taking the resources of their enemies.
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Bananagrams
Bananagrams is a word game that feels like a cross between Boggle and Scrabble. In the game, each player takes a number of letter tiles from a central group of 144, then arranges those tiles to form any number of connected words in a crossword-like shape. Once a player uses all their starting letters, they call "peel" and each player takes an additional letter to add to their growing maze of words. This process continues until all the tiles in the center are used. Race against your opponents to use all your letters first and win the game!
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is a 16 episode animated series that premiered on the Disney Channel in February 2023, and was subsequently released on Disney+. The show follows the day-to-day adventures of 13 year old Lunella Lafayette, a whip-smart girl living in New York, who discovers a mysterious portal generator under her apartment. When she activates it, a giant red tyrannosaurus steps through, and becomes her trusty pal. With the help of Lunella's friend Casey, the two become the super-hero team Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
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The Wrong Trousers
The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 stop-motion animated short by Aardman Animations. The 29 minute film features the characters of Wallace and Gromit, who first appeared in the 1989 short A Grand Day Out. This film finds the duo short on money, and with bills to pay, Wallace decides to rent a room to a chicken. Unbeknownst to him, the chicken is none other than a criminal penguin in disguise, who plans on using a pair of techno-trousers to steal a large diamond from a museum.
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One Piece (Live Action)
One Piece is an 8 episode fantasy pirate adventure series that premiered on Netflix in August of 2023. The series was adapted from the manga and anime of the same name by author Eiichiro Oda. The show tells the story of a young boy named Monkey D. Luffy who dreams of becoming the king of the pirates, and assembles a crew to sail the seas in a quest to recover the famous treasure known as the One Piece.