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:

• movies in the 1980s in which boys switched bodies with their fathers,
• The Kid from Brooklyn Mike Caracciolo (The Joker video, Superman video),
• “Macho Man” Randy Savage wrestling “Weird Al” Yankovic (video),
• Pee-wee Herman’s upcoming Broadway show,
• the Angry Video Game Nerd’s review of obscure video storage media,
• RCA’s Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED),
• John Logie Baird’s phonovision from 1927,
• Michael Bay firing Megan Fox from the upcoming movie Transformers 3 (2011),
• the upcoming Jaws movie starring Tracy Morgan,
• Three Men and a Bride (2012) starring Steve Guttenberg and Tom Selleck,
• director Guillermo del Toro quitting The Hobbit,
• the Lost exhibit in NYC (Our Pictures),
• our book report shortcuts in school,
• and Optimus Prime dying after one shot.

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In this episode:

• a roll call of our listeners,
• the New York Jets vs. the Indianapolis Colts,
• Jimmy the Greek,
• weird comments on our Steven Seagal Hall of Lame post,
• Steven Seagal vs. Jean-Claude Van Damme,
• Van Damme’s return to professional kickboxing,
• celebrity boxing (Dustin Diamond vs. Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Rodman vs. Dennis Haskins),
• the Japanese believing Sony products break on purpose,
• pieces of the white Apple Macbook cracking off,
• Rob’s switch from the iPhone 3G to a free Pantech Reveal,
• a video of Pee-wee Herman using the Apple iPad,
• a fan dub of the G1 Transformers episode Scramble City,
• Alan Alda as the voice of Bumblebee,
• a Frank Welker fan site,
• Michael Bay’s belief that superheroes don’t wear masks,
• Dr. Phil as the voice of Optimus Prime,
• and George Lucas re-releasing the Star Wars movies in 3D.

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In this episode:

• getting Joe in KY and Kelly from www.wrestlecrap.com on the show,
• celebrity deaths (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and David Carradine),
• Alan Alda and “Weird Al” Yankovic,
• Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford supposedly killing each other on a movie set in New Zealand,
• a guest celebrity death by Lauren Elder from the Broadway cast of Hair (Michael Jackson),
• Tiffani-Amber Thiessen refusing to participate in Jimmy Fallon’s Saved by the Bell reunion,
• our phone call with Michael Jackson from December 2005,
• Paul McCartney,
• celebrities we’ve recently met (Al Unser Jr., Janeane Garofalo, and Dan Aykroyd),
• An Evening with Kevin Smith at Carnegie Hall,
• the upcoming video game Wet featuring the voice of Eliza Dushku,
• our movie review of The Dark Knight (2008) starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger,
• the Atari 5200 USB 128-in-1 flash multi-cart on www.atarimax.com,
• the Nintendo Entertainment System PowerPak flash cart www.retrousb.com,
• Jimmy Justice’s YouTube videos,
• Uncle Floyd Vivino running for governor of New Jersey,
• and our giant movie review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox.
• (here’s our giant review of Michael Bay’s first Transformers movie)

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As I’ve mentioned in episodes past, I am an avid motorsports fan, including the IndyCar series. The series will be shown for the first time on Comcast’s fledgling Versus network. Below is a promo from Versus for the coverage. It’s a short one done all in computer animation, where the cars transform into animals. Though this is not affiliated with Hasbro or Transformers at all. Yet another example though of the classic and proper way to animate a “Transformer.” Unlike the nonsense from Michael Bay.

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In this episode:

• our trip to Late Show with David Letterman,
• Twilight (2008) starring Kristen Stewart,
• the Neil Diamond tribute band Super Diamond,
• JCVD (2008) starring Jean-Claude Van Damme,
• our review of Quantum of Solace (2008) starring Daniel Craig,
• our review of every James Bond movie ever made,
• the upcoming movie Valkyrie (2008) starring Tom Cruise,
• the trailer for the upcoming movie Star Trek (2009) starring Chris Pine,
• the upcoming movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) starring Shia LaBeouf,
• characters in movies not watching the road while driving,
• Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew starring Jeff Conaway and Gary Busey,
• the yelling commercial guy Billy Mays,
• NBC canceling My Own Worst Enemy starring Christian Slater,
• Worst Week starring Kyle Bornheimer,
• Stan Lee’s upcoming gay superhero show on Showtime,
• parents in Nebraska leaving their teenage children at hospitals,
• and another lawsuit against Michael Jackson.

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In this episode:

• Ron Howard’s Call To Action video on Funny or Die featuring Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler,
• Stephen Baldwin challenging Barack Obama to a boxing match,
• the pointlessness of student government,
• wearing costumes to the October NAVA meeting at the Digital Press video game store in Clifton, NJ (www.digitpress.com),
• Greg trying to buy a Crosley Keepsake USB record player from Craig’s List,
• Greg trying to buy an Indiana Jones costume,
• crowded Halloween stores,
• 16 rpm records,
• pole vaulting in dreams,
• receiving Sega video games from Juan in Missouri,
• Sega’s obsession with Michael Jackson,
• our review of the ColecoVision, the Atari 5200, and the Atari 7800,
• the upcoming Pac-Man Collection for the ColecoVision (www.opcodegames.com),
• a customer looking for an Osama bin Laden costume,
• Michael Bay, Mike Tyson, and Jerry Seinfeld looking stupid,
• our movie review of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008) starring Michael Cera,
• and our movie review of Religulous (2008) starring Bill Maher.

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In this episode:

• the 3rd Space Vest by TN Games,
• Halo 3 replica weapons by Jasman Toys,
• auto racing school,
• voice chat in online multiplayer video games,
• micropayments,
• Nintendo Wii points,
• a listener review on the iTunes Store by Brian in NJ,
• getting Dennis in CA on the show,
• Transformers (2007) vs. Masters of the Universe (1987),
• the new Verizon FiOS commercial featuring Michael Bay,
• and The Last Starfighter (1984) starring Lance Guest.

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Rotten Tomatoes – Michael Bay Says He Already Wrote Transformers 2

As the Writers Guild of America strike comes to an end, Transformers (2007) director Michael Bay has revealed that he’s already written the sequel himself, despite the fact that his screenwriters – Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and Ehren Kruger – were not allowed to work on the project during the strike.

“I’ve been writing Transformers 2,” Bay said. “I want to make my date. I’m not going to let the strike take me down.”

Could Michael Bay be the first to win our Lame Idiot of the Year Award two years in a row?

Transformers 2 is currently scheduled for release in the U.S. on June 26, 2009.