For those of you out there who have the theme song from Double Dragon, Excite Bike, Mario Bros, Mega Man, or Final fantasy burned into your brain from back in the day (even if that means yesterday), you’re not alone. 8-bit music, which takes tons of these nostalgic tunes from your favorite NES and GameBoy games and converts them into fast, fun, dance-tastic ensembles, has been revolutionizing the music industry across the world. Also known as chip tune, this wave of timeless new music is bringing back all of our inner geeks one show at a time.

We joined the folks on the forefront of this musical frontier at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, where artists like Crash Faster, A Rival, and Anamanaguchi dive into the logistics of what it takes to become an 8-bit master and why this genre has become so popular! We know the secret and now you can too; watch and find out!!!

Episode links: Chiptune, Anamanaguchi, crashfaster, A_Rival

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We imagine that many of you, our esteemed viewers, have stood in front of a mirror and played air guitar until your fingers bled. San Francisco’s own Veronica Belmont is an air guitar champion. So it’s only natural that the Air Championship gods create a more (or less) challenging category of Air Sex! Air Sex Championships? Yes!

It all started in Japan, where drunk lonely guys decided to entertain themselves by making love to imaginary partners while clothed and listening to music. The activity took off in more ways than one, with championships held in more than one country. And just try NOT to search for “Peer Pressure” on YouTube. A certain ottoman gets extremely lucky.

Here is GETV’s expose of the Air Sex Championships as they passed through our fair city. The sweat, the drama, the athleticism. Enjoy.

Episode links: Air Sex World Championships, Air Sex Comes to SF, Veronica Belmont on Air Guitar

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An epic naval battle of amazing proportions! “Amazing” being miniature and “epic” being, well, let’s just say we had to wear eye goggles. Really! The incredibly talented seamen hand-crafted the robotic warships and controlled them from the side of Maker Faire ocean with radio remote controls, shooting 1/4″ diameter steel balls from their ships’ torpedo tubes. The ship models are replicas mostly from World War II, but one brave soul brought out his tiny pirate vessel. The battle known as Axis vs. Allies, meaning that all the ships had at some point in history fought for either side, in World War I or II. Founded in 1986, Western Warship Combat Club puts on all kinds of events, as we learned from Dan Rygasewicz, a founder. Dan also said that if you have ever put a firecracker in a toy boat in your bathtub, you will know exactly why playing with toy boats in the water is so mesmerizing.

Episode links: Western Warship Combat Club, Maker Faire

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Travel with us back in time, back to Victorian days when men wore corsets, ladies wrote letters and the computers were steam-powered. What?? That’s right! Steampunk takes you back to a past that never was, and flies you in a dirigible to a future that will never be. What is steampunk? Take a look and find out!

Episode links: Steampunk [wikipedia], Steampunk Airmail Letter Project, Artist Suzanne Forbes, Maker Faire

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The GETV crew ran into Utilikilt clad Alex Peake at Maker Faire because of a rumor that he was making Tactical Corsets! With beautiful model at the ready, Irina and Alex unzip the mysteries of this military grade corset. What’s a tactical corset you ask? Here’s how TacticalCorsets.com describes them:

Tactical Corsets are high-fashion, high-function clothes for empowered women! For too long, women have had to compromise practicality for beauty. Men got pants with cargo pockets and built-in knee pads, women got clothes whose only built-in feature was cuteness. But why should men get all the high-speed low-drag tactical toys? Tactical Corsets bring female operators MILSPEC features like MOLLE modular pouch attachment webbing and self-adjustable quick-release buckles in a load-bearing carrier designed to support the female form.

(Thanks to our guest editor, Wilfred Galila, who is hovering above the thin line between good and evil and in constant pursuit for the understanding of the human condition and man’s place in the cosmos.)

Episode links: Tactical Corsets, Alex Peake, Artist Suzanne Forbes, Cimmerians

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You’ve heard this one before. Big faceless corporate giant who makes adorable product goes after small-time fanboy who loves adorable product. In this case, it’s the PEZ Candy Company suing Gary Doss, the owner and curator of a museum of PEZ memorabilia. Gary has run the Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia for 14 years and this isn’t the first time evil faceless PEZ has tried to shut him down. PEZ’s latest demand includes the destruction of Gary’s adorable oversized snowman dispenser of PEZ that you’ll see in this video.

Our tour of Gary’s museum of PEZ was shot 2 years ago, long before his current legal situation, so we’re rerunning it. Irina and iJustine, who happened to be in town then, take you on a tour of the amazing, wonderful and hopefully, longer lived Museum of PEZ Memorabilia.

Episode links: Burlingame Museum of PEZ (david), PEZ Candy Company (goliath), Boston Herald: Co. sues Pez ‘museum’, San Jose Merc News: All we are saying is, give Pez a chance, iJustine

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

Irina met Kevin Moore on Flickr a while back, swooning over a photo of his black kitty kat. Little did she know this geek was a specialist in a different kind of kitty! Turns out Kevin shoots, directs and edits adult movies. Who knew! With his nerdy background as a Unix admin, a wrangler of college intranet tubes for his buddies gaming pleasures, a WoW and Quake player, and a committed boyfriend to Nina — his one-time attention seeking girlfriend who let him take photos of her and charge cash money for letting other dudes see her nekkid! So, when we ran into Kevin back in Jan at the Adult Entertainment Expo, Irina sat him down for a dorky session of chit chat. Enjoy!

Episode links: Kevin Moore, Kevin’s Flickr Pix, AVN Adult Entertainment Expo

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When our pal Kevin Smokler slid us the opportunity to interview one of the legendary thinkers and writers of the geekosphere, we pounced on the chance. Chris Anderson resuscitated Wired magazine back from the brink of the geek deadpool and is notable for coining the term The Long Tail, which he penned a book on. Chris is about to release his second book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, which is already generating controversy on a couple of fronts.

One never to rest, Chris also recently launched BookTour.com, a site for authors to more easily line up and promote their book tours and for fans to easily find and meet up with their favorite authors. Chris, like us, is also a big fan of ‘maker’ culture and is busy building drone airplanes based on open source hardware. A subject we’ll save for another episode.

Episode links: Chris Anderson, The Long Tail blog, Wired, BookTour, Free: The Future of the Radical Price, DIY Drones, Ning, VQR (criticism)

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

Which comes first, the music or the video? The question is moot now that artisan Ben Lewry of Visionary Instruments, has built an LCD video display into his guitar. After several prototypes, his custom video guitars now can run visualizations or movies by simply popping in a USB thumbdrive into a back panel. Visualizations can even be triggered with MIDI signals by playing the guitar. Steven Wilson, of Porcupine Tree, was so taken by Ben’s designs that he’s now rocking a video guitar to sold out shows around the world.

Episode links: Visionary Instruments, Porcupine Tree, Diane Nitschke [photos], Maker Faire

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It’s true. The future is here. Really. Anything you can dream in 3D can be made real. MakerBot’s affordable Cupcake CNC, a slightly larger than a breadbox 3D printer, will take your 3D modeled dreams and make them manifest. MakerBot’s Bre Pettis, a man who knows how a lot about making robots and dreams come true, gives Irina the skinny on what MakerBot is and how it works.

Episode links: MakerBot, Bre Pettis, Thingiverse, Google SketchUp, Blender, Forkbot, Martha Vader, Maker Faire 2009

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

You may not want to run up to legendary American TV actor Todd Bridges and yell “What’choo talkin’ bout, Willis?” (in case you were born in the 90′s, Bridges played Gary Coleman’s older brother Willis on the historic TV series “Diff’rent Strokes” — the molestation episode is classic!) For the past few years, Bridges has joined the ranks of professional wrestling. If he gets annoyed by Willis fans, he just might body slam them! Bridges is known in the ring as Mr. Not So Perfect — and if you check out the internets, you’ll see his grown up days have been exactly that, including some serious criminal charges. That’s why we love him so. Building his own computers from the ground up, playing PC games, and talkin’ smack online, Willis identifies as a true computer geek. Watch the interview to hear his politcal thoughts on Cary Coleman’s run for governor and the current California Governator. Also, watch for his online gamer tag so you can wrestle him yourself! Don’t forget to peep past the credits for a special challenge from the Slutsky.

