This is our holiday episode. Granted, the holiday in question is Veterans Day. Other than that, this episode is all about Disney animation!

Kimball and I grew up loving Disney animation. As did our guests for this episode: Matty Newton (its-matty.tumblr.com) and Conley Smith (conleysdoodles.tumblr.com). Rocky, not so much.

We discuss the first Disney cartoon we ever saw, least favorite movie, favorite villains, favorite songs and how pretty much every Disney villain is totally gay. Scar? Jafar? Ursula? Think about it.

Also, Rocky unsuccessfully tries to get everyone to sing. A lot. I don’t think he understands purchasing music rights.

Enjoy!

-Terry

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Hi Kids,

I know in the past I’ve been posting updates about the Gnerd Podcast on this page. However, things change. It’s a fact of life and you’re going to have to accept that or be horribly disappoint with the world. In an attempt to streamline everything (Briar Hollow, the Gnerd Podcast, etc), I’ll be posting updates on the main blog here. You can still subscribe to the Gnerd Podcast on iTunes with relative ease or just keep an eye on this page. As the saying goes, RSS feeds change but friends are forever.

Yours truly,

-Terry Blas

In this Episode 04: Books, we talk about all of our favorite books! Prepare yourself for how Terry distanced himself for the shallowness of West Hollywood and retreated into books. We discuss the Idaho “Book It” program (bookitprogram.com), A Glee/Hunger Games crossover, the casting of the Hunger Games film, why we read young adult literature over everything else and why Terry has a Kim Possible text message tone that interrupts the episode.

We also try out a new longer format and feature guests/siblings Rocky Brewer and Jamie Brewer.

You are welcome for this long list. We mention the following authors and books:

Abarat series by Clive Barker
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Secrets of the Immortal series by Michael Scott
The Alchemist, The Devil and Miss Prym and Veronika Decides to Die by Paolo Coehlo
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Hero by Perry Moore
How I Paid for College and Attack of the Theater People by Marc Acito
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black
Someone Killed His Boyfriend, Going Down For The Count, Wearing Black To The White Party and Biceps of Death by David Stukas
Every Man For Himself by Orland Outland
Uncle Max and Can’t Buy Me Love by Chris Kenry
Rainbow Boys series by Alex Sanchez
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke
Any Kind Of Luck by William Jack Sibley
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Paper Towns by John Green
Matilda, The BFG and The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Molly Moon series by Georgia Byng
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Cry to Heaven and the Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice
Intensity by Dean Koontz
A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Gone series by Michael Grant

Books I can’t believe we didn’t mention:

The Wicked series by Gregory Maguire
The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
Room by Emma Donaghue
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo.

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And we’re back for Episode 03: Star Trek. In this episode Kimball and I talk about Star Trek. It’s something that I grew up watching while Kimball only recently discovered it. Naturally, I have school him on the finer details of Voyager. We also do our best to forget that Enterprise ever existed. There’s also something called Star Trek: Phase II that we discover and talk about. The video clip we watch in the podcast can be found here.

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Terry and Kimball will return in
The Gnerd Podcast: Episode 04: Adults Reading Young Adult Books

Announcing the much anticipated second episode of the Gnerd Podcast. Thank you everybody who tuned in to the first episode, and we hope you enjoy the second. In this installment Kimball and I discuss something very dear to us, My Little Pony. As kids we both enjoyed playing with the ponies and watching the cartoons. They have since brought back MLP as this awesome cartoon called Friendship is Magic. It’s pretty awesome. Oddly enough, it has become very popular, particularly with guys. Bronies, if you will. If you enjoy our single podcast about MLP, there is an entire podcast dedicated to dudes who enjoy MLP called Bronyville. Yeah, so it’s not just us.

If you enjoy the podcast, we’d love to hear from you. You can totally bug me on twitter or comment below. And make sure you subscribe via iTunes.

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Terry and Kimball will return in
The Gnerd Podcast: Episode 03: Star Trek and beyond