Cruisin’ Together: 04 – Losin’ It


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Gregg and Chris watch Losin’ It with yaytime.com’s Dave Roman and then talk about it, taking plenty of detours, covering things like Enya, Ronald Reagan’s presidency and stagflation, how much can Deans Haspiel and Cain bench press, and also: a theme for “Top Toms” is born!

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Cruisin’ Together: 03 – The Outsiders

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Carly’s in the mix with Gregg and Chris to talk about The Outsiders and its many pretty boys and they’re relative shirtlessness. Also: Fart sock and the future, explored.

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Cruisin’ Together: 02 – Taps

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Gregg and Chris talk Taps with Mike Levin, addressing leading men with hearing aids, the TAPS/Prince connection, Genes, and also Chris sings. It’s beautiful, man.

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Cruisin’ Together: 01 – Endless Love

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Chris and Gregg welcome Traci Todd to talk about just how creepy the first movie Tom Cruise ever appeared (ever so briefly) in is. Also: tales of real life encounters with Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields!

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San Diego 2011: Puppets and Podcasts and Pictures-a-Plenty!

Comic-Con International 2011 in San Diego, CA has passed us by, and as in years past, the show is a bear. I survived…and I’d call it successful, but for getting sick on that very last day. Suffice it to say I flew high while I flew but it was a rough landing.

That said, the show was not without highlights and plenty of sketches, so let us talk about that!

Before the show even started, as I walked to the convention center for Preview Night, I happened to see and recognize Scott Aukerman and Kulap Vilaysack, host and co-host, respectively, of the podcasts “Comedy Bang Bang:The Podcast” and “Who Charted?”, also respectively. These are both great shows to which I listen regularly, so that was, at least for me, a celebrity sighting worth mentioning. Scott’s the man behind the must-see comedy show at LA’s UCB Theatre Comedy Bang Bang: Stand-Up (formerly Comedy Death Ray). There is a definite linkage between comics and comedy, and if you listened to Episode One of MY podcast, “Stuff Said”, you’ll know it’s a thing I’m sort of fascinated by (heck, I even did this comic (contains mild language), the closest I’ll come to “performing” stand-up).

The point of all that being: hey, listen to those shows, they’re great!

But surely you’re asking, “Gregg, what’s the story with that puppet at the top of this post?”

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