Nerdy Show

The Nerdy Show SEASON 3 FINALE!

With Metroid: Other M just having come out for the Wii, now seems like the best time for Nerdy Show to devote a whole episode to one of the greatest game series’ of all-time, Metroid, and it’s bounty hunting protagonist – Samus Aran!  But something’s gone awry for the strong, silent, space pirate-slayer… the same thing that plagues every woman as they near the big 3-0… she’s gone baby crazy…  METROID BABY CRAZY!  Our review of Other M elaborates, as do the Nerdy Show gents.  You know their strange little minds tend to wander.

Not only does this episode weigh the pros and cons of this new game-changing installment to the legendary series, but it explores Metroid’s past.  The gang share stories of their first time on the planet Zebes and delve into the series chronology and its real-world origins – the games’ influences and the men who created it.  The episode also features a playlist of stupendous Metroid-influenced music and an interview with Metroid Metal - the band that screw attacks nerd music like no other. All that plus some suped-up sci-tech that’ll hit ya – pow!  Right in the baby-maker!

Though this is the last episode of Season 3, we won’t be gone -  no, no, no, no.  Listen to this episode for some hints to what we have in store and some cool things we’re going to be bringing to you in the interim.  Nerdy Show.com will still be quite “bumpin”, as the kids say, so be sure to check back with us often to see what we’ve cooked up, and keep an eye out for announcements for what awesome may come!

 

 Episode 30 :: Metroid Babies [133:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Tracks:

1. Brinstar :: Metroid Metal
2. Super Metroid – Armcannon
3. Metroid :: brentalfloss
4. MetroTransFunk :: Franz Keller
5. Hostile Abduction (First Battle Theme) :: Suzumebachi and Proticity
6. City Theme :: Stemage
7. Prime Theme (Metroid Prime) :: Metroid Metal *EXCLUSIVE*
8. come again (ft. Elijah Lucian) :: YTCracker
9. On Top of Jacob’s Ladder :: Prophecy
10. Tigra and Firebird Intermission :: Adam WarRock
11. MARIDIA :: The Amazing BrandO
12. Magnetic :: Freezepop
13. Crystal Flash :: Virt

Links:

• Check out the “Metroid & Me” video and have your mind blown
• Jam to the new Metroid Metal side-project – YES MAYHEM!
• Check out some footage of Alpha Squad and get the demo for PC
• Watch English-patched in-game footage of Gameboy game, “For the Frog the Bell Tolls”
• Watch “Minitroid”
• Watch the Little Nemo: The Dream Master commercial from 1990
• Phil Plait (Bad Astronomer)’s twitter
• Watch Bad Universe on Discovery Channel

My fellow Nerds, a crisis is upon us. As some of you may have heard, a recent high court ruling in the UK has greatly jeopardized the future of the Chiptunes movement. The hardware integral to creating music from current and retro gaming systems is now illegal. This aggression will not stand, man – and we won’t sit by idly while our bothers and sister across the pond cannot pick up their Gameboys and bleep bloop in public. …Did that come out wrong? NEVERMIND.

In response to this ruling, Nerdy Show has created Fight the Power, an organization and movement dedicated to fighting for the rights of nerd musicians and the right to make nerd music of all kinds. Read the Fight the Power Manifesto, join the Facebook Page and find out what you can do to join in the fight.

In this episode we elaborate on the plight in the UK and talk with British chiptune musician, Pixelh8 about his feelings on the ruling, what he’s doing to turn the tide, his upcoming projects, and how BBC America butchers British television. We’re also joined by chiptune beatsmith: DJ RoboRob, calling all the way from Iraq, and yo-yo master and chiptunes rapper: Doctor Popular. All that plus a surplus of cool video game news, Mike gets weirdly (and disturbingly) political, and crackpot Russian conspiracy theories – oh boy!

