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Geekscape 13: Under Cover With Some Sweaty Brothers

Guest Co-host: The Men of Sweaty Robot! - Reviews: Borderland News: Jake Gyllenhaal-Peter Parker or Billy Batsom? Cate Blanchett joins Indiana Jones 4 and more! Comics: What's up with Frank Miller? "Scalped"! And who is the better Marvel Man? Video Games: Halo 3... comes in THREE! Rayman's Raving Rabbits and why would you sell your Wii!?! Forums: Best Stand Up Comedian!!! Plus, the first Geekscape contest is announced... by Van Damme! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Broadcast on:: 13 Mar 2007
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Oh, it's great. Great pleasure to be here. You're actually in our hotel room. Right. All right. You guys came out to Hollywood. Yep. And we did an episode of Sweaty Robot, which will be available on the internet. At? Sweaty Robot.com. OK. It'll be up in a few weeks. You got to be with me. You got to be with me. You got to be with me. It's a hot potato game. It's hot potato. I didn't distract if there's people walking in now. Let's do it. All right. Are you ready to do the episode? Tell us a little bit about Sweaty Robot before you get started. Sweaty Robot, we're a group of guys out of Philadelphia. We're actually moving to LA in September, but we make short films, and we also do the Sweaty Robot show. It's like a weekly between five and 20 minute little comedy show. We just joke around. It's a pretty good time. How long have you guys been doing this? About a year now. So-- How do you guys all know each other, just through Philly or-- Through college. More. Yeah, gay porn. Skate porn now. Quit looking at your friends. They can't help you here. We're going to get to your friends soon enough. Each of them is going to get a turn in bed with me on GeekScape. For you, audio listeners, we are laying in bed together. It's really-- Are you comfortable? I'm getting comfortable. Right. We are swingers here on GeekScape. You seen any movies recently, brother? What was the last movie you saw? Honestly, I don't know. What is the last movie? Yeah, I think it's seen it really out, honestly. It's the last movie. Wow, back in November. Yeah, is that weird? No, you know what? I don't think it's weird. It's weird for me, because I go to see movies all the time. Talk about them on the show, but it's not weird for you guys, because you're normal human beings. Did you enjoy the scene around? I did. It kind of goes on for a while, though. Yeah, it does. I dug it, though. I think it was pretty cool. What's his name? Zach Braff. This is awesome. Yeah. I went down to South by Southwest and saw a bunch of movies. Usually, I see the movie that came out the week of the week before on GeekScape, and I talk about that. But I wasn't about to go see Premonition. Does that make sense? The Santa Bullock movie, where her husband dies, does he? Oh, I just saw that. I just saw the trailer for that, actually. Yeah, it looks good, doesn't it? No, actually, in defense, though. I think those kind of movies-- I mean, it's kind of neat. Like, remember the trailer for "The Forgotten"? Yeah. They're all the same to me. I know, but I think that kind of movie, like the-- what's going on, what's real, what isn't. It's always cool, but it's just going to disappoint. Right. Like, it's ever not disappointed. Groundhog Day is the only one. Yeah. I'm really not into those kind of films. I don't like the icy, dead people. I don't like the-- is this reality? Is this not reality kind of horror movies? Well, I was at South by Southwest. I got invited by a filmmaker. Fight Club? Is Fight Club good? It's all right. No, it's good, dude. Oh, listen to you guys. I went to see a movie called "Borderland," which Lionsgate's putting out later this year. And wait, how dare you? You're going to get your time. This movie is based loosely on a story that happened in '89. A bunch of college kids went to Matamoras. And one of them got kidnapped. What is Matamoras? It's on the air of the Texas border. It's in Mexico. It's in Mexico. And in a Mexican cult, kidnapped one of the kids and sacrificed them. And this really happened. They found out about it because they shut the cult down. It was involved in drug trafficking. And when they were digging up this mass grave, they found the kid's body. Does this really happen or like Blair-- This really happened. This really happened back in '89. So Zeb Berman, he's a filmmaker. This is, I think, is the second feature. He made this movie called "Borderland." And Sean Astin is in it and writer strong for those of you who like "Boy Meets World." He was also in cabin fever. Is that the main-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, they're losing head. Right. So they're all in it. And these three college kids go down there. They piss off the wrong guys and get selected as sacrifices for this cult. And like I said, I'm not big on horror movies that deal with the supernatural, because you always have that escape that you don't believe in any of it. But this is based on a true story. And this is pretty realistic in its violence. You know what I mean? You see like a movie, like a Michael Bay-- Well, it's not really supernatural. Right. No, no, these people believe in this spirituality enough to really kill people. It's like a real Silent Hill with all of them. Right. It started out feeling like one of those films that Michael Bay produces. You know, Michael Bay is like redoing all those horror movies. He did the hitcher. He did-- that whole company did the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, where you have these generic teenagers who have the generic teenage dialogue. I was thinking about it when it was true. And it's always written by some 50-year-old dude writing teenage kids. There's a lot of those. Like the teenage college spring break, go to some place they shouldn't go, and then-- Right. And you don't believe any of the dialogue in any of them. You definitely don't believe that they're high school kids-- or college kids. This one is written really well. And you actually do start caring about these characters as this really terrible shit starts happening to them. And it doesn't pull a bunch of punches. And Sean Astin actually plays a heavy in it. He plays one of the dudes helping the cult out. I guess an American guy who just kind of lost his whole idea of America and started to really believe it. Dude, Sean Astin is Rudy. Sean Astin is Sam. Right, right. That's why I was like, little happy man. The character in this movie that he plays is like