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The Sims (Video Game Franchise)

 WOW! This game is 25 years old and it certainly left a mark on the video game industry and in my own personal life as well. The Sims was created by industry legend Will Wright and it first came out in early 2000. The Sims is basically a life/social stimulation type of game where you get to create your own personal family or random characters and put them in these virtual towns. You can basically be and do anything you want in this game. You can either get live in a pre-constructed house or build one of your own. You get to send your Sims out into the real world so to speak and meet other characters whether it be online or characters from within the game itself. You got to get a job, pay the bills, buy food to keep your Sims full, you got to have them do other simple things like, getting them clean like showering and having them sleep in beds so they don't tire out. It is the closest to the perfect example of how real life is how it is actually suppose to work. And honestly, at the...
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Goldeneye 1995 (James Bond Film)

 Last night, I decided to go back and watch some awesome James Bond movies and on the menu for the night, I went and watched Goldeneye which was one of the first Bond films I had ever watched. Crazy to think that this movie is now 30 years old. Originally this movie came out in 1995 and featured the debut of Pierce Brosnan as the legendary 007 himself, James Bond. The film follows Bond and fellow MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan, attempt to infiltrate a Soviet Union chemical weapons plant called Arkangel. Sadly, the mission goes a little wrong as Trevelyan is captured and supposedly killed forcing Bond to escape and destroy the site. Nine years later, the Soviet Union is no more and Bond is now assigned to stopping a group called the Janus Crime Syndicate who has possession of a Nuclear electromagnetic pulse space-based weapon "Goldeneye" from destroying the world. First off, this movie rules. Second, Brosnan did a fantastic job playing the role of James Bond. In my humble opinion, h...
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The Wacky Adventures Of Josh And Chad: Kountry Kitchen Christmas Party

 Now, I know what you are all thinking right now. How could it possibly be a Christmas party in January? Well unfortunately the wonderful people of Kountry Kitchen were unable to have a Christmas party last year due to being quite busy. But decided to celebrate it today. You may also be wondering, what is the Kountry Kitchen? Well it is a lovely little diner where I am from and it is also the work place on my twin brother Chad. Chadman has been associated with them for many years now and they have helped him out in a lot of ways. My twin and I struggle with connecting with people throughout our lives but, these guys have always been there to support my twin. So when Chad had asked me to come along with him to the party, I was happy to go and support him. And honestly, Chad looked extremely happy to be there throughout the night. There was plenty of fun Christmas theme games being played, I got to sit down and chat it up with several of Chad's co-workers. But the best part of the ni...
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Cleveland Browns 95 Season

 Just the other day, my family and I were watching the Cleveland Browns play against the Baltimore Ravens which the Ravens smoked the Browns 35-10. But that is not what I really wanted to talk about as you see, during the game itself I had realized that it is 2025 now. Which means that thirty years ago the original Cleveland Browns had relocated to Baltimore. I remember watching the NFL Films documentary about that season with Cleveland. I was only five years old when it happened and it was crazy to see the reaction people had for this event shall we say because the original Browns team started in Cleveland back in 1944 and was apart of the All-American Football Conference in 1946 before joining the NFL in 1950. For 51 years this team had been apart of the city of Cleveland winning numerous championships under legendary football coach Paul Brown. But then 1995 rolled around and I remember watching the documentary and seeing how the players reacted to it and saw how they struggled t...
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Edgar Allan Poe (Writer, Poet)

 With it being the month of January, it is time to honor one of the greatest writers in history. Edgar Allan Poe, who was born on the 19th of this month which would have been his 216th birthday.  Poe is known for his stories to have a very dark tone that features mystery as well as macabre. He is also considered to be one of the central figures of storytellers during the Romanticism and Gothic fiction era in America. He is generally named the creator of the detective fiction genre and many also claim that he is a major contributor of the emergence of science fiction. Another fun fact about Poe, he was also the first known American author to be able to live on writing alone. Sadly though, Poe is also remembered for being a tragic figure and doing the research of his life for my blog, I can understand why. Poe lived a tough life right from the very start of his life beginning with his father abandoning him and the rest of his family and not long after that, he then lost his moth...
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All Japan Pro Wrestling! RIP Giant Baba

