Lunchbox Reaction

The four episode Netflix series Pokémon Concierge is a gentle and relaxing stop-motion animated show for families with young kids. It's cute, a bit silly, and makes us all want to visit a tropical island. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, Linnea and Brian discuss the 2-player board game called Patchwork . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Happy New Year! This week, we talk about new year's resolutions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We publish our show every Monday morning, and this year (2023) that happens to fall on Christmas Day. Our show this week features a few of our personal favorite memories, foods, and songs about the holiday. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Boy and the Heron is a 2023 animated feature from the legendary writer and director Hayao Miyazaki, and produced by Studio Ghibli. The movies tells the story of 12-year-old Mahito who, after moving to the country to escape Tokyo during the war, enters a mysterious tower at the behest of a strange talking heron. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redc...

Author Frederick Forsyth's novella The Shepherd was published in 1975, and has been read nearly every Christmas Eve by radio host Alan Maitland on the CBC radio show As It Happens since 1979. The Shepherd tells the story of an R.A.F. fighter pilot who encounters trouble while flying over the North Sea on Christmas Eve in the 1950s. As promised on the show, you can listen to the story on the CB...

The music streaming service Spotify is out with their yearly summary of each user's musical tastes and highlights. The feature, called Wrapped , is very popular, and is the talk of the lunch table on the show this week. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week we review a brand new word building game called Alphabet Stoop by game designer Charlie McCarron and Pops & Bejou Games . The game is for 2-5 players ages 6+. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Marvels is a superhero film that combines the forces of Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau, and Ms. Marvel. When the powers of the three heroes become entangled, they need to learn to work as a team to defeat the villainous Dar-Benn and her Kree army. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bananagrams is a word game that feels like a cross between Boggle and Scrabble. In the game, each player takes a number of letter tiles from a central group of 144, then arranges those tiles to form any number of connected words in a crossword-like shape. Once a player uses all their starting letters, they call "peel" and each player takes an additional letter to add to their growing maze...

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is a 16 episode animated series that premiered on the Disney Channel in February 2023, and was subsequently released on Disney+. The show follows the day-to-day adventures of 13 year old Lunella Lafayette, a whip-smart girl living in New York, who discovers a mysterious portal generator under her apartment. When she activates it, a giant red tyrannosaurus steps through...

Taskmaster is a British comedy television show where a group of 5 comedians compete in a series of odd and silly tasks. Points are awarded by the host, and the winner of each episode gets to bring home some valuable and not-so-valuable prizes. The show premiered in 2015, and has had 16 series since that time. For our episode this week, we watched the first series of 6 episodes, and found ourselves...

The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 stop-motion animated short by Aardman Animations. The 29 minute film features the characters of Wallace and Gromit, who first appeared in the 1989 short A Grand Day Out . This film finds the duo short on money, and with bills to pay, Wallace decides to rent a room to a chicken. Unbeknownst to him, the chicken is none other than a criminal penguin in disguise, who plans...

One Piece is an 8 episode fantasy pirate adventure series that premiered on Netflix in August of 2023. The series was adapted from the manga and anime of the same name by author Eiichiro Oda. The show tells the story of a young boy named Monkey D. Luffy who dreams of becoming the king of the pirates, and assembles a crew to sail the seas in a quest to recover the famous treasure known as the One P...

This week, Linnea and Brian discuss their recent visit to a college fair. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week we celebrate our (belated) 3rd anniversary of podcasting by revisiting some of our favorite clips from the past year. Join us as we remember some fun highlights such as British teens solving mysteries, how a Roomba is like a maid, and how Linnea is the family Boggle champion. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The 2023 Disney/Pixar animated movie Elemental tells the story of two elements, Ember (fire) and Wade (water), who meet, fall in love, and have to deal with society's preconceived notions of cultural and ethnic diversity. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A Grand Day Out is a 1989 stop-motion animated film by directed, co-written, and animated by Nick Park. The 23 minute short features the beloved characters Wallace and Gromit, and follows the pair as they construct a rocket in their basement, then use it to fly to the moon to get some cheese. (Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese, right?) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Pr...

Huzzah! This week we discuss our thoughts on the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, so grab yourself a turkey leg and join us! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Good Night Oppy is a 2022 documentary about the Spirit and Opportunity rovers that were sent to Mars by NASA. We follow their construction, launch, harrowing landing, and 15 year science-filled journey across the red planet. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week we discuss the Minnesota State Fair, and get a small peek behind the scenes of marching in the parade, since both Linnea and Evan are in their high school marching band. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's our 152nd episode, and in all that time we've never assembled a top ten list (or in our case, a top 15). So without further ado, the three of us each present our top 5 picks in the category of animated TV series. See what you think! And send us and e-mail with your top five - we'd love to hear them! Linnea She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Avatar: The Last Airbender Over the Gard...

Paper Girls is an 8 episode series on Amazon Prime. The show tells the story of four paper delivery girls in 1988 who become caught up in a time war and suddenly find themselves in 2019. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hard to believe it, but here we are posting our 150th episode! This week, we repeat the format we used on our 100th episode, and talk about things related to the number 150. We also share our weekly pop-culture references, read fortune cookies, and have a special edible surprise. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Barbie is a musical fantasy comedy movie by director Greta Gerwig. In the film, Barbie, played by Margot Robbie, has an existential crisis, and travels to the real world to try to solve her dilemma. Ken, played by Ryan Gosling, joins her along the way, and discovers that life in the real world is quite different than in Barbieland. The movie is silly, funny, and has a lot to say about the societie...