Kevin James

Kevin James

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Kevin James

Born April 26, 1965

Kevin James is a truly funny guy. He has played a variety of roles and he seems to be able to play just about any role, some of which we will dig into below. He is very deft at physical humor but then you watch him act and emote and he is a very talented as an actor.

Noteworthy

  • Hitch – This was the first movie that I remember Kevin James in. He was fantastic in this role. In particular, the training montage with Will Smith is one of the funniest things that Will Smith has been involved in, in a long time.
  • The King of Queens – Doug Heffernan, as a character, ran across three different shows. Doug was the springboard for Kevin James onto the large screen and really gave a jolt to his career. Add Leah Remini to this and it is no wonder that James is as big a star as he is.
  • I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry – Kevin James and Adam Sandler are box office gold. Having them marry each other for health benefits – genius. Such a funny thought provoking movie.
  • Paul Blart: Mall Cop – Bag on this movie all you want. They had me when he slid across the floor and didn’t quite make it to cover. Laughed my ass off.
  • Here Comes the Boom – A much more trim Kevin James learning to MMA fight to save a program in his school. Bizarre plot great flick. Loved it.

There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

-Kevin James

Think you live in a Town with a Weird Name

by | September 2, 2016 | Featured, Trivia | 0 Comments

Think you live in a Town with a Weird Name - Check these out! People make weird decisions about the names they give towns. Back in the day these names may have made sense, but now... Here we go: Booger Hollow, Arkansas – Believe it or not this town used to be a...
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Like a C5 Like a C5 Rocket

by | January 10, 2018 | Beyond Geek, Featured, Pop Culture, Science | 0 Comments

On this day, 1962, NASA made a big announcement. They said they were gonna rocket it Like a C5 Like a C5 Rocket. Ok, forgive my bit of punniness, but I am and always have been a fan of the US Space Agency, NASA. In 1962 they did announce that they were going to create...
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Kurt Russell

by | March 17, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Kurt Russell Born March 17, 1951   Damn, I love Kurt Russell. He is one of my favorite actors. I don't know that I have seen everything he is in but it is not for lack of trying. Below is a very brief recount of some of my favs. Noteworthy Escape from New York - 80s...
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Just Cause 3

by | March 30, 2017 | Featured, Video Games | 0 Comments

I am currently playing through Just Cause 3 on PS4. I have been a fan of this series from day one. In fact, I think I may have purchased the first one the day that the game came out. Basically, this is an action adventure game in an open world environment. Third...
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Hollywood Babble On

by | March 27, 2017 | Comedy, Featured, Podcast, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Hollywood Babble-On was my first. Ralph Garman and Kevin Smith took my pod-cherry together. They stormed into my week, forced me to slog through a backlog of aural goodness and then continued to make me come back for more. And not only do I come back for more... I...
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Jason Lee

Jason Lee

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Jason Lee

Born April 25, 1970

Jason Lee has been someone I have watched in everything they have been in since I saw him in Mallrats back in the day. Love his acting style and love the way he approaches a character.

Noteworthy

  • Mallrats – Lee is Brodie. Brodie is Lee. This is still my favorite character that he has ever performed. The delivery is amazing and so much fun to watch.
  • Dogma – Lee is a bad guy. He is Azrael a bad angel looking to help end the world.
  • The Incredibles -Lee is the voice of Syndrome. I don’t think that it would have been quite as good without Jason Lee voicing the bad guy.
  • My Name is Earl – A storyline based around Karma with a kinda white-trash set of characters. Such a timeless and amusing show. Very re-watchable unless you are my wife. She hates it.

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school – skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

