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Profits are down! Why are profits down? Who knows, but they're down everywhere! Profits are so down that Big Capitalism has come running to us here at DT!HQ to get profits back up! How are we going to get profits back up? With card battlers of course! Todd gives the people what they want and completes a beloved trilogy. Matt is making the sickest, raddest card battler you've ever seen. If you understand Andrew's answer, hey, this episode is for you. And last but not least, because only Kyle understands card games, we invited our buddy Greg Schulz to keep us on track. Recommended reading: Special thanks to Greg for joining us on Debate This! today! You should check out Greg's Stuff! Check out Left Trigger Right Trigger: https://www.lefttriggerrighttrigger.com/ Check out The Once and Future Nerd: https://onceandfuturenerd.com/welcome/ Check out Greg's Band called Duckspeak: https://duckspeak.bandcamp.com/ The title of this week's episode was selected by our Patrons in our Discord Community! If you want to help us choose the next one, join our discord, and/or get some bonus content, become part of #ButtThwompNation at patreon.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Instagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Want to send us an email? debatethiscast@gmail.com MERCH! We have that! Right now you can go on the internet and order things that say Debate This! On them! All you need to do is head to MerchThis.net and give us your money! Ever wanted socks with the DT! logo on them? Well now you can get em! One more time that website is MerchThis.net! Properties we talked about this week: Xmen 97, Mega Man Battle Network, Magic the Gathering Arena, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Shadow of War, Lord of the Rings Shadow of Mordor, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, NieR Automata, Fortnite, Marvel Snap, Thrasher Magazine Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at www.ozzed.net!

Today's bonus content is the #AskTOAFN listener Q&A for Book 2, Chapter 9. Christian, Dan, Anya and Greg answer a few questions related to the chapter...and then mostly relitigate Tumblr's "Sexiest Once And Future Nerd Character" poll. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Due to a (very literal) expansion in the TOAFN family, there will be a longer than usual break between Chapters 9 and 10. Our Patreon will be paused until we have something to release. Stay tuned to our socials for official announcements. (The transcript for the conversation can be found here, and the transcript for our announcements can be found here.) Thank you as always for listening!

Today's bonus content is the audio from our #AskTOAFN livestream from October 14. Zach and Christian discussed their favorite parts of the chapter and answered listener questions. ANNOUNCEMENTS: This episode is sponsored by Tab for a Cause — a free browser extension that helps you raise money for charity. Join our team at tabforacause.org/toafnThis episode is sponsored by Clockworks Academy – College-level insight without college-level cost, offering courses in King Arthur, Game of Thrones, and more. Visit Clockworksacademy.com and use code futurenerd to save 10% on any purchase.And as always, The Once And Future Nerd is made possible by our Patrons on Patreon. We hope you consider joining!There will be more bonus content in November, date TBA. Then we will be taking December off for the winter holidays. We will return with the premiere of Book 2 Chapter 9 on January 29, 2023. (The transcript for the conversation can be found here, and the transcript for our announcements can be found here.) Thank you as always for listening!

Today's bonus content is the audio from our #AskTOAFN livestream from May 7. Zach and Christian were joined by Garrett Armyn (Brennen) to discuss what happened in Book 2 Chapter 7 and what might come next. (Obviously, spoilers abound.) CREDITS:Editing and audio cleanup by Edward Bush ANNOUNCEMENTS: This episode is sponsored by Clockworks Academy – College-level insight without college-level cost, offering courses in King Arthur, Game of Thrones, and more. Visit Clockworksacademy.com and use code futurenerd to save 10% on any purchase.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp – Affordable, private therapy. Anytime, anywhere. Visit betterhelp.com/toafn to get 10% off your first monthAnd as always, The Once And Future Nerd is made possible by our Patrons on Patreon. We hope you consider joining! (The transcript for the conversation can be found here, and the transcript for our announcements can be found here.) Thank you as always for listening! TOAFN will return on June 26th with the premiere of Book 2, Chapter 8!

