High-Dere

This week on High-Dere Ian & Joe check out, and they explore potential alternate realities with the Oculus Rift. How would they be able to handle an earthquake or California falling into the ocean through an Oculus Rift while dealing with perception vs. reality. 

The Oculus Rift is notorious for messing with your equilibrium. Ian & Joe come up with a plethora of different applications and situations on the fly, geared around Oculus Rift with no research or confirmation beforehand, so they have no idea if what they’re coming up with already exists. Go figure! 

Ian even pontificates about the future evolution of the technology, Geordi La Forge style. Would people supplement or replace our ability to actually see with our own eyes? 

Would people ever use Oculus Rift as a method of “traveling the world?” They come up with radical ideas for adventure co-op games within a virtual world set within adaptable environments. 

They also touch on the topics of Hotel demolition, holomapped advertising on the Grand Canyon vs. personal screensavers in Times Square, Dolly Parton, they find where Pigeon Forge, Tennessee is, why people insist on spoiling things like movie trailer releases, and Randy Quaid’s interesting rant. They back around to the Oculus Rift to talk about Trailers, Star Wars and imagine what the virtual world of Harry Potter would be like and how long until attending Hogwarts becomes a reality! 

That, along with an early Star Wars prediction from Ian and a rough merchandise idea from Joe, wait for you on this week’s episode of High-Dere!

This week on High-Dere, Ian & Joe have technical problems right from the beginning. But then they prove that they do know what they’re doing, and now they wrap their mind around how baffling people can be! 

They start off by inviting Pierce Brosnan on the show. Then they wonder how places like Guitar Center, Fry’s and Micro Center are still around?!? Does anyone else remember Bawls? We do! SHOUT OUT!!! 

Then, very importantly, they invite Daft Punk to submit a cover of the High-Dere theme song! We would be so honored to be able to represent you at the head of every show! They imagine what it’d be like to have to say goodbye to your entire life in a proper way within 24 hours. Would it be easier for the one’s left behind who get to continue on with their familiarity? Or relationships, why can’t people just communicate, and help things flow in and out amicably? 

And why is there such animosity towards cops? A $400 arbitrary walking violation is why! And yet Joe was still trying to be conversational rather than confrontational. Aren’t police supposed to be there to keep the peace? Like at a peaceful protest? Like the Billion People March. SHOUT OUT!!! Much like their friend Shelby Cook (SHOUT OUT!!!) they have thrust themselves into a world of creativity, under their own steam, and it’s a trip! And that is what makes passions grow. 

They skip around the garden with Easter a little bit, wondering what it would be like if the story of Christ wasn’t a religious story, but just a story. How would it be interpreted? What if Jesus had a podcast? 

We ask the really important questions on High-Dere. Cards Against Humanity strategies get shared, and they discuss which half of their bodies they would want to get stuck in amber…all on this week’s episode of High-Dere.

We wander through being Dirty Thirty, the City of Ba’dass, Paul McCartney, Dylan’s career, Chappie, confirming that Rupert Grint is indeed a ginger, Peter Brady’s vocal puberty, the horrible compositing in the last Harry Potter films, Multiplicity, our heartbreak that Zayn left One Direction…and then our derailment to swing back around to Morals, Terrence Mallack and what rights a director has to alter his own work, how it is to be an actor, school busses without seatbelts, car crash videos, cannibalism, creating a TV show from scratch, our favorite characters from Lost, Documentaries, talking Spanglish, Get Hard and HIV Billboards, Bob Ross, a wrestler named Lusion, sexual cooking shows, Oprah’s involvement in Hogwarts, Meatloaf’s singing vibrato, licking things to claim them, Jerry Seinfeld in Bee Movie, "Weird Al” Yankovic, what Joe was doing at 30, the Boo Box, the original lyrics to Madonna’s Material Girl, and our Google search history. 

We wrap it up by being tainted by Disney and observing that Randy Quaid may have lost it. 

All, on this 30th episode of High-Dere.

Discussing the anomaly of the Dewey Decimal System in libraries, we fall into a pit of uncertainty of how to interpret art and how artists remember hidden messages in their work, high paid spokespeople such as ‘Flo’ of Progressive and Justin Long of Apple, The Ghostbusters and what the Statue of Liberty is made of, Ian’s fear of heights and how laying next to Michelangelo while he was painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel would be too much to handle and Joe digs through his foggy memory bank of the time he and a childhood friend were caught smoking “marihoochi” (weed) when his mom was suppose to be at work. 

We also sizzle past topics such as the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber, The battle of Maddie and Fitz, Drive-in movie theaters, How people decide authenticity, Urban legends of intenstines getting sucked out, The miracle of Tiffany Sweeny’s survival, Shooting with film vs. digital, Attending a live event vs. through Twitter, Favorite version of Dracula, Ian’s trip to NYC, What we were doing at 29, The licensing fee of Weird Al covering “Blurred Lines”, Marvin Gaye’s estate, the cost of Disneyland, accidentally killing Tinker Bell, Hook played by Dustin Hoffman vs. Christopher Walken, disappearing planes and why ignorance isn’t bliss. It isn’t’. 

We wrap Episode 29 like a greasy burrito as to why an open internet is the most important chance humanity has to save itself from immature leadership.

After a night of music, low notes and impressive wire work, we talk about the successful tale of the misunderstood Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba (Jennifer Dinoia), her friendship with Good Witch Galinda (Chandra Lee Schwartz) and the road she went down in order to find her true self. 

But, because it’s High-Dere, we bounce around from topic to topic, like the diversity of downtown Hollywood, old-lady names (like Glinda and Elphaba), ‘Green Man’ style body suits, the inhabitants of Oz’s rough downtown neighborhoods, garage sales, the most famous face of movie bullies, Biff Tannen, being a part of cinema legend, the oddities of Return to Oz and The Wiz, being known for certain (and sometimes multiple) iconic roles, the moral dilemmas that faced the witches of Oz, the dangers of stealing shoes that aren’t yours, the enigma behind the directional placement of the Hollywood Stars, Judy Garland’s acid trip, and the best burger(s) we’d ever eaten. 

We wrap it all up by talking about how Joe feels to have come up with 28 impromptu sign-offs (and counting) and how it truly ain’t easy being green. 

All this on this week’s episode of High-Dere.