Podcast
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Interview with Charlie McCarron – Part 1
This week we interview game designer Charlie McCarron, the creator of a unique game titled Four Humours. In Four Humours, you are a medieval doctor who travels the kingdom and uses potions to win over the citizenry. In part one of our interview, we talk with Charlie about how he first got interested in game design, how long it took to develop Four Humours, the process of play-testing the game, what the publishing process was like, how the Kickstarter campaign worked, and more. You can find out more about Charlie at his website charliemccarron.com.
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Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 is a 2014 animated Disney movie loosely based on a Marvel comic of the same name. In the movie, 14 year old Hiro Hamada tries to solve the mystery surrounding the untimely death of his older brother Tadashi. Hiro is joined on his mission by Baymax, a huggable health-care robot build by his brother, along with a group of Tadashi's college friends. As their adventure unfolds, they become super-heroes who save the city from a mysterious villian out to destroy his enemies.
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Shrek the Musical
This past weekend our very own Evan performed in Shrek the Musical Jr. as Donkey. We talk a bit about the show, the music, and the characters in the show.
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is a 2022 retelling of the classic tale of a wooden puppet come to life. Set in fascist Italy during World War II, the stop-motion animated movie is at once a story of one child lost and another found, how life and death are both interconnected and inevitable, and the lengths one would go to to save a loved one.
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The Owl House – Season 3
The Owl House series recently wrapped up the 3rd and final season with a 3 episode send-off. The previous 2 seasons had around 20 episodes each to tell the story of Luz, Eda, and King, and their adventures on the Boiling Isles. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled by Disney Execs, and the storytellers were left with only 3 extended episodes to bring the show to a conclusion. On this week's show we discuss whether they arrived at a satisfying ending.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
In the new movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Edgin the bard (Chris Pine), plus his barbarian, druid and mage friends, embark on a quest to right past wrongs and save Edgin's daughter from their former colleague Forge Fitzwilliam and the evil Red Sorceress.
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Lockwood & Co.
Lockwood and Co. is a supernatural young adult television series that premiered on Netflix in January, 2023. The story is based on the Lockwood and Co. series of books by author Jonathan Stroud. The 8 episode series covers the events of the first 2 books, which were titled The Screaming Staircase and The Whispering Skull. Lockwood and Co. has a unique story: it’s set in present day Britain, but it’s an alternate timeline, where ghosts are real and their touch will kill you. The world has been dealing with this problem for 50 years, and to this day, no one knows what caused it or how to stop it. While adults cannot sense the ghosts, children and teens can, and those who are gifted with this ability work as ghost hunters. The series stars Ruby Stokes as Lucy Carlyle, an extremely talented teen who can listen the and even speak with ghosts. Cameron Chapman stars as Antony Lockwood, the charismatic leader of Lockwood & Co., and rounding out the group is Ali Hadji-Heshmati as George Karim, the book-smart researcher for the group.
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Conversation, Podcast, Technology
Roomba
In addition to its job cleaning the house, is the vacuuming robot known as the Roomba a pop-cultural icon? We think so, since an original model sits in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Join us this week for a not-so-serious discussion about the Roomba.
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Canvas
In the game Canvas, you play as an artist competing against your fellow players. You draw a series of transparent cards with images on them, then layer 3 of the cards together to create a unique picture. Icons at the bottom of your painting will show if you've met any of the requirements to earn points. Each player creates 3 pieces of art during the game, and when the scoring is done, the player with the most points wins.
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
This week Linnea and Evan take over the show, and discuss the 2022 adventure/comedy movie Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.