Nerd Hurdles
Summary: 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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(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/149-640.jpg) This was our contribution to the aborted Simply Syndicated "switch-up" fundraiser. It's our take on The Definitive Word which was Jakob's gateway podcast. We recorded this episode almost two years ago exactly and have absolutely no idea what might be on it. If we did the original justice, it's a sack of rambling, tangential gibberish. But just because the series of Simply Syndicated podcasters taking on each other's shows never materialized as a pay-only download, there's no reason you shouldn't slip a quid in the kitty regardless (lord, that sounds dirty). Next episode will feature our new as yet unnamed answers and advice segment where we offer advice or answers to to inquiries submitted by listeners. It might end up being called Answers & Advice. Which would be shamefully boring. Submit your conundrums, general questions and requests for advice to: nerds@nerdhurdles.com (mailto:nerds@nerdhurdles.com) (also feel free to email us a better name for the segment).
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/148-640.jpg) In space no one can hear you give a film a right bollocking. But on the Internet, everyone can. If they will bother is another question. Speaking of questions, send your questions into nerds@nerdhurdles.com (mailto:nerds@nerdhurdles.com )and we'll answer them. Not questions for or about us necessarily, just general questions about things in general. We're bored.
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/147-640.jpg) Sort of a sister episode to Starbase 66's "Should Geeks Be Chic? (http://www.simplysyndicated.com/sb66_11/)" episode. We came up with the topic independently (both inspired by that The Guild music video) but they beat us to the punch making us look like biters. The focus is slightly different though. Where they asked if geek is truly chic, we ask the question "Has nerd culture changed drastically in the past three years?" Or is it us who has changed?
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/146-640.jpg) What are they avenging exactly? Not to sure on that. But what's for certain is that Joss Whedon is avenging the summer blockbuster after over a decade of Michael Bay perennially desecrating its fetid, withering corpse.
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/145-640.jpg) Do you like sending letters to people? Chances are you're a big nerd if you do.
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/144-640.jpg) Pretending your phone is a Tricorder to find buried treasure while avoiding muggles... what's nerdy about that?
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/143-640.jpg) Welcome to the Nerd Hurdles Cage Match 7, Hunger Games vs. Battle Royale in a fight to the death. May the odds be ever in your favour.
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/142-640.jpg) Jakob and Mandi try to piece together where LEGO did or did not go wrong.
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/141-640.jpg) This week everyone's favourite anti-social non-gamers talk about gaming on social media platforms.
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/nh140-640.jpg) When you absolutely, positively, got to piss off every Tarantino fan in the room.
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/139-640.jpg) Watching (and reading) the girl detectives. Nancy Drew, Veronica Mars and Flavia de Luce... What's not to love?
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/138-640.jpg) 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.
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/137-640.jpg) Nerd Hurdles returns to the Underworld. It triggers an argument about body image.
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/136-640.jpg) Jakob and Mandi talk food, foodies, cooking classes and cheeses of the world. Anyone up for some balut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg))?
(http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/135-6401.jpg) We went on vacation again and this is what we thought about the things we watched (pretty much spoiler free!).
