Episode 317 - Al Gore Rhythms

[Mike]

Whoo! Mike reviews a couple books on the Nerd Pride Book Report. Then Aidan takes over the show for a little more of your favorite game: My Friend John. Then Aidan has some Nerd Rage over old Nintendo transphobia. Plus a couple more Aidan segments before they get to trying out some international candy. On the Pod-O-Matic, R2 rolls out a few all-new, listener-submitted questions that finally put to rest how many crazed second graders it takes to take out a nerd podcast host. This is the most fun the guys have had recording a podcast in a while, so you’re sure to enjoy it even more, but only if you act now! Get on it!

Nerd Pride Radio, Episode 317 - Al Gore Rhythms

[Mando]

I'd buy that for a dollar!

[Kyle]

Elf is hilarious and a classic. But I get being tired of Will Ferrell.

Adam Sandler can be one of the most obnoxious actors (Hubie's Halloween, Water Boy-- all those baby talk movies). But when he's serious, he's so damn good. He should have won the Oscar for Uncut Gems. It's a hard watch but a great movie. And he's amazing in it.

[Kyle]

Also- in Listener Betrayal, Mike asked for our best Dad Joke, and Aidan ask for new jobs.

I only saw the texts an hour after they were sent and panicked that I wasn't going to get in a response on time. So to Aidan (which I thought was asking for a joke) I sent my best anti-joke: "What do you call a black guy on the moon. An astronaut, Aidan. You call him an astronaut." and to Mike I sent some blather about a fishing trip I took.

Listening to episode, I just sound racist. And y'all sounded confused like you didn't know what to do with it, and thought I was racist too. So (being polite) you just moved on without commenting.

I appreciate that.

But I'm not racist! It was an anti-joke! It was supposed to be read with all the jokes! It wasn't supposed to be read in the context of what can we do to get unemployed people working!

[Mando]

Sorry, Kyle...sounds like you woke up as me for a day.

[Cazmonster]

I'm at 18:30 in the new episode and I am certain that the John in question is John Shaft.

[Cazmonster]

Squinkles - I am so sad that bad-candy.com no longer loads. They went on, at length, about how awful tamarind candy is.

[Mike]

Bad Candy instilled a truly unreasonable fear of tamarind in me.