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Some days, the news cycle alone makes a windowless concrete box 20 feet underground sound like a five-star spa. If I hear one more story about Putin's shirtless fishing trips, Trump’s latest bid to annex a golf course, or receive another passive-aggressive email from Heather in HR (“Just circling back”), I swear I’m digging a tunnel straight to my Cold War fallout bunker. Honestly, it’s starting to look like the only sane option. Give me 500 tins of baked beans, 300 cans of prunes in syrup (for that gourmet doom cuisine), a lifetime supply of toilet paper, and a hamster named Sir Whiskerstein powering my vintage record player. I’ll be down there listening to ABBA’s greatest hits while the surface world fights over the last Toblerone Dark, like it’s the Ring of Power. Call it escapism, call it nerdcore survivalism, call it time to actually get some peace and quiet, but whatever you call it, it’s time to crawl out through the fallout baby as today we look at cold war nuclear bunkers…
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As Halloween approaches, and we leave behind the 50th Anniversary of Spielberg’s two-note themed horror epic Jaws, we look at another director, one with many iconic horror films under his belt, and one who is not shy of using the two-note theme tune. A Director who has become synonymous with this time of year , but who has also taken us to outer planets as well. A director who is as well known for also creating the soundtracks to his films, as the films themselves. So get ready for Halloween, look out to that Dark Star and hope that, if that Thing comes to get you, you’ll be able to Escape from New York.
If you haven't guess already, in honour of Halloween, this week we take a deep dive into the career of John Carpenter.
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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.
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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!
Do I need another e-ink tablet? (Yes, yes I do).
Kris: Seen Hackers, oops!
Andi:
Kris:
Andi:
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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.
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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:
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.
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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
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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.
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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:
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
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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!
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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Welcome back to Nerdist Camp, the weekly campfire where geeks come to roast marshmallows and tell tall tales of tech.
I'm your host, Andi, here with my co-host, Kris. This week we're looking at how science fiction has become science fact— we're talking artificial intelligence.
Remember "Supertoys Last All Summer Long"—the short story that inspired Spielberg’s A.I. movie?
Once upon a time, intelligent machines were the stuff of speculative fiction. But fast forward to now, and artificial intelligence isn't just on movie screens—it's writing stories, diagnosing diseases, and maybe even crafting this podcast intro... Could you tell? Did you hear the em-dash?
So whether you’re team robo apocalypse or team angelic Alexa, settle in and here we go.
Kris:
Andi:
Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald
Chesney Hawkes - Sliding Doors Podcast
Clueless with Heidi Gardner - Blank Check with Griffin & David - Apple Podcasts
How Robots and AI Are Changing Farming - YouTube
The Viral Storm Streamers Predicting Deadly Tornadoes—Sometimes Faster Than the Government | WIRED
AI Phobia Is Just Fear That ‘Easier’ Equals ‘Cheating’
A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
Vatican City Is Now Powered By Solar - CleanTechnica
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Hello there and welcome back to Nerdist Camp where I, Kris Grainger and my partner in Crime, Kyle to my Cartman if you will, Andi Elliott discuss all things nerdy and geeky, basically, things that make us tick and notch up the interest gauge into the red. This week’s topic is all things nuclear that have gone wrong, so let's crack out the geiger counter and hurriedly scout around the cupboard for the iodine as we look at all things that can kill you, without necessarily going boom!
We discuss nuclear accidents, safety concerns, historical incidents, military nuclear disasters, radiation exposure, whistleblowing, environmental contamination and film adaptations of true events.
Disaster at Silo 7 - Wikipedia
Exploring an Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant - YouTube
Manhattan Season 1 | Prime Video
Physicality: the new age of UI
Sandi Toksvig - Ghost encounter
Kris recommends:
Explorer from Another World - Movie
Andi recommends:
The Vast of Night | Prime Video
The Irrepressible Pancho Barnes | National Air and Space Museum
Prime Video: Clarkson's Farm – Season 4
Better Call Dave - This American Life
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Hey welcome back to Nerdist Camp — the podcast where we get as nerdy as you possibly can without busting a blood vessel.
