Episode 62 - Full Frontal Prometheus [ 1:17:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (557)

SHOW NOTES

Special note:  Tev and Sarah got married!

Guest(s): Sarah, Dave

Drink of the Show: Dark & Stormy

Ingredients:

• 2 oz dark rum
• 8 oz ginger beer

Television

What we’ve been watching: Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, True Blood, basketball

Books

What we’ve been reading: Bones of the Moon – Jonathan Carroll, Packing for Mars – Mary Roch, The Cyberiad – Stanislaw Lem

Tech

News:

• Apple releases new hardware
• The saga of a little girl’s school lunch blog, Never Seconds

Video Games

What we’re playing:  The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb

New Releases This Week

Movies

What we’ve been watching:  Prometheus, Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows

News:

• Full frontal nudity, vagina

Last Weeks Box Office

New Releases This Week

End Music:

• Vagina – The Bloodhound Gang

Episode 57 - Avengers, Assemble! [ 1:04:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (620)

SHOW NOTES

Television

What we’ve been watching: Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra

News:

• Dish network DVR skips network commercials
• Community renewed
• 30 Rock final season
• Parks & Rec renewed

Books

What we’ve been reading: Soon I will be Invincible – Austin Grossman

Tech

News:

• Apple paying Foxconn to make their factories slightly less soul-crushing
• Lying on your resume: Yahoo CEO steps down
• Facebook co-founder renounced US citizenship to avoid taxes

Video Games

What we’re playing: Popcap bundle, Trials Evolution, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Legend of Grimrock, WoW TCG

News:

• EA’s “Indie Bundle”
• Kickstarter bringing classic games out of the woodwork (Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Carmogeddon, etc)
• Subsidised Xbox360 available
• Kinect Internet Explorer
• Amazing Alex next Angry Birds game

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Avengers

News:

• New piracy warning screens on DVD and Blurays
• Tom Wilson’s “Biff Tannen” card

End Music:

• Take me to the bonus level because I need an extra life – Pornophonique

Episode 56 - TV Shows You May Have Overlooked [ 2:20:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (530)

SHOW NOTES

Guest(s): Joe

Drink of the Show:  Hadouken Shot

Ingredients:

• 3/4 oz Blue Curacao
• 3/4 oz Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey
• Splash of Bacardi 151

Drink Rating (out of 5)

• Adam: 4
• Tev: 4
• Joe: 4

Topic: TV Shows You May Have Overlooked

Shows: Ray Bradberry Theater, New Outer Limits, Chuck, Black Books, Traveler, Peep Show, Duckman, Huff, Spaced, Farscape, Lexx, Jericho, Supernatural, Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Television

What we’ve been watching: Hollywood Treasure, Archer

News:

• Nielson reports drop in number of TV households
• Hulu may requires a cable subscription
• Star Trek: TNG season 1 on blu-ray gets a date: July 24th

Books

What we’ve been reading: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman  (From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury)

Tech

News:

• Microsoft invests $300M in B&N Nook
• Study suggests that not enough sleep activates fat genes
• RIM introduces Blackberry 10
• Target to stop carrying the Kindle
• Apple patents touchy feelly technology
• Brand Loyalty no more
• TSA on the lookout for surgically emplanted bombs
• Renting your phone is probably a bad investment
• Subscribe to Adobe CS6 and save?

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Legend of Grimrock, Triple Town

News:

• Contract-subsidized Xbox coming soon?
• THQ ditches budget ValuSoft division
• Oxford study treats post-traumatic stress with Tetris

Movies

What we’ve been watching:  Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Buckaroo Banzai, High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music

News:

• Disney gets Henry Selick to direct The Graveyard Book

Break Music:

• Spiderman (cover), Douglas Mitchell

End Music:

• Commander Shepard, Miracle of Sound

Episode 55 - Stupid Video Game Tropes [ 1:15:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (515)

