Still Playing with Toys - Live - Ep 001 - The serenity cheeto

Troy: Hi everybody, welcome to the Nerd Cave this is Still Playing with Toys: Live Jason: Live Troy: I'm Troy Benjamin. Jason: And I'm Jason Hardwick. Troy: And we're here - we're coming to you... we're multi-casting. Which is great. Jason: Yeah. Troy: It's like "multi-pass." Jason: "Multi-pass." Corbin Dallas. Troy: We're multi-casting so you can listen to us through the iTunes, the interwebs... or you can watch us on the YouTube channel. Which is great for when you're at work. Jason: You're trying to kill time, your boss isn't there... Troy: Keep -- keep work minimized down here and then you can just come back to it. Jason: It's safe for work. Troy: Much safer. Jason: This whole thing. Troy: But uh... but - safe for work for the most part. Until he starts... Jason: Until the naked episode. Troy: We'll give you forewarning so you can avoid it. But... but so this show we're really excited to come to you and talk to you about because it's like everything that defines us. Jason: It's a passion project, Troy. Troy: It's a passion project. Well, it's a think piece. This is... It's uh, it's a pop-culture show. It's a things that excite us show. Troy: It's basically a chance for the two of us to talk about anything and everything that we want uh... and i guess the question is why should anyone care? Jason: Yeah. Why should you be watching or listening to us verses any other podcast, because everybody's got 'em! Troy: Or two. Jason: Or two. Troy: filllintheblankshow.com! Jason: Dot Com! Troy: That's this guys... Jason: Yeah, but why should you watch us, you know? Or listen to us? Troy what's your answer to that? Troy: I think that's a good question. I mean the biggest... the biggest thing I can tell you everybody that's watching slash listening to us. Jason: Uh huh. Troy: Is that we're like you. Jason: Yeah. Troy: Uh... were fans of comics and movies and toys and... Jason: Look all around... Troy: We're in a Nerd Cave for godsake. Jason: Yeah, no faking it here. Troy: No faking it, no. Jason: We're not like some celebrity. You know? That may or may not actually really be into stuff we're into. We're just like you were just two dudes that love this ***. Wait are we allowed to curse on this thing? Troy: Yeah, we're going to swear - it's still safe for work but there's still going to be some swearing, I'm sorry. Jason: Aww... Troy: We'll just tell you: Earmuffs. Alright? Jason: Just don't. Just don't show grandma. Troy: Just don't show your grandma. Troy: Sorry Grandma! Jason: We're just like you, you know we have every day interests. But you know Troy: We do have a little bit an advantage in the sense -- Jason (Overlapping): Possibly. Troy: In the sense that both of us work in this crazy Hollywood... Jason: Crazy. Troy: Film industry. Jason: In the Tinsel Town. Troy: And so Jason's an editor I'm a producer that, nobody knows what a producer does, but that's okay. uh... and, and so we kind of have some insight and some some of our own observations to help analyze the stuff that's happening that's changing geekdom as it stands. Jason: Our perspective is two-fold in that we work it, we experience it, and then we're fans of it as well you know? And how do those two worlds kinda combine and come together and interact which, you know, we'll get into in later episodes more in-depth. But uh... Jason: Yeah so that's kind of our perspective it and we thought maybe someone would be interested in that? Troy: We hope? Troy: Subscribe now! Troy: Uh... so so that's that's the Still Playing with Toys show uh... in a nutshell. Um. Troy: And uh... so I guess I should tell you what Still Playing with Toys is -- Jason: Yeah Troy: Yeah what the hell does the title mean, where'd you come up with that because Troy's the mastermind behind that. The website in general. Troy: Well I want to make money and we're not gonna make any money - Troy: It's all free! Jason: This is all free. Troy: Uh... but uh... no, Still Playing with Toys is you know, when you were eight years old and played with toys every day. Jason: Every day. Troy: And even if you didn't you still played sports and football and that's kind of, we're both thirty now spoiler alert uh... and uh... That was my old man clearing of the throat because I'm thirty. uh... But basically you know we still play with toys every day like I - I still buy comics and we still we buy toys -- Jason: I spend easily thirty bucks a week on comics. Where are they going? I don't have the space for it! I live in a one bedroom apartment in LA but I still buy 'em. Troy: That's why you go e-comic and we're going to get into that in another episode. Troy: Um, so I think you know that's sort of indicative all of us still play with toys in one way or another. We have other shows that are coming out on this channel that are other people - other cool people that still play with their own toy all in their own right. Like Ryan who does our show Layers of Ayers, he's an amazing guitarist. Jason: Amazing guitarist. Troy: And he plays guitar, like that's his toy. Jason: That's his toy in a sense. Troy: His very one of a kind very expensive toy. Jason: I'm sure he'd love us calling his guitar a toy. Troy: I know, exactly. Jason: We'll get his comments on it. Troy: I'm really sorry, your profession isn't a toy. (Laughing) Jason: Yeah, I mean that show's going to be amazing. I mean I play a little guitar myself nowhere near as talented as this man. And if you have any interest in music and if you play yourself, you really need to watch Layers of Ayers because you will be amazed. At uh... ..the guitar playing you'll witness. Troy: Yeah absolutely. And I'm gonna pause there because I see the battery light on the camera flashing uh... Troy and Jason (Singing): We got your Layers of Ayers, your Layers of Ayers. Troy: So it's going to be a really cool show. Jason: It's gonna be awesome. Troy: Um. And then the other show we have is called SGeek. Troy: Which a combination of sports and geek, you see that there? Jason: Ah! Jason: We were going to go with Spageek but it just wasn't -- nuh uh. Troy: It was like a weird Italian thing. (Both being idiots with terrible Italian accents): A-spa-geek-a! Troy: We'll cut that out, we're racists. Jason: It's okay, my fiancee is Italian. Troy: Ah! Yeah exactly. Jason (bad accent): She'a talk'a like'a this'a! Troy (worse accent): A Jason'a, why'a you'a no'a come home? Jason: She loves it when I do that, by the way. Troy: Oh we're going to hell. So anyways, so Sgeek, which is hosted by Nikki is going to be this - it's a sports show that kind of geared towards us. Jason: Yeah, like you and I. The types of people that may or may not be uh... avid sports fans that uh... Troy: Like you're a football - you like sitting on Sunday and watching football but you don't necessarily have a fantasy football team or something like that. You know, or or do you or you want to have one and that's where this show kinda comes in because she's gonna be, it's like a primer uh... Jason: For the uninitiated. Troy: For the uninitiated Jason: Or if you have one sport you have one support the iran contra you're really passionate about. Troy here, avid hockey fan. Troy: It's true. Jason: But you know, maybe you're not into another sport like baseball. Troy: But I want to get into baseball or at work at the water cooler at work and I want to talk about baseball because everyone's talking about, "Man did you see that walk off home run?" And I don't know what a walk off home run is. So that's where Nikki's going to come in. She's going to have some guests that are gonna help her out and co-host, it's going to be awesome. uh... check that one out. and then uh... the final show Jason: The big one. Troy: The big one uh... is called the PJ Invasion and that is Allie and Abby uh... basically giving you a martians take on us. On the world. It's like a martian's observation of this guy, of me, of the weird crazy guy who talks to an empty chair. I'm NOT talking about Clint Eastwood. (Clears throat) Troy: But no, it's - it's going to be their observations on everything that happens on our world and it involves puppets. Jason: It involves puppets I mean that alone - that's puppets. Troy: That's worth the price of admission. Jason: Podcasting puppets. Aliteration. You're fans already, I can see it. Troy: And again, you would think like multi-casting, like you have to see puppets but they are so funny when you hear it. It's pretty good. Jason: We've done the science. Troy: I think of it as This American Life hosted by two Martians. Jason: That probably even sound like Ira Glass, a little. Oh no, Ira we love you! He's never gonna see this. He's too busy doing stories that matter. Troy: He does. He does it so well. Troy: But you know, I think that much like Ira Glass we can talk about anything and everything that we want to and it's sort of like American Life - Geek Life in a nutsheel. And all of those shows kind of speak to it. And we have the ability to talk about anything. Jason: Anything and everything random stuff. Stuff you would never see coming like --- The Serenity Cheeto. Troy: The Serenity Cheeto. Jason: That's right, I'm holding right here an original Cheeto Nacho Cheese flavor. None of that other ***. Shaped like the Serenity from Firefly and Serenity. Troy: So i'm really glad you brought this on the show because I kind of want you to tell the story of when you found this Cheeto because this guy eats Cheetos pretty frequently. Jason: Oh, love 'em. Troy: It was kind of a fluke that he even looked at it before like shoving it into his throat hole. Jason: I practically eat the bag. But, I was at work uh... Troy and I are currently working at the uh... the the same place right now and uh... they have Cheetos in the kitchen. Got a little hungry you know about five o'clock, got a little grumbly grumblies. Troy: It's about that time. Jason: I need some Cheetos while I'm working. Reach in shoveling them in my face. But for some reason fate steps in. And I actually look at something that's about to enter my mouth instead of just shoveling it in. And lo and behold, I find this little gem and what did I do? Fine folks out there in Still Playing with Toys land? (Dropped my card there it's fine.) What did I do? I jumped up. From my AVID. Ran to Troy's office like a maniac. And started yelling look what I just found. Troy: Everything just stopped down because of this little Cheeto that's shaped like a Firefly class space vessel Jason: And we'll give you a close-up look but it's really uncanny It is. Troy: And I love the fact that you were just shoveling these things into your mouth and and you suddenly saw - it was like divine intervention it was like Jewel Staite herself intervened and said look at this! (Angels singing) Jason: So that's how random the show can be. I mean, we're talking about a Cheeto so if you happen to find a Cheeto that looks like something... Troy: Send it in! Jason: We'll talk about that. Troy: We don't need to talk about Cheetos all the time Jason: We can talk about Doritos. Cool Ranch or Nacho. Troy: Episode six, still talking about Cheetos. Jason: If the material's there, you go with it. Troy: Alright, I think you can milk the Cheetos some more but we'll get back to that. So I think you know, it's the little things that get us excited. Like that Cheeto. Jason: And you. Troy: And you. Jason: And taking part in the show. Troy: That's what's so exciting about this is that we get excited about little things and we want to share them with you and I want to talk to you about it. Like this is my my special bonding time with my special friend Jason (aside): I'm getting paid for this. Troy: I thought we were friends. Jason: No. Troy: I think that's a good note for us to end on, buddy... Jason: Thanks for joining us for the inaugural episode/edition of Still Playing with Toys: Live. I'm Jason Hardwick. Troy: I'm Troy Benjamin, please come back subscribe, listen to us on iTunes and uh... Jason: Put us on Facebook, like us. Tell your friends. Tweet us. Twit us. I think we have significantly covered all of that. Jason: Linked In? Troy: Put us on the Linked In! We'll give you whatever job you want. We'll give it to you. Jason: We don't pay but we'll give it to ya. Troy: Anyway, please come back we'll see you guys next time here at Still Playing with Toys. Bye! (Goofy idiots singing and dancing) Troy: Alright well cool. Good show. Jason: Good job man. Troy: I'm gonna get out of here. Yeah good seeing ya man...