Episode 100 - Happy Christmas

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....

Episode 99 - The Canadian National Day of Joncasting

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.

Episode 98 - Winter Wonderland

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.

Episode 97 - Jon Reviews the Maze Runner

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!

Episode 96 - Bugs, Everywhere

On our way home we ran into swarms of horrible bugs.  We talked math, hip hop, music, pool and other stuff.

Episode 95 - Square Roots

So, Jon is well into the school year, and we talked a bout a lot of stuff, including what he is doing in math.

Episode 94 - Back To School

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......

Episode 93 - Campcast and a Review of the Expendables 3

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......

Episode 92 - Jon Doesn't Talk Much After a Bike Ride

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.....

Episode 91 - The Sleeping Giant

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.

Episode 90 - Jon Reviews Guardians of the Galaxy

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.

Episode 89 - Jon Reviews the Gateway Restaurant

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.

Episode 88 - Jon Reviews Tammy

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.

Episode 87 - A Trip to The Dentist

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.

Episode 86 - Jon Reviews 22 Jump Street

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.

Episode 85 - It Is Becoming Summercast

Wow, what a difference a week makes.

Today Jon and I talked about how the weather is improving and how he makes his videos.

Episode 84 - Jon Is Making More 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......

Episode 83 - Pausecast

Jon was not too talkative during this one.  Probably because he was really sick for a couple of days.  That said, we soldiered on and recorded.

Episode 82 - Rainycast

It has been pretty rainy lately, and we had to cut this one short because I did not want to get rain on my phone, but it was a good one nonetheless.

Episode 81 - Jon Reviews The Amazing Spiderman 2

Over the weekend Jon, Isabelle and I saw the Amazing Spiderman 2.  Jon really liked it a lot.  Indeed, after we came out of the theatre he said 'Well, that was exciting'.  Isabelle was less impressed with the movie......

I would give it 2.5/5 meaning it just passed.  Listen in to hear what Jon gave it.

We also ran into Maddie who was waiting for the bus on her way to work, so we briefly spoke to her.