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Nerdy Show
by The Nerdy Show Network
An existential and surreal journey into comics, video games, sci-tech, movies, tv, and everything in between… Every other week we take on current pop culture and the weeks in between we explore in-depth discussions, interviews, and a multiverse of nerdy weirdness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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RIP Space Ghost: George Lowe Reads Coast to Coast Fanfic
It's with a heavy heart that we report that Space Ghost is no longer getting enough oxygen. On March 2nd, George Lowe, voice of Space Ghost, and all-around delightful weirdo, became a true ghost. He joins C. Martin Croker, voice of Zorak and Moltar in Valhalla. We never did any podcasts with…
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Nerdy Show Bulletin: Marc With A C's Feature Film Documentary
A brief bulletin to let you know that there's a feature film documentary about Nerdy Show regular Marc With A C. The film is called Half Serious, Half Kidding: The Digital Footprint Of An Obscure Rock Star it's coming soon to streaming platforms, but if you're keen to get a limited run physical...
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Pixelh8's Hard Reset
Nerdy Show doesn’t have a monopoly on going dormant for years at a time - why, twelve years ago, legendary chiptunes artist, Pixelh8, stepped away from music. He turned from pioneering musician to pioneering educator and founded The Creative Computing Club. But no sonic wizard stays entombed...
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“NERDY,” She Wrote: An Update BOUND to Excite!
Nerdy Show is never dead, only sleeping! Your host with the most, Cat, returns to catch you up on what you may have missed, what's going on with her and Nerdy Show, and to share her latest geeky podcast adventure: "MOTHER," She Wrote: An EarthBound Podcast, which explores Nintendo's trilogy of…
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✨֍Mystery Broadcast֍✨
When you least expect it - There's something new in the Nerdy Show feed! A suspicious message! What can it be? We won't leave you to cryptic ponderings: it's Cat, your hostess with the mostess, spontaneously returning to the the feed that started it all. She regails with a ramble to cinch up the...
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Mystery Program Returns in a LIVE Adventure! November 13th & 14th
We interrupt this yawing gulf of silence with an important bulletin! The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program and Chaosium have joined forces to bring you a bold new adventure! A live charity spectacle! Two nights of improvised tabletop storytelling - like only Mystery Program can make: November…
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David Byrne Shares True Stories From "True Stories"
In this archival interview from 2018, Cat speaks with Talking Heads' David Byrne about the Criterion Collection re-release of his 1986 film, True Stories and the first ever edition of that film's complete soundtrack. The film was Byrne's directorial debut and as it plainly puts it right at the...
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The Big Chill
In this time of global upheaval, the entirety of The Nerdy Show Network unites! If we must be alone, let us be alone together! We summoned our fans far and wide along with personalities from Omniverse and The Nerdy Show Network to our Discord server to hang out, geek out, and spread love from a...
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We Are Omniverse
The Nerdy Show Network’s flagship podcast is an ever-evolving thing! Are we a news source? A travelogue of niche nerdery? A family of freaky friends with a penchant for pop culture? Media journalists documenting artistic endeavors from the geek world, far and wide? We're all these things! But…
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Come See Us at PodTales! Oct 20th, Cambridge, MA
We're going to PodTales a festival of audio drama and audio fiction. It's free, it's in Cambridge, MA, and it's on October 20th. More info here: https://podtales.org/ We've got a table (A5/6 in the Mt. Absalom room) and several panels including this one at 2PM: "Living in the Moment: Writing...
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We're Making a Lightning Dogs Animated Short!
Brace yourselves for a massive announcement years in the making: We've teamed up with The DAVE School to bring Lightning Dogs to life as an animated short! Join Cap, La Valle, and Doug for this brief update and hear more about the short in Lightning Dogs: The Official Paw'dcast:...
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Get Off My Books
Presently the production house known as Nerdy Show is in the midst of some massive movements. After the release of The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program series 2, Cap and Doug dove right into a new major project for Lightning Dogs (still TBA) - so, after a long day of recording stuff they can't…
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Update :: A Very Tuckered Howdy-Do
Folks, Cap is plum tuckered. She's fried. Like a fairground pickle. Here's some words from her speaking of things to come, begging your pardon, and sharing a smidge of the latest while we get our ish together. <3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Update :: Go Listen to the D&D Q&A!
