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Nerd & Tie is a (mostly) Wisconsin based collective of independent creators producing original podcasts, shows, books, and other media. https://www.nerdandtie.com / https://nerdandtie.social

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84. TNG/Doctor Who: Assmilation Squared – The TARDIS Enters Data Welcome to spooky season and we're horrifying Miles specifically with a crossover between Star Trek and his favorite fandom! Can you hear the finger of a monkey's paw curling? Assimilation Squared has been a threat on this show for a while, but why is that? Listen on and we'll explain the story and the many questionable art choices. The post 84. TNG/Doctor Who: Assmilation Squared – The TARDIS Enters Data first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
13.10.2025 11:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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83. Insert 2025 Reference Here Insert all your tired 2025 jokes here because after the last nine months, we’re pretty much out as this episode, we go "All-Voyager, All the Time" with a slate of episodes concerning "The Year of Hell," one of Voyager’s more infamous wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey moments. The post 83. Insert 2025 Reference Here first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
29.09.2025 12:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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87. A Season of Change This episode marks seven years of this podcast, and as we start the eighth, I decided that it was time we looked back on how much things have changed in the modern witchcraft space since then, along with how different things are since I first became a witch over twenty-five years ago. Because what is witchcraft if it's not change? Also, I'm standing in a park most of the episode, which is why it sounds like that. The post 87. A Season of Change first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
27.09.2025 05:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nuffin can kill the Rock Lord! @nerdandtie.bsky.social #TheMeatGrinder

20.09.2025 18:24 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Pre-Order ‘Buried Memories,’ the Fourth Book in Trae Dorn’s Mia Graves Saga! We're excited to announce Buried Memories, the fourth installment in Trae Dorn's Mia Graves Saga is available for pre-order! The post Pre-Order ‘Buried Memories,’ the Fourth Book in Trae Dorn’s Mia Graves Saga! first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
22.09.2025 18:15 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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82. Holodickery Put on your best private detective hat and prepare to get into character as we talk step into the Holodeck and prepare ourselves for inevitable disappointment. In ‘The Practical Joker,’ the Enterprise computer gets wacky while Bones, Sulu and Uhura fail to enjoy a primitive Holodeck. In ‘My Way,’ Odo uses AI to make girls like him and we get a lot of song and dance numbers (and the best IDW comics pitch) as we meet Vic Fontaine. And in Strange New Worlds’s Space Adventure Hour, La’an gets to beta-test the Holodeck and nearly kills everyone on the Enterprise doing so. Typical. Bloody Typical. The post 82. Holodickery first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
15.09.2025 12:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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81. Neelix’s Kitchen Nightmares Welcome to Neelix’s Kitchen Nightmares you doughnuts! I’m Gordon Ramsey and we’ve got three meals for you to shove in your face from three questionable kitchens. Neelix’s kitchen’s covered in fluff and filth and seems to have been made in a large office meeting room. Will his food help Seven of Nine in “The Raven” or will it bring back dire flashbacks? I think we all know how it’s going to go. Next up is the unnamed chef of the Enterprise who actually has a full kitchen. Hoshi Sato comes in and takes over, does she think she’s me or something? She gets the job done, possibly a bit too much in “Singularity”. Also there’s some delightful nonsense with a chair. Finally William T Riker’s got the midlife crisis giant pizza oven out for a visit from his space dad, JL Picard in “Nepenthe”. Has he got what it takes, or will this episode and pizza both be undercooked? Whatever it is, it’s better than the replicated cake that gets thrown up all over La Sirena! (This is actually Charlie, I’ve no idea what Gordon Ramsey sounds like, I hope you enjoy the show!) The post 81. Neelix’s Kitchen Nightmares first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
01.09.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E11. Showdown at Camp Spooky (Finale) It's finally here, the thrilling conclusion to our longest Meatgrinder yet! It's time for our heroes to take on the mall itself. The real question is, will the monkey survive? The post S5E11. Showdown at Camp Spooky (Finale) first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
29.08.2025 04:01 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E10. Isn’t That a Quentin Tarantino Movie? A trip to HR does not go well. It does not go well at all. The post S5E10. Isn’t That a Quentin Tarantino Movie? first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
22.08.2025 04:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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80. Here Today, Gorn Tomorrow Okay, lets you and him fight! In shameless pursuit of ‘brand synergy,’ this episode of Casual Trek celebrates the return of Strange New Worlds to our streaming services by doing an episode about those lizardy bastards Kirk fought once at those rocks from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, the Gorn! The post 80. Here Today, Gorn Tomorrow first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
18.08.2025 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E9. Mascot vs. Monkey For the first time in Meatgrinder history, we have some PVP combat? That's right, in a rare oment where the characters are in zero danger, Noodles has decided that they are done with that monkey once and for all. Also, the season's going long! Expect a few more episodes this time around! The post S5E9. Mascot vs. Monkey first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
15.08.2025 04:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E8. A Raccoon, a Poodle, and a Monkey A raccoon, a poodle, and a monkey share an elevator. And now you get to know what it's like when two players on an audio podcast decide to play nonverbal characters. The post S5E8. A Raccoon, a Poodle, and a Monkey first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
08.08.2025 04:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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79. The Naked Time is Naked Now Our brave Casual Explorers are showing their emotional age by watching the infamous ‘everyone gets drunk, horny and crazy’ episodes of Star Trek. We start with TOS's The Naked Time where George Takei shows off his impressive sword, followed by TNG’s less impressive ‘The Naked Now’ where Charlie asks the most important question ‘if Data has no emotions, why did his creator build him to be fully functional, sexually?’ (and Miles asks the second most important question ‘Why have this as an second episode?’). Meanwhile, Guest-Star Cele from ‘Celeste is Best’ gets to talk about Lower Decks’ own ‘everyone goes drunk and crazy’ with ‘Empathalogical Fallacies’ and has no real important questions to ask except ‘why is this so delightful?’ The post 79. The Naked Time is Naked Now first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
04.08.2025 12:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E7. Secure the Area Look, the security team is doing their best. The only problem is that their best still isn't very good. The post S5E7. Secure the Area first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
01.08.2025 04:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HEY KIDS AND CANDELABRA ENTHUSIASTS! @illusbal.bsky.social and I will be at Big Minneapolis Anime this weekend (Aug 2-3) at the @nerdandtie.bsky.social table!

