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Geekscape 3: The Gypsy Wish

The Hottest Co-Host You'll See In A While - Reviews: Night at the Museum and Blood Diamond, Kevin Smith is in Die Hard 4? How to lose weight playing Dance Dance Revolution. Emma Frost: lameor cool character? Astonishing X-Men #19. We review the new Superman Returns game and Viva Pinata. Oh, and you get to see Brian Gilmore and a special appearance from the man known as Leeahd! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Broadcast on:: 09 Jan 2007
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Welcome to GeekScape episode three. Welcome. Thank you. My guess this week is the popular forum member and creep all around, Brian Gilmore. Welcome. Hi, guys. How's it going? So, Brian, for those of us who are joining GeekScape for the first time, it's the podcast about movies, video games, and comics for the next 45 minutes, to an hour, we're going to bring you the latest news and reviews. So why don't you tell people about yourself? Well, first of all, I'd like to say hi to all you guys that are out there. How you doing? It's nice to see you. My name is Brian Gilmore. Jesus Christ, listen to this guy. What do we need to do with the third episode already? I'm pulling four members onto the show. Well, there was that one wish that I got from rescuing that gypsy for the evil wizard sale, but I'm not going to waste it here. Am I? I don't know much more of this crap I can take. All right, screw it. I wish Brian Gilmore was a really hot babe. And we just need to conserve as much oil as being Jonathan. All right. Are you paying attention? Who are you? This is awesome. Who are you? I'm actors. I'm the guest for the show today. Well, I guess you will. Thank you. You're welcome. I've never met you before. And I guess you are the actress. I'm definitely not the actor, but welcome to Geekscape. What a pleasant surprise. Thank you for joining us on episode three. Let's start for the top. For those of you guys joining us for the first time, this is the video games, movies and comic book podcasts for the next 45 minutes to an hour. We're going to bring you the latest news and reviews. And I guess I'm joined by actress. How would people know you and tell us your geek credit? How why should people listen to your geek opinion? Well, I am a 100% full on pure bread geek. Look at it. I mean, looks me nothing. Right. Where do you know me from? Right. I've been in the video game industry for about five years. I started as marketing coordinator with Mythic Entertainment. They do a game called "Dark Age of Camelot." OK. I haven't played it, but you should. You should check it out. Is Sonic the Hedgehog in it? Not last time I checked. But then again, you know, I've been there for a couple years. That's why I probably haven't played it. Most recently, though, I am the event director for Video Games Live, which is a touring video game music concert. I heard that's excellent. It is. It's fantastic. And I'm not just saying that either. And they have it at the Hollywood Bowl. And they have it at the Hollywood Bowl and they have it all across the country. That's pretty cool, actually. I would love to go to something like that. That'd be fun. Videogameslive.com for a trailer. And I'm also the creator of the Girl Gaming Network, which is coming out at the end of January. So where can somebody... Oh, the end of January. End of January. We'll definitely keep you guys up to date on that. And how about now? How might some of our listeners have seen you? MySpace.com, probably. I've got a lot of friends. Are you running for any titles? Oh, that's what you're getting at. I am, actually. I'm running for the Miss Video Game Pageant. And now what is this? Which is where you found me. Yeah, well... Gee, I wonder why he was looking at the Miss Video Game. All right, let's be honest. One of the GeekScape listeners is running for Miss Video Game. And I was clicking around on the site. And I'm an adolescent Lee Mature male. And, of course, I'm going to click on the girl's pictures. And I found you. Oh. And said, "Hey, she would be a fantastic host with great personality and could bring a lot to the show." And all of this he found by clicking on my picture. That's right. And so I had to look you up. But, in all honesty, I just thought about you and made my gypsy wish. I had left. And that was it. And here you are. Cool. So this is the show. We're going to talk about movies. I went and saw two movies over the break with my parents. I saw Ben Stiller. He's in this movie, Nat at the Museum. Mm-hmm. Heard of it. Yeah. What do you think of this movie? I haven't actually seen the movie. I've seen the trailers. The trailers are fantastic. I'm not necessarily a fan of all of the actors who are in the movies. Right. Like who? Ben Stiller. I'm not always a fan of. Right. He was great in Zoolander. Uh. Zoolander's awesome. It's a great movie. It's awesome. I love Zoolander. You know. Blue Steel. Yeah. Yeah. I loved him in that movie, but not everything he's done. Right. I'm a fan of. I think Robin Williams, I'm always a fan of. However, sometimes he's getting a little overused, I guess you could say. Right. He's been out there a lot. And same with Owen Wilson. Owen Wilson. Oh, man. Well, this movie, I'll just give it to you guys quick. It's basically Ben Stiller plays a down and out dad who's about to lose his son because he doesn't have a job. And he's going to have to relocate again. So his last ditch attempt is to get a job as the overnight guy at a museum. And at night, a mommy's curse allows everybody in the museum to turn