In which Daniel, Drew and Greg talk about the Avengers movie. 

No, that’s it. Just that.

It’s a spoileriffic episode as we talk in great detail about the flick – you have been warned. Don’t come crying to us if you listen to the show before watching the movie. We lay it all out here for the full hour.

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In which Daniel and Greg cover Saturday Night Live movies, The Avengers, the new Dark Knight trailer, scoring sweet concert tickets, and how nobody who uses Google Voice is sane.

We had a great show this week. Here’s the highlights:

1. The twentieth anniversary of Wayne’s World is this year. Also, a segment on SNL movies and how It’s Pat only grossed $60,000. Seriously.
2. The Avengers opens this week. It’s going to break records and set standards, you just watch. I just watched Thor and Captain America again with my wife in preparation.
3. Avengers parodies on YouTube are massive.
4. How It Should Have Ended is must-see TV… so to speak. Go watch. It’s awesome.
5. The Dark Knight Rises has a new trailer out. We’re not enthusiastic about it.
6. I’m trying and failing to sell nearly 4,000 comic books.
7. I scored awesome tickets to see Rush this December. Ninth row!
8. Check out this Circus magazine I got off eBay.
9. Greg says he only ever gets crazy people calling him on his Google Voice number.
10. We have two contests running:
1. An Avengers movie prize pack, including a t-shirt, set of buttons, and awesome character 3D glasses.
2. Help us rename the show! We’re paying $100 to the person who suggests a great new name for the show.

All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com.

In which Daniel and Greg talk about Record Store Day 2012, how much better vinyl is than other formats (maybe), Game of Thrones, Affiliate Summits East and Central, and oh yeah, DANIEL SAW THE AVENGERS MOVIE!

Drew Bennett is on vacation this week down in Florida. Later in the show notes I’ve got a short video from him that explains what he’s doing down there besides relaxing.

We started off talking about the artist-of-the-hour, Gotye, who performed last weekend on Saturday Night Live. I really like the two songs he did but not much else of his stuff. Greg noted that his performance at Coachella resulted in a lot of people predicting he’ll be a one hit wonder.

Next, I SAW THE AVENGERS MOVIE! Don’t worry, no spoilers. If you dig these kinds of movies even a little bit, you’re really going to like this one. It’s the best of its kind. I explained on the show how I got to see the movie three weeks early.

Record Store Day 2012 is coming up this Saturday, April 21st. We had a great discussion about vinyl vs. digital formats. I noted that HDTracks.com is a great resource for studio-quality digital recordings – if you think CD is the best digital format, think again.

Here’s something you might find interesting. We’re renaming the podcast. How would you like a hundred bucks? Help us name the show. There’s money in it for you.

I have a feeling we’re going to make Game of Thrones a regular weekly segment. The show is too good not to. Greg has blown through all of Season One and the first episode of Season Two, so he’ll be caught up by our next show. We’ll be doing recaps weekly, I think.

In Affiliate Summit news…

Affiliate Summit East 2010 videos are up on YouTube.

The deadline for the call for speakers for Summit East 2012 is Friday, April 20th.

Affiliate Summit East 2012 Has Raised $6,576 So Far to Fight Breast Cancer

And lastly, I made a donation to Affiliate Marketers Give Back, along with Taylor West, who won my Full pass to Affiliate Summit Central 2012 in the auction I held last week. He bid $300 and together we donated $101 to AMGB.

Here’s Drew Bennett in Florida. I need to get a peek at his contact list… just give me five minutes…

All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com.

In which Daniel, Drew and Greg talk about holidays, pointless movie sequels, affiliate marketing & OneLoad.com, and the recent discovery of a little-known site called eBay. You can buy stuff from them apparently.

We started this week with a bit about tattoos. Greg is the only one of us that has one, but Drew and I are okay with that. Seems like these days, if you want to be a rebel, you should be the one without a tattoo.

Drew’s birthday was this week. He’s on vacation next week and he’s being given a Kia Sorento to use while he’s there. Drew occasionally gets vehicles to drive around and blog about. Pretty sweet deal.

Easter was this week. All our kids had a nice time with candy and presents and egg hunts. I tell a story on the show about my daughter’s letter to the Easter Bunny. Crisis averted. Barely.

Further proof that Hollywood is running out of ideas, there’s a list of 105 movie sequels that are currently in the works. Bill and Ted III? Beetlejuice II? Really?

Greg just discovered eBay. We’re not sure if that’s a good thing or not. Well – it’s good for his Captain America collection… not so good for his wallet perhaps.

OneLoad.com changed its Terms of Service, no longer associating affiliate marketing with porn. That’s a good thing, but I’m not sure they went far enough.

I have a Full pass to Affiliate Summit Central for sale. If you’re looking for a pass to the sold out conference, I’m your guy. Read all the details and get in touch with me.

