Geekscape

Geekscape 5: Nutpunch

Guest Co-hosts: My friend and fellow video director Scott Culver and his roommate Noah - Review: Alpha Dog. Paltrow is Pepper Potts in Iron Man. Terence Stamp and The Rock join Get Smart movie. What's up with 24 Season 6?!? And British Television!?! Comic book talk is all about Civil War #6 and Aliens VS Predator VS Batman VS Superman VS Your Wallet VS Your Best Judgement. The new XBox 360's Lost Planet and Jonathan takes down some some inbred jerks in Burger King: Big Bumpin'! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Broadcast on:: 23 Jan 2007
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt's new movie, Wolf, is on Apple TV+, September 27th. That's where I want you to be now. So if you want to see George Clooney and Brad Pitt, go to Apple TV+, You've got to start the story there. Or if you want to see Brad Pitt and George Clooney, go to Apple TV+, I am enjoying the show. And if you want to see their new movie, Wolf, You can't do it. We can't help you. I can do it. Do it. Definitely go to Apple TV+, The minute it is cool. Okay, fine. It's very cool. Wolf, some streaming September 27th on Apple TV+, And we get our ABC Wednesday, October 9th. They all complain all day. We want books. We want paper towels in the classroom. Bet you want raises too. I'm still waking up the paper towels. Abbott Elementary returns with the new season. We asked the district for more after school programs. They gave us $50 for class beds instead. Critics cheer. Abbott Elementary continues to be one of the funniest and most beloved shows on TV. What y'all doing out there? Taking bribes. Proud of y'all. Abbott Elementary, the season premiere Wednesday, October 9th on ABC, And stream on Hulu. What's up everybody? Welcome to Dog Talk. This is Jonathan, and I'm here with my good friend Scott and his roommate, Noah. Yeah, it's right. That's Noah. Well, so you're a good friend now. He's my good friend now. And this is the show that used to be called Geekscape, but now we're covering 100% dog and canines and man's best friend. Which is dog, which is dogs. That's why you said that. That's right. That's right. Oh, what's your favorite breed of dog, Scott? Um, I tend to go for brunettes. What? It's not a breed. It's not a breed, dude. You mean Brindle? Uh, whenever I don't know the answer to something, I'm just going to pass it to Noah. That would be, uh... It's your favorite breed of dog, Noah. That'd be, um, Boston Pug. Really? Yeah, Boston mixed with a little pug? Back in Diego, I have one. Oh, look, you know, I have, uh, uh, two pugs, right? Yeah, well, one of a pugs is half shitsu. Oh, okay. And, uh, he's a magical beast. What is more magical? Unicorn or Pegasus? I'm going to go with Pegasus. Uh, I would go with a unicorn, actually. There's nothing more magical than the bone of a, uh, uh, unicorn horn. Unicorn horn? Horn corn? What is it? Unicorn? Unicorn horn. Whatever. Dude, the last unicorn's coming out on DVD soon. It's already out, is it? No, it comes out this month. I don't even have it. Like a special edition thing? He's like, it's already done for download. So, uh, listen, uh, Scott and I went to see a, uh, dog, uh, related movie. At least it had dog in the title. We went to see Alpha Dog, then Cassavelli's movie. Remember that when we went to see that on Sunday? Uh, yes, I do. Okay, so this movie is about a group of friends growing up in, uh, the San Gabriel Valley near Los Angeles. And it's a, uh, based on actual events where, you know, one of the kids is the big drug dealer. And he pushes everybody else around and they kind of hang out of them. They're all kind of scared of him. Right. Or timid around him. And then there's a one dude who can't pay up. And they get in a big fight. Yeah. So they go and kidnap his kid brother. Basically, trouble ensues. Trouble ensues and things go from bad to worse. Yes. Very, very quickly. And we won't give you guys any spoilers, but straight up, Scott, uh, not that we weren't talking to each other during, during this movie. No, actually we walked out of the movie and he was like, save it. Save it for the show. Save it for the show. Right. And I was like, oh, I, I, you know, thank you. So, so this is where you can spill it. On dog talk, um, alpha dog on dog talk. Yeah. I thought it was, uh, a masterpiece, basically. Did you really like it? No, like, but like you turned to me halfway through the movie. They're like, can they say the word fuck one more time in this film? I don't think it was pretty, it was pretty, uh, like it's bad when you, when you can see the writers. Right. Use of, uh, you know, words and language and just how he talks and every single character in the movie, you know? I'm on you, by the way. Oh, that's, no, that's fine. That's totally fine. Is that all right? I think I'm on you. We're like, sit up, say my camera guy wants you to sit up scripts. You look two feet. This is a guy's head. How tall are you? Um, like six, four. All right. Now I look like the short guy on the couch. Yeah. No, please. This is just getting humiliating. Your couch sinks. Um, how much of the fuck was, was part of the acting? You know, because they do curse a lot. Actually, actually, you know what? I have to, I have to give them some credit. Justin Timberlake was not bad in the film. I actually thought he was, I actually thought the performances were the best part of the movie. Yeah. No, I wasn't, I wasn't disappointed with the acting. I was just disappointing with, uh, I guess the writing and the way, um, you know, the direction. I was upset with the direction. Right. Um, I felt like there are parts of the movie where, in Nick husband, he didn't do this in his first couple of movies, like John Q, did you see that with Denzel Washington? You saw it and, uh, and he didn't do it in the notebook, which you and I went to see. Yeah. Together. And, uh, and he does this in this film where he'll, uh, just kind of thrust his style in there. Like with the documentary style stuff and like the, the, the thing where he'll show two shots of the same take next to each other. And they're not even the same take 'cause stuff is off. But, uh, you'll see events from two angles on the, like split screen. And it'll be right in the middle of a really good performance. And it's like, dude, don't be so present. You know what I mean? It's not, it's something that his, that his father wouldn't do. You know what I mean? He's forcing himself upon you. Well, I just thought it was distracting. If I was an actor in his film and I'm working really hard to convey something or to give this great performance to have the director thrust his style on, I mean, it really takes the audience out of it. You know, didn't you feel in those moments where you were like, okay, what's going on? I never really got into it at all. At that point, the whole, the movie. I was like, okay, you know, like you see what it's going to be from the trailer. Right. And then that's pretty much all it is. Pretty much, it's pretty much the story of it. There's one part with Sharon, with Sharon Stone. And people are starting to talk about it. And then these people have, how she wears a fat suit at one point in the film? Yeah. I thought it was embarrassing. I thought it was totally on, like, because she gives, she gives a good performance up to that point. And then there's that one scene where it's like, dude, she's flopping. Like a fish out of water out there and just, just trying everything. Well, it just, and nothing's working. It felt like a, like a high school monologue for, like, you know what I mean? It was like, oh my gosh, I'm so sad. And there's just all these things that I need to tell you about, like, how my character feels. But she's in a fat suit. Yeah. It feels like you're watching Shallow Hell. So why not? I thought I was watching a scene in Shallow Hell a whole time. So her character made up then, I know it's a real story. No, I think it's, I don't know how much of it is based on reality. All I know is that a lot of it seemed a lot like my youth. Anytime I was watching Justin Timberlake, I felt like I was trapped in a, you know... In your reality? In reality, yeah. Like, I... He was good, dude. In real life, I, you know, I sell drugs and I have