The Nerd & Tie Podcast

On this episode of The Nerd & Tie Podcast, we talk about Gen’s trip to Evercon, the current state of Star Treks Discovery and Picard, the unneededness of FLCL: Grunge, and our excitement for No Brand Con. And hey, want to see us live? Come to No Brand Con. Because we’ll be there. Recording the April episode. Along with Famicom Dojo and 2BWTT. It’ll be fun.

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On this episode of The Nerd & Tie Podcast we’re giving our full review of season one of Peacemaker. After that, we’re talking about some rather major upheavals in the convention scene — namely Jim Burleson’s Albuquerque Anime Fest cancelling while dealers were literally setting up and Corey Wood’s Corgi Events LLC’s apparent fall. After that, we discuss what shows we’re currently watching as comfort television to take our minds off of the… stuff… happening out there in the world.

The world’s a mess, but at least we can watch a cooking show?

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On this episode of Nerd & Tie, we’re reviewing the first half of the seasons for both HBO Max’s Peacemaker and Disney+’s Book of Boba Fett. Also Trae keeps talking about Beforeigners. After that, we discuss ColossalCon’s announcement of “ColossalCon North” this November in the Wisconsin Dells — and how complicated our feelings are about it.

And then we talk about anime for some reason. Like Devilman and Urusei Yatsura.

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It’s the end of the year, and that means it’s time to review the best and worst stuff that came out in 2021! Nick, Gen and Trae take a look at the best and worst movies, television series, Japanese imports, video games, and conventions that made 2021 a unique experience.

There are a lot of up, a lot of downs, and some definite inbetweens — plus some fresh mail in the mailbag, and a new book for the Vomit Hat Steve challenge!

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So the biggest news in the Midwestern con scene this last week has been long running Wisconsin anime convention Daisho Con permanently closing its doors. As Nick was a co-founder of Daisho Con — though he left the organization years ago — we thought we would go into a deep dive behind what went wrong with the event (and what we think led to its eventual end).

Before that though, we talk about the passing of long time convention vendor Wayne McCloud and give our full review of Netflix’s adaptation of Cowboy Bebop. It’s a hell of a ride.

Daisho Con story begins at 36 minute mark

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On this month’s installment of The Nerd & Tie Podcast we talk about the latest controversies surrounding the convention Bubba Fest, the inspirational Lightyear trailer, our Dune review, the new Cowboy Bebop trailer, and our thoughts on Star Trek: Prodigy. Technical difficulties may have delayed the episode to the very end of the month, but we’re here and it’s a pretty great episode.

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On this episode of the Nerd & Tie Podcast, we’re discussing Russell T. Davies’s return to Doctor Who, Disney suing to retain the full rights over Spider-Man (and a lot of other characters), Netflix releasing the opening credits to the upcoming Cowboy Bebop live action series, our Shang Chi thoughts, and how Wizards of the Coast is introducing a new version of the Dungeons & Dragons core rule books.

It’s a lot of ground to cover in not a lot of time.

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On this episode of the Nerd & Tie Podcast we talk about the abrupt shut down of Anime Magic’s drag show, the first look at the Netflix Cowboy Bebop cast, the latest drama in the Evangelion Dub saga, we review The Suicide Squad, Marvel’s What If? has started, and the Spider-Man No Way Home trailer has hit.

It’s quite the packed episode.

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This episode is sponsored by The Lone Tree Tapes.

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On this episode of The Nerd & Tie Podcast we dig into the AnimeTube Kickstarter fiasco, Anime Matsuri’s numbers look off, there was a Nazi cosplayer at IndyPopCon, and we finally give our full review of the first season of Marvel’s Loki. We’re kind of going all over the place on this one, but it’s quite the ride.

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On this episode of the Nerd & Tie Podcast we’re talking about Hikaru Utada coming out of the closet as Nonbinary, the new Godzilla Singular Point anime, and the first few episodes of the Disney+ Loki series. After that, we dive into the weird world of people blaming Disney for things they didn’t actually do — like supposedly trademarking the Norse gods (they didn’t) and changing the canon name of Boba Fett’s ship (which they also didn’t).

Guys, Disney does so much crappy stuff — can we stick to the things they ACTUALLY did though?

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