Nerdville, TN

Live from the media suite at MTAC 15 to Life, it's anime legend Tiffany Grant! We're talking Neon Genesis Evangelion, Slayers, Dragon Half, the changing face of anime, Bob Hope, Mack's infamous cousins, and some microphone malfunctions. It's all here on Nerdville, TN!   Follow us on Facebook! http://facebook.com/NerdvilleTN And also Twitter! http://twitter.com/NerdvilleTN How about Tumblr? http://nerdvilletn.tumblr.com And make sure to subscribe to our newsletter to get all the nerdy news you need! http://bit.ly/1yQLvTN

It's a Very Special Nerdville as Erin goes junketeering! Erin and Nerdville favorite Liz Schullo sit down with Sugarland's Kristian Bush as he tours in support of his new solo album Southern Gravity. They talk Walking Dead, Sherlock, Star Wars, and most importantly Doctor Who. This is a can't-miss episode for sci-fi and country fans alike!   As always, you can find us... On Facebook!: http://facebook.com/NerdvilleTN On Twitter!: http://twitter.com/NerdvilleTN On Tumblr!: http://NerdvilleTN.Tumblr.com And on our newsletter. Click here to sign up! https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1778459/1747276/?v=a

Chris Saber of Night Sabers (https://www.facebook.com/nightsabersband) enters the Press Suite! Nerdville joins Nashville Cool and The Geek Mix in the suite to rapid-ish fire questions to one of Nashville's best nerd-rock troubadours. Find out how Little Richard changes the world from his car and hear a brand-new never-before-heard Night Sabers tune. You'll hear it here first (and maybe only on our affiliated podcasts)! So get in the Bebop! We're cruising from MTAC all the way to Nerdville, TN...   (And as always, make sure to head to http://nerdvilletn.com and sign up for the newsletter, subscribe to the podcast, follow us on all your favorite social spaces, and generally show us some love. Keep spreading the nerd!)

Ki-ki-ki ma-ma-ma... Tonight! It's Friday the 13th, so let's get into Friday the 13th! Erin has fond-ish memories of the Nintendo adventures of Jason Voorhees, Mack attempts to detail the adventures of Wam Sinchester in Friday the 13th Part 12, and we try to figure out who would win in a fight between Freddy and Jason. Plus stops in Poltergeist, thrift shops, and the dangerous electronic adventures of the Enterprise-D. It's time for the late show in Nerdville, TN!   Join us on Facebook! http://facebook.com/NerdvilleTN And on Twitter! http://twitter.com/NerdvilleTN Subscribe to the newsletter to get all the nerd news in Middle Tennessee and Beyond! https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1778459/1747276/?v=a

Tonight! Get in the TARDIS and follow us towards the future of Doctor Who! We've got tidbits on the next series, favorite companions, fan theories, and the villain who shall not be named. Are you headed for ConGT? Do you have ideas about what Capaldi's next journey holds? Is your voracious appetite for Doctor Who begging for some new sustinance? Let's answer all these questions. Allons-y!   Don't forget to follow us on Facebook! http://facebook.com/NerdvilleTN And on Twitter! http://twitter.com/NerdvilleTN And sign up for our newsletter for all the latest in Middle Tennessee and Nerd Worldwide! https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1778459/1747276/?v=a

Lipscomb University professor and film producer Dave DeBorde sits down with us to discuss his new film Old Fashioned, faith-based stories in the film industry, the perils of production, and making movies outside of New York and Los Angeles. Join us deep in the secret caves of Lipscomb's theater department as we explore all this and more on Nerdville, TN!

Tonight! Erin goes for a deep dive into the Supernatural pool, uncovering the show for both beginners and big fans. We discuss the history of the show, why it's so addictively good, the best moments, Felicia Day, the best ways to watch, and the irresistible charm of Jensen Ackles. This is a spoiler-free episode, so those who are new to Supernatural can listen with no fear.   Follow us on Twitter: @NerdvilleTN Or on Facebook: facebook.com/NerdvilleTN Or on Tumblr: NerdvilleTN.tumblr.com   And don't forget to sign up for the Nerdville Newsletter for everything geek delivered right to your inbox every week! https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1778459/1747276/?v=a

Tonight! Maximum warp towards the history and lore of Star Trek as we examine the best, the worst, the Rikerest, the Nazi Planet episode, the lazy sexual matters, Erin's future car, the Roddenberry Canon, Trekkie Vs. Trekker, and for some reason that Peter Pan Live that was on NBC a few months ago.   We're boldly going to give you a crash course in Star Trek! If this is your first introduction, it's new life and new civilizations! If you're already a fan, it's a search for more Spock! It's every bit of the galaxy on Nerdville, TN...

