I've been into collecting and acquiring older things lately, especially one older thing.

You may remember from 20, 30, 40 years ago and realize why would you want that?

I will tell you why it's the big old boxy televisions, the CR TVs, Cathode-Ray televisions.

So let's talk about that today.

Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology

here on the council of Trent, but Friday we just talk about whatever I feel like talking about.

And today I want to talk about CR TVs, cathode ray televisions, the big boxy televisions that you

got back in the day. I remember I grew up with a Panasonic in my bedroom. It was probably a smaller one, 14, 18 inches that

you could, you know, is a kid could have in their, in their bedroom. And why are they important?

Well, I'll tell you why. Retro gamers love them. And I've been getting into retro gaming a bit

more. I still have a lot of the old video games from my childhood, the Super Nintendo's.

My Super Nintendo still works. I played my Super Nintendo to do a let's play footage

because Redeem Zumer was talking about Theology while playing Minecraft. I don't know how

to play Minecraft. I know how to play Super Mario World. So I just fired up my old Super

Nintendo, turned on my cell phone, put it on a tripod,

filmed the TV late at night when you get no glare on the television.

And I just beat Super Mario World from memory using the Star Road.

Thank you very much.

It was funny in that episode, I said in the episode, I apologize people.

I might be a little rusty.

I haven't played this in a while. And people said, if this is how he plays and he was rusty, what was he like in his prime? Like, oh, my friend, let me tell you, when I was eight years old during the summer, from sunup to sundown, I was in the upstairs room, just playing Super Mario World. Free access. Free access to it. That's why I tell my wife, I say, Laura, I'm really concerned about the kids' development. Like, you know, I'm really worried they're behind. And like, what? In reading and in math? I'm like, no, they still haven't unlocked the 96 exits in Super Mario World. They're way behind in figuring that out. I had that locked down when I was eight. You know, Matthew's beyond that now. He's older than that. We got to catch them up. So I remember just, you know, doing that as a kid and I still have the Super Nintendo. I still have the games. Some of them don't work, but I think if I go in and clean the pins on the cartridges with them rubbing alcohol,

maybe I can bring them back to life. But I've gone on eBay, and I also went and I picked up a PlayStation 2, the old fat PlayStation 2, not the thin PlayStation 2, the fat PlayStation 2,

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