There's no episode of Nerdy Show this week because we put our our long awaited Dungeons & Doritos Q&A 2 - which you can find over on that show's feed. Cap discusses this and shares a few other tidbits of network news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Pitching in the Wind
The wildly-swinging hits keep on coming! How far will we veer off of our usual platter of geeky chatter? And for how long? Indefinitely?! Well at the very least we'll always stay true to what you've come to expect from us for the past decade: surreal tangents and strange comedy. In this episode -...
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no caps: The Terrifying Adventures of Doug & La Valle
When the Cap is away, the Doug and La Valle will play. Left to their own devices (without adult supervision), the duo discuss some of their favorite Nerdy Show pitches and come up with new ones. But things take a spooky turn when a discussion about favorite horror movies leads to an exploration…
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ALL CAPS: Judy Funnie Meets Maude Lebowski
Join Cap on a solo mission as they give hints to the latest happenings at The Nerdy Show Network, muse on the Network's (and this show's) 10th year of podcasting, share the ups and downs of kitten fostering, and highlight two amazing comics you should read: Gillen and Hans's Die and Okorafor and...
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Strange Dreams in the PVP Cranberry Bog
Coming to you live from the deep recesses of your own mind: Nerdy Show is creepin' in your dreams and in your Fallout 76 servers! As we batten down the hatches while hatching other Nerdy Show Network schemes, our titular show goes full on diary – recapping the various projects we're chipping away...
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Horror!! With Chris Ryall and Jeremy Whitley at NC Comicon
Join us for a panel with Chris Ryall (Locke & Key, Zombies Vs. Robots) and Jeremy Whitley (Vampirella) as we chew on chilling tales, crossing genres, and frights for all seasons. This discussion comes to you live from NC Comicon, moderated by psychiatrist Matt Connor, and featuring our very own…
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Episode 319 :: NC Comicon X: Innocent Target
We're on the road! And you might be too! Incept your commute by driving along with us driving and recapping our adventures at NC Comicon and beyond. Cap, Tony, and Doug share their highlights from North Carolina Comicon, Bull City in Durham, NC - the Willow 30th anniversary event, the Lightning...
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Episode 318 :: Existential Crisis Haunted House
Enter a vortex of horror and existential crisis. We sink our fangs into Netflix's spoopier recent series, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the second season of Castlevania. Hear us extol the nerd nuances that have Cap, boR, and Brandon drinking deeply from these series' black chalices. We...
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Episode 317 :: The Boy Who Pooped on a Mountain
Brandon has returned from his trip to Scotland. Did our resident renegade glean any culture while on his first trip overseas? We're not 100% sure, but he definitely left his mark: he pooped on a mountain! Well, more like a hill; but you have to understand, Floridian standards for elevated...
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Nerdy Show 316 :: Japanese Horror Nights and Other Frights
Nerdy Show's global cultural exchange continues! Fresh from a trip to the Land of the Rising Sun, two of our hosts share chilling tales of how Universal Studios does Halloween Horror Nights in Japan. It's a drastically different experience guaranteed to make you liquefy with jealousy and set the...
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Episode 315 :: Age & Beauty: Life-Extension Drugs and Staying Young at Heart
Engineered obsolescence: that's what the human body is. It kicks alotta ass and then gets slower, brittler, and much harder to drive. Surely us nerds of the 21st century must've found some way to brain ourselves out of this? Well... turns out we have! Join Cap, boR, Jon, and Tony as we test out…
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Episode 314 :: Cultural Exxxchange
Indulge in tastes and tales from around the world - in explicit, eye-narrowing detail. We've taken some long, strange trips and some deep sips of cultures not our own and the results are... mixed at best. boR shares the shockingly unsavory details of his trip to Spain while Trench elaborates on…
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ALL CAPS: The Colin Episode
"Loneliness is lonely." Someone famous probably said that once... And so, Cap has once again violated the solo mission sanctity of ALL CAPS. Our illustrious, chromatic poddess (that's short for "podcast goddess") is joined by their oldest pal, and Nerdy Show/ Dungeons & Doritos cohort, Colin...
