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This video is what happens when you put RZA, chess and 3 dorky geeks who like to rap into one giant mixing bowl! The legendary rapper and award winning chess-master decided to start wuchess.com a website and give part of the proceeds to scholarships for needy kids. To promote the website, Wuchess and RZA had a contest on YouTube for the best 8 lines about chess. Irina wasn t satisfied with her simplistic little video, so she got her friends and made this! Episode links: WuChess, RZA, George Kelly, Doctor Popular, Karim Amara (special thanks!!) Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov) Related on GETV: Hip Hop Chess Tournament

One man can make a difference! That tag line rang through every episode of the hit 80s tv show Knight Rider every Friday night as Michael aka David Hasselhoff raced his faithful K.I.T.T. into the hearts of millions of women and men, really in the world! In this episode, GETV catches up with the super star in San Francisco where the Hoff joined millionaires in the Gumball 300 rally. After Irina beat up the 500 other reporters trying to creep up on the Hoff, David tells Irina how he s driving that same sleek black horsepower into the future, this time on the internets the power of THE HOFF is so strong, he s got his own social network where he makes dreams come true. Yes, you too can join HOFF SPACE and get your own HOFF BAG for those times when HOFF WIG is exactly what you need for the occasion. Episode links: David Hasselhoff, DavidHasselhoff.com (HoffSpace), Gumball 3000 Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

We spent some quality time at this year s mega sci-fi spectacle Comic-Con, held annually in San Diego. Here we take a quick visual tour of the exhibition hall and the autograph lounge. How many faces and characters do you recognize? Episode links: Comic-Con 2008, Photos Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

If you haven t heard of Star Wars, stop reading now. If you have heard of Star Wars and especially Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, then you re in for a treat. Alex spent several years working at Industrial Lights and Magic working on Star Wars #4, er, #1, and is also the founder of Pixel Corps, a guild of digital craftsmen where Alex trains future geekstars in everything digital. Irina interrupts Alex Lindsay s video production bootcamp class and tortures him with deep meaningful questions such as who was the first girl who flipped his boat? Turns out it was the lovely Lorraine . Alex hosts This Week in Media and is a regular guest on the This Week in Tech. Alex also produces MacBreak Weekly. Episode links: Alex Lindsay, Pixel Corps, This Week in Media Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Irina has been shadowing dragstar Heklina around San Francisco for so long, she may as well get a Tranny Chaser t-shirt! You can get one for yourself at Heklina s legendary party called Trannyshack mucking up our fair city weekly for 12 years, the club night has been officially recognized by our own special mayor, Gavin Newsom. No Cher or Barbara Streisand here, these drag queens do songs by Arcade Fire, Peaches, Missy Elliot, Bjork and the inimitable Kate Bush. Heklina has hosted Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Charo, Gwen Stefani and NY party monster Lady Bunny. Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters performed frequently at Trannyshack before moving to New York. Heklina IS a super drag geek and here we get a piece of history and a totally different kind of geek. Episode links: Heklina, Trannyshack, Trannsformation photos [thanks Tara Spalty] Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

While some of tech nobodies thought some kind of Apple event crowded out San Francisco with geeky types, Irina knew better. Tens of thousands of people pummeled our fair city with their presence to attend the WWWDC the World Wide Wrestling Developers Conference, where nerdy alter ego s of pale weaklings body-slammed each other deep into the night! Irina s wresting twin, The Kazakhstane Krusher no impostor like Borat (the entire film was shot in Romania!) Irina was born in the nuclear waste fields of the former Soviet republic, and has the anatomic anomalies to prove it. Some of those anomalies are included in her signature moves, the K-Rocket Launchers! Lets see what kind of damage the bone-thin denizens of geekdom can bring in the wresting ring! Episode links: Buzz s WWDC Party, Kazakhstan Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

June 11 is John Wayne s birthday and what better way to commemorate the Duke s enduring legacy than the John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight at Alamo Square in San Francisco? Don t answer that, let s let Irina try. Episode links: John Wayne, John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight, Music: Doctor Popular Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Ben Huh, chief cheezburger of I Can Has Cheezburger has turned his love of LOLCats into a popular site and even scored a book deal. While at MIT for ROFLCon, he stepped into the role of Stephen LOLking to explain the mysteries of his Universal Theory of LOLS to Irina. Episode Links: I Can Has Cheezburger, ROFLCon Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

JibJab is known for their short, funny music and political videos that you ve no doubt forwarded to your mother or sister at least twice. While at ROLFcon in Boston, we ran into three mustachioed men who are writers and producers for JibJab. Irina demands they be funny. Episode links: JibJab, ROFLcon, Scott Beale / Laughing Squid (Irina s photos) Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

MC Frontalot, pioneer in the realm of the lyrically nerdcore, sits down with Irina to share some thoughts on life, movies and music. Episode links: MC Frontalot, Nerdcore Rising, Doctor Popular, ytcracker Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

