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Download Season 3 - Episode 4

The VI is back, everybody! Less importantly, this episode features Nuke and Jeannie's dream B.S., the joys of online dating in your 30s, cereal, the adventures of Appleman, ape marriage, and mantis discussion set to Beethoven's 6th. Bring this podcast into any participating Starbucks for a free trenta whatever.

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Soundtrack for the Season 3 - Episode 3:

“Apao’s Trip” by The Kuricorder Quartet

“The World’s Largest Ball of Twine” Sam & Max Hit the Road (PC)

“Symphony No. 6″ by Beethoven

Download Season 3 - Episode 3

Nuke and Jeannie once again try to analyze dreams while flying wildly off the rails. This episode includes a minute of dream analysis, Susan Saradon, Betty White, Running Into Boxes With The Stars, the return of Kermit Bane and other goofy voices. The opinions expressed by the hosts do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Sears or its affiliates.

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Soundtrack for the Season 3 - Episode 3:

“Apao’s Trip” by The Kuricorder Quartet

“Strolling In The Town” Dragon Quest VII (3DS)

“Cross Examination ~ Moderato 2013” Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (3DS)

Download Season 3 - Episode 2

Finally, rain and gaming nostalgia in one neat package! A trip down memory lane features a bunch of bands covering songs from important Nintendo games of Nuke's youth while Nuke discusses boyish wonder, root beer spews and boobs.

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Soundtrack for the Season 3 - Episode 2:

“Dire Dire Docks” by Gentle Love

“Stickerbrush Symphony” by missingNo.

“Underground Theme” by Miguel Daguerre

“Super Smash Bros. Melee Main Theme” by The Consouls

“Super Mario Kart Medley” by Meine Meinung

Download Season 3 - Episode 1

After senselessly demolishing time and space and crashing on an uncharted planet with abundant flora and something that sounds like fauna, Nuke fights boredom while awaiting rescue. The season premiere includes the buoyant Jeannie, dream interpretation, enough derailed conversations to provide a good foundation for a drinking game, dog attacks, social anxiety talk and Dr. Herbert West.

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Soundtrack for the Season 3 - Episode 1:

“Apao’s Trip” by The Kuricorder Quartet

“Girl from Ipanema” The Blues Brothers (Movie)

Download the Season 2 Finale

Nuke tells a delirious bedtime story.

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Soundtrack for the Season 2 Finale:

“Apollo Justice - I’m Fine!” Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (3DS)

“Flower Garden” by Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island (SNES)

“Lost Woods” The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

“Saria’s Song (Metal Cover)” by Charlie Parra del Riego

Download Season 2 - Episode 10

The three-part “Half-Life To” series is an audio playthrough of the game Half-Life 2 by Valve. The third and final installment of the series, “Half-Life To: The Return of the Breen,” is an exercise in futility... and glitches. This episode features an honest-to-god ghost army, stuck birds, watermelons, dangerous text messages, Bumbling Barney, the Perfect Strangers theme song, Robert Culp talking, and a really stupid final battle. Chapters 10-15 are tackled (Entanglement, Anticitizen One, "Follow Freeman!," Our Benefactors, Dark Energy, and Credits). Will this playthrough be completed before the computer catches on fire?

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Soundtrack for Season 2 - Episode 10:

“Hazardous Materials” Half-Life 2 (PC)

“Spanish Flea” by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

Download Season 2 - Episode 9

The three-part “Half-Life To” series is an audio playthrough of the game Half-Life 2 by Valve. The second installment of the series, "Half-Life To: The Dude Cowers," features creepy crows, creepy everything else, the worst car ever made, calming ocean breezes, the search for happiness, irritable antlions, game design disobedience, and an army led by a squeezable ball. Chapters 6-9 are tackled ("We Don't Go to Ravenholm...," Highway 17, Sandtraps, and Nova Prospekt). Will fast headcrab zombies ever be not horrifying?