the evil brother of the dude he plays in 51st Dates. Do you see 51st Dates? Do you see movies at all? Surprisingly, it's one of those questions like once last time, like I think I saw something close. This is the dudes in the-- I'm sorry that that's the-- I bought it on DVD too. You bought it on the clothes on DVD. I have some dudes coming out and I was like, I bought everything Star Wars. I was like, I bought Clone Wars, the cartoon. Can I tell you right now that-- Can I tell you right now that the-- I bought a box box the whole thing. I don't consider the new trilogy Star Wars. I consider it heresy. I mean, it's not that bad. I don't know what you're here, brother. Dude, get out of here. Anyway, this movie. It's called Borderlands. I would love to start the hype now because I think it's a great movie. I think it deserves a big audience for it. It's brutal. Doesn't pull any punches. And it's definitely one that I think when it comes out, people should go see and talk about. I don't know when lines get to put it out, but I was really, really, really, really, super impressed by it. It was really, really nasty. Sean Hunter, that dude, wasn't he in the movie that was sort of like that, the cabin fever? Yeah. Yeah, right or strong. He's a homie. He did a really good job in this movie. Anybody who thinks about him as the terms of teenage heart throb, are going to be really surprised. No, he's just like a grandmother face, didn't he? What? How do we are looking? No way. Dude, you're jealous, dude. Jealous. That guy pulls so much tail, probably. I mean, you probably did. Don't be a hater, dude. No, you got to ping me, though. Don't be a hater. No, I'm not. No, I think he's pretty cool. You know what? He's sitting here watching this right now, being like, not only does that motherfucker's head look like a lego, but fuck that guy. He bought the new trilogy on DVD. Didn't buy the third one. Just bought the first two. Yeah, by the third one, you'd smartened up. Don't you guys think that he has the anatomy of one of the lego toys? Me? The dudes who are like instruction people and shit like that? Because you got the head of one of the lego guys. Actually, I work very hard. You could put a space helmet on you or like a race car driver. With the visors that are, like, way too big. I like that one. Bullfighter one. They should do that, brother. They should do that. I'm down. So this movie's two thumbs up, huh? Or one thumb up? Well, dude, well, you know what's funny about my thumbs, Geekshapis? They're different sizes, dude. Check that out. My right thumb is literally shorter than my left thumb. That's unbelievable. On my right hand. My right thumb is like Laurel and Hardy. This one's short and stout, and this one's long. Look at that tiny little nail. Well, I buy my nails. That's regardless of helping my thumbs up. But, yeah. Movie news. Yeah. Movie news. Do you want to do movie news? Hey, Eric, do you want to do movie news? Or does Nick want to do movie news? Get out of bed. [INAUDIBLE] Get in bed. Get in bed, brother. Lay down. Get comfortable. Oh, God, snows. Welcome to Geekshap, brother. Hey, how you doing? Doing good. Doing good. So, movie news? Yeah, sure. Indiana Jones 4. Taking a page out of my buddy Nick's. Pretty sure Harrison Ford's going to die before that movie gets better. Did that happen already? Yeah. Because it's taking a little bit long. If he doesn't die, Kate Blanchett's going to be his leading lady. Remember when we signed on for Indiana Jones? That's the news. Kate Blanchett is in Indiana Jones 4. She is-- damn, what the hell? Dude, she's in the aviator. Yeah, yeah, she was also in Lord of the Rings. Waiting. OK. Uh-huh. She's the old princess. She's the hot little biscuit. Yeah. Wait. All right. So Harrison Ford-- You know what, Kate Blanchett kind of lines the line. Sometimes she's really hot, and sometimes I'm like-- Biscuit, you know. H-L-B, hot little biscuit. So remember when Harrison Ford was in-- Oh, regarding Henry, is that your car in him? He was dating the skinny chick, Felicity Lockhart. Felicity Flockhart. Yeah, Felicity Flockhart. Right. He was like really, really old then, and that was-- And that was like eight years ago. The earring made him young. Oh. Remember the earring? Your dude is going to be-- I do. Like check this out. Callicity Flockhart. He's going to crack his whip, and then his back's going to go. Yeah, you can't do that move. You know what? I think it's probably going to be half Harrison Ford just sort of walking around on the other half just CG. A short round. It'll be all rubbery like Spiderman. How great would it be if they threw the audience for a loop, and he dies with the first five, 10 minutes of the film, and short round. Short round from Double and Doom. OK. He picks up the hat, and he goes, I must continue in his name. [MUSIC PLAYING] And you just had a short round film. Yeah, I'm with you. Speaking of sequels, you know, they got to continue the Spiderman franchise even though Tomah Maguire is not coming back. No, which one's-- He's not coming back after three. Yeah, they're thinking about-- No, hold on. Does that work for you? Yeah. That works for me, too. Works for me. I think they closed it out. Doesn't work for you, Nick? That works for no, that is the only thing that's great. I mean, you can do it with Batman. You can do it with Spiderman. I know the new Spiderman-- How is it different, right? The new Spiderman's are defined by Tobey Maguire as Spiderman. But you know what? First of all, they could take Kirsten Duns and does woo-hoo! Next person. Did they have a makeup lady for Kirsten Duns? Because she looks so ugly and Spiderman. And her teeth looks so-- You guys can hear that, huh? Kirsten Duns, Nick just said, do they have a makeup lady for Kirsten Duns and Spiderman because she looks so ugly? And she looked terrible in Spiderman, too. And she acted terribly in number two. You know what? If they get a new Tobey Maguire, they need a new Kirsten. Well, she's not coming back either. Good. She might come back either. What was it? Jake Gyllenhaal they're thinking about. Which is who they were thinking about for Spiderman 2 when Tobey Maguire's back may have kept them out of it. So then they could do a relationship between Jake Gyllenhaal and the Green Goblin guy. Because, you know, the whole-- Oh, I see what you're getting at. Boy, Black Mountain thing. I see what you're getting at. I see what you're getting at. Now, now, he might not do Spiderman if he decides to do Shazam, play Billy Batson, the kid who gets the fucking powers. I'll tell you. From the Greek