Tue, 18 December 2012
This week I am very pleased to present The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show 2012 Year-End Jeff-tacular. I have gone back and asked nearly all of 2012’s Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show guests to spend five minutes describing their favorite thing of the year. Answers ranged from movies to music to software to once-in-a-lifetime days.
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Tue, 11 December 2012
We're living in a golden age of TV and Alan Sepinwall's new book, The Revoloution Was Televised, traces the origins of this renessaince through the history of twelve key shows - Oz, The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Buffy, Lost, 24, Friday Night Lights, Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad.
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Tue, 27 November 2012
Matt Graham (Conan, SNL, Scrabble World Championships) discuss the strategy of high-level Scrabble, his incredible board game collection, and why Scrabble is really a game about math. Plus, how to win without memorizing the dictionary!
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Tue, 20 November 2012
Jason Michael Paul produces a touring Zelda symphony, and here he explains what it takes to represent the Nintendo brand.
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Tue, 13 November 2012
Wayne White was a set/puppet designer on shows like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and Beakman’s World, as well as music videos like Smashing Pumpkins’ Tonight Tonight. Wayne is the subject of the new documentary Beauty is Embarrassing, and on this week's show you'll hear from both him and the film's director.
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Tue, 30 October 2012
Jason Narvy and Paul Schrier have appeared in several hundred episodes of Power Rangers, making them by far the show's longest-running characters. This week we get their unique perspective on the iconic show.
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Tue, 23 October 2012
Dr. Robin Rosenberg studies what makes superheroes tick. Here she diagoses Batman, The Joker, The X-Men, Green Arrow, and Buffy.
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Tue, 16 October 2012
A live recording of the CollegeHumor panel at Comic Con! Jeff moderates a conversation about creating nerdy internet comedy with Susanna Wolff, Patrick Cassels, Brian Murphy, Caldwell Tanner, Owen Parsons, and Andrew Bridgman.
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Tue, 9 October 2012
Justin Wong is one of the greatest fighting game players in the world, holding multiple world titles in games like Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Mortal Kombat 9. But how did he get so good?
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Tue, 2 October 2012
First week of the month is usually an off week for The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, but Pat and I were gonna talk about Looper anyway. So we recorded it.
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Tue, 25 September 2012
This week Jeff talks to Jay Levey, who has been Weird Al's manager for over 30 years. In addition to managing one of the most unique and successful artists in pop music history Jay, atypically for a manager, collaborated with his client on the creative. He has directed many of Al's music videos including Eat It and cowrote/directed the stone-cold classic UHF.
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Tue, 18 September 2012
Talkin' criticism and Oogieloves with AV Club editor Keith Phipps.
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Tue, 11 September 2012
Ben Blumenfeld talks about what it's like to design something for a billion people.
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Mon, 27 August 2012
This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show - an appetizer of Expendables 2 chat followed, at 18:30, by an hour of Breaking Bad discussion. We discuss everything through Breaking Bad s05e07 (the second to last episode of 2012).
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Tue, 21 August 2012
Here's a list of things Fred has done that we talk about on this epsiode - writing for Letterman, writing/producing Cheers, editing the National Lampoon, writing a Choose Your Own Adventure novel and, believe it or not, more.
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Tue, 14 August 2012
Remember the Olympics opening ceremony and the 7,500 well choreographed extras? Ever wonder how they got so well choreographed or where they came from?
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Tue, 7 August 2012
Paul Scheer (The League, NTSF:SD:SUV::, the "How Did This Get Made" Podcast, Human Giant, 30 Rock, Party Down, Bob's Burgers, Happy Endings, Childrens Hospital, Parks and Rec, EVERYTHING GOOD?!?) stops talk about his favorite terrible movies.
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Tue, 31 July 2012
Streeter Seidell and Emily Axford share their coolest facts.
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Sat, 21 July 2012
Dr. Will Brooker, a man who wrote his PHd thesis on Batman, returns to discuss The Dark Knight Rises. Spoiler warning - the entire film is discussed in detail pretty much immediately.
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Tue, 17 July 2012
The Metagame (http://www.metaga.me) is a game designed to facilitate arguing about videogames, so I invited Adam Conover (@adamconover) and Jared Logan (@jaredlogan) over for a round.
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Tue, 10 July 2012
A look behind the scenes of the classic trivia game, You Don't Know Jack.
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Tue, 26 June 2012
Pat Cassels, Dan Meth, Sarah Schneider and Josh Ruben celebrate episode 50 with their unwanted DVDs and a dream.
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Tue, 19 June 2012
The Tommy Westphall Multiverse is a map that charts the crossovers between over 250 shows and unites them into a single continuity (http://bit.ly/B6xHK). In this episode, we talk to the man behind the map.
