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Well there are three bodies, a set of secret passages, and a mysterious set of wards still suppressing all magic in the manor house. So, y'know, just an average night for our heroes.

C2E141. Asking Questions (Clueless Part 4)

Nerd & Tie Has Launched A Bluesky!

Nerd & Tie Has Launched A Bluesky! So recent events have made it clear that we here at Nerd & Tie need to make some decisions about what social media we're using as official feeds for this platform. Historically we have prioritized the platform most of us are still calling Twitter, but honestly? It's not really giving the vibe we're

Sometimes you make a new friend and they share something that really gets your brain going! So this month, Bree welcomes Mara Levy to the virtual studio for a discussion about ogham - its’ history and meaning and use in both ancient and modern magic. (Perennial notetakers will want to have pencils handy when we talk about the kennings!)

50. Exploring the Ogham with Mara Levy Sometimes you make a new friend and they share something that really gets your brain going! So this month, Bree welcomes Mara Levy to the virtual studio for a discussion about ogham - its’ history and meaning and use in both ancient and modern magic. (Perennial notetakers will want to have pencils...

Moopsy!

As Lower Decks is back for the last time, we’re looking at three animated Star Trek episodes, specifically ones about strange creatures.

The Eye of the Beholder brings us weird dopey-looking elephant slug things who are actually more evolved than humans!

A Tribble Called Quest brings us all kinds of mutant tribbles including a bizarre horrible Tribble with a face! Ugh…

I Have No Bones, Yet I Must Scream brings us an adorable monster in Moopsy, who may have done one or two things wrong.

Moopsy!

60. Moopsy Did One or Two Things Wrong Moopsy! As Lower Decks is back for the last time, we’re looking at three animated Star Trek episodes, specifically ones about strange creatures. The Eye of the Beholder brings us weird dopey-looking elephant slug things who are actually more evolved than humans! A Tribble Called Quest bring

With a second body dropping, things are getting dire. Which of the party guests is the murderer? Where is the cook? Why is no one pushing back on the idea that the entire team is really just Scooby Doo?

C2E140. Not the Talking Dog (Clueless Part 3)

It isn’t long now until the Bear King’s Midsummer Feast and there are a few things to think about before they go.

S5E18. With Bated Breath

Celeste has a quick and dirty video about Netflix new Gundam series, Requiem for Vengeance, and finds its politics completely morally indefensible.

That Netflix Gundam Has Some REAL BAD Politics

On what turns out to not quite be the last episode of Chosen, Jodie talks to a woman who, with a few simple questions, accidentally set in motion the creation of the Chosen paper.

Chosen Part Fifteen - A Few Questions

With the apparent murder of their host, Mr. Cadavér, the team now has a mystery to solve. One of the guests at this party is likely the murderer, but can they figure it out in time before another body drops?

139. Soft, Strong, and Disposable (Clueless Part 2)

It’s Halloween time again! Put on your sexy Star Trek costume and make sure you’re fully in control of your faculties because you might not be entirely you in there! This time, our Casual Explorers decided to explore some of the many psychic and or energy beings who can just pop inside your flesh and blood as easy as a pair of boots.

59. S*x Ghost - Coast to Coast It’s Halloween time again! Put on your sexy Star Trek costume and make sure you’re fully in control of your faculties because you might not be entirely you in there! This time, our Casual Explorers decided to explore some of the many psychic and or energy beings who can just pop inside your fles...

It's October, so even though we took the year off last year, we're going back to the show's roots with yet another spooky episode! This time around, Lozzie Stardust takes the guest spot and we talk about ghosts, cryptids, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Look, we got really off track on this one.

But we think you'll like it.

76. A Spooky-ish Episode (with Lozzie Stardust) It's October, so even though we took the year off last year, we're going back to the show's roots with yet another spooky episode! This time around, Lozzie Stardust takes the guest spot and we talk about ghosts, cryptids, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Look, we got really off track on this one.

The team emerges into a new universe, and find themselves on a dark and stormy road. The truck soon gets a flat tire right outside a large manor house, and have to go in to ask for help.

C2E138. A Dark and Stormy Night (Clueless Part 1)

This is it -- the team is mid-battle with Gobbo himself in an abandoned office building. The deathproof wards are going to be put to the test... as we start the episode with D already knocked out of the fight.

C2E137. A Wicked End (London Calling Part 6)

Let's Be Legendary: S5E17. Of Rot and Ruin Part 4

S5E17. Of Rot and Ruin Part 4 The aftermath. (Content Warnings for this episode: Adult language and mature themes)

Dust off your illegal VHS tapes and be prepared to write a strongly worded letter to Points of View because we’re back with the second part of our ‘Banned by the Beeb’ two-parter looking at three more episodes of Star Trek that suffered the wrath of British censorship.

58. Banned by the Beeb II: Garth of Izar's Glam Rock Band

The team has tracked Gobbo down to an abandoned office building, and it's time for a confrontation. Now they get to find out what happens when General Montenalto Grishneyetaka Voluntiosogrobangobbo STOPS talking.

C2E136. Get Gobbo'd (London Calling Part 5)

Welcome back, witches! We’re diving back into things with another classic collaboration between your friendly neighborhood Witchstorian and everyone’s favorite curmudgeon and host of BS-Free Witchcraft, Trae Dorn. Feeling the weight of our years just a LITTLE bit, we sit down to discuss the stubborn traces of Satanic Panic rhetoric that still linger in the modern witchcraft movement. Not in external gossip or talking-head suppositions, but in the internal discussions that witches maintain in live spaces and especially on social media. Tune in to hear a couple of weary elder millennials ramble about alleged devil worship, community paranoia, and how much it irritates us when people don’t know their own history.

Remember, witches - you are not immune to propaganda.

49. Satanic Panic? In MY Witchcraft Community? (with Trae Dorn) Welcome back, witches! We’re diving back into things with another classic collaboration between your friendly neighborhood Witchstorian and everyone’s favorite curmudgeon and host of BS-Free Witchcraft, Trae Dorn. Feeling the weight of our years just a LITTLE bit, we sit down to discuss the stub...