Thank you for joining us on this week's episode, wait… is this more time travel shenanigans? Must be as we're discussing X-Men Days of Future Past!   Special Guests: Micah and Will

Got a quick feed drop today to tell you about the DECOLONIZE & DISCOVER FESTIVAL. You might remember friend of the show JourNee LaFond - Zach interviewed them and their spouse Steven back in 2020 about their choose-your-own-adventure horror audiodrama WITCHEVER PATH. Well JourNee put together a super cool group of BIPOC and Queer geekdom for a festival that's gonna happen from June 17th-19th in Charlton, Massachusetts. Tickets are on sale now and there's early bird pricing through the end of May. You can buy tickets or find out more at decolonizeanddiscover.com. Seems likely to be very much up the alley of the median Once and Future Nerd fan, I would say. We'll be back next week - May 29 - with the audio from our #AskTOAFN livestream for Book 2 Chapter 7!

Gabriel, Zach, and Sarah are taking a brief summer break this week, but we didn't want to leave you without any No Bad Ideas! So check out this old favorite from our archives, featuring our good comrade Christian T. Kelley-Madera. This week on No Bad Ideas... bugs, bugs, bugs! But before that, the Bad Ideas Band is joined by their dear friend Christian T. Kelley-Madera, co-creator and director of The Once and Future Nerd. But soon, it's all business, and (thanks to Sarah's bad idea contribution) that business is a truly unhinged tale of illness and entomology in the Caribbean. Plus, cockroaches bent on world destruction, the wrong way to eat a Reese's, and a very different kind of Cuban crisis. This Week's Bad Idea™ Listen to Christian's work at The Once and Future Nerd. Follow Christian On Twitter: @Ctmadera Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's flagship Lions of Liberty podcast, Marc welcomes in old friend of the show Remso W. Martinez - author, filmmaker and current social media coordinator for the Washington Times - for another lockdown livestream! Remso and Marc catch up and shoot the shit on how the've been dealing with lockdown situations and ponder the ways the effects of COVID-19 will cause massive, permanent changes in the economy. They look at how corona-mania will effect industries like sports, media and the devastating effects it will likely have on the favorite retail spots of nerds the world over such as Gamespot and comic book shops.  Don't forget to tune in to our TWO LIVE Libertarian Party POTUS debates on Wednesday March 6th at 8pm EST and on Friday March 8th at 6pm EST. Both will stream live on our Facebook page at Facebook.com/LionsOfLiberty Not only that, keep an eye on the podcast feed for those debates as well as an exclusive interview with newly-exploring-seeking-the-LP-nomination and first Libertarian U.S. Congressman in history, Justin Amash! Check out Justin Amash's first interview on Lions of Liberty from last year. Join the Lions of Liberty Pride at any level to access our bonus audio and livestreams AND to help our friends at DonorSee help those affected by Coronavirus with our 10% pledge! Sign up now to access livestreams and get these shows before anyone else, along with loads of other bonus content! Check out and pre-order "Free Ross!"  Check out the fine CBD products at NorthSpokaneCBD.com and use discount code "LIONS" at checkout to get 25% off your entire order through the month of February! Join the conversation in our private Facebook group: The Lions of Liberty Forum! Never miss an episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast and subscribe for free via iTunes (don’t forget to leave us a 5 star rating and review )- or the Stitcher Radio App. Check out our full catalog of interviews in the podcast archive. The Lions of Liberty are on Twitter, Facebook & check out our YouTube Channel!