We're talking hot chicken today! Where do we find it, how do we eat it, and what sides do we pile on next to it? Plus, Erin takes offense at something Nashville is supposedly "best" at. Come with us on a culinary adventure as we freeze in Nerdville, TN!

In this episode: Google Fiber comes to Nashville, SMU declares us a vibrant and stellar arts community, and the Adventure Science Center goes all Timey Wimey! Plus: Chris Pratt as Indiana Jones, a brand-new set of Ghostbusters, and David Tennant goes purple. Strap on your hoverboard, because it's 2015 in Nerdville, TN!   Subscribe to the Nerdville Newsletter! Follow us on Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr! Yell our names from rooftops on Lower Broadway!

Merry Christmas! Thank you for listening through 2014; this episode is a little bit of celebration and merriment for our Nashville nerds and every listener out there. We hope you're enjoying the holiday and getting your geek on no matter where you are on December 25th.   (The opening rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" is by Tennessee's own Joseph Akins. Love that piano!)

Tonight! We're in studio and we're freezing! Mack's catching up with the summer's movies, Erin is way ahead of him, and they're both confused and indignant about the end of this series of Doctor Who! Get a sweater, cozy on up, and join us as we drive into Nerdville, TN!

Recorded at GMX 2014, we're coming to you from the Media Suite with the first of our guest interviews! From Farscape, from Rescue: Special Ops, from Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge, it's star of stage, screen, and record Gigi Edgley! A frelling phenomenal actress and personality, we talk about her new projects, her classic roles, what it's like to be on a unicycle, and what it's like to see Nashville from behind glass. Join us and the GMX Press Corps as we explore with a cool mind and cooler accent.

From The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, I Ship It, and Squareville, direct from Los Angeles, it's Mary Kate Wiles! We talk Tolkien, what it's like to get into Wizard Rock, and how to locate decent gluten-free food wherever you go. What's next for Lydia, Sansa, Zelda, and anyone else Mary Kate inhabits (including her amazing self)? You won't know unless you listen to the newest episode of Nerdville, TN!

Tonight: we give you the whole lowdown from GMX! Mack returns from Geek Media Expo with so many tales to tell, from his turn in the TARDIS to his return to a piece of theater that gives him nightmares. We touch on costuming connoisseurs, naughty nighttime neighbors, and the latest news from Star Wars: The Force Awakens! Plus we try to explain what happens during Kilt Blowing! It's everything that happened in Franklin and then some on this episode of Nerdville, TN!

In this episode: Benedict Cumberbatch is headed for the altar! Learn all about his fiancee, her work, and her connection to the Who-niverse. And then! Doctor Who drops a huge bomb into series eight, and we have to dissect the sudden revelations of Missy's identity. Erin takes back the things she said about this plotline, Mack kicks himself for not seeing it coming, and we both get angry about Danny Pink's fate. What happens next? Do we miss Eric Roberts? Will the future Mrs. Cumberbatch be able to pronounce the word "Penguin?" All these questions and more tonight on Nerdville, TN!

It's a Nerdville Halloween! Erin gets the fright of her life, Mack visits House on Haunted Hill, and we scour Netflix for the best horror movies you can watch right now! Also: the beginning of our GMX coverage, the evolution of Dean Cain, the future of superhero movies, and that time we jumped in the TARDIS. It's a spooky, kooky, altogether ooky night in Nerdville, TN!

Tonight: Erin tells a tale that leaves Mack speechless! But before we get there: Mack returns from New York Comic Con with tales to tell, Erin encounters two of Gen-Y's most beloved cultural icons, we learn Emperor Palpatine's first name, an impromptu Xena reunion leads to Erin's impressive Urban sprawl, and Mack relates part of the Nerdville origin story. Plus: how to send mail to Ms. Chanandler Bong, why Pope Francis is great, new Star Trek and returning players, and nine thousand dollar models for your home. Get on board as we rush through convention season on Nerdville, TN!

