GBNG Episode 4 - Toy Cars & Female Mice

On this episode we discuss the 50th anniversary of the Hot Wheels cars, which causes us to discuss the topic of "play". We brings up Julie Beck's interview with Ian Bogost, the author of the book, "Play Anything".  Also, talk about a "Sun and Shield" blog post about animals and games. Somehow Minnie Mouse, school bus fights and turtles gets discussed. As usual, done with randomness and mediocrity. Don't miss Kenny, again, struggling with math. It wasn't great.

GBNG Podcast Audio


Links:

Julie Beck's interview with Ian Bogost

Sun & Shield Blog: Play in the Bible

Raising Arizona Scene "Take that diaper off your head"

Play Anything by Ian Bogost

Game of Phones card set.


Corrections:

Hot Wheels began being sold to the public in 1968.

Matchbox cars were introduced in 1953.

Here is the link to find the exact number of cards in the Star Wars trading card sets. Kenny can't remember which set he was accused of stealing. (This is not a admission of guilt).

Raising Arizona kid who had the diaper on his head might have been named Riley.

Banality - triteness, vapidity, staleness, unimaginativeness, lack of originality, prosaicness. It is not based on any DC character.

James did not know Notre Dame was in Indiana.




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