 It has been a while since I wrote about pro wrestling, and today I thought about writing about All Japan Pro Wrestling. But even more so, its founder Giant Baba who the wrestling world lost back in 1999 (Rest In Peace). What made me decide to write about this blog post, was a youtube channel called Kim Justice's Wrestling Road who had done a little documentary about Baba and it really inspired me. To be honest, from what I hear about him from varies of wrestlers who worked with Baba, all of which say the same thing, he was a very honorable man and I would have loved to have met him and see him wrestle back in his heyday.  All Japan was formed back in 1972 after the fall of the JWA and it quickly formed a rivalry New Japan Pro Wrestling which also debuted in 1972 by rival and former tag partner Antonio Inoki. From 1972 all the way to his death in 1999, All Japan was one of the top wrestling promotions in the whole world. Some of my personal favorite wrestlers came out of that ...
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Daredevil (Comic Book Character)

 I am super excited about today's post because it is about one of my personal favorite comic book characters and his name is Daredevil. Interesting to know that this character is only a year younger than my parents lol.  Sorry mom, sorry dad 😆. In April of 1964 Daredevil burst upon the scene and has been around ever since. Daredevil was created by writer Stan Lee and was drawn by Bill Everett. (RIP to both men and thank you for creating such an incredible character.) The story is about Matt Murdock who is from a working class Irish-American family living in a crime ridden Hell's Kitchen, New York. At a young age, Murdock's life is changed forever after saving a man from an oncoming truck carrying chemicals. Which caused him to lose his sight completely. Matt is raised by a single father named Jack who is a boxer trying to give his now blind son a better life than he had it. Sadly, Jack is lately killed by mobsters for refusing to throw a boxing match that he was competing ...
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One On One Interview With Christine Miroddi-Yoder Owner Of Foodology Feeding Therapy

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 Hey everybody! Today I wanted to do something a little bit different for my blog. One of the things I wanted to do with my blog was to not only let some personal feelings about myself. But also to help promote things and in today's blog, I did a little interview with my sister-in-law Christine Miroddi-Yoder who is the owner of Foodology Feeding Therapy.  I would like to say thank you to Christine for taking the time to answer my questions and I do hope you all will enjoy my little interview with her. JY: What was the inspiration behind doing this project? CM: I wanted to teach parents that Mindset is an important piece of eating. A lot of people think kids should just put food in their mouth and eat it, but eating is more complicated than that. What you say and how you act around food affects how kids respond at mealtimes. So this book is hopefully teaching parents what to do, not do and say and not say around mealtimes.   JY: What were some of the challenges c...
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Vincent Price

 Crazy to think that this incredible actor is no longer with us and it has nearly been 35 years since the passing of Vincent Price back in 1993. Now in fairness, I only remember seeing Mr. Price perform in a few things like the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo, Edwards Scissorhands and also he was the narrator in the music video for Michael Jackson's song Thriller. Also I didn't even realize that he was in the Ten Commandments movie too. But as I started researching him, I discovered that he had such a big time career in movies. Now it is no secret that I do enjoy a good gothic horror story and Price certainly fits that bill. Having been in plenty of movies and television shows, primary in the role of a Villain, and great one at that. Of course Vincent Price was waaayyy a head of my time. So I am very limited in what I was able to find. And what I did find, was amazing. Researching his career, I saw that he was featured in films based on one of my favorite writers as well as many other ...
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Playstation 1

 Being a gamer myself, it does feel a bit weird to me that I am older than a video game console. Because since it is now 2025, the PS1 is now 30 years old. Now I say this because the PS1 came out here in America in September of 1995. Meanwhile it came out in Japan late 1994. At the time this system was released, the PS1 was competing against the Sega Saturn from Sega and the Nintendo 64 which came out a year later. Man did this system coming out the gates swinging, it came out with so many amazing titles it isn't funny. From 95 to 2006 when it was discontinued, the original Playstation had a a wide variety of different games from multiple genres which was one of the main reasons why I loved playing the system. The top selling game for the Playstation was the racing game Gran Turismo which came out in 1997 making 10.85 million. 😮 But there were plenty other great games that came out during the PS1's run. Games like Final Fantasy 7, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Metal Gea...
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Moving Forward: Goals For 2025

