After being smacked around by the year 2009 and cranky furnace, The Scope returns to entertain the masses. And what a glorious return it is.

The first regular episode of 2010 covers the grand choke-fest that was the NFC Championship game, the vocal styles of of Sir Arnold Schwarzenegger, and other hot/timely topics like Avatar and Jay Leno. We are so on top of things.

Of course,  it wouldn’t be a proper Scope show if there wasn’t a classic segment…and this time your Scope superstars fire up the Randomometer 2533 and take on the year 1990. It was quite a sight to see Jared float into his chair using his M.C. Hammer pants as a makeshift parachute.

The Scope Episode 83 is fine with using wacky soundboard applications six years too late.

Year In Review: 1990

Jared
Music: Fear of a Black Planet – Public Enemy
Film: Pump Up the Volume

Adam
Music: Bossanova – The Pixies
Film: Kindergarten Cop

Shane
Music: Violator – Depeche Mode
Film: Edward Scissorhands

Music
Scope Sounds: “Freedom Of Speech” – Above The Law

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The furnace is replaced, and the stars have aligned… The Scope will record this Sunday! Look for a new episode on Monday, February 1.

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Just as we were set to resume our recording schedule, another roadblock has appeared to thwart us. This time, it was Jared’s furnace taking a dirt nap. Avid listeners of The Scope know that the furnace doesn’t play an active role on the show, but since we record in Jared’s basement, the lack of forced-air comfort would result in a fresh batch of scopesicles.

Hopefully this delay is only for a week while the situation gets sorted out. We’ll let you know when we’re back on track.

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The 2010 MarsCon Demen­tia Fundraiser is at 90% of its goal. You guys are doing great! How­ever, we still need a bit more.

We have until Fri­day, 1/15 to reach the goal or some artists might have to back out because their won’t be enough funds to cover everyone’s lodg­ing (keep in mind the artists are trav­el­ing to MarsCon at their own expense). You can help by pur­chas­ing the MarsCon 2010 Demen­tia Track CD/MP3 set, or by mak­ing a dona­tion at MarsConDementia.com.

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While Pos­si­ble Oscar is not per­form­ing at MarsCon 2010 because Jared and John are per­form­ing with their other band, The Nick Atoms, we still want to sup­port the other musi­cal acts that are mak­ing the trek to Min­nesota. To that end, we present this pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment from the great Luke Ski:

The MarsCon 2010 Demen­tia Track Fund Raiser CD/MP3 set is now for sale!

Aside from the Music Guest Of Honor, MarsCon doesn’t have the bud­get nec­es­sary cover the hotel or travel costs of the dozen or so com­edy music acts that come in from across the coun­try to per­form at MarsCon. The mem­bers of the con staff are awe­some, and they help us out in many other great and impor­tant ways, but being a fan run con of 800 or so atten­dees, they just can’t pro­vide our demen­tia track per­form­ers with leer jets, limo rides, and an unlim­ited sup­ply of bacon (no mat­ter how many times I ask them for the bacon). That’s why three years ago we started the MarsCon Demen­tia Track Fund Raiser CDs, which is set up to raise money to cover the hotel room costs for those acts who are com­ing in from out of town, as a way to help take care of at least one of the two big costs involved for them to come out and rock the house.

Here’s what he have for this year:

The MarsCon 2010 Demen­tia Track Fund Raiser: 3-CD set – $30.00 (An optional MP3 down­load of all tracks is included with pur­chase. Price includes ship­ping)
http://marscondementia.com/products-page/2010-cds/marscon-2010-dementia-track-fund-raiser-3-cd-set/

The MarsCon 2010 Demen­tia Track Fund Raiser: MP3 Down­load Only – $20.00 (Con­tains all the tracks from the CD ver­sion. Length: just under 4 hours)
http://marscondementia.com/products-page/2010-cds/marscon-2010-dementia-track-fund-raiser-3-cd-set-download-only/

The set is com­prised of tracks recorded live at MarsCon 2009, and includes music by Rob Balder, Pos­si­ble Oscar, Pos­i­tive Atti­tude, The Nick Atoms, Devo Spice, Worm Quar­tet, Power Salad, the great Luke Ski, MC Lars, The Feng Shui Nin­jas, Wally Pleas­ant, par­tic­i­pants in the Demen­tia Fan Show­case, DJ Par­ti­cle, Car­rie Dahlby, Marc Gunn, W. Randy Hoff­man, Beth Kin­der­man, Soggy Potato Chips, and Insane Ian.

