Season 4 Episode 8 :: Dropping Some Science
Welcome, nerd of exquisite taste, to a combo episode of Nerd Music and Sci-Tech! Two powers combine to digivolve into a digital monster of incredible podcast might.
This episode we are seriously dropping some science! We debut a remix contest that’ll break your brain: our Marvel Vs. Capcom 3-on-3 Mixtape Melee, interview the incredible 8-Bit Duane, and get our ubergeek on with the latest coolness in science and technology.
Do you think you can handle massive Nerdapalooza news? Ridiculous high school fads such as shoe trading? Computers that operate on living blood? The return of the Commodore 64? Secrets of Tron: Legacy costume design? Or people who are actually into slow internet? Do ya?!? Sure ya do. Nicola Tesla, bring dat beat back:
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MARVEL Vs. CAPCOM 3-on-3 Mixtape Melee
Click HERE for the RULES and get crackin’ skulls and droppin’ beats.
Tracks:
- Madrox :: Adam WarRock
- Cry of the Planet (Japan Remix) :: MegaRan
- A Boy and His Blob :: Action Adventure World
- Metal Gear :: Action Adventure World
- What Pi Sounds Like :: Michael John Blake
- Love Me Longtime :: OK Go
- Hogtied :: Brandon Strader, Rexy
- Minecraft :: Rotharian
Links:
- 8-Bit Duane’s YouTube Channel
- Blur Con
- MIT hottie, Cynthia Breazeal
- The Sphero Robot
- The NEW Commodore 64
- Watch the trailer for Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
- Listen to the NPR article about “Slow Netters”
- TMNTijuana Bibles NSFW
Forum and Fan Links:
- Discuss school fads on the forums
- The Commodore 64
- Rotharian’s Minecraft song
- Nerds in Action
- VOTE for Volcano-Themed Blake’s Tardis
UPDATE: So… it turns out we were collectively punked. The NPR piece on Slow Netters was an April Fools gag. From Jessica, one of our friends and contributors:
So I just caught up on the Nerdy Show episode where you mentioned ‘Slow Netters’.
I actually regret to inform you that this was an April Fool’s joke by NPR. The did the same thing with pet insurance last year. I fell for it too, and then I heard on April 2nd that it was actually a joke and felt like a twit.
Well dang. Hey, at least we got an OK Go song out of it!
6 Comments
Did you leave off all the songs after OK Go on the track list?
Now that we know that we can stack money on top of one another for a singular topic the mind boggles as to how high we can get the donation drive to go if we have more people donating to the same topic……mebbe the next one focusing on the nerdy nudie girls of ‘Epic Win Burlesque’ *tents fingers* this is a good plan and a worthwhile cause to raise the earth monies for! 🙂
@Bryan Rosander
Sure did! It was LAAAATE at night. Fixed now. Thanks, man!
About the shoe trading, my friends and I have done it a few times in the years we spent together at school, but it was always kind of an inside thing. Yo-yo’s pop-up every once and a while. We got a few of the “cool” people at my school into MTG. Most of the fads suck though, because the school that I go to is full of wanna-be gangsta’s, so they do stuff like keep the tags (the fancier ones that are usually held on by string) on their pants.
About the tech stuff, it feels weird to me, because I should be part of the generation that has had a lot of this technology, but since my dad works with technology, and has since I can remember, I know about the stuff like the long wait for internet, the sound of connecting to the internet, all that stuff…
Anyways, great episode, hope to be able to make it to Nerdapalooza this year…
@fenrir gochad
“hope to be able to make it to Nerdapalooza this year”
Freakin’ RAD!
The only thing I remember about shoe trading, was during those spirit days when you dress up. On the dress crazy days the girls would switch shoes and wear like different colored socks.