As he often does on weekends, Jon went to see a movie.
This time it was 'Taken 3', a movie in which nobody is actually taken apparently. Nonetheless Jon liked it. You will have to listen in to hear his rating out of five. Keep in mind that while it is not getting stellar reviews, Jonathan, being a 13 year old boy, is right in their target demo....
We then talked a bit about what Jon is doing at school lately.
We hope you like it.
As the Christmas holidays wind down Jon is having his last present. Jon loves hotels and elevators as you know, so, one of his Christmas gifts is a night in a local hotel.
Earlier in the day Jon went to see The Gambler. Not the old made for TV movie with Kenny Rogers, no no, the new movie with Mark Wahlberg and John Goodman.
John liked it, and rated it accordingly.
We hope you like the episode.
So over the holidays Jonathan and I decided to go to a Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds game. The 'Hounds are really good this year, which makes it more fun. Plus, there is popcorn.
In the end it was a pretty good game, well good if you like the Greyhounds. They beat the Saginaw Spirit 7-2.
Wow, it is amazing to me that Jon and I have recorded a hundred of these things.
Today is Jon's last day of school until the New Year, so it seemed a good place for an episode.
We talked about our upcoming Christmas plans, and it revolved around, predictably for Jon, movies, hockey games and food. Oh and presents. Jon gave out his detailed Christmas list, which he texted to me earlier in the month.
Merry Christmas to everyone. Oh Jon hates Christmas music, except for the song at the end. He is his father's son....
Wow, Jon has done 99 of these things!
Of course Jon right away knew it was CNDOP so we had to record. We were going to record on the way in to school, while walking as usual. However, there were nast snow squalls, so Isabelle drove us.
We got up today and there was about 5 cm of snow on the ground, so a good time for podcasting.
We talked about a lot of stuff including Halloween, Jon's recent history test and there is even a cameo by Jon's teacher at the end.
On Friday Jon and the rest of his grade 7/8 classmates went to see the movie The Maze Runner. (Credit to Jon's teacher Ms. Fawcett on this one, well done!)
We would have recorded this on Friday but we had a really big rain storm. So we decided to do it today.
Jon really liked the movie and gave it his standard score. I attempted to get him to compare it to his most recent perfect movie, The Expendables 3, and he said it was not as good. We then got to the point where he told me about a movie he did not like as much, which he gave 1 our of 5 to, so it IS possible for Jon to not love a movie!
On our way home we ran into swarms of horrible bugs. We talked math, hip hop, music, pool and other stuff.
So, Jon is well into the school year, and we talked a bout a lot of stuff, including what he is doing in math.
Well, it is here. Yup, the first day of school.
Jon and I had a nice discussion about what he is looking forward to in Grade 8.
Finally, Jon unveiled his new movie series, Closet of Blood......
We just got back from another camping trip to Agawa Bay at Lake Superior Provincial Park.
This is probably our last camping trip of the year, as Jon starts school on Tuesday and I start teaching the following Monday. So, we thought why not talk about the Expendables 3, which Jon recently saw with Isabelle.
Oh I think we all know what he gave it out of five......
Isabelle, Jon and I rode up to the University on our bikes. We stopped at our office and we recorded. Jon didn't say much.....
We recorded a Broken Area one night while camping, so as not to be outdone, the next day Jon grabbed my H2 and recorded a Jonathan Files.
We went to Guardians of the Galaxy today and here is Jon's review. I will say this is the best thing the two of us have seen since Captain Phillips.
We went out for lunch and good times ensued. You can probably guess what Jon gave the place out of five.....
Of course we hit up EB Games for a PS3 game as well.
As an aside, Jon picks all of the music for the podcasts, kid has decent taste.
So, we started out on our way to the store and it seemed only logical to do a podcast. This is our first one of the summer, and we have not done one in a while, so we may be rusty...
I've not heard great things, let's leave it at that shall we?....
On our walk Jon decided he should review Tammy. He just saw it yesterday with Jonathan Carnaroli, who is a cool guy that does stuff with Jon. Jon calls him 'JC'. Indeed he seems to have a little nickname for everyone. We ran into a few kids Jon knows as we walked and Jon would say 'Hi For' for Forrest, for example.
Anyway, I typed all of that to avoid typing about this movie. I heard it was horrible. Now Jon, on the other hand, loved it. It had laughs, and car crashes and such, so I guess that is not surprising.
Sorry for the blurriness. This is actually a pretty damned moving thing to see at the side of the road.
We saw a memorial to a kid who was killed by a drunk driver about 10 years ago and looked at it for a bit. The memorial has been maintained by the kid's friends, so that was, while a bit of a downer of sorts, a decent deprive from talking about this horrible movie......
Don't forget to check out Jon's Youtube videos.
Today Jon had a short day at school as he had a dentist appointment.
As we are the family who podcasts together, well, we thought this would be enticing audio for all of you people.
You even get to here a bit of Jon and the dental hygienist!
Jon picked the song between the two vignettes, Beautiful Day by U2. The apple does not fall from the tree as they say.....
Then we got back into the car and headed home.
Jon went to see a movie over the weekend, 22 Jump Street. Indeed, when we finished recording this episode on the way to school one of the kids at Jon's school said 'I saw you at the movies yesterday'. This should tell you that the movie is big with the key 13 year old demographic. (The girl who saw it said she liked it too).
So of course, Jon gave his standard review and rated it out of five. You'll have to listen in to find out his rating, but if any of his previous ratings can be used as a guide, you probably know what he gave it.
Wow, what a difference a week makes.
Today Jon and I talked about how the weather is improving and how he makes his videos.
In this instalment we talked about how I hurt my back and how Jon is making videos. Wait, here's one now!
Oh you might like to hear the episode......
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