Are you team Dagger or team Ramp Local? In the latest episode of Throwback Reviews, Sean, Door and I discuss the 1986 film Thrashin’. I can’t tell you how many times I rented and watched this movie back in the 80s when skateboarding was king. When our local video rental store went out of business and put all their old VHS tapes up for sale, I bought the same copy I had been renting for years. (I am assuming they only had one copy and not a huge pile of copies of Thrashin’ in the back store room — although… (read more)

On the latest episode of The Retroist’s podcast, I have a brief cameo doing another “Talking Tech” segment. This episode is about the 1981 Gary Coleman film “On the Right Track,” which takes place (mostly) in Chicago’s Union Station, with several scenes shot in an arcade that was there at the time. During my short segment, I talk about several of the games that appear in the film including the easily identifiable, the not-so-easily identifiable, and one that appears to have been made specifically for the film. Check out Episode 139 of the Retroist, On the Right Track.

After a couple of weeks off, my podcast You Don’t Know Flack is back with a new episode dedicated to the Funspot Arcade. Funspot is the largest arcade in the world, and we recently visited Funspot during out vacation. A few other notes: one, the voice mailbox number has changed. The new voice mailbox number for the podcast is 405-486-YDKF. That should be really simple to remember. That’s 405 (as in the OKC area code), 486 (as in the PC processor), YDKF (for You Don’t Know Flack). This one should not change. If you’re relying on this particular feed to… (read more)

Prolific podcaster Guy Hutchison recently asked me to join him on a bonus episode of the Adventure Club Podcast to discuss a favorite topic of the Adventure Club’s, Back to the Future. We were also joined by Paxton Holley (co-host of the Nerd Lunch Podcast and owner of the Cavalcade of Awesome) and Tim Lybarger (who has everything you ever wanted to know about Mr. Rogers posted here). If you want to hear a bunch of funny guys kicking the Delorean’s tires, here’s the link: Adventure Club Podcast Extra: Back to the Future Chat 3

Episode 130 of You Don’t Know Flack covers pagers, PDAs, and cell phones. In this episode I talk about the first pager I owned and why I wanted one, the first PDA I owned (the Palm Pilot III), and a few of the cell phones I’ve owned over the years (starting with the Star-Tac). I also tell the story about the time I almost got killed, and how I wish I had owned a cell phone that night. Due to my current crazy work schedule (which now occasionally includes traveling on the weekends) I missed a week of You Don’t… (read more)