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Geek Shock

GeekShock is the most amazing podcast on the planet and we have the geek cred to prove it. Every week we regale you with the latest geek news (both good and bad), what geeky things our crew has been doing, and playing stupid games. If it’s movies, television, board games, video games, D&D, comics, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or anything geeky in pop culture, we’ve all over it.
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Episodes

CouchCast 47 - Dear Mumm-Ra...

CouchCast 47 is a scandalous wench of ill repute, covered in the foul discharge of a thousand murderers. We talk about the star trek the experience prop sale in las vegas, how chad boutte is a douchebag, pinball hall of fame broken into, planet of the apes movie, tim burton, nintendo, pokemon black and white, starcraft match fixing and illegal betting in korea, the green lantern movie costume, stupidfight for twitter, atm thefts, nicoderm stopsmokeski, how we live in a big wormhole, chris hu's h...

Apr 16, 20101 hr 16 min

CouchCast 46 - Roll for Stupidity

Roll for initiative! CouchCast 46 is a seething, roaring mass of geekery. We discuss Xbox Live's GameRoom, Chatroulette, Lucasfilm Animation's Star Wars TV Comedy series, E*Trade talking babies film, Stan Lee Media lawsuit dismissed, SiliFulin robotic tail, Comic-Con news: $753 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, Red Letter Media's Attack of the Clones Review, Joss Whedon directing Avengers movie, Ralph Baer inducted in to Inventors Hall of Fame, Craig Ferguson gets robot sidek...

Apr 07, 20101 hr 13 min

CouchCast 45 - Superpong & Farm Animals

CouchCast 45 is a serendipitous hootenanny of flagrant excess and geekotronic ineptitude. I have no ideas what that means. We discuss April fools, Godzilla, Spy hunter, Burger King's 404 Marketing, Iron Man 2 cologne, edible gold food spray, anti-piracy internship from Warner Bros, Gamestop lawsuit over used games, James Cameron's disdain for DVDs, FearFest, 24 and Scrubs cancelled, Malificient from Sleeping Beauty, Amazon may launch a Steam-like service, farm animals, convenience store robbery ...

Mar 31, 20101 hr 27 min

CouchCast 44: I Rode My Sackhoff

It's CouchCast 44! Apologies for it being delivered to you a couple days late, but even geeks get caught up doing real life stuff now and then. We discuss the latest in geek news including Rear Gear, Brannon Braga, Blockbuster's bankruptcy, bhut jolokia ghost chili peppers, Chris Evans as Captain America, Jonah Piretti, NASA's office of planetary protection, Michael Atkinson, Green Lantern, Warner Bros, Battlestar Galactica: The Ride in Universal Singapore, Hogwarts set caught on fire, Nicholas ...

Mar 27, 20101 hr 14 min

CouchCast 43: Inside the Actor's Pyramid

CouchCast 43 is a sloppy drunken harlot crying in the bathroom because she didn't get a birthday cake. We discuss Barry's whisky and wiener tour of England, London Expo, Batman: Arkham Asylum - Game of the Year Edition, 3D support for games, Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Pokewalker, Avatar on DVD, He-Man booze, nocturnal emissions, Temuera Morrison as Abin Sur in Green Lantern, Peter Graves, Improv Comedy, Hugo Weaving as Red Skull in Captain America, Patton Oswalt's Serenity comic Float...

Mar 18, 20101 hr 25 min

CouchCast 42: He-Man Walks Into A Bar...

Dave-erator joins the crew on the ugly couch as we discuss the week in geek: Lady Gaga track pack for Rock Band, Battlestar Galactica browser based MMO, Capcom Street Fighter IV for iPhone, In The Beginning by John Fusco and David Cunningham, Fright Night remake by Craig Gillespie and Marti Noxon, Marvel's ultimate comic fan's TV, a relaunched Police Academy movie, Reign of Fire, Pet Sematary remake, J. Michael Straczynski writing Superman and Wonder Woman, King Kong coming back to Universal Stu...

