The final piece of the 50th Episode Trilogy Extravaganza begins with
an introduction by the lovely Gigi Edgley (Chiana on Farscape).
    
    We begin the festivities with the booty brought back by Glenn from
Wonderfest. A dvd of The Host, Jet Jaguar, of Godzilla vs Megalon,
figure, a Guyver Zoanoid, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu comic magazines, and Vampirella magazines.
    
    Geek and tell continues with Brad's expansion of the PodCulture
Studios bookshelves with new hardcover Runaways books, Buffy Bad
Bargain and The Deathless books, and a Doctor Who novel called Price
of Paradise. We find a great deal on Lego Star Wars II for the 360, another Supernatural comic, and a swanky Green Lantern keychain. Fear
not! Our dvd shelves were not to be left out! Brad's picked up Cowboy
Bebop and Steamboy on UMD, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and thanks to the KickAss Mystic Ninjas, we're now in posession of The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai. Given the future hero theme, we speculate on the remake of Flash Gordon.

    Geek Cuisine comes full circle this week, commemorating the first
Geek Cuisine, as we enjoy a Triple Chocolate Big Kit Kat bar.
    
    Promos this week come courtesy of The 3 Heroes Podcast.

    Music comes from the talented Jonathan Coulton with "Flickr" and his cover of  "Bills, Bills, Bills".

    An extra special thanks to Beatnik Turtle for the absolutely fabulous
theme song! We couldn't be happier with it, and we dare our listeners
to keep it from getting stuck in their heads!

     The celebration continues with part B of our 50th Anniversary show!

      Ushering in this bacchanalian revelry is one of our Big Damn Heroes, Ron Glass, giving our introduction.

     Only the guiltiest of Guilty Pleasures is good enough for this episode. Join us as we pile on the penance with our review of Jesus Christ Vampire
Hunter.

     Brad continues his interview with J.C. Hutchins, promoting the 7/7/07 release of the third installment of his 7th Son podcast novel.

     Mr. Postman brings us anniversary presents with listener e-mail. Slade writes in with technical questions, Michael sends us thoughts on Doctor Who, John from Sofa Dogs lets us in on some Drive and Monster Squad info, and Brian gets his Who on as part of his British Invasion Podcast. We love our listener e-mail, so keep it coming!

      Prezzies in the P.O. Box come from David in the form of Raines
and She-Wolf of London. Many thanks from all of us for your
thoughtfulness!

       Promos this week come courtesy of Tabitha, The Signal, and Two Geeks,A Mic and a Podcast.

       Our musical interlude is "Under the Radar" by Beatnik Turtle from their CD "All In a Day's Work".

PodCulture turns fifty!! Get out your party hats, and get ready to cut the cake as PodCulture celebrates its half a century mark!

We begin the shindig with an intro by Robert Picardo of Star Trek fame. Next, you may have noticed our brand spankin' new theme song graciously provided by Beatnik Turtle and their Song of the Day.

Glenn has been to Wonderfest, and is looking forward to Adventure Con
where he hopes to meet on of the Pirates of the Caribbean actors as well as dear Ron Glass of Firefly & Serenity. Stay tuned to our next episodes to hear what swanky stuff he's brought back.

Christina and Brad have been trying to catch up with Supernatural, Brad watches the missing episode of Drive, and Christina is still hooked on Webkinz.

SPOILER SEGMENT! Brad and Christina kick Glenn out for a spoiler
segment with discussion of the season finales of Heroes, Veronica Mars, Smallville, and Lost. If you have not seen these finales yet (what are you waiting for?!), and don't wish to be spoiled, skip from the time duration 11:25 to 36 minutes into the file.

Brad interviews the author JC Hutchins about his podio novel, "7th Son", as part of J.C.'s 50 podcasts in 50 states promotion.

We wrap up this section of our golden episode celebration with the presents Stu sent us, including Doctor Who badges and magnets, and the
Doctor Who sticker book from SFX magazine. Our most heartfelt thanks!