to life. So, antics ensue and he has to make things right again. Of course, it leads to him bonding with his son and meeting Carly Guccino. She plays the desk person. She's a girl from Swipe Kids. Okay. I'm in love with her. I thought you were in love with me. No comment. I'm not going to implicate myself on this show. And so, yeah. The movie starts out and it doesn't stop starting out. For about the first two thirds of this film, we have a lot of setup. Like, you have to basically meet every thing in the museum. Every, you know, the Eskimos or the cavemen. You meet the Cowboys, Owen Wilson's one of them. And Owen Wilson's in need of like a really new role. You know, and he throws out the zingers and he throws out the made up words. And they're just not hitting anymore. He was awesome in wedding crashers. But he had that movie over the summer. You mean Dupree? That just didn't work. And then this one. He's kind of landing flat. And Ben Stiller is kind of doing the same thing. So, for the first two thirds of this movie, there's a lot of setup. And it doesn't really start getting going until literally the last third of the movie. When some of them get out of the museum and they have to get back in by the time the sun rises where they turn to dust and Ben Stiller will lose his job. I feel like I've heard this plot before. And you have. You have. Didn't Big Bird do the same thing like a couple years ago? In what? There was a movie where Big Bird and Snuffy were in a museum and everything came to life. No, no, you know what it was. What? Big Bird in Egypt. And the little Egyptian kid came to life and he had to try and get the Egyptian kid up to heaven where all of his ancestors were. Did you not see this? You know what guys when you're just clicking on attractive girls on the internet, you can't figure out that they're crazy. Come on, you guys have to post. And let them know that this is this. Is this true? Or is she just chasing the dragon? He really does exist. The one. And the little kid has to climb all the stairs. Really? Yes. We're going to look this up. You guys posted on the forums at geekscape.net. The one thing that this movie, when it starts going, there are a couple of things that I liked about it just in a family film sort of way. So if your little kids are going to like this movie, it just feels a little hackneyed at this point though. Have you ever been to the Museum of Natural History in New York? Yeah, when I lived in New York, I loved it. Did this bring you back? It did until you walk inside and it's completely different. You know, there's not a giant Tyrannosaurus rex in the entryway. Not in the entryway. Well, in one of the entryways, isn't it? In the entryway, there's a Tyrannosaurus and a Velocirator. It's been a while. Oh no, trust me. Graham's making fun of me now, but I love the Natural History Museum where they shot the banquet scene for Spider-Man 2 in that Rotunda. Remember where he finds out that she's getting married to, where Peter Parker sees that she's getting married to? Have you seen that? Yeah. Oh man. I'm not a fan of the movies. Oh really? Okay, we will get to that, but it was filmed in the Natural History Museum as well. The other movie that I saw was The Blood Diamond. Okay. Leonardo Di-- Leonardo Caprio and Digimon Honsu, who was excellent in Aragon. And what's her name? Jennifer Connolly. Oh, I love her. You know what? Labyrinth for the win. She's always labyrinth for me. She's everything. The movie, she starts-- I started seeing what everybody else was saying that they were seeing in this movie. You know what I mean? What was everybody saying? You know, when they did a beautiful mind and she got the Oscar, I think, everybody was talking about how much they loved Jennifer Connolly and I just wasn't feeling it. I started feeling that in this movie. Gotcha. It's Edward Zwick, the guy who did Last Samurai and he did Glory. And this movie is about-- it starts out with Digimon Honsu is his son's-- he's kidnapped and he's forced to work in a slave mine for a bunch of rebels. And he finds this blood diamond. And under gunpoint, he hides it. And what is a blood diamond? Blood diamond is a giant, badass diamond that's kind of pink. And it's supposedly really valuable. Me, on my wages with my salary and-- which is nonexistent. And my wallet-- I'm never going to see one of the damn things. And most people never see one. I want a pink diamond. So he hides it. Of course, he hides it as soon as the rebels are discovered. A bunch of explosions. He has to leave it there. But he then leaves it there and starts looking for his family. Leonardo Caprio's been-- he's a smuggler, a diamond smuggler for giant companies in London. Jennifer Connolly, she wants the story. So the three of them end up together trying to get back to this diamond. So that Digimon Hansu finds out his son's been recruited by the rebels, which is probably the saddest part of the movie. And they all three need this diamond for the story, for the money, and for the son. And I thought those movies almost top 10 material for 2006. A lot of people thought it was awesome. Leonardo Caprio got nominated, I guess, for the Golden Globe. I think Digimon Hansu did too. I think Leonardo Caprio's amazing. I think anything he touches is gold. So you're getting a plus. Brian Gilmore is a-- He's creepy over there. He's giving me a plus, but at least I'm getting a plus. He's creepy. But Leaud, I mean, Leaud is clapping. Yeah, well, you are him. So don't ever turn back into Brian Gilmore. Okay, I promise. You know, a lot of people are starting to wake up to Leo based on the