A Nerd Like Me Podcast

Welcome nerds! This week Aaron McGahee joins the conversation. We talk about what he’s been up to including the growth of his cosplay personality, Blacksh33p Cosplay, and his Twitch channel. We discuss his cosplay plans, his cosplay workshop, his convention plans, and much more. If you don’t follow his stuff already, you should, links are below! Afterwards we talk about some of the cool things that we’ve been developing for A Nerd Like Me: new partnerships, a gift bag program, and raffles at our events. We also discuss the new A Nerd Like Me Jr, where we will start having nerdy events for the young nerds out there! We go through our events for March and let you know all the cool stuff we have planned. Finally we end on a small discussion on Disney’s new streaming service and what we’re looking forward to. We hope you enjoyed, thanks for listening!

Welcome back nerds! Lightsaber fighting is now a sport! We tell you about it. Then we debate which fight in the Star Wars movies is the best. We talk Darth Maul, Darth Vader, Anakin vs Obi Wan, and more. After, we discuss the new Star Wars trilogy that will be directed by David Benioff and DB Weiss of Game of Thrones. We tell you what we’re looking forward to and what we hope comes out of it. News has broke that the Punisher and Jessica Jones have been canceled and we tell you our thoughts. A date for production of a He Man movie has been set! What kind of movie will it be? We tell you what we think. Then we talk about a Batman and TMNT crossover animated movie and reminisce a bit about the TMNT movies of the 90s. Lots of good discussion this week, we hope you guys enjoy!

Welcome back nerds! This week we talk a little about comic books. Where do you start if you want to get into reading them? What are some of the different types? We cover a lot of the basics. We move onto talking about why some popular manga and anime seem to release content slowly and are always on hiatus. Then we move onto talking types of anime, we discuss the big groups: shonen, seinen, shojo, and josei. Of course we talk about some of our favorites: Hunter X Hunter, Berserk, My Hero Academia, Vampire Hunter D, Dragon Ball Z, and more. We tell you about the things we look for in an anime and the things that stand out to us. Afterwards we talk about realism in games and movies and how important it is or isn’t. We talk about movies and games that both do a good and a bad job in this department. Some notable names we throw around in the discussion include Mass Effect, Fury, John Wick, Saving Private Ryan, PUBG, Call of Duty, and more. We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back nerds, we have some exciting news! ANLM has parntered with Through the Decades Cards (TTD). TTD is the biggest and best shop in Louisville for all things Magic, Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh, and sports cards and we tell you all about some of the thing we'll be doing with them. Afterwards we touch on the differences between casual and competitive Magic and how we see our weekly Magic events. We also give you some thoughts on how to get into playing Magic. Then we discuss how Disney plans to continue licensing their IPs to gaming studios instead of making them themselves. That spawns a discussion on some of our favorite MMOs and what we loved so much about them. We talk Star Wars: Galaxies, Final Fantasy XI, City of Heroes, WoW, and more. We talk the mechanics and aspects of the games that we enjoyed so much and what is missing from the games on the market today.

Tons of video game talk this week! With the release of the remake of Resident Evil 2, we talk about that franchise a little bit and give our thoughts on what we think Capcom is doing right. On the topic of remakes, we explore what we'd like to see in remakes and what we don't like to see. Should you redo the fundamental mechanics of a game in a remake or leave it exactly the same as the original? We go on to talk about some of our favorite franchises including Mass Effect, KOTOR, Metal Gear Solid, and more. In addition, we discuss bugs in video games and why they are so hard to avoid these days and what is and isn't acceptable from our perspectives. The hype is building for a lot of the killer movies coming out this year, so we talk about some of those, too, including: John Wick 3, Detective Pikachu, Avengers: End Game, and more.

We saw Dragon Ball Super: Broly last week and we tell you all about it! Spoiler warning if you haven't seen it. We talk about the bad and the really, really good. We go on to talk about Dragon Ball in general and some of our favorite characters and stories. Plus, we tackle an interesting question: where do you recommend someone start watching the series? All of the entries in the series are different, so we go back and forth with what we think. We also spend some time reminiscing about anime and how it was in the 90s... the good ole days! After, we talk about balance in games. Video games, card games, miniature games, you name it. How are games balanced? What's tough about it? We give plenty of examples and discuss our experiences in Magic, StarCraft, DOTA, League of Legends, Final Fantasy, Counter Strike, Call of Duty, Battlefield, and more.

This week sit down with The Cosplay Couple, Ryan Gastinger and Kim Taylor. We've talked to Ryan about Ohio River Valley Cosplayers (ORCs) before, but this time we're also joined by his better half Kim to talk some nerd. We get the run down of their busy 2019 convention schedule and we get a peak into some of the cool projects they are working on. We discuss the kinds of costumes we all like, what's exciting about cosplay for us, and why we love the cosplay community. We talk about feeling comfortable in your costume and the power of positivity towards others in the community. We also discuss some of the cosplay plans Chris and Cory have for this year: Final Fantasy, Zelda, Star Wars, and more. Check it out!

It's Friday, time for your weekly dose of nerd! Dragon Ball Super: Broly comes out next week, we discuss what we're looking forward to. We discuss the DBZ movies and who our favorite DBZ villains are. Then we 'switch' gears and talk about the Nintendo Switch! Is it the best console out? FInd out what we think. We talk about Smash Bros and more. We touch on PC vs console gaming again and give some tips on building a budget PC. After the gaming talk, we go into how to improve at games and how our approaches to certain games have changed over time. Lots of video game and Magic talk! We hope you guys enjoy!

Welcome to the first episode of 2019! We hope everyone had a good new year. Social media has been blowing up recently with some big movies and we talk about them both. Did DC finally hit their mark with Aquaman? Is it everything people are making it out to be? We talk plot, special effects, acting, and more. Then we move onto the next big craze... Birdbox. A Netflix original that is making some waves. We discuss the details and let you know what we think. After we talk movies, we move on to Magic the Gathering. In recent months we've been playing the Commander format which is very social, relatively casual, and fun. We've decided to jump headfirst into legacy, which is very different format and we tell you about it. Let's start the new year off right with some good old fashion nerd talk!

Trailers, trailers, and more trailers! We got a peak into Avengers 4, Godizlla, and Hellboy. We give you the run down and what we think! It spawns a discussion on nostalgia, reboots and remakes, how hard it is to make a new franchise, and how much we hate spoilers in trailers. After that we discuss some of the things we're looking forward to this Christmas and we delve into some of our favorite nerdy gifts from our younger days. Also, we talk about some of our favorite Christmas movies like Elf, Jingle All the Way, Nightmare Before Christmas, and more.