tattoos and I'm just kind of urban. I mean, I was, I was watching this movie, I was like, okay, I did stupid shit when I was a kid. But I, I didn't kidnap anybody. Mm-hmm. And then I didn't ask any of my friends to go kill them. Like, what was, I mean, the story is not totally successful for me at all. Basically, the story of some idiots doing something stupid and then just kind of, that's it. Like, there's nothing really that interesting about it. It's like, okay, we made a bad decision and that's the movie. Thanks for coming. Thanks for your seven bucks. And I was just, I was totally unimpressed. Yeah. There were parts where I thought the performances were going to win me over, but then the movie would do something to turn me off, you know, and, and make me say, oh, I'm in a theater again. I'm not in this story at all. I mean, what were some of the stupid stuff that, like, some of the stupid things you used to do when you were growing up? You grew up in Seattle, right? Yes, I did. You grew up in San Diego? Yes, San Diego. That's, that's, no, uh, I, I met Scott, Scott, uh, another music video director. And, uh, we met outside of a show. That was, uh, don't look down and over River City. Hi, it was a cold fall night. I didn't go to see them. I wanted to see, uh, over it and don't look down. You know what's talked about that? The best thing about that night was that I met you. I got two fucking tickets. Because I just, I just moved to LA and I parked on Sunset, got a ticket. I was like, oh shit, I got a ticket. I should re-park. Never re-park if you've already got one ticket because I, I got, I, I re-parked, got a second ticket for not turning my wheels towards the, towards the hill. But at least, at least you and I met. You were worth the $80 raping that, well, the city of West Hollywood gave me. Absolutely. And neither of us ended up doing a video for none of them. That's the funniest thing we went to see. Don't look down. Yeah, we were like muslin' up on each other like, hey, okay, so who are you? Take my reel. No, no, no, take my reel. No, you have not your palm pilot. You're like, I don't know what to do this time. I had this old palm pilot. It was white. I remember that. You're like, I broke my last one. I broke my last palm pilot. I'm gonna pull out this one. You're like, let me get your, let me get your info. And I was like, this is coming for somebody who, whose sidekick is probably implanted into you now. Oh, it's over there. It's over like a stick to do it. And, uh, yeah, I remember, I remember. It's a good idea. Just have it stitched in my arm. I remember I had this palm pilot. I was like, what's your number again? I'm like, ace reporter with it. Let me, let me pull, let me pull this out. And you pulled it out and it was the kind that like, had the flip thing, the thing that flipped open. You're like, oh, got some little pen. It's not pen. It's just a stick. You're like, do, do, do, do, do. Stylus. Yeah. So that was awesome. You gave me so much crap. And neither of us ended up doing a duller town video. But you know what, what else came from that night? I think Ryan Key from Yellow Card. Got on stage. Graced his, uh, graced the whole crowd with his presence. Everyone was there to see Ryan, I'm sure. He had sunglasses on, reflective. Inside. And he was doing a lot of this like, oh, hey, what's going on? Yellow Card, no jacket. Oh, what's up? Huh? You guys don't know? You guys capital records? Million, million plus? Ryan Key? Yellow Card? And then, uh, he, and then Don't Look Down was playing. And he was like, you know what? You know what, I'm so famous. I am getting on this stage right now and giving the people what they want. And just climbed up there and started singing along. And, and, uh, I remember seeing, uh, some of the guys in Don't Look Down being like, what? Why is he singing? I knew, I knew Ryan and Jesse from, from Philly because Jesse was my year at Penn. And, uh, and I did the college radio and I did a show for college radio at Penn where we had like, uh, a lot of bands on it, which is how I knew a bunch of bands, uh, to get into videos. And, um, Don't Look Down always wanted to play our show. Yeah. And I was like, no, you're, you're like the Penn band. You know what I mean? Like, you're the college band. Uh, and, and like, you guys are the ones who play our spring fling and play like MXPX covers. You know, and, uh, I didn't think that they were going to get much bigger until I was in San Francisco that summer and I went to the Warped Horns. Kid was wearing a Don't Look Down shirt and I was like, how the fuck does he know about Don't Look Down? And then they got really big. You know, they got pretty popular and I guess Ryan's in over it now. Yep. Uh, I saw him like a while ago. He's a really cool guy, you know. All very nice, all, all very nice guys. But, but I distinctly remember Ryan Key, like the stepping on a girl's face to get on stage to sing. Just being like, come on. I got to give the people what they want. Just got out. And I think the security guard ended up like gunning on the stage and be like, um, get off the stage. He's like, yo, yo, this is 16. I was this 14 year old kid doing on stage. Do you not see my sunglasses on inside? It's bright people. It's bright, but that's me. That's my glue. Anyway, that was a fun night. That was cool, man. And we continue to hang out. No, and Ryan's a nice guy. I'm not. You got me. I'm not. You helped. You helped me get the one of my first videos is the Houston calls video. I remember you, you, we helped you out with it with a, with it. Did you notice the hidden in-plane view video, uh, posters in the kids room in alpha dog? Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's some movie supposed to take place in 99. Yeah. It was like the albums that came out like last year. 2004, and I'm like, all right. Great. Um, but I remember listening to Houston calls song on the, on the drive through split thing. The, the previous CD. I was like, this is the van I want to do. Yeah. You called me up and you were like, dude, is someone doing that video? And I was like, let's do it. Let's do it. Go for it, Jonathan. Do it. Learn the man. You're the man. You're the man. I was like, great. I have a blood sport idea. I was like, do it. Some blood sport. Like, yeah, the rigors and stuff, they would go for that. I was like, Jared, I was like, okay, like, don't say no quite yet, but it's going to be based on blood sport. And he's like, okay. I was like, no, no. Hear me out. Yeah. Part of that side. I walked them through it like beat by beat. And I was like, and then this is the part where a blank blank happened. The video turned out really good. Man, that was a great video. I haven't done one good one since. What are you talking about? Reggie, man. I like, yeah, which is basically the same video. So basically just take a blood sport, Jonathan. Just change break dancing. All right, now we're inside. Now we're flowing. Now we're letting it all go. Now we're flowing. So Alpha Dog rented. Yeah, definitely. Rented for the scene in the pool. Yeah. Did you like that scene? It's a great movie. Do you see that scene in the pool? I did. I think that they were just like, you know what? Let's put some sex. We need to get some sex in this movie. Pool. Because pretty soon we're going to have some really bad green screen in this movie. Dude, don't say the ending, but that scene with the fucking green screen. Oh, yeah. I was like, what is this water world? Like, what just happened? No, I didn't know where we were. I was like, dude, you're tricking me. You're tricking me, aren't you? I felt like the actors were in those games. Remember in Nickelodeon early on when they had game shows with kids in a virtual reality? And they had like hit beach balls and shit. What was it? Like the Nick arcade and it never worked. You know what I mean? Like, you see this kid flailing and you're at home and you're like 12. And you're like, dude, I could totally do better than that kid. You're never going to make 500 points. You know that the game would screw you just like it's screwing Jimmy, you know? But in your mind, you're like, you know what? It wouldn't screw me. I always thought my family would clean house on Double