General Nerdery

The Generals gush about everything from Alpha Flight to Zardoz

About the show

Your Generals of Nerdery (Zac and Tyler) stop in every week to talk about some of their favorite things in the nerd and geek world as well as commentary on all the news in the world of genre.

Episodes

  • #051: Disney News (and Further Accurate Ramblings About an Adaptation) (w/ Cece)

    December 21st, 2020  |  2 hrs 45 mins
    amazon, apocalypse, armageddon, david tennant, good omens, michael sheen, neil gaiman, terry pratchett

    This was going to be an easy episode about the Good Omens adaptation, and then Disney had an investor meeting...

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    #050: The Nice and Accurate Ramblings of Three Nerds Over a Book (w/ Cece)

    December 14th, 2020  |  2 hrs 23 mins
    apocalypse, aziraphale, crowley, good omens, neil gaiman, terry pratchett

    To mark our 50th episode The Generals are joined by General Zac's wife, Cece, to talk about the amazing Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett collaboration, Good Omens.

  • #049: Wizard at War (w/ Dickie)

    November 15th, 2020  |  1 hr 58 mins
    battle grounds, book discussion, chicago, detective, dresden files, dresdenverse, geek, harry dresden, jim butcher, nerd, peace talks, wizard

    2020 saw the return of the Dresden Files in a big way thanks to the release of not one, but two books (but kinda one). So Your Generals have invited back their Summer Knight, Dickie, to talk about these latest offering from Jim Butcher.

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    #048: It's Not Easy Being Green

    November 9th, 2020  |  1 hr 24 mins
    al ewing, body horror, comic book, horror, hulk, jekyll and hyde, joe bennett, marvel, the immortal hulk

    Turns out the World's Most Dangerous weapon can't be killed and has an all new personality. So this week Your Generals join in on tracking down and discussing The Immortal Hulk.

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    #047: Un Poco Coco

    November 2nd, 2020  |  1 hr 26 mins
    adrian molina, anthony gonzalez, coco, day of the dead, death, dia de los muertos, dia de muertos, disney, family, geek, latine, lee unkrich, mexico, nerd, pixar

    This week Your Generals mark Dia de Muertos by viewing, and crying at, the Pixar film Coco.

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    #046: For a Few Mandos More (w/ Eustacia)

    October 26th, 2020  |  1 hr 34 mins
    baby yoda, din djarin, disney, geek culture, jon favreau, nerd culture, star wars, the child, the mandalorian, western

    Last time we talked about The Mandalorian , the season was only half done. So this week we invite Eui back to finish the 1st season off in high anticipation of the second.

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    #045: It Can't Rain All the Time (w/ Danny)

    October 19th, 2020  |  1 hr 49 mins
    1994, 90s, brandon lee, caliber comics, comic book, goth, grief, james o'barr, sting, the crow, tragedy

    Being in the dark and (somewhat) spooky season, Your Generals reflect on one of Tyler's favorites for this time of year, The Crow. And since it's getting closer to being spooky they bring in Danny from the Fried Squirms to help out!

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    #044: Top of the Pulps

    October 12th, 2020  |  1 hr 58 mins
    clark ashton smith, conan the barbarian, cosmic horror, cthulhu, geek culture, h. p. lovecraft, lovecraft, nerd culture, pulp fiction, robert e. howard, sword and sorcery, the rats in the walls, the return of the sorceror, the tower of the elephant, weird fiction, weird tales

    This week Your Generals take a look back to the early part of the 1900s and talk about some pulp fiction from three of the masters: Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft.

  • #043: B-List Batman Baddies

    October 5th, 2020  |  2 hrs 1 min
    batman, calendar man, comic books, dc comics, geek culture, hush, man-bat, nerd culture, professor hugo strange, professor pyg, rogues gallery, scarface, the ventriloquist

    This week Your Generals head back to Arkham Asylum to check out some lesser known Batman villains. Of interest this time are Man-Bat, Hush, Professor Pyg, The Ventriloquist, Professor Hugo Strange, and Calendar Man.

  • #042: Unicron Attacks! The Transformers: The Movie

    September 28th, 2020  |  1 hr 47 mins
    1986, beast wars, eric idle, frank welker, geek culture, juss nelson, leonard nimoy, nerd culture, optimus prime, orson welles, peter cullen, robot, the transformers: the movie, toy, transformers

    In disguise or not, when a robot the size of a moon approaches a world, people notice. When you get together this voice cast for a movie based on a pop culture landmark like the Transformers, Your Generals notice...and talk about it.

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    #041: Second Contact: A Voyage to the Lower Decks

    September 21st, 2020  |  1 hr 28 mins
    cerritos, eugene cordero, geek culture, jack quaid, lower decks, mike mcmahan, nerd culture, noël wells, second contact, star trek, tawny newsome

    This week Your Generals tour the U.S.S. Cerritos and check in on what has been happening on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

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    #040: Black Panther Forever

    September 13th, 2020  |  1 hr 41 mins
    black panther, chadwick boseman, christopher priest, dune, geek, jack kirby, marvel, nerd, t'challa, ta-nehisi coates, wakanda

    To honor Chadwick Boseman's passing, Your Generals decided this week to talk about the character he immortalized in nerddom. Black Panther

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    #039: Nerds at Arms

    September 7th, 2020  |  1 hr 50 mins
    ankh-morpork, captain vimes, carrot, city watch, comedy, discworld, fantasy, men at arms, police, race, terry pratchett

    This week Your Generals revisit Discworld and the Ankh-Morpork City Watch when they talk about Men at Arms.

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    #038: Ryme City Mysteries: A Look at Detective Pikachu (w/ Stephen)

    August 31st, 2020  |  2 hrs 22 mins
    bill nighy, dc comics, dc fandome, dcu, detective pikachu, geek, justice smith, kathryn newton, ken watanabe, nerd, pokemon, ryan reynolds

    With a detective presumed dead and his son looking for the truth alongside his Pokemon partner, Your Generals weigh in this week to say "Holy Crap! Did you see the size of that Torterra!?" To do so properly they'll need help. So enter Stephen as we watch Detective Pikachu. Plus DC Fandome news.

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    #037: Into the Spider-verse

    August 23rd, 2020  |  2 hrs 14 secs
    animated, comic book, geek, general nerdery, marvel, miguel o'hara, miles morales, peter parker, sony, spider-man, spider-people, spider-verse, stan lee

    No reason to hide it, this week Your Generals ramble on about one of the things they love most in life. Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse.

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    #036: Nerds of the Dragonlance Heroes

    August 17th, 2020  |  2 hrs 1 min
    chronicles, d&d, dragonlance, dungeons and dragons, geek, heroes of the lance, laura hickman, margaret weis, nerd, raistlin, tracy hickman

    Recently General Zac became acquainted with seminal fantasy series Dragonlance. So it's off to Krynn we go to talk about the Heroes of the Lance.