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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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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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56. Kitchen Witchery with Dawn Hunt of Cucina Aurora Let’s head into the virtual studio and cook up something magical! This month, Bree sits down with Dawn Hunt of Cucina Aurora and the Conversational Witchcraft Podcast to talk kitchen witchery, everyday food magic, and the importance of nourishing your heart as well as feeding your stomach. The post 56. Kitchen Witchery with Dawn Hunt of Cucina Aurora first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
02.06.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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83. An Honest Review of Thorn Mooney’s “Witches Among Us” One year ago I put out this podcast’s first book review. It was for Annwyn Avalon’s Celtic Goddess Grimoire, and I absolutely hated it. It was everything I despise in modern witchcraft publishing, and it just left a bad taste in my mouth. I felt like I needed to fix that. So I decided to make it my mission to find a new witchcraft book I might actually like — to find something I could actually talk positively about to this show’s audience. And that’s when I found Thorn Mooney’s Witches Among Us: Understanding Contemporary Witchcraft and Wicca (ISBN: ‎ 978-0738777375) last fall. And it turns out I really like it. The post 83. An Honest Review of Thorn Mooney’s “Witches Among Us” first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
31.05.2025 12:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E30. Old Endings, New Beginnings Part 1 Seline and Zachariah work some things out before a fey deal becomes priority. The post S5E30. Old Endings, New Beginnings Part 1 first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
28.05.2025 15:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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74. Godshook It’s Bank Holiday Monday, so let’s take it easy and talk about some comics. After promising it early in the show’s history, Charlie’s finally read the first arc of IDW’s Star Trek comic by Lanzig & Kelly. Look, we’re Casual Trek, this is the level of service you get from us. The post 74. Godshook first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
26.05.2025 15:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E29. The Nightmare Part 6 Zachariah is safe from whatever that creature was but there’s still things that need to be addressed. The post S5E29. The Nightmare Part 6 first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
14.05.2025 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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55. Fact-Checking In Witchcraft Spaces with Daylina Miller Our quest to sharpen those critical thinking skills returns with a lesson from none other than Daylina Miller, NPR journalist, LGBTQ+ activist, and CritWitchCon veteran. We chat about fact-checking in witchcraft spaces, red flags to watch out for, how to vet resources, and where to go to find good information in a world full of AI, SEO, and an endless parade of tiktoks and memes. The post 55. Fact-Checking In Witchcraft Spaces with Daylina Miller first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
12.05.2025 12:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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73. Spock’s Pondering His Orb Pull out your helmet with the torch on and your spelunking gear because we’re talking about Caves! Miles and Charlie go potholing for Star Trek episodes featuring caves and find a Horta in TOS’ ‘Devil in the Dark’, bid farewell to a member of the TNG cast in ‘Final Mission’ and do you remember when everyone got trapped in a turbo lift in Lower Decks’ ‘Caves?’ Always use the buddy system! Follow safety regulations! The post 73. Spock’s Pondering His Orb first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
12.05.2025 12:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BONUS – A Final Campaign 2 Fireside Chat It's been a couple of months since Campaign 2 wrapped, but we're finally sitting down for a final fireside chat to talk about our thoughts on that ending. So sit down for over an hour of the Stormwood cast reminiscing about campaign 2 for the last time... and maybe some thoughts about the upcoming campaign 3. The post BONUS – A Final Campaign 2 Fireside Chat first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
02.05.2025 04:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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72. A Piece of the Acting Listen up, you palookas, it’s time for a Casual Trek about times people tried to copy humans. We’ve got a bona fide Mafia planet thanks to a discarded novel in “A Piece of the Action”, featuring some incredible Shacting. Next, those Next Generation goombahs find themselves in a casino inspired by another discarded novel in “The Royale”, a troubled script and a bad episode which is actually a fantastic time. Finally, those Prodigy kids just wanna do a Starfleet and find a culture inspired by the original Enterprise in “All the World’s a Stage” The post 72. A Piece of the Acting first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
28.04.2025 11:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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82. The Pagan Invasion and Propaganda The 1991 Christian propaganda series the Pagan Invasion by Jeremiah Films was oddly formative for me. It's a masterclass in propaganda, and a perfect example of the kind of misinformation that was spreading during the heights of the Satanic Panic. So in this episode we're going to break down how "documentaries" like these work to push an agenda, and how to recognize these patterns in other places. The post 82. The Pagan Invasion and Propaganda first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
26.04.2025 12:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S5E28. The Nightmare Part 5 Something happened on a train. Something that still haunts Zachariah. And it’s getting closer. The post S5E28. The Nightmare Part 5 first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.
23.04.2025 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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