Marine Boy! Speed Racer! Gatchaman! Irwin Cartoons! So many imported childhood memories! Join us as we gush over our favourite Japanese animations from our Gen X years. The cartoons that made us swim like dolphins, ride our bikes like race cars and wear towels like capes! And after you've subscribed leave a voice message on Https://www.speakpipe.com/GenX4LifePodcast letting us know your favourite Japanese show! Have a Yabba Zonkers Zoinks Day! 

It Came From Japan!

Hey Gen X'ers, you remember, after cartoons you got kicked outside for the next few hours to fend for yourself!  So that's when you became Speed Racer on your rocket bike, or clotheslined some neighborhood kids with a friendly game of Red Rover or got kissed playing tag! Anything could happen back then. Join us as we climb the tallest trees and watch our memories go by like making pies with a bicycle made for two! Stop by social media and find the Speakpipe link to let me know what your favourite outside game was!

Get Outside!

To get you warmed up, it all begins with a Trivial Pursuit Totally 80's TV question. After that it's all downhill as Josh and Tyler yank gold records, hungry sharks and rodent traps from their dusty memory banks. Gen X was raised on board games and we are no exception. So what was your favourite rainy Saturday pastime? Were you a Monopoly mogul? Married with children in a tiny plastic car? Or a Pikachu master that never once played the game? Head to https://www.speakpipe.com/GenX4LifePodcast to leave a message that we might add to a future podcast! Until then, keep it Yabba Zonkers Zoinks!

Playin' it old skool!

After Josh's stint at the Toronto Comicon with the Canadian Podcast Awards table, he was inspired to talk about some of the cons he attended. Tyler remembers a family singing the Japanese Sailor Moon theme song, Josh remembers taking the bus to see Gene Roddenberry's home movies and so much more. So stick around and join the laughs. And when you are done, check out some the social media sites, leave a message or record one letting us know your favourite celebrity meeting! Until then. have a Yabba Zonkers Zoinks! Saturday.

It's a Con!

What was the most you ever spent on a collectible toy? Josh spent a whole lot on some dolls, but what secret is Tyler hiding? You'll have to listen to find out in this episode of show n' tell. And just so you don't feel left out, you can see all the visuals on genx4life_podcast@instagram.com. And while you're there check out the Speakpipe link to let us know with your own voice! Have a Yabba! Zonkers! Zoinks! Saturday!

Toys, Toys and yes, more Toys!

Ben from Toronto starts the morning with a comic book memory then Josh and Tyler jump right in to discuss their favourite comic books and which is the better universe, DC or Marvel. You'll have to listen to find out! Did you have a favourite comic book series as a kid? Then we wrap up the morning testing Tyler's memory from one of his favourite female band comics, that's right, Josie and the Pussycats! 

Don't forget if you are at the Toronto Comic Con March 14th, drop by the Canadian Podcast Awards table in the Community zone to meet Josh IN PERSON! He'll have some games, some vintage comic prizes and maybe some swag! 

https://fanexpohq.com/comicontoronto/community-zone/ for details

Comically Speaking!

It was Tyler's pick for the topic this week and he really, really wanted to talk about music in 1985. Turns out it was opposite week and he really, really hates 1985. So we dug into it and laughed and cried through a bumpy year in music. It had some gems and it had some dirt. You tell us. Was there a song or a band in 85 that really did it for you? And what colour was your hair?

1985! The Year in Music, Or was it?

We're back! Josh and Tyler ride the memory train through some of the movies that made us laugh and some that didn't. Did The Apple Dumpling Gang make the cut or was it Disney's That Darn Cat that stole our hearts and ran off with them in its spaceship. You'll have to listen to find out. Don't forget to check us out on Instagram at genx4life_podcast and share your favourite Gen X movie memory. 

The Big Screen Rides Again!

Josh and Tyler are spinning some memory disks and sharing records of their childhood. Actual records. the round 8" and 12" disks of Read Along stories from tales of yore. Remember Disneyland Records? Or Peter Pan records? Or Moppet records and their fairy tale renditions? We do! So read along, check out genx4life_podcast on Instagram to see what we are talking about and have a Yabba Zonkers Zoinks! morning.  

You Spin Me Round Read Along Right Round

Josh and Tyler get to the core of a Gen X Saturday morning, the nourishment. That would be crunchy, fortified, mouth shredding, blood spiking shapes of wheat and sugar with puzzles on the box for us to solve while we ate. Sweet, sweet cereal. Literally. If it glistened in the sun and came in a box with animated characters that were featured in their own 60 second shows, we knew the taste, sang the jingles and begged mom for more.  We Yabba'd the Zonkers out of those Zoinkin' bits!

That's Just the Sugar Talking!

Remember Saturday mornings as a kid, big bowl of cereal glistening with sugar, flannel jammies and the tv tuned to Marine Boy, Scooby Doo, Josie and the Pussycats and the Groovy Ghoulies? That's me! And probably you if you are a Gen X kid. Tune in to hear childhood stories about the shows we watched, the cereal we ate and the toys we treasured. Saturday mornings with your host Josh Downing and guests! 

Yabba Zonkers Zoinks! A Gen X 4 Life Podcast

Toy collector, playwright, and now podcast host with a love of all things Gen X like cartoon, toys and music. 

Josh

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