GAR! Podcast Episode 56: Action Park

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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 Make Mine Magic Podcast: The Lost Pilots

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

ALA in Las Vegas

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook

Videos:

“Stick Around” with Andy Kaufman

 

GAR! Podcast Episode 55: Crazy Women, Crazy Men, Crazy Comics Creators

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

quick intro / back on the mountain / the rules / Sinead O’Connor / new nominees / Anne Heche and Ellen Degeneres / Helena Bonham Carter / reshuffling the list / Courtney Love / Sarah Palin / Lindsey Lohan again / Crazy Men Mount Rushmore / is crazy hot? / Nicholas Cage / Billy Bob and Angelina / Howard Hughes / narrowing it down / George Clooney / Justin Bieber / Eminem / Batman V. Superman / last minute entry / David Goyer bites the hand that feeds / She-Hulk / Martian Manhunter / Jamal Igle / John Byrne’ She-Hulk / service industry rules / Mark Waid / Thrillbent / Glenn takes The Toughest Superman Quiz Ever / Avengers quiz / it’s Bendis, who cares? / closing /

Links:

The GAR! Podcast: Crazy Chick Rushmore

Blake M. Petit on Batman V. Superman

David Goyer on She-Hulk

Scriptnotes Podcast

Stan Lee on David Goyer on She-Hulk

Jamal Igle

Action Lab

Mark Waid’s Twitter

Thrillbent

Take Mark Waid’s Toughest Superman Quiz Ever

The Entertainment Weekly Avengers Quiz

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook

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GAR! Podcast Episode 54: Crazy Chick Mount Rushmore

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

an hour? / wrestling is never over / good month for Daniel Bryan / breakneck sport / Kingdom Rush / Godzilla 2014 / spoilers / Agents of SHIELD / Original Sin / the Black Widow / Identity Crisis / super smart Ant-Man / drummers / Ringo Starr / Keith Moon / Bono / Frank Sinatra / U2 / Motley Crue / Bon Jovi / Cher / crazy chick Mount Rushmore / Lindsey Lohan / Britney Spears / Miley Cyrus / Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac / Carmen Electra / Jenny McCarthy / Sinead O’Connor / Wendy O. Williams / The Tomorrow Show / Sean Young / Ray first / closing /

Links:

The Nerd Signal

Glenn’s spoiler-filled Godzilla review at Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s SHIELD season finale review

Glenn’s SHIELD reviews of the entire season

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook

Videos (so much fun Ray had to add snarky commentary)

“Magical Mystery Tour” by the Beatles: (Ringo is awesome here)

“Love, Reign O’er Me” by The Who (best drum riff at the end of a song by Keith Moon):

“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” by Frank Sinatra and Bono (sadly, we can’t embed it)

Bono bugging us (oh God, those hats, that ponytail…I’m not so sure we didn’t commit a crime by posting this)

Motley Crue doing “Helter Skelter” (much better than Bono bugging us)

Wendy O. Williams on “The Tomorrow Show” (NSFW) (but they BLOW UP A CAR ON LIVE TV)

GAR! Podcast Episode 53: Special Guest Becca Butcher of Voluted Tales

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

special guest Becca Butcher / Atlantic City / mermaids / Star Wars: The Ancient something… / old cast / sequels / emergency / Disney vs. Star Wars / John Carter / Fantastic Four / Hellsing / Marvel anime and Blade / G4 and beyond / Amazing Spider-Man 2 / bad theater experiences / Voluted Tales / Godzilla / VT submission guidelines / Dallas Cowboys / dueling plastic surgeries / idiocy by association / the dog killer / more Donald Sterling / Glenn’s new iPhone 5S / area code dating / accents / football families / next Voluted Tales / closing /

Links:

Voluted Tales

Becca Butcher’s blog

Voluted Tales on Facebook

Becca on Twitter

Amazing Spider-Man 2 at biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s John Carter review

Marvel Anime

Loews does not want Glenn’s business

Glenn’s infamous review of The Dark Knight

Glenn’s Marlton 8 review

Nerdful Things at Voluted Tales

Voluted Tales Submission Guidelines

Godzilla at Boing Boing

South Jersey Writers’ Group

Karina Fabian’s website

Meritline

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook

Videos:

“You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” by Dead or Alive (then)

“You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” by Dead or Alive (now, mature content)

GAR! Podcast Episode 52: Comics and Sexism

Ah, Silver Age sexism.
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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / Camden Comic Con / Jamie Foxx on Sirius XM / kids with cards / Comics Interview and Amazing Heroes / press conferences / CO2 Comics / the elusive Bob McLeod / DIS Meet / spring cleaning comics / Alan Moore / returning vidcasts / no Avengers spoilers / Wanna Cook? / Crossed / Tampa / The Vril Agenda / ComiXology and Amazon / and Diamond / New 52 Teen Titans / Janelle Asselin / women who read comics / Glenn’s sister’s influence and her comics / sexy vs. sexism / Starfire / Power Girl / turnabout is Tempest / Phil Jimenez / Angela and crossovers / closing /

Links:

Camden Comic Con on Facebook

Camden Comic Con on Tumblr

Camden Comic Con on Twitter

The Make Mine Magic Podcast

Buffy to Batgirl

Free Comic Book Day

Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer

The Foxxhole

Ventriloquist Ernie

Khari Productions

CO2 Comics

Comics Interview

Amazing Heroes

Steve Lafler

The World of Ginger Fox

Bob McLeod

Locust Moon Comics

Rob Kelly

The NJ DIS Meet Weekend

DIS Unplugged

DIS at French Fry Diary

Give Kids The World

All Things Fun!

The All Things Fun! Vidcast 2.0

The Biff Bam Popcast

Glenn’s Wanna Cook? review at Biff Bam Pop!

Wanna Cook?

Tampa by Alissa Nutting

The Vril Agenda by Derrick Ferguson and Josh Reynolds

Forbes on ComiXology

Bleeding Cool on ComiXology

Janelle Asselin on the cover of Teen Titans #1

Rape threats over cover at The Daily Beast

Asselin on the rape threats at XOJane

Comic Book Resources

Women in Refrigerators

Phil Jimenez

Phil Jimenez’ cover for Tempest #2

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook