If you watched this week’s Tekzilla, you may have noticed this (or not):
Yes, I’m that Jason. The Charlie in question is Charlie Sinhaseni, 2K’s intrepid PR manager. What prompted this, you ask? I’ll explain.
In the October episode of Qore (the PS3 video magazine hosted by Ms. Veronica Belmont), in their preview of Fallout 3, Veronica clearly says nuke-u-lar on more that one occasion. Want proof? Here’s the video…just jump to the 2:15 mark. Bam.
Anyway, this is obviously a problem and caused a clear rift between the two of us. I mean, here I thought we had something special, and she has to go and ruin it by saying nuke-u-lar. I haven’t gone so far as to take down the signed photo of her that’s on the wall by my desk (no really, I have one) and replace it with Olivia Munn or Kari Byron, but you know, it’s hard to get past that sort of thing.
So anyway, I joked with Charlie about it, who of course relayed this to her, and the result was the shoutout on this week’s show.
Which was kind of awesome. But at the same time, I’m not convinced. I mean, sure, she can pronounce the word properly, but nobody’s doubting that. Even Sarah Palin can pronounce it properly when it’s on a teleprompter that way. The real question is, how does she pronounce it when the camera isn’t rolling? What else isn’t she telling us?
And most importantly, does this disqualify her as a cohost of Tekzilla?
Probably not.
But getting a shoutout was kinda cool, right? Right?
Yeah, I’m a dork.