Tim and Ben's Podcast

In this episode, Ben travels to Maryland to attend the Renaissance Festival with Tim. Featuring audio recorded live during the trip. With a twist! What is this, a true crime podcast??

Ben’s beer: Running Man from 4th Tap in Austin, TX.

Tim’s beer: Pliable Foe from Elder Pine Brewery in Gaithersburg, MD, and a Corny Uncle Cerveza from Brookeville Beer Farm.

And here he is, the other lederhosen wearing guy at the festival: Hilby, the Skinny German Juggle Boy

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THE HUNT IS ON. Ben and Tim are on the trail of the elusive yet pre-orderable-in-bulk Pokémon Celebrations cards. The guys fight bandits in the aisles of big chain stores while scrambling to get their hands on the precious, precious shiny cardboard. There are unicorns, leprechauns, barista boyfriends and douchebag 20-somethings along the way.

Music kindly provided by Peter Swimm.

DVD EXTRAS

* Ben's beer: El Gose from Avery Brewing (Again!)

* Tim's beer: Fuzzy Logic from Silver Branch

* Watch the trailer for Tom Cruise in LEGEND

* All the Marvels by Douglas Wolk

* Problems with Marvel comics distribution

* The Immortal Hulk #50

* Oakley Juliet sunglasses on eBay as seen on Cyclops in the original X-Men movie

* Nibiru's full deck, where Tim pre-ordered $250 of Pokémon cards

* Get Lamp, the documentary about Zork from which Ben has a lucky coin

* The Misfortune cat PVC patch from Playge that Ben failed to order

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Ben and Tim are back for another hour of nerding out. Listen while Tim and Ben drink craft beer and discuss the exciting lifestyle of a 43-year old Pokémon card collector, which includes a lot more heart-pounding excitement than you would expect! WARNING: This episode features a live unboxing of multiple Pokémon cards.

Music by Peter Swimm!

DVD Extras

* Ben's first beer: Space Camper IPA

* Tim's first beer: Numero Uno from Flying Dog

* Space Channel 5

* Pokémon Celebrations

* Pikachu V-Union Celebrations Premium Playmat Collection - now > $100 on Amazon

* One to display, one to open, and one just in case from SNL

* Ben's second beer: El Gose by Avery Brewery

* Tim's “hot garbage” second beer: Sam Adam's Jack O

* Celebrations Umbreon card on eBay

* Celebrations Gold Shiny Mew

* Flying Chonky Pikachu

Ben’s Pikachu box:

Some of Tim’s pre-order:

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From a different timeline that didn’t actually fully occur, here is another episode of the Tim and Ben’s Podcast Nerdpocalypse. We discuss the shelf life of Oreo cookies, the works of Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey, whether the value of a thing is the information it contains or the thing itself, and twelve different types of barbarian. Get yourself a beer and tune in!

DVD Extras for true fans only:

* 25 minutes of Ben doing nunchucks

* Ben's beer: Lost Gold IPA from Real Ale Brewing

* Tim's beer: Old Town Lager

* Loki’s Charms Cereal

* Pokémon Oreos

* Pokémon Oreos that actually sold on eBay for as much as $15,000 for one cookie

* How they actually make cookies with the Oreo logo on them:

* Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR Comic

* Coming on Netflix?

* Point Break skydiving scene

* Gary Busey being crazy in Predator 2

* Max Headroom 3D Comic Book poster wiki post

* (Get your own from eBay here)

* Ben’s "Johnny Silverhand” McFarlane action figure

* The Conan the Adventurer show bible Ben didn’t buy

* Silverhawks theme song

* Thundarr the Barbarian on Wikipedia

* Thundarr fights the Statue of Liberty

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It’s the official first episode of a new podcast! Join Tim and Ben on a journey through the nerdpocalypse where we’ll be trading our classic comic books for drinking water and decapitating eBay sellers for not responding adequately to the reports of fake Pokémon cards. Grab your museum quality replica swords and embark on this exceedingly geeky quest. Featuring music by Peter Swimm.

Episode links:

* True Respite Brewery in Derwood, Maryland

* St. Elmo Brewing in Austin, Texas

* 1992 Conan The Adventurer Action Figure

* Robert E. Howard on Wikipedia

* A list of all the Conan comic books

* Ben’s sweet lot of Conan comics, including the Todd McFarlane cover of #241

* TCGPlayer Pokémon card price guide

Check out Tim’s fake Pokémon cards - the smooth fake card is on the left, the real “textured” card is on the right.

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