No, I'm not interviewing myself! As it turns out, there are two Boudreau's in the world of audio named Matt (Me) and Matthew (my guest).  Matthew Boudreau is a field recordist, podcast producer, consultant and editor, and sound designer living in Buffalo, NY.  Matthew has been working in podcasting since 2008 and has over 20 years experience as an audio professional, working in computer multimedia, theatre sound, studio recording, film, and sound effects field recording. He is the founder of the 11th Hour Audio Challenge, an annual podcast event that challenges audio drama producers to collaborate in creating works of horror in the month of October. Matthew’s audio post-production company, Uberduo, sells immersive sound effect bundles dedicated to the exploration and reproduction of locations and props for film and audio fiction. His sound effect bundles can be found on http://www.asoundeffect.com and individual sound effects can be found at soundsnap.com. Matthew was the dialogue editor for the Audible productions, Locke and Key and X-Files: Cold Cases. He has spoken at CONvergence in Bloomington, Minnesota and SXSW in Austin Texas on topics including voice acting, sound design, and making the jump from film to podcast fiction. His audio fiction pieces 1918, Intensive Care and A Prophets Guide have won Mark Time and Ogle awards. In addition to the annual 11th Hour Challenge, his current podcast projects include sound design for The Once and Future Nerd and editing for The Activist Files for the Center for Constitutional Rights.  In this episode, we discuss: The Language of Audio Spiderman vs Draco The Dragon Joining the military Soul-Sucking Jobs Audio Drama Field Recording Podcasts Stealth Recording The Buffalo Border Patrol Links and Show Notes: Matthew's Company: https://www.uberduo.com/ Matthew's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-boudreau-a60a4b7/ Podcast Host: https://www.thepodcasthost.com/ Field Recording by Paul: Virostek: https://amzn.to/2WVMuCO Rick Viers Location Sound: https://amzn.to/3bA82J8 Rick Viers Sound Effects Bible: https://amzn.to/39uRCR1 Get work!: https://www.mandy.com/ Support WCA - Go Ad-Free! https://glow.fm/workingclassaudio/ Connect with Matt on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboudreau/ Current sponsors & promos: https://bit.ly/2WmKbFw Working Class Audio Journal: https://amzn.to/2GN67TP Credits: Guest: Matthew Boudreau Host: Matt Boudreau  WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell  Announcer: Chuck Smith Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau & Matt Boudreau Additional Music: The License Lab

This week Philippa, Jamie and Ibtisam ask the question can anything beat the Marvel Cinematic Universe and will it survive going forwards? We talk about the Disney's monopoly, DC's attempts to catch up, and what more diverse characters in the comic might mean for MCU. 

Today’s bonus episode is the audio from our #AskTOAFN livestream for Book 2 Chapter, originally broadcast on November 17. It’s been cleaned up and lightly edited for clarity, but you can watch the full original stream over on our YouTube channel. Thank you to everyone who submitted questions! Our sponsors this week: A Quest of Heroes by Morgan Rice, Book One in The Sorcerer’s Ring. Visit morganricebooks.com for more information.Marvels, a new podcast from Marvel, set in the background of the Fantastic Four’s showdown with Galactus. Written, directed, and produced by some of the best talent in podcasting. Go to marvelspodcast.com to learn more. And if you want to listen, go to stitcherpremium.com and enter the code FUTURE to get a month of Stitcher Premium for free! Other announcements/shout-outs: Congrats to Shannon, whose short film “THREE Birds” had its world and NYC premiere this past week at the Big Apple Film Festival. “Chameleon” by Herbie Hancock, a major inspiration for our heist scoreAnd a proper answer to the question about Springsteen songs, in the form of a playlist of course. Christian explains his choices in this Tumblr post.

On this episode of the Long Overdue Podcast, Pat, Chris, and Denice talk about their favorite podcasts. Opening and ending theme is So Low by Art of Escapism Pat's Podcasts: The Once and Future Nerd: http://onceandfuturenerd.com/ Fresh Air: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444908/fresh-air Hidden Brain: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510308/hidden-brain Dewey Decibel: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/tag/dewey-decibel/ The Librarian Is In: https://www.nypl.org/voices/blogs/blog-channels/librarian-is-in Book Club for Masochists: https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/ Chris' Podcasts: GGNORE: https://ggnorecast.com/ Fear the Boot: https://www.feartheboot.com/ftb/ Saving the Game: http://stgcast.org/ GM Word of the Week: https://www.gmwordoftheweek.com/ Digressions and Dragons: https://digressionsanddragons.com/ MrCreepyPasta is available through many podcast resources: https://open.spotify.com/show/0smDmHOI9OND09y8cVoq2U https://soundcloud.com/mrcreepypasta https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mrcreepypasta-storytime https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCreepyPasta https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mrcreepypastas-storytime/id1086404799 CreepsMcPasta: https://www.youtube.com/user/CreepsMcPasta and https://soundcloud.com/user-163202634 Denice's Podcasts: Crime in Sports and Small Town Murder: https://shutupandgivememurder.com/ Keeping a Notebook: https://www.ninalacour.com/podcast Latino USA: https://www.latinousa.org/ The Narrow Caves: https://audioboom.com/channel/fangoria-presents-the-narrow-caves

