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Nate McWhortor Makes Mandy a Future Folk Fan
Episode 90
Somewhere between O Brother Where Art Thou and the Lumineers' stomp-and-clap era, a folk comedy duo from the East Village made a movie about two alie…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
It’s Manga Madness with Helen McCarthy!
Episode 89
Manga has a first-impression problem. It's enormous, genre-defying, visually foreign, and comes wrapped in the kind of devoted fan energy that makes …
7 months ago
Wonder Man: A Superhero Show About Not Being a Superhero
Episode 88
Wonder Man is, technically speaking, a Marvel show. It exists in the MCU. Captain America is out there somewhere. The Hulk is presumably smashing thi…
7 months, 1 week ago
We Need to Talk About The Traitors (And Also Michael Rapaport)
Episode 87
The Traitors is, at its core, a game you play at birthday parties when someone's kid really wants to be a detective. You sit in a circle. Some people…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Stardom Burrito: Bo Burnham, Comedy Nerds, and Chipotle Metaphors with Tommy Metz III
Episode 86
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who cross their arms and dare a comedian to make them laugh, and people who show up already giggli…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Where's the Food? The Hunger Games Book-to-Movie Breakdown with Mona Chatterjee
Episode 85
Here's the thing about watching a movie one week after reading the book it's based on: you become the world's most insufferable viewing companion. An…
8 months ago
May the Odds Ever Smell of Sweat: A Hunger Games Deep Dive with Mona Chatterjee • The Novel
Episode 84
Yes, I know—it's 2026, Hunger Games came out almost two decades ago, and we've all moved on now to whatever fresh dystopian nightmare is currently tr…
8 months, 1 week ago
It’s Our Time Down Here: A Goonies Comfort Rewatch with Krissy Lenz
Episode 83
This week on Make Me a Nerd, Mandy Kaplan does the bravest thing a grown adult can do: she prescribes herself a medically unnecessary, emotionally es…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Superman... with Homework: Smallville with John Mundy
Episode 82
Mandy continues her noble quest to become the kind of nerd who can say “Smallville” without immediately being asked which season she started with, an…
9 months ago
The Great Pottery Throw Down: British, Boring, & Bang-On Perfect with Jeremy Klavens
Episode 81
Mandy’s latest “please turn me into a nerd” assignment comes disguised as the most harmless thing imaginable: a British competition show about potter…
9 months ago