Deflecting People with Joe Veix
MP3January 24, 2016
Paul & Chris were joined by writer and artist with a last name that people always pronounce wrong, Joe Veix. He discusses his career, joke writing and of course Matthew McConaughey.
- Trade secret from the gas station - OPEC doesn’t set gas prices. In college, Chris’ sister worked at a gas station and was obviously in charge of the price at the pump.
- Writing about K-Pop? Youtube examples.
- System Shock 2, a horror video game.
- Brandacted, a Chrome extension by our guest that blocks brand names.
- Similar to Brandacted, Joe also made Name Swap that gives political candidates a gross name.
- Joe was inspired by the Redskins Web Skin extension.
- Joe says he started out writing “really bad Jack Handy rip-off jokes.”
- Chris and Joe are both fans of Adbusters’ spoofs.
- The gents discuss the over commercialization of Back to the Future Day.
- Chris reviews his Back to the Future Blu-ray set.
- Robert Zemeckis films include: Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Romancing the Stone.
- Joe wonders if Contact is as bad as people say it is. Bad like Ishtar perhaps?
- Paul points out Matthew McConaughey is in both Contact and Interstellar.
- Joe thinks there are actors who do very similar characters in every movie and yet you still love to watch them. Like Steve Zahn or Peter Lorre.
- Chris says there are others that do that and he can’t stand them, like Joe Pesci.
- Joe’s amazing acting reel.
- The truck commercial genre is full of tropes and Denis Leary.
- A Transformers show with only trucks that can’t transform. A new kids show we pitch. Oh look, there’s a game already.
- Paul educates us on a dirty secret, fake engine noises playing in your car speakers.
- Writing apps for the Mac, Byword or Pages.
- Joe prefers to change the contrast settings and make Pages dark and less distracting.
- Markdown is the way Chris likes to write now.
Thanks for listening to the show and reading these handcrafted notes. Thanks to Joe for taking the time to join us. Be sure to check out his stories on Death and Taxes and his site. Also, please check out our Patreon page and throw money at us. No applause please.