You know those people who you watch movies with who turn to you in the crazy action scene and say “Man, that could never happen.” (we hate them too.)  Well, you might want to direct them over to Cracked magazine for their list of absurd movie scenes that actually happened.  The nerds interview the writers of the piece and get a crash course in how to become an employee of the newly blossoming Cracked.com.

Was Monty Python just a “guy” thing?  The boys delve into that burning question while trying unsuccessfully to contain their enthusiasm for the news this week the Pythons are collaborating on a brand new film project. The details have yet to be fully worked out. (right now they’re only wafer thin)

All that plus, a Star Trek divorce, Apple’s mountain o cash, and just how far back does Hollywood’s war on technology go?

Considering the questions coming out of Crashboy this week, you might wonder if he’s been getting close with da ganja.  How else would you explain his query regarding how better to improve the human body through non existent genetics?  It does however lead Art to ask that age old question… invisibility, or flight?

Some people have written in to say we talk about iPhones way more than we talk about Blackberry.  We’d like to remedy that.  If only there was some sort of big news coming out of the hallways at Research In Motion that would facilitate a conversation regarding the future of the “other” smartphone.  I guess we’ll just have to try and make something out of this minor shuffle they came up with this week.  No biggie.

Apple wasn’t exactly quiet either this week.  In fact, it’s quite possible they might have taken the first steps towards changing the way we go to school.  The nerds take a hands on look at iBooks 2 and the future of the text book.  The verdict?  Well,… listen and see.

All that plus, Star Wars Uncut, Bad Lip Reading, and just what the hell is a skeumorph??

The music industry seems to be even more complex with each passing week.  How do they even keep track of “sales” anymore?  What is a “sale”.  To help the nerds make sense of it all, music historian Alan Cross pops by the Flimm building to discuss that, as well as the birthday of David Bowie, and just where the audience participation lyrics in Billy Idol’s “Mony Mony” might have come from.

Did you get a new tv over the holiday?  If you did, it’s likely to be outdated in just a few months.  Then again you probably already knew that.  The CES show is just around the corner and TVs will be front and center as some of the biggest names in electronics converge on Las Vagas to show their wares.  But as the nerds reveal, the CES itself is on the verge of needing some life support of its own.

So if you’re a big producer of beverages like,…oh… let’s say PepsiCo for example, and some guy sues you for finding a mouse in his Mountain Dew, what would your best argument be?  Let’s hope it was better than Pepsi’s actual defense which is…. well, listen and judge for yourself.

All that plus, Microsoft helps you avoid the “ghetto”, Crashboy learns who the f*@k Cee lo Green is, and how Facebook can help you even after you’re dead.

Did you know that Creed have sold more records in the U.S. than Jimi Hendrix?  That’s just one of t he disappointing facts about music that Art brings our way this week.  Of course, your level of disappointment with depend on how big a Bieber fan you are .

How do you say “The eagle has landed.” in Cantonese.  You might want to brush up on your Chinese space lingo now that there’s a Sino moon mission in the works.  The boys look at the possibilities, and Art fills us in on how to say “mushroom head” in 42 different languages.

All that plus, Sir Ives of Cupertino, YOU can be Stephen Hawking’s right hand man, and where you can sell all your ex’s belongings safely, and with a vengeance.

A new study this week tells us that you’re more likely to lie if you’re texting, but Art calls bulls#!t on the study which limited itself to only….. stockbrokers!??

So here’s a question… if you work as a secretary in a high school, and one of your students comes up and asks for your autograph, and you ask him what for, and he tells you it’s because he saw you in some porn films online, and then the school board gets wind of it and fires you…. what’cha gonna do?  Well, if you’re in Quebec, you’re just going to start your own porn business!

It’s that time of year when most magazines and websites are looking back on the year, and one of the main things to do is pay homage to the people we lost.  2011 saw the demise of one of the biggest names in tech, but there are a few others you may not have heard about who left us this year.  The boys give props to a few people who changed your life but you’ve never heard of.

Art was confused this week.  It must have been the egg nog, but who else would have been unsure as to whether or not the site cats4gold.com was actually legit.

All that plus, a cold war secret revealed, one of the boys has a man crush on Ryan Gosling, and the Japanese world champion of…… well…. you might just want to listen and find out.

While on the subject of kids, the boy peruse a list of things you probably believed as a kid.  It turns out that Art still believes your face “will freeze that way”.  However, the nerds show their somewhat warped side by each revealing one unique thing they believed as a child. (hint, they involve witches and tar)

Do you know what you’re getting your mom for Christmas?  If not, just pop on over to “The Giftinator”, a flow chart from the folks at Mashable that lets you pick mom’s perfect gift depending on her degree of tech savvy.  Its fatal flaw?…. assuming mom’s have a degree of tech savvy.

