Busy Saturday

Started my day working on my next episode of Alien Nation: The Newcomers Podcast. Got the majority of it done, all I have left is to add audio bites and then polish the whole thing. Output, convert it and upload it. But that will happen in a few days.

I noticed that my last job Chelsea Settles added my credits to my IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) page. You can check out things I have worked over my career. It doesn't have everything but I'm very proud of the amount of work I have done over the years.

Also worked on my new personal website. Mainly working on the main website at first and then linking to my older pages from my other website until I have time to go through and re-do them all to wordpress. I'll be unavailing it fairly soon... stay tuned.

Did alot of catching up on TV shows on my DVR. One that I recorded and really surprised me on how much I love it.. and when I say love it I mean LOVE it. It's called Lost Girl. It's a Canadian TV series that's been out for a little over a year. Well they finally started airing it here on Syfy. I've only seen two episodes but man has it got me hooked. The characters are engaging, the writing is funny and witting. I'm loving the mythology so far. It reminds me alot of Buffy and Joss Whedon's writing. Really looking forward to seeing where they series goes.

Working Out & Hanging with Leo

Once again got up and had oatmeal for breakfast. I didn't eat so healthy yesterday so today I planned to do better. Spent the morning online working on my new website. My buddy Leo and I have been chatting about hiking at Vasquez Rocks, both of us are trying to get into better shape. So around noon he messaged me and asked if I wanted to hiking today.. of course I said yes and we made plans to meet at my place at 2.

Leo arrived and we headed over to Vasquez Rocks. This was Leo's first time so I kind of let him take the lead and for the next hour and a half we walked all over that place. Great thing about hiking is you get to chat. So he and I chatted and got to know each other a bit better. I also got to hear some things that happen at my movie marathon weekends that I was unaware of. I guess being drunk and hanging with others at the party means you don't know everything that's going on. Anyways we had a great time and a very good hike.

After the hike we came back to my place and we went out to my garage to work out. Leo has a bad bicep and attempted to work out but was in too much pain to really continue. So I did my workout while we chatted some more. It's nice having company while working out.

Today's Workout:

1 hour and 30 minutes of cardio on while hiking

3 sets of 10 for shoulders (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the front leg press (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the chest fly for my chest (75 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the curl arm for my biceps (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the free weight (110 lbs)

After the work out we headed back inside and decided to watch a movie. Leo hasn't really seen alot of the cool sci fi and fantasy films of the 80's so I decided to show him a classic... Ghostbusters. After the movie we said our goodbyes and he headed back home and I had some dinner.

Two days in a row hanging with friends.. too bad this isn't the norm. Gonna spend the rest of the night working on my Alien Nation Podcast.

Hanging with Rupert

Today I got up and had a few slices of toast with peanut butter. Then started editing my next Alien Nation podcast. Around 1pm my buddy Rupert came over and we planned to hang out and watch some 80's sci fi and fantasy movies. I'm having another movie marathon at the end of February and it's going to be a 1980's Scifi/Fantasy movie marathon weekend. I currently have a list and folks who are attending are voting so we opted to watch movies that are not getting the votes and that we will not be watching that weekend. So we started with Krull, this is one of my favorite 80's scifi/fantasy movie and I know some folks think it's cheesy and I can see that but I remember seeing this in the theater way back when, I was 13, and we didn't have alot of fantasy/sci fi so this movie really is close to my heart and always will be. It was also cool so see that "unknown" actors stared in it that are big stars now like Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane. Had a great time watching this again.

We then went out to lunch, I didn't go healthy and that's something I need to work out. When I'm hanging out with friends (which isn't that often) but I need to either make food for us or choose wisely. Today we went to Pizza Hut and got some pepperoni pizza, break sticks, buffalo wings and poppers. It's all bad but taste so good. The only plus was that we got this so late that it became our lunch/dinner.

While we were eating lunch/dinner we started to watch Time Bandits. Another great movie from the 80's but one that I haven't seen often. I've owned the bluray for a few months but this is the first time that I'm watching it. I have to say how disappointed I was with the picture quality. They did clean up the print at all. It was like watching it on the movie screen, scratches all over the screen. Luckily I enjoy the movie so I could set aside the way it looked. One thing I totally forgot about this movie was the ending. The kid's house burns down and then his parents touch pure evil and blow up and then the kid is left alone at his burnt out house. Talk about a depressing ending... but still it's a bizarre yet entertaining story and the cast is great.

After Time Bandits we watched The Last Starfighter. Again like Time Bandits I had this on bluray and this was the first time watching it. Now this is in my top 10 scifi movies of all time. I remember seeing this in the theater and being totally enthralled. One thing I noticed about this movie this time around and I don't know if it's because of the hirez or just that it's been a few years since I saw it but man is the CG bad (this was the first movie to do full CG). Everytime they would go to a CG scene it pulled me out of the movie which it's never done before. Now I still LOVE this movie, the story is great, the acting is good and the concept is very original. I love the ships and of course my favorite move that I still haven't never seen before and since.. the Death Blossom!!! Good stuff all around.

After Last Starfighter we decided to have a change of pace and watch a show that my buddy Josh loaned to me. It's call The Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). I knew nothing about this but Josh knew I loved Shakespeare and Rupert had seen this already and really enjoyed it.. and I have to say I LOVED it. funny, funny stuff. All three actors were fantastic and I love that it was a filmed stage show. They included the entire audience and even pulled some of them on stage.. lots of fun.

