Monday, March 28, 2011

Another Cool Push - The Westplex, 94.1 - Thanks, McCarthy & Friends!


Good morning! I've compiled my notes and links that I mentioned inside of the first of many regular reviews I had with The McCarthy & Friends Show this morning. My thanks again to Kevin McCarthy and Fred Zielonk and I look forward to educating the public in regard to the truly smart television that IS out there! You just have to know where to look!


-- The Westplex Online:

-- McCarthy and Friends Online:

94.1FM via The WestPlex: 6:00 AM - 9:00 AM --- Mike's Segment Begins at 8:30am!

McCarthy and Friends: Fun, Intelligent, Informative, Entertaining and a little "different!" News talk for the Westplex with a sense of humor to start your day. Check out my new television/entertainment segment at 8:30am every Monday morning!


-- The 24Podcast from 2GuysTalking:

-- The DEXTER Podcast from 2GuysTalking:

-- DEXTER from Showtime:

-- Chicago Code (from The Shield Creator):

-- IMDB Listing for Jennifer Beals:

-- IMDB Listing for Jeessica Biel: (Sorry!):

-- The 2GuysTalking Perspective Review of X-Men (2000):

-- Kitchen Nightmares:

-- American Idol:

-- The Travel Planner Podcast with Kevin and Sue McCarthy:

-- Details About The Birds:

-- Fringe - Renewed - Survived the Friday Night Slot of Death:

-- The Thin Man Series:


Still have questions about anything that we'd talked about? Make sure to tell me and we'll get answers for you now! Cheers!

Another Cool Push - The Westplex, 94.1 - Thanks, McCarthy & Friends!

Good morning! I've compiled my notes and links that I mentioned inside of the first of many regular reviews I had with The McCarthy & Friends Show this morning. My thanks again to Kevin McCarthy and Fred Zielonk and I look forward to educating the public in regard to the truly smart television that IS out there! You just have to know where to look!

-- The Westplex Online: http://www.westplexnewstalk.com/

-- McCarthy and Friends Online: http://www.westplexnewstalk.com/schedule.php

94.1FM via The WestPlex: 6:00 AM - 9:00 AM --- Mike's Segment Begins at 8:30am!

McCarthy and Friends: Fun, Intelligent, Informative, Entertaining and a little "different!" News talk for the Westplex with a sense of humor to start your day. Check out my new television/entertainment segment at 8:30am every Monday morning!

The 24Podcast from 2GuysTalking: http://www.24podcast.com/

The DEXTER Podcast from 2GuysTalking: http://www.tinyurl.com/dexterpodcast

DEXTER from Showtime: http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.do

Chicago Code (from The Shield Creator): http://www.fox.com/chicagocode

IMDB Listing for Jennifer Beals: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000884/

IMDB Listing for Jeessica Biel: (Sorry!): http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004754/

The 2GuysTalking Perspective Review of X-Men (2000): http://www.2guystalking.com/24podcast.html#x-men

Kitchen Nightmares: http://www.fox.com/kitchennightmares

American Idol: http://www.americanidol.com/

The Travel Planner Podcast with Kevin and Sue McCarthy: http://2guystalking.com/tpp.html

Details About The Birds: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/

Fringe - Renewed - Survived the Friday Night Slot of Death: http://www.fox.com/fringe/

The Thin Man Series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man

Still have questions about anything that we'd talked about? Make sure to tell me and we'll get answers for you now! Cheers!

Friday, March 25, 2011

The Danger of Focusing on The Negative...

Strife. Conflict. The undeniable draw of gaping mouths, with raised voices emanating from them. A family torn in at least two parts. The recorded story that describes the day-to-day passings...

Sigh.

I've been a fan of American Chopper since the inception of the show. While in the beginning the father/son screaming matches may have played a small role in getting me to watch the program, the fact of the matter is that I enjoy the design and creation process of motorcycles. Taking something from little more than a pile of steel pipes, hoses, cardboard templates and an idea, and fashioning something way more than just a "motorcycle" has always appealed to me. It's the same general vision and feel as all of the Foose-inspired television specials that gets my blood running and fires the creative juice pumps a full.

