28: Bad at High School

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2011

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Zombie, Spaceship, or Wasteland? We explore the reasons Geek Culture exists, what it means, and if it really exists. Also: are nerds just as awful and exclusionary as jocks? Why will Oprah sit astride the apocalypse? Find out what happened when Scott McNulty met Kitty Pryde. And most importantly, learn the deadly secret about how Dungeons and Dragons relates to nuclear submarines.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Podcast, number 28, March 2011.
0:13.1	We are back on The Incomparable, your source for all discussions about topics that are
0:18.7	relatively geeky in nature.
0:20.8	I hope I'm not offending anybody by saying that.
0:23.3	There was a time in my life when I was a teenager in the 80s where I guess I would be offended
0:28.0	if somebody said my interests were geeky, although if I was standing there wearing a
0:32.5	Doctor Who t-shirt, then I would be- You have no defense.
0:35.8	I would be exposed.
0:37.7	You could use your sonic screwdriver and teach them a lesson.
0:40.8	Yes, I didn't have a sonic screwdriver.
0:43.2	I did have, actually, even worse, it was a glow in the dark Doctor Who t-shirt with the five doctors on it.
0:51.0	This is presumably so you can see how many girls were not impressed by the t-shirt.
0:54.1	Well, I was going to mention girls were not impressed by the t-shirt.
0:58.7	Well, I was, I was going to mention girls, Lisa, in the context of I did wear it to high school a couple of times, and I know I never dated anybody in high school. So you connect the dots.
1:04.1	Coincidence, I think not. I think not. My motley crew that joins me today, a combination we
1:09.2	haven't had before in this podcast, I believe.
1:11.5	We have joining us from the lovely city of Alameda, Lisa Schmeiser.
1:17.4	Hi, Lisa.
1:18.4	Hello.
1:19.4	Also joining me today is John Syracusa.
1:22.1	Hi, John.
1:23.3	You know, I think this is kind of like those long-running TV dramas where eventually everybody has to be on a show with everybody else.
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