Arnie Niekamp presents...

Brendan Dowling and Martin Wilson chat about the golden age of the Broadway musical with Arnie. There is a lot more singing than usual.

Charlie McCrackin and Matt Young explain 'Star Trek: Voyager' to Arnie. It gets weirder than expected.

Adal Rifai and Louie Saunders explain the grisly details of the gross-out horror sequel 'Human Centipede 2' to Arnie who really should have known better than to ask. Warning: the movie is apparently somehow even more disturbing than the original. It's a really gross Stupid Nerd!

Kevin Sciretta and Jason Chin explain the history of both Aquaman and Namor the Submariner to Arnie. It's a very aquatic Stupid Nerd.

Evan and Shama Jacover explain the crazy pies of Pie Fest XIII to Arnie. It's a pie-tastic episode of Stupid Nerd.

Megan O'Neill and Alex Eilhauer explain the CW show Vampire Diaries to Arnie. Recommended for vampires and halfwerewolves alike.

Matt Cavedon and Darius De La Cruz talk to Arnie about not purchasing anything for a year. Except groceries. And other stuff. Find out about their year and their podcast "No Purchase Necessary."

The final installment on the oral history of the Assassins game between iO and ComedySportz Chicago. Kat Gotsick, Jon Forsythe, David Flora, Brett Elam and Josh Logan are back to explain who won and how. Cesar Jamie and Matt Manley are also interviewed.

The saga of the iO VS ComedySportz Assassins game continues. Interviews include: ComedySportz CEO Matt Elwell, Katy Colloton, Tim Frank, Peyton Brown and Peter Kremidas, as well as more from Kat Gotsick, Jon Forsythe, Brett Elam, David Flora and Joshua Logan.

The epic Assassins game between iO Chicago and Comedy Sportz! Arnie interviews Kat Gotsick and Jon Forsythe, who ran the game, along with players David Flora, Brett Elam and Josh Logan. Also interviewed in part one: Charna Halpern, Blaine Swen, Jet Eveleth, Adal Rifai, Louis Saunders, Alex Trepka, Patrick Rowland and Nikki Pierce. Look for part two coming after the holidays.

Harry Gottlieb (creator of You Don't Know Jack) and Evan Jacover teach Arnie all about the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

Jason Chin and Matt Young talk about the campy 60's Batman television show starring Adam West.

A quick clip from The Poor Choices Show where Brendan Jennings talks to host Mark Colomb about working at Disney World, including working there, in costume, on 9/11.

Lisa Linke, Sam Super and Thom Gaughan let Arnie in on their favorite things and some secrets about Disneyland and Disney World.

Big Ten Network host, Mike Hall, and Second City's Tim Baltz help Arnie understand how sports can be nerdy, but rewarding. They also talk about broadcasting school, ESPN's 'Dream Job' and Ultimate Frisbee.

Louie Saunders, Molly Wilbanks and Ellen Haeg are back to update Arnie on serial killers for a fourth time. This time they've decided to dig in an try to investigate a case themselves.

Jorin Garguilo and Adal Rifai explain the TV show Supernatural to Arnie. It is apparently more than Route 66 meets Buffy.

Arnie has a new podcast, "We Wrongly Assume (People Care What We Say)." Stupid Nerd will continue, but you'll want to go subscribe to this new one as well, to make sure you don't miss future installments. For this first episode Arnie's guests are Steve Waltien and Rush Howell.

Arnie talks to Academy Awards nerds Craig Cackowski and Brendan Dowling about what's wonderful and sometimes annoying about the Oscars.

Arnie learns about the lizard people who live among us and control our governments from guests Irene Marquette and Allard Laban. He also learns about the Clockwork Elves from another dimension. Just for fun, hollow earth, Mormons and Paul McCartney are also discussed.

Arnie learns about the underwater scifi show, 'SeaQuest' from his guests, Shane Wilson and Sean Kelley.

Arnie learns about classic computer adventure games made by Sierra Games (Kings Quest, Space Quest... Police Quest) from the Ryder brothers, Tim Ryder and Josh Ryder.

Arnie learns about geocaching, GPS scavenger hunts, from his guests Rance Rizzutto, Rich Prouty and Tara DeFrancisco.   

