Enjoy Stuff: A TechnoRetro Podcast

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What did you get for Christmas?  We loaded up (like we do every year) and had lots of fun.  But not just at Christmas time -- we have had a great year in 2013.  We take some time to revisit what happened in 2013 and reveal some of our expectations for 2014, and while everything has not been all shiny this year, we have high hopes for the year to come.

We also talk about the upcoming Annie Awards and the categories and nominees in our News segment.  In the History Lesson, we turn back the clock to the week after Christmas in the 70s and 80s to see what was going on while we were playing with the Star Wars toys Santa brought us back then.

The final results of the first season of the TechnoRetro Bowl are in and we celebrate the lopsided victory of an undefeated team.  Congratulations to Craig!

As the little one with the great big ears would say in that famous Rankin/Bass special.... “Happy New Year!”

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Quick -- before Christmas actually gets here and it seems like it may be kind of weird to watch it -- check out A Charlie Brown Christmas.  JediShua and shazbazzar sat down with their families to watch the special that started it all as they wrap up a three-month trilogy of Peanuts specials just in time for Christmas.

We also climb up in our attics to pull out some dusty memories of toys of Christmases past as well as delve into some newsy items dig up data from the 70s and 80s about  computers and even a look at the future from the perspective of the past (1974, to be precise).

With just over a week before 2013 concludes, you can still plug in your ear buds to TechnoRetro Dads.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

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Shake off the Humbugs and get UNSCROOGED in this Christmas Music Spectacular!  Since music is such an intrinsic part of the holiday season and makes for great memories, we thought we’d share some of our favorites of years gone by as well as some new things we’ve added to our holiday playlist.
 

As a bonus feature of this episode, we called up Bob Brown for a chat about his song, “Santa, Bring Me a Dinosaur”, a fun little ditty from Down Under.

Plug this one into the car as your traveling or play it on the home stereo.  You’ll enjoy hearing these tunes over and over and over again.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

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Whether your weather is -10 or 101 (or even 40 or 60), you have a lot to do over the next nine days.  What better way to get started than with some TechnoRetro good times with your ear buds?  Join shazbazzar and JediShua for some Lazer Kicking action as Mr. Heatmiser and Mr. Snowmiser have a showdown for top song-and-dance man!

We watch The Year Without a Santa Claus with our families and realize the difference nearly forty years makes in Christmas TV specials.  Indiana Solo and the Python Adventure is in the news, and King Kong shows up on the Superstation via 8 inch floppy disks.

If that makes sense to you, you may very well be a TechnoRetro Dad.  Check out this episode for some bright points this week, both in the past and the present. 

If you like what you hear, be sure to leave us a good review on iTunes!

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Each year around this time, we used to sit around and dream about what we wanted for Christmas...

What I want is a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time.  I think that everybody should have a Red Ryder BB gun. They're very good for Christmas. I don't think that a football's a very good Christmas present.

Whether you want a major award, a nightmarish pink bunny suit, a Chinese turkey from Bo Ling, or just want to finally win against Scud Farkis, this episode of TechnoRetro Dads will certainly satisfy your cravings.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get a mouthful of Lifebuoy.

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Stuffed from Turkey?  Tuckered out from traveling?  JediShua and shazbazzar are starting to spread Christmas cheer now that the season has officially opened.  Beginning on Cyber Monday and continuing through the month of December, TechnoRetro Dads will focus on the fun times of this season remembering, reminiscing, and reliving the movies, music, and more from the 70s and 80s in December.

This week, we watch Miracle on 34th Street in the Family Circle, rediscover some Toys in the Attic from Christmas past, as well as keep track of News and History Lessons.  Grab your earbuds and join us for 80 minutes this week!

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family from a couple of turkeys and their kin.  If you have a bit of a journey today on your way to see family and don’t feel like singing songs the whole way, here are eighty-three minutes of TechnoRetro fun (and facts) to hopefully make the ride more bearable...

Are we there, yet?

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Blunt the knives and bend the forks!
Smash the bottles and burn the corks!
Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates...

