Episode 85 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 the like.

In video games, Tony & Lou both talk about…Portal 2, woohoo! Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~17:20), the segment starts with the guys talking American Idol, and a bit about the season finale of the U.S. version of Being Human. Tony talks about Mildred Pierce, Happy Endings, The Paul Reiser Show and Celebrity Apprentice. Lou talks about Breaking In, Kitchen Nightmares, Law & Order: UK, Top Chef Masters, Nikita, Stargate: Universe and Storage Wars. Random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~49:05), Tony saw I Love You, Phillip Morris. Lou saw Source Code. Miscellaneous movie news follows.

In the Mash-Up segment (~1:03:05) the news this week includes:

• The Mercedes A-Class will, in fact, be coming to the U.S.
• The new VW Beetle was also shown off at both the New York and Shanghai auto shows
• Fiat will sell its 500 Cabrio here in the U.S. just in time for spring
• VW has also shown off the first version of its new Green energy microbus concept, called the Bulli
• A Toronto student from Beijing was video chatting with his girlfriend in China, when there was a knock at her door. She answered it, a guy came in, they struggled, and 10 hours later, the girl’s body was found in her basement apartment.
• Walter Breuning, the oldest known man at age 114, has died in Montana
• A perfume company called Fargginay has introduced a duo of…bacon-scented colognes: Citrus and spicy maple
• Apple is in a bit of hot water, now that people have discovered that the iPhone tracks you wherever you go, and stores location data in an unencrypted file that anybody can get to
• In other Apple news, although there likely won’t be a new iPhone in July, there could be a new one this fall, maybe in September
• Match.com has begun screening daters to weed out sex offenders
• Geophysicists have discovered, alarmingly, that the underground lava plume that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano is actually 400 miles across
• Verizon’s FiOS cable TV service is getting a new, widescreen guide. Version 1.9 of their Interactive Media Guide is higher resolution and has new search features, DVR enhancements, better support for 3D TVs and more
• Researchers at the University of Maine have invented a golf ball made out of lobster shells
• Early builds of Windows 8 have leaked out and one interesting thing is that it looks like it can be run, not just installed, but actually run, from a USB stick
• Aston Martin has teamed up with Mobiado to create a concept transparent glass cell phone that’ll work with Aston Martin cars
• A researcher at MIT has created electricity from water so efficiently, that someday in the near future, your home could be powered for an entire day from just a couple bottles of water
• Toshiba has a new line of hard drives that self-encrypt and auto-erase if the drive is taken out of your computer and plugged into another one, so that your data can’t be stolen
• Scientists have discovered that the magnetic fields coming from light waves are actually 100 million times stronger than previously thought, which could mean a whole new way to harness solar power
• Acer’s Iconia Tab A500 will be out in a few days. It’s an Android 3 (Honeycomb) tablet with 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, a 1280×800 screen, 2MP and 5MP front and rear cameras
• Finally, a 75 year old Georgian woman was collecting scrap metal, and cut up a piece of what she viewed as “valuable material”. That valuable material was fiber optic cable, and when she cut it, she cut off the internet in Georgia and Armenia

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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