As though we needed to further emphasize their relevance Chiptunes just recently got its own showcase at PAX Prime!! We also want to give a shout-out to a handful of WPRK DJs who are taking up the Fight the Power cause and dedicating their radio shows to Chiptunes awareness: Flying High in the Mushroom Kingdom, Marc with a C‘s radio show, the Real Congregation and the Freaking Geek Show are doing a combo show for five hours of pixelated political partying! You can catch Flying High in the Mushroom Kingdom in the taint of this Friday night/Saturday morning at 1 AM – 3 AM, and the Freaking Geek and Real Congregation mashup next Monday night/Tuesday morning from 1 AM – 6 AM. These are, of course, Eastern time, so plan accordingly!

This won’t be the last you see of Fight the Power! We have big plans including not just for fighting hate on the chip community, but also fighting big corp wherever they stick their head in the nerd’s world.

 

 Episdoe 29 :: Fight the Power Button [133:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tracks:

1. Aurora (Meet Me In the Strars) :: Anamanaguchi
2. OutBrk :: Sabrepulse
3. Computability Love :: Pixelh8
4. Spiral :: Pixelh8 *NERDY SHOW EXCLUSIVE*
5. Before I Go.. :: .:ikanetik:.
6. The End :: Firebrand Boy
7. Harder, faster, Stronger, Better (DJRoboRob) :: Daft Punk
8. So Say We All :: DjRoboRob
9. SysOp :: ComputeHer
10. Artificial Ocean :: Plain Flavored
11. Crimson Dreams (ft. Doc Pop & Beefy) :: crashfaster Purchase Album
12. Hassle the Dorkening (Doc Pop Rare Demo) :: MC Frontalot *NERDY SHOW EXCLUSIVE*
13. Bedbugs (ft. YTCracker) :: Doc Pop

Contest:

Show Willrow Hood fanlove WIN Star Wars prizes!

Links:

• Read the Fight the Power Manifesto
• The Fight the Power! Facebook Page
• Pixelh8 on E24, BBC News
• Pixelh8 on BBC Look East, BBC Radio 1
• Pixelh8 BBC Look East, Obsolete? at The National Museum of Computing
• Pixelh8 BBC Look East, Obsolete? PART 2
• The BBC article on the court ruling
• Wired‘s Geekdad article on the court ruling, “Death Knell for Chiptunes”
• Check out Doc Pop’s Mighty Boosh App
• Watch the BioShock Infinite trailer
• VGChartz’s article on what the US Military thinks of playing as the Taliban in Metal of Honor
• Crazy Russian conspiracist
• A picture of the “Pixelh8 One 128k”‘s control board
• Real life Koopa skeleton
• Brian’s art for Captain America: The Fighting Avenger
• Homebrew game, Colors, now a legit App
• The Colors gallery
• Lisa Frank parody art

A short while ago… Somewhat nearby…

…Star Wars Celebration V came to the Orlando Convention Center!  How convenient! Cap and Hex bravely ventured into that wretched hive of scum and villainy to get the low-down on this intergalactic hoedown.  This year’s Celebration honored the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back – a momentous occasion, and it also marked the Last Tour to Endor, the closing of the classic Star Tours ride.

Four days of non-stop Star Wars, countless hours of waiting in line, and a fair amount of pent-up aggression have led to a Lucas-sized BLOCKBUSTER of an episode.  It’s too big to be a space station and will definitely rip your arms off , but hold your Tauntauns kids, this is STAR WARS – how were we ever gonna contain it in a normal-sized episode?  You could be waiting sixteen years before we do a follow-up to this one

