Podcasts about goondocks

Hey you guys! In this special episode, Todd and Charles interview Behman Zarkeri, the new owner of a little landmark in Astoria, Oregon known as the Goonies House! Behman fills us in on what it's like to own this historical movie mecca, why he bought it, who among the cast he's been in touch with, and what his plans are for it. If you are a Goonies fan, an 80's movie fan, or an Astoria, OR fan, tune in and take a listen. The Zarkeri family has a great vision for what he wants to do with the place and details what is coming up for the Goondocks. One-Eyed Willy says to like, subscribe, comment and share, or he won't share any of his treasure with you!

Reviews of The Guild of Merchant Explorers, Scout, Marvel Dice Throne and so much more. Featured review: Skymines by Deep Print Games; Reroll Kokopelli by Queen Games. Board game discussion starts at 38:33 https://bluepegpinkpeg.com/ep231. Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games and Grand Gamers Guild. Timestamps: 38:33 - The Guild of Merchant Explorers; 48:21 - Marvel Dice Throne; 55:38- Goonies: Under the Goondocks expansion; 1:02:36-Scout.

Ann, Christy, and Hillary have managed to tear Jeremy away from the hit Bravo reality tv show Below Deck (a tip of the cap to Captain Lee) to fill in another of his pop culture gaps: 80's kid movie classic The Goonies. Join us in the Goondocks (not a real place) as we talk pre-teen crushes, asthma misinformation, One-Eyed Willy, flappy-ear animatronics, our terror of Anne Ramsey, questionable music theory, child violence, evil land developers, and a myriad of cinema tropes. Plus, pest control wisdom and reasons to electrocute yourself (on purpose!).TSHE Recommends: 101 Places to Party Before You DieConnect with the show!This is your show, too. Feel free to drop us a line, send us a voice memo, or fax us a butt to let us know what you think.Facebook group: This Show Has EverythingEmail: tsheshow@gmail.comTwitter: @tsheshow

Wassup survivors! For our second movie of the month we are bring the GoonDocks to the park with THE GOONIES! Join us as we discuss pull a few surprises, speak to our dolphin friends, and get extremely petty and defensive with our preferences in movies! A group of kids in a small Astoria, Oregon town are all about to move away because the rich families in town are going to tear down their houses, known as the "goondocks" to build a golf course. As Mikey, and his friends rush up to the attic to check out his dad's museum collection. They find a doubloon and a real treasure map of the famous pirate, One-Eyed Willy. As the kids embark on the treasure hunt, they end up at a restaurant, where the treasure is supposed to be under, and have a run in with some criminals and a somewhat deformed, but good-natured strongman named Sloth. Trying to find the pirate-ship and its treasure, they encounter booty traps and near-death experiences along the way. ⏱time stamps⏱ Park Recommendations- 03:25.500 Queue Line - 23:36.000 The RIde - 31:54.000 Souvenir shop - 1:37:46.000

Aww, shit! We're heading down to the Goondocks this week. Join us for some unsupervised latch-key mayhem. Learn important life lessons such as kids suck, moms love dicks, don't let people who smell like phys. ed. feed you chocolate, and (most importantly) make sure One Eyed Willie gets his cut. Don't be a stiff, find out if we're good enough to be Goonies. The real rich stuff is the friends we make along the way.  Follow us in Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomgenerationpod/?hl=en Listen to our Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7JNI3CkSRTdw4YP8dBEDBv?si=25e66ab4d5984b57 Buy some rad merch: https://doomgenerationpod.bigcartel.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/doomgeneration/message

Almost there. Hang with me. We might just save the Goondocks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stinky-think-tank/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stinky-think-tank/support

This week, we're playing 'Under the Goondocks', the expansion to 'The Goonies: Never Say Die' from Funko Games. Plus, all that's new and newsworthy in entertainment and pop culture. Join us! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pgtcpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pgtcpodcast/support

Had a wild time spilling the tea with Young Lit Hippy, Hop, and Dyve. Spilled the tea on alien encounters, how Genghis Khan got some serious tail back in the day, and the nuances of dark matter. Tune in now!