Episode links: Todd Bridges, Fog City Wrestling

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

For our third installment of TechCab Confessions we have uber nerdcore rapper (the one who coined the term!) MC Frontalot take the hot seat, err, back seat of the taxi. For those of you joining us in medias res, GETV’s TechCab series takes geeks for a ride while they confess their technological sins to a live streaming camera for all the world to see. In this episode, we are honored to have Front — as he’s known to his fans — take a break from performing at SXSW and promoting his latest album Final Boss to tell us a whopper of a story for which, we are happy to say, the statute of limitations has TOTALLY and COMPLETELY expired. A great hacker caper of yore, involving the inaugural Lillith Fair, the Levi’s website and an amateur musician’s online contest — all this, and someone ended up in jail after all! We’ll just leave that to the great nerdcore rapper and elegant hacker to tell you the rest.

Episode links: TechCab Confessions, MC Frontalot, essence, Lilith Fair, guest editor: Madge Weinstein, photo credits: jeans, cookie, steel barbie, angy barbie, stiff barbie, pants down, seattle coffee

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

Now for a second installment of our Tech Cab Confessions series, we have none other than NonSociety’s Julia Allison, who answers Irina’s never-ending query of how geeks have “destroyed themselves of others” on the internet. In case you are new to our Tech Cab, Irina drove around Austin, picking up her victims, oops, we mean fares, who confessed live on camera their deepest secrets and sins to you, our fair viewers. Julia Allison has written for Time Out New York, Star Magazine, Huffington Post, and has reported for MSNBC and Fox. In this confession, Julia drops her guard and dishes on her ex-boyfriend Jake Lodwick (one of the founders of Vimeo), her non-relationship with Kevin Rose, her decision to quit self-promoting herself, her realization that people were laughing at her and not with her, and gives advice to little girls about to embark on a career in internet fame. What a confession, what raw material for guest editor Richard Bluestein to mold into an episode. Who’s Richard you ask? Why, he’s Madge Weinstein, host of Yeast Radio, one of the most popular podcasts in the history of the internet. We think Madge and Irina were related in a prior immigration experience, but they’re all hush hush. They definitely share at least one organ, but they won’t say which one.

Episode links: TechCab Confessions, Julia Allison, NonSociety, Madge Weinstein

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

Thanks to our friends at Intel, Irina and editor Kevin flew to Portland where not only did they get to tour the top secret chip-making labs (no camera’s allowed) but they met some disprutive tech guys in the realm of CAPTCHAs. You may not know what a CAPTCHA is, but we’re pretty sure you’ve used one or two or three. OK, so if someone asks you what’s a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) and you wanna sound annoying and smart just say, “It’s a reverse Turing test.” Hee. Basically, it’s a way for the computer to tell if you’re a human or a bot to prevent comment spam on blogs (or on YouTube, etc) or, more importantly, to prevent bots from infiltrating consumer sites. Since the average failure rate of traditional CAPTCHA technolgy is about 20 percent, bots can mess up a lot of shopping. We’ve heard that Ticketmaster loses as much as 12 percent of their sales to potential ticket buyers who drop out because they can’t get past the CAPTCHA. So, if you can ignore Irina’s combover hairstyle in this episode, we check in with the guys from Vidoop and hear what they have to say. Oh yeah, this subject would not be complete without referencing a little Blade Runner and the Voight-Kampff test.

Episode links: CAPTCHA, Vidoop, Voight-Kampff

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

For our 200th episode, we get sorta serious with the subject matter, but dont worry, there’s still LOLcats involved. We talk to a very esoteric and smarty-pants guy, Columbia University law school professor Tim Wu (he’s hot too! but married) — he’s the guy who even the FCC trusts to help them make fair laws about such things as the AT&T and BellSouth merger. Professor Wu is credited with popularizing the concept of “network neutrality” in his 2003 paper Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. In 2006, he co-authored the book, Who Controls the Internet? Network neutrality is essential to free speech, equal opportunity and economic innovation in America, so if you use the internet — or at least, if you watch porn on the internet — here’s your chance to learn exactly why you should care. Also, after you watch this episode, you can sound super smart at all those parties you go to with your social networking friends. During 2008, Wu served as an adviser to the Barack Obama presidential campaign.

Episode links: Tim Wu (wikipedia), Tim Wu (personal), network neutrality

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

We know in your drunken stupor you all forgot that you went to SXSW and Texas last month, never mind what you confessed to Irina as she drove you around in our gloriously luxurious TechCab …. But guess what, it’s all on tape for ever and ever and ever on the internet! After our newest editor Kevin and intern Calum (he lives in Nova Scotia!) slaved over hours of footage, we’ve put together a few precious secrets that fell only on Irina’s lovely door-knocker-earringed ears….and the entire internet! First, we start off with our own and dear blip.tv coder Justin Day (next to him is blip.tv’s money man Ryan Chambers) — Justin recounts how he tortured his fellow students in college with spontaneous eruptions of solitaire. Cali Lewis, a queen of geeks if ever there was one — takes a ride with Irina and Eddie in her pajamas with her miniature daschund Zoe and explains how she dissed Jason Calacanis. Cali is SO not sinful, I had to give her a little nudge there. Rudy Jahchan and Casey McKinnon take a ride during which Rudy describes how — through hacking skills — he drove a colleage 1) out of his department and 2) insane. See if you can guess which tech celebrity videoblogging god Steve Woolf is talking about in his confession. Ellie Rountree’s story from Rocketboom involves a bottle of wine, breaking NY State law and Justin.tv —- and its still available online! TechCab fun for everyone.

Episode links: TechCab Confessions, Justin Day, Cali Lewis, Rudy Jahchan, Steve Woolf, Ellie Rountree

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So we all know RZA is one of the greatest rappers of all time. But did you guys know he’s a total geek out gangsta? At another of RZA’s Hip-Hop Chess events, we ask him to tell us his thoughts about technology and the internet. And the Wu Tang leader schools Irina, telling her to GO OUTSIDE. That probably won’t work. Also at the chess party, Rakaa of Dilated Peoples reflects about the first time he “touched” the Internet and Irina reveals that in 1997 she used to hide out in chat rooms and spit rhymes, pretending she was a boy. Besides the internationally known rappers, we also hear from a local young musician who has never lived without the internet. He is 18-year-old V, and he loves to help his mother with Microsoft Word. Enjoy the joy! (Big thanks to Kevin Zupancic for his shooting and editing skills on this episode!)

Episode links: RZA, Wu-Tang Clan, Hip-Hop Chess Federation, Rakaa, Dilated Peoples, WuChess, John O’Connell High School (San Francisco)

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

Jonas Luster is man of many hats: video game designer, chef, opinionated loudmouth, humanitarian, peace keeper and now a father. In this expose, Jonas tells us a bit about the world of MMORPGs, something he’s intimately familiar with.

Episode links: Jonas Luster, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars

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For the first time ever, GETV heads over to WonderCon and Irina’s fears of growing up without coming books and not knowing enough about super heroes were allayed. Attacked by a hot baby-dyke version of the Joker, she is saved by hot baby-dyke Batman and Robin! She also hears “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” and finds out exactly which droids you WERE looking for (the answer is after the credits. We also meet up with a Darth Vader and discover that the force of the dark side is strong on Twitter. WonderCon is a truly a wonder to behold. Go forth geeks and enjoy!

Episode links: WonderCon, A-1 Comics, Anthony Forrest, Ron Lim, Darth Vader on Twitter

Formats: iPhone/iPod (.m4v)

We like Twitter so much, we’re bringing you a second installment of Hot Twitter Habits. Some might even say scandalous! We find out what a bunch of drunken San Francisco tweetizens had to say about twittering on the can, following and celebrity identities. You know you want to know. Watch, then reveal your Twitter habits to us in the comments.

Episode links: Twitter, TwestivalSF, @mutgoff, @afgascoigne, @sarahlane, @kevinrose, @wesmax27, @bostonita, @krystyl, @biz, @VirginAmerica, @medized, @dalelarson, @irinaslutsky

Formats: iPhone/iPod (.m4v)

Now that Twitter has hit the mainstream, let’s find out how the masses use their beloved service. In this first episode of two, we stop by the Twestival event to discover what some San Francisco tweetizens’ first Twitter posts were as well as how some use the service in more intimate of ways. You’ll need to watch to get the dirt. If you have no idea what any of this means, it’s time to come out of hibernation. The cave is a cold and lonely place. What was your first tweet? Tell us in the comments.