Promos this week include The 9th-A Heroes Cast, Geek Fu Action Grip,
and The Strangely Literal Podcast.

Don't forget to join us at our new forums, and come back next week for
more of our geek party!

    This week we find the geeksome threesome on the cusp of their 50th episode!

    Glenn is making headway with his Dangerman boxed set, has picked up 4400 season 3, looks forward to Pirates of the Caribbean:At World's End, and Wonderfest here in Louisville. All that, but the siren song of World of Warcraft still beckons.

    Christina grimaces at the news that there is a Sims movie in the works, and Brad's been burning a hole in his Marvel Ultimate Alliance game disc. Glenn put aside his Alliance game for Ghost Recon and Halo 2.

    Geek Cuisine is a Raspberries & Cream Hershey bar.

     To keep Glenn spoiler-free, Brad and Christina kick him out of the studio while they discuss the power of three, both Series 3 of Doctor Who, and the 3 episodes of Drive. The most recent Who episode based on the novel by Paul Cornell has Christina noting the performances of
Thomas Sangster, and Brad loves the appearance of Richard Brooks on
Drive. They allude to a more in depth discussion of this months season
(and series) finales, and look forward to catching up with Supernatural both the show and comic.

    Glenn returns, happy in the fact that he's picked up the Adventures of Superman on dvd, and liken the technology to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Christina looks forward to Monster Squad being released as a 20th Anniversary set.
    
    Brad and Christina talk about "42" of Doctor Who, and then Christina
and Glenn geek about Zoolander. Brad introduces our new PodCulture
Forums, and we lie SGL to rest for now.

    There is no Guilty Pleasure this week, but fear ye not, the next
episode will require three times the penance!

    Promotions this week include The Who Cast, The Cup Car Update, and The Scapecast.

After ratings month, Glenn returns to us with news that he's still watching Lost, and the trio anticipate the season finale, and contemplate the series end. Will it come to an annoying end like Dallas or The Newhart Show? Is it better to have a finite end, or be in limbo like Babylon 5? Noting Lost actors in other roles, we mention Brick and Pulse.
    
      Glenn has picked up Pan's Labyrinth and The Fountain,  and we look forward to his reviews. That is if any of his free time remains after World of Warcraft and Wonderfest.
    
     Our geek toy segment has Randy from Geekshow.us reprising his role as Glenn, and talking about the new Transformers Movie swag. Christina shares the story of Brad bested by the Optimus preview figure, and gleams over the JLA and Flash shirts she found at Wal-Mart.

    Christina and Brad thank the guys and gals from the Geekshow universe for a fabulous weekend, and encourage our listeners to check us out in our guest spot on Geekshow's 50th episode.
    
     A HUGE THANK YOU to Jayhawk35 aka Mark for his Doctor Who, Primeval, Tripping The Rift, and Red Dwarf dvds! You're the best,
Jayhawk!

    Comic talk this week finds Brad and Randy covering Green Lantern
Corps #12, Amazing Spidergirl, New Avengers #30, Wonder Woman, JSA Classified-Green Lantern, Alex Ross' Justice, the final issue of 52,
Fantastic Four, Runaways 25 & 26, Green Lantern #18, Justice Society
of America, Supernatural:Origins, Astonishing X-Men, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Countdown. We discuss the idea of "cannon" versus "non-cannon" material in fandom, giving Buffy and George Lucas/Star Wars as an example.
    
      Get your guilt on this week with Glenn's review of the  Asian Assassin flick called Beautiful Beast.
    
      FINALLY someone sent Glenn a dollar! Thanks to Cap'n Fatpants, aka Kevin, for Glenn's very own PodCulture dollar!
    
      The trio closes with respect for the Guitar Hero 2 players that we know ("Freebird!").

    Promos this week come courtesy of The Kickass Mystic Ninjas, The Cup Car Update, and The Babylon Podcast.

    Brad and Christina happily welcome Randy from GeekShow.us who was gracious enough to stand in for Glenn this week!

