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

  • #035: Dork Knights: Metal

    August 10th, 2020  |  1 hr 43 mins
    barbatos, batman, batman who laughs, comic book, crossover, dark knight, dark nights: metal, dc, geek, general nerdery, greg capullo, nerd, scott snyder

    DC's Dark Multiverse is upon us! This week Your Generals become the Dork Knights to shine a light on Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's bats%*# crossover event, Dark Nights: Metal.

  • #034: Elements of Avatar (w/ Griz)

    August 3rd, 2020  |  2 hrs 6 mins
    atla, avatar, boy in the iceberg, gaang, geek, last airbender, nerd, secret tunnel, sokka's master, the blind bandit, the headband

    This week, Your Generals recruit some help as they dive into Avatar: The Last Airbender, and look at some episodes that help define the series for them.

  • #033.5: No Ep This Week plus PSA

    July 26th, 2020  |  2 mins 14 secs
    geek, general nerdery, nerd

    No new episode this week, but we'll be back next week with more General Nerdery.

  • #033: Your Obedient Servants: The Generals watch Hamilton

    July 20th, 2020  |  1 hr 56 mins
    alexander hamilton, broadway, daveed diggs, disney, geek, hamilton, historical fiction, lin-manuel miranda, musical, nerd, phillipa soo

    With it's arrival on streaming services, Your Generals have had the chance to watch Hamilton. Welcome to us gushing about it.

  • #032: So Your Fave is Problematic...(w/ Will & Áine)

    July 13th, 2020  |  2 hrs 16 mins
    asexuality, diversity, geek, j.k. rowling, lesbian, lovecraft, nerd, orson scott card, poc, problematic, wagner

    In this episode Your Generals recruit some help to tackle a tricky subject. How we handle it when our favorite things are made by people that suck.

  • #031: Lore-full Kombat

    July 5th, 2020  |  2 hrs 20 mins
    defenders of the realm, ed boon, fighting game, geek, john tobias, mortal kombat, mortal kombat 11, mortal kombat x, nerd, video game

    Mortal Kombat has always delivered the violence, but story? General Tyler insists it's so, and regales us all.

  • #030: Threat Level Midnighter

    June 29th, 2020  |  2 hrs 2 mins
    action, apollo, authority, batman, comics, dc, gay, geek, midnighter, nerd, pride, relationship, sci fi, stormwatch, warren ellis, wildstorm

    To close out Pride month, Your Generals shine a spotlight on one of their favorite gay comic book heroes. Midnighter.

  • #029: Tear Apart the Sky: Our Look at Fast Color

    June 22nd, 2020  |  1 hr 42 mins
    2018, 2020, black, christopher denham, david strathairn, fast color, gugu mbatha-raw, julia hart, lorraine toussaint, saniyya sidney, superhero

    BlackLivesMatter and diversity in genre film is important, so this week your Generals try to do their best to shed a light on the fantastic superhero film Fast Color.

  • #028: Quarantine Tarantin-off (w/ Eustacia)

    June 14th, 2020  |  2 hrs 31 secs
    critique, debate, django unchained, geek, kill bill, nerd, pulp fiction, quentin tarantino

    As General Zac takes the week off, friend of the show Eustacia comes back to have their say about Quentin Tarantino. Will General Tyler's emotions hold up? Do Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Django Unchained hold up?

  • #027: D'oh or Donut? The Simpsons Movie

    June 8th, 2020  |  1 hr 42 mins
    bart, geek, homer, lisa, marge, matt groening, movie review, nerd, pop history, simpson-mania, the simpsons

    This week the Generals pop in and out of Springfield's past, more present past, and present, to talk about The Simpsons Movie.

  • #026: Dancing With The Doctor

    June 1st, 2020  |  1 hr 37 mins
    billie piper, christopher eccleston, doctor who, geek, jack harkness, john barrowman, london, nerd, queer, rose, russell t davies, steven moffat, the doctor, the doctor dances, the empty child, world war 2

    This week the Generals take a look back to the blitz and find hope in the Doctor Who two-parter, "The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances".

  • #025: Batman's Silver Screen Rogues Gallery

    May 25th, 2020  |  1 hr 52 mins
    bane, batman, catwoman, clayface, comic book, dc, harley quinn, joker, killer croc, mr. freeze, penguin, poison ivy, ra's al ghul, rogue's gallery, rogues gallery, scarecrow, snyder cut, talia al ghul, the riddler, two face

    If we're being honest, Batman relies on his foes quite a bit. This week the Generals listicle through those that have appeared on the silver screen.

  • #024: General Nerdery vs. The Valiant Universe

    May 18th, 2020  |  1 hr 59 mins
    acclaim, archer and armstrong, bloodshot, comic books, comics, eternal warrior, geek, john shooter, livewire, nerd, ninjak, roku, shadowman, superheroes, valiant, x-o manowar

    If Ninjak alone can take on the Valiant Universe then why not your Generals? This week Zac and Tyler ramble on about Valiant comics, characters, and castings!

  • #023: Digging Digimon (w/ Tiffany)

    May 10th, 2020  |  2 hrs 7 mins
    2020, cosplay, digimon, digimon 02, digimon adventure, digimon tri, digimon: adventure, geek, nerd, reboot

    Sometimes things getting rebooted makes sense, sometimes it goes full on insane. This week the Generals enlist help to look at Digimon Adventure: (2020)

  • #022: Nerding Out in the Shadows

    May 4th, 2020  |  1 hr 15 mins
    cori gonzalez-macuer, geek, jemaine clement, jonathan brugh, mockumentary, nerd, stu rutherford, taika waititi, vampire, what we do in the shadows

    This week, General Zac is introduced to Taika Waititi's vampire mockumentary, What We Do in the Shadows.

  • #021: Now Entering Letterkenny

    April 27th, 2020  |  1 hr 49 mins
    canada, comedy, geek culture, jared keeso, k. trevor wilson, letterkenny, michelle mylett, nathan dales, nerd culture, small town

    This week the Generals take a road trip up North and discuss the locals of a small town named Letterkenny.