Gen X Reverb

On this episode of Gen-X Reverb the Gen-X crew discusses one of the most iconic movies of the 80s:  Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.  Join us on Spotify, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else you find your favorite podcasts.

Be excellent!

We are talking Batman... again on Gen-X Reverb. Why? Because we love Batman? Nope... Mark and Justin missed out on the Bonus Episode that Bradley and Ken did. So they wanted to join in the fun. Can lightning strike in the same place twice? We'll let you decide. But first, we have a quick game of name that tune or as Ken knows it, continued reminders that he might have been adopted. Answers to the name that tune will appear at the bottom of the show notes after a spoiler disclaimer.

Kenny confesses that he just doesn't care for R&B.

Bradley isn't opposed. Justin and Mark are definitely fans.

Bradley is hosting this round-robin episode and we start out talking about our first exposure to Batman. The 1960s classic starring Adam West.

Bradley doubles down on the fact that we are discussing all things Batman (spoiler alert: We didn't even come close)

Here is the video that Bradley was referring to: Check out all the Celebrity Window Cameo's in the series: https://youtu.be/WmyCgHyiNcE

Justin admits... he doesn't remember the series much.

Moving on to Batman (1989) - Michael Keaton

Everyone agrees it's a great movie and really set the standard for the movies that followed.

Batman Returns (1992) - Michael Keaton

We all agreed this seemed to be the beginning of Batman descent toward the absurd. We don't need our Catwoman lapping up milk... Justin (again ,the Gen-X who was most interested in revisiting Batman. Didn't care for it)

We derail briefly to discuss Sky Cap'n. If you haven't seen it. Skip it.

Batman Forever(1995) - Val Kilmer 

Val Kilmer received the most accolades in our non-scientific Instagram poll.

Justin-Didn't like it. 

This is the introduction of Bat-Nips!

Batman&Robin(1997)

This one was just bad...

https://youtu.be/3M8FC7uZj3M 

We actually decided later to end the episode here. While resident nerd, Ken , could passionately defend the Dark Knight trilogy, we agreed it wasn't exactly a fun trilogy and decided in order to keep things upbeat to cut it here. 

Thanks for Listening!

----------------Spoiler Alert: Name That Tune Answers--------------

1989 - https://youtu.be/hJLMKJoB_qQ. - Bobby Brown, On Our Own 

1988 - https://youtu.be/Gxr206kmaBk - Al B. Sure, Night and Day

1987 - https://youtu.be/9bjfcIF2qt8 - Starship, Nothing's Gonna Stop Us

1986 - https://youtu.be/UJ1tBVtYOBc -  NuShooz, I Can't Wait

1985 - https://youtu.be/hP8xCT9Ov74 - Tears for Fears, Shout

An important note. Gen-X Reverb is at its core, a talk show. We do not claim to be nor do we try to be experts. This is simply a group of cousins who grew up together reminiscing about all the things that impacted us during our childhood. Often times we will bring something up to stimulate conversation and hope things make a turn for the funny. Rarely will we do a TON of research beforehand.  But normally we do at least a little research... except for Justin. He likes to be surprised. If we got something wrong, please reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram and drop some knowledge on us. 

Also thanks to our Sound Engineer Justin for FINALLY helping us get our sound issues resolved. 

In this episode, we discussed foods and snacks that came to mind when growing up. 

In this episode, we discovered that Mark was a sensible kid. His frozen confection choices are based on time vs taste and experience and though Choco Tacos were a waste of money Kenny disagrees.

Kenny thinks crunchy cookies are an abomination 

Justin begs that you take pride in your banana pudding. 

Oreos has had a million flavors and most are not good

Did Kenny make up Hot n Now? Nope: https://bit.ly/3kZLCXg

Justin shares his recipe for... Chocodiles?

Bradley apparently grew up in the 1880s and he remembers black licorice and liver and onions making a regular appearance. Poor guy.

Here are links to a few of the things we discussed:

BA Test Kitchen - Claire Saffitz - https://youtu.be/-pAOuR8s03Q

Jason Alexander - McDLT Commercial - https://youtu.be/UTSdUOC8Kac

Food, Folks & Fun - https://youtu.be/2JApMoRQ7yA

Real Reason Ronald McDonald is out - https://youtu.be/DEuWzXGZWYA

McDonald's Rap - https://youtu.be/BqXTAXjMHvg

Oreos Flavors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oreo_varieties

Crystal Gravy SNL Commercial - https://youtu.be/g0sjRG34DlA

Cherry Clan - https://bit.ly/3aPKb9i

Frozen Nightmare Fuel - https://imgur.com/1wi7SK0

Gushers 1995 commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YFI8ToLuWo

Imagine you're a kid again. What's your perfect Saturday Morning cereal and cartoon lineup?

Mark drops some knowledge on why station wagons started to lose popularity in the early 1980s.

But first they start off with a little name that tune. Cartoon edition.

During the discussion Justin mentions his favorite podcast “How I Built This” and a specific episode featuring Haim Saban producer and distributors of some of our favorite shows bit.ly/HaimSabanWiki .

Bradley soapboxes about his hatred of cheesy 80s “church vocals” and “granola” bands. Also his dislike of Billy Joel thanks to songs like ‘For the Longest Time’ https://youtu.be/a_XgQhMPeEQ (warning, you’ll be humming this for a week)

Per usual Ken comes with some useless facts and trivia. A study was done to show just how powerful the Marketing behind McDonalds is: bit.ly/McDonaldsTaste

We mention a few of our favorite cereals and cartoons. During the cartoon discussion these were a few items we mentioned:

What IS Pidge? https://youtu.be/z5pPaZ-w78M

Turbo Teen Transformation: https://youtu.be/s9jdbdXTgxQ

We enjoy talking music from 1993 and discussing our favorite scenes and the impacts of Jurassic Park.  Take a listen...

We all give our respective opinions about the block BUSTER movie, The Karate Kid, the 1984 one.  The original.  We may handle the 2010 one in a bonus episode.  Have a good time hanging out withe Miyagi, Daniel-san, Ali and the Cobra Kai.  The cousins of Gen-X Reverb certainly enjoyed this movie as little chums and they look back on this Generation X legacy with humor and much fun! Listen.