Average Joe Nerdcast | Pop Culture, Nostalgia & Critical Thinking
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Average Joe Nerdcast is a long-form podcast where nerd culture, history, and critical thinking collide.
Hosted by Nate, your resident Average Joe! This show dives deep into the stories, games, movies, and cultural moments that shaped us… and the systems, myths, and ideologies that still shape the world around us.
Some episodes are pure nerd fuel:
deep dives into tv shows, anime, films, gaming nostalgia, and pop culture that defined generations.
Others zoom out:
breaking down conspiracy thinking, cult mentalities, moral panics, propaganda, and historical narratives always grounded in context and receipts.
It’s thoughtful analysis, nerd passion, and calling bull when it matters.
New episodes weekly.
Formats include:
Mainline Monday: flagship deep dives and big-picture discussions
Checkpoint Thursday: nerd culture and media analysis
CTRL + ALT + DELUSION: systems breakdowns and conspiracy culture
Nerd Crime Files: investigative deep dives into scandals and cover-ups
Welcome to the Lobby.
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Black Shuck & The Banshee: Two Terrifying Legends
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Oct 19, 2026 |
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Who Remembers Bone Chillers? | Nerdoween 2026
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Oct 08, 2026 |
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Nerdoween 2026: Kisaragi Station & the Ghost Stories of Japan
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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The 90s Kid’s Guide to Halloween TV
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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What Happened to the Mall?
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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The '90s Kid's Guide to Forgotten Foods | Butterfinger BB's, Surge & the Snacks We Lost
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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Resident Evil (2026): The Movie That Finally Got It Right?
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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The Auteur Problem: When Genius Becomes a Legend
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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The Kojima Conundrum
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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The 90s Kid Guide to When Cereal Was Awesome
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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Why Do We Miss Things That Aren't Coming Back?
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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What's Your Story? | The Road to Nerdoween 2026
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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When Did “Casual Gamer” Become an Insult?
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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The Comfort Rewatch and Why We Watch the Same Things Again and Again
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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When Nostalgia Turns Toxic
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Not Everything Needs to Be Content | Average Joe Nerdcast #100
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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A 90s Kid Guide to the Lost Art of Anticipation
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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When Did Batman Replace Superman? and Why We Love Anti-Heroes
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Who Built the History We Think We Know?
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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"Is Anyone Out There?" Dead Internet Theory & Why the Internet Feels Fake
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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The Unhinged Mascots That Raised 90s Kids
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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I Fact-Checked My Own Episode...And I Was Wrong
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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I Was Six Years Late to Dungeon Crawler Carl
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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35 Years Later...Terminator 2 Is Still Perfect
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Metal Gear Solid: The Smartest Dumb Thing Ever Made
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Halo Kids Won | 25 Years With Master Chief
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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15 Minutes Down the Road | How Did We Get Here? Part 4 | Side Quest Sunday
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Predator is 39 Years Old...and It Still Kicks Ass | Checkpoint Thursday
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Master Chief Was Never a Machine | John-117 Part 4 of 5 | Mainline Monday
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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The Harvest | How Did We Get Here? - Part 3 | Side Quest Sunday
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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The War Movie That Tricked America into Cheering for Fascism | Checkpoint Thursday
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Master Chief's Two Greatest Promises | John-117 Part 3 of 5 | Mainline Monday
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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How Did We Get Here? Part 2: Morning In America | Sidequest Sunday
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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Feel Nothing or Die: What Equilibrium Got Right That We're Still Pretending It Didn't
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Beneath The Armor | The Origins of Gaming's Greatest Hero: Master Chief John-117 | Mainline Monday
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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How Did We Get Here? Edward Bernays and The Manipulation Playbook They Never Taught You - Part 1 | Sidequest Sunday
