So of course we made the same Zune jokes we’ve always made during our 100th episode.

Crispy and Stephen recorded Episode 100 at the Geek Media Expo 3.0. They discussed GMX, the new direction of WhatTheCast, using Fiber One bars as a measure of how good something is, and the death of Zune (complete with actual Zunes!). Since they recorded next door to the convention’s videogame room, they discussed Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Arkham City, along with that time that game designer Ron Gilbert argued with Steve Jobs about whether videogames could really tell a story. To kick off the next 100 episodes there’s new theme music and a new pixellated logo. Now we just need a new whipping boy to replace the Zune….

The new WTC theme includes the song Pulse (George Ellinas remix), by George Ellinas.

We’re back with our first podcast recorded via a Google+ hangout. We discuss our experiences at Dragon*Con, including winning a Parsec award and Stephen being in the bathtub with Colin Ferguson from Eureka. In other con news, Crispy and Stephen will be representing WhatTheCast at GMX Vol. 3 in Nashville on October 21-23. Stop by and hear us live!

In geekier news, Patrick has a new fantasy league: drafting new fall TV shows that are sure to be cancelled. Stephen and Crispy agree Torchwood: Miracle Day was not so miraculous. Patrick’s lost the Alphas love, while everyone is very sad about Green Lantern making back its money. Brian gets to hear Kevin Pollack’s William Shatner impersonation in person, Crispy loves the videogame Dead Island, and Stephen has a new podcast called Disasterpiece Theatre. And we all agree: Patrick is going to clean up in the Fall TV Cancellation league.

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This episode has Brian, zombies, Crispy, dancing video games, Stephen, strange experiments with big bangs, Patrick, talk show hosts returning from the grave and pencils from the future. Yeah, we’re not sure what happened either. Just download and listen … please …

Show Links:

• Best Buy Employee Gets Down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IbScGO0PXg
• House On The Rock: http://www.thehouseontherock.com/
• RevolutionSF Podcast: http://revolutionsf.libsyn.com/

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Brian, Crispy and Stephen take the helm of a live podcast at Geek Media Expo in Nashville.

In this episode we make fun of hungover congoers, talk science and reward audience questions with cake. It’s nerd love at its best.

Yes, you read that correctly … a tauntaun race. Since tauntauns don’t actually exist, it’s an old-fashioned sack race in ThinkGeek Tauntaun Sleeping Bags.

Crispy and Brian from WhatTheCast host this epic event at GMX 2010, which becomes even more epic when we discover there aren’t enough sacks to go around. The solution: INVISIBLE TAUNTAUN

The madness is posted on YouTube in three parts for your viewing enjoyment.

Ok kids … pack your kilts, stick some gears on old waistcoats and find those Vulcan ears. Geek Media Expo 2010 is only days away (October 22-24) and WhatTheCast is ready to take it over.

Saturday brings the madness that is Race of the Tauntauns … a sack race using sleeping bags that look like tauntauns from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (you know, the movie that didn’t suck). Contestants can use the ThinkGeek edition sleeping bag or their own creation, but they must complete the course while avoiding our twisted obstacles (cue evil laugh). Contestants also have to survive Crispy and Brian’s sportscaster commentary, adding another degree of difficulty to the event.

The live WhatTheCast recording is at noon on Sunday (Oct 24th), so you have plenty of time to grab brunch before we recap a fantastic geek weekend. We’re also hanging out on the “Geek Journalism” panel (Saturday at 5:00pm).

Stephen brings the science (SCIENCE!) to the show on two panels … “Science of the Whedonverse” (Saturday at 2:00pm) and his awesome “There Ain’t No Stealth in Space” presentation (Sunday at 1:00pm).

We’ve also got friends along for the ride. Garret Wang, Voyager crew member and director of Dragon*Con Star Trek programming, is bringing his personal brand of fun to the show. GMX also added the Sci-Fi Janitors (Bob and Carl) to the guest list (if you don’t clean up after yourselves they will call you out … you have been warned). It’s a great guest list so there’s something to do when we’re not on stage.

The whole GMX schedule is here in PDF: http://www.whatisgmx.net/GMX-Vol2-Schedule.pdf (subject to change without warning)

In this episode, the entire cast assembles to discuss our time at Dragon*Con, the upcoming trip to GMX, the latest in TV failures, a little bit of TV win and what happens when you cross a movie monster with a 70′s buddy cop show.

The whole cast is back for this episode, where Patrick is willing to visit the other cast members and forcefully explain why we should agree with his review of Iron Man 2 (just kidding, we agree to disagree … I think). We’re also talking about Dragon*Con, GMX, TV and the Smart Pop Books contest (enter before July 1st).

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In this episode we spoil Episode 11 of Dollhouse (sorry, but we have to rip this one apart), Robert Downey, Jr. at the Golden Globes, Avatar in China, Leno vs Conan as a superhero battle and Sherlock Holmes as a badass.

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Links from this show …

• The Tactical Works of Sherlock Holmes
• Leno vs Conan in Chinese
• No Avatar in China
• US Torchwood
• Comic Con Atlanta?

Brian, Stephen & Crispy (pic from Flickr by Derek Deweese)

We talk about zombie walks, TV ratings, podcasting, drinking and hanging out at a con where none of work staff (shocking, I know). Along with the audio, check out pics from GMX courtesy of Brian & Derek.