157 - D&D-Scussion and PAX EAST Preview!

With PAX East just weeks away, we've assembled a panel to discuss tabletop gaming, specifically Dungeons and Dragons. DamnClem and DSchneider join our announcer Roadblock to offer tips for the upcoming D&D DM Challenge!

Remember! Oboe, Roadblock and Jenga of Late Nite JengaJam will be attending PAX East in Boston March 26-28th! Come and say hello!

Late Nite JengaJam: Thinks about joining a nudist colony every Laundry Day!

156 - Andy Smith, Director

Philadelphia-based director Andy Smith debuts with "Alvin Foster", a film where the title character's peace found in a new life is compromised by the guilt he feels for leaving the old one behind.

We talk to the Temple-educated Smith about filming locally and raising funds for filming on the go.

To join in on the conversation, dial 1-724-444-7444, CALL ID: 6478.

As always, we kick off at 10:30pm with OboeCrazy's "This Week in Geek". Featuring Roadblock and no band!

Late Nite JengaJam: We're still here. Leno's not.

155 - Poolboy Magazine.

Poolboy Magazine, created in by our very own Cyanophobia, is a adult women's lifestyle magazine for badass women. Are you a bad enough a dudette to rescue the Jengaship?

Before-You-Sue-Me Warning: Not that this show is super fit for children anyway, but send the young ones to bed early for this one. It will get as blue as Blue's name suggests. Adults only on this one.

Late Nite JengaJam: Nervously doing crunches and sit-ups to get in poolboy shape!

152- SON of Beards and Jackets

Travie Yak returns to a very different style of JengaJam that combines interview with sketch comedy with...well, it's hard to explain, but this picture should give you an idea.

10 years of collaboration, without all the stopping and listening you've come to expect from the last 20.

Late Nite JengaJam: Will it ever stop? We don't know!

Disco Teddy Bear and more!

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Glenn Beck: Astonishingly Ignorant About India

Wow.

You'll notice that there isn't very much in the way of facts so much as feeling in Beck's rant. Cenk Uygur does a pretty good job of taking Beck to task for saying some pretty tasteless (Hur Hurr Ganges sounds like a disease Hurr Hurr; no terlets in India) and ignorant things that really had nothing to do with his point.

The fact is that Health Tourism is huge in India, people from the U.S and Europe do fly in and save enough on medical procedures and surgeries that the average $1000 ticket is not a deterrent. The doctors are in fact skilled and capable. As Cenk mentions, you'd be hard pressed to find a hospital in the U.S. without several Indian doctors.

I can draw one of two conclusions:

1) Beck is so isolated that he's encountered absolutely nothing to challenge the stereotypical assumptions about what India is like, which itself is problematic because a subcontinent of a billion people, 22 official languages and 7 religious traditions with a million adherents or more.

2) Beck, like many, draws his conclusions first and tries to hammer his round facts into a square peg. But again, there's not much in the way of facts from him so it's more like a 5th grade essay called "India?! Yuck!"

Either way, Indian Americans are waaay too quiet about shit like this. Or maybe too busy being successful, despite the handicap of an Indian education that leaves you fluent in three languages like it did my mom and dad, to notice.

(Thanks to Jay Zachariah, himself a brown guy getting an Ivy League education, for linking me to this.)

151 - Twackers! (Tues, Jan 12 2010)

Geoff and Ryan of Triangle Productions join us to discuss their latest project, Thwackers, a web comedy about two aspiring professional video gamers and their coach, who they are hiding from sinister forces, and their landlord, whose red overall and hat look all-too-familiar.

Also, I suppose we have to acknowledge Alsace, who won the Late Nite JengaJam Fantasy Football League this year. Ugh, I say.

Late Nite JengaJam: NBC, you give me the 10pm time slot and I will drag you, kicking and screaming, to ratings success.