The Duo Groupie for this week is the tenacious Morgan Webb! Morgan is the co-host of X-Play on the G4 network.  I don’t have G4 (Graham is too cheap to buy the premium channels), but the hotel I stayed in last week had it, and I was able to fantasize about watch her there.  Needless to say, she seems like she knows what she is talking about….or at least can read off a teleprompter.  Either way, it doesn’t really matter, because like most chicks that travel in game nerd circles, Morgan Webb has that down to earth appeal that reminds you of that chick who lived next door to you in jr. high that played with your G.I. Joes………

…and by play I mean dress up, and by G.I. Joes I mean ….my G.I. Joes.  Girls walked all over me when I was young.  Ok, well in reality if that was your neighbor who came over to play with your G.I. Joes, it probably means she had five brothers, and her name is now Chris instead of Christine and she wears heavy denim and plaid now.  On the other hand, IT IS POSSIBLE to get the unqiue mixture that makes a girl like Morgan Webb.

First start off with a child cute enough to be a Gerber baby.  Thats right, Morgan Webb used to be in ads for Gerber baby foods.  That is a good start, but any baby can out grow cuteness to become a hideos monster.  Nah, Morgan stayed cute and continued to do Toy and McDonald’s commercials.  Now at this point, most girls would start to mature and get into “girly” things and mimicking the made up prissy women they see on tv…..

Again, Nah.  Morgan Webb’s parents must have been the first retro-gaming hippies in the world.  They would not let Morgan watch TV, so all the “this is how girls are supposed to be” mind sucking, brain numbing crap wasn’t influencing how she developed. (Spencer Note: She still developed just fine in my opinion).  To compensate for the lack of indoor activites, Morgan’s parents did let her play video games.  Let me clerify that, NO TV, BUT VIDEO GAMES INCOURAGED.  Again, I know nothing about Morgan Webb’s parents, but I have a feeling that her dad was a mad scientist and her mom was an Atari programmer.  I think her childhood was something like this…

Anway, that led to Morgan playing Combat on Atari and then progressing to Nintendo, and planting the seed for her to become the nerd-babe she is today.  Did we also mention that she went to UC Berkeley and graduated with a degree in Rhetoric which means she can talk you in or out of anything she wants.  Oh, and before that she got her start on G4 she worked at TechTv on shows talking about computer stuff.  She used to do shows on Windows and Linux OS (Spencer Note: Mitch, OS means Operating System).  Windows needs to recruit Morgan to verify that she too is a PC….

Morgan also used to write a monthly colum in FHM magazine called “Tips From the Gaming Goddess.”  I think that summarizes what kind of girl Morgan is.

A hot one, whose weird and deranged parents bred her to be the ultimate nerd dream date.  Just attainable enough that if you could clean up your acne, get rid of the retainer, loose 20 pounds, understand the intricancies of the female anatomy, and figured out how to talk to women other then your mother…YOU MIGHT have a chance of dating her.  Unfortunatly, all of us here at TheDuoGroup have not mastered all of these skills, but we are researching deligently.

So, how am I connected to Morgan Webb?  Well, Morgan has evolved a little in her gaming tastes.  She is a big fan of DotA (Spencer Note: Defense of the Ancients, a custome scenario in Warcraft III for those who never got addicted to Warcraft).  Anyway, I used to play World of Warcraft and before that played DotA.  Both Morgan Webb and I have played DotA.  THE CONNECTION IS MADE!!! I even think Morgan was in that BassHunter video about DotA…nore sure though…

Anyway, Morgan Webb is an experienced nerd who just happened to be raised by crazy people to become an intelligent, hot, girl interested in the gaming industry.  So Congrats Morgan Webb on being this weeks, Duo Groupie of the Week!!