Here's the audio from our #AskTOAFN livestream for Book 2, Chapter 5. It's been edited for clarity but you can still see the unedited (and severely technologically challenged) video stream on our YouTube channel. Links to topics discussed in this episode: "On how forced the story with the Orcs feels" from the TOAFN subredditChimamanda Adichie on The Danger of a Single StoryLouis Riel on WikipediaThe fan-run TOAFN Discord Server TOAFN is brought to you in part this week by Plus One Balms. Go to plusonebalms.com/TOAFN and use offer code TOAFN to get 10% off your order and help support our show. Thanks for listening!

Christian Madera brings us back parts 3 and 4 of The Once and Future Nerd while David, surviving the blast of the U-Tube weapon looks for escape! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christian Madera brings us back parts 3 and 4 of The Once and Future Nerd while David, surviving the blast of the U-Tube weapon looks for escape!

Host Pete Lutz brings us Sonic Society Season #10 episode #404 with "The Once and Future Nerd", Narada Radio brings us their rendition of a previous Sonic Summerstock Playhouse presentation "The Third Man". Lavish your listening with Mutual!

Host Pete Lutz brings us Sonic Society Season #10 episode #404 with "The Once and Future Nerd", Narada Radio brings us their rendition of a previous Sonic Summerstock Playhouse presentation "The Third Man". Lavish your listening with Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pete Lutz provides the listing of Monday Matinee for this week including Sonic Society #398 with Pub Hamlet and the Once and Future Nerd! Then we have "Tall, Dark & 4-F" from Pulp-Pourri Theatre and finally Chatterbox Audio presents the classic adaptation of "The Man Who Could Work Miracles". More on Mutual!

Guest host Pete Lutz joins Jack as they discover the Pub Hamlet from Lorna Meehan and Radio Widfire, and the Once and Future Nerd from Christian Madera and Zach Glass.

Pete Lutz provides the listing of Monday Matinee for this week including Sonic Society #398 with Pub Hamlet and the Once and Future Nerd! Then we have "Tall, Dark & 4-F" from Pulp-Pourri Theatre and finally Chatterbox Audio presents the classic adaptation of "The Man Who Could Work Miracles". More on Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Pete Lutz joins Jack as they discover the Pub Hamlet from Lorna Meehan and Radio Widfire, and the Once and Future Nerd from Christian Madera and Zach Glass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boooooorn in the Middle Earth! This week, David interviews the wonderful Christian T. Kelley-Madera of The Once and Future Nerd. Topics include fantasy racism, power structures, dialects, confronting obstacles whether you're ready or not, and, of course, Bruce Springsteen.Support TOAFN on patreon:https://www.patreon.com/onceandfuturenerdSupport US! on patreon:https://www.patreon.com/radiodramarevival/

Portal fantasy! Social commentary! Elves with Antebellum accents! This week, David showcases The Once and Future Nerd's first two episodes and his Middle English chops. This podcast about a group of teens who wind up in a high-fantasy realm is as hilarious as it is cutting and satisfying.The Once and Future Nerd is on Patreon, and they're trying to get to $500/episode by the end of March. Let's put 'em over the top:https://www.patreon.com/onceandfuturenerd

Special announcement: Fullmetal Bazinga will be at podcon in Seattle! (Washington, United States, Earth).  We'll be sharing a booth with our friends over at The Once and Future Nerd for both days of the conference (January 19 and 20) so come on over and talk to us about the Deep Lorre. We'd like to take this moment to say that wherever and whenever you are, we're so happy and grateful for your attention and time as we discuss all things Big Bang related. We know you're out there. We know you're listening. This week: Will Leonard have his chance to have a child? Can Raj and Anu patch things up? How can anyone be sure which show they are actually watching? Is Chuck Lorre OK?  All these questions and more are discussed in episode 12: The Propagation Proposition Keep up with the show by following us on Twitter: @FMBazinga.  As always, a huge thank you to Doug Linse for creating our intro and outro themes. You can find all his music by going to douglinse.bandcamp.com Tune in next time for episode thirteen, The Confirmation Polarization.   