Good news for the boys…. a new study this week reveals that swearing is actually good for you, or at least good for relieving  pain.  The release of the foul word seems to also release pain within your body.  All this can be found within the awesomely titled professional publication, the “Journal Of Pain” (yes, it actually exists) (yes, we looked it up)

All that plus, what’s a ringtone?… what’s object permanence , and what the hell is “daddy butter”.  All on the special Christmas edition of Lesser Nerds

So now that Steve Jobs is no longer with us, it’s time for pop culture to deify him.  And what better way than with a by the number bio pic.  Of course that leads to the inevitable question of casting, and it turns out the folks behind the project were big fans of early E.R episodes.

Have you ever wondered if hair color was related to people’s fear of going to the dentist?  If so, (firstly, you need to get out more) then you’ll be interested in a study that found redheads actually have a greater fear of getting drilled.  That  thanks to a study out of the University of We Should Probably Be Using Our Money To Research More Important Stuff Than This.

All that plus, what camera Annie Leibovitz wants you to have, the “fourth Jason Bourne movie”, and this week’s Ask Art puts our world renowned advice columnist in a tight spot.

If you don’t know what the hell that means, you’re likely under the age of twenty.  The nerds start out this week with a list of some sounds your children will never ever hear.  Also on the list, Art’s favorite movie projectors, and the and Crashboy’s favorite:  the poetic national anthem scored sign off of a TV station.

One sound all of us will continue to hear however is the tender strain of someone spreading gossip.  And according to a new study commissioned by, of all people a cosmetics company, women will typically only wait 32 minutes before spreading that juicy tidbit they’ve just heard. We take a close look at the sexist results and wonder just how the surveyors came up with their numbers.

The nerds are quite happy to not be on the dating scene anymore.  Especially now that everyone has a smartphone, and there’s a whole new set of etiquette to learn. Do you leave your phone in your pants?  If so, that might not be the only thing in your pants that night.

Now that the economy is recovering/crapping out again  (pick one), who better to go to for some clarity than… Tay Zonday??  The Chocolate Rain-ite is back with a look at what’s ailing us financially, but Crashboy finds a few flaws in his musical primer.  (In related news, Batman is part of the 1%)  None of those people however was down in “Freedom Square” Tuesday morning when Bloomberg and the boys swept in to… sweep up.

It was a busy week in iPhone news.  Apple released an iOS update to fix their battery problems, but met with only limited success.  Also, some folks on the intertubes discovered a panorama feature on the camera of the iPhone.  It’s hidden however,… much like the man who does the UK voice of Siri, who was watching TV one day only to discover that… he was the man who does the UK voice of Siri.

All that plus, the haughty hipness of a hip holster, how to not get a promotion, and why it might be a good idea to let your parents meet each other early in a relationship.

But the memories remain…. steak dinners, dirty martinis, burlesque entertainers dressed as bad guys from Dr. Who.  The boys discuss the full resurgence of the fine art of taking your clothes off in public, as well as a demographic breakdown of the audience one might find in such events.

Speaking of demographic breakdowns, the big birthday weekend also gave us a first hand look at the difference between iPhone users and Android users, since Crashbrother came along for the trip and brought his Google progeny with him.  The nerds were forced to admit it ran circles around their iPhones (in some departments).  One thing the android doesn’t do however is monitor your sleep to wake you up at the proper time.  Then again, Crashboy spent $100 clams to discover the iphone doesn’t either, which leads to a discussion on how the tech world might very well help you catch a few of those long overdue Zs.

How long has Scientific American been around?  Long enough that the first issue featured a cover article on the “latest locomotive”.  The lads geek out to the retro blogging styles of the first ever issue of the respected publication.  It will be interesting to see what they have to say about any upcoming missions to Mars.  They certainly have more to write about now that a group of Russians have emerged from their year and a half isolation to train for an upcoming mission to the red planet.  This time, they made it through the entire 500 days without any booty call based fisticuffs.

All that plus, Art’s next meat thermometer, Andy Rooney’s greatest hits, and Ask Art provides a number one answer to a number two dilemma.

“Quite strange.”

Bravo good sir!  Of course, the Bill had a few other things to say, including his take on Occupy Wall Street, and why you might want to get a drop cloth for your retinas.

Have you ever thought Uranus was boring? (don’t go there)  Scientist have for years thought it was pretty much the most boring planet in our solar system.  Not any more.  Certainly not after a series of explosions the size of Texas shook the blue planet last week.  What caused the explosions remains a mystery.  One mystery that did get solved this week is who exactly was responsible for the six foot Lego man who washed up on a Florida beach recently.

