Nerdy Show Prime

Nerdy Show Prime episodes are our epic-length blockbuster shows devoted to a single topic. Think of Nerdy Show as the television series and Nerdy Show Prime as the major motion picture.  These episodes are singular discussions that stand out from the week-to-week series.  You’ll want to listen to them again and again.

The Curious Case of Dean Wallace

Our good friend, Dean Wallace, has gone missing and the Nerdy Show crew suspect werewolves. Nothing could have prepared us for THIS. We speak out against creatures of the night with the help of No Fangs and Luke McDuffee, songwriter and bassist for alt. rock band Framing Hanley.  But it’s not just werewolves giving us the spooks. Inexplicable happenings have us questioning our already wavering beliefs… Can ghosts haunt data files like video games and podcasts?

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Nerdy Show’s Life Day Spectacular

Yes, it’s that time of year again, Life Day, when all Wookies return to Kashyyyk to celebrate. The Nerdy crew is taking their Wookie pal, Grumpy, up to Brian’s cabin in the woods, but there’s one big problem – they’re stuck in the worst holiday traffic jam of all time! Join the entire Nerdy Show gang – yes, all of us – including Flame On and Marc With a C as well as special guests I Fight Dragons! Plus a Dungeons & Doritos Crunchmas Special! We guarantee, you’ve never in your life experienced a holiday show like this.

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Voice Acting! (Part 1)

Nerdy Show’s first-ever fan-commissioned episode! In this two-part episode, we celebrate voice actors, their legacy in animation and other mediums. We discuss the history of voice acting, famous voice actors, defining roles and interview some greats of the field.  In this first episode we speak to the legendary Rob Paulsen – a voice that has dominated American animation for the last three decades, as well as Yuri Lowenthal, rising star in all fields of voice work best known for being the Prince of Persia and the voice of Ben 10.

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Voice Acting! (Part 2)

Continuing our epic voice acting coverage!  In Part 2 we discuss the origins of voice acting, way back in the golden era of radio, what makes a successful anime dub, the voices of Dungeons & Doritos, and are joined by prolific anime voice actor, Vic Mignogna, star of Full Metal Alchemist, as well as Mr. Badass himself: Steve Blum who’s put hair on your chest as Wolverine, and Spike Spiegel.  A bold finish to a double-length discussion!

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Fan Films Vol. 1 : Teenage Mutant Ninja Cinema

The first in a multi-part Prime series on the topic of “fan films”.  For Volume 1 of our fan film series we’re discussing a topic very near and dear to our hearts: Ninja Turtles.  Witer-director Polaris Banks‘ new fan film, Casey Jones: The Movie brings the masked vigilante to the screen as we’ve never seen before, while paying homage to the visual style of the original 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, directed by Steve Barron.  We interview them both, getting an in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at the making of both films.

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The Pen15 Club

We joked about you fine folks having us do an episode about dicks.  Clearly we shouldn’t have joked lightly, because Nerdy Show listeners demanded it. This episode will leave you filled with carnal knowledge and your brain oozing with zillions of tiny factoids.  We teamed up with special guests Lefty Lucy and Flame On! to discuss the science of penises, cocks in history, mythology, and fiction, socio-political schlong issues, and so much more.  We also interview a surgery technician about the medical side of penises and talk to Georganne Chapin, the executive director of Intact America a group speaking out about male circumcision.

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Triforce Mike Tribute

On January 31st, 2012, we lost a friend, brother, /co/merade, brony, poképhile, and so so so much more – the one, the only, the legendary: Triforce Mike. In this heartfelt tribute the Nerdy Show family and his oldest friends gathered for one very raw, emotional recording. We share our favorite stories from his life, stories about what he meant to us, and how he changed our lives.  It’s intimate, unedited, and there’s a lot of really rough moments. But, it’s something we wanted to share. It’s Mike as we knew him.

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2010 FINAL BOSS

At the end of every year we make a list… The Top 20 Nerdy Things. We recognize the year’s greatest achievements – not separated by any type, genre, or phylum, but by their purest form of measurement – their NERDINESS! Join us for an adventure though 2010′s highest highs and lowest lows as we give props to the persons, places, items, and concepts that out-scienced, out-gamed, and out-awesomed all the rest.

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2011 FINAL BOSS

Our annual yer-end listravaganza where we rank all genre, rank, and phylum of nerdy items against each other in one condensed list – The Top 20 Nerdy Things of 2011. We pit scientific discoveries against movies, people against music, television against gaming innovation – no one is safe, all are judged. In the 2011 list we also honor a “Rising Nerd” in the public scene. It’s a year of Skyrim, 3D, surprisingly good films, and computational innovation – see what made the grade!

Proto-Prime

These episodes led us to devising Prime: a slew of regular Nerdy Show episodes that took on a life of their own.  These are some of our greatest hits.

Episode /34/

Celebrating the internet rule “if you can think of it, there’s porn of it!” Joining us are episode are master /34/ artists, T. Catt and VP, sexy art guru Frank Cho, a chica from the stranger side of /34/, local-shop, and Andy Price, an artist who’s never heard of Rule 34, but has been making it since 1990.

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Peaks Freaks

A send up to one of our favorite television shows of all-time: David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks.  In this episode we’re joined by evil man and nerd rapper extraordinaire, Schäffer the Darklord – a Peaks fan so old school he’s got the original broadcasts on VHS, and Matt Haley, the comic book artist who nearly got Twin Peaks continued as a graphic novel.

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Were The Wild Things Are

Our most popular episode of all-time! Zombies are on their way out, vampires are all the rage again, but there’s a new up-and-comer in the pop culture paranormal circuit… werewolves. We’re joined by a man who claims to be a werewolf, Lunario Von Darkwolfe III, our duck (and wolf?) huntin’ pal, Dean Wallace, and ninja rappers Masurao and Shinobi of Krondor Krew.

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Fettophiles

This episode documents all the mayhem that Cap & Hex experienced at Star Wars Celebration V. Featuring interviews with both Boba Fetts, Daniel Logan and Jeremy Bulloch, puppeteers: Toby Philpott and John Coppinger, as well as Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and James Bond star, Julian Glover.  If you want to hear us rant about Star Wars pros and cons – look no further!  It’s all here!