Dare. Because you know when you're watching those shows as a kid and you're like, no, dude, I wouldn't do it that way. It's so obvious. I mean, it's so obvious to you when you're watching the show, the moves that you got to make on Double Dare, especially family Double Dare. But the truth is, in the moment, the intensity with Mark Summers yelling at you, you're not going to make those moves. You're going to screw up just like they did. Choke time. Then my family starts yelling at you. You just choke. It's like, show up, Mark Summers. I'm trying to go through this green mud. There's a giant nose spinning out goop all over me. I can't find it. But then my family divorced. That was getting to that. Come on, Dad. Do you think you can get back together just so we can go on Double Dare? I can see you crying your whole way through that. Come on, Dad. Seriously. Come on. You guys have to still love each other. We haven't won yet. What did I get? People are like, dude, this is the show Jonathan just lost his shit. Absolutely. When I get with Culver, this is what it's like. This is when we get our best ideas. Yeah. A lot of times, I'll just say I am in you. And it'll like, we'll have a whole film laid out in front of us. It'll be like, "And then the gaster of the shoes." And you'll be like, "And then..." We always tell each other, "What are we shooting for driveway?" "What are we shooting for drive-through?" We always tell each other that Richard is going to show up halfway through the shoot and be like, "All right, you're dismissed. I'll take it from here." He's actually trying to get me involved in this, but this is all Jonathan. I'll take it from here. I'll take it from here. And just like, step in and... You've done a good job, kid. I'll take it from here. That's our fear. That's our fear. Never happened, though. The label is going to come in and take our video away from us. All right, movie news. Are we ready for movie news? Yeah. We killed Alpha Dog. We killed Alpha Dog. And you know, there's people out there that'd be like, "You know what, I saw that movie and I thought it was great." No, I agree with these people at all. I doubt that, really? You're right. Dude, are you an Iron Man fan, huh? I am. Dude, did you see the news today? I did not. Pepper Potts, an Iron Man, guess who they cast, who... Can you explain to me Pepper Potts first? I cannot, no. She's Tony Stark's secretary in confidant. Right. And there's like a loose flirtation there. And uh, but never went anywhere. Right, right. Gwyneth Paltrogut just got cast as her. How does that sit with you? They're stacking the decks, I feel like. Little old. Yeah. Not red-headed. Yeah. Doesn't have freckles. But you know what, in a movie that already has Robert Downey Jr. And uh, what's his name? Dude from Hustle Flow? Uh, yeah, Terence Howard. Terence Howard. Yeah. Like, it's gonna be good. Yeah, it's gotta be the season kind of superhero movies. You know. Yeah, and I'm excited for a movie, definitely. I don't know about, I don't know about Gwyneth though. Right. I mean, what was the, what was that one movie? She was in Sky Captain? The World of Tomorrow. Yeah, the worst green screen movie ever. Dude, that movie. Did you see that thing? No. No. Dude. No, I did not. That, that movie, I could not have been more excited because, seeing everything about it, I'm like, dude, this is a geek film. This is exactly for people like us. Yeah, but it wasn't. But then we went, and it was one of the most boring things that we've ever seen in my entire life. You know. But you know what, she's, she is a good actress. Oh. She is good. I just don't know. I mean, I don't know. I see more like a Katherine Heigl or someone a little younger. Dude. Katherine Heigl or Heigl or whatever is one of my top two right now. She's amazing. Sweaty dude. Don't point it at me. No, that's the fucking dude. Release the fire. If your girlfriend does your laundry for you and forgets that there's a pen in there. Do you have a girlfriend? I had one at one time. I had one at one time. How'd that turn out? I got a stain on my shirt. No stain on the Pantellown is just a stain on the shirt. I'm sorry. I didn't totally interrupt. No, it's fine. It's fine. That was the basically the news is where the paltrow got cast. I didn't want to like stretch and be like, you know. I thought it was a sweat. I thought it was a sweat. Dude, you're leaky on me. That's what I'm saying. You understand that you're, you understand that you're leaking on me. I'm spitting. No, it's on purpose. A leak is totally accidental. It's something you do with the dentist, you know. What do you think about Iron Man though? Iron Man? Great album. There you go. That's it. There was news today that Terence Stamp and The Rock are joining the Get Smart movie. That movie has like Anne Hathaway and Steve Harel in it. Okay. They're doing that. Yeah, they're doing Get Smart. And they just added The Rock to play another officer, which is cool. That's going with the guy that has the phone in his shoe, right? Well, that's part of the opening sequence. Yeah. I've seen that. And Terence Stamp is a bad guy. Okay. Terence Stamp has basically a get out of jail every time free card from doing things like the limey and of course Superman too. I mean, like his geek cred. No, I mean, he could do a million fucking things. He's like Lance Henriksen. The guy can make a ton of junk and still be, you know, huge and geek eyes. You know who we're talking about, right, dude? What's his name again? What's his name? Terence Stamp? Oh, Terence Stamp. Yeah. Dude. Me and T-Man? General Zod, remember, I mean, you know, let me explain something to the viewers. When Jonathan originally asked me to do this. I just like hanging out with Scott. I was like, you realize. You guys are like, why? Dude, is that a K-TAR? Can you get that shit over here? It's a little broken right now. You know what? Okay. All right. You take over, I'll go grab the K-TAR. Explain to him that I haven't seen. I mean, you know, I'm not. Wait. Oh, yeah, dude. He, we were in the car here today and he goes, Jonathan, listen, um, uh, I got to tell you, I've never seen Spider-Man. [Laughter] 'Cause it gets hot, 'cause I just like hanging out with Scott. You don't know what I mean? Scott never saw the Labyrinth. Scott never saw-- You never saw Lady Runner. I watched the Labyrinth. Dude, have you seen Labyrinth now? I am so mad at my parents. Everything I do. So mad. Dude, what do I do for you? Yeah. There without the sunlight. You know what I'm talking about? You know what I'm talking about. The little dance magic dance. I saw the movie though, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Why can't they make movies like that? They are, dude. They're making Dark Crystal too. You haven't? No, I've seen him. Oh, you made him. Dude, get the guitar. Okay. Yeah, yeah, Scott is not a total geek. I'll be right back. I just like hanging out with the dude. No, he hasn't seen basically no movies. Right. And you were trying to push comments on this. Why have an entire amazing collection of movies, like 1500 Strong? Get it. Okay. Go for it. So I gave basically Scott a binder about 500 movies, and he's been slowly going through it. So for some of the geeks out there who are watching, what are some of the essentials? Well, I'm more of a comedy freak. Right. So for me, it's stuff like Catty Shack. It's White Heart American Summer, Anchorman, you know. We'll fairly can't go wrong with these days. By the way, do you see the trailer? Oh, trailer's coming next, I guess, so. No, no, go for it. The new trailer for Blades of Glory? Yeah. Looks great. Yeah, amazing. Yeah. It looks really fucking good. If we can show a clip right now, we will. But if not, actually we'll show it down there. But anyway, it looks good though. Yeah, it looks really funny. And I'm not a huge fan of John Heter. Yeah. Yeah. I watched Napoleon the other day. It was on TV, and I was like, dude, he's still playing the same role, and I'm still okay with him playing the same role. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it seems like he does that role well. Right. And dude, the best thing about it, coach playing coach. Yeah. But I mean, you got Amy Poehler in there, and her husband from Rest Development. Awesome. His name slips you now. Come sit down. Bring it, Scott. It doesn't work out, right? We can't promise the audience a guitar or not. Do it. Dude, have you seen the guitar player for a Cobra Starship? No, I have not. She's so hot, dude. Say what you will about Cobra Starship, but their guitar player is one of the most beautiful specimens on this planet, and I will add her to my collection when I buy my island. You know, I'm buying an island, right, dude? Yeah. We've told him this before. Yeah. Did you hear about the Avatar movie finally moving forward? No, I did. James Cameron won? Oh, was that finally going through? Yeah. Is it going to be a dual video game as well, still? I don't know, man. Like, you know, they're doing it like the Robert Zemeckis motion capture stuff. The other thing that's happening is, you know, Avatar the Nickelodeon cartoon? I've never watched it. But what is it? Like Avatar Windmaster or Wind Humper or Windbender? Yeah. Airbender. That's it. That's it. That's it. Airbender. Avatar the last Airbender. That one is going to be done by M-Night Shyamalan. It's a trilogy. So should he direct again? I say no, but somebody else says yes. I don't know. I'm kind of on the fence by M-Night. Why? I've enjoyed some of this. We haven't had a good M-Night discussion on this show yet. I got to say, I watched Lady in the Water and I did not hate it. Really? Yeah. I didn't see it because I was like, you know what? By this point, I'm done. I have a hard time saying I really liked it because it was... You're holding it like a Excalibur, dude. Look at you. It was a little campy at times. See, I think we need new batteries. That's what that means. What was the problem with the movie? He just sort of like goes off on these tangents, like where you can just tell he's riding for himself, which I guess is kind of cool if you're that could... You can do that. It's very masturbatory. There's one character who's sort of like, I think probably every reporter who's picked on him, and he just kills him in the way he wants to kill the guy. And they basically write it out for you. Right, but it's not funny like the Kevin Smith coming to kick little kids on the internet's asses. No, it's not like that. What are the movies that you liked of his? I actually enjoyed Unbreakable, even though that first scene I couldn't watch it again. Unbreakable. I thought it was cool. Sixth Sense was good. Yeah, I'm with Nolan. I hate it. I mean, he lost me at whatever the fuck the other one was. The Village, dude. That thing hated that movie. Not good. It was horrible. Not good. Horrible. Do you do... Are you reading just to... You know they're making like a new aliens or as a predator, right? I know they're making one. After seeing the first one, no, I don't know for a... Why are they making another aliens or a predator? You gotta understand that the first one made 30 million its opening weekend. So it's gonna make a second one. Okay. You know what I mean? I was in the box office for a AVP. That's the kind of movie that you and I would go see together. No, no, you and I went to CT3. You know, it really picked the winners with me. Don't you, Jonathan? This is how I call the dog in Terminator 3. It's got to give me a chance. This is what I do. I got to see movies for this show. I picked the movies based on what it's going to be the most fun for me to watch. You know what I'm saying? I knew it would be more fun sitting next to me, squirming, thinking what else could I be doing with my time if we saw an alpha dog on Sunday. It's so valuable. I actually got to stand up for Jonathan a little bit here because I know Scott that you hate anything that doesn't like... You're in a dark place right now. Yeah. What is it? You know, I told you not to move in with your girlfriend. I told you not to do it. I and everyone you know told you not to move in with your girlfriend. I had been there? There's nothing you can just say to deny the love that I have for this man. Dude, I told you not to do it. Don't make me start... We're talking about his earlier situation. No, yeah, I just... You're in a dark place. Yeah, I mean, you know... You're still not sitting up straight. It's cramping this ape on your right. I think it has something to do with just Los Angeles in general for me. Why? A lot of people are like, should I move to LA and pursue my career? Dude, you're jaded. Dude, I'm so jaded. How did you get this way? I don't know. You don't know, are you like this? I'm not as bad as Scott. I'm a little more optimistic. Together, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. I'm a little more optimistic, but I mean, I'm from Southern California. Anyway, so I'm kind of used to it. Would you rather be in Seattle the highest suicide rate in the country, Scott? What, I mean, that all depends. Like, yeah, if I could find work up there, I'd be up there in a heartbeat, you know? What do you not like, dude? I don't know, I just don't... I don't like... What? What'd you say, Vijay? Yeah, dude, it's raining all the time. That's fine. I grew up in rain. So, you know, I'm like, yeah, when it rains here, I'm like, "Whoo, let's have a rain party." You know, something. But I don't know, I think it's like... I don't know. I don't know, just... These days, I'm just so turned off with someone... Like, people love 24. People love 24. And I just can't... I love 24. I can't watch it for 10 minutes without being like, "Okay, another helicopter's gonna come in. They're gonna have another timer on something, and something's gonna blow up." And he's gonna be like, "How am I gonna make it? How am I gonna get out of here?" And then he's gonna get out of there. Like, what are you thinking? Like... But he's Jack Bauer. Yeah, but it's like... It's what he does. Noah, did you watch the beginning of this new season? Can you tell us about it? 'Cause, dude, I only watched season one, and then I heard... I really wanna break down of it. Could you tell us... 'Cause like, we have listeners who are into 24, and I don't... I'll watch them if I get the DVDs for free, but I'm not gonna like go out. No, I wish I had the patience to like, just not watch a show and like, wait to the DVDs. It's so much better that experience can talk. So what is this? It's season six, and I saw that you can already buy the DVD. Well, yeah. Here's how it's definitely ridiculous. I agree with Scott that it's ridiculous, but that's what's kind of fun about it. So, Jack Bauer's been gone for two years. He's been tortured within an inch of his life in China. These guys are just, you know, slashed up his back, and you know, done everything they can to it. That's what happens in China. Exactly. You don't go to China. So, the president arranges for Jack to come back. You don't know what he did, what he gave to the Chinese, but they bring Jack back. He comes back looking, you know, huge beard, scraggly hair, like a homeless person. You find out they traded Jack to the Chinese, so they could give Jack to a terrorist who won a Jack debt, because his terrorist has been, you know, bombing all over the country and, you know, America's a mess. That's what they do. Yeah. That's a terrorist, dude. Got it. Got it. So, Jack agrees they give Jack to this terrorist, but little do they know, this terrorist who was making the deal was really the bad terrorist. Oh god, I'm already, I'm already, like, not into it. So then what happens? So there's a mix-up of terrorists, basically. So, all right. So this guy, whom he made a deal with the president, turns out to be the bad guy. Long story short, he has four and five nukes in his possession. By the end of the thing, he blows up one in Los Angeles. What part? That's episode four. Oh, what part of Los Angeles? Yeah. I don't know. Valley, more likely. But the rest of it, okay. Valencia, I think. They didn't mess up my comic store, did they? No, I don't think. Oh, radiation might. Okay. But at that point, Jack had just killed, you know, Curtis, who had been a running character in the series, because Curtis was about to kill the good terrorist. Oh man, this... Oh, why would I watch this? Why would you watch- There's a whole subplot with Calpen. No, I totally, I totally like, I am so four people loving shows. I