Hi. A slight break from your regularly scheduled programming here. Tom and Andy are two strange yet oddly cool guys. I managed to capture a recording of one of their conversations, and I thought it vital I bring it to your attention.
Enjoy. ANDY: DUDE!
So... you're Tom?
TOM: DUDE!
Sure am!
And... you're Andy, right?
ANDY: *checks underwear*
That's what it says!
I know we talk all the time, but lets pretend we don't know everything about each other.
For instance, how'd you get this awesome gig?
TOM: Well, long story short - I saved RB from a raving pack of drop bears.
ANDY: Wow.
Much more interesting than how I got mine.
TOM: How'd you get yours?
ANDY: I gotta call from Javi.
He asked.
How could I say no?
There was no question - so I donated myself to the cause.
TOM: OK. Well then, ah, I didn't really save RB from drop bears...
BUT!
Thats only because drop bears aren't real. You could say I'm a BIG Aussie Lost nut and might've know some people who knew people....
ANDY: Who knew people who had connections with nanites. I get the picture.
Like you I've been a HUGE LOST fan since the beginning.
I've moderated at the Fuselage and now at the OCEANIC boards.
TOM: Ah, the 'Lage - how I love you! Shout-out to the Spoiler Thread crew!
Well, I run and write the official Aus LOST site and boards. I guess you could say we really are major fans!
ANDY: Wait - so you do all those cool vids over there?
*shock surprise!*
TOM: Yep, that's me! I spend hours on those things, brutha, to make sure EVERYONE get the whole truth.
ANDY: And nothing BUT the truth!
Wait... what if they can't handle the truth?
TOM: Then they need to get out of the bus lane!
Seriously man, what kind of lame-o can't handle the truth?
"Oh no, I've just found out the earth is round, I need a glass of water before I faint."
Gimme a break. Truth = Win.
Wait a second --- I just noticed you said, "Javi called you" - who is Javi?
And more importantly, how do you know him?
ANDY: Oh - he's just some weird balding ex-writer/producer from LOST who's now at MEDIUM who may have also been a schlock jock in this whole experience.
And I know him because I run his fan-site - the Javiminions!
He's literally one of the biggest brains on the planet - I mean - dude's HYPER intelligent!
It's scary.
TOM: Oh yeah, I've heard of that guy
DJ Dan really doesn't like him, hey!
ANDY: OH, I know!
So, we've gone over how we got into this gig.... now, what about the gig itself?
Remember the first commercial? The phone number?
TOM: Sure do. That thing nearly made my eyes bug out of their sockets! Definitely made me want to know more...
You?
I remember you saw it a few hour before we did, too.....
ANDY: You guys got it a day before us actually, didn't you?
Or was that the UK?
I just know that I saw the "breaking strain" hack BEFORE I heard the phone message because it was SOOO busy.Well, that AND because we got screen shots from our best mate Nicky from Hi-Res in England.
TOM: Yeah, Nicky with the hookups!
Well ---- and this is going to flip you out ----- we don't actually have LOST on Wednesdays. We have it on THURSDAY.
Where I'm at is, what, 17 hours in front of you?
You do the math. We know I can't. So we probably saw it at about the same time....
ANDY: I don't do math, but I guess you're right - sorry, I totally forgot about that.
And the British get it on Tuesdays! (Right?)
I'm just going through my blog and noticing some of the old press releases. The Hanso ad against Bad Twin! (Good ol' purgatory.. I mean, Gary Troup.)
ANDY: You marked up a bunch of them ALL by yourself, did you not?
TOM: Yes, I did. The books weren't out here at the time so, to help get the truth out I marked certain parts and sent them out to ninjas all over Australia.
Come to think of it, I spent an awful lot of time going back and forth to the post office!
ANDY: HA! I bet.
TOM: What about yourself? How did you find Bad Twin?
ANDY: OH.... well, I went to a local B&N.
Not NEARLY as exciting as your story.
Ah, just got to an interesting entry! The Valenzetti Wiki!
Javi wrote that and leaked it to me, but the wiki community didn't like it.
Luckily LOSTPEDIA picked it up.
LOSTPEDIA is a great source and LOSTPEDIA knows how to mark things as fiction and take things in stride. I really like LOSTPEDIA... you?
LOSTPEDIA.
TOM: I too like LOSTPEDIA. Wiki can go jump off a bridge, what with their rules and "No, Fox may not have a personal page listing the ways in which he has defeated Nazis."
Sorry Fox, I've lost my screen-cap of that mad action.
ANDY: Well Wiki's still a good source, but I agree - taking down Fox's page was the LAST STRAW!
I'm just pimping LOSTPEDIA ONLY from now on.
TOM: Did you say.... LOSTPEDIA?
ANDY: Yes I did, Tom - LOSTPEDIA.
Remember when the time on THF read OB:EY?
TOM: Totally - I was expecting Mugatu to pop out at any moment and spray me with his frothy latte!
ANDY: LMAO TE CHING!
Wow - I'm looking in my week two round up - DJ Dan's site appeared that early on! I could have sworn it was later than that.
That's also the week we got Letyourcompassguideyou.
TOM: Dan came through early and got our heads spinning
ANDY: Yeah - definitely one of my fav parts of this experience.
TOM: It's so great that he switched his podcasts up so that we could call in.
ANDY: I know!
Well - basically he stopped the podcasts and did a live radio show. :)
TOM: I like it best when you choked.
ANDY: Dude - I didn't choke!
I laughed because I was remembering back to "An Evening with Kevin Smith!"
(Damned giant spiders!)
TOM: Haha, I know, I know.
I would've done the same had I been asked.
