The Geeks of Hazzard s02e13 (#040) (MP3 – 21.2 mb / 0 hr 46 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

When all through the night, the boys were yammering on about all the geek-shit they were hoping to get. At least, I assume that’s what they were doing. This was supposed to go out to you guys before Christmas, but they’ve been so busy playing… um… with their toys… um, well. Here it is, the Post-Pre-Christmas Post. According to Kev, they mainly talked about 3 movie trailers:

Nick Fury appears in Hulk and Iron Man. Hopefully he does more than just appear, hopefully he brings his FURY!

Hellboy 2 trailer. There’s a hell and there’s a boy. Again. And that cool fish dude.

Duke Nukem Forever? FOREVER!
Peace Out!
Van’s Girly

The Geeks of Hazzard s02e12 (#039) (MP3 – 21 mb / 0 hr 45 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

Kev considers the virtues of working away from the office (hint: it’s freakin’ great)
The reviewing media hits a new low, as a Gamespot editor is fired for honesty.
Street Fighter 4 confirmed, in-game screens look a bit shit.
Ray Park is Snake Eyes in GI Joe!

The Geeks of Hazzard s02e08 (#038) (MP3 – 17.8 mb mb / 0 hr 38 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

Welcome to another episode recorded on the road! Tonight we caught the cinematic screening of the Star Trek: The Original Series double-episode “The Menagerie” at Cinema Nova here in Melbourne. It’s had a massive worldwide release, and we were lucky enough to get into the Melbourne screening! It was pretty damn amazing what they’ve done with it. The remastering is fantastic, and the updated effects were tasteful and really quite good. Very, very impressive stuff.

Definitely gonna have to grab the new HD season 1 box set when it comes out!

Other crap we talked about:

In other news, the Ghostbusters are back! In Pog game form!
Are you an Australian, desperately yearning to ride a Segway? This is your time!
Google Maps street view readying for Australia!
Video, GPS, Googlemaps and you. A mashup.
How does the WGA writers strike affect you? Here’s how!
Google might be feeling lucky, but it’s costing them a hot mint.

The Geeks of Hazzard s02e10 (#037) (MP3 – 17.1 mb / 0 hr 37 mins)

Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

Van’s girly here. I’m back and I’m RAD. So rad, in fact, it is now my official GoH moniker. Yay, me! (It works, kind of. It’s got three letters!)

So yeah, Ken and Viv Kev and Van went to the Egames Expo and promised they weren’t going anywhere near the Sexpo. So they said. But while I’m positive the Stig once punched down a horse, the possibility that these two didn’t ponder the Sexpo entrance for a long 10 minutes is beyond belief. And so it goes.
Okay, the official reason they were at the Sexpo Egames Expo was to interview Mark Eliot, some dude who made an actual computer game! Fo’ shizzle! According to Van’s taped confession, it’s highly addictive. For those of you still recovering from years and years of Tetris addiction, *ahem* BEWARE!

Peace out. RAD out.

The Geeks of Hazzard s02e09 (#036) (MP3 – 25.8 mb / 0 hr 56 mins)

Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

Even more illogical would be Van’s girlfriend doing this blog post ON THE SLY! Which is happening right now, at this very moment! Excitement abounds! Especially when you realise that I haven’t heard the podcast and I’m totally winging it here! All for the sake of you loyal listeners, waiting patiently (too patiently?), for the next episode. I see the Geeks have trained you well. All Your Base Are Belong To Us and other geeky stuff. Yeah. On to the fun links. Stop looking at me.
First look at Zachary Quinto as the young Spock
Steve Guttenberg is BACK, baby
Winona Ryder is Spock’s mum! I didn’t know!
Pacman swallows a guitar, fat end first
Tim Kring, creator of Heroes, apologies to fans for sucking
The Last Starfighter arcade machine has been recreated by a fan
Wil Wright, creator of The Sims, was a street racer
Ehgamay sexpo! - Origami Sex Po? Conveniently, an actual “Sexpo” was happening next door to the gamer nerds. This is how we got Tomb Raider, I guess.
Alone in the park trailer - Probably a game from the sexpo. Wait. What?
Trent Reznor is a pirate! Argh! I mean, oink!
Okay, I hope you guys have the idea. Now I’m gonna go see/hear how much is right.