Phil and Dave revisit a childhood favorite when they go back to the Goondocks with 1985's The Goonies. Phil admires the casts unending love for this movie while Dave enjoys the 4K restoration.

The Goonies Welcome to The Guys Review, where we review media, products and experiences.  **READ APPLE REVIEWS/Fan Mail**Mention Twitter DM group - like pinned tweetRead emails  The Goonies Directed by:  Richard Donner  Screenplay by Chris Columbus, based on a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg Starring: Sean AstinJosh BrolinJeff CohenCorey FeldmanKerri GreenMartha PlimptonKe Huy Quan Released June 7th, 1985 Budget: $19M ($48M 2021) Box Office: $124M ($313.1M 2021) worldwide Ratings:   IMDb 7.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes 76%Metacritic 62% Google Users 90% In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" First time you saw the movie? Plot:The film opens in prison with one of the Fratelli brothers faking his own suicide; meanwhile, momma and the other brother are waiting outside. They take off in a jeep and are involved in a high speed pursuit. As they chase them through town, we're slowly introduced to the other characters, Andy, Mouth, Chunk, Stef, Data. Eventually reaching a beach and a 4x4 race. It fades to the Walshs house, and Mikey complaining about nothing ever happening. Mouth arrives at the house and makes some random Rocky references, and makes fun of Young Thanos, I mean Brand not passing his driving exam, on their last weekend together. Chunk arrives, and has to do the truffle shuffle before waiting on a Rube Goldberg machine to open the gate... Which is dumb. Esp the part with the chicken. Can't scare a chicken to lay an egg. Data ziplines over, ends up causing Chunk to break the statue of Davids dick off. Mrs. Walsh comes home with Rosalita to help pack their house, and she enlists Mouth to translate into Spanish, which he does, but with the wrong information. The kids go into the attic and go through whatever stuff is there, with an immediate thunder storm that somehow popped up. Mikey finds a map and they recount the legend of One Eye Willy... Which is the same story I told in college about my one eyed willy. They then find an article about Chester Copperpot, who claimed to have a key to the treasure. Mikey proposes finding the treasure so they don't have to leave the Goondocks. They tie up Brand and go off to try and follow the treasure map... Thankfully that popup thunderstorm, that served no purpose, has passed. Brand escapes, and borrows a neighbor girls bike, and is then sent over a cliff when Troy in a mustang grabs onto him, and takes off. The boys follow the instructions to an abandoned restaurant, but it turns out the Fratellis are in the restaurant, too. They catch the boys, and mess with them, but Mikey keeps trying to search for the treasure, when Mikey hears something and finds one fo the brothers trying to feed a disfigured person... As he runs back upstairs, Brand grabs him, carries him out with momma Fratelli closing the door behind them, declaring "kids suck." S:
-How did Corey Feldman turn out so fucked up, and Sean Astin seems pretty normal.-How do you fail your driving test? I backed into a trash can and still passed.-For Chunk to be so paranoid outside the restaurant, why does he just go walking around by himself?-Momma Fratelli is 56 years old... Jesus. Rough looking. After watching the Fratellis load "restaurant trash" into their jeep, Mike convinces everyone to stay and keep following the map. Andy and Steph show up, scaring the group, telling them they followed them. Andy abandoned Troy and now seems she wants to get with Brand... In the restaurant, they move down stairs and sneak a peak at the disfigured person...and Andy and Brand are just trying to get their fuck on... Like, constantly. In the hall, in the room the fall in. Chunk breaks a water cooler bottle, and they can hear the water running down somewhere... oh wait, that's just Andys panties around Brand. Anyway, as they look below the fireplace, Data turns on printing press thats making counterfeit money. Chunk smells ice cream, and they find a body in the freezer. The the Fratellis come back, so they load the body back in the freezer, with Chunk behind it. The rest of them escape under the fireplace. Chunk finally escapes to get the police, as the group descends into the tunnel... Chunk flags down a car, that turns out to be the Fratellis and is captured. The group find pipes, and try to bang on them to get help, but it messes up the pressure at the Astoria country club, sending Troy through the ceiling on the toilet... Which I felt like I could've done a few weeks ago, human liquid rocket. Chunk starts spilling his guts about everything... A few years from then, he'd