Episode links: Twitter, TwestivalSF, @mutgoff, @afgascoigne, @sarahlane, @kevinrose, @wesmax27, @bostonita, @krystyl, @biz, @VirginAmerica, @medized, @dalelarson, @irinaslutsky

Formats: iPhone/iPod (.m4v)

If you happen to be a daily TWiT watcher, you may have caught Leo Laporte and Irina doing some improvisational sketch comedy. Leo and Irina are pretty wacky together, their imaginations flowing as freely as dry-erase markers on a whiteboard. All Leo knew was that Irina wanted to tie him to a chair and that she was a Russian spy interrogating him about his Emmy win, his streaking history and his status as the father of all media — all three are true facts that can be found on Leo’s wikipedia article. Enjoy the insanity!

Episode links: Leo Laporte, TWiT

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

For the first time in GETV history, the crew went to the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, canoodling with porn stars, directors and producers. Braving this new world, Irina scored an interview with uberstar Tera Patrick and her husband Evan Seinfeld. Tera, besides being so gorgeous that she’s hard to look at dead on, has a character in the video game Saints Row 2! And turns out Evan has done voices in the Grand Theft Auto franchise as well. Not only do they work in gaming, they also tell us what they like to play, taking us all the way back to PONG. Irina even recognized one male star! Evan Stone is the lead in both “Pirates I” and “Pirates II,” the most expensive films in the history of adult movies. Evan is a gamer geek and gives out his handle, so you guys can beat him on the joysticks. Then we find an up-and-coming porn star who’s on Twitter and wears fresh kicks, not clear platform shoes! Unfortunately for Irina, Justin Slayer did not come this year.

Episode links: Adult Entertainment Expo, Evan Stone, Tera Patrick, Evan Seinfeld, Stevie Hart, Satine Phoenix, Buck Angel, Nikki Jayne, Paul Thomas

Formats: iPhone/iPod (.m4v)

GETV was invited by Intel to come to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and we were happy to go. While every other new outlet was happy covering the Palm Pre (thinner than Nicole Ritchie, they say!) and the best blu-rays, GETV decided to go where the PEOPLE went! The most crowded booths at CES 2009 were the massage chair booths, so we sent our massage chair correspondend iJustine to scope out the best massage chair releases of 2009 and tech pundit Xeni Jardin gave us her input. Drew Carey provided some potical advice for Obama’s tech platform and Eric Lin was the naysayer in the group. If you think you know what happened at CES 2009, you have no idea.

Episode links: CES 2009, iJustine, Xeni Jardin, Drew Carey, Eric Lin

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

We know there was some tech news at Macworld, but the only talk we heard was all about Steve Jobs’ absence from Apple’s party of the year and his fans’ speculation about his health. GETV is as grateful to Steve as any dedicated fanboy, but we still need to do our job = make you smile! We figured you already know about the 17-hour battery and all that, so here’s something that will remind you that Steve is pretty zen about this mortal coil and that this universe is a better place with him in it, whether this is the last Macworld or not.

Episode links: Macworld Expo

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

You may not know 24-year-old Aza Raskin’s name, but if you are reading this in a Firefox browser on a Mac then you should say a big huge thank you to his family. Aza’s late father Jef started the Macintosh project at Apple. YES. And Aza is the user interface designer at Mozilla Labs. Honestly, Irina doesn’t often find herself at a loss for jokes, but this guy was kind of hard to make fun of at first try! We’ll have to bring him back for sure. Aza is also the founder of Humanized, Inc., Songza, and Bloxes, and President of the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces. And he likes puns, so leave some in the comments.

Episode links: Aza Raskin, Jef Raskin, Mozilla Labs, Humanized, Songza

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

If you’ve never seen muscle men in spandex, masks, tattoos and make up running around jumping on top of each other and screaming, you haven’t been to a wrestling show! After 30 years of downtime, San Francisco’s Fog City Wrestling promises a monthly dose of pro-wresting hijinks mixed with kitchy Mexican Lucha Libre with a splash of comic book antics. Istope comic store owner James Sime acted as commissioner and a part of the live show. GETV stopped by this weekend to witness the insanity, the hairless chests, the manly muscles, the screaming madness, the high-flying tricks, the body slams, the dropkicks, and the flying sweat. Irina enjoyed herself perhaps a bit much as she interviewed the roster of Fog City’s wrestlers. If “geek” means having a deep passion for something, then these guys are wrestling geeks for sure. If you can’t make it to Fog City’s live wrestling show on Jan 10, watch the livestream on their site. The organizers also post their audio and video podcast on the site, including promos and interviews with wrestlers from the roster. See you on the mat!

Episode links: Fog City Wrestling, NY Knockout, Tony Drake, Oliver John

Formats: iPod/iphone (.m4v)

It just about time for the Second Annual Chess Kings Invitational and Scholarship Exhibition Tournament brought to you by none other than the Bay Area’s own Hip Hop Chess Federation! That’s quite a mouthful, but say it again cuz it’s worth it. With help from friends like the Wu Tang Clan, HHCF has given out more than $10,000 in scholarships, and they only started last year. Irina met with HHCF founder Adisa Banjoko at O’Connell high school in San Francisco where kids are already practicing their skills on the chess boards, getting ready for the February event. Adisa reminisces about his days in the Bay Area’s hip hop scene when he hung out with legends like….wait for it….Tupak Shakur. The boss of online chess site Chess Park promises to teach Irina to play and two high school students talk about their chess strategies. See you on the 64!

Episode links: Chesspark, WuChess, 9queens, Hip Hop Chess Federation

Formats: iPhone/iPod (.m4v)

In this episode, Irina found herself an embedded reporter in the manly brown leather and earthy wood enclave of serious tech guru Leo Laporte. In case you haven’t listened to or watched one of Leo’s 14 netcasts, feel free to Google his name. Not only is he famous on the Internet, he’s also won an Emmy for his work on MSNBC. At Leo’s cottage studio in Petaluma, Irina and producer Nick were surrounded by microphones and were LIVE on TWiT — Leo’s daily tech talk show — as they recorded two episodes of GETV — one you see here and one for a later surprise. Being live is not something Irina is used to, so some regular TWiT viewers gave her a talking to in the chatroom! But Leo’s candid interview is a treat for his fans — he tells us his first crush was a man (leo WAS wearing a pink shirt) and reminisces about the summer of 1970 when he wore a blazer and an ascot. His family moved from the east coast to Santa Cruz where young Leo was shocked to see a girl in a bikini! Leo is his incredibly charming self and he talks about always giving the audience what they want! Here at GETV, we BLEED for our audience and we certainly never worry about our ratings. So what do you want next? Tell us at media@geekentertainment.tv.

Episode links: Leo Laporte, TWiT

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

While Irina was in NYC doing fancy schmancy things for Columbia Journalism School, she called her long-time Flickr friend and graffiti artist Royce Bannon to catch up. Irina met Royce when he was the photo editor of The Source hip hop magazine — he sent her a hand-painted tshirt that she wore an early episode of GETV. Irina and Royce discuss how he got into what he’s into. Royce Bannon aka R. Bizzle is a member of New York’s infamous Endless Love Crew and his work will be on display on the west coast at LA’s ThinkSpace Gallery from Jan. 9 – Feb 6, 2009 in a show called “From the Streets of Brooklyn.” (GETV would like to thank Matt Matossian of For Your Imagination Studios in NY who shot this episode for us. He is also the world-famous Shirtless Apprentice)

Episode links: Royce Bannon (myspace), (photos), Endless Love Crew, Diamond Headz, ThinkSpace Gallery, GETV: Charlie’s Real Life Chocolate Factory

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

After seeing that the old confederate state of Virginia went and voted for Obama, the GETV crew make some history of its own by pulling an all-nighter and doing a first-ever spot-news deadline episode! BUT ITS CUZ OBAMA IS PRESIDENT ELECT! We had to go out and party with the people of San Francisco and stop by the Current TV and Digg party to show you what it was like out here in the West Coast of A.