 With today being New Year's Eve, it marks as the final day of 2024 and it has gotten me thinking about a lot of different stuff. Like I recently wrote about how I felt about the year that was 2024 for me and needless to say it was pretty much an up and down year, but I also believe that it has opened my eyes to plenty of different views and I have noticed changes in my life and how I feel about those changes. And honestly, it was the first time in my life I really enjoyed doing a lot of self-reflecting. But also, it was a little weird though, I say this because I am 34 years old. I never in my wildest dreams, ever thought someone like me could ever feel like I could change. But not only that, I have accepted those changes and I can even feel the changes happening within me as well as around me, which is also something I never thought was possible.  To be fair though, I also feel like there are things about me that are still me and often I wonder if I am still the same person ...
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The Wacky Adventures Of Josh And Chad: Flashbacks!

 Well, my twin and I just gotten back from another fun little trip, this time we decided to go to Huntingdon to check out this little shop called Flashbacks. And I got to tell you, it certainly lived up to its name because Chad and I were having plenty of flashbacks as we searched through the whole shop. The first thing we noticed as we walked in was the comic books 😁 and they had a pretty good collection of theme ranging from low prices to comic books that have high value. Also there were plenty of old school toys from back in the day, even before Chad and I were even born. Heck! There were even VHS tapes showcasing some classic cartoons or movies that we both enjoyed some much. We ended up getting ourselves a few comic books and hopefully again we will make another trip down there and more importantly, continue to keep ourselves busy and try be more open and adventurous and also to be inspired and use it to keep me writing as I hope and pray that someday I will find one of my bo...
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Danny Phantom (Nicktoon)

 Crazy to think that this show is now 20 years old, boy time really does fly by when you are having fun. In 2004, Nickelodeon came out with an animated paranormal show called Danny Phantom. This show was amazing and while I was doing research for this particular blog post, I realized that this show only lasted three seasons for a grand total of 53 episodes. Which to this very day I still honestly feel like this show lasted a lot longer than it did. Danny Phantom follows a young kid and Danny Fenton who is a child of paranormal hunters Jack and Madeline Fenton. Danny also had an overly protective big sister named Jasmine aka Jazz.  One day Danny sees his parents try to create a portal that can bridge the gap between the human world and the Ghost Zone only for their experiment to fail. Disappointed, his parents leave which allowed Danny to check it out himself. While inside he discovered an on switch which his parents missed, so Danny decides to push the button only to get zappe...
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2024 A Year In Review

 Well everyone! It is getting to be that time of the year where we all turn a new page into our lives as we say goodbye to the year 2024 and prepare ourselves for the upcoming 2025. But before I do, I wanted to write this blog and discuss what the year 2024 meant to me. 2024 was shall we say a up and down year for me to say the least. A lot of unexpected highs and lows, ton of changes happening in my life. Some good, some bad, some I not even sure what it could all mean to me. Things about myself, that I have been dealing with for so long and I am slowly starting to accept some things about me and to be perfectly honest, I would love to explore these more. But like I mentioned earlier, there have been some positives and there have been some tough negatives for me during this past year.  On the negative side of things, I finally managed to open up and tried dating again which would be the first time in a little over 12 years after being completely ruined by ex-girlfriend who ch...
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13 Ghosts Of Scooby Doo

 Being a huge fan of Scooby Doo, I can honestly say that I have seen a ton of different series that featured the lovable dog and the rest of the Mystery Inc. One such series I really loved watching the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo which aired all the back in 1985 on ABC and lasted for a season. The story begins with the gang Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy are on a trip to Hawaii but are thrown off course and ended up landing in the Himalayas. Once there, the group meets a pair of ghosts named Weerd and Bogel who trick Shaggy and Scooby into opening the Chest of Demons which contain 13 of the scariest monsters that have ever walked on Earth. The only way that these demons can return to the chest is if the people who let them out have to be the ones who put them back. So the gang begins their search all around the world to stop the monsters from destroying the planet. Joining Scooby and Shaggy are Daphne, Scrappy and a young boy name Flim Flam. Also assisting the gang is Flim Flam's f...
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Sons Of Anarchy! (TV Show)

