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  <title>Episode 398: Nick's Nerd New Year: Lucky Number Se7en</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>No 7 Wonders of the nerd world here, just Top 10s for 2025. With some news sprinkled in. Nick once again brings his Top 10 Movies, Games and TV shows to round out the year. No more perfect a day than New Years Eve! See you in 2026!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Episode 368: The Host Returns</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Nick is back from Vacation and we got fully stuffed episode for you! Avengers delays, Harry Potter Casting, gaming records and more. Plus Pokémon gets a release date,  Xbox brings the classics and Batman and Deadpool are teaming up. And I finally weigh in on the Battlefront shenanigans, that and more in this weeks episode!</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:18:04</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 360: Xbox 360 2</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The wait it finally over, The Nintendo Switch 2 finally has a release date, a price and some games! Nintendo isnt playing anymore. Plus the MCU decided to blow up the internet the one week I record a day early. CinemaCon is staging a bright future for Hollywood, and Asus may be behind the first Xbox handheld. Plus Ubisoft, Sean Bean, and Coyote vs Acme!</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:27:40</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 351: Wide Angle Lens </title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>How about that Superman Trailer....people need to chill. Is Bioware doomed? Is Xbox really going to change to publishing? The Oscars controversy continues, and Robert Eggers is heading to the land of Labyrinth, which I miss David Bowie even more. Also Fans need to chill, for real....</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:00:41</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 347: Nick's Nerd New Year 6.0</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:45:00 -0800</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Happy New Year! Its that time again where there isn't really any news, so instead we look back on what was 2024. Nick breaks down his Top 10's for the year. We've got Movies, we've got games, and we've got TV shows. No sense in spoiling it all, so you will just have to listen!</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>59:38</itunes:duration>
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