get into some weird stuff. Like, I like that old show, Red Dwarf. Yeah. That British? Yeah. It's like, faulty towers or like night. Dude, but that's part of my example here. It's like, I can enjoy bad things, you know? Like, I can like it. It's a black box theater acting. It's pretty bad, yeah. It's worse, I think it's worse than- What is that? What is Red Dwarf about? It's about these guys that get like, one guy's- It's like a geek show. Oh, totally. Huge. Dude, so I've got a little bit, you know, like- But here's the thing, for Red Dwarf to me, it's like, production value-wise. It's a little worse than Doctor Who. Oh, completely. Story-wise, I think it's way worse than Doctor Who. So- Well, no, no, I don't- Well, no, no, Doctor Who then- Yeah, yeah. Red Dwarf. But see, this is what someone could say about 24, like, in their own defense against me. Like, because I, you know, I can't critique it, because I haven't really watched much of it. So, but like- But it's completely ridiculous. Like, you see Jack, like, get the tendons in his shoulder cut out, like, in episode three, and you realize that the third hour of his day, and the next episode, he's walking around fine. So it's like, you know, he's kind of alive. You could kind of let that stuff go, if you want to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But see, for some reason, I'm at this point now, where I can't let stuff like that- I can't get past it, you know? Like, I think maybe it has something to do with also, like, you know, being angry at life. Yeah. And then just like, being involved in like, trying to have, you know, trying to gear up for having like a mindset to actually shoot your own stuff, you know? Like, you know this, like, shooting, doing videos or shows? For the record, if Richard Rain wants to come on my set, and take over, Rich, I'm happy about that. The video will end up better anyway. I'm just kind of cool with anything. Dude, whatever goes, you know? It's kind of like, you're gonna do like, a scratch video, where I shoot one part and I go, "Yours!" Hand it off to him, mini grindouts. I'm like, "It's yours!" We'll call it the "Happatato" video. We'll just sit timers. Yeah. Like, next, you call it- And I'll be like, "Ahhh!" And then I'll be like, "Back to you!" I'm thinking purple! Boom, yours! He's lazing up his shoes! Bam! Hit him with a gun! And that's- He gets an eye patch! We gotta shoot- We gotta shoot a video like a jazz musician. You know what I mean? Just improv, baby. You gotta shoot a video on that video. Right. Yeah, that's- Two guys, people are like, "What the- Where's the band?" He just got- We have "Beards A", yeah! You need the world! You definitely are, like, the gang to my yang, man. No, definitely. If ever I need to, like, not, like, life anymore, I'll just give you a call. Yeah, I don't get it. I was telling him today, I was like, "I need some Xanax or something to, like, you know, you know, you need some sort of, like, something on the horizon to kind of keep you- You seem to get late, baby, you know? Yo, are you watching the new Doctor Who? I am, I love it. Tell me about the new Doctor Who. I think Doctor Who, like, all I know is he, like, runs away from phone booths? What is this? Oh, Doctor Who is a great show. Yeah, well, the Daleks are one of, like, the bad guys. Okay. They look like giant typewriters? Pretty much, yeah. And then there's, like, the Cybermen. But the new series was pretty cool. I didn't watch the first series, which had, I can't think of the actor's name in it. Dude, my friend Ian, who was a guest on the first episode of the show, he's gonna come back. He was explaining it to me, and there's, like, different Doctor Who's. He's kind of like a- Yeah, no, it's like the Highlander. He's, like, a moral. He, like, pass his bodies. Exactly, there's a new- There's a different Doctor, like, every couple years. But it's always the Doctor. It's always the same guy, in a sense. But the new Doctor Who was great. The effects were cheesy, of course, but they got- They've been- They've been updated, to a sense. And this one's good. It's good. I really enjoyed the second series. It all wrapped up nicely. It was good. And there's a spinoff or something. Yeah, I think there's one coming out. I mean, I read news about it a while back. And it's in England. Yeah. But it'll come here. Yeah. All right. We're gonna figure that one out. Yeah, well. My friend Ian has it all down. He's like, he knows the name. I don't know why I'm not like- He knows who played, like, which Doctor Who and- I'm not the craziest Doctor Who fan. I liked one of the old series. And then I just kind of picked up watching again. 'Cause I, you know, I like stuff on Side By. I was like, "Oh, it's British! Doctor, who cares?" That's what I called it. I like a lot of British- Scott would hate it. Scott would hate it. Scott would hate it. No, I hear there's really good stuff. Like, Little Britain. And Little Britain's a really good- I hear that's amazing. And it's British. British people have some good stuff. Spaced, I heard, was amazing. Spaced was the dude's- Spaced is great. I actually teed with all of them off BBC finally. 'Cause I couldn't find a DVD anywhere. And it's like Simon Pegg and- Yeah, it's all the same, Edgar Wright. All the same guys who brought you Sean and the Dad. And bringing you- What's the new one? The cop one. Yeah, the cop one. But yeah, it's just like, this guy living in his flat with this chick. It's a flat. This is an apartment. Yeah. But you put this crap on the other side- Well, if it's in Britain, it's going to be a flat. It's going to be a flat. And they have to pretend to be married. Oh, the two dudes? No, the guy and the girl. Okay. Yeah. Like you two dudes. Pretty much. California. They're getting all sorts of tax benefits. Oh. But so- Did you see- You saw the original BBC version of The Office? No, dude. Yeah, I did. Dude, that show- That was the best. Is hilarious. No, I'm sure it's funny. I just got- Oh, you've never seen- I just got to watch it all. I've watched an episode. Oh, wow. You know what I mean? The original- The original is by far like- I think it's one of the funny shows I've ever seen. Better than the one now. Yeah. And I love like- I mean, the married version- I think they're different. They're both pretty great. Like if you can handle the language barrier from trying to figure out what all the weird- You know, English- Slang is- Idiism's are or whatever. Having a conversation with us. We make awards for crap all the time. Speaking of people who made up- Make up their own realities, like you and I, you went and shot something that earlier this week. Or what was this? You shot and edited it or- It was through a company that I work with called Gnet. Everybody should check them out. G-hyphennet. G-hyphennet. G-hyphennet.tv. Check that- Check that issue out. What do you do there? I'm a freelance editor. I work with them doing a lot of video game-based content. Noah also works there. He's a producer. He just worked on a television show. I guess I would- Can you mention it? It's so bad. Do medieval weapon? Oh no, I thought you meant that. Medieval weapon? Honestly, that should- No, medieval weapon is dope. I'll show you this. I got some episodes. Yeah, he worked on a show called medieval weapon. Tell me one of those shows where it's like, "Okay, you just throw motherfuckers in there with weapons?" I'd watch that. I'd watch a dude fighting in cheetah. Gnet, as a production company, they made a deal with Spike TV to make the show called Fresh Big Video Games, which aired last year. Not good. Well, I don't want to rip the show. Yeah, you can't. I didn't love parts of it. It paid your rent, maybe. Yeah. Well, so I and I produced an ongoing series in the show, which was a machinima series called Medieval Weapon. And basically what it was. We took the game EverQuest 2, which is a medieval Lord of the Rings kind of game. And we shot these machinima shorts, but the story was basically lethal weapon in medieval times. But now we've got to explain to the viewers what- I mean, I'm sure- Well, machinima is. Well, machinima is. But it's basically- Do you? Don't even waste your time! Yeah, I figure they do. Really? Okay, good. All right, I don't