My all-time favorite podcast, Revision3’s “The Totally Rad Show”, just celebrated its one year anniversary by producing one unbelievably good episode. And I’m not saying that just because I’m mentioned in it. Twice. (Yay for me!) If you’ve never seen it, the show centers around three late-20s/early-30s guys (Dan, Alex, and Jeff) chatting about movies, TV shows, video games, and comic books along with other geeky stuff. The fourth member of the team, Steve, is just as much a part of the show, even though he is off camera, because he’s the camera/post-production guy who tends to insert his own comments/observations as on-screen graphics during the show. One of the many incredibly creative things about the show is that each episode opens with the guys remaking a scene from a movie, TV show, video game, etc., but with their own unique spin.

In the current anniversary episode, they reveal the winning segments from their online poll and discuss what it was like shooting those particular fan faves. But I have to say that the opening alone is fantastic, especially if you’ve watched more than a few episodes. Basically throughout the year they have been singing a song (I won’t ruin it if you haven’t seen it yet) during the taping of each of the openings and compiled them all together into one amazingly cohesive segment. As a big fan, seeing that opening for the first time was (as I described to Keaven earlier today) like watching a twist in a movie that took a year to set up. EDIT: OK, so after another viewing I realized that the opening was actually created be re-shooting the earlier openings to make it look like they had been doing it all along. And, really, the fact that they had to get the clothes, props, backgrounds, etc. to match the original is pretty breathtaking in and of itself.

If you haven’t seen the show before, I’m not sure the anniversary episode is the right one to start with. On the one hand, it does focus on the fan favorites from the past year, but on the other hand, it contains a fair number of inside references, especially during the retrospective section. That being said [one of the inside references I mentioned] if you’re intrigued after watching this episode, I highly suggest you check out a couple more, particularly the London episode.

So here’s to another TRS-filled year. Keep the rad coming guys!