Musical memories and more abound this week as Glen Nelson from High Adventure joins us to talk about the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated feature, The Hobbit.  Get your shortened work week started right with news from Mars, historical references to humpback whales, eager expectations of Thanksgiving traditions, and a flying squirrel and moose to boot!

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While we’re all recovering from a week of Life Day celebrations, here’s an abbreviated (read: shorter) version of TechnoRetro Dads to help you get your work week started off on the right beat.  

The “Name that Tune” contest has a winner with two out of three segment themes being guessed by our friend and longtime podcaster, WOMP.  Congratulations!  But you still have an opportunity to guess the “NEWS” segment theme and/or band if you want to be a winner, too, so send in your best guess to podcast@TechnoRetroDads.com.

With some wonky randomness, debate on the nicknames of Bill Gates and Bill Watterson, reverse-image promo posters, and the introduction of the hoverboard in 1989, join shazbazzar and JediShua on a trip back and forth through time on this week’s episode of TechnoRetro Dads.  (And be sure to leave us a great review on iTunes, as well.  We really do appreciate it!) 

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With a bit of a chill in the air and the leaves leaving their branches for a spot on the lawn, memories get revived as we head into the holiday season (even if shaz has some confusion in his memories).  Before you get into your work week, take a bit of a break with TechnoRetro Dads in this special episode remembering The Star Wars Holiday Special as we prepare for the 35th anniversary of the one-time showing on CBS.  

Our good friend Jorbex stops by for a chat about an old podcast prank, SKot from StarWarsHolidaySpecial.com tells us about his memories of the Holiday Special, and Paul Bateman from the Star Wars Influences podcast on ShotGlass Digital reveals some interesting information about how Ralph McQuarrie got involved in one of the most hyped parts of that galaxy far, far away.

All this with News, History Lessons, and a bit of fun packed in for good measure makes this a TechnoRetro Dads you won’t want to miss!

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Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce!

Special orders don’t upset us.

All we ask is that you let us

serve it your way.

Halloween is over, the Christmas catalogs are hitting the mailboxes, and you need to download TechnoRetro Dads.  Whether you are looking for a princess dress, a TMNT playset, or even a Honda Scooter, you will want to hear what is happening with some of your favorite franchises from the 70s and 80s as JediShua and shazbazzar climb into the Way-Back Machine again to drum up some memories of those days gone by.

Is it a bunny or a vampire?  Did Death come knocking at your door last Thursday night?  Why does a squirrel hang out with the salmon mousse?  These questions and more await you in this early November episode of TechnoRetro Dads!

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Have you gone to work in costume?

Is there a bowl of candy on your desk?

Are you totally prepared for tonight’s onslaught of Trick or Treaters?

Start your Halloween morning on the right foot, hoof, paw, or claw by downloading and listening to the TechnoRetro Dads Spooktacular.  JediShua and shazbazzar recall past Halloweens while giving some tips and ideas to make today and tonight even better with music and sound clips.   

Plus: we circle our families in our living rooms with Peanuts, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to arrive.  Maybe our pumpkin patch will be judged most sincere…

If you like what you hear — subscribe and submit a great 5 star review on iTunes!

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Get in the Mystery Machine this week for a trip back in time with JediScooby and shazzy as the TechnoRetro Dads investigate the creepy-kooky Addams family in another Monster Cereal TechnoRetro Challenge.  Stick around for more detective work as Dave Filoni opens up about what could be a lead on at least one Rebel from the upcoming animated Star Wars series as we Decode the Director.  

On top of that, Bill Nye gives Sheldon a try, Arndt is out, and we give Sega a little bit of air time.

Start your work week off with a blast from the past and some hints about the future in this pre-Halloween episode of TechnoRetro Dads!

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After a week off for National School Lunch week, TechnoRetro Dads is back to talk about the things we loved in the 70s and 80s.  JediShua and shazbazzar are in the Arcade this week (thanks to Satka and Womp) to eat some pizza, play some games, and talk about the news, speculate on Star Wars: REBELS, remember the Munsters, and share memories of classic video games.  Start your work week right with TechnoRetro Dads!

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We tried to meet up in Columbus for a special holiday version of TechnoRetro Dads, but evidently, there is more than one Columbus in the United States.  We will be back next Monday to help you start your work week on the right foot.  Until then, celebrate School Lunch Week!