Sadly, what American Chopper has now become, is not only a focus on the ranting and idiocy of the decline of the father/sons relationship at least several times during each episode, they've now reached a new, boneriffic level.


The series most recent episode provided you "introspection" on the crew that are "front and center filming and editing the episodes as the drama unfolds.'

Huh?

So now we're going to dedicate time to learning what the people filming the most insignificant parts of the series are thinking while they're filming it?

I'm living in a coo-coo clock.

The fact is that there are two camps, both of which feature genius-level motorcycle fabrication teams that make gorgeous, themed motorcycles. For the love of all that is The Discovery Channel - can we PLEASE see them in action? If I wanted familial strife and pressure, I would walk into my fathers home office toss a chair or two, tell him what an idiot he is and then - not so amazingly - I'd see the same thing that is slung as I watch this program currently.

Creativity is the "novelty" here, Discovery Channel, not "the family tearing itself apart." While I can't agree that any of the people in-show have taken the "right path to relationship redemption", one fact remains: How is Nub going to get this kick-ass paint job done? How about, how are the machines that OCC has going to make this new extravagant piece for the next multi-million-dollar company throwing their money into the ring/economy to have a motorcycle as the economy gets back on it's feet? Perhaps you could tell us more about the almost invisible painting/creative talent that does the OCC-side of the work?

Rather than literally taking the cameras, turning them around and focusing on drama that I have to believe very few are interested in, how about providing us insight, a front-row seat into creativity and >KOFF!< DISCOVERY of incredibly skilled artisans that make magic out of a pile of parts?

Now that would be something to find on The Discovery Channel.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

DEXTER News - Revisiting Season 4 Awesomeness...


It seems like it was yesterday that we were tuning into the weekly review of everyone's favorite good guy, serial killer of bad guy murderer - DEXTER each week on Showtime. It's been three long months since the "darkness inside me - the Dark Passenger" had punched the seasonal ticket after finishing out another season and it's easy to tell you - there is very little in the way of satisfying television programming to fill the void.

What ISN'T sparse, is the continual feedback about our DEXTER Podcast, asking us when we're going to relaunch our next effort and continued wisps wondering "if we'd thought about exploring Season 4..." Well the wisps grew to the tune of more than 50 pieces of fan input in the month of January this year and - well - we're ready to pull the trigger here in April, 2011.

Some of 2GuysTalking 's best content has been in the form of the "Perspective Review." An effort that turns the trade of entertainment review on it's ear. Each week during the year, you'll be able to get previews of movies and television shows a couple of days early after the local entertainment critics have seen them. They then provide you their thoughts on the Thursday before the film comes out and then you - get to choose to see it or not. >Yawn...<>

We at The 2GuysTalking Podcast thought about taking a completely different tack. We WAIT - 30 to 60 days AFTER the films end, revisit the Hype, The Money, The Good, The Bad, a Global Rating and then - the Franchise. The PERSPECTIVE REVIEW. No one else does it. No one else thinks about it and we LOVE being the only program that lives on nostalgia, both recent and even YEARS old. The proof in the pudding? We built our most successful series of Perspective Reviews last Summer with The PREDATOR and PREDATORS Perspective Reviews, and in the Fall with The TOY STORY Perspective Review series (1, 2 & 3). Who knew that a 24 year-old and a 17 year-old movie would have such draw power?

We DID!

This strange ability to harness nostalgia provides us with another great, entertaining and original move starting April 1st! Officially, The DEXTER Podcast from 2GuysTalking will be launching a new, "Perspective Review" of an ENTIRE TELEVISION SEASON - The 2GuysTalking Perspective Review of DEXTER's Season 4! We'll be going back to what is simply the best season of DEXTER EVER, and showcasing, evaluating and reveling in a great story push, stupendous acting and a season that was so good my wife and I watched it in a short 3 days total.

Take just a moment to 'Like' the new DEXTER Podcast Facebook presence and stay tuned for the first perspective episode review as the first week of April 2011 arrives and make sure to tell us what YOU think! It's how we built our network and what drives us into more, great content for you the listeners!