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Episode 13 – I like making Squishy

In this weeks episode we welcome a new guest, Mikes “maybe adopted” brother, Josh. Hilarious stories are told from their childhood all the way up to today including the first time I met Josh.

We discuss Mike and Josh’s musical project, Tom Rogers. They explain the song writing and recording process in depth for their sophomore effort.

Mike and I discuss our Top 5 Animated Batman Movies.

Beers

Trillium Heavy Mettle – http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30654/130699/

-Shaun

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Episode 12 – Ol’ Faithful

In this weeks episode we are joined by our friend Joel. He adds more of the actual comic book nerdery we’ve needed. He can speak on multiple comic arcs and sort of flesh out stuff we discuss in relation to comic movies.

We’ve been trying to get Joel on for awhile but schedules never aligned properly or he bailed.

We decided to do things a little different this week. Instead of just telling you what beer we were drinking, we did a whole segment on Sam Adams Latitude 48 Deconstructed 12 pack. Latitude 48 is an IPA by Sam Adams that includes 5 different types of hops. Sam Adams brewed 5 versions of the Latitude 48 to better show the drinker how each hop brings it’s own characteristics to Latitude 48.

Each beer is brewed with one of the hop styles. Some of the beers are sweeter and mellower than others whereas some give off an extremely juicy hop burst. You are meant to sample each beer then sample the Latitude 48 at the end. It really opens your eyes into brewing and all the time and effort it must take to select the right flavors to brew a properly balanced beer.

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/blogs/99bottles/2011/04/sam_adams_releases_latitude_48.html

As always we still nerd out and discuss the Gotham Pilot, the current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Michael briefly touches on Kevin Smiths new film, Tusk.

Beer

Sam Adams Latitude 48 Hallertau Mittelfrueh – Germany

Sam Adams Latitude 48 East Kent Goldings – England

Sam Adams Latitude 48 Mosaic – Yakima Valley

Sam Adams Latitude 48 Simcoe – Yakima Valley

Sam Adams Latitude 48 Zeus – Yakima Valley

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Episode 11 – Redemption

In this weeks podcast we get a little more serious. We discuss my new baby girl, Kaylee Grace Furey, and how I’ve been dealing with a newborn for the last week. Mike discusses one of his musical projects, Tom Rogers, that he is doing with his brother Josh and our friend Sean.

You can find their previous record from a few years ago as well as some new recordings from their sophomore effort below.

Tom Rogers — https://soundcloud.com/michaelgendron

Mike also discusses the state of live music and how smaller acts\local bands get the shaft when playing bars and clubs.

We also touch on the discrimination of gays which stemmed from a rather disgusting YouTube video we came across last week. You can find this video linked below but it is pretty hard to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUx4qkCgfU8

For our more nerdy topics we discuss the new batmobile, TNT’s proposed Teen Titans. Batman-on-Films Editor, Jett also takes some flak for his holier than though attitude lately.

Beers

Nightshift Hopstatic

Dogfish Head Namaste

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Episode 10 – Clerks Fail (About Mike and Shaun)

This is an extremely short episode where Mike and myself give a little background on who we are, how we became friends and how this site and podcast came to be. We recorded it on August 16, 2014 but wanted to wait to release it since it was rather short and didn’t really go into what we usually discuss on Nerdsense. A good excuse to release it was came on September 11, 2014 when my daughter, Kaylee Grace Furey, was born so we had to postpone recording this weeks podcast. In order to keep with our weekly installments, it seemed a good of a time as any to release this.

We originally planned to record a commentary of Kevin Smith’s Clerks that day but about 20 minutes into the recording Mike looked at me and said “This isn’t working”. It clearly wasn’t as Clerks is a fairly dialogue driven movie which makes it hard to discuss when we’re reading subtitles.

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Episode 9 – The Realization

In this weeks episode we are joined once again by our good friend Jason.

We don’t usually start each podcast with sad news but Joan Rivers passed away the day of recording so we felt the need to touch on everything she brought to the entertainment industry.

We also discuss recent casting news in the DC Universe. Dwayne Johnson will be playing Black Adam in the DC Movie Universe’s adaptation of Shazam!

We also have confirmation of the casting of Ra’s al Ghul in the DC TV Universe. Matt Nabber will be playing him starting with the 4th episode of the 3rd season of Arrow. We must say though, we are a little disappointed that it isn’t Liam Neeson. Mr. Neeson said in an interview the other day that he would love to reprise the role he made famous in Batman Begins.

Beers

Night Shift Morph 8/19/14 Batch – This one is very juicy with a very big citrus, especially grapefruit on the nose. This is a rotating IPA series by Night Shift where each batch will be a different recipe. Hopefully we will have the 2nd batch in a couple weeks.

Night Shift Art #33 Pfaffenheck – A “crushable” German Pilsner. Very nice citrusy lager.

Allagash Black – A belgian style stout

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Episode 8 – Bad Jason

In this week’s episode we make up for last week’s condensed episode. We discuss some articles that we found bashing the Nolan-verse Batman flicks in comparison to the Burton films. We dive into our take on all three Nolan Batman films, including how each of us would rate them in the order of watchability.

We also discuss a recent interview with Sir Ben Kingsley where he discusses the possibility of Trevor Slattery actually being the Mandarin and whether the actor is actually the facade. Link to original IGN article below.

SIR BEN KINGSLEY: TREVOR SLATTERY COULD BE THE MANDARIN AFTER ALL

Wine

Blandy’s Madeira Verdelho- Aged 5 years

Beers

Dogfish Head 75 Minute IPA
Ballast Point Sculpin
Goose Island 312 Pale Ale
Goose Island 312 Hefenweizen
Sam Adams Rebel IPA