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January 08, 2012 Tim and Max Solve All The Problems With Popular Culture: Episode 1 - Fear of Change
Tim and Max Solve All The Problems With Popular Culture is the newest podcast in the stable of winged horses that is the Geek Syndicate Network. The podcast aims to do exactly what it says on the tin - young bucks Tim Swann and Max Barnard identify a key area where popular geek culture falls down and then try and come up with some ways that both the creators and the audience can fix it. In our first episode, we discuss fear of change, and how both the audience, the creators and their bosses all fall foul of this fear. In the course, we discuss the New 52 (because you haven't had enough of that yet!), panel shows, the joy of Star Trek XI and The Clone Wars TV Series, and why changing to include basic human decency might help everyone out.
1 hr 6 min
January 06, 2012 Dissecting Worlds Series 5 Episode 6a - The Doctor and the Anti-leader (Part 1)
This month Kehaar and Matt step inside an incourgrous blue box with a friendly stranger in the form of Luke from the Hulk Cast, ECBT2000AD, The Trip and Moon Freight 3. In so doing they pour over the long and varied history of the Doctor - in fact so long and varied that they decide to take 2 episodes to take a look at it. In this first episode so doing they look at: The Grumpy Grandad and whose TARDIS is it anyway? The trickster clown, the beauty/brains (and the brawn.) The Dashing Dandy, The Master and the UNIT/Republican Security Force family. Mad, bad and dangerous to know Tom and the unused Harry Sullivan The Wet Vet and the TARDIS kindergarden Saving the joys of Colin Baker and subsequent Doctors for the second installment. So fob your granddaughter off on a passing resistance fighter, put down your recorder, stop working on that experiment and with a jelly baby in one hand and a stick of celery in the other enjoy our romp through leadership in the world of Doctor Who. Check out all Lukes goodness here: The link to Moon Freight 3 is http://moonfreight3.com The Incredible Hulkcast is at http://www.comicbooknoise.com/hulk/ The Trip is at http://www.thetrippodcast.com/ And ECBT2000AD is at http://2000ad.wordpress.com/ And remember the excellent Geek Syndicates very own 'Time Lore' is reviewing the whole Doctor TV canon (and associated audios on the Geek Syndicate Network.'
1 hr 5 min
December 23, 2011The Next Level Episode 39 - Merry Christmas Everyone.mp3
Jingle bells, jingles bells, jingle all the way......Merry Christmas everyone. It’s the final episode of the Next Level for 2011 and 3 Stooges....I mean 3 great hosts come together in this bumper episode to talk about the games we plan on spending our long Christmas holiday break playing. We also debate the ethics of cheating in gaming. Are their acceptable levels of cheating? In this week’s news

Just Cause the movie

Xbox 360 dashboard update

GBA games coming to 3DS owner.....but who really plays these old game?

Naughty Dog reveals the Last of Us

Skyrim - Game of the Year or bug filled nightmare?

CoD player gets 14 year ban for cheating

We go all downloadable games as we review XBLA and PSN games Renegade Ops and Dead Nation
1 hr 32 min
December 20, 2011 Dissecting Scrolls 2011
The twinkling lights are all up, there's a chill in the air, little boys and girls are starting to get excited and, somewhere in the distance, a jolly fat man is whipping his elves with a cat-o'-nine-tails to work Harder, damn them, Harder. It's nearly Christmas!It is the season of good will to all men - even pedantic sods and giggling morons. It is also the season of binge eating and drunken arguements. (I think you know where I'm going here.) Yes! It's time, once more for the Gala of Games, the Bonanza of Banter, the Surfeit of Silliness that is our Christmas Cross-Over.Warning: Explicit Content from the startIt's a more focussed event this year, with only three games, but what games they are!Clover IS Nicholas Parsons in 'Just A Minute!' (complete with fishnet tights)Matt IS Lord Alan Sidious, searching time, space and multiple realities for the next 'Sith Apprentice'andKehaar IS that bloke from the radio who hosts Fighting Talk IN... 'Geeking Talk'All three are ably assisted, undermined and irritated by Phil, Mattie and Dion.LEARN - how to survive in a horror filmDISCOVER - the trans-sexual sensation that is The Wicked Witch of the WestGASP - at our ability to construct whole sentences under the influence and still sound convincingWONDER - how these damn games are scored anyway and...PONDER - just who is The Best.Our Intro and Outro music has been kindly provided by John Anealio from Geek Dad. You can find his Christmas EP at www.johnanealio.com and loads more to boot.Also included is a snippet from the fantastic 'It's Beginning To look A Lot Like Fish-Men' which you can hear in full at http://www.cthulhulives.org and also purchase the full 'A Very Scary Solstice' albums.You may also notice The March Of The Knights music from Romeo and Juliet. It sounds an awfully lot like the music from The Apprentice but I'm pretty sure that's just a coincidence. (Ahem.)Any other singing is lamentable and should be born with grace and sympathy. It is Christmas after all...
1 hr 47 min
December 20, 2011 Dissecting Worlds Series 5 Episode 4: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
This week, standing against the Vampires, Demons and forces and Darkness, the Dissecting Duo Delve into the Buffyverse, looking at the leadership (and otherwise) of the forces of Light and Darkness as they struggle over the Hellmouth. Subjects Covered:

- Who is in charge of the Scoobies? and who should be?