In this episode we share the highs and lows of the Celebration and relive myriad panels including secrets of the NEW Star Tours, season 3 of Clone Wars, the EXCLUSIVE videos Warwick Davis showed, inappropriate jokes from Anthony Daniels and Carrie Fisher, TOR and The Force Unleashed 2, Seth Green and the Robot Chicken panel, and of course, The MAIN EVENT: George Lucas and John Stewart, which Hex stood in line overnight to see!  Since we’re such Fettophiles we also hit up BOTH Boba Fetts for interviews – the original Jeremy Bulloch and young Boba Fett, Daniel Logan!  Perhaps you remember back in Episode 10: Geek Mythology when we interviewed Jabba the Hutt’s right-hand man, Dave Barclay?  Well now we’ve got his left-hand man – Toby Philpott and the man behind his sultry figure and gorgeous eyes, John Coppinger.  They share with us what it’s like being so close with the baddest gangster in the Star Wars universe as well as their other illustrious exploits in the world of movie creatures.  We also had a chat with Julian Glover who portrayed one of the Empire’s greatest tacticians and leader of the AT-AT attack on Hoth, General Veers as well as the scheming Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade and Bond villain Aristotle Kristatos.  All that plus frequent rants about the prequels AND a kick ass contest to win EXCLUSIVE Star Wars Celebration goodies (see below)… something in this episode will get you excited about Star Wars, even if your heart has been frozen in carbonite.

 

 Episode 28 :: Fettophiles [167:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tracks

1. Space Game :: MC Lars
2. Galvanize the Empire (John Williams v. Chemical Brothers) :: PartyBen
3. Level 7 :: 8-Bit Bandit
4. Fett’s Vette (the good, the baddd, the ugly – Baddd Spellah Remix) :: mc chris
5. Blue Harvest (ft. Billy the Fridge) :: KABUTO THE PYTHON
6. George Lucas Raped Our Childhood :: Hot Waffles
7. Limit Break :: Dale Chase
8. Star Wars Theme/ Cantina Band :: Meco
9. Yellow Lasers (Live at Los Angeles 2008) :: MC Frontalot
10. Tattooine :: Sci-Fried
11. Fallout 3 – The Fallout of Eli :: Brynner Agassi & Mazedude
12. Finale/End Credits (Empire Strikes Back) :: John Williams

Contest:

Show Willrow Hood fanlove WIN Star Wars prizes!

Photos:

• Slide show of SWC5′s displays by Matt Rex Downham
• Slide show of costumes at SWC5 by Matt Rex Downham
• Slide show from various SWC5 panels by Matt Rex Downham
• Cap’s snapshot slide show:

Links:

• Watch the MAIN EVENT on YouTube
• Return of the Jedi deleted scene
• Willrow Hood’s Wookieepedia entry
• Red Letter Media‘s Plinkett Reviews of Episode I and Episode II
• Nerdy Show’s E3 coverage of Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Nerdy Show’s E3 Coverage of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
• Check out Jeremy Bulloch’s autobiography, Flying Solo
• Become a fan of Jabba the Hutt on facebook
• Star Wars Underoos commercial

Brian Lee O’Malley‘s series of Scott Pilgrim graphic novels are awesome.  They take video game culture and smoosh it inside comic books!  In Scott’s world, the nonsense logic of video games are part of reality – you beat up hipsters and generic dudes and they turn into coins – THAT ROCKS! Now that Scott Pilgrim is a movie written and directed by Edgar “Shaun of the Dead” Wright all that geeky goodness is exploding IRL in a nerdgasm the likes of which has never hit the big screen before.  In this episode the gang is joined by nerd comedy musician, Insane Ian, to talk about the coolness of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, the differences between the books and the film, and the super-stars behind the soundtrack and score.

PLUS we dialed up Pete of Anamanaguchi, the chiptunes rock band that are providing the score for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game.  Together we fight mediocre cellphone reception, dodge the cops, and find out how they scored this sweet gig.  We also talk to Reid, Ryan, and Charlie from Starmen.net and Fangamer, about the currently running Mother 3 Fanfest, their upcoming release of chiptunes documentary, Reformat the Planet on DVD as well as chiptunes-inspired merch, and the origins of their prolific fan communities.  There’s lots of old school video game conversation including some truth-bombs about River City Ransom, one of the games that most influenced Scott Pilgrim‘s world.  So strap on your power glove… and then take it off ’cause it’s useless- But play some cool games and listen to this episode.  It goes a little something like this:

 

 Episode 27 :: Nerdy Show Vs The Generic Dudes [117:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tracks

