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March 30, 2014 Episode 172 :: Moogfest Bound with Makers and Cyborgs
Our interview series leading up to Moogfest concludes!Moogfest is a festival focused around electronic music with symposiums on futurism, art, and technology (April 23rd-27th, in Asheville, NC) and leading up to it, Nerdy Show has spoken with some of the incredible talent that’s been culled for this year’s event. In this episode we talk to the editor-in-chief of MAKE Magazine and founder of Boing Boing: Mark Frauenfelder, and Neil Harbisson of the Cyborg Foundation - the world’s first government-recognized cyborg!Join Cap, Jon, and Hex as we learn about how Neil’s cyborg senses hear colors beyond human perception, the trails of becoming a cyborg, MAKE‘s panel on DIY instruments, Mark’s new project, Wink, which reviews books that can’t exist digitally, and other cool circuit-bending, body-hacking sci-tech goodness.

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1 hr 5 min
March 23, 2014 Episode 171 :: Moogfest Bound with YACHT & Omni’s Claire Evans
Sci-tech, sci-fi, and synths collide as our Moogfest interview series continues!Moogfest is a festival focused around electronic music with symposiums on futurism, art, and technology (April 23rd-27th, in Asheville, NC) and leading up to it, Nerdy Show is speaking with some of the incredible talent that’s been culled for this year’s event. In this episode, Cap and Jon talk with renaissance woman, Claire Evans – performer in the band YACHT, and Editor At-Large of Omni Reboot, the digital reincarnation of the legendary science and science fiction magazine, Omni.She’s not only performing at Moogfest, she’s putting on a panel called “Xenomusic: Science Fiction and the Synthesized Sound” where artists, musicians, and scientists will muse on what music will sound like in the future and what it might sound like on other worlds. Join us as we tiptoe the thin line between possible futures and the future present, discuss bringing Omni back from the dead, Philip K. Dick, what’s new with YACHT, growing up with computers, genetically engineering bacteria, and a slew of sciency subjects.

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1 hr 6 min
March 16, 2014 Episode 170 :: Questing with The Rat Queens
RPG Month continues! Roleplaying is both a game and an exercise in creativity. Those of us who roll the dice know, the imaginary action of a group of friends collaboratively adventuring brings was cooler action and bigger laughs than… well, any other medium really. So it’s only natural that some gamers would take the raw fun of their tabletop adventures to their other creative outlets. Enter: Rat Queens – a fantasy comic forged by the awesome fires of roleplaying featuring one of the coolest casts of ladies this side of Baldur’s Gate.

In this episode Cap, Tony, Aaron, Chan talk with Kurtis Wiebe and Roc Upchurch the creative team behind Rat Queens – discuss their roleplaying pasts both in pen and paper and video games, the actual RPG moments that worked their way into the book, the Cowboy Bebop-esque game Kurtis built atop an obscure James Bond roleplaying system, and more! Also, we take on a requested Microsode topic from Fumanchuchu and discuss the roleplaying character creation process.

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1 hr 10 min
March 09, 2014 Episode 169 :: Moogfest Bound with Futurama’s David X. Cohen
Moogfest returns!What once was the world’s coolest electronic music festival has expanded to include symposiums on futurism, art, and technology – becoming perhaps the nerdiest event of the year. Leading up to Moogfest’s launch (April 23rd-27th, in Asheville, NC) Nerdy Show is speaking with some of the incredible talent that’s been culled for this year’s event.First up is Futurama writer and Executive Producer, David X. Cohen. Cohen and his team brought us one of the greatest and nerdiest shows in animated television – filled with not only some of the finest sci-fi comedy, but some of the most truly mathematical moments in the medium. He’s part of a Moogfest panel called The Math and Science of The Simpsons & Futurama and in this episode we’ll learn about what’s in store as well as hear about behind the scenes tales from the show, learn about his tabletop roleplaying experiences growing up, and more!We’ve also infused this episode with some long-overdue sci-tech discussion. Join Cap, Jon, and Tony for the latest tech craziness to come out of SXSW, learn about “the ligers of the culinary world”, and updates on our RPG Support Drive.

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1 hr
March 04, 2014 Episode 168 :: Rolling Deep with Chamber Band
It’s RPG Month! That means we’ve got a slew of programming focused on the craft of tabletop roleplaying and the people it’s inspired.In this episode we’re joined by Chamber Band a folk rock outfit whose tales of heartbreak and dire deeds are all set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. If their name rings a bell it might be because their debut album, Deities, rocked our world in 2013 and placed #6 in our annual Top 20 Things list! What can we say – they’re good, and we don’t mind talking ‘em up! Chris and Asarr of Chamber band team up with Cap, Hex, Doug, and Josh to discuss the world of tabletop, stories from the game, and (perhaps surprisingly) Pokémon!We also mash this episode up with a Microsode topic! Nerdy Show listener, M wanted us to talk about the RPG phenomena of “munchkins” – the slang for aggressively competitive RPG players. We share our experiences conquering and subduing the beasts, or even accepting the munchkin within us and using its powers for good.