If you’re inter­ested in hear­ing a PREVIEW of the 2010 Fund Raiser set, I’ve cre­ated a spe­cial 30 minute Pod­Cast that you can lis­ten to and/or down­load for free here:

http://badrapport.com/podpress_trac/web/30/0/LCBR_Ep004point5.mp3

We also still have CD & MP3 sets avail­able from 2009, 2008, & 2007’s Fund Rais­ers at MarsCon Dementia.com.

Thanks for order­ing and sup­port­ing the MarsCon Demen­tia Track.

~ Luke Ski, MarsCon Demen­tia Track co-chair
http://marscondementia.com

TRACK LISTING for the MarsCon 2010 Demen­tia Track Fund Raiser 3-CD set:

DISC A:
1. When We Go To MarsCon – The Demen­tia Fun Bus Crew
2. Sonata beat­box ottoman Yakety Sax intro
3. Fark Tri­fecta
4. Keep Your Paws To Your­self – Rob Balder
5. Re: Your Brains (Alter­nate End­ing)
6. O RLY?
7. Never Say Never – Rob Balder
8. Pos­si­ble Oscar intros with­out cow­bell
9. Never Gonna Beat This Boss – Pos­si­ble Oscar, fea­tur­ing Car­rie Dahlby
10. Rak­ing The Lawn – Pos­si­ble Oscar, fea­tur­ing Worm Quar­tet
11. Killin’ My Boner – Pos­i­tive Atti­tude
12. Space Jam – Pos­i­tive Atti­tude
13. The Return Of The Nick Atoms
14. Dr. Ted Nel­son wants some grat­i­tude
15. G.I. Joe – The Nick Atoms
16. Spooky coin­ci­dences outro
17. Twit­ter intro
18. Writ­ten On Twit­ter – Devo Spice
19. Give It To Every­body – Devo Spice, fea­tur­ing Car­rie Dahlby
20. The Geeks Come Out At Night – Devo Spice, fea­tur­ing the great Luke Ski
21. ShoEboX-luppagus intro
22. Worm Quar­tet 2009 intro
23. The Laun­dro­mat Of Sin – Worm Quar­tet, fea­tur­ing Soggy Potato Chips
24. Chant­ing with ShoE­boX
25. Short Bus Suite – Worm Quar­tet
26. Com­man­der Kafka: Space Roach – Bald­Box
27. Mommy’s Bro­ken – Worm Quar­tet, fea­tur­ing Pos­si­ble Oscar
28. Power Salad freestyle intro
29. The Table Near The Band – Power Salad

DISC B:
1. The Fire At The Old Diploma Mill – Power Salad
2. Demen­tia Radio Jin­gle – Power Salad
3. Bat­tlestar Rhap­sody – the great Luke Ski, fea­tur­ing Car­rie Dahlby,
Power Salad, and Worm Quar­tet
4. Too Much Stuff – the great Luke Ski
5. Demen­tia Rev­o­lu­tion – the great Luke Ski & MC Lars
6. MC Lars & Damon­drick Jack talk about MarsCon
7. MC Lars got ShoE-rolled
8. (Lord It’s Hard To Be Happy When You’re Not) Using The Met­ric
Sys­tem – MC Lars & Worm Quar­tet
9. Demented phone sex line & pro­gres­sive radio
10. Re: Your Brains (Sound Check) – Feng Shui Nin­jas
11. Writ­ing A Book – Feng Shui Nin­jas
12. Fruity Oaty Bars – Feng Shui Nin­jas
13. Greensleeves – Feng Shui Nin­jas
14. Mar­vel! – Wally Pleas­ant
15. She’s In Love With A Geek – Wally Pleas­ant
16. Monster’s Last Ball – Wally Pleas­ant
17. Hi My Name Is Luke Ski – Soggy Potato Chips
18. Crazy Duck In Space – Break­man Z
19. Hero’s Quest (Whoops! Quest For Glory) – Blasted Bill Putt
20. The Scots­man – Gifted Gear
21. Hi My Name Is Blasted Bill – Soggy Potato Chips
22. Flash Drive – DJ Par­ti­cle
23. Hi My Name Is Alchav – Soggy Potato Chips
24. Smash The Frickin’ Fairies – Karl Brown
25. PC ‘08 – DJ Particle

