Episode #21 - "Grand Theft Dirk" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Really Living Without It"

• Tonight's Beverages: Water and diet iced green tea for Dirk; nothing McHatin.
• The sad story of Dirk's car being stolen and the damage done.
• The remains of the steering wheel with the club still on it.
  
• McHatin unfriended Dirk, so we revisit some of the hot babes he wouldn't date because they're 6 years older.
• Non-discussion of the Dexter finale and slight discussion of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and other shows, new and old.
• The lethal motivation trope of hero's journey.
• Edward Snowden, the surveillance state, and the weird demands for privacy from a society that's constantly oversharing.
• McHatin tries to turn the moped discussion back onto Dirk with little success.
• Dirk doesn't like Natalie Portman (top) but likes Keira Knightly despite them looking very similar:
  
  
• The sorry state of rap music these days and Dirk's sorta connection to LL Cool J.
• The troubles with the launch of GTA V Online and Dirk's helicopter troubles leads into a discussion of tough spots in games and their videogaming histories.
• Dirk's Xbox Achievement milestones:
  
  December 2009, after 3 years 8 months, hit 10,000.
  
  December 2012, after 3 years 8 days more, hit 15,000.
• The BS way the media blames violent incidents on videogames.
• Steam news: Family sharing, SteamOS, Steam Machines (aka Steamboxes), the radical new Steam Controller, and why Dirk thinks Valve's fanboys are almost as uncritical as Apple's iHerds. Time magazine: 7 Big, Unanswered Questions About SteamOS and Steam Machines.
• Battlefield 3 cheaters and Punkbuster fail.
• Quick movie talk about Parker, Pain & Gain, The Purge, Europa Report (all Dirk reviews to come) and Dead in Tombstone.
• The source articles for Pain & Gain at the Miami New Times.
• We tease a topic that we may not actually do in the future.
• End Note: McHatin finally discovered that some Iranian blogger was pitching Persian princes, not a prince trying to lobby for the gig.
  

Episode #20 - "The Moped Theory" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "No Blondes, No Dogs, No Irish"

• Tonight's Beverages: Water and diet iced green tea for Dirk; nothing McHatin.
• Discussion of various stand-up comics throughout history prompted by the thesis that Louis C.K. is wildly overrated.
• The One True God subreddit which worships Nicolas Cage.
• McHatin's bizarrely strict parameters for dating based on age and hair color which means he wouldn't date any of these women because they're too old, too blonde, or too young and blonde:
  
  
  
  Yeah, Dirk was shocked, too.
• Quick reactions to the premiere of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 
• Music of Mojo Nixon and The Luckouts.
• The Luckouts dropped by to talk about their new CD, their musical backgrounds and to play the Deep Thoughts Musicians Quiz game.
• Cherkiterts: The Age of Ra (The Pantheon Trilogy) (McHatin); Lazarus: Form Recovery for Firefox and Chrome.

Episode #19 - "Dickwolves of London" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Toughen Up, Buttercups!"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt's Blue for Dirk; Powerade for McHatin.
• McHatin's bad week so far vs. Dirk's unusually good day.
•  A weird 1987 movie, Street Trash, that apparently McHatin didn't hallucinate, his shocking defense of Song of the South, and sitcoms across the ages.
• How to deal with being maced by the cops.
• The stupid subtitle situation on Breaking Bad DVDs.
• Report on the Blondie/X concert last week.
• Discussion of Sleepy Hollow, Under the Dome and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and how TV is a year-round activity.
• Stephanie Beatriz, the chick from Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
  
• Music from Bastion, a game and soundtrack available from the Humble Indie Bundle 9, which is available until Sept. 25.
• Dirk's early impressions of Grand Theft Auto V and the reaction to reviews that docked points for politically-correct reasons.Gamespot's review; Polygon's review; The Escapist's review.
• The dangers of Australia.
• Using past reviews against critics now.
• The Penny Arcade Dickwolves controversy and related gender wars stories:
  