Now 11pm it was time for Rupert to head home (he lives about an hour and a half way) but we had such a great time that he planned to do this again next week.

I didn't work out but it might be nice to give my muscles a break. anyways, had a really great day.

A Healthier Me - Day 3

Day 3 or my new working out and eating regime. Working out is going great, sore as can be but feeling good. It takes a little pushing and motivation to get me out to the garage but once I'm out there it's smooth sailing. Now eating on the other hand... I know it would be tough for me. I've always eaten really poorly and it's not going to change over night. I had a small bowl of honey nut cheerios for breakfast, then while I was out getting the oil changed on my truck I stopped by El Pollo Loco and got me a chicken bowl (which has chicken, rice and beans). Before you write nasty comments I'm allowing myself to eat out once a week. Which is huge since I would eat out everyday for lunch. I hope within time I'll knock it down to once a month.. but baby steps to begin with. For dinner I made me a tuna sandwich (with way to little miracle whip) and some baked chips. Surprising I didn't do any snacks. I also had one diet coke.. which is great since I normally drink 3 cans of diet coke a day.

While I was out I picked up some plain low sodium rice cakes from Ralphs that I really enjoyed. I grabbed six bags since I figure I have eat one or two of these a day to take care of the snacking issue.

I posted a picture of me with my rice cakes on facebook and I got a large amount of comments about diets, what not to do, what to do.. the biggest was eating more veggies. Of course I wrote back that I'm not a big veggie eater and that veggies will be my biggest hurdle. Well I got comments like "You should start doing veggies" and "You should learn to like your veggies".. it's like I've hated them for over 40 years but now I'm suppose to instantly start liking them.. I don't think so. I will work on eating more veggies but I know myself better then anyone and it will be a uphill battle

Today's Workout:

30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical

3 sets of 10 for shoulders (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the front leg press (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the chest fly for my chest (75 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the curl arm for my biceps (45 lbs)

Like I said workout went great.. easily did 30 minutes of cardio and took it easy on my weights since I'm still sore from the previous two days of workout... but I did manage to get some in.

All in all I'm happy with how things are going. As I tweeted earlier today.. "This new eating lifestyle is tough.. I've been doing it for 3 days and I've been hungry for 3 days." I know in time my stomach will shrink and I won't feel as hungry all the time.. but until then.. I'm soooo hungry!!!!

A Healthier Me - Day 2

Today started off pretty good. I got up, had some eggs and potatoes (said like Samwise). Then jumped on my computer and started to work on the next MASH 4077 Podcast. Took a break around 1pm and grabbed two plain rice cakes for lunch and watched some TV for a few hours. Finished editing my new MASH 4077 Podcast around 7pm. Made myself a burger and baked fries for dinner. Then around 9pm I headed out to the garage for my workout. I had planned to take it easy as I'm just getting started but I felt great and doubled my cardio workout.

Today's Workout:

30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical

3 sets of 10 for shoulders (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the front leg press (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 crunches (110 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the free weight (110 lbs)

My arms are sore but I still manage to get a few weights in and like I said earlier I felt great on the elliptical and keep going pass my planned 15 minutes.

All in all a good day.. ate fairly well, got in a good workout and edited and finished a complete podcast. I know it's only my second day but so far so good.

Podcast Promo Exchange

Hey Guys.. I currently have four podcasts up and running. Knights of the Guild about to hit our 3 year anniversary on Feb 15th, MASH 4077 Podcast  about to hit our 1 year anniversary on Feb 1st, Confessions of a Fanboy about five months old and my newest one Alien Nation: The Newcomers Podcast which is almost 1 month old.

It's a lot of work but I love podcasting; creating, producing, editing and even hosting. Having four podcast requires alot of promoting. Twitter, Facebook and just getting the word out there that my podcasts exist is a full time job. I share promos with fellow friend podcasters but I know there are a ton of people out there who do video podcasts, or video blogs. Other's who do audio podcasts and even written blogs. I really want to start cross promoting with you guys. I'd love to help promote your stuff (of course it needs to appropriate) if you are willing to promote my stuff. All I just require is a :30 to :60 second audio promo and I'd be happy to play it on all four of my podcasts at times. I currently have over 10,000 combined downloads a month. In turn I have audio promos for each of my podcasts as well as banners with my podcasts info that you can play or display on our website. Or if you do video podcasts either mentioning my podcast(s)/websites on air or a credit or banner page at the end of your video cast.

If you want to exchange promos drop me an email (it's my online screen name @ gmail.com), if you don't know what that is then just leave me a message here.

A Healthier Me - Day 1 (Starting Over)

Well today started out with power going out for about four hours. It finally came back on and stayed on around 10:30am. Today is the beginning of my new outlook on life (see previous blog). Had some oatmeal for breakfast and made some chicken breasts and rice for lunch and I had planned to work out earlier in the day. Well it was harder then I expected motivating myself to actually do anything. I wanted to work on my next MASH 4077 Podcast as well as my Alien Nation podcast but really struggled with getting started. I kept pushing off my working out and podcasting and instead caught up on some TV that I had recorded. I also broke down and had 3 Oreo cookies for a snack. For dinner I kept it very light as I wasn't that hungry and made a PB&J sandwich. I'm keeping a food journal as well and debated on posting on my blog because I know I would be embarrassed if you guys actually saw what I was eating everyday. Still might do it but for now I'll keep it to myself and see if it helps me eat better... if not I will be posting for all to see and hope that will keep m in line.

