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  • A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother: Psycho, Deconstructed with Jesse Fister

    A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother: Psycho, Deconstructed with Jesse Fister
    2026/07/13
    Mandy has never seen Psycho. She has, however, seen Hot in Cleveland, which — it turns out — quotes Psycho constantly, meaning Mandy has been unknowingly absorbing the cultural shrapnel of a movie she'd never actually watched. It's the kind of realization that says more about the half-life of a seventy-two-minute-in shower scene than anything else could. Enter Jesse Pfister: voice actor, day trader, and a man who showed up to this recording with a wig, a suspiciously well-lit prop murder weapon, and enough notes to make Mel Gibson's conspiracy board in Conspiracy Theory look understaffed.What follows is somehow both a tender character defense of Norman Bates and a forensic audit of Hitchcock's lighting choices, his taste for laxative-based practical jokes, and his opinion on a certain pop star's music-video security protocols. There's a real serial killer involved. There's a fruit cellar. There is a genuinely upsetting amount of chocolate syrup standing in for blood. Press play.Guest HighlightJesse Pfister, voice actor of nearly a decade, day trader, and regular host on the Trade the Pool YouTube channel, where he covers market analysis and trading strategy. Formerly co-hosted the Love of Life podcast (currently on hiatus).Trade the Pool: https://tradethepool.com/Instagram: @JesseFisterFilms & Shows DiscussedPsycho (1960): https://letterboxd.com/film/psycho/Psycho (1998 remake, dir. Gus Van Sant): https://letterboxd.com/film/psycho-1998/The Godfather: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-godfather/Jaws: https://letterboxd.com/film/jaws/Hot in Cleveland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_in_ClevelandRear Window: https://letterboxd.com/film/rear-window/Dial M for Murder: https://letterboxd.com/film/dial-m-for-murder/Rope (1948): https://letterboxd.com/film/rope/North by Northwest: https://letterboxd.com/film/north-by-northwest/Charade (1963, dir. Stanley Donen): https://letterboxd.com/film/charade/Hitchcock (2012, dir. Sacha Gervasi): https://letterboxd.com/film/hitchcock/The Babadook: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-babadook/Diabolique (1955): https://letterboxd.com/film/diabolique/National Lampoon's Vacation (1983): https://letterboxd.com/film/national-lampoons-vacation/The Maltese Falcon: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-maltese-falcon/Taxi Driver: https://letterboxd.com/film/taxi-driver/Raging Bull: https://letterboxd.com/film/raging-bull/People MentionedAlfred Hitchcock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_HitchcockRobert Bloch (author of the novel Psycho): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_BlochJoseph Stefano (screenwriter): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_StefanoAnthony Perkins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_PerkinsJanet Leigh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_LeighVera Miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_MilesMartin Balsam (played Detective Arbogast): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_BalsamBernard Herrmann (composer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_HerrmannEd Gein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_GeinGrace Kelly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_KellyCary Grant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_GrantEva Marie Saint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Marie_SaintIngrid Bergman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_BergmanAnthony Hopkins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_HopkinsVince Vaughn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_VaughnStanley Donen (director): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_DonenPatricia Hitchcock (played Caroline): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_HitchcockTaylor Swift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_SwiftMusicTaylor Swift, "The Fate of Ophelia": https://music.youtube.com/search?q=The+Fate+of+Ophelia+Taylor+SwiftOther PodcastsYou Must Remember ThisMake Me a Nerd — The Godfather episode with Seth VargasSitting in the Dark---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.
