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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.

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Nerd Lunch Episode 66: Creating the ultimate Christmas special

Posted in Christmas, holiday, podcast, pop culture, Rankin/Bass, Santa Claus with tags Christmas, holiday, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcast, podcasts, Rankin-Bass, Santa Claus on December 18, 2012 by Paxton

Episode 66 of the Nerd Lunch Podcast has stuffed itself down your chimney and is sitting in your stocking. Waiting.

This week we are joined by Mr Michael Digiovanni from The Atomic Geeks for a discussion about Christimas Specials. Except we aren’t going to actually discuss the specials themselves, we are going to take our favorite characters from our favorite specials and start creating our own Nerd Lunch Christmas special.

Via RankinBass.com

We each pick a hero, a villain, some henchman, a narrator and a specific plot device (MacGuffin). Then we all talk about and pick the ones we like best and “Frankenstein” those ideas up into our very own Christmas special. And it turns out pretty f**king awesome. Give it a listen and see if you don’t agree.

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Nerd Lunch Episode 65: The Trial of Tim Burton

Posted in movies, podcast, pop culture with tags movies, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcast, podcasts, pop culture on December 11, 2012 by Paxton

This week, we are joined by Mr Matt Ringler of the Schlock Treatment podcast (when he decides to show up). For our topic, we return to do one of our trial episodes which we did previously in episode 15. We put Michael Bay on trial in that episode, this time, we are prosecuting Mr Tim Burton.

Tim Burton

I play the star witness as well as the bailiff, CT is the judge, Matt is the prosecutor and Jeeg is the defender. We talk about Burton’s body of work, we talk about what works, what doesn’t. Essentially we are deciding if Burton should be put away for good for crimes against the movie-going people. Are Batman and Ed Wood enough to keep him out of jail? Are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Planet of the Apes going to drag him down like an anchor around the neck? Tune in to find out.

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Nerd Lunch Episode 64 – Very Special Ninja Day episode

Posted in movies, ninjas, pop culture with tags movies, Nerd Lunch Podcast, Ninja Day, ninjas, podcast, podcasts, pop culture on December 4, 2012 by Paxton

Tomorrow is officially Ninja Day. So in celebration, the Nerd Lunch Podcast has invited Jaime from shezcrafti.com to join us for a discussion of one of the greatest 80s ninja movies of all time, Ninja III: The Domination.

Ninja 3 V8

We talk a little about the movie’s origins, our own experiences with it and the awesomeness that is Sho Kosugi in an eyepatch. So if you love ninjas possessing young, sweaty aerobics instructors, ridiculously hairy boyfriends and crates of V8 juice, then you’ll love our discussion of Ninja III: The Domination.

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Nerd Lunch Episode 63: 80s sitcoms

Posted in 80s, pop culture, TV shows with tags Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcast, podcasts, pop culture, TV shows on November 28, 2012 by Paxton

We are moving closer and closer to episode 75. For this episode we are joined by Claymation Werewolf who writes for his own humor blog as well as The Retroist. This week we tackle the very daunting subject of 80s sitcoms.

(Via The Domestic Fringe)

We talk about some of our favorites, we talk about some of our not-so-favorites. We talk about sitcom crushes and theme songs. We cover all our bases in this very broad and general discussion about sitcoms from the 1980s. It’s a lot of fun, so download it and reminisce with us.

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