probably end up telling them some fucked up jerk off stories. The group finds a skeleton they determine to be Chester Copperpot, crushed by a trap set by MY one eyed Willy... or the one eyed willy... Whichever. While checking the body, Mikey accidentally sets off the trap that killed Copperpot. As they escape, they release some bats, that then escape to the Fratellis hide out, proving to them Chunk told the truth where everyone else went. The group comes to a waterfall with, what they think is the treasure, but it turns out to be the wishing well. Mouth then takes his wish back. Above, Troy is shown making a wish to "make it" with Andy. Chunk is put in the room with the Fratellis third brother as they go down below the fireplace. Mike gives a super compelling speech, and they decide to keep going, meanwhile, Chunk starts to make a connection to Sloth with a baby ruth. S:-This movie moves pretty fast.-How did the one stone drop and kill Copperpot, but not the others?-In the wishing well, where did the waterfall come from?-Sloth wearing the Raiders shirt, John Matuszak played for the Raiders. The Goonies continue moving forward, using the key they found, and set off another trap, which Data almost falls to his death. Chunk finally calls the police, but Sloth takes off after everyone down below the fireplace. The group splits up to use the bathroom; Andy calls to Brand, who sends Mikey and Andy unknowingly kisses him... Very similar to how Tucker lost his virginity to his Uncle in the bathroom. The Fratellis are catching up to the kids... They arrive to a log over a river/creek as they make their way across and find themselves in a room with a bone organ... Heh heh. Bone organ. The Fratellis try to cross the bridge, and slip and rack their nuts. As Andy starts to play the organ... and not Brands for a change... The floor is shown to be a fall away floor if they get a note wrong... but a door opens as they get the right one... They eventually escape down a water slide in to a large cave with a ship WAY bigger than my one eyed willy needs... But I'm not complaining... or compensating like Tucker and his F150. They climb aboard and start investigating, looking for the treasure. In the armory, Mikey is pushed through a trap door into the captains room, and he finally talks to the REAL one eyed willy... which if it were mine, it would probably be a felony now considering his age. Mikey has an emotional moment with his one eyed Willy, which everyone sees and it's awkward for a minute... but they move on to start taking the treasure when the Fratellis show up and capture them. As they're making the kids walk the plank, Chunk and Sloth show up and save the kids. As they swim to safety, Sloth fights with his brothers...Andy and Brand finally kiss, which lucky for her she's already in water, so no need to sandbag around her. Momma Fratelli tries to sooth Sloth, which backfires, and he throws her off the plank. The kids abandon the treasure to escape, and the Fratellis continue to fight each other, but go to find the gold. Momma Fratelli then thanks the Willy... Which every woman should do after being satisfied by a willy. The kids start a cave in using dynamite to escape, but Sloth helps them. One of Willies last booby traps is set off, pulling up the anchor on the ship... as the Goonies emerge from the cave, they're found by police, and all the parents come to get them on the beach. Joyous reunions all around. Mouth and Steph have a moment... Andy gives Mikey some shade, something about "parts that dont work so well" bc apparently he didn't get a hard on when kissing her earlier? Was she expecting a pocket rocket digging into her thigh? The Fratellis then emerge, and the Goonies all go to defend Sloth. Troys dad then starts to make Mikeys dad sign paperwork to sell their house, Rosalita finds Mikes bag with really fake, plastic jewels, which leads his dad to tear the contract up. As the Goonies are talking to the media, the pirate ship comes sailing out of the cave... They all watch, and Mike thanks the Willy... Cue credits. S:-What is holding up the floor in the organ room? How does it know what/how to drop the floor? Yay movie magic.-If the Fratellis were real, all of those kids would've been dead LONG ago. Gotta love the 80's trope of the 'good' bad guys.-It's cool that they really built the set... they didn't let the kids see it until they filmed it, to get a genuine reaction.-I wonder if John Matuszak got tired of "HEY YOU GUYS" or if he knew it would be as big as it is/was.-You'd think a 300+ year old boat may have a few leaks, rot, or not be totally sea worthy.  Web: https://theguysreview.simplecast.com/EM: theguysreviewpod@gmail.comIG: @TheGuysReviewPodTW: @The_GuysReviewFB: https://facebook.com/TheGuysReviewPod/