But seriously - NOT DICK CHEEVER!
ANDY: NOT DICK CHEEVER!
Speaking of the board of directors - one of the most controversial moments was all the way back in week three:
Hugh on Jimmy Kimmel.
TOM: Ah, yes - well, I had to wait for someone to upload that.
ANDY: Yes, but you DID see it.
TOM: Oh, I did - crazy stuff.
ANDY: That incident was what triggered my " maybe LOST is real " rant one Sunday evening.
People didn't like the fact that LOST was mentioned - it confused them.
TOM: I remember - folks, that was a LONG night of coaxing him off the edge......
ANDY: And, no... TPTB did not ask me to write that - I did it on my own.
Actually, week three was a VERY controversial week - remember what else was that week?
TOM: Wasn't that when shady No-Face began doing our heads in?
ANDY: Yup - "a mouse does not rely on just one hole."
HOLE2.
I'm gonna set the record straight on HOLE2 once and for all -
People banged their heads over that one for...EVER!
I asked for a solution and was sent a BLOW up of a part of the picture. I couldn't tell which part
it was from, but in red it said "save me."
I asked how to get that and "they" wouldn't tell me.
Nicky said if no one figured it out it could be like the suitcase in Pulp Fiction. But I just can't leave it like that, sorry Nicky!
I don't know if it's just really hard to solve - or if a wrong version was uploaded, but it's
supposed to say "save me" so it could be later used with the "timeless together" clues.
I'm not even sure if you knew about that adventure, Tom.
TOM: See folks? This is why Andy is the freakin' master. He's on top of it ALL.
ANDY: If I were on top - I'd know the solution!
TOM: The answer is only half the journey..... or something.
ANDY: Yeah, something like that.
Anyway - the HOLES were hated by so many people! But in a good way, because they were hard.
Week five was your famous Bad Twin give away.... tell us, did you show up in disguise...
Or OUT of disguise, as the case may be?
TOM: I went down, sans ninja gear so as to not rouse suspicion, and actually met a few of the ninjas! Well, the best way I can think of to describe it is, I was like a pyro returning to the scene of the crime to chat with firefighters while they put it out - I was so worried someone might clue into me being there! It wasn't easy for me, but it was cool!
ANDY: Did anyone suspect?
TOM: Skipping forward a little, being the disguise man yourself - how DID you manage wearing yours at Dragon*Con?
ANDY: OH, man - that was HOT!
It was SUMMER in ATLANTA, which meant not only heat but HUMIDITY!
I ended up wearing it less than I'd have liked, but managed once a day. (Except Monday - was trying to get home.)
Back in the early days we were looked upon almost like TPTB, even though we weren't - we were
expected to know everything.
We did know a lot... but we didn't know as much as people thought -
And I believe they figured that out with the Retrievers of Truth.
We were NOT warned about that.
TOM: Haha. YES!
ANDY: Were you warned?
TOM: I knew NOTHING.
ANDY: I remember IMing you to see if you had any ideas.
TOM: And felt like an idiot!
ANDY: Me too!
It looked like a JOKE! I mean - Wally Bole had no EARS!
But I posted it anyway because someone saw a commercial...
and then removed it because I couldn't find confirmation of the commercial.
I frantically called Javi and couldn't get him - when I finally got a hold of him he was like, "Dude, what's up?"
I was near tears (not really) "There's these psychic dogs and this guy with no ears and the Hanso thing on the top and it looks fake but it might not be and I didn't see the commercial!
WHAT IS IT!?"
Because this was late at night when everyone was at home.
He confirmed it and I finally put my post back up.
I think that's when people realized we weren't the know-it-alls we appeared to be.
TOM: WOW, thats a true saga! Yeah, people clued on to me not being omnipotent at about the same time because, for that week I'm pretty sure, I was in the dark on ROT so I kind of just ignored it for a few days.
I hoped that it would go away like all the other fan-sites.
ANDY: Me too, but then it became one of the best tie-ins and one of my favorites.
Verizon did a great job in the end.
TOM: They sure did - I loved the cryptic, confusing chatter they had for us, and had a good laugh watching everyone try and talk telepathically with their dogs!
Wait - you have a dog, right?
ANDY: Yeah - I have a Golden RETRIEVER named Fiona and a Dalmatian named Hugo.
Fiona's not a retriever of truthiness though - she's smart, but not telepathic.
TOM: Haha - I think a truthiness retriever would get annoying quickly, reading the paper before it brings it....
ANDY: Ha - definitely!
Week 7 was another one of my favorite parts - the Hanso site SHUTDOWN!
This was also one of the most stressful weekends for me as it was the Monster slip-up with releasing the RB video early.
So instead of having a nice cliffhanger on Friday, "They shut down!? NOW WHAT!?" Some people saw the Monday vid BEFORE the shutdown!
I spent ALL weekend deleting mentions of Rachel Blake - it was futile, some people were asses about it, some were nice about it, but what's a shadow to do?
TOM: Ah yes - slight disclaimer with that - I went away that weekend and left you stuck with all that trouble.
Sorry!
ANDY: It's okay! I didn't even remember.
Not like you could clean up my blog.
TOM: Hey, I tried once, but my lot had already stolen all the brooms.
ANDY: Ha!
TOM: And you have a Professional Clean-Up Artist who seems to do nothing but make a mess... whats up with that?
ANDY: Who now?
TOM: Winston.
ANDY: GAH! I missed a Pulp Fiction reference!
HA! We do not speak his name.
What - you thought that was it? No way! Make sure you check Speaker's blog TOMORROW for the second part of an interview with TOM and ANDY AKA The Ninja and Speaker!
Namaste