Here's the audio from our #AskTOAFN livestream for Book 2 Chapter 4. It's been lightly edited for length and clarity, but you can still watch the full video stream on YouTube. Some shout-outs and announcements: Thanks to our Week 1 fundraiser on Maddy Groves, we were able to donate over $60 to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)! Thank you to everyone who bought the song! You can catch our own Shannon Harris (Ren, Nia's mom, writer) in LUKE CAGE (!!!) Season 2, now streaming on Netflix. (She's in Episode 11) Paul (Nelson) has always got content going up on THE NOTICE: Facebook | Twitter | IG Catch Greg (Yllowyyn, writer) on Left Trigger Right Trigger: Podcast | YouTube Most of our pirate crew performs musical improv together under the name Night Captain. Follow their Facebook page for updates on upcoming shows. Thanks to everyone who sent in questions. See you soon!

The Arthurian Canon is sacred to some people—so you know we’ve got a lot of jokes about it. We dive into the nitty gritty with special guest Christian Madera as we talk about why self-insert fanfiction is questionable, even in the Middle Ages; how OT3s can solve all problems; how freaky historians can get; and why “whiskey” is a word that transcends language. You can find Christian online at Once and Future Nerd, and on Twitter and Tumblr! The fabulous Professor E.R. Udite is on tumblr for your enjoyment, and you can learn more about Marion Zimmer Bradley here. To learn more about resources available to survivors of sexual assault, head over to Rainn.org We’re sponsored this week by Audible. Get your free audiobook at audible.com/spirits, and let us know if you listen to Vacationland or From A Certain Point of View! If you like Spirits, help us grow by spreading the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, & Goodreads, and review us on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show. You can support us on Patreon to unlock bonus audio content, director’s commentaries, custom recipe cards, and so much more. Merch is for sale at spiritspodcast.com/merch. To read up on us, listen to us on other podcasts, or send us a note, just head on over to SpiritsPodcast.com. Our music is "Danger Storm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Today's bonus content is the cleaned up audio from our last end-of-chapter livestream (along with the Chapter 3 blooper reel). You can watch the video of this conversation here. Podcast Shout-Out's this episode: Greg: Til Death Do Us Blart, Worst Idea Of All Time Ian: Pod Save America, Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People Christian: Left Trigger Right Trigger, The Bright Sessions, Wolf 359, Join the Party, What's The Frequency?, Audio Drama Production Podcast, Métis in Space Zach: Nerds On A Roll, Lesser Gods Chapter 4 of our tale will be released some time in the first few months of 2018. We'll post release dates as soon as we know them. Hope to see you then! And Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you. CONTENT NOTES below. CONTENT NOTES: From (1h9m41s - 1h12m35s) the conversation touches on sexual assault and its effects. End of listed CONTENT NOTES.

Part 4 of today's Showcase brings you The Once and Future Nerd: an ongoing production. This production is rated R. – The Audio Verse Awards Team Subscribe to our Nominee Showcase Podcast! Via RSS: Link Via iTunes: Link Via Google Play: Link

Need a serialised epic fantasy drama in your life? Loved Cabin in the Woods? Then you should already be fans of The Once and Future Nerd. Fiona interviews Christian - Co-Creator, Executive Producer Director Editor and Writer extraordinaire of this fun and dramatic entertaining podcast. With advice on why you should totally love what you do in podcasting, why Tumblr as a community is important for podcasting, and why you should definitely join at least one of TOAFN communities! Be inspired! AND if you have ten million dollars to spare, feel free to help Christian make this series into a movie.....Click any of the links below for more info.This is the final episode of our 2017 Summer Season of Conception to Production interviews. Thank you to Travis Vengroff and Kaitlin Statz, Pacific Obidiah, James Oliva, Lindsay Harris-Friel, Lance Dann, Lindsay Graham, MJ Cogburn and of course Christian. We hope if you haven't listened to those interviews, you'll happily binge all at once now. So. Much. Talent! Please also tell us what you thought by reviewing us on APole Podcasts or send us an email. We're really keen to get us more wonderful proactive listeners......If you have an idea for a programme