1. We Are Sex Bob-Omb :: Sex Bob-Omb
2. Autotune :: Insane Ian
3. Black Sheep :: Metric
4. Threshold :: Sex Bob-Omb
5. Threshold (8-Bit):: Brian LeBarton
6. I’m So Sad, So Very, Very Sad :: Crash and the Boys
7. We Hate You Please Die :: Crash and the Boys
8. Garbage Truck :: Sex Bob-Omb
9. Mom’s Hometown :: katanaswordfish
10. Super Mario Land :: Action Adventure World (watch video)
11. Personal Space :: Shael Riley and The Double Ice Backfire
12. MvL (ft. Odd Austin & TV’s Kyle) :: Insane Ian
13. Power Supply :: Anamanaguchi
14. Airbrushed :: Anamanaguchi
15. Rap Loogies (ft. Fatty Goodness) :: KABUTO THE PYTHON
16. Death to All Hipsters :: Beck & Nigel Godrich
17. T.U.R.T.L.E. Power (ft. MegaRan) :: Klopfenpop

Links:

Play along, August 6th-27th

• Fangamer’s Reformat the Planet DVD set and chiptune-inspired merch
• Watch the Reformet the Planet trailer
• Insane Ian’s “Everything I Know” video
• Watch Triforce Mike play Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World: The Game at E3
• The archive of Nerdy Show’s E3 2010 video coverage
• Watch “Know Your Meme: Weird Al Yankovic Helps Explain Auto Tune”
• Help fund Twenty-Six & a Half, the Weird Al tribute album on Kickstarter
• The official page of Twenty-Six & a Half
• Help fund the next Shael Riley & The Double Ice backfires’ album
• katanaswordfish’s YouTube channel
• Check out Flying High in the Mushroom Kingdom Radio Show Saturdays 1AM-3AM EST

Triforce Mike’s Formspring is pretty amazing – you can ask him ANYTHING there and he answers – sometimes with Internet gibberish, sometimes with profound mico-essays packed with intense geekitude.  Well, the rest of us are tired of him having all the fun, so we decided to do one better!  We invited our fans to call in and ask us anything or geek out with us about whatever comes to mind.  The call was answered!  You reached out to us, Fandom, just like a glowy E.T. finger and touched us in a way that makes a boy a man and Stephen Spielberg very rich.

Along for the whole ride we have not just the fabled Nerdy Show four, but some of our comrades in arms: Nerdy Strip writer/artist, Tony Baldini, video game correspondent, Gina Lockwood, and sci-tech correspondent Jon West - for the whole show, not just a segment.  Together we conquered many a harrowing phone call!

In this episode we discuss Nerdy Show’s secret, and not-so-secret origins – how the team formed and how Brain joined up.  Fans ask hard-hitting questions, like just how much of Red Hulk is in continuity? what kind of characters are we going to play in DC Universe Online? And when the hell is Brain returning to Dungeons & Doritos?  That plus MORE including a way-cool call-in from super-duper remixer, Klopfenpop, our first impressions of Starcraft 2, Cap’s review of Alan Wake: The Signal, and a call from Dean Wallace’s… son!?

 

 Episode 26 :: Dial A Dork [124:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tracks:

1. Song 6502 :: Inversed Phases
2. The Link :: ytcracker
3. Children of the Elder God :: Old Gods of Asgard
4. Zerg, Shotgun, and You :: Whiteboy James and the Blues Express
5. Terran One :: Glenn Stafford
6. Shark Attack :: Math the Band
7. (The Legend of) Area Dolls Guys (a Mix to the Past) (ft. MegaRan) :: Shael Riley & the Double Ice Backfire
8. My Skateboard Will Go On :: Anamanaguchi
9. The Ultimate Showdown (RBN Mix) :: Lemon Demon
10. Left 4 Paper Planes :: Positive Attitude
11. Death From the Skies :: George Hrab
12. If I Had a Rocket Launcher (ft. Possible Oscar) :: Insane Ian

Links:

