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Your favorite nerds are back and joined once again by indie horror writer and director Blake Clouser.  We get you ready for the Halloween season by discussing recent thrillers Zombieland and Paranormal Activity, along with the creepy crawly FPS game Dead Space.  We take a trip down nostalgia lane as we revisit some of our favorite scary video games and horror comedy movies.  Tune in also to find out about our listener contest and to hear Jessie relate her own personal journey to hell as she belatedly reviews “GI Joe: Rise of Cobra”.

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Hosts: Mark, Jessie, Blake

Show Outline:

• Introductions and Welcomes (0:00:34)
• Zombieland (0:03:18)
• Where the Wild Things Are (0:10:47)
• Paranormal Activity (0:23:15)
• Dead Space (0:35:13)
• Favorite Spooky Video Games (0:50:44)
• Favorite Horror-Comedy Movies (01:06:44)
• Jessie’s G.I. Joe Review (01:23:12)
• The First Ever Nerdaverse Listener Contest! (01:33:38)
• Mail Bag (01:37:15)
• Good Byes (01:40:48)

Music Credits:

• Opening Intro – “Nerdaverse” by The BeerJays
• “Halloween Theme Song”  by John Carpenter
• Intermission 1 Music – “Anything Can Happen On Halloween” Performed by Tim Curry
• Intermission 2 Music – “Contact” by Tugboat Annie
• Outro Music – “Nerdaverse 2” by The BeerJays

Links to Awesome Stuff:

• Support the podcast by buying the things we talked about this week at our new Amazon Store. Shop till you drop!
• The HANGERS Facebook Group

Contact the podcast: mailbag (at) nerdaverse (dot) com

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Mark and Jessie are visited by Twisted Pixel Game’s Art Director David Leung who shares with us some insight into the work of game animator on titles such as The Maw and ‘Spolsion Man. David sticks around and joins us for a discussion of our favorite works of animation. Tune in to learn what life is like working in the videogame industry; plus all the cartoon and anime goodness you can shake a stick at. There may or may not be cake.

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Hosts: Mark, Jessie, David

Show Outline:

• Introductions and Welcomes (0:00:2)
• 3 Facts about Dave Leung of Twisted Pixel Games (0:01:04)
• Poop or Puppy – Green Lantern: First Flight (0:10:31)
• Poop or Puppy – Wonder Woman (0:17:07)
• Interview With David Leung of Twisted Pixel Games (0:26:07)
• Essential Nerd Films: Animated (01:03:21)
• Mail Bag (01:30:51)
• Goodbyes (01:35:43)

Music Credits:

• Opening Intro – “Nerdaverse” by The BeerJays
• Intermission 1 Music – “Explainations” by Tugboat Annie
• Intermission 2 Music – “Contact” by Tugboat Annie
• Outro Music – “Nerdaverse 2” by The BeerJays

Links to Awesome Stuff:

• Support the podcast by buying the things we talked about this week at our new Amazon Store. Shop till you drop!
• Visit Twisted Pixel Game’s official website
• The Nerdaverse freakin’ loves ‘Spolsion Man and so should you. Jessie wants you to play the Xbox demo (then buy the full version so you can play multiplayer with her!). Find it here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/s/splosionmanxboxlivearcade/

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Mark and Jessie welcome Eddie back to the show as they weigh in on some current and upcoming video games as well as some of the summer’s biggest movies.

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Hosts: Mark, Jessie, Eddie

Show Outline:

• Introductions and Welcomes (0:00:18)
• Poop or Puppy Round 1: Games
• Batman: Arkham Asylum demo (0:02:33)
• DemiGod (0:19:21)
• Bookworm iPhone edition (0:29:40)
• Poop or Puppy Round 2: Movies (0:37:53)
• District 9 (0:38:05)
• G.I. Joe (1:02:00)
• Goodbyes (01:15:32)

Music Credits:

• Opening Intro – “My Name is Young” by Young MC
• Intermission 1 Music – “Cold Slither” by Cold Slither
• Outro Music – “St. Teresa” by Joan Osborne

Links to Awesome Stuff:

• Support the podcast by buying the things we talked about this week at our new Amazon Store. Shop till you drop!
• Eddie’s Tooth Paste Blog

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Jessie and Mark welcome guest host Eddie to the show to nerd out about their favorite iPhone apps and games.  Mark and Jessie also get into a Nerd Fight over the “Ultimate Killer Robot”: Megatron vs. the T-1000.  Lastly, the robot discussion continues as we explore our favorite Essential Nerd Films for Robot Lovers.

