Turning This Car Around

This week's episode runs the gamet. Buckle up. Jon's in the New York area which blew up this week over a grand jury failing to indict police officers over the death of Eric Garner. We share the New York Time's opinion. If you're not one, you can read what it's like to be a black man in the U.S. and watching Do The Right Thing. After that we spend some time on white privilege, particularly the car Moltz just bought, the Acura ILX. And Lex weighs with more on his Nissan Leaf...

This week's discussion centers around gender. Which leads us to presents, comic book movies and farting. It all makes sense, trust us. We're professional podcasters. Moltz's son got a Little Tykes kitchen for his first Christmas. One year Jon's girls got a Barbie car. Lex and Jon are big fans of Big Hero 6. Moltz hasn't seen it yet because he's at home watching Guardians of the Galaxy over and over. Moltz discusses Marvel's recent moves with Captain Marvel, Captain America and Thor...

[Note: There's a brief glitch in Lex's audio about half way through. Unfortunately, it was a problem in the source file. We regret the problem.] It seems like the holiday podcasts start earlier every year. In this episode, Jon and Moltz explain their Christmas traditions and Lex explains his family's Chanukah traditions. First, though, we talk about Lex's penis-shaped microphone. Don't buy anyone that...

Lex talks about his Disney cruise this week. They're apparently pretty cool. Slides and food and entertainment and characters. If you like that kind of thing. He did not end up in a Gilligan's Island situation, so even better. Speaking of characters, if you go to Universal you can meet the Minions. We speculate on who's inside those costumes. Some follow-up discussion involves Ferberizing, because parents will never stop talking about getting their kids to sleep...

This week we get judgy. Other parents... we're judging you. Not just this week but every week. We're just talking about it this week. Really, there's a long list of things we disapprove of, ranging from giving your kids unlimited access to soda and behaving like a boor in front of your kids is one of them. Pot is now legal in Washington but smoking it with your kids is never a good idea. Even smoking in front of your kids bring out the judgement in us...

Hey, it's Halloween! We talk about costume ideas. Here's Lex as a greaser. Which pretty much just looks like Lex. Then we spend some time workshopping a "Han Solaf" concept. Jon discusses the dangers of drinking and trick or treating and how it leads to a pumpkin-gate situation. We also ask the hard questions like, "Does it really count as being a steampunker if you only do it on Halloween?" Naturally, expect to see a lot of Frozen this year. So much Frozen...

This week we're $&^$-ing talking about *$&#@ swearing. If you want to read about kids and swearing, you could read this but you already subscribed to the podcast, right? You're probably in your car. Why are you even reading these show notes while you're driving? LOOK AT THE ROAD AND LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Somehow we end up talking about Dennis the Menace even though there's very little swearing in it. We also discuss whether Jon's youth was more Footloose or The Wonder Years...

In this episode, we reminisce about how stupid we were before we had kids. And happy. Probably because we could get sleep whenever we wanted. There's a reason sleep deprivation is used as a torture technique. We take two brief breaks, one for a commercial and one to talk about Lex's manscaping. Basically, everything we thought about having kids was wrong. The Friedmans used the Moby wrap to carry their kids until they lost one in it...

This time we're going to talk about the stories that get told. Some of them are lies, some of them are just fiction. Which is kind of like lying. Relevant films for some of Jon's kid's lies are The Sixth Sense and Poltergeist. Also, Shakes The Clown. Speaking of lying, we clear up what's not a lie but interesting nonetheless: when Lex has talked about riding a bike in past episodes, he's been talking about a TerraTrike. Just for the record. As for literature, Moltz's son likes joke books...

Let's get something straight before we get into notes: the fact that Jon Armstrong was able to filter out the DEAFENING SOUND OF GRINDING that was going on on his end is sheer wizardry and he should be feared for his magics. Now, notes. We're going to talk about school sickness because it's that time of year again, but first we discuss the classic late '70s film Breaking Away and the classic '80s film Pretty In Pink. That Amazon link there, by the way, has that movie for $4.63 which is a steal...