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  • My So Called Life with Sloan Just

    My So Called Life with Sloan Just
    2026/07/06
    There exists a specific cohort of women who, if you say the words "do you remember My So-Called Life," will respond — instantly, involuntarily, with the faraway look of someone recalling a first love — "Jordan Catalano." They cannot help it. This is a documented phenomenon. And so Mandy, a mainstream mom who spent the 90s sensibly watching shows that got renewed, sits down to discover what exactly happened to these people, only to run face-first into the deeply inconvenient realization that a one-season teen drama from 1994 (cancelled, unceremoniously, opposite Friends, by a network that did not know what it had) may have understood the experience of being alive more precisely than anything she's watched since. There is a boy who leans. There is a yearbook monologue that turns out to be about social media thirty years early. There is the creeping suspicion that the rage Angela feels toward her mother and the rage you feel during menopause are, biochemically speaking, the same rage.Her guide is performer Sloan Just, who knew Jordan Catalano long before she knew the man playing him — a distinction that becomes its own quietly devastating conversation — and who refuses to let any of this stay safely in 1994. They get into the art versus the artist. They get into who you were "supposed" to end up with. And then, because this is that kind of friendship, they get into Sloan's burlesque alter ego, a flame-pastied creation by the name of Dasha Paprika, and honestly you'll just have to hear how they got there. Some of what you learn in this episode you will not be able to un-know. Press play.Guest SpotlightSloan Just is a performer, professional dancer, and choreographer with a theater background — and a returning Make Me a Nerd guest, last seen walking Mandy through Veronica Mars. These days she's channeling a years-long midlife crisis into the most productive possible outlet: Dasha Paprika, her burlesque alter ego ("the spiciest rack in town"), performing live around Manhattan and Brooklyn. Comedy-forward, theater-degree-justifying, occasionally on fire (literally — ask about the Crucible number).Dasha Paprika on Instagram: @dasha_paprikaSloan's previous MMAN episode: Veronica Mars with Sloan JustReference LinksThe Show & Its MakersMy So-Called LifeWinnie Holzman (creator)Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick (executive producers)thirtysomethingSteppenwolf Theatre Company — founded by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney, and Jeff PerryCastClaire Danes (Angela Chase)Jared Leto (Jordan Catalano)Wilson Cruz (Rickie Vasquez)Devon Gummersall (Brian Krakow)A. J. Langer (Rayanne Graff)Tom Irwin (Graham Chase)Jeff Perry (Mr. Katimski)Senta Moses (Delia Fisher)Patti D'Arbanville (Amber, Rayanne's mother)Films MentionedThe Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part IIIPretty in Pink (the Ducky vs. Blaine of it all)Sixteen Candles (Jake Ryan)You've Got MailHeathersZootopiaBaby Boom30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage — Mandy's film, on TubiOther Shows & StageBeverly Hills, 90210This Is Us (Dan Fogelman)Family TiesFrasier (Maris) and Cheers (Vera)Hot in ClevelandGrowing PainsThree's Company (Chrissy and Cindy Snow)Doogie Howser, M.D.Wicked (musical) (Holzman's book)The Crucible wink. People MentionedBetty WhiteAlicia Silverstone (almost cast as Angela)Judith LightNora EphronAlan CummingMoments to WatchJordan Catalano leaningRickie's dance from "Life of Brian"The Sonnet 130 classroo...
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  • Dr. Horrible’s Sing a Long Blog with Krissy Lenz & Kyle Olson

    Dr. Horrible’s Sing a Long Blog with Krissy Lenz & Kyle Olson
    2026/06/29
    This week we have a three-act superhero musical, shot on a borrowed studio lot during a labor strike, financed by one guy's personal credit card, in which approximately none of the songs are allowed to finish. Weird as it may be, it all clicks into place, and you understand why a generation of nerds has had this thing memorized for going on two decades.This week, returning guides Kyle Olson and Krissy Lenz walk our favorite mainstream mom through Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. We’ve got all the hits: Neil Patrick Harris fan mail that borders on a restraining order, the deeply important economics of the Henchmen's Guild, why Felicia Day was building the internet before the internet knew it needed building, and a shiny new Australia offered up purely for the sake of a rhyme. There's a horse who is also a chairman. There's a tragedy you will not see coming. There's a meaningful high note. Press play.GUEST SPOTLIGHTKyle Olson is an award-winning writer, producer, and podcast host, and a recurring nerd-whisperer here on Make Me a Nerd. He's the co-host of Craft and Chaos on TruStory FM, creator of the steampunk queer radio drama The Swashbuckling Ladies Debate Society, host of The Story Well, and logged 300-plus episodes of The Marvel Movie Minute.Craft and Chaos: trustory.fm/craft-and-chaosKyle's host page on TruStory FM: trustory.fm/host/kyle-olsonKrissy Lenz is Mandy's most frequent guest and partner in nerd crime. She co-hosts The Most Excellent 80s Movies Podcast and Gank That Drank on TruStory FM. Her Most Excellent episode on When Harry Met Sally — featuring a certain mainstream mom — is on the