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— Ken Plume (@KenPlume) December 26, 2015
Adult Swim’s Dana Snyder and FRED’s Ken Plume set out to have a literate conversation between two pals, but inevitably devolve into a verbal, and funny, free-for-all full of bickering, infighting, and the special kind of male bonding that comes from conflict expressed through the podcast medium. This, dear friends, is the online experience!
Monday, December 28, 2015
Monday, December 21, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Star Wars Holiday Special
Last night Ken Plume was watching and tweeting about The Star Wars Holiday Special:
Posted by Guy Hutchinson
Monday, December 14, 2015
A Bit of a Chat with Guy Hutchinson
I got the chance to be on A Bit of a Chat with Ken and we ended up talking for over 4 hours.
Here's the description from FRED:
Take a listen: http://asitecalledfred.com/2015/12/13/guy-hutchinson-ken-plume-chat/
Here's the description from FRED:
I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.
In this episode, I have a chat with author Guy Hutchinson, about Sesame Place, Muppets, TMZ Treehouse, Disney Dining, My Bookie, Hershey Highway, Budge, and The Forgetful Jones.
Take a listen: http://asitecalledfred.com/2015/12/13/guy-hutchinson-ken-plume-chat/
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| Guy Hutchinson |
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
The Lampshades Christmas Show
Dana played the bells in The Lampshades Christmas Show. @KateFlannery tweeted this picture out afterwards:
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
See Dana at Magic City Comic Con January 15th
Dana will be in Miami for the Magic City Comic Con.
You can read about it on the Miami Herald!
Posted by Guy Hutchinson
You can read about it on the Miami Herald!
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| Dana with Guy Hutchinson at Miami convention in 2014 |
Posted by Guy Hutchinson
Monday, December 7, 2015
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
The Madonna Inn
Back on episode 91 Dana talked about the Madonna Inn.
I have blogged about it here before:
Recently I was looking at postcards on line and found some very cool ones of The Madonna Inn I wanted to share:
Posted by Guy Hutchinson
Monday, November 30, 2015
Monday, November 16, 2015
A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Sarah Morgan
New Bit of a Chat! Ken chats with writer Sarah Morgan, about royalty, bananas, Muppets, tubes, Jaffa cakes, and Wrong Way Tony.
You can listen to it here.
Posted by Guy Hutchinson
Posted by Guy Hutchinson
Monday, November 9, 2015
It's the Great Plumey, Charlie Brown
Did you see The Peanuts Movie this weekend? Ken did! And he tweeted about it:
Monday, November 2, 2015
Ken's Halloween Projector
Posted by Guy Hutchinson
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Halloween Muppet Costumes
Looking for some Muppety Snydecast fun this Halloween?
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Ken's Muppet interviews
With the new show "the muppets" currently running on ABC (new episode tomorrow,) it's a good time to take a look at Ken's Muppet interviews.
On the Ken P. D. Snydecast we have often heard of Ken's love of puppets, particularly Jim Henson's Muppets.
Over ten years ago Ken interviewed several very important members of the Muppet organization and luckily these wonderful interviews are still available on the web.
These text interviews are a great snapshot of the Henson group at that time and are a good showcase of Ken's chat skills before the days of podcasting.
Still Counting: An Interview with Muppeteer Jerry NelsonRatting Out: An Interview with Muppeteer Steve Whitmire
Gonzo Puppeterism: An Interview with Muppeteer Dave Goelz
Animateer Karen Prell: An Interview with Puppeteer, Animator and Writer
I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.
In this episode, I have a chat with writer/director Kirk Thatcher about creatures, Muppets, Star Trek punks, Star Wars, 8×10s.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Thursday, October 8, 2015
SAD NEWS & HAPPY NEWS
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Fuss Budget
Oddly enough there was a whole bunch of weird "Fuss-Budget" references in Peanuts:
Posted by Guy Hutchinson
Friday, October 2, 2015
Anime and Animation Voice Actor Roundtable
Here is a fun video of Dana doing a panel at Magic City Comic Con:
Join some of the biggest voice actors in animation and anime for a roundtable discussion about the industry and their experiences, featuring Dana Snyder voice of Master Shake, Lauren Landa voice of Annie in Attack on Titan, Caitlin Glass voice of Haruhi in Ouran High School Host Club, Zach Callison voice of Steven Universe, and David Matranga voice of Tomoya Okazaki in Clannad at Magic City Comic Con 2015.
Posted by Guy Hutchinson
Monday, September 14, 2015
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Atari Game
On the newest Ken PD Snydecast Dana talks about seeing the documentary 'Atari: Game Over'
Way back in 1983 the Atari 2600 ruled the world of gaming. A benevolent ruler to be sure, but Atari was the king.
And what a king Atari was.
Atari changed the way people used their TV. Atari released some of the most memorable games of all time including Donkey Kong and Frogger.
This made Atari 9th on the all time "King" list (between King Solomon and the Sacramento Kings.)
Atari was part of the Warner Communications company and had been since way back in could 1976. Atari was responsible for 80% of the video game market and 70% of Warner's operating profits. In 1982 the head of Warner Communications made a deal with Steven Spielberg to make a video game based on the movie E.T. The cost of the licensing agreement was an outstanding $20 million dollars.
This was a somewhat unusual move. Most games at the time were not based on movies; instead they were based on giant frogs crossing the street and apes that are inexplicably called "donkey".
Howard Scott Warshaw was tapped to create E.T. Warshaw was a skilled programmer, but he was saddled with a ridiculously short deadline.
