Welcome to Episode 15 of Nerdist Camp. Yes, we built this episode from scratch, it was a stream of consciousness, so crank up the handle as we take you for a spin on a voyage of disc-covery which you may like a bit if you can work out the algorithm. It’s gonna be a reel joy, but I won’t give you any spoolers just yet, so lets cue the tape and hit record…

If you haven’t guessed it already, this episode we’re talking about all things music formats.

• Spotify to add AI

• Elgato bought out a bigger prompter (Why?)

Kris:

• Monster: The Ed Gein Story
• PSB Night Flight, The Last Flight remixes
• Excitedly awaiting the new Tron Ares soundtrack

Andi

• Discover. Track. Share. - Trakt
• The Orb - ‘Buddhist Hipsters”
• Tron Ares
• Watch Drew: The Man Behind the Poster | Prime Video (Drew passed on 13th October)
• Celebrity Traitors on BBC
• Merlin’s Café Bar | Birmingham’s Alternative Bar & Restaurant – Cocktails, Food & Events

• How a Suzanne Vega Song Helped Create the MP3
• Suzanne Vega - Reverse MP3
• Spotify to add AI

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As we were building this episode, it took a while to find all the pieces. We knew what the finished thing should look like, but we had to lay all the components on the table and figure out if any pieces were missing. As we assembled the episode, it slowly snapped together. We may have been bricking it at one point, but eventually we could see it coming together and were glad we paid the price. Now everything is awesome.

If you haven't guessed already, today we're talking about Denmark’s biggest export, no it's not Sandi Toksvig, it's Lego!

• Amazon announcements
• Sora by OpenAI

Do I need another e-ink tablet? (Yes, yes I do).

Kris: Seen Hackers, oops!

Andi:

Kris:

• reMarkable Paper Pro Move
• Anker chargers
• Dead Man Running (BBC Sounds)
• Tron 4K remasters.

Andi:

• The Morning Show (The Morning Show Season 1 Trailer)
• Nick Warren’s new album ‘Turbulence’ - Inside 'Turbulence': Nick Warren’s first solo flight - Electronic Groove
• Slow Horses — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - YouTube
• Extreme E (3 minute highlight Grand Final Highlights | R.01 2024 Desert X Prix | Extreme E - YouTube)
• Desert Island Discs - Michael Sheen, actor - BBC Sounds

Tom's Guide - Amazon Event

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Today, we’re planning a score of our own. Every good heist story starts with assembling the team — and lucky for you, we’ve got just the right mix of brains, charm, and ok, maybe a touch of chaos. We’ll walk through the meticulous rehearsal, the nail-biting nerves before the job, and that perfect moment when everything clicks like clockwork… until it doesn’t. Because in every great heist film, there’s always a spanner in the works. Will we get away clean, sipping cocktails on a beach somewhere? Or will we be telling this story from behind bars? Stick around — because in this episode, we’re cracking open the vaults of the greatest heist movies.

Kris:

• Only Murders in the Building Season 5
• The Last of Us (late to the party with this one)
• Fallout
• David Gilmour at Circus Maximus.

Andi:

• MusicBox: Save Music for Later on iOS/macOS.
• ‎Watch Pilot - Acapulco (Series 1, Episode 1) - Apple TV+ (UK)
• Epic Ride review | Epic Universe docuseries on Peacock
• GoldenEye 30th Anniversary
• Filmumentaries – Podcasts * Documentaries * Books
• Mark Ronson has a new book out - Mark Ronson on being a night person - and Lady Gaga trashing his car - BBC News

Article on Huntington's Treatment

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Today Andi takes a deep dive into the discovery of the world's most famous shipwreck, so grab your first class tickets and get ready to join us on a voyage of discovery as we plunge the depths of our knowledge to mark 40 years since the discovery of the wreck on the 1st of September…

Titanic (launched 1912) was the second of 3 Olympic class ships - she had two sisters, the Olympic (launched first in 1911) and Britannic (1915)

We take a deep dive into the projects to try and find and observe her, some successful, some disasterous, some so close, but no cigar. We discuss the technologies developed for the search and the films that have been inspired by the most famous of all shipping disasters.

