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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This week Linnea and Evan take over the show, and discuss the 2022 adventure/comedy movie Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

The 1998 movie The Truman Show stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, a person who lives in a TV show where he is the star and doesn't know it. The film is both comedy and drama, and is even a bit prophetic in its look at how television creates celebrities and how reality shows appeal to audiences who want a peek into the private lives of others.

Monopoly Empire was a family board game by Hasbro. It was a variation on the classic board game Monopoly, was first published around 2013, and discontinued around 2018. Why was it discontinued? We'd love to know that answer, because it is one of our favorite games!