"I saw the poster that said "the new movie from the director of District 9" and I was like, don't even show me the trailer, I'm there. Then I saw the trailer anyways and it looked pretty good" – Jeff on Elysium
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff is joined by Patrick Cassels to talk about the upcoming summer movies.
They have five minutes to talk about each movie; here's a list of the movies they bring up:
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to comedian/author/actor DC Pierson, whose new book Crap Kingdom is now for sale. They talk about being in commercials, The fantasy series The Red Wall, and then they each say the three fantasy worlds they would least like to live in, and the three fantasy worlds that they would most like to live in.
This week's episode of The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show is a LIVE edition from the NY Podfest. Jeff is joined by Adam Conover and Jared Logan to play Metagame (as previously heard on JRJRS), a game where all three contestants are asked the same question, and choose which of 5 different game titles they think is the best answer to that question. The one who gives the most convincing answer gets one point.
To decide who makes the most compelling argument special guests are welcomed on stage to judge a round each. The guest judges are Scott Weiner, an Applause-O-Meter in the form of Scott [...]
The New York City Podcast Festival (or NYC Podfest, as cool people like me call it) is happening next Saturday and Sunday, January 12th and 13th, at The PIT, and a lot of the big East Coast podcasts are coming out for the event. Amongst the 25+ shows that will be recording live episodes on The PIT's two stages are The Dork Forest with Jackie Kashian, Risk! with Kevin Allison, Dave Hill's Podcasting Incident, Myq Kaplan's Hang Out with Me, Beginnings with Wrestling Team, and Splitsider Podcast Network podcasts The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show and It's That Episodewith Craig Rowin. Folks like Wyatt Cenac, Gary Gulman, Julieanne Smolinski, [...]
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to Matt Graham. Matt Graham is a man with an interesting resume. On the comedy side he’s written for SNL and Conan (on which he also appeared several times as a standup). On the Scrabble side he’s placed second in the Scrabble World Championships, been featured in the Scrabble book Word Freak, and was a central character in the Scrabble documentary Word Wars. This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show we discuss the strategy of high-level Scrabble, Matt’s vintage board game collection, and tips for Scrabble enthusaists who have yet to memorize all the 2-letter words.
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to eSports commentator djWHEAT. They talk about how eSports became a thing, how he became a commentator for it and what it was like to be a Y2K IT guy.
"The earliest sign of the word e-sports we can find is in 1994 when the domain was registered, but this was also around the time where people were squatting on domain names, so it is hard to say. In 1995-96 is when the PGL started and that is where we found the origin of this word, but really that is not when it started. If you go [...]
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin show, Jeff talks to Eric Zimmerman, who is an NYU professor at the NYU Gamecenter teaching game design.
Eric tells the story of how he got the job, how you teach game design, and how much of the homework that the students get is just playing video games. They also talk about the state of gaming, which of the recently released games that have really good game design and if Microsoft Flight Simulator can be categorized as a game or only as a simulation.
“There really weren't books about designing video games, altough there were interesting books anthropology, folklore and [...]
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff is joined by the production designer, Tyler Robinson, and the costume designer, Amanda Needham, for Portlandia.
In this episode they talk about what Portlandia did for Portland, the challenges and joys of working on the show, and how much of the show is based on reality.
"It started as this Portland theme where everything was kind of Portland based, but I think as it's moved on in the seasons, other cities has definitely identified with it and they see themselves in it as well. I think it has gone a little bit beyond just being sketches about Portland [...]
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show 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. This episode features…
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff is joined by Zelda Symphony Producer Jason Michael Paul.
They talk about how he got into producing classical videogame concerts, what a classical videogame concert actually is, and if an occarina is actually used to play the music. It's all very interesting, but if you're still not completely sold, here are some quotes to help convince you:
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin, Jeff talks to Moira "Mo" Quirk from the Nickelodeon show Guts. They talk about how she got on the show, what it was like working with Mike O'Malley, her voiceover-work after the show stopped, and if she can give us a piece of the Aggro Crag.
"I was to be the referee and the voice of reason, it sort of turned out [to Mike's insanity]. I had gotten hired for being quite comedic, but I always felt that I was quite school-momish on the show and quite serious. So whenever people tell me that I was funny I am [...]
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to comedian Matt McCarthy about his job of working for the WWE as a creative writer. They talk about how he got the job, the demands of putting together a live wrestling show, and what it's like to work with Vince McMahon.
“It's SNL in a different city every week, no re-runs and no off-season. The monday show is three hours live, and then there is another hour for the audience, and then on tuesday they do four hours.” – Matt McCarthy on the demands of writing for WWE.
“This year is WrestleMania 29, and I [...]
”We are adding a showmanship and a theatrical element. It's essentially a sketch comedy show, and the language is hip hop.” – UTK on what Freestyle Love Supreme adds to the traditional beatboxing and hip hop.
This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show my guests are UTK and Shockwave of Freestyle Love Supreme, a group that improvises incredible music based on audience suggestions.
In this episode they discuss the mechanics of beatboxing, how to create rhymes on the spot, and make up a rap based on suggestions I’m reading out of a Sesame Street book.
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin show, Jeff is joined by TV critic Alan Sepinwall.
Jeff talks to Alan about his new book The Revolution Was Televised, and the 12 TV shows that are the premise of his book: The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men and Breaking Bad among a bunch other shows. They discuss their impact on people and the importance of a show's ending.
"Because the shows are now playing on the level of the best movies, and you are getting 13 to 22 hours of them a year, [...]
