"The Late, Great Len Wein" w/ Len Wein
NERTZ
Special tribute episode involving Mathew Klickstein's 2014 interview with the (now late) legendary comic creator Len Wein.
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"Who You Callin' Emo?" w/ Matt Pryor
NERTZ
Mathew Klickstein interviews Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor.
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"Are We Not Nerds?" w/ Mark Mothersbaugh
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Mathew Klickstein interviews DEVO frontman and music/art/film maven Mark Mothersbaugh.
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"BOOM! For Real!" w/ Sara Driver
NERTZ
Mathew Klickstein talks with filmmaker and longtime Jim Jarmusch partner Sara Driver about indie film, punk, NYC in the 1970s and more!
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"Buzzing With Too Much Coffee Man" w/ Shannon Wheeler
NERTZ
Time to get caffeinated! On the this episode of NERTZ, we have one of our favorite all-time comix folks: Mr. Shannon Wheeler, the creator of one of the great indie comix of all time: TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN. Tah-dah!
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"The Nerdiest Nerd Who Ever Nerded (Nerdily)" w/ Toby Radloff AND Wayne Alan Harold
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We speak with "Genuine Nerd" Toby Radloff from American Splendor and his production partner Wayne Alan Harold.
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"Pop Goes The Culture" w/ Caseen Gaines
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We speak with "pop culture historian" and author Caseen Gaines about what it means to be a geeky journalist today!
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"The Invisible Geek" w/ Adam Bradley
NERTZ
We speak with hip-hop and Ralph Ellison scholar, English professor and author Adam Bradley about misfit/outsider culture and its relationship to Nerd/Geek Culture.
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"Is Diablo Cody Actually A Nerd?" w/ Diablo Cody
NERTZ
For our TENTH EPISODE (!) of NERTZ, we have an extremely special guest in screenwriter and TV show creator Diablo Cody. There's so much to be said about Ms. Cody, but we'll leave that for the episode, a fun and informal frolic through her thoughts on what it means to be a nerd or a geek, whether or not there's such a thing as "nerd cultural misappropriation" and even a little bit about why she kind-of-sort-of agrees with American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis that Millennials are a bit too cuddly (and why that may kind-of-sort-of be okay). We're truly honored to have Diablo Cody celebrate...
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"How To Make Love Like A Geek" w/ Missy Suicide
NERTZ
What can one say about Suicide Girls? The world-renowned iconic and iconoclastic collective of ever-growing young women who champion their inner and outer beauty in the most unique fashion while being at the same time totally embracing of their un-fashionability. There's plenty more wonderful contradictions ahead with our episode involving the proud mama of the Suicide Girls bunch, Missy Suicide, who speaks with us about how being a misfit or outsider can sometimes be pretty damn sexy. In the process, we'll discuss how nerds and geeks have become so hot (in more ways than one) over the past...
info_outlineAfter a brief hiatus, we return to NERTZ with a truly fascinating character who, frankly, loves investigating truly fascinating characters for his many articles, books and classes on subjects ranging from the rapper Common (with whom he wrote a bestselling memoir), to the monumentally impactful writer of Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison, whose literary estate he assisted throughout Bradley's time at Harvard), to the "poetry" of pop music. Many of his books on hip hop and pop culture (such as The Anthology of Rap and Book of Rhymes) have become seminal texts for university classes around the country. He speaks all over the country on a series of compelling topics, directs the Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture (RAP Lab) at the University of Colorado - Boulder where is an English professor and dresses really snazzily too. What the FUNK does THIS guy have to do with Geek/Nerd Culture? Find out in this episode of your favorite nerdy nerd podcast, NERTZ!