Media Clips for Episode 62 of Geek Actually
November 28, 2009
Once again here are the media clips played on the this weeks show. Not as many as last week.
Verizon Football Ad
Apple’s Ad
Stephenie Meyer on Oprah
Twilight Trailer
This is not embeddable but you can find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2T7d8j6I5I
New Moon Trailer
This is not embeddable but you can find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnyDdfVgqnQ
Geek Actually Episode 62 – There Was No Funny
November 28, 2009
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Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Dave Kozicki with Special Guests Mirren Lee, Katrina Smith and Sarah Kalpokas
The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction.
This week everyone is in town and we thought it would be fun to talk about the Twilight Saga with everyone at once. We threw the usual format out the window as we slowly melted in the very hot studio and just discussed the two movies on the worlds lips at the moment. You can imagine, with this many people in studio the show often breaks into complete bedlam. Fun stuff.
The Great Internet Tech War of 2009: Verizon continues it’s ad assault and AT&T gets backed up by Apple.
Entertainment News This Week: Roman Polanski may be on the move again as the Swiss courts consider bail.
We warned you this was coming! The rest of the show is dedicated to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga for better or worse. A word of warning, there is no spoiler free zone. We spoil from the first sentance out of our mouths.
I have put up a separate post that contains the various media clips we played during the show for out audio only listeners. You can view it here.
This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.
Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes
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Send feedback for this show to feedback@geekactually.com or leave us a voice mail message to play on the show at +61 02 8011 3167 or Skype a voicemail using Skype username: geekactually. Just a reminder, if you have any comments about the episodes please leave them in the comments field below or email us using the contact link above. If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review as we are trying to get on the featured list and every review helps. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show.
The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Saturday. As of next week we are changing the time. We will start at 12pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Sunday. Want to catch up with the video but missed the show on Saturday? Go to geekactually.com/live, the repeat runs all week.
‘Platforms’, the new gaming podcast is recorded live on Ustream on Monday night, 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). You can watch it at geekactually.com/platforms. The repeat will run all week at the same address. You can subscribe to the audio version on iTunes.
Platforms Episode 7 – Charging at Walls
November 24, 2009
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Josh Philpott, Dave Kozicki and Denny Markovic (game reviewer for Palgn.com.au) (with David McVay).
Platforms is a gamers podcast by gamers. The podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction so come and join the fun as your host candidly discuss the latest in the gaming world. The podcast is uncensored, explicit, honest and very non ‘PC’. We start this week with the trailer for ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′.
News This Week: ‘Bioshock 2′ Collector’s Edition announced, PS3 goes 3D, Footage from ‘Witcher 2′ leaked online, ‘Supreme Commander 2′ announced, confusing new ‘Spec Ops’ trailer, ‘No More Heroes’ not published by Ubisoft, a new surprise in store for ‘Mass Effect 2′ and SNES ‘Mario Kart’ coming to virtual console. Also, South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson leads a movement to get ‘Modern Warfare 2′ re-rated and possibly banned.
New Games Discussed: ‘Band Hero’, ‘Lego Indiana Jones 2 : The Adventure Continues’, ‘Left 4 Dead 2′ and ‘PlayTV’.
Reviews of the week: This week Josh, Dave and Denny review the new gaming phenomenon ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′. Denny Markovic also gets a chance to defend his review of ‘Modern Warfare 2′ on the PalGN.com.au site.
This episode carries an explicit tag due to frequent coarse language.
Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes.
Platforms is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your contributions. If you wish to make a contribution, go to the “Support Us” link above.
Send feedback for this show to platforms@geekactually.com or leave us a voice mail message to play on the show at +61 02 8011 3167 or Skype a voicemail using Skype username: geekactually. If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review as we are trying to get on the featured list and every review helps. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show. You can contact us here.
The Platforms Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Monday Evening 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Tuesday. If you missed the live show, you can watch the replay all week at http://geekactually.com/platforms.
EDIT (26/11/09): There was an error in this episode, it is corrected and the new copy is now online.Geek Actually Episode 61 – Call Me Kal-El
November 21, 2009
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Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Dave Kozicki
The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction.
This week summer has hit with a vengeance and the studio is about a million degrees. Even with our brains melting and our computers about to blow up, we push on. I’d like to again dedicate this week’s show to the fine group of guys over at The Reel Junkies Podcast which you can find on iTunes or at weekendronin.com and Charlie and Brad over at The Movie Fan House Podcast which you can find on iTunes or at moviefanhouse.com and Check out both of their film podcasts, I (David McVay) listen to both every week and they always entertain.
Game News This Week: Kevin McKidd would like to play Soap in the film version of Modern Warfare, Capcom’s Dark Void might get the film treatment with Brad Pitt and a kid calls 911 when his parents take away his Xbox.
