Episode 6 - The Last Frak

In this installment, Greg and I say a heartfelt farewell to quite possibly the greatest television series of all time, "Battlestar Galactica"...but fear not, BSG uninitiated listeners! We kick things off with 28 minutes of spoiler-free discussion of one of the stupidest decisions in cable television history, plus Greg's full, detalied introduction to the O.U.P. fans. It's frakkin' tasty podcastage, kids.

Episode 5 - The Return of...

By popular demand and after almost a year, it's the fifth installment of The O.U.P.! In this episode, I am joined by a close, personal college chum by the name of Greg Green. He and I start out discussing the merits of television but are happily interrupted by special guest star Stephanie C. Kernisan, host of "Media Monkeys and Junky Junkies", at which point the conversation goes gleefully every which-a-way.

Episode 4 - The WTFness

In our fourth installment (I'm calling it), Jesse and I scoff (with vague love) at VH1's latest entry in their series of nostalgia series, "I Love The New Millenium" and pay a fond farewell to a comedy legend in fitting, beautifully profane form.

Episode 3 - Seduction and Destruction

In the first edition of the O.U.P. sub-series "The Best Movie of All-Time Podcast", I am joined once again by Jesse Siak as we discuss P.T. Anderson's 1999 masterpiece, "Magnolia".

If you haven't seen the film, we recommend that you don't listen to this episode (unless you have no real intention of seeing it--if so, shame on you) until you have.

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Episode 2 - The FanTIStic Trio and the Craptastic (Half) List

What luck! In my second installment, I am joined by the best pair of co-panelists a podcaster could hope for: The Brothers Siak (Jesse and Mark). We discuss the first half of Entertainment Weekly's 1000th issue lists of the Top New Classics of the past 25 years, and realize their utter lack of journalistic integrity.

Originally this was meant to be the first part of a two-part episode, but due to the fact that I have a PC and not a Mac, something went wrong, and the final 45 minutes are no more. The hilarity that you missed includes:

• The book, fashion, video game, theatre, and new technology lists.
• Mark getting distracted by a nearby issue of Playboy, thus leading to a long discussion of nipple preferences and the almighty landing strip.
• The birth of my new (probably official) sign-off line.

And now, for some retractions, amendments, etc.:

• I went to the Entertainment Weekly website, where their lack of mentioning the lists' cutoff dates makes the whole affair even more suspect.
• The film "Amadeus" was released in 1984. Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" was released in 1985, and it has been confirmed that the music video was inspired by (while obviously not directly related to) the film.
• One of the key moments lost in the technical mishap was a discussion of the magazine's blurb on "Super Mario World" in which the trusted, highly reputable publication attempted to claim that it was not only the first game in which the mustachioed plumber had flight ability, but that it was his first appearance in a video game...EVER. For shame, EW.

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