Episode 8: Mario vs Sonic


image courtesy of Mike Bennett

We talk about Video games and Jeff and Mike get into a small argument about two somewhat well-known video game mascots.

Links:
Jack Black Pitfall Commercial
The King of Kong on IMDb
(The King of Kong is unfortunately no longer streaming on Netflix)
1337 St. pictures
Ragtime Video Game Music:Yoshi’s Island athletic theme, Super Mario Land, Super Mario Athlete’s Rag
The Left Rights—Genesis 16:12
Sonic Music: Green Hill Zone, Spring Yard Zone, Casino Night Zone, More

Great News!

Hey Outcasts!  How’s things?  Great!  I’m glad to hear it!

Hey, I just wanted to take a minute or two and let you know some excellent news!  We’ve managed to pick up our first sponsor!  That’s right!  Popular Outcasts is now sponsored by Audible.com!  That’s right!  How awesome is that?

Some of you may not know what audible.com is.  Well, allow me to ‘splain.  Audiobooks rule, and audible.com makes them rule even harder.  They have over 100,000 products currently available.  Want some specifics?  In the words of Michelle Tanner, “You got it, dude!”

How about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?  They got it!  World War Z?  They got it!  Narrated by Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, Rob Reiner, no less!  The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, The Lord of the Rings, and The Nerdist Way, read to you by Chris Hardwick!  All the books by Chuck Palahniuk!  It’s all there!

Hell, They have all the Twilight books as well, so you can follow along with Jeff through his own special Hell as he reviews them in our Let’s Get Twi-harded segments!

Here’s the best part, friends.  Audible is allowing us to give you, our listeners, a 14 day trial offer, complete with a free audiobook!  That’s right!  Just go to audibletrial.com/popout.  Check them out, it’s a great service!

 

TWITTER WEDNESDAY #1: Thoughts on Shuffle Entry

Hello folks! I’d like to this opportunity to introduce you to my new weekly segment! Starting this week, every Wednesday I’ll be choosing one of my favorite tweets of the week, then I’ll illustrate it! I call it: Twitter Wednesday! (creative, right?)

Seriously, if you have any better names, please let me know.

This week I’ve chosen a tweet from one of my favorite comedians, Pete Holmes! Follow him on Twitter, at…at… @peteholmez

Pete tweeted this earlier today, and I couldn’t help myself:

So without further adieu:

Episode 7: Stripper Love Triangles

The sequel to Episode 5: I Had Sex, we talk about surprising things about us that we often forget about. Also the first installment of our Let’s get Twiharded segment.


Bill likes the Graphics.


This is Moses, He’s a Bitch

Links:
Jeff as a Blues Brother: Here, Here, Here, and Here
Jeff “singing” Devil in a Blue Dress: Hear
Original Puppet Video
CNN Video Reaction
Stripper Love Triangles

Mike is a spooty-spoothead.

I regret to inform you, that my webcomic “Brain Poop” is no longer a reality on the Popular Outcasts website. I know, I know, you’re all terribly heart broken, but don’t cry!

To make it up to you, I’ve decided to humiliate myself.

Found below is a picture of myself crying on my 10th birthday at the bottom of a human pyramid. Enjoy.

Episode 6: Mike McGranaghan

We talk with Mike McGranaghan, or Movie Mike, a local movie critic and downright cool dude. We talk about movies, and the business of reviewing movies. We then wrap up the episode with a round of the Leonard Maltin Game*.

*(The Leonard Maltin Game is a creation of Doug Benson and not the Popular Outcasts)


The Tin Tinning?

Movie Mike:
AisleSeat.com
Facebook
Twitter
Straight Up Blatant on Amazon.com

Links:
Reporter has Stroke On Air
Doug Loves Movies

Self Help For Nerds Like Us

Outcasts!  I just wanted to hop on here real quick and let you know about a really great book that has a lot of great information to help nerds like us, for lack of a better term, get our shit together.

It’s called “The Nerdist Way” and it’s written by Chris Hardwick.  Yeah, that Chris Hardwick.  It’s basically a blueprint to help you take the things that make us nerds (including, but not limited to our curse…er…ability to categorize and obsess over everything) and make those things work for our benefit.

It’s a great read, and an even better AUDIO BOOK!  I mean, it’s read by Chris himself, so if you’re a fan, you’ll enjoy it immensely!

It’s probably best to direct you to his site, nerdist.com, to pick it up.  

Enjoy, folks!

Mike’s Most Anticipated 2012 Films: Volume 1

Outcasts! Welcome and Happy Thursday! We’re one week away from the first entry of my web comic, so I figured I’d get in the habit of posting on a Thursday.

January 1st not only brought the beginning of 2012, but it also brought the beginning of a new movie season! This year is packed with countless sure-to-be beloved hits. I figured, why not share some of the flicks I’m looking forward to. Here’s four of the many talkies that I’d like to catch this year in no particular order. (Don’t worry folks, more to come eventually.)

Sound good? Okay, let’s go!

(Oh yeah, I’m not super educated on copyright’s and all that jazz, so I quickly drew you some pictures instead of stealing them from the movie companies. Hope that’s alright.)
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MIB3

Men in Black, ah, what a nostalgia trip for someone my age. The first film had us enthralled back in the day. The effects were spectacular, the laughs were maniacal, the action was unparalleled. It was truly a classic to our 90’s child brains. Then something happened. Men in Black 2. What the hell happened there? This train wreck of a movie was a scab on cinema’s back. How could they do this to us? How did this happen? Either way, my hopes are high that they treat MIB3 as an apology for the series’ first sequel. I have faith.

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The Lorax

“At the far end of town, where the Grickle-grass grows
and the wind smells, slow-and-sour when it blows.”

The first time I read those words, I knew I was in for a trip. I haven’t had that feeling in a long time…then I saw the trailer for The Lorax. I’m not sure if it was the whimsical Polyphonic Spree, the seemingly endless color palette or the spot on voice acting. Something about that trailer did it for me. Despicable Me was a blast, and Horton Hears a Who was done right. How could this go wrong?

[Crosses fingers that I don’t eat those words.]

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The Avengers

Assemble.

This was the only word I saw when I first laid my eyes on the teaser poster we received at the theater. That’s all I needed to see.

At this point, we’re looking at 3 1/2 hours for this flick. ‘Nuff said.

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The Dark Knight Rises

I can’t wait to see the look on people’s faces when they go into THE DARK KNIGHT RISES to find their new Halloween costume. Failure will be had. The best part about this trilogy caboose is that I can stop hearing about the Joker (All respects to Mr. Ledger, may he rest in peace.)

This is the comic nerd’s Batman film, and we’re about to get a heavy dose of that this summer.

My heart goes out to those of you who enter the theater unprepared.

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There you have it, Outcasts. Four of the 30(or so) movies that I absolutely can’t wait to feast my eyes on.

At that, I will make a promise to you.
Someday my writing will be as decent as my doodles. I’ll work on it.

Enjoy what you have left of your Thursday, friends!

Won’t you be my NEIGH-bor?

This is the best headline I’ve seen in 2012, barn-none.

Oh, to be a Central Pennsylvania native. Stories such as these are seriously the reason I pick up a newspaper anymore. I could take this opportunity to make countless horse jokes, but instead I’ll send you off with something Bill said in regards to this headline:

“Reminds me of Old McDonald, but instead of having a farm, he fucked a farm.”

I’m pretty sure the song goes, “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” not the other way around.