department. And I think blood diamond and four people start seeing it. But the actor in this movie, the person who really does a badass job is Digimon Hansu. Like, there's a scene with his son. There are a couple scenes with his son that are heart-wrenching. And I was like, "Well, the fuck are you going to cry? You're going to cry at the blood diamond. You're going to be in a Leonardo Caprio movie, and you're going to cry. And people are going to see you doing this. I think guys who cry at movies are really sexy, though. I think it's opening yourself up and being very sentimental. So anyway, let me finish. By the end of the movie, I'm bawling. And I was like, "Oh, my God." Just, no, everybody around me needed canoes to get out of there. I was just flooding the place with tears. It was bad. The movie's awesome. If you get a chance to see it, definitely see it. And I would say that this is... I actually like this movie more than, like, Last Samurai, which I liked a lot. And Glory. You know, mainly for the Digimon Hansu stuff. What else is he done? Eddwick or Digimon Hansu? Eddwick. Eddwick did Glory in Last Samurai. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you see Last Samurai in the conference? No, I meant... I can't pronounce his name. Where he tries to act Japanese. Yes, I saw that. Digimon Hansu was in Gladiator. He's a black dude in Gladiator. Okay. That's a movie with guys and thongs. Oh, no, I know. No, I know. I know. Crying that movie, too. No, he's just fishing. No, I'm just fishing. And to thank you, Brian Gilmore. Game wish. Eddwick, what were you saying? What did you see? I mean, a lot of movies came out over the holiday. What did you see? What are some of the movies that make Egg Tres be like? That's on my top list. Oh, I saw nothing that was on my top list. I'll tell you that much. But what did I see? I saw Rocky. How was it? You know, honestly, I was really hoping that Rocky would redeem himself. I'd give it probably a six out of ten. There we go. See, I had the exact same reaction to Rocky. I reviewed it last week and the people I reviewed it with loved it. It's great if you're a Rocky fan because you want to see Rocky. You love Rocky if you're a huge Rocky fan. However, as a sports movie, I'm getting sick of sports movies in general. Only because you know the ending. Either they're going to win or they're not going to win and they're still going to be winners somehow. You know? The top sports movies. About time? Years. Yeah. Mighty Ducks 3. Are you serious? I love Mighty Ducks. But why the third one? Because usually by the third one you're on straight to video. No, I have a friend in that one. I'm biased, I guess. Wow. You know what though? I never saw the Mighty Ducks movies. Did you see the Mighty Ducks movies Graham? The Big Grain. Is it the same thing? They're all the same thing. Oh, I know one. Sidekicks. Chuck Norris. Actually, one of my favorites is a League of Their Own. Girl baseball players. And also 61. League of Their Own is basically the movie that remade Tom Hanks' career. And Rosie O'Donnell. Because remember, well, Tom Hanks is like, you know, double Oscar winner. But nobody remembers that he was doing like, the burbs and jokes versus the volcano before League of Their Own. You know? And even as a kid when I saw League of Their Own, I remember people talking about how much of the change this was for him to play this down and out bum. It was fantastic. I think the entire cast of that movie was absolutely phenomenal. Can you see the Madonna song? Remember the Madonna song? Yeah. This used to be-- This used to be my playground. This used to be the place. Yeah. Don't make fun of her. She's an actress and a video gamer. It's not necessarily a singer. No, I am. You want to hear my rendition? You want to hear my rendition? No. VJ, I'll start crying. Actually, it might-- And then I'll lose that dress forever. I think my favorite sports movie of all time though is 61. Is that the really crystal directed one? Yanks. Oh, are you a big Yankees fan? Huge. Then you're from New York. Where are you from? Originally, I'm from Maine, but I lived in New York for six years. Cool. Cool. Well, what were you doing in New York? Theater. Theater. I went to school there. And how did you get into video gaming? I've been video gaming since I was four years old. What? I've been, you know, really doing it since my very first system was Atari 2600. Now listen. My little joystick. Listen, that trez. Because you know how you're in a conversation with somebody and they're like, yeah, I went to Disneyland. Oh, I went to Disney World. Yeah. You know? It's like, oh, yeah, I've been playing that game since I was six. I've been playing since I was four. Is that what you're doing here? Yeah. Because we can spot a geek. I'm telling you right now. A geek is not about this. A geek is about this and this. So, you're four years old. That's first. The very first game that I own, that was actually a game that was mine, was Strawberry Shortcake Musical Mix 'em Up for the Atari 2600. And that was only because my mother started noticing bruises on my arm, when my brother would push me out of the way. So, I had, like, violence in my family and so my mother said, okay, fine, we're getting her her own game that her brother will not touch, and so she bought me Strawberry Shortcake. To play. Because you were trying to play your... I was trying to play Pac-Man. Graham says he was playing that at three. Well, you must be a year old and I mean that. Ohh. Ohh. Ohh. Um, speaking of video game challenges, I think Graham wants to challenge you to strip Halo. I'm sorry. I don't