Trust me, you WANT to see this! If you are any kind of Star Wars fan worth his salt you will carve out some time for yourself and watch this. Seriously.  Here is some back story on this, this masterpiece per the youtube page...

Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The "Director's Cut" is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.

Many thanks to Aaron Valdez (video editor - http://www.aaronvaldez.com) and Bryan Pugh (sound design/mixing - http://www.pughtube.com) for the countless hours they put into this masterpiece.

The Story:

In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake "Star Wars: A New Hope" into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.

For more information about the project please check out the website here.  Enjoy! 

Hey Everybody Rick here with a random bit of awesome sent by listener and constant prize winner Lee!  I gotta hand it to Volkswagon.  They have a penchant for coming up with some truly inspired stuff and especially with their Superbowl commercials.  This one is no exception.  I personally still prefer the one with the little kid dressed as Darth Vader but this one is very highly entertaining. Enjoy!

Hey Everybody, Rick here.  I am not usually the type to get political.  In fact, there are two things you will almost never hear me discuss with people.  Those two things are religion and politics.  Both are such sensitive subjects to people that I prefer to leave those two topics alone.  But when the idea of our free speech comes into question and what the internet means to us as not only a community but also as a way of life for some, I feel it necessary to speak up. 

Here's the deal.  There are two bills that are about to be under review by the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.  They are SOPA and PIPA respectively.  As described by Wilkipedia....

SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act." ("IP" stands for "intellectual property.") In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in our opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet. . The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the public interest in the digital realm, has summarized why these bills are simply unacceptable in a world that values an open, secure, and free Internet.

 It is Hollywood and the MPAA that are the biggest backers of this bill among other supporters.  What these two bills will do is essentially neuter many site including this one, and many other podcasts and entertainment sites.  We will essentially be breaking the law by posting a link to another site or embedding a video.  That would effectively be the end of this show right there because one of our mst popular things on the site is the Random Bits of Awesomeness. 

These two bills will cost jobs!  Major sites like yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, eBay will effectively be things of the past.  Contact your congressperson and tell them you oppose these two bills.   Get educated and learn why these bills mean the end of the internet as we know it. Here is a link to learn more about these two bills. Thank you and please help keep the internet the way it is. 

Welcome to the United States of Geekdom, the podcast that talks about what makes us geeks go tick!  We are thrilled to bring you this, our 36th episode where we discuss (almost) all things Dungeons and Dragons.  We are joined by our special guest Kurt Maksay as we discuss the popular roleplaying game that was made popular and infamous in the 1980s.  Next episode, well.....we are going into the depths the likes of which have never been experienced in this show.  What are we discussing?  You will have to listen to this episode to find out!

Thanks for listening!  Stay geeky!

Hey Everybody Rick here with a very special episode of Amazing Comicast.  This is Episode 3 and in it I was joined by the cast of Vadercast.  Vadercast was a Star Wars podcast that myself, Cole, and Catherine all got our start on.  The other two voices you hear in the episode are Vadercast Grand Poobah Tim Kennedy and his wife Melanie.  In this episode we review the then released film Spider-Man 3.  Did we like it then?  Have we changed our minds?  My answer there to both questions, yes.  Want to hear more?  Listen to the episode and USG history in the making when Cole and Catherine both made their Amazing Comicast debut!

Welcome to the Amazing Comicast. We are revisiting this show because this year marks the 5th anniversary of the podcast that properly launched my solo career (for a time) in podcasting.

This second episode is my look at the failed X-Men animated pilot, Pryde of the X-Men which was so popular among fans, it inspired an even more popular arcade game!  Enjoy and thanks for listening!
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Hey Everybody Rick here.  If you have listened to the episode about that magic moment  that we knew we were hooked, you will know that one of my passions is classic rock.  But it goes even further than that because I am a fan of the parody, especially if it is by Weird Al.  I bring up the classic rock because two of the legends that I admire the most are Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, and Alice Cooper.  I bring up Weird Al because he was one of the artists I grew up listening to since I was a kid. 

To see not only these three guys who I admire a lot performing a song that was already made legendary by the Beatles, but also see Weird Al singing a song that is not a parody...well, mind blown completely away.  Just awesome.  Seriously, I dare you to find something more awesome than this.  If you do, forward it to me at jointheusg@yahoo.com or unitedwegeek@yahoo.com and not only will I post it to the site, but you will get the credit of finding it.  Enjoy this truly awesomely epic video. 

I am convinced there is a black hole of awesome that now exists where this bar once sat because the place imploded due to too much awesomeness in a single place. 

Welcome to the official first episode for Amazing Comicast.  We are revisiting this show because this year marks the 5th anniversary of the podcast that properly launched my solo career (for a time) in podcasting. 

I do acknowledge that I did some short minisodes for Vadercast, but Amazing Comicast is something that will always hold a special place for me because it allowed me to learn (and continue to learn) how to use the audio editing system. 

Having said that, if the audio for the intro music sounds canned somewhat, here's the deal. I didn't know what I was doing.  I had no idea there were programs that you could use the audio from the source right off the computer.  What did I do to solve this problem?  I would put the micophone up against the speaker.  All told, it was not until late last year that I learned there were easier ways to circumvent the issue.

Anyway the episode.  I talk about Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends.  It was a fun episode to record and it took me HOURS to get it recorded right.  Remember, I was very much on a learning curve.  Enjoy the first episode for Amazing Comicast!    Episode 2 will be out pretty quick too.  Probably later this week!
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If you took Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow and mixed it with the Robert Downey, Jr. Sherlock Holmes films you would have an idea of how this film looks and feels.  Or you could watch the trailer and draw your own conclusions.  Reporting live (?) from a but of Pallas, this is JediPoe.