Infected by Martin Sargent

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Infected

Host(s)	Martin Sargent
Website	http://revision3.com/infected
Update Schedule	Bieekly
Launch Date	November 11, 2005
Genre	Podcast

Infected is a monthly podcast hosted by Martin Sargent. The podcast is produced by Revision3, an internet multimedia distribution company founded by Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose. Sargent created the podcast as a spiritual successor to Unscrewed, the late night TV show he hosted on TechTV and later G4TechTV. The first episode was aired on November 11, 2005, exactly one year after the cancellation of Unscrewed.

The podcast is hosted by Sargent alongside co-host "The Gator" (played by co-writer Jay Speiden), a "drifter-type" from Florida Sargent ostensibly met at a Los Angeles bar, and former Unscrewed production assistant Joseph Rabier, a.k.a. "Joey the Intern." Regular guests include Hollywood reporter Johnny O'Banion, performed by co-writer Stewart Engesser, and martial-arts master Rickey Kang, also played by Speiden. O'Banion and Kang were recurring characters on Unscrewed as well. While both characters appear as call-in interview guests, they also appear in themed segments. "View from the Canyon with Johnny O'Banion" is a fictitious account of celebrity gossip hosted by O'Banion, while "On the Stick with Rickey Kang" features Kang appearing at a random location to assault people with a kendo stick. Engesser, who also writes and produces Revision3's Mysteries of Science Explained podcast (which began as an Unscrewed segment), writes and produces "View from the Canyon" as well as the "Lights, Camera, Orlando" interview segment, in which Engesser impersonates actor Orlando Bloom.

The podcast is produced in the format of a roundtable discussion between Sargent and the Gator with Rabier offering infrequent commentary. The show is peppered with parodied commercials for real-life products and businesses, sometimes narrated by cast impressions of celebrities. Each episode is structured around a specific theme and involves Sargent and the Gator's discussion of the topic, inserted with phone interviews or quizzes moderated by Sargent. Any number of the above scripted segments are also inserted, as well as a news report referred to as a check of the "High Tech Tech News Ticker." The podcast customarily ends with Sargent being pressured into telling a bizarre bedtime-style story by Joey and the Gator. Sargent's usual farewell to the audience was the same as that on Unscrewed ("We'll see you at the bar"), but following an incident in which Sargent was swept out to sea during a trip to the beach, the sign-off has been preceded with "Don't get ripped by the riptide" with a hand-clap inserted after the word "ripped."

Martin also likes giving drawing assignments to the podcast's fanbase, which he refers to as the "Infected Army," reminiscent of "User Created" off of TechTV's the Screen Savers and later Attack Of The Show. Entries from the assignments are customarily posted on Sargent's website.

[edit] Episode List and Themes

Episode 28: Pure Entertainment!
Episode 27: The Infected Pornography Special (Gator's Birthday)
Episode 26: Spring Has Sprung
Episode 25: Slumber Party
Episode 24: Hot Date
Episode 23: Video! (From this episode on, with minor exceptions during the episodes, all the episodes were filmed in live action.)
Episode 22B: A Johnny O'Banion Christmas
Episode 22: An olde world Christmas
Episode 21: Virility
Episode 20: Show-biz
Episode 19: Halloween
Episode 18: Fashion
Episode 17: Work
Episode 16: Space
Episode 15: Computer
Episode 14: Robots
Episode 13: Family (The return of Olive Garden)
Episode 12: Summer
Episode 11: "Life Altering" (Don't get ripped, by the rip-tide)
Episode 10: Really short edition
Episode 09: "Free-wheeling [stuff]" episode
Episode 08: Girls
Episode 07: Fitness
Episode 06: Animals
Episode 05: New Year
Episode 04: "Lights, Camera, Orlando"
Episode 03: Christmas time
Episode 02: "It's a waste of time, about wasting time, surfing the internet wastelands, wasted"
Episode 01: Infected debut

[edit] External links

Revision3 Network
Revision3 Corporation
Revision3 podcasts
the broken \| Ctrl+Alt+Chicken \| Diggnation \| Geekdrome \| iFanboy \| InDigital \| Infected \| Mysteries of Science \| notmtv \| PixelPerfect \| Systm \| The Totally Rad Show \| Web Drifter
Revision3 show hosts
Alex Albrecht \| Jeff Cannata \| Hahn Choi \| Jessica Corbin \| Dan Huard \| Bert Monroy \| Kevin Rose \| Martin Sargent \| Heather Stewart \| Dan Trachtenberg \| Wil Wheaton
Former Revision3 hosts
Andrew Hawn \| Jonathan London \| Diane Mizota