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Do Mondays sometimes make you feel like you have rocks in your head?  Then get up and get your earbuds -- you are going to want to give this episode a listen as early as possible as we take an improbable journey into the old School House with some sedimentary, metamorphic, and maybe even igneous geological samples from the groovalicious past and not even recent formations.  JediShua and shazbazzar drum up some tunes, but not before getting the word out about the latest news...

Get a glimpse of Star Wars: REBELS tonight on Disney XD.  Wow!  No one saw that one coming!

Then, take another TechnoRetro Challenge during Monster Cereals Month as the Goolies groove out their tunes in classic cartoon style.

If you remember the tunes that were fun, funny, entertaining, and even educational, you will be sure to dig the October 7 episode of TechnoRetro Dads. 

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You can live in the future and in the past each Monday on TechnoRetro Dads.  This week, we look to a 2030-something Mission to Mars and remember a super-powered prehistoric ball of fur better known as Captain Caveman.  We also take a Journey into Imagination as EPCOT opens its gates in 1982 just a day before we first traveled through time with Phineas Bogg in Voyagers

Mondays are fundays with TechnoRetro Dads.  Join us each week!

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Boom-shakalaka!
Do I have your attention, now?

Alchemist and Idea Generator (Spencer Brinkerhoff III) joins JediShua and shazbazzar for up to twenty-six year-old memories of the classic and quotable movie of a story within a book, The Princess Bride.

 
While the weather is wet in the West and love bugs get lonely in the South, we check out the inconceivable news as well as study our History Lesson from the 70s and 80s.  Plus, a TechnoRetro Bowl update as we see who is the biggest and strongest going into the third week of our first Fantasy Football season.  

Contact us with your responses to the TechnoRetro Challenge this week as we watch Captain Caveman while munching on Cinnamon Life cereal.

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TechnoRetro randomness abounds in this week of historic season premiers, legendary unveilings, and lunar cheese excavations.  Plus, discover why Indonesia Jones and James Camaroon are in Jakarta, why Rowling is rolling in Fantastic Beasts, who is responsible for the iconic Vulcan hand-gesture, and possibly even find out how Boba got his beskar’gam.  

 
Friends of the show are invited to interact through TechnoRetro Challenges where we recapture the magic of Saturday mornings long ago with a favorite cartoon and a bowl of cereal.  This week, we eat Toucan Sam’s Froot Loops while watching the classic Godzilla cartoon.

With Drive-in movie tips, TechnoRetro Bowl highlights, and a history lesson with BSG, Buck Rogers, and even Captain EO, this episode of TechnoRetro Dads is flooding with memories! 

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What is wrinkled and green and can be formed from merely five folds?  Origami Yoda, of course!  Superfriend Tom Angelberger joins shazbazzar and JediShua for some funtime talk about his newest addition to the Origami Yoda series: The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett.  This Monday morning batch of TechnoRetro goodness mixes a shot of stellar scientific dancing with a pinch of baby footwear boogie and serves it up on a nice plate with Green Eggs and Ham.  

Download early and listen in your home on your phone or on a train with your brain. 

(Just be warned, some of this content may send your canine companion into an Alpolectic fit.)

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If you could choose your own adventure after waking up eight years into the future (though you yourself are the same age), would you go back to 1978 or remain in 1986?  The shazlings, the Shualings, and Chris from SMore Geeks all join us on this episode to address this all-important question from Flight of the Navigator.  

From sticker collecting books to jumping the Snake River with Evel Knievel, the adventures never end when JediShua and shazbazzar get pink with Henry Mancini and Blake Edwards remember the days of their past with cartoons, cereal, toys, movies, songs, and then go back to the future (or the present) to discuss some of what is happening today with those same things.  So whether you are interested in toys, games, movies, TV shows, or even books and “lazy books”, you will find something on TechnoRetro Dads this Labor Day.

And don’t forget the TechnoRetro Bowl Fantasy Football draft tonight and the new TechnoRetro Challenge with Froot Loops cereal and the 1978 Godzilla cartoon (you can find it on Netflix).

