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Nerd Stuff With Slytherpuff
by Slytherpuff
A voice actor and a sound engineer walk into a booth... A podcast where two friends chat about nerdy stuff. Always on a tangent but guaranteed to make you smile
Episodes
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Episode 34 - What even is time? John Dies at the End...
We recorded this episode in January but after watching 'John Dies At The End' the real question is "what is time?" If you ask Robert Marley (drug dealer in this movie not related to famous singer Bob) then he will tell you that time is an ocean, and so we're just going to go with it. This one was…
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Episode 33 - Studio Ghibli Saving Throw - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
After being away for a little bit thanks to both of us moving house in January we are back with a bang. This week we chat about the first (unofficial) Studio Ghibli film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, made just one year before the creation of the infamous studio itself. This one blew us away...
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Episode 32 - Studio Ghibli Saving Throw - Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Or first episode and first Studio Ghibli Saving Throw of 2021. Listen to our thoughts on the first official Studio Ghibli film Castle in the Sky, the influence this film had on the company and Japanese animation that came after and the nostalgia factor of older animated films. We go down a nerdy...
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Episode 31 - Creepy Christmas Corner
This was meant to be out last episode of 2020 but here you go, better late than never. We dug deep and found some of the craziest Christmas horror movies and believe me we only scratched the surface. We found zombies, serial killers, mutated snowmen, Krampus, devils and hunters. Good, bad, so bad...
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Episode 30 - The Promised Neverland Season 1
For our second last episode of the year we decided to watch the first season of this awesome anime, The Promised Neverland. We try to do a spoiler free review in the beginning but be warned after that we will go into full spoiler breakdown of characters, storylines and theories of what is to come...
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Episode 29 - Music that made us
This episode we decided to take a walk down memory lane and talk about the music we grew up on, the first albums we bought, the songs that inspired us and spoke to us through our emo punk rock days, things that have changed and stayed the same, and the music we still listen to on repeat to make…
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Episode 28 - Studio Ghibli Saving Throw - The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Our last Ghibli for 2020 and it was a beauty. We chat about how it moved us, what makes the late great director Isao Takahata stand out and reveal what will be our first Ghibli breakdown of the new year. Tangents on the next end of the world, earthquakes, and our message for the 2021... JUST CARE...
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Episode 27 - BIRTHDAY SELECTION #2 - Our existential crisis
Round two of our birthday month extravaganza!!! This week Jared got to chose our topic and decided to drop us into the wormhole of science and reality with a collection of paradoxes and theories to make your brain melt. Are we alone? Do we really want to know if we're in a simulation? or are we…
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Episode 26 - BIRTHDAY SELECTION - Not throwing away my shot!
November is the blessed month when both of the Slytherpuff team were born, so to celebrate we decided to let each of us chose a speciality subject. Homework was provided by the nominee and an absolute ball was had by each of us diving in to relatively unknown territory. The first of our Birthday...
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Episode 25 - Studio Ghibli Saving Throw - Tales From Earthsea
For our fifth venture into the world of Studio Ghibli we take a look at the lowest rated film from the studio. We gave it a chance and discussed the things we loved as well as its faults. It's a beautiful film and definitely inspired us to want to read the books they were based on because we…
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Episode 24 - JJ Abrams is Cloverfield, the Paradox
This week we decided to change things up for our spooky October specials and go back to the Cloverfied trilogy, an awesome selection of three different types of scares. We break down each film, talking actors, filming styles, genre and throw around our theories within the Cloverfield universe. As...
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Episode 23 - The final final destination of final destinations?
For spooky Halloween we decided to rewatch all 5 of the Final Destination movies. Stirring up some old fears, making some new ones and reliving our youth of early 2000 scary stories and picking our favourite deaths of the franchise. Tangents include 3D - is it worth it?, life as a pale kid and…
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Episode 22 - Scarred for life
Welcome to spooky October, this month is all about the scares so we decided to start with the things that have stuck with us and scarred us for life, whether it be things we watched way too young or were not emotionally prepared for or even the ones that spoke to our own personal irrational…
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Episode 21 - Studio Ghibli Saving Throw - Ponyo
This week we watched the super cute Studio Ghibli movie Ponyo. This one is definitely aimed more at kids but has so many facets that can be enjoyed for all ages. We talk about the things we loved, the hand drawn animation skills, the voices that amazed us and even raised some controversy on how...
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Episode 20 - What we loved about Comic Con Africa 2020
As promised we did our best to watch as many of the live streams as we could over the 4 day event that was Comic Con Africa Online. We gush about the people we were excited to see, from voice actors to Power Rangers and then share our new found love and appreciation for the things we didn't know...
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Episode 19 - Comic Con Africa is going online !!!
In this episode we start with some great tangents, mostly around the lowering of Covid restrictions coming to South Africa, looking forward to going to movies again, hanging out with friends, grabbing a coffee and the hopeful eventuality of returning to film sets #setlife. But then we get to the...
