Sometimes when you get insanely busy — say, slaving over a hot keyboard for your ungrateful corporate master — time can really fly. Before you know it, two weeks can pass, just like that. And in times like these, it’s not unheard of for the podcast that you record for your employer in your own personal free time to slip silently through the cracks.

Until, invariably, a buzzer goes off in your head at the very last minute: “Oh, crap,” you say, as you look at the clock. “I’m supposed to be in the studio.”

And so you wing it. You talk about whatever comes to mind. Stuff like:

• New “Halo 3” maps! Aren’t you excited?! We are! No, really! OK, not really.
• GameStop is making bank. Seriously. There are long lines of dudes just rolling wheelbarrows full of cash through the doors. You know in the movies when an obnoxious business tycoon lights his cigar with a hundred dollar bill? That’s what Mr. GameStop is doing right now. (Meanwhile, the kid who works behind the counter is heating up his Ramen noodles.)
• A Financial Times report about an iTunes program that would offer access to the store’s entire inventory for one ridiculously low price.
• A Beatles version of “Guitar Hero”? It could happen.
• Maybe Flash is coming to the iPhone, after all.
• The long-awaited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been released! All your problems with Vista are now a thing of the past! Except for the ones that either still exist or have been exacerbated. Which is most of them.
• Prince might be playing at Coachella. Then again, he might not.
• Bob and David from “Mr. Show” are coming back to TV! If their new project is even one-tenth as gut-bustingly hilarious as “Mr. Show,” it’ll be the best thing on television.
• “Rainbow Six: Vegas 2” — the sequel to what may be our favorite game of all time — is finally out, and we can’t get enough. Which may be a problem, considering its developer is rumored to be abandoning tactical shooters. Say it ain’t so, Ubisoft!

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Couch Potatoes, Episode 31 [link]

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