Episode links: Barack Obama

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)

When Bryce Case, Jr. aka YT Cracker called the GETV team to say he was in San Francisco to record an album with MC Lars, Irina had an idea. “Let’s make a rap video!” she said to the two pillars of nerdcore, who emailed her a song immediately. A few days later, Irina and producer Nick the Dude rudely interrupted the musicians, threw them in a car and drove to the mission, where they filmed a video to go along with “Manifest Destiny.” Here is what Bryce wrote about the song:

“Manifest Destiny” is a song loosely about humans’ need to conquer and assimilate by metaphorically alluding to the eponymous period in the American Old West. Chiefly, human nature hasn’t changed, and the attitude of manifest destiny strongly relates to the modern day, specifically the Internet. In people selfishly following their own interests, naturally good and bad consequences arise. The Rondo Brothers produced the beat for us one night and the next day when we went back to their studio, Brandon played the instrumental and immediately thought manifest destiny would be a great topic for asong. Lars and I wrote the lyrics on the spot and a hit song was born.

Episode links: YTCracker, MC Lars, digital gangster, The Way of the West (footage), user Stomp (crowd sounds)

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

If you’re watching this episode and don’t know what a LOLcat is, that’s like going to France and not knowing what’s inside an escargot shell. But never fear, we try to ‘splain it to you in the first few moments so that everyone, n00bs and all, can have fun at the LOLzoo! Creators of the wonderfully funny icanhascheezburger site met up in San Francisco’s animal habitat to celebrate the publication of their book, for which they had to cull through millions of images of LOLcats so you can enjoy them in the comfort of your own home. GETV was on hand to interview hoomans and animals to get their thoughts on all kinds of issues — language, domiciles, noms and LOLs!

Episode links: I Can Has Cheezburger, I Can Has Cheezburger book, SF Zoo, Doctor Popular (LOLcats song), Barce, Pete Cashmore

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

For the 11th year in a row, San Francisco film geeks came to worship at the Church of Peaches Christ this past summer of 2008. In case you are one of the uninitiated and unbaptized, the annual two-month-long event known as Midnight Mass is much more than a midnight movie. Irina sat down with the film freak phenom founder and creator, Peaches Christ aka Joshua Grannell, and got down to the nitty gritty details of how a humble (well, maybe not so humble) film student turned into a cult movie diva 2.0, became friends with John Waters, got her own VH1 show, started a religious movement, an SF film festival and got the man behind “Jaw Breaker” to produce her own feature film — titled “All About Evil” due out end of 2009 — and in general, spewed all kinds of fabulosity into the world of film geeks worldwide. Oh, and single-handedly created the status of “Showgirls” as a cult classic. Guests at Midnight Mass have included at least one person you and Rosie Palmer fantasized about during the early days of late night television. (Special shooting & post production thanks to Karim Amira)

Episode links: Peaches Christ

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

You think you know, but you have no idea…..how tough Chuck Norris really is until you read Ian Spector’s book “The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World’s Greatest Human.” GETV caught up with Ian at MIT’s ROFLcon and – despite the fact that Irina only knows about “Walker, Texas Ranger” because it comes on after two back-to-back episodes of “Murder, She Wrote” – got to the core of the Ian’s obsession about Chuck. Or at least figured out that Chuck is suing Ian so we really couldn’t talk that much about what Chuck thinks about Ian, but Irina did make plans with the under-21-year-old author to sneak him into a bar for some illegal drinking. The book has since become a best-seller and we hope will pay for Ian’s medical school bills. (Special post production thanks to Jonny Dailey).

Episode links: Chuck Norris Facts, The Truth About Chuck Norris: Facts About the World’s Greatest Human, Chuck Norris (official site), Chuck Norris on Chuck Norris Facts, Walker, Texas Ranger, Murder, She Wrote

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…. well, ok maybe not THAT long ago, but in internet years it feels like forever since the musical Vlog Deathmatch challenge that Doc Pop and Irina (almost) pwned in May 2007! We decided to repost the video here during the week that our new producer Nick settles into San Francisco — he just drove cross country from Buffalo, NY! The Vlog Deathmatch is a community event that is open to anyone who wants to throw down a challenge to the vlogging peeps (basically, anyone with a camera) — so when we heard about the music video challenge, Irina knew she wanted to use her rapping skills (ahem) to kill the other vloggers! GRRR! Memorable Vlog Deathmatchers include Veronica Belmont, who won for best air guitar video and the Rey Brothers for some really unmentionable monologue challenge, but their promotional video is a winner in my book! Miss Behavens for Lake Titicaca in the Drunk Underwear Karaoke challenge and another mindblowing promo from Casey McKinnon! Vlog Deathmatch FTW!

This video was created while Eddie and Irina were still with their “sugar daddy” Podtech, and couldn’t have been done without Nora McDevitt and Lee Cummings.

Episode links: Vlog Deathmatch Challenge, Veronica Belmont’s Trailer, Rey Brothers’ Promo, Miss Behavens: Lake Titicaca, Casey McKinnon’s Trailer, Doctor Popular

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Welcome to the annual Gumball 3000 international road rally, where the players are rich and the spectators wish they were.

Episode links: Gumball 3000 (official), Gumball 3000 (wikipedia)

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

This video is what happens when you put RZA, chess and 3 dorky geeks who like to rap into one giant mixing bowl! The legendary rapper and award winning chess-master decided to start wuchess.com — a website and give part of the proceeds to scholarships for needy kids.

To promote the website, Wuchess and RZA had a contest on YouTube for the best 8 lines about chess. Irina wasn’t satisfied with her simplistic little video, so she got her friends and made this!

Episode links: WuChess, RZA, George Kelly, Doctor Popular, Karim Amara (special thanks!!)

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Related on GETV: Hip Hop Chess Tournament

One man can make a difference! That tag line rang through every episode of the hit 80s tv show Knight Rider every Friday night as Michael aka David Hasselhoff raced his faithful K.I.T.T. into the hearts of millions of women — and men, really — in the world! In this episode, GETV catches up with the super star in San Francisco where the Hoff joined millionaires in the Gumball 300 rally. After Irina beat up the 500 other reporters trying to creep up on the Hoff, David tells Irina how he’s driving that same sleek black horsepower into the future, this time on the internets — the power of THE HOFF is so strong, he’s got his own social network where he makes dreams come true. Yes, you too can join HOFF SPACE and get your own HOFF BAG for those times when HOFF WIG is exactly what you need for the occasion.

Episode links: David Hasselhoff, DavidHasselhoff.com (HoffSpace), Gumball 3000

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Irina has been shadowing dragstar Heklina around San Francisco for so long, she may as well get a Tranny Chaser t-shirt! You can get one for yourself at Heklina’s legendary party called Trannyshack — mucking up our fair city weekly for 12 years, the club night has been officially recognized by our own special mayor, Gavin Newsom. No Cher or Barbara Streisand here, these drag queens do songs by Arcade Fire, Peaches, Missy Elliot, Bjork and the inimitable Kate Bush. Heklina has hosted Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Charo, Gwen Stefani and NY party monster Lady Bunny. Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters performed frequently at Trannyshack before moving to New York. Heklina IS a super drag geek and here we get a piece of history and a totally different kind of geek.

Episode links: Heklina, Trannyshack, Trannsformation photos [thanks Tara Spalty]

Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

While some of tech nobodies thought some kind of Apple event crowded out San Francisco with geeky types, Irina knew better. Tens of thousands of people pummeled our fair city with their presence to attend the WWWDC — the World Wide Wrestling Developers Conference, where nerdy alter ego’s of pale weaklings body-slammed each other deep into the night! Irina’s wresting twin, The Kazakhstane Krusher — no impostor like Borat (the entire film was shot in Romania!) — Irina was born in the nuclear waste fields of the former Soviet republic, and has the anatomic anomalies to prove it. Some of those anomalies are included in her signature moves, the K-Rocket Launchers! Lets see what kind of damage the bone-thin denizens of geekdom can bring in the wresting ring!

Episode links: Buzz’s WWDC Party, Kazakhstan, Buzz Anderson (The Bootlegger), Kevin Rose (“help me!”), Gutter Grill (Minna Bartender), Micah Saul (Guillotine Geek), Andy Smith (Bandito el Burrito)

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

June 11 is John Wayne’s birthday and what better way to commemorate the Duke’s enduring legacy than the John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight at Alamo Square in San Francisco? Don’t answer that, let’s let Irina try.

