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• The episode opens as the “351st edition,” joking that BLC now has 100 lost episodes.
• Parker says summer is over as a concept, even if the weather is still very much summer.
• Parker crams a family vacation into a short North Carolina trip with Carowinds, Charlotte, food halls, slime, and an aquarium.
• A knife-store stop becomes a whole bit about balisongs, butterfly knives, “Jim James,” flippy flops, and $100 vacation parenting decisions.
• Parker explains injuring his knee in lake mud/sargassum, then making it worse during the Charlotte trip.
• The slime museum is presented as an overpriced, disgusting, child-hand-filled nightmare with multiple kinds of slime.
• Parker makes Hawaiian Punch-scented slime despite hating slime, then gives it away immediately.
• Parker’s knee pops while crossing a parking lot, but he refuses to fall because the pavement is too hot.
• He still drives a stick shift and hobbles through a mall aquarium because the tickets were already bought.
• The transcript has a glitchy middle section, but the usable thread points to Parker wanting a “signature scent” as a man of a certain age.
• Fred reviews the new Spider-Man movie and calls it the best Spider-Man movie he has watched.
• The guys discuss 4DX, Tom Holland, Spider-Man rankings, villains, multiverse fatigue, and street-level Spider-Man stories.
• Weird news includes a man taking steroids and drinking without working out, then entering a bodybuilding contest.
• Christopher Lambert’s health scare leads to a debate over the BLC Hall of Fame and whether you should honor people before they die.
• The crew talks John Cypher, Major Dad, Masters of the Universe, Fisto, Ram Man, and reboot disappointment.
• The Martin spinoff about Varnell Hill sparks a discussion about how long is too long to wait for a spinoff.
• McDonald’s gets roasted for becoming too expensive, too kiosk-heavy, too uncomfortable, and too app-dependent.
• The episode closes with Fred’s upcoming birthday and the usual “nobody’s listening anyway” outro energy.

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Let’s talk about the year 2007, when Ubisoft looked at Konami’s TMNT license, going up for grabs after three straight beat-em-ups, and said “yeah, we’ll take it,” the video game equivalent of adopting somebody else’s very large, very established pet. They tied the whole thing to Imagi’s brand new fully CGI turtle movie and then, in an act of scheduling chaos I can only respect, shipped the game three entire days before the film hit theaters. Bold! Confusing! Possibly the result of someone losing a calendar!

And then, because apparently one platform was never going to cut it, Ubisoft just kept going. PlayStation 2! GameCube! Xbox 360! Wii! PC! A PlayStation 3 version that got paraded around at trade shows like a prize pony and then quietly put out to pasture, never to be seen again! And just when you think the roster’s full, Nintendo DS and PSP roll in with an entirely separate game wearing the same name tag, because why make one turtle game when you could make several turtle games and let the consumer sort it out. Also, bonus points to whoever in marketing decided the title needed zero subtitles, zero colons, zero numbers, just “TMNT,” like it’s the only one that’s ever existed. Confidence!

Climbing out of the sewer to help me survey this multi-console fever dream is Jeremy Powers, host and creator of the Zenspath Entertainment Network, a man who apparently collects retro hardware, works as an engineer, and still finds time to run a podcast, which is either elite time management or a full refusal to acknowledge the concept of a day off.

So track down whichever version of this thing actually ended up in your house back in 2007, because statistically there’s a good chance it wasn’t the same one as your neighbor’s, and let’s find out if TMNT earned its spot in the turtle hall of fame, or if it should’ve stayed a trade show prototype.

Learn such things as:

• Do we ever stop to think that maybe the people making these games knew what they were doing all along?
• Will we ever get that chance to see Splinter and Iroh together?
• How much retreading is acceptable when you’re the new guy making things?
• And so much more!

You can find Jeremy on YouTube @Zenspathcom and of course at the Zenspath Entertainment Network.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Behold! and The Last Comic Shop for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who dips pizza in honey mustard.

Check out our podcast host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free with no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-89f00a for 40% off for 4 months, and support Play Comics.