L.N. producer Ellen Smithee talked to the nerds recently about bringing a more.. balanced voice into the Flimm building.  Thus the welcome appearance of author and geekette Amber MacArthur who stops by to tell us why we’re never going to get a “dislike” button, and whether or not she really was in Girl Scouts.

CNN would never run with a misleading headline, would they?  If they say “Netflix takes up 32.7% of Internet bandwidth”, you can trust it’s really true, yes?  Well,……. no.  The nerds dissect that claim and in doing so discover the pros and cons of the popular streaming service.

All that plus, how Steve Jobs drove without a license plate, grown up goths, and what exactly the name of this week’s episode refers to.  All on Siri’s favorite podcast, Lesser Nerds.

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Have you read the Steve Jobs bio yet?  Why not?!  After all, it’s been out for 48 hours now.  This week the nerds have read it, and find some select juicy bits.  Crashboy finds Steve’s potshots at Bill Gates to be somewhat of a pot/kettle situation.  But he’s not exactly one to talk.  After all, following Art’s revelation on last week’s show that he picked up a shiny new iPhone, Crashboy made his own trip to Cupertino.

If you are of the same vintage as the nerds, chances are you have fond memories of the ads in the back of comic books.  And if that’s you, you’ll enjoy our interview with author/blogger and retro archivist Ken Demarais who drops by the Flimm building to delve into the shadowy world of sea monkeys and X Ray specs.

How many Facebook friends do you have?  If you’ve always taken a certain amount of numerical pride in the size of your virtual social circle, you’ll be pleased with the results of a new study that links your brain’s grey matter to the number of your Facebook friends.  The nerds discuss, and compare the size of their circles.

All that plus, your new fake virtual texting girlfriend on this week’s show.

Art got himself a fancy new iPhone.  But rather than waiting in line for 12 hours, he just kinda slept in, called the store and popped down.  So now it’s time for the nerds to test out Siri, Apple’s fancy new voice controlled assistant.  Perhaps we could ask it what the future of R.I.M. is after last week’s global meltdown.  Crashboy gives us a look at the bleak future of the Canadian company.

If you think there was no really big battery news last week, well think again! (also, please get out more)  The Japanese used the post tsunami reality to reinvent the Ni-Mh rechargeable battery.  And if that wasn’t enough, the big car companies came together in a rare moment of harmony, and announced they would all use the same charging system for their electric cars.

All that plus, Saddam’s porn kidnapping problem, sweaters for penguins, and we ask the age old question – cheese, or font?

Of all the viral videos that made their way into the Flimm building this week, nothing tickled the nerds more than the viral sensation of four year old Ferris finding out who Luke Skywalker’s father really is.  (spoiler alert – it’s another character in the film)  This leads Crashboy to share a little bit of B roll love with us.  Confused?  You won’t be.

If you listened to last week’s show, you know all about the high tech ways you can scare your neighbors this Halloween.  This week we ease up on the gadgetry to show you a simple mirror that does the job for a fraction of the price.  And while on the topic of All Hallow’s Eve, the nerds look at a new movement to spread the Lord’s good word in October 31st, and the reasons why that might just be a tad hypocritical.

If you’ve been to London lately, you might be one of the people who noticed that Big Ben isn’t quite as… erect as he used to be.  Tourists began pointing out Ben’s increasing flaccid quotient to the powers that be in Westminster, and it turns out they were right.  (Well, even though Big Ben isn’t really the name for the tower, but we know what they meant)

All that plus, Andorra is a real country, the odd reasons leaves turn red in the fall, and an Ask Art Double Shot Flashback.©

The internet is speaking so massively and uniformly, and so many are doing it on smart, simple to use pieces of technology with a half bitten mirrored apple on them, you have to know it would make Steve smile.  The nerds take a pause a drink a cup of apple juice to the man in the mock turtleneck.

Would you take a pill that would stop you from getting drunk while drinking?  Apparently some people have an interest in just such a pharmaceutical wonder since they’re working on a pill that does exactly that.  No more making an ass out of yourself after work with the buddies. (well, at least not alcohol related)

Halloween is almost here… do you have your overpriced amazingly realistic animated door decoration yet?  The nerds geek out at this year’s hot scare tactic. (but balk at the price tag)

Do you miss Andy Rooney yet?  After all, it’s been less than a week since we’ve had access to his pithy yet wry observations about glove compartments.  So to celebrate the insanely long career of news’ most curmudgeonly curmudgeon, we present you Andy Rooney Out Of Context.
Where do you spend your online time?  Google?  Sure.  But a new study this week tells us that we spend on average 8 hours a month on Facebook.  Just imagine how much more we’ll spend on the new timeline feature.

All that plus, the woman who’s broadcasting her birth live on the intertubes, an update on faster than light particles, and a keen eyed look at the first computer designed especially…. for the ladies.