 It is crazy to think that this show has now been done for 10 years now. And still holds up as one of the best shows ever. To this very day, you can still feel the impact that it had from back in the day and that show is Sons Of Anarchy. Sons Of Anarchy was created by Kurt Sutter back in 2008, which made me a junior in high school. The show aired on the channel FX and it follows an outlaw motorcycle club in the fictional town of Charming, California. Common themes that the show had throughout its run was love, brotherhood, loyalty, betrayal and redemption.  The show follows Jax Teller played by Charles Hunham who discovered his father's manifesto and learned about his concerns with the direction of the club. I remember first seeing the show and honestly, right from the opening song that was played before every episode, it just grabs at me and I was hooked. The song was called This Life by Curtis Stigers and the Forest Rangers. It was just pure poetry.  Plus, I always had ...
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The Wacky Adventures Of Josh And Chad: Yoder Family Christmas Party/Cody, Christine, Macy And Lukey!

 This past weekend was quite interesting to say the least, as me and my family got to go to our annual Yoder family Christmas reunion. We also got a visit from my older brother Cody along with his wife Christine, my nephew Lukey and their always fun dog Macy. Thankfully they managed to get here safely on Friday. I always get nervous because it usually takes them or us about five and a half hours to get to each others' houses. Of course, with it being a lot colder out and there was some snow falling down, it just makes me more anxious and I am again thankful for them getting here safely. Of course it was going to be a crazy enough weekend as it is with a hyper four year old as well as the fact my family was going to be watching the Penn State game before heading off to the reunion. In fact, football was already going crazy in the house as I was watching Notre Dame defeat Indiana which I was thankful to see but now it is onto Georgia. Then on Saturday my father was glued to the TV as...
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Blue Gender (Anime)

 To no ones surprise, I am a major dork! 😁 and I do enjoy a good anime. For me personally one of the things I enjoyed the most watching growing up as a kid was anime even though I wasn't able to watch a lot of them due to not having Cartoon Network. Most of the stuff I was able to see like Pokemon and Digimon because those were on stuff like Fox Kids. However, I did manage to see some of anime on Cartoon Network especially when I went to see my Nan and Pap. I got to see some of my favorite anime of all time like Dragon Ball Z and mainly Mobile Suit Gundam. But today I am going to write about one of the most underrated anime Blue Gender. Blue Gender is a mecha, science fiction, horror anime and was created by Ryosuke Takahashi who has been involved with manga and anime since the early 60s.  Blue Gender is set in the year 2030 and the planet Earth has been overrun by an alien monsters called the Blue who hunt and harvest humans for food. The survivors retreat to place in outer ...
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Frank Miller (Comic Book Writer)

 In previous blogs, I have mentioned a few of my influences as a writer and today I thought about writing one about a legendary comic book writer. His name is Frank Miller. Miller has been in the comic book business since before I was even born. In fact, my parents weren't even married yet when he first started writing comics. The first time that I had ever gotten to see anything of Frank Miller was back in 2005 when a movie based on one of his amazing comics (Sin City) and I become a fan instantly. Since then I have been researching him more and being a fan of comic books myself, I must say Frank has created some of greatest stories in comic book history in my humble opinion. Miller is one of the reasons why I enjoy the character Daredevil. As I went back and learned about his time there with the character, he created Elektra and wrote the Daredevil: Born Again story arc which many claim is one of the best stories in the history of the character. Frank also created the Dark Knight...
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Nickelodeon Ho Ho Holiday Special! (2015 Special)

 With Christmas getting so much closer, there have been plenty of me watching some holiday classics. Usually when somebody says the word classic, it means of the shows that have been around for decades. But in today's blog, I am writing about a Christmas special that will soon turn 10 years old. And that is the Ho Ho Holiday special that aired on Nickelodeon back in 2015. I am writing about this because my twin and I were on Youtube and had found the full episode and started watching it. And let me tell you, it was still just as good as when I first watched it. What makes show so special to me was when it first came out, I hadn't really watched many new Christmas special up to that point. Mainly because, I hadn't liked some of the newer stuff. But nonetheless, when this special was announced, I figured why not give it a shot. And I am really glad that we did because man was it so much fun to watch. Basically it stars the actors and actresses of the time there at Nick and th...
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Digimon

