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.

Bad news for MP3 comedians everywhere … according to this engadget story, Microsoft is killing the Zune hardware and moving to a software platform. This would turn the Zune ‘brand’ into an add-on for the Microsoft mobile phone OS. I guess we can hold all of our Zune jokes for the next generation of Nokia phones running WP7.

We’ll be sure to talk about this and other nerd stories on our next episode, scheduled to record March 19th. It’s one of our “scotch cast” episodes, with a live and moderately intoxicated audience. Send us your questions while you’re still sober … feedback@whatthecast.com.

Photo courtesy of engadget

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!

It’s another live episode of WhatTheCast, so anything is possible. We talk conventions, movies, Dalek toys, awards and crazy Indian robot cinema. I could go on, but seriously …

Listen to this episode and see what all the fuss is about …

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.

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.

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.

Brian wanted to send this podcast back in time so it would be released on time … but J.J. Abrams is bogarting all of the red matter (bastard). Here’s the latest episode full of Zune, Trek, Dollhouse and SCIENCE! Show notes after the break …

• Brian, Crispy, Patrick and Stephen finally get a chance to join the ranks of nitpicking dorks that talk about the new Star Trek movie.
• Stephen talks about science fact, since he actually has stuff on the latest shuttle mission. Stephen’s also mad he didn’t think about Tweeting from space.
• The cast talks about Dollhouse getting Trek’d in the ratings, along with our feelings on the last episode you can see without using BitTorrent or ComicCon (bastards)
• Brian’s quote of this episode: “Zune, the Pontiac of MP3 players“

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Brian, Stephen & Crispy party like it’s 2009 … cause it is! In our first podcast of the new year, the cast takes on a range of random topics:

• The epic fail of Z2K9. Zune … It’s like Vista in your pocket.
• New guests for Dragon*Con 2009, including Brad from Rocky Horror.
• New webgames make it to the iPhone, like Crazy Penguin Catapult
• Turns out FOX was a verb long before The Watchmen film got FOXed … and long ago it even meant you were drunk (explains a lot about Firefly, doesn’t it).
• Brian taunts the listeners that didn’t checkout whatthecast.com to learn about our RoboVampire contest. Then again, maybe they were the lucky ones.
• Wallace & Gromit return to the BBC, and Brian finds a great mashup of W&G with Saw.

All this and more in our latest episode. Comments welcome – feedback@whatthecast.com & hatemail@whatthecast.com