This episode is the audio from our latest #AskTOAFN, which we did as livestream. It's been cleaned up a little and lightly edited. And you can always watch the original, unedited and with the video right here. Thank you so much to everyone who wrote in with questions! We tried to at least acknowledge receipt of everything even if we didn't answer it, so if you believe you sent in a question and you didn't get any kind of a nod from us, let us know. If you won a book, we'll be in touch shortly. We'll be back soon with some more cool bonus content, and we'll announce release dates for Ch. 3 as soon as we can commit to something. See you then! Cool stuff mentioned in this episode: Not that they need our help, but the McElroys are some sweet, sweet boys. Our friends are doing cool things at Join The Party. We recently interviewed Tal M. Klein about his new novel THE PUNCH ESCROW. Anya is playing a show in NYC with the cast of ONCE to benefit VH1's Save The Music. The Notice is Paul's ongoing blog and documentary project. Left Trigger Right Trigger is Greg's "video game book club" podcast.

This is our first episode of Roll with Us! It's a segment where we talk to other nerds about nerdy things! Our first guest is Josh Perault. He is the DM for the Taking Initiative podcast, and an editor for The Once and Future Nerd podcast. Thanks so much for supporting us and listening. To celebrate we will be trying to release more of these, as well as some other bonus content. Big things coming soon, and remember to rate and review us on iTunes. It really helps grow the show. Twitter:twitter.com/NerdsOnARoll Website:nerdsonaroll.com Patron: www.patreon.com/nerdsonaroll Go check out our friends at Taking Initiative! Josh's Twitter:twitter.com/XiroxisTheBeard TI Podcast: TheSpark.Network

Thank you so much to everyone who wrote in for our first #AskTOAFN of Book 2! We answered as many questions as we could. If yours didn't get answered, we hope you'll try again next time. And let us know if you enjoy this episode and whether we should keep doing this. Cool stuff mentioned in this episode: Our revamped merchandise page is now live! Listen to Greg (voice of Yllowyyn) on the Left Trigger Right Trigger podcast, and in his band Duckspeak, who have a new EP out. Wil Williams writes podcast reviews and obviously has impeccable taste. Kat on Tumblr also has great tastes in podcasts (even if her question almost broke us all up.) CONTENT NOTES below: CONTENT NOTES: From 32:08-33:00 a real-life mass shooting comes up in the course of our discussion. End of listed CONTENT NOTES. Release dates for Chapter 2 will be announced in the very near future. Stay tuned!

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill and Brian talk about that time Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff and the Wrens' Charles Bissell swapped covers and released a single. They get into how well Sheff did with the indie classic "Ex-Girl Collection" and get excited about the possibility of the impending new release from the Wrens. Also, we read a listener email that highlights some great lyrics from Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf. Also, we delve into some more #Trypod recommendations including Radiohead podcast the Daily Mail, Steven Hyden's Celebration Rock, and the fantasy epic the Once and Future Nerd. Also, make sure to stay tuned through the end for a special announcement about our very first live show at the Nashville Rock n Pod Expo! Check out more details and donate to the cause at www.gofundme.com/rocknpodexpo.

Due to the extremely positive feedback we received over at "The Once and Future Nerd," we decided to release our first episode early on our own channel!  March 6th, our original release date, will now be the release of our second episode.  If you are new to the podcast: welcome!  If you are coming from "TOAFN," this may sound a bit familiar, but you'll now get new content two weeks earlier than intended.  Enjoy! "Taking Initiative" is a podcast on The Spark Network.  You can find us at: Website: thespark.network Twitter: TI_Pod Facebook: Taking Initiative Podcast Tumblr: takinginitiativepodcast.tumblr.com Music credits for this episode: "Come Play with Me", "Spacial Winds", "Unnatural Situation," and "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ All mentions to Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), including the 5e ruleset, "Curse of Strahd," and its encompassed adventure "Death House," refer to the property owned by Wizards of the Coast (WOTC).  We do not own the rules or module.  We just enjoy playing!

