Team: Ubermensch Podcast, Nerds welcome!

This week, Rich and Chris get wrapped up the hype and spend some time talking about the crossroads between sports and nerd-dom.  Of course, there are the usual detours, in this case involving brushes with semi-greatness, Lost, Rich’s fondness for Tee-Ball, and predictably, Kelly McGillis.  It’s an “All Star” show this week, you betcha!  “Strap On” a “Cup” and “Get Ready” for some “Football”!

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Rich and Chris mostly talk about the movie “Legion,” but the conversation ranges from the original Mass Effect to iPads to Zunes to Calvin and his overactive bladder.  Really, how is that Calvin stuff able to go on without Bill Patterson shutting it down?  Or is he complicit?  We don’t get to the bottom of any of that, but we certainly do yap about it.

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This week, we say farewell to Josh “I’m Outta Here” Bailey, and begin life as a two-person podcast.  With no more interruption-guilt to hold them back, Rich and Chris engage in a full-on nostalgia throwdown, beginning with a look through an old D&D set unearthed in Chris’ basement, through talk of Star Wars cards, working out, comics, and quite a few other things that I can’t remember right now.  Check the site for pictures, we’re going multimedia with this baby.  YEEEAUGGHH!

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This week - get to know Josh!  Are you on Team Josh?  On Steve’s recommendation, we take a look at “Tokyo Gore Police”, and the discussion then ranges to Netflix, file sharing and piracy, movies and their budgets, and of course, Avatar.  Yes.  Really.  Still.

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This week, it’s our favorite stories (apropos of nothing)… Chris in Los Angeles with Sha Na Na - Josh looking for a money order in BFE - Rich and the Psychic Hotline.  Also, we nearly let slip our secret workplace, but with careful editing, the cat is forced back into the bag.  Remember, the first three minutes are free, $4.99 a minute thereafter.

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As promised, here is the link to the “host your own mystery” site.

http://www.nightofmystery.com/

The one we played was “Murder in Margaritaland.”

It was very easy to run and all of the participants had a lot of fun.

Let them know we sent you and they will provide you absolutely no discount that you were not already entitled to..

Rich and Chris are a touch “under the weather” (it’s New Year’s Day, and they’re OLD), so things get a little contentious here, although punches are not exchanged.  Discussion centers on RPG-lite entertainment, Assassin’s Creed II, the Steam holiday sale, and white-hot hatred.  Bring the popcorn!

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Although they don’t go so far as to rank them, Chris, Rich, and Josh succumb to the temptation to wrap 2009 up in a tidy package, talking about their favorite games, movies, and music for the year.  Why is it going up two days late?  All on Chris this time, who sort of forgot that there was such a thing as podcasts, but this is neither here nor there - now the episode is here, and you are free to agree, disagree, or ignore our choices as you see fit.  Of course, we hope that your Christmas holiday was all that it could be…

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As promised, Chris, Rich and Josh are joined by the Senior Effects Lead from Bungie, Steve Scott, to talk about all things Halo, including some answers to some of your questions (secrecy rules, you know).  Also, Chris and Josh talk about their trip to Pandora and the Avatar midnight show.  Prepare to drop!

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As we mentioned, In the upcoming ‘Cast, we’ll be having a member of the Bungie team sit in with us for a bit and answer some questions about halo past, present, and future, including some bits about the upcoming Halo:Reach.  So if you’ve got a question you’d like us to hit, post it here or email us at teamubermensch@gmail.com.