The Great Internet Tech War of 2009: A judge rules in Verizon’s favour so AT&T tries to make an ad to fight back, cue Luke Wilson.
Tech News This Week: The Microsoft Solid Gold Dancers!!! Bing gains on Google and Unfriend named the word of the year.
Entertainment News This Week: New trailers for ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief’ and ‘The Expendables’, a ‘2012′ sequel planned as a TV series and Tim Burton’s concept art for the Superman movie that never happened.
Our Feature Reviews: This week we review Roland Emmerich’s new end of the world film ‘2012′. This film was pretty much hated by all but it does give us an opportunity to look at the career of Roland Emmerich.
I have put up a separate post that contains the various media clips we played during the show for out audio only listeners. You can view it here.
This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.
Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes
Geek Actually is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your contributions. If you wish to make a contribution, go to the “Support Us” link above.A Special Note: We are still trying to raise money to send us to Melbourne to visit the set of a new Sci-Fi film being shot there. Help us to add some great content to the show and donate today.
Just a reminder, if you have any comments about the episodes please leave them in the comments field below or email us using the contact link above. If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review as we are trying to get on the featured list and every review helps. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show. You can contact us here.
The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Saturday. As of next week we are changing the time. We will start at 12pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Sunday. Want to catch up with the video but missed the show on Saturday? Go to geekactually.com/live, the repeat runs all week.
‘Platforms’, the new gaming podcast is recorded live on Ustream on Monday night, 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). You can watch it at geekactually.com/platforms. The repeat will run all week at the same address. You can subscribe to the audio version on iTunes.
Episode 61 Media for the Audio Listeners
November 21, 2009
Okay, because there are a lot of you who just listen to the audio version of The Geek Actually Podcast, here are some of the media clips and photos that we played during the live recording.
The Conan O’Brien Clip on New Moon:
The Verizon Ad:
The AT&T Ad:
The Microsoft Employee’s Dancing:
Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief Trailer:
The Expendables Trailer (I think this will die soon):
The 2012 Trailer:
And here are the Tim Burton ‘Superman Lives’ concept art shots:
And finally, here is the money shot, Nicholas Cage as the Superman that never was:
Nicholas McVay is an Award Winning Director!
November 19, 2009
Nicholas ‘The Little Geek’ McVay had his film ‘The Chicken Wing Stand’ selected to represent his school in the ‘Making Movies 2009: Sydney Regional Film Festival’. The screening was last night at the Leichardt Palace Cinema here in Sydney.
It was a big night and all the selected films were screened on the big screen. Nicholas was awarded a certificate and a trophy for his film. It was all very exciting and we will play the film on this weeks episode of Geek Actually, however our audio listeners won’t be able to see what our live viewers see.
So I am proud to now present ‘The Chicken Wing Stand (Festival Version)’. Make sure you check out Nicholas’ YouTube channel to see his other films.
Nicholas’ YouTube channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/NickyMcVay
Verizon Advertisements from The Podcast
November 19, 2009
I was just listening to the latest episode of Geek Actually and realised that our audio only listeners might be a little baffled by the Verizon vs AT&T ads that we played and talked about. So, for you faithful audio podcast listeners here are the three Verizon ads that we have discussed in the order we discussed them.
Okay Verizon, what’s next? What is the knock out punch?
Platforms Episode 6 – Decapitation!
November 17, 2009
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Josh Philpott, Dave Kozicki and Grant Noy (with David McVay).
Platforms is a gamers podcast by gamers. The podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction so come and join the fun as your host candidly discuss the latest in the gaming world. The podcast is uncensored, explicit, honest and very non ‘PC’. We start this week with the trailer for ‘Brutal Legend’.
News This Week: More on the Xbox Bans, Microsoft releases an over priced N class wireless adaptor for the 360, ‘Modern Warfare 2′ breaks entertainment records, Facebook comes to the Ps3 and are you ready to join an AdHoc Party?
An amazing ingame video from Modern Warfare 2 was shown during the live show, if you didn’t see the live show you can find the video here: http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/14/check-out-this-lucky-knife-throw-in-modern-warfare-2/#more-67395
New Games Discussed: ‘Assassins Creed 2′, ‘Little Big Planet’ for PSP, ‘Band Hero’ and ‘Lego Indiana Jones 2 : The Adventure Continues’.
Reviews of the week: This week Josh and Dave review Tim Schafer’s ‘Brutal Legend’. Great visuals and some great moments but not a perfect game. Grant leads a review of the new Mario game ‘Super Mario Bros. Wii’. If you love Mario, you’ll have insane fun with this.
This episode carries an explicit tag due to frequent coarse language.
Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes.