Stop on by, say hi, and maybe buy something if you feel like it!

31.07.2025 14:05 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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85. Feedback/Q&A Special 2025 It's July which means it's time for the annual feedback/Q&A episode of the show! In this episode I sit down and answer questions that you, the audience, has been sending me over the last few months. It's the same dance we do every summer, and this year you guys sent me some great questions. It's a fun one. The post 85. Feedback/Q&A Special 2025 first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
26.07.2025 05:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E6. It’s a Metaphor for Capitalism Someone finally asks the important question: If it's the end of the world, why are so many people still at work? The post S5E6. It’s a Metaphor for Capitalism first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
25.07.2025 04:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Before and After – Superman (2025) Before and After for Superman 2025 The post Before and After – Superman (2025) first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
25.07.2025 00:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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78. Death Stranding: Somehow Both Deep and Very Stupid Strap on those babies and keep clear of the wet ghosts, we’re finally talking about Death Stranding! Yes, Casual Trek's 69th episode talking about Trek is going to have to wait as the boys are very excited about the work of the game designer, dreamweaver, visionary plus actor, Hideo Kojima. The post 78. Death Stranding: Somehow Both Deep and Very Stupid first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
21.07.2025 12:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E5. She’s Going to Stanford Grittney calls a friend and they do a little shopping. Also a dude rises from the dead, but that's not as important. The post S5E5. She’s Going to Stanford first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
18.07.2025 04:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E4. Leave Grittney Alone! Nothing good comes out of an assistant manager, nor a sporting goods store. The post S5E4. Leave Grittney Alone! first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
11.07.2025 04:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The End of Shin Gundam – Our Initial Thoughts Now that Gundam G Quuuuuux is over, Cele and Rena take some time to share their initial thoughts. The post The End of Shin Gundam – Our Initial Thoughts first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
08.07.2025 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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77. Jeff 2: Weyoun Boogaloo Grab your vials of glowing green goo and prepare to ham it up as we talk once more about Jeffrey Combs, the Philip Madoc of Star Trek (that’s a Classic Doctor Who reference) and three episodes where his many characters have large roles. The post 77. Jeff 2: Weyoun Boogaloo first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
07.07.2025 12:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E3. What the Heck is Skype? Our heroes have made their way to a food court, but something seems to be circling overhead. Also you can really tell we recorded this in 2024... The post S5E3. What the Heck is Skype? first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
04.07.2025 04:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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84. We Clicked on Every Facebook Witchcraft Ad (with Bree NicGarran) Last month we talked about a good source new witches might want to add to their libraries, because I know how hard it is to separate the signal from the noise. But this month I thought we'd go look at some of the noise instead! I clicked on every terrible ad for witchcraft stuff I could find on Facebook for a week, and decided to inflict what I found on Hex Positive's Bree NicGarran. It's so, so bad y'all. The post 84. We Clicked on Every Facebook Witchcraft Ad (with Bree NicGarran) first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
28.06.2025 12:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E2. I’m Staying on my Monkey And old man, a sword guy, and a woman on a monkey. What could possibly go wrong? The post S5E2. I’m Staying on my Monkey first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
27.06.2025 04:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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76. Mustard Hands The ‘mystical pregnancy’ trope is a bit of an overused one in genre fiction and Star Trek visits that well so many times we had options for which ones to highlight here. The post 76. Mustard Hands first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
23.06.2025 12:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E1. Are You Normal? A new season of The Meatgrinder begins here! In Jacksonville, FL the largest mall in the United States of Aremesia is having its grand opening, but something has gone terribly wrong. Monsters appeared out of nowhere, and the happy consumers soon became the very dead consumers. Four hours later, a small group of survivors are trying to escape the mall... The post S5E1. Are You Normal? first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
20.06.2025 04:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Announcing The Meatgrinder Season 5 We’re excited to announce the release of the fifth season of our horror anthology let’s play series The Meatgrinder! Like season 4, episodes will be released weekly this summer. That’s right, we’re starting another summer of meat! The post Announcing The Meatgrinder Season 5 first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
10.06.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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75. The Hero of the Bajoran Resistance Grab your tastiest sandwich and try not to spoil Twin Peaks as we return to Deep Space 9 with an all-DS9 extravaganza. We’re talking about the opening three-parter of season two of Deep Space Nine which, unlike the Augment three-parter of Enterprise we covered (in "We Have Wrath of Khan at Home"), we’re discussing and placing on the Big List as one single entry and not three seperate ones. Watch as in ‘The Homecoming,’ Kira goes off to rescue Bajor’s greatest resistance fighter and gets no end of grief for it, then we see that Odo has an actual friend while Kira has one of those awkward naked dreams while uncovering Bajoran nationalists in ‘The Circle’ and then the simmering Bajoran nonsence ends up in some Die Hard antics on the Station as our heroes must endure ‘The Siege’ where this should hopefully wrap up. No Vedek Winn’s were harmed during the making of these episodes for which we are deeply sorry. The post 75. The Hero of the Bajoran Resistance first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
09.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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