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, 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.
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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".
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