Multiple Nerdgasm

We’ve been playing video games again this week! They’ve also announced some new video games and some new hardware to play video games on. But it’s not all video games because we talk about a diverse range of topics on this show. There’s also movies and TV shows.

Star Wars: Squadrons The Playstation 5 Gone with the Wind is gone Little Britain is also gone And some other stuff too But Bill and Ted are back!

Topics discussed

• Star Wars: Squadrons reveal
• Next-gen console backwards compatibility
• Red Dead Redemption 2 replay & comparison to RDR1
• PlayStation 5 console design reveal
• Civilization 5 vs Civilization 6
• Bloodshot (2020 film) review
• Deus Ex series replay
• Color Out of Space: second viewing
• Richard Stanley: Hardware & Lost Soul documentary
• Antiviral (2012 film) recommendation
• Gone with the Wind pulled from HBO Max
• Little Britain & Come Fly with Me pulled from streaming
• Summer Heights High pulled from streaming
• The Mighty Boosh blackface episode
• Bill & Ted Face the Music trailer reaction

Luke’s getting ready to move! We’ve watched a bunch of movies and tv shows this week, plus we’ve got some games to talk about. Not being able to go anywhere has done wonders for our content consumption.

Carol Baskin takes over Exotic Zoo Outer Worlds not great on Switch Here’s a mod that might fix it but be careful and don’t brick your Switch Don’t Feed The Monkeys ain’t a kids game Timeout is a cool game

Topics discussed

• Disco Elysium: fascism word origin & Bowie tangent
• Tiger King: Carol Baskin takes over zoo
• Color Out of Space movie talk
• Hereditary review
• Barry (HBO series) review
• Killing Eve discussion
• Filthy Rich: Jeffrey Epstein documentary
• Joe Rogan's exclusive Spotify deal
• Planescape: Torment recommendation
• Fallout 1 & 2 replay
• Timeout indie game
• Outer Worlds Switch performance issues
• Do Not Feed the Monkeys rating controversy

Luke is headed for the number one spot on the Xbox Achievement Ladder! Matt and Dan crap on about Disco Elysium a little bit more, but hopefully not too much. Disney is making sure kids don’t accidentally catch a glimpse of a boob, but they’re also trying to secretly mess with their sexual preferences? And Space X sent people into space, yay!!!

Disney+ blurs out cleaveage Back To The Future 2 censored on Netflix Always Sunny renewed for record breaking 15th season!

Topics discussed

• Xbox gamerscore leaderboard competition
• Maneater (shark game) review
• Disco Elysium dev's next project & inspirations
• The Last Days of New Paris book
• Halo Infinite & next-gen Xbox rumors
• PS2 nostalgia & old friend stories
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia catch-up
• Mac's coming-out dance episode
• Always Sunny renewed for season 15
• Disney+ blurs Daryl Hannah nudity
• Wizards of Waverly Place cleavage blur
• Back to the Future Part II Netflix censorship
• One Million Moms boycott Pixar's Onward
• Toy Story 3 nostalgia
• Low Tide (2019 film) recommendation
• SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch
• 2001: A Space Odyssey rewatch
• John Carpenter's The Thing vinyl soundtrack
• Vikings TV series discussion

We’re still talking about Disco Elysium this week, but we’ve also more of us have watch Picard, Matt has watched some of Discovery, Mythic Quest did a quarantine episode and as usual there are silly people out there creating funny news for us to discuss.

Pastor who claims to heal Covid-19 dies from Covid-19 Tenet trailer  Apparently Kim Jong Un cannot magically bend space and time

Topics discussed

• Disco Elysium second playthrough
• Star Trek: Picard early impressions
• Star Trek: Discovery season 1 review
• The Orville compared to Star Trek
• Red Letter Media Joker review mention
• Torn Dark Bullets film review
• Tenet trailer reactions
• Inception rewatch
• George Street Cinema closing
• Pastor claims to heal COVID-19, dies from it
• North Korea denies Kim Jong-un can bend space-time
• Mythic Quest quarantine episode
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia deep dive
• Zack Snyder's Justice League (Snyder Cut) confirmed
• David Lynch's Dune regret, Lost Highway & Twin Peaks

Luke’s house might be smart, but is it smart enough to know whether it’s ok to shoot down a drone? If it listens to this week’s episode it might be.

Man faces felony charges for shooting a drone Taika Waititi is making a Star War Katee Sackhoff is in a Star War Timothy Olyphant is also in a Star War

Topics discussed

• Luke's smart house plans (Google Home)
• Man charged with a felony for shooting down a drone
• The Grand Tour's Cambodia river climate segment
• Book recommendation: The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray
• The Expanse TV series vs books discussion
• Star Trek: Picard finale discussion (spoilers)
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds announced
• Boba Fett rumored return in The Mandalorian
• Katee Sackhoff cast in The Mandalorian
• Battlestar Galactica rewatch discussion
• Timothy Olyphant cast in The Mandalorian
• Taika Waititi confirmed directing a Star Wars film
• Avatar sequels' underwater mocap tech & franchise skepticism
• Twins & Junior movie nostalgia
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia binge continues
• Disco Elysium finished; deep dive discussion

Luke is campaigning for a role in a major motion picture again. Maybe this is the one that catapults him into stardom? Coz it’s a space movie.

