Gordan Freeman on Coast to Coast AM

SizroSpunkmire

An RL friend of mine prank called them last night an pretended to be Gordon Freeman being stalked by the G-Man. The host has clearly never played Half Life and gets right into it.

Sheer Brilliance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liKV4Ij8LtU

Zombiemambo

Hehehe, this is pretty cool.

043

That's pretty fucking funny.

Zombiemambo

If you really wanted to play this out, it should have been after the resonance cascade. Bang some pots and pans or slam the garage door or something, and yell into the phone that something really bad happened in the lab while you were experimenting with some kind of alien material.

Rizzi

Bwhaha. This is truly awesome.

The Deliverator

This is hilarious.

TheCrumblyCracker

Amazing. Job well done.

Rizzi

Your friend managed to avoid cracking up. I think that deserves mentioning.

Campion

Ha, very nice! I haven't played Half-Life 1 yet, so I had no clue that that's what Black Mesa was doing.

SizroSpunkmire

Stay posted...he's planning on doing another one.

Kreutz

Your friend sells it like a pro.

Nimble Cat

That was great. Do keep us apprised of further developments.

Portal technology! Amazing!

TVs_Frank

Fav'd. Man I was cracking up so bad listening to this, especially when he mentioned Barney.

EDIT: I think mentioning the portal technology was a bit much though. Hahaha.

SizroSpunkmire

At the rate that this is going...it's already got 600+ views on dig in less the 30 minutes we're thinking it might just reach the ears of George. We're trying to figure out a unique way of calling in to continue the story from HL2 episodes where Gordan interacts with the G-Man.

Gorilla Salad

Call in after shit starts going down at Black Mesa, first, man.

Also, there's no way to do HL2.

slash000

That was... actually pretty good. :^:

Kriz

SizroSpunkmire wrote: »

At the rate that this is going...it's already got 600+ views on dig in less the 30 minutes we're thinking it might just reach the ears of George. We're trying to figure out a unique way of calling in to continue the story from HL2 episodes where Gordan interacts with the G-Man.

you'll need to get some backround sounds ready, but it shouldn't be too hard.

just continue the story. After an experiment went awry, and Gordon cleaned up the ensuing mess, GMan spoke to him and offered a new job. enter HL2. relocation, creepy goings on, martial law, etc.

if possible, have the call interrupted by a combine soldier.

Gorilla Salad

Hell, if you wanted to, you could have people call in as scientists, Barney, or even the G-Man himself.

Terrendos

"Hey Coast to Coast, my name is Gordon. I called in earlier, about the G-man guy? Well apparently he wanted to hire me to do some special work for him, so that solved that problem. Unfortunately, he wants me to kill my old administrator, Dr. Breen!"

That oughta be a good starting point, right?

Grey Ghost

Maybe next time, have someone interrupt the call (i.e. pick up the other phone in the house or something) and impersonate the G-Man, talk to "Gordon" for a second, maybe chastising him for telling others (or something) and then disconnect.

Nimble Cat

Or call in as the G-Man and try to explain everything away. Saying that Gordon is getting carried away and that you just wanted to give him some cake.

Gorilla Salad

"Mr. Freeeee-man, I donn't ap-reciate your calls." or something like that?

The important thing is the creepy voice and the speech impediment.

EDIT: What station is this on?

Furu

This reminds me of a few years ago when someone called in saying they were contacted by a boy from the future who told them about androids planning to destroy a place called "South City" in three years.

Anyway :^: Approval.

slash000

I think it'd be awesome if you could work in some sound clips from the game.

Silvoculous

Didn't notice it was on Digg. Nice one.

Woodroez

Gorilla Salad wrote: »

"Mr. Freeeee-man, I donn't ap-reciate your calls." or something like that?

The important thing is the creepy voice and the speech impediment.

EDIT: What station is this on?

Google Coast to Coast AM...the website is easy to find, but I think webmasters can see where you're linked from, or something? Once you're on the website, click "Affiliates" on the left toolbar. Anyway, I would imagine George knows by now. I have to imagine there's a fair bit of overlap between their listeners and gamers/internet savvy folks.

Nimble Cat

Gorilla Salad wrote: »

"Mr. Freeeee-man, I donn't ap-reciate your calls." or something like that?

The important thing is the creepy voice and the speech impediment.

EDIT: What station is this on?

Yeah. Made to sound as if he were covering something up.

Zilla360

You could try calling in as Chell too.

"Hi, George? Yeah, George, I have no idea what the fuck is going on. I just woke up in a giant egg-shaped bed in an orange jumpsuit and some batshit computer woman who lives inside the walls won't stop talking to me about cake."

L|ama

If he does it about HL2, then act like it's happening somewhere in the world but being covered up so that no-one knows, instead of the far more obviously bullshit whole word getting taken over.

DarkPrimus

"I'm in... a city... somewhere in the old USSR or something... I'm bouncing the signal so they can't trace it, it's probably showing as a local call...

Look, they've taken the whole place over... it's a goddamn police state."

Etc, etc.

PikaPuff

I really dislike prank calls. Not as horrible when it's done to a radio show, but I still dislike them.

Morninglord

That was brilliant, I couldn't stop laughing.

Henroid

That was pretty funny. I wonder if he will actually call again to 'keep him posted.'

Daemonion

Wow, nice job not laughing.

Page-

God, George Noory is such a tool. Every time I hear him I remember why I stopped listening to that show.

And, nice one.

Burnage

... was anybody else expecting three minutes of silence?

Funny, though.

AcidSerra

If you really wanted to get into it, have someone else call about HL2 as though they had just got back to the states after sneaking into some Eastern European country and seeing some of the stuff going on. Heck with a good myspace you could probably expand it out into a full ARG just for kicks. =P

Aldo

That was fantastic. Not so sure a follow-up call would be as funny as this one, especially because the story gets more and more ridiculous after this point.

Maybe a short call to tell 'em G-man talked and that maybe he's Gordon's father or something, he seems to know so much about Gordon... (dun dun dunnnnn)

LewieP

Big lulz.

I would have mentioned having been to MIT though, also "I have decided to take a crowbar to work with me for my protection"

Undead Scottsman

Mentioning the portal technology was a little much (Though considering the guy bought it, I guess it wasn't)

Especially since Gordon didn't actually know anything about the portal research. He worked in the Anomalous Materials Lab. I think "well, there's a lot of projects here that are classified and I don't have clearance for, but my department analyzes samples obtained from elsewhere. Where is also classified beyond my clearance."

Tamin

"You aren't authorized to know about [the portal research], but I can see you already know far more than any one man is supposed to."

That it?

... now, if only I could do that for something important, like... Calculus. Or Unix.