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Moaning on Monday?  Thirsty on Thursday?  Let TechnoRetro Dads make every day brighter with milk carton tank battles in the school cafeteria.  And, since school is in session, we promote educational excellence by learning a rarely used Greek word for “untrue”.  You will feel like you are back in school with the regular History Lesson, an introduction to the French language, a bit of drama in theater class, and even a pep rally to get everyone ready for Fantasy Football season!

 

 


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School starts back again today for JediShua and the shazlings (BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH), but the Angels of Charlie are guiding the learning experience from the far reaches of space as we encounter the Cygnus near a Black Hole. Microsoft and IBM team up and Apple welcomes the competition while Zelda meets up with the Lost Mario Bro at the movies!

Unless you are out of this world or trapped somewhere in the GRID, listen in and then join in some of the fun with the TechnoRetro Bowl or by eating some Honey Smacks (formerly known as Sugar Smacks) and checking out some Pink Panther cartoons.  Hey, do both.  You will be glad you did!

Darth Fonzies or Darth Stubings?  Be sure to let JediShua know! 

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Return to a time when Ronald McDonald would do it all for you, including host a fully choreographed dance number with aliens disguised as teddy bears and government agents.  That’s just a taste of what we remember this week on TechnoRetro Dads! 

With some news and history lessons about some of our favorite franchises dating back to the disco decade, challenges for listeners and friends, and a few tips and tricks for movies and fantasy football drafts, you would have to be Lee Majors to avoid this China Groovin episode of TechnoRetro Dads!

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Save the Cat!  After hearing from Kathleen Kennedy at Celebration Europe that even she thinks movies tend to all follow the same pattern, we discover the screenwriting formula has been penned and published in a format that gets down to minute-by-minute details.  JediShua also provides some delicious movie tips and we have loads of retro news about this week in the 70s and 80s!

Plus, with football season just around the corner, we’ve extended the invitation to get into the TechnoRetro Dads Fantasy Football League.  So plug in your earbuds and join your buds shazbazzar and JediShua as we begin another work week!

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Greetings, Programs and all you Star Wars fans!

In this special edition of TechnoRetro Dads, we sift through our Star Wars Celebration Europe II reports from Satka in Essen, Germany to bring you just a bit of the experience that is a Star Wars Celebration.  With highlights from Kathleen Kennedy and Dave Filoni, we talk about what we can expect in the bonus content from Star Wars: The Clone Wars as well as the highly anticipated Star Wars: Rebels and then get just a bit ofinsight into what Episode VII will look like in 2015.  Although it is impossible to consolidate a Celebration into an hour-long podcast, maybe you can feel like you were part of the event for just a little while.

 
May the force be with you!

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Hey, Hey, Hey....it's Hasbro!

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Hey, hey, hey, it’s TechnoRetro Dads.

The Lantern City illustrated novel is hitting mailboxes this week after their introduction at SDCC, new Hasbro Star Wars figures are hitting retail, and the Ewok Adventure hits some highs and lows in this week’s TechnoRetro Dads.

This week is The Final Countdown to the launch of MTV (that’s Music Television to those of you who have the mistaken idea that it’s about reality TV).

So get out your Honeycomb cereal and sit down with Bill Cosby for a Saturday morning viewing of Fat Albert (after spending seventy-seven minutes with shazbazzar and JediShua, of course).

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With San Diego Comic Con behind us and Celebration Europe II coming this weekend, this week’s podcast is filled to the brim with news, history, and tips that will help you enjoy your time at conventions (and movies) even more. 

TRON is back in the news, along with a reboot of The Black Hole.  Of course, we have some Star Wars news and lots of our favorite (and fun) things from the 70s and 80s.  So start your work week on the right foot (which may be your left foot, if you’re marching) with a larger-than-life episode of TechnoRetro Dads.

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Finally, we turn the interview tables on Jimmy Mac of RebelForce Radio (and a host of other podcasts on the Shotglass Digital network) and get a RetroSpective of what makes the legendary podcaster tick.  

Obi-Wan is in the news (and in a mind control history lesson as well), Shaun Cassidy is #1, Martian Night Life, and a fantasy story that never ends.