Episode links: John Wayne, John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight, Music: Doctor Popular

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Ben Huh, chief cheezburger of I Can Has Cheezburger has turned his love of LOLCats into a popular site and even scored a book deal. While at MIT for ROFLCon, he stepped into the role of Stephen LOLking to explain the mysteries of his Universal Theory of LOLS to Irina.

Episode Links: I Can Has Cheezburger, ROFLCon

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

JibJab is known for their short, funny music and political videos that you’ve no doubt forwarded to your mother or sister at least twice. While at ROLFcon in Boston, we ran into three mustachioed men who are writers and producers for JibJab. Irina demands they be funny.

Episode links: JibJab, ROFLcon, Scott Beale / Laughing Squid (Irina’s photos)

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

While at our favorite geek summer camp known as SXSW Interactive, Irina polls a few peeps on what the Internet and SXSW has done for them lately. The answers are as varied as they are earnest.

Episode links: SXSW Interactive, M dot Strange, Guy Kawasaki, AllTop, Tim Ferriss, Michael Verdi, Jason Toney, Liz Gannes, Clarence, Jessica Mah, George Oates, Daniel Burka, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paula Cavagnaro, John Halcyon Styn, Loren Feldman

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

It’s a hard life being most excellent at most video games, but Johnathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty doesn’t shy away from the challenge. So what does happen in a typical day of a professional video game player? That’s what we really wanted to know too, so Irina invades Fatal1ty’s hotel room to find out.

Episode links: Fatal1ty, Fatal1ty (wikipedia), PMS Clan

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

What better way to spend Valentine’s Day than beating the crap out of someone else’s lover with a pillow? That’s exactly what happened when over a thousand lost souls gathered in San Francisco on this fateful day for the annual rite of passage known as Pillow Fight.

Episode links: Pillow Fight San Francisco, Chocolate Rain 8bit Remix

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Anonymous is a nebulous and faceless group that normally lives comfortably on the Internet but has chosen to step into meatspace on this particular day to face off with the Church of Scientology, an organization which it considers to be illegal and immorally coercive. Scientology labels Anonymous a ‘cyber terrorist’ group. Protests against Scientology were organized simultaneously in cities all around the world. Irina pays a visit to the Church’s San Francisco headquarters to get a sense of what all the fuss is about.

Episode links: Scientology, Anonymous, Project Chanology, Xenu.net, Lawrence Wollersheim, Mike Rinder, BBC Panaroma on Scientology
Full interview: Lawrence Wollersheim

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Back before there was the Internet, early caveman dialed into computer bulletin board systems or BBSes to get their online fix. Many of these boards distinguished themselves with ANSI art, an early form of electronic cave paintings. ANSI was an extension to the even earlier form of caveman communication known as ASCII used in MS-DOS based computers. It is with great pleasure that we happened upon the San Francisco hacker art gallery “20 goto 10″ where an ANSI art exhibition was in progress. Irina Slutsky talks to curator Kevin Olson who takes us on a tour of some of the amazing early work of two ANSI artists, lordjazz and somms.

Episode links: ANSI Art (wikipedia), ANSI Art Gallery Show, 20 goto 10 Gallery, Sixteen Colors ANSI Archive, ACiD, Phlogiston (soundtrack)

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

We all know that one crazy cat lady who puts her complete love, money and affection into her feline friends. Do you know what happens when crazy cat ladies come together and subject their little love muffins to the scrutiny of the harsh lights and exacting judges? Neither did we which is why Irina Slutsky and Violet Blue decided to visit the Fog City Cat Show in Alameda, California.

Episode links: Fog City Cat Club, lolcats, Doctor Popular, Drown Radio, Violet Blue

Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

GETV pops down to Los Angeles to see how geeks can help support the striking television and movie writers of Hollywood. Solidarity through double-clicking or not double-clicking, that is the question. Irina catches up with writer and actor Seth Rogen, Chris Provenzano,Phil Rosenthal and Richard Potter on the picket line to find out from them how we geeks can help.

Episode links: United Hollywood, WGA, Seth Rogen, Chris Provenzano, Phil Rosenthal, Richard Potter, Strike Dancing

Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)

Here’s a bit more coverage from the NewTeeVee Live conference. Irina asks some new media talent about the old media game.

Episode links: NewTeeVee Live, CNET Webware, French Maid TV, ICM, The Dot Comix, Tiki Bar TV

Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)

We dropped into the inaugural NewTeeVee Live! conference this week so Irina could ask some burning questions on fashion, content, and of course everyone’s favorite subject, the long tail.

Episode links: NewTeeVee Live, Revision3, Laughing Squid, OpenRoad.TV, Xlntads, Heather Gold, Seesmic

Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)

Maybe this will help, maybe it won’t. Thanks to the ever prolific Doc Popular for the hook up with some custom intro and outro theme music, debuting for the first time in this little inspirational piece.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)

The fun dispensable candy known as PEZ is undoubtedly one of the geeky wonders of the world. We got super excited when we learned that the world’s only PEZ museum was a mere half hour drive down the road. Justine Ezarik aka iJustine was in town, and it turns out that she’s a huge PEZ fan and collector. Only Steve Jobs or a new Apple product launch could keep her away. iJustine and Irina pay a visit, take a tour and get the history of PEZ from Gary Doss, curator of the Burlingame PEZ Museum of Memorabilia.

Episode links: PEZ Museum, PEZ Candy (official site), iJustine

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)

We got wind of a big chess tournament happening with some of the big names in hip hop, so of course we had to see what this was all about. Turns out the Hip Hop Chess Federation was putting on the inaugural Chess Kings Invitational, an event with the brightest young minds of chess competing for scholarships and the big belt. Chess, hip hop music and martial arts are the elements that build life strategies according to founder Adisa Banjoko. Irina gets the scoop behind the 64 squares and meets legends PopMaster Fabel of the Rock Steady Crew and The RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan among others.

Episode links: Hip Hop Chess Federation, HHCF blog, Adisa Banjoko, Pop Master Fabel, Emma Bentley, The RZA, DLabrie, Davey D’s wrapup, Chesspark, [full interviews: Adisa Banjoko, PopMaster Fabel, Emma Bentley, DLabrie, The RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, Rugged Monk]

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | YouTube

Podcasters and videobloggers from all around the world converged recently on the eastern Los Angeles wasteland of Ontario, California for the Podcast and New Media Expo. As one can imagine, much incestuous self-referential media making went on among the attendees. And we at Geek Entertainment TV are no different. See which micro-celebrities Irina accosts with her microphone. Odds are, you are probably one of them.

Episode links: Steve Garfield, Women of Warcraft Podcast, The Clip Show, Cinema Psychic, Daily Breakfast, Lab Rats, Total Podcastrophe, The Medical Minute, Nick Starr, Rocketboom, Paul Dateh, Midwest Teen Sex Show

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Viddler

On the eve of the heavily anticipated launch of Halo 3, Microsoft opened it’s Silicon Valley doors to developers and gamers for a sneak preview of the game that every kid in America wants. Irina catches the zeitgeist of a Halo 3 multiplayer tournament and has a chat with some of Microsoft’s Xbox hardware engineers who made it all possible.

Episode links: Halo 3, Bungie, Xbox 360, Microsoft

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod/iPhone) | YouTube | Viddler

A million virtual boozers can’t be wrong, nor can they be drunk unless you bring them into reality. Reality is what happened at Booze Mail’s Million Booze March event where virtual boozers came out of the closet to embrace actual reality based booze drinks. If reality scares you like it does us, stick to the uber popular Booze Mail Facebook app and you won’t have to drink real drinks with real people again. Irina shows us why it’s a bit scary.

Episode links: Booze Mail (FB app), Million Booze March (photos), Renkoo, Schlomo

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod/iPhone)

It would really suck if your cell phone, iPod or Zune got you killed while driving which is why Microsoft’s got your back. Their new Sync platform hooks up your bluetooth device to your car, assuming you have a new Ford and a Windows 98 install CD. OK, install CD is optional. It’s all voice activated goodness from there. Velle Kolde of Microsoft Auto shows Irina how to call Bill Gates and find Bootylicious on her imaginary Zune.

