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The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: Adult Swim's Dave Willis

by | April 30th, 2013

This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to Dave Willis, who has worked on Adult Swim's Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and the new Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell. They talk about how he got started in the business, working on Space Ghost and Aqua Teen and making the transition from cartoon to live-action.

"There's a lot of ways to make cartoons, and I think you can make them without plots. But I don't think you can make them without great characters." – Dave Willis on what makes a great cartoon.

"The basic premise of the show you've [...]

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The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: Author Cole Stryker

by | February 26th, 2013

This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to Cole Stryker who wrote the books Epic Win For Anonymous about the hacktivist group Anonymous, and Hacking The Future about the value of anonymity on the internet and why we should fight to keep it.

They talk about what 4chan actually is and how the group Anonymous is associated with it, how the mainstream media often portrays them in a much darker light than what the reality is and what the group is able to do.

"I describe Anonymous as being a few geniuses surrounded by a legion of cheerleaders, or a few geniuses [...]

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The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: The Gregory Brothers

by | April 16th, 2013

This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to Evan, Andrew, Michael and Sarah who together form The Gregory Brothers. They talk about how they got together as a group, what they were doing before they found success on YouTube, what makes a good unintentional singer and what the process of songifying a video is like. At the end they even give a little concert.

“The first time that we happened to work together was on this tour in '07. We started out as The Gregory Brothers playing Andrew's album and Sarah's album and at the end of the tour we had basically merged into one [...]

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The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: Marvel Comics Historian Sean Howe

by | January 22nd, 2013

This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin show, Jeff is joined by Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.

They talk about how Sean Howe managed to research his book, the influence of Stan Lee vs. Jack Kirby, how Marvel Comics became so popular in the 60's and how they are now doing the same with their cinematic universe.

"Maybe the biggest controversy in the history of Marvel is the discussion of whether Stan Lee was the genius or Jack Kirby was the genius, or said in another way: did Stan Lee totally swipe all of Jack Kirby's ideas? I think that is an overstatement, [...]

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The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: R. L. Stine

by | April 9th, 2013

This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin show, Jeff talks to R. L. Stine author of the Goosebumps series. Jeff talks to him about how he got started with writing scary stories and how he writes the Goosebumps series. They talk about all the letters that he got sent from kids, and what he thought about the Gersberms meme.

“I never planned to write it, I always just wanted to be funny. But I wrote this scary novel for teenagers Blind Date, and it was number one on the publishers weekly bestseller list. Then a year later I wrote another one and it was a bestseller, [...]

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The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: A.V. Club Editor Keith Phipps

by | September 18th, 2012

This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff's guest is A.V Clubs editor Keith Phipps. They talk about what it's like to be a professional critic, how the AV Club spun off from The Onion, and the implosion of The Oogieloves.

In order to talk about all of these topics, they have to use sentences, and here are some of the specific sentences they use over the course of this episode:

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