Nerdy Show

Every other week, The Nerdy Show Network's flagship podcast unloads on the latest geek news and happenings!Glamour, glitter, fashion, and debatable Internet notoriety: Nerdy Show, Nerdy Show is our name. And we might not have super-advanced computers capable of projecting realistic holograms from wearable microprojectors, but dammit we've got opinions about people who do. Or don't, as the case may be with the film adaptation of Jem and the Holograms. Yup, we've got an Jem and the Holograms review, and you might be surprised by what you hear.And that's not even remotely all! We share our hands-on feels about Metal Gear Solid 5 and Guitar Hero Live - both setting baffling new precedents in gaming. We weight the possibility of that alien Dyson sphere rumor being legit. We recommend some rad comics and some dope shows! Heck, we even talk about that Harry Potter sequel... stage play... thing.Join Cap, boR, Trench, and Brandon as we explore the strange pleasure of attaching people and animals to balloons, go to Gramma Jail, and indulge in debaucherous nerdy discourse. Truly outlandish!For links and more info, head to the main episode page:http://nerdyshow.com/2015/11/nerdy-show-239-truly-outlandish

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Every other week, The Nerdy Show Network‘s flagship podcast pours over the latest geek news and happenings!Great Scott! It's October 21st, 2015! You know, the future?Well look, we might be 15 Jaws movies short of perfection, but at least the much-prophesied future brought you Nerdy Show, right? At least we're not living a multi-national lie of shadow governments controlled by lizard people, right? That would be absurd. Anyone who told you that was clearly a nut job and you should probably call the human police on them. That is the normal thing to do. Fact is, we're hard at work on hoverboards and self-lacing sneakers. Clearly the future-present is a-okay. Maybe the Cubs will even win someday.Join Cap, boR, Nicky, and Doug as we go back to Back to the Future, share complicated feelings about Pepsi products, play Rock Band 4 and Star Wars: Battlefront, take bowel advice from a unicorn, recommend an unnecessary sequel that has no right being good, and definitely don't crack open a conspiracy concerning subterranean reptillians' iron-fisted control over the U. S. of A. Seriously, who even believes that?For links and more info, head to the main episode page:http://nerdyshow.com/2015/10/nerdy-show-238-back-to-the-future

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Every other week, The Nerdy Show Network‘s flagship podcast pours over the latest geek news and happenings!Join us as we hang out with some of the most artful purveyors of Nerd Music on the scene: Chamber Band! You may remember when we spoke to them about their debut record Deities, or perhaps when they made it into the upper echelon of our Top 20 Nerdy Things of 2013. These rockers, who stole our hearts with their emotionally upending songs from the world of Dungeons & Dragons, have returned to conquer a whole new corner of the nerd kingdom: The Hunger Games. But, like their former record, this new album doesn't require fandom to be a fan - these nerdy nuances highlight bigger themes that anyone can connect with.Join Cap and Nerdy.FM station manager Lauren Furze (aka TheFifthSister) as they're joined by Ellen, Chris, A. Sarr, and Sam of Chamber Band for a journey into this new record: Careers. This episode journeys through the record with background on each track, songwriting stories, and tales from the road. Cap has zero Hunger Games experience, so Lauren and Chamber Band light the way - sharing how they got into the series, what they connected with, and what made it into the album.This interview first appeared as a Nerdy.FM album-release listening party - October 5th, 2015.For links and more info, head to the main episode page:http://nerdyshow.com/2015/10/nerdy-show-237-interview-chamber-band

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Every other week, The Nerdy Show Network‘s flagship podcast pours over the latest geek news and happenings!Have we got a deal for you, Nerdy Show fans. Coolness is at your fingertips, and just by reading this sentence you're already one step closer. With our trademarked Buy Your Way to Cool Self-Embetterment System™ you can enhance your freshness with minimum harsh burns. If you can envision it, then you're envisioning it wrong. The secret is in your wallet, and we'll show you how.In this "totally ill"episode, Nerdy Show hosts Cap, boR, Jessica, and Doug provide dynamic lifestyle enhancement fundamentals. Unlock the secrets of a Soylent diet, shave with lasers, and that's only the beginning. We're also offering introductory courses to pop culture fundamentals: The future of Pacific Rim 2 and the deadly Hollywood politics surrounding it, The Muppets' return to TV, Back to the Future's 30th Anniversary, and debates on the retro-nosalgia validity of Turbo Kid and Kung Fury. Dope!For links and more info, head to the main episode page:http://nerdyshow.com/2015/10/nerdy-show-236-buy-your-way-to-cool

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A special announcement this week! Check out our 8-part RPG miniseries, The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program:http://nerdyshow.com/cthulhu/Our feed for all our dramatic programming:http://nerdyshow.com/theatre/