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ALL CAPS: A Game of Telephones
It's lonely in the void, so Cap's reaching out to get touched... by someone. Yes, the lines are open and your chromatic operator is doing an AMA the old fashioned way: with telephones. There's no telling what'll happen - including surprise guest appearances! Cap gets a turducken-themed song...
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ALL CAPS: Niche Pop Culture Obsession: Octo Expansion
Brace yourselves for a re-CAP of all the podcastery whatnot Cap has been up to. A Willow vision quest turns into philosophical musings on pop culture obsession. Will curiosity kill the Cap? Can their insatiable lust for knowledge ever be sated? Is progesterone all it's cracked up to be? Is…
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ALL CAPS: The Aquabats! Super Show! N€€d$ Right€ou$ Comrad€$
PREVIOUSLY! ON NERDY SHOW... The gang had a good laugh about skeleton soup. But enough of that. Let's get serious... SERIOUSLY AWESOME. In lieu of a regularly scheduled episode, you're getting an over-indulgence of your host with the most, Cap. It's no surprise they've got a lot of things on…
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Episode 313 :: Three Skeletons, One Sarcophagus
We love food here on Nerdy Show - and drinks too! Sometimes we talk about rare and unusual sodas, but in this episode we're pursuing the ultimate specialty drinks. These beverages have been secreted away in the deepest recesses, but we'll drink them - some way, some how. Neither inter-planetary...
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Episode 312 :: This Podcast Stinks.
Frag heads and nose nerds unite, and get a whiff of this totally ripe episode! We're joined by a former Nerdy Show host-turned-fragrance expert, Kristin West, aka Beauty Meow, who gives us the lowdown on the olfactory arts. Kristin doles out oud-les of stinky facts and answers our ignorant...
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Nerdy Show Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp
Throw your average summer film reviews in the garbage! Or, since they're probably online, CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-P, and then analogue delete those suckers into a recycling bin. Why? Because Nerdy Show's Hollywood hot takes offer above-adequate cinematic insights, cool comic lore critiques, and...
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Interview: Jen Cohn - Voice of Overwatch's Pharah
"Podcasts rain from above!" Live at North Carolina Comicon, Cap speaks with voice actor, Jen Cohn, voice of Overwatch's Pharah. Chances are good the shooter sensation isn't the only place you've heard her - Cohn is also Lord Zash from Star Wars: The Old Republic, Ursa from Avatar: The Last...
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Episode 311 :: European Vacation
After two weeks traipsing around Switzerland and Hungary, Cap has returned to The States with tales and peculiar confections to share. Discover the Halo-esque terrain of the Alps and travel to the Schilthorn - the real world site of Blofeld's mountaintop base from On Her Majesty's Secret Service....
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Episode 310 :: Conversation Royale
Sometimes Brandon gets angry and unleashes his rage on the unsuspecting masses. Does he need to be on meds? We certainly think so! Join Cap, Bor, Brandon and Jon as they discuss the inadequacies of E3 before it even happens and the current trend of seemingly endless “Battle Royale” style games...
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Nerdy Show Update :: June 2018
What? No Nerdy Show this week?! Nah, sorry pal! There's all kinds of stuff going on! Let Cap fill you in on the details and guide you to some cool and surprising stuff happening elsewhere on the network this week to tide you over for our next adventure. For links and more info, head to the main...
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Episode 309 :: Flavor Trippin'
Maybe we have an oral fixation... because we just can't stop putting things in our mouths. Some of these things in our mouths include opinions about recent movies! Join cap, boR, Brandon, and Trench as we share our thoughts on Solo: A Star Wars Story, Deadpool 2, and Avengers: Infinity War,...
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Episode 308 :: Adventures at Moogfest 2018
Moogfest is a festival unlike any other. One part TED Talk, one part that record you discovered in college that blew your mind; the event’s dual focus of Future Thought and Future Sound has made it a beacon for discerning artists, festivalgoers... and Nerdy Show for six years running. During the...