I did do my workout around 9pm and it was actually a really good one, especially since I haven't worked out in over a year.

Since it's Monday I weight myself this morning 209

Today's Workout:

15 minutes of cardio on the elliptical

3 sets of 10 on the chest fly for my chest (75 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the curl arm for my biceps (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 for shoulders (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the front leg press (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the back leg press (45 lbs)
3 sets of 10 on the free weight (110 lbs)

Working out is going to be easy for me. I love doing it as I love seeing the results. My only issue is if  I get sick I can't let that derail me from my program. Food on the other hand will be the hardest thing for me to change and control.. wish me luck. My plan is to get below 200 my March. That's nine pounds in 5 weeks... it's going to be tough but I need tough so I stick with my plan.

A Turning Point

Well yesterday while talking to a friend of mine on Facebook about all the things that are not going the way I would like for them to be going I had a kind of panic/anxiety attack and actually had to get up from my computer and go outside for some fresh air, it was kind of scary. Today when I woke up I asked myself why did I allow myself to get that bad. Yes my life isn't going as planned and there have been a few hurdles to jump over in recent months and I still have quite a few things to work out still but mopey, sad, miserable Kenny is not fun Kenny and I'm tried of feeling that way. So starting today I decided that I will do my best to stop feeling this way. I know I can't just turn these feelings off but I can work on how I deal with them.

Starting Monday I'm going to began my workouts again. I'm determined to lose all this excess weight I've put on over the past ten years.  I love working out once I get started so that shouldn't be a problem.. what I see as my major problem is changing what I eat. My entire life has been poor diets and fast foods. I don't plan to go cold turkey (meaning stop eating everything I love) I will just eat less of it and hopefully in time get it down to just once a week if that.

It's time to take control of my life again. If that means career changes or relocation then that's what will happen. I'm going on my fourth month of being unemployed and funds are extremely low, I don't want to lose my house so I have to do something about it. If that means getting a regular job or taking on a roommate then that's what I will do. I spend 5 to 6 days here at the house completely alone... again that is something I can change. I need to plan more outing with friends or maybe volunteer again. I use to do that many years ago and very much enjoyed it.

I am not happy with where my life is right now, but you know what, I am the only one that can change that.. so I'm going to do just that. I may have set backs and fall back into that "funky" mood but having a goal and motivation I don't think I will sink as much as I did the past few months. Life is a challenge and it will always be that way. Who knows what the future holds but like I said in my previous blogs you never know when you're last breath will be so live each moment to the fullest. Time to take my advice and live my life!!

Knights of the Guild Ep 38

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Today’s show features:

~ Guild News

~ Season Five Interviews with Extras; Jason, Jennifer, Josie, Dominic, Joel, Noel, James, Josh, Crystal, Jeff, Ron, Caden, Everett, Meko, Gabriel, Mariah, Holly and Jen.

Thank you again for all your support, I do this podcast because I am a fan myself and love taking other fans behind the scenes of this great webseries.

~Kenny~

Confessions of a Fanboy #6

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Hey all you Fanboys and Fangirls, it's time for another installment of Confessions of a Fanboy.

On today's episode we have the Confession of a Fanboy, Russell Clarke. Here's a quick bio; Russ Clarke is 23, and from England. Yorkshire specifically, though he lives in rural Lincolnshire. He's a writer by trade and hopes to have his first book, tentatively titled "Book One of 'Three'" released some time in 2013. As for money, Russ is currently a freelance journalist, biographer, author, screenwriter, playwright, poet, performance poet, blogger and general all around know it all. Russ has a podcast called "I Hearth Geeks" with the lovely Maria Palafox and formerly Teal Sherer of "The Guild" fame, and is currently madly obsessed with everything. He plays SW:TOR on the Rakata Mind Prison server with his friends Kristian Nairn and Jake Stormoen and invites anyone who wants to give it a try, to come and play!

You can also follow the podcast on Twitter @FanboyPodcast, or follow the Host Kenny @Geekyfanboy. Our special guest Russ can be followed @Ruvio

Please go to our podcast page on Facebook and "Like" us.. just click HERE

If you want to confess your fanboy or fangirl-ism to me send me an email at ConfessionsofaFanboy@gmail.com

Believing in Yourself

Why is it so hard for me to believe the good things others say about me? I've always had low self esteem and I've learned to live with it. I have gotten better over the years but still I have the hardest time accepting praise, it's like I know I work hard on something and give it my all and when people acknowledge it and tell me how great it is, I have a hardest time believing it. I guess part of me doesn't want to come off being vain or arrogant, but part of me truly doesn't believe it.

It's funny, I'm a self proclaimed "Nice Guy". I have lots of tread marks on my back to prove it. But when someone tells me what a nice guy I am, I don't believe it.. why?

Why is it easier to believe the mean & negative things said about me then the good things?

Websites, Podcasts & The IT Crowd

Today my friend Jen came for a visit. Jen and I worked together on The Guild season five and she quickly became one of the core members of my movie marathon weekends. She and I bonded instantly and feel very comfortable chatting to each other about any and everything.. and that's AWESOME.

