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Make Me A Nerd with Mandy Kaplan

Make Me A Nerd with Mandy Kaplan

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Hey folks. Mandy Kaplan here. I’d like to share a bit about my intentions and mission for MMAN if you’ll indulge me. You will? Huzzah!

Look, I am a lot of things. I’m a writer, actress, mother, and lover of musicals and cats, but NOT Cats, The Musical. Give me a little bit of credit, would ya? So...throughout my life, I’ve been surrounded (and intrigued) by all things nerd. A sister who plays D&D, a Star Wars-obsessed husband, friends who love anime, comic books, video games, and...well, you get the picture. Somehow, I have always held it all at arm's length. Not to get too deep, but maybe I never thought I was smart enough to follow it. Or maybe I have control issues and have never been able to embrace fantastical things like dragons and time travel. Until now!

So, with an open mind and heart, I am ready to join this massive (and beautifully inclusive) club and GEEK THE #%$ OUT! It’s time for all my wonderfully strange friends to baptize me into NERD-DOM. Please join me on this journey. Who knows? Maybe you’ll discover or remember a side of yourself along the way. Or at least make fun of me as I try!© TruStory FM アート 社会科学
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  • What If There Were Too Many Dogs? The Andy Griffith Show with Breaking Mayberry

    What If There Were Too Many Dogs? The Andy Griffith Show with Breaking Mayberry
    2026/09/21
    Marty Schneider and Dan Ludwig, hosts of the podcast Breaking Mayberry, explain that they once built two rating scales for The Andy Griffith Show: an Andy-meter for how good the episode is, and a Barney-meter for how much psychic damage it did to America. They needed both. Mandy watched three episodes on assignment (a boy kills a bird and learns a lesson, a city slicker learns to slow down whether he likes it or not, and one that is just dogs), and she arrived with a few questions. Is Ron Howard a brilliant child actor? Where exactly is Opie’s mother? Is Barney at the YMCA a little too often? And why does a show this warm leave her with a lingering sadness hangover, the same one she got from Bluey?Then Mandy watched The Mayberry Effect, a documentary about the fans who make pilgrimages to Mount Airy, North Carolina, dress as Floyd the Barber, and follow a red-headed six-year-old around his yard because he looks a bit like Opie, and she wrote down a single word: whoa. Marty and Dan apologize (they told her to watch the Ted Koppel segment instead), then get into a fandom that stopped being about the show a long time ago and became about a place that never existed, and what that looks like when you swap Barney Fife for Chewbacca. Also, a verdict on whether Andy Griffith is hot. Press play.Guest SpotlightMarty Schneider & Dan Ludwig are a comedy team, writers, and podcasters from Philadelphia. They host Breaking Mayberry, a classic TV podcast without the nostalgia bait, taking a hard look at vintage favorites and cultural oddities from the 1950s to the early 2000s (mostly The Andy Griffith Show, occasionally Glee, currently the failed sitcoms of ABC's TGIF lineup in a miniseries called TGI Failures).Breaking Mayberry on Apple PodcastsBreaking Mayberry on SpotifyBreaking Mayberry on YouTube (clips)Breaking Mayberry on BlueskyBreaking Mayberry on InstagramSupport Breaking Mayberry on Patreon ($8/month, bonus episodes)The ShowThe Andy Griffith ShowAndy GriffithDon KnottsRon HowardFrances Bavier (Aunt Bee)The FandomThe Mayberry Effect (2021 documentary)Mayberry Days, Mount Airy, NC (September 21–27, 2026)Mount Airy, North CarolinaThe Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club (iMayberry)Two Chairs No Waiting podcast (Allan Newsome, since 2008)Allan Newsome, Floyd the Barber tribute artistDavid Browning, "The Mayberry Deputy"Mayberry Man (2021 fan-funded film)Andy Griffith MuseumBooksLooking for Andy Griffith: A Father's Journey by Evan Dalton Smith (UNC Press, 2024)Music"The Mayberry Rap" by Rick Rumble"Mayberry" by Rascal Flatts"No Rain" by Blind Melon (the Bee Girl video)Theme: "Wonderstruck" by Jane and the BoyAlso MentionedI Spy (1965–1968, Bill Cosby)Gorillas in the MistWaiting for GuffmanCocoonLady and the TrampThe Music Man (1962)Silver Spoons (Ricky Stratton)Happy Days (Chuck Cunningham, still upstairs)Firefly and the BrowncoatsIn the TruStory FM UniverseWatch Me Fly… Serenity with Krissy Lenz — the episode that made Mandy a BrowncoatBluey with Kelly Vrooman — the other sadness-hangover episodeFact-Check CornerThe book title. Marty calls Evan Dalton Smith's book Searching for Andy Griffith on "North Carolina University Press," recently released. The book is Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father's Journey, University of North Carolina Press, May 2024.TV penetration in 1960. Marty says 15–25 percent of US households had a TV when the show premiered in 1960, rising to 93 percent by 1968. Commonly cited figures put US TV household penetration near 87–90 percent by 1960 already; the 15–25 percent range is closer to the early 1950s. The 1968 figure is roughly right. The underlying point (TV became ubiquitous across the show's run) is defensible, the specific premiere-year stat is not."Aired alongside I Dream of Jeannie." "Dogs, Dogs, Dogs" aired in 1963 and I Dream of Jeannie premiered in 1965.Connect with the ShowFollow Mandy on Instagram: @mandy_kaplan_klavens (both with K's) TikTok: @mandymiscastMake Me a Nerd runs on curious people. If that's you, the inner circle is at makemeanerd.com/join, where episodes arrive ad-free and early, and the show goes deepe...
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  • Fackam Hall with Justine Huxley

