Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up – a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down.
For episode 70 of The Round Up, Greg pays tribute to Doug Fieger from The Knack, who passed away today at the age of 57, by playing a segment of the band’s signature tune, My Sharona. Andy gives us a preview of Get Him To The Greek, the spin-off from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which is a rock and roll / metal comedy starring Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, and directed by Nicholas Stoller. We also take a look at Logorama, the animated short that scored a nomination in this year’s Academy Awards; and we close out with Dallabnikufesin by Anthrax for Valentine’s Day.
On this week’s show The Drill Down team discuss Google’s collaboration with the NSA, FBI and Police want your personal data, Google’s tablet concept, Toyota’s software problem, Facebook’s doppelgangers, Steam, LOST, and Wikileaks is dead..or is it?
Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up – a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down.
For the 69th edition of The Round Up, Andy plays a mashup by MadMixMustang joining the sounds of Daft Punk and Bob Marley called Is This Digital Love? Greg then takes a look at the film adaptation of the graphic novel The Losers directed by Sylvain White, and starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Chris Evans.
This week The Drill Down team is pleased to welcome the creator of the massively successful webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach Weiner. We ask him about SMBC’s origins, his influences, the creative process behind the strip, and how comedy can inform and inspire social commentary. We also discuss his latest sketch comedy venture, SMBC Theater.
Later, Zach joins us as we discuss Apple’s latest tablet lifestyle device, the iPad, its pros, its cons and its missed potential. We also talk about VOIP over 3G for the iPhone, cyberbullies, how pirates are the music industry’s best customers, Avatar’s new world record, and Google Xistence™.
This week the guys discuss Google’s updated maps for Haiti, a Microsoft security flaw that compromised Google in China, YouTube charges for movie rentals with an updated interface, Apple’s (allegedly) upcoming tablet, the ongoing Twitterfication of Facebook & Digg, Bill Gates on Twitter, Twitter revamps its Suggested User List, Conan O’Brien’s farewell to NBC, the Playstation 3 gets hacked after three years, and just what the world really needs (/s)…a new punctuation mark for sarcasm.
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