In this episode:
- getting a picture with Ed Begley Jr. and Bill Nye at PSEG GreenFest 2009 in Somerset, NJ,
- ShamWow pitchman Vince Offer getting arrested for punching a prostitute (mugshot),
- the yelling commercial guy Billy Mays,
- interviewing Ted Danson and Ed Begley Jr. at PSEG Global Green Expo 2008,
- asking Bill Nye about Tesla electric cars,
- Muppet voices,
- every episode of the TV show Get a Life online,
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) starring Chevy Chase,
- The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) movie poster,
- Steven Seagal,
- Simone (2002) starring Al Pacino,
- Looker (1981) starring Albert Finney,
- renting VHS tapes in the early 1980s,
- digital hoarding and people pirating songs and movies they’ll never play,
- and 1980s cartoons.
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Hoarding is definitely an addiction. It’s like card collecting, beanie babies, etc. I know 50 year old men who would scavenge ebay for these stupid plush dolls for their collection. Remember, Larry who would buy every video game and not open them. Why??? He’s in his 60s and probably has over 1000 games not played. Doesn’t make any sense. I’m guilty of hoarding media, but it is of things I like and will watch or listen to. I won’t download crap like Twilight or Knowing, but I will I will watch things I normally wouldn’t see like Wanted or The Spirit because of the digital format.
Dennis, people like you and me collect files and media that we’re interested in. I used downloading Beatles bootlegs as an example. I’m a big Beatles fan and enjoy listening to their studio outtakes and concerts. I think that’s a normal, healthy hobby because I actually get some use out of the files.
But you’re right, there are many people like Larry who are addicted to collecting media they’ll never, ever watch, play, or listen to. I don’t understand that. It’s a waste of time, bandwidth, hard drive space, and in Larry’s case, a lot of money.
At least Larry was a really nice guy. Some of these digital packrats are freaks!
I was thinking about Craig Wasson, who was in Body Double with Melanie Griffith and looks just like Bill Maher.
any show that talks about 1980’s cartoons will be one i listen to over and over again! ‘memoirs of an invisible man’ can’t be that bad, can it?