Brain Dead Radio Episode 74: Brain Bleed

[Abraham Smashington]

Rob and Ceej are back after quite a scare. Ceej details his struggles with finding out if he has unlocked any special powers after spending some time in the hospital, Rob thinks he can help Ceej attain his full potential, and Ceej is totallt going to be a Curling superstar. The Disney/George Lucas merger is discussed and Ceej really just wants a Bloodsport meets Star Wars movie. Rob would love to see Black Hawk Down in the SW universe, and they both agree to disagree. Thanks to Corey, from the forums, Rob is able to cross something off his bucket list, and Ceej and Rob watch The Dark Knight Rises Porn and for some reason Ceej feels weird about it. After all of this Rob discusses Halo 4 and can't stop gushing over the amazing reboot of XCOM.

[Nathan]

What platform are you playing the new x-com on?

[Abraham Smashington]

360

[Nathan]

What hardware and software do you use to record? I know its been discussed but I forget.

[Abraham Smashington]

Adobe Audition v. 1.5 to record
Adobe Audtion v. 3.0 to edit
mobile pre usb mixer
some mics and pop filters

[Abraham Smashington]

anyone give this a listen yet?

[B_Metal]

Downloaded but not yet. Sorry

[gravedigger]

CJ will never read this but allow me to explain-

The curling stone (it's fancy granite from one particular quarry in Scotland, not metal) is not warm. You actually need to have the stones on the ice about 30 minutes before a match to get acclimated to the ice. The sheet (playing field) is pebbled with ice. That is, sprinkled with water before the match. These raised pebbles reduce the surface area of the stone that is touching the ice which allows the stone to travel farther. The purpose of the sweeping is to heat up the ice, slightly melting it, to make sure the stone travels far enough to get into the scoring rings.

A team is made of four people and basically everyone does every job. The exception is the 4th man. He's the skip and calls the shots at the far end of the sheet. Otherwise if you're not throwing a stone, you're sweeping.

This was another good show, guys. I am morbidly curious to see some of those porn parodies.

[Abraham Smashington]

thanks, and curling sounds kind of interesting now.

[gravedigger]

It's definitely one of those things where people say "curling? OLOL, whatever weirdo." But I think it's a lot of fun to play. When you make a great, tricky shot it's like that "yeah...fuck yeah!" .gif BMetal occasionally posts.

[Abraham Smashington]

We mostly were making fun of curling just to see if you still listened haha.

[gravedigger]

Haha yeah, I was behind on listening for quite a while but got caught up today.

[Ari]

So the Luke Skywalker getting piggybacked by new Jedi nearly killed me.

Also, once the end song played I had to Shazam that shit ASAP. And so thanks for introducing me to Steel Panther. Thank you so, so much.

[Abraham Smashington]

I just need to say that I think it's awesome you're playing catch up. Glad you enjoyed it. And hell yeah man, Steel Panther is the shit. One of more fun shows I've ever been too.

[Ari]

It's funny listening to the shows that are a few years old and hearing you guys talk about the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney and shit. Also, Ceej is on fire in these episodes. I laughed like a bloody maniac several times.