Teleportation - The movement of atoms from one place in space and time to another. There are many forms of teleportation. There's the Star Trek method, The Fly method, the Stargate method, even the Nightcrawler method. But what is real and what is fiction? This is what Jacob and Isaac discuss today on The Science Of Fiction. Join them as they try to uncover the truth about one of science's greatest mysteries. Then listen to them shamelessly plug their own creative work - Isaac's book Tales Of Cydonia Volume 1 and Jacob's DVD Death By VHS, both available this month.
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The boys start the episode with an audible and then get into some crazy news form the Czech Republic. Thanks for that, Evolution Films. Ant-Man has a new release date and it’s sooner than we thought. Ian McKellen married Patrick Stewart over the weekend (yes you read that right). Pippi Longstocking does indeed have a sex tape, and it will have distribution soon. And porn stars are into some kinky things, but HIV isn’t one of them. Michael J. Fox is coming out of retirement with his new show and has a pretty decent list of costars along for the ride. After Erf was a bomb, but that hasn’t stopped Will Smith from talking about new projects. All this and more on this issue of The Gorram Nerd Hour with Brian Smith and Jacob O’Neal.
Cloning. It's a subject that has always interested Jacob and Isaac. For Episode 2, they discuss the history of cloning, they talk about movies dealing with subject and they get off track from time to time.
Jacob and Isaac have returned from their self-imposed hiatus to discuss more Star Trek. This time their target is Star Trek Into Darkness. They waited long enough to record that they feel it's safe to spoil plot points of the movie... and a major one comes two minutes in, so be warned. They also discuss Star Trek Continues, Of Gods And Men, Renegades and they get off topic from time to time and end up talking about whatever popped up.
Make sure you listen to their other show - The Science Of Fiction, the 15th of every month, right here on Abnormal Entertainment.
Vic Mignogna, best known for his anime voice work in Bleach and Naruto, takes on the iconic role of Captain Kirk while continuing the original Star Trek series on as if it got a fourth season. He assembles a group of recognizable names together and begins a new season of Star Trek. Does it work? You're about to hear Jacob's opinion on it.
Bill Oberst Jr. is back. Jacob and Brian first met him at Rapture Horror Expo last October. You can hear that conversation on Vol 1 Issue 4. This time they talk about french kissing corpses, Star Trek, Ricardo Mantalban's chest and a lot more.
Dennis Farina has passed away, and it seems that every week the guys are commiserating another celebrity passing.
Joss Whedon has told us that there will be no Hank Pym in the new Age of Ultron movie. What?!
12 Monkeys is coming to the small screen, and all Jacob can ask is “Why?”
The new Freddie Mercury biopic looks like a reality, but Sasha Baron Cohen won’t be playing the frontman of the legendary band Queen. Brian is thanking the rock gods right now.
A Fight Club sequel? Sure, why the fuck not? Oh, the boys know why not. It’s going to be TERRIBLE!
Shortlist.com brings us another Top 10 list, but this time from the minds of none other than Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.
And it looks like there’s going to be about another 50 years of Supernatural. Jacob is not pleased.
SDCC was this past weekend, and the biggest news was definitely the Batman/Superman movie. Brian seemed more pleased than Jacob, but of course it isn’t coming out until 2015, so LET THE SPECULATION BEGIN!
To finish off the show this week, Jacob gives you 10 minutes of his interview with actor Bill Oberst Jr., from such work as Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies and Take This Lollipop. The full conversation will be available on Friday.
In the final Official episode of Holodeck Malfunction, Jacob and Isaac discuss the 2009 reboot of the Star Trek franchise. They go into each character and the new actors playing them, discuss the ideas of branching timelines, Libyans and plutonium, farting through time and whatever else comes up.
This closes the chapter on Holodeck Malfunction proper. But if you want more, we may be back after awhile with occasional interviews or even a show here and there.
Jacob and Isaac are back with the last two Star Trek movies before the reboot - Insurrection and Nemesis. Along the way they discuss Gilbert and Sullivan, plagiarizing yourself, and why Picard can't seem to ever get some. They also talk about Tom Hardy, Dina Meyer and F. Murray Abraham as the talented guest stars in a couple of bad movies.
This week Jacob and Isaac discuss the two best movies starring The Next Generation cast - Generations and First Contact. Did you ever wonder who almost played Zephram Cochram, father of Warp Drive? Would Kirk ever play the flute? Will Picard ever find love? Who is truly responsible for the destruction of the Enterprise D? Was Lt. Hawk gay? Why does it sound like a juicy fart every time Jacob takes a drink from his soda? Why did the Spawn movie suck? Is there less bias in the press of the future? Is the government still a two party system? Are The Beastie Boys prophets of the Federation? Should Whoopi Goldberg have won an Academy Award?
They talk about all that and more in the latest episode of Holodeck Malfunction.
Isaac spends a little time explaining his frustration of the writers constantly miscalculating distance when it comes to warp speed. Jacob talks about whether genre fans are more accepting of Gay people than non fans?
This week, Ryan and Jacob start off the show talking Star Trek's Red Shirts vs. the Star Wars Stormtroopers. Somehow that led into arguing through the whole show about clones, how late in life it's safe for women to have babies and even how many people it would take to repopulate the Earth after an apocalypse. They still managed to play music for you, though. Here's this week's track list -
Phantasm - What Makes You Tick? Diamond Rugs - Big God Andrew Jackson Jihad - Survival Song Verra Cruz - How Long For This World? Rocco DeLuca & The Burden - Soul Each Of The Days - The Reason I Am Fracture Point - Manic Aggression Turbid North - Erogony The Bled - My Bitter Half
We're sure you're sick of hearing it, but we're gonna tell you one last time - Come see us at Phoenix Comicon next week! That's right, it's less than a week away, and we'd love to have you there when we record live from the event Memorial Day Weekend at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Jacob and Isaac take a break from the norm this week to talk about what they think the new Star Trek movie will be like. Jacob professes his love for Benedict Cumberbatch (in a totally hetero way) and his love for Alice Eve (also in a totally hetero way). Isaac talks about the past and what it was like to have to hide your love of Trek in the closet. They also spend some time discussing the future if Trek without JJ Abrams, who is defecting to Star Wars, who might make a cameo appearance in the sequel, the prequel comic book from IDW and much more.
