Get Nerdified

Are reboots ruining everything? Or are they just evolving this episode? Takes a hard look at the so-called folk movement in legacy media. It breaks down the myth of a political nostalgia and dives into what representation really means when it works and when it doesn’t.

Host Charles Haag shares a deeply personal story about growing up with the Dukes of Hazzard and the Cosby show and how two kids from different roads found common ground under a Peachtree and he shared TV schedule.

Topics covered : why did the term woke is misused

Art versus taste a cooking metaphor

The political legacy of sci-fi and action franchises also when representation fills real versus when it doesn’t, and finally the emotional cost of the culture war

Send us your stories. What reboot at home what franchise shaped you we want to hear it. Send your stories to @Nerdwithaphone1 on X

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This episode is more of an experiment, but I had a fun time making it and I think you’ll have a fun time listening shorter than I wanted it to be, but it involves a schoolyard theory of mine. I’ve had since childhood and I think I finally connected Canon dots enough that I can prove well I wasn’t right I wasn’t technically wrong. Hope you enjoy the episode.

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Hey friends, it’s Charles – and this episode is part update, part origin, story, and part called arms.

Some of you know me from nerd with a phone podcast the original podcast I started years ago when my good friend John. We had a blast geek out about Batman, DC, pop, culture, and everything in between. But after Covid hit life changed John wasn’t available, and honestly neither was I… At least not in the same way.

That’s when getting notified was born – originally just a personal podcast space here on speaker. For a while, my dad even joined me as cohost. Some of those episodes became deeply personal memories, and I miss both of my posts More than I can say.

Now, it’s time to go all in.

I’m re-launching getting notified as a fully supported show – but I need your help. Speaker is giving me the tools like supporters club, but it only works if I can activate our community. So if you like what I’ve built and want to help me reach that publisher level, hit that support button And help keep this thing going as a bonus, I’ve poured over a few episodes from the phone dash, including role, uncut audio of John and me breaking down the DC universe. No samples, no heavy mixing – just the original tapes.

Let’s build the nerd network together.

– Charles, your nerd with the phone always

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In this episode of getting notified, we break down RoboCop warnings about AI corporate control and lost humanity. Then we connect the dots to real 2025 tech from algorithmic policing to ethical AI why Alex Murphy story still matters and what it says about our future buckle up this is a fun and disturbingly scary ride!

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Welcome back to Get Nerdified, today’s story is personal it’s messy and it’s one of my favorites, even though I didn’t know it was my favorite until after my dad had passed on it involves Tennessee, moonshine, Ozzy Osbourne and the kind of fear that can live in a man’s heart for decades so settle in we’re going back to the early 1980s when I was just a kid and when the prince of darkness came knocking on the back roads of Morgan County Tennessee

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The rest of the story, the final chapter of the steps I took to be sober.

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Hey all, this is an episode about the state of the world atm.

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My story of recovery from alcoholism

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StRanger Things Theroies

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