• Help fund the next Shael Riley & The Double Ice backfires’ album
• Gamers fight back in an epic LAN Center brawl
• Preview commercial for Phil Plait’s Bad Universe
• Poets of the Fall “War” music video featuring IRL Alan Wake
• Video of the WoW Easter Egg in Starcraft 2
• Silent Hill 8 trailer
• Scott Pilgrim game zombies code: down,up, right, down, up, right, down, up, right right, right
• Listen to Cap and Hex on OCAD talk about the Sega Saturn

This summer has been fat-packed with events and they keep coming.  Riding on the heels of Nerdapalooza is the mother of ‘em all – San Diego Comic-Con.  In recent years the convention has become so much more than comic books – it’s the nerd media event with EVERYTHING: movies, teevee, video games, comics, action figures – the whole savory enchilada of pop culture smothered in a verde sauce of geeky juices. It’s a lot to handle!

Nerdy Show has tasted the many flavors of Comic-Con’s meaty soup and picked out the most delicious nuggets of news including the Marvel films, the Green Lantern movie, and other outstanding comic film showings like The Goon! Joining us to talk about his first hand V.I.P. experience in San Diego is A Comic Show and Bleeding Cool‘s Aaron Haaland.  Plus: stabbings, protests, and cosplay bank robberies, hurray!

We also talk about the forthcoming release of PC Gaming blockbuster – Starcraft 2 and Cap give his review of the epic new X-Box Arcade game Limbo and more more more!

 

 Episode 25 :: ComiCon Carne [119:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tracks:

1. Henchmen :: Kirby Krackle
2. Boot Straps :: Shael Riley & the Double Ice Backfire
3. Dokuta Wairi, Rival to the Light :: Sixto Sounds
4. Everclear Hangover IV :: The Crakaz
5. Heights :: Linde
6. Thunder Jack Flash :: G3RSt
7. Penpal :: Anamanaguchi
8. Cost of Living :: Torrentz
9. Dr. Jones :: Sci-Fried
10. Hero vs. Villain :: King Pheenix
11. Only an Expert [Tech Support Glitch Mix] :: Laurie Anderson
12. Title Screen (16-Bit Firefly) :: Doctor Octoroc

Links:

• AMC’s Walking Dead Comic-Con Trailer
• The Goon amazing animated short
• Green Hornet Comic-Con trailer
• RED Comic-Con trailer
• Mind-blowing DCU Online opening movie
• See Darth Vader rob a bank
• VGChartz Starcraft 2 sells 1.8 Million in a day! (Excluding Korea)
• A photo of a South Korean Starcraft tournament

Exhausted and scatter-brained we relive the excitement of Nerdapalooza while it was still fresh in our minds, the day after. As you can probably guess from the lateness of this podcast, we are ALL really sore from Nerdapalooza. It was a spectacular weekend and all of us had a great time. We have a LOT of great memories to share as well as a few awards to hand out for the unbridled awesomeness that was on display.  We have interviews from the festival with the girls from the Epic Win Burlesque, the boys of Fangamer, and Steffo from My Parents’ Favorite Music along with his cohort, B-Type aka Misterb. Tune in for all that AND our special guests, Shael Riley and Double Ice Backfire guitarist, Ty Guenley.  Nerdapalooza 2010, you kicked our ass, and it was outstanding.

 

 Standard Podcast [144:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tracks:

1. Double Rainbow (ft. Yosemitebear) :: The Gregory Brothers
2. Nerdapalooza Freestyle :: Shinobi, Shammers, 3P!C-1, and Random
3. Starcraft is Racist :: Shammers
4. Left4Dead :: THE BOSSFIGHTS
5. Pump Up the Bass :: Shael Riley and the Double Ice Backfire
6. Hobbie Model (Live in the Studio) :: Shael Riley & Ty Guenley
7. Chinese Ninja Warrior (Live in the Studio) :: Shael Riley & Ty Guenley
8. Bohemian Rhapsody :: Nerdapalooza 2010 Audience
9. Villi People/Anything But Tangerines :: Tommy Tallarico
10. Everything I Know :: Insane Ian
11. Magic :: Mick Smiley
12. Living in Threed :: Radiator
13. Mr. Roboto / Due Vendetta :: The Protomen

Music download:

• Full Nerdapalooza Freestyle ft. Shammers, Shinobi, 3P!C-1, and Random

Fund Shael Riley & The Double-Ice Backfire’s next album at Kickstarter!

