Talking to My Boy About Videogames - 23 - Helicopter Parents

About this episode

The episode reviews the new kids movie 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu' and discusses the latest game in the Yoshi series.

Talking to My Boy About Videogames (and Sometimes Movies) is back with a review of the hottest new kids movie of the summer, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. Following that, Jonathan gets us back on track with a bit of chat about the newest game in the Yoshi series, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book that takes players back to Yoshi's Island. This episode has minor spoilers for the Mandalorian and Grogu as well as hint-style spoilers for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. And by the end of the show, will we ever learn what is and is not cute? 0:00:00 - Scanning Your Brain 0:03:10 - The Rise of Skywalker is the Wii U of Star Wars Movies 0:05:00 - The Mandalorian and Grogu Review 0:09:42 - Spoilers for the Mandalorian and Grogu 0:12:25 - Spoilers "End" Here 0:14:53 - Yoshi is a Dinosaur Frog 0:17:14 - Ryan's Podcast Takeover 0:20:14 - How Much Do You Like Yoshi and the Mysterious Book? 0:26:31 - Ribbit 0:29:14 - Nintendo Didn't Have Much Faith in Panel De Pon 0:31:04 - The Continuing Legacy of "Talking to My Boy..." 0:31:40 - The Cute Manipulation 0:35:12 - Podcast Recap/Analysis of the Hutts 0:39:08 - Anyway, Bye Now! Follow Jonathan on Bluesky Follow the Show on…

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan

Topics covered

• videogames
• movies
• Yoshi
• Star Wars
• parenting
• reviews

Keywords

• videogames
• Star Wars
• Yoshi
• Mandalorian
• movie review
• gaming
• parenting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nintendo Force Magazine

Books & works: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book

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