While at our favorite geek summer camp known as SXSW Interactive, Irina polls a few peeps on what the Internet and SXSW has done for them lately. The answers are as varied as they are earnest. Episode links: SXSW Interactive, M dot Strange, Guy Kawasaki, AllTop, Tim Ferriss, Michael Verdi, Jason Toney, Liz Gannes, Clarence, Jessica Mah, George Oates, Daniel Burka, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paula Cavagnaro, John Halcyon Styn, Loren Feldman Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

O Reilly s Emerging Technology conference is often ground zero for useful and meaningful tech stuff and the geeks who invent these things. In 2004, Flickr debuted here. In 2008, many DIY projects bloom, such as Socialbomb, ariel drones, binary LED watches, modular programmable open source gadgets and cheap open source robots. We talk to a few of their inventors. Episode links: ETech 2008, Socialbomb, Nate True, Bre Pettis, monochrom, IPRE, Bug Labs, EFF Pioneer Awards, Mark Klein Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

It s a hard life being most excellent at most video games, but Johnathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty doesn t shy away from the challenge. So what does happen in a typical day of a professional video game player? That s what we really wanted to know too, so Irina invades Fatal1ty s hotel room to find out. Episode links: Fatal1ty, Fatal1ty (wikipedia), PMS Clan Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

What better way to spend Valentine s Day than beating the crap out of someone else s lover with a pillow? That s exactly what happened when over a thousand lost souls gathered in San Francisco on this fateful day for the annual rite of passage known as Pillow Fight. Episode links: Pillow Fight San Francisco, Chocolate Rain 8bit Remix Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Anonymous is a nebulous and faceless group that normally lives comfortably on the Internet but has chosen to step into meatspace on this particular day to face off with the Church of Scientology, an organization which it considers to be illegal and immorally coercive. Scientology labels Anonymous a cyber terrorist group. Protests against Scientology were organized simultaneously in cities all around the world. Irina pays a visit to the Church s San Francisco headquarters to get a sense of what all the fuss is about. Episode links: Scientology, Anonymous, Project Chanology, Xenu.net, Lawrence Wollersheim, Mike Rinder, BBC Panaroma on Scientology Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Back before there was the Internet, early caveman dialed into computer bulletin board systems or BBSes to get their online fix. Many of these boards distinguished themselves with ANSI art, an early form of electronic cave paintings. ANSI was an extension to the even earlier form of caveman communication known as ASCII used in MS-DOS based computers. It is with great pleasure that we happened upon the San Francisco hacker art gallery 20 goto 10 where an ANSI art exhibition was in progress. Irina Slutsky talks to curator Kevin Olson who takes us on a tour of some of the amazing early work of two ANSI artists, lordjazz and somms. Episode links: ANSI Art (wikipedia), ANSI Art Gallery Show, 20 goto 10 Gallery, Sixteen Colors ANSI Archive, ACiD, Phlogiston (soundtrack) Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

We all know that one crazy cat lady who puts her complete love, money and affection into her feline friends. Do you know what happens when crazy cat ladies come together and subject their little love muffins to the scrutiny of the harsh lights and exacting judges? Neither did we which is why Irina Slutsky and Violet Blue decided to visit the Fog City Cat Show in Alameda, California. Episode links: Fog City Cat Show, lolcats, Doctor Popular, Drown Radio, Violet Blue Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

The Commodore 64 home computer celebrated its 25th birthday at the Computer History Museum with several luminaries of the 8-bit computing era present. We take a peek at this popular pesky piece of silicon and plastic and try to get an idea of why the Commodore 64 was the best selling personal computer in history at 30 million units moved. GETV s Roving Retro Reporter Violet Blue puts the question to Jack Tramiel, founder and head of Commodore, as well as his son Leonard Tramiel. Violet gets a bit of insight from a couple of the C64 s competitors, Steve Wozniak, creator of the first Apple computer, and Bill Lowe, known as the father of the IBM PC. Episode links: Commodore 64, Jack Tramiel, Leonard Tramiel, Steve Wozniak, William Lowe, The Commodore Billboard, C64 sounds [YouTube:Lavoraste], C64 games [YouTube:tr0d], C64 Turns 25 [news.com], Computer History Museum, Violet Blue Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

GETV pops down to Los Angeles to see how geeks can help support the striking television and movie writers of Hollywood. Solidarity through double-clicking or not double-clicking, that is the question. Irina catches up with several writers and actors on the picket line to find out from them how we geeks can help. Episode links: United Hollywood, WGA, Seth Rogen, Chris Provenzano, Phil Rosenthal, Richard Potter, Strike Dancing Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)

