Nerd Podcast Radio - Your Nerd Home Away from Home

Savannah Broadway of ENWorld joined us to talk about GMing in tabletop role playing games and the different styles different GMs have when playing. References Savannah mentioned during the episode or just socials. https://www.patreon.com/c/gatepass https://www.twitch.tv/feydesigncourt @wreckitremadem.bsky.social @savannahbroadway.bsky.social

David and Brian are a duo. In this episode the duo was on form and we love each other. I promise. We talked about music!

What makes a dark comedy dark? What makes a comedy a comedy? What is funny? What is fun? After recording this episode, Brian can't answer these questions anymore.

Paulbo and Brian had been chatting for a while about having him on again when we found out we both love Brandon Sanderson's novels. Epic novel series is the topic and we had a blast.

Episode 300! Holy F***!

Erica and Brian tried to argue but didn't really succeed. It was pleasant but not many arguments. It was more wholesome than argumentative.

Leigh joined David and Brian to chat about movies and have some awesome discussions about cosplay and how some horror movie cosplays look like other horror movie characters.

The title says it all. We talked about a bunch of stuff but mostly talked about gaming.

All hosts go together to get caught up with each other!

We talked about Spooky stuff for Spooky season

When starting a new role playing game with friends it is often good to do a session zero. We did a mock session zero in today's episode for a game and had fun doing it.

We shared our unpopular opinions about pop culture and also fought a bit about some of them.

David, Brian, and Áine bond over music. Some of us don't remember band names, but all of us love music and have different and eclectic tastes. A particular interesting conversation point is the idea of people who don't like music.

Paulbo Baggins joined to talk about dressing up in historical outfits and going to war. We also talked about reenactments, Larping, Ren fair and other related and unrelated topics

David and Brian needed to do a quick episode due to heat, chores and other things so we hung out.

What's that one tech product that really hits the spot? That one console, one appliance, one computer peripheral that just fills a need you didn't know you had. Erica, Brian, and David talk about this and much more.

Episode 287 - WeekendNerds by Nerd Podcast Radio

Mikey, Erica, David, Brian, and Áine were all on the same episode! This is the first time Mikey has been on an episode in forever and it was SO special! We were thrilled to be together again! Mikey still has scheduling concerns but share your love, hopefully he will be back again soon! Edit: We skipped a number. For ep285 we met and chatted unrecorded for some recharge time. It was the first time we all talked for that long without recording for the first time in a long time. We really needed that.

We talk about getting older

Brian couldn't make it due to Easter so we talked about Religion.

I thought I had a great idea to speculate on where Firefly would go if it wasn't cancelled. Erica did not like this idea. There was also beer involved. This was an interesting episode. Enjoy.

Our recurring guest host, "The Rusty Nail" joined us to chat about Robots. I am so impressed by Rusty's incites on this subject, it was a truly great re-look at this topic.

Bad days and burn out happen. Brian unexpectantly couldn't make it so David and Erica scrambled together quite a good episode. They even found a guest. Sir Nicholas, David, and Erica had a fantastic discussion about all sorts of things. Best episode ever! Sorry Brian.

We explored what AI could do for us to help us make an episode. We tried to create an example of a way to use AI for productivity rather than as a way to exploit.

Holly surprised David, Brian, and Erica by joining us to have a very strange conversation about what we would be in certain properties. This was an experimental format, let us know what you think.

David and Brian had a blast talking about well, those that beep and boop. Robots are cool. As usual for D & B episodes, lots of Star Wars. This was an improvised no outline episode so be prepared for chaos. Bleep Bloop.

Paulbo Baggins who previously joined us in some Minecraft episodes joined us for a look to the future. Since it's the new year lets talk about the future. What does a plan look like? Where do you see yourself? I found it most interesting to look at looks to the future from different generations. It was a fun chat

The Legion (Leigh) joined Super Vegan Brian to talk about the holidays followed by a tired David from a long drive from Vegas. It's a short one due to holiday activities but we had a fun chat hearing about O-Mega Mart and the Fallout Festival as well as other holiday stories.

Stolas and Grymm shared a mic for the episode we recorded on Friday the 13th. The topic was luck and of course this lead to arguments like this: Brian - Luck isn't real Erica - Brian's a **** idiot. Brian - Erica is Short.