Episode links: Ford Sync, Microsoft Auto

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

The force is strong with this one, young geek viewer. We caught up with Mr. Cranky Geek himself, John C. Dvorak, while he was brushing up his crank skills with Master Yoda outside of George Lucas’ infamous Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco’s Presidio. Irina goes into deep history with Dvorak to discover it all started with a fly in the sandwich.

Episode links: John C. Dvorak, Cranky Geeks, ILM

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)

Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV and Irina suck on rocks, eat dirt and taste wine like superheros. If you’ve seen the Conan bit, this is similar until Irina turns the tables on Gary. Filmed at Technorati whom we love for putting up with our disruptions.

Episode links: Wine Library TV, Gary on Conan, Technorati

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

We dropped by Linuxworld 2007 in San Francisco to see what’s new in the world of Linux operating systems, stacks, racks and porn. Irina goes deep among the penguins.

Episode links: Linuxworld, ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, FreeBSD, FreeBSDGirl, LinuxQuestions

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

If you have any doubt that robots are taking over, can carry a tune and are mean fuckers, then check this video out. Captured! By Robots dragged their creator JBOT to the last show of their tenth anniversary tour here in their home destination of San Francisco. Irina corners JBOT around back of the Bottom of the Hill before the show and tries to find out why he lets his creations torture him so.

Episode links: Captured! By Robots, JBOT, Bottom of the Hill

Yes, this music video will make you buy an iPhone if you don’t already have one. No, we don’t get kickbacks from Apple nor do we make any apologies.

Directed, produced and edited by Nora McDevitt, featuring Randi Jayne, MC Prager & MC Slutsky. A collaborative effort.

Episode links: iPhone, Nora McDevitt (imdb), Randi Jayne, MC Prager, MC Slutsky, Doctor Popular, Myloekoe, Laura Swisher, FBC

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)

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The culmination of all the hype finally hit on iPhone d-day. We went down to the Apple Store in San Francisco and spoke with a few potential iPhone owners waiting in line and a couple excited newbie owners with booty in hand. Irina takes the pulse.

Episode links: iPhone, SF Apple Store, Santa Inc : Dorothy’s Magic Bus (soundtrack)

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

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We took a trip down to Los Angeles for the first inaugural Pixelodeon online video festival. Irina chats up a handful of the creative minds that made this a weekend to remember.

Episode links: Pixelodeon, Can We Do That?, Rick Rey, Eric Rey, Josh Cohen, TheHill88, Fred Seibert, [full interviews: Can We Do That?, Rey Brothers, Josh Cohen, TheHill88, Fred Seibert]

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | iPod (.mp4) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

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To scale or not to scale Ruby on Rails, that is the question at the first geekSessions event in San Francisco. Using her super reporting powers, Irina finds out from attendees and presenters how Ruby scales in comparison to… other things.

Episode links: geekSessions, Ruby on Rails

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Portable (iPod) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

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Yahoo! opened her new San Francisco research lab to an unsuspecting public lucky enough to sample her fresh warez. Irina hits the Pipes, samples the del.icio.us DNA, gets mixd and finds a very happy Messenger.

Episode links: Yahoo Brickhouse, Pipes, del.icio.us, mixd, Messenger

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod

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It was 25 years ago when Michael Knight began prowling the mean streets with his trusty molecular bonded chatty partner KITT. Michael was last seen in Germany while KITT waits on a lonely used car lot in Dublin, California for a new owner flush with the correct configuration of Benjamins. Irina gets inside KITT and has a little heart-to-heart with the hardened turbo powered crime fighter.

Episode links: KITT, Knight Rider, Kassabian Motors (for sale)

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod

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We were recently invited to check out Double Vision’s “To Futurism and Back Again” dance performance. Irina checks in with Double Vision’s artistic directors Pauline Jennings and Sean Clute to find out what ‘intermedia’ means and how dance relates to technology.

Episode links: Double Vision, To Futurism and Back Again

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod

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NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California opened up her vast hangar to celebrate the anniversary of the first man in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. Oh what a long way we've come since the Cold War. This night was a mix of space geeks, Burning Man freaks and tons of fun.

Episode links: Yuri's Night, NASA Ames, The Straggler [C.M.PUTER] (buy)

Formats available: Quicktime, iPod/Apple TV

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Justin.tv is the mobile Internet lifecasting phenomenon that’s blowing up the new and old mediasphere. Justin Kan invited us over to his messy ass dorm style apartment which doubles as his startup company. Irina gets the scoop on Justin’s vow of 24×7 public existence long before Jay Leno. Has anyone called Leno yet?

Episode links: Justin.tv, JenniCam, mike photo (LMDocherty), schlomo photo (cirne), Kent Bye (for footage capture)

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod

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GETV was in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW), the annual geek summer camp. It was all about the panels, hallways and parties. So what's the score on who hangs out where? That's what Irina finds out.

Episode links: SXSW 2007, Hugh MacLeod, Srini Kumar, Bre Pettis, Dale Dougherty, Violet Blue, Jonathan Moore, Robert Boyle, Kris Krug, Casey McKinnon, Rudy Jahchan, Eric Rice, Molly Wright Steenson, Scott Beale, Gabe Rivera, Joshua Pollack, Aaron Valdez, Douglas Sarine, Twitter, Jennifer Robbins, Jackson West, Chuck Olsen, Kent Nichols

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod

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Adaptive Path, that rascally little South Park user experience studio at the center of all things web 2.0, celebrated it’s sixth year in existence with a retro prom party. Last year, we had to find out what the meaning of Adaptive Path is. This year, we channel our inner VC and get the answers to questions that any potential sugar daddy might ask.

Episode links: Adaptive Path, Flickr photos, AP5: What is Adaptive Path?

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod | DivX

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We were recently invited to check out Charles Ross’ One-Man Star Wars Trilogy theatre show in San Francisco. In one hour, Charles single handedly runs through many of the best moments of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Dialogue, music, special effects and even a few references to the prequel, Charles manages a thoroughly convincing rendition of the trilogy. Irina has a few words with Charles after the opening night show in SF. Playing now until March 11th in San Francisco. Go see it! Use code DARTH and save $5.

Episode links: Charles Ross, San Francisco Show, Star Wars

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod | DivX

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We recently won a trip to Stockholm, Sweden to hang out with the girlz 0f destruction at the Home of Chrome girlz gaming house. For these girls, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament is their blood, low ping times is their mantra and weird Swedish food keeps them going through the night. Livia, Alana and Therese show us how it's done and give us the low down on the team and the house.

Episode links: girlz 0f destruction, Home of Chrome, Livia, Alana, Therese

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod | DivX

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At a recent Dorkbot, we happened upon three suspected terrorists in San Francisco harboring dangerous blinky LED cartoon characters. These are the same Aqua Teen Hunger Force "infernal machines" that caused Boston authorities to so thoroughly freak out recently. Watch Out! These Mooninites might look cute, but when attached to things like signs or street polls they take on an extremely explosive quality. Irina gets the scoop from the suspected terrorists.

Episode links: Michelle Clay (photo), Magic Safire (photo), Jonathan Lassoff, Mooninites (Ignignokt and Err), Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Boston Terror Scare, Dorkbot-SF

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod | DivX

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/02/20/holy-blinky-devices-of-terror/feed/ 7 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/02/09/in-the-streets-of-stockholm/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/02/09/in-the-streets-of-stockholm/#comments Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:25:01 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/02/09/in-the-streets-of-stockholm/

We found ourselves in Stockholm, Sweden last week so we decided to hit the streets and see how the Scandinavian youth of today use the Internet. With megabits of pipe to play with, these kids fill us in on some of their turf.

Episode links: Stockholm, Hamsterpaj, hamster, pie, Demonoid, The Poodles, The Pirate Bay

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod | DivX

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/02/09/in-the-streets-of-stockholm/feed/ 12 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/02/02/searching-for-windows-vista/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/02/02/searching-for-windows-vista/#comments Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:40:37 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/02/02/searching-for-windows-vista/

The hype was huge but what's the reality behind the Microsoft Vista launch? We're not sure either, but we do try to get to the bottom of it at our local software retailer.

