The Incomparable
By 5by5
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Podcast Description
A weekly show about geeky cultural topics in numerous media, including books, movies, TV, comics, and games. Jason Snell talks with a rotating panel of regular guests including John Siracusa, Dan Moren, Glenn Fleishman, Serenity Caldwell, and Scott McNulty. Hosted by Jason Snell.
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The Incomparable 92: Nick Fury's Google Hangout | Marvel's "The Avengers." | 5/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 91: The Hungry Tributes of Catan | The movie and book trilogy "The Hunger Games." | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 90: A Suspiciously Efficient Morgue | The BBC's "Sherlock" season two. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 89: Also Known as Endor | "Return of the Jedi" (part 2 of 2). | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 88: Skywalker's Eleven | We discuss "Return of the Jedi." (Part 1 of 2.) | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 87: Where Do the Dragons Go to the Bathroom? | Books about dragons and the people who love them. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 86: Like "Catcher in the Rye," Except Crappier | Book Club: "The Magicians" and "The Night Circus." | 4/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 85: Game Show | The Incomparable panelists answer quiz-show questions. | 3/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 84: Wind is the Enemy | The films of Hayao Miyazaki. | 3/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 83: Nothing Ever Ends on Taco Tuesday | Discussing Moore and Gibbons's classic comic "Watchmen." | 3/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 82: Apocalypse Book Club | Books and stories about the end of the world... and what comes after. | 3/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 81: McRibs and Bacon Martinis | Reactions to the Incomparable Movie Draft/Film Festival. (Part 3 of 2) | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 80: Khan Film Festival | Continuing our assembly of the Incomparable Film Festival! We fill out our list of 35 classic films for imaginary display to imaginary crowds. Find out our final 21 (or is it 22?) choices! Then vote for your favorites. (Part 2 of 2.) | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 79: Everything Sounds Beautiful in German | We're creating the Incomparable Film Festival! Each day for a week, one of us will introduce five films (to be screened at an imaginary location not to be determined). To prevent duplication of selections, our seven participants will choose favorite films | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 78: Clones and Telepaths vs. Love | Comic Book romance. | 2/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 77: Women's Libber | Stephen King's novel "11/22/63." | 2/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 76: Robert Redford's Foot | Good and bad uses of technology in film, TV, and books. | 1/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 75: My Gazebox is Full of Menhirs | Text adventure games from Zork to Lost Pig. | 1/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 74: I'm Definitely Not a Girl | Family movies we love. | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 73: Ugh - A 2011 Clip Show | Looking back at our favorite things of 2011. | 1/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 72: The Screams of Trees | Flash podcast: "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe." | 12/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 71: The Holiday Movie Vault | Holiday movies we love. | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 70: At the Time, They Were Just Average Height | They Might Be Giants and other geeky music. | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 69: Love Conquers All, But So Do Guns | Neal Stephenson's "REAMDE." | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 68: Jedi Weekend | Part 2 of "The Empire Strikes Back." | 11/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 67: Darth Vader's Office is Really Weird | Part one of "The Empire Strikes Back." | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 66: Regular People Like Us | Book Club: "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 65: Maine is Purgatory | The fall TV season reviewed. | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 64: Ghosts Cause Cancer | Who you gonna call? "Ghostbusters!" | 10/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 63: Like a Good Book Exploded | Book Club: "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 62: The Pig is Chekhov's Gun | Book Club: "A Dance With Dragons" by George R.R. Martin. | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 61: Number Ones | First issues of comic books. | 10/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 60: Thanks For Everything... Now Go Die | "Doctor Who" Series Six wrap-up. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 59: Flitting is in (TV Fantasy Pitches) | Pitching shows based on the TV Fantasy Draft. | 10/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 58: Greyskull Anonymous (TV Fantasy Draft) | A TV-character draft to assemble fantasy ensemble casts. