Oct 28, 202644 minS1
Only a year after release, a hacker has found a way to run arbitrary code on the Nintendo Switch 2. Nintendo have already cracked down on it, but might AI actually have a use in reverse engineering? People seem to like...
About this Podcast:
Your weekly dose of nerd new — straight from the nerd-verse. 🎮🍿📺 We’re DJ and The Professor: lifelong geeks breaking down the week in movies, TV, gaming, and pop culture. Every week, we serve up: 🎙️ Hot takes and near deep dives on what’s happening in nerd culture. 🕹️ Spotlights on indie games, comics, and creators — real talk, straight from the people making the stuff we love. 🤓 Science and tech tangents — it’s curiosity, and we lean into it. If you’re the nerd who can’t stop ranting about patch notes, MCU theories, or why that side quest broke your heart, you’ve found your people. Pull up a chair, grab your headphones, and let’s get nerdy. New episodes every week. Stay chaotic, stay curious.
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What is Nerds Amalgamated about?
Your weekly dose of nerd new, straight from the nerd-verse. 🎮🍿📺 We’re DJ and The Professor: lifelong geeks breaking down the week in movies, TV, gaming, and pop culture. Every week, we serve up: 🎙️ Hot takes and near deep dives on what’s happening in nerd culture.
What has Nerds Amalgamated covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Jailbreaking The Switch 2, AI Stories Might Be Good, and Apu's Return" (28 October 2026, 44 minutes), "An Interview with Jonathan Geffner, creator of The Dummy Detective" (20 October 2026, 43 minutes), and "Real Gamers Don't Play Games, Mixing Poo Into Concrete and The End of Card Shops" (15 September 2026, 47 minutes).
How often does Nerds Amalgamated publish?
Nerds Amalgamated publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 53 minutes.
How hard is it to get booked on Nerds Amalgamated?
Booking probability for Nerds Amalgamated is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Nerds Amalgamated requires a Pod Score of 85 or higher. Nerds Amalgamated's contact route on record: verified email.
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Nerds Amalgamated is a leisure podcast.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 20, 202643 minS1
This week we're back with an interview with Ventriloquist Noir creator Jonathan Geffner about his new feature film The Dummy Detective, a noir film featuring Jonathan Geffner and his ventriloquist dummy sidekick Sam...
- Sep 15, 202647 minS1
Apparently, the market for gamers who don't actually play games is now bigger than the market for gamers who play them. That's probably not surprising though. Concrete with poo sounds like something you'll never get...
- Sep 8, 202651 minS1
Tim Sweeney thinks the games industry is crashing like it's 1980 again. Which game will we bury in the desert this time? The Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded. This year, we have scientific definitions of kissing and...
Episode #295
GTA6 Leaks, Why People Love Monsters, and Australia is The Safest Place In the Apocalypse
Sep 1, 20261h 9mS1GTA6 has been leaking like a sieve. Why are people even excited for this? People love monsters. Is it because they provide an outsider view of society, or is there something else going on? A study has suggested that...
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- Aug 18, 202659 minS1
Stop killing games is going from strength to strength, and now has joined the fight against Sony in a fresh new lawsuit We then started flexing our cooking muscles while discussing how to save our vegetables and the...
- Aug 11, 202655 minS1
Finding the needle in a haystack of a good game is getting more difficult as more releases come out. A workgroup has come up with a plan to fix that. The Cambrian Explosion may have been caused by the accumulation of...
- Aug 4, 202649 minS1
Xbox doesn't have much left to offer after the recent cuts. So can their tentpole franchises support the entire business? New research suggests that a massive fireball killed all the dinosaurs in hours, not weeks. Which...
- Jul 29, 202658 minS1
Xbox has fired massive numbers of devs. Who's actually left to make games? Can you sleep through a trip to Mars? Probably not, but it won't stop scientists trying. George Lucas thinks AI is the big new thing. But when...
- Jul 8, 202643 minS1
The end of physical media, the loss of Stop Killing Games and Minecraft servers are illegal. Things are bad. When will they start to get better? On the up side, there is a team working on making artificial life and...
- Jun 30, 202651 minS1
The Steam Machine has finally been released, and if it wasn't for the price of RAM it would probably sound a lot better. But make sure you save some money for GTA6 because ouch. Scientists have discovered a cluster of...
- Jun 23, 202648 minS1
Blizzard are suing another World of Warcraft fan server. This doesn't set good standards for game preservation, but where is the line between preservation and copyright infringement? Researchers have found a massive...
Episode #287
Nintendo Loses in Europe, Growing Medicine Plants in Space, and Doctor In Distress Again
Jun 17, 20261h 7mS1Nintendo have been ordered to pay a fine for joycon drift, and also create Switch 2 models with user serviceable batteries. Let's hope that model becomes available in the rest of the world soon. Plants can be...
- Jun 10, 202645 minS1
The next release of Call of Duty will have the lowest potential player base of any COD in nearly a decade. Where are they all going? Aiming high is a good idea, unless you aim too high, in which case you won't perform...
- Jun 2, 20261h 5mS1
Lucas Scheffel's latest project is Ned Kelly: Blood and Thunder, a comic about bushranger Ned Kelly fighting aliens. We spoke to him about his projects and how he got to where he is. *** We enjoyed a nice drink of Rez...
- May 26, 202656 minS1
Developers are dropping Epic Games Store in favor of releasing on multiple platforms. Can Epic keep throwing money at the problem, or will they admit defeat? You'd think being hungry for snacks would make you fat, but...
- May 19, 202647 minS1
Sega are pivoting away from free to play games after poor performance. They're also pivoting away from AAA games after unrelated poor performance. What's left in the middle? Why are crickets born, just to suffer? Turns...
- May 12, 202646 minS1
If you've heard anything about Build a Rocket Boy, you know that things aren't going well. Here's why. Sitting near a window makes you smarter. Time to encase yourself in a glass cube so you can windowmax. Sag-Aftra...
Episode #281
Bringing Video Game Movies to Success, The "Benefits" of Beer & Crunchyroll's Unethical Hack
May 5, 202658 minS1Hollywood have been trying to make video game movies a thing for decades. Finally, they're actually good. Why? Beer has some nutritional value. But science is easy to misrepresent, so is it actually good for you...
- Apr 7, 202649 minS1
The Stop Killing Games movement is heading to EU parliament and the UFS-Que Choisir is suing Ubisoft over the delisting of The Crew. It's been a long road and there's a long way to go, but it's great to see some...
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