Episode links: Windows Vista, Jonathan Lasoff, Best Buy

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/02/02/searching-for-windows-vista/feed/ 16 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/18/jackie-martling-is-the-joke-man/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/18/jackie-martling-is-the-joke-man/#comments Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:37:29 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/18/jackie-martling-is-the-joke-man/

While wandering the floor of CES last week, we came across a lonely comedian reading the newspaper next to a stack of joke machine gadgets. Upon further investigation, we find out it's Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, the man who occupied the Jackie chair on the Howard Stern show for 15 years. Irina gets put through the Jackie wringer in style, nothing left untouched or to the imagination.

Episode links: Jackie Martling, Katie Fahrenbacher, CES 2007

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/18/jackie-martling-is-the-joke-man/feed/ 16 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/12/walking-the-floor-at-ces-2007/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/12/walking-the-floor-at-ces-2007/#comments Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:10:32 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/12/walking-the-floor-at-ces-2007/

We recently found ourselves in Las Vegas for the ginormous annual Consumer Electronics Show. Spanning several massive floors in several massive buildings, this is the event for all things gadgets, geek and just plain wtf? You’ve already heard about the 100″+ HD plasma displays, the Blu-Ray disc players, the portable 1TB disk drives. So rather than waste your time rehashing all that, we thought we’d have Irina take you on a tour of some of the more obscure finds at CES.

Episode links: CES2007, Veronica Belmont, Jimmy Rooney

Formats available: Quicktime | iPod

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/12/walking-the-floor-at-ces-2007/feed/ 17 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/05/rooftop-drinks-withtiki-bar-tv/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/05/rooftop-drinks-withtiki-bar-tv/#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:01:18 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/05/rooftop-drinks-withtiki-bar-tv/

Dr. Tiki and Johnny Johnny of the intoxicatingly refreshing online video show Tiki Bar TV happened to be in our neck of the woods recently. Irina cornered the good doctor and witty mixologist on a San Francisco rooftop and got the scoop on behind the scenes drinking, snakes that are all shaft and no balls, show production, Russian mail order brides and the future of Tiki Bar TV and the Internet. Much knowledge being spewed, you really don’t want to miss this.

Episode links: Tiki Bar TV

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | QT iPod (.mov)

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2007/01/05/rooftop-drinks-withtiki-bar-tv/feed/ 1 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/30/a-yelp-holiday-party/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/30/a-yelp-holiday-party/#comments Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:01:25 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/30/a-yelp-holiday-party/

What is all this Yelping about? Why do Yelpers throw such great parties? What makes Yelpers such a passionate bunch? What the hell is Yelp anyway? All legitimate questions. GETV invades a recent Yelp holiday party at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco in a vain attempt at getting to the bottom of these thorny questions. OK, so the open bar helped to grease the wheels, but the free booze didn’t make the night’s interactions any less interesting. Irina brings you the scoop with interviews of several passionate Yelpers.

Episode links: Yelp, California Academy of Sciences, Jeremy Stoppelman

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | QT iPod (.mov)

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/30/a-yelp-holiday-party/feed/ 7 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/23/xmas-special-music-video/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/23/xmas-special-music-video/#comments Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:07:17 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/23/xmas-special-music-video/

After seeing Justin Timberlake’s brilliant gift idea on SNL last week, MC Slutsky didn’t want to leave the fella’s out in the cold. So, despite a horrific tone deafness, here is her rendition of this very special Christmas song. The track was laid down by Drown Radio aka Doc, a San Francisco electronic music artist and Nerdcore MC, who also directed the video for MC Slutsky’s musical debut. Look out for more collaborations from these two, a la Timbaland/Missy. Additional presents provided by Molly Ditmore. And all the fancy gadgets are belong to Ryan Block. Big ups to Jay Dedman for the camera & editing work on this one.

Episode links: SNL: A Special Christmas Box, Drown Radio, Nerdcore, Molly Ditmore, Ryan Block, Jay Dedman, Step-by-step Instructions, digg it!  

Versions available: Quicktime (.mov) | QT iPod (.mov) | Audio (.mp3) | YouTube | Stage6: DivX

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/23/xmas-special-music-video/feed/ 135 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/17/running-fool-is-the-human-baton/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/17/running-fool-is-the-human-baton/#comments Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:56:32 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/17/running-fool-is-the-human-baton/

Ze Frank has a posse. That posse is known as Sports Racers. One Sports Racer by the name of RunningFool, or Luke as his parents might call him, is in the midst of tossing himself off from Sports Racer to Sports Racer in an attempt to travel across the United States. Completely organized from the forum of Ze Frank’s website, RunningFool is traveling like a human baton with the help of 300 fellow Sports Racers. Irina catches up with RunningFool as he passes through the San Francisco Bay area. Several other Sports Racers show up and demand to be counted.

Episode links: RunningFool, Human Baton, Ze Frank, Ze’s description, Flickr photo pool, Jay Dedman (thx for the camera work)

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg) | Stage6: DivX

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/17/running-fool-is-the-human-baton/feed/ 9 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/04/sf-zine-festivities/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/04/sf-zine-festivities/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:43:05 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/04/sf-zine-festivities/

GETV paid a visit to the annual San Francisco Zine Fest, where passionate zinesters, illustrators, artists and cross stichers of all stripes gather. Here’s a sampling of the festivities from this year’s event.

Episode links: SF Zine Fest, François Vigneault, Julia Wertz, Mary Van Note, Brandon Hanvey, Pod Post, Kate Isenberg, Dana Steffe, King Cat

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg) | Stage6: DivX

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/04/sf-zine-festivities/feed/ 5 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/29/ask-a-ninja-goes-dvd/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/29/ask-a-ninja-goes-dvd/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:44:38 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/29/ask-a-ninja-goes-dvd/

Today, all ninja fans worldwide are able to pre-order the hot-of-the-press Ask A Ninja DVD compilation. In honor of the DVD release, the International Day of the Ninja on Dec. 5 and — most importantly — the fact that this episode of GETV will be featured on the historic DVD (as far as we can tell, this is the first online video show that has put out a compilation), we’ve decided to rebroadcast our interview with Kent Nichols and Doug Sarine, the guys behind the Ninja. Or next to the Ninja, sometimes they stand in front of him as well — anything to avoid getting killed.

For everyone in the LA/Hollywood crew, Irina will be co-hosting the Ask A Ninja party on Dec. 5, so please come by around 7pm to Cinespace at 6356 Hollywood Boulevard and say hello. Though be forewarned as the floor may be covered in human pizza.

Episode links: Ask A Ninja, International Day of Ninja, Pre-Order Ninja DVD, DVD Release Party

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg) | Stage6: DivX

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We stopped by Podcamp West where podcasters of all stripes where in attendance sharing, shmoozing and spitting. Irina caught up with a few of them mingling outside the Swedish American Hall venue.

Episode Links: Network Security Podcast, Paradigm Girls Podcast, MadPod, Test Drive Girl, Sexy Celebrity Interviews, Dummycast, PetsOnBoard, blip.tv

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/26/podcamp-west/feed/ 2 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/23/in-bed-with-dawn-and-drew/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/23/in-bed-with-dawn-and-drew/#comments Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:35:00 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/23/in-bed-with-dawn-and-drew/

Our 100th episode! What better way to cap off our first c-note of episodes than climbing in bed with Dawn Miceli and Drew Domkus of the Dawn and Drew Show. They were in town emceeing a gamers conference (where we won a trip to Sweden, btw) so we stalked them back to their ridiculous circus themed hotel room to have a romp in the hay with them. Irina gets the poop on everything from Dawn & Drew’s furry chickens, early days of podcasting, viewer stats, turtle videos, and Irina’s prunes. digg it!

Episode links: Dawn & Drew Show, Dawn & Drew TV, Furry Chicken, Adam, Ron, Prune Love, Scoblette

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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We caught up with some of the best Quake 4 players in the world at a recent gamers conference in San Francisco. Irina chats up Missy, Livia, trito and Alana from the girlz of destruction computer gaming team. They all currently live in the Home of CHROME, a 24/7 gamer house in Stockholm, Sweden where we’ll be visiting soon! Irina also talks with Rafik aka LoSt-CaUzE who claims the title of being the #1 Quake 4 player in the US.