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Gushing about George Lucas?  Of course.  Plus, shazbazzar and JediShua go Monster watching with their families and end up in an extended look at pixels, er, rather, Pixar.  Plus, a look at some video games and video game movies.

All this, and Aluminum Boy, too!  Before you head off to work this morning, make sure to download TechnoRetro Dads.  It just makes Mondays better!

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He fights for Truth, Justice, and the American Way (at least that used to be his motto -- he is from Kansas, anyway).  We talk Man of Steel with one of the foremost Superman fans online, Steve Glosson from Geek Out Loud! 

With current news about some blasts from the past, this holiday week episode takes us back to the days when we were kids, anxiously awaiting the first launches of sky bombs and fireworks on the Fourth of July.  

Filmmaker Sheldon Norton, a frequent panelist on TRON: Decoding the Grid, tells us more about his current project, Shikoba Falls.

So step into your dancing shoes, strap on your red cape, and climb into your cylon-centric Pontiac Firebird as we hustle into a shorter work week (if you’re living in the United States) with a brand new episode of TechnoRetro Dads. Thanks for joining us this week!


(Oh, and it's a little long this week.)

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This week, shazbazzar and JediShua check out the latest news relating to some of our favorite franchises.  Star Wars: The Clone Wars wins an Emmy, LEGO has a new movie, and  The Dark Crystal is on an author quest.

The history lesson includes Spaceballs, The Twilight Zone, Blade Runner, and more information about Atari than you ever knew you didn’t know. 

Dig in and decode some of the latest tidbits of information about Star Wars: Rebels.  (Since the recording of this episode, Dave Filoni has confirmed JediShua’s conclusions regarding the look and feel of the upcoming Star Wars animated  series on last Friday’s RebelForce Radio.)

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Happy TechnoRetro Dads Day!

Join JediShua and shazbazzar as they honor their dads and TechnoRetro Dads everywhere. 

Check out their take on the News about Star Wars, Pac Man, and the Hobbit as well as some History Lessons ranging from Atari to the Sony Walkman to the first American woman in space, and some movie memories as well. 

We’ll be talking about Man of Steel as well as Superman in a couple of weeks (we’re giving everyone plenty of time to go see it, just in case you didn’t take your TechnoRetro Dad already this past weekend).

And if you see Sally Ride's carpenter ants, let them know their licenses have been revoked for littering the Space Shuttle with their little, bitty hammers.

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Remember debating your friends about the abilities (and challenges) of different super heroes?  What was your answer to the various aspects of their daily lives?


Did you ever have a Little Professor or a Speak and Spell?  Were these toys, games, or learning tools?

What was your impression of E.T. in 1982?
 
Travel back to the 70s and 80s with JediShua and shazbazzar to relive these moments and more with TechnoRetro Dads.

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JediShua discovers the continuation of the original Star Trek television series while shazbazzar heads to Birmingham to visit the Alabama Phoenix Festival to meet Captain Buck Rogers himself.

Cris Macht visits TechnoRetro Dads to talk about his latest documentary, The Force Within Us, and sticks around to choose two winners of TFWU DVDs and becomes our first SUPERFRIEND in the process.


The TechnoRetro Dads discussion group merits a brilliant post in the feedback section.  Be sure to check it out at forum.technoretrodads.com!

 

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Everyone seems to have gone star-craving mad, TechnoRetro Dads included, as the new Star Trek movie Into Darkness hits the big screen.  Star Wars is in the news, too, with a new television release this week! 

These are the big events for this week’s TechnoRetro Dads -- but we have much, much more as you start your work week with a bit of the past and present in your favorite STAR franchises. What a great time to be a fan!

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Star Trek: Wrath of Khan
Star Wars: Rebels
Star Wars: Yoda Chronicles


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Download your work week wakeup with JediShua and shazbazzar on this Fragglicious episode of TechnoRetro Dads.  This week, we remember some of our favorite outside games, reveal some news about Star Wars Celebration Europe II, speculate about the upcoming animated Star Wars series, and reminisce about what happened this week when we were kids.

Much more podcast than a single hour can hold.  


Download now.

Plug in your earbuds.
Join us for the next 77 minutes.

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Join JediShua and shazbazzar as they swap stories about their Moms, relay some news about TRON: Uprising and Star Wars, participate in a Star Wars Kinect Family Circle, and educate everyone with the History Lessons for the week of 13-19 May.  Complete this episode with music, clips, and brief commercial breaks and you can  start your work week off right with TechnoRetro Dads each Monday morning!

Thomas Dolby 

Star Wars Kinect

Gilligan's Island

Harlem Globetrotters

Smokey and the Bandit

Apple III 

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It is Star Wars week on TechnoRetro Dads (May the 4th Be With You) and we’re loaded with Star Wars news, activities, and even some speculations as JediShua and shazbazzar share some of their favorite things with their kids and each other.  We even play what may be the longest game of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit.  

Bruce Boxleitner is working on a brand new project called “Lantern City”.


TRON may (or may not) be in an upcoming Disney Animation sequel.


Some of the rollercoasters of the 70s (and even before) are remembered.

Steve Jobs considers PepsiCo sugar-water sales.


Falco tops the charts in the United Kingdom.


The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is consolidated into a one hour play.

Don’t forget to share the TechnoRetro Dads lunchbox on Facebook.
You can win a copy of Cris Macht’s fan documentary, The Force Within Us.

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Shower, shave, and grab some breakfast (bacon, perhaps?) and tune in to this week's TechnoRetro Dads -- it's the best way to start out your work week.  Today, time is of the essence: find out how to vote in the BTVA awards, submit your original clip to Empire Uncut (the Star Wars Uncut sequel), and equip yourself for some fun at work with beer cans and razor blades.  

JediShua and shazbazzar talk with the kiddos about Jurassic Park 3D, crack open some Star Wars news, venture back in computer archaeology to uncover ancient Apples, and find out what the judge had to say about the relationship between TRON and Robotron 2084.

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What a week!  We've been watching Wreck It Ralph, following TR3N director Joseph Kosinski, charting the course of five new Star Wars movies (year-by-year in the theaters), drinking Classic Coke, keeping up with Apple and uBananas, and more for a full week of TechnoRetro Dads.

Keep up with the news (both current and retro) with a History Lesson each week.  Share your TechnoRetro memories with friends and family.  Speculate about upcoming movies with or without spoilers (that's half the fun). 

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Category:TechnoRetro Dads -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

Greetings, Programs!

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In this episode:

TRON update at Disneyland.

TR3N news and expectations.

Will The Dark Crystal have a sequel?

In the History Lesson:

The continuing story of Apple Computers.

Betamax tapes and LaserDiscs.

Popcorn poppers and Chef Boyardee pizzas.

Home movies before the advent of video tapes....


Direct download: TRDads_01.03.mp3
Category:TechnoRetro Dads -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

Greetings, Programs!

Remember watching The Dark Crystal for the first time?  JediShua and shazbazzar talk about this strange and somewhat creepy muppet movie from 1982 and agree that it only gets better with repeated viewings!  

This week on TechnoRetro Dads, the anticipation for TR3N grows as Joseph Kosinski reveals some information about the sequel to TRON:Legacy.  We also find out about a remake of Disney's first excursion into science fiction movies, The Black Hole.  Find out where Star Wars in a more primitive form can be seen.  

Apple computers, Atari computers, and the very popular uBanana phone round out a raucous recollection of historical facts and flubs from the 70s and 80s.  

Even if you're not techno, retro, or even a dad, there's something on this episode for everyone who likes stuff.

Enjoy....

Direct download: TRDads_01.02_.mp3
Category:TechnoRetro Dads -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

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What is a TechnoRetro Dad?  JediShua and shazbazzar explain it all in this initial episode of TechnoRetro Dads.  With Star Wars and other retro-franchise news, getting their families together to experience Willow, and some neat facts in a History Lesson, the Dads take their first step into their weekly podcasting endeavor.

Join shazbazzar and JediShua each week as they remember what it was like to be a kid in the 70s and 80s, taking the best of their youth and sharing their experiences and making new memories with their own families.

Direct download: TRDads01-01.mp3
Category:TechnoRetro Dads -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

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