Links:

• Nerdy Show’s 2010 Nerdapalooza Awards
• Nerdy Show performs “Don’t Stop Believing”
• Cap’s Article: “Gettin’ Down and Nerdy: CoS at Nerdapalooza ’10″
• Wired’s Geek Dad article: “Top 10 Awesome Moments From Nerdapalooza 2010“
• Miss Mary Cyn’s Gozer the Gozarian Striptease
• Photos from Epic Win’s infamous Holy Shit Batman! Burlesque show
• Fanboys webcomic
• Yosemite Bear’s Original Double Rainbow video
• The Ringer performs “The Stand” with The Protomen
• Fan-vocals on “Vengeance” from the Saturday Protomen show
• Insane Ian and Luke Ski’s video for “My Parents Bought me Intellivision”
• Insane Ian’s “Everything I Know” video
• B-Type as Sakura at Nerdapalooza 2009

Someone set us up the bomb, ’cause this ish is about to explode!  Nerdapalooza 2010 is this weekend and we’re MCing it!  In order to power up for this momentous occasion we’re pre-gaming stating NOW on energy drinks and chili dogs in-between running obstacle courses for gold rings… basically gaining a starman infinity buzz that’s gonna last all weekend.  If we seem distant it’s ’cause we’re on another realm fumbling around or Chaos Emeralds… What am I even talking about anymore?  Hey!  What the God damn is a “palooza” anyway?  We’d better find out!

As part of our preparation we’ve been joined by the high-class nerd musician George Hrab, a prime figure in the skeptic music scene.  He talks about some of the cool stuff he’s got in store for us at the festival, what being a “skeptic” is all about, and the importance of killer album art.  RPG fans, get ready for an intense Dragon Quest IX review that will carpet bomb you with harsh truths as our man, Brandon picks apart this globally-anticipated game.  Wash all that down with some wearable bacteria, lesbian mice, and video game industry drama.. and don’t blame us if you’ve got a raging hangover.  SEE YA AT THE SHOW!

 

 Episode 23 :: Powering Up to Palooza [143:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Tracks:

1. The Hounds :: The Protomen
2. Shrine of the Silver Monkey (ft. Steffo of My Parents Favorite Music):: MC COOL WHIP
3. A Lot Like Me :: Schaffer the Darklord
4. Geekquilibrium (FASTER Remix) :: Dr. Awkward
5. Think For Yourself :: George Hrab
6. Still More Fighting (Live at Nerdapalooza 2008) :: Random Encounter
7. 2600 :: Positive Attitude
8. Sea Monsters :: Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew
9. Undefeatable (ft. Emergency Pizza Party) :: ZeaLouS1
10. Gowron Said Knock You Out – 2010 Edition :: the great Luke Ski
11. On and On :: Kirby Krackle
12. Nerdcore Rising (Live at Nerdapalooza 2009 ft. Beefy and MC Lars) :: MC Frontalot

The Contests:

• Major League Gaming Team Pass GIVEAWAY
• WIN Passes to Nerdapalooza 2010

The Links:

• Nerdapalooza 2010 schedule
• Hex and Cap guest star on Overclocked After Dark – “Nerdy Show is Haunting Your Butt”
• See George Hrab crate the cover art for Trebuchet in time lapse
• George Hrab’s one man rendition of Yes’ “Owner of a Lonely Heart”
• Buy Hrab on CD Baby
• David Byrne’s article on album art
• Get Amber Lamps Shirts and Caps before they sell out at Nerdapalooza
• Kirby Krackle’s video for “On and On”
• Clothing made from bacteria
• Rob Spence, the director with a camera in his eye
• Tell FL Senator Bill Nelson to say NO to large lift rockets
• Tell your Senator to stick to the Obama NASA plan!