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Microsode: Adamantium Chef
It's no secret: Nerdy Show loves food. And we get up to some weird, weird adventures with both eating AND making food. So, when we got a listener request to talk about Iron Chef - naturally we wanted to do far more than talk about the beloved Japanese cooking contest... we wanted to actually do…
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Episode 307 :: Squid Beak Brassiere
Our present is the future - and the future is a beautiful pandemonium of science so surreal that even the strangest jokes can come true. Like what, you ask? Tesla coils at a hockey game, vitamins for frogs flavored like bugs, swarms of drones foiling the FBI, squid beak meta-material being used…
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Microsode: Mario Paint and Beyond - 90s Creative Games with Jazzy Boho
Once upon a time there was a short-lived era of gaming based specifically around empowering the user to create. The era of Mario Paint - a console game that came with a mouse, explained how to interface with your VCR, and had full illustration, music, and animation suites... all for the Super...
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Episode 306 :: Looong Looong Nerds
After vacations, business trips, interviews, conventions, and other mayhem - Nerdy Show's hosts are back in the studio catching up with each other and what's been going down in the nerd world. And... also... catch up with what the Japanese already know a lot about: dramatic and surreal on-going...
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Episode 305 :: Nerdy Show in Tennessee - Weird Al, Kid Koala, Arcades, Spelunking, & More!
Cap is on the road and indulging of nerdy adventures of all sorts: music, ancient cultures, retro gaming, modern art, cuisine, and geology! But it's dangerous to go alone - they're joined by long-lost Nerdy Show hosts Colin and Luke and the trio is taking YOU along for the ride. Hear all about…
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Interview: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness with Tom Waltz and Erik Burnham
Mutagen Man, Wyrm, The Pizza Thrower, The Utroms, Cudley the Cowlick... The Ninja Turtles are super weird - Awesomely unusual. IDW TMNT writers Tom Waltz and Erik Burnham are joined by Nerdy Show's Cap to celebrate the legacy of Ninja Turtles and the series' myriad mutations across all...
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Interview: Christy Karacas' Ballmastrz: 9009
In the distant future there is only THE GAME. Do you have what it takes to pulverize all the other mutants, magical girls, cyborgs, and wasteoidz? Can you master the ballz? Enter: Ballmastrz: 9009, the new series from Superjail's Christy Karacas. Whereas Superjail's animation drank deep from the...
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Interview: Ninja Turtles Rise! Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, & Ben Bishop
Coming to you live from North Carolina Comicon - Oak City, Cap hosts a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle tell-all with series co-creator, Kevin Eastman, writer of the IDW TMNT series, Tom Waltz, and awesome artist, Ben Bishop. Whether you're a longtime fan looking to scrape the sewer for new intel or...
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Microsode: Independent Sci-Fi / Fantasy Publishing with Alyson Grauer
Here at Nerdy Show, we know how to make our stories come to life by taking matters into our own hands with audio dramas and comic books... but what about books? That's right, prose - sentences, paragraphs, chapters - strung into bound volumes be they physical or digital; how do you break into…
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Episode 304 :: Peculiar Science
There IS such thing as a tesseract. A notion we take for granted here in the 21st century, but one that in 1962 made some waves - especially when it was the central focus of a children's book. Madeline L'Engle's sci-fi classic, A Wrinkle in Time, for all its hard sci-fi mixed with metaphysical...
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Microsode: Westerns
What makes a "Western"? Is it the arid landscape of 1800s America? Is it the hats? Or is it something more? ...Some kind of "true grit", if you will, that gets into the boots of a story and chafes at the characters' collective psyches? In this listener-requested Microsode we might not be able to...
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Episode 303 :: As Mute As It Gets
Time to get serious folks. Sometimes a single piece of pop culture sweeps in and sidelines an entire discussion - brushing aside all the idle chatter of the latest video game whatnot, ill-advised parody erotica, and dreams of a virtual future where theme park rides never die. Yeah, that stuff is...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
An existential and surreal journey into comics, video games, sci-tech, movies, tv, and everything in between… Every other week we take on current pop culture and the weeks in between we explore in-depth discussions, interviews, and a multiverse of nerdy weirdness.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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