Kris:

Thursday Murder Club (Netflix)

Resident Alien (Netflix)

The Staedtler Norris Digital Jumbo Stylus (Amazon: also available as a thinner, longer version, without the eraser)

The Odessa File, blu ray (Amazon)

Black Sunday, blu ray (Amazon)

Andi:

• Lee - Sky Movies/Now
• Tells the life story of war photographer Lee Miller (played by Kate Winslet)
• The Jezabels, “Prisoner” (album, 2011)

BBC Radio 4 - Forest 404

Forest 404 was a science fiction podcast produced by the BBC that starred Pearl Mackie. The series debuted in 2019 on BBC Sounds and was later broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The 27-part show was composed of nine narrative episodes, each accompanied by a soundscape and a discussion on the show's themes. The story was written by Timothy X Atak, and the theme music was by Bonobo.

The narrative of the show follows a data analyst named Pan who lives in a dystopian 24th century. Pan is tasked with cataloguing and deleting the remaining audio from before a global catastrophe. While reviewing the audio, she discovers recordings of the natural world and finds that they have a profound effect on whoever listens to them.

Goliath Awaits - Wikipedia

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Welcome back to Nerdist Camp, the podcast where we set up camp at the crossroads of curiosity and the stories that won’t stop haunting us.

Today, we’re talking about UFOs, lights in the sky, strange happenings and alien abductions.

Why do so many people claim to have seen strange lights, saucer shaped craft, lost hours of time, or even been taken aboard for probing?

Is it evidence of extraterrestrial contact... or are the answers closer to Earth?

We’ll discuss psychological theories to ask which one explains why people say they’ve been abducted by aliens. Is it temporary illness, mass hysteria, or is it something simpler — a desperate need for attention, weaving a fantasy around a script we’ve all learned from books and movies? Or have they indeed been taken in the night?

Grab your flashlight, because here on Nerdist Camp, we’re investigating all things unidentified, unexplained and unclassified after 50 years.

Travis Walton / Fire In The Sky

Whitley Strieber / Communion

Gerry Anderson UFO

Heaven’s Gate cult

Dark Skies

The X Files

Close encounters of the Third Kind

Contact

Signs

District 9

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951, 2008)

This Island Earth

Kris:

Alien Earth (Disney+)

Unsolved Mysteries (2024, Netflix) (V3E2, Something in the Sky, V5E4, The Roswell UFO Incident).

Encounters (2023, Netflix).

Batman & Robin - Sun Ra.

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Philip Glass - 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.

Andi:

Alien Earth

Platonic - Apple TV+

Resident Alien (Sky/Now)

“Leaving Through The Window” - Something Corporate

ʻOumuamua - Wikipedia

'Oumuamua - NASA Science

Grainger Taylor

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Welcome back to Nerdist Camp. This week Andi and Kris discuss the H.G. Wells' classic, The War of The Worlds. We'll look at how we first encountered it and the many adaptations, both good and bad, that have followed.

"Why has there never been a good version set in the original time period? Doesn't seem to be a problem with Charles Dickens".

HG Wells novella, to Orson Welles’ radio drama that scared a nation, to movie, to Spielberg movie, to 1970s concept album, and countless tv remakes, the War of the Worlds has undergone numerous adaptations and continues to inspire and perplex us today.

No one would have believed, in the last years of the 1970s, that a TV composer who wrote arrangements for David Essex would put together a cast including Richard Burton, Justin Hayward, David Essex, Phil Lynott, Julie Covington and Chris Thompson. Few men even considered the possibilities of trying to sync up two analogue 24 track machines, and then getting the mix of the second half accidently shredded, and using synthesisers, a string section, electric musicians and a saucepan, and turning what was meant to be a single, into an LP, then a double album. And yet, at Advision Studios and Abbey Road, a mind immeasurably superior to ours, regarded this task as something in his stride, and slowly, and surely, he fueled our imaginations.

