Background
Bakalar was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1982 and was raised in Briarwood, Queens before his family relocated to Marlboro Township, New Jersey where he attended Marlboro High School.
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He currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. During his college years, Bakalar worked as a production office intern for actor and producer Bob Balaban in New York City at his production company Chicagofilms while Balaban completed work on Gosford Park. In 2004, he signed a contract with Warner Brothers
Records subsidiary Maverick Records to direct and produce a documentary for the popular punk band Mest.
The documentary, entitled Seven Deadly Sins was released as a pack-in bonus with copies of the band"s 2005 album Photographs (Mest album) which peaked at 116 on the United States Billboard 200 chart. In 2007, Bakalar joined Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications as a home theater and gaming editor, but quickly began appearing in front of the camera and eventually starting a technology and popular culture podcast called The 404 Show with Randall Bennett and Wilson Tang.
The show had a slow start, but grew in popularity over the years and eventually became a regular press junket stop in New York City, attracting notable guests like Tony Hawk, Marc Maron, John Hodgman, Shaun White, Wayne Brady, Scott Aukerman, Michael Showalter, Andrew West.K. and others Each year the podcast is performed live at the Consumer Electronics Show where it has featured prominent celebrities like Danny DeVito, Eliza Dushku, Felicia Day and others
In 2012, Bakalar started Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications"s first-ever weekly tech parody comic called Low Latency, which he writes and is illustrated by Blake Stevenson.
Bakalar briefly co-hosted another Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications franchise, Pre-Game, but stopped production after a year of programming to focus more on The 404 Show. He regularly appears on television and radio as a technology, popular culture and videogame expert. His spots include G4"s Attack of the Show, National Public Radio"s All Things Considered, and Consumer News and Business Channel"s Power Lunch among others
In late 2014, Bakalar joined CBSN as a regularly appearing tech and popular-culture pundit representing Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications. On May 22, 2015 he joined the cast of Giant Bomb"s Giant Beastcast.
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He is also the site"s lead senior videogames editor as well as on-air talent for Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications Video and a member of the Giant Beastcast on Giant Bomb. Bakalar is a member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle, an advocacy group for game writers in and around the New York City area.