Nashville. The Athens of the South. These are the voyages of the Starship Nerdville...   Tonight! Erin and Mack hit the floor at Wizard World Nashville, and it's time to recount our adventures! We met the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and we can't stop talking about it. Stories from the bridge crew of the USS Enterprise, run-ins with great artists, the best cosplay Nashville has to offer, and the unbearable coolness of meeting your heroes. It's part one of our October Convention Rush!   Plus: The Day of Dredd, The Other Nerdville, Apollo's Butt, what Jesus actually said, why you can swear in the woods, why you should never pay $150 to meet a homophobic racist, The Great Catholic Competition, and Mack and Erin take a stand. This episode is bigger than V'jer and more jam-packed than the Year of Hell, so buckle up and take a ride with us into Nerdville, TN!

It's back to Nerdville Central with us! Tonight: Mack goes Meta, Erin is Enthusiastic (about wise grapes, pizza, and Karl Urban), and the Con-versation Continues! Also: the best Jimmy Buffett songs, Wizard World issues some cancellations, what "bless your heart" means, Paris Gellar's perfection, and how to be an Amerikern!

Man of many voices, music star, and bona-fide nerd Jason Charles Miller joins us live from Los Angeles on the new Nerdville, TN! Erin and Mack enter the new studio digs and discover how to be a geek before VHS, how to catch Anime in Northern Virginia, and what it's like to straddle the line between Goth and Industrial. Plus a career that's bounced from The Guild to Day of the Dead to Code Geass to Batman to The Last Airbender to gODHEAD to "Uncountry" and everything in between. Then previews of what's coming for Muzzled! The Musical and Zombie 360. Keep on drivin', because you're entering the all-new and improved Nerdville, TN!

Tonight! It's our most free-form episode yet as we cover everything new in Middle Tennessee! GMX adds a new guest (and Mack remembers God's cousin, Rod), Taylor Swift runs from Nashville and her country past, and a new gateway to the East looms at BNA. Plus: Erin digs deep into Supernatural, Mack gets blamed for making The Identical, and we both remember when YA was just called "books." It's time to keep up, because we're making a sprint through Nerdville, TN!

Tonight! Erin encounters a strange kind of mullet and gets extra crispy, Mack watches The Sulu and Pond Show and contemplates some Wahlbergers, and we try to make sense of Nashville's ever-growing urban sprawl. (Special shout-out to LoBro and SoBro, our favorite twin nonsense portmanteaus!) Plus: living in Mandyville, the One True Batman, how to save Rory Williams, what Callie Khouri didn't write, Michael Dorn's eating habits, and how Nashville could be destination television. All this and a Fall TV preview on our most monkey-troubling episode of Nerdville, TN yet!   Follow us on Twitter: @NTNMack and @NTNErin And Facebook: http://facebook.com/NerdvilleTN And Tumblr: http://nerdvilletn.tumblr.com

Summer is winding down, but the news never stops in Nerdville! GMX adds a brand-new excellent guest for their October show, the Sounds have their last cheer at Greer, the Emmys justify everyone's love of Slut Bunwalla, and Doctor Who invades theaters! Mack has ideas about what's going on with that last scene in "Deep Breath," Erin talks the secret powers of Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue, and we come out swinging in (limited) support of Moffat and his occasionally infuriating writing. Take a Labor Day drive with us, because it's all here on the newest episode of Nerdville, TN!   The Flowers of Fantastico Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/840845506/the-flowers-of-fantastico-bigger-badder-queerer Keep up with GMX's new guests: http://geekmediaexpo.com/guests/ Follow us on Twitter: @NTNMack and @NTNErin And on Facebook: Facebook.com/NerdvilleTN  

Alert! Alert! We are at Cumberwatch Level Five as Benedict Cumberbatch news breaks all over the place! He's in the zoo, in the wild, even in a galaxy far, far away. Then we look back at Captain Tightpants, Lonely Tourist Charlotte Charles, and The Cheerleader as we recap shows that just shouldn't have been cancelled or which do not deserve any kind of revival. Then Mack probably gets a major part of Texas lore stunningly wrong. It's all here tonight on Nerdville, TN!   Follow us on Twitter: @NTNErin & @NTNMack And Facebook!: Facebook.com/NerdvilleTN

It's roundtable time on Nerdville! Recorded directly after "Deep Breath," here's our take on the return of Doctor Who and the sudden appearance of Peter Capaldi in the role. Opinions are slung! British people are mentioned! Eyebrows are raised! There's so much to discuss when Katie and Mary sit down with Erin and Mack for our super-siziest, Scottish-complainiest, timey-wimeyist Nerdville yet!