She arrived around 10am to help me work on creating a new Geekyfanboy.com website. My other one was built in Dreamweaver and I had the hardest time updating and keeping every going so she suggested I use Wordpress which I have very little knowledge of so she came over to help me out. We searched for a theme for a few hours and then she started to teach me various things. We headed out to El Pollo Loco for some lunch where we had some very interesting and very personal discussions. We continued to work on the website for another few hours. I now have a general idea of how to work with Wordpress and in the next few weeks I'll be creating my new site and hopefully will launch it soon.

We could have worked on my site all day long but I wanted to record an episode of Confessions of a Fangirl with her because she's a fangirl of Punk Rock music and love that it's not your typical "geek" or "nerd" fangirl thing. So we spent the next half hour to forty-five minutes recording what I think is a very fun and interesting interview.

Jen wanted to leave around 6pm but we were having such a great day that she decided to stick around and we were going to watch some movies/tv. We decided on watching The IT Crowd. This is a British comedy about the IT department of some company. Jen LOVES this series and everyone I talk to says how great it is. So she had it on her laptop and after several failed attempts we finally were able to play the episodes from a flash drive through her xbox and watch them on my 60inch TV.

I loved this series from the very first scene. Moss has to be my favorite character but Roy is just so darn adorable. We watched all six episodes of the first season and the final episode of the season had me laughing out loud so much that I missed some dialogue. I hear this series gets better and better as it goes (there is only 4 seasons, 6 episodes each). By the time the sixth episode was finished it was 11pm and Jen still had an hour and a half drive home. We said our good nights and I jumped back on the computer to work on my new website some more.

What was suppose to be a few hours of website lessons turned into a 13 hours of fun and awesome conversation with a really good friend... Thanks Jen for making today FANTASTIC!!!!

Catching Up With A Close Friend

Tonight I went out and had dinner with one of my best buds Will. Will and I use to work together on Deadliest Catch and we became really close friends. It's been a few years and our friendship went from seeing each other everyday to seeing each other once every few months and that was tough. I use to know everything that went on in his life and vis-versa but now a days I get bits of pieces of info from him when we chat and bits and pieces from facebook and that makes me sad.

So I made a pledge this year to see my "close" friends at least twice a month. To call or text them more often and to keep up on their lives. So tonight Will and I had dinner at a local restaurant near his house, we caught up on each others lives. When I meet Will he was a logger and in just two short years he is now a story producer, that's pretty incredible and I'm extremely proud of him. After dinner we went back to his place to watch a movie. We picked the new Planet of the Apes movie since neither of us had seen it. Will's roommate also joined us. It was a really good movie and I think all three of us really enjoyed it. After the movie we chatted for a bit before saying our goodbyes. We both agreed that we need to see each other more often and will make more of an effort to do so this year.

Let's hope I can keep this new pledge going not only with Will but with all my other close friends.

Movie Marathon Weekend (Day 4)

So like Friday I didn't expect this to be part of my movie marathon weekend but since it's Martin Luther Kings Jr. birthday it's an official government holiday which meant Chris who works for the military got the day off. Olivia who lives up in San Fransisco area came down for the party but also for an interview with Miller corporation and Anthony just decided that he would go to work from my place.

Well I got up at 7:30am and noticed that Anthony's motorcycle was still parked in my yard. Last I heard he was suppose to be gone by 6:30am. I went out to the living room and he told me about his crazy morning. Guess his keys to his bike were in the backpack which went home with Jennifer last night so instead of waking me up and having me drive him home to get them he tried to hot wire his motorcycle which in turn caused one of the fuses to blow. And guess where the fuse box is.. under the seat which needs a key to open. So he's back at square one. He had to call a tow truck to come pick up his bike and take it to his house.

Olivia on the other hand was getting ready for her interview, she looked great. Chris and I were sitting at the dining table chatting when she came out of the guest room and informed us that she just got off the phone with Miller and was informed that they forgot it was a holiday and the folks who do the interviews were not in the office today. Olivia was pretty devastate since that was one of the reasons for coming down to the LA area.

So both Anthony and Olivia didn't have the greatest start to their Monday. Since the four of us were now just hanging out I wanted to make some breakfast, again not really expecting to be making a third breakfast I pulled out what I had left which was Bisquick and planned to make some biscuits. Of course when Chris heard this he wanted biscuits and gravy so he headed out to the local supermarket to buy some gravy. I also made some leftover sausages from the weekend. So I had my very first biscuits and gravy with sausage and have to say it was way to yummy...

We also decided to watch some more Once Upon a Time. So we watched episodes 3 & 4. During this time the tow truck arrived to take Anthony's motorcycle home. So we said our goodbyes and our party went from 4 to 3.

After the fourth episode of Once Upon a Time Chris and Olivia packed up their stuff and Chris packed up his car. I drove Olivia to the Burbank Airport and dropped her off around noon. Chris followed us in his car and parked in a local food area next to the airport. I meet up with him and we had a some lunch before he headed back up north.

I love when Chris and I can get some one on one time. We rarely spend time together just he and I but when we do it's always so awesome and very special to me.  He's such an interesting person and I love getting to know him better and better. He and I are so alike yet so very different. I love this guy!!!

We ate lunch at Denny's, well he had second breakfast while I had a hamburger. We chatted for a few hours before saying goodbye at 2pm thus ending my four day movie marathon weekend extravaganza.

