Monthly Archives: August 2010

PodCulture 219: The Theory of Relative Geekery – Part A

Don’t adjust your headphones! Christina’s off visiting the Hellmouth, so Brad, Glenn and Adam welcome our number one fan, Andy and Adam’s brother, Jason to the studio!

Glenn is bereft, having finished Red Dead Redemption, but he’ll be back in the saddle when the expansions come out. In the meantime, he’s got Alan Wake and Alone In The Dark to keep him busy. Jason recalls playing the original Alone In The Dark, back in the day. Adam has been watching IT Crowd and is loving it! Jason is playing Just Cause 2 and is thrilled with the openness of the game. He enjoys that both he and his wife get in to True Blood. Andy is getting back to school and laments that he can’t be there to cheer Brad on at the Parsec Awards. He has spent his summer geek bonding with his family and is torturing his wife with some of Glenn’s Guilty Pleasures. Glenn has won a Sharktopus pin from Scyfy and Twitter. Brad is on his own, while Christina is in Cleveland, but he’s keeping up the geeking. He discusses the fact that his Augen Tablet has been pulled from shelves, and has watched Speed Racer on blu ray.

They dudes talk tech this week! Jason shares his Sprint genius and the guys discuss HTC, the Evo, and the Froyo update. Each has his favorite new kind of application. Adam is loving the photo editing apps, as well as the Tricorder app. Jason talks about the Tweet Deck and Brad likes Tweetcaster. Adam uses Rainy Days and Radar Now to check the weather. Brad uses the Qik app to stream PodCulture video. Jason compliments the new Galaxy S, and Brad was excited about the Droid R2D2 phone. Who is winning in the war between Apple and Android? Let us know!

Brad provides Geek Cuisine this week, and he shares Jolly Rancher Awesome Twosome Chews along with the story of his Jolly Rancher addictions.

Musical Guests: Devo Spice with “Flight Check” and Sci-Fried with “Dr. Jones”

Promos come courtesy of The British Invaders Podcast, and outtakes courtesy of your own dear and wacky hosts.

PodCulture 218: Little Bag of Geek – Part B

We open this week’s episode with the stellar news that PodCulture is a finalist at the 2010 Parsec Awards. The competition in the Best Speculative Fiction Fan or News Podcast General is stiff, but the crew is thrilled!

Geeks need sugar, and we share our Geek Cuisine with you! After the excitement over finding out that there are Buffy Jones Soda flavors, Adam introduces Fizzled Fruits Skittles.

Glenn opens Geek and Tell with the news that he has downloaded Android for his phone. Adam hasn’t gotten anything new yet, but he’s planning on picking up Starcraft 2. Brad broaches the World of Warcraft controversy of real name reveal. What do you think? Weigh in on our voicemail! Christina and Brad talk about the Wii swap they did with Brad’s dad, which ended up being beneficial for all. Brad shows off his new Green Lantern Chuck Taylor Converse and talks in depth about the Augen Gentouch78 Tablet that he got as early birthday presents from Christina. He discusses both the cons and the possibilities of the tablet, and holds out hope for improvement. Glenn is intrigued by the Android tablet and debates the option to pick the future version up and buy just a simple phone for calling.

In closing, Glenn discusses the upcoming and much anticapted MMO RPG DC Universe Online, and gets everyone to sign up for a chance to be in the beta testing. The questions abound about customization, character options and console choices, and we all can’t wait to find out.

Our promo this week comes from Milk Carton TV, and the song is Fanboy (2010 Edition) by The Great Luke Ski.