Where do old computers go to die? We re not sure, but we do know where the digital old folks home is. We take a trip down the valley to Mountain View for the 2007 Vintage Computer Festival. We happily discover 8-bit wonders living life as if it were 1980 all over again. We find Commodore PETs and SuperPETs, Atari 400 800s, Tandy TRS-80s, Sols, Altairs, Data Generals, HPs and even a LINC from 1962. Episode links: Vintage Computer Festival, Commodore PET, TRS-80, David Welsh: Priming the Pump, Computer History Museum, Phlogiston Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)

Here s a bit more coverage from the NewTeeVee Live conference. Irina asks some new media talent about the old media game. Episode links: NewTeeVee Live, CNET Webware, French Maid TV, ICM, The Dot Comix, Tiki Bar TV Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)

We dropped into the inaugural NewTeeVee Live! conference this week so Irina could ask some burning questions on fashion, content, and of course everyone s favorite subject, the long tail. Episode links: Revision3, Laughing Squid, OpenRoad.TV, Xlntads, Heather Gold, Seesmic Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)

Maybe this will help, maybe it won t. Thanks to the ever prolific Doc Popular for the hook up with some custom intro and outro theme music, debuting for the first time in this little inspirational piece. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)

The fun dispensable candy known as PEZ is undoubtedly one of the geeky wonders of the world. We got super excited when we learned that the world s only PEZ museum was a mere half hour drive down the road. Justine Ezarik aka iJustine was in town, and it turns out that she s a huge PEZ fan and collector. Only Steve Jobs or a new Apple product launch could keep her away. iJustine and Irina pay a visit, take a tour and get the history of PEZ from Gary Doss, curator of the Burlingame PEZ Museum of Memorabilia. Episode links: PEZ Museum, PEZ Candy (official site), iJustine Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)

We got wind of a big chess tournament happening with some of the big names in hip hop, so of course we had to see what this was all about. Turns out the Hip Hop Chess Federation was putting on the inaugural Chess Kings Invitational, an event with the brightest young minds of chess competing for scholarships and the big belt. Chess, hip hop music and martial arts are the elements that build life strategies according to founder Adisa Banjoko. Irina gets the scoop behind the 64 squares and meets legends PopMaster Fabel of the Rock Steady Crew and The RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan among others. Episode links: Hip Hop Chess Federation, HHCF blog, Adisa Banjoko, Pop Master Fabel, Emma Bentley, The RZA, DLabrie, Davey D s wrapup, Chesspark, [full interviews: Adisa Banjoko, PopMaster Fabel, Emma Bentley, DLabrie, The RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, Rugged Monk] Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | YouTube

Podcasters and videobloggers from all around the world converged recently on the eastern Los Angeles wasteland of Ontario, California for the Podcast and New Media Expo. As one can imagine, much incestuous self-referential media making went on among the attendees. And we at Geek Entertainment TV are no different. See which micro-celebrities Irina accosts with her microphone. Odds are, you are probably one of them. Episode links: Steve Garfield, Women of Warcraft Podcast, The Clip Show, Cinema Psychic, Daily Breakfast, Lab Rats, Total Podcastrophe, The Medical Minute, Nick Starr, Rocketboom, Paul Dateh, Midwest Teen Sex Show Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Viddler

On the eve of the heavily anticipated launch of Halo 3, Microsoft opened it s Silicon Valley doors to developers and gamers for a sneak preview of the game that every kid in America wants. Irina catches the zeitgeist of a Halo 3 multiplayer tournament and has a chat with some of Microsoft s Xbox hardware engineers who made it all possible. Episode links: Halo 3, Bungie, Xbox 360, Microsoft Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod/iPhone) | YouTube | Viddler

A million virtual boozers can t be wrong, nor can they be drunk unless you bring them into reality. Reality is what happened at Booze Mail s Million Booze March event where virtual boozers came out of the closet to embrace actual reality based booze drinks. If reality scares you like it does us, stick to the uber popular Booze Mail Facebook app and you won t have to drink real drinks with real people again. Irina shows us why it s a bit scary. Episode links: Booze Mail (FB app), Million Booze March (photos), Renkoo Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod/iPhone)

It would really suck if your cell phone, iPod or Zune got you killed while driving which is why Microsoft s got your back. Their new Sync platform hooks up your bluetooth device to your car, assuming you have a new Ford and a Windows 98 install CD. OK, install CD is optional. It s all voice activated goodness from there. Velle Kolde of Microsoft Auto shows Irina how to call Bill Gates and find Bootylicious on her imaginary Zune. Episode links: Ford Sync, Microsoft Auto Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)

The force is strong with this one, young geek viewer. We caught up with Mr. Cranky Geek himself, John C. Dvorak, while he was brushing up his crank skills with Master Yoda outside of George Lucas infamous Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco s Presidio. Irina goes into deep history with Dvorak to discover it all started with a fly in the sandwich. Episode links: John C. Dvorak, Cranky Geeks, ILM Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)