Jeeg and CT welcome Mike Westfall and Will Webster back to the show for a discussion of friendships in pop culture. The nerds just scratch the surface of some all time favorite movie and TV friendships and then choose best friends for some iconic loner characters. From Stephen Root to wizarding conspiracy theories to Orko, [...]
Back in 1994, you couldn't walk anywhere without tripping over a comic book. They were everywhere and all kinds of ideas were being poured onto paper using the 4-color process. Not only did every obscure character have their own title, but inter-company crossovers became a huge thing. Marvel and DC crossed over for [...]
This week the nerds welcome back Doug Frye (Rest in Podcast, Schlock Treatment) to the Fourth Chair. They also welcome back the You've Got The Rights topic as it climbs towards franchise topic status. On the docket for fresh project pitches are an 80s loose cannon cop, a superhero martial arts icon, a member of [...]
Nerd Lunch's holiday celebration begins this week as Michael DiGiovanni returns to the Fourth Chair to continue our Christmas tradition. This year we pay homage to holiday themed TV episodes. Rather than recounting our favorites, we create Christmas crossover events that we wish existed for specific TV lineups of years gone by. If you ever [...]
This week Jeeg and Pax return to a topic called Kill Me Now in which we talk about movies/TV shows we've been forced to watch by our family or significant others. Returning to the show to join us in this discussion are co-Fourth Chairs John Vanover and Evan Hanson. The usual suspects like romantic [...]
David Pietrandrea of Your Weird and Robox Studios joins the nerds in Fourth Chair this week. They are wielding the pop culture eraser yet again, but this time with a twist. Now the mysterious stranger demands that balance be brought to the universe and the nerds must erase people and items from categories not of [...]
While other podcasts talk about superheroes fighting, this week Pax and Jeeg wax poetic about the recently completed British costume drama, Downton Abbey. Joining them in the Fourth Chair is first time guest John Vanover from the Action Figure Blues podcast and the TV and Film Toys site. What did it mean for Lady Edith to find [...]
Michael May completes his four week Nerd Lunch tour of duty and we make his dream of guesting with William Bruce West come true. Then, in the spirit of Fuller House, Girl Meets World and Coach, we get into an exercise of coming up with ideas for TV show revivals, some more deserving than others. [...]
It wouldn't be the start of a new year without our yearly crop of predictions. After recapping our stellar (?) 2015 prognostications and the results of The Force Awakens Overs and Unders, the crew and Michael May predict the year to come in the realms of TV, fast food, and more. Plus, we tee up [...]
Continuing our holiday tradition, Michael DiGiovanni from The Atomic Geeks joins us to ring in the holiday season. On the docket this year is a quest to assemble the ultimate Hallmark Channel or ABC Family quality Christmas romance movie. We don't quite get there, but we do pitch four excellent examples of the genre and [...]
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