Tis the season to be thankful....in the USA. So we talked about thankfulness

Brian was brilliant. He picked seasonal topics for the next lined up episodes not thinking that half of the hosts live in climates that have two seasons. The attempt was talking about winter activities and how to avoid being an indoor kid but the indoor kid in all of us flourished and we ended up talking about mostly indoor activities and some severe tangents. We could have talked about fear, why didn't we do that? So much for planning.

Holly, David, and Brian do their best to remember details about the Dresden Files novels as they anticipate the upcoming book.

Stolas, David, and Brian got spooky in today's episode talking about what creates a scary story. Campfire stories, writing, and especially running a spooky TTRPG. How do you create and sustain tension and get buy-in to the mood you are trying to set?

We had the privilege of having the co-authors of a soon to launch kickstart, Adventures of Teaching and Learning with TTRPGs. It was massive fun learning about how to use role playing games as a teaching and learning tool and puzzled out how this can not only help us to learn about there project but learn how to improve our own games. Note: this is the unedited episode for Patrons as usual. The public episode will be edited to be family friendly. Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grm/adventures-in-teaching-and-learning-with-ttrpgs

Erica, Brian and David Technically talked about Tech. There was also a discussion about Westerns but mostly tech... technically.

The Rusty Nail is back! Rusty joined us to talk about what we are watching and reading! With Rusty back, we were very excited. Expect a LOT of tangents in this one. Brian may also rant a couple of times.

Our new friend Koko joined us from all the way in Australia to chat Eldenring, Souls, and other hard video games. We also learned how old we all are for the first time.

We love TTRPGs, whether they be Pathfinder, D&D, Fatecore, etc We love running them and we love playing them but they are a lot of work whether it be reading the material or coming up with plot and encounters. We shared with each other our techniques for prep and some great experiences in the game. Edit: Sorry for the late post. Audacity upgraded and was causing crashing during editing.

A few episodes ago we had some guests from the CasualCraft server, the Minecraft server that Brian plays on. This led to members from opposite time zones to us wanting to be on. So we had Rophelle and Kokorodaki from Australia, and JumboSale, our server admin from Singapore on to join us in some more Minecraft discussions. Paulbo Baggins who joined us last time also popped on. So much fun!

A pre-episode chat made us quickly change our topic when the knowledge that some people don't have hobbies became known to us. Is that wrong? Is it weird? What do people do when they don't have stuff to do? Is it possible to be interested in nothing? We talk about it.

Summer is the time for Vacations and Brian just got back from one so we talked about that and what that means to us nerds.

We were joined by several members of the Minecraft SMP that Brian plays on and we all told stories about Minecraft and the SMP. A big thank you to Lola, Kija, and Paulbo for joining us.

Brian was interested in the hot ones challenge after seeing the Hermitcraft youtubers do it so he tried it while answering hot questions while eating hotter...chips.

An episode about Erica's opinions. This is a short description of the episode.

Yet another episode where Brian asks someone else to host. This is the kind of topic that happens when Erica is in control. We get paranormal stories and arguments over the existence of spirits. Perfect episode. Erica has a new job.

David and Brian found themselves as a duo for the first time in a long time and for the first time in a long time we dredged up an old topic and talked about hobbies. I think our opinions on hobbies has changed a lot as we've gotten older. It's like everything we do from the outside can be viewed as a hobby but we just don't feel that way.

Usually what we do is plan a topic or agree on a topic before an episode. Sometimes this doesn't happen and we either have to compromise or come up with something new. This is a time when a consensus could not be reached before recording time.

Fantasy Cartographer, Anna Meyer, joined us to discuss networking in nerd circles. How to make friends and connections whether it be in gaming, or other nerdy interests. This episode was inspired by how we all met and really made me think about all the different people I've met in my nerdy adventures. A big thank you for Anna joining us last minute on this one.

Super Vegan Brian here and I'm introducing this episode a little differently. I have to say this is one of my favorite episodes we have ever recorded. Funny enough, due to technical issues, this episode was almost lost but it was saved. I have to say, I had so much passion in my discussion of rules in games that I am overwhelmingly overjoyed that we were able to save this episode. We talked about rules. Rules in games whether they be board games or tabletop role playing games. I had tons of fun recording this and I am incredibly happy that I am able to share it with you.

Our very own patron and friend of the show Kija joined us to talk about fandoms and how we interact with. Brian also bullied David about Minecraft and we all learned a lot about Finland.