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WOOT 0153: The Mandalorian

and Recent Announcements from Disney, Disney+, HBO Max, and Warner Brothers, as well as the current state of movie theaters during the COVID 19 pandemic

The Mandalorian Season 2 poster

On this Way Off Our Topic (WOOT) episode, we overdo our review of The Mandalorian prior to the season 2 finale and predictions for what we think and/or want to happen in the finale.  We then move into the recent announcements of upcoming movies and television series.  Since we haven’t had a WOOT episode in a long while, we went really long with this one.  Our hosts for this episode are Jeff, Josh, Benny, Vicki, and Bill.  

We hope you enjoy the episode!

  • Ahsoka
  • Grogu
  • Mando and Ahsoka
  • The Mandalorian Season 2 poster
The Mandalorian and all rights are the property of Disney and Disney+

WOOT 0153: The Mandalorian and Recent Announcements

WOOT 0128: Christian James Hand Breaks Down Music on his Show “The Session”

  • Christian James Hand
  • The Session
Christian James Hand about “The Session”

For anyone over 18 and who has any interest or especially if you love music, here is our first episode with an Explicit tag and not for the kiddies, but it just flowed naturally that we are releasing it as is (We are running it live).  If there are kids in the car with you, you may want to listen to this episode later.

CJH with a fan

In a long overdue Way Off Our Topic (WOOT) episode, we are joined by a special guest Christian James Hand who has a tremendous way to break down music into its component tracks (also called Stems) during his shows to demonstrate the individual components that are combined into the finished song.  Our description does not do justice to his amazing style and presentation that he puts together.  If you are even the slightest bit interested in music or ever were, we would hope that you would listen to one of his live shows on Instagram or to one of the podcasts he has and allow Christian to give you one of the greatest gifts that we know of.  Christian’s “The Session” breakdowns give you the ability to hear a song for the first time all over again!

  • Christian James Hand at a Live Session
  • Headphones always make it better
Christian’s Live Sessions are cannot miss. If at home, Headphones always make it better

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, Jennifer, and Alan
Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast
and team members in the GHiT
Immature Endurance Racing Team

Highlights from the episode include:

1)  A short bit about touring with PM Dawn Peter Gabriel, The Grave Diggers and RZA and an acapella rendition of “Jam On It” by Newcleus on stage in front of tens of thousands live and broadcast over Swedish radio

2)  Business tips, including do not buy a company blimp

3)  Working on music videos including “Hey Ya” by the Outkast and several Def Leppard videos as well as Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn’s “Dodgeball: An Underdog Story” movie.

4)  An upcoming podcast where he breaks down music with the cooperation of and with Universal Music

5)  Benny cannot seem to count to six, lol.

6)  Another special guest appearance by his Funko Pop “Odd Job”

7)  How music is made and how it has progressed to where it is now

8)  How Christian approaches music and how the song creation process in incorporated into his live song breakdown shows.

9)  The incredible opportunity Christian has when being able to unpainting a painting when he dissects the song to its original moments and components and stories.

10)  How sometimes the simplest songs are often some of the most complex tapestries to weave.

11)  Incredible music recording history and stories

12)  How digital processing, Pro Tools, and over-processing has impacted modern music and removed much of the humanity of current recordings.

13)  What is groove and what is pocket?

14)  The Gadd-Weckl-Colaiuta Drum Showdown is found at: https://youtu.be/K7h6hOs_ySw

15)  Some of the fantastic songs to breakdown that came to mind during our discussion and are well worth listening to again, for the first time, especially for the songs that have almost become musical “wall paper” or have faded into the status of background music.

16)  Christian’s rock band member breakdown is hilarious, every single time.

17)  I think Christian nearly broke Vicki when he discussed his inability to listen to music while “occupied”

18)  Some highlighted drum tracks, bass tracks, and guitar tracks that came to mind and are some of the cannot miss episodes.

19)  His thoughts on concerts in general and the Counting Crows performing Mr. Jones in specific.

20)   What Christian feels are the root masterpieces for rock music after the Beatles catalogue.

You can hear Christian James Hand break down songs at a variety of places online including:

At “The Sessions On Air” on Instagram at 11 AM Pacific or 2 PM Eastern on Instagram @thesessiononair

Podcasts such as:

The Session

Heide and Frank Show weekly on Mondays

And try to catch him at a live show once they are able to resume.  Details will be provided on his website at:  https://thesessiononair.com/

Audioslave’s Cochise music video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMvN45sjo4 and yes, it is mind blowing!

Budget music systems suggestions:

Sony MDR-7506 headphones at ~$90

Better:  Audeze headphones at around $400 use Christian’s discount code PS Audio Sprout system ~$600 Rega Planar 2 turntable for ~$200 Sumiko Needle Polk Audio  or Klipsch or JBL Speakers of your choice (don’t need powered set Total system around $1,000 max

WOOT 0128: Christian James Hand Breaks Down Music on his Show “The Session”

WOOT 0086: Our 2019 Year In Movies Review Plus More

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GHiT’s Year in movies review, plus our look forward and back.