Mar 10, 20101 hr 4 min

CouchCast 41 - Bah Weep Granah Weep Ninni Bong

Bah Weep Granah Weep Ninni Bong! Episode 41 is a slathering amphibious mass of bile and fecundity. Let's talk some geek. We've got nerds vs jocks, the trem "hella" as a unit of measurement, taylor lautner, max steel, stretch armstrong, hasbro, mattel, club eternia, he-man, skeletor, lex luthor, robert kirkman, walking dead, sonic boycott, buy nothing day, showgirls 2, george r. r. martin, song of ice and fire, game of thrones, wheel of time, harry potter, dumbledore's homosexuality, max headroom...

Mar 04, 20101 hr 30 min

The Truth About Comic-Con Leaving San Diego

A candid interview with Comic-Con's Director of Marketing & PR regarding the rumors about Comic-Con International's possible change of venue Barry Robb - www.uglycouchshow.com February 28, 2010 Every summer for over 40 years, geeks of all walks of life have descended upon San Diego by the tens of thousands to attend Comic-Con International, a non-stop 5-day mega-convention celebrating comics, movies, pop culture and the visual arts. It's almost a required coming-of-age pilgrimage for any fan...

Mar 01, 201014 min

CouchCast 40 - Los San Anaheim Comic-Con?

Like a one legged monkey butler on a benzedrine high, it's CouchCast 40. We're talking about a Doc Savage movie, a Missile Command movie, the A-Team comic, James' Cameron's Avatar prequel story, Willow novels, the possibility of Comic-Con moving away from San Diego, Joss Whedon & Morgan Spurlock's comic-con documentary, Dungeons and Dragons with Porn Stars, DC Entertainment, Shit My Dad Says starring William Shatner, Terra Nova, Doctor Superknives vs. Robot Dinosaurs, Wil Wright, iBoobs, App...

Feb 25, 20101 hr 20 min

Mike Sacks Interview

The Famous Paul interviews Mike Sacks , author of And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft .

Feb 19, 201029 min

CouchCast 39 - ReTardis and Reman Noodles

Couchcast 39 is an obstinate, pretentious bitch, with a hints of oak and despair, and a black currant afterthought. Vernon Wilmer and the Dave-erator join us on the ugly couch to discuss the Edward Cullen ManPillow, Jaws remake in 3d, Roland Emmerich taking on Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, Computer Engineer Barbie, girls with glasses, fang bangers, thought crimes and free speech on Xbox Live, upcoming Xbox 360 releases, Pac-Man, Blackstar, Natal, UK cinemas boycotting Alice in Wonderland, De...

Feb 18, 20101 hr 5 min

CouchCast 38 - Attack of the Sequels

It's CouchCast 38: the Attack of the Sequels! We talk Confessions of a Super Hero, costumed characters on the Las Vegas strip, generous donations from our wonderful fanbase, Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who, celebrity tarot lounge, Ghostbusters 3, Bill Murray, Zombieland, Dethklok's Mordhaus fountain from Metalocalpyse, the auction of props and costumes from Star Trek: the Experience, Daredevil reboot, Nick Fury, The Kingpin, Alan Moore, Watchmen, Zack Snyder, Sonic the Hedgehog, Gobots, Assassin's Creed...

Feb 10, 20101 hr 23 min

CouchCast 37 - The Laws of Nerddom

CouchCast 37 brings you the 20 Laws of Nerddom! We also discuss George Lucas making an animated movie, an animated Joe Dirt, Gatchaman, upper deck lawsuit concerning counterfeit yu-gi-oh cards, the passing of Zelda Rubenstein and J.D. Salinger, Poltergeist, austrek 2, superman returns, superman 4: the quest for peace, Paul's fucked up childhood, He-man and The Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Macbeth, neon genesis evangelion and of course, Felching.

Feb 04, 20101 hr 7 min

CouchCast 36 - Ejaculous Maximus

Couchcast 36 welcomes back The Famous Paul from his exile to the ocean! We discuss a Mortal Kombat movie remake, William Shatner to host RAW, Tony Hawk Ride 2, Baby and Me for Wii, Dungeons and Dragons taken away from prison inmate, Sonic the Hedgehog roller coaster, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Avatar is the #1 movie of all time, AMC's Walking Dead series, i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es 1nit!!!1, BBC video games, Cold Space, Lord of Ultima, video game science, gratuitous filth about Hermion...

