I cut the whole first segment out of the show.  Why?  Two words - Charlie Sheen.  It seemed topical and interesting at the time of the broadcast, but as we all know it was the fastest internet meme to jump the shark EVER.  Within a week every podcast, blog, talk show and news outlet had played it TO DEATH.  Kids were holding up "Duh, Winning" signs at WWE wrestling events.  By the time I got around to editing this show for release, it all seemed old and antiquated.  So I cut it out.  Fuck Charlie Sheen.

Anyway, the show opens with a little AC/DC, thanks to a suggestion by themediocrefatass in our chat room.  Thanks, Jay.  The first segment flies by in about 7 minutes, thanks to the aforementioned cuts.  After the first break, we get into the real meat of the show - Gnomespotting.  It's a little game we've been playing on Facebook and on our cell phones.  Real simple, snap a picture of a gnome and post it or MMS it to your friends.  It's now expanded to include lawn jockeys, ceramic mexicans and all sorts of lawn accoutrements.  We argue over racist gnomes, Hitler gnomes, KKK gnomes and introduce a new hippie word:  Birkenstomping.

The second seg ends with a quick discussion of Back to the Future, and whether Doc Brown would have been disappointed with his original plans to jump forward into the future 25 years from November 5th, 1985.   That's 2010 for you math wiz kids out there.  We guess he might have been pretty let down, that is until we showed him internet porn.

The third segment, after a little Mexican candy, winds its way toward porn video games.  From humble beginnings on Spam Mountain and stick figure nudists on the Atari 2600, through it's akward adolescence in Leisure Suit Larry and early Flash Games, all the way to it's glorious adulthood now in games like Grand Theft Auto IV, adult content in video games has been a weird, wild trip.  The topic gets sidetracked when Ray tells the best story he's ever told in the history of this podcast.  It's worth listening all the way through the show to get to this gem.  8mm film and early stag movies played on the wall of his house.  Yeah.

It's episode 31 of the Double D and we hope you enjoy it!

(our thoughts and prayers are with Maria Conchita Lupita Gonzales.  may she find her way home)

This episode was broadcast and recorded during the 2011 Academy Awards, so you would expect that the Oscars would dominate the conversation for most of the night, right?  WRONG!  Who gives a damn about the Oscars?  Not us, as we focus instead in the first segment on this medical study that proves that staring at a women's breasts for 10 minutes or more each day can actually increase the lifespan of the average male.  So next time a woman tells you, "Hey buddy, my eyes are up here" just reply that you're getting your cardio in for the day.

The main part of the show, in the second segment, centers around reporters losing their shit live on the air.  The most recent and notable case involves Serene Branson of Channel 2 L.A. who many people thought was having a stroke while covering the Grammys.  Turns out she just had a migraine.  So it's okay to laugh.  Really.

And of course some chucklehead had to remix it to some House music and put it up on Youtube.

We loved these next two gentlemen.

Finally, in the last segment, we examine the question "Does it HAVE to be on Blu-Ray?"  Spoiler:  the answer is YES.  Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes and please, please, please leave us a review on our iTunes page.  The link to get to our iTunes page is over there on the right!  ------->

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Here's a clip from Episode 31's broadcast.  Zen took too long in the restroom during the break, so Ray ended up taking a phone call all by himself.

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First off, an apology for the sound quality during the first fifteen minutes of the show.  When we originally broadcast Episode 29 on Justin.tv, I was so worried about the Hot Dog Eating Challenge that I actually forgot to hit record and so didn't have anything for the first segment.  I orginally considered just leaving it out and starting the audio podcast with the second segment, but it was just too good to omit.  So I did the only thing I could think of . . . I went to justin.tv, played the video and pulled the audio from that.  It's crappy third-generation sound but it's better than nothing and I did my best to clean it up.

So our show begins with the 2 hot dogs in 1 minute challenge first set forth by the Puck Podcast's Eddie Garcia.  We fared about as well as Eddie did.  The audio is not quite as entertaining as the video.

After failing miserably, and with mouths full of cheap hot dogs and half chewed buns, we quickly shuffle off to our first break.  Oh!  Did I mention that we got super-pranked by Timothy Cronley Jr, who posted our phone number on 4chan?  It took as a minute or two to figure this out when we fielded our first weirdo phone call of the night.  Props to "The Black Man with the Sharpie up his Pooper" for being a wonderfully entertaining, if not a little bit high, guest caller.  Props also to themediocrefatass for keeping us laughing in the chat room while all this was going on.

In the second segment we covered some news stories, mainly involving stupid criminals in the Northern Arizona region.  

1. Arizona's push to ban children from riding in the open beds of pickup trucks
2. The foolish Cheba Hut employee who made an illegal turn in front of a cop at 2:40 in the morning while driving the weed-festooned Pot-mobile
3. "Trent" the waterhead tagger who desecrated a centuries old petroglyph with his name and then answered to that same name when the authorities rolled up on him.

After our second break we come back with some rather interesting jury stories.  What seemed like a pretty dry subject at the time yielded some pretty good tales.  We closed out the show with some Scissor Sisters.

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