play Halo. Ohh. Ohh. Ohh. Swinging a mess. He'll still play by himself. Go for it. He's like, oh, that guy tagged me. Alright, that's my shirt. Isn't that what Xbox Live Cam is for? Oh. Now, do you do Xbox Live Cam? I do. I was actually playing last night. How can people find you? Like, what's your game attack? I'm on Xbox Live as Actress. Unfortunately, I was told last night that my friends list is full at a hundred. Can you imagine that Actress with a video camera is full? No, I don't. Who the hell wants to play against you? I don't play with a video camera. Only. Oh, no. No, but honestly, that just kind of brings me to the topic of why Xbox Live only has a hundred friends. That's it. Xbox Live, you have a hundred friends and then your friends list is full. People who are spending nights on Xbox Live, they don't expect them to have more than a hundred friends. But they do though. Because you're here. I get it. I just signed up. We'll get to video games. Movie news. Movie. You like action movies? No. Really? There are two testosterone filled for me. I need a little more estro in my life. Like what? It's spoken like a true Gilmore. Actually, the most recent movie I saw that I actually liked was Little Misension. It's awesome, isn't it? It's a great movie. It's heartwarming. It's adorable. Little fat girl who's ugly who competes beauty pageants, but she's beautiful inside. The beauty pageant thing, I don't get it, but you told me when we talked earlier the beauty pageant thing. Yes. Were you one of these beauty pageant kids? I have been since I was four. Your mom, the strawberry shortcakes misadventures lead you to this? No, actually. When I was four years old. They found bruises on you and they said, "No, my mom was told that I should try pageants by some of her friends." She put me in the main national Little Mis pageant, and I won. From then on, I dragged her to every pageant I could find. I was doing about five pageants a year until I was about thirteen, and then I got really fat. Wait, when you were thirteen, you went into the adolescent age and he started gaining weight. What was that also because of the strawberry shortcake? No, it was rose petal, actually. She just started throwing back the ho-hose. What happened? No, I honestly don't know. It was carbs. Did you have a breakdown? It was carbs. Did you have one of these freakouts where you're being pushed? Did you want to do the pageants? Or was that a mom? I did. She wasn't like, "I'm going to beat you." No, my mom. The bruises will not end. My mom actually used to tell me, she's like, "If you don't want to do it because we would watch friends of mine get reamed out if they did not win." Right. By their parents, they would take them off stage and go, "I cannot believe you." I was like, "I'm not going to feed you to the pool." You're not doing them. That wasn't me. I was like, "Mommy, mommy, please. Can I do it? Please, please." I would drag her to them. So, yeah. Then I got fat. You just stop. You're just like, "I'm not doing it anymore." Yeah. Or it just wasn't fun. It wasn't fun. It was fun, but I wanted to concentrate on my acting. I wanted to spend some time with that. And I was also an answer. It's one better way to do what Renee Zellweger does and just plump out. It wasn't my fault. It just kind of happened. Oh, okay. You weren't doing any methods. I want to get more indie roles at 13. Yeah. That's exactly what I was doing. I wanted to be a comic relief role, so... I want to be the best friend. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to be the lead. I just want to be the best one. So, what happened? How long were you overweight? I was overweight until I was about 21. So, for eight years. Yeah. Right. And what happened during those eight years? Well, I went to school. I was always a geek. And that's kind of part of the reason. I think I got fat because I would come home. I never had friends in high school or middle school or anything. I would come home and I'd go to my room and I'd play video games and eat, but to my family. It never felt like something wrong until I got into college. I went to musical theater, conservatory in New York, and I went to my very first audition. Oh, right. Amda. Oh. We hated you. No, no. With a passion. Okay. Yeah. Dude. I used to go, I used to go into, we, we shared the, we, we shared. I made this all up. Grammarly plays the skin flute. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But, well. So anyway, we were talking about me. Yeah. What happened? You just got like seven posts hating. It's okay. It's okay. Joining the club. Apparently I'm an attention whore. So, anyhow, as I was saying. That makes two of us. That's why you have a podcast. Yeah. Yeah. So I went to, I went on my first audition in New York and I was 180 pounds. Five foot five. Yo, I'm 180 pounds. Yeah, well. Right. It looks good. It makes sense. It makes sense. Okay. I went to my first audition for rent. Uh huh. Got a call back. Went back in and the lady looked at me and said. We ain't casting for the apartment. Yeah. He still has a joke. Oh no. I'm a little fast than Grammarly. She says, uh, well you're about 30 pounds too fat for the part. Go home, lose the weight and then call us in a month or two. Do that hurt when they say that? Very much so. And so like, like New Year's just happened. A lot of our fans on their New Year's resolutions want to lose weight. Mm hmm. I probably want to lose a couple. The dead weight being Gram. But, uh, I've already lost Gilmore. What, what, um, what, what, like, like you lost a ton of weight. Like what's some of the stuff you did? Uh, DDR. Like literally? Mm hmm. You became a Japanese kid for a year. Turn in Japanese. I think I'm turning Japanese. I really think so. Yeah. And you just played DDR like hardcore. Yeah. You know, they have, they have a workout mode on DDR. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. You can turn it on and put how, how much you weigh. What's your goal weight? Um, how many hours do you want to be working out? Wow. You know, pick the songs that you want. Your, your family's like, wow, I smell bacon coming out of a room and she's doing DDR hardcore. Yeah. There's like oil coming out from one of the door. You're just busting ass for a year. No, I think that's psycho. Okay. Um, yeah, but, and then diet. I was on the Atkins diet, which I would not recommend. Um, but it's just determination, like basically. It's determination. It's knowing what your faults are and just stopping it. Uh huh. I mean, I, I still, to this day, I work every day. In fact, my New Year's resolution was to lose weight. And my friend and I started, um, the, uh, sexy back boot camp. And we go every morning to the gym. That's funny. Yeah. I mean, it's determination. I have too many faults. If I quit, I'll just stop being a person. Um, but, but, but the reason I asked you about action movies way back in the day, our buddy Kevin Smith, uh, who was on a couple episodes of the old show, uh, is actually, I heard he's cameoing or has a role in the next diehard movie who lived free or diehard along with Justin Long already. So I'm thinking, okay, just make this, yeah, just make this movie a, you know, just make this movie a comedy already. Yeah. You know? That's harsh. Yeah. Kevin Smith. I mean, you know, I'll watch Kevin Smith. I think like it wasn't terrible. Did you say the hoochie? I don't know. I don't know. I just read online that Kevin Smith is in the next diehard movie. Oh, I mean, to both of you shot for five days. But does he talk? Sure. He shot Jay and silent Bob for a hell of a lot longer than five days. And he was silent, though. You got a point. You got a point. Um, speaking of other movies, uh, I read, uh, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg saying that Indiana Jones for a shooting in June in the books. Do they need to make this movie? Yeah, Chris. That scares me actually. It reminds me a little bit because I don't like sequels. People are all gung-ho for another Indiana Jones and I think in 1991, it would have been a great idea. I don't even think in 1990. But in 2006? What do we have? 2007? We're on 4. What do we need for? Why do we need that many movies? I don't think we do. Yeah. Like why can't we just think of, of India as, as he was? Well, you see it. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. I mean, that's really what this comes down to, you know. We'll make fun of it afterwards. There's no saying. We'll see. All right. You know what? You'll see it. You'll be thinking that it's just going to be a train wreck. It's like Rocky. Do we really need another Rocky? Yeah. We didn't. We didn't. But other people think that we did. Oh, we did. You love the, you don't like the Rocky movies? You did. It's okay. It's a sports movie. I'm not a sports movie fan. Yeah. Yeah. It happens. Have you seen Rollerball? Have you been watching, you know what this, remember, have you ever watched "Beating the Geek?" My girlfriend loves "Beating the Geek." I have so many issues with "Beating the Geek." What are the issues considering you're living it right now? But I'm not. Because those girls are not geeks. I mean, they're not supposed to be geeks. But those are probably not. Together these are supposed to be geeks. That's the problem. Because then it makes girls who are attractive, who are actually dorks. It makes people think that we're just doing it to try and, you know, be attention horrors and to, to get attention. So you, you're, I mean, it, yeah, it ruins your street cred. Yeah. So you can't walk down the street and be like, you know, one of the folks goes, I'm, I'm Actres, find me on Xbox, a hundred friends. People are like, you ain't nothing. People are like, you ain't nothing. Well, yeah, it's, I think it's bad and it segregates us and it makes people say, okay, well, she's attractive. So obviously she's in it for something else. It's not, you know. Can you find a flag to put behind us? No, she can keep talking. I think that's beautiful. No, it's like the cause, you know what I mean? Do you hear the people say that song? Yeah, I mean, um, no, but, but, but, but, I mean, here's the thing. No, I don't know. I mean, in reality, I can't watch that show or any of those girls ever going to really be with those guys. I mean, in reality. Oh, they help up with them at the end? Yeah. That's what it's not about. Oh, I didn't know that. It's supposed to be like the girls and the guys get together and it's like the geek and the hot, but shit. The geeks are never, some of the geeks are just, some of the geeks are done for, but some of the geeks, you can tell that they're just guys who they've geeked up a little, you know, or a lot, you know. Right. And it's just, it's stupid because it's all about looks. And that's not what it's about. Like I said, at the beginning of the show, it's about this and this and a little bit of this. This just happened to you. This just happened to you. It's just happened to you. It's a little bit of some other thing. But then, you know, it's what it is. And that happens. So, so speaking of looks, a character I don't understand as we segue into comic books, you're a big fan of Emma Frost. I saw some pictures of you online, dresses Emma Frost. You