Heeeyyy yoooooouu guuuuuyyyssss!! In this episode, we discuss the 1985 classic, The Goonies. A rich, evil real estate developer wants to take over the Goondocks to build a.....golf course? Country club? Unclear. What is clear is that Mikey and his friends, the Goonies, are not going to let that happen. After discovering a treasure map in the attic, they decide to go in search of buried treasure to try to save their homes. They meet some misfits along the way and hijinks, they do ensue. There's action, adventure, booty traps (you mean booby traps), pirates, and rage about not being able to eat snacks. We relate. Join us for this week's episode of So 5 Minutes Ago!

A fun and easy-going podcast created by two lifelong friends, Scott and Frank. Talking about all things under the sun...and trying to work out each week if humanity will make it...or not. They try to take the positive approach and really want to believe that...Humanity Might Make It! Each week they talk to each other and all the no people that are listening...about all things and nothing at all...this week Billionaires in space, Flying Cars, The Goondocks and Maggot Cheese

Heeyyy Youuuuu Nerrrrrrds! JMS is losing her Goonies nerdginity and Nicole is on the hunt for "Booty Traps" We're taking the a little vacay to the Goondocks before we start our internship at Stark Industries next week. Subscribe to PATREON! for exclusive live recordings, book readings, Q&As, and more! Subscribe to our YouTube to see past videos and clips! Join the Facebook group!  NERD MERCH! - Available HERE! Our hearts go out to the family of Starburns Audio CEO Jason Smith who passed this March, please consider donating to his family's gofund me HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HEY YOU GUUYYS! Where were you when the Goondocks almost went under? We should have been cruising the coast, sniffin’ some lace, downing the brews! BUT NOOOO. We had to watch while 4 boys led us on the ultimate adventure on the last goonies weekend. Mikey’s sense of adventure, Chunk’s stomach, Mouth’s mouth, and data’s booty traps, We cover everything in this childhood classic; The good enough, the bad(like real bad), and the Fratelli’s. **Give us a call and leave a voicemail about your thoughts of the show! 319.804.9596 **Also, we have a Patreon. If you are enjoying the podcast, want to support us and enjoy some extra perks and bonus content, check it out at http://confusedbreakfast.com and speaking of Patreon, our highest tier supporters get mentioned in the actual episode and in the liner notes. Dane, Joel Schneider, Anthony B and KiddGaskin98, you are the best. You will always be number 1 in our hearts. Thank you. **Episode Timeline: 0:00:00- Introductions/Reviews/Chats 0:07:15- Pertinent movie details from Sean
0:13:20- Reactions and thoughts about the first time we saw this movie
0:17:15- Critical and fan reviews from AJ
0:25:00- Scene by scene breakdown 
1:39:40- The hosts modern day ratings

Alternate Title: Goodbye from The Goondocks.It's our last one for awhile. We watched The Goonies, which is one everyone knows about.

