Cool. I finally got to listen to this now that I'm back from the Thanksgiving holidays, and I really enjoyed this one. Please keep it up!
TYP, here's just a bit of useless, unimportant, but maybe fun trivia. I watched the
animated movie that you mentioned in this episode (around game 4) many times growing up, but that's because I was such a fan of the source material. It was originally released in '77, and the company that produced it was
Rankin/Bass. This is the studio that brought us those (horrific?) stop-motion/animated Christmas specials such Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town, etc. Here's something even weirder: the animation studio hired by Rankin/Bass to make said movie was Topcraft (an division of Toei Animation); several of the Japanese animators in that firm that worked on this movie went on to work for
Studio Ghibli. I found this out when I noted that there were several things about the art in Thundercasts cartoon series that reminded me about this movie; after doing a little digging, I found out that Topcraft was involved in the production of Thundercats as well.
Also, if it makes it easier, my screen name is actually pronounced
soon'-doo-los...not that it matters. It's the English equivalent of a word used several times throughout the original Greek New Testament, meaning "a fellow servant, one who serves the same master with another." I'm a professing Christian, and had heard it used elsewhere, so I kind of like using it as a screen name. Plus its a name used by Sundoulos World Motor Sports.