Thanks to all who made this four day extended weekend so special... Jennifer L, Matt, Anthony, Jennifer C. Rupert, Scott, Ashphord, Aaron, Dallas, Andrew, Kevin, Doug, America, Olivia, Greg, Red 5 and especially Chris, Jes, Jen and Will.. couldn't imagine my life without you guys being part of it.

Check out all the photos HERE

Movie Marathon Weekend (Day 3)

Day three started around 7:30am, as least that is when I woke up. I didn't actually get out of bed until 8:30am. I actually texted Chris, who was sleeping on my office to see if he was awake and if he had been out to see who else was awake. He told me that everyone looked to be up, or at least awake so I got up, took a shower and headed out. Everyone looked as if they had a not-so-good sleep. I went to make breakfast. Started with potatoes as they tend to take the longest and I make a ton of them. I had 15 hungry people to feed. Will had to leave for Church and made himself a quick breakfast. I also made 2 dozen eggs, three packages of sausages and two packs of bacon. Chris knows how much I hate making bacon so he took it upon himself to get that cooked. With only a few more minutes left in cooking I noticed that my gas range flames were really low. Then it hit me that I'm running out of propane, I had checked it a few months back and it was at 20%, but with all these parties (ie showers) and having the heater on a lot I guess I went thought the gas faster then I expected and now my tank was empty. And with an empty propane tank means no hot water, no heater and no gas stove. The really sucky part is that it's a Sunday and tomorrow is a holiday so I can't even call to order more propane until Tuesday. I did finish cooking the sausages on my outside burner on my grill and luckily everything else got done before the gas went completely out. And the majority of my guests took their showers earlier so not many had to take cold showers.

Anyways we all had a great breakfast while watching our traditional breakfast movie, Galaxy Quest. After Galaxy Quest and Breakfast the 15 of us went to Vasquez Rocks for a hike. Again this is the most we've ever had at one of these hikes. Also Chris did not want to lead this one and volunteered Olivia to lead. It was a bit of a struggle at the beginning as we had "new" folks who had never been to Vasquez and weren't really hikers but then we had folks who couldn't help but climb steep rocks and take the hardest route. So we split up several times which really wasn't my plan, but I did have some of my favorite people in my group. Chris, Jes, Scott, Aaron, Rupert, Kevin, Matt and Jennifer L. We meet up with the other group toward our final leg of the hike and that was fun having the full 15 of use together hiking.

After hiking we headed back to my place for some folks to pick up their cars before we headed to Islands for our traditional lunch. Again because we were such a big party we had to split into two. Lunch was a lot of fun and then three from our party had to take off. We said goodbye to Scott, Matt and Jennifer L.

The rest of use headed back to my place for some xbox Fruit Ninja. Our numbers went from 15 to 12 remaining party goers. By this time it was already 5pm and we had a drawing for Back to the Future gifts that Dallas had brought. So I wrote every one's name down on a piece of paper and put them in my Jayne hat and we drew a name one at a time and that winner would be able to pick from the prizes until they were all claimed. Funny enough Jes pulled my name out first and I grabbed the Delorean from the 3rd movie. After the drawing Jes needed to get started on her six hour trek home. We were now down to 11 folks. We played Fruit Ninja for about an hour before Kevin, Doug and Aaron had to get going. Our party went from 11 to 8.

So the incident that happened last night between two of my guests flared up again and before we knew it they were arguing just behind us as we played Fruit Ninja trying to drown our their voices. Finally after a half hour I couldn't take it anymore and ask them if they were going to continue to argue to please have the courtesy to go into one of my bedrooms, which they did for another half hour. At this point I was not in a good mood. This isn't how I wanted to end such a great and fun weekend. Luckily one of them came to me and apologized, which was very sincere so it lessened my bad mood.

Soon Dallas, Ashphord and Jennifer C. headed home, leaving just five of us. Me, Chris, Rupert, Olivia and Anthony. We all rearranged my living spaces and got everything back into place. 3 of the 5 remaining folks are big Once Upon a Time fans and since it was Sunday and a new episode just recorded on my DVR we all sat in the TV room and watched it. After the fantastic new episode we went back and watched the first two episodes of the series, since several had not seen them and I have all the episode still on my DVR. I also made some mini tacos and taquitos for a quick dinner. It was a fun way to end the evening. Rupert left but Anthony, Chris and Olivia stayed the night.. meaning this party was going to continue into Monday.

Check out all the photos HERE

MASH 4077 Podcast Episode 24

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Show Notes

Kenny Mittleider from Knights of the Guild, Alien Nation: The Newcomers Podcast & Confessions of a Fanboy Podcast, Simon Meddings from Waffle On Podcast, & Al Kessel from Tales from the Mouse House, Fast Forward & Just Because Podcast discuss one of the most successful and longest running television series in history.. M*A*S*H

Today we cover Season 1, Episode #24 - Showtime

Directed by Jackie Cooper
Written by Larry Gelbart
Production code J324
Original air date March 25, 1973

Set during the Korean War in the 1950’s

Plot Summary: A USO stand-up comic performs at the 4077th, and the performance is juxtaposed with clips containing the following: Henry’s wife back home gives birth to a son and the camp’s dentist receives his discharge papers and takes great pains to make sure he does not get injured before he sets off for home. Major Burns actually gets the upper hand over Hawkeye with three practical jokes. The first is when he sabotages the still, causing it to spray Hawkeye in the face with gin. The second involves the classic 'bucket-over-the-door' gag. The third and arguably craftier joke has Hawkeye attempting to use the shower, but is annoyed to learn that Frank has switched the showerheads to spray alternately whenever Pierce tries to use it.