- Why does Giles keep getting bashed on the head, and why doesn't buy a tin hat?

- Is the Master a proponent of Scientific Management?

- Is the Mayor the best leader in the Buffyverse?

- Middle Management at Wolfram and Hart

- What are the Watchers Council actually for?

and much more!

Comments to [email protected]or harass us at @theGrampus for Matt or @clarkythecruel for Kehaar or for plain unadulterated pod news @DissectingWrlds

1 hr 26 min
December 13, 2011 Timelore Addendum Episode 3
Here we are again, just in time for christmas.

In this episode Ant and I explore Frostfire & The Suffering two audio adventures featuring companions vicki and steven, read by the original actors, Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves.

I then have a chat with the multifaceted Barnaby Edwards - This guy was the dalek operator in the Christopher Eccleston adventure entitled Dalek and has been in every dalek episode since. He also writes, acts, directs and produces many Big Finish stories.

Find out which BF story is his favourite, what he thinks of the new dalek design and wether dalek operaters have a harder time than R2D2

http://www.barnaby-edwards.com/
1 hr 10 min
December 02, 2011 The Next Level - Episode 38
Join The Dynamic Duo, and some chap called Barry as they discuss the latest goings on in the world of gaming. This episode is packed with first look reviews of Uncharted 3, Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim and Barry reviews The Adventures of Tin-Tin in Full.
1 hr 4 min
November 15, 2011 Dissecting Worlds Series 5 Episode 4: Aslan and other Gods
This month we wander through the Wardrobe of Geek Analysis to the magical land of Narnia. Joined by Timothy Swann of the Psycomedia (and others!) podcast, we plunge into the frozen wastes of fantasy godhood in the shape of everyone’s favourite Divine Lion. Subjects Covered:

- Lewis vs Tolkien, the Inklings, and parallel development

- His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman and unintended messages

- Creation and Management of your own universe

- The Merits of Biting your enemy on the face over turning the cheek

- Leaders as Servants

- The Space Trilogy and Middle Earth Time Travel!

- And Much More!

Arthur C Clarke was of course a member of the British Interplanetary Society, a group of writers and engineers who were closely involved in the early British Space Program and Blue Streak Program in the 1950s/1960s. He never helped out the Doctor or battled alien ghosts at Hobb's end.(To our knowledge...) The Charity EP Tim mentions is here: http://www.musicglue.net/purereasonrevolution/ and he has been kind enough to post his intimidating 13 pages of notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UrXvqMlrIA_N6fUy-BwlM_lUpNeuHUo99tDP-qyXNPw/editHe is also on twitter @tetrachangel and Psycomedia is a quick google away. Comments to [email protected] or harass us at @theGrampus for Matt or @clarkythecruel for Kehaar or for plain unadulterated pod news @DissectingWrlds
1 hr 46 min
November 09, 2011The Next Level Episode 37 - The Golden Joystick Winners
This week in the news we have:

Rainbow 6 Patriots & Grand Theft Auto 5 announced

Mass Effect 3 gets 3 single player game modes

US Gamer spends $1,725 to get Modern Warfare 3 three days early

Ant rants about DLC being on retail game disks

DC Universe Online goes free to play

In our feature, Ant and Amaechi discuss the winners from the Golden Joystick Awards and give their first impressions on Battlefield 3 and Batman Arkham City.
1 hr 11 min
November 09, 2011 Geek Syndicate - The Series Finale
So this is it folks after five years and nearly 200 episodes the series finale of the weekly podcast that is Geek Syndicate is here.

For the last episode we threw out thoughts of planning and went out as we came in with a bottle of whisky and to quote Dr Jones 'making it up as we go'.

Enjoy and remember it's only the weekly podcast that is ending all the podcast on teh GS network will still be going as will the GS website. We will also still be doing audio interviews and features for the GS website as well as out new monthly project which will be annouced during this episode.

Thanks to everyone out there who has supported the weekly podcast over the last five years!

We out!

SO FOR ONE LAST TIME.... GET YER GEEK ON NINJAS!!!
2 hr