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Tue, 12 June 2012
Two Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show favorites return for two segments - one on E3 and one on Prometheus. Prometheus chat starts around 37:00. There's a very clear warning before we get into spoilers (which we do pretty quickly).
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Mon, 4 June 2012
A look back at Game of Thrones season 2 with Jon Gabrus, plus some behind-the-scenes details of the season finale from Dothraki Langauge creator David Peterson. WARNING: This episode is basically nonstop spoilers for Game of Thrones season 2.
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Tue, 29 May 2012
Action Park afficiando Seth Porges explains exactly what made Action Park so dangerous, and a bonus story from a previous Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show guest.
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Tue, 22 May 2012
The Star Trek Experience was an attraction in Vegas. This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, two former employees (and current Star Trek Improv actors) describe what it was like to work there, the customers who came in character, the weddings that took place daily, and which celebrities got hammered on Borgspheres before riding the rides. PLUS! A followup to last week's Andrew WK impostor theory.
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Tue, 15 May 2012
Pat drops by to pull back the curtain on everything and reveal Hollywood's deepest secrets. Warning: do not listen unless you want your mind blown. We also discuss The Oogieloves.
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Tue, 8 May 2012
Justin Tyler of Comic Book Club stops by to help disassemble what made the Avengers so good. WARNING - This episode makes the (reasonably safe) assumption you saw Avengers and is full of SPOILERS.
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Tue, 1 May 2012
Henri Mazza, The Chief Creative Officer of the Alamo Drafthouse, explains how to program the world's best movie theater.
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Tue, 24 April 2012
Jake Goldsbie, who played Toby on Degrassi, discusses what it's like growing up on a Jeff's favorite show, when he knew Degrassi was getting big, and what he's up to know.
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Tue, 17 April 2012
Pete Holmes stops bya to discuss his incredibly weird podcast, You Made It Weird.
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Tue, 10 April 2012
The co-authors of the incredible oral history I Want My MTV stop by to talk about the 400 people they interviewed for the book, MTV's influence, and why the 80's were the best decade for music.
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Tue, 3 April 2012
Onion/SNL/IGN/Kid Icarus (!) writer Mike Drucker joins us to discuss Mass Effect 3 and it's controversial ending. Spectre status is recognized.
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Tue, 27 March 2012
A nerderer's row of guests! Scott Wiener reports back from Pizza Expo, Jon Gabrus analyzes Angry Birds, Owen Parsons pontificates on Ninja Turtles, and Pat reviews The Hunger Games.
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Tue, 20 March 2012
Craig Rowen stops by to talk about the time he asked for a million dollars, then lied and told everyone he got it.
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Tue, 13 March 2012
You know mc chris from his music and work on Adult Swim, now learn about all the cool nerd stuff he owns.
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Tue, 6 March 2012
Oren Brimer stops by to talk about his work at The Daily Show as well as Front Page Films (www.frontpagefilms.com).
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Tue, 28 February 2012
Owen Parsons joins me on a safari of interviews at ToyFair. Pictures and links to the products discussed at http://bit.ly/y5LJyO
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Tue, 21 February 2012
One of my most highly requested guests sits down to talk about one of my least requested topics. The first 2/3rds of the show have no Downton Abbey spoilers and there's a clear warning before specifics.
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Tue, 14 February 2012
This week Francesco Marciuliano talks about how he became the writer of the nationally syndicated comic strip Sally Forth, the life of a newspaper cartoonist, what made Peanuts so great, and The Muppets.
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Tue, 7 February 2012
David Peterson explains how he took the approximately 30 Dothraki words George RR Martin created when writing Game of Thrones and extrapolated it into an entire language.
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Tue, 31 January 2012
This week Jeff's guest is AndrewSmith1986, the #2 commenter on Reddit and moderator of some of the website's most popular sections including pics, funny, and IAMA. http://www.reddit.com/user/andrewsmith1986
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Tue, 24 January 2012
DC Pierson is adapting his novel for film. We talk about the proccess, some of the best literary adaptations, some of the worst, and also MF Doom.
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Tue, 17 January 2012
Dan Rollman of RecordSetter.com discusses where his love of records came from, some of the most impressive records he's ever seen, and officiates an on-the-air world record attempt by Jeff. PLUS - a followup to last week's movie episode answers some of li
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Tue, 10 January 2012
Jeff, Pat Cassels, and Ben Rodgers analyze the films of 2012, but can they beat the gong?
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Tue, 3 January 2012
J. Elvis Weinstein talks about the difference between writing for Mystery Science Theater vs. writing for a live audience vs. writing for America's Funniest Home Videos.
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