America's number one best and favorite podcast about fatherhood hosted by Lex Friedman, John Moltz and Jon Armstrong.
Turning This Car Around is a podcast about parenthood from three dads, Lex Friedman, John Moltz and Jon Armstrong. You can follow us collectively on Twitter as @ttcashow
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Lex Friedman is the Chief Revenue Officer at ART19. He is a pretty important guy in the world of podcasting. He's also a writer; he authored humor books like The Snuggie Sutra and The Kid in the Crib.
He was also a senior contributor to Macworld, an author of technology books, and the co-host of Not Playing, a podcast where Dan Moren and Lex watch movies that everyone else has already seen. Mr. Friedman was formerly the cohost of Unprofessional.
Lex’s blog is called Lex, Briefly.
Lex lives with his wife and three kids in New Jersey.
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You might know John Moltz as a person on the Internet. Many people do! However, he also appears in other guises, sometimes as a large, golden bull and others as a phalanx of beautiful swans! Usually, however, he appears as a guy working at a desk. Other important points that John Moltz would like to share:
- John Moltz is fluent in English and conversational in two other languages.
- John Moltz is the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. He’s fast enough for you, old man.
- John Moltz is actually made up of thousands of smaller John Moltzes, all furiously working tiny little gears to keep the larger construct you know as “John Moltz” functioning.
- John Moltz is a little too comfortable talking about himself in the third person.
Jon Armstrong is a long time blogger at the barely alive Blurbomat, a UX/UI consultant, a web/business developer, a photographer and the impetus for this show. In a past life he executive produced a popular blog and ran the business. Yes, business. Turning This Car Around marks Armstrong’s first foray into podcasting.
You can see his photos on Flickr and Instagram.
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Jon splits time between Brooklyn, New York and Salt Lake City, Utah. Armstrong has two wonderful and amazing biological children and two also wonderful almost-stepchildren.
Lex is away so we talk about summer television and movie-watching. Or something like that.
First we talk about illness and how Moltz can't see Felix the Cat or Heckle and Jeckle.
Jon and Moltz both fondly remember General Hospital's heyday.
Both of their moms were into As The World Turns.
Jon and Moltz were both a little weirded out by Mr. Roger's Neighborhood even though the man was a saint.
Have you seen the Thriller video? Talk about cultural touchstones. Which is what we're doing.
Speaking of things with Vincent Price, Moltz fondly remember Dialing for Dollars to call.
Moltz talks about Age of Ultron.
Other summer movies for nerds and their middle-school kids are The Fantastic Four, Ant-Man and maybe Jurassic World. We had hopes for Tomorrowland but it didn't get reviewed all that well. The Poltergeist reboot is probably for older kids, if it passes muster.
If you're confused about who controls what Marvel properties, here's a good diagram.
Jon and Moltz envision a reboot of The Rockford Files starring Sam Rockwell.
Moltz doesn't praise Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. but he does praise Kyle MacLachlan in it.
For younger kids, Inside Out looks good.
Moltz still hasn't seen Mad Max: Fury Road.
The Star Wars trailer brings up the subject of prequel fan edits.
Did you know Jonathan Frakes worked as Captain America back in the 1970s?
Captain America: Civil War hasn't been filmed yet but seems already like it's got too many characters in it.
Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.