In which our heroes go hunting for an evil druid. We ask for directions, discuss how mad Greyson is going to be and everyone gets nervous when the Monster Manuel comes out. Cassius would put up a bit of a fight, Princess Ansley tries to recall Greyson’s story and Leo has to deal with a wolf. So join us as we forget what a 1 on the die means. Want to hit? Head to http://www.patreon.com/sanspantsradio and for as little as $1 a month, you can probably survive this encounter. And don’t forget to purchase your copy of D&D is for Nerds Season 2 at https://audiobooksontape.com/shop/dd-nerds-season-2-5th-ed/ as well as check out The Once and Future Nerd http://onceandfuturenerd.com for some more fantasy based fun times. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this month’s Listens we review four podcasts we love. Katy talks about Disney Story Origins, Kellie brought us Once and Future Nerd, Kevin told us about FeaB, and Mandy recommended Women of Marvel. They were all great. Disney Story Origins Podcast Once and Future Nerd Feab Women of Marvel Podcast

Part 5 of today's five part showcase brings you The Once And Future Nerd: an ongoing original production. The Once And Future Nerd is nominated for 16 awards, including Best Original Short-Form, Serial Comedy. This production is rated R. – The Audio Verse Awards Team Subscribe to our Nominee Showcase Podcast! Via RSS: http://www.audioverseawards.net/site/category/showcase-podcast/feed/ Via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/audio-verse-awards-nominee/id931607811

Go big or go home, boys. So we went with one of the biggest albums, both sonically and in legacy, that has ever existed. Writer and director of The Once and Future Nerd (onceandfuturenerd.com) Christian Madera skypes in to help Bill and Brian tell you what makes Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run (1975, Columbia) so great. But seriously, do we really need to tell you? Just listen to that darn thing! A masterpiece. Unfortuantely, our recording didn't come out quite as flawless. There was a skype call drop that we couldn't quite cleanly edit out, so please forgive our minor production snafu. Now let's go murder some lions!

Christian Madera brings us back parts 3 and 4 of The Once and Future Nerd while David, surviving the blast of the U-Tube weapon looks for escape!

Part one of today's showcase brings you The Once And Future Nerd: an ongoing original production. The Once And Future Nerd is nominated for 15 awards, including Best Ongoing Original Comedy of the Year. This production is rated R. – The Audio Verse Awards Team Subscribe to our Nominee Showcase Podcast! Via RSS: http://www.audioverseawards.net/site/category/showcase-podcast/feed/ Via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/audio-verse-awards-nominee/id931607811

Guest host Pete Lutz joins Jack as they discover the Pub Hamlet from Lorna Meehan and Radio Widfire, and the Once and Future Nerd from Christian Madera and Zach Glass. 

This week's bonus content is written by Ian Harkins. For today's bonus content, we are pleased to present an exclusive interview with wood sprite Ian Harkins, narrator of The Once and Future Nerd. In it, director Christian Madera learns many interesting things about sprite actors, and not a few disturbing things about himself. The Once and Future Nerd is independently produced. If you are enjoying the show and would like to support us financially, please visit our Support page to find out how you can help. If you would like to support us non-financially, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, leave us a rating on iTunes, and tell your friends! Our story shall resume on June 8, with the premiere of Chapter 5, "The Worthiest Knight."

Regan has some doubts about the dependability of their temporary host, Bowen Briarhelm. Meanwhile, the children get some hands-on training in the use of weapons, and a crash course in introductory magical theory from Nia. Billy grows concerned over the influence Regan may be having on Jen, but Jen still finds herself in some serious danger. Be sure to subscribe to The Once and Future Nerd so that you don't miss a second! And, if you're listening on iTunes, we would be eternally grateful if you left a review.