General Nerdery
The Generals gush about everything from Alpha Flight to Zardoz
We found 10 episodes of General Nerdery with the tag “nerd culture”.
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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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#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.
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#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.
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#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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#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.
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#020: Hey Kids! It's Jay and Silent Bob. (Reboot)
April 20th, 2020 | 1 hr 52 mins
420, 90s, ben affleck, geek culture, harley quinn smith, jason mewes, jay and silent bob, kevin smith, nerd culture, reboot, stoner
It's 4/20 and few stoners overlap as much with nerd and geek culture as Jay and Silent Bob. So this week the Generals take a look at Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Reboot!
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#018: BookVVyrms: Guards! Guards!
April 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 53 mins
carrot, discworld, dragons, fantasy, geek, geek culture, guards guards, humor, nerd, nerd culture, satire, terry pratchett, the watch, vimes
This week the Generals stop by Ankh-Morpork to check out their City Watch in the novel Guards! Guards!.
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#016: Pokemon: The First Movie: General Nerdery Strikes Back (w/ Will)
March 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 54 mins
1999, geek, geek culture, go, kunihiko yuyama, mewtwo strikes back, nerd, nerd culture, nintendo, pokemon, the first movie
For many, Pokemon helped define their childhood. The Generals are no exception to this and team up with a friend to stroll down memory lane and watch Pokemon: The First Movie.
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#015: Nerds from the Dwarf (w/ Jesse)
March 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 45 mins
british, chris barrie, craig charles, danny john-jules, geek, geek culture, grant naylor, lister, nerd, nerd culture, red dwarf, rimmer, robert llewellyn, sci-fi, science fiction, smeghead
Red Dwarf, a sci-fi comedy series that may just be Better Than Life. So your Generals bring in another seasoned nerd to dig into this more than the Jupiter Mining Corporation.