I’m your camp captain, Andi, and this week I’m huddling around the proverbial campfire with Kris Grainger, right before it gets doused by a tidal wave, buried by lava, or sucked up into a category five twister — that’s right: we’re talking disaster movies.
From the 1970s golden age — and by “golden,” I mean “everyone is screaming in bell bottoms” — we’ll relive classics like Airport 1970 (the one that started it all), The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and Earthquake.
Then we fast-forward to the 1990s, when disaster movies came back louder, dumber, and somehow sweatier: Volcano gave us Tommy Lee Jones fighting lava, Twister gave us flying cows, Dante’s Peak gave us Grandma boiling in a lake.
And we’ve got to talk about the spoof that managed to both parody and perfect the disaster genre… Airplane! It’s the film that reminded us that the most important thing in a crisis is to stay calm, and most importantly, ‘don’t call me Shirley.’
Why do we love watching things go catastrophically, explosively, absurdly wrong? Is it the spectacle? The heroic last-second saves? Or just that weird part of the human brain that thinks, ‘You know what would make this airplane ride better? An engine fire and a nun with a guitar.’
So grab your emergency supplies — a flashlight, bottled water, and your most mel-o-dramatic inner monologue — and join us for this episode of Nerdist Camp.
Links to things we waffled about:
Engineers revive 'dead' thrusters on Voyager spacecraft 24 billion kilometres from Earth
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Today we say Gronda Gronda listeners as we are nerding about challenge-based adventure shows that were popular on British television, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s. The Adventure Game, The Crystal Maze, Knightmare, The Krypton Factor, Treasure Hunt, and Fortboyard. What do they have in common you ask? Each show features participants undergoing physical, mental, or problem-solving challenges in a structured or fantastical setting. Its like doing a puzzle whilst solving a riddle, while you’re in a maze with other people, on a travelator, and on telly.
These shows appealed to all ages, focusing on puzzle-solving skills rather than trivia knowledge. They transformed viewers into armchair adventurers, letting them experience thrilling challenges from home. Viewers love thinking "I could do better!" while watching contestants race against the clock.
We also introduce our new Grainger Things section where we discuss the alleged UFO Crash – in Penkridge, Staffordshire in 1964. Was it a coverup or just a local myth?
Link to things we discuss in the show:
Run the Gauntlet - UKGameshows
Run The Gauntlet (ITV - Thames Television) - 1988 - YouTube
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There are few things more British than tea, queuing politely, or apologising when someone else bumps into you.
But nestled comfortably among these national treasures is another great tradition: James Bond on TV every single Bank Holiday Monday—like clockwork.
Somehow, Bond has become a sort of collective cinematic comfort blanket. He might be jumping off a dam, skiing off a cliff, or fighting divers and sharks—but you? You’re in your pyjamas, wrapped in a duvet, with a mug of tea and your Mum asking, “Is this the one with the underwater car?”
Whether he’s being played by Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, Craig, or Whoever’s-Next, James Bond is with us—not just in the cinemas every few years, but every bank holiday, tucked into our homes like an old mate who always brings explosions and never does the washing up.
Today we are discussing all things Bond!
GoldenEye 007 N64 "Pause Music" (K.O. II + OP-1 Field REMAKE) - YouTube
Watch A Man on the Inside | Netflix Official Site
North Sea Hijack | English Full Movie | Action Adventure Thriller - YouTube
North Sea Hijack - Trailer | IMDb
007: Road to a Million | Amazon Prime
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Welcome to the second episode of our podcast. Today Kris and Andi head over to Area 52 of the Nerdist Camp, just behind the toilet block, and climb into the time machine to help us party like it's 1980(ish).
Stepping out of the doors into another era, we discuss our first computers and consoles, early games that were a formative part of our tastes, and what we're playing today.
We also discuss our current reading, listening and streaming TV, as well as the current pile of Blu Rays.
We also review Steve McNeil's wonderfully funny book on the history of video games Hey Listen!
Atomfall, Tunic, Donkey Kong Country HD, Tomb Raider 1-3, Stray, Alien Isolation.