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Ideas Are Bulletproof: How One Mask Became the Face of Every Revolution | Checkpoint Thursday
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May 28, 2026 |
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For Ripley...What My Dog Taught Me About Being Alive
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May 27, 2026 |
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Before the Armor | The Origins of Gaming's Greatest Hero: Master Chief John-117 | Mainline Monday
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May 25, 2026 |
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FLAWLESS VICTORY? Annihilation, The Dark Years & The Mortal Kombat Comeback Story | Checkpoint Thursday
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May 21, 2026 |
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Darth Vader: The Greatest Character in all of Fiction | Mainline Monday
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May 18, 2026 |
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The Document | Side Quest Sunday
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May 17, 2026 |
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FINISH HIM! The Origins, Congressional Hearings & Rise of Mortal Kombat | Checkpoint Thursday
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May 14, 2026 |
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"Only I Can Fix This"...The Arsonist and the Firefighter | History Rhymes
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May 11, 2026 |
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90's Kid Syndrome: Nostalgia, Anxiety, and the In-Between Generation
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May 07, 2026 |
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Average Joe Nerdcast Teaser
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May 05, 2026 |
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What Actually Broke America...And It's Not Who You Think | CTRL + ALT + REALITY
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May 04, 2026 |
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The Pentagon Did What?! A.I., Classified Networks, and the Question Nobody Answered | Side Quest Sunday
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May 03, 2026 |
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Idiocracy Was a Documentary - Mike Judge Predicted Everything and Nobody Was Paying Attention | Checkpoint Thursday
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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The JFK Files: 80,000 Pages, 62 Years of Secrets...What Did They Actually Find? | CTRL + ALT + DELUSION
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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WWE Was Telling Us Everything (And We Were Too Busy Cheering to Notice) | Stone Cold, The nWo, and the Most Honest Show on Television | Checkpoint Thursday
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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"Make Mud, Not War": The Government Weather Control Conspiracy | CTRL + ALT + DELUSION
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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We Never Went to Space...And Other Things TikTok is Confidently Wrong About | CTRL + ALT + DELUSION
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Naruto's Most Underrated Duos (And Why We Misjudge Them) | Checkpoint Thursday
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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AJN Anime Celebration | Naruto Taught Me Why We Misjudge People (And How to Fix It)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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The One Person Who Chose Naruto…and Why Iruka is so Important | Checkpoint Thursday
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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AJN Anime Celebration | I was Wrong About Naruto...And It Hit Me Hard at 37
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Are We Getting Dumber? Confidence, Conspiracies, and the Death of Thinking
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Before We Send Them Again | A Veteran's Perspective
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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How to Get Your Imagination Back (Without Quitting the Internet) | Checkpoint Thursday
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Whatever Happened to Imagination? | Nostalgia, Gaming, and Growing Up Online
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Watch the Other Hand: The Politics of Misdirection | Checkpoint Thursday
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Resident Evil Requiem Review - The Survival Horror That Finally Broke Me
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Resident Evil's Dumb Scientists and Their Horrifying Experiments
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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The Inheritance of Fear: Fujiwara, Mikami, and the Birth of Survival Horror
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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The Birth of Survival Horror | Resident Evil's Original Era (RE1 - Code: Veronica)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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CTRL + ALT + DELUSION | Cults Don't Look Like Cults
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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History Rhymes: Fake News, Propaganda, and The Quiet Capture
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Christian Nationalism Isn't Christianity...And America Was Never a Christian Nation
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Nice People, Ugly Beliefs: When "Real America" Gets Exposed
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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History Rhymes: How Camps Are Sold to Ordinary People
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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CTRL + ALT + DELUSION | Glitter, Heels, Fear and a Slice of The Internet Losing its Mind over Drag