    We open with what's tickled our TV fancy this week. Randy gives us alternate insight into Heroes, and hypothesize on next season. We welcome the news that DOA is finally going to have a US release, and ruminate on the last few episodes of Doctor Who. Have we seen too much of the Daleks? To our Whovian friends, do you have a favorite Doctor Who villian?
   
    Continuing with tv talk, we share our thoughts on Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Raines, and Veronica Mars. Are we done with Mars Investigations? From Supernatural to Superman, we cover the Winchester brothers, and Smallville. The ghosts of shows past and future make an appearance as we discuss Nathan Fillion's short-lived Drive, and Summer
Glau's soon-released Sarah Connor Chronicles.

    Geek Cuisine this time around is the English Nestle Drifter bar.Thumbs up all around!

    Thanks to The Signal this week for their Sci-Fi Review comparing Star Wars to Firefly.

    Promotions this week come from our dear Mason Rocket via the Joe Murphy Memorial, Tee Morris' Billibub Baddings, and musical guest is Beatnik Turtle with Star Wars (a film like no other), and Were All These Beer Cans Here Last Night.

Sorry for the delay in show notes. Christina had a craptastic week of doctor (sadly not THE Doctor) visits, and she wasn't at her notes-writing best. Kindly stepping into Glenn's working shoes this week is Indiana Jim from the Things Are Looking Up podcast.

Jim shares his insight into Star Wars, and we talk about how George Lucas should (or shouldn't have) changed his movies. Discussing the evolution of special effects, we weigh the question of whether or not it benefits the movie, and serves the die-hard fans, to update effects in film. We debate the importance and placement of some of the more annoying characters in the Star Wars films, such as Jar Jar, and the Ewoks. Can knowing the backstory of a character such as Darth Vader change how we feel about them? Christina and Brad bring up Wicked by Gregory Maguire, and how the sympathy we fostered for The Wicked Witch has forever changed how we view The Wizard of Oz.

Guilty Pleasures this week comes from Glenn's Sirens of Cinema magazine in the form of Hundra. The She-Ra to Conan's He-Man, it's a titan clashing good time.

Geek Cuisine freezes our taste buds with Hot Tamales Ice.

Promos this week come from Mason Rocket at the Joe Murphy Memorial, and in honor of Joe, our musical interlude is a harmony of podcasters performing Jonathan Coulton's "The First of May".

 Welcome back to Geekland! We start this episode with Glenn's lamentation about not being able to see the Spiderman 3 premiere because of the Kentucky Derby, and Christina has spent her birthday recovering from a pulled wisdom tooth.

    Never fear, the fun returns as our trusty dvd players have been working overtime this week. Glenn's still watching Lost, and we discuss the action figures. He's bought Smokin' Aces, Deja Vu, and Night At The Museum, sparking a difference of opinions about Ben Stiller's talent.  Christina mentions the sci-fi epic, Supervolcano. Brad and Christina have been watching Heroes, Doctor Who, and the Stargates. We discuss the annoyance of the breaks between shows like Battlestar Galactica and Torchwood, and Painkiller Jane is next to watch. Finishing up Justice League Unlimited sparks talk about the Aquaman pilot on the XBox 360, as well as the "Justice" episode of Smallville, and David Ogden Stiers playing Martian Manhunter in an ill-planned movie. Speaking of ill-planned, the trio agree that the casting of Matt Damon as Green Arrow in the in-the-works "Super Max". Matt Damon's movies Dogma, the Bourne trilogy, and Good Will Hunting get called to the stand. To complete the WTF factor this week, we say hello and goodbye to the Fox series, Drive, and despite the fabulousness of Annie Lennox and Josh Groban, question the sanity of the American Idol Empire.

    In our game worlds this week, we come up against Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the XBox 360, Ghost Recon, and Halo 2 maps newly available. Brad and Christina introduce Webkinz as their current favorite time spender, and Glenn's enjoying the interactivity of the Spiderman 3
site.

    Strap on your sweet tooth, and get ready for the post-Easter Geek
Cuisine. We enjoy Cadbury's Orange Cream Eggs, Cadbury's Dark
Chocolate Mini Eggs, and Vanilla Cream Hershey Kisses.