    Fackam Hall with Justine Huxley
    2026/09/14
    The British period drama is a genre built on restraint. Longing glances across drawing rooms. Inheritance law. A great many people declining, for six or seven seasons, to say the one thing they most want to say. Fackham Hall surveys this rich and noble tradition, agrees that it is both rich and sufficiently noble, and then installs a bell in the servants’ hall labeled masturbatorium. The bell rings. It keeps ringing. It rings long enough that it eventually falls off the wall from structural fatigue. This is the establishing sequence.Justine Huxley picked this one. Mandy had previously watched it in the background while doing something else and absorbed roughly a fifth of it, so she came back for a proper viewing with a notebook, which turns out to be the only responsible way to approach a film that fires a joke every fifteen seconds. Together they excavate the good stuff: the family motto carved above the gate (incestus ad infinitum), the poster in the servants’ quarters gently informing staff that unionizing causes cancer, and Jimmy Carr as a vicar who cannot place a comma to save his life or anyone else’s. Roughly halfway through, the film quietly abandons Downton Abbey and becomes an Agatha Christie murder mystery instead, and that is just fine.The conversation wanders where the good ones do. Into Justine’s parallel career playing Dungeons and Dragons on stage for animal charities, which is a real job she has. Into the international editions of Last One Laughing, of which she has personally watched about nine. Into a sincere disagreement over whether After Life is a comedy or a grief spiral with jokes in it. Anyhow… you get the idea. Press play.Guest SpotlightJustine Huxley is an actress, singer, and voiceover artist from Los Angeles, best known as the voice of Wattson in Apex Legends, with credits including Sword Art Online, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, and Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Voice acting is what pulled her into tabletop gaming, and in two years she has played more than fifty live Dungeons and Dragons shows, most of them for charity. She performs regularly alongside Mandy in Miscast LA.Instagram: @justinehuxleyTikTok: @justinehuxleyIMDb: Justine HuxleyReferenced in This EpisodeThe Main EventFackham Hall — 2025, directed by Jim O’Hanlon, written by Steve Dawson, Andrew Dawson, Tim Inman, Jimmy Carr, and Patrick CarrThe Vicar — the official clip, if you want the punctuation bit before you commitDamian Lewis — Humphrey, Lord Davenport, who survives more than any man shouldThomasin McKenzie — Rose DavenportBen Radcliffe — Eric NooneKatherine Waterston — Prudence, Lady DavenportTom Felton — Archibald DavenportEmma Laird — Poppy Davenport, who chooses the manureAnna Maxwell Martin — Mrs Edna McAllisterSue Johnston — Great Aunt BonaparteTom Goodman-Hill — Inspector WattTim McMullan — Cyril, who is always right thereJason Done — J. R. R. TolkienHayley Mills — the narratorThe Comedy LineageAirplane!The Naked GunMonty Python and the Holy GrailA Fish Called Wanda — the source of Mandy’s single grievanceDumb and DumberFamily Guy — cited for the same permission structureThe Bechdel test, without which the sisters are just two women at a partyOther Films That Came UpJojo RabbitThe GraduateThe Notebook, which neither of them has seenThe Wizard of OzFifty Shades of Grey, here reduced to oneTelevision, Places, and Assorted NerderyDownton Abbey and Upstairs, DownstairsDame Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess, the Bonaparte templateCall the MidwifeThe Forsyte Saga and Homeland, the Damian Lewis Mandy knewMotherlandLOL: Last One Laughing UK and 8 Out of 10 Cats, both hosted by Jimmy CarrAlan Carr and The TraitorsRebel Wilson, host of the Australian Last One LaughingThe Paper and
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  • The Smell Test: Parasite with Sherry Mandujano