Arnie learns about the classic British scifi TV series 'Doctor Who,' covering several decades of the original run of the series from guests Chris Rathjen and Shaun Clayton. (P.S. It's kind of a long one)

Arnie learns about being a mascot, for college sports and summer amusement parks from Steve Heinrich.

A special bonus. From Chicago's Paper Machete show (and podcast) Arnie reads a piece he wrote for Shakespeare's birthday, about the horrible things we've all done to Hamlet.

Arnie learns about the LOTR board game War of the Ring, from Shad Kunkle. Shad owns a massive (and expensive), limited edition hand crafted version of the game. Arnie and Shad's wife, Kate Hawley, try to figure out whether it's worth it.

Arnie learns about Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective that ever lived, from his guests Jason Chin and Shane Wilson.

Arnie is joined by the 3033's Bill Arnett and Andy St. Clair who talk about thier trip to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the new Harry Potter amusement park in Florida.

Arnie learns about The Hunger Games, the YA postapocolyptic novel from his guests Sarah Maher, Megan O'Neill and Matt Meador. They actually set out to talk about the entire trilogy but got so caught up describing how they'd fight to survive that they spent the whole hour talking about the first book.

Arnie learns about the torture horror 'Saw' franchise from the hosts of the Critical End podcast, Logan Lee and Ryan DiGiorgi.

Arnie learns about the Great Elder God Cthulu, and the other horrors created by H.P. Lovecraft from his guests, Chris Rathjen and Jorin Garguilo.

Arnie learns about the insanely popular on-line roleplaying game 'World of Warcraft' from his guests Sammy Tamimi and Chip Aucion.

Arnie talks to Eden Robins about attending the Clairon Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Workshop (aka "scifi summer camp"), science fiction writing in general, and having the same name as someone else.

Arnie learns about various nerdy Christmas specials from Jason Chin, Sean Kelley and Padraic Connelly. Topics include the Star Wars Christmas special, various Muppets Christmas specials, an Epcot Christmas memory, and various takes on A Christmas Carol (among other things).

Arnie learns all about the A.T.M. horror movie Human Centipede from his guests Adal Rifai, Mike Johnson and Rob White. Warning: There are some things you can't unlearn.

Arnie learns about the mulit-volume fantasy series from his guests Laura Personic and Megan O'Neill. Female werewolves. Female ghosts. Female chaos demons.

Arnie talks to Sean Ellis about his monthly fantasy LARP getaway weekends. You know, camping and pretending to be a gypsy fighting stone elves.

Still more serial killers. Arnie's guests Louie Saunders, Ellen Haeg and Molly Willbanks are back to talk about serial killers yet again. This time we talk about the Beltway Snipers, the ten year old killer Mary Bell, the BTK Killer and get the latest updates on the Zodiac.

Arnie learns about being a food nerd from Adal Rifai and Marla Caceres. Many Chicago restaurants are discussed.

We're back. Arnie Niekamp learns about Superman from Sean Kelley and Jorin Garguilo.

An excerpt from the "Aphasia Presents Something" podcast starring Jeff Griggs, Jeannie Cahill and Brett Lyons. They debate nerdiness and who is and isn't nerdy. Arnie will be back soon with more Stupid Nerd podcasts.

Arnie learns about cryptic crosswords, an incredibly nerdy and more challenging variation on crossword puzzles from his guests Noah Gregoropoulus and Joe Burton. Make sure to download and print out the crossword we work on during this episode which you can find at www.stupidnerdpodcast.blogspot.com posted right after this episode.

Arnie learns all about the "Nightmare on Elm Street" film franchise from his guests Adal Rifai and Ryan DiGiorgi.

Arnie learns about The Legend of Zelda series of video games from guests Louie Saunders and Matt Young.

Arnie learns about the exciting world of competitive pinball from Matt Meador and Josh Sharpe (world ranked pinball player and so much more).

Special episode! Sarah Maher hosts. Arnie Niekamp and Megan O'Neill teach her about all seven seasons of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Arnie learns a little about Medieval Times (a jousting-themed stunt show dining experience) from Sarah Wonak and Matt Trupia. Chris Weil stops by briefly to share a story about being kicked out of Medieval Times.

Arnie learns about the "pretend to kill your friends in public" game Assassins from two people who went a little crazy playing it: Shad Kunkle and Rich Prouty

Arnie learns about Marvel superhero Thor from Jason Chin and Chicago Comics owner, Eric Thornton. The episode was actually recorded near the back of the store.