Episodes
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Join the Nerds for their 100th and final episode as they prepare to be replaced by AI versions of themselves.
Did an AI write this blurb? Are we heading for a Bot Girl Summer? In our 100th episode the nerds face the inevitable and spill the ChatGPT about our new robot overlords.
Thanks for listening!
Host: Erin Harrington
Moderator: Brendon Bennetts
Panel: Moata Tamaira, Ben Allan, Karen Healey, and James Kupa
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Somehow Andrew Todd returns to host our fifth Star Wars spectacular. Expect detailed discussion of all the lore on Andor and/or Mandalore.
Panel: Moata Tamaira and Jeff Clark vs Ben Kent and Centuri Chan
with James Kupa as moderator
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Episodes manquant?
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In a cross-over with our sister show 'Dungeons & Comedians', Dungeon/Quiz Master Brendon Bennetts delves greedily and deeply into all things related to both dungeons and dragons.
Panel: James Kupa, Tilly Walbom, Ben Kent, Ben Allan
Mod: Karen Healey
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Nerds gotta eat, right? Grab your games night gang and come on down to the 24-hour nerd diner for a tasty all-you-can-eat* night of foodie facts. Yummy. *Within reason, Homer.
Host: Erin Harrington
Panel: Karen Healey, Daniel Pengelly, Brendon Bennetts, Andrew Todd
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Arachnophiles rejoice as your favourite nerds weave a web of intrigue around pop-culture creepy crawlies big and small. Expect an amazing, spectacular saga that will leave your spider-sense tingling!
Host: Jeff Clark
Panelists: Moata Tamaira and Andrew Todd vs James Kupa and Ray Shipley
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You Only Nerd Twice
Pay close attention, because this message will self-destruct. In a high-stakes game of wit and wiles, our well-disguised nerds will be tested on spycraft, subterfuge and surveillance. Who will get smart, who will be spooked, and who will find their mission... unpossible?
Host: Erin Harrington
Panelists: Kathleen Burns and James Kupa vs Brendon Bennetts and Karen Healey
With Jeff Clark from Q Branch
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Who says nerds can't be sexy? The Nerd Degree is getting lubed up for one night in Little Andromeda, and you're invited to watch. Taboos will be busted, horizons will be expanded, and the moderator will do their best to comply with Apple’s podcast content guidelines, as the esoteric meets the erotic for the first and possibly last time.
Host: Andrew Todd
Moata Tamaira and Karen Healey vs Erin Harrington and Daniel Pengelly
Scorekeeper: Brendon Bennetts
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Hosted by Ben Allan, with Jeff Clark, Brendon Bennetts, Laura Borrowdale, Andrew Todd, and Kathleen Burns.
The oceans! Vast and deep and unfathomable, but also literally fathomable. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theatre, the nerds are back and putting to sea to set sail for the far off shores of Esoterica, tackling cursed voyages, wild weather and the weird and horrifying denizens of the benthic depths along the way.
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We solve the mystery of who is the biggest nerd.
Host: Brendon Bennetts, Mod: Andrew Todd
Teams: Erin Harrington and Moata Tamaira vs James Kupa and Andrew Kepple
Watch Andrew's video here:
https://youtu.be/NLugcNHnEto
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It's Mock-mock-mocktober! Who can say what is real, and what's a load of nerdy bollocks? Join the nerds (but are they really?) in quest for absolute truth as they fight fakes and frauds with bluffs and bluster.
Host: Erin Harrington
Scorekeeper: Jeff Clark
Featuring: Ray Shipley, Kathleen Burns, Brendon Bennetts, and Andrew Todd
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Christchurch's favourite long-running currently dormant pop-culture panel show format podcast-live-show is making a comeback! Having dusted off his cobwebby hosting beard, Ben Allan is once again on a mission to discover who is the wittiest nerd and the nerdiest wit, putting two teams of some of the city's sharpest minds - or at least the sharpest ones that were readily available - to the test in a battle of knowledge and nonsense.
Featuring: Moata Tamaira, Jeff Clark, Brendon Bennetts, Andrew Todd, and Erin Harrington
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In the lead up to Rise of Skywalker (so, no spoilers here) the nerds get together for another deep dive into all things Star Wars-y.
Hosted by Ben Allan, with Moata Tamaira, Scott Koorey, Jeff Clark, Centuri Chan, and Brendon Bennetts
Recorded live at Little Andromeda
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An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, much like an episode of The Nerd Degree. In this episode, the nerds will fight over incendiary facts, detonate truth bombs about niche interests, and present homework so volatile it will need its own fume cupboard.
Featuring: Karen Healey, Andrew Kepple, Ray Shipley, Brendon Bennetts, Moata Tamaira, and Erin Harrington
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Exactly 40 years ago, Alien burst out of a rubber egg and into our collective hearts/chest cavities. To celebrate this pop culture milestone the nerds do a deep dive into all things Alien from original fan fiction, to unexpected conspiracy theories and obscure behind the scenes trivia.
Hosted by Erin Harrington
Featuring: Andrew Todd, Moata Tamaira, Scott Koorey, Ben Allan, and Jeff Clark
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Women. Non-men. We make up 51% of the population, and finally get an episode all to ourselves! It's 2019 after all. Join us as the nerds celebrate all of women's amazing historical and cultural achievements since the dawn of time til now, including all the stuff MEN DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT, by talking very very fast, which we're very good at doing, apparently.
Featuring Karen Healey, Erin Harrington, Moata Tamaira, Emma Cusdin, and 2019 Billy T Award nominee Ray Shipley
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Nerd Degree Champions from episodes past go head to head to find the champion of champions.
Featuring: Brendon Bennetts, Dan Bain. Emma Cusdin, Andrew Kepple, Jeff Clark, Erin Harrington, and Laura Borrowdale
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The nerds celebrate (or commiserate) the end of the year with a look and endings and end times. Will the nerds get their happily ever after? Will it be the end of the nerd as we know it? And - most importantly - will there be a post-credits scene that sets up the next series?
Hosted by Dr. Erin Harrington.
Featuring: Moata Tamaira and Ray Shipley vs Jeff Clark and Shen Mansell
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It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dork… In NERD DEGREE: MONSTER MASH the nerds go on an undead excursion to the garden of ghoulish delights. They’ll be (grave)digging monstrous facts, tearing the guts out of much-loved horror classics, and seeing who lasts til dawn, all in the hope of taking home the greatest prize of all: their lives. Or maybe just their pride. Definitely one of them. Hosted by Dr Erin Harrington, who did her PhD on women in horror films, because that’s a thing.
Featuring: Karen Healey and Andrew Kepple vs Jeff Clark and Moata Tamaira
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The Nerd Degree returns to WORD Christchurch to help end the festival with a laugh. Taking up the theme of adventure, comedian Brendon Bennetts invites four brave writers, Karen Healey, Erin Harrington, Nic Low and Jolisa Gracewood to test their wits and journey into a world of obscure facts and esoteric arguments in a quest to find the nerdiest wit and the wittiest nerd.
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Join the nerds as they explore the world of nomenclature and all things name-related. They’ll be getting a handle on their handles, sorting their sobriquets from their pseudonyms, and probably getting their monikers in a twist.
Hosted by Moata Tamaira
Moderator: Jeff Clark
Featuring: Erin Harrington & Karen Healey vs Todd Dixon & Brendon Bennetts
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