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In Episode 32 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) is joined by Randall Wilson, LEGO Masters Season 2 contestant, professional LEGO artist, and founder of Rocs Mocs. Randall shares his journey from building Technic sets as a child to turning a passion for architecture and LEGO into a full-time creative career. Along the way, he reflects on losing his childhood collection in an apartment fire, finding his way back through MOCs, and how LEGO Masters opened the door to opportunities he never imagined.

The conversation dives behind the scenes of LEGO Masters, exploring what it's really like to build under intense time pressure, the lessons Randall took away from the competition, and how the experience changed the way he approaches storytelling, scale, and color in his creations. He also talks about returning for the Holiday Bricktacular, working alongside Kelly Osbourne, and the friendships that continue long after the cameras stop rolling.

Randall also discusses building culturally inspired LEGO projects, creating large-scale commissioned artwork around the world, and why representation and creativity matter in the LEGO community. From life-size Power Rangers weapons and architectural replicas to an eight-foot heart catheter and interactive public art, this episode is a fascinating look at how one builder transformed a lifelong hobby into a career built brick by brick.

Find Randall Wilson:

• Website: randall-wilson.com • Instagram: @rocsmocs

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

Until next time... play well.

In this episode of 3 Movies That Changed Your Life screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with legendary screenwriter Steven E De Sousa (DIE HARD, RUNNING MAN) about: The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, North By North West, and Citizen Kane. Discover how these films shaped his filmmaking journey, personal growth, and understanding of cinema’s power. Plus Steven E De Sousa discusses how he wrote the iconic eighties action movie COMMANDO (1985) for Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about how Steven E De Sousa wrote the iconic eighties action movie COMMANDO; and the lasting impact of cinema on his life with Stuart Wright on this movie podcast.   [1:20] How Steven E De Sousa wrote the Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie COMMANDO (1985) 3 Movies That Changed Your Life [44:45] The Treasure Of Sierra Madre (1948): Saw this movie when it was re-released in 1955 [49:50] North By North West (1959): The first movie Steven could not second guess where the story was heading [55:10] Citizen Kane (1941): Cemented Steven's desire to be a filmmaker Key Take Aways:   Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth.  How Steven E De Sousa wrote the Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie COMMANDO (1985) Rewriting someone else’s screenplay Understand cinema’s transformative power through The Treasure Of Sierra Madre (1948), North By North West (1959), Citizen Kane (1941) Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast About my Guest:   Steven E De Sousa is a screenwriter known for COMMANDO, RUNNING MAN, DIE HARD and much more. Find him on Twitter at https://x.com/StevenEdeSouza  Credits:   3 Movies That Changed Your Life Podcast is written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright see https://linktr.ee/stuartwright  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

