Sharing interests with my son

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My son and I were watching the Dean Martin celebrity roast last night where they were roasting Dean Martin himself and my son and I got to laughing so hard when Ruth Buzzi came on as Gladys and started belting people with her purse and when Dean remarked back it was pretty priceless. There were a few others we laughed pretty hard at too. My son has really gotten into watching old movies with me recently. He said he didn't understand why more people didn't appreciate them. I will say some things haven't aged well but I still appreciate them for what they are. When you watch older movies you have to remember the time period you're watching. Things were often just different back then. They were not politically correct the way most movies are today. My son really appreciates some of the ridiculous humor that so many movies lack today. I told my son to make a list of movies he loves that he wants to add to our movie collection or that I may own and I'd make him a shelf with easy access to those DVDs. We have a lot of movies on streaming but there have been times when our internet goes out or when one of our many streaming services isn't streaming something we want to watch. When my son started listing movies I was surprised to see the number of older movies to newer movies ratio. He did have some newer ones on it but a lot of them were older movies we had watched with Monty Python and the Holy Grail being at the top of the list as a favorite. He and I have really bonded over the movies we watch, and me being who I am I love reading biographies and autobiographies of a lot of the actors so I know a bunch of random trivia about a lot of the older actors and the movies they made and my son loves learning some of it. When we watch movies with my husband, he often refuses to watch movies made before the 80s even though once he starts watching them he gets into them so I never understood why he's such a pain about watching them at times. I'm not even sure if he knows to be honest. My husband can get sucked into almost anything. I have started full TV series without him and he'll be home and in the room one day while I'm watching an episode and he'll get sucked in and it suddenly becomes a show he wants to watch with me which wouldn't be a problem but I'd have to wait forever to watch with him and I'm very much someone who wants to keep going once I start an episode I can knock out a few in a day depending on the time I have. I tell him I'll watch it again with him if he wants but it seldom happens due to our schedules. He just doesn't have the time to get into TV series with his schedule and when he does he prefers to sleep which is fair. He works hard he deserves rest but it doesn't leave a lot of time to get into TV shows and I really don't want to wait a year to finish a TV series and when he does watch stuff on his own when he has time. We typically spend our time together going and doing something and on some occasions, we watch a movie which is easier to stay with since it's only two hours or less usually, but when we watch movies together it's almost always a new release or from the 80s or 90s. Once in a great while I can get him to watch an old movie with me and not once has he said he hated it although he does usually ask about a billion questions while watching it. My husband and I are very different in our interests. My son is becoming more and more like me, which is nice because he's someone I can share and discuss my interests with. My husband and I have other interests and things that we share. We do share some of the same interests in music but my taste in music is broader than my husband's. I love crooner music and musical music something my husband doesn't care for but my son loves. My son's taste in music has really broadened over the years and he loves most music. We have shared our love of music with him and when I make playlists for road trips my son loves to jam out with us from the backseat. My son does share some interests with his dad like fishing and computers. I love that he can share stuff with both of us. When we go to new places my job is to scout out things for us to do so that we all get our interests met. I love bookstores, especially unique ones. I find candy stores for my son, we all love neat markets, we all enjoy history museums but I'm probably a little more into it than my husband and my son is starting to really enjoy history. I find science museums mostly for my husband and son but I enjoy them too. I am fascinated by cemeteries which my husband and son find weird but often enjoy our exploration of them. I love almost anything with history. I also try to find inexpensive and unique places to eat. My son has gotten really into trying new foods which is a far cry from who he was a few years ago where he'd gag on food he didn't like because he was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder but he's starting to find a new love for food and he's getting where he likes to try new things. I love how my son shares interests with both of us but also has his own interests too. I try to always support the things he loves and I love that he enjoys so many things his dad and I love while also holding his own interests he is passionate about. My son is becoming such a unique and interesting person. He's the only kid his age I know that likes old movies. He loves anything comedy related. When he was little I dubbed him my smiley boy because even through tears he'd often find a smile and he is still like that. Whenever teachers say something about him they almost always mention his smile and great sense of humor. My child has always found a reason to smile and it's my favorite thing about him and it doesn't surprise me at all that he loves anything comedy related. My son and I love to laugh together. We are always cracking jokes to each other. My son and I are very close but he's getting where he enjoys doing things on his own or with his friends, but he always finds time to come and hang out with me. My husband is a very serious man most of the time and while he has moments where he can be goofy or funny a lot of our jokes go completely over his head, so joking around is something my son and I mostly do together and tend to not do with him because he sometimes gets annoyed with things we laugh about. My son is such an interesting combination between the two of us and then there's a lot of things that are uniquely him. He has enjoyed learning things from both of us while also picking up his own interests along the way. He has a lot of my personality traits and he has a few of his dad and then there are the ones that are just him. I love how he is this fun combination of us while also maintaining his own uniqueness. All of these traits make him such a well rounded human. He is my favorite person to hang out with most of the time. He is genuinely interested in most of the things I talk to him about and we laugh a lot together. I always joke that I had to create a human to watch old movies with me since most of the adults I know don't appreciate older movies outside of my parents which they are the reason I like them in the first place. I grew up watching them with my parents, especially my dad. I love that I get to pass my love of them down to him.