The Nerd Degree

With a spate of movies pitting heroes against one another, Jeff Clark asks the teams: why can’t all the superheroes just get along?

Featuring: Brendon Bennetts, Erin Harrington, Ben Allan, and Laura Borrowdale.

Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

Splice your mainbrace, shiver your timbers and suck a lime to stave off scurvy as the Nerd Degree broadsides easily the most popular category of murderers among small children: pirates. Which team will plunder a king’s ransom in Spanish gold, which team will be detained at His Majesty’s pleasure until they dance the hemp jig at Execution Dock, and what does a bo’sun even do, anyway? We know of a one-eyed man in Tortuga with a mysterious map who may have the answers you seek…

Featuring: Ben Allan, Katie Cowan, Andrew Todd, Centuri Chan, and Jeff Clark

Jiminy Cricket! This episode looks at all things creepy crawly, from the microscopic to the world-destroying, all delivered in a breathy, Attenborough whisper. The Nerd Degree: lifting 5000 times its own weight since whenever ago.

Featuring: Erin Harrington, Dan Bain, Henri Nelis, Brendon Bennetts, Laura Borrowdale, and Katie Cowan

Jeff Clark took the Nerd Degree gang to the 2015 NZ Skeptics conference. The theme was The Apocalypse, and for some reason they weren't willing to take some of our more outrageous claims at face value, but it turned out that wasn't the end of the world.

Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

In this episode, host Brendon Bennetts studiously avoids anything related to that popular movie about space violence. Instead this episode deals with questions relation to stars, and questions relating to wars, but never BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.

Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

It is a period of civil war. Nerdy comedians, striking from a hidden base (well, a couple of desks with microphones), have answered their first questions posed by their evil host: Brendon Bennetts.

Yup, it's STAR WARS time. All STAR WARS, all the time. STAR WARS STAR WARS STAR WARS.

Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

From radioactive spiders to damn dirty apes, nerd culture is a sprawling petting zoo of animal antics. Join Andrew Todd and the Nerd Degree pack, as we examine the killer and cuddly sides of the geek bestiary.

Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

Who rules in Nerd Culture? Guided by Jeff Clark, our panellists consider a range of candidates to decide the supreme Emperor/Khaleesi/Overlord – and whether they’ll use PC or Mac

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The world of tomorrow is calling! (Will you accept the charges?) This episode, the nerds (featuring special guest Ned the Nerdbot) venture into an exciting future filled with killer A.I., Martian butterflies, and Kevin Costner.

Host Ben Allan leads the teams onto the field to see which team ultimately has what it takes to take out this year's League Cup Premiership, and tackles the nerd sports pantheon from Ground Quidditch to Battlemech Duelling.

Centuri Chan and Henri Nelis vs Scott Koorey and Karen Healey.

Announcer: Cameron McLeod.