know. It's just dubbing video game characters and making the story out of it. Yeah, pretty much. Like Red vs Blue. But yeah, exactly. In EverQuest 2, it's a little more detail. You can actually like, you know, really block scenes out and have the avatars act in a sense. You should drop some of that out in order. The best is in SoCalm, that kid online yelling, and it's like- Yeah. It's like not- It's not intentional machinima. But it's that little kid who's on SoCalm and some dude sees him in a sniper rifle and the kid is yelling for chocolate milk from his mom in his character. The kid's not actively playing. His character's just sitting there in the sniper rifle scope and his mouth is moving. And you hear this- Mom, give me some chocolate milk right now, you bitch! And he's tearing into his mom and she's like- Turn the game off! And he's like- You promised me chocolate milk! The whole time you see this dude going- It's great. That counts as machinima. But you are done there. You shot a bunch of dudes downtown camping out for the- Yeah, yeah. Dude, they were camping out on the same strip that I camped out for my Wii. They were camping out for the expansion pack to World of Warcraft. Yeah. Burning Crusade. Dude. I've never- I have never played World of Warcraft, but I was actually kind of jealous. Being down there, like being around all these people that were super, super involved in the game, I was like, man, like maybe I'm missing that one. Imagine that's got feeling passion again. Yeah. I don't think I'll- I don't think I'll ever smell that scent again. Like the first kiss for the sun peeking through your windows. Exactly. Exactly. That's what life is. You want to move back to Seattle so they're going to rain on you? Yeah. Sounds fantastic. That's God's toilet bowl. That's where he pisses. I'm sure there are many other parts. I like Seattle's gorgeous. Seattle's sweet. It's gorgeous, yeah. Anyway, so I went down there Monday night, shot, like, you know, did a bunch of interviewing with all the kids on the street and everything and then- Weren't kids. So old 40 or- I guess, yeah. It was like one kid. Yeah, they were mostly all adults. I don't know. I guess it'd probably like 350 people down there. Wow. Yeah, there's a good amount of people down there and turned around the edit, you know, the next morning. I don't know why we're talking about this. No, but, but do World Warcraft, you played this thing? Didn't you know it? Yeah, I actually, I actually did buy it in all the hype of it. I mean, I'd never played in most before. Wow, it was probably the first one I tried. And I was bored out of my mind in a day. Really? It's literally like- 'Cause I never played it. Like, what do you get into? All right, you jump in, you create your character, you're all psyched, you're ready to go. And it's just like running around, clicking on dudes that give you quests, go collect 10 spider webs. Are you for real? Yeah, you run for like an hour, fine 10 spider webs, run back to the guy, he gives you two pieces of gold. Ah, dude, I'd be pissed! Yeah, and then, but like, you do this forever. Like, I never, I never made it past those- Sounds like the worst game ever! I don't know how people get into it, but it's so boring to me. I mean, I'm into, I'm in, I'm way into, you know, console gaming. That's my main thing. And, and these games also, there's no real like, like when you're fighting a guy, or, you know, you're trying to kill someone, there's no contact. You could be, you know, five feet away from him, you're swinging empty air, so it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like- The whole amount of level is 60. So it's like wrestling. Yeah, it's not good. I mean, I see, I guess I can kind of see why people, what people love about, maybe it's like an escape. You know, they have their own character, and they interact- Definitely see that that's why they love about it. But for me, it's just like, I think, I never won. I, I don't want to spend an hour running around doing nothing. Right. And, you know, I did like Animal Crossing, but I did get- Dude, I stopped playing after a month. I was like, okay, maybe I'll go fishing again. I thought it would get me laid. It's a comic book speaking of things that get you laid. Dude, are you reading Civil War? I am. I'm enjoying it very much. I got good this last episode. You thought so? Yeah, go- Well, I think it's getting good. It's getting good. It's getting better. 'Cause issue five was led down. Yeah, definitely. Thank you. Take that shit, Gilmore. He's like, dude, step five. He was like, issue five was the necessary law. I was like, tell that to the writer. I don't think you need a lull in a series like this. Empress Strikes Back didn't have a lull. Yeah. Okay, and episode six is okay. Yeah. It's not quite back to where it was. No, but I thought it was like- I mean, we were here. Now we're back here. You know, we're going here. I want it to be here. I know. If number seven isn't here, I'll get really mad. Yeah. I agree. Someone's got to die. You know, and basically this was the issue where, at the end of it, you see Cap facing Iron Man. They're starting to vacuum in the hallway. There's a bunch of Christmas shit in the hallway. They're finally vacuuming. Go hit them, Scott. Scott, go hit them. Attack with the keytar. There we go. So, I mean, I was really enjoying the series. I still am. I think it's good. I mean, it's definitely- I've never been huge on like, you know, the mini series and big events. I really was. I never really was. But, I mean, and I'm definitely not like, you know, a DC guy. So, it really wasn't into- I loved the first four issues. And then the last two I'm just not as into. Number seven needs to wrap it up. Wrap it up good. And it ends in eight, right? Ends in seven. It ends in seven. Okay. You know? Okay, that's a letdown. I thought we had more coming. I'm kind of okay with the fact that we don't have more coming. I want to see this and I want to move on. You know what I mean? Now, like, you're doing Planet Hulk next summer, which is a much shorter storyline, where the Hulk comes back to Earth and he's pissed that they sent him off. Yeah, that's going to be cool. They tried to get rid of him and now he comes back. You know, I'm excited to see the Hulk kick ass again. You know, because they're trying to make him smart. They tried to make him noir. They tried to make him edgy. They tried to make him gritty. It's like, dude, just have the Hulk swinging motherfuckers around and hitting people. Yeah. That's where we want to see the Hulk. Speaking of comics, some kids were talking about the alien versus predator versus Superman versus Batman like crossover. Yeah, and I see you, you bought that. I went out and bought it because I was like, "Dude, I have to review this thing for the show." I just want to say in my audience, who asked me to review this for the show, screw you assholes. Well, you kind of had to know it was going to be bad. Yeah, I mean, all these are always bad. But the one redeeming thing about it is, are you reading Punisher Warzone for War Journal? I think it's good. Yeah, did you read the Space Coast miniseries? I did not read that either, no. The artwork in that is done by this dude. I'll read it off the cover. Ariel Olivetti, he's this Italian dude. His artwork's awesome. If it wasn't a steep cover price, if it was like a $2.99 comic, it'd be worth it. But his artwork's great. Dude, if you're not reading the Punisher War journal, you probably should. I was never used Punisher van. Punisher's the man. But who are you a fan of? I believe you. I'm more into, I mean, Stanschachtsman's superhero book. It's great. Pretty much. And then I'm more into the alternative stuff. Preacher's my favorite book of all time. I'm loving the boys. I think that's great. It just started picking up with issue six. Yeah, but I still like, I just started getting scared. Right. You know, I think it's a great book, and then like invincible, walking dad. If you like Garthon is his writing, why don't you read the max Punisher book? I don't know, I just never really dug the Punisher. He's good. Okay. He's everything you wanted to do when some dude dicks you over in traffic. Okay. That's how I describe the