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GAR! Podcast Episode 115: Man and Machine

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

return and intro / talking computers / Cortana / Windows 9 / Max on Netflix / messing with the artificial intelligences / really smart TVs / Blunt Talk / viewing privacy / Ashley Madison / hacked / tracked / dangerous research / VPN / the damage / Mr. T / A-Team 2010 / more Mr. T / Mr. T wrestling / Mr. T vs. Rocky / the Sylvester Stallone multiverse / Lock Up / The High Decibels / vacation / closing / Pocket Casts /

Links:

Glenn’s review of “Blunt Talk” and The High Decibels

The Adventures of Ray

The GAR! Podcast on Stitcher

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GAR! Podcast Episode 78: Ray Flips Out Over Fake Dr. Doom

*This is what Doom is eventually going to do to all stupid movie executives.*

GAR! on The Fantastic Four Conspiracy Theory

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

pre-intro excitement / intro / Doctor Doom / rogue programmer / accent / the studio’s approach / invisible action figures / containment suits / Hulk fists / Doom is so cool… / reality TV angle / will Ray see the movie? / John Byrne / the Inhumans / trusting the storytellers / Tom DeFalco / other artist possibilities on Fantastic Four / does love equal quality / Bill Sienkiewicz / will Glenn see this movie? / Punisher Oscar / film criticism criteria / Freddy Got Fingered / Moulin Rouge! / Doom is so cool, part 2 / Vince Vaughn Doom / closing / shout out to JP Fallavollita / M. Night /

Links:

*You had your chance, Fox. You had your chance.*

The Fantastic Four on IMDb

Glenn’s reviews of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” at Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s 2003 review of Freddy Got Fingered

Glenn’s 2004 review of Moulin Rouge

JP Fallavollita at Biff Bam Pop!

JP Fallavollita on Twitter

The GAR! Podcast Group on Facebook

The GAR! Podcast Page on Facebook

Oh yeah, an angry computer programmer is SOOOOO much more compelling. — *Oh yeah, an angry computer programmer is **SOOOOO** much more compelling.*

GAR! Podcast Episode 70: Stoner TV and Big Brother

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / writer math / Glenn’s old / the Wilderness Act / Adventure Time / Sid and Marty Krofft / Electra Woman and Dyna Girl / 1980s stoner TV / She-Ra / toys and morals / Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends / animated Fantastic Four / translating the FF / origins / new FF flick / Big Brother / brains vs. beauty / gameplay / Ariana Grande / naked pictures controversy / Silver Linings Playbook / Ray at the Ground Round / Nifty Fifty’s / Red Robin / customer service / phone scammers / OMAC / Forever Evil / Aaron Kuder / I Kill Giants / ADAM 12 / OMAC flushed down the toilet / closing / Biff Bam Pop! /

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Links:

Glenn’s Birthday Podcast

Rob Kelly

Back Issue! at TwoMorrows

Nifty Fifty’s at French Fry Diary

Red Robin Birthday Fries

Nomorobo

Aaron Kuder on Twitter

ADAM 12 by Gigio Longo and Nick Suders

Stitcher on Twitter

The Wednesday Run by JP Fallavollita

“The Strain” reviewed by Marie Gilbert

“Doctor Who” reviewed by Glenn

GAR! Podcast Episode 58: Product Placement and Prince

Kingpin Cast at Biff Bam Pop!

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / enthusiasm / Ray builds a TV stand on Twitter / Ray’s indestructible Sony / IKEA as Portal / tools / KISS cover bands / Joe Jackson(s) / WIFI 92 FM / Party Line / Ray’s first radio / Quadrophenia / Marni and the X-Men / Magneto and Professor X / Daredevil / Watchmen / Alan Moore / Kickstarters / Sin City / Maleficent / choosing movies with the spouse / Damien Sandow in the ‘raw’ / high definition / Grantland / The Music-to-Sex Ratio Chart / Prince and Purple Rain / Prince comics / how do you pronounce Sade? / Shiela E / Cool C / Burger King’s Extra Long BBQ Cheeseburger / Soundgarden /

Links:

Ray’s IKEA Adventure, on his Twitter, search under #IkeaNinja

IKEA

WIFI 92 FM Philadelphia

Resurrection Band

Superdickery

Glenn’s Daredevil review

Glenn’s Watchmen review

“Mathematicians in Love” by Rudy Rucker

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For trailer at Biff Bam Pop!