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 57: Weird Subplots About Fondue | Summer superhero movies. | 9/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 56: Let Me in the Frickin' TARDIS! | "Doctor Who": discussing "Night Terrors" and "The Girl Who Waited." | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 55: If a Show Never Airs, Can It Be Cancelled? | Brilliant-but-cancelled TV show draft. | 9/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 54: Put on this Mask and Strut for Mama | Strap on your jet pack and locate your pet monkey! Our Comic Book Club reconvenes to discuss works by writer Brian K. Vaughan, who excels at the high-concept premise. In the spotlight: "Runaways," "Y: The Last Man," and "Ex Machina." With plenty of digres | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 53: Let's Quilt Hitler | Flash podcast! A largely unedited Skype conversation after this weekend's "Doctor Who" midseason premiere, "Let's Kill Hitler." | 8/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 52: A Cthuluesque Vomiting of Ideas | Rip off your hearing limbs and join us for the first anniversary edition of The Incomparable. As with the first podcast, the Book Club discusses a China Miéville novel: in this case, "Embassytown." Also: What are we reading? Glenn is reading a comic book | 8/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 51: Zombie Marmaduke (Hugo Awards 2011) | 2011 Hugo nominees for Best Novel: "Blackout/All Clear," "Cryoburn," "The Dervish House," "Feed," and "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms." | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 50: We Apologize for the Extinction of the Clownfish | The films of Pixar (Part 2) | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 49: It's Like "Working Girl" With Monsters | The films of Pixar (Part 1) | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 48: Can I Get Some Extra Dragons on That, Please? | The first season of HBO's "Game of Thrones." | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 47: Death Star University | "Star Wars" (Part 2) | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 46: I Like My Coffee Like My Evil Sith Lords | "Star Wars" (Part 1) | 6/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 45: Lesbian, Silurian, Victorian | The first half of "Doctor Who's" sixth season. | 6/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 44: Emperor Aquaman | DC reboots its universe. | 6/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 43: Mulder and Pacey in "The F-Files" | Fox's parallel-universe drama "Fringe." | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 42: 42 | The ultimate answer to the ultimate question. | 5/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 41: ...But Your Kids Are Gonna Love It | The "Back to the Future" movies. | 5/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 40: An Ending Ten Years in the Making | Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's "Planetary." | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 39: Bigger on the Inside | Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" by Neil Gaiman. | 5/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 37: Shadow War of the Night Dragons | The works of sci-fi writer John Scalzi, including "Old Man's War." | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 38: Curse of the Bad Plot | Doctor Who: "Curse of the Black Spot." | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 36: Impossible Astronauts | Doctor Who: "The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon." | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 35: The Only Way to Win the Game of Thrones is Not to Play | George R.R. Martin's bestselling "Song of Ice and Fire" books. | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 34: The Wrath of James Caan | The translation of books to the screen. | 4/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 33: "I Drank What?" | "Real Genius." | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 32: The Story of Ted Chiang and Others | Ted Chiang short stories, including the anthology "The Story of Your Life and Others." | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 31: Supernatural | Stuff we think is funny. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 30: Let Me Show You My Warp Bubble | "Star Trek: The Next Generation." | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 29: Magic Fridge | "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 28: Bad at High School | Does Geek Culture really exist? And what does it mean? | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 27: Coal Mound Sex Scene | "The Dream of Perpetual Motion" by Dexter Palmer. | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 26: Hitler Was a Rules Lawyer | D&D and other role-playing games. | 2/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 25: Studied His Agrippa | "The Princess Bride." | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 24: My Word as Vorkosigan | Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series of novels. | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 23: Origin Story | Superhero movies: The overrated, underrated, and very best. | 2/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 22: Stephen Fry (does not appear) | An hour of rambling nonsense. | 1/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 21: Event Crisis | Comic-book "special events." | 1/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 20: Everyone's a Redshirt in Real Life | AMC's "The Walking Dead" TV series. | 1/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 19: This Podcast Never Existed | "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" by Charles Yu. | 1/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 18: Christmas with the Doctor | Doctor Who: "A Christmas Carol." | 12/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 17: We're Going to Need Some More Christmas Movies, I Guess | Is "Die Hard" the greatest Christmas movie ever made? | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 16: If You Love an Autobot, Set it Free | Beloved holiday gifts from childhood. | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 15: My Computer is Powered by Frisbees | "Tron" and "Tron Legacy." | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 14: There's Guacamole on the Holodeck | Video games old and new. | 12/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 13: Harry Potter and the Picasso P.I. | The Harry Potter phenomenon. | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 12: He Who Controls Mr. Peanut Controls the World | Joss Whedon. | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 11: To Be Continued? | Three Hugo winners: "Spin," "Hyperion," and "The Yiddish Policeman's Union." | 11/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 10: It's Clobberin' Time! | The Fantastic Four is the topic of this installment of our Comic Book Club! We talk "Unstable Molecules," a strange mini-series about the fictional "inspiration" for the Fantastic Four. Also: the bad movies and worse TV shows, Ultimate Fantastic Four, and | 10/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 9: Get the Bone Saw! | Horror and scary movies. Plus, a neglected horror classic. | 10/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 8: Top Men | "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and why it's so great. Also, "Star Wars" comes up a few times. | 10/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 7: Law & Order: Atlantis | Dissecting the fall TV season, including "The Event," "No Ordinary Family," and the promising third season of "Fringe." Plus other sci-fi shows we have loved and hated, why trying to ape "Lost" is a bad idea, and Dan suggests a new "Law & Order" spino | 10/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 6: Go Ahead, Lisa, Destroy My Childhood | Comic Book Club returns! This week we talk about TV adaptations of comic books, TV shows inspired by comic books, comic books that would make good TV shows, and more. Plus, random discussion of X-Men Annuals, the Micronauts, and why Reed Richards is a dou | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 5: Shakespeare is a Hack! | Our Book Club reconvenes, to discuss Nick Harkaway, Cherie Priest, William Gibson, favorite prose stylists (Shakespeare? Please!), and multiple Shatners. Also in this episode, we introduce listeners to two new inanimate-yet-Incomparable characters: the Sp | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 4: This Film Presented in Mummy-Vision | Movies and movie soundtracks are on the agenda, as we talk Giacchino, Star Trek soundtracks, bad movies we have loved, Blade Runner, Kick Ass, and the prospect of a "Dark Tower" movie/TV series combo platter. | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 3: Doctor Sherlock vs. The Melty Man | Steven Moffat's "Sherlock" and "Doctor Who." | 9/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 2: A Feeling of Vertigo | I call this meeting of Comic-Book Club to order! Today we will be discussing "The Unwritten" by Mike Carey and Peter Gross, published by Vertigo. But of course, we end up talking about much more than just "The Unwritten," as any good book club should. | 8/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Incomparable 1: We'll Always Have Zeppelins | Climb in your Zeppelin, grab a self-burning book, and prepare for the first Incomparable Podcast, in which we discuss "The City and The City," "The Windup Girl," "For The Win," and more. Plus we mispronounce the names of writers. | 8/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 92 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Scratch that geek spot
Books, Movies, TV Shows, Comics & Much More. If you could sit around with a few smart, funny people talking about the things they love and never get board, would you? Of course you would.
Jason Snell hosts this long running show with a rotating panel of guests some of which remember learning 6502 assembly. Meaning these are not a bunch of youngsters posing as geeks, but the real deal. If the movie of your life was "StarWars" or "2001", you will fit right in. Please check the back catalog for a variety of themes.
Great discussion, lots of reviews!
This was a great, fun podcast that I will certainly come back to sample again. The only bad thing I can say about it is that these guys added six more books to my already too-long list of great books to read. I hope my new Kindle gets here soon so that I can keep up with them. Good job all!
Geeking out at its best
This show is what a panel show is meant to be. The discussion topics are movies, books, and other miscellaneous topics that tend to appeal to geeks (i.e. a lot of science fiction and fantasy). The panelists get along well together, and Jason Snell keeps the unruly discussion moving in the right direction, at least most of the time (with the exception of the Stephen Fry episode, which was entertaining for its sheer ADD nature, and the fact that this is not normal). I look forward to when new episodes come out, and am disappointed when there is a spoiler topic that I have to save for later.
