Episode 84 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

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We start out this episode with a touch of listener mail, general pleasantries and whatnot.

In video games, Tony talks about Crysis 2, and the new You Don’t Know Jack. Lou talks about Sanctum. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~22:50), the segment starts with the guys arguing about Tom Colicchio’s integrity as a chef. As well as Top Chef All-Stars. And then American Idol. Tony talks about Mildred Pierce, Celebrity Apprentice and Being Human and Mobbed. Lou talks about Chopped Masters or All-Stars or whatever it was called, as well as Breaking In and the original UK version of Being Human, with random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~1:03:15), Tony saw Black Swan, Don’t You Forget About Me and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Lou saw Limitless but forget that he hadn’t talked about it on the last podcast, so he almost forgot to mention it. Miscellaneous movie news follows.

In the Mash-Up segment (~1:29:25) the news this week includes:

• YouTube is set to spend $100 million to create original programming across 20 new premium channels
• NASA scientists have found an “alien” mineral inside a 4.5 billion year old meteorite
• The new Commodore 64 should be out soon
• The EU has come up with a wacky plan to ban gas-powered vehicles by 2050
• Future iOS devices may get Thunderbolt ports
• There’s a rumor that the next iPod Touch could have a touch-sensitive Home button (instead of a “real” button) and 128GB of memory
• As for the iPhone 5, don’t get your hopes up…word on the street is that for the first time in 5 years, there will be no new iPhone this June
• Wacky gazillionaire Richard Branson has confirmed that he’s going down to the bottom of the ocean, where nobody’s ever been before, along with a guy named Chris Welsh.
• Hyundai has unveiled a hydrogen-powered fuel-cell electric car called the Blue2
• Google may be working with LG to build a Nexus tablet computer based on Android
• A new kind of stingray dubbed the Pancake Stingray was discovered in the Amazon rainforest
• Digital music will outsell CDs for the first time this year
• Logitech is coming out with a new wireless router that looks like it has a propeller on top. It’s supposedly a fancy new antenna design that’ll increase wireless speeds
• Samsung has started mass production of transparent LCD screens
• Google has chosen Kansas City as the city where it’ll test its new ultra-high-speed broadband
• Messenger has sent back the first high-res pictures of the surface of Mercury
• Somebody’s developed a transparent solar panel that could be made to go over phone and computer screens so that, if you spend enough time outside, you’d never have to charge the devices again
• Finally, a 12-year-old in Indiana named Jake Barnett is already taking…and tutoring…college-level astrophysics classes, and is even suggesting possible alternate solutions to Einstein’s Big Bang theory

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

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