Since her visit to Astoria in 1991, Sandi Preston prayed to become the newest owner of the iconic Walsh residence. What became a dream for Preston in 2001 soon became a nightmare for Goonies fans across the globe. Gone are the days of Truffle Shuffle videos and leisurely strolls through the Goondocks. The dawn of a new era is upon us... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alienslayyerxx/support

In this episode we Join our fearless hosts' James and Beth as they review The Goonies. Will the Goonies find the pirates treasure and save the "Goondocks" in time. Or will the fall victim to the evil Fratelli's. Listen to find all this out and more in this weeks 13th episode. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/TheNostalgiaGroup)

It’s the 35th Anniversary of Goonies and we’re here to decide if it’s really as good as you remember, or if perhaps your childhood brain was fascinated with the search for One-Eyed Willy (or, as he was meant to be a Spanish pirate, Guillermo el Tuerto). Come along with us and save the Goondocks. Prologue - Actually, Goonies is (not) bad? S1 - What’s Good S2 - What Could be Better S3 - Makin’ it Better and Makin’ a Sequel Dad Jokes of the Week! OT - Political Consumerism and it gets TENSE! Follow the show on Twitter: @2on3pod See all our shows: www.2on3pod.com Email the show: holler@2on3pod.com Your hosts: @seatjk @cdvillasenor Music: “Quittin’ Time” by Pat Lee

This week we join the Goonies on an adventure to find the treasure of badass pirate One-Eyed Willy and save the Goondocks. Follow us on social media @ChowdyMedia on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Recorded at Good For You Productions.

It was the year that took us to Thundera, the Goondocks, the Mushroom Kingdom, and back...to the future! We make our case for why 1985 was quite possibly the greatest year ever. Also: Panic's upcoming Playdate handheld, The Lonley Mountain: Downhill, Avatar: The Last Airbender and more! #staylimber

Goonies never say die and neither does Popcorn Promises. This week we are joined by Matt Rich from the Why Daddy Drinks Podcast and his 13 year old Harley who hated the Goonies. Naturally we needed to set her straight so we made her watch it again and then talk at her for an hour and twenty minutes so she could understand why she was wrong. Please enjoy as we school todays youth.

Июньская house-подборка. Микс содержит такие стили как: House / Deep House / Club House / Tech House / Progressive House/. Приятного прослушивания! 1.Imad Ash feat. Samia - Ways 2.84Bit - Get This (Original Mix) 3.Brokenears - Guest List (Original Mix) 4.Alexey Romeo - Feelings (Talk To Me) (Original Mix) 5.Kinky Movement - Act the Fool (Original Mix) 6.Arno Cost - Set Me Free (Norman Doray Recut) 7.M-22 & Kiara Nelson - After Hours (Extended Mix) 8.Goondocks feat. Julie P.- Touch Me (Original Club Mix) 9.Mabel - Mad Love (Tom Ferry Remix) 10.Carnage;Diplo;Prinze George - Letting People Go (Diplo Remix) 11.Weiss (UK) - Let Me Love You (Extended Mix) 12.Mathieu Koss & Aloe Blacc - Never Growing Up (Extended Mix) 13.Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (Teo Mandrelli Remix) 14.84Bit - Like No One Before (Original Mix) 15.Friend Within - Waiting (Original Mix) 16.Andrey Exx & Alex Lotus - I Like You (Original Mix) 17.Kisch - Don't Let Go (Extended Mix) 18.AL Sharif, Sunday Noise - Brown Sugar (Extended Mix) 19.Alex Preston - Throw Your Hands (Original Mix) 20.Mat.Joe - Ya Know (Original Mix) 21.Milhouse & Blaine - Set You Free (Original Mix)

Sean Astin stars as Mikey, the youngest of two brothers who are about to move from their home in Astoria, Oregon because their family lacks the funds to stop a developer from taking over the area to expand a lush country club.  This would end many friendships with the other children in the area, which they’ve dubbed “the Goondocks”, and their crew call themselves The Goonies, who are united in their quest for adventure and shenanigans.  Things take an interesting turn when a map is discovered in Mikey’s father’s collection of antiques in their attic, which promises to lead to the secret fortune of the infamous One-Eyed Willy, whose cache of jewels promises to make them rich beyond imagination, once they get though all the pirate booty-traps (er, I mean, booby-traps).  The gang end up finding the entrance to the caves where the loot is hidden, but a rival group of thieves threatens to get there first, and to kill anyone who gets in their way. Steven Spielberg produces, Chris Columbus scripts, and Richard Donner directs.  Also features Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Jonathan Ke Quan, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Anne Ramsey, John Matuszak, Robert Davi, and Joe Pantoliano.