The Geeks of Hazzard s02e08 (#035) (MP3 – 25.8 mb / 0 hr 56 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

A Jedi Academy in NYC? I’m afraid so kids, I’m afraid so.
A Star Trek coffin? Didn’t they pull that stunt already in Star Trek II?!
Heroes Origins cancelled! Also, this season might be shortened!
Here, have some more info about JJ Abrams’ monster movie!
The Google PC! Well, Sort of. US$200!
Check this out; an arcade cabinet with a beer keg inside!
PacMan text adventure? That’s right! If you’re under 20, you won’t get this at all!
Afterburn, the new post-apocalyptic comic from Red 5 Comics.
The scooter that also chills your beer, and your balls! Maybe. I dunno.
Steampunk PacMan arcade toy. This is cute as shit, I want it.
Joss Whedon’s new TV show, Dollhouse!
And here’s a few extras that we didn’t talk about!

Stormtrooper - aka blogger Danny Choo - dancing in Shibuya, Japan! Link 2!
Chinese kid makes his own Bumblebee model from KFC boxes!
Dude, make your own Flux Capacitor. Hell yeah.

DINOSAUCEEEEEERS!

[via HaHa.nu]

The Geeks of Hazzard s02e07 (#034) (MP3 – 25.5 mb / 0 hr 55 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

Wow, two episodes in two days, you guys are probably crying right now so damn lucky, right? This week, Kev rambled on for 4 hours about our download stats, and then I spent the remaining 12 hours being a jerk. Why do I do it, damn it? Why? Here’s a few other things we talked about!

Kev gives his best Chris Crocker impression while reading a Trekkie letter.
If you’re down with the lolcats, you’re halfway toward being a badass programmer!
Mozilla announces Prism; web apps on your desktop!
Add your own captions and dialogue to scenes from The Living Dead.
Ways to make Facebook a little more useful, and a little less shit.
New photos and screens from AVP-R - Predalien!
Josh Lucas to play Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek XI?
Comic book artist Kaare Andrews pitches a He-Man movie!
Mad Max 4 is going ahead, without Gibson!
Yeeaah, I’m gonna get you to go ahead and watch Ron Livingston’s trailer.
New I Am Legend trailer and short! Good gravy!
New Harold and Kumar 2 poster, and here’s the trailer too.
Incidentally, Dumbledore was gay!

Stay tuned for next week’s episode, where we have some technical difficulties and drink beer! A must-hear show!

Nate Bellegarde has been one of my favourite artists for a while now, best known for his art on the backup stories found in the back of Invincible. Every now and then, he posts a comic on Fetorpse, his Livejournal account. The guy’s artwork is messed up in every way I’ve ever wanted mine to be, and my hat is off to him at least twice a day. He’s posted up a new strip, so go check it out if ye know what’s good for ye.  You can also check out his sketchblog here.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m busy listening to a 90s compilation. Aaaah Mr. Big, wherever did you go.

There appears to be a problem with this week’s (aka last week’s) episode, so we’ve taken down the blog post for the moment. Apologies to folks who’ve already downloaded the file via their subscriptions, no doubt you’ll come here to the blog wondering WTF! Kev will fix the file tonight and we’ll put the blog post back up, so please come back in a bunch of hours and grab the file again. Again, sincerest geekapologies!

<3 Van.

The Geeks of Hazzard s02e06 (#033) (MP3 – 25.6 mb / 0 hr 55 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

Honda’s ASIMO robot has been touring Australia lately, so Kev and I thought we’d go and check it out at Chadstone—Australia’s fashion capital. We tried on Thursday night, and were 5 minutes late—which we discovered is late enough to be turned away. We tried again on Sunday, and found out after standing in line for 25 minutes that the shows were all booked out—and they’d known this for an hour or so. Jerks! So, in true nerd fashion, it’s time we got out revenge.

TGoH now exists for no other purpose than to ensure the return of Sony’s QRIO! Keep an eye out for our chart on the reasons why QRIO is not only better than ASIMO, but would beat its ass in a fight to the positronic death. There may also be a t-shirt in the works, which we’ll give away to a lucky listener or two (one each, of course. We wouldn’t make you share it. Nerd germs!)

BRING BACK QRIO, DOWN WITH ASIMO!

Wolverine movie to begin shooting in Australia and NZ soon!
Vin Diesel’s new action/sci-fi movie with the cheapass looking poster!
Sly Stallone in Rambo City! Sin Rambo? I give up!
The I Am Legend website is awesome. CONCUR!
The trailer for the upcoming Street Fighter 4 game is extremely slick, check it out!
Exclamation mark!
Check out the Robot Hall of Fame!
A StarGate MMO? I hope it does better than the Star Wars Galaxies one!
The End of the World is Nigh! The robots are revolting!