Who doesn’t love Shweddy Balls?  Apparently a mom’s group in the States is in a bit of a tizzy over Ben & Jerry’s new flavor which pays tribute to the now famous SNL sketch.  But Crashboy is suspicious of their intentions.

Are you a redhead?  Do you have sperm?  Do you want to donate some of your sperm?  Well, too bad for you because the largest sperm bank in the world no longer wants your ginger seed.  Apparently there’s too much supply and not enough demand.  The nerds discuss the pros and cons of making a little deposit.

Facebook had quite a week, didn’t they.  First they annoy most of their user base with yet another face lift, then they announce a major shift in the entire site with their new “Timeline”.  Might it be time for Google+?

The tech world was rocked this week by the news that scientists had recreated images from people’s brains.  Translation?… Get ready for a DVR for your noggin’.  Hopefully it will be ready in time for the kids whose father retouched family vacation pictures to digitally insert Ewoks.

All that plus, an update on our Android users, Einstein get’s schooled, and just how much you’d pay for an IKEA shelf you just finished building

Maybe people can look to Facebook for love.  That’s what a British woman did a few weeks back, only to find herself driving the getaway car in a robbery!  How exactly did someone get duped like that?  This week’s show fills you in.

Crashboy this week points us in the direction of a fascinating study showing how fervent belief might very well have been killing people in Southeast Asia.  Those who truly believed were dying at an abnormally high rate.  And those who didn’t lived to tell the tale.  What lessons can we take away from this little parable?  In happier health news, Art tells us about scientists in the U.S who have found a new helper in the fight against cancer…. AIDS.  It turns out your immune system can be taught to seek out cancer cells and assassinate them.  And the HIV virus might very well be the key.

All that plus, the enigma machine in 2011, which Jennifer Connelly do YOU prefer, and why Crashboy will always have a higher income than Art.

Art wonders this week if social photo sharing apps such as Instagram have finally reached critical mass.  And the nerds review a new app that might just have Instagram looking in the rear view mirror.

Would you pay a flat monthly fee to access Amazon’s book collection?  Crashboy fills us in on the net giant’s new plan that may very well be coming to an intertube near you.

How would you pay tribute to the late Amy Winehouse?  Well, if you’re a British conceptual artist, you’d likely construct a topless bust made entirely out of chocolate.  Duh!

All that plus, the three dollar quarter, the truth about NASA’s space pen, and a very happy arrival for some long time LN fans.

The nerds are back, and the Flimm building is buzzing with excitement! (or that’s just the fluorescent tube that custodian Brian never got around to replacing)

We dive right in to the new season with a look at how the future is supposed to be…. according to some famous films.  Art catches Crashboy off guard by confessing a less than affectionate attitude towards a sci fi classic.

And speaking of sci fi classics, it looks like George Lucas had a busy summer.  Not only did he green light a new home building in Singapore that actually looks like a cool and interesting idea, he also released the Star Wars trilogy on Blu-ray.  Gee, it makes you wonder if he made any changes in the films.  Naw, he wouldn’t do that, would he?

Steve Jobs didn’t have the best summer.  On the positive side though, his biological father wants to meet him.  Leading the nerds to both ask the burning question…. “Wait… Steve Jobs is adopted?!”  He is indeed, and his background may surprise you.  You may also be caught off guard when Crashboy introduces us to ten myths about the U.S. space program.

Did you know men have a cycle, just like the ladies?  Well, neither did we.  The nerds poke holes in the claim that we get grumpy every 33 days.

All that plus, Carrie Fisher aims to get back in her Leia bikini on the season premiere of Lesser Nerds.

Did you see the viral video of the seagull who stole the camera and went for a joyride with it?  Well, neither did Art.  But millions of people have now watched this thing and the nerds are crying foul, but still giving props to what has clearly been a very successful viral marketing campaign.  What hasn’t been successful however is the one dollar coin.  The U.S. government has tried everything to get us to love this thing, but the proof is in the pudding.  Or at least, in the 1 billion dollars of unused coins now sitting in the basement of the federal reserve.  The Nerds wonder if it’s perhaps time for an arranged marriage.

This week, Crashboy points us in the direction of a New York Times article that may explain the crappy sleep you’re getting.  Exposure to blue toned light such as that in LCD screens seems to harm the production of melatonin.  So put that smartphone away loooong before you get to bed.

Has Art turned into his mother?  So thinks Crashboy after Art tweeted this week about a 1980′s video dating montage that looks suspiciously like one he’s seen just a few times before.  That doesn’t stop the boys however from speculating on the big question: Can a viking in the 1980s truly find love?

All that plus, does Apple own all touch screens, how to fly a zeppelin, and how one LN listener went rigid at our flaccid comments last week and hunted down Jimi Hendrix’s plaster penis.