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Colin Marshall sits down in Glassell Park with comedian and man of cinema\xa0Chris Gore, who has talked movies on such television shows as\xa0The X Show,\xa0The New Movie Show with Chris Gore, and\xa0Attack of the Show; has written books including\xa0The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide,\xa0The Complete DVD Book, and\xa0The Fifty Greatest Movies Never Made; hosts the podcast\xa0PodCRASH with That Chris Gore; and has a new comedy album and picture book coming up called\xa0Celebrities Poop. They discuss how he takes his work seriously, but not himself; his "war" on the top five podcasts; his contretemps with Representative Dan Lungren while editing\xa0Videogames\xa0magazine; Colin's\xa0Podthought on\xa0PodCRASH, and the superiority of essays and films that don't tell you how to feel; his first television appearances on FX, and how he there learned to read a teleprompter by pretending not to read it; growing up a Michigander and a nerd, discovering alternative culture through film (and building his own eight-millimeter home theater at age seven) while actively not giving a shit what anyone thought of him; his choice to come to Los Angeles because it smelled less like pee than New York; his place in film culture versus nerd culture, and the word "nerd" versus the word "geek"; how he makes a podcast out of his appearances on other podcasts in the podcast Mecca that is Los Angeles; meeting and talking to cool people as a byproduct of a career, or as the raison d'\xeatre\xa0of one; which of them buys cars and which of them buys bespoke suits; what it felt like being around for the nineties' American indie film boom, and why only Quentin Tarantino has kept up his auteur's head of steam from those days; and why he made\xa0My Big Fat Independent Movie\xa0when that boom got to be too much.