The Lesser Nerds Podcast » The Simpsons

Urine Good Company

Art Carlson — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:29:57 +0000

It’s a sad week here high atop the Flimm Building. The nerds pay tribute to the loss of Milton Levine. You undoubtedly know who Milton is, but just in case you don’t, we’ll remind you he was the inventor of the ant farm, that childhood staple of nerds and lonely kids alike. Crashboy takes us for a walk down memory lane to a time where he had to dig deep to find a queen.

But there are lighter topics to get to this week. For example, what kind of iPhone user are you? The fanboy? The complainer? The nerds look at a chart and find out they might occasionally want to have something else in the palm of their hand. Then again, now that Apple looks to be incorporating an easy new way to pay for stuff using only your smartphone, it might be increasingly hard to put that thing down.

The smartphone also appears to have changed the face of the sex trade. It seems lawyers aren’t the only professionals who overwhelmingly favor the Blackberry… ladies of the night are also getting the most out of their RIM products. Not only that, half of their client referrals are coming from…. Facebook.

Got Rockmelt? Art’s a big fan of the new social network inspired browser. Crashboy however is still reluctant to let go of his beloved Firefox. So Art goes outside the box this week and talks to Eric Vishria one of the founders of Rockmelt to see exactly how the browser plans to comfortably get itself into an already crowded field. Will it be trickier now that the world has run out of IP addresses? That’s the word this week out of ICANN. The cupboard is bare, the well is dry, there’s no room at the inn, and there are no more IPs to give. So….. why is no one panicking?

All that plus, stitching together the entire McBain movie, the woman who returned a dog because Martha Stewart would have objected, and how one man and 30 litres of beer beat the odds, the reaper, and a metric ass ton of snow. All on the official podcast of something really important and prestigious, Lesser Nerds.

We Like It In The Mudroom

Art Carlson — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:00:12 +0000

One of the nerds is sick! Well, they’re both sick in their own special way, but one of them sounds like the prepubescent love child of Ellen Barkin and Tom Waits. Nothing will stop the nerds however from bringing you the frivolous information you don’t actually need. For example, last week on the show Art outed the ladies of Facebook for their double entendre laden status updates. This led Crashboy to stage a covert sting operation on Crashwife using only his iPhone and a hidden mic. The results…? Well, listen and see.

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What do you suppose will happen to your digital data after you die? It turns out there are lots of places who will take care of your digital life when you enter the afterlife…. that is, if they’re still in existence by that time. Art this week pointed the listener to a study that indicated scientists want you to masturbate. And surprisingly enough, the nerds have pretty much no problem with that. What the nerds do have a problem with is people who “fake it”. And this time the scientists are on their side, as the statistics seem to be ratting out the fakers.

A Lesser listener asked our opinion on the new Nokia concept phone, the Morph. Our opinion?… Coooooool! Also cool: the new Ford dashboard designed by the designer of Apple’s first mouse. It comes in black. (and white) Speaking of cars, Google is thinking outside the box and working on cars that drive themselves. Will this ever be a reality? The nerds don’t see eye to eye.

All that plus, a “Shit My Dad Says” update”, the difference between Farmville and farming, and a lengthy debate on the controversial opening credit sequence from this week’s episode of the Simpsons. All on the only podcast known to cure upper respiratory tract infections, Lesser Nerds.

Get Yer Wii Wands Out

Crashboy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:47:29 +0000

In this weeks episode the nerds talk to Cyprian, the creator of ijustmadelove.com, who gives us an impromptu position quiz. We learn what our listener thought of Marge Simpson’s publicity stunt. Hey cellphone user,…..do “Stairway!!” Art has no problem with everyone at border patrol seeing his assets, and Crashboy wants to help his friends with their Wii wands. The nerds wonder why so much attention is being paid to this Andy Warhol book, and find out what zany hilarity can ensue when your license plate spells XXXXX. We also learn why things were tense at Grant Wood’s family functions and even more tense deep underneath Geneva, Switzerland. (and we use this word quite a bit) Plus we give long overdue props to the fine folks at Hoot Suite

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Backslash Backlash

Art Carlson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:54:45 +0000

In this week’s episode, the fact that Art’s “not getting any” gives Crashboy a great app idea. If you’re a sasquatch, you might want to get your partner to switch birth control methods. Marge Simpson’s Playboy cover…. Run of the MILF?

Hey, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web… if you could go back and do anything differently, what would you change? (plus while you’re at it, if you could tell Art what the hell a backslash is, that’s be great)

We review “Zombieland.” Our review goes into depth on the Darwinian nature of mankind with a partial focus on Cartesian Dualism, as well as an overall Keynesian approach to the marketing techniques necessary in a post recession economic entertainment model. Or not.

Your testicles… Are they weighing you down? Our Ask Art segment answers a few questions that should perhaps have remained unasked. Plus, the nerds give all worthy praise to George Carlin, who wanted you to know your children are overrated.

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