In this episode:

• Our ideas for re-dubbing the latest Michael Bay Transformers movie,
• the Rupert Murdoch UK phone hacking scandal,
• undercover sleuth work by Hugh Grant,
• Norm MacDonald announcing the O.J. Simpson verdict on Saturday Night Live,
• cracking passwords using social engineering,
• the “Ralphige” real Michael Jackson prank call (link),
• a fifth child on the way for Kevin ‘K-Fed’ Federline,
• the arrest of former informercial star Don Lapre,
• Tony Little HoMedics Micropedic Sleep Pillows,
• Ted Danson to star on the next season of CSI,
• Barney Miller,
• return of Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• why the Golden Girls is still funny (video),
• US Marines asking Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake on dates,
• Rob’s failure to book Tami Erin, star of The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) on the show,
• emulating classic PC games using DOSBOX,
• downfall of modern gaming franchises and developers (Hitman, Max Payne, Project Gotham, LucasArts),
• Copyright Alert System,
• and a celebrity death (Roberts Blossom).

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In this episode:

• our giant movie review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) in 3D, starring Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley,
• the ridiculous length of the movie,
• the end of the shaky camera fad,
• a list of movies and TV shows Michael Bay ripped off (The Transformers, Superman, The Watchmen, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Jackie Chan’s Who Am I?),
• illogical Duracell battery pricing at Staples,
• our roll call of robots in the movie (Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, Sentinal Prime, Starscream, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, and dozens of unnamed robots),
• Sentinal Prime’s face modeled after Sean Connery,
• Bay’s horrendous computer animated version of John F. Kennedy,
• Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) constantly screaming and crying,
• Bay’s terrible Barack Obama impersonator,
• Sam spending an hour going on job interviews,
• Leonard Nimoy as the voice of Sentinal Prime and Galvatron,
• various plot holes,
• Optimus Prime actually wondering where his trailer went in the movie,
• robots who were killed in the movie (the unnamed Scottish Autobot, Ironhide, Megatron, Starscream, the unnamed Decepticon bird, etc.),
• our welcoming of the inevitable Transformers movie reboot,
• Transformers spitting,
• Michael Bay turning Optimus Prime into a ruthless murderer,
• Peter Cullen and Frank Welker’s voice acting,
• Shia LaBeouf’s recent acting career (Eagle Eye and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps),
• Bay’s constant use of slow motion,
• billions of dollars worth of damage in action movies with no consequences,
• hacking into objects,
• Bay’s ignorance of science,
• the lack of rules and continuity in Bay’s Transformers movies,
• What Ever Happened To? (Bugle Boy jeans, Z. Cavaricci genie pants, Zubaz, IOU sweatshirts, B.U.M. Equipment, etc.),
• Roseanne Barr’s reality show Roseanne’s Nuts on Lifetime,
• a Transformers: Dark of the Moon cameo by Scott Krinsky from Chuck,
• Bay’s completely wasted use of 3D,
• fans feeling obligated to watch bad movies,
• Glynn Turman appearing in Super 8 (2011) and Gremlins (1984),
• Sean Connery’s brother Neil Connery starring in bad movies: OK Connery (1967) and The Body Stealers (1969),
• celebrity deaths (Peter Falk and Sherwood Schwartz),
• Paul Reiser and The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 2,
• and a new stupid style (extremely short cutoff shorts with dangling pockets).

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In this episode:

• reminiscing about Macho Man Randy Savage,
• bad reviews for the new video game Duke Nukem Forever,
• Duke being able to throw human feces at his enemies,
• new versions of U.S. pennies,
• the Bitcoin internet money controversy,
• celebrity deaths (Jeff Conaway and Jack Kevorkian),
• Nintendo’s preview of its upcoming Wii U,
• custom made video game consoles (Ben Heck),
• our review of Super 8 (2011) directed by J.J. Abrams,
• our review of The Hangover 2 (2011) starring Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis,
• George Lopez starring in a remake of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
• 4D movie technology Smell-O-Vision (article),
• going to school on super hot summer days,
• Nicolas Cage’s son Weston beaten up by Nic’s security guard,
• and Al Pacino.

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In this episode:

• Greg meets AC/DC’s Brian Johnson at Barnes and Noble in NYC,
• Brian Johnson’s new memoir Rockers and Rollers,
• difficulties getting a picture taken at a book singing,
• a celebrity death (Osama bin Laden),
• Rob’s quest for the perfect portable headphones,
• headphone forums (headphone.com and head-fi.org),
• Sony MDR-ZX700 headphones,
• Rob’s story about a customer puking in the Electronics Boutique video game store,
• Sean Penn playing a feminine-looking hair band rocker in This Must Be the Place (2011),
• our movie review of Bridesmaids (2011) starring Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph,
• tattoo controversy involving The Hangover 2 (2011),
• happy 70th birthday to Bob Dylan!,
• and The Band’s cover of Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece.”

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In this episode:

• a celebrity death (“Macho Man” Randy Savage),
• reactions from former WWF wrestlers Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Honkey Tonk Man, and the Ultimate Warrior,
• wrestling news site 1wrestling.com,
• video from the Macho Man’s final in-character promo (WWE All-Stars video game),
• another celebrity death (Len Lesser, Seinfeld’s “Uncle Leo”),
• the redundancy of the term “optical illusion,”
• Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mistress and love child,
• Jerry Lewis retiring from the MDA telethon,
• Lady Gaga ripping off a classic Madonna song and then lying about it,
• an update on the new Three Stooges movie (2012),
• Seth MacFarlane reviving The Flintstones,
• Titanic in 3D,
• Joe Pesci in 3D,
• the Rapture that didn’t happen on May 21st, 2011,
• and the planking craze.

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