    The Smell Test: Parasite with Sherry Mandujano
    2026/09/07
    Three times in the theater. Twenty-odd more at home. Six years of having thoughts about Parasite, and roughly four minutes total in which anyone has let her share them. This week Sherry Mandujano gets an hour.Mandy had never seen it. She takes notes throughout, and most of them are some version of "what genre is this," because the film keeps answering differently. The conversation follows it wherever it goes: production design, then class, then smell, then a woman scaling a wall sideways, then a formal grievance against the screenplay concerning facial hair. Nobody in this movie comes out looking good, and by the end that includes the people watching it. Press play.Guest SpotlightSherry Mandujano is an actress, singer, and director based in Los Angeles. Originally from the Bay Area, she trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, studying theatre performance and classical voice, before moving to LA. Her screen credits include The Young and the Restless, This Is Us, I'm Dying Up Here, Baskets, and Downsizing. On stage she's appeared in Real Women Have Curves, Man of La Mancha, and Songs for a New World, and she made her directorial debut in 2021. She performs regularly alongside Mandy in Miscast LA.Instagram: @sherry_mandujanoIMDb: Sherry MandujanoReferenced in This EpisodeThe Main EventParasite — 2019, directed by Bong Joon HoLee Jung-eun — Moon-gwang, the housekeeperPark So-dam — Ki-jung, the "art therapist"Song Kang-ho — Ki-taek, the Kim family fatherSuseok — the Korean scholar's stone traditionJjapaguri (ram-don) — the noodle dish in the stairway scene92nd Academy Awards — where Parasite won four, including Best PicturePalme d'Or — Cannes 2019Other Films Mandy Brought UpBeing John MalkovichThe Talented Mr. RipleyMiss CongenialityStarship TroopersTelevision, Games, and Assorted NerderySquid GameThe Potato Lab — Sherry's happy-ending K-drama counterexampleGame of Thrones and the Red WeddingThe Golden GirlsMagic: The GatheringIcarus, who flew too close to the sunPast Episodes You Might LikeSquid Game Season 2 with Jimmy AquinoMarried North of the Wall: Game of Thrones with Jeremy KlavensFact-Check CornerThe peach fuzz isn't poison. Sherry says the Kims "poisoned the housekeeper with the peach fuzz," and Mandy repeats it. What the film actually shows is the Kims exploiting Moon-gwang's peach allergy to produce symptoms that Mrs. Park reads as tuberculosis. She gets framed for being sick, not poisoned.The Oscar categories. Sherry's count is correct. Four wins at the 92nd Academy Awards in February 2020, under the official names Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. It was the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture, and it took the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019, also a first for a Korean film.The production design claims hold up and it’s just crazy. Sherry's account of the crew salvaging real doors, windows, and gates from neighborhoods slated for redevelopment is confirmed by both Bong and production designer Lee Ha-jun, who also made silicone molds of real bricks from those sites. The entire semi-basement neighborhood was a built set, constructed in a water tank in Ilsan so it could be flooded and drained on schedule. The Park mansion was a set too: a real plot of land with a ground floor built on it and the upper floor added in post. Da-hye's age. Mandy says "they're only like nineteen or whatever." The film never states an age. Da-hye is confirmed as a high school student being tutored for her English exams.The ramyeon. Sherry calls it "the pot of ramyeon," which is accurate as far as it goes. The dish is jjapaguri specifically, sold to English-language audiences as "ram-don," built from two instant noodle brands with sirloin dropped in. It’s another one of those class comments of the film, taking fifty-cent packages of instant noodles and topping them with sixty bucks of Wagyu and serving it to a kid as a snack. Connect with the ShowFollow Mandy on Instagram: @mandy_kaplan_klavens (both with K's) TikTok: @mandymiscastMake Me a Nerd runs on curious people. If that's you, the inner circle is at makemeanerd.com/join, where episodes arrive ad-free and early, and the show goes deeper between installments.Listening on Apple Podcasts? Leave a review. Mandy reads them on air and will absolutely say your username out loud.Make Me a Nerd is a production of TruStory FM. Engineering by Pete Wright. Theme song: "Wonderstruck" by Jane and the Boy.<...
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