Rubik, the Amazing Cube: Rubik’s First Christmas

<p>We’re mysteriously floating back to 1983 on an unseasonably warm Christmas adventure through Mexico on a Saturday morning cartoon that lasted a shorter amount of time than the fad it tried to cash in on.  </p><p>Full show notes with links at: <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/rubik-the-amazing-cube-christmas">https://adventcalendar.house/rubik-the-amazing-cube-christmas</a>  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 On This Episode:  </h2><p>• <strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), surprisingly energetic village granny.  </p><p>• <strong>Gerry Davila</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/RadChristmas">@RadChristmas</a>), hiding out in the spacious trunk of my station wagon and scaring the family dog, from <a href="https://buzzsprout.com/840331">Totally Rad Christmas</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>• <a href="https://www.rubiks.com/en-us/about">The History of Rubik’s Cube</a>.  </p><p>• The <a href="https://youtu.be/i20VLCP8l1c">theme song</a> by pre-Ricky Martin Menudo. </p><p>• <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610400/">Ángela Moya</a>, the voice of the kids’ mother, played a small but grim part in <i>Gleaming the Cube</i>.  </p><p>• An ode to the family station wagon.  </p><p>• An archived, early-Internet <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091008010909/http://www.rubiktheamazingcube.com/rtacshow.html">Rubik fan site</a>.  </p><p>• Rubik has more powers than Superman.  </p><p>• <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Posadas">Las Posadas</a>.  </p><p>• Date a TV show by adding a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_band_radio">CB radio</a>.  </p><p>• Rubik ending up in an eagle’s nest reminded me of <a href="https://youtu.be/YpaE2LLULO8"><i>The Polar Express</i></a>.  </p><p>• Reynoldo’s speed cubing skills compared to the real-life <a href="https://www.recordholders.org/en/list/rubik.html">Rubik’s Cube world records</a> in 1983 and <a href="https://www.rubiks.com/en-us/speed-cubing">today</a>. </p><p>****   </p><h2>📼 Ret