Next week they return to discuss the movies starring The Next Generation cast with an episode they call "Imzadi, The Forbidden Dance".
Jacob and Isaac are back with the latest installment of Holodeck Malfunction, fresh from Isaac's honeymoon. This week, they discuss the Star Trek movie they both agree is the worst and then move into Isaac's personal favorite. That's right, folks. They are talking all about Star Trek V and VI. Along the way, they take a few detours and talk once again about how Jacob feels women can't play Vulcans, 23rd Century economics and sequels to popular Shakespeare plays. It's an oddly fun hour filled with all things Trek. And Jacob even sings!
Don't forget to come see the folks at Abnormal Entertainment live at Phoenix Comicon this Memorial Day weekend in beautiful downtown Phoenix, where your experience will be nearly homeless free but filled with nerds that smell homeless.
That last line was a joke, everyone. Please, no angry letters. But if you feel the need to send an angry letter, write it out by hand, as most people forgot how to write, and then we can have fun trying to figure out what it says.
Wow, I need to stop writing this before I try to stick both feet in my mouth. I'm just gonna say one more thing - Isaac wrote this! Isaac wrote this! Isaac wrote this!
Today, Jacob and Ryan give you a full hour of weirdness and music with some very talented artists they think you ought to know. They also talk about Red Shirts vs. Storm Troopers. If you don't understand that you're not a true nerd. Ryan tries to get Jacob to be more vulgar. And Jacob's partner from The Gorram Nerd Hour, Brian Smith, pops by at the end of the show to offer something sacred of Ryan's to Jacob. Tune in to find out what.
Here's a list of the tracks will hear this week - Bear Ghost - DOTAB Failing To Fly - Death Time Lullaby Headstrum - Loud Mouth Lily BJ Dubin - Dancing With Your Ghost & Mystery Julia McAllie - Animals Throb Zombie - Buy A Politician The Venomous Pinks - Leather Daniel Graham - Tonight
Masters Of The Universe - starring Dolph Lundgren, Meg Foster, Billy Barty, Robert Duncan McNeil, Courtney Cox and Frank Langella as Skeletor. Jacob and his friend Steve Mayo sat down to watch Masters Of The Universe with a few drinks and recorded the whole thing for you. What happened? Well, they don't remember. But there were no racial slurs. Listen to them talk about how eerily similar the wormhole effects are to the 1995 series Sliders.
Play along at home and drink every time Jacob uses the word "Douche" or talks directly to Meg Foster while watching the movie. Listen to Steve tell an uncomfortable story about a broken pelvis. Hell, anything they talk about is better than the dialogue in this movie that marked the beginning of the end for Canon Films. Stay tuned for the post movie wrap up with Jacob and Steve.
It's time to talk about Star Trek 3 and 4, the films directed by Leonard Nimoy. In the episode, Jacob and Isaac talk about the death of Kirk's son on screen and off, flying dolphins, the problems with not having money in the future, shooting Star Trek in a garage, AIDS and a second hand story about being on location in San Francisco during Star Trek IV. The guys get distracted from time to time but never stop having fun with what they talk about - selling iPods for drugs, the Dolphin/Whale war and why the crew of Enterprise was always set up for failure.
Stay Tuned next week for - God Is A Vulcan Man's Rock
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This week, Jacob and Isaac talk about Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Wrath Of Khan. They try to assign logic to why there were so many loooong shots of the camera circling the Enterprise. They couldn't come up with anything. They also can't figure out why Kirk seemed like such a serious douche bag and why Spock seemed depressed. They talk about director Robert Wise, writer Alan Dean Foster, 7th Heaven, and Ricardo Mantalban's pecs.
It's a weird hour, but not as weird as next week when they bring you 23rd Century Economics.
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This week, Jacob and Isaac discuss the first show since The Original Series to be cancelled. That's right, we're talking about Star Trek: Enterprise. They talk about how great Scott Bakula was, the time they both met Jeffrey Combs, the hotness of T'Pol and what alien race they'd most like to be with. There's also a strange discussion about Nazis, time travel and UFOs.
Next week begins talk of the movie franchise with V-Ger, I Hardly Knew 'Er.
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Fresh off talking about Jacob's favorite Trek series, they move onto the one he wishes never existed. Isaac doesn't share his hatred. Far from it. He has many nice things to say. Over the episode, they discuss the recasting of Captain Janeway, the terrible Neelix, everyone's favorite Holographic Doctor and why the show sucked. Isaac once again offers up some trivia, and, strangely, Jacob does better than the last two shows he actually liked.
Stay Tuned next week for a discussion about Enterprise we like to call Gorn Too Soon.
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Deep Space Nine is Jacob's favorite Star Trek series, and he couldn't wait to talk about it. Isaac loves Weyoun and Tribbles. They both talk about what made the show so great, and what the hell they think was wrong with Terry Ferrell leaving the show in season six, why Jeffrey Combs deserves more credit and where season seven went wrong. Once again, Isaac finds some more obscure trivia to make Jacob look like a fool.
Stay tuned next week when they talk about Voyager in Voyager Of The Damned.
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