might have to put those up. No, go for it. They're amazing. So here is pictures of you as Emma Frost. I got to tell you, as a comic reader, an avid fan, I don't get that character. In the X-Men books, Emma Frost was a villain for the, you know, the Black Heart Society, the Black Heart Club. I'm such an idiot. And now, she's part of the X-Men. Like most of comic books, once they've kept a character going, as long as they run out of storyline. Right. What you need to do is you need to read the original 18 of the Emma Frost book. Now, the reason I got into Emma Frost is actually because of the covers. Right. Greg Horn is my favorite artist. He's amazing. He draws probably the best women in comics. I agree. And that's why I started reading Emma. Because he did all of the comics. You know, Frank Cho writes amazing, he draws amazing girls, too. There are a couple. I mean-- Yeah. He does Liberty Meadows. And, you know, if you guys read like the Sunday comics and stuff. Yeah. Of course. I mean, you got danger, girl. You got what you got, you know. You got to, you got, you got your babes in comics. Yeah. But Emma Frost is yours. Oh. Emma is just, in my opinion. I read her background story and where she comes from and why she's the way she is. And she started out completely normal until she started getting her powers. And she didn't know how to deal with it, just like everybody else. But she also came from a really screwed up family. And so it kind of, it created who she is as a person. It's amazing. I love the writing. I love the artwork. She's beautiful. Because my only experience with Emma Frost, in all honesty, was through the Son of Shanks when books that Joss Whedon's writing. And you told me earlier, you hadn't read them and my jaw just dropped because I'm starting to appreciate her character because Joss Whedon writes such awesome female characters. I stopped getting into the book so much in the last story arc, but I just read issue 19, which is a book I got to tell you guys about this week. Issue 19, if you guys were feeling a little bit rundown by the astonishing X-Men series, this is the one to pick you guys back up and get you guys back into it. Every page that you turn has something on the other end of it that's either a great line or a solid moment that it's just really cinematic. This is the most cinematic of the X-Books. It's probably the best X-Men book since Claremont and Byrne back in the '80s with like the dark Phoenix storyline and something like that, like what the X-Men was known for. This is the probably the best series and it kind of hit a bit of a lull in the last story arc, but this new one, if anybody was sick of it, issue 19 was the one to pick up. They're going to an alien planet, you got the X-Men until you've got Wolverine, you've got Beast, you've got Cyclops, Emma Frost has shut down Cyclops's power so he can actually see without the goggles. Kitty Pride is somebody I also wasn't that interested in until Whedon started writing her. She's amazing though. She's really kick-ass. If Colossus and this is really well done, you know, that they start to hit the rocks. I mean, can you hear us talking about these people? Like we know them? Relation. I mean, this is the geek deal right here. You know, you should go back to a big wait so we can have a Star Jones. Actually, you know, you know, you know you're a geek when you actually do dress up as your character and sometimes at night you think to yourself, wow, I can really read thoughts right now. You know what was the sign that we're a geek? Sam and I were playing on the Wii, we were playing a Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Graham loves playing as Iron Man because he kicks ass. Can I explain with his Wii? Yeah. He loves playing with my Wii. And here's the problem with Marvel Ultimate Alliance when we play multiplayer and Leauds in the house. He's got to play with us. Leauds in the house. Leauds in the house. Wait to everybody, Leaud. Come here. Come here. Wait to everybody. Remember Leaud? I don't like Leaud. You don't like Leaud? You know what he said to me earlier? He has beautiful billowing hair. It's gorgeous and he smells like flowers. Yeah. What do you say to you? He said he hated Emma Frost. For a couple words out of his mouth, I hate Emma Frost. She's over-exposed. Yeah, she's very over-exposed and that's why we love Emma Frost. So Graham and I are playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance, thank you Leaud. Thank you in your hair. And you smell lovely Leauds. You smell like flowers and I'll start telling Graham to do stuff in the game but I won't be saying, "Hey Graham, go get that guy." Graham, I'll be saying like Tony Logan, I'll start getting into character. It gets really sad. It gets really sad, like Mark Spector. Get over there. We watch movies so you can cry for me. Even like the D-level characters, I'm yelling out their names like they're my best friends and I'll be like, "Watch your back." It's pretty sad. And I'm not saying Mr. Fantastic, I'm saying watch your back read like I'm in the game, which is maybe a testament to the game, maybe a testament to the Wii, definitely a testament to how much of a loser I am. Love-a-look-geekness definitely I agree. That's how I get into the character. You may dress up as one, but mentally I become them. Like face off, I become them. Do you like that? It was deep. No. You like Mandam? No, I don't like this. Jesus. That's like Leot saying he doesn't like Emma Frost. He has this not his head. Yeah. He's kind of not right here. It should-- That's what makes him-- We're not bad at me. That's