Jan 27, 20101 hr 2 min

CouchCast 35 - Make George Stop

CouchCast 35 is a blathering, spiteful call for attention. We discuss Avatar porn, stateside Torchwood in development from Fox, Spider-Man trilogy reboot, George Lucas ruining Star Wars again with 3-D, Push TV series, Jurassic Park 4, the end of Marvel's Siege and Marvel Avengers titles, Marvel's Siege #3 Deadpool variant offer, Hawaii Five-O reboot, Hellgate: London, Star Trek tie-in novels, Brian Bendis' Powers TV series, Game of Thrones on HBO, Top US game console titles, and more.

Jan 21, 20101 hr 1 min

CouchCast 34 - New Year, Same Geeks

CouchCast 34 is a nerd-splosion of new years news! We talk Frank Henenlotter's Bad Biology, a 5-disc Back to the Future Blu-Ray set with Jaws19 in 3D, the life and times of Lady GaGa in comics, Star Trek wetsuits, Near Death Studios' Meridian 59, Def Leppard cartoon and video game, Avatar and James Cameron, Wallet Pop price comparisons, Dragon Age: Awakening (a Dragon Age: Origins expansion), EA closing multiplayer servers for old sports games, drug dealer busted through World of Warcraft, Deadp...

Jan 07, 201058 min

CouchCast 33 - Big Nerd Theory

Happy New Year from geekland! For CouchCast33, lets talk about..eh...some best and worst lists for 2009, big bang theory, and a bunch of other stuff that is of interest to geeks like us. Just go listen to it.

Jan 04, 20101 hr 9 min

CouchCast 32 - Sir Captain Picard

CouchCast 32? Already? Let's talk Dragon Age comics, Zachary Quinto in Star Trek Online, Assassin's Creed II DLC packs, Microsoft's user-health-generated avatars, Good Old Games sale, Magneto origin movie not happening, Dante's Inferno marketing, Lawrence Fishburne in Predators, Dan O'Bannon dead at 63, Red Letter Media's deconstruction of Star Wars Episode 1 the Phantom Menace, Spider-Man 4 halted, Captain EO, commonsense media's list of alternative games for christmas gifts, patrick stewart ge...

Dec 29, 20091 hr 16 min

CouchCast 31 - The Wangus Tree

It's almost christmastime here at the the Ugly Couch Show, and CouchCast 31 delivers like a drunken Santa all hopped up on bennies and cough syrup! We talk about Grant Morrison's biopic, one-more-turn-itis, geeky christmas ornaments, nintendo's next console, playstation network, age of conan and mmo subscriptions, paranormal activity's iphone comic, zombie roadkill on fearnet, paul reubens (pee-wee herman) and the pee-wee's playhouse movie, a sequel to batman: arkham asylum, the marvel universe,...

Dec 22, 20091 hr 10 min

CouchCast 30 - Turkeystar Galactica

Couchcast 30! Our 30th geek news podcast. We speak of, Left 4 Dead 2, Deb, a Lego gun, video games exhibition at the Smithsonian, Silent Hill play in Sweden, Stat Trek Online exclusives, New England Imperial Stout Trooper beer, video game ban in Venezuela, John Malkovich as The Vulture in Spider-Man 4, Anne Hathaway as Black Cat in Spider-Man 4, McG and the Terminator franchise, and much more!

Dec 12, 20091 hr 8 min

CouchCast 29 - Electric Pizza Blueprint

CouchCast 29, now available on iTunes as well as Podbean and of course uglycouchshow.com! We talk Marvel Universe, The Punisher, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Direct2Drive, Activision, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, the Battleship movie, Amityville Horror, Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Activity 2, Area 51, Stephen King Under the Dome, Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Kreuger, Archie's Riverdale Run, and a lot more I totally forgot to write down!

Dec 06, 20091 hr 9 min

CouchCast 28 - Nuclear Biscuit Cocktail

CouchCast 28! We discuss The Crow reboot, Splatterhouse shoes, a new Kull the Conqueror movie, Fight Club's blu-ray, Jackass 3D, Chevy Chasein a Superbowl ad, Gentle Giant's new R2D2 statue, the guy who spoke only Klingon to his child, FPS shooters and geneva convention violations, classic Atari gaming on the web, emergency broadcast system alerts on Xbox Live, a zombie MMO, a lawsuit against Blizzard, and a lot more!