• 00:01:16 — 250 Episodes, Give or Take: The crew celebrates the 250th episode while openly admitting nobody is going back to count, which feels like the correct BLC accounting method.
• 00:02:16 — The Fred Intro Goes Off the Rails: Parker introduces Fred as “the Man in the Hall with the Big Balls” and “the Night Hawk with the Big Cowk,” immediately justifying the episode title’s general energy.
• 00:03:30 — Back to School Relief: The guys celebrate kids going back to school like they just won a prison break in reverse.
• 00:05:06 — Pay Them Bus Drivers: Fred explains the bus driver delay situation, and the crew turns into a surprisingly pro-labor podcast for a few minutes.
• 00:11:29 — The Quarter Incident Begins: Fred’s son gets quarters from a church lady, starts counting them upstairs, and somehow turns loose change into an emergency room visit.
• 00:13:58 — “I Swallowed a Quarter”: The video description of Fred’s son casually revealing the problem while the dog goes insane is perfect family-chaos cinema.
• 00:16:47 — ER Time: The X-ray shows the quarter stuck near the top of his chest, turning a weird kid decision into actual horror movie material.
• 00:20:57 — Which Way Did They Go In?: The guys discuss how the doctors removed the quarter, and the whole conversation gets as medically unhelpful as possible.
• 00:23:02 — “That Boy Make It?” Fred’s uncle reacts to the hospital news with the most direct family follow-up imaginable.
• 00:27:04 — Parker’s Odyssey Begins: Parker admits he went to see The Odyssey on Spider-Man opening night, surrounded by costumes, cops, and people being told to take their masks off.
• 00:30:16 — Wrong-Day Tickets: Parker realizes he bought tickets for the next day only after being confronted by the rightful seat owners.
• 00:31:05 — The Odyssey of Seeing The Odyssey: Allan points out that Parker’s movie theater struggle has become its own Odyssey, complete with sirens, harpies, and management.
• 00:36:02 — Cyclops Eye Review: Parker gets hung up on the Cyclops design and why a one-eyed monster still looked like it had spaces for two eyes.
• 00:39:15 — The Sirens Don’t Sing: Parker is annoyed that the movie never lets the audience hear the sirens’ song, which was apparently the one mythological concert he came for.
• 00:45:50 — Chainsaw Centaur Robot: Fredline News introduces a seven-foot chainsaw-wielding wildfire robot that the crew immediately identifies as nightmare fuel.
• 00:49:11 — Double-Dogging / Double-Donging It: The guys try to figure out the anatomy of the robot and accidentally land in episode-title territory.
• 00:50:52 — Tour de France Bra Cheating: Women’s cycling allegedly has a padded-bra aerodynamics controversy, and the crew handles it with exactly the maturity expected.
• 00:54:31 — Super Glue Is Not a Condom: Fredline News delivers a story so bad the moral is painfully clear: just use the free condom.
• 00:57:00 — Gordon Ram-C: The Gordon Ramsay lookalike adult-film story turns into a badger-den mystery and a fake porn-name workshop.
• 01:04:30 — 250-Episode Reflection: Fred says what he has learned in 250 episodes: he probably should not be doing podcasts. The show bravely continues anyway.

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By the mid-2000s, Naruto had pulled off something most manga-to-anime properties never manage: it wasn’t just popular, it was everywhere, spinning off a small army of video games across nearly every system with a screen, like Naruto himself used Shadow Clone Jutsu on the entire games industry and nobody thought to stop him. Somewhere in that flood of Ninja Councils and Clash of Ninjas sits Naruto: Path of the Ninja, the entry that decided the best way to honor Kishimoto’s story wasn’t just punching (though there’s plenty of that too) but actually letting you live through the Land of Waves and the Chūnin Exams one turn-based battle at a time.

Path of the Ninja debuted on the Game Boy Advance in Japan back in 2004, then took a leisurely three years to reach American shelves in 2007, arriving on the Nintendo DS instead, because by the time they got around to localizing it, the GBA already felt like last decade’s news. You pick from six familiar faces, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru, Neji, and Rock Lee, pair them into formations for bonus combo attacks, and work through more than 90 jutsu, some of which you cast on the DS touchscreen by frantically scribbling a shape with the stylus, which is either a clever nod to hand seals or just a fun way to give yourself a cramp. The story runs all the way to the Chunin Exam invasion and a face-off with Shukaku, and if you’re wondering whether you can also fight Itachi as a secret bonus boss, the answer is: only if you own the Japanese version. The English release quietly deleted that fight but somehow forgot to scrub his name from the end credits, which is the video game equivalent of hiding a body and leaving the shovel leaning against the wall.

Making another through the Play Comics dojo is Merrilee O’Neil of Fear Coded, last seen on the show trying to keep pace with the Flash. This time she’s trading super speed for shadow clones, hand seals, and a Konoha headband, so at least the running is a little more sustainable.

So form your hand seals, grab your kunai pouch, and let’s find out if Path of the Ninja earned its headband as a worthy trip through early Naruto, or if it should’ve stayed back at the Academy with the rest of the genin.

Learn such things as:

• Isn’t the world today better, with games coming out worldwide at basically the same time?
• How can you use a console’s gimmick to really lean into the gameplay?
• Can a game stick to the established story a bit too well?
• And so much more!

You can find Merrilee being the main driver of the Fear Coded account on BlueSky @fearcodedpod.bsky.social on her podcast Fear Coded.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Kaiju Comicast and Anime Field Guide for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who probably has a pretty sick collection of headbands.

Check out our podcast host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free with no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-89f00a for 40% off for 4 months, and support Play Comics.

