1374: Cancelled

[Keith]

"What is the point? It can only bring harm."

[McNally]

(psst... The Vinyl Countdown -- In the episode going up tonight, Michael Khalili lets a homeless man kiss him on the forehead. A super gross one who probably has aids. Please forgive the pimping. Like you never pimped something, you fucking pimp.)

[fashion is danger]

"Chumba"?

Oh, Chemda. She gets knocked down, but she gets up again.

[DWarrior]

I think the Glass Clothespin thing might be a less classy variation of the Wine Glass Marker:





I've seen them used, but never hosted any parties that required wine glasses. I would imagine it's in the Beyond section of Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

[Worst]

It sucks to hear about Triple Rush going away. I was really looking forward to it. It sounded different, & it would have been neat to see Keith & Chemda give a sort-of behind the scenes look, along w/ hearing all kinds of funny shit about the show.

Also, from what I understand about Nintendo deciding to start the new console generation, when they get the jump on Sony & Microsoft, it will have the greatest processing power out of all platforms by a pretty wide margin, aside from PC. The Wii has enjoyed absolutely amazing sales for a long while, at times selling more than both competitors combined. Recently, their sales have dropped off quite a bit, & around that time, they hinted at a new console. They said they wanted to get back into a more hardcore gaming market. & w/ the Kinect for XBox, Wii no longer has the best tech in the motion controlled gaming.

They have a lot of room to work w/. The DS has been the best selling platform ever, & it continues to sell well, even w/ the 3DS out. That has given them quite a bit of cash to play w/, & I guarantee they will do some type of connectivity between the handheld & the console this time, like the promised last time. I think Nintendo just wants to be the first one thru the door & capture an audience. The current tech out there, in my opinion, could last for a few more years w/ ease. It often takes a long time into a console cycle for developers to perfect making games for a system, so a longer cycle can be a great thing. In comparison to older generations of consoles, this one has actually run its course, time wise. In 3 years at the absolute max, I think all three major companies will have a new piece of hardware out.

It's cool to see gaming news on the podcast. I'd definitely love to see more in the future, every once in a while. I'd imagine quite a few listeners out there enjoy playing games. Now that I think about it, Keith does have Angry Birds news a lot. I suppose that technically counts. Foiled again.

Great show.

[scottperezfox]

I'm often curious as to why shows get canceled so early in their run. Remember ABC canceling Emily's Reasons Why Not after ONE episode? That show had tons of promotion on the streets of NYC, with bus wraps and billboards all over the place. On the other hand, I literally did not even hear that Paul Riser had a new show. (I too enjoy Mad About You years ago.) Conan O'Brien was canceled early on, but they put him back on the air because they couldn't find anything better to fill the spot. But then when he took over the Tonight Show, he was fired for real after only a few months. (we all know this story).

In conclusion, TV big-wigs are making it up as they go along and often get it wrong. Not everything is The Office or Seinfeld, of course, but a lot of good shows get the sack.

I liked Trauma from last season and Cane from the year before. Both vanished w/o a trace.

[Medium Brumski]

heh heh, dick-knob

[Carruthers]

The way this was handled by the people who didn't have the courtesy to keep the participants up to speed indicates that this show was given to a bunch of immature young adults in a kit box labelled 'my first tv production'. When things went wrong - and it was most likely with the interpersonal business relationships (e.g. between the channel and the its advertisers, or somebody pissed somebody off, or somebody didn't get their 'cut', whatever) - the production team just ran away, at least one of them sniggering in that dopey 'oops' way.

[DWarrior]

Hearing back the show, KATG read my comment out of time and it made no sense (the "did you know he was raped in the ass" was meant to be the answer for "he switched kinda easily"). And yes, I think if we can get a few people to infiltrate the Neo-Nazi groups and then go around raping other neonazis, we'll destroy the organization pretty quickly. Noone's gonna think "man, I keep getting raped by my own race, but I just love it so much, I just gotta tough it out"

[marina]

Did anybody else think the caller sounded totally schlocky? His "yes and" routine was driving me pretty crazy by the end of the call. Sounds like the guy was still on the pitch.