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Nerd Lunch Episode 68: Failed movie toy lines

Posted in movies, nostalgia, podcast, pop culture, toys with tags movies, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcast, podcasts, pop culture, toys on January 16, 2013 by Paxton

This week we are joined by Kirk Howle from Schlock Treatment who follows his podcast colleague Doug from last week. Unfortunately, Jeeg was not able to join us so we called in 4th chair regular Shawn Robare to fill in. The topic this week is failed movie toy lines.

We talk about a few movie toy lines that work and why we think they work. We then parlay that into some movie toy lines that failed and why we think they failed. Movie toys we discuss involve Star Wars, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, Dick Tracy and several more you probably didn’t even realize existed.

Get your fix for both movie and toy nostalgia with this week’s episode and download this episode from iTunes or listen to it on Feedburner.

Or listen to it online here.

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Nerd Lunch Episode 67: Nerdstradamus 2013

Posted in podcast, pop culture with tags fast food, movies, Nerd Lunch Podcast, Nerdstradamus, podcast, podcasts, pop culture, soda, television on January 8, 2013 by Paxton

I predict that you will listen to the 67th episode of the Nerd Lunch podcast and nearly crap yourself when you hear us talk about pop culture predictions. That’s right, in this episode, for the new year, we are making predictions. Predictions about movies, TV shows, fast food and soda. We even try to predict who’s going to die.

Nostradamus

To help us with these predictions we are joined again by Doug Frye from the Schlock Treatment podcast. So download the episode to your listening device and hear us make completely unfounded predictions about pop culture. And fully expect that at the end of 2013, we will revisit this topic to see how we did. Right now, I can tell you that one of my predictions is already untrue. That’s just how this whole game is played.

Download this episode from iTunes or listen to it on Feedburner.

Or listen to it online here.

Cult Film Club Episode 2 Part 2: Personal Experiences with Cult

Posted in movies, nostalgia, podcast, pop culture with tags Cult Film Club, movies, podcast, podcasts, pop culture on January 2, 2013 by Paxton

Welcome to part 2 of the second episode of the Cult Film Club.

In this episode Jaime, Shawn and I continue our discussion from part 1 and this time we talk about our own personal experiences with Cult movies. We discuss the back alley video rental stores, cheap movie Monday nights at the local theater and we also throw in a special “lightning round” Recast segment. So download this episode and enjoy the cult-y, movie-y goodness.

You can download the episode on iTunes or listen to it online here.

Nerd Lunch Extra Helping: The Ref (1994)

Posted in movies, podcast with tags movies, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcast, podcasts on December 27, 2012 by Paxton

While I’m off overseeing the birth of my daughter, CT and Jeeg convene for a quick discussion about the little remembered Denis Leary movie, The Ref, from 1994.

The fellas discuss their love for Mr Leary and JK Simmons as well as the hatred that CT has for the Christmas candle hats the family wears. It’s a fun roundtable about a hidden Christmas gem that you may or may not like depending on your tolerance level of Denis Leary. So fire up your iTunes and download this directly into your ear holes.

Download this episode from iTunes or listen to it on Feedburner.

Or listen to it on our online player here.

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Cult Film Club Episode 2 Part 1: What is a cult movie?

Posted in movies, nostalgia, podcast with tags Cult Film Club, movies, podcast, podcasts on December 20, 2012 by Paxton

We’ve made it to episode 2. In this second meeting of the Cult Film Club Jaime, Shawn and I discuss what the word “cult” means to us.

What is Cult?

We try to talk generally about the term and use examples, but the discussion gets involved so we had to split the episode into two parts. You can listen to Part 1 today in which we talk about the definition of cult films, the nature of cult films and we list our own personal examples of cult movies.

You can download Episode 2 Part 1 from iTunes or listen to it online here.

In Part 2, which should post in January, we discuss our own personal experiences with cult films.