Kris:

• Stolen: Heist of the Century, Netflix.
• These Wires Are Live: A Celebration of Electricity Pylons (2024) (Mark Campbell with music by Jeremy Wahab) on Talking Pictures TVs encore service, Freeview channel 82.
• Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - The Moody Blues.
• Storm Corrosion (Steve Wilson & MIKAEL AKERFELDT).

Andi:

• The Cure, ‘Mixes Of A Lost World’
• Preorder of Hackers (30th anniversary 4k rescan, Iain Softley and Mark Kermode commentaries)
• Missions - BBC Four. French sci-fi, very cool.

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In the 50s with the launch of Sputnik 1, we saw the birth of a new era of optimism, with the promise of a new frontier for exploration, re-population and adventure. A chance to move out from the bounds of the Earth and to explore new territories with abundant and plentiful resources, to colonise new planets and moons and to take man further than he had ever been before. The 60s saw the presence of man in space, and in 69 a man would set foot on the moon.

In this episode, we look at the optimism of this period, the endless possibilities afforded by our own imagination and some of the promises of science fiction. Some of those dreams came true, but some also turned into tragedy..

We’ll explore where popular culture meets science, we’ll look at the history of the space race and the films and music that have helped to drive it. We’ll discuss some highs and lows and ask the question, what’s next?

Things we mentioned:

• Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space
• B12 – Space Age
• Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
• Sheldon Allman – Folk Songs for the 21st Century
• Les Baxter – Space Escapade
• Mike Oldfield – Songs of Distant Earth
• The Alan Parsons Project – I, Robot
• Brian Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
• Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon
• Tangerine Dream – Zeist
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Rendez-vous (Connection to Ron McNair/Challenger and Houston concert)
• Hydrus - Midnight in Space
• Islands in Space - Lightdreams

• Brazil
• Blade Runner
• The Jetsons
• The Incredibles
• For All Mankind (alt-history)
• Tomorrowland (honourable mention - chrome fin future, “Yesterday’s Tomorrow - Disney’s Magical Mid-Century” book)
• Space Race (BBC documentary) - digital effects designer / digital effects artist on two episodes was Gareth Edwards (Rogue One)

• Bioshock
• Destroy All Humans
• Fallout
• Void Bastards

West Wing Galileo What's Next - YouTube

NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations | WIRED

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-022225a-apollo-1-documentary-premiere.html

Spaceflight Now | STS-27 Legendary commander tells story of shuttle's close call

Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes | Disney+

Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century: Amazon.co.uk

Bringing Columbia Home

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Welcome to Nerdist Camp—the podcast where pop culture, curiosity, and a little bit of caffeine collide! I’m your host, and your banker, and your dungeon master, and today we’re rolling the dice on a topic near and dear to our nerdy little hearts: board games! In this episode, we’re taking a journey through time—starting with one of the original board games, chess, then marching our counters through classics like Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit and Ludo, and then settling into the golden age of tabletop with modern marvels like Catan, Pandemic, and Ticket to Ride.

So grab your favorite snacks, shuffle up your cards, rattle your dice, and try not to flip the table—because at Nerdist Camp, we play to learn, to laugh, and sometimes to totally overthink a game about collecting plastic pieces of pie. Let’s get rolling!

This week we are recommending

Kris:

• Deep Sea Adventure (Board Game)
• Pan Am (Board Game)
• Back to the Future (Funko Board Game)
• Alien: Fate of the Nostromo (Board Game)
• The Vault (Netflix)
• Grenfell Uncovered
• Ara San Juan: The Submarine that disappeared.
• Mike Oldfield- Hergest Ridge
• Squid Game 3
• Andor

Andi:

• Titan - Netflix
• Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin, 1999)
• 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle - The Space Shuttle - Introducing: The Space Shuttle - BBC Sounds
• In related news, When We Were Shuttle
• Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer - YouTube - based on a book by Andy Weir (The Martian)
• Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix
• Jaws: The Restoration (1975) Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment Universal Studios - YouTube (8 minutes)
• AI & I podcast by a publication called Every (not the “delivery” company)

Links

Inkarnate - Create Fantasy Maps Online

NerdForge - I Built a Coffee Table with a Library Inside - YouTube

How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’ | WIRED

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