Episode links: Home of CHROME, girlz of destruction, Missy, Livia, trito, Alana, Rafik "LoSt-CaUsE" Bryant, Quake 4

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/18/kicking-ass-with-the-top-quake-4-players/feed/ 23 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/07/the-vloggies-does-us/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/07/the-vloggies-does-us/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:04 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/07/the-vloggies-does-us/

If you weren’t able to make it to the Vloggies this past weekend in San Francisco, then you must experience the magic in this super condensed version of the awards festivities. Irina Slutsky along with Daniel McVicar hosted this seminal event in front of a crowd of over 300 screaming vlog fans. Enjoy!

Episode links: The Vloggies, Full Winners List, Laughing Squid Photos, Podtech, Dan McVicar

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Stage6: DivX

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/07/the-vloggies-does-us/feed/ 16 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/03/really-simple-stupid-news-with-ronnie/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/03/really-simple-stupid-news-with-ronnie/#comments Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:50:01 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/03/really-simple-stupid-news-with-ronnie/

Irina joins Ronnie of RSS News (“all puppet news, all the time”) on the set of his new show, which is set to launch any moment now. Ronnie talks a bit about his motivations for the new show and where he likes to park.? Irina then sits down with Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf, the brains, voices and fingers behind the Jet Set Show and RSS News. They reveal some of their videoblogging secrets and tell us what it’s like living the videoblogger life in a Hollywood town.

Episode links: RSS News, Jet Set Show, Zadi Diaz, Steve Woolf, Daniel McVicar

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/11/03/really-simple-stupid-news-with-ronnie/feed/ 7 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/21/mcvlogger-daniel-mcvicar-wants-you-to-make-media/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/21/mcvlogger-daniel-mcvicar-wants-you-to-make-media/#comments Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:45:04 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/21/mcvlogger-daniel-mcvicar-wants-you-to-make-media/

When our new boss Rorbert Scoble said he’d had dinner with a great vlogger who’s also "some guy who’s on a soap opera," Irina’s ears perked up.  Turns out he’s on a soap opera that Irina and her sister have watched since the beginning. ("Vera, why they show same movies every day from noon to 4 pm on every channel?") Needless to say, when said vlogger and UBERSTAR Daniel McVicar offered to co-host the Vloggies, Irina nearly fake-fainted. Not only has Daniel played almost-evil but ultra-hot soap stud Clarke Garrison for two decades on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful, he’s also hosted at least three Ms. Europe pageants so he knows award shows! What we like best about Daniel McVicar is that he brings his amazing wisdom and experience of old skool tv media into the new without taking himself too seriously — and this makes us respect him and want to learn from him! Imagine that — is it some kind of zen buddhism thing where being humble gives you the authority that is truly yours? Anyway, Daniel has managed to win the hearts of the vlogosphere with a wink and a nod on The McVlog and even Ze Frank has a bit of the old vlogger crush on the chesty hunk. Daniel is opening his show to the viewers with his newly released Late Night Mash so send him your clips and see what he does with ‘em.

Episode links: Daniel McVicar, The McVlog, Chinese Backstreet Boys, Late Night Mash, Vloggies, Vloggies and Room Keys

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/21/mcvlogger-daniel-mcvicar-wants-you-to-make-media/feed/ 12 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/18/mark-wants-you-to-watch-cutube/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/18/mark-wants-you-to-watch-cutube/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:25:01 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/18/mark-wants-you-to-watch-cutube/

This isn’t the first time I’ve grabbed Mark Cuban in the hall of a hotel to interview him, and it won’t be the last! And I must say, Cuban is as gracious a webebrity as GETV has ever met. Not only did he shake the hand of every member of the Consumer Electronics Association who wanted to touch a piece of history (yes, goddamit — if you sell your start-up for $5 billion in 1991, and then you buy the Dallas Mavericks and then you marry a hottie named Tiffany, you’re a piece of American history), he explained his Sharesleuth.com website several times over to several inquiring minds. When we finally wrestled Cuban away from his fans to our adoring camera, we had to bug him about his topic du jour = YouTube’s illegal conent and how it’s all going down in a burning ball of lawsuits . Cuban’s been busy — he’s got 12 films coming out of his production studio, the first due out Dec. 1 called The Architect featuring Isabella Rosellini. But our favorite part of the interview is where he tells us what he does in front of the television AFTER he checks his email at night. You’ll have to watch to see what that is.

Episode links: Mark Cuban, CEA Forum, VHS Hell, HDNetFilms

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

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What does a 24-year-old physics student have to do with running celebrity-focused ajax-yummy site Kevo? GETV flew all the way to Los Angeles to find out. We met up with late-blooming geekstar Will Jessup (he discovered his Java genius only a few years ago) and asked him to show us his very LA-LA-land labor of love. Basically, Will wants to create the end-all source of information on all famous people in the whole universe. Kevo is like wikipedia for celebrities but with features of digg and none of those pesky wikipedia problems where anyone can edit anything — users have to earn karma points and can’t edit pages pages that are worth more points than they have earned so far. Get it? I know, even Will admits he may be too brilliant for his own good, but we discourage anyone from dumbing themselves down just to be understood. That’s what we’re here for.

Episode links: Will Jessup, Kevo, GameMethod, Banksy Vs Paris Hilton 

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

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If GETV could admit to being a groupie of any vlog, it would be Ask A Ninja, since being a groupie of a ninja is an honor. And being killed by one is too. But Irina’s not quite ready to be chopped up into little pieces, so instead she fired off question after question at the "Ask a Ninja" team of Kent Nichols aka Beatbox Giant (he towers at six feet six inches tall) and Doug Sarine, who is "very close with the ninja" we hear. The ninja is not only a lethal killer, but with hundreds of thousands of viewers, a vlogging force of destruction. Hear about ninja skills of epidermal removal and frozen baskets of loneliness.

Episode links: Ask A Ninja 

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

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Yahoo!, that benevolent purple and yellow Internet behemoth, opened her doors to hungry hackers of all stripes for 24 hours last weekend. The result was over 500 pizzas eaten, 100+ dozen Krispy Kremes demolished, untold gallons of Rockstar, RedBull and coffee liquified, one major rockstar played out and over 50 API mashup projects completed. Here’s a peak at a few of those projects.

Episode links: Yahoo Hack Day 2006, dotBen, Rabble, Monologr,  Bjoern Hartmann, Color Field Camera, David Filo, Mo Kakwan – Blabber

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/06/yahoo-locks-in-hackers-for-24-hours/feed/ 4 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/03/lets-hack-this-beck/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/03/lets-hack-this-beck/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:35:05 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/03/lets-hack-this-beck/

Who knew that a megalo-uber-etoile like Beck Hansen would entertain just a few hundred geekerati this past weekend (the likes of dotben and Joyce Parks) at Yahoo Hack Day 2006, but alas, it’s true. To the amazed delight of childlike adults dressed in all manner of t-shirt and jean combos, one of the best musicians around (and Scientology’s finest gift to mankind so far) put on a full stage show at the annual geekfest, including on-stage-maneuvered puppets, bear costumes and even a custom-filmed mini-movie about hacking, Yahoo! and puppet porn. Hard as GETV tried to climb into the Yahoo! workout room, where Beck met with the Yahoo! fancy-pants, we could not (Eddie wanted to get some beer, mostly.) Finally, as Beck graced the hacking area (aka, Yahoo! cafeteria) we grabbed the band members and asked them as many questions as we could, despite having no brain cells left in the presence of actual and non-Internet rock stars.

Episode links: Beck, Puppetron, Brian LeBarton, Matt Sherrod, Matt Mahaffey, Wounded Cougar, Yahoo! Hack Day, Hackers are Here, NEW Beck Album: The Information

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

]]> http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/10/03/lets-hack-this-beck/feed/ 6 http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/09/29/young-and-visible-revving-their-engines/ http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/09/29/young-and-visible-revving-their-engines/#comments Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:20:08 +0000 ekai http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/09/29/young-and-visible-revving-their-engines/

Seriously, these guys are like a set of triplets connected at the brain cuz when we asked them a question, all three would answer in parts that spewed out like one coherent resposnse. The "them" is Invisible Engine, a brilliant online film production crew comprised of Sean Bury, Chris Cantwell and Matt Wyatt and these very young men like to make shorts — funny shorts, shorts about genitalia, just plain short shorts, you get the picture. Watch us seperate these siamese triplets and make them bleed.

Episode links: Invisible Engine Films, The Prototype, Dicks Out Tuxedos, Forbidden Fruit   

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

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