  • The original comic strip.
  • An angry feminist developer's demand that PAX be boycotted.
  • The Wired article where a rape survivor refused to be a victim.
  • The Cards Against Humanity butthurt over PAX.
  • The Adria Richards controversy from March.
  • Wired: Why You Should Think Twice Before Shaming Anyone on Social Media
  • The screed about Ashton Kutcher's cisgender issues.
  • Food allergies. (Not gender wars, but semi-related.)
• More Bastion music.
• Movie talk: McHatin on Riddick; Dirk on Metallica: Through The Never. The Alice Cooper movie mentioned: Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper: Live 1973 - Billion Dollar Babies Tour which is a prime example of why concept stuff in concert films are inherently dumb. Also quick hits on Oz the Great & Powerful and The Bling Ring.

Episode #18 - "What Letter Does Carrot Start With?" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Low Winter Xbox One"

• Tonight's Beverage: Labatt Ice (for Dirk; nothing for McHatin).
• Dirk won Cracked.com's Photoplasty contest: "If Movie Titles Were Honest This Year"
  
• Dirk's halfway through Season 3 of Breaking Bad and reports progress.
• A discussion of Low Winter Sun and how it would've been so much better with a slight change in the set-up.
• Reddit spoiler trolls.
• The RoboCop statue is a year from reality.
• Xbox One release date is set for Nov. 22, 2013; a week later and still $100 more than the PS4.
• Whether focus groups for games are happening and whether publishers are even listening?
• The Jimquitision videos: "On-Disc DLC Cannot Be Justified" (April 2012) and "Downloadable Discontent" (August 2013)
• The huge patch Killzone: Mercenary will require on top of the base load.
• The huge Skyrim: Legendary Edition strategy guide and the cash-milking evil of Disney Infinity.
• Why Dirk pre-ordered a PS4.
• The game Gamestop was selling used for $90 that we couldn't remember was Xenoblade. Behind the controversy.
• Norwegian weirdo music.
  
• The sheer f*ckery of the Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray release with extras scattered across different retailers.
• Internet rage about the casting of the 50 Shades of Grey movie.
• Android 4.4 is no longer Key Lime Pie, but KitKat. About the secret cross-promotion deal.
• The image we discussed of a dragon getting bizzay with a car. WARNING: Extremely NSFW and you can't unsee this stuff! You have been warned! Click at your own peril!
• Samsung Galaxy Gear and Note 3 mentioned.
• ScarJo's boobs return! (But she's engaged now. Boo.) Before and after comparo:
  
• Nexus 5 incoming?
• Some more Reddit grousing.
  

Episode #17 - "So You Think You Can Twerk" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "It's A Black-Off!"

• Tonight's Beverage: Trader Joe's Simple Times Lager (for Dirk; nothing for McHatin).
• Car stereos.
• Recapping last week's post-show fun and McHatin's confrontation with a crack ho and the resultant "black-off" and twerking.
• The results of the Humble Origin Bundle and the lame Comedy bundle that followed it, but the decent Weekly deal.
• Dirk is playing Bioshock Infinite (aka Sky-o-Shock) and we talk about the racism of the story so far.
• The grisly deaths of Tomb Raider.
• The results of Audra Kubat's crowd-sourcing campaign and why Indie Go-Go is vastly superior to Kickstarter.
• Her terrific pitch video:
  
• In a world...
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• Lita Ford and Cherie Currie are doing a Christmas single.
• McHatin has read 10 books in the past week.
• NPR's list of the Top 100 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels and how many we've read and why Dirk reads young adult novels.
• Nexus 4 has its price cut a C-note to $199 or $249. Killer deal.
• Japanese cell phones that McHatin craves.
• Using the Chromecast with a proper Internet connection.
• The Miley Cyrus VMA controversy.
• A typical digression into Breaking Bad S2 and people spoiling.
• The image of Jesse's house that caused the spoiling:
  
• Report of fuzzy graphics on the PS4 version of Battlefield 4.
• Back to the Miley situation.
• The image that Dirk made that bombed on Reddit:
  
• Dirk learns how Reddit's "front page" works.
• The South Korean trainer cougar who buffed up at 40.
• The chick who busts on personal transformation before-and-after photos:
  
