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Nerds Amalgamated

Nerds Amalgamated

Your weekly dose of nerd new — straight from the nerd-verse. 🎮🍿📺We’re DJ and The Professor: lifelong geeks breaking down the week in movies, TV, gaming, and pop culture.Every week, we serve up:🎙️ Hot takes and near deep dives on what’s happening in nerd culture.🕹️ Spotlights on indie games, comics, and creators — real talk, straight from the people making the stuff we love.🤓 Science and tech tangents — it’s curiosity, and we lean into it.If you’re the nerd who can’t stop ranting about patch notes, MCU theories, or why that side quest broke your heart, you’ve found your people. Pull up a chair, grab your headphones, and let’s get nerdy.New episodes every week. Stay chaotic, stay curious.

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302 episodes

  1. Nerds Amalgamated 300th Episode Special 1:28:57
  2. Jailbreaking The Switch 2, AI Stories Might Be Good, and Apu's Return 43:37
  3. An Interview with Jonathan Geffner, creator of The Dummy Detective 43:15
  4. Real Gamers Don't Play Games, Mixing Poo Into Concrete and The End of Card Shops 47:28
  5. The Coming Games Industry Crash, the Ig Nobel prizes, and Talking Chinese Cows. 51:01
  6. GTA6 Leaks, Why People Love Monsters, and Australia is The Safest Place In the Apocalypse 1:09:13
  7. SKG Saga Continues, Eat Your Veges & Comics Going Online 59:17
  8. Finding Great Games is Hard, Feces Boost Evolution, and The Death of Ongoing Comics 54:39
  9. Cut Xbox Into Pieces, Dinosaur BBQ and Never Get Your Book Adapted 48:38
  10. Nobody Works at Xbox, Sleeping to Mars and George Lucas is a Hack 57:56
  11. Everything About Games is Awful Super Episode; also Artificial Life 43:07
  12. Steam Machine and GTA6, Mice with ADHD, and is Anime a commodity? 50:37
  13. Blizzard Sues Their Fans, What Killed The Whales? and The Hollywood Exodus 48:29
  14. Nintendo Loses in Europe, Growing Medicine Plants in Space, and Doctor In Distress Again 1:06:37
  15. Nobody's Going To Play COD; Be Above Average, Not Amazing; Youtuber Movies 45:02
  16. An Interview with Ned Kelly Comic Creator Lucas Scheffel from Angry Fred Comics 1:04:50
  17. The Epic Exodus, The Munchies Keep You Thin, and Anime Keeps You Sane 56:06
  18. Sega's SuperGame Is Dead, Crickets Feel Pain & Dark Shonen vs Violence Free Anime 46:59
  19. Chaos at Build a Rocket Boy, Sit Near a Window & Sag-Aftra Deal 46:07
  20. Bringing Video Game Movies to Success, The "Benefits" of Beer & Crunchyroll's Unethical Hack 58:01
  21. Action in Stop Killing Games, Artemis II and Crunchyroll Anime Awards 49:15
  22. Ancient Roman Board Games, Dangers of Cloning & Colbert's Tolkien Movie 1:05:40
  23. Firefly Is Coming back!, ChatGPT Didn't Cure Cancer and Adaptations Killing Anime 52:42
  24. Valve Vs The World, Signals Lost In Space and Live Action Samurai Champloo 48:37
  25. An Interview with James Baillie At The Intersection Of Games And History 1:07:59
  26. Giant Stop Killing Games Update, Frozen Life on Mars?, and Paramount WIns Warner Bros. 1:00:32
  27. All Your Hardware Are Belong To Us, Terrifying Frozen Microbes, and Arty Films Are Too Long 45:20
  28. Do the In Game Crime; Do The Real World Time, History Stinks and Markiplier Vs Hollywood 55:13
  29. Are Valve the Bad Guys?, Diagnosing Terry Pratchett Through Books, and DC on Why Manga Is Great. 51:35
  30. What's the Deal With Hytale?, I Can't Believe It's Not Sugar, and Comic Crossovers Are Pointless. 1:05:47
  31. Game Developers Suck At Cybersecurity, Da Vinci's DNA and Anime Sholdn't Chase The West 1:21:28
  32. AI is Ruining Computers, Wombat Poo, Atlas Robots and Indian Television 1:19:43
  33. 2025 Year In Review 54:24
  34. How Warhammer Became The Biggest Tabletop, Mining Viruses and Netflix's Warner Bros Purchase 43:26
  35. Batman Makes You Nicer, Definitive Editons Bad For Sales and The First Battle Royale 53:05
  36. New Steam Hardware, Live Action My Hero Academia and The End of the Universe 41:32
  37. Steam's Monopoly, Bloody Anime and Immortal Science 45:10
  38. Ending on a Cliffhanger, Dr Who Minus Disney and Dangerous Mirror Life 47:48
  39. Protoclone's Robot Muscles, EA buyout and Tilly Norwood: AI Actress 1:20:06
  40. Australia's Gamers Revealed, Dance Dance Revolution Memory and Hollywood AI Movies 56:10
  41. Age Gating Games, Warner Bros Vs Midjourney and Doing Objective Science 1:11:57
  42. Minecraft Getting Sued, Android Blocking Indie Devs and Social Media Child Stars 51:10
  43. An Interview with Isaac Fox from Astral Ticket Comics – Adult Comic Creator of Ecchi Series: The Manti-Corp 1:10:13
  44. An Interview with Savas Savidis 55:11
  45. Steam is EVIL... Maybe, Direwolves and Moa Ressurections and Movies Ruined Comics 1:08:19
  46. Stop Killing Games Update, The End of Xbox, Killer Whales Want To Give You Lunch and Brad Pitt's Actor Advice 52:27
  47. The End of Stop Killing Games, Lab Grown Meat and Duke Nukem TV 1:10:15
  48. An Interview with Neural Forge 1:01:48
  49. Everything Wrong With The Switch 2, The Science of Joy and Captain America's Regretful Plot Twist 1:13:18
  50. Japan's Cultural Victory, An Interview with Strauss Zelnick and Preventing a Supervolcano Eruption 58:17