Just because something works as a kid doesn't mean it works as an adult. Tune in to find out what works with "The Goonies" as an adult such as the getaway, the financial problems of the Goondocks and how easy to convert jewels at your local Wells Fargo.

Just because something works as a kid doesn't mean it works as an adult. Tune in to find out what works with "The Goonies" as an adult such as the getaway, the financial problems of the Goondocks and how easy to convert jewels at your local Wells Fargo.

Episode 37 - Filmmaker Dave Campfield joins Pete, Sean, and Will in the pitch meeting to brainstorm ideas for a long awaited sequel to the beloved 80's kids adventure film "THE GOONIES". (www.fourthhorizoncinema.com) Originally released January 23rd, 2017. It's been over 30 years since the events of the "One Eyed Willy" adventure made 7 kids from The Goondocks famous. With one of their own about to get married, they all look forward to reuniting after growing apart over the last few decades. Chunk wants Sloth to be his best man, but he has recently gone missing. And with the youngest Fratelli Sister (played by Melissa McCarthy) becoming an infamous criminal in her own right, rumor has it that Sloth (Vin Diesel) may have joined her. Days before Chunk's wedding, Mikey has returned with plans for one last Goonie Adventure! Can he convince the gang - Data, Mouth, Chunk, Brand, Andy and Stef - to go on the wildest bachelor party ever, the search for Viking Tresure?! And how does Sloth and The Fratellis fit into all this? Directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) we present "GOONIES 2: NEVER SAY DIE". Next Monday we return with an all new episode of Pitch It Movie Podcast when the host of "Relationshit" Lynn Bixenspan and Morgan Pielli pitch a mini-series event about a dystopian world where all Mothers and Fathers have died out and only single neglectful Aunts and Uncles exist to raise the last remaining children on the planet called "NUCLEAR FAMILY". We encourage our talented listeners to create posters of our latest pitch and please send them to any of the social media outlets listed below. Email us at: pitchitmoviepodcast@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/pitchitmoviepodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/pitchitmoviepodcast Twitter: twitter.com/pitchitmoviepod Subscribe and Download on iTunes: goo.gl/cKStzC Subscribe and Download on Google Play: goo.gl/eZHLJp Subscribe and Download on Stitcher: goo.gl/jAecf5

