Podcast Oct 30 2008 @ 01:33 am
The MovieZeal Podcast – Episode 8 – Video Games
Whether or not this episode is any fun to listen to, I don’t know, but we kinda think it’s our best episode yet. For better or worse, our ability to surf down pop culture rabbit trails is on full display here. What other podcast jumps from a discussion of zorks (not corks, zorks) to the Super Mario Bros. movie to the musical stylings of Roxette? It’s either amazing or….well, I’m just going to stick with amazing.
Some highlights:
- Mark Wahlberg talks to animals.
- We discuss who would have been a worse casting choice than Mila Kunis (hint: starts with a ‘P’ and rhymes with Farishilton).
- Heather waxes nostalgic on the moment she discovered that Samus was really a girl.
- We each offer up our deepest insights as to why video game adaptations consistently suck.
- Luke’s talent for pulling puns out of thin air continues to amaze.
- We discover that Super Mario Bros. has a surprisingly awesome soundtrack; and then proceed to take a trip down memory lane through it (early ’90s glam rock FTW!).
- Also, we sing some. This point is, arguably, not a highlight
SHOW NOTES
- Watch the marketing might of Nintendo circa 1989 in this scene from The Wizard.
- Somehow miss the “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals” skit on SNL? See what all the fuss is about.
- Need more cute in your life? Be sure to visit my wife’s uber-adorable website, Thimbly Things, where she crafts, bakes, and generally charms the socks off of anyone who gets too close.
- Visit Don Sebastiani & Sons for more information on Plungerhead wine and zorks.
- You can watch the entire Super Mario Bros. movie on YouTube in 10 parts. We don’t recommend it.
- You can also find all the songs that we discussed on YouTube (isn’t it great?): Queen’s “Tie Your Mother Down”; Megadeth’s “Breakpoint”; Joe Satriani’s “Speed of Light”; and Roxette’s “Joyride” and “Almost Unreal.”
on Oct 30 2008 @ 10:55 am 1. Kristena said …
Emily says, “I hear Heather!!! Luke? Where’d Heather go? I see Daddy? Luke? I see Podcast? Right there [as she points to the microphone]. Where’d Luke go? Luke go uh Podcast? I call Luke?”
Thanks for the Thimbly Things shout-out, guys! Yay for cute porn.
tee-hee
on Oct 30 2008 @ 6:00 pm 2. Collin said …
LUKE: “I like squishy things.”
*INSERT SEX JOKE* … which I’m sure you just edited out
on Oct 30 2008 @ 11:03 pm 3. Evan Derrick said …
No, I didn’t edit out any inappropriate sex jokes.
Well, at least not there…
on Oct 31 2008 @ 10:13 am 4. Phillip Johnston said …
I remember Waldo Geraldo Faldo.
on Oct 31 2008 @ 10:15 am 5. Evan Derrick said …
Then you can stand in solidarity with Luke, Phillip. Perhaps there is a support group of some sort out there for you….
I keed, I keed.
on Oct 31 2008 @ 4:58 pm 6. Fletch said …
Roxxette, huh?
Not sure I would have publicly expressed my love for them, if I had such love, which I don’t. Reminds me of my brother, who played Martika’s “Toy Soldiers” endlessly in whatever year that was. Fun fact that’s not fun: Sean Astin starred in a movie called Toy Soldiers.
I had completely blocked the SMB flick out of my head. Thanks for re-opening that wound.
The clip you played (the narration) reminded me of Hudson Hawk (which I love, but considering its reputation, they might have been wiser to avoid comparisons to that…).
You all drink too much wine…
on Oct 31 2008 @ 5:19 pm 7. Evan Derrick said …
I am without shame, Fletch, as evidenced by the podcast. I will battle to the death over the awesomeness of “Joyride.”
And as to drinking too much wine, it’s not something we enjoy doing, but a responsibility to you, our listening public. Let’s just think of it as a duty, shall we Fletch? We drink for your pleasure. Are you not entertained?
Thanks for listening man – glad you enjoyed it (well, I’m just going to go ahead and assume that you did).
on Nov 02 2008 @ 11:08 am 8. Kristena said …
“Toy Soldiers” = Friggin’ Awesome
I was like 8 years old, and I’d make everybody be quiet when it came on the radio. Then I’d sit with my ear up to the speaker and sway my little melancholic body to the “step by step, heart to heart (echo), left right left…” haha
No, really.
on Nov 02 2008 @ 11:11 am 9. Kristena said …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJy46o_7b0
on Nov 10 2008 @ 3:00 pm 10. Ryan Dunlap said …
Great podcast guys! I might have to see Max Payne just to laugh at Mark not having enough sense to get in from the rain…
on Nov 10 2008 @ 7:01 pm 11. Luke Harrington said …
Thanks Ryan! I have to admit, though, I was a lot more bored by Payne than amused by it. (I’m not sure if Heather or Evan felt differently.)