Oh boy oh boy oh boy. The Geeks of Technical Difficulties!
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!
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!)
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 #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 airget 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.
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 pillowthat 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.
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.
The Geeks of Hazzard #028 (MP3 – 91.26MB 1 hr 01 mins) Download the MP3 here, or stream the podcast below.
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.
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.
Oh this is HUGE NEWS. You ready for this? We’re BACK. This Thursday night, Australian Eastern Standard Time, will see us recording episode… I dunno, 27? More than a year since the last episode! Crazy stuff. So you can expect to see the episode go live here on the TGoH blog on Friday. I, for one, welcome our new TGoH overlords! But that’s probably because I’m one of the GoH.
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!