Punisher. Every time you get dicked over in traffic, you want to do that? Yeah. The Punisher does it. But he does it to criminals. Cleanse the streets. You know? Yeah, that's basically where Scott Culver is going to be in like a year. He's going to be the person who like, definitely pulls a woman out of her car for cutting them off. Put your teeth on the curb, bitch. Sit back down. Now, because we're going into video games. Oh, here we go. Oh, now you're in the switcher room. Who's the guy on the left now, audience? So video games just got really gay. It's about to take the next level. Do you plan the ice planet? You mean the last planet? Yeah, I'm playing everything. Extreme conditions. What do you think of it? I thoroughly enjoy it. I tried that. I downloaded the demo. I played online. Couldn't get into it. Probably because I downloaded the demo and tried playing online. What's the narrative game? What's the difference? Well, it's pretty much the same. If you couldn't get in the demo, I don't know if you can get into this. It's definitely a slower pace, but it's very arcadey feeling. It's definitely not Gears of War. You're not going to have the same experience with Gears of War that you're going to have lost planet. But it's still fun. It's not that hard in London unless you play it on hard. What are you doing in the game? You can kill stuff. Like, you know, there's these kind of like flying dolphin things. I'm shooting those things right now. The one thing about-- The Maxicool. The one thing about playing online. And I started experiencing this when I plugged Gears of War in. And when I first started dabbling with Halo online and stuff like that. When you're the new guy, there's always the two motherfuckers who think it's funny to let everyone else know that they are the alpha dog, like the movie we just saw. And they always have hit accents. There's always those two dudes, because I sat on the lost planet and played it all online for a bit. There's always those two dudes who are like speaking in hic accents. Shooting at people. Well, Gears in winning. And that's not just from Gears or Lost Planets. It's any online to any Xbox Live. You sign on. I guarantee you there will be two hicks in your game who are the best players in the biggest assholes. I haven't really messed around with Lost Planets multiplayer yet, but did you notice if there was a way to set up your own games with your friends? And no hicks allowed? Yeah. Those games? Yeah, we can do that probably. You know, we could probably do that. The games that the audience, like my audience pressures me to do things. You guys are the worst influences on me. But I do love you. I went to Burger King. And then they got the three games. Did you get those three games? I did get them. Yeah. What is the good stuff? Because I started playing around with the bump king. Yeah, I played that one. And then you know what, these three games, you can get a Burger King for like 499? I sure am Juice Guy. You brought them home and put them on the counter there. And I never touched them. Yeah, I played one and then I didn't open the other ones. Because I thought it'd be like, "Hey, I'll bring these into work for our Christmas party. I'm gonna laugh." And I just didn't. You didn't like bump king? No. You know what? I heard it online. It's badass. Really? I tried playing bump king online and I wasn't that into it. But then the dude with the accent made me mad. And I was like, you know what? Fuck this guy. Okay. I may not be as good as he is at shooting people in Halo 2. Maybe I'm not as good as that dude in Gears of War. And he totally fucked me up and lost planet. But I'm not letting this dude step on me in Burger King's bump king. And I will see him die before I leave this room. So we're playing this game, you know, where you play bumper cars. Yeah. And when you bump into somebody, you like pass the hot potato to them. And their meter starts going down. If the meter gets to the bottom, they explode and they're inactive. And you have to be the last out of the four to not get bumped. And I was the last of the four. I was like, "There's no way I'm getting off Xbox Live." Okay. I didn't play that one. I didn't play that one. I played the BMX one. He's like, "Well, don't tap the ball." 'Cause that's what they say when you're a fish and you're the new guy. Don't tap the glass. They were talking shit and talking. Don't tap the glass. I'm like, "Dude, how much moonshine are you high on?" You're talking trash in Burger King's bump king. I hate you. I hate everything you stand for. I don't think I could get that into bump king. No, dude. I got into it because I was, I mean, I was like, you know what? This isn't about me. You didn't want to be put down like that. This isn't about me. This isn't about Xbox Live. This isn't even about bump king. This is about America. This is about me taking some back from me and changing things for the better of tomorrow. I'm not going to let this dude with a weird fake ass accent rip me up and bump king. It's not going to happen. Yeah. You know, I don't care. Sounds like fucking Dwight Yokem. I'm going to take him down. Like that's the end of it. That is the end. Keep in mind all you country artists. I'm open doing videos for you. Feel free. You did a couple country videos, didn't you? Oh yes, I did. You like, I like your videos. They're good. It was pretty fun going on tour with like, you know, like 45 year old dudes out in Texas on their tour bus. And like, this guy had a, had a son my age. And he was like getting so drunk off Budweiser after the show. Like you did the dad. He's like, it's old dude. He's like, let's play some, let's go do some plucking. Let's drink some beer on the, he was like punching car doors and stuff in the parking lot. And I was like, wow, like, you know, all the little bands that I hang out with normally like, don't do this. This is pretty, these guys get down. These guys party, you know, I was impressed. You party. My party wants to know. Well, yeah, I don't party. Well, I mean, a party for me includes, you know, some Gears of War and a six pack. That's a party for all of them too, you know. Yeah. What are you pointing at? The camera. No, that's a party. And VJ is not the party. VJ is not their party. Scott thinks that we're just hanging out now. That doesn't exist. He's like, you been taping me? I didn't mean what I said about Ryan Key. I don't want to get beat up by that guy with his glasses. His power glasses. So we'll be able to see me in the dark. I'll just wear sunglasses also. He'll just see a reflection of himself. And he'll be like, damn, you're sexy. You know, like, damn. I thought I came here to fight or something, but all I'm seeing is myself. That'll be the end of that. All right, cool. That was your first video, right? Yeah, no. And honestly, they were all cool guys. Like, I'm just busting balls. But it was just funny that CM get up on stage for another band's act and start trying to sing. And then get kicked off, you know? But no, they were cool guys. They were very cool guys. But my first video was in New York. I did one for Bayside. The only way you could see it was like an enhanced portion of a split CD that they did with-- And that was your first video, right? My first video, you know. The video I was most freaked out about was the New Amsterdam's video. Because I was such a big Get Up Kids fan, New Amsterdam's fan, like Matt Pryor. And the Get Up Kids is broken up, and I was just nervous, you know what I mean? And we were shooting in Austin, so I felt a little more comfortable being home and shooting. But everything I hear is like, you know, that Matt has to do things his way, or this, or that, or Matt's-- What I heard was Matt has never been happy with the video that they've done, except the animated one, that he wasn't in. Matt doesn't like being in videos, or Matt doesn't like doing videos. Matt wants to do a video in Kansas City. Matt, you know, they just weren't that into the video, and I was like, "Oh man, this is going to be really hard." And so I was like, "Well, what if the video is just us chilling in canoes?" You know, like, having the band just in canoes. And I remember we started shooting the actors first, because the bands