• The continuing nerd rage over Ben Affleck as Batman and the rumors of Bryan Cranston wanting to play Lex Luthor.
• James Spader cast as Ultron and McHatin has nerd purity rage about it.
• Dirk's deal getting a USB drive for his Xbox.
• Is Olivia Munn a real nerd girl or a stuck-up bitch.
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Episode #16 - "Shiny Happy Dystopian Futures" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Breaking News From Official Sources"

• Tonight's Beverage: Labatt Ice (Dirk; nothing for McHatin).
•  Humble Origin Bundle charity update (deal continues until August 28, 2013) and how DLC is gamers' fault.
• Are bloggers journalists? Boisterous debate ensues.
• Reddit readers.
• McHatin wants Hollywood to collectively focus on one subject per year.
• Music by Japanese girl-rockers The Akabane Vulgars on Strong Bypass, "House of the Rising Sun"
• Dirk talks about his Google Chromecast.
• EA's Great Game Guarantee and whether rage against Dragons Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 was merited.
• Should sci-fi be happy and leave the rape out of it?
• The RAGE screenshot and caption referred to.
• A digression into Robert Rodriguez movies.
• Discussion of Gamescon news.
• McHatin smokes?!?!?
• Breaking news: Ben Affleck cast as Batman and the new Star Wars to be shot on 35mm!
• The San Francisco plane crash prank.
• SwiftKey - the best Android keyboard - has been updated and is on sale for half-price for a limited time.
• The Boondock Saints and McHatin's mutt background.
• McHatin doesn't like what comic movies are being made and makes his case for The Boys.
• Dirk's Three Laws (and One Strong Suggestion) of Band Naming. 
• Christina Hendricks to play stripper. Yeah, right.
• Memories of the 2003 Blackout (which was last week).
• Porn star Minka. (We're not linking it cuz it's scary.)
• News finding methods.
• Premature show termination due to drama at the station. Sorry about that.

Episode #15 - "Surfin' Paraguay" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Red Hot Chile Meat Brick"

• Tonight's Beverage: Labatt Ice (Dirk; nothing for McHatin).
• Cool weather is cool.
• Cherie Currie show recap and our interview vs. another interview.
• Nudity in '80s movies.
• Crisco Can Redux as Jerry Vile holds a going out of business sale for Detroit.
• Dirk has finally started watching Breaking Bad.
• Dirk is on Reddit and hits a home run with his first TIL post.
• Internet trolls and the trouble of finding decent discussion online.
• Girl gamers and how the player in this first match:
  
  Looks like Morgan Saylor:
  
  
• A fan calls. Or we got trolled. Probably the latter. 
• Excitement for Grand Theft Auto V. Here's the Grand Theft Auto Online play trailer:
  
• Music from Fabulous Disaster.
• A trio of calls for the upcoming (Aug. 17-18) Zombie Con: Doug Schulz, who organized the event; illustrator Jeff Sornig of Sornigrafix Cartoons; and Piper Smith who will be running a booth collecting for Gleaners Community Food Bank, her new Creepy n Cute Shop with zombie-themed dolls and jewelry, and how great it is that Andrea on The Walking Dead is dead because she was a terrible person.
• Jeff whipped up this drawing after his interview! Thanks, Jeff!
  
• The hot zombie chick referenced:
  
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• The alternate season finale from The Walking Dead.
• Laura Mendoza and Jorge Cortez from White Shag were in the studio and we talked about:
  
  • Opening for Cherie Currie and wardrobe malfunctions.
  • Background on the band.
  • The sexual aspect of their music.
  • Their South American roots and fun geographic facts.
  • A live performance of "Out Here"
  • Why they're only playing Hall & Oates songs now.
  • They play the Deep Thoughts Music Quiz game!
  • Their Big 80s costumes:
    
    
• The killer Humble Origin Bundle where all proceeds go to charity. (Note: This deal runs until 1 pm EST, Aug. 29, 2013)
• Dirk's quick thumbs up for Kick-Ass 2.