It's point-counterpoint time on Guardians of the Galaxy! We dissect the biggest movie in the observable universe, praising the good, condemning the bad, and pointing out the ugly that is on "Awesome Mixtape Vol. 1." What the ending means for Marvel Studios, how Zoe Saldana could save everything, and where the only Margaritaville for twenty light years is located.   Plus! The Rob Reiner's eighties winning streak, Billy Crystal's Still Foolin' Em, and Erin's controversial stand on some film classics.   The last half of this episode deals with the career, life, and recent death of Robin Williams. We would like to warn sensitive listeners that this segment ventures into matters of depression and suicide, and is more serious and possibly triggering than our previous episodes.

Tonight! Justice Dawning, T-U-R-T-L-E Powering, and Late Late Showing! Plus Erin explains why Begin Again was so damn good, Mack does his best Corey Feldman, and we discuss why Music City is still a great place for music nerds. Also, why the Adventure Science Center should keep doing their Way Late Play Dates, but why it should never involve a debate ever again.   Follow us on Twitter! @NTNMack and @NTNErin And on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/NerdvilleTN And on Tumblr! http://nerdvilletn.tumblr.com

This Episode! Mack turns thirty, Erin battles the pain, and neither of us went to Comic Con! Plus the Religion of the Volcano Girls, Erin's never seen Anchorman, and we continue to Battle On, Xena! Mack joins The Avengers for an afternoon in Times Square, Erin talks New Zealand matters, and then we get off onto a serious topic.   Because what you love and how you love it doesn't need to be dictated by anyone.   Find us on Twitter! @NTNMack and @NTNErin And on Facebook! Facebook.com/NerdvilleTN

In this episode: Erin defends two-thirds of the Riddick movies, Mack is in denial about Star Wars, and we're both excited for a strange addition to Neverland. Plus we talk about the glut of conventions at the end of July and keep praising Karl Urban. It's a jam-packed half hour tonight on Nerdville, TN!   Lil' Red, "Chicken Rap Special": http://youtu.be/c25QSttUZGc

Recorded directly after the BBC's big decision, we break down why we love Sherlock and what we're going to do in the interim. Also: book shopping in Nashville, the endings to Clue (and an incorrect reason why it's called Cluedo), Erin has issues with a John Hughes classic, and Mack wants AMC's new show to Stop and Drop Dead.   Join us on social media, won't you? Facebook! facebook.com/NerdvilleTN Twitter! @NTNMack and @NTNErin Tumblr! nerdvilletn.tumblr.com Tell your friends! Don't tell your enemies!

On this episode: we rave as J.K. Rowling pulls a fast one on the entire internet, we rant as Nashville Geek Life accidentally pranks the metro area from the past, and we reveal what our favorite Wizard Cop has in common with Mean Girls. Also: the problem with being a muggle at Hogwarts, the good Batman movies, Nicole Kidman's handwriting, the genius of Austin Kleon, where not to write, and Nashville Public Library's time-travel quandary.   Nashville Geek Life pranks the metro accidentally: http://www.nashvillescene.com/countrylife/archives/2014/07/09/no-the-batman-building-wont-be-in-batman-v-superman Tumblr ponders Ravenclaw drunkeness: http://professorcapybara.tumblr.com/post/91015624843/iamcompletelyhysterekal-neilpatrickheaven   Follow us about on social media! Facebook! http://facebook.com/nerdvilletn Tumblr! http://nerdvilletn.tumblr.com Twitter! @NTNMack and @NTNErin

On this episode: Mack pays tribute to Eli Wallach, Erin raises important questions about Doctor Who and SFX Magazine, and we both have serious issues with David Tennant's American accent. Plus: Australians, American Outlaws, and what to expect when you're expecting Peter Capaldi.   Mentioned on the Podcast this week: Help Nashville Geek Life Level Up: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-nashville-geek-life-level-up GMX is looking for Volunteers!: https://www.facebook.com/events/141694519334559/ Muzzled The Musical's Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matthewmercer/muzzled-the-musical   Find us on Twitter! We're @NTNErin and @NTNMack Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/NerdvilleTN Tumblr! http://nerdvilletn.tumblr.com/ Pinterest! http://www.pinterest.com/NerdvilleTN/   And thank you for listening!

It's our very first episode! Thank you for joining us for pop culture matters, nerd happenings, and all kinds of geek discussions with a southern bent. In this episode we decide if we want to follow Alfonso Cuaron on a hunt for Fantastic Beasts, try to figure out where Justice was before its Dawn, and hash out the many merits of Karl Urban. Meanwhile, Erin has a gripe with Nashville's BBQ scene and Mack goes off on a tangent about Jem and the Holograms. Welcome to Nerdville, y'all!