Enjoy Stuff: A TechnoRetro Podcast

Kids were thrilled to see Superman in Action Comics #1 eighty years ago this summer. We were thrilled to see Superman fly on the silver screen forty years ago this week. Join shazbazzar and JediShua for a super-sized Superman episode of TechnoRetro Dads.

Ernest P. Worrell would likely terrify Missing Link by his driving skills in Ernest Saves Christmas, a 30 year-old Christmas film that doesn’t take itself too seriously but fulfills the role of a good moral film fit for the whole family.

Thanksgiving is about being thankful, and TechnoRetro Dads are thankful for great movies like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, fun television with NFL games, parades, and holiday specials, and exciting games like Duck Hunt, and lots of food on the table.

In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of The Star Wars Holiday Special, TechnoRetro Dads present "The Could've Been But Wasn't Actually The Star Wars Holiday Special" Radio Drama.

The Lord of the Rings has been a favorite story for generations whether in its original literary form, the Peter Jackson films, or (for many GenXers) Ralph Bakshi’s animated version.

Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin join the party in a quest to destroy the Ring of Power in Ralph Bakshi’s animated vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. JediShua and shazbazzar fondly remember this creepy and strange version of the classic tale, still enjoying the movie and sharing it with others.

The dark imagination of a young boy appears in the funny papers as a dark mystery is revealed through special sunglasses. From snowmen to aliens, TechnoRetro Dads is really ‘80s this week with Calvin and Hobbes, John Carpenter's "They Live", and the Atari version of "The Empire Strikes Back"

Beetlejuice, starring Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Winona Ryder may sound like a star in the sky, but the titular character isn’t a shimmering example of clean living (or dying, for that matter). Just call three times, and you’ll see what we mean.

Dungeons & Dragons, a game that has survived and even thrived through several iterations and multiple companies’ ownership now has a tome devoted to the art that has enveloped the minds of generations of gamers in Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History.

Michael Witwer, co-author of Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana joins shazbazzar and JediShua to talk about the history of D&D and how the game and its artwork shaped their imaginations.

Mac and Jack (MacGyver and O’Lantern, respectively) team up to take on the spooky mystery of the inherited manor in this hurricane-delayed episode of TechnoRetro Dads worthy of 1988.

Ghosts adorn trees and houses as Hallowe’en draws ever closer and shazbazzar and JediShua get into the spirit of things by remembering popular ghosts and Ghostbusters from the ‘70s and ‘80s (and beyond).

They might be frightening, they may be scary, but whether they’re kooky or spooky, ghosts have a way of attracting our attention and fueling our imaginations.