The image above was painted by one Will Murai, and taken without permission—and altered—by TGoH (as you’d expect). Check out his work, it’s phenomenal. Seriously.

The Geeks of Hazzard #032 (MP3 – 25.5 mb / 0 hr 55 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

On tonight’s episode, Kev came to term with the trials of Bacon.
The ridiculousness of copyright law carries on!

We talked movies ’til the sun came up!

Peter Jackson and Spielberg on a Tintin movie.
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return for Fast and the Furious 4.
Continuing on the Vin Diesel train (geddit, diesel train); Terminator 4.
If podfade exists, what about blogfade? It’s just too out there, man!
Wanna see how the different sci-fi spaceships stack up? Check this out!
A Karate Kid remake? Oh jeez. Ralph Macchio, come back!

And what about Star Trek XI?

Karl Urban to play a bad guy?
Of course, we’ve also got Eric Bana, John Cho, and Simon Pegg, what the!
And it might cost more than US$150m to make!

Until next time folks, keep it “rizzeal”!

The Geeks of Hazzard #031 (MP3 – 41.7 mb / 1 hr 3 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

I think I’ll make it a rule from now on that I should listen to Richard Marx’s Hazzard song whenever I’m updating this podcast blog.

My apologies for last week’s episode going up today! We’re not having the best relaunch, that’s for sure. The fact that I’ve returned to full-time study saps a lot of time and energy out of me I’m afraid, and sometimes it’s a real chore to put all this together. But we’ll stick it out and keep doing our best to bring you all the slack, weird, unprofessional, and bumpshit GoH you can handle!

We yammered on a little about some of the following!

Dinoriders Park 4!
Terminator 4!
The craziness that is the world we live in because of Facebook and MySpace
George Miller of Mad Max fame to direct Justice League movie.
Richard “DK” Kelly’s latest flick, Southland Tales.
The Google Phone.
Is that all? Jeez. How the hell do we get through an hour’s worth of crap?! I’ve probably left some things out, so y’all feel free to remind me and I’ll add them to the post!

Until next time, remember: it’s better to travel alone than with a fool. But what may two fools do?

The Geeks of Hazzard #030 (MP3 – 45.85 mb / 1 hr 12 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

A good episode this week! We trod frightfully close to professionalism at certain points, and of course we’ll try to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

What did we jibber jabber on about?

Kev whined about the lack of good news sources online - what?!
We discussed Peter Jackson’s directorial work, and the New Zealand horror scene.
The new film called Ferryman, wherein John Rhys-Davies doesn’t star as himself.
We learned more about the Zombie cocktail, and the Tiki scene, than we thought possible.
George Miller has been pegged as the director of the new JLA movie.
Richard Kelly’s new movie Southland Tales is Donnie Darko with a bigger budget?
The smiley emoticon is 25 years old! In other news, so is the frown emoticon!

And of course, we played a great track from Jonathan Coulton, called Re. Your Brains.  It’s awesome!
Until next time, I always thought Buddha was a fella!

The Geeks of Hazzard #029 (MP3 – 41.2mb 1 hr 02 mins)
Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.

We’re Baaaa-aaaack.

Man, we sure know how to waffle on! If there’s a less professional podcast out there using higher quality recording techniques, I’d be duly shocked. But hey, that’s the Geeks of Hazzard. Dig it, or complain to the network and have us thrown off the air get over it!

In this week’s episode, Van tried to talk about a few especially excellent comic books, but ended up just talking crap as per usual. See what you can get out of it! He recommended the following titles.

Y The Last Man
Fear Agent (which he said was written by Kirkman, but is in fact Rick Remender!)
The Walking Dead
DMZ
A definite end of the world theme going on there!

He also mentioned a comic which he refused to name on the air, and that is Lucha Libre. You will go and buy it, ASAP!

Other things we touched on included:

Kevin Sorbo (of Hercules and Andromeda fame) will be starring soon on Smallville as Supergirl’s pop!
Back to the Future ride at Universal Studios replaced by a Simpsons ride. Noooo!
Optimus Prime pillow that actually transforms. This is groundbreaking.
Natalie Portman in her birthday suit?
Van whined about the title of the new Harry Potter Indiana Jones movie!
ComingSoon.net are looking for writers for their new Sci-Fi site.
Kev finds some Stormtroopers on Google Maps Street View!

