On this episode of audio weirdness …

• Crispy & Stephen get spoilery as they show their love for Portal 2 … you monster.
• Game of Thrones and Doctor Who are firing on all cylinders (and we may give out a few spoilers … whoops)
• WhatTheCon talks about Dragon*Con (again). We have some great guests, including Jonathan Coulton (you know, that guy from Portal 2).
• Brian unplugs from TV to watch some cool webseries … check out Mortal Kombat: Legacy and Pioneer One if you haven’t exceeded your bandwidth caps.
• Crispy, Brian & Stephen wish Jim Cantore would check into FourSquare so our friends know when to duck and cover.
• Of course there’s more, so why don’t you listen …

Note: we recorded this episode before a large wave of tornadoes swept through Alabama and Georgia. We have friends affected by the storms, but fortunately none of them lost their lives. Others were not so lucky. Please consider giving prayers, thoughts, blood, time or money to help those in need.

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The cast is back, trying to record a show before Brian disappears for AnachroCon and a ten day trip to Germany. Brian, Stephen & Crispy discuss all sorts of nonsense … zombie video game trailers pretending to be short movies, the space shuttle’s swan song and FOX News getting called out by bloggers (again). We also discover how packing for two weeks of convention and business travel tests the limits of Brian’s underwear selection.

It’s another episode of WhatTheCast, so anything can happen!

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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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)

We’re back with the podcast that is, amazing enough, nominated for a 2010 Parsec Award [Best Speculative Fiction Fan or News Podcast (General)]. Does this motley crew deserve such an honor? Guess you’ll have to listen to find out …

Brian, Crispy and Stephen are ready for Halloween! We talk candy, trunk-or-treat, myths about razor blades in candy, bad reboots, the end of the world (and possibly John Cusack‘s career), Windows 7′s questionable numbering scheme, how Crispy hated The Plan and a college event Brian refers to as “the Rose Bowl Parade meets one of the Saw movies” … check it out in our latest audio adventure.

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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.

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we found our new RoboVampire … video below may be NSFW