Platforms is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your contributions. If you wish to make a contribution, go to the “Support Us” link above.
Just a reminder, if you have any comments about the episodes please leave them in the comments field below or email us using the contact link above (Make sure you use the word ‘Platforms’ in the subject line). If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review as we are trying to get on the featured list and every review helps. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show. You can contact us here.
The Platforms Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Monday Evening 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Tuesday. If you missed the live show, you can watch the replay all week at http://geekactually.com/platforms.
South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson Speaks
November 17, 2009
Kotaku has a very interesting letter online. South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson was sent a letter by one of their readers (Robert) earlier this year asking about the R18+ rating for games in Australia. He was recently sent a reply from Mr. Atkinson and Kotaku has it.
If you follow the link above you can read highlights from Mr. Atkinson’s letter, however I suggest you read the whole letter for full impact. You can download the scan of the letter here in PDF format.
Some of the juicier highlights include:
“What the present law does is keep the most extreme material off the shelves. It is true that this restricts adult liberty to a small degree, however, I am prepared to accept this infringement in the circumstances.”
I don’t know about you but I am not prepared to accept this infringement. Another highlight is:
“Classification of electronic games is very different from the classification of film. In cinemas, the age of movie-goers can be regulated… Rising game and console sales make it clear that this is a growing area that needs careful regulation, even more so than cinemas and private D.V.D. hire and purchase. Access to electronic games, once in the home, cannot be policed and therefore the games are easily accesible to children.”
Do you think anyone has told the OFLC this? Games carry the same classification system as movies and if you download the guidelines from the OFLC, games and movies are referred to side by side. His argument is flawed because what stops a child from watching the R18+ DVD once it is in the home? Once again I come back to the same argument that I always stand by, hold the parents accountable! Once it is in the home it is the parent’s responsibility to protect their children, not the government’s.
We will discuss this letter in the Geek Actually Podcast this week (ep 61 21st Nov 2009). I’d love to hear what you think about it, comment below.
Geek Actually Episode 60 – Leash and Muzzle
November 14, 2009
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Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Dave Kozicki are joined by special guest Natali Del Conte (co-host of Buzz Out Loud)
The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction.
This week we have a very special guest, Natali Del Conte. Natali is a journalist for CBS and CNet and co-host of The Buzz Out Loud Podcast. Unfortunately, due to the time difference, we had to record Natali earlier in the day and her segment was played back during the show. She offered some interesting insights into our Great Internet Tech War of 2009 theory. Just a note, we had a pretty shaky Skype connection so please be patient with the audio quality. I’d like to again dedicate this week’s show to the fine group of guys over at the Reel Junkies podcast which you can find on iTunes or at weekendronin.com. Check out their film podcast, I (David McVay) listen to it every week and they always entertain.
Game News This Week: ‘Modern Warfare 2′ breaks sales records, Project Natal gets a proposed release date and we have a little more info on the Xbox Live bannings.
The Great Internet Tech War of 2009: The Verizon Attack on AT&T continues and a Microsoft UK manager tells us what most people have always suspected – Windows 7 is based on the Mac OS!
Natali Del Conti’s segment is here. We talk tech, Aliens and Avatar.
Tech News This Week: Are we seeing the end of the optical disc? Will it all be downloadable content in the near future? We offer our thoughts on this.
Entertainment News This Week: We discuss the new trailers for the films ‘Clash of the Titans’ and ‘Kick-Ass’, ‘Avatar’s’ budget revealed, ‘Battleship’ gets aliens and Joss Whedon’s ‘Dollhouse’ gets cancelled.
Our Feature Reviews: We review the new CG film ‘9′, great design and weak story is the final verdict. David McVay reviews the new Zemeckis mo-cap CG film ‘A Christmas Carol’, not as bad as expected but still lacks heart.
Stay tuned after the end music as Nicholas ‘the little geek’ McVay joins David for his opinions on ‘A Christmas Carol’.
This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.
Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes
Geek Actually is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your contributions. If you wish to make a contribution, go to the “Support Us” link above. A Special Note: We are still trying to raise money to send us to Melbourne to visit the set of a new Sci-Fi film being shot there. Help us to add some great content to the show and donate today.
Just a reminder, if you have any comments about the episodes please leave them in the comments field below or email us using the contact link above. If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review as we are trying to get on the featured list and every review helps. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show. You can contact us here.
The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Saturday Morning 11am Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Sunday. Want to catch up with the video but missed the show on Saturday? Go to geekactually.com/live, the repeat runs all week.
‘Platforms’, the new gaming podcast is recorded live on Ustream on Monday night, 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). You can watch it at geekactually.com/platforms. The repeat will run all week at the same address. You can subscribe to the audio version on iTunes.
