The Spirited Nerds

Nerds! David, Shawna, and Denise catch up to Daredevil with additional thoughts on believable heroes and organized child fighting via Chuck Norris Karate Studios. Grab a drink and join us!

Hey, nerds! This week we're talking Captain America in his Brave New World, Daredevil being Born Again, and David looking for VERY specific audiobook recommendations. Grab a drink, take a listen, and help him out!

Hey, Nerds! This week Shawna, Mariah, Denise and David drank and brought receipts to tell each other that our bad guy wasn't necessarily a bad guy *zangief voice*. Grab a drink and join us!

Hey, Nerds! David, Denise, Mariah, AND SHAWNA are back to ask each other "what would you do"? Would you help Batman take down The Riddler? Activate the Winter Soldier? Snitch on Jamie for pushing Bran?? Turns out a lot of our answers were "no" but grab a drink, hit play, and find out why!

Hey, Nerds! This week, we're upping the score and talking revenge. What makes a good revenge movie? Is it possible to go too far in the name of getting beautiful street justice? Is Tower Heist the best revenge movie of all time? Grab a drink and press play to listen to us talk all things retaliation!

Hey, Nerds! David, Denise, and Mariah here for the final episode of season 2 in all it's glory no matter what the haters say. An alabaster menace, pouting prince, smug queen, split sausage, and cryin' Crispen are all about to meet on a battlefield. What could go wrong!?

Hey, Nerds! Denise and David this week covering episode 7, The Red Sowing. It's got poor people on dragons, rich people on dragons, and rich people very bothered by poor people on dragons. Grab a drink and join us!

Hey, Nerds! Denise and Mariah back to talk episode 6 of HOTD and maaaan this was one of our favorites. SeaSmoke letting everyone know he wants ALL the smoke, Daemon FINALLY gets the message, and the Lannisters have always sucked huh? Grab a drink and hit play!

Hey, nerds! Mariah and Denise discuss it all from episode 5. The meats! The schemes! The rat catchers finally came down! Grab a drink and push play.

Well, nerds, the dragon dance has begun :( and Denise, David, and guest nerd, Amber, break down this episode for you with drinks full and spirits high so grab a drink and join us!

Hey Nerds! Grab a drink and join us as we talk everything from Crispen's wild haircut and black women having to do all the work. Get ready for none of the action you expected and all of the action you never wanted to see!

Hey Nerds! Denise and Mariah here another week talkin HOTD and the audacity that is running wild in House Green these days. You know the drill...grab a drink and hit play!

It's Vhagar vs Everybody in this season 2 opener for House of the Dragon! Join Mariah and Denise as we dive into this episode to figure out what's up with the puppy punt and who EXACTLY is team green!?

Hey, Nerds! Join David and Denise as they wrap up season 1 of X-Men '97, prove that no matter what your name is, black people will always rename you (sorry, Walton), and get into some nerd news! Gollum hive, we up!

Hey, Nerds! We're celebrating X-Men '97 with our inaugural mutant draft. Join Denise, Mariah, and David along with guests Erich and Garrett while we try to figure out who has the best eye for building a mutant team and who picks Gambit for some reason!

Hey Nerds! Get your war room prepped because it's draft day! Denise, Mariah and David have invited Amber and Anyssa to join us as we draft our favorite Game of Thrones characters to celebrate the first trailers released for House of the Dragon season 2!

Hey, Nerds! Mariah held us hostage to check out the films nominated for Best Picture ahead of the Oscars and uhhh...there were some clear winners and losers, words of advice from Kirk Lazarus, and a plea for Martin Scorsese.

Hey, nerds! It's episode 50 and we spent it talking Maya, Kingpin, and wondering how the hell echo location works. Check us out on all the things @TheSpiritedNerds!

Hey, nerds we're having a baby! Well Shawna is having a baby but that's the easy part. The hard part is throwing a surprise baby shower on a podcast but we pulled it off. Join us for a discussion around raising nerds, some games, and a pretty bleak reminder that all the dinosaurs are dead :( Rate us, give us a review and/or a follow! @TheSpiritedNerds on all the things.

Hey, nerds! In this episode, Shawna, David, and Denise discuss Loki season 2 and all its gloriousness. While you're listening, check out our socials (@TheSpiritedNerds) and leave a review!

With great power comes great hijinks where we swap that power with a child and watch what happens. We're back at it, nerds! This week Denise and David hold it down with a little help from our little sister and discuss "The Marvels". Grab your cat, make sure it hasn't eaten your headphones, and jump in!

This week, David and Denise discuss characters who did something heinous and whether they deserve a slap on the wrist or a stint in Arkham. If you haven't already, leave us a review and subscribe!

Spooky Season with The Spirited Nerds continues and this week, drinking finally plays off as we review Nicolas Cage's magnum opus, Ghost Rider! Deals with the devil, 11 mph motorcycle accidents, and Sam Elliott cashing a check. This one's a wild ride.

Hey Nerds! We're kicking of spooky season in style with this cinematic gift from 2005. There's also some blind ranking fun at the end. Grab and drink and join us!

Hey, Nerds! This week, we're talking recasting and the times it goes amazingly well, horribly wrong, and how Great British Bake Off fits in one of these catagories.

The Nerds are talking time travel rules and Bruce Wayne's donation record in this breakdown of The Flash. There's even a quiz at the end so definitely make sure you tune in this week!

