Into The Blender

Episode 55 - Holiday Survival? Just Barely Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode, we discuss:

• The holidays – fun with Viv’s kids and family.
• Viv relates the boys’ review of Tron.
• Chooch gives a brief review of Tron: Legacy.
• Co-parenting travel drama.
• P.G. Holyfield visits.
• Viv reveals the identity of the Tipsy Knitter.
• New Years’ Eve pajama jammie jam with Thomas and Andrea‘s family.
• Chooch’s band has a new name – Ditched By Kate
• Chooch announces Ditched By Kate’s inaugural gig
• The Super Bowl? Is it football season already?
  
• Feedback – Zack Ricks of Flying Island Press and the Geek Survival Guide.

Promo: Flying Island Press

Episode 54 - Media Review with P.G. Holyfield, Pt 3 Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We happily lured beloved friend P.G. Holyfield into the burrow for a media review (He’s also the brilliant author of Murder at Avedon Hill), and ended up talking for over four hours. We are breaking it into tasty pieces for your enjoyment. This is the final part of the series.

Television

• Modern Family
• Castle
• Firefly
• House
• Red: Warewolf Hunter
• The Guild
• The Office
• Glee
• Bad Asronomy
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Kitten Mittons
• Dick Towel
• Star-ving (David Faustino web series)
• (bleep schisse at around 1 hour mark)
• 30 Rock
• Studio 60
• The Soup
• Community
• The Nerdist Podcast
• South Park
• The Simpsons
• Family Guy
• Medium
• Weeds

Episode 52 - Media Review with P.G. Holyfield, Pt 2 [ 1:11:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We happily lured beloved friend P.G. Holyfield into the burrow for a media review (He’s also the brilliant author of Murder at Avedon Hill), and ended up talking for over four hours. We are breaking it into tasty pieces for your enjoyment. This is part 2 of 3.

Books:

• Edmond Rostand
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
• Orson Scott Card
  • Enders Game
  • Ender’s Shadow
  • Maps in a Mirror
  • Past Watch – The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
• Scott Westerfeld
  • The Uglies
  • The Pretties
  • So Yesterday
• Cory Doctorow
  • For The Win
• George R.R. Martin
  • Game of Thrones
• The Lord of the Rings Audiobook, narrated by Rob Inglis
• David Eddings
  • The Belgariad
• Terry Goodkind
  • Sword of Truth series
  • Legend of the Seeker TV series

Movies:

• Watch 100 Movies
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
• The Social Network
• Easy A
• Juno
• Sucker Punch trailer

Music:

• Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack
• The Social Network Soundtrack
• Ghosts I-IV
• Lady Gaga
• Katy Perry
• Pink
• Bobby Owsinksi’s blog
• Barracuda isolate vocal track
• Britany Spears stage vocals
• Jamendo
• Gym Class Heroes

Promo: The Gearheart

Bumper: Jonathan Coulton

Episode 51 - Media Review with P.G. Holyfield, Pt 1 [ 47:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We happily lured beloved friend P.G. Holyfield into the burrow for a media review (He’s also the brilliant author of Murder at Avedon Hill), and ended up talking for over four hours. We are breaking it into tasty pieces for your enjoyment and will alternate them with regular episodes in future weeks.

In this episode we discuss:

• Our fun the night before at the Geek Radio Daily Pub Crawl in Richmond, Virginia and the new ChocoCon PiCake (a twist on the cherpumple, using a pecan pie baked into a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting).
• Our media review includes new favorite podcasts and podio/audio books, including:

Podiobooks:
Unkillable by Patrick E. McLean
Dreamer’s Thread by Starla Hutchton (with mention of the super talented Cheyenne Wright)
FETIDUS by James Durham
Fables of the Flying City by Jared Axelrod
Harvey by Phil Rossi

Podcasts:
Jay and Silent Bob Get Old
Living Proof Brew Cast

Promo: Geek Radio Daily

Episode 47 - BlenderCon 2010 [ 55:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Summery comes to a close, well at least as far as school and such are concerned. Con Season is also winding down and we continue the third year of our “BlenderCon” tradition.

Things we mention include:

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We were happy to have another opportunity to do a live show at Balticon. This year we are joined by three luminaries of podcasting who came together to discuss 3D usage in movies, upcoming reboots, and their favorite films of all time.

Our guest are:

• P.G. Holyfield – author of Murder at Avedon Hill
• Christiana Ellis – author and prolific podcaster. Her latest endeavor is Merciless Storytellers
• Thomas “Cmdln” Gideon – podcaster and velociraptor wrangler