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Every other week, The Nerdy Show Network's flagship podcast pours over the latest geek news and happenings!It's a weird, wild new world for Nintendo nerds. The Big N has announced their first push into the mobile games market (beyond their own hardware) and they've come out balls a-blazing. Pokémon GO brings Pokémon to Earth in an augmented reality experience that's still very much under wraps. We speculate on what's to come and how deep Nintendo can deliver on their pitch for a world teeming with cute, freaky creatures.But that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg in this ill-fated pleasure cruise. We switch from A.R. to V.R. as we investigate The VOID, a new company hoping to be the next big thing in interactive entertainment; discuss the dubious announcement of Animorphs, one of our favorite 90s book series, hitting the big screen; and critique the latest iteration of Starcraft.Join Cap, boR, Luke, and Trench for all this and more, including another of Cap's weird dreams and the return of our old segment, Luke's Late to Everything! This installment: The Rocketeer!For links and more info, head to the main episode page:http://nerdyshow.com/2015/09/nerdy-show-235-nerdy-show-go/

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Zibbitty bop ze-wow, Nerdy Show hepcats! We're coming at ya with an all-new Nerdy Show Microsode. That's a short episode where YOU fine folks tell us what to groove to. In this episode, Nerdy Show listener, Jack Oats has challenged us to talk about bebop. But what kind of bebop? Well, that's up to us to decide.Join Cap, boR, Luke, and Trench as we attempt to suss out the musical movement from our cursory knowledge of jazz and then connect the dots to things we actually know about: pop culture of the past 20 years. If you've ever been curious about space fairing anime, incompetent pig-men, or refreshments beneath the ocean's waves - this one's for you. And even if you're fluent in those subjects we might have a trick or two up our sleeves. What's the secret to Captain Murphy's primal screams? What happens when you mix Tron, Michael Jackson, and retromutagen ooze? If you don't click play, you're koo-koo-crazy.For links and more info, head to the main episode page: http://nerdyshow.com/2015/09/nerdy-show-234-all-about-bebop/

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Ever getting that sinking, Singularity blues?The 21st Century is shaping up to be that much-prophecised age of exponential change for the human condition. If catastrophic climate change doesn't get us, then we're well on track to building a robotopia. But is a world where all basic jobs are done by 'bots a good thing? Are we destined for an opulent Star Trek future, or something more like Elysium with the ruling class hovering above the rest of us?Join Cap, Jess, Jon, and Doug as we journey deep into sci-tech - evaluating the latest variations on the automated man and considering what futures a robotic workforce will create. Maybe hard-working, red-blooded Americans will feel the bite of cold steel and the gnashing of corporate teeth. Or perhaps we'll be able to survive the paradigm shift and humanity can focus on evolving itself through exploration, creation, and education. Now is the precipice of the coming age; take a plunge with us!Hopefully we're not diving headfirst into a Cyberdyne-led extinction!For links and more info, head to the main episode page:http://nerdyshow.com/2015/09/nerdy-show-232-the-age-of-automation-our-robotic-future

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State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.Just when you were almost back to sleep… there has been an awakening! It’s only been two weeks since our last report and there’s already an entire episode’s worth of new Star Wars announcements to cover. The dam has officially burst, the journey to The Force Awakens has truly begun, and the world is on the precipice of descending into Star Wars mania.The epicenter of this latest spike in activity is D23, Disney’s expo celebrating all their various properties and projects. Our very own Matt Spill was on-site to bear witness to the reveal of the cast of Rogue One, new insights from Episode VII, and the announcement that not only is a Star Wars land coming to Disney Parks, but that it’s their biggest, boldest project to date.Join Cap, Doug and Matt as we discuss the possibilities this immersive Star Wars theme park represents, peruse the catalog of forthcoming action figures for hints at Force Awakening secrets, and even glean a dark prophecy from a spiral-bound notebook at Wal-Mart.We’ll see you again in another two weeks for Force Friday!For links and more info, head to the main episode page: http://nerdyshow.com/2015/08/sote-episode-15-d23/

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As nerds we've been fed our entire lives with dreams of sci-fi destinies. Many of these grand dreams fizzled at the onset of the 21st century, but there's one that you'll have to pry from our cold, dead hands: giant robots. We want to see towering steel goliaths do battle with massive missile launchers and insane blades, and we want to see it now.That glorious future has arrived, dear friends - thanks to MegaBots. These all-American Robot Jox have built their own giant robot and challenged Japan's finest giant robosmiths, Suidobachi Heavy Industry, to a duel. The challenge was accepted and now the race is on to soup up their robo chariot into a melee fighting mecha Rocky. We're joined by MegaBots' Matt Oehrlei and Gui Cavalcanti at the dawn of their Kickstarter quest to supercharge America's robot champion: The Mark II.Hear Cap and Trench alongside Atomic Robo creative team/ fictional robot experts Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener geek out with the MegaBots guys over Mech Warrior and Battletech, get the details on all the Mark II's possible upgrades, discuss their roboticist origins working for The Man, ejector seat feasibility, and much more. Plus, catch up with the latest Atomic Robo news and thrill to the 21st century's other emerging future sport: VR drone racing!USA! USA!For links and more info, head to the main episode page:http://nerdyshow.com/2015/08/nerdy-show-231-giant-robot-gladiators-an-interview-with-megabots

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