The Make Mine Magic Podcast: Maleficent Vs. Sleeping Beauty

Grantland

The ‘If I Play This R&B Singer’s Music, Will He Help Me Have Sex?’ Chart

“Annie Christian” by Prince

“Glamorous Life” by Cool C

Burger King’s Extra Long BBQ Cheeseburger

South Jersey Writers’ Group

Videos:

“Is She really Going Out with Him?” live by Joe Jackson

GAR! Podcast Episode 56: Action Park

The Make Mine Magic Podcast: The Lost Pilots

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

pre-show intro / Make Mine Magic pilots / Stone Cold Steve Austin / spicy language / straight edge Ray / Boys State / the heat / Ray’s brilliant idea of the week / the Olympics / Eurovision / the Olympics in NJ / Action Park / flume of doom / rides of death / Simpsons Tooth Chipper / Ski Mountain / the turnpike / Battle of the Network Stars / XFL / The Waltons / early Fox TV shows / Fridays / Saturday Night Live / bands live / ranking the Weekend Update anchors / poor Charlie Rocket / Norm MacDonald / Dennis Miller / comedy and politics / The Late Shift / the lost art of the talk show / The Tonight Show / podcasting / cleaning out the fridge / shout outs / closing /

Links:

The Steve Austin Show

American Legion Jersey Boys State

Deadspin

Nobody Wants to Host the 2022 Olympics

Glenn on the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest

Action Park

The Action Park Documentary

Action Park at Weird NJ

14 Story Log Flume

“Battle of the Network Stars”

“Mr. President” on Fox

“Herman’s Head” on Fox

“Woops!” on Fox

“Fridays”

GAR! talks SNL music

Ranking the Weekend Update Anchors

Norm MacDonald tells the funniest joke ever told

Spotswood Public Library Facebook Page

Videos:

“Stick Around” with Andy Kaufman

GAR! Podcast Episode 51: Camden Comic Con, part 3

Camden’s Comics on Facebook

Thanks to all our new listeners who have joined our audience lately! Don’t forget to say hi through Twitter or the show comments.

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

quick intro / Camden’s Comics / The Bolt / Camden / passion / encouragement / local landmarks / teaching with comics / changing ethnic mix / Robert Repici / Birds of Prey / Arrow / Smallville and the monomyth / why Arrow rocks / Mike Missanelli / listeners / comics and bootlegging / the ages of comics / grim and gritty / Marvel vs. DC / Bronze Age vs. Dark Age / what age are we in now? / Dan DiDio / the corporate age / comics-based videogames / the amalgamated age / Michael Pagdon / people skills / Target and pregnancy / beards / closing and thank-yous /

Very special thanks go out for this episode to Miranda Powell, Bill Haas, Donnie Treadwell, Jennifer Walker, Frank Kamina Castle, Ryan Brady, Hong Nguyen, Robert Repici, Michael Pagdon, Rutgers University, and the Camden Comic Con.

Links:

Camden’s Comics

The Make Mine Magic Podcast

Glenn’s reviews of “Birds of Prey”

Glenn’s “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” reviews at Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s “Arrow” reviews

The Myth of the American Superhero

Men of Tomorrow by Gerald Jones

Glenn’s review of Captain America The First Avenger

The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke

Glenn on Fear Itself at Biff Bam Pop!

Michael Pagdon’s website

Michael Pagdon’s blog

Michael Pagdon on Tumblr

Pagdon Illustration on Instagram

South Jersey Writers’ Group

Collingswood Book Festival

Camden Comic Con on Facebook

Camden Comic Con on Tumblr

Camden Comic Con on Twitter

GAR! Podcast Episode 50: Camden Comic Con, part 2

The Make Mine Magic Podcast

Wow- we made 50 episodes! Thanks to all our faithful listeners for listening all this time.

