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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