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The three-part "Half-Life To" series is an audio playthrough of the game Half-Life 2 by Valve. “The Fellowship of the Crowbar,” the first installment of this epic journey, includes creepiness, soda appreciation, a landmark moment in gaming repeated many times for no reason, boat hate, lots of pressable, clicky buttons, and playtime with Dog. Chapters 1-5 are tackled (Point Insertion, “A Red Letter Day,” Route Kanal, Water Hazard, and Black Mesa East). Will Gordon Freeman manage to fit in a shower during his quest to reach the citadel? Tune in to find out!

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Download Season 2 - Episode 7

Nuke says goodbye to a nerdy, fantastic workplace with this job-centric episode. Months of secret inner turmoil revealed! An exhaustive job search explored! Buttons on action figures pressed! And at the end of it all, the (possibly) final Newsroom Nerdery segment puts a cap on an era with an embarrassing bro hug.

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Soundtrack for Season 2 - Episode 7:

"Apollo Justice - I’m Fine!” Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (3DS)

“Tacky” by Weird Al

“Mega Man 2” by The Minibosses

“Boingburg” Rocket Slime (DS)

Download Season 2 - Episode 6

Music music music music music... also, music. The gentle live notes of a MIDI-controller guide the listener through the host's electronic music past and all of its triumphs and failures. This episode includes in-depth discussion about composing, the trickiness of percussion, music's polarizing effect, concertinas, the listenin' revival and magical newsroom nerdery.

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Soundtrack for Season 2 - Episode 6:

"Apollo Justice - I’m Fine!” Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (3DS)

“[bridge]” by Gillenium

“vordhosbn” by Aphex Twin

“Dewy Embers”, "Dewy Embers (Mo-Tech Remix)", "Breaking Orbit", "Mink Hollow Road", "Why Birds Sleep Well (Part 1)", "Hazard", "Kiwa Hirsuta" by Gillenium

“Calyx” by Simian Mobile Disco

“The Wind That Shakes the Barley” by Noel Hill

“Boingburg” Rocket Slime (DS)

“Victory!!” Super Mario RPG (SNES)

“Rainy Night” Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (DS)

Download Season 2 - Episode 5

A special director's cut thingy includes intrepid pilot Nuke recapping more than a decade of dating follies, red beards, the joys of social anxiety, a look back at The Wolf Among Us, a review of The Walking Dead Game: Season 2: Episode 4, a look back at The Wire, a look forward to historic comet fun, and a double shot of newsroom nerdery.

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Soundtrack for Season 2 - Episode 5:

"Apollo Justice - I’m Fine!” Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (3DS)

“Way Down in the Hole” by The Neville Brothers The Wire (TV)

“New Worlds” Mass Effect 2 (PC)

“Boingburg” Rocket Slime (DS)

Download Season 2 - Episode 4

Things take a turn for the literary in this audio adventure tale story. Nuke spruces up the joint before discussing Stephen King books, explaining why "The Wire" is cool, and serving up a double dollop of Newsroom Nerdery that completely ruins "Game of Thrones" for everyone. This episode is brought to you by the Pizza Hut Book It! program. Not really.

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Soundtrack for Season 2 - Episode 4:

"Apollo Justice - I’m Fine!” Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (3DS)

“Velcro Fly (aka the god drums of Lud)” by ZZ Top The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (Book)

“Reading Rainbow Theme” Reading Rainbow (TV)

“Way Down in the Hole” by Five Blind Boys From Alabama The Wire (TV)

“Boingburg” Rocket Slime (DS)

Download Season 2 - Episode 3

With a shipwide sickness finally treated by competent medical staff, the show can move on to important matters - video games and why they're awesome. Games discussed in this nerdsplosion of an episode include The Walking Dead Game: Season 2, The Wolf Among Us, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Fire Emblem: Awakening and Bravely Default. From the lengthy analyses stem a variety of sub-topics, such as evolving gaming tastes, the allure of adventure games, releasing stories in parts, comic shame, handheld voice-acting, love on a battlefield, and hero firebats. Also, newsroom nerdery. Hang on - it's going to be a doozy.

