Your nerd best friends return next week with the Season 5 finale! In the meantime, check out this NERDSTALGIC episode from September 2024. Recounting our first trip to HellmouthCon two years ago as we prepare to launch some BIG NEWS about HellmouthCon 2026. Go get your tickets now and join us at Sunnydale HS (Torrance HS) in June! And while the Slayin It! podcast no longer exists, enjoy the time we got to NERD OUT about Buffy with Frank Bonacci.

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The Nerds are back for season 4, and their NERDY travels hit a new high this summer! Travel with them and hordes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Hellmouth for HellmouthCon at Torrance High School (CA), the site where early seasons of the series was filmed. From cosplay to trivia contests to panels to special fan experiences, much fun was had. Analese yielded the scythe and Rob came ready to slay the trivia competition!

Special guest on this episode is Frank Bonacci, Scooby and co-host of Slaying It! with Juliet Landau podcast.

Also in this episode: breaking in the Paris Olympics, upgrading old gaming consoles, spreadsheets for D&D, horror genre, Creepshow comic book reboot, and lots of Buffy knowledge.

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Grab your soldering irons, Nerds! This week, Analese and Rob are joined by the legendary Tony Ramirez to dive into the R&D departments of our favorite fictional universes. We’re breaking down the iconic gear from movies, books, and comics that shaped our childhoods—from the "Star Trek" tech we use every day to the "Back to the Future" hoverboards we’re still waiting for.

The crew discusses the "We Made It" Hall of Fame, where we compare modern tablets to PADDs, and gets into a heated debate over why jetpacks aren't standard commute equipment yet. Tony helps us tackle the physics of the Batman utility belt before we reveal the one piece of fictional tech we’d each risk a temporal paradox to own.

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Stay Nerdy!

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What’s the nerdiest thing you did this week? Because Rob and Analese are diving straight into the ultimate ride-or-die rankings—our Top 5 Best Friend Duos in all of nerd culture.

From iconic partnerships that saved the world to chaotic besties who probably caused the problem in the first place, this episode is packed with debates, hot takes, and at least one pick that might get us canceled by the fandom (you’ve been warned). We’re talking legendary duos from movies, TV, comics, and beyond, mixing in a few deep cuts for the real ones, and breaking down what actually makes a “best friend” in the first place.

So grab your co-op partner, your party member, your life-mate—however you define your BFF—and get ready to build your own Mount Rushmore of friendship. And fair warning… you’re definitely going to be yelling at us for who we left off.

Hit play now and see if your favorite duo made the list.

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