{"id":2781,"date":"2013-02-03T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2013-02-03T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:58:19","slug":"podcast-422-robot-jox-1302-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"Podcast # 422 \u2013 \u201cRobot Jox\u201d \u2013 1302.03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.treksinscifi.com\/images\/robotjox1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week Joe from the <a href=\"http:\/\/umbcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Upper Memory Block Podcast&#8221;<\/a> covers a fun film from 1989 called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102800\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Robot Jox.&#8221;<\/a> \u00a0This movie involves giant fighting robots &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t love that? \u00a0I&#8217;ll let Joe pass on a few words about his guest spot for this week on TSF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hey all! Joe aka billybob476 here once again in the guest hosting seat. This time, I&#8217;m covering one of my guilty pleasure movies from 1990, Robot Jox.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>First though, I cover a few news items:<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1. The pending releases of Star Wars episodes 2 and 3 have been indefinitely postponed:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.com\/news\/focusing-on-star-wars-episode-vii-lucasfilm-postpones-episodes-ii-and-iii-3d.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/starwars.<wbr>com\/news\/focusing-on-star-<\/wbr><wbr>wars-episode-vii-lucasfilm-<\/wbr><wbr>postpones-episodes-ii-and-iii-<\/wbr><wbr>3d.html<\/wbr><\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>2. The TNG season 3 blu ray set is scheduled to come out in April of this year. Not only that, but it looks like we&#8217;ll be getting a standalone feature length edit of The Best of Both Worlds at the same time!<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tng.trekcore.com\/bluray\/01072013_s3bobw.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tng.trekcore.com\/<wbr>bluray\/01072013_s3bobw.html<\/wbr><\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Next I do a review of a really cool album called Smooth Federation by Andrew Allen. It&#8217;s a full CD of Trek-inspired jazz tunes. It has cool covers of all the Trek show themes and more. Check it out on iTunes (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/smooth-federation\/id539361573\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/<wbr>album\/smooth-federation\/<\/wbr><wbr>id539361573<\/wbr><\/a>), Amazon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Smooth-Federation\/dp\/B008EIPTT2\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Smooth-<wbr>Federation\/dp\/B008EIPTT2<\/wbr><\/a>) or CDBaby (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/andrewallen22\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/<wbr>andrewallen22<\/wbr><\/a>)<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Finally we get to our talk about Robot Jox. I cover some facts about the movie and get into the, shall we say, mediocre plot. Still it&#8217;s a fun ride.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thanks as always for listening!<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Big thanks to Joe for filling in this week on such short notice &#8211; I greatly appreciate it! \u00a0Make sure to check out Joe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/umbcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Upper Memory Block Podcast&#8221;<\/a> about cool, older computer games &#8211; it rocks! \u00a0I&#8217;ll be back next weekend with a look at the TNG episode, &#8220;Elementary, Dear Data.&#8221; \u00a0Take care until then and enjoy the big game today and your week ahead.<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4493\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2781-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_422_Robot_Jox.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_422_Robot_Jox.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_422_Robot_Jox.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_422_Robot_Jox.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?powerpress_pinw=2781-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_422_Robot_Jox.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TreksinSciFi_422_Robot_Jox.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Joe from the &#8220;Upper Memory Block Podcast&#8221; covers a fun film from 1989 called &#8220;Robot Jox.&#8221; \u00a0This movie involves giant fighting robots &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t love that? \u00a0I&#8217;ll let Joe pass on a few words about his guest spot for this week on TSF. Hey all! Joe aka billybob476 here once again in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}