Episode 162 :: The 2013 Final Boss – Top 20 Nerdy Things of the Year!
2013 is dead and gone. You know what that means? It’s time for our annual TOP 20 NERDY THINGS list!
Since 2009 it’s been our solemn duty to create a list ranking the “Top 20 Nerdy Things” of the year. We take all of pop culture, science & technology, and world happenings and subject them to a number of life-or-death challenges akin to Highlanders battling one another for the quickening, or The Hunger Games for you younglings. Those topics that remain, the experts here at Nerdy Show judge by the truest qualifying factor we know: Nerdiness. No sane person would dare rank scientific achievements against video game releases – but, for the betterment of humanity, we do.
Join Cap, Brandon, and Jessica as we discuss the year at large and count backwards revealing our list and why we selected what we did. Plus- if you’re brave of heart and stout of liver you can play along with Brandon’s ill-advised drinking game: take a shot of whiskey every time we say “nerd” or “nerdy”. Drink responsibly!
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Tracks:
- The Impresario :: Jake Kaufman & Tommy Pedrini
- Nothing to Prove :: The Doubleclicks
- Shapeshifter :: Chamber Band
- Built to Last :: The Protomen
Nerdy Show Links:
- The Nerdy Show Store
- D&D Drinking Glasses Set 1: Frenemies
- Our Squatty Potty X-Mas Episode
- Learn more in our episode “Mighty Mega Men”
- “Nerdy Show Declassified”
- Our episode “The X-Files Re-Opened”
- Check out our Star Wars speculation podcast: State of the Empire
- Listen to our interview with Pacific Rim‘s Travis Beacham
- Nerdy Show Book Club
Links:
- Past Year’s Lists: 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012
- Super Mario Bros. 2: The Comic
- New prehistoric bird discovered: the Eosinopteryx
- Buy Super Mario 3D World
- Buy The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
- Bombermine
- Watch Escape From Tomorrow Amazon | iTunes
- Our 2010 video with Parrot’s AR Drone
- Amazon Prime Air
- Drone hunting licenses?
- Get a drone from Parallax
- “The Impressario” – full 9 minute version!
- Neal DeGrasse Tyson’s list of things Gravity did right
- Neal DeGrasse Tyson’s list of things Gravity did wrong
- Urban Dictionary’s definitions of a “Glasshole”
- Google buys 8 robotics companies in 6 months
- Learn more about inFORM
- MM25: Mega Man Rocks
- For Everlasting Peace: 25 Years of Mega Man
- The “Nothing to Prove” video
- Get Lasers and Feelings here
- The Dark Crystal “Director’s Cut”
- Metal Floss’ interview with the Dark Crystal re-editor
- Brian Froud’s Dark Crystal prequel comic: Creation Myths Vol. 1 | Vol 2
- Jim Henson’s A Tale of Sand
- The Farscape comics come to Archaia
- The CastAR Kickstarter
- Nintendo responds to fans – announces Earthbound in America
- The official Earthbound Baaaash page
- Get volume 1 of X-Files Season 10
- Read about “Superman Memory Crystals” at KurzweilAI
- Buy/ Listen to Chamber Band’s Deities
- Buy/ Listen to Deities in chiptunes: Bit Pantheon
- Buy Star Wars Volume 1: In the Shadow of Yavin
- Pre-order Star Wars Volume 2: From the Ruins of Alderaan
- See Batkid save “Gotham”
- The Cyborg Foundation
- Learn about Neil Harbisson’s Eyeborg
- Astronaut performs “Space Oddity” in space
- Lady Gaga to perform song in space