From the fictional towns of Hill Valley, CA, and Shermer, IL, to the beautiful landscapes of the “Goondocks” in Astoria and the “ time of your life” dirty dancing resort still alive and well in Lake Lure, NC, ‘80s teen movies left their mark not just on movie screen and in the hearts of fans, but on the landscape of America itself. Like few other eras in movie history, the ‘80s teen movies has endured and gotten better with time . In Brat Pack America, Kevin Smokler gives virtual tours of the legendary movies from that time and why the places they happened are a tribute to their permanence, why we love them still. Including interviews with actors, writers, and directors of the era, and a Trapper Keeper- full of interesting facts about your favorite 80s movies, Brat Pack America is a must for any fan of the Breakfast Club and Back to the Future, of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Dead Poets Society. Smokler went to Goonies Day in Astoria, OR, took a Lost Boys tour of Santa Cruz, CA and in the present visited retro arcades, mov- ie theaters and record stores. His exploration of highways and main streets of “Brat Pack America” remind of why we love the teen movies of the 1980s so much and, three decades later, still do. Kevin Smokler (@weegee) is the author of the essay collection "Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven't Touched Since High School" (Prometheus Books, Feb. 2013) which The Atlantic Wire called "truly enjoyable" and the editor of "Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times," A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His work has appeared in the LA Times, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, Vulture, The San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly and on National Public Radio. In 2013, he was BookRiot's first ever Writer in Residence. - See more at: http://www.kevinsmokler. com/ Praise for Practical Classics “In this engaging survey of 50 books commonly assigned to teen readers, [Smokler] advocates revisiting them from an adult perspective. Even books we loved in our formative years… may have sailed right over our heads, suggests the author, who argues that only time and experience can prepare us to appreciate them fully.” —San Jose Mercury News “[F]ull of wit and candor... Putting literature to practical use is not a new invention, but what’s refreshing about the practice in this light is how Smokler pits this sort of practical gifting-as-guidance against the reduction of literature to ‘a letter grade and a dusty old obligation.’” —Fiction Writers Review “[S]o much fun…[It] offers a truly enjoyable trip down one’s personal memory lane of books. It’s also a love letter to the act of reading, to continual learning, and to making an effort to slow down and savor the good books in life.” —The Atlantic Wire “If you have been thinking about revisiting the books of your youth or those you have promised yourself to read, but haven’t, this entertaining book provides practical, real-world reasons by you should read them.” -Alan Caruba, Bookviews “[A] fine guide for any adult reader who would return to the classics with a different perspective in mind.” -The Bookwatch “In the short and beguilingly engaging essays that make up Practical Classics, Smokler shows how these works can be relevant and even useful to grownups. Most impressively, he manages to pull this off without sounding stuffy or self-important.” -The Rumpus “Possibly the first self-help book to use literature as its prescription, Practical Classics serves as a primer for personal development, demonstrating how one may apply various literary tinctures to the more trouble- some areas of the Human Condition.... [Smokler] holds forth with confidence and a good slathering of wit about coping with our common, human plight.” -Austin Chronicle

Welcome back to the Front Row Movie Reviews Podcast! The podcast for people who actually like movies!   Welcome back to the Front Row Delorean as we take you back in time for Episode 6 of "Front Row Flashback"! This week, we take you all the way back to the shore of Oregon and the magical town of Astoria where the residents of the Goondocks are on a harrowing journey to save their homes from foreclosure in Richard Donner's 80s classic "The Goonies". This film has it all: Pirate ships, deformed monsters, a crime family, booby traps and the coolest group of kids you'll ever see! Come and relive the awesome adventure of "The Goonies" with us!IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/   If you haven't subscribed to us on iTunes yet, please do! - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-front-row-movie-reviews/id1005302379   We are also now on Instagram! Just search for "The Front Row Movie Reviews" - https://instagram.com/thefrontrowmoviereviews/   Also find us on Facebook and Like us there as well! You know, if you actually do.... - https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Front-Row-Movie-Reviews/267899814323   And of course follow us on Twitter to get the latest news on the Front Row! - https://twitter.com/FrontRowReviewz   Please enjoy this episode of FRONT ROW FLASHBACK and as always, we'll see you in the front row!

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With Nerdapalooza on the horizon, I decided to go with a bit more nerdcore in this episode. Artists Heard: Nursehella, Random, Spamtron, Anamanaguchi, Ginny and the Heartbreakers, she, Glenn Case, Belaire, SLiVer, The Goondocks, Bit Shifter, YTCracker, bleepheartbleep, Buckley, Calis, cboy, Chocobowen, CCIvory Cue Sheet can be found at http://www.epicdefault.com

Sean Astin leads his hearty band of adventurers—plus his older brother.. and a couple of girls—thru the caverns underneath the rocky coast near his home town in a search for the legendary lost treasure of One-Eyed Willy! I examine the three-part story structure, the emotional arc of each character, and Willy's weird music/skeleton obsession. I admire Mikey's leadership, Troy's Mustang GT, and Andy's panties. I contemplate the nature of the "Goondocks." I point out the age of the various kids (surprise! Josh is younger than Kerry!). I examine the structure of the two-parent Walsh family and single-parent TV families. I wonder about the distance from the lighthouse to the country club. And I wonder about how Data apparently walked in from a Warner Brothers cartoon and how a Chinese character with a Japanese love for technology could be played by a Vietnamese actor.