And on top of all that, we rambled on for some time about Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Microsoft’s Surface technology, Kev’s upcoming trip to the US for a private meeting with the President, and his desperate desire to witness a cop run down a vigilante on a Segway.

You may also enjoy this Honda engine painted up like a NES controller.

If you’re not already reading the new Thor series, by Joe Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Rising Stars) and French artist Olivier Coipel, sort your shit out.

If you need to do a little catching up on the Thor storyline and history—I sure did—you can check out this Wikipedia entry for that big Norse bastard of the Marvel Universe.

Read a little of this JMS interview over at Newsarama to set yourself on track.

Get a look at some more art from the series here, from issue 2.

Welcome to Season 2 of The Geeks of Hazzard! That’s right, we’re playing this big delay between episodes 27 and 28 off as though it were merely a season break! Clever sods, eh?

For various reasons, mainly to do with geographic and work-related issues, The GoH podcast was forced to take a very long breather. Over recent weeks though, we realised that we still very much missed doing this, and the problems that caused TGoH to fall off the wagon last year were no longer an issue. So here we are, back in action bitches!

We’d planned for tonight’s show to actual be quite huge, but unfortunately the software we use—GarageBand—is the undead form of a warm piece of shit, and wouldn’t allow us to record beyond roughly 1 hr. Something to do with bars (possibly chocolate, but likely not) and the fact that we’re limited to 1099 of them. I think it’s 1099, but the point is that I don’t care.

So with this in mind, episode 28 stands as the first part in a massive two parter! To those to whom I promised I’d cover all the comics I’ve been reading in the past year and a bit, and the comics I’m looking forward to, I apologise. We ran out of time before I got a chance to touch on them. But I like to touch things, and I assure you I’ll go full hammer at them next week!

What did we talk about then? I don’t bloody remember!

I’m pretty sure we touched on the iPhone, and of course the new range of iPods announced yesterday.
We spoke about some of the bigger movies of 2006, including Transformers and Pirates 3.

Heck, that might be all! But we did rant for a very long time in our usual fashion about my dislike for Apple’s policies, so that covers easily 59 minutes of the episode!
A huge thanks to Cam for being so gracious in accepting us back into the TPN fold, and thanks of course to all of our loyal listeners for replying so positively to our email about us being back online!

So, the latest Apple Keynote was today. Jobs unveiled: the new stubby little Nano with video and Coverflow. the iPod Classic which is basically the current iPod, but even thinner. And lastly, the iPod Touch—essentially the iPhone, without the phone. It’s got wifi, and you can download songs from iTunes via the wifi. There were a bunch of other little bits as well, so check out the Engadget link below for a full runthrough of the event.

Engadget runthrough
Apple store
Apple Australia store

If you wish to beat off over this, now’s the time. If you wish to announce your hatred for Apple, now’s the time. I’m somewhere in the middle, hating Apple and myself while beating off. Kev on the other hand, probably has a dirty big serial killer like smile on his face.

Now obviously a lot of geeky things have happened since July last year—the iPhone and the Transformers movie being standout examples of such geeky happenings—and we’ll try to catch up on as many of those things as we can.  Will this result in a longer than usual episode?  Quite possibly, biznitches, quite possibly!

Expect us to touch on some of the following things.

The iPhone, and how much it sucks
Transformers, and how much it almost sucked
A whole slew of comic book stuff

Oh GOD, I can’t think of anything else!  We’ll just make some stuff up.  In the meantime, if there’s anything especially geeky and noteworthy that’s happened in the past year that you think needs a GoH spin, leave us a comment!

Record labels castrated themselves, thanks to Apple.
Singer wants to do Batman and Superman. Dirty boy!
Trailer for Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum. Looks rad!
The age of the Web Hermit. Go outside? Nah.
Iron Man slated for mid-2008 release!
Check out the first 24 minutes of A Scanner Darkly!

Until next time, stop being fat pregnant bitches!  van.

American Apparel have opened a store in Second Life!
The phone that won’t let you Drunk Dial if you’re smashed!
Firefox messenger bag. Eww!
Amanda Congdon replaced on Rocketboom by an MTV VJ!
Van got a SE K800i, and it’s porn in disguise.
MS’s ‘iPod killer’ - Project Argo (or is it Zune?)
James Cameron returning to film, with Avatar (Project 880)

Did you know that dogs lick their balls just because they can? I knew I wasn’t weird!