Drew has taken and posted a photo a day for seven years. Seven years, not a day missed.

Lastly, Greg has started up a new podcast! It’s about fantasy baseball, and it can be heard at GeekCast.fm. Greg, Mike Buechele, Nate Smith and Eric Souza make up the cast of The Affiliate Boys of Summer.

[update - I found the sensory deprivation goggles that I mentioned on the show. They are these:

I'll take two.

nice, huh?]

All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com.

In which Daniel, Drew and Greg consider 67 books for kids, the return of Game of Thrones, the Avengers and the lack of lottery winners among us.

(Technical difficulties means no video this week. Video should return with next week’s episode.)

This week we were all about:

• 67 Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids Before Age 10 - Classics like Where the Sidewalk Ends, Harry Potter, The Tale of Despereaux, Charlotte’s Web and A Wrinkle in Time fill out this list of must-read books for not just geek kids, but all kids. The Wizard of Oz is conspicuous in its absence, as is Alice in Wonderland, but it’s a great list overall.
• Cracked’s 6 Popular Children’s Books that Teach Kids Horrible Messages (#1 on the list is the Arthur entry that we talked about).
• From kids books to television that shouldn’t be watched by anyone under 18, Game of Thrones is back for Season Two this week.
• The weekly comic strip Foxtrot had a great homage to Game of Thrones and My Little Pony.
• The Avengers movie is coming up fast. I’ve got two tickets to an early screening on April 14th, two weeks before the movie opens. You’re jealous, I know. I’ll have a full report afterward.
• The Mega Millions lottery drawing was big, big news. 640 million. None of us won. I went on a rant about how the lottery is a big waste of money.
• Drew went to Boston, into Chinatown, to a Japanese restaurant to eat hot dogs. Yes, it’s just as weird as that sentence makes it sound. Yet it’s awesome somehow. The video is up on YouTube.
• Drew’s a blogger for Johnsonville’s Grill Greats, which he’ll have more information about soon.
• Greg’s all excited about baseball season and the start of his fantasy baseball league. Batter up!

All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com.

In which Daniel, Drew and Greg discuss video games for young kids, pro wrestling for grown-ups, the Walking Dead for mature audiences and Twilight for repressed housewives. Oh, and something about some movie called Hunger Games, which is for pretty much anyone.

We started off with a segment about kid video games and how they can be beneficial to a child’s development. No, we’re not saying they should sit in front of a screen all day, but we each have experience with smart kids that have been using technology and video games in educational ways.

Next, pro wrestling! Greg attended a WWE Monday Night Raw event last night! The last time I had any interest in pro wrestling was when the Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, Junkyard Dog and Hillbilly Jim were in the ring. Greg spent the better part of six hours at the event though, and had an awesome time. There’s something about attending events like that as an adult that brings back memories of being a kid. Pretty cool. Not sure I’d drop the money on a ticket any time soon, but who knows.

Speaking of Atlanta, my new favorite TV show is The Walking Dead. I just watched both seasons, and I’m hooked. We had a nice discussion about how awesome that show is, and that led – somehow – into a segment comparing and contrasting Harry Potter, Twilight and the Hunger Games. Who are these movies aimed at? What are their demographics? And is the Hunger Games really a cross between My Side of the Mountain and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome? I’d like to point out that I’m not the one that came up with “repressed housewives”, so don’t yell at me if you’re a repressed housewife who loves Twilight.

TMILFs?

Coming up this Friday, I’m recording an Affiliate Summit podcast with Mary Poiley. We’ll be talking about Affiliate Summit Central and my session, Step By Step: Podcasting for Business. Keep an eye on QAQN.com and AffiliateSummit.com to learn when it gets posted!

Greg and Drew are a little low in the mix for a while this time, sorry about that – I just added a new piece of equipment to the podcasting studio here and it needs a little tweaking.

All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com.

In which Daniel, Drew and Greg talk about the findings of a survey of geek dads, going offline on the National Day of Unplugging, and using a Polar RCX5 training computer (er, exercise monitor. Fancy, right?).

Our major segment this week was about a survey recently published by Cisco/Linksys about geek dads – not us specifically, but about all dads who fit the ‘geek’ label. There are some interesting numbers here, even if a few of them were a little ‘duh’ to me – but we had a really good talk about what it means to be a dad and a geek.

Next, the National Day of Unplugging is coming up this Friday, March 23rd and Saturday the 24th. From sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday, turn off your electronics! Read a book, go outside, do something that doesn’t include television, movies, internet or anything else with a screen (or speakers for that matter). Give it a try. Drew is in, Greg is sort-of in, and I’m on the fence but leaning toward unplugging. Listen in for the reasons why.

