The New York Geekcast » Robots http://www.nygeekcast.com We do dorkdom Big Apple style. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 NYGC Episode 36 – Things That Scared Us As Children http://www.nygeekcast.com/2010/10/nygc-episode-36-things-that-scared-us-as-children/ http://www.nygeekcast.com/2010/10/nygc-episode-36-things-that-scared-us-as-children/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:59:54 +0000 David http://www.nygeekcast.com/?p=1544 Digit, from "The Jim Henson Hour." Click at your own risk.

Digit, from "The Jim Henson Hour." Click at your own risk.

Halloween night is a time for frights, and you can listen along as the New York Geeks discuss some of their most bone-chilling childhood memories — many of which have been repressed for over a decade. BEWARE.

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Show Notes:

Snickers Ad we didn’t actually talk about

Tom Wilson’s “Big Pop Fun” paintings

Why Doc Brown is the real villain of Back To The Future

Break Song: “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult

Andrew Thompson – We’re in Business

Colby’s Missing Memory

“Snake” Anti-Drug PSA

Not for the faint-of-heart: Digit moving on The Jim Henson Hour

Japanese robot video

Marvel Productions logo

Lorimar Home Video

Sesame Street “2001: A Space Odyssey” parody

’70s Kool-Aid commercial

Super Mario Bros. Super Show – Slime Busters

Nostalgia Critic’s review of “It”

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Adding to the nature of the Transformers being one giant punchline nowadays, Optimus Prime did the Top Ten list on Letterman recently, and the results were — surprise! — not funny.

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