Hope you enjoy it,
Kenny, Meds & Al

Movie Marathon Weekend (Day 2)

Today started around 8am. Everyone was up and moving around so I started to make breakfast. Since this was an unplanned breakfast (I only bought breakfast for Sunday morning) I opted for pancakes, which everyone seemed to enjoy. Lydia, Olivia, Jes, Chris, Anthony, Rupert, Jennifer C.and Aaron arrived last night. So after breakfast I cleaned up the kitchen while the others went outside to play some extreme bocce ball. About fifteen minutes later I joined in on the fun. After bocce ball we headed inside and Chris put on Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog and we all did just that.. we sang along to the songs.. it was so much fun.  Then Chris put on The Guild season 1 and let it play in the background as we prepped snacks and lunch for the other guests who should be arriving around noon. Lydia had to head back down to the airport to fly back home, so we said our goodbyes and she left around 1pm.  Jen showed up and realized that she forgot the kinect for her xbox 360. I have been wanting to buy a 360 and kinect for a while but at this time can't afford it but I told Jen if she wanted to go get a kinect from target that I would buy it and then get my xbox 360 at a later date. So she, Chris and Olivia headed out to the store to get the kinect and some last minute supplies. When they got back they had an adventure to tell of driving behind a Delorean and following this car to Vasquez Rocks where they approached the guy about his car and the guy was gracious enough to let them sit inside and take pictures. While those guys were out my friend America arrived. I haven't seen her in such a long time, so it was really good seeing her again.

I was surprised by the lack of guests since the party started at noon and we had originally wanted to start the movies at 1pm. But then I remembered that most folks who came early/on time actually came the night before and were here already.

Well it's now 3 pm and we started to make the food (BBQ Bison Burgers).  Had some more issues with the grill ( I think it's time to get a new one) Andrew, Kevin, Doug, Greg and Red Five arrived just in time to grab some food as we began Back to the Future part one.  During the first movie Jennifer and Matt arrived as well as my good friend Will. Scott showed up halfway though the movie as well and finally Dallas and Ashphord were the last to arrive.

For a short amount of time we had a party of 21; me, Chris, Will, Jes, Jen, Jennifer C. Anthony, Kevin, Doug, Andrew, Jennifer L., Matt, Rupert, Scott, Ashphord, Aaron, Dallas, America, Olivia, Greg and Red 5. Once the first movie was over America had to be somewhere so we said our goodbyes. Next we started Back to the Future part two. After part two Andrew had to get going so we were down to 19 people. In between parts 2 and 3 everyone got up and mingled for a bit, started to drink, snack. My initial plan was do to only the first two parts and then do part three tomorrow. But it felt like everyone wanted to finish the trilogy today so we pressed on with Back to the Future part three (which is my favorite part).  After part three it was around 11pm and Greg and Red 5 left the party. So glad I got to see these guys and very happy they stuck around for all three films.

So our party was down to 17 and 16 of these people were going to be spending the night. This would be the most people I have ever had sleep over during one of these weekends.

We drank.. and drank.. and drank.. I was feeling really, really good. We played some card games. Star Fluxx and Asshole. We had such a large group that we had two games going at the same time. I won Star Fluxx even though I was drunk but the Asshole group sounded to be having a much better time as they were hooting and hollering and being crazy.

After the card games we drank more and more and Anthony and I challenged each other to a "crab" fight. It was pretty EPIC, not sure if anyone got pics or video.

It was around 2am when the night turned into a boys vs girls thing. Being the only gay man I was allowed into the girls room (which was my guest room), and interacted with them for a bit before heading back out with the boys (and Jen). It was kind of like a grade school thing.. boys trying to get into to the girls room, there was wrestling, people getting pushed into doors, it was pretty chaotic. At the same time Chris noticed that "someone" tweeted from his laptop and he was not too happy about that so he tweeted that he couldn't trust some of the folks hear at the party and some of the girls took it as if he accused them of doing it, so tempers flared and a few words were said but it fizzled out fairly quickly. Some what related to this was a fight between Anthony and Jennifer. I don't know the details all I know is Anthony is upset and sat on top of my washing machine in my dark laundry room for an hour or so.

Jen headed home and would be the last person leaving for the night.. We ended the night with sex talk, debating which is more attractive, penis' or vagina's... good times.

Around 3:00am we called it a night and it took another half hour to find a place for everyone to sleep and make sure everyone had a pillow and at least a sheet.  Several folks opted to not sleep and hang out on the front porch.. I was not one of them I went to bed around 3:30am.

Check out all the photos HERE

Movie Marathon Weekend Begins Early (Day 1)

Today was suppose to be a movie marathon prep day. Clean the house, go shopping and get ready for folks to start arriving tomorrow. But things kind of got started early. My friend Lydia from Switzerland asked months ago if she could stay in my guest room tonight as she was heading home tomorrow. Then another friend Olivia was flying down from San Fransisco area and was arriving tonight at 6pm. Also my friend Jes was going to come down tonight after work (she has a six hour drive). So I opened it up to who ever wanted to come early could and we could get the party started sooner then later.

