🎄 Tune in as we mysteriously float back to 1983 on an unseasonably warm Christmas adventure through Mexico on a Saturday morning cartoon that lasted a shorter amount of time than the fad it tried to cash in on.
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🎙 Guest:
Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas, @RadChristmas).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. The History of Rubik’s Cube.
2. The theme song by pre-Ricky Martin Menudo.
3. Ángela Moya, the voice of the kids’ mother, played a small but grim part in Gleaming the Cube.
4. An ode to the family station wagon.
5. An archived, early-Internet Rubik fan site.
6. Rubik has more powers than Superman.
7. Las Posadas.
8. Date a TV show by adding a CB radio.
9. Rubik ending up in an eagle’s nest reminded me of The Polar Express.
10. Reynoldo’s speed cubing skills compared to the real-life Rubik’s Cube world records in 1983 and today.
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:
Cap’n O.G. Readmore, 1985.
Cap’n Crunch Cereal: Crunch vs. Taste, 1985.
An Alpha Bits Cereal commercial that’s clearly still trying to ride the Pac-Man wave, but I’m not complaining, 1985.
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“Rubik, the Amazing Cube” and “Rubik’s First Christmas” © 1983 Ruby-Spears Enterprises, Inc.
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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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