UPDATE! We’ve got our first winner!  Congrats to Chris, you’re goin’ to Nerdapalooza!  We’ve only got one ticket left to give.  Hurry hurry hurry.

That’s right!  Here’s your chance to party with Nerdy Show and all the amazing bands at the largest nerd music festival in the world, Nerdapalooza!  We’re giving away two festival passes, it’s gonna be HUUUGE – have you seen the schedule?!

“How,” you ask, “do I score this awesome prize?”  EASY!  Just answer some trivia about our E3 vidcasts (up to vidcast 18) and send your answers to contest@nerdyshow.com along with your name.  The questions and other tidbits of information are in this audio greeting from Mike and Cap, hooray!

CONTEST ENDED – if you wanna hear the contest message fro some reason, click HERE.

Oh, okay, here’s a text version of the trivia questions, ’cause you’re the bee’s knees:

Q #1: What is an icy cold B.M.?

Q #2: What would Triforce Mike like to tap?

Q #3: What is a “cyberpunk Prince of Persia”?

Q #4: Who did Cap mistake for Mephesto on the Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Poster?

Q #5: What game banner is shown before Mike and Cap come out of the warp pipe?

Q #6: What did Nerdy Show eat with Geoff Johns?

Q #7: What do zombie killers eat for breakfast?

Zombies are on their way out, vampires are all the rage again, but there’s a new up-and-comer in the pop culture paranormal circuit… werewolves.  Sure, werewolves have been around a long time but they’ve never seen a surge in popularity like this before.  It seems like there’s an outbreak of lycanthropy in the western world and it’s hitting hard – with would-be teen wolves running amok in North American schools and shopping malls, even Nerdy Show has lost one of its number to the lupine side.

In this episode we rail on the nonsense of the Twilight series, look into real life teen wolves and explore their tragic wolven anguish on the internet and their hatred for the “hunters”.  Our werewolf discussion heats up when we place a call to Lunario Von Darkwolfe III, who claims to have been a werewolf for over seventy years and then get him on the phone with our duck huntin’ pal, Dean Wallace who may have bagged him a wolf-man or two in the past.

There’s plenty of comics, video games, and science mixed in with all this wolfy nonsense – but that’s not all.  What’s the craze that never waxes and wanes but is as immortal as the sea and sky?  NINJAS of course!  Masurao and Shinobi of Krondor Krew join us in the studio for some hardcore ninja-talk, armed to the teeth and sporting some sacred silver blades just in case they should be attacked by a were-creature.

 

 Episode 22 :: Were the Wild Things Are [145:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tracks:

1. Big Bad Wolf :: Bunny and the Wolf Sisters
2. Shooting the Moon :: OK Go
3. This Toss :: MagiTek
4. Bad Moon Werewolves (Warren Zevon vs. CCR) Cheekyboy
5. Sneaking :: Krondor Krew
6. Adventure! :: Krondor Krew
7. Sick Skills (ft. Schaffer the Darklord) MC COOL WHIP
8. Resurrection of Breakbeat :: djpretzel
9. NES Me An Angel :: Inverse Phase
10. Chemixtrixx :: PrototypeRaptor
11. Lorem Chipsum :: Virt
12. They Moved the Moon :: Warren Zevon

Werewolf Links:

• News Report on Teen Werewolves
• News Report on Wolfie Blackheart
• Rigsby Justice
• “Destroy All Werewolf Hunters” on 43Things
• Epic werewolf hunter thread on 43Things
• “Become a Werewolf” on 43Things
• Fozzie’s remixes of the Teen Wolf soundtrack

Links:

• Mario Galaxy 2: The Grandmaster Galaxy
• Donkey Schlong Condoms
• Back to the Future II self-lacing sneakers
• Doktor Sleepless
• Nerdapalooza on Festival Outloook