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Gather round the campfire boys and girls! Sit back, relax, and settle in for some animal stories from Dawn, Chris, and Byron! You may want to bring some tissues as well as we do discuss the dogs we all have lost in the past year or so. But, never fear, we do get around to some fun stories as Byron relates some adventures from his farming days back in 1967.
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Byron, age 10, and the lamb he raised on his father's farm in 1967. -
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Short Takes episodes are conversations taken from either before or after we start recording. This episode has Chris and Byron sharing stories of how their sons discovered the porn channels on the cable or satellite providers, and then tried to sneak watching some movies only to find out those movies showed up on the bill! Then Drezz shares a story of a friend who would stay up late and record porn movies to then sell copies at school. We do tie this all into a nerdy conclusion!
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Our first episode for 2023 and our second season! We kick it off by getting nerdy about our latest gadgets and how we're using them in our lives.
Byron talks about Blender, the 3D modeling software he's learning so he can 3D print parts for models. Find information about the courses at the CGCookie website as well as for his Creality CR6-SE 3D printer.
Dawn talks about the Tour Box controller she uses for while drawing on her laptop. Find information about this gadget at the Tour Box website.
Chris talks about the Bluetooth Procreate Shortcut Keyboard that he uses with the Procreate drawing software, as well as his new Epson WF-7820 11" inch by 17" inch printer.
And Drezz goes in a different direction and talks about his daughter's experiences using an Amazon Alexa.
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In this, the final episode of 2022, Dawn, Drezz, Chris, and Byron chat about some current stuff we are geeking/nerding out about. Byron talks about some new features coming up in Clip Studio Paint, then we all talk about shows we are currently streaming. Plus we banter on about whatever pops up in our heads, and as creative types, that means some crazy stuff!
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In this episode, we have brought in independent author and Tolkien expert Ron Vitale to help us dissect the new Amazon Prime series "Lord of the Ring: The Rings of Power". This series is essentially a prequel to the "Lord of the Rings" movies from the early 2000's and our discussion is to shed some light on how the series came about and what it may or may not include from Tolkien's books.
Spoiler Alert! If you have not seen the entire series yet, then you may want to skip listening to this episode until you have as we do talk about spoilers in this episode.
We want to thank Ron for bringing his extensive Tolkien knowledge to the podcast. You may find Ron's books at his website. Click here to visit Ron's website.
Ron's Latest Book
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In this episode, we tackle the finale of the Marvel "She Hulk" series streaming on Disney Plus. Byron, who is not a comic geek at all, was confused by the ending. So fellow nerds Chris Flick and guest Dee Fish bring all of their extensive knowledge of the Marvel comic universe to the table and help explain what was going on in the finale of "She-Hulk".
SPOILER ALERT WARNING! If you have not seen the final episode of "She-Hulk" then please don't listen to this episode until you have!
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In this episode, we get back to our art roots and chat about recent scams aimed at artists, particularly younger artists fresh out of college. Chris Flick's daughter Dani, who recently graduated art school, was nearly taken by one of these scams. Dani shares her story then we talk about ways to protect yourself from these scams.
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We get nerdy talking about the sports teams we love and hate, and sometimes they're the same team! We also get into our nerdy sports memorabilia that we own. We cover a lot of territory in the one hour and 23 minutes of this podcast from sports teams of our neighbors to the north and about how we feel about teams once we move to a whole new city or state.
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On this episode we dive into our individual stories about our loss of innocence as young children or adults and tie that into how it shaped our becoming nerds & geeks. A lot of cultural references to movies, magazines, or TV shows that shaped our awareness of sexuality and how that effected how we fit into society's "norms".
As mentioned in the podcast, below are images of the Playboy magazine Byron mentions. Only one is NSFW, but it shows how a company like Sony used risqué imagery in advertisements in Playboy as opposed to the vanilla imagery Sony used elsewhere.
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Tonight we have invited on two friends of the podcast who happen to both be historians. We chat about their lives as historians and how most people immediately get bored when you mention history as they recall those classes back in high school where you had to memorize historical dates. Well, that's not happening tonight!
Our guests Kristen Glasgow and Brian Kovalesky quickly dispel any notion that they are boring people or that history is boring as well. We dive into how we all are creating our own histories and how we may fit in, big or small, into the world history so far. We all have fun along the way but also get into a heavy topic or two.
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Tonight we chat about cartoons of our youth that were rebooted and what's good and/or bad about the reboots. Dawn takes on her childhood favorite "Thundercats" from 1985 and talks about the two different reboots of the cartoon from 2011 and 2020. Then Drezz tackles "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" from 1983 and its reboot from 2002.
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Tonight, we chat with Denis Lachapelle who organizes and runs the Wilkes Comic Con in North Carolina and is a card-carrying nerd as well. We also talk about how geeks and nerds make comic cons of all sizes possible with their devotion to the comics, movies, and TV shows based on their favorite characters.
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Tonight, we talk about our first computers we ever owned. And you can't talk about computers without getting nerdy about accessories and software. We cover it all in our latest episode!
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Welcome to the first episode of the Nerd Salad Podcast!
Former Webcomic Alliance members Dawn Griffin, Chris Flick, Drezz Rodriquez, and host Byron Wilkins have started up this new podcast chatting about anything nerdy or geeky in the world. In this episode we tell you about how we all got stated in our nerdiness, then chat about the definition of nerds and geeks, and finally talk about our most current nerdy things we all are focused on. Enjoy!