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Hosts: Mark, Jessie, Eddie

Show Outline:

• Introductions (00:00:28)
• 3 Facts About Eddie (0:02:25)
• LARPing Digression (0:09:09)
• What’s Entertaining You? – iPhone Edition (0:16:18)
• Nerd Fight: Who’s the Ultimate Killer Robot? (0:46:47)
• Essential Nerd Films: Robots (01:04:44)
• Mail Bag and Good Byes (01:26:46)

Music Credits:

• Opening Intro – “Be” by Common
• Intermission 1 Music – “Robot Parade” by They Might Be Giants
• Intermission 2 Music – “Sex Robot” by Saskia Dolores
• Outro Music – “St. Teresa” by Joan Osborne

Links to Awesome Stuff:

• Support the podcast by buying the things we talked about this week at our new Amazon Store. Shop till you drop!
• Eddie’s Tooth Paste Blog

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Jessie and indie horror movie director  Blake Clouser get dragged to Hell and take Mark and his cousin Chris along for the ride.  On this episode we Poop or Puppy review the Ghostbusters video game and “Drag Me to Hell”. Next we blather intellectually about what makes a good horror film, plus we find out what goes into writing, directing and producing a horror film for the indie film circuit.

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Hosts: Mark, Jessie, Blake, Chris

Show Outline:

• Introductions (00:00:28)
• The Reintroduction of Chris (0:01:34)
• Meet Blake (0:02:07)
• What’s Entertaining You? (0:09:46)
• Poop or Puppy? Ghostbusters: The Video Game (0:27:57)
• Poop or Puppy? Drag Me To Hell  (0:37:57)
• What makes a good horror movie? (0:47:25)
• Discussion of “HANGERS” (1:30:27)

Music Credits:

• Opening Intro – “Be” by Common
• Intermission Music – “Straight to Hell” by The Clash
• Outro Music – “St. Teresa” by Joan Osborne

Links to Awesome Stuff:

• Support the podcast by buying the things we talked about this week at our new Amazon Store. Shop till you drop!
• The HANGERS Facebook Group

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This week the discussion is all Team Fortress 2 related. We host two infamous TF2 players, Mr. Snuts!* and Chro, in a roundtable discussion of the latest TF2 Sniper/Spy update.  Hilarity ensues.  For those fans who enjoy our more general show, don’t worry – we’ll be back within a week or so with our normal format.

Hosts: Mark, Jessie, Mr. Snuts!*, Chro

Show Outline:

• Introductions (00:00:28)
• Sniper update (00:08:37)
• Spy update (00:35:44)
• New maps (00:52:11)
• Complaint department (01:03:56)

Music Credits:

• Opening Intro – “Be” by Common
• Outro Music – “St. Teresa” by Joan Osborne

Links to Awesome Stuff:

• Support the podcast by buying the things we talked about this week at our new Amazon Store. Shop till you drop!
• Chro’s manifesto over at the TF2F forums

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With Jessie away for the week The Nerd-a-Verse is invaded by guest hosts Chris and rapper Mad Hatter of the Scrub Club.  This may be the last show Mark is ever allowed to host solo. Please forgive the audio difficulties this week – we’re aware that there was some funky static that popped up during recording.

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Hosts: Mark, Chris, The Mad Hatter

Show Outline:

• 3 facts about Chris (00:02:55)
• Warning: Lame Jokes ahead! (00:11:20)
• 3 Facts about MadHatter (00:13:17)
• Interview with MadHatter of Scrub Club Records (00:23:04)
• Retro-Gaming Round Up (00:38:40)
• What’s Been Entertaining You? / Poop or Puppy (01:05:10)
• Good Byes (1:30:52)
• The Mad Hatter and Chris Show (01:32:18)

Music Credits:

• Opening Intro – “Be” by Common
• First Intermission – “Bullets and Buckshot”  by Mad Hatter
• Second Intermission – “Smoke Screen” by Mad Hatter
• Outro Music – “St. Teresa” by Joan Osborne

Links to Awesome Stuff:

• Scrub Club Records:  http://www.scrubclubrecords.com/
• Rhyme Torrents:  http://www.rhymetorrents.org/board/portal.php
• 8bit Bull Shit:  http://www.scrubclubrecords.com/music/8bit.html
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Beam aboard the U.S.S. Podcast with us, as we review the newest Star Trek film, and then visit two of the oldest and fiercest Nerd Fight topics around: Best Star Trek film, and Best Star Trek series. Continuing our talk of space (the final frontier) we also talk about Essential Nerd Films for people who like movies about space. We wrap things up with some stellar mailbag entries from our listeners. So get your red shirt on, set your phasers to stun, and come journey with us where many, many nerds have gone before.

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Hosts: Jessie, Mark, Mike

Show Outline:

• A special Mother’s Day 3 Facts about… (00:01:30)
• An in-depth review of Star Trek (00:06:57)
• Poop  or Puppy reviews of Plants vs. Zombies, as well as the new Arcane Powers Handbook (00:32:35)
• Nerd Fight: Best Star Trek series and movie (00:41:07)
• Essential Nerd Films for Space Geeks (01:04:25)
• Jessie’s fun bag (01:37:31)
• Good Byes (1:43:00)

Music Credits:

• Opening Intro – “Be” by Common
• First Intermission – “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” by Leonard Nimoy
• Second Intermission – “Common People” by William Shatner
• Outro Music – “St. Teresa” by Joan Osborne

Links to Awesome Stuff:

• Buy the excellent Plants vs. Zombies while it’s still on sale for $9.99 on Steam.
• Support the podcast by buying the things we talked about this week at our new Amazon Store. Shop till you drop!

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