what makes him mutinability so he can do stretch. On the head, buddy. Watch him now. Oh, man. Dude, I could watch him. I could watch him pick his way out of a box. I'd love it. Oh. Keep your eyes. I love, I love Mandam. So we started talking about comic books. You're obviously a comic person. I just got my Xbox 360 today. It was purchased by the individual who helped me make Geekscape possible, my financier, Hector. He shipped me a nice box. I love you, Hector. I didn't make her say that, buddy. He's so hard right now. So yeah, me too. So I was playing the Xbox 360. For the first time, I got an Xbox Live. I did the Gears of War and all that stuff. That game's definitely been overexposed, but it is fun. Chainsawing somebody, for the first time, is awesome. Yes, it is. Especially when you're like me, and you don't know that you're doing it. I'm like, hell, the guy's rotting at me. Hector's like, just press a button. So I hit it. And I think my gun's broken because smoke's coming out of it, and then a chainsaw. There's a lot of everywhere. It hits the screen. And I was like, I think I got them. I mean, literally, the games that are immersive, to where I freak out when people are attacking me in the same way in real life, I would freak out if people were attacking me. And I would probably try and run away. Are you playing single player or-- Play co-op over the live. OK, but are you playing the story arc? Yeah, I went for it for 20 minutes, because I had this dumb show to do. You think that's scary? Play the single player. The story arc. You're going to get to this enemy called a berserker. Holy crap. It's got to be the-- no, no, no. I'm just saying, is the freakiest? Yes, you will want to run out of the room, drop your controller and scream. I seriously was watching this specific creature being, you know, killed or vice versa. And I was standing there, going-- As you're playing. As I'm watching. Oh, OK. And then I played. I jumped on. I'm like, I've got to play against this. The game's intense. I got on live, and I started downloading and playing around with that stuff. The Xbox Live Marketplace, I guess it's called. I love the Wii Marketplace, but the Xbox Live Marketplace. I downloaded the Superman demo, Superman Returns. Yo, that game. That game works. Worst game ever. Really bad. Yeah, it's like, OK, I'm eating your head city quick. Superman, help us. I thought it'd be funny, and you're supposed to-- the people who are injured as you're fighting the bad guys, you're supposed to take into an ambulance? Yeah. Thanks, dude. I'm sorry, my metropolis, those people are OK. You know what I mean? Like, they get up and they walk around. Because it's not fun. It takes forever to get anywhere. And let me just ask, what is up with his cape? What was your problem with the cape? The cape, just like, it was so one-dimensional, and it just kind of went like this. That wasn't your biggest problem with the game, though, right? No, my biggest problem with the game is the game. The gameplay sucked, but the cape, I'm seriously. Yeah, it was not fun. And just from the demo, it seems like the majority of the game is just robots. Or you're fighting just nameless memories. You stop a meteor in the game? I never had to do that in the demo. But is it fun? Did I ruin it for you? No, no. The meteors are falling from the sky, red ones and white ones. And you have to either do red eyes or a red mind thing to try the fire. Have you read comic books before? Yes, I'm just kidding. Look, they're all around us. Dude, it's been a long, long day. Heat's vision is the word you're looking for. Heat vision, no, but it's not vision, though. It was mental. He doesn't have psychic powers. Superman does not have psychic powers. It was mental, because it was ice vision, but heat was from his mind. Oh, got it, got it, got it. It was ice vision, though. You can kill me. You can kill me, but the game did suck. And the game sucked, that's what we both agree with. What do you play? Right now, Viva Pinata, which earlier when you said-- What did you say Viva Pinata was crossing? I thought since we were getting it. No, I love stuff like-- what's the one with the plants for the GameCube? What's the name of the one where you plant little things in the ground, and they prop up like little seeds? Harvest Moon? No, not Harvest Moon. You guys are going to get me for this one, Pikmin. Oh, yeah. Is it like Pikmin? No, it's not at all. It's more like Harvest Moon. What is Viva Pinata? You have to create a garden. And piñatas come to your garden. And they turn color when they become a resident. And they all colorful. And you have to mate piñatas together. And they do the romance dance to '70s porn music. And so you mate your piñatas. You grow. You have seeds, and you grow plants. And you sell produce, and you earn money. And its lame is all hell, but it's so addictive. I can't even tell you how addictive this game is. Really? Yeah. I mean, but it's not just a puzzle game. It's not a puzzle game at all. It's a sim. That's cool. It's a sim. It's a fun game. It's so mindless. You're like, just sitting there, mating your piñatas. And yeah. Can I believe that you just said that? Mating piñatas. I know. You sit there, mating your piñatas in the garden. And they do a romance dance to porn music. I'm so not even kidding. And it's fun. I'm enjoying it. Cool. Cool. So maybe I'll get that game. Because I just got it. I'm thinking-- Hexic. I got the-- I got the WWE game. My brother got me a free copy of that. Because he wrestles. I don't know if you know that. He wrestles and he's like the body scan. I don't know his name. I