Do you still keep nerd pictures in your frame? Cause nerds still shut down at the sound of your name! This week on the show Chris & Damian celebrate the announcement of the impending Canadian Cannabis legalization nation… Well, Damian does at least. They also gab about the fantastic Fat Tony episode, open the mailbag & celebrate friendship like only these two can!

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Get ready!!! This week's episode is one of the best yet! Damian is joined by rapper & Host of Thrift Haul, Houston’s favourite son, FAT TONY! Listen in as the two discuss FAT TONY's quest in isolation to uncover punk & how it helped inform his career as a rapper.  NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also Touched On: 

Meeting Through Ben

All Corners Of Toronto

Being Part Of The Post Kurt Cobain Generation

Watching the Nirvana Destroy Gear & Trying It At Home

Green Day “Welcome To Paradise”, Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” & Nirvana ONLY

From Blink 182 “Enema Of The State”, to Dino Jr. & The Decendent

People In West Africa Loving Country Music

A Cool Mom That Loves Music & Stealing Her Nirvana CD

Mom Trying To Teach You How To Play Devo On Guitar

Bonding With Dad Over Al Green

King Sunny Ade

Sega CD As A Gateway Kriss Kross 

Whodini Is Slept On

Rap & Punk Big Up The Youth

Down With The King: Good OR Bad?

Mom Picks You Up From School & Breaks The News Of The Passing Of Fat Pat

Going To MF Doom As A First Show

Growing Up In Third Ward

Finally Meeting A Cool White Kid

Rhymes Like Dimes 

Doing An Ergs Show As Your First Punk Show

Becoming Friends With The One Kid With A Mohawk At A Show

Atmosphere & Murs On Warped Tour

30 Foot Fall: A Divide

More Rites Of Spring Than What Was Happening   

Hardcore Over Punk

Roy & The Fatal Flying Guillotines

Buying The Jawbreaker CD Because The Warped Tour Got Rain Out

Tribe Called Quest 

Trying To Channel The Beastie Boys

Softball With Bikini Kill

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!

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Back again! Here Nerds come! Chris & Damian are back to talk more about the Matt Jackson episode! This time they've called in Matt’s good friend & the subject of his opening dis: Dave It Up!!!!!!

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They got him down. It’s three on one. Ten nerds show, guess who won? The week on the show it is a two part epic! In PART ONE, Chris & Damian reflect on the passing of Anthony Bourdain & his involvement in music, the discuss Matt Jackson & Iron Age. That merely just sets the stage for PART TWO with Dave It Up showing up to address Matt’s labelling of him as a nerd!

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Oh, what wonderful places you will go! This week on the show Damian catches up with his old friend, ex-IRON AGE bassist, Matt Jackson!!! The last time Matt & Damian hung out, they were both Straight Edge gigging together in their band's, but what a difference a few years makes?!?! Matt Jackson has gone on to become one of the most respected motorbike builders in America & a legit biker. Damian… Well, Damian smokes a lot of weed these days. 

Listen in as the two discuss going from throwing footballs on a roof, to playing in one of the wildest hardcore bands of the era & it being pretty tame compared to the rest of your life. 

Also Touched On:

Dave it Up’s knowledge

Growing up on a ranch in the middle of nowhere

Throwing a football on a roof

Finding Sabbath in the record collection

Austin keeps it weird

driving an hour a half to go to the cd store

buying Punk-O-Rama, the nitro comp and the Fat comps

being raised by a cowboy

Mom’s cool student buy you a Pantera shirt

Going to see Green Day and Samiam because mom wants to

Getting into Orange 9mm

A satellite dish and a gateway to punk

Cranberries are hard as fuck 

moving to the city to play football

going edge

Emo’s in all its glory

getting into Judge in a Earth Crisis world

Bitter End and Far From Breaking

Iron Age forms

“It’s Texas”

Going back to school

It all starts with one bike

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

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Hey, 

It’s Damian. Anthony Bourdain was someone that championed & celebrated punk & it’s influence. He was also someone that, for some unknown reason, championed the work that I do as well. When I told him about this podcast, he was super excited to get the chance to just talk about punk rock, the music he loved. Here is the conversation we had that day as well as my eulogy for one of my personal heroes. 

RIP Tony. Thank you for everything

Nerds Of America, Is Living In The Jungle! It's Fighting For Survival With The Wrong Place To Go! This last week has been a tough one, but Chris & Damian are back for some much needed distraction. The boys attempt to breakdown the immense BUZZ & BRIAN PART #2 & even manage to get to some MAILBAG.

It Is Time We Rectify This Now! We've Got To Feel It Now….WHOA!

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REJOICE! REJOICE! This week on the show we have not one, but TWO Part #2's! Damian sits down with not only the person who's career tells the story of American Alternative music, Brian Walsby, but also, the king himself - the Melvins’ Buzz Osborne! Listen in as the three have a fun backstage chat about music, band life, longevity & one of the cruelest practical jokes ever pulled on one band member by another. 

Also Touched On:

The Way Brian’s Brain Works

Redd Kross Rich Pratt On The Life Is A Great Comp

Steve McDonald: An Awe Inspiring Life

Shout Out To Tony Reitman 

Straight Edge By Default

Uniform Choice As Minor Threat Impression

Not Seeing The Legendary LA Punk Gang Violence

Sensationalism To Sell History

“Let’s Follow Skanker!”: Looking Up To The Older Idiot

“I Was A Goody-Goody"

The Godly Wretched

Maximum Rock & Roll: A Punk Consistency

Scott Radinsky

Playing With The Grim

Mac & Brian Reunited 

Wwax is Buzz’s Fave Brian Band

The Davidians: A Good Band That Just Never Connected

Balancing A Band & Life Is Hard

A Buzz Walks In

How The Melvins Tour

The Melvins Are Weirded Out By Fucked Up

Buzz & Brian Are Optimistic 

Dale Gets Pranked By Buzz & It Is Terrifying! 

Why Do Dale & Buzz Remain Together?

Poison Idea Around The “Feel the Darkness” Era Is One Of The Most Underrated Bands Ever

Alchemy Records Is So Awesome!

“Bad Religion Is A 2nd Or 3rd LA Punk Band”

The SST Store: One Or Two Sales A Day

Saccharin Trust Rules!!!

“I Can’t Handle The Rejection”

Led Zeppelin The Stones, Aretha Franklin & The Melvins

Weird Thoughts On Records…

What Does Buzz Collect?

The Grateful Dead & The Melvins Cult 

Dale & Pinkus Make A Cameo

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nerd! Come on & Nerd yourself. Nerds! Come on & Nerd yourself! This week on the show Chris & Damian follow in Kerrang’s (misstep) footsteps & map Canada’s most hardcore. Also, we celebrate the awesomeness of Chris Freeman, Pansy Division & Punk Rock! Some Mailbags were hurt in the making of this episode.

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