I had seven people take me up on that offer, Lydia, Olivia, Jes, Chris, Anthony, Rupert, Jennifer C.and Aaron. Jes arrived first as she wanted to prep her bison burgers for tomorrow. About a half hour later I had to go pick up Olivia from the Burbank airport. It was great seeing her as I haven't seen her since we were on set of The Guild Season Five last summer. When I got home my friend Lydia was here at my place. Then Rupert and finally my best bud Chris arrived. We were still waiting on Aaron, Anthony and Jennifer. But it also was getting late and we were hungry so we decided to head to Chills and have the other guys meet us there. So I texted those guys and found out Aaron was about two miles away so we had him stop and wait on the side of the road until we could get to him.

The seven of us arrived at Chills, still no sign of Anthony and Jennifer, who were coming together. We had a great dinner. Good food and Great friends is always a good combination. Aaron surprised everyone by picking up the check.. Thanks Aaron. And just when we were about to leave Anthony and Jennifer showed up.

Outside Chills there is stadium seating area for outside concerts and I thought it would be fun to grab a pic of the gang posing out there. I took three and this was the best one.

After dinner we headed home and played some Apples to Apples while Anthony and Jennifer prepped for some of their "special" desserts. And by special I don't mean drug laced.. more like Rum and Caffeine laced.

It was a great night and a fantastic way to start the next Movie Marathon Weekend..

Check out all the photos HERE

Dinner with a Good Friend

Today I drove out to Hollywood to see an very dear friend of mine... Chris Quilty.  We meet while working on The Dating Game back in 96' and we became instant buddies. I was honored when he asked me to be one of his groomsmen in his wedding. He and I have a strange relationship. I consider him one of my closest friends yet we see each other maybe once or twice a year. But when we do hang out it's as if no time has passed at all. I was happy to be seeing him because we didn't get together at all in 2011 and I missed him so much. We've been trying to plan to hang out for months and today is finally the day. His wife and oldest daughter went on vacation leaving him at home with his youngest daughter. So we planned to order some pizza and watch one of my screeners.

Got to his place around 6:30pm. I got to meet his baby girl who is now 2 years old and this is the first time I'm seeing her in person. Still have never meet his oldest daughter who is I believe 3 to 4 years old. We chatted for about an hour or so, catching up on each others lives. He put his daughter down, which was very cute since he had a baby monitor on and I got to listen when he sang his daughter a lullaby.

We ordered a pizza from Papa John's and watched Moneyball. Had a great time, we both really enjoyed Moneyball, I'm not a baseball fan but it's not really a story about baseball.. it's more of a character story, which I loved. It was great just chilling like old times with my buddy. I left around 10:30pm as he had to be at work early the next day and I had an hour + drive home.

It was a great night and it just reminded me why I love this guy so much. I hope in 2012 we get to see each other more often. I don't know why we don't, life just seems to get in the way but I know I'm going to make a bigger effort to see him more often.

Crazy Day & Podcasting

Well today started with an email from a gay rehabilitation clinic who said that a "friend" informed them that I could use their services. Now I know for a fact that no friend of mine would every give my name to a place like that. So I figured it was either someone who doesn't like me (yes believe it or not I have some podcast listeners who don't really appreciate my love for The Guild) or it is spam. It's no secret that I am gay and if some bot go a hold of that info they could have sent that email to me. Either way I just laughed and it really didn't me.. well other then the fact that there really are places like this who think they can "convert" a gay person and make them straight.

Well a few hours later I got another email and it was from someone who said that again a "friend" put a hit out on me and wants me dead. This "friend" paid them $15,000 to kill me and for some reason they wanted to offer me a chance to pay them and they would not kill me. You can see the email HERE

Now I know this is a scam.. they didn't use any real information about me. The grammar and spelling is horrible. And again now "friend" of mine would spend $15,000 to have me killed. Of course folks kept telling me to contact the police or FBI but honestly it's just a scam. I read about it on scoops which is a website that exposes these scams. If the email had any of my person info like my name or address or anything like that I would have gone to the police but it was very vague so I decided to just let it go.

Besides the crazy emails/spam I did get some 'real' work done. I've been wanting to clean out my office closet for a year and I finally did it.. well I pulled everything out and it's sitting on the floor of my office.. but that's a start as there is no way I will let this stuff just sit there for long.

I also remembered that I have a MASH 4077 Podcast due on the 15th, which is Sunday and I'm having a movie marathon weekend so I knew I wouldn't have time to get that edited so I spent the majority of the day editing the next MASH 4077 Podcast, which I'm happy to say I got done.

So the day started kind of crazy but ended on a good note!!

Alien Nation: The Newcomers Podcast Episode 1

Download from itunes http://bit.ly/itunesAlienNation or Listen/Direct Download http://Aliennationpodcast.com

Show Notes

Brothers Kenny and Michael Mittleider review and discuss a short lived but very socially aware TV series from the late 80's early 90's ALIEN NATION. Each podcast we will review a single episode in sequential order starting with the Pilot. Will give you our thoughts on the episode as well as some fun behind the scenes information.

Today we cover Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot

Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Written by Kenneth Johnson
Original air date September 18, 1989

Plot Summary: George and Matt are partnered together and are assigned to investigate their first case together; a vagrant has died and has strange sores on his body. Matt receives a large box of information on the newcomers and slavery from his deceased partner, Tuggles. This information gets Matt and George looking in some strange places and re-evaluating Tuggles death. George and his family move into their new home and face the challenges of moving into an upscale neighborhood. Matt meets his new neighbor and they begin a difficult friendship.

