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Alexander Jennings Albrecht (born August 14, 1976) is an American
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personality, actor and podcaster. He is known for co-hosting the former G4techTV
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''
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'', an hour-long
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and
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variety show, as well as the weekly
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'' Diggnation'' and the weekday podcast '' The Totally Rad Show'' on the
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network. On July 15, 2008, he released his new podcast/website '' Project Lore'', all about ''
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''. Albrecht has expressed a penchant for dressing up as characters from Street Fighter, most recently appearing as Guile. He was the Head of Original Programming at Caffeine.


Early life

Albrecht is the son of Dr. Mark Albrecht, former President of ILS, and Kathe Hicks Albrecht, past president and director of the
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, curator at American University in Washington, D.C. Alex went to elementary school at Burgundy Farm Country Day School, and graduated from
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with a degree in
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. He was a member of the
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fraternity. While at college Albrecht was a cheerleader, with ambitions of becoming a professional mascot.


Career

Albrecht worked for the
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Corporation as a programmer and IT person and later worked for the
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developing multimedia programming for BP. In 2001, he founded the improv-comedy troupe The Misfit Toys, which performed live in L.A. until 2003. Albrecht appeared as a contestant on the gameshow ''Russian Roulette'' in 2002. He also appeared on ''Beat the Geeks''. Albrecht was hired by G4techTV to be the co-host alongside
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(replacing Patrick Norton) of the television technology show, ''
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'', for the first G4techTV episode airing from Los Angeles. The first Los Angeles-based episode of ''The Screen Savers'' aired on September 7, 2004. On August 5, 2005, Albrecht joined
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. Albrecht co-hosted '' Diggnation'', a
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that summarizes a selection of the top stories submitted by
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users, with former ''The Screen Savers'' co-host Kevin Rose. Albrecht also contributes to other projects for the company. He co-hosts a podcast called '' The Totally Rad Show'', with Dan Trachtenberg and Jeff Cannata. The first episode was released on March 27, 2007. Albrecht also hosted '' Ctrl+Alt+Chicken'', a weekly cooking show that lasted 8 episodes before being canceled in the fall of 2006. Albrecht was featured in "SWGack", a weekly
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on the popular
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. On March 4, 2006, he and Joshua Brentano announced on their last episode that they would discontinue the podcast due to
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with the game itself. Albrecht and Rose also appeared in a
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ad for GoDaddy.com during
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. Albrecht has appeared in a
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commercial eating Domino's pizza in a house being raided by the "flavor" police. Alex has also appeared in a Dell commercial, advertising the line of High-Definition Dell LCD televisions; Alex has stated that this commercial was ad libbed. He has also mentioned doing an audition for an advertisement for McDonald's that was never aired in the US, but he has said that it was for British television. Alex's next project was '' Project Lore'', which launched Tuesday, June 17, 2008. ''Project Lore'' is all about the popular video game
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. On the show, Alex and friends have shown off all of the five main dungeons available in the game's first expansion pack, '' The Burning Crusade'', starting with the lower levels, and working up. Before ''World of Warcrafts second expansion pack, '' Wrath of the Lich King'' was released, the ''Project Lore'' team were allowed to showcase some of its new beta content. Project Lore has since been abandoned; there have not been any blog posts for some time and a potential revamp proved too costly and the Project has been turned over into the hands of the volunteer bloggers in hopes that they will continue on their own. In 2009, Alex started an iPhone app company called App Dragon which released one app later that year called Duel. In March 2010, Alex flew with the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (
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) in the back seat of Blue Angel #7 (frequently used for media and public relations flights). In July, 2010, Alex seeks funding for the short film "Neverland" through Indiegogo, in which Alex was named as a director. According to Alex's Twitter account, shooting started July 30, 2010. Albrecht has also guest-starred in season 3, episode 4 of an Internet-based live-action parody of ''
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'' called '' The Legend of Neil''. Albrecht's character "Todd" was a member of a small group of soldiers from the elven army, which was led by Zelda's brother Tyrelda. In the series, Zelda is, much to Link/Neil's surprise, black skinned, rather than white. Her brother Tyrelda and the rest of the elf troops are black as well and make constant reference to Alex Albrecht's character being the token white guy. A number of stereotypes associated with African-Americans in the real world are reverse-applied to Todd and the white elf race in the land of Highrule. By the end of the episode, Todd appears to have died along with Tyrelda and the rest of the gang, making for a short-lived but noteworthy contribution made by Alex to the series.The Legend of Neil - Season 3, Episode 4
Retrieved 2010-10-31. In May 2012, a new show was released on the Nerdist YouTube Channel called ''4 Points with Alex Albrecht''. The show features 4 people discussing 4 different topics. Albrecht and co-host Alison Haislip are the only permanent members of the panel, with the other spots filled by a personality from some other Nerdist show and a celebrity, usually from TV or movies. In April 2015, Alex and Alison Haislip started a new podcast called the ''Half Hour Happy Hour''. He left the show in December 2018 and was replaced by Maude Garrett.


Filmography

* '' The Legend of Neil'' as Todd * '' The Romantic'' as The Spank


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Albrecht, Alex 1976 births American University alumni Living people American comedy podcasters Revision3 People from Vienna, Virginia People from Brentwood, Los Angeles Delta Chi members