SHOW NOTES

Topic: Stupid video game tropes

Rescuing the princess, lives and continues, amnesia, crates and barrels, inventory management, health packs, cover health recovery, world war II, boss fights, pure evil enemies, jumping physics, inappropriate item drops, arbitrary boundaries, locked doors, sexy women armor, cheap shop keepers, save points, black and white characters

Television

What we’ve been watching: Game of Thrones, Law & Order: SVU, My First Sale

Books

What we’ve been reading: Alone, Richard Byrd

Tech

News:

• Scientists create artificial DNA alternative, XNA
• Google’s gonna mine asteroids
• Rent-stabilized apartments okay in New York
• Google Drive Announced
• Sheep + Worm
• How much would it cost to mfg iphone in the USA
• TSA Screeners don’t need no stinkin background checks

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Pinball Arcade, Fez

News:

• For the first time in its history as a public company, Nintendo posts a yearly loss
• Adam Sessler leaves X-Play (and G4)

New Releases This Week

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Brick

News:

• The Hobbit at 48fps

Last Weeks Box Office

New Releases This Week

Netflix Watch Instantly: Jem, GI Joe, Transformers

Break Music:

• VOID, Gitaroo Man

End Music:

• First of May, Jonathan Coulton

Episode 52 - Bagels, Pennies, and Implied Rape [ 1:13:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (607)

SHOW NOTES

Guest(s): Sarah, Krista

Drink of the Show: Asari

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz Bacardi Torched Cherry Rum
• 1/2 oz Blue Curosau

Drink Rating (out of 5)

• Adam: 2
• Tev: 3
• Sarah: 2
• Krista: 2

Television

What we’ve been watching: Game of Thrones

News:

• Game of Thrones Season 2!
• also, Bones

Books

What we’ve been reading: Modoc (Ralph Helfer), My Seinfeld Year (Fred Stoller), Ghost in the Wires (Kevin Mitnick)

News:

• Harry Potter out on eBook

Tech

News:

• Canada kills the penny
• Controversial Belvadere Vodka ad pulled
• James Cameron: Deep Sea Explorer
• Microsoft patents skipping commercials for cash
• Bagel Guy Murry Lender dies at 81

Video Games

What we’re playing: Hunger Games Game, Angry Birds Space, Mass Effect 3

News:

• Insomniac cancels pinball project
• Gamestop stops taking used Gamecube games
• Millions and Millions of Angry Birds in Space

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Hunger Games

News:

• Bioshock movie loses second director
• Hangover 3 announced
• In 2012 more movies will be watched streaming than on disc
• Humor: The Hunger Games Game!

End Music

• Balrog Boogie (Diablo Swing Orchestra)

Episode 51 - Minisode [ 12:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (483)

SHOW NOTES

Just Tev, a mini episode

Drink of the Show: Chocolate Corvette

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz dark rum
• 1/2 oz dark creme de cacao
• 4 oz hot chocolate
• 2 oz heavy cream

Drink Rating (out of 5)

• Tev: 4

Equipment

• Zoom R24 mixer
• Zoom H1 portable recorder
• AT2020 mics
• iPad app: Resounder
• Editing: Garageband

Some Comics

• Transmetropolitan
• Akira
• Bone
• Creature Tech
• Johhny the Homicidal Maniac

End Music:

• Hitman’s Lovesong by The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Episode 50 - The Big Five-Oh [ 1:24:48 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (540)

SHOW NOTES

Guest(s): Krista, Dave

Drink of the Show: Krogan Piss

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz Akavit
• 1/2 oz Gin
• 1/4 oz Fireball
• pour in a shot glass
• drink

Drink Rating (out of 5)

• Adam: 2
• Tev: 2
• Krista: 2

A look back at our top 5s

Memories…

Television

What we’ve been watching:  Mongrels, Restaurant Stakeout, Dog the Bounty Hunter

Books

What we’ve been reading: Wise Man’s Fear

News:

• Every Marvel comic will come with a code for a digital copy
• Legendary French artist Jean Giraud (Mobius) dies
• After 244 years, Encyclopedia Britannica stops printing encyclopedias (last print is 2010 edition)

