Episode 95: (The Turn of the 19th Century) Fifth Annual Fall TV Preview

September 5, 2010  |  Posted by: The Scope

Summer is firmly in the rear-view mirror and that can mean only one thing: your Scope hosts return from months of tanning, working on their mono-abs, and recreating LFO’s “Summer Girls” music video to get back on the podcasting horse, as it be.

The return is both epic and important in nature. New TV is coming to a, well, TV near you. That means Jared, Adam, Shane, as well as special guest, Scooter, get together and break down all of the new programming choices.

The two takeaways: Far too many new legal shows are coming your way and Scooter is an expert with awkward phone pauses. (Oh, and for all of you Molly lovers: we tried to get her on the show but she was too busy “working at her job trying to earn a living.” Sheesh.)

The gang also tackles the usual bits with their usual pseudo-vigor and actual indifference. But it can’t stop the one undeniable fact:  The Scope is back and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

Unless you pay money. Lots of it. (Okay, not lots. Some.)

The Scope Episode #95 wants to be your Ping buddy.

First Show Canceled
Scooter: Nikita – CW
Jared: Outsourced – NBC
Adam: Mike & Molly – CBS
Shane: My Generation – ABC

Music
Scope Sounds: “It’s Good To Be The King” – the great Luke Ski feat. Devo Spice, Insane Ian, and Bud Sharpe

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The Scope Returns to Podcasting Glory… Soon

August 31, 2010  |  Posted by: The Scope

Good news, everyone! Summer vacation is over, and The Scope is scheduled to return to podcasting this weekend. We will return with our annual fall TV preview. Make sure you tune in to find out which shows we pick to get canceled first.

If you can’t wait any longer for a Scope fix, check out the latest episode of Zero Hour with John Norton. Podcast Trivia Challenge champions Shane and Jared return to co-host the next round of trivia challenges. Ever wanted to know what Hans Christian Anderson was famous for baking? Zero Hour has the answer!

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The Scope Summer Break Rolls On

August 23, 2010  |  Posted by: Jared

Gone Fishin

If you haven’t guessed by now, your Scope pals are enjoying a summer break while we deal with vacations, jobs, families, and life in general. With any luck, we will return with all-new Scope programming in a couple of weeks.

Thanks for sticking with us!

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Episode 94: Food, Friends and Fresh Meat — The Scope at CONvergence

July 22, 2010  |  Posted by: The Scope

The Scope was in attendance at CONvergence 2010, and once again we took the path of least resistance to acquire content by asking people to call the voicemail line and tell us their convention stories. In fact, we didn’t even bother to print posters with the number this year — how’s that for apathy? — we just told our friends to call in, and with a few exceptions, those friends turned out to be Intrepid Scope Reporter G.

So sit back and enjoy this assemblage of random moments from the convention. Jared talks about his consuite food victories, Shane conducts a couple inebriated interviews, and ISRG fills you in on the everything else.

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Episode 93: The Afterglow with Rants & Raves, Verbal Punctuation, and Valification

June 28, 2010  |  Posted by: The Scope

This episode of The Scope is kind of like the moments immediately after a tremendous night of passion. It’s all good, but not as good as the time right before you are lying in bed, spent. (Or that’s what we imagine it would be like…since we’re nerds and obviously not all that well-versed in the world of night passion.)

See, we’re coming off of two excellent episodes of your favorite podcast. We’re talking about shows great guests, fun games, and mucho effort. So with #93, it was time to reload, relax, and get back to basics. That means A LOT of talking. And since we’re clearly experts in the world of deep-sea oil drilling and ocean currents, we focused our time on the tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico.

To balance out the seriousness of it all, we also rap about a couple of summer movies and we start to help Adam pick a wedding date. He really should get a tux with ruffles, right? And with all, you’d expect the show to be brief. If you think that, you clearly haven’t been listening all that long. Shame on you.

The Scope episode 93 doesn’t pity the fool, but it does fool the pity. Quit your jibba jabba.

Reviews
Film
3 ½ Stars – Toy Story 3
3 Stars – The A-Team

Music
Scope Sounds: “March On” – Devo

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Episode 92: Let’s Talk About Crap, Baby (and Then Some Stuff Happened)

June 16, 2010  |  Posted by: The Scope

What do you get when you take the already long-winded, critically-acclaimed podcast known as “The Scope” and mix it with Ron Gerber, host of the greatest pop music radio program in the country, “Crap From The Past?”

Answer: the longest and most important Scope episode ever. EVER. (What’s hyperbole, anyway?)

Seriously, your Scope hosts pulled out all the stops on this one. Tons of prep work, tons of sound clips and effects, and tons of overall effort.