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Episode 18 - South Korean Horror Cinema
This week we decided to dive into the South Korean Film industry and especially the great horror movies coming out of the country. From the better known titles like The Wailing and the Vengeance Trilogy to some smaller hidden gems we found. There are some fascinating realisations on the history…
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Episode 17 - Studio Ghibli Saving Throw - Only Yesterday
Our third instalment of the Studio Ghibli Saving Throw series is here and this time we watched Only Yesterday. We look into this pastoral nostalgic slow burn and talk about how it made us miss a traditional life that we would never have been able to experience. There are are still many laughs,...
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Episode 16 - Super Slytherpuffs Save The Day
aka "Do you even tangent bro?" We are here for all the superhero glory that is coming to your screens. What started as a simple conversation about favourite superhero's and superpowers got railroaded by an awesome exodus of new trailers for some upcoming superhero movies. We start with an...
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Episode 15 - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
No surprise here, we absolutely love this show. SPOILERS for season one, we gush about all the things that we absolutely love about this show. This is demonstrated by a serious shortage of Tangents although there is an in-depth chat and love for Brain W.Fosters interview series Between the Sheets...
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Episode 14 - I vant to drink your blooooood!
Vampires are the name of the game and let us warn you now, Toni went full nerd on this one. Although there are some Tangents like how to cope with being stuck in one place by moving all your furniture around and investing in power tools (we desperately need to travel soon) this episode definitely...
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Episode 13 - Studio Ghibli Saving Throw - The Wind Rises
Our second #StudioGhibliSavingThrow took us to the more recent gem The Wind Rises. With a more serious tone The Wind Rises tells the fictional biography of aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi and his career and life in Japan during some monumental events in history including the Great Kanto...
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Episode 12 - Go play outside
This week is all about the games we played as kids, the ones that gave us square eyeballs and a few nightmares (sorry mom). We talk about our first PC games, renting Playstations from Blockbusters and our desperate need for Nintendo Switches. The tangents weren't as bad but we do worry about…
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Episode 11 - The (not) good, the bad and the ugly
This week we chatted about notoriously "bad" movies that we still love. There are some gems, some controversy and a magical collection of tangents. Alongside terrible shark movies and nostalgia tangents we talk construction, Blockbusters VHS rentals, movie ratings history, special effects and...
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Episode 10 - Studio Ghibli Saving Throw - Pom Poko
This week is our first episode for our new monthly series "Studio Ghibli Saving Throw", where we roll a dice to decide on a Ghibli movie to watch and then ramble on about it, so spoiler alert throughout. This week we talk about the 1994 classic Pom Poko, a tale of a clan of shape shifting...
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Episode 9 - Natural 1 on that history check
This week we focus on our failings as nerds, the things we feel we should probably know more about but don't. Some might surprise you, some might enrage you and some might make you go "oh thank God it's not just me". What this really does is just give us an awesome list of things we still get to...
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Episode 8 - Nerdy inspiration
Don't let anyone ever tell you that your nerdy passions will get you nowhere, just take a look at us... well...um... We take a look at the nerdy things that helped inspire us to be the people we are today, pointed us towards the things we love and also helped fill our minds with completely random...
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Episode 7 - Board games for the win!
Alternate title might be Toni talks a lot about Dungeons and Dragons, but don't worry we do also talk about our favourite classic games and share some fun board game night stories. We somehow tangent off about our awesome families, voice actors we love and Comic Con Africa with a special shoutout...
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Episode 6 - Gaze into Youtube long enough and it starts gazing back into you
Youtube black holes. You know the feeling, checking out that recommended list on the side of the screen, watching "just one more" episode of a completely random channel dedicated to orange farming you found after five straight hours where you started just wanting to find the trick to making...
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Episode 5 - A very Potter tangent
We went into this episode thinking it would be all Harry Potter... you think we'd have learnt by now. Skip to about 15:00 for the Potter goodness, favourite books and films in the series, Dumbledore's evolution, team Starkid and Slytherpuff love but stay for the great tangents. This episode got...
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Episode 4 - Is this the real life? Is this just found footage?
This week we kept on topic... for at least one third of the episode. Our first remote recording attempt while trapped in our homes we decided to chat about our favourite found footage horror movies. There are so many we don't mention but this is really one of our most loved genres so join us for...
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Episode 3 - A pictures worth a thousand words: Quarantine catch up
Well well well, is that a tangent I see before me... oh hell yeah, and the best kind. What is essentially an episode dedicated to things we have discovered/rewatched/finally found the time to watch thanks to being in pandemic lockdown we, of course, give you some awesome extra chats. Our opinions...
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Episode 2 - They're coming for you Barbara
yup Zombies! This week we chat about our favourite zombie movies and ask the age old question "would we actually survive a Zombie apocalypse?" BUT we would not be true to ourselves if our conversations didn't go off on many an unrelated tangent so also included in this episode is: favourite…
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Episode 1 - Making friends with the voices in your head
This is it. This is what happens when you give two nerds microphones with no supervision. But on the bright side we had a laugh and there's no turning back now. Welcome to Episode 1, the one where we talk about who we are and what we do. Expect many tangents about the world of voice acting and...
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A voice actor and a sound engineer walk into a booth... A podcast where two friends chat about nerdy stuff. Always on a tangent but guaranteed to make you smile
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