haven't said his name. But I got the free copy, and I'm going to play it. And I will let you guys know if it's good. I definitely want to get the zombie one. Dead rising. Dead rising. I want to get that. You don't like that? I didn't like it. It could scare you. No, not at all. I just think it was a horrible game playing. She was raised by zombie. Why'd you have to bring that out? You told your father? Why did you have to bring up the raising by zombies? It's a very, very sensitive subject. Zombies made you fat. Yo, we all had our phases. You should see my phase. If I can find this photo-- hey, Graham, did you bring that? You didn't bring it? We were back in Austin, and Graham brings out our yearbook from middle school. And literally, I had braces, mullet, big old-- Mullet. --big old-- no, it was a maxi mullet. Blah, blah, blah, blah. My mother made it. Made me have a maxi mullet. And I had cooked bottle glasses. But literally, my fourth grade photo, maybe fifth grade, was just like that, except I had my Nintendo championship shirt. And see, here's the thing. You were maybe overweight for eight years. I've been like this. It ain't going to get better. Beauty and the geek makeovers ain't going to fix it. It's here. Just like you said. Just like you said, right? It's here. I mean, if this is one thing that people take from this episode, it's that it's here, in here. It's me. You, anyway. I hear, like, it's here, in here. [LAUGHTER] Yeah, we're just bringing it. And he's going to go home and play with his week tonight. Graham's like, no, Graham's going over. And that's why it's here. Anyway, back to Xbox Live. You can defend yourself. You know that, right, Graham? Graham's just watching this train show. He's over here shaking his head in the corner like this. He's like, worst episode ever. Edit, edit, edit, delete. He's writing on the notes. You may want to cut that part with you in it. [LAUGHTER] Graham does. He writes down notes. It's not too early for a clip show. [LAUGHTER] Yeah. So people could find you online. Yes. What's the best way? Myspace.com/actress. How do you spell that? A-K-T-R-E-Z. Now, do you have to put the A-K in it, because for the street cred you were talking about earlier? No, I had to put the A-K in it, because when I had A-O-L 1.0 in 1993, somebody already took an A-K-T-R-E-Z-T-R-E-Z. That's part of the street cred right there. 1993. Yes, 1993 is when I first came out. Remember Prodigy? Yes. Yeah, that's what I used. I remember Prodigy had these, like, copy-- Yes, copy, sir. --grad to the copy serve. Totally. I mean, what happened to Prodigy and all that stuff? Tandy. We had a Tandy. A Tandy? Tandy, three-point, from 1.3 or something. That was your big deal. I had an Amiga. Yeah, I remember this. I'd have come under 64. Now, we're playing that game where I went to Disneyland and you went to Disney World. Well, are you, Matt? Do you want to see Myska? Did you have a 3D system? No, Tarly Links. We're really having a Tarly Links, and we're really doing this. We are. We are. We're going there. Well, I mean, that's really what our forums are for. That's what they're like. That's what people do. They throw down the geekscape, and that's really what it's for. Throw it down. And you've got your community, you're starting up. Yeah. Go get me network. Yeah, that's going to be awesome. Many more pictures of girls to look at for you guys. Me? And that's what it's all about. Let me tell you, that's exactly why I created the sign. No. You've created it for guys. So that's it. Geekscape.net. You guys can email. I mean, whatever you want to say-- We're over. --keep going. Oh, I can do this every week. I can do this every week. I think she just dumped me. Graham? Get over here. What? She's coming back. Sorry, on core. Get over here. Yeah, on core. Keep plugging. Myspace.com/actres. Yeah, that's it. Girls gave me network. Everything is there. Everything is on my mind, so it's-- Oh, yes, January 20th, missvideogame.com. The voting begins. The voting begins. And as for me, you guys can act. You guys can act trez, I was about to say that. You guys can add us at Myspace.com/Geekscape. Net, go to geekscape.net. You guys can submit news to me, Jonathan, at geekscape.net. And guys, we're starting to ramp it up. So I'm sure T-shirts are in our near future. And hopefully, a theme song or an intro. How awesome would that be if we actually had our own theme song? Like we did with the old show. That would be very cool. What would it go like? I don't know. You don't even know. Geekscape. Geekscape. No, no, no, no, no. That was a charm-kin song. That was a charm-kin song. Oh my god, where'd that come from? All right. Well, we'll see you guys next week. Did you enjoy it? I had fun. You had fun. We'll see you guys next week. We'll be in Vegas for CES. Maybe you'll come by and say hi. You're going to be at CES. Yeah, I'll be there. Cool. Well, feel free to come by and say hi to our audience. And this has been the geekscape. We'll see you guys next week. Thank you. So much to my guests, AgTres, and don't ever turn back to Gilmore. And of course, DJ's Universal Comics on Ventura in Studio City, California. This place rocks. Isn't it awesome? This place rocks. Seriously, I walked in the door, and I bought-- how many things? Three, four items. The minute I walked in the door, I'm like, oh, wait, wait, we can't start yet. I have to buy. That's right. And if you find that astonishing accident number one trade, you owe it to yourself to read it. Yes, I will check it out. It's amazing. Thanks, guys. We'll see you guys next week. Don't hate me. It's here. - I'm here. Peace.