Another Way Off Our Topic (WOOT)) episode this time, where we review 1)  the past year in movies and select our favorites.  2)  We then go into the top movies of the decade.  3)  We also go into the movies of 2020 we are most looking forward to and finally, 4) we cover the worst movies of the past year.  While initially, it does not seem like we have any car talk, we did manage to get a few related car topics into the show.  We hope you enjoy this episode where we cover a bit over 100 movies and shows. 

If you agree, disagree, or have any comments, please feel free to let us know on Instagram at GarageHeroesInTraining or on Facebook at GarageHeroesIT or via email at [email protected].

Highlights from Benny, Alex, Vicki, and Bill’s discussion include:

1)  Alex does his favorite robot impression early on
2)  “Bane” makes several appearances and interviews Alex a bit
3)  Benny and Alex give their thoughts on Star Wars:  Rise of Skywalker
4)  Bill lights up Alex like a lightsaber with a Xerox discussion, lol
5)  Benny shares our opinion on Joe Pesci
6)  Bill does not seem to understand directions for these lists and also finds various ways to cheat his way to having ties

If you have any show requests, please let us know. 

We end with our sincere condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Neil Peart from the band Rush.  He will always be our vote for the most air drummed drummer of all time, even when not close to the way he actually performed. 

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast
and team members in the GHiT
Immature Endurance Racing Team

WOOT 0086: Our 2019 Year In Movies Review Plus More

The Mandalorian Episodes 1-3

The Mandolorian
As seen on Disney +

WOOT 0076: The Mandalorian Episodes 1-3 (Spoiler Filled)

We Got Egg Yo

SPOILER FILLED EPISODE.  We had a chance to finally review the new Disney+ star Wars related series The Mandalorian.  After the first three episodes, we are all impressed and looking forward to seeing where we go from here  Our hosts were joined by our friend Jeff from the Everyone Racers podcast, a long time Star Wars fan and pop culture in general.  In this episode, we gave a brief synopsis of all three episodes so far.

Our Thoughts, Theories, and Discussions:

1)  Show timeline and summary of what we know about the series as a whole

2)  Is Mando a good fighter or does he always need saving by outside forces

3)  Favorite moments

4)  Weekly releases yeah or nay

5)  Favorite characters and then quickly Favorite Character not including baby yoda

6)  Things we are hoping for or looking forward to

7)  Several of the popular baby yoda theories and their potential impact

8)  Thoughts on Disney plus and the various content

9)  Episode 9 theories and desires:

Somehow we even managed to make several auto and racing related references in this episode.  I doubt there are any other Mandalorian review podcasts that made those connections, lol. 

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast

and team members in the GHiT

Immature Endurance Racing Team

WOOT 0076: The Mandalorian Episodes 1-3 (Spoiler Filled)

Our D23 2019 Review and Impressions

Super D23
Our D23 Review

WOOT 0062: D23 2019: Our Review and Impressions

Another new intro bumper starts off our summary of Disney’s D23 2019 expo with most of the highlights.  We cover most of the announcements and also give our opinion on most and background in many cases if you are not familiar with the different properties.  Also, we highlighted two additions to the Disney park areas.

We cover a wide variety of the recent announcements including:

  • Moon Knight
  • She Hulk
  • Ms. Marvel: Kamala Khan version
  • Black Panther 2:  May 6, 2022, title still TBD
  • The Eternals: November 2020, added Gemma Chan as Sersi (no longer playing Dr Minerva?) and Barry Keoghan and Kit Harrington (as Black Knight)  (Bill makes two feeble joke at Mr. Harrington’s expense, but Bill knows nothing!)(and Benny does not get either)
  • Black Widow:  Footage was shown, not released, yet
  • Star Wars 9: Rise of Skywalker:  Trailer #2 shown, and internet predictions abound
  • Kingsman 3
  • We WooT our WooT episode by talking about The Matrix and Bill’s top movies of all-time list
  • Artemis Fowl
  • Star Wars:  The Mandalorian
  • Raya and the last Dragon: with Awkwafina and Cassie Steel 11/2020
  • Spiderman and His Amazing Friends: on Disney Junior – Animated
  • Lizzie McGuire:  Hillary Duff starring on Disney+ show
  • The Muppets:  Short form TV show on Disney+
  • Obi Wan Kenobi:  Series Disney+ starring Ewan McGregor
  • Star Wars Galactic Cruiser Hotel:  Specifically for Jeffe, announced for Disney World
  • Mulan:  Showed some of the live action footage
  • Frozen 2
  • Avatar:  Logo for revealed
  • Maleficent:  Mistress of Evil:  Poster shown
  • Cruella Deville:  Emma Stone starring as
  • Soul:  Disney Pixar movie
  • Noelle:  Disney+ movie starring Anna Kendrick and Bill Hader
  • Clone Wars:  animated series returning
  • Monsters at Work:  Disney+ TV series
  • Avengers Campus: Announced for Disney Land
  • Tom Holland presented for Disney/Pixar movie Onward, “I love you 3000”, seemed quite sad during talk
  • Spiderman Sony/Disney Talk here
  • Krypton Soapbox Time again
  • Top 5 Most Wasted villain list (attached)

Our open invitation to Kevin Feige remains!  We won’t try for spoilers but would love to review the MCU and his career to date.

WOOT 0062: D23 2019: Our Review and Impressions

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