Ah, it’s the Here’s a Guy gang, back once again with some good old fashioned family fun. [Disclaimer: please do not let children listen to Here’s a Guy]. That has to be one of the most nausea-inducing commonplace marketing terms in existence, “family friendly.” That’s code for “sucks.” It’s also disingenuous, because I remember watching plenty of annoying “family-friendly” content that my parents could not even pretend to enjoy. We watched “Slappy & the Stinkers” like 50 times. How many times could our parents have thought it was palatable? Maybe once? Hell, sometimes we didn’t enjoy the content either. Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me “Honey I Shrunk the Kids?” is good on the merits, and not just good in that you can get the entire family to sit in one place together for 90 minutes and eat some pretzel sticks and M&Ms or whatever the fuck? That one’s “family friendly” label is kind of a stretch, too. Being shrunk is like the most horrifying thing imaginable. Like a hundred things could kill you at any given moment. Your cat could mistake you for a bug and kill you. Way too scary for a young lad. Also, in my mind, that one is the exact same movie as “Flubber.” You can’t convince me otherwise.
This week we’re back with another full slate of Guys. Before them, we have this year’s MLB Draft All-Name Team, and we read a listener email. Then, we finally redeem our friend John’s well-earned listener topic, which happens to be an underrated baseball player with dual “cocaine” and “falling down all the time” problems. We also discuss a stories of two old friends with a very strange feud and how a prolific music producer caused a stir in the anime community.
Lonnie Smith - 00:33:57
Robert Catell - 01:05:05
Kenji Yamamoto - 01:33:35
