Ask Mike Discussion

[kodiakthejuggler]

I just wanted to express my respect to Mr. Torso for living such a full life despite the challenges inherent in lacking a head and limbs.

Apparently he's a doctor as well...

[torgosPizza]

Thanks for posting the link, and glad you like the podcast this time around.

You can subscribe to the feed through iTunes, by searching for "rifftrax" or from the blog page -

http://www.rifftrax.com/blog - and clicking the iTunes button on the right side.

Here's the blog entry for the latest podcast, just in case: http://www.rifftrax.com/blog/?entry=askMike_051407

[Bob]

Way to plug "Joe's Shoes" and not give us a weblink!    You corporate fat cats will never take over the world this way.

[Barrett808]

It's true that Ruination is a fine brew, but if you want the phattest hop buds in a bottle, you, Mike, need to try Anderson Valley's Hop Ottin' IPA.

Also, from further north, there's Great Divide's Hercules Double IPA (9.1 ABV!), which kicks so much @ss.

If fact, it's probably best if you just fly up here to Seattle, and we'll get you some Maritime Pacific Imperial IPA on cask. From there, you'll stagger to Hale's brewery down the street, where you'll ingest their special edition Mongoose Double Dry-Hopped IPA. 

Then we'll put you on a cab back to SeaTac.

[Natureboy]

I am just wondering if the Admins and Mods told Mike that the first podcast was not well received.  I am just curious because the 2nd one was SO much better. 

[torgosPizza]

It's true that Ruination is a fine brew, but if you want the phattest hop buds in a bottle, you, Mike, need to try Anderson Valley's Hop Ottin' IPA.

Also, from further north, there's Great Divide's Hercules Double IPA (9.1 ABV!), which kicks so much @ss.

If fact, it's probably best if you just fly up here to Seattle, and we'll get you some Maritime Pacific Imperial IPA on cask. From there, you'll stagger to Hale's brewery down the street, where you'll ingest their special edition Mongoose Double Dry-Hopped IPA. 

Then we'll put you on a cab back to SeaTac.

According to Uncle Rufus,

"Ruination is far hoppier than Hop Ottin', Ruination is a double-IPA whereas H.O. is a single IPA. It's good but it doesn't compare. If you want hoppy, try Pliny the Elder (double) or Pliny the Younger (triple)."

My personal favorite is Exponential Hoppiness, brewed by Alpine. It's a triple IPA also. I think it's around 11% A.B.V.

[Brak]

I liked the second one, i think the only issue i have with it is just that it seems to take a lot of time inbetween each and such, but hey im not complaining because i know that Mike is a busy man now with all of the trax he is working on and everything, just keep them comming and ill be happy

[torgosPizza]

We have another one to release this week, to pad them out. We only record them when we do a movie so it's not quite that often yet. I'm hoping we'll get to do them more frequently in the near future, though.

[Barrett808]

It's true that Ruination is a fine brew, but if you want the phattest hop buds in a bottle, you, Mike, need to try Anderson Valley's Hop Ottin' IPA.

Also, from further north, there's Great Divide's Hercules Double IPA (9.1 ABV!), which kicks so much @ss.

If fact, it's probably best if you just fly up here to Seattle, and we'll get you some Maritime Pacific Imperial IPA on cask. From there, you'll stagger to Hale's brewery down the street, where you'll ingest their special edition Mongoose Double Dry-Hopped IPA. 

Then we'll put you on a cab back to SeaTac.

According to Uncle Rufus,

"Ruination is far hoppier than Hop Ottin', Ruination is a double-IPA whereas H.O. is a single IPA. It's good but it doesn't compare. If you want hoppy, try Pliny the Elder (double) or Pliny the Younger (triple)."

My personal favorite is Exponential Hoppiness, brewed by Alpine. It's a triple IPA also. I think it's around 11% A.B.V.

Funny, I just had Ruination from the bottle last night, and it still doesn't taste quite as hoppy to me as Hop Ottin'. No accounting for taste, I guess.

Thank you for the tips on the triple IPAs (!). The Russian River site (http://www.russianriverbrewing.com/pages/beers/plinytheyounger.html) says Pliny the Elder is 100 BUs, while the Younger is "gobs of BUs". Makes me want to trek down the coast next weekend.

[LolygagerX]

This may not be the appropriate place to ask this... But what is The Film Crew? Can i get all of the information on what it is, How it was started etc...etc...

[torgosPizza]

(http://www.russianriverbrewing.com/pages/beers/plinytheyounger.html) says Pliny the Elder is 100 BUs, while the Younger is "gobs of BUs". Makes me want to trek down the coast next weekend.

Yeah. Pliny the younger is far too hoppy for me. I prefer the Elder, but my favorite is Exponential Hoppiness. "The Most Dangerous Beer in America" - and for good reason! Triple IPA without the taste of one.

This may not be the appropriate place to ask this... But what is The Film Crew? Can i get all of the information on what it is, How it was started etc...etc...

Film Crew is a series of 4 movies, each on their own DVD - along the lines of mst3k. Mike Kevin and Bill recorded them 3 years ago. complete with skits and intro / outro (like MST but without the sci-fi theme) ... they were originally done for Rhino but Shout Factory is the one releasing them.

www.filmcrewonline.com

Note that they are just coming out this year, but they were done long before RiffTrax. Not sure if they will ever do more of them - I know I'd like to see some RiffTrax DVD releases with all three guys myself!

[MontyServo]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Episode 3 of the podcast has been posted.

Mike answered my question!!!   

[BathTub]

lol thanks for the heads up!

[JoshWay]

So is this where we start speculating about Mike's Crispin Glover comments?

[Pak-Man]

Well let me be the first to jump to the conclusion.

OBVIOUSLY Crispin Glover is slated to do a Rifftrax on Batman and Robin. :^) Or maybe John Glover, who was actually in the movie. :^)