way.Krissy’s host page on TruStory FM: https://trustory.fm/host/krissy-lenz/REFERENCE LINKSThe Main EventDr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008 miniseries) — WikipediaPeopleNeil Patrick Harris — WikipediaNathan Fillion — WikipediaFelicia Day — WikipediaSimon Helberg — WikipediaJoss Whedon — WikipediaJed Whedon — WikipediaZack Whedon — WikipediaMaurissa Tancharoen (co-writer; one of the three superfans) — WikipediaBen Edlund (Bad Horse champion; creator of The Tick) — WikipediaDavid Fury (newscaster cameo) — WikipediaMarti Noxon (newscaster cameo) — WikipediaLin-Manuel Miranda — WikipediaBo Burnham — WikipediaSarah Michelle Gellar — WikipediaShows & SeriesFirefly — WikipediaBuffy the Vampire Slayer — Wikipedia"Once More, with Feeling" (Buffy musical episode) — WikipediaHow I Met Your Mother — WikipediaThe Big Bang Theory — WikipediaThe Guild (Felicia Day's web series) — WikipediaCritical Role — WikipediaGame Changer (Dropout) — WikipediaPhineas and Ferb (home of Dr. Doofenshmirtz) — WikipediaScrubs — WikipediaSupernatural — WikipediaFilmsSerenity (2005) — LetterboxdStage & AdaptationsHamilton — WikipediaHadestown — WikipediaSix — WikipediaThings & CuriositiesBox ONE (Neil Patrick Harris's solo escape-room game) — theory11The Magic Misfits (NPH's children's book series) — AmazonGeek & Sundry — Wikipedia"Brand New Day" / "A Man's Gotta Do" / "Everyone's a Hero" — YouTube Music searchThe 2013 Tony Awards opening (NPH's "Bigger!" number, with the closing recap rap) — YouTube searchFrom the TruStory FM VaultGame Changer with Kyle Olson (Make Me a Nerd) — trustory.fmMake Me a Nerd show archive — trustory.fm/make-me-a-nerd---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit
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  • Batman Pulled a Gun: Batman Beyond with Jason Yeung

    Batman Pulled a Gun: Batman Beyond with Jason Yeung
    2026/06/22
    Batman: he does not use guns. This is practically the whole point of him — a man so committed to a single rule that he built an entire personality, a cave, and a frankly concerning number of themed vehicles around it. So when Batman Beyond opens its very first episode with an aging Bruce Wayne pulling a gun, under a content warning slapped over the face of Bugs Bunny, you understand exactly why mainstream mom Mandy Kaplan pressed play and immediately thought: what, precisely, am I getting into?What she got into — with the help of voiceover actor and lifelong nerd Jason Yeung — is the 1999 series that aged Bruce Wayne out of the cowl and handed it to a teenager named Terry McGinnis, set in a grimy neon 2039, scored like a Nine Inch Nails B-side, and casually staffed with George Takei and Stockard Channing. It's darker than the Adam West you remember (Mandy has some feelings about a young Burt Ward that we will not be getting into here), weirder than you'd expect (one villain is essentially sentient ink; another is a sword-wielding assassin who never says a single word), and built on an idea that is genuinely, ambush-you-on-a-Saturday-morning moving: you can't do the thing you love forever, and one day you have to hand it to someone else.It snuck real grief, real ethics, and real "wait, why IS he a bat?" questions into a kids' time slot, and then got canceled before most of the world noticed. Mandy noticed. Press play.Guest SpotlightJason Yeung is a voiceover actor who met Mandy in the voiceover world, where the two have had the pleasure of working together. A self-described huge nerd who "grew up in the space" — and who got his start working the counter at Hollywood Video and Blockbuster, hand-selling underrated gems to anyone who'd listen — Jason can, by his own admission, talk nerd stuff for forever. On this episode he makes the passionate, deeply-felt case for Batman Beyond as one of the most criminally underrated entries in the entire Batman canon.Links & NotesBatman Beyond (TV series)Terry McGinnis / BatmanBatman Beyond: Return of the Joker — the follow-up film referencedBatman: The Animated SeriesCast & CrewWill Friedle — voice of Terry McGinnisKevin Conroy — voice of Bruce WayneGeorge Takei — voice of Mr. FixxStockard Channing — voice of Commissioner Barbara GordonLauren Tom — voice of Dana TanMelissa Disney — voice of Curaré (Mandy's friend)Kristopher Carter — Emmy-winning composer of the main themeBatman on Screen (other adaptations referenced)Batman (1966 TV series) — the Adam West versionAdam WestBurt Ward — the original RobinChris O'Donnell — the other RobinJoel SchumacherTim BurtonBatman & Robin (1997) — the "bat nipples" apology movieBatman Begins (2005)Christopher NolanChristian BaleThe Lego Batman Movie (2017) — Will Arnett's BatmanWill ArnettArnold Schwarzenegger — the live-action Mr. FreezeAlso MentionedFireflyBig Hero 6 (2014)Boy Meets WorldAnimaniacsPower RangersBeverly Hills, 90210Nine Inch Nails / Trent Reznor — the theme's sonic cousinMusicTheme: "Wonderstruck" by Jane and the BoyBatman Beyond Main Theme — Kristopher CarterWatch/Hear the MomentJoel Schumacher's Batman & Robin apologyIn the TruStory FM UniverseWatch Me Fly… Serenity with Krissy Lenz — the episode that recruited Mandy as a BrowncoatSensual Creatures: Vampires, Frilly Shirts, and Interview with a Vampire with Jonny Lee Jr. — Mandy's recent vampire deep-dive (the 1994 film + the AMC series)Superhero Ethics with Matthew Fox — the deeper-ethics show Mandy recommends (they covered Batman Beyond)---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.
