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Preview of the GiggleFactory!

  TV Guide has released a video compilation that has a preview of our appearance of Shark Tank tomorrow! Ever so eloquently titled "Which Inventions Leave the Shark Tank Judges Laughing Uncontrollably," you can get a peak of the absurdity named Zach Crain at the :44 mark! Keep reading for more media coverage of Freakers freaking freaks...
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Snark Shank

Following the announcement of our segment on ABC's Shark Tank yesterday, we've gotten some delightful media press. The most interesting part of media coverage is not always the journalism itself, but the unedited user comments that trail along afterwards. A local news station blurbed a blurb about our upcoming show, which was pleasant enough, but the real gems come from the reactions. Like what? Like this: His beard both scares me and makes me nauseous." And that, my friends, is what the internet was invented for.
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Zach on ABC's Shark Tank!

You heard right, little eagles! ABC primetime just got Freaked! We've been wanting to tell you this for a while, but ABC has finally given us the legal green-light! This Friday, Zach will be on the nationally primetime show Shark Tank! For those of you that are unfamiliar with the hit show, imagine if American Idol made a baby (saucy!) with Mark Zuckerberg and they named it Fierce City.
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Published Pub BLISS!

Look, Ma! We're in a REAL BOOK!  The author, Don Steinberg, made the assumption that we can read and sent us two copies of his new book The Kickstarter Handbook!
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Mutineer!

YES MAM (or "Sir," "Child," or "Non-Gender-Conformist-Of-The-Future" No discrimination, here.) THAT IS A FREAKER!
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Sirens in Space!

 Oliver-Mellan, is currently doing a project for Indy Mogul which is a tv-for-the-internet-tutorial-of-video-swank. What this means: Oliver is working on a sci-fi short film about an exiled siren (IN SPACE!)
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Graduating to the Adult Table.

There is a really fantastic Kickstarter campaign currently crowdfunding for a feature-length documentary ...about crowdfunding. HOW FUNCTIONALLY META! Capital C is the creation of Timon Birkhofer, a German joy-warrior with familial roots in North Carolina! In this film, Timon (You can cal...
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Zoo Animals

This morning we woke up to the published article on Zach in The Music Initiative! While giving the interview, it never registered that "The Music Initiative" may be a music magazine, and our dear Zach was a little confused as to why his interlocutor was so focused on bands. That should expla...
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URL IRL

Universal Resource Locators... In Real Life!  The internet is a no-man's land? Hardly. There are kind kings & bourgeois bosses & the lovely ladies of the lan (Ahaha!) Yesterday, we got the honor and the pleasure of meeting, greeting & freaking 3 of the internet's superst...
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Freak the AirWaves!

Today the Freakerteam is feeling a little bit gritty. We're thrashing around the office screaming British obscenities (like "WANKER!") and headbanging to nothing in particular. We're about to smash guitars and shave our heads (except for Oliver. His mane of glory will not be touched.)  Wh...
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WHQ(f)R(eak)

 Hey Wilmington! Tune into our local NPR tomorrow morning and/or afternoon! The Freakerteam prances around on the radio!  It will be airing at 7:35 am, 8:50 am, and also later in the afternoon!  dang dang dang dang! 
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NBC To be Subtly Freaked!

This morning we got a magnificent email! Here's a little snippet: "On Monday, Kickstarter will be on national television. NBC's new long format newsmagazine, Rock Center, is set to air a segment that they taped a couple months ago at 10pm/9 Central.  The Freaker project video has...
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