Author: James Amos

  • I Made a New YouTube Channel Trailer!

    I Made a New YouTube Channel Trailer!

    I made a new YouTube Channel trailer today since it’s been a couple of years since I made the previous one. Thanks for watching! James Amos, MD (who prefers to be called Jim but his YouTube handle is @JamesAmosMD) is a retired psychiatrist who graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, did his…

  • Svengoolie Movie: “Them!”

    Svengoolie Movie: “Them!”

    OK, so because I didn’t want to miss the Iowa vs Wisconsin football game (Hawkeyes won 37-0!), I watched the hit science fiction movie, “Them!” on the Internet Archive. This is a 1954 film directed by Gordon Douglas and which won an Oscar for best special effects! At the time, creature effects must have been…

  • Big Mo Pod Show: “Across the Blues Universe”

    Big Mo Pod Show: “Across the Blues Universe”

    I heard the Big Mo Blues Show last night and the Big Mo Pod Show today. The podcast song selection was part of the Lunch with Chuck portion of the show, which I don’t know a whole lot about. The Lunch with Chuck thing I’ve heard Big Mo talk about and I think it involves…

  • What’s Up with the Van Meter Iowa Visitor?

    What’s Up with the Van Meter Iowa Visitor?

    OK, so last night I watched Don Wildman’s Van Meter Visitor (supposedly a mysterious Van Meter, Iowa cryptid) episode first seen over 100 years) from his show Beyond the Unknown. The season 3 episode first aired in October 9, 2021, and I’d never seen it before.   Wildman said that somebody investigated the history of…

  • Installing the iPhone 17 Pro OtterBox Glass Screen Protector

    Installing the iPhone 17 Pro OtterBox Glass Screen Protector

    I did something for the first time today, which was to install the iPhone 17 Pro OtterBox Glass screen protector (that’s a mouthful). I remember putting the screen protector on my old iPhone many years ago and it wasn’t anything fancy. There was no device to help you line things up and apply the screen…

  • Jim Does the Bath Sponge Demo!

    Jim Does the Bath Sponge Demo!

    Just like Sena talked me into letting her do a facial on me, I had to do the bath sponge thing. This product is called Scrubzz, a soap generating rinse-free bath sponge you can wash up advertised as “no rinse, no bathing, and no sticky residue. I could beg to differ on the no sticky…

  • Upcoming Svengoolie Movie: “Them!”

    Upcoming Svengoolie Movie: “Them!”

    Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” This big broadcast is about the upcoming Svengoolie show movie, “Them!” on October 11, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. One problem I have with this schedule is that the Iowa Hawkeye vs. Wisconsin Badgers football game starts at 6:00…

  • A Flick on Fall Flickers

    A Flick on Fall Flickers

    Today, as usual, we had to interrupt our cribbage game so Sena could capture video of all the birds in our backyard, the fall colors, and whatnot. She caught some shots of Northern Flickers, which she has not seen before although I can remember catching them on camera years ago. They’re really strikingly colored birds…

  • Svengoolie Show: “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”

    Svengoolie Show: “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”

    Both Sena and I enjoyed the Svengoolie show movie last night, “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.” This 1966 film directed by Alan Rifkin and starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs, Joan Staley as Alma Parker, Liam Redmond as Kelsey, Philip Ober as Nick Simmons, and Dick Sargent as George Beckett is a horror spoof that…

  • Learning to Use the Komati Basin Water Authority  (KOBWA) Egg Flipper!

    Learning to Use the Komati Basin Water Authority  (KOBWA) Egg Flipper!

    I’ll deal with the silly KOBWA acronym later. Sena bought some new kitchen utensils and she got these egg flippers (one red and one black). They’re supposed to make it easier to flip fried eggs. I think a regular person who knows how get around a kitchen would do better than I did this morning…