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Nerd Hurdles #34- Artsy Farts (Nuit Blanche) This is our final episode on this feed! New episodes on www.simplysyndicated.com! Go HERE for new subscription info and here specifically for our new iTunes feed! Artsy farts. They ruin it for everyone. Especially performance artists. Nothing turns the general public off the arts more than someone gluing their pubic hair to a Volkswagon and calling “Art” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #33 - Little Green Men Aliens, visitors, small greys, buggers or simply LGM (little green men) are well known to be master filkers. That might be why Jakob and Mandi approve or disapprove of their little green ways. Other than some great Pixies songs, what has Area 51 done for you lately? NEWS! We’ve moved over to Simply Syndicated! Woot! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #32 - The Doom Episode (9/11) The whole point was to make ‘Charlie Sheen you shouldn’t wear make-up it makes you look like a whore’ jokes but Jakob and Mandi forgot. Then they got dogmatic and doomy and a bit gloomy. Links: Charlie Sheen goes batshit; People of Wal-Mart. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #31 - Three Weddings and a Funeral School Drop-out There’s nothing like a wedding to bring out the obsessive compulsive disorder in a person. The most devout Star Trek nerd doesn’t hold a candle to the average bridezilla when it comes to nit-picking details. Imagine if the two combined. A bridezilla at the helm of a Trek themed wedding might cause a rift in space/time [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #30 - Previously on… Previously on Nerd Hurdles… Zombies, Robots, Vampires, Lesbians! On episode 30 Jakob and Mandi try to remember everything they forgot to say in the first 29 episodes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #29 - Video Games WoW! People get really obsessed with video games. Sometimes they even die for their obsession. Some people rock out with toy guitars, some people make coloured blocks fit together, and some make racial stereotypes hop over turtles. The thing all these people have in common is they’re NERDS.  Jakob and Mandi play with the topic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #28 - The Nerds Are Alive with the Sound of Hurdles Jakob and Mandi scratch the surface of musical nerd hurdles (good thing it’s a podcast and not a CD!). They cover musicals and comedic singers mostly. They don’t even mention prog and spacerock so there might have to be sophomore effort. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #27 - Naked Lynch David freaking Lynch. Not for everyone. Jakob and Mandi love him so much they made a Twin Peaks cake. You can see the results of their “casting game” at The Hurdled Nerd Blog. If you don’t understand David Lynch is a whole other level of awesome, you should tell them why at the Nerd Hurdles forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #26 - SPECIAL - Blood Prince! Half Price! Half-Blood Prince movie special! We talk to Kumar through the floo network, are visted by Eliza’s patronus and Ben sends us a muggle recording by owl while Igor annoys Mandi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #25 - Celebrity Worship and Whoreship Jakob and Mandi aren’t starfuckers. But they are fascinated by people who are. Also what is the difference between fame and infamy, really? Full show notes at: nerdhurdles.wordpress.com Join the Nerd Hurdles community: http://nerdhurdles.forumotion.com/ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #24 - Sculder and Mully Jakob would like to apologize for being hungover. He was abducted by a booze pusher named Mandi. He gruffly slurs his way through an episode on The X Files. The truth is in this podcast. Even if they neglect to mention nerd heroes The Lone Gunmen. Visit the forums: nerdhurdles.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #23 - Pride and Prejudice Running of the Dykes is a prideful annual event in Toronto and Jakob and Mandi went and watched them. Then they got drunk at the beer garden and podcasted about Pride in general. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #22 - History and Herstory Mandi likes the fur trade. Jakob likes the modern age. This is a podcast to go down in history. www.nerdhurdles.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #21 - Yawn of the Dead Zombies. Scary little bastards. Scarier are zombie fans who will eat your brains if you claim people infected with rage virus are zombies. Which they are. Totally. Visit The Hurdled Nerd for complete show notes. Let us know what you think about zombies on the Forums! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #20 - Special Edition Directors Cut Bonus Features Gag reels. Deleted scenes. Alternate takes. People love bonus features on DVDs even if they leave you wanting more. This is because only cast members find the bloopers funny and deleted scenes are usually deleted for a reason. This didn’t stop Jakob and Mandi from compiling a heap of their own mistakes and tangents to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #19 - Porn Time Do you ever wish you could go back in time and change something? Maybe something involving porn? If only it were possible. If only. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #18 - Podcastration Podcasts. Lots of people don’t listen to them. Obviously, you’re not one of them. Why don’t people listen to podcasts? Too nerdy? Too much hassle? Too poddy? Tasks: Get a friend to listen to Nerd Hurdles. And then find out why they don’t like it. Links: Nerd Hurdles Forums, Simply Syndicated Forums, Mediasaurs Forums, Kumar’s blog, Kennedy’s blog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #17 - Nerd Trek The Motion Picture Jakob and Mandi went to the Star Trek reboot and did not have their hearts broken. They even made lots of new nerd friends. Once they found nerds who’d talk to them. Then they got in some strangers’ van and lived to tell the tale. Ad-Astra Sci-Fi and Fantasy literature con, Lumina Shuttle, Even more awesome [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #16 - Robots and Ro-Nots Mandi doesn’t like robots. Jakob is a robot. Data is not a robot, he’s an android. The Evil T-1000 is lame. Laws of Robotics, Top 50 Robots, Future fanboy girlfriends, Future sleep smothering companions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #15 - Nerd Pride Say it loud, I am a nerd and I am quite proud, to be honest! Jakob and Mandi explore what it means to be a nerd in our society and why it should be a source of pride. Other topics include the Nerd of the Month and the ginger havens. Pride links: Starfleet Ranks, Nerd of the Month [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #14 - Enders Game Over Jakob didn’t want to read sci-fi classic Ender’s Game because Star Wars Episode 1 convinced him sci-fi about children is doomed to utter failure. Ender schooled him up proper, but what did Mandi think? Kumar will be glad to know Jakob was not only wrong in this episode, but quantifiably wrong. Also, a chapter on how our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #13 - Iron Man, Tupperware and Poo Tinfoil Man has all but vanished into obscurity, but his alter ego, Iron Man, opens the way for discussion on poo, the nature of mythology and currency of the realm. Recorded the day after the Transformers episode, Mandi is once again under the weather and feels she is not responsible for anything she said. Jakob [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #12 - Tran-snore-mers Less than meets the eye. Jakob and Mandi both have never understood the appeal of these toys/cartoon heroes called Transformers. So, because they love you, they put themselves through the movie starring Even Stevens and some girl people seem to like. Along the road they roll over Gremlins, the A-Team, Garbage Pail Kids, Steven Speilberg, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #11 - Earth Hour You read that correct. Freakin’ Earth Hour is a nerd hurdle for Jakob. He probably also kicks puppies. Mandi describes a miracle she witnessed while Jakob gets sanctimonious about hippies, religion, the paranormal, Michael Moore, opera and token feel-good environmentalist gestures such as turning the lights off for one meagre hour a year. Critical of apparently [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #10 - From Twilight to Twitter, your letters Jakob and Mandi celebrate their 10th episode by opening up the mailbag and answering some of your wonderful letters. And by answer we mean use them as a springboard for various tangents. Mostly these tangents involve celebrity crushes and MPREG. There are no answers, only questions. There might not even be any actual questions, come [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #9 - Celebs on Twitter Levar Burton is just one of many celebs on Twitter. As a direct and inescapable result, Jakob and Mandi met him at a Tweet-Up in Toronto. They did not meet Wil Wheaton. Mandi might have imploded if they had. Even meeting Levar was such a mind-altering experience, it took two recording sessions to capture their thoughts. Since recording this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews ARCHIVE VOL 2: Episodes 7 - 13 The final broadcast of P-Reviews. This rounds up the last of the early episodes I was hosting somewhere else. One or two might have made it on this feed before. The Phil Collins one did for sure. Thanks for listening. P-Reviews was fun but I wanted to end it on a high(ish) note. Stay tuned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews ARCHIVE VOL 2: Episodes 7 - 13 The final broadcast of P-Reviews. This rounds up the last of the early episodes I was hosting somewhere else. One or two might have made it on this feed before. The Phil Collins one did for sure. Thanks for listening. P-Reviews was fun but I wanted to end it on a high(ish) note. Stay tuned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #8 - Martial Arts and Body Parts The martial arts attract a special kind of nerd. The kind of nerd that wants to kick some serious ass. Or they just want to fondle the swords and nun-chucks. This barrier is why Jakob and Mandi apparently know much less about martial arts than they thought so they talk about… other stuff. They neglect to mention [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #8 - Martial Arts and Body Parts The martial arts attract a special kind of nerd. The kind of nerd that wants to kick some serious ass. Or they just want to fondle the swords and nun-chucks. This barrier is why Jakob and Mandi apparently know much less about martial arts than they thought so they talk about… other stuff. They neglect to mention [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #7 - Herds of Nerds Sci-Fi Conventions. Jakob’s never been to one, Mandi’s been to a few. What makes them so embarrassing, weird and downright icky? And does Jakob only refuse to go to one because George Lucas murdered his inner child? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #7 - Herds of Nerds Sci-Fi Conventions. Jakob’s never been to one, Mandi’s been to a few. What makes them so embarrassing, weird and downright icky? And does Jakob only refuse to go to one because George Lucas murdered his inner child? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews ARCHIVE VOL 1: Episodes 1 - 6 I’ve decided I am, in fact, killing P-Reviews. It’s done. Maybe I can squeeze another couple out but… why bother? But anyway, the first 13 episodes aren’t on this feed yet, so I’m posting them in two volumes. Here’s episodes 1 to 6 recorded between July 22nd and August 19th, 2008. The audio quality fluctuates [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews ARCHIVE VOL 1: Episodes 1 - 6 I’ve decided I am, in fact, killing P-Reviews. It’s done. Maybe I can squeeze another couple out but… why bother? But anyway, the first 13 episodes aren’t on this feed yet, so I’m posting them in two volumes. Here’s episodes 1 to 6 recorded between July 22nd and August 19th, 2008. The audio quality fluctuates [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #6 - Potter-mouths Dear Listeners, our heroes didn’t intend to talk about wizard people, Harry Potter just happened. They’ll talk about whatever it was they had planned next week. Even a Nimbus 2000 couldn’t get Jakob over this hurdle. Mandi is reading Snape/Rickman MPREG. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #6 - Potter-mouths Dear Listeners, our heroes didn’t intend to talk about wizard people, Harry Potter just happened. They’ll talk about whatever it was they had planned next week. Even a Nimbus 2000 couldn’t get Jakob over this hurdle. Mandi is reading Snape/Rickman MPREG. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #5 - Superzeroes Superheroes. Jakob and Mandi never really got them. Except for Adam West. They tried to get their spidey senses tingling on a dark night but ended up with more debits than credits in their superhero ledger. Everyone’s got one. George Takei even makes a cameo at the end like in a certain actually good, post-modern superhero [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #5 - Superzeroes Superheroes. Jakob and Mandi never really got them. Except for Adam West. They tried to get their spidey senses tingling on a dark night but ended up with more debits than credits in their superhero ledger. Everyone’s got one. George Takei even makes a cameo at the end like in a certain actually good, post-modern superhero [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #28: Nae-palming with Bashir in the Fall I don’t actually watch movies. My friend Nae does. I asked him to come in a tell me all about a couple so that I could review them. Waltz With Bashir (not a Deep Space Nine movie unfortunately) and The Fall (not a bio-pic about the legendary band, unfortunately) are on the fire. Nae does [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #28: Nae-palming with Bashir in the Fall I don’t actually watch movies. My friend Nae does. I asked him to come in a tell me all about a couple so that I could review them. Waltz With Bashir (not a Deep Space Nine movie unfortunately) and The Fall (not a bio-pic about the legendary band, unfortunately) are on the fire. Nae does [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #4 - His Dark Materials A trilogy of fantastic books, one fantastic crapfest of a film. Jakob and Mandi try to figure out what went wrong with Hollywood’s take on Book One, The Golden Compass and discuss the nerd hurdle Jakob had which almost prevented him from reading the truly wonderful books. WARNING: They don’t shy away from SPOILERS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #4 - His Dark Materials A trilogy of fantastic books, one fantastic crapfest of a film. Jakob and Mandi try to figure out what went wrong with Hollywood’s take on Book One, The Golden Compass and discuss the nerd hurdle Jakob had which almost prevented him from reading the truly wonderful books. WARNING: They don’t shy away from SPOILERS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #27: Trek Trailers TOS and Ton’ts The Original Series Star Trek DVDs include the original episode trailers. How do they hold up to the actual episodes? And is this something worth exploring? Mandi joins me to boldly go where many podcasts have gone before. For some reason Mandi’s voice is hotter than usual in this episode. By that I mean the signal was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #27: Trek Trailers TOS and Ton’ts The Original Series Star Trek DVDs include the original episode trailers. How do they hold up to the actual episodes? And is this something worth exploring? Mandi joins me to boldly go where many podcasts have gone before. For some reason Mandi’s voice is hotter than usual in this episode. By that I mean the signal was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #26: Bono tinted glasses U2, Brute? Every time I get excited about U2 reinventing themselves with a new album, they stab me in the back. Let’s see if they do it again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #26: Bono tinted glasses U2, Brute? Every time I get excited about U2 reinventing themselves with a new album, they stab me in the back. Let’s see if they do it again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #3 - Fan Fiction In which Mandi reveals way too much, Jakob is horrified. Thus ends this tale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #3 - Fan Fiction In which Mandi reveals way too much, Jakob is horrified. Thus ends this tale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #25: Poster Toaster I’ve got the January blahs. There aren’t any new records to review and it’s in-between x-mas and summer blockbuster season. I couldn’t be arsed to watch any trailers even so I chose five movies to review based on their posters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #25: Poster Toaster I’ve got the January blahs. There aren’t any new records to review and it’s in-between x-mas and summer blockbuster season. I couldn’t be arsed to watch any trailers even so I chose five movies to review based on their posters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #2 - The Nerd Store The nerd store. The Mount Doom of nerd hurdles. Collectable card games, roleplaying and miniatures. It gives you shivers just thinking about it… and that creepy backroom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #2 - The Nerd Store The nerd store. The Mount Doom of nerd hurdles. Collectable card games, roleplaying and miniatures. It gives you shivers just thinking about it… and that creepy backroom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #24: Review of P-Reviews ‘08 2008. It’s over. I look back at what I reviewed over the year and realize 2008 was pants for music and movies. Thank jebus Sarah Palin isn’t president. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #24: Review of P-Reviews ‘08 2008. It’s over. I look back at what I reviewed over the year and realize 2008 was pants for music and movies. Thank jebus Sarah Palin isn’t president. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #23: Surviving Chuck Palahniuk How much Palahniuk could a Survivor chuck if a Survivor could Chuck Palahniuk? About 289 pages worth (I just noticed the book is numbered backwards… you can bet I would have had something to say about that). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #23: Surviving Chuck Palahniuk How much Palahniuk could a Survivor chuck if a Survivor could Chuck Palahniuk? About 289 pages worth (I just noticed the book is numbered backwards… you can bet I would have had something to say about that). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #22: Knowing is half the battle Nicolas Cage. You gotta love him. And by “love” I clearly mean find his choice of movies hilarious and possibly you may have to hate him. You also have to love when two different trailers for the same movie imply vastly different plotlines. And don’t get me started on the poster. Not only do they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #22: Knowing is half the battle Nicolas Cage. You gotta love him. And by “love” I clearly mean find his choice of movies hilarious and possibly you may have to hate him. You also have to love when two different trailers for the same movie imply vastly different plotlines. And don’t get me started on the poster. Not only do they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #1 - Twilight On an appropriately grey, twilight-like afternoon, we discussed the pros and cons of the tweenage, vampire phenonmenon that is Twilight and how it relates to douchebags, robots, low self-esteem and Harry Potter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nerd Hurdles #1 - Twilight On an appropriately grey, twilight-like afternoon, we discussed the pros and cons of the tweenage, vampire phenonmenon that is Twilight and how it relates to douchebags, robots, low self-esteem and Harry Potter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #21: Christmassacre 2008 Christmas music. Is there anything as simultaneously wondrous and horrible? Perhaps tequila comes close. I don’t think any other time of year puts my yin and yang out of alignment quite so much. I don’t care much for rampant, mindless, insincere consumerism but boy do I ever love tinsel, chocolate and, yes, shimmering holiday tunes echoing through [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #20 Britney Spears - Womanizerwomanizerwomanizer Winter is upon us. I needed something hot to warm up my feet. So, after putting on some wooly socks, I reviewed the hot new Britney Spears album, Womanizer. And by that I cleary mean mediocre new album, Circus and the hot single Womanizer. I have a feeling I’m not going to respect myself in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #19: Jakob_72 To celebrate my birthday, I had the bright idea Mandi and I should review me based on my Plenty of Fish profile. Since what is a dating site profile but a trailer for a person anyway? It was a great idea, that is, until it pretty much turned into a bit of a lovey dovey gooey [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #18: Hello Blue Roses, goodbye disliking Bejar records I’m not much of a Daniel Bejar fan, I’ll admit. And by “fan” I of course mean “person who doesn’t listen to this artist at all.” I don’t much like Destroyer or the over-rated New Pornographers. Ken said, “How is it that you can still dislike him? Everything he’s touched in the last 2 years [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #17: Chinese Democracy track-by-track smackdown I actually was hoping Chinese Democracy would be worse. Then it might have been even vaguely interesting to listen to. It’s not. It was hard to even talk smack about it because it’s so much nothing piled upon so much nothing it almost disappears inside the (not even swirling) vortex of disinterest it creates out of pure, distilled boringness. It’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #12 Oasis vs Phil Collins This was originally cast on October 15th, 2008, before I got this Podbean account worked out. I don’t know how to “back-date” posts yet so things are going to be all out of order for a while (or forever). I’m re-posting this review for two reasons: a) I want to get the old episodes up eventually; and b) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P-Reviews #16 Star Trek Zero The new Star Trek trailer was leaked this week. Hulk is angry. I probably shouldn’t drink wine when I’m recording a podcast. Why are you making a whore out of my childhood sweetheart, J. J. Abrams, why? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |