A few weeks back, one of our readers commented and said that they’d like to get a rundown of what happens on Fireside Chat each week if they can’t listen in live. I apologize because I haven’t really had time to do this for you guys. Recently, Fireside Chat launched their own website and they also put up highlights of their show from earlier in the week. Awesome, because now I can just post this!

Listen to the highlight above where we have a good laugh about a bunch of extras that added themselves to the IMDB full cast list including a mysterious man named Trexler Hoverhound.

- Business to tend to! Hunger Games Chat is now co-operated by Mockingjay.net and Hypable.com.
- We introduce new hosts who will be on the show regularly.
- The first trailer for The Hunger Games is here and we review it.
- Does it get non fans excited? Did it get FANS excited?
- Lionsgate launches TheCapitol.pn and we figure out its purpose and what it may hold in the future.
- Steven Soderbergh explains his involvement in the film.
- Director Gary Ross discusses his favorite scenes.
- Selina introduces a new book segment called Kill, Maim, Alliance.
- Listener comments chime in on last week’s episode.

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Tune in and listen live to Episode 22 of Picktainment’s Hunger Games Fireside Chat. Tonight’s topics of discussion:

• For the first 10-15 minutes of the show, we’ll recap our Mockingjayanniversary celebration and share a sneak preview of District Tribute’sunofficial Mockingjay score.
• At around 10:15pm ET, Jenn will let us know what we can expect this week from The Hunger Games Collab and also share three of this week’s top Hunger Games Confessions
• At 10:25pm ET, we’ll begin a second-by-second, frame-by-frame analysis of the first official Hunger Games teaser (which premiered at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night). Get your magnifying glasses and pause buttons ready to follow along with us!
• We’ll also weigh on the post-VMAs commentary from Gary Ross.
• Amie Marie of The Vivacity Blog — who will be attending the VMAs Sunday night — will tell us what it was like to watch the teaser trailerAT the awards show!

Picktainment’s Hunger Games Fireside Chat will be on tonight live at 10pm ET/7pm PT. I will be a guest to talk with them about various topics including Comic-Con wrap-up, charity initiatives related to The Hunger Games, and the good ole Battle Royale comparison. See the details here.

The folks over at Picktainment will be hosting the Hunger Games Fireside Chat #15 tonight and will mostly be focusing on the Harry Potter premiere this week. They’ll announce the winner of the Panem Anthem Contest and at the end, reveal some information about The Potter Games. Listen live at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT!

The theme of this week’s Fireside Chat is ‘Panem Independence Day’ and airs live tonight at 10pm ET/7pm PT. I will be among the guests this week to represent Mockingjay.net! Topics will include the Top 10 Ways to Celebrate Independence Day in Panem and the Top 3 Anthems in the Panem Anthem Contest. Listen live here!

We talk the newly announced release date for the ‘Hunger Games’ movie, March 23rd 2012, along with our special guest Matt Britton! Is it too soon, too late, will it change? Is this enough time for the CGI required, filming, and post-production, especially when we take into account that nobody has been officially cast yet? We talk more about the actresses who should play Katniss (we always get on this topic, we are about to explode out of anticipation, cast her please!), and banter about the movie rating / budget as well. We feature a great song called ‘Earth’ by Second Person, which seems to fit eerily well to the books.

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We discuss the PG-13 rating, and how a lot of people want it to be R, how Gary Ross got the job as director, and that auditions should be under way RIGHT NOW. How exciting is that? We give more information on the co-host situation. If you would like to apply to be a co-host, email your name, age, and a little about yourself to [email protected] We will get back to all of you but we will only be auditioning a few people for the position. Please understand that we’ll have a large volume of applicants. Also, the job will not be too frequent, we’ll only need an extra co-host occasionally. Just wanted to clear that up! Next week we’re discussing ‘The Hunger Games’ chapters 4-6 so if you want to read along, grab your books and read those chapters!

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We announce that we finally are on a regular schedule (and are starting to get enough news to fill up a regular schedule, how exciting!), and some other interesting podcast-related things. Would you like to be a guest host? If you would like to see some other people in the podcast let us know below. We discuss the short film by ‘MainstayPro‘ on YouTube which went up the exact day Becka and I recorded the last episode. Also, we discuss movie related things including the now known $60 million budget, and how the hype for the movie has increased a lot over the past few weeks with well known sources like Entertainment Weekly and MTV picking up on the possible ‘next big thing.’

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SPOILER ALERT! There are ‘Mockingjay’ spoilers in this podcast, but I expect most of you have read it by now. In this overdue podcast we discuss the director decision for the ‘Hunger Games’ movie, actresses that have received the script, and the age-issue with casting. How old is too old, and how young is too young? We touch on people’s problems with the ending, what loose ends they wished had been tied up. The podcast will be going through a revamp shortly, with scheduled episodes, a possible monthly featured-fan episode (where you could join us as a host), and much more!

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