Hey Nerds! This week this week the hierarchy of power changed and it's Denise and David holding down the fort! We're taking a break from Marvel and 20 hour long movies about Hobbits and starting our DC movie rankings. We're discussing projects from wrestlers turned actors in The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker andddddddd Black Adam so, you know…tap in!

This is it...the final movie in this trilogy and we went out with a bang by watching the extended version. All four hours of it. The only downside? No Bill the Pony. https://linktr.ee/thespiritednerds?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=2103d838-257b-4ee7-925d-8147ac1d8074

Continuation of our Lord of the Rings coverage. Spoiler, we liked this one muuuch better. Also! We're going to be leading a panel at DC's AwesomeCon! Details are in this episode, stop by and say hello!

Hey Nerds! Check out our thoughts on the final time we'll see this gang fly around Beyoncé's Galaxy as gang.

This week we're talkin Peter Jackson's first film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and driving Shawna a little crazy while we tackle some hard hitting questions. Does Gandalf ever put the weed down? How come no one kept an eye on Frodo? Why is everything so….white??

Hey nerds! This week we talked guilty (or not so guilty) pleasures! What are they? Do they change as we age? Is Bluey a sex fueled drug dealer? Find out this week with the Spirited Nerds!

This week The Spirited Nerds are hangin tough and talking Fandoms! Our origin stories, things we currently obsess over and barriers to Fandom some people experience.

Hey nerds! We're missing black David but we've got a white David to talk about! We're discussing the final 5 episodes of The Last Of Us, autonomy, true blood and basic first aid complete with jingles!

Denise, Shawna, David, and first time guest Garrett dive into Quantumania to talk the introduction of Kang, our thoughts on Peyton Reed, Freddie Prinze Jr. for some reason and anything else our holes can think of!

More like The Last of Y'all cause while we disagree often, there is one thing we unanimously agree on. Grab a drink and listen to the nerds discuss our thoughts on episodes 1-4 along with what games we would like to see on the big screen one day!

Hey nerds! Go back in time with us as we discuss Saturday morning cartoons. We discuss our favorite shows, an age gaps that put network line ups head to head, a trivia session, and more!

The Spirited Nerds kicked off the new year with Kaleidoscope! We're talking plot twists! Dirty cops! Unsolicited medical advice! And why no matter what order you watch it in, at some point you're gonna run into a hair piece that will blow your mind!

This week The Nerds talk what makes a movie a Christmas movie and Denise shows us why Don Lemon isn't allowed to get drunk on air this year. Overall, is the best Christmas movie episode you're going to hear this season. Did we watch all the movies on the list? No. Were we reasonable and accepting of differing opinions? Not at all. Happy Holidays!

Hey, nerds! This week it's democracy in action as Denise, Shawna and David rank the second half of the MCUs 4th phase. Join us as we calmly and rationally discuss Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Werewolves and much more! Can't stress this enough…calmly and rationally.

You just finished watching The Boys over Thanksgiving right? Great! Join Denise, Shawna and David as we play better late than never and recap the final two episodes of the season and tackle some hard hitting questions. Those questions are mostly about Tropic Thunder but we also get into Homelander's family tree, Black Noir and his best friends, Starlight and her...whatever her deal is and much more!

The black and brown alliance is stronger than ever as the nerds dive into Wakanda Forever! Grab a drink and join us in talking about the film, paying tribute to Chadwick, our new villain, Namor, our new Black Panther, Shuri and our new Mufasa, Ramonda.

Very fittingly, and very unplanned, the nerds sipped dark liquor while talking ‘bout powers…the best, the worst, and what we're doing with them once we get them.

The Nerds gather and raise their glasses to the finale of House of the Dragon. Tune in as they talk through the beginning of the fall of House Targaryen, shouting at their tvs and crying into their cups. RIP to Arrax, Luke, and the hundreds of thousands that lost their lives at the hands of Rhaenys the Cruel.

Time to get it wet! The king is dead and everyone begins showing their true colors (and feet). Join Denise, Shawna, Mariah and David as we dive into the race against time and family that is House of the Dragon episode 9, "The Green Council".

Okay...out the gate accidentally called this episode the 1991 romantic drama "The Prince of Tides" which we thought starred Kevin Costner but now realize we were mixing THAT up with "Prince of Thieves". One thing we weren't confused about is this is our favorite episode so far this season and Paddy Considine gave one hell of a performance. 10 out of 10. No notes. 8 down, 2 to go! 

The Velaryon's just wanted to bury their baby in peace but the King's Krew brought the drama, per usual.

Episode 6 brings us the usual…babies, birthright battlin', and bloodshed but with style! Crack open your drink of choice and listen as we discuss our favorite episode so far.

It's a Westerosi wedding episode, so of course you're probably expecting all sorts of chaos and mayhem… and since Daemon was banished at the end of the last episode of course he's here bringing all that energy… but what you might not expect is how divided the Nerds were on this episode. Tune in to hear us hash it out if this was the best or worst or “meh” wedding we've seen.

This week the nerds are covering episode four of House of the Dragon. We're talking erectile dysfunction, family reunions and the 1992 smash hit Aladdin! Hang out while we take you through one of the most important episodes so far. What else are you gonna do? Look at the tapestries?

Welcome to our cursed episode! Seriously. Just imagine Daemon storming into our editing cave and coming out with our torsos dragging in the mud. Or the boar that has the bad luck to come across Rhaenyra when she's in a bad mood... but hey! We're finally able to tell you how many dragon eggs /5 each of the Nerds gives this episode. Definitely a split decision.