Tech

News:

• RIAA and MPAA start eliminating net neutrality July 12
• Exposé aired on This American Life about Foxconn revealed to be fictionalized
• Microsoft wants to stop OnLive, claiming licensing violations

Video Games

What we’re playing:  Mass Effect 3

News:

• Handheld Neo Geo going on sale soon
• Friskes makes iPad game You vs. Cat

Movies

What we’ve been watching:…

News:

• Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows

Netflix Watch Instantly: TED Talks

End Music:

• Congratulations (from “The Charmed Life”)

Episode 49 - Disturbing Moments in Kids' Movies [ 1:48:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (647)

SHOW NOTES

Guest(s): Joe

Drink of the Show:  Double Racist Grandma on the rocks

Ingredients:

• 2 oz whiskey
• 1 oz lemon juice
• 2 oz seltzer
• 2 dashes of bitters

Drink Rating (out of 5)

• Adam: 2 of 5
• Tev: 2
• Joe: 2

Topic: Disturbing Moments in Children’s Films

Timebandits, Brave Little Toaster, Secret of Nimh, Riki Tiki Tavi, Dark Crystal, Transformers: The Movie, Howard the Duck, Pinocchio, Tarzan, Bambi, Black Cauldron, Watership Down, Plaugedogs, Roger Rabbit, Willy Wonka, Beastmaster, Robocop, Leprechaun

Television

What we’ve been watching: Mongrels, Breaking Bad, 30 Rock

Tech

News:

• iPad 3 Announced
• Phone Mule
• Smartphone data plans
• easily trick TSA body scanners
• teen girl lured to motel
• Sabu flips on lulzsec
• Pwn Plug instahack
• Find my iPad finds Meth
• Tevatron’s final data may find Higgs Boson

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Mari0, Not Tetris, Draw Something

News:

• Witcher 2 Publisher is done with DRM
• Bioshock Infinite coming
• Valve console coming?
• Mari0 Portal
• Capcom DLC on disc
• Simpsons Tapped Out pulled by EA
• 25 Billionth App downloaded from Apple

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Fellowship of the Ring (extended, Bluray)

Netflix Watch Instantly: Jeepers Creepers, Atlas Shrugged Part 1

Break Music:

• Desperate Den of Snakes (by Amil Byleckie)

End Music:

• Chased By A Cow (by Heifervescent)

Episode 45 - Strong Women and Dating Advice [ 1:26:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (553)

SHOW NOTES:

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Saints Row the Third, Minecraft, Half-minute Hero (PSP), Eye of Judgement (PS3), Orions 2 (iPhone)

News:

• Sony changing name of PSN service to Sony Entertainment Network
• Zynga stealing ideas from small game devs, but it’s legal
• Double Fine breaks Kickstarter funding record – Link to Kickstarter Page
• Oklahoma trying to tax violent video games
• Using a bot-farming service to increase your games visibility is a no-no
• Official Valve Skyrim mod puts Space core in Skyrim & High res texture pack and mod tools released
• Arkham City shipped 6 million copies in 2011
• Over 10 Million Skyrim players, avg 75hrs game time
• Bioware fixing mistakes in Mass Effect: Deception novel… patch coming soon?

Movies

• Trouble (Find Me) – Unwoman
• Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor – Flight of the Conchords

End Music:

• Shane – Orca Team

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Episode 44 - 8-bit Music! [ 2:08:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (574)

SHOW NOTES:

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Minecraft, Gitaroo Man

News:

• California to play 950k to ESA
• Possible New Xbox Specs
• THQ gets stock delisting notice
• Ex THQ staff member whines About losing job
• Netflix no longer planning to carry video games
• Minecraft coming as Legos
• Mass Effect: Comparing Voice Actors
• Paul McCartney making music for upcoming game
• Lego Universe goes dark

Movies

• Born to be Bone (Gitaroo Man)

End Music:

• End Theme (Gitaroo Man)

Top 5

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