gods and says the magic words Shazam and starts being a mortal boy and becomes-- So if I'm an actor and someone says, do you want to be Shazam, dude? Or do you want to be the most popular-- Popular, right. Fucking super here. Spiderman, please. I'll take a Spiderman and let-- That's like Michael J. Fox and Eric Stoltz. You know what I mean? Michael J. Fox is the dude who went after Spiderman. Eric Stoltz got left with the other one. You know what I mean? Because you know they started shooting back to the future with Eric Stoltz. Eric Stoltz is mass. You know that they shot pieces of back to the future with Eric Stoltz? Yes, yes, I do. You had to watch the special features on that. Yeah, they were like, Eric Stoltz go do mask. MJ Fox, he's coming in. I heard that they were making it back to the future for with Michael J. Fox. Parkinson's joke. I didn't want to say it. I didn't want to say it. It's too easy. It's too easy. I didn't want to say it. It's going to go back. You should go back and go forward in time and-- You should go back in time and don't say that joke. I just say-- It's not even a dick joke. It's so fucking easy. Speaking of franchises, Warner Brothers is doing a Sherlock Holmes. They want to do a Batman Begins style. That's cool. So yeah, they want to do Sherlock Holmes. Batman Begins style. Little more grit, little less, you know, British fluff. That's something that I can rap. Yeah, they're like, this is awesome. Let's get the director of the descent. Dude, that works for me. I saw the trailers for descent. Didn't see the movie. But I'll tell you, that works for me. It really does. I mean-- Do we have a-- Are you really that interested in the Sherlock Holmes movie? I think they could do it cool. That's totally how they pitched it. Batman Begins. Batman Begins meets Sherlock Holmes. But it's Sherlock Holmes. He said one. I guess he's just on a character I'm that interested in when it comes down to it, you know? I mean-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, but the best thing, the Young Sherlock Holmes was kind of a cool movie. Did you ever see that one? I didn't. It was one of the first films with ILM special effects. And it had this one scene where this-- The Abyss, too. Where this stained glass painting, the stained glass, comes to life and starts fighting the motherfucker. You're like a knight. And it's awesome. Yeah, I've seen that. I've seen that. And yeah, and there's one where one scene where the young wants and gets drugged, and it's one of the funniest damn scenes, he starts imagining a refrigerator and the food flying out of him. He starts getting attacked by the food. As a kid, that was one of my favorite scenes in any movie. It was the food attacking Watson. I don't know why. I don't know why. I'm going to take Flight of the Navigator for being one of my favorite kid movies. Fantastic. Oh my god, captures the heart and the imagination. And you know what? I watched it recently. It holds up. Great movie. And it's still kind of sad. Yeah, there's-- It's like the age difference? Does that happen in that movie? Yeah. It really warped my mind as a kid. I bought that movie. I didn't want my parents to grow old. Watching Flight of the Navigator. I was like, this can't happen. Like, oh, what's going to-- what is this? Where-- Who am I? I felt like really scared when he goes to his old home, and his parents aren't there. Like, that's something that really connected me out. Because that's something like you lose your parents, and that really freaks you out. Mom, mom, mom, mom. No, having then been abandoned by your parents, how does it come full circle for you? And it's still a bittersweet irony, like a dark chocolate Hershey's bar. Very nice. Hey, thank you. I will be sleeping in this bed. How are we doing on battery night? I noticed that the screen is open. It is a battery sucker for all you guys. It works. You're cool, the gas is gone. All right, all right. I mean, I'm cool if you want to close it. Cool in the game, Nick Rogoria's brand new TV show. Just close it. We're good. Close it. It's good. It's fun. It's going to be a little shake, folks. That's Nick Rogoria's Parkinson. Oh, good job. Yeah, you make a Parkinson's joke. Oh, it's going to speak. Yeah, I can-- this is my show demo. OK, I'll take it. Speaking of Nick, I think it's time for a little bit of comic talk. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] These are the guys you hate. These are the guys you hate. You want to hate us? Hate us. You know what's great about us now? Because I won't stop now. My audience is going to hate you guys so much. I now have to do-- Give me the goodness. Give me the goodness. Switch it up. Sit down, Nick. This is Nick Rogoria, everybody. Look at this, ladies and germs. Look at this guy. How nice this is. That's the Jesus. [INAUDIBLE] Yeah. Now-- It's a blood diamond. You're going to get a little shake as we check the framing on this giant fucking head. Do you want me to just grab an Oscar? All right. What's up? What's up? J-Lo's. What's Nick? J-Lo for bread. You're a comic book fan. I'm a big comic book fan. Earlier, we were talking about 300 in Frank Miller. And I told you that 300-- Although, I got a lot of heat from my audience because I did not like it as a film. I still think it was the last work that he did that was any good. Well, you can't discount Batman's spawn. Psych, that was garbage, too. Frank Miller-- In the last 10 years? In the last 10 years. What has he done? I remember who we're satisfied with. I would say Batman, you're one. That is-- He did not do that in the last 10 years. OK. Nothing, then. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how to do math. I remember Batman, "The Dark Knight Strikes Back," the sequel to "The Dark Knight Returns." That was-- Frank Miller urinating on fans. I was so excited to read that book. It could not have been more unreadable. Well, Frank Miller, he defined Batman, and then he went and destroyed everything that he did. That was like Webster's defining, say for instance, a rake. A rake is something you rake up leaves with. And then under it, writing, and a bat. Because it's not a bat or a rake. They undefined. They undefined what they had already redefined. I really got a fucking zoned out when you started talking about that. That was one of the most useless things ever uttered. It was. I'm pretty sure it was not funny at all. What the hell did you just say, son? What we were talking about was the all-star Batman and Robin that he did. Horrible. So I'm reading this comic book, and I'm thinking the little kid's parents just died. Robin. Robin. He has a 30-year-old dude. He probably has a-- And two issues came out. I don't think a third's come out. I just read the first one. As soon as the Batmobile flew away into the clouds, I was like, goodbye Batman and all-star Robin, the boy dumb. This is dumb. This book was dumb. Did you think about the dialogue? It was more of the Batman and Batman-sponned dialogue, like, dumb punk. You don't know how to fight crime. He's like, I'm a little kid. My parents died. He's like, you eat a rat in the bat cave. You mean you eat a rat in the bat cave? My car flies. Get down there. That guy kind of spelled his word. Your dinner's down there. Can you imagine the first time you meet Batman, he's been, like, crime fighting for hours and hours. Like, his breath is so ass. And he's, like, just grilling you. And you're a little kid. Like, wow, that guy's breast-melt. What is that? I'm dealing with this crap. And this guy's breath smells. This is where your own good. Do you eat rats? Because your breath smells like bat dukes. But yeah, I think I'll probably get heat for this and ruin your show. But I think Frank Miller is one of the most overrated comic book creator-writer artists. And I really think Alan Moore, like, puts him to shame. And they were doing stuff around the same time. And Alan Moore's work is so-- it's way better, way better. I think that Frank Miller, his stuff on Daredevil's awesome, his stuff on Dark Knight Returns is awesome. Your one is awesome. His sincerity stuff is good. He's awesome. But 300's awesome as a trade paperback. Yeah, I think in the last 10 years that everybody's discovered Frank Miller in the mass media. Yeah. He gets a lot of credit. What do you get to show for it? Nothing. There's nothing. He's like that other guy. But you still have to respect him for what he's done. Yeah, I think you do. I think you do. But I don't know. I'm not the biggest fan of Sin City. Do you like the film? I think the movie looks great. The erroneous, overtalking voiceover just makes me want to throw up because it's just reading it's annoying. So when you have to watch it and hear it, especially when Clive Owens, which is horrible American accent, who is this guy? It just shows-- You try doing a British accent. I don't have-- listen, listen. You pay me the money off your note. I'll do a Scottish accent. I'm doing a South Philly Italian accent. It's a me, Mario. It's a me, Mario. What was that? That was when you started playing N64, Mario 64. It's a me, Mario. And then Mario started talking, and everyone was like, that's what he sounds. It's amazing, wasn't it? I always took my cues from the Super Mario Brothers Super Show with-- That aunt, then? With-- What's the name of that? It's the Mario Brothers and Plum Mints, a game where not like the others who get all the famer-ho-ho-ho. Take one foot. And then, again, come on, the time to go do the Mario. What you just did was earn back whatever hate was spawned towards you. That's awesome. People don't understand. I'm probably the biggest nerd ever in life. I have a table, a banquet table, filled with action figures at my apartment. Oh my god. No, no, no. I have more hero clicks, and you can shake a stick at it, because if you did, you knock them over, and I punch you. And I'm a pretty big comic book nerd. I'm currently boycotting Wizard Magazine, which I read my entire life because they didn't accept one of our movies in their festival. But that's neither here nor there. Well, we spent some time at Wizard World LA, and I'll show you guys a tiny bit of that footage, but I'm actually going to save the majority of it for an extra mini episode. I'm going to put it right after this episode. It's just too much footage, too much bang. You guys don't deserve it. Yeah, I know. People are like, dude, I want to plug in in that really good Wizard World footage. I'm going to watch Geekscape. That's why I'm not going to put it on your episode. This is Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars reporting live from Wizard World Los Angeles, 2007. The mood is tense, lots of autographs, lots of pens, sharpie, all over everyone's fingers. It's miserable, but it's awesome. - I've been reading this comic. If you guys don't dig on superheroes, and you could carry a lot of-- - I know anything, anything graphic. I'm reading this book called "Scalped." It's written by this guy, Jason Aaron. He wrote this book called "The Other Side," which is a Vietnam book. This book's "Scalped," everybody described it as-- - Vietnam, what's the book? - Everybody described this book as the Sopranos on an Indian reservation? - Okay, yeah, I read that. - It's called "Scalped." - I haven't read the comic, I've read the reviews for it. - It's worth picking up the comic. You guys, the first three issues are out. They make up the first storyline. Go out and pick them up. It's an undercover agent who's working his way into an Indian casino. 'Cause the dude who owns it is drug trafficking, prostitution, running a gang on the reservation. A lot of people can't touch them because it's on a reservation, so they get an Indian, a local, to go undercover in his organization. - Right, right, so the writing is just as good as it was on "The Other Side," and that's definitely a recommendation for those of you who don't like your comics with capes. - Okay, that's something you don't really hear, but I mean the Native American mafia or Native American. - It's good, it's good. And not good like that one about camera movie. What was it called, "Thunderheart"? - Yeah. - Thunderheart from "Moncar de Relly" in the Peanut Gallery. - There you go, Juan, it's a shout out to Thunderheart. So there's also talk, there's also talk, since you're a tough guy, there's talk that with Captain America, quote unquote, "dead" that let me let me let me let me let me lay some matter. Since, you know, I'm a grown up and I have a lot of time to spend money on comic books, I have to buy them in trade format. - Which is perfectly fine. - Yeah, so I go, I'm like, I'm waiting for civil war to end. I have the first issue, I have like a couple different but I was like, I'm gonna wait for it to end, I'm gonna scoop up the trade, and I'm gonna enjoy it. I'm gonna sit there like a gentleman, and I'm gonna read the trade, not ruin my issues. And then I look in the newspaper, Captain America's dead. I was like, "Mother, do you have to tell me?" - Yeah, I wanna see. - You just ruin civil, why do I have to ruin civil war? You fought Iron Man and eventually you got died. - Could you imagine if the New York Times was like, spoiler alert. (laughing) This coming up on CNN, spoiler alert. - They needed to put a spoiler, you don't do that. - Yeah, Captain America, Captain America and Batman are my two favorite superheroes. - Okay, I can see the similarities, right? Two dudes who don't totally have superpowers. - Yeah, I like the black and white. - I mean, he's got a super soldier serum, but whatever. - Yeah. - Their mind is their greatest weapon. - Yeah, they're fighting tactic and all that. - And their inability to say, I quit. - Exactly. - You know, like a-- - They got a ton of heart. - Like a J.A.L.A. Avengers had it teamed up to figure out what's going on. Did you read that crossover, J.A.L.A.? - Was that the George Perez? - Yeah, George Perez. - I collected the first three issues of that and I hate George Perez's artwork so much. - Oh, wow. - I didn't pop the fourth. - I don't like that stuff. - Wow, I think his stuff is pretty cool. - But I have read the Kurt Busek Batman Captain America throwback, it's like the kind of vintage look that takes place during World War II. And though it's a little bit cheesy, it's pretty good. Red Skull, Red Skull and the Joker somehow are teaming up. There's a scene where Captain America just jumps off a plane, the bat plane has to be there, helps them out. And cause Steve Rogers, Captain Steve Rogers has to shadow Bruce Wayne because this shady guy, no one knows what he's doing. They get in a fist fight and the thought bubbles are so great, it's like this man moves so fast, his body's chiseled hard. (laughing) His reflexes are iron quick and fast like a cat's face. (laughing) - They're checking in so rough. - And then they're both at the same time and their thought bubbles go, is this Captain America Batman at the same time? They're like, oh my God, Steve Rogers, are you Captain America? Are you Batman? (laughing) That's a good laugh about it. And Bucky and Robin make out. - That's like a comic from 1969, what you just described to me. - Most of Kirk Musick's worst step did. - So with Captain America, quote unquote dead, there's a cover of the upcoming Punish Award journal where the Punisher is dressed as a pseudo-Captain America. You down? - No, because Captain America doesn't kill. - He does not kill people. - That's it, that's just gonna be real. - My one gripe with Batman begins, the biggest thing about Batman. - Right. - He does not kill people and he does not let people die. And that is a fact about Batman. He just doesn't do it. - Okay. - And at the end of Batman begins, Raz Al Ghul is like, you have to save me. He's like, he's like, no, I don't have to, you know, he flies off. Like, no, I don't have to save you. - Well, you know, you know, you know at any point, they can put that motherfucker in the Lazarus pit and he'll come back. - Well, I just-- - That's how Raz Al Ghul works. - I think that minions put him in the Lazarus pit and he comes back more evil and more insane. - But that's a comic book, that's not, I mean, this Raz Al Ghul was just, he was swag on gin, you know, and that guy stayed dead. - Right. - So. - Why didn't Quag on gin show up in like, ghost form? Yet another reason the new trilogy sucks. - Yeah, that was a story that was told in the telling. I think George was like, I like this. Put this in here. Make Jenga Fett as a mowing. - What? - My kid likes kitty. - Um, (laughs) so, yeah, there are Pacific Islanders in space. - Mandalorians are Samoans? Would you ruin everything? I thought Boba Fett was a blonde-headed blue-eyed guy. - That's right. - That's how I like my villains, opposite of me. God damn it, my villains are other, non-whites. - Yeah, yeah, what do you read right now? In trade. In trade, I actually just reread Watchman again, because that comic is just unbelievable. I'm actually a really big fan of Captain Marvel written by Peter David. And I was at the buying action figures at Toys R Us and this really nerdy guy that worked there, told me like, you know, I hate what's going on in comics now. I've already read all the greatest adventures. They're not giving me anything, though. And I'm like, all right, whatever, dude. He's like, you want the real Captain Marvel? I was like, Dennis Val is a better Captain Marvel than Marvel. He's like, we're gonna use the blast for me. I'm like, all right, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I'll go buy the trade, the life and death of Captain Marvel. I read that, I was like, did a kindergarten to write this. It is so bad and uninteresting. Except the, when he dies a cancer, that's like, that's a really, that's pretty cool. But most of the comic is just dumb-thought-bubble shit. Like, I'm gonna open this door. Like, it's a picture book, I can see. I don't have to read the action that's taking place. It's a picture book. Is that Thanos? Yes, I'm Thanos. Oh my God, Thanos is larger than I expected. He's the largest villain ever. Like, I am so large and powerful. I fight men. How can I ever beat him? There's no way you can beat me. Like, I see it. I see, he's physically domineering. Who wrote that? Oh God, come on. But you're a fan of the Peter David one. The Peter David one is awesome. It's probably one of the best. The best, most under-appreciated runs of comedy book. Cut the Marvel world as characters so I just can't get into. You know what I mean? I like the street level dudes. Me too. I'm a gritty, kind of like, Punisher Batman, Catholic actor. Luke K. Get the double D. Ah, Luke K just went out. They made Luke K. What'd you say? They made Luke K's cool like yesterday. He wasn't cool ever. Yeah, he had a tiara. Or did everybody forget that he has a tiara? I was just, Brian Michael Bendis tells you a character's cool, everyone's a key. It was cool forever. Did you ever pick up the battle issue? No, it was not always cool. No. Moon Knight wasn't cool. No, Moon Knight had to be cool. I really did not like this revamp, Moon Knight. And I thought it was unreadable. I didn't get a chance of picking up. I read reviews of the trade. You know, Wizard was all over that. It's brutal. It's brutally, unreadable. It's so confusing. You're like, well, who was I in the past? Who cares? Oh, it's one of those. Like it is, but it is. And I was, but we weren't. Right. Am I? Right. I'm a hero. I don't, I like my heroes. I do like Frank Castle. Frank Castle is a Punisher now because he kills people. Right, it's a bottle. It's a cousin of America now. OK. Would you mind if we talked to video games? I'll tag out for a lot of our early tag team. Unless you want to start. Unless you want to start Halo with me. And then you can go. Are you big on Halo? I became big on Halo. Are you pre-ordering Halo 3? My little brother. I don't own the next box for six minutes. I'm broke, but my little brother is. He's trying to get the helmet. My boy from the forums, big ganks, he just, I end me. And he goes, dude, I just found out my Halo is going to cause 130 bucks. My Halo costs more than my Xbox 360. Here's the reason. There are three versions of Halo 3 that are coming out. There is the standard edition, $59.99. There is the limited edition that comes with a little more shit, like a DVD or something like that. That one's a little more expensive. Then there's a $129.99 version, which is the legendary edition. And it comes with magic chiefs helmets, right? All sorts are crap, dude. Magic chiefs helmet that you can put on your dog and not your own hat. That's why it's a little disappointed. And this dude had to take it all away. You know what I mean? Stop, you'll never use, see or look at ever again. Right. You're going to have a box on your shelf. You just paid-- Like the Spider-Man 2 box that I bought that I only watched the movie. I bought it. And you only watched the movie? I watched the Stanley interview with Kevin Smith. Right. And that's as far as Marvels. That's it. Marvels and mutants. That's what it's got, yeah. So yeah, big ganks, buddy. How much are you really going to use on an extra crap? Your Halo 3 gold, the 59.99 version. And just play the damn game. All right. Unless there is a master chief helmet, you may want to pay extra for that. Well, the master chief helmet-- Just a headbutt, but it's like-- The master chief helmets, it's like the one-- Oh, the phone? The baseball cap helmet you get with the ice cream, man. Oh, why do you put this on my shelf? Along with my master chief eraser and the master chief-- Turn it upside down and eat ice cream out of it. Yeah, that's what you're doing. Or just shove it on a neighborhood cap. You're dead. My dog loves this dumb ass. Get a kitten with guns. Get a kitten and strap the master chief helmet to it and watch the kitten grow into the helmet. Oh, no. Bonsai kid. I'm not-- That's like-- I don't know, you probably talk about this on your show, but my little brother and I, I'm late to the Halo. How much time do we have on this thing, Eric? If you just flip in the IEPs, there may be a little shake and shake. But you can look at the IEPs, nerds. All right, how are we? 5.25. We're rocking. We're rocking. Tell me about this story you were about to tell me. I'm new to Halo. I hate to look-- because my brother called me a hoot every day. I hate to play two episodes through Halo 1. Oh, OK. I'm just trying to get into it. Shout out to my little brother, please. OK. But he just got Halo 1 and 2 because he wants to catch up and just got his Xbox 360 a couple of months ago. So we're playing-- and I love it. I love the idea of it. I love the style of it. But the brutes, what the hell doom two rip off characters are those. I can't believe a modern game company could design a character so horribly. A naked mowman with like an ex-chestrap false. That statement should not be in your video game. That's just a little thing I had to say. That's what you got. That's it. I wish Grand was here. He could talk Halo with you. He's huge. You guys tell me. He was telling me like so. He loves it. You want to bring Wannen for the Wii second? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wannen, get in here. Wii, it's fun to not play together. Yeah. There you go. You know what's funny about the special collector's edition thing? Get down here. I bought-- To my level. Like a pharaoh? I can't be above your island. What's up? Um, Neil before that. That's good. It's funny. I went to the store to buy Final Fantasy XII a while back. And the dude was like, well, we don't have any copies. We just have the special edition. I was like, oh, 10 more dollars for the special edition. What came with it? Nothing. But no, it comes with an extra DVD that I don't-- I think I just threw it away. But the case is 10. The spirits within. And-- [INAUDIBLE] That was like 10 AM with my friends on like-- The watch Final Fantasy is a movie? So then, yeah. How was it? It was pretty bad. Sorry about halfway. Yeah. Sorry about virtual bad. No, it's funny. But the case is made out of 10. And at first, I was making fun of it. And then on the ride home, I was like, looking at the Final Fantasy case. I'm like, this is actually pretty cool. Like, you just felt nice. And then I just put it on my shelf. Like, I got the special collector's edition. You're going to make candles out of it. You just put wax or something in it? No, so I do like-- So you use it as a cookie mold? I could. Get out of here with-- So you want to talk about the Wii, huh? The Wii. I was just going to talk to you, because I heard a news story that they're adding an external hard drive on it. Because I downloaded those virtual consoles right. Right. And the shit's going to fill up. And it only has 512 kilobytes of memory. It has like nothing on it. Yeah. So it's cool if they want to add the external-- You can put the cards in there, though, right? No, you can't save the games to the cards. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, listen to this guy. That would be a firmware upgrade. I heard there was going to be a DVD player. You can add memory through firmware. No, you could change the software. But change the software so you could save it onto the memory card? Yeah. Oh, you could do that. Dude, Eric Levy, Eric Levy, everybody. So my boy John Blue, he's a listener. He sent me a box of a crap load of old GameCube games. So he got rid of-- it's like Lord of the Rings, the role-playing one. Like the ones that was kind of action-based? Or the one after the action-based games? OK, yeah. I love the action-based games. Those were good. It's like they're literally golden acts in the Lord of the Rings. Yeah, it's kind of mindless, but then you get to level up your ability and stuff. And then he sent me a Resident Evil 4, which I hear is like the game of the fucking year in 2005. Was John-- No, I was good. Oh, dude, Game of the Year is Game of the Year. Have you ever finished games? Dude, we had this discussion a couple episodes ago where I get to like the end of like, got a war, and I just don't finish it. Right, right, you don't finish it. Yeah, I mean, the only games I do finish are the Zelda games, the Muckalan games, because they're the greatest game-- they're the greatest. And my audience knows how much of a fucking Jones I've got for those two franchises. Yeah. Those