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  • Leave the Gun, Take the Nerd: The Godfather with Seth Vargas

    Leave the Gun, Take the Nerd: The Godfather with Seth Vargas
    2026/06/15
    There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have seen The Godfather, and those who have built an entire personality around not having seen it (a group that, until this week, proudly included our own Mandy Kaplan — a grown woman fully comfortable assigning Rotten Tomatoes scores to a film she had never once watched). Enter Seth Vargas of the Movie Friends podcast, back in the nerd chair to commit the bold act of sitting a self-described mainstream mom down in front of the most quoted movie in American history and asking her to actually have feelings about it.She does. Boy, she does. What comes out of it is a conversation about violence and family and loneliness and whether the most beloved father figure in all of cinema is secretly the devil — the kind of talk that sneaks up and turns profound while you’re still laughing at the pasta jokes. If you’ve been quietly running your own decades-long Godfather standoff, consider this your way out. Press play.GUEST SPOTLIGHTSeth Vargas is one half of Movie Friends, the weekly film podcast he co-hosts with Michelle Rubinstein on a beautifully simple premise: Seth has seen it, Michelle hasn’t, and together they take a curious, friends-first tour through movie history one title at a time. This is Seth’s second visit to Make Me a Nerd — he and Michelle previously walked Mandy through the strange legacy of Ed Wood. Find Movie Friends on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and on Instagram at @moviefriendspodcast.LINKS & REFERENCESThe FilmsThe GodfatherThe Godfather Part IIZootopiaThe ExorcistRosemary’s BabyThe OutsidersPeggy Sue Got MarriedMegalopolisTHX 1138Star WarsJawsSingin’ in the RainHello, Dolly!Miss CongenialityAnalyze ThisMickey Blue EyesAll That JazzThe Many Saints of NewarkPlan 9 from Outer SpaceEd WoodThe Filmmakers & CastFrancis Ford CoppolaMario PuzoMarlon BrandoAl PacinoDiane KeatonRobert DuvallJames CaanRobert De NiroLee StrasbergGeorge LucasNicolas CageHugh GrantRoy ScheiderMatt DillonPeople & HistoryFrank Sinatra — the rumored real-life inspiration behind Johnny FontaneJoe Colombo — the mob boss behind the real protest campaign Seth describesItalian-American Civil Rights League — the organization that rallied against the film’s productionThe Hays Code (Motion Picture Production Code)Watch & ListenSeth’s homework: the Vito Corleone mustache-to-tree dissolveTheme song: “Wonder Struck” by Jane and the BoyPreviously on Make Me a NerdMovie Friends Michelle Rubinstein and Seth Vargas on the Strange Legacy of Ed WoodThe Exorcist with Lester Ryan Clark and Kynan DiasWhile you’re at it… Check out this great show!Sitting in the Dark — TruStory FM’s monthly horror deep-dive with Chelsea Stardust, Tommy Metz III, Pete Wright, and Kynan Dias---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.