DISC C:
1. Sun­day intro
2. Dear Brit­ney (Oops, I Did It Again)- Car­rie Dahlby
3. Stu­pid As Charged – Car­rie Dahlby, fea­tur­ing Devo Spice
4. A Drop Of Vul­can Blood – Marc Gunn
5. The Min­ing Ship The Red Dwarf – Marc Gunn
6. Cookin’ By The Book (Li’l Jon Remix) – Car­rie Dahlby, fea­tur­ing the
great Luke Ski, Worm Quar­tet, Power Salad, and Earl Luckes
7. God­dammit Marc Gunn, Shut Up About Your Cat – Worm Quar­tet
8. Space Game – MC Lars
9. Domino Death – Devo Spice
10. Robots – Pos­si­ble Oscar
11. Don’t Worry, Be Happy – Feng Shui Nin­jas, fea­tur­ing Nate Boi
12. Des­per­a­tion – W. Randy Hoff­man
13. Drink­ing Song – Beth Kin­der­man
14. Gui­tar Hero – Insane Ian
15. Catur­day – Soggy Potato Chips
16. There’s Some­thing About A Zom­bie – Insane Ian, fea­tur­ing the
MarsCon 2009 Demen­tia Track per­form­ers
17. MarsCon 2009 Demen­tia Track outro
18. SPECIAL THANKS & MARSCON 2010 PREVIEW

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Just in case you did not follow via Facebook updates.  Here are Al’s Top 10 of 2009:

#10) “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” by Weezer

#9) “Screen Test” by Envy Corps

#8) “Cornerstone” by Arctic Monkeys

#7) “Velvet” by The Big Pink

#6) “James” by Camera Obscura

#5) “Help I’m Alive” by Metric

#4) “So Human” by Lady Sovereign

#3) “1901″ by Phoenix

#2) “The Fixer” by Pearl Jam

#1) “Zero” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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Here it is, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. We partied like it was 2009, and you get to experience how that gradually altered our podcasting skill. Even Adam managed to appear in person to complete the mighty Scopetron, defender of the universe.

Join us as we recap why we were on an extended break, discuss our favorites from 2009, talk to special guests, and anoint our Party All-star. Did I mention Adam was there? Ah, yes, I did.

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Hey, folks! It’s been a while. We’re here with news of the Dr. Dememto Show Funny 25 for 2009, a list that was dom­i­nated by our col­leagues at The FuMP. We made an appear­ance in a sup­port­ing role for Bald­box at #12 with “USF’nA (Geo­graph­i­cally Cor­rect Ver­sion)“. Keen!

Okay, back to her­mit mode. We’ll catch up again in 2010.

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I hope we’ve all been taking notes.  There will be a quiz.  If you’ve been absent, you can fill in your worksheet with these answers:

20) “Black Magic” by Magic Wands

19) “A Whole Lot Better” by Brendan Benson

18) “The Reeling” by Passion Pit

17) “Heartbeat Radio” by Sondre Lerche

16) “How You Like Me Now” by The Heavy

15) “Think I Need It Too” by Echo & The Bunnymen

14) “Blood Bank” by Bon Iver

13) “One Wing” by Wilco

12) “Trouble Weights A Ton” by Dan Auerbach

11) “Beginner’s Luck” by The Eels

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Your Scope hosts want to take a quick moment from the buckets of eggnog and mountains of candy canes to wish everyone out there the best this holiday season. No matter what you celebrate, we hope it is full of fun, festivities, and time spent with family and friends.

Yes, even Adam is in on this one.

Stay safe, have a great time, and prepare yourself for The Scope New Year’s Eve Special. We’re not quite sure when we’re recording it…but we’ll let you know when we come up with a date and time.

Peace out!

J, A, and S

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