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Hello everyone. Today I’m rolling back the dial to 1994. This was a great year for me. I was a senior in high school we did a high peaks climb and 8 out of my graduating class went to New Orleans for the week. Then I started college in the fall and that would change my life forever. 1994 also posted a little gem called Street Fighter. I’m not sure if this was the first live action movie based on a video game but I think it was one of…
Read MoreHello everyone. Bobby Bowden was born in 1929 in Alabama. Bowden had an illness at age 13 and was bed ridden for nearly a year. There he found a love for WWII reports and college football via radio. Bowden went on to play football for the University of Alabama and would not make the pros but instead went into coaching. A niche for Bowden as he climbed the ranks and landed head coach at Florida State in 1976. There Bowden would turn a poor team around and for the next…
Read MoreHello everyone. This week I’m taking a look at one of the places I checked out while on vacation last week. St Augustine FL is an interesting place and one I frequently visit while I’m in Florida. I was wandering around with the kids and they brought me to the Medievel Torture Museum. An interesting place to say the least that displayed many cruel methods of torture from our worlds past. From the guillotine, to witches, and cutting off limbs this museum gave me the chills several times as I…
Read MoreHappy Sunday Morning Everyone. Today I’m paying my respects to a legend, a pioneer, and all around class act, ZZ Top’s, ‘Dusty Hill‘. Dusty Hill was born in 1949 in Dallas and passed away last week in Houston. Hill and his band mates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard formed ZZ Top in 1969 and have played together right up to his recent passing. ZZ Top exploded in the eighties and Gibbons and Hill are one of the most recognizable people do to their long beards, but the band has a…
Read MoreHello everyone. It has been a long time coming but we finally are getting the 2020 Olympics from Tokyo. I love the Olympics and among the few sports added this year there is surfing, Karate, and skateboarding. Tony Hawk was on board to talk about the sport and how the judges would be scoring. I love seeing some water polo and track and field events. Not to take away from swimming, diving, or any of the team sports. Gymnastics has always been a favorite of mine. Popularized by the 1992…
Read MoreGood morning everybody. Today I’m taking a look at a 1988 movie gem that I think deserves more credit than it got. Mystic Pizza is a movie that starred Julia Roberts and also included Lily Taylor, Annabeth Gish, Conchata Ferrel, Vincent D’Onofrio, and a young Matt Damon to name a few. The story takes place in Mystic Connecticut where I was supposed to go on a 6th grade class trip to but for some reason my parents didn’t let me go. Mystic is a small fishing town and this is…
Read MoreGood morning everybody. Today We are remembering Richard Donner born in 1930 and sadly passed away at the age of 91 on July 5th. Donner is director and producer for many movies and shows from 1957 to 2009. Some of his most memorable movies include Superman from the Chris Reeves era, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon, and the Christmas classic Scrooged. He also had a hand in many TV shows most memorable for me is Tales from the Crypt and their spin offs. Growing up The Superman movies were some of the best from their time.…
Read MoreGood morning everybody. Today I’m talking about Pat Morita born June 28th 1932, and passed away at the age of 73. Morita is best known as Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid movies and series. Among his star roll movie Morita acted in several movies and TV shows over the years. In the early days of his career he has rolls in shows such as Green Acres, M.A.S.H., and Welcome back Cotter. His acting career was strong over the years and he also played rolls in more recent shows including Married With Children, Baywatch Hawaii, and…
Read MoreGood morning everybody, today we take a look back at the life and career of Frank Bonner. Bonner, who was best known as Herbert Ruggles Tarlek Jr. on the hit sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, sadly passed away in Laguna, CA at the age of 79. Bonner made many cameos including Saved by the Bell New Class, Love Boat, and one of my childhood favorites Night Court. WKRP was a TV pioneer in putting the setting in the work place and paved the way for sitcoms like Cheers, Wings, and The Office. Bonner and his…
Read MoreHello everybody. Today am going to discuss one of my favorite actors Chris Pratt. Chris Pratt was born in 1979 in Virginia, Minnesota and has become a household name. He has done work in Everwood, The O.C. and Parks and Recreation. Pratt hit the big screen taking a page out of Harrison Ford’s book and starring in 2 major movie franchises Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy. Ford hit gold with Star Wars and Indiana Jones and those helped his tremendous career. I hope Pratt can stay in the business as long as Ford because I think he does…
Read MoreHello everybody. Today I’m taking a look at the Sega Genesis Video Game System. When Sega aimed to put out a home entertainment system, they had some obstacles to overcome. Mainly taking on the power house Nintendo who had the market on game systems. Nintendo had 8 bit games at the time so Sega developed a 16 bit system which was faster and the graphics were more realistic. The only thing Sega needed was a recognizable character that would brand the name. In comes Sonic the Hedgehog. The game was…
Read MoreHello everybody. George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895 in Baltimore. He was a bit of a trouble maker in his early days and ended up in St Mary’s Industrial School for boys a reformatory and orphanage. He learned to play baseball there and nobody had any idea what he would do with this. In 1914 he signed with the Baltimore Orioles which was a minor league team. Ruth soon went to the Red Sox where he was a pitcher. He was then traded to the Yankees and played…
Read MoreHello everybody. I had a chance to hit up the original Nintendo version of Legend of Zelda with my son this weekend. I remember the hours I put in as a kid trying to figure out the boards on this game. We cruised right through most of it. This is a game I loved as a kid. It was a really cool looking game, I mean the gold cartridge just sold itself. I remember back in the day playing hours on end. This is one that even my son was…
Read MoreHello everybody. Today I’m taking a look at the Netflix series ‘High Score‘. This is a 2020 Netflix original series on the the video game boom. Atari ruled the video game world back in the seventies and early eighties. Arcades were striving as teens and young adults flooded them across the globe. The series interviews various people who created some of the most memorable games and how they came up with game ideas. I only watched episode 1 but this looks like it will be interesting to watch all 6…
Read MoreHello everybody. Today I’m taking a flashback to my teen years and talking about one of the most influential companies on me in my teen years. Honda had the death trap 3 wheelers and Yamaha was the top company for 4 wheel ATVs. My father bought 2 Yamaha Big Bears around 1987 and it didn’t take long for the fire to spread. The neighborhood quickly started buying 4 wheelers and soon there were roughly 20 people in my small town who could go out the back door and go riding…
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