 In my humble opinion, one of my personal favorite animes ever. Digimon, Digital Monsters. Digimon is an anime created by Akiyoshi Hongo back in 1997.  Digimon was created as a series of digital pets that were designed as a masculine counterpart to the female oriented Tomagotchi and since then created numerous anime series, video and card games. And I love it! The first time I saw Digimon was the original anime series that aired on Fox Kids back in March of 1999. And dare I say, I loved it so much more than Pokemon. There, I said it. lol I love the whole concept of Digimon. I mean the idea of traveling to another world where you can find and connect with a Digimon and basically have a friend for life and go and explore such a beautiful yet, dangerous world is quite exciting for me. Especially since I didn't really get to out much as a kid and I always dreamed of being in a world where I can feel free and Digimon certainly did that for me growing up. Even when I did get to hang...
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The Wacky Adventures Of Josh and Chad: Mindspell Concert!

 WOW! That was such a fun night! My twin brother Chad and I made our return to a local VFW in Mount Union to see our friend Eric Scott and his band Mindspell. This was the second time that we got to go to this VFW and watch our friends perform and these guys absolutely killed it out there tonight.  You know, being in a small town there isn't much going on, which doesn't help someone like myself trying to explore things and step out on his comfort zone, but nonetheless when the time comes, I try my best to go out and enjoy myself and meet new people and try and do things. Plus, I really love rock and metal music so we decided to go and see the band. And much like the first time, we had a total blast. What was even more fun about tonight's adventure was I got to meet a few new people, but also got to meet up with some old friends who I haven't seen in a long time and they just happened to be there that night. First, I got to hangout with Eric and the band before the show ...
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Babes In Toyland (1986 Christmas Movie)

 Holy crap! Talk about bringing back some Christmas memories, I recently found an old movie I loved watching as a kid and that was Babes in Toyland which was a 1986 Christmas musical film based off the 1903 operetta of the same name created by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough. This movie stars Drew Barrymore, Keanu Reeves, Richard Mulligan (RIP), Eileen Brennan (RIP), Jill Schoelen, Googy Gress and Pat Morita (RIP). The movie starts as Lisa Piper (Barrymore) a young girl from Cincinnati, Ohio no longer believes in being a kid anymore due to the fact that her father had passed away. But a snow storm is slowly working its way in so she meets with her older sister Mary (Schoelen) along with her sister's boyfriend Jack (Reeves) and his friend George (Gress) and group leaves to get home before the storm only to get caught up in it and accidentally sent Lisa flying out of Jack's jeep before hitting a tree and knocking her out. Only to be sent to the magic world of Toyland where she...
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Nicktoons Unite! (Video Game)

 I can't believe that this amazing game is nearly 25 years old. And just thinking about it brings a huge smile on my face and in today's blog, I thought about looking back on a video game called Nicktoons Unite. This was pretty much a peak part of my childhood watching Nicktoons like Spongebob Squarepants, Danny Phantom, Fairy Odd Parents, Jimmy Neutron, etc. So the fact that they decided to create a game where are all of these amazing characters come together was really exciting for me. This game came out for the Gamecube, Xbox, PS2 and a few other systems in 2005, I quickly got myself a copy for my gamecube and honestly, I was not disappointed. Nicktoons Unite begins with Spongebob discovering that Plankton has taken over Bikini Bottom with an army of giant vacuum machines and apparently works with a group called the Syndicate along with Professor Calamitous, Vlad Plasmius and Denzel Crocker who are looking to rule all of their respective worlds. Spongebob later joins up with...
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Frosty The Snowman (Christmas Special)

 Keeping the Christmas theme going here on my blog this month, I thought I write about another fun Christmas special, and that is Frosty the Snowman. Believe it or not, Frosty was actually first created via song which was written by Walter E. Rollins and Steve Nelson and it was written back in 1950 and was first sung by Gene Autry who sang a lot of Christmas songs back in the day. The duo of Rankin and Bass were at it again creating this masterpiece. And were giving some help from long time writer Romeo Muller. The special featured the voice talents of Jimmy Durante as the narrator, this would be his final performance, and I must say, did a fantastic job. Also starring were Billy De Wolfe as Professor Hinkle and Jackie Vernon as the main man himself, or should I say main snowman lol Frosty. The story follows a group of kids playing outside and build a snowman which they named Frosty. Suddenly, a top hat flies over from the wind and lands on Frosty's head and the next thing you know...
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