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

speak down / costume contest / momentary static and feedback / creative community / this show rocks / Knuckle Puck Time / Furious and Frank / Gigio Longo / Adam 12 / dark and light / G. boTiC Productions / Toscana and French fries / digital comics / Philip K. Dick / Guardian Devil and the Hero’s Journey / Holy Terror and Dark Knight / 300 / Captain America The Winter Soldier / the Falcon / Iron Man / does Cap kill? / Mark Poulton / A Cat Named Haiku / haiku and cats / teaching with comics / Koni Waves / demographics / wrestling / WWE Network / Pronto Comics / Phrases to Pages / always an open bar / the Pronto line / Dennis Knight’s Cross / the learning process / ProntoCast / what’s next / “One Star” Bar / Nap Boy and more coming soon / live strippers and spaceships / thank yous /

Very special thanks for this episode go out to Miranda Powell, Bill Haas, Donnie Treadwell, Jennifer Walker, Frank Kamina Castle, Gigio Longo, Mark Poulton, David Rondinelli, Dennis Knight, and Knuckle Puck Time.

Links:

Knuckle Puck Time

Toscana in Cherry Hill NJ

French Fry Diary

Glenn’s review of Captain America The Winter Soldier

Adam 12 on Amazon

Mark Poulton on Twitter

A Cat Named Haiku on Amazon

WWE Network

Mark Poulton on Facebook

Mark Poulton at Storenvy

Camden Comic Con on Facebook

Camden Comic Con on Tumblr

Camden Comic Con on Twitter

“Darlington County” by Bruce Springsteen

Videos:

Adam 12

GAR! Podcast Episode 43: Slave Princess Leia on American Idol

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MP3 link

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro and premise / Bruce Springsteen / American Idol / Harry Connick, Jr. / crazy auditions / Slave Princess Leia / back to Bruce / Born in the USA / cover songs / Prince cover songs / Battle Royale / Hulk Hogan / WWE Network / perils of pay-per-view / Comcast / Jake the Snake Roberts / Galveston / comics free / Furious and Vandroid / The Barkeep / Ultimate Cataclysm by Bendis / The Walking Dead / Camden Comic Con /

Links:

“Barbie Girl” by Aqua

Ben Harr on IMDb

Ben Harr on American Idol

“Born in the USA” by the Stanley Clarke Band

Glenn’s Favorite Cover Songs at Biff Bam Pop!

“Livin’ for the City” by The Dirtbombs

Robin Renee

“Alison” by Robin Renee

“Hotel California” by the Gipsy Kings

“Billie Jean” by Los Picadientes DeCaborca

WWE Network

El Rey Network

Bridgegate

Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

The Barkeep by William Lashner

Marie Gilbert reviews “The Walking Dead” at Biff Bam Pop!

Camden Comic Con on Facebook

Camden Comic Con on Tumblr

Camden Comic Con on Twitter

Glenn talks “True Detective” at Biff Bam Pop!

Videos:

“Badlands” by Bruce Springsteen, live in 1978

The 20 Worst “American Idol” auditions of all time

“Born in the USA” by Bruce Springsteen, 2000

GAR! Podcast Episode 42: Love Letters From My Wife

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

42 / Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Eoin Colfer / film adaptations / Philip K. Dick / True Detective / The King in Yellow / Derrick Ferguson / Jennifer Blood / Candy Crush / Read On… Romance / tattoos / League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / all writers are crazy / internet problems / libraries and the homeless / signing books / Love Letters to My Wife / Netflix / Safety Not Guaranteed / Dave Batista / Guardians of the Galaxy / Glenn’s Wonder Woman / “Rio” by Duran Duran /

Links:

Dillon and The Last Rail to Khusra by Derrick Ferguson

Read On… Romance by C.L. Quillen and Ilene N. Lefkowitz

C.L. Quillen’s Amazon page

Writer Circle

South Jersey Writers

Glenn’s blog post on Wireless Hospitality

Guardians of the Galaxy trailer