In this episode:

• another trip to the Digital Press video game store in Clifton, NJ (www.digitpress.com),
• meeting James Rolfe (the Angry Video Game Nerd) and trying to get him on the show,
• the Nostalgia Critic,
• celebrity deaths (Mel Ferrer, Bo Diddley, Harvey Korman, Jim McKay, Tim Russert, and George Carlin, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com),
• What Ever Happened To? (Jim J. Bullock),
• a psycho in Union Square Park claiming NASA is going to blow up Jupiter on 7/7/08,
• Project Lucifer,
• a Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling update,
• Sean Connery’s memoirs,
• Kung Fu Panda (2008) starring Jack Black,
• You Don’t Mess with the Zohan (2008) starring Adam Sandler,
• Kevin Nealon’s horrible acting,
• Dana Carvey’s new HBO comedy special Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies,
• Mike Myers,
• the upcoming movie Disaster Movie (2008),
• Frank Darabont’s Indiana Jones and the City of Gods script,
• the new Apple iPhone 3G and disposable gadgets,
• The Kid from Brooklyn on Last Comic Standing (www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com),
• Rob’s trip to California,
• Los Angeles vs. New York City,
• celebrity sightings (Lisa Bonet, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ryan Reynolds),
• and our listener Joe from Belleville, NJ.

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Our interview with the Screaming Orphans at Tir Na Nog in NYC!

In this episode:

• getting Juliana Hatfield on the show,
• What Ever Happened To? (Natalie Imbruglia),
• friend and filmmaker Jonald Reyes,
• That Asian Thing on Independent Features (www.independentfeatures.com),
• The Net (1995) starring Sandra Bullock,
• a librarian at the Belleville Public Library trying to send a fax,
• our interview with Joan Diver of the Screaming Orphans at Tir Na Nog in NYC,
• Dennis Haskins,
• and the Screaming Orphans live.

Photos of the Screaming Orphans at Tir Na Nog:
Flickr – Screaming Orphans, NYC 5/10/08

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We talk with special guest Jonald Reyes, director of the documentary film That Asian Thing (www.thatasianthing.com)!

In this episode:

• the documentary film That Asian Thing by Jonald Reyes (www.thatasianthing.com),
• Asian-American celebrities (George Takei, Tiger Woods, Lucy Liu, Bobby Lee, Dat Phan, Rex Navarrete, James Iha, etc.),
• Margaret Cho’s TV show All-American Girl,
• Celebrity Boxing,
• Pat Smear,
• the Nirvana: Unplugged In New York DVD,
• Super Bowl XLI,
• William Hung,
• Fisher Stevens playing an Indian character in Short Circuit (1986),
• the upcoming movie Rambo (2008) starring Sylvester Stallone,
• Timecode (2000) starring Salma Hayek,
• the Independent Film Channel’s version of Pulp Fiction (1994) starring John Travolta,
• Second City and Keegan Michael Key,
• Jonald’s parents,
• the Filipino delicacy balut,
• professional boxing,
• Belleville, NJ,
• My Chemical Romance,
• Belleville High School,
• Ronald McDonald,
• old typewriters,
• the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China,
• celebrity sightings (John Cusack and Amy Poehler),
• the New Monkees,
• and the purpose of joining the Boy Scouts of America.

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In this episode:

• Paunch in Time (the American Revolutionary War),
• George Washington’s retreat through Belleville, NJ,
• cherry blossoms,
• insane elementary school memories (razzmatazz, the fake stock market war, the paper war, caged dodgeball, the big splash, the lead apple, and Mr. F’s aerodynamic baseball bat),
• incorrectly scored standardized tests,
• the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS),
• the Early Warning Test (EWT),
• the High School Proficiency Test (HSPT),
• and the listener annoying word of the episode by GT in Brooklyn.

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In this episode:

• a Michael Jackson update (www.cultnews.com/?p=1787),
• our Roving Mars (2006) IMAX movie review,
• other terrible IMAX movies like T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998) and Across the Sea of Time (1995),
• Underworld: Evolution (2006) starring Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman,
• thirteen striking again,
• Al Bundy and bad luck,
• Mario Lemieux,
• Belleville, NJ trivia (Pathmark, Video Dynasty, Pizza And, Mickey’s Music, and Tobacco King),
• and defunct department stores (Bradlees, Caldor, and McCrory’s).

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