CBS News is in studio, taping this show. Not because they decided to do a special segment on the best podcast on Earth, because then they’d be watching Radiolab make gold. No, they’re in-studio because Adam Rosko and Jesse Graff of Trek in the Park are one day away from premiering Season Four: Journey to Babel, introducing Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett as Spock’s parents. What’s different this year, what craziness awaits viewers, and how their production of old Star Trek episodes doesn’t just give people an hour of free entertainment every summer, but helps give some lesser-known neighborhoods a bit of shine. What does it cost? Some sweat, some stress pounds, a couple inches of eyebrow. Mike Russell is also in studio, trying to ferret out secrets for this year, spreading misinformation about next year, and putting Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake up on the slab, to see if it’s worthy of its predecessor’s legacy. By the show end, nobody knows if any of this stuff is usable for CBS, but we had fun making it.
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When Fatty yells “Hey Paul!” at about the 13 minute mark, it sounds like he’s playing Hey Cow!
CBS? BOO! After all you guys went through dealing with CBS at your OTHER job, you still let them around? Although… they did buy Giantbomb.com and have pretty much left those guys alone so far as I can tell. Maybe they’ve fired everyone/learned their lessons over the past few years?
Original Trek aired on CBS, so it makes sense that they have an interest in Trek In The Park. Sounds like something that was unavoidable if Cort and Fatboy wanted the TITP guys on the show.
” because then they’d be watching Radiolab make gold”
how true. But right after that, it would be your show.
CBS is a huge corporation. I can’t imagine it would be easy to be in show business and avoid them.
We have no beef with CBS. They paid us well, and didn’t really screw with us. It was only after CBS sold the station to Alpha Broadcasting that things were weird.
Basically, for a faceless giant multimedia conglomerate, they weren’t that bad.