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Episode 42: The Meaning of Nerd

Submitted by Spindles on Fri, 10/04/2015 - 09:57

On this week's show, Brendan, Spindles and Ady chew over the thorny issue that is this year's Hugo nominations. For those of you that are unaware of the controversy around this year's awards, we give a brief run down of what has transpired and mull over what can be done about it in both the short and long term.
We also report back on this year's Eastercon, highlight some current kickstarter campaigns in Crowdfunder Corner and chat over what we are looking forward to in the coming weeks.

Episode 41: Nerdfire

Submitted by Spindles on Fri, 03/04/2015 - 11:41

We recently had the pleasure of talking to the delightful Sophie Aldred and the Seventh Doctor himself, Sylvester McCoy at this year's Sci Fi Weekender.
We talk about how Sophie came to play the iconic role of Ace, her thoughts on a slightly darker doctor, and a truly impressive Ace/Tree Fu Tom mash up.
Sylvester gives an insight into his unique style of convention Q&A's, his influence on the direction of Doctor Who, The Five-Ish Doctors reboot and also commits his 5 films to our list.

Episode 40: Remembrance of the Nerds

Submitted by Spindles on Fri, 27/03/2015 - 09:08

It's that time of year again folks. We made the annual pilgrimage to Pwllheli for this year's Sci Fi Weekender 6. And what a weekend it was.
In this week's show, Brendan, Spindles and Ady share their experiences and thoughts on a weekend that contained Julian Glover, James Cosmo, Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Festival of the Spoken Nerd, One man Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, Darth Elvis and the Imperials and much, much more.

Episode 38: Caravan of Nerdrage

Submitted by Spindles on Thu, 05/02/2015 - 23:31

This week, Brendan, Spindles and Ady discuss exactly why it is that they think that decent shows get cancelled whilst festering turds of shows get to continue ad infinitum.
As well as this, we discuss new shows coming soon to Netflix, The destruction of the Marvel 616 universe, exactly how crap the Fantastic Four are, Ex Machina and much, much more.
For the Daredevil trailer check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPnTMqJZSM

Episode 37: Nerd to the Future Part 2

Submitted by Spindles on Fri, 16/01/2015 - 00:20

Happy New Year to you all out there in internetland. In this first episode of 2015 we review some of our highlights and lowlights of 2014 and what we're looking forward to from this year aside from the obvious mass distribution of hoverboards.
This week's musical interlude comes courtesy of Art of Dying. You can check out their website at http://www.artofdyingmusic.com/
Don't forget to check out the new forums on the site and join in the converation.

Episode 36: A Nightmare on Nerd Street

Submitted by Spindles on Fri, 31/10/2014 - 11:07

Brendan and Spindles talk through the recent Marvel and DC Cinematic Universe annoucements as well as news from this week's MCM London Comic Con and more.
Full Elon Musk Q&A here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpmaLY9XdI
Don't forget to check out the new forums on the site and join in the converation.
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Episode 35: Journey to the Center of the Nerd

Submitted by Spindles on Fri, 26/09/2014 - 09:20

The boys are back from their summer holidays and on this week's show they give their thoughts on the new Doctor Who, review some of the new and returning TV shows in this year's fall season, talk about missions to Mars and much more.
This week's musical outro come courtesy of the fabulous Darth Elvis and the Imperials check out their website at http://www.darthelvis.co.uk/ for more details on where you can catch them live.

Episode 33: Nerd Fidelity

Submitted by Spindles on Fri, 04/07/2014 - 09:33

Crossbones, The Leftovers and The Last Ship are among the new summer TV shows previewed in this week's show, as well as our reactions to the Great Facebook Emotion Experiment, Constantine quits smoking, an awesome Nerdjudication and much more.
This week's musical outro is Under A Darkened Sky by Xander Demos who is the guest on next week's WonkyCast. You can check out Xander on his website: http://xanderdemos.com/