It's time once again for all of you to learn something about us you'd never ask about, our underarm care and best practices. This is my fault. I brought up the fact that I was wearing two different antiperspirants. One pit smelled differently than the other. But they did both smell pleasant. I thought I had enough for both arms, but when I started to paint on that last little bit, it crumbled and fell out. I could've picked it up and colored it on like a crayon, but I had a fresh stick ready to go, so two scents it was. Mike told us about his grandpa's favorite deodorant, MUM. It came in cream form and had to be applied with fingers. MUM is still around, but has modernized into a stick these days. You also learn why Charlie CAN'T use Old Spice. Don't miss that!
It seems THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 will start setting up a Green Goblin story. They've chosen an actor to portray Spidey's most popular villain. Chris Cooper will take the role of Norman Osborn. There are already two bad guys showing up in part two. And we know from experience, *cough* SPIDER-MAN 3 *cough* that too many evildoers in one movie can ruin it. I think they're just gearing up for Gobby in the third or fourth sequel.
A good portion of today's show involves Disney and its heyday of hand-drawn, 2D films. Our conversation stems from comments made by Disney's boss man, Bob Iger. He told shareholders the company wasn't working on and had no plans to do any hand-drawn animations anytime soon. Dennis threw out the question of which animated features bombed to us personally. Mike, who as you know, likes just about all things animated, said he didn't care for Disney's THE BLACK CAULDRON and he wished The Hunchback had died at the end of Disney's version of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME. I think Mike has been hanging around Charlie too long. In the original tale, Esmeralda is hanged and Quasimodo starves to death laying next to her corpse. Not sure how that would look on a Disney Princess lunch box. The real question though is whether or not hand-drawn animated movies can/will be enjoyed by today's children. These are kids who have grown up on 4K resolution CGI from companies like Pixar and Dreamworks. Dennis experienced first hand a child's disapproval of classics like THE RESCUERS. Is it just because the animation looks funny? The colors aren't as crisp? The characters don't move perfectly smooth? Or is it the stories and characters of yesterday don't appeal to the iPad generation? John Lasseter, who was responsible for the last hand-drawn Disney feature to date, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, says old-school animation became an excuse for bad storytelling, hence the reason it was phased out. We completely agree. It doesn't matter how it's animated, if the story is good, you care about the characters and are entertained, the fact that it was created by human hand and not key frames shouldn't make a difference. What do you think?
We'd also like to know your thoughts on the pending new Facebook. It's the topic of the We Ask You Poll question this week. If you haven't heard, Facebook is preparing to roll out an all new look and feel. We have a link in the Show Links where you can preview the layout and even get on the waiting list to try it out. Surprisingly, the new look doesn't seem as bad as 'timeline'. It reminds me of a Tumblr blog. Mark Zuckerberg said during the unveiling, that he wants Facebook to be a personalized newspaper. Not sure if I agree with that. Pictures of cats, food duck faces in bathroom mirrors and status updates of what someone is doing or where they're going at a particular moment is NOT what I consider news. One feature will allow you to customize what you see on your feed. There's even a setting to see just posts from pages you've liked. This could help or hurt us in regards to the Who Asked You? page. I explain on the show. Only time will tell if we 'like' the new Facebook.
Not too many folks are liking Electronic Arts right now. Their botched launch of the new SIMCITY created quite a commotion. Not only did Amazon briefly pull the download version from their site after hundreds of negative reviews, but the always-on Internet connection requirement that caused most players' problems prompted the launch of a Change.org petition to get EA to turn off the feature. In a nutshell, too many people tried to log on at once and EA's servers got overloaded. That meant a lot of players couldn't play the game at all, and those who could experienced bugs, slowdowns and missing data from saved games. It's so bad the company's CEO is offering those who bought SIMCITY a credit for a FREE game on any future title.
And a segment we haven't done in awhile returns with a new intro sound! I 'chanced-upon' a rather interesting site that sells scented candles. Big deal right? Well, these candles are for men. And they smell like manly things. One whiff of these bad boys and your chest hair will puff right up to Burt Reynolds status. Scents include sawdust, stripper, whiskey and even campfire. The company, Hotwicks, says you can combine candles to make custome aromas. For example combine the beer, grass and campfire candles to make camping trip! But there's two candles that we're not quite sold on. Tune-in to hear what they are.
Next week is St. Patrick's Day. We're taking it off to go drink. Nobody will be listening anyway because, lets face it, our target demo will be drinking as well. New eppies return March 24th. See ya'll then!