-Jason Lee

Alan Tudyk

by | March 16, 2018 | Comic Books, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Alan Tudyk Born March 16, 1971   Alan Tudyk has embraced the geek over and over in his career. I will watch him in just about anything and go out of my way to keep an eye on what he has been in or what he has coming out soon. Below is such a small list of what he has...
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Christie Brinkley

by | February 2, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Christie Brinkley - Born February 2, 1954 Christie Brinkley is one of the dream-girl models of my youth. She was everywhere when I was a kid. Sports Illustrated, TV, movies, music videos - literally everywhere. She was the bubbly personality wrapped in bombshell looks...
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will.i.am

by | March 15, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Music, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

will.i.am Born March 15, 1975   will.i.am musician, songwriter, music producer, actor, a founding member of The Black Eyed Peas - damn is he busy! If what I am is what's in me Then I'll stay strong - that's who I'll be And I will always be the best "me" that I can be....
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Good Riddance 2016

by | December 31, 2016 | Featured, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Good Riddance 2016 From a pop-culture perspective, 2016 sucked. We lost icon after icon in 2016 and at this point as I reflect on the year, it is really what I am focused on. Below is a brief list of some of the losses that stuck out to me. It is not all inclusive and...
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Christian Finnegan

by | April 1, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Christian Finnegan Born Aril 1, 1973   New York native Christian Finnegan is a brilliant stand up comedian. Ad to that his acting chops and his writing abilities and you have someone at home in front of the cameras or on a stage. A matter-of-fact delivery and...
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Cedric the Entertainer

Cedric the Entertainer

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Cedric the Entertainer

Born April 24, 1964

Cedric the Entertainer is one of the funniest people on the planet. Since his stand-up days, I have been following his career and catching him everywhere that I can.

Noteworthy

  • The Original Kings of Comedy – Cedric the Entertainer, Bernie Mac, Steve Harvey, and DL Hughley. This is still one of the best stand-up special of all time.
  • Barbershop – Cedric is Eddie. Barbershop is awesome and worth a re-watch every couple of years.
  • The Honeymooners – Who else can take Gleason’s place in this reboot… that is all I am asking.

We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It’s really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the director, so a comic is looking for someone to give a reaction, even if it is the camera guy.

-Cedric the Entertainer

No Mods for Fallout 4 on PS4 – WTF

by | September 16, 2016 | Featured, Video Games | 0 Comments

I have received bad news that is affecting my ability to play a video game. No Mods for Fallout 4 on PS4 - WTF. I mean really Sony, WTF! Early in the summer, XBOX One made the jump with the folks from Bethesda, they turned on Mods for a console. Fallout 4 players on...
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Jodie Sweetin Here To Hold On To

by | January 19, 2018 | Featured, Television | 0 Comments

Jodie Sweetin Most of us grew up watching Jodie Sweetin grow up on the TV show Full House. She had her rough times after the celebrity of Full House died off. Jeff Franklin pitched the idea of Fuller house to Netflix and all of a sudden Jodie Sweetin gets a new lease...
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Elijah Wood

by | January 28, 2018 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Elijah Wood - Born January 28, 1981 Elijah Wood, Frodo to some, Noteworthy The Good Son - This might have been one of the first movies that I remember Elijah Wood in. He played the protagonist to the very evil Macaulay Culkin. Love this movie. If it is not in your...
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Sean Astin

by | February 25, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Sean Astin Born February 25, 1971   Sean Astin is, was, and will always be the leader of the Goonies for me. As a kid, hell right now, I would follow Mikey into the pits of hell to find One-Eyed Willy's treasure. I still pine for a Goonies 2 and I still want Brand to...
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Rob Corddry

by | February 4, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Rob Corddry - Born February 4, 1971 Rob Corddry is one funny guy. He is one of those comedians and actors that I will go search for anything he is in. I first ran across him watching the Daily Show and I have been a fan ever since. Noteworthy Hot Tub Time Machine -...
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Clint Howard

Clint Howard

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Clint Howard

Born April 20, 1959

Clint Howard has been acting, small screen and large screen, since he was a child. His unique look, his acting chops, and the fact that he has been literally acting for his entire life makes Howard someone to look like whenever he shows up in a movie.

Noteworthy

  • Star Trek (TOS) – Balok – Howard played an alien and an adversary to Kirk and the Enterprise.
  • Gentle Ben – This was the first place that I remember seeing Clint Howard. I saw it in reruns but I do remember my mom telling me that he was Opie’s brother off the Andy Griffith Show.
  • Tango & Cash – Howard has a brief cameo in this 80s action film.
  • Backdraft – Another cameo and you can see in his career that it has become a badge of honor having Clint Howard show up in your movie.
  • Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me – He has one of the best running bits in all of these movies. The radar operator bit is a classic.