We wrapped up with a bit about the Polar RCX5 training computer that I won in a giveaway at Affiliate Summit West 2012 two months ago. This is one slick little device, though I’m not super comfortable with the chest strap. It offers a ton of information about your exercise though, and is a solid product – and I’m not just saying that because I’m an affiliate of the site that sells it.

All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com.

In which Daniel, Drew and Greg talk about webcams, Saturday Night Live being funny again, voting, and old school Sesame Street. Also, no mention of Pintere–ah, nuts. 

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We kicked it off with some discussion about our foray into streaming video. Greg got a new video camera, the Logitech C920. He was aiming for the C910 but missed and ended up with the better camera.

Saturday Night Live is funny again? Really? Greg says it’s about 50/50 right now. I’ve always thought it was kind of cyclical, with some casts being better than others – if SNL isn’t funny, give it a couple of years and it’ll bounce back.

Today was Super Tuesday in a lot of states. Was yours one of them? Did you vote? Greg explains why you should. Fight the apathy!

Greg’s cough drops have little inspirational messages on each wrapper. He was very smitten with these things.

The Sesame Street martians got some love this week. Now that I have kids, I’ve come to the realization… our Sesame Street is better than your Sesame Street. Suck it, Elmo.

From Sesame Street to reality television. From reality television to Downton Abbey. I’m trying to figure out why people are so interested in it, but failing. It seems to be very popular, but I find it soooo boring. Someone will have to explain it to me, because Greg & Drew haven’t seen it.

We wrapped with some minor talk about the Oscars. Greg’s waiting for a train wreck. Kinda like watching the Indy 500 and hoping for a helicopter engine explosion.

Other things of note:

• Billy the Exterminator
• Cinderella picture disc on eBay
• Sprockets! Touch my monkey!
• G-D-Batman (it’s a Twitter account, but slightly NSFW if PG-13 language is an issue)
• Being Human
• The Crazy Cat Lady

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In which Daniel, Drew and Greg discuss the upcoming tragic demise of affiliate marketing in Georgia, streaming live video, and choosing the right HDTV for your home.

Although we were recording the show on video this time… there were issues. The battery in my Zi8 died before I realized that I hadn’t plugged it in properly to AC. This is the first time that we streamed out to Justin.tv though, so you can watch my part of it on my QAQN page there. Next week I’ll double check the main camera so I can bring the whole crew together.

Greg went to the capitol building in Atlanta to protest House Bill 993, sponsored by Rep. Matt Ramsey. This is Georgia’s version of the Affiliate Tax/Amazon Tax/Nexus Tax that has already passed in several other states (though it has been defeated in several others). Greg’s takeaway? Georgia is screwed. We spent a good 30 minutes or so hashing this out.

On a more light-hearted note, it looks like Death Stars aren’t really all that expensive to produce, as we had reported last week.

Speaking of stars and planets, two planets and a moon in our solar system lined up for a couple of nights this week.

Do you pay your kids for good grades? We talked about whether that’s a good idea and some thoughts about teaching kids about money. Drew brought up his experience with Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University.

We wrapped with some thoughts about choosing an HTDV.

All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com.

In which Daniel, Drew and Greg discuss Fausnaught Day (that’s totally a thing), affiliate management, rebooting movie and television franchises, and Kevin Smith. Also, Pinterest. Again.

We lead off with Fat Tuesday and Fausnaught Day, a tradition that I have been informed is not actually Klingon, but German. It involves decorating doughnuts, which I think we can agree automatically makes it one of the most underrated days of the year. Why am I just learning about this?!

Next, Greg has launched a new contest for merchants. He gave us all the details – he’s giving away four months of free affiliate program management as part of a case study. If you are a merchant who is interested in jump starting your stagnant affiliate program, this is right up your alley.

We got into a whole thing about rebooting movie franchises. Do we really need new versions of old movies? We’re not so sure. Reboots, re-releases and 3D. Ugh.

Kevin Smith has a new TV show that we talked about in this next segment. Well, sort of. Not all of us have watched it yet. We talked quite a bit about his career though, and Drew actually met the dude. The Death Star conversation that I referenced can be found here on YouTube, and here’s the article that Greg found that calculated the cost of building a Death Star.

And next, yet another segment about Pinterest! Greg has coined a new term: Dispinterest. It’s what happens when you stop caring about Pinterest. There’s been some news lately about Pinterest and Skimlinks, and there’s some new code available that allows site owners to block their content from being pinned.

Drew got his hands on a new Playstation Vita, but wasn’t too impressed. Listen for his review, and you can read more about it at BenSpark.

Greg’s checking out Red Dwarf. You should, too. It’s smegging brilliant. The new series is being shot right now. We chatted a bit about Doctor Who as well.

Lastly, I recommended some software for tracking collections of books, movies, comics and more. Great stuff. Available on several platforms.

All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com.