And then Adam did the news.

Still, Ron was cool enough to stick through the entire 2 1/2+ hours of blabbering. That means, for you, the loyal Scope listener, tons of radio insider goodness, more talk about top 40 radio hits than you can shake a stick at, and even a great story connecting Ron to a notable late-night talk show host. (No, we’re not talking about that big-jawed Jay Leno, thank God.) And did we mention a brief return of “Hit The Post?” If you make it to hour ten of episode #92, you can experience it.

Finally, we try, with varying degrees of success, to put the whole Human Centipede business behind us. Pun intended.

The Scope episode 92 knows that “Boogiemonster” is the only acceptable moniker for Ron Gerber.

Reviews
Music
2 ½ Stars – Welcome Interstate Managers – Fountains of Wayne

Music
Scope Sounds: “Animals” – Neon Trees

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Episode 91: Wicked Awesome Rockstars, Sack-Tapping, and the Longest Running TV Show, “Banzai.”

May 31, 2010  |  Posted by: The Scope

In a very special episode of The Scope, the East-Coast boy band Lesser Knowns Skype up and spend some time with your three most favorite internet personalities ever. (No, we’re not talking about Ricky Gervais, Tay Zonday, and the stealth cat that stalks the camera set to the “Jaws” theme.) Listen in as LK (that’s what the cool kids call them) talk about the rocking & rolling, scallops, and youthful ass-kickatudeness(TM). You’ll also bear witness to the return of The Nerd Degree. That in itself is worth like $1.72 and a bus transfer.

Because we care, we also came through with some great news, a controversial review of LCD Soundsystem’s latest, and more “Lost” talk. Because, really, who can’t get enough of that?

The Scope episode 91 would never dream of sewing your face to another person’s bum.

Lesser Knowns on the web:
MySpace / Facebook / Twitter

Reviews
Music
3 ½ Stars1 ¾ Stars – This Is Happening – LCD Soundsystem

Music
Scope Sounds: “Fight The Start” – Kilians

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Episode 90: Adam Adam And Cult Jam, The Smoke Monster, And Some Nasty Super Crabs

May 17, 2010  |  Posted by: The Scope

Nothing says “The Scope” like a good case of genital lice. In honor of that fact, your favorite podcasting hosts take a nit comb to the television program that is “Lost.” That’s right. “Lost” is ending and The Scope had to do what no other media outlet had done: give a full retrospective on the second best show Matthew Fox has ever done. (The first being “Party of Five.” Sorry we had to spell out the joke. But with our listeners, you just can’t assume anything.)

No, it ain’t original. But it did give us the opportunity to utilize one of the best soundboards ever created by man.

If total “Lost” coverage wasn’t enough, we also brought back a proper Scope music review. With sound clips and everything!!! Next thing you know, we’ll actually start doing prep work for the show. Hey, anything can happen.

The Scope episode 90 is fully backing the Nano Play concept.

Reviews
Music
1 ½ Stars – Night Train – Keane

Music
Scope Sounds: “Your Friend Wil” – MC Frontalot

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Episode 89: Trippin’ Balls Rolls Off The Tongue

May 3, 2010  |  Posted by: The Scope

Everybody knows summer just ain’t summer without The Scope taking a seriously critical look at all of the movie releases of the season. So, just like we’ve done every year, we do a lot of big talkin’ about a lot of movies we probably won’t get around to seeing.

(Of course, that new Julia Robert’s movie, Eat, Pray, Love will definitely be seen multiple times by all three Scope hosts. Absolutely no worries there.)

And just to make the 2010 Scope Summer Movie Preview just a little more official, we invited occasional Scope contributor, Scooter, to stop by and give his subtle but intoxicating opinion. He also was cool enough to recently take a CROSS-COUNTRY ROAD TRIP to the Coachella music festival. You’ll find out how much drugs he took (none), how many wet t-shirt contests he judged (zip), and how many male ding-a-lings he saw (too many to count).

Finally, please pay close attention as poor Shane loses energy and is called out numerous times on his comedic skill level by the rest of the panel. It’s both sad and infuriating, all at the same time.

The Scope Episode 89, unlike MGMT, will always play their biggest hit at each and every one of their concerts.

Reviews
Film
3 Stars – How To Train Your Dragon

Music
Scope Sounds: “Butch” – Saint Motel

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The Scope Returns to Zero Hour

April 22, 2010  |  Posted by: The Scope

Once again, Jared and Shane have seen fit to leave their stain on an episode of Zero Hour with John Norton. Hour 25 covers Ocarina of Rhyme, American Idol, The Coco and Lefty Show, Headlines, and TV Shows That Need To End. We also play a game called “Yahoo! Schmanswers”.

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