One of my earliest memories is being inside the recording studio and I see the shadow of a figure that looks an awful lot like Walt Disney. Then the door opened and Mr. Disney walked in and said, ‘Hi Clint.’ I won’t ever forget that.

-Clint Howard

Morgan Fairchild

by | February 3, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Morgan Fairchild - Born February 3, 1950 Morgan Fairchild, talk about someone that was all over TV back int he 70s and 80s. She was the epitome of WOMAN back then and really still is today. She could play any role on TV and hold her own with anyone in Hollywood on the...
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Daniel Craig

by | March 2, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Daniel Craig Born March 2, 1968   Daniel Craig has not been in my favorite Bond movies but he is one of the best actors to ever utter the phrase of naming from that series of movies. Besides Bond, Craig has managed to keep up his skills by acting in all manner of...
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Jason Segel Friend to Muppets

by | January 18, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Jason Segel "I'm not a gay pirate, I have sex with my parrot all the time!... OK, that came out wrong." - Marshall - How I Met Your Mother Noteworthy How I Met Your Mother -  I love this show. I don't love the storyline but the characters more than make up for that....
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Lucy Lawless

by | March 29, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Lucy Lawless Born March 29, 1968   Lucy Lawless, New Zealand born actress and singer, has been a pop-culture icon since the early 1990s. From Xena: Warrior Princess to her latest work on Ash vs Evil Dead, Lawless spans the world and genres. She helped create the...
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Diamond Dallas Page

by | April 5, 2018 | Featured, Wrestling | 0 Comments

Diamond Dallas Page Born April 5, 1956   Diamond Dallas Page is known as a wrestler that got into the business later in his life and became one of the fastest rising stars ever. For me, even when WCW was in its decline, he was part of the show that kept me entertained...
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Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis

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Rick Moranis

Born April 18, 1953

Rick Moranis has been a part of my Geeks World for as long as I can remember. From Ghostbusters to Spaceballs and beyond he has been a part of some of the biggest geek-fests in the world. I miss Rick Moranis but I get the fact that he is a single dad now and raising kids.

Noteworthy

  • Ghostbusters – This is one of my favorite comedies of all time. Moranis plays one of those secondary roles that is so outstanding that the movie would not have worked without him in it.
  • Little Shop of Horrors – Seymour is one of the roles that I would love to play on stage. Rick Moranis made me fall in love with this character.
  • Spaceballs – Moranis as Dark Helmet – “And I see your Schwartz is as big as mine…”
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids – Completely dug this movie as a kid. Liked all of the spin-offs too.
  • Splitting Heirs – Here is one you might not be familiar with. Moranis and Monty Python alum Eric Idle as kids switched at birth. Holy crap it is a funny movie.

I’m a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn’t miss it.

-Rick Moranis

Thor: Ragnarok – Trailer Number 1

by | April 12, 2017 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

We have been waiting a few years for a new Thor movie. Thor: Ragnarok - Trailer Number 1 has dropped and damn... Take My Money! Watch it then read on. Just to clear it up for all the geeks that are not as...
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Mods for Fallout 4 on PS4

by | March 22, 2017 | Featured, Video Games | 0 Comments

I finally got my mods for Fallout 4 on PS4! And I can only say it is about time. We, the Playstation using portion of the country, were told we would have mods late spring of 2016. The kibosh was put on that by Bethesda or Sony or both and the delay was on. I kept up...
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Vince Vaughn

by | March 28, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Vince Vaughn Born March 28, 1970   Vince Vaughn is fantastic. I love him in every role that I see him in. And, as you may have heard one more than one of our podcasts - I want him to be in every movie. And if he can't have a speaking role just have him walk...
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Molly Ringwald

by | February 18, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Molly Ringwald Born February 18, 1968   Molly Ringwald was one of the Brat ack and one of the IT girls when I was growing up. She played teen angst better than almost anyone else. Noteworthy Sixteen Candles - Great cast as we see Molly Ringwald's dream of the perfect...
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Lee Daniels’ The Butler

by | March 20, 2017 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

I am very behind the times and I am sure that most of you have seen Lee Daniels' The Butler - probably, you even saw it when it came out in 2013. I didn't watch it until recently and it makes me said that I didn't see it in the theater. Incredible . star-studded,...
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