Tomb Raider III (still) Halo, Doom Eternal, Mario Kart
Watching: Andor S2, The Studio
Reading: Backlog of Pics & Ink “Free Range Magazines”
Listening: Lighter, Darker by ILM (podcast, just finished the Bryce Dallas Howard episode)
Recommending: Paradise (Disney+), Doctor Odyssey (Disney+),
Watching: The Diamond Heist (Guy Ritchie, 2025), Edge of Darkness (Troy Kennedy Martin, 1985).
Reading: Berserker by Adrian Edmondson (Audible)
Listening: Crime Next Door (BBC Sounds)
Recommending: The Residence (Netflix), Only Murders in the Building (Disney)
OpenEmu - Multiple Video Game System
High-quality retro video game books and collections | Bitmap Books
Tomb Raider | Tomb Raider I-III Remastered
Montezuma's Revenge! on the App Store
Betty Boo - Doin' The Do 1990 (Official Music Video) Remastered - YouTube
Being Freelance podcast and community
Podcast Episodes Archive | Industrial Light & Magic
Watch The Studio - Apple TV+ (UK)
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Welcome to a brand new podcast, Nerdist Camp. Each week we'll set up our tent, firmly in the camp of all things geek, in the hope of sharing our enthusiasms, obsessions and knowledge. We also hope to debate controversial takes on topics, ask questions about subjects we're less familiar with, and invite expert guests to fill us in on areas we've had the curiosity, but not the time, to pursue. Following on from that, we hope to get out and about and do some special episodes, visiting conventions, interesting spaces, and meeting people we wouldn't normally have the chance to drag into the studio; with drag being the operative word here as you know, many nerds are highly allergic to sunlight.
In this first episode, we meet our hosts and discuss Classic Sci-fi, what defines the genre for us and what were our first encounters and experiences of the genre? We discuss our top films, books and audio books in the genre. We look at those hobbies that we started but never finished, despite major outlay for all the right gear, and we ask forgiveness for our sins of geek.
Here's some link to things we discussed in the episode:
Star Wars fan edits and restoration
Star Wars Fan Remasters And Project 4K77 Explained
Empire Strikes back 35mm restoration feedback thread (POUT) (a WIP) - Original Trilogy
Star Wars, Film Preservation, and Fan Edits - Original Trilogy
Andi’s links:
Craig Charles is Spaced Out - YouTube
Thanks for listening and see you next week, under the canvas. At ease soldier!
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Hello there soldier and welcome to Nerdist Camp! We are your hosting officers, Kris Grainger and Andi Elliott.
We'll be setting up camp on Friday May 2nd 2025 at 11am, which will be our new weekly Nerdist Camp release slot.
What other podcast out there is going to blend tech news, geeky deep dives, and
guest spots with other nerds who totally get it? We’re bringing the full nerd
experience to your earbuds.
We'll be covering topics such as:
video games, board games, music, vinyl, Lego, childhood toys, home recording, and music making, anything within the digital or analogue sphere, retro gear, game releases, coffee, Warhammer, PlayStation, conspiracy theories, Nintendo, weird science, astronomy, science fiction, radiation, cold war bunkers, history, wars, comics, animation, film, and classic sci-fi TV to name but a few.
We'll venture into the woods with our special guests, we'll trade stories and confessions around the campfire and we'll look at the weird and wonderful, in a section called Grainger things, where we'll argue the spectacular versus the voice of reason.
We'll be looking at those childhood toys that you wished you'd had but you never did, until of course you bought them yourself as an adult . We'll be looking at those hobbies that you started but never finished, despite buying all the gear, and those purchases that you just dare not tell your partner about
But really, the best part? It’s our nerdy community. This isn’t just a podcast; it’s like
opening the doors to a secret society of tech lovers and geek enthusiasts. And we’re
inviting everyone to join in and let their geek flag fly. So if you want to get involved, you can email us on:
nerdistcamp@gmail.com and get involved in the topic selection of the show, or even invited on as a guest!
So, hit subscribe and get ready to join us on a wild, nerdy ride through tech, gaming,
deep dives, and everything in between. It’s not just for the nerds—it’s for the curious
minds out there who want to know everything.
See you under the canvas at roll call!
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