Mono Edition For over a decade, Paul and Eli have tackled a number of long, weird and tiring walks for their “walkabout” episodes. This week, for our four hundred and ninety ninth edition of the economy comedy podcast, the Cheap Chaps take on their most epic, most arduous and definitely most punishing walk EVER… And all they are doing is walking from Eli’s flat in Harringay to Paul’s place in Harrow. How hard can it be? As it turns out, it’s a ruddy nightmare! What seemed like a cute idea at the start quickly becomes a walkabout like no other. Over the course of NINE hours and around 16 miles, they’ll take in high streets, quiet suburbs, motorways, country parks, winding trails, parkland walks, familiar routes, hot weather, old haunts and accidently dig up some memories from the past decade of CheapShow. It’s an emotional episode with plenty of big arguments, dark humour, dumb decisions and many embarrassing agonies to endure over THREE HOUR and TWENTY MINUTES! You want an Odessey? Here is CheapShow’s! See pics/videos for this episode on our website: https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-499-door-to-door GET TICKETS FOR Ep 500 LIVE Cambridge Junction (J2) August 23rd @ 4pm https://www.junction.co.uk/events/cheapshow-podcast-live/ www.patreon.com/cheapshow If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com For all other information, please visit: www.thecheapshow.co.uk Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! MERCH Official CheapShow Magazine Shop: www.cheapmag.shop Send Us Stuff: CheapShow PO BOX 1309 Harrow HA1 9QJ

Stereo Edition For over a decade, Paul and Eli have tackled a number of long, weird and tiring walks for their “walkabout” episodes. This week, for our four hundred and ninety ninth edition of the economy comedy podcast, the Cheap Chaps take on their most epic, most arduous and definitely most punishing walk EVER… And all they are doing is walking from Eli’s flat in Harringay to Paul’s place in Harrow. How hard can it be? As it turns out, it’s a ruddy nightmare! What seemed like a cute idea at the start quickly becomes a walkabout like no other. Over the course of NINE hours and around 16 miles, they’ll take in high streets, quiet suburbs, motorways, country parks, winding trails, parkland walks, familiar routes, hot weather, old haunts and accidently dig up some memories from the past decade of CheapShow. It’s an emotional episode with plenty of big arguments, dark humour, dumb decisions and many embarrassing agonies to endure over THREE HOUR and TWENTY MINUTES! You want an Odyssey? Here is CheapShow’s! See pics/videos for this episode on our website: https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-499-door-to-door GET TICKETS FOR Ep 500 LIVE Cambridge Junction (J2) August 23rd @ 4pm https://www.junction.co.uk/events/cheapshow-podcast-live/ www.patreon.com/cheapshow If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com For all other information, please visit: www.thecheapshow.co.uk Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! MERCH Official CheapShow Magazine Shop: www.cheapmag.shop Send Us Stuff: CheapShow PO BOX 1309 Harrow HA1 9QJ

In Episode 31 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) sits down with Alice Finch, LEGO Certified Professional, founder of the Women's Brick Initiative, and creator of the legendary life-size Hogwarts model that inspired builders around the world. Alice shares how building with her children led to creating one of the most iconic LEGO fan creations ever, and how that experience shaped the rest of her journey in the hobby.

The conversation explores the origins of the Women's Brick Initiative, the challenges women still face in the LEGO community, and how research, education, and outreach are helping make the hobby more welcoming and inclusive for everyone. Alice also discusses her work as a newly appointed LEGO Certified Professional, the unique commissions she's taking on, and her vision for using LEGO as a tool for creativity, collaboration, and social impact.

Along the way, Jon and Alice dive into architectural building techniques, the evolution of LEGO Botanicals, the story behind Alice's influential LEGO architecture book, and why the best builds are often the ones that inspire others to create something of their own. Whether you're a longtime builder or just discovering the hobby, this episode is a fascinating look at how one person's creativity can help shape an entire community.

Find Alice Finch:

• Website: thebricknest.org • Women's Brick Initiative: womensbrickinitiative.com • Instagram: @womensbrickinitiative

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

Until next time... play well.