All Things Awesome Episode #2

Hey everyone, Episode 2 is here!

Download it here: All Things Awesome Episode #2 (right click and save as)
(recorded: Saturday 2/23, hosts: Schmitty, Foz, Tim, Mike, Judge) duration: 2 hour 31 minutes, 69.1mb)

This episode went on a bit too long, so apologies about that. I guess. I mean, it occurs to me that people like these things to be concise, but I don't really get the point of complaining about too much content. Especially when there's very detailed show notes on exactly what you can expect in each segment. But anyway, I'll stop trying to alienate you all now. Seriously, thanks for listening.

We also had some technical issues and the sound quality isn't on par with the quality we had in the first episode, but we'll get that straightened out for next time.

0:00 - 13:30: Beer!, I'm a girly man, first beer experiences, good beer, beer, bad beer, foreign beer, also... beer, Tim's sack

13:30 - 17:30: Racism, revisited: an ATA PSA

17:30 - 24:30: The writer's strike is over, what's it's effect on TV this season?, "Reaper" and other shows get the "Fox treatment," the strike's effect on the Oscars?, Bruce Vilanch sucks (except for in Ice Pirates), Jon Stewart hosting the Oscars again

24:30 - 35:30: Oscar overview: Best Picture, Best Editing, Best Actor and Actress... and none of us have seen most of these movies, Johnny Depp love, Ellen Page and Diablo Cody love, Mike spoils Gone Baby Gone (maybe?), super brief book review of Cormack McCarthy's "The Road"

35:30 - 1:03:30: Movies we dug in 2007: Die Harderest, Transformers was dumb but fun, the G.I. Joe movie is an affront to America, Tim spent his childhood in the 70s (despite being born in the 80s), tangents: 90s cartoons and Mark Millar takes over writing Fantastic Four, back to movies: Superbad, lots of Cloverfield: Mike's existentialist take on the film and ARG discussion, Shoot 'Em Up is ridiculous/awesome, Ocean's 13 = Ocean's 11 > Ocean's 12, fun with the hilariously bad Dragonlance movie

1:03:30 - 1:36:00: Games we dug in 2007: love for Orange Box, Bioshock's awesome atmosphere and gameplay decisions, dissenting opinions on Crysis, Call of Duty 4, game length discussion, X-Box Live achievement pros and cons, Gears of War PC port

1:36:00 - 1:54:20: Looking forward: games we're looking forward to in 2008, Left 4 Dead, Spore worries and the nature of Sim-games, what games work better on PC than console?

1:54:20 - 2:11:00: Looking forward on movies: the new Indy, MPAA ratings, Tim's a Nazi sympathizer, Marvel movie universe, new Harry Potter, new Batman

2:11:00 - 2:22:30: Board game discussion: Tannhauser

2:22:30 - 2:30:00: More D&D4E

Thanks for listening,
Schmitty