*Christina's most humble apologies to Tabz for confusing the
confectionery goodness she graciously mailed. Trust me, they're being
thankfully enjoyed!*


    The promo this week comes courtesy of the Podcasting Track at
Dragon Con this August (see you there!), and we thank Tabz from the
FanTabzulous and Strangely Literal podcasts.

    Prepare for your penance as this week's show opens with Glenn's Guilty Pleasures! This time it's District B-13, written by Luc Besson, of Fifth Element fame. The battle between subtitles and dubbing wages on! Which do you prefer? Reading subtitles and watching a film in its native language, or hearing dubbing actors "interpret" a script?

    New toys are abundant this week! Thanks to Browncoat Tabz (of the Fantabzulous and Strangely Literal podcasts), the boys have cool superhero and World of Warcraft toys. Not to be left out, Christina receives a cd from Adam Bush's band Common Rotation, and enough chocolate to make the Easter Bunny jealous.  Thanks, also, to Mark "Jayhawk" for the Runaway Bride and Tom Baker's Sci-Fi quiz dvds, as well as episodes of Daybreak and Primeval. Thanks so much to the both of you!

    Toy talk continues with Brad's new Spider Spud, iRiver, and Motorola phone tools kit. Brad and Christina christen their new dvd rack with Batman Beyond season 3, Justice League season 2, Jackie Chan Miracles, Teen Titans:Trouble in Tokyo, and Leroy & Stitch. Not to be called couch potatoes, they also picked up books including Jim Butcher's Dresden novels Storm Front and Fool Moon, Scott Sigler's Ancestor, the final novel in the Left Behind series, Kingdom Come, and the heartbreaking Velveteen Rabbit. Brad gives Christina an autographed photo of Mary Mcdonnell, and picks up the new Trace Atkins cd. Glenn's bought The Protector, the newest in the Mon- Sieur Bome collection of figures (this time it's Kasumi of DoA fame), and discusses the loss of his decade-long pony tail, donated to Locks of Love, while Shane shows off his new pick.

    In closing, we look forward to the remake of Barbarella by De Laurentis, and the Supernatural:Origins comic. Christina is even more excited than usual by the recently aired episode of Doctor Who, which filmed in Shakespeare's Globe.

    The promo this week graciously given by The Better Late Than Never Podcast.

    Music this week by The Great Luke Ski, entitled It Takes Who.

    The Geeksome threesome returns with their special guest, Shane!    
       
    We begin with our week in geek with what we've been up to. Glenn's
finally watching Lost, more Dangerman and, to Shane's happiness, the
first season of 24. We discuss Keifer (once a vampire), and Donald (once a Watcher) Sutherland. Glenn's playing Ghost Recon-Advanced Warfighter 2, while Chrisitna is addicted to the simple Chicken Invaders 2 on MSN.com.
    
    Brad weaves the epic tale of the ill-timed death of the Culture Cruiser's battery, and Shane mourns the illness of his brand new HD television from Buy.com
    
    Our DVD players overfloweth this week. Glenn's watching Children of
Men, Lost, and Dangerman, while pining for the Space 1999 set. Brad
and Christina talk (spoiler free) about the series finale of Stargate: SG-1. The three discuss Casnio Royale, both pro and con, and even about the James Bond comic by Mike Grell. We cover Justice League Unlimited and Batman beyond, and the awesomeness of John Glover's voice.
    
    On a similar note, we discuss the new "remake" genre with TMNT, as
well as the upcoming Astroboy and Gatchaman movies. Christina has a
flashback to her childhood adoration of The Greatest American Hero. Did you have a show you watched when you were young? If you've seen it
again recently, is it as good as you remember, or are you trying to figure out why the heck you enjoyed it in the first place? Let us know!
    
    Geek Cuisine this week is Orange Creme Hershey Kisses.

    Promos this week come graciously from Cup Car Update, and Indiana Jim (from the Things Are Looking Up podcast) for the Dragon Hearth
podcast.