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  • Prince with Kyle Olson and Pete Wright

    Prince with Kyle Olson and Pete Wright
    2026/06/08
    Here’s a fun fact about Prince Rogers Nelson: that wasn’t a stage name. Prince was his actual, legal, on-the-birth-certificate first name. Once you accept that a man named Prince grew up to become the artist known as Prince, you’re already most of the way to accepting everything else. The 8,000 unreleased tracks in a literal underground vault. The candles balanced precariously on the mixing boards. The 2 a.m. phone calls to musicians who had to be at Paisley Park by sunrise because the basketball game just ended and inspiration had struck.Pete Wright and Kyle Olson have feelings about this man. Deep, well-organized, road-tripped-to-Minnesota-for-the-Purple-Rain-musical feelings. They’ve come to walk Mandy through the empire — the side projects, the symbol, the Warner Brothers war, the Rolling Stones opening slot that ended in chicken bones — and to make a case that the artist most people think they know is actually three or four artists they don’t. There are detours into Sinéad O’Connor, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson ping pong, and one of Mandy’s most committed pre-adolescent performance choices. Press play.Guest SpotlightPete Wright and Kyle Olson are TruStory FM family — Pete is the engineer and producer behind much of the network (and Make Me a Nerd itself), and Kyle is a writer, playwright, and his frequent co-conspirator. Together they host Craft and Chaos, a podcast about staying creative through difficult times, and The Marvel Movie Minute, where they break down Marvel films five minutes at a time. Kyle’s plays can be found at the New Play Exchange (when he remembers to put his name on them — long story, listen to Craft and Chaos). Pete just released his debut work of fiction, a novella called Lattice, available at itsmepete.com, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.The PlaylistPete and Kyle’s Prince playlist on YouTube Music — the listening companion for this episode.Songs Mentioned“My Name Is Prince” — Prince & The New Power Generation“Darling Nikki” — Prince & The Revolution“When Doves Cry” — Prince & The Revolution“Let’s Go Crazy” — Prince & The Revolution“Little Red Corvette” — Prince“Raspberry Beret” — Prince & The Revolution“1999” — Prince“Delirious” — Prince“Head” — Prince“Sister” — Prince“When You Were Mine” — Prince“I Feel for You” — Chaka Khan (written by Prince)“A Case of You” — Prince (Joni Mitchell cover)“Nothing Compares 2 U” — Sinéad O’Connor (written by Prince)“Nothing Compares 2 U” — Prince (original)“Manic Monday” — The Bangles (written by Prince)“Sugar Walls” — Sheena Easton (written by Prince as Alexander Nevermind)“The Glamorous Life” — Sheila E. (written by Prince)“A Love Bizarre” — Sheila E. (with Prince)“Stand Back” — Stevie Nicks (co-written with Prince)“Kiss” — Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones (Prince cover)“Round and Round” — Tevin Campbell (from Graffiti Bridge)“How Come You Don’t Call Me” — Alicia Keys (Prince cover)“Thieves in the Temple” — Prince“New Power Generation” — Prince“Get Off” — Prince & The New Power Generation“Tick, Tick, Bang” — Prince“Tamborine” — Prince“Scandalous” — Prince“Venus de Milo” — Prince (Parade)Albums MentionedFor You (1978)Prince (1979)Dirty Mind (1980)Controversy (1981)1999 (1982)Purple Rain (1984)Parade (1986)Sign o’ the Times (1987)The Black Album (1987/1994)Batman (1989)Graffiti Bridge (1990)Love Symbol Album (1992)
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  • Sensual Creatures: Vampires, Frilly Shirts, and Interview with a Vampire with Jonny Lee Jr.

    Sensual Creatures: Vampires, Frilly Shirts, and Interview with a Vampire with Jonny Lee Jr.