Hope you enjoy it,
Kenny & Michael

© Geekyfanboy Productions

MASH 4077 Podcast

Today was MASH Podcast day all day long. First up was recording the next six episodes of the podcast (Feb - April). We were suppose to do these a few weeks back but I wasn't feeling or sounding so good. It normally takes us about 3 hours to record 6 episodes.. today it took us about 2 hour 15 minutes. So that was really good.

I got off to a bad start though. After recording the first episode I realized that I had my external speakers playing the audio as well, which is a huge mistake. Now there is double audio or like a feedback for this episode. We don't have to re-record the podcast but it does take extra effort in post/editing.

Besides the six episode we recorded we did our Harry Morgan tribute. So I spent the rest of the day editing that and finding audio clips of some of his work on MASH. I noticed that my audio sounded echoie or like I was in a large room. Normally I have crystal clear audio. I investigated a bit and realized that the wrong mic was plugged in and I was actually talking into a dead mic, lucky for me the second mic (the one plugged in) is only a foot away and picked up my audio but it's not crisp and sounds like I'm far away.

So not the best recording experience I've ever had. Nothing horrible but me being a perfectionist the audio quality is extremely important and now I have to edit our next six podcasts hearing this issue, which will drive me crazy. :(

I did manage to finally get our SwampCast #4 edited and uploaded by the end of the night.

MASH 4077 SwampCast #4 - Harry Morgan Tribute

Download from itunes http://tinyurl.com/MASH4077itunes or listen/direct download http://MASH4077Podcast.com

Here is another SwampCast... #4,  a SwampCast is a non-regular show.. meaning we will not be reviewing an episode during this podcast. These SwampCasts will come out now and then and cover "cast" interview, or listener feedback or anything else that we want to share with the listeners that doesn't fit into our regular show review episodes.

Our fourth SwampCast is dedicated to one of the greatest actors of our time, he also entertained us for 8 seasons as the lovable Sherman T. Potter.

This is MASH 4077 Podcast tribute to the late Harry Morgan.

Dinner with Friends

I didn't go to bed until 6am today (read my previous blog to find out why) so I got up around 11:30am. I finished creating the show notes for the first episode of my new podcast Alien Nation: The Newcomers Podcast. The big thing happening today was dinner with my friends John and Moises. Every year John has a dinner party on or close to the 12th Day of Christmas. This year joining John and Moises was Tom and Ervin, Bruce, and Martin. It was great seeing everyone as we use to hang out during TV nights as my place a few years back (when I lived closer) but now a days I'm lucky if I see these guys a few times a year. I hope to change that, as tonight really reminded me how much I care about these guys and enjoy their company. Moises made a wonderful dinner, we watched John's super 8 movies from 20 years ago and just chatted. Good times were had by all.

Family

Today I spent some time with my family. Dad was sick but I did get to hang out with my brother's family. Got to visit my brother Michael, his wife Lora and my nephew Kenobi and my 3 week old niece Molly. Spent about 5 hours hanging out, helping with the feeding of Molly and playing with Kenobi. I also brought Michael our completed first episode of our Alien Nation Podcast.

After visiting my family and since I was out that way I had to visit another person who I consider family, my buddy Josh. I drove to his place around 10pm and as always he was there to greet me with a smile and the worlds best hug. We hung out in his room for a bit and went over all his DVD's. I must say he has a very eclectic collection of DVD's... from Booty Call to Lord of the Rings to The Boondock Saints. He loaned me several "must" see movies that I haven't seen yet. And I made a list of movies that I need to bring to him for he hasn't seen several classics like The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles.

He also showed me his collection of Lord of the Rings mini figurines for a RPG game that he use to play. He hand painted every one of them and even won some awards. Very detailed paint jobs.. I was extremely impressed.

We then headed over to Denny's for a late late dinner at midnight and we sat there and talked for four in a half hours... it was AWESOME!!! We really got to know each other even better. Our friendship is new (this is only our fourth time actually hanging out and it's the first time that it's just he and I). But as I've said in previous blogs that he's a Kindred Spirit and it's as if we've know each other for a lifetime. So it was a blast just sitting there and enjoying ones company. Around 4:30am he needed to get to bed as he had to be up for work in 5 hours and I still had my hour and a half drive home. We went back to his house said our goodbyes and headed home. I did manage to get home before the sun rose. But a little lack of sleep was well worth the time spent with such a special person... can't wait to do it again.

PGA Awards & Alien Nation

This morning I got to vote for the PGA Awards (Producer's Guild of America). I've been a member of the PGA for four or five years and it's always fun to get screeners of current movies but the other fun thing is to actual vote for the official awards. There are about 12 categories and I have to say this year I have seen 95% of the movies that are up. The big movie best film of the year our of the 10 nominated I chose The Help and something new this year the PGA have a webseries category so I got to vote for the one and only webseries that I have worked on The Guild.

The rest of the day was spent editing on and off my very first Alien Nation: The Newcomers Podcast. I'm excited to get this out there and see what folks think. I'm also excited because my brother is my co-host and I think our chemistry really came across on the podcast. We've recorded two episodes so far and have three more planned in the near future. My plan is to release 1 podcast on the 10th of every month. I hope fans enjoy it as much as my brother and I enjoyed recording it.