8 weeks.
The resulting game is widely considered the worst game of all time.
I am not sure when I first played E.T., but it was long before I heard what a flop it was. I loved the game. I picked up a guide book "How to Play E.T." at garage sale, and I have been hooked on it for years.
The game play is simple. You move E.T. through several screens looking for the parts of E.T.'s phone. There is a scientist and an FBI agent on the lookout for E.T.
The scientist with kidnap you and the FBI agent will steal a piece of your phone.
He must look like a dork when he gets back to headquarters.
FBI AGENT: I just saw an alien.
CLERK: Sure you did.
FBI AGENT: I really did!
CLERK: Prove it.
FBI AGENT: OK, look at this phone I found.
...then the agent would fall down causing him to look like a dork.
The pieces of the phone are hidden in pits that E.T. has to fall into.
The holes are what many people hated about the game. They are EVERYWHERE and it is quite easy to fall into them by accident.
So, with annoying holes, mediocre graphics and a bad storyline OTHER CONSUMERS (again, not me) hated this game.
Atari had woefully miscalculated the amount of games that would be sold and they were left with millions of unsold cartridges. So they did the only logical thing. They buried them in the desert.
Yup. They sent truckload of cartridges to a desert landfill drove a steamroller over them and covered them in cement.
Kinda like what happened to Joe Pesci in "Casino".
Way back in 1983 the Atari 2600 ruled the world of gaming. A benevolent ruler to be sure, but Atari was the king.
And what a king Atari was.
Atari changed the way people used their TV. Atari released some of the most memorable games of all time including Donkey Kong and Frogger.
This made Atari 9th on the all time "King" list (between King Solomon and the Sacramento Kings.)
Atari was part of the Warner Communications company and had been since way back in could 1976. Atari was responsible for 80% of the video game market and 70% of Warner's operating profits. In 1982 the head of Warner Communications made a deal with Steven Spielberg to make a video game based on the movie E.T. The cost of the licensing agreement was an outstanding $20 million dollars.
This was a somewhat unusual move. Most games at the time were not based on movies; instead they were based on giant frogs crossing the street and apes that are inexplicably called "donkey".
Howard Scott Warshaw was tapped to create E.T. Warshaw was a skilled programmer, but he was saddled with a ridiculously short deadline.
8 weeks.
The resulting game is widely considered the worst game of all time.
I am not sure when I first played E.T., but it was long before I heard what a flop it was. I loved the game. I picked up a guide book "How to Play E.T." at garage sale, and I have been hooked on it for years.
The game play is simple. You move E.T. through several screens looking for the parts of E.T.'s phone. There is a scientist and an FBI agent on the lookout for E.T.
The scientist with kidnap you and the FBI agent will steal a piece of your phone.
He must look like a dork when he gets back to headquarters.
FBI AGENT: I just saw an alien.
CLERK: Sure you did.
FBI AGENT: I really did!
CLERK: Prove it.
FBI AGENT: OK, look at this phone I found.
...then the agent would fall down causing him to look like a dork.
The pieces of the phone are hidden in pits that E.T. has to fall into.
The holes are what many people hated about the game. They are EVERYWHERE and it is quite easy to fall into them by accident.
So, with annoying holes, mediocre graphics and a bad storyline OTHER CONSUMERS (again, not me) hated this game.
Atari had woefully miscalculated the amount of games that would be sold and they were left with millions of unsold cartridges. So they did the only logical thing. They buried them in the desert.
Yup. They sent truckload of cartridges to a desert landfill drove a steamroller over them and covered them in cement.
Kinda like what happened to Joe Pesci in "Casino".
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Captain Ron... THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER
As Dana mentioned on the newest Ken PD Snydecast, Captain Ron is the greatest movie ever.
For those that haven't seen it, it's a comedy from 1992 directed by, future James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan.
It tells the story of an eccentric captain who helps a family begin a love affair with the sea.
Originally released in 1991as Kanitah Poh in Kurt Russell's native land of Glottenberg.
It was a smash hit in Glottenberg raking in over seventy million marcorubios (about 1 million in US currency.)
The film starts off with Kanitah Poh (played by Russell) showing up at the dock with his beat up old ship.
It's revealed that Kanitah Poh is a cocaine addict and he needs help.
Martin Short plays a doctor that specializes in seafaring drug addiction. He brings his family aboard the ship for a 2 day cruise to the other side of the Warner Brothers' lot.
Martin Short (playing Martin Short) asks Kurt if the boat will sail and then Kanitah Poh utters his most famous line:
Martin Short then has Kanitah Poh remember his childhood. He spent little time riding a bike with a piano attached to the handle bars.
Kanitah Poh claims that he fell off his bike as a kid trying to run over a milk carton. Martin Short refutes this claim and says "I have video taped your whole life."
That night Kanitah Poh dreams that Martin Short is a pretty girl and he is a monkey with a sweet valentine's day t-shirt.
In the morning a changed Kanitah Poh wakes up and decides to tell his story to Martin Short and his family.
They all decide that cocaine isn't good for you. Everyone is happy, especially Kanitah Poh!
A friendly trader offers them fish for Kanitah Poh's last bag of cocaine.
But it turns out Martin Short accidentally ate it, bag and all. Kurt wants him to cough up the cocaine.
Suddenly Ant Man shows up and Ken is unimpressed and Dana goes to the bathroom because he's old.
Then a wiser Martin Short goes back to school.
Captain Ron! Go see it! Each sold separably. Ask your parents for permission.
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