Started with the zombie one, natch, as it's good to see Simon and Nick together, at any time, but about to check out the rest.
What a great comic team, huh?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
#27 Samuel Smith - Oatmeal Stout
I have seen the unusual shaped bottles with the archaic label in stores before, but the price tag always made me shy away. This time, it's miserable outside, and there was no price tag on the bottle. Out of sight, out of mind, and I got a bottle of it.
It does not disappoint. Strong, molassy thick stout. Dark but not too smoky. Sweet, but not too sweet. This is beer heaven and well worth it.
#26 Magic Hat - Demo
Yes. It is a dark beer. But it is cold outside.
Smoky, but somehow with this sort of candy-ish sweet undertone that I'm not that into.
Like I ain't still drinking it though...c'mon!
#25 Science...sort of
This is more my style. They're still nerds, but they're the kind that read science papers. Still they're equal part or more part geeks because they will wonder aloud "What would happen if a werewolf bit a vampire? What about the other way around?"
And here's a song I learned from this show
I just really like their personalites. I mean on the first ep, there's this clearly tacked on section at the beginning that they must have made up after they figured out the audio kinks, where it's them claiming they've come from the future to tell you that no worries, they're on podcast #4,000 and they've figured out all the kinks. "Trust us, we're from the future.""We're further in the time stream than you, listen to us!"
Only four in, but there's a hefty backlog which makes me happy, because overall I like it. I'm not a fan of all the segments, like the trailer review sequence, but that's likely in part since these are about movies that were out 15 months ago since I'm starting at the beginning.
This is kind of like the lighter version of Skeptics Guide - a podcast I'm not likely to run out of soon since it's been up weekly for 5 years in hour long segments, but one thats overall seriousness can get to me. Sometimes I just want to listen to people joke about how stupid the Google Loch Ness Monster looks, or how kooky and fraudulent it is that some new quack is claiming an imminent free energy solution without it being followed by a lengthy discourse on how impossible it is to trust claims that don't follow the scientific method to prove themselves. Not saying I don't agree, but sometimes I'd prefer the junk food version. And so far Science...sort of seems to be the Goldilocks of that. Not too dumb or credulous, not too serious, just right.
And here's a song I learned from this show
#24 The NerdList podcast
Found out about it when they had one of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe guys on to discuss his top ten fictional technologies, and he mentioned it on that podcast. I'm pretty willing to listen to a podcast with nerd in the title, so I gave it a shot.
Have only listened to three of them so far, as I went right to the ones about zombies and the apocalypse after the one with Bob Novella from Skeptics on it, as I am wont to do. They're nerdy all right, but a bit dudish for me. That being said, as a northeasterner, it's extremely funny to hear obscure bits of sci-fi nerd-dom discussed in southern accents, imagine "Have you read that Avengers: New Initiative storyline?" but in the same tone of voice used to discuss ammo (which one of them does, at length in the zombie podcast 'I got a Beretta. It holds 20 rounds') Neato.
They have backlog enough that I can cherry pick the topics I want. It's in a list format and there's generally two hosts, so each one picks ten and then they argue. If there's guests, there's usually two and each picks five. It's a nice concrete format for a podcast, though.
The zombie survival team podcast left me with two main thoughts: 1) Really? No Omar Little? No Ripley for chrissakes? and 2) Who was the guest who wanted George Washington on his team under the rationale that zombies can be bitten if you have wooden teeth?
1) is unanswered, and unanswerable to me really, because how good would Omar be with zombies! Honestly? And Ripley's used to fighting intelligent creatures with acid blood in an enclosed space-ship. Fighting braindead zombies, even if they're the fast kind on an open playing field would seem a breeze after THAT?
2) Leads t0 my next podcast discovery. Science...sort of.
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