usually show up a little later. And like, when the band started showing up, I was in a boat, and I saw on shore that they had shown up, and I was like, "Okay, like, here comes the-- Here comes the hard work, you know, trying to convince them." And everything was totally fine. You know, they got in, and there was-- And I rarely geek out. You know, I rarely have those moments where I'm just like, "Whoa." And it probably shouldn't have happened in a canoe. But I'm in this canoe. And it's me, and my PA guy, and a DP, my DP Scott, my DP Todd, and Matt Pryor just playing an acoustic, and it's just the three of us. And we built this little pontoon out of two canoes, and he's doing the song. Double or triple speed, because we taught the video for slow motion, and so he's singing it really fast. There he is, and he's doing the song really fast. So we're going to slow it down later. And he's playing the guitar, and I looked up and I was like, "Dude, this is surreal." And then afterwards, I was like, "So, was it that bad?" And he goes, "Dude, this is the most fun I've had." You know? And in editing, he had a couple of notes, and mainly, you know, just kind of hit less of him out, or more of him out, which is, you know, modest, and cool, but I was really nervous about that. You're geeked out like that shooting a band? I'm interviewing you now. Yeah. Like, geeked out and just been like, "Dude, this moment is awesome." Like, "Well, I can't believe." I don't know. I think you have to kind of have a little bit of a geek out moment every time you do it. Otherwise, you're not going to want to do it again. You know? Like, I think, yeah, there's definitely been times where I think I geek out more for bands than anything else. You know, like, when I see a band that I love, or I, you know, I'm like, "Whoa, dude, you know?" Or then all of a sudden, I'm like, "Dude, I'm a groupie," all of a sudden, you know? Like, I love this guy's music, or I love their band or that album, or whatever. So, I think if you don't geek out a little bit, and whatever you're passionate about, or trying to be passionate about, you're not going to go anywhere with it. Are you starting to feel alive again? Let's hear how the light came back to his eyes, guys. This is all part of me bringing Scott back to humanity. Don't try not to cheer me up. It's too late. I got a little bit like that, too, with a real big fish, just because, like, I remember fresh from here in college, being on their tour van and being like, wanting to hang out, you know, and Scott from a real big fish, showed me a tattered, daredevil one with Kevin Smith, written one, and he was like, "Dude, check it out. I got it." And I was like, "Oh, I fucking hate you. Where's the bag and board? You son of a bitch! What have you done?" In Scott, yeah, I know you're listening. You know, he was in a darker period of his life, an 18-year-old kid who just had a number one hit or something, probably not the best thing substance abuse-wise, but so I don't blame you for your mistreatment of daredevil number one, but years later, we talked about that when I shot the video, and I geeked out a little bit of them, because they were one of my favorite bands, and they were in basketball, so I had to learn about basketball. Absolutely. It's a huge, huge moment in my life going to see basketball. There was one moment that I geeked out, and I was just shooting some B-roll for the video, and I don't think the video ever even aired. I think they were just totally shelved the video, but it was MXPX. I remember. Yeah, they came out with another video for it, and you were like, "Dude, no, no." And it sucked, and you were like, "Dude, that's not what I shot. That's not what I shot." I was telling everyone, "Yo, check out the new MXPX video." And then I looked at it, and I was like, "What? Whoa, people out in a desert? It looked like they panicked, and threw together a new video real quick. Yours is probably good. I don't know. I think the problem-- Well, yeah. I know what the problem was, but I'm not going to-- But it doesn't rhyme with "Ot over." No, I think there just wasn't enough fans that showed up for the video. It was supposed to look like this big, awesome performance section for the video, and I think that somehow the communication with fans or something didn't broke down. So they were like, "All right, well, let's do a different one." Because they do have fans. Yeah, totally have fans. Kids showed up with MXPX tattoos all. I mean, yeah, they definitely had fans. But sometimes it happens. It's a whole communication game right before a video, trying to get everybody coordinated. Especially for free, getting people to show up for free. And then the label's like, "Dude, why aren't there enough people there?" You're like, "Well, the budget's only so much, and were we not supposed to feed these people?" You know, whatever. But I remember you telling me that that was not what you shot. Because I would have been mad had you shot that. Because I like your stuff. I like your video. And I'd have been like, "Ooh, my hero has died." That's the end. You know, we feed off each other like that. Kind of like vultures. Sounds like it. I was going to get in on it, though. No video shooting anything? Oh, no, I do more shorts and that kind of stuff. It's a lot of writing. A lot of writing. Yeah. I'm more into, you know, the feature stuff. Top filmmakers? Um, just to finish up the geek experience with the end of the episode. Top filmmakers. I'd have to go with, I don't know. I'm trying to, I don't know who, I don't want to put anyone on the spot. That's fine. I like too many people for different reasons. It's okay. I love Adam McKay. Adam McKay is great. He's one of my favorites. I mean, he's still kind of new to the game, but... I got to forward you back and forth between Adam McKay. No, it's not Adam McKay. Is the dude who directed for your version? Um, yes. Yes. What's his name? Figured he did freaks and geeks and all that stuff. And knocked up. Knocked up's coming out. Yeah. With Catherine Hagel, one of my favorites. That was great. And Seth Rogen. And I got to, I got to email you this thing. It's an email back and forth between him. Not Adam McKay, but the dude who directed helped me out audience. I'll flash it to the bottom of the screen. And the creator of '70s show. And they're yelling at back and forth because like they're arguing with each other over who ripped who off on a skit for the Ben Stiller show. And I mean, the dude who created '70s show has held on to this for over 10 years. It's like, "Screw you, dude. You take me over." And he's like, "Dude, what?" And it's a great back and forth. It's a great thing because Scott and I rip each other off all the time. But we don't hold animosity. I basically just go after Jonathan London material and try to somehow brand it in my own. I'm just all London. I'd send it to you. I'm more a fan of TV people than I am of film people in general. I mean, I enjoy all the big ones where Kevin Smith, of course, he's great and all that. But I'm a huge fan of the state. All the people that came from the state and what they're doing now. Awesome. You know, upright citizens brigade. 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Get the masters. Get the masters. Get the master blasters involved. What's the matter? My rendition, not good enough for you people. John Appetoe. John Appetoe wasn't. John Appetoe, that's right. Sorry Scott, yours was only 80% what we were going for. Exactly. Listen, if you got it, it's got Culver doing your video. You should be happy because he's going to be big. All right, let's wrap it up. You can check out some of your guys stuff at G. Well, that's the company we both work for. G. We're at work in people's here stuff. G-net.tv. My stuff. I guess you could just search my name. Okay. Full name? Noah. I can. Noah. You can just spell it across the screen if you want. Let's do it. Scott Culver. Scott Culver.com. That's a bunch of old stuff that's been up there for about a year without updating. You can check us out at geekscape.net, set up for a profile. Start talking on the bulletin boards, submitting news, all that stuff. There's tons of updates. 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