Tom Cruise wants to make a movie in space Brian May has busted his ass Billy Mitchell is suing because people said he was cheater when he cheated Doom Eternal soundtrack drama Ron Gilbert made another game! Roy has died Little Richard has also died

Topics discussed

• Elon Musk's baby name controversy
• Elon Musk sells houses & moves Tesla to Texas
• Tom Cruise & Elon Musk plan a movie in space
• Doom Eternal soundtrack drama with composer Mick Gordon
• Billy Mitchell sues over Donkey Kong cheating claims
• Animal Crossing's one-island-per-console frustration
• Disco Elysium review
• Ron Gilbert's free Thimbleweed Park mini game
• Deliver Us The Moon Xbox key giveaway
• Coronavirus contact-tracing app privacy debate
• Roy Horn (Siegfried & Roy) dies of coronavirus
• Little Richard dies
• Val Kilmer's cancer-denial controversy
• Brian May injures his backside gardening

Happy Star Wars day! It happened in between when we recorded this and when you’ll be hearing this but that’s not gonna stop Luke from celebrating.

Cyberpunk will not be censored in Australia!

Cinemas to boycott Universal Pictures

Topics discussed

• Disney's Star Wars Day hashtag ownership controversy
• Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy rewatch continues
• The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then Bigfoot review
• Upload (Amazon Prime series) review
• Sam Harris's Tiger King critique
• K-19: The Widowmaker review
• Shogun miniseries nostalgia
• House Hunters International travel nostalgia
• Cyberpunk 2077 won't be censored in Australia
• Conan Exiles & Ancestors: Legacy attempts
• XCOM & Gears Tactics discussion
• Movie theaters' pandemic reopening plans
• Trolls World Tour VOD release & Universal boycott
• Christopher Nolan's Tenet holds theatrical date
• Movie star salaries vs marketing budgets debate
• Always Sunny's Lethal Weapon parody episodes

Luke’s got a house (and a webcam), Dan’s got a new favourite TV show and Matt’s got a disturbing story from his past that he maybe made up.

Guy who replaced Gareth Edwards is doing the Rogue One TV show Back to the Future “plot hole” explained Tom Nook is greedy beyond measure Bing removes big tits A little geek of the week for you

Topics discussed

• Luke's new house purchase & yard work
• Devs (TV series) review
• Mad Max: Furiosa spin-off speculation
• Tom Nook/Animal Crossing bank interest cut during pandemic
• Rusty Lake games & The Door
• Invader V Twitch streamer donation controversy
• Rogue One TV series (Cassian Andor) gets new director
• Solo & Rise of Skywalker rewatch opinions
• Back to the Future's 'plot hole' explained
• Bing removes explicit 'trending searches' feature
• Stock footage licensing costs discussion
• Geek of the Week: Malcolm Dixon (dwarf actor)
• Dan's questionable childhood memory story

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Pope says whiskey is the real holy water Aussie denied refund for $10,000 worth of TP and sanitiser Malaysia has some advice for the ladies Stimulus checks are here Darryl Hannah’s butt is Geek of the Week? Inventor of Game of Life dies

Topics discussed

• Pope pizza clip & 'whiskey is the real holy water'
• Coronavirus lockdown comparisons across countries
• Malaysia's domestic-violence PSA controversy
• Aussie denied refund on $10,000 TP/sanitiser stockpile
• Stimulus checks & questionable spending habits
• Cinema seat manufacturer goes bankrupt
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's Bruce Lee controversy
• Splash's Daryl Hannah butt censored on Disney+
• Mad Magazine parody nostalgia
• Danny Elfman film scores & Oingo Boingo trivia
• John Conway (Game of Life inventor) dies; Geek of the Week
• Brian Dennehy dies; Geek of the Week
• Hackers, Short Circuit & Young Einstein nostalgia
• Hail Satan? documentary review
• Pastafarianism origin story

We hope you’re all keeping safe out there! Here’s your weekly dose of nerd news to keep you company, we can’t be with you physically but we can talk at you digitally!

China bans Animal Crossing Rob Lowe to play Joe Exotic More people have watched Tiger King than Stranger Things 2 Geek of the week, Tim Brooke Taylor Also Geek of the week, Honor Blackman Not Geek of the week, Linda Tripp Amber Heard facing three years in prison The Butthole Cut returns With a trailer The next Mars Rover will be a helicopter

Topics discussed

• World's Fair history trivia (Planet Coaster DLC banter)
• Surviving Mars achievement cheesing with mods
• Far Cry 5, Doom, Borderlands 3 & Outer Worlds chat
• Animal Crossing banned in China
• Nintendo Switch sold out worldwide amid pandemic
• Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy rewatch
• Kurosawa's Yojimbo lawsuit & Star Wars trivia
• Tiger King discussion continues
• Tim Brooke-Taylor dies of coronavirus; Geek of the Week
• Honor Blackman dies
• Linda Tripp dies
• Amber Heard facing three years in prison for perjury
• Cats' 'butthole cut' trailer released
• JoJo Rabbit praise
• Mars helicopter rover (Perseverance) announced
• Plasma-in-space physics lab anecdote
• Tom DeLonge's Secret Machines book & To The Stars Academy
• Flat Earth conspiracy origins discussion