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Talking to My Boy About Videogames – 23 – Helicopter Parents

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DOmQecSQgapJg4SvyO93Y?si=x8Y7yvS2RgKaHuhp0t8bAw

Talking to My Boy About Videogames (and Sometimes Movies) is back with a review of the hottest new kids movie of the summer, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. Following that, Jonathan gets us back on track with a bit of chat about the newest game in the Yoshi series, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book that takes players back to Yoshi’s Island. This episode has minor spoilers for the Mandalorian and Grogu as well as hint-style spoilers for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. And by the end of the show, will we ever learn what is and is not cute?

0:00:00 – Scanning Your Brain
0:03:10 – The Rise of Skywalker is the Wii U of Star Wars Movies
0:05:00 – The Mandalorian and Grogu Review
0:09:42 – Spoilers for the Mandalorian and Grogu
0:12:25 – Spoilers “End” Here
0:14:53 – Yoshi is a Dinosaur Frog
0:17:14 – Ryan’s Podcast Takeover
0:20:14 – How Much Do You Like Yoshi and the Mysterious Book?
0:26:31 – Ribbit
0:29:14 – Nintendo Didn’t Have Much Faith in Panel De Pon
0:31:04 – The Continuing Legacy of “Talking to My Boy…”
0:31:40 – The Cute Manipulation
0:35:12 – Podcast Recap/Analysis of the Hutts
0:39:08 – Anyway, Bye Now!

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Daniel is a podcast producer and musician who spends way too much time in the edit to make audio sound as good as possible. He’s cutting the “umms” and “uhhhs” and replacing them with cartoon sound effects. His taste in video games is often extremely specific, and he’s recently learned that a lot of his opinions about video games are bad and wrong, but that won’t stop him from having them. His music was featured in Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons. He's been producing podcasts since 2021.