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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History Rhymes: This Is How It Always Starts
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Why the 90s Birthed So Many Conspiracies
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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When Games Felt Finished: The Death of the "Complete Game"
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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The Youtube Killer: When Online Persona Becomes Reality | Nerd Crime Files
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Avatar (2009) and Why Pandora Feels Alive
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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When Call of Duty Stopped Trusting Its Players: MW2019, Warzone, SBMM, and the Black Ops 7 Breaking Point
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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The Montauk Project: The "True Story" Behind Stranger Things | CTRL + ALT + DELUSION
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Are Birds Government Drones? Inside the “Birds Aren’t Real” Conspiracy | CTRL + ALT + DELUSION
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Press Start Again: An Average Joe Nerdcast New Year Retrospective
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Halo Reach: Bungie's Last Stand in The Halo Universe
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Holy Nights & Pagan Lights: The True Story of Christmas | An AJN Holiday Special
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Nerd Crime Files | James Dallas Egbert III's Disappearance and the D&D Panic
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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The Death of E3: When Gaming Stopped Needing a Stage | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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G4TV: The Rise of X-Play & Attack of The Show!, The Fall, The Comeback, and The Death of Gaming TV
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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The Heartbeat of Nickelodeon: Why Hey Arnold Still Matters | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Nickelodeon: The Oral History - From Slime Glory to Scandels and Everything In Between
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Jazz, Rain, and Helljumpers: A Deep Dive into Bungie's Noir Masterpiece - Halo 3: ODST | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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CTRL + ALT + DELUSION | The Denver Airport Conspiracy (Blucifer, Bunkers & the Illuminati?)
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Nerdsgiving | The Average Joe Nerdcast Thanksgiving Parade & Nostalgia Feast
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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CTRL + ALT + DELUSION | The Mandela Effect: Why Your Childhood Memories Are Lying To You
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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VR Troopers: The Wild Cyber Saga That Fox Kids Forgot | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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CTRL + ALT + DELUSION | Are Lizard People Running the World? The Reptilian Conspiracy Deep Dive
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Saban's Bug-Armored Fever Dream - The Big Bad Beetleborgs | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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CTRL + ALT + DELUSION | The Vaccine, Microchip, and 5G Mind Control Conspiracy
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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CTRL + ALT + DELAY | The One Where the Episode Glitched
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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It's Morphin' Time: The Wild Origins, Rise, and Fallout of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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CTRL + ALT + DELUSION | The Flat Earth Conspiracy: Debunking the Dumbest Theory on the Planet
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Holy Ghosts & Pagan Posts: The True Story of Halloween | An AJN Holiday Special
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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How the 1990s Anxiety Panics Invented Modern Fear | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Nerdoween Week 4: The Final Fright - Ghost Stories, Zombies, Goodbyes & The Light Stays On
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Unsolved & Beyond - The Shows That Traumatized 90s Kids | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Nerdoween Week 3: Franchises of Fear - Werewolves, Wi-fi, and the Monsters We Made
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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The Campfire still Burns - The Legacy of Are You Afraid of the Dark? | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Nerdoween Week 2: Haunted Hardware & Cursed Cartridges - Frankenstein's Monster, Killer Machines & Real Ghost Stories
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Goosebumps - How R.L. Stine Taught 90s Kids to Love Being Scared | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Nerdoween Begins! Dracula, Ghostface, and the Xenomorph: Monsters, Slashers & 1980s Halloween Nostalgia
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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The Venture Bros. - A Deep Dive into Adult Swim's Greatest Show | AJN Checkpoint Extra
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Average Joe Nerdcast Ep 4-"Cartoon Network's Golden Age: From Cartoon Cartoons, Toonami to Adult Swim (A Deep Dive into the Kingdom)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Halo Lore Drop #1: The Untold Origins of Master Chief (John-117) | AJN Checkpoint Extras
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Average Joe Nerdcast Ep 3-"Halo 3 at 18: Finishing the Fight, Forge Nights & The Legacy of A Legend"
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Average Joe Nerdcast Ep 2-"Halo 2: The Sequel That Changed Gaming Again”
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Average Joe Nerdcast Ep 1-"Halo: Combat Evolved-The Game That Made Xbox"
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Sep 07, 2025 |