Dec 02, 20091 hr 12 min

CouchCast 27 - No Russian

In CouchCast27 the crew discusses shooting people in an airport and other pros and cons of the supposedly controversial "No Russian" level of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, mass layoffs at EA and Pandemic studios, a kidnapper forcing his detainee to buy him a gaming console, why to buy a PS3, Jeff's video technology snobbery, Stephen King's next Dark Tower book, Buffy animated web comic voice casting, the fourth kind, Black Dynamite, Chocolate Giddy-Up, what's the deal with the Olympics, why Gho...

Nov 23, 20091 hr 9 min

CouchCast 26 - Torgo is a Wang

CouchCast 26 time, and Torgo is indeed a wang. 80s Jeff, Master Torgo and Dr. Vlarg are rejoined by the Famous Paul, fresh off the boat! We talk Fangoria's Trinity of Terrors, Eviltron and why Torgo is a rotten bastard, adn so much more stuff it's just ridiculous.

Nov 09, 20091 hr 27 min

CouchCast 25 - Las Vegas Failure

Vegas, you fail me. CouchCast 25 is full of failure. We take a night full of fail and make it into a CouchCast full of geek. We talk old Las Vegas, Hard Rock, haunted houses, zombie survival haunted houses, zombie apocalypse in academia, symphony of science, gamers around the world, and more.

Nov 01, 200942 min

CouchCast 24 - Nerds Aplenty

CouchCast 24 is filled to the brim with funkalicious nerditude! Torgo, Vlarg, and 80sJeff are joined on the couch by the boys from Role Playing Radio (available on Xradio.biz, Saturdays from 2 to 4). We discuss cybernetics, Xbox updates, Facebook, Twitter, the Microsoft Surface, Dungeons and Dragons, Monster Squad, Scary Movie 5, Band Hero, X-Men movies, Star Trek Online, and more.

Oct 22, 20091 hr 4 min

Couchcast 23 - Girls, Guns and Gratuitous Geekdom

Torgo, Vlarg and 80s jeff are joined in the studio (ok, living room) by geek chicks Deeb and Bianca as they discuss the next Xmen movie, Bryan Singer, the Viewmaster movie, Alex Kurtzman, Turk 182, obscure pop culture references, Megan Fox, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Ghostbusters 3, the Thor movie, Marge Simpson in Playboy, Independence Day 2, Ian McKellen, the Hobbit movie, Neil Gaiman on Twitter, Flash Forward, Ron Moore on Star Trek, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Terry Farrell as Dax, S...

Oct 18, 20091 hr 15 min

CouchCast 22 - Nothing Like A Little Strange

Couchcast 22! We discuss Furries, Highlander, Project Gaydar, JackKirby's heirs reclaiming rights to characters, Nightmare on Elm Street trailer, Human Centipede, Star Wars: The Old Republic beta, Good look boost wages, Kate plus 8, Stephen King writes for Fangoria, Trinity of Terrors horror festival, Furry conventions, and other news for the week in geek.

Oct 03, 200943 min

CouchCast 21 - ballerinas and razorwire

CouchCast 21 arrives, fresh from the fetid loins of a demon wildebeest, slavering for the sickly sweet aroma of delicious man-flesh! Master Torgo, 80's Jeff and Dr. Vlarg discuss Patrick Swayze's death, Disney's D23 Expo, Star Tours, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Kurt cobain in Guitar Hero 5, Joss Whedon, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, EA's questionably awesome marketing methods, Vampire Diaries stars getting arrested, the Season Finale of True Blood, Star Wars Galaxie...

Sep 16, 20091 hr 12 min

CouchCast 20 - Leave It to Torgo

CouchCast 20 is a cavalcade of contemporary geekery! We discuss Star Trek, Dreamcast, Smallville, Take Two's settlement over Hot coffee, modding games, East Press' Mein Kampf manga, a Twilight corn maze in Utah, Rambo 5, The A-Team, the Hobbit Movie, the Army i nSecond Life, Fat Directors, browser-based Star Wars MMOG, Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, and more.

Sep 13, 200950 min
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