    2026/06/01
    Vampires, as a concept, should not work. They are dead. They are allergic to weather. Their entire dating strategy is "what if I bit you." And yet — somehow, Anne Rice took this nonsense, draped it in frilly eighteenth-century shirts (a look Jonny Lee Jr. has, to his eternal credit, brought to this very podcast), and produced one of the most genuinely seductive pieces of pulp fiction of the twentieth century. This week, Jonny returns to walk Mandy through the entire blood-soaked architecture of Interview with the Vampire — the 1994 film, the AMC series, and the lore that Anne Rice constructed to power both.Along the way: Cher was almost cast as Louis (yes, that Cher; yes, in a corset; no, it would not have worked). Tom Cruise was, by Anne Rice's own admission, the wrong man for Lestat — right up until he opened his mouth on screen and became the only possible man for Lestat. Brad Pitt may have been miserable filming this and you can, if you squint, kind of tell. Kirsten Dunst, age eleven, delivered a performance so calibrated that they auditioned a thousand other children and quietly admitted defeat. And Anne Rice herself wrote Claudia — a five-year-old trapped in eternal childhood — because her own five-year-old daughter had died of leukemia, which recontextualizes the entire story so violently that you may need to sit down.Also covered: why blood drinking, in the Anne Rice cosmology, is better than sex (the vampires are the most sex-positive characters in 1990s cinema); why the second half of the movie kind of falls apart the moment Antonio Banderas shows up to monologue at everyone; why the AMC series is gayer than the movie which is gayer than the books which are already pretty gay; and the fact that one of the most cinematic shots in nineties film involves a child vampire worrying about getting blood on her pink satin shoes. Welcome back to nerd-dom.GUEST SPOTLIGHTJonny Lee Jr. is one of Make Me a Nerd's original guests and a self-described "very well-rounded nerd" — a designation he has now earned across episodes on Zelda, Sailor Moon, and the present descent into Anne Rice's vampire universe. He is an actor and singer with the rare ability to make you genuinely excited about a frilly eighteenth-century shirt, and he has read every single Vampire Chronicles novel, which is the kind of qualification you cannot fake.Links & ReferencesPast Make Me a Nerd Episodes ReferencedMoon Prism Power, Make Me a Gorgeous Podcaster: Sailor Moon with Jonny Lee Jr.Make Me a Nerd Takes a Hearty Breath of the Wild with Jonny Lee, Jr. — the Zelda episodeMommie Dearest with Abdi NazemianFilm & TelevisionDiscussed in depthInterview with the Vampire (1994, dir. Neil Jordan)Interview with the Vampire (AMC series, 2022–present)Byzantium (2012, dir. Neil Jordan) — the Saoirse Ronan vampire film Jonny was trying to remember on airQueen of the Damned (2002)Referenced in passingThe Crying Game (1992, dir. Neil Jordan)Mommie Dearest (1981)Hook (1991, dir. Steven Spielberg)Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)Desperado (1995, dir. Robert Rodriguez)Philadelphia (1993, dir. Jonathan Demme)Top Gun (1986)Legends of the Fall (1994)Nine (2009, dir. Rob Marshall)Sliding Doors (1998)Game of Thrones (HBO series)Will & Grace (2017 reboot)BooksInterview with the Vampire (1976) by Anne RiceThe Vampire Lestat (1985) by Anne RiceThe Queen of the Damned (1988) by Anne RiceThe Vampire Armand (1998) by Anne RiceThe Vampire Chronicles (series overview)StageLestat (musical, Broadway 2006) — music by Elton John, lyrics by Bernie TaupinNine (musical) — the 2003 Broadway revival, dir. David Leveaux, starred Antonio Banderas and Jane KrakowskiPeopleCreatorsAnne Rice (1941–2021)Stan Rice — Anne Rice's husband, the real-world basis for LestatChristopher Rice — Anne and Stan's sonNeil Jordan1994 film castTom CruiseBrad PittKirsten DunstAntonio BanderasStephen ReaThandiwe Newton — credited in 1994 as "Thandie Newton"Christian SlaterEvan Rachel Wood — the other actress considered for ClaudiaAMC series castSam Reid
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  • Shoot Again! Talking Pinball with Clark Hill

    Shoot Again! Talking Pinball with Clark Hill
    2026/05/25
    Pinball looks like two buttons and a ball. It is not two buttons and a ball. It is a 300-pound machine with layered rules, competitive leagues, wrist injuries, a flow state, and — this will surprise you — an expectation that you will physically grab the machine and move it while playing. That last part is legal. Encouraged, even. This week, Mandy's new neighbor Clark Hill, who carries quarters at all times in case he passes a machine in the wild, joins her to watch Shoot Again, a documentary that is essentially pinball propaganda, and to explain why none of this is as simple as it looks.The conversation covers flow states, wizard modes, the Dolly Parton machine, a proposed cats-themed machine (the cats, not the musical), and at least one incident involving a toddler on the glass. Press play.GUEST SPOTLIGHT
    Clark Hill is a theater nerd, Magic: The Gathering player, pinball league competitor, and Mandy's new neighbor — a convergence of circumstances that the universe has clearly been building toward. He is currently active in a pinball league in Van Nuys, California, carries quarters on his person at all times, and has a deep personal relationship with the work of game designer Keith Elwin. He has also, on at least two occasions, had to ask a father to remove a toddler from the glass surface of a pinball machine.Connect with the ShowFollow Mandy on Instagram: @mandy_kaplan_klavensMake Me a Nerd runs on curious people. If that's you, the inner circle is at makemeanerd.com/join — it's where the show goes deeper between episodes, and where Mandy's most embarrassingly enthusiastic fans have found their people.
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