Radio Active reaches a milestone with Episode #50, but it ends up being a fairly quiet birthday with news of a Nuketown road trip, a GenCon update, adventures in parenting with nosebleeds, and a summer reading list. I also run[…]
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Nuketown Radio Active is a podcast dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of geekdom. The show features geek, technology and gaming links from around the Web as well as book, movie, game and podcast reviews. The podcast was first published in March 2005 and is hosted by Ken Newquist, Nuketown’s editor and founder. A web developer by day, he’s also a freelance staff writer for Knights of the Dinner Table.
Comments, suggestions and heretical complaints? E-mail nuketown@gmail.com.
Radio Active #49: Monster Week, Catan, Dire Cafe, Geek Dad Blog
Thoughts about Nuketown’s upcoming Monster Week extravaganza leads off Episode #49 of Nuketown Radio Active as I discuss about the movies I want to review and ask listeners for suggestions. With the monsters out of the way, I talk about[…]
Read moreRadio Active #48: Sickness Returns, Crafty Podcasts, D&D Manager, Jupiter
A particularly nasty round of family colds sidelines Radio Active for a month, but the show’s finally back with an update on Baby Nuke’s new love of Cheerios, news of Nuketown’s new Top of the Pile comic book review column,[…]
Read moreRadio Active #47: Space Westerns, Twitter, Boxed Octopus, Fnordcast, Double 0
News of the new science fiction webzine SpaceWesterns.com opening for submissions leads off Radio Active #47 as I’m not only a fan of the zine, but one of the volunteers helping to read through its slush pile. The mail bag[…]
Read moreRadio Active #46: Notebooks vs. Desktops, Out of Darkness, Horror Betrayals
Things take a horror tinged turned in this week’s podcast with reviews of Midnight Syndicate’s retrospective horror music album Out of Darkness and the horror-movie inspired board game Betrayal at House on the Hill by Avalon Hill. Elsewhere in the[…]
Read moreRadio Active #45: Crawling Babies, Podcasts Galore, A Deepness in the Sky
Baby NeutronLad learns to crawl and joins me as a guest host of the latest edition of Radio Active. In addition to news about our littlest geek, I’ve got news about a new “Game Day” column that’s running on Nuketown, a[…]
Read moreRadio Active #44: Digg, Life Hacks, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Nuketown Radio Active gets Dugg (or at least an entry on Digg) while I struggle to organize comics that haven’t been filed in a decade. If you’re similarly organizationally challenged, then figure out how to hack your life with the[…]
Read moreRadio Active #43: New Year Goals, Accidental Survivors, Free Comics and RPGs
Radio Active’s long dark tea time of the soul ends with Episode 43, in which I discuss a crazy January that saw my Xbox fall under the spell of the red rings of death while I destroyed my “integrated home[…]
Read moreRadio Active #42: Geek Birthdays, Villian Talk, Fire Upon the Deep
Discussion turns to books and coffee as I reminisce about my 35th birthday, a geeky Christmas, and the surprising fusion of my Xbox 360 with a spiffy new iPod. In Net News I look at Villain Talk, the podcast for[…]
Read moreRadio Active #41: Harping Monkey’s Second Life, SysStat, Model Makers
Sickness and teething played havoc with Radio Active’s publication schedule, but the podcast returns with a shorter show that catches folks up on happenings around the thermonuclear burg. In Net News, I take a look at the Harping Monkey Inn’s[…]
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