The ever-present magic was present this week as well! Kev’s internet sucks the nut, and that kinda screwed things up a bit, but that’s not his fault. Except that it IS! AAAAHAHAHA! Ha. So anyway.

Winamp as an actual PMP. So awesome.
Gadget-loving is a genetic disorder? Works for me!
Monkey Island: The School Play. Hah!
Apple chasing the losslessness of quality music.
Earth Sandwich? Genius.
ComicBookDB.com - the IMDB for comics!
Apple keen to secure bigger bite of the market.
Nintendo are considering renaming the Wii.
Dude hacks a Mac Mini into his Toyota Prius. Trendy!
Bedroom painted to look like Super Mario World. HECK YES.
The greatest DDR dancer of all time? Believe.
Humans soon to live beyond 1000 years? We’ll see!
40 things you didn’t know about Superman.
Sony’s lame car-to-car communication system.
Star Trek New Voyages episodes free for download.
The science of Superman’s powers.
A spaceport in New Mexico? Hokay!

Until next week, excelsior!

Another brilliant episode this week, with all sorts of shenanigans called.
The one-red-paperclip bloke is getting an entire town!
Is the RIAA really suing people for dancing to their fave music?
Michael Jackson patents the 45 degree lean. Okay!
Google’s secret weapon for intarweb domination!
Skype + Paypal = infinite awesome.
Halo graphic novel. Saddle up!
Netscape Navigator reborn as a Digg clone!
The future of mobile phones - this is rad.
Spider-Man reveals his identity (in the comics).

Stay tuned folks! I’m trying to get us a couple of media passes to the Melbourne International Animation Festival, so hopefully we’ll soon be coming to you live from Federation Square in Melbourne!

Yowzers, it’s been a couple of weeks but we’re back, and kids - we’s better than ever we is.

Kev checks out some weird Superman Alienware laptop. Urgh!
Dude protests America’s dead soldiers in online America’s Army game.
You can do anything in Second Life; even sue people in the real world.
Nike + iPod = Ultimate Consumerism 2006.
Sneaker Freak Al Cabino makes it into the (web) papers!
Photos from the set of the Transformers movie!
Howie’s Gamer Shack Ultra Supreme Battle Edition.
Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett both to star as Bob Dylan.

Vids
The evolution of dance.
Neo versus Robocop (and friends).

Next week, we’ll be recording live from Van’s girlfriend’s place, zomg!

Ho boy, late again! Entirely my (van’s) fault, folks. My computer is fubar’d! I lost the blog entry twice last week with Firefox continously crashing, and then I had the notion to type it in Notepad instead and then paste it into the blog and I ran out of time as I had to get to my motorcycle training and then I busted my shoulder and leg! Well not entirely busted, but I’ve got some serious bruising and even picking my nose hurts. What kind of god would make it hurt just to pick your nose? I dunno.

In other news, our shows will now be recorded on Thursdays! That’s my pay day, so it’s easier for me to afford the pizza and beer. Hah!

Flyers!  Stick ‘em up FFS!

Black and White
Colour
Morgellon’s Disease.
Hellboy video game? Now we’re talking.
Luxury submarines. Money, is there anything it can’t do?
Funky X-Men 3 trailer.
Timeline of CGI in film and television!
Business shirt for hiding your PMP!
.TEL domains? …Righteo!
Badass video game polo shirts.
Australia’s new “format shifting” laws. For crying out loud.
Chinese dude rips off Chinese govt. Boy is he screwed now!

Stay tuned as Van actually makes an effort to get the blog entry done less than a week late.

By the way kids, I starred in last week’s Melbourne Confidential vidcast. Check it out, if you have a strong stomach for fugly heads!

In this week’s episode, Kev says the C word! We tried to bleep it out, but it was just too much work. Also, we drank cheap grog, ate expensive pizza, and talked cheap thrills.
Halo 3! If only we could have gotten the trailer to load…
Today’s nuclear waste, in the future.
Star Wars Lego 2 (video game).
The video game console murders continue!
Movies!
Casino Royale trailer.
Greedo shoots first again! Bully for him.
The Hoff’s been booted off the Knightrider movie! WTF!
World of Warcraft coming to the big screenz0r.
Stargate SG-1 movie. A movie about a show about a movie.

Join us next week as we do something unexpected, and do episode 22!

…Okay, it is.