Awesome Leisure

Wyatt & Ashley’s GAMMN portable backgammon set packs the popular board game into a rugged case ready for all your adventures. Made from durable polystyrene, the slimline briefcase packs cork gaming surfaces and molded cutouts for storing checkers and dice. It’s small enough to fit in your backpack and has its own carrying strap.

This animated/live-action series from Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge stars Zach Woods as an NPR talk show host who awkwardly interviews real-world celebrities. Season one guests include Hugh Laurie, Mike Tyson, and Nicole Byer. It’s a similar premise to Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Earth to Ned, without the aliens. Coming to Peacock 1.25.2024.

The latest spin-off in The Walking Dead franchise brings back two of our favorite characters. The Ones Who Live finally shows us what really happened after Rick vanished and Michonne left their children to search for him. Premieres 2.25.24 on AMC and AMC+.

CLMC Music takes us on a trip back to the 1990s with a medley of synthesizer riffs from hit tracks of the era. His performance packs in familiar bits of 18 tunes from bands like C+C Music Factory, Snap, Eiffel 65, Haddaway, Technotronic, and MC Hammer. If this doesn’t get you dancing at your desk, nothing will.

Bring the flavors of Tokyo home with Maori Murota’s wonderful cookbook, Tokyo Cult Recipes. It’s packed with more than 100 recipes for Japanese dishes inspired by local restaurants and home cooking. You’ll learn to cook gyoza, ramen, tonkatsu, miso soup, and more. It’s even got sweet treats like mochi and yuzu sorbet.

Kenta Gomazaki loves to spend his time outdoors. To enhance his experience, he outfits metal gear boxes with equipment for making coffee, cooking, and serving food. His Instagram channel is filled with his wonderful creations, each is packed with unique Japanese gear for enjoying outdoor living. Kenta’s setup videos are fun and inspiring, too.

Celebrating Dry January? WhistlePig has your fix with a tasty blend of non-alcoholic rye whiskey, maple syrup, and Vermont cannabis terpenes. It won’t get you buzzed or high, but it’ll tickle your tastebuds with a lightly sweet flavor and heady aroma. The Hot Box bundle adds a pig head smoker and cocktail smoking chips. All proceeds go to Turning Tables.

Kids who grew up in the 1980s had some very different experiences than 21st-century kids. This video from Rhetty for History looks back at what youngsters did for fun, how dangerous playgrounds and cars used to be, and the primitive state of technology compared to things we take for granted today.

Dungeons & Dragons players will love Field Notes’ gaming journals for the fifth edition of the classic roleplaying game. Track your character’s traits and abilities in the Character journal, set the scene for adventure with the Game Master journal, and design enemies and encounters with the Monster journal. Sold in 2-packs.

Like a good mystery? Mandy Patinkin stars as a legendary sleuth in this whodunit about a woman who finds herself wrongly accused of murder aboard a cruise ship filled with wealthy guests. It looks like a fun way to fill some time while we wait for the next Knives Out movie. Premieres 1.16.24 on Hulu.

Amanda Schuster’s elegant cocktail recipe book deserves a spot on your bookshelf. The book catalogs 200 signature cocktails from bars and restaurants around the world. Each drink recipe is accompanied by details of its origins and an artful photograph of the cocktail. It’s packed with both classic cocktails and lesser-known specialty drinks.

These replica Temple Traps from Regal Robot make your room look like the temple at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The 15″ square wall art is based on the traps that fire darts as Indy and Satipo attempt to escape with the idol. Each is made in the U.S. from polyurethane resin and handpainted for accuracy. They also make mini fridge magnet versions.

From Don Draper to Roy Tillman, there’s no question that Jon Hamm has range. On the animated series Grimsburg, Hamm voices Detective Marvin Flute. After being kicked off the force, “the greatest detective ever” returns to his seedy hometown to solve crimes and maybe get his family back. A preview episode hits FOX on 1.7.23 and Hulu 1.8.23.

With all of the movie fan art and adult parodies of Little Golden Books out there, the kid’s book series decided to make their own book based on a decidedly non-kid-friendly movie. A Is for Alien: An ABC Book offers a lighthearted retelling of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi/horror classic while teaching the alphabet. Pre-orders start shipping 7.2023.

Composer Lalo Schifrin’s theme from Mission Impossible is one of the most recognizeable TV and movie theme songs of all time. But we bet you’ve never heard it like this. Musician Jamie Dupuis found a way to preserve the urgency of the original while adding a dash of bluegrass on the 5-string banjo.

Ring in the New Year with Freixenet’s most popular cava, Cordon Negro Brut. Affectionately known as “Black Bottle Bubbly,” this inexpensive sparkler from Catalunya, Spain, is the world’s #1 imported sparkling wine. Crisp and creamy Cordon Negro Brut’s delicate bubbles are best served as the heart of mixed cocktails like Mimosas, Spritzes, and Bellinis.

Skateboarding sensei Gou Miyagi is a master of the grind. Thrasher Magazine takes us to Miyagi-Do for a lesson in balance, precision, and style with an entertaining demo reel from the unconventional freestyle. If you never saw it, check out Gou’s classic video from Heroin Skateboards.

This grim but funny card game challenges players to act out unusual ways of dying. One team chooses who died and how they died, and the other team must draw or act out their demise for their teammates to guess. For example: Who: Air Tube Dancing Man; How: Lawnmower Accident. It’s basically Charades or Pictionary but in a cemetery. For 4 to 6 players.

A round of golf can be pretty challenging depending on your skill and the course’s difficulty, aka slope rating. How Ridiculous went for the maximum slope rating by building a painfully difficult golf hole that requires a hike to the top of a rocky mesa in Utah in order to tee off. They tried their luck with exercise balls, basketballs, and golf balls.

Despite only firing rubber bands, we would not want to be on the business end of this wooden minigun. Generic Woodworking shows off the incredible amount of blood, sweat, and tears it took to build this impressive toy weapon. It uses parts from a lawn trimmer and a belt sander to drive its mechanism, and makes an unnerving popping sound as it fires off rounds.

Kristan Toczko is a talented harpist with a knack for playing popular music on a classical instrument. Here, she shows off her skills with a brief performance of the famous guitar intro to AC/DC’s Thunderstruck on an electric lever harp. By connecting it to distortion pedals and retuning the harp, she was able to closely replicate the sound of the original.

There are lots of different kinds of races, from cars to dirt bikes to hovercrafts. In this short video, a full rack of pool balls race their way up an elevator and through a twisty downhill course. Which ball will take the checkered flag? Place your bets now! Find more footage of the track in action on supper J’s TikTok channel.