Episodios

  • Road Trip Roll Call: HellmouthCon 2025
    Jun 25 2025

    YOUR NERD BEST FRIENDS DID A LIVE SHOW! It was such a success running our Buffy + D&D live episode at HellmouthCon and we had an amazing audience! Unfortunately, Analese the rookie forgot to press the record button and so... here we are, face to face, a couple of big buffoons.. This episode is full of your nerd best friends talking about how cool it was and recapping their time at HellmouthCon ON THE Hellmouth in Torrance, Ca.


    Analese now has a picture in her high school principal's office with the three Sunnydale HS principals and Rob now can say he got to tell his amazing embarrassing story about blonde hair and James Marsters DIRECTLY to the guy IN PERSON.


    Also in this episode: The Great Goblin Angle Bargle, Never Flinch, panting goblin armies, practicing table top games on your own, and the frustration of GenXers at the end to The Neverending Story.


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    50 m
  • Summer Nerdstalgia: Episode 9 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer MEGA Episode
    Jun 18 2025

    Go down memory lane with your nerd best friends while the live HellmouthCon episode is being edited! Find our social media pages for awesome content from the Hellmouth.

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    Original Airdate: December 1, 2021


    The Nerd Best Friends talk about all things BUFFY: favorite episodes and villains, plus general likes/dislikes about the groundbreaking show. This is the last episode before mid-season winter break, but stay subscribed to check out our soon-to-be-released One Shots!


    SPOILERS ALERT! Listen at your own risk - the nerds talk about the show in depth!

    *CW/TW* The hosts mention heavier themes of the show including death, suicide, assault, and the problematic emerging truth about the culture of Joss Whedon's sets and his behavior towards women.


    Other nerdy things: craft beer of the episode, marching band competitions, DnD, The Curse of Strahd, organizing nerd spaces at home.


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    1 h y 25 m
  • Nerds of Summer: The Neverending Story
    Jun 11 2025

    I can tell you my love for you will still be strong, after the nerds of summer have gone...


    Analese and Rob get NERDY with Dr. Intern Joan's very first time watching The Neverending Story. How is it a GenX person has actually never seen this classic? We don't know, but are SO GLAD to share this with DIJ.


    Analese questions Bastian's school principal and Rob questions if Neverending Story II is worth the minutes of your life.


    Also in this episode: reading Eisner nominees in Hoopla, Stephen King EVERYWHERE, more hit films from 1984, the trauma of 90 seconds in this film, The Great Goblin Angle Bargle, YOU on Netflix IS NOT LIKE DEXTER, DIJ's new nerd room.


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    59 m
  • Summer Nerdstalgia: Episode 47 - Stephen King Multiverse
    Jun 4 2025

    Hey nerds! Re-roll and get nerdstalgic with your nerd best friends! New Stephen King book out last week, so you know Analese is too busy reading to edit. Therefore, check out this rewind of the SK episode!

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    Original Airdate: January 24, 2024.


    Analese, your podcast host and horror nerd, walks Rob through the multiverse and universe building by the master of horror - Stephen King. Since Analese is Constant Reader, it is safe to join the nerds on this journey.


    Also in this episode: Warhammer, Instagram analytics, mail subscription games, Final Girl, organization, 2024 nerd goals.


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    1 h y 7 m
  • Catchin' Rays and Side Quests: Nerd Book Club for Chew vols. 1 & 2
    May 28 2025

    This week the nerds bring you Nerd Book Club, summer edition! Dr. Intern Joan made an amazing reading guide for our Patreon subscribers. Chew is an award-winning comic book that's equally gross, fantastic, gory, and full of love. Note: Chew not recommended for younger readers!


    Analese read Chew because Rob told her to do so in the 2010s and Rob read Chew because he hate gross things.


    Also in this episode: is it 3d Printing or old man model building?, NERDY winners of the Amazing Race, nerd mail from subscribers, Universal Fan Fest, Back to the Future, D&D.


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    1 h y 29 m
  • Episode 71 - Season 4 Recap
    Apr 30 2025

    Dr. Intern Joan is back and celebrating favorite moments from Season 4! It truly was a season of growth and sharing the nerdiness. Analese is spending the summer on her old xbox and Rob is spending the summer on one-page rules games with his Warhammer minis.


    Also in this episode: Nerd Mail, updates to D7D 2024, Dr. Intern Joan should play D&D, summer plans, fancy dice sets, going to the movies again, creating threads of the same actor in different films/tv shows (is Steve Urkel a villain??), nerd organizing, video game consoles, family gaming.


    Talk Nerdy to Me TRAILER SWAP: nerds will love Play Comics podcast, comparing video games based off comics. Give them a listen and a follow!


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    48 m
  • Episode 70 - Top 5 Villains
    Apr 16 2025

    It's our newest Top 5, this time NERDING OUT about our favorite bad guys and gals! Dr. Intern Joan is back! Analese is loving the literary baddies and Rob is loves going back to childhood scares.


    Also in this episode: hockey drinking game or a power hour, Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman and great theme songs, goofin and cheesin, true crime, reality tv shows like the Amazing Race, Vecna, The Monkey, crane machines for schools.


    Talk Nerdy to Me TRAILER SWAP: check out the Total Conundrum podcast, all about the spooky, the unexplained, and a good listen!


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    1 h y 7 m
  • Episode 69 - What are you doing?
    Apr 2 2025

    The Notorious Dr. Intern Joan is back and the nerds are highlighting the nerdy things they are doing right now! Analese is working on her 25 for 2025 and Rob is switching his apps around for maximum nerd-tracking.


    Also in this episode: Nerd Mail from Los805 and more game console knowledge, DIJ's book recommendations, Do it Now and gamifying to-do lists, the renaissance of Women's Basketball (wishing Juju Watkins a speedy recovery and FIGHT ON), miniature of the month at Games Workshop, changing planners and organizing the year of nerd goals.


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    1 h y 15 m