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1 hr 7 min
March 02, 2014 Episode 167 :: Nerdy Show LIVE – Anniversary Special with Professor Shyguy
Our live show is back with a vengeance!Perhaps you caught our pilot episode last year where we slimed each other and challenged fans to an eating contest. Well, we’re back with an all-new challenge! Join the hosts of Nerdy Show, Flame On!, and Ghostbusters: Resurrection as well as special guest, chip pop rocker extraordinaire, Professor Shyguy – for a birthday-style nerd battle the likes of which you've never seen.

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13 min
February 08, 2014 Episode 166 :: Nerdy Show Comic Show LIVE – With Charles Soule
Nerdy Show Comic Show, has transformed into a video format! Introducing Nerdy Show Comic Show LIVE – a mayhem-filled comics panel. And THIS is its accompanying podcast.This episode was recorded on February 8th, aka 2.8.14. And any DC comics fan knows that 2814 is Earth’s sector in the DC Universe! So we celebrated Lantern Day in style! Imagine a panel at a convention… and now imagine it hopped up on rage energy! It’s a live interview with comics author Charles Soule (Red Lanterns, Superman/Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, Thunderbolts, She-Hulk, Inhuman, and Letter 44) but since it’s Nerdy Show, it’s anything but normal. We’re dusting off the Wheel of Fate to decide what we discuss and what strange challenges we’ll have to endure. There’s audience participation, a Q&A, and plenty of surprises.

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26 min
January 26, 2014 Episode 165 :: Community Update & “A Celebration of Harry Potter” Review
An impromptu episode!Much is going on here at Nerdy Show – both behind the scenes and live on the Internets! So much so we haven’t had a chance to announce or discuss it all on an episode of Nerdy Show yet! Join Cap, Jon, and Kristin as we discuss upcoming Nerdy Show Live episodes, the release of the Nerdapalooza 2013 video archive, Nerdy Show’s exclusive Star Wars: Attack Squadrons beta keys, the latest Movie Marathon $upport Drive and other breaking Nerdy Show happenings.Plus – Jon and Kristin review their experience at Universal Studios’ first “Celebration of Harry Potter” event. It’s Universal’s attempted answer to Disney’s Star Wars Weekends, but can the Potter magic overpower the awesomeness of The Force? Also, what would an episode of the show with Jon be without a sci-tech segment? Not nearly sciencey enough, that’s what.

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53 min
January 12, 2014 Episode 164 :: State of the Empire – A Whole New Galaxy
State of the Empire is Nerdy Show’s Star Wars speculation podcast where we “look for news in Alderaan places”.The Star Wars universe we know is changing rapidly. Like the cycle of rebirth, the old must be burnt away before it can come back familiar but new and (hopefully) stronger. With game-changing shake-ups like this we had to convene for a new State of the Empire.The Expanded Universe is in the process of drastic revision as the recently formed Lucasfilm Story Group compress the franchise into a unified timeline. Meanwhile, the inevitable has happened and it’s been announced that after 20+ years Dark Horse will be passing the Star Wars comic right over to Marvel. While this was expected, what we didn’t expect was that in the process we might be loosing our favorite thing to happen to Star Wars comics in ages: Brian Wood’s Star Wars. Join Cap, Hex, and Doug as we go in-depth with these happenings and offer our Force Adept insight on what they spell out for the future of the Star Wars Galaxy.We also discuss the latest news on Episode VII including the possible reason for the screenwriter switch-up, who the lead characters might be of VII and beyond, the rumored spin-off films, the future of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, how Captain EO could be in Star Wars continuity, the latest about Indiana Jones, and we’re joined by Star Wars: Rebels executive producer Greg Weisman and Young Justice co-creator Brandon Vietti to discuss Willow.

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1 hr 35 min
January 05, 2014 Episode 163 :: Nerdy Show Book Club – Go BZRK With Michael Grant
It’s a new Nerdy Show Book Club! If you grew up in the 90s, chances are you read some Animorphs. This shape-shifting sci-fi series was a seminal read for legions of nerdy teens; some of whom may have grown up to host podcasts. Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate (the writing duo better known to Animorphs fans as K.A. Applegate) are back! In this episode we review their latest joint book, Eve and Adam, and interview author Michael Grant who’s recent solo work includes the mega-hit young adult series, Gone and the balls-to-the wall adult sci-fi trilogy: BZRK. Join Cap, Colin, Brandon, and Jessica as we learn about he and Katherine’s crazy life in the world of young adult fiction, the origins of Animorphs, and Grant’s latest projects including the forthcoming conclusion to his balls-to-the-wall BZRK trilogy and the upcoming Messenger of Fear. As always, we discuss what other books we’ve been reading and review our findings. Plus- in this episode there’s not one, not two, but three dramatic readings! Hear us read from Eve and Adam, Star Wench, and the mid-90s parody abortion: Vegemorphs: The Fungus Among Us! You can change your pants… but can you change into a plant?

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2 hr 9 min

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