are the only games I finish. I love Munkie. Do you ever like Griffon Dango? Griffon Dango, I think Griffon Dango is so much better than anything that's ever been made, I think. How quick would you option that for a film? Oh, the idea that you-- because you're like, how do you kill someone in the land of the dead? With the guns shooting the flower pellet, the bullet would hit you and then the girl flowers, and then would kill your skeleton version, that's genius. Love it. You sold your Wii. I sold my Wii. Why'd you do it? Before I just get like a flood-- It's what a robot does not work in? Or for you guys, what's going on here? A little bit has-- Maybe you should up the funny. As pathetic as it sounds, I need the money. I think that sounds pretty sad. But I know-- and don't get me wrong, it's fun. I played Zelda. I got to the third dungeon. But at the end of the day, I was just like-- I saw the game drought coming, because Nintendo was like, no, no, there's not going to be a game drought. Has there been a game drought? I think nothing. OK, well, I think it has been a game. You sold out before Metroid came out? Dude, that's going to come out in eight years. Mario Kart? Super Smash Brothers is going to come out soon? Mario Galaxy. It's weird, because I sold it-- You're going to buy it on the-- I'm probably-- yeah, I'm going to buy it back. You're going to buy it back again. I'm going to buy it back. I'm probably going to buy it back next week. When I see a trailer for Metroid, like, oh my god, what have I done? Like, oh, the kid I sold to on eBay. Like, do you want to just hand that back to me? No, it's mine. Yeah, like, please. No, I just-- I don't know. It's fun. It's really fun. I just-- but it's that thing, and I don't finish games anymore. And it's like, you at least get to the end boss. At 5, as he 12, I just stopped after-- I put 35 hours of my life into it. I just get more games. I just get games that I'm interested in, you know what I mean? Like, you play the game up to the end, and you get a new game, and that's your deal. And you never go back to finish those games. It's actually-- I used to be still, like, loved RPGs, like old school, RPGs, and never. I can't even-- I can't even come close to the game. Right. It's so boring. The good thing about this system is just those controls are so awesome. I was down in some of myself last. There was a charity going on. And for $20, I gave them to the big brothers, big sisters. Good charity. And they gave me a free game. And I chose Raymond's Raving Rabbits. Yeah. It's a bunch of mini games. That was one of the games I had. Dude, that shit is fun. A bunch of jumping rope, shooting rabbits. Those rabbits are sadistic, first off. Yeah. Yay! There we go. If there is evil, it's those rabbits. All massive, but a little-- You ever play the orange juice one? Oh, yeah, where you go-- it's carriages. Carriages, carriages, carriages, carriages. Girls are better at the game. Yeah. Girls are better at the mini game than guys. I like the one where you have to-- I like the one where it's almost like skiing, where you have to run. You know? Yeah. I'm really good at that one. It's really-- it's weird. I don't know what-- you're actually down that I think about it. I don't really don't know why I sold it. I get these ideas in my head. Do you have a hole in your heart? Do the hole in your heart? I think so. And we sports. How fun is we sports? How fun was we sports? Oh, god. What have I done? Oh my god. I don't even know. I don't know. I'm really irrational when it comes to-- I would sell plasma before I started selling my games. I would sell plasma. I'd be like, oh, I've already got a short thumb. You want to just eat even up the rest of it? I don't know where this mutation came from. I think this is my mutant ability. It just never manifested at puberty. You know how all the X-men got their powers manifesting around puberty? Yeah. Mine was like, eh, I don't want to know. Like, he was going to turn into a sword. He was going to be sitting badass, or like shoots lasers, or something like that. But I like it as a bum thumb. You are a bum thumb. That is what you get. Can you play video games pretty well with it? Dude, thumb war? I'm incredible, because I got surface area. It's like your ramster junior thumb? It's like finish him, tag. Send him south. And I'm double-jointed. It's like, I can just get out of reach and like, wait for you to get tired. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I can see him. I got the same double-jointed as you. Yeah, just pop it up. I was telling somebody this is what you have to do. Like, this is a double-jointed. I think somebody's laughing at me. I know you're all of it. No, no, no, no. Mine literally can go like a fucked up angle. [INTERPOSING VOICES] You know what, maybe I'm not double-jointed. Whatever. Yeah, anyway, the Wii. Raving rabbits, pretty fun. But I mean, Cal Long, can you play Raving Rabbits for? Like, aren't you just like, oh, I sort of get it. I've only had it a couple days. Don't do this. No. I'm going to try and get every mini-game online. Oh, I know why I sold my Wii. Hold on. It's because-- Cut to, like, three guys showing up at your door. What's the deal with the whole friend code thing? Yeah, what about it? Why don't they just do what Xbox Live did with gamer tags? Like, at the right down, your 15-digit code. Oh, somebody can't-- you can't be notified that somebody had a deal? Yeah, and it's just a crazy system, like a serial code, and every game's going to have different friend codes. It's kind of a pain in the ass. And no game is multiplayer. Like, why-- like, Xbox is doing it, like, pretty well. I have patience, as your friend Eric Levy said, that can easily-- That can easily be fixed with a firmware upgrade. Yeah, but I mean, Wii's not a bad system. I'm just dumb. That's what it really comes down to. It's a really-- it's fun. It's a good time. I recommend it for anybody. Don't do that to yourself. I mean, if I give me $250, I could buy it again. Right, right. How much did you end up selling it for? I lost, I think, 10%. So 25 bucks, I mean? Yeah, but I got so screwed. I bought it at Toys R Us and made me buy, like, three games made by a one-year warranty on it for, like, $70. And God knows what else. Does it transfer that warranty? I don't know. You know it though. I think I lost the receipt, too. But you're falling apart. I know. We're worried about you, buddy. It's probably one, though. Yeah. You can't do certain things at all. It's the first thing that we bought. So you guys are comedy people. One of the