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Soundtrack for Season 2 - Episode 2:

"Apollo Justice - I'm Fine!” Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (3DS)

“In The Water” by Anadel The Walking Dead Game: Season 2 (PC)

“Crane's Business Office” The Wolf Among Us(PC)

“Lorule Overworld” The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS)

“Lounge,” “Placidity” Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (3DS)

“Destiny ~ Ablaze” Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS)

“The Land of Radiant Flowers” Bravely Default (3DS)

“You have power... like mine” Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS)

“Boingburg” Rocket Slime (DS)

Download Season 2 - Episode 2

A woe-packed Episode 2 recaps weeks of natural and man-made forces conspiring to kill the host of this podcast. How does one defeat dangerous icy snowfalls, precipitous descents, bone-chilling temperatures, and a poisoned water supply? Find out in this week's exciting episode of "Nuke vs. the Polar Vortex Aquapocalypse."

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Soundtrack for Season 2 - Episode 2:

"Main Title” The Walking Dead (TV)

“Survivor” by Destiny's Child

“I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor

Download Season 2 - Episode 1

REBOOT! Nuke decides to honor the thousands who died unnecessarily on Mar Sara with another goofy, self-indulgent podcast episode. Topics to start out this season are a close-to-home Jerry Seinfeld show, fat comedians, classic movie dissection of The King of Comedy, The Godfather, and The Godfather: Part II, jerky heroes, and special holiday-themed newsroom nerdery.

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Soundtrack for Season 2 - Episode 1:

"Apollo Justice ~ I'm Fine!” Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (3DS)

“Where Do You Go To Disappear?” by Tina Dico

“Main Title (The Immigrant)” The Godfather: Part II

“Silent Night” by Chapel Choir of St John's College, Cambridge

Download Episode the Season 1 Finale

To cap off a year of directionless podcasting, Nuke goes full DJ to explore the world of video game music. Hence the musictacular. Songs are discussed, game music theory is mulled, and the definition of "crying" is debated. Featured game music includes tunes from Alan Wake, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario Kart, the Deus Ex series, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, and Mirror's Edge, among many others.

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Soundtrack for the Season 1 Finale:

(Background Music) “Main Theme” The Wolf Among Us (PC)

“Children of the Elder God” Alan Wake (PC)

“Someday” The World Ends With You (DS)

“Live and Learn” Sonic Adventure 2 (DC)

“Trials and Tribulations ~ Court Begins Blue Note Scale (from Turnabout Jazz Soul)” Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (DS)

“'Vanilla Lake' performed by The OneUps” Super Mario Kart (SNES)

"The Brink of Time (from "Chrono Trigger Arranged Version: The Brink of Time" and “'Corridors of Time' performed by Meine Meinung” Chrono Trigger (SNES)

“'Take Us Back' by Alela Diane” The Walking Dead (PC)

“Mr. Handagote” Machinarium (PC)

“'Discovery' by Gas” Osmos (PC)

“The Hive” Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PC)

“'Ma Cherie Nicolette' by Alexander Brandon and Jimmy Hinson” Deus Ex (PC)

“Blood Dragon Theme” Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (PC)

“Intruder Alert” Bionic Commando Rearmed (PC)

“Still Alive” Mirror's Edge (PC)

“'Ants in Blue Gel' by Gillenium” Pandemic (PC)

Download Episode 18

Setting aside a report of infested Terran near the starport, Nuke cozies up with a Snuggie and some hot chocolate to recap a month's worth of entertainment. This episode addresses workplace changes, exercise regimens and newsroom nerdery before diving into the media roundup, which features discussion about Dexter, Breaking Bad, Garden of Words, Super Mario 3D Land, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, and Spec Ops: The Line. Also - listener mail.

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Soundtrack for Episode 18:

“Historia (Instrumental)” Radiant Historia (DS)

“Boingburg” Rocket Slime (DS)

“A Watchful Guardian” The Dark Knight

“'Stormy High' by Black Mountain” Spec Ops: The Line (PC)

“Epilogue/Bloodroom” Dexter

“'Quimey Neuquen' by Chancha via Circuito” Breaking Bad

“'Hush' by Deep Purple” Spec Ops: The Line (PC)

“DK Island Swing” “Life in the Mines” Donkey Kong Country (SNES)