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Nerd Hurdles is a podcast. Chances are if you’re here, you know that already. But just in case you got sent here by Google or a link sent to you by someone in your office, Nerd Hurdles is a podcast about things nerds like. Things that regular people (”normals”) scoff at or outright shun. We discuss these things in a generally humorous and vaguely intelligent way. Or is that intelligible? It might be neither intelligent nor intelligible.
Jakob and Mandi discuss all manner and forms of nerdery and geekery and what makes them magnificent and tragic. This weekly epic explored the depths of what fandoms mean to their fans. Sacred cows of the scifi, fantasy, comic book and any other genre that makes the general public squirm with discomfort get the irreverent Nerd Hurdles treatment (and nerdy love).
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Nathan is back to help us talk about the 2012 Academy Awards Nominations. We go through the noms in the Best Picture category and make our predictions about who will take home the Oscar on February 26th.
The Nominees: The Artist; The Descendants; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; The Help; Hugo; Midnight in Paris; Moneyball; The Tree of Life; War Horse.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:10 — 24.5MB)
Nerd Hurdles returns to the Underworld. It triggers an argument about body image.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:29 — 22.9MB)
Jakob and Mandi talk food, foodies, cooking classes and cheeses of the world. Anyone up for some balut?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:35 — 21.5MB)
We went on vacation again and this is what we thought about the things we watched (pretty much spoiler free!).
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:28 — 18.3MB)
Like all good things that come in threes, Nerd Hurdles celebrates its 3rd birthday on December the 18th, 2011. Fittingly, or a reasonable facsimile of fittingly, they talk about the great trilogies of our time (somehow omitting the Beethoven movies).
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:11 — 20.4MB)
To celebrate the brilliant new The Muppets movie, we return to this subject to give it a more in depth analysis than in our puppetry episode (yeah right).
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:48 — 19.3MB)
This week Jakob and Mandi return to the world of reality TV—specifically the talent contest shows— and use it as a frame for tangents. They also talk about drunk Paula and confuse X-Factor with various countries that Got Talent.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:48 — 19.8MB)
After a brief, unplanned hiatus, we’re back with an episode of proportions. Not epic proportions, but human proportions where we wax poetic about the weird anatomy of people far more beautiful than us. We also manage to talk about the oft-maligned, under-rated, misunderstood, yet somewhat problematic, Joss Whedon TV series Dollhouse.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:58 — 19.9MB)
Jakob and Mandi are joined by their soft-spoken librarian friend Stephen about the most hallowed of all nerd haunts, the public library. Together they comb the stacks in search of the fiction, non-fiction and history behind the stigmas and stereotypes of the institution, its employees and its patrons.
Links: We would have written about famous librarians in pop culture but a blog called The Despectacled Librarian has already done more research on the subject than we care to.
Librarians in song
Librarians on TV
Librarians in movies
Libreas Podcast (as in Library Ideas… see what they done there?). Interestingly the name is a pun in English but the podcast is actually in German.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:47 — 20.2MB)
One of the few horribly over-crowded places you can say, “It’s a zoo in here!” and mean it literally. Never mind the penned-up animals, the real exhibits are the people.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:46 — 21.6MB)
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