big-- one of my favorite features that Geeks gave down that is the forums. Yeah. We get guys like Gear Man, Thundercat, big fan, and floaty robot. We get people like that. That's Thundercat. On the forums. Who's up that guy? Every week on the show now, I'm trying to bull forums in our show, because the audience wanted it. I like it. I wanted you guys, too. But we're going to have Eric over here to talk about this subject for this week, your favorite stand-ups. Let me just run down a list of some of the favorite stand-ups. We got a guy named Webel. He said Kyle Ceeks, who was a-- Kyle Ceeks. Yeah, he was a guest. Yeah, he was a guest like E-Trump. Yeah. We had Imagineer, 99. What's up, buddy? Jim Gaffigan. That's it. I mean, as far as modern age stand-ups goes, Gaffigan is pretty high on the top of my list. Sometimes he's number one. What kind of stuff do you do? Gaffigan kills. [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] Nope. No. All right, slash whatever. I mean, he's on point when it comes to comedy. I-- you might be familiar with-- do you know who he is? All right. Sierra Miss commercials. You ever see Sierra? The fuck just happened to you? Sierra Miss commercials. I don't know how I got it. George! George! I got it for his applause. A frog crawled down my throat. Frog called Eric-- Got a frog in my throat, what was it saying? Frog called Nick's semen. So God, that is-- Keep going. So Gaffigan. Sierra Miss commercials. He's in that with Michael Ian Black. He's in a show-- Oh, yeah, I do like that dude. [INTERPOSING VOICES] He's really proud. Yeah, he's on pale force with Conan O'Brien. Got it. So this dude, he does a hot pocket joke, where he's like, you ever had a hot pocket, hot pocket? There's a hot pocket stuff with a hot pocket, hot pocket. He's really funny. And then he does hot pocket. And he'll do what? He's not selling it. Yeah. He'll do what? Yeah, it's funny. Don't shake your head like that, because it's funny. He'll do the manatee thing. You know, manatee is a big fat thing. He's like, my name's manateeing. Whatever, see, go. That whole thing. Yeah, because I'm doing stand-up right now. We all know how that goes. Gaffigan-- Have you tried stand-up? Nick and I did a little stand-up. I've got a good team at it. So the first night, well, in short, bad. Badly. I don't know, but if I conjugated that right, badly. Yeah. Bad as in, not good, not the cool kind of bad. We're like, that was bad, but no, that was bad. Right, right. That's what the act was kind of like. Well, we've got some more people. A member of the forums called Uncle Jesse. Legs, Jack, like Zac Galifianakis. Exactly. To do with Big Fucker Beard. He's really good. He does music and stuff. He's a comedy. That's what I said, Zac Galifianakis. He said, no. Patton Oswalt. Patton Oswalt? I actually just listened to Patton Oswalt's-- his new stand-up recently. They're so good. I mean-- He's spot on. He's one of my favorites. I mean, he is really great at stand-up. Although, in the CD, he was swearing a lot. And it just seemed a little bit excessive. I don't know. I mean-- I'm not saying keep it clean by any means. It's just certain comedians work, I think, a little bit better without all the profan. Like Eddie Murphy got away with swearing really, really well in his stand-up. But then, like, if Gaffigan went to-- excessively swear, I'd just be like, why? That's not you. And Patton Oswalt, you see him so much on TV, and then he goes and he's swearing a lot. He's really not swearing in the sweaty robot stuff. In our short films, we tend to shy away from the swearing. And in the show, we swear. Pired it, though. I think the show is like, you know, it's us sitting around having just, you know, BS-ing. My boy, he's super-deformed. He said Bill Hicks and Eddie Isard. I've listened to Eddie Isard. I'm not fully down. OK. But I do appreciate it. I think it's good. My man, Christopher Folios, comic punch. My mother's working from Punchline. He said Emo Phillips and Mitch Hedberg. These are good choices. These are like your kind of avant-- Nick wants to know where's Martin Lawrence. I agree. I mean, that's good stuff. He's funny. The funniest thing about Martin Lawrence-- That's like-- The funniest thing Martin Lawrence did was when he was all high with a Gashaga in the middle of traffic. [LAUGHTER] That was avant garde. Much like Emo Phillips and Mitch Hedberg. Mitch Hedberg, RIP. That dude died, which is pretty sad. Although you can kind of see it coming. [LAUGHTER] [INAUDIBLE] Kill him some of the drugs? Yeah, he was on drugs. And like, it was a bit much. Emo Phillips? This guy, I mean, I would imagine nine out of 10 people listening to Emo Phillips. And they're like, that is so dumb. It's not. It's funny. So take that to the bank. It's one of you. So that's our forums, buddy. All right. Why don't you do a couple more promotions for Sweaty Robot? [INAUDIBLE] I think that-- I think that-- No, we're not talking. We're not talking. We're not talking. We're not talking. Thank you, Holler. We're not talking Joss Whedon because Nick's wrong. You want a plug? Nick does that like Joss Whedon either. Nick's got a better-- That is our show, though. Ref on it. That is our show. Matt, come here and tell them where they can check out. Matt, get off the phone. This is-- Take the mic, lean in. Where can we find the stuff? You know. Where can we find everything? Where can we find your stuff? Thanks for inviting me. Just plug the site real quick. Oh, it's www.SwayRobot.com. Or if you want to go to another outlet, there's www.vio/channel/slabslabbe. Oh, there's probably a link on www.swayRobot.com. It's definitely one on the website. OK. All right. Well, it was fun. We're geeks, maillets, maillets, whattyrobot.com. I think Thundercat just subscribed. We are Geekscape on geekscape.net. Go check out the site. Read some news. Submit some news. Send it for a profile. Talk on the forums. And pretty soon we're going to have a lot more. I like this beard, bro. I like this. I like the-- You got going there. I like this. Yeah. I don't know what the deal is. Just keep this coming. I like this. Oh, this? This is like-- Yeah. This is just laziness. Yeah, that's fun. I have like-- I have like-- I wait for my hair to grow into my ears before I start cutting it. Yeah. I'm getting haircut this week. One of my self-esteem recovers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We will see you guys next week. Say bye to everybody. www.SwayRobot.com. Just keep dotting that. Tag team back again. Damn. Boom. That's it. You like my shirt? I do. See you guys next week.