The Nerdologues

Our fortnight begins with this pair of archive pieces showing some real love for show pillar Mr. Dwight Haesler. 

Fourteen days til Valentine's Day -- it's Fortnight time again!

Jo follows Annabelle into the basement and finds more than she bargained for...

Henry figured out how to use the internet to chat with friends and strangers alike at a young, desktop dial-up age. He's remained at the forefront of users for new platforms, networks, and apps due to some combo of an innate desire to connect online, a genuine curiosity at what the internet can do, and a relatively-innocent streak of trolling and shit-posting.

More heartfelt stories, more power ballads! From the classroom at 826CHI, a really wonderful local organization. 

In her youth, Eunji was very into reading stories about girls with spunk, and Anne of Green Gables was always the prime example. She screamed through all eight of L. M. Montgomery's books and now returns to them often to access their surprisingly forward-thinking ideas about women, satisfying female friendships and other emotional relationships, and inspirational themes regarding coming from nothing.

826CHI is one of our favorite organizations in Chicago. For our first live show of 2018, we teamed up with them to get all emotional. 

Mixmaking favorite Ben Rathert returns to the show with an audio chronicle documenting a crisis of faith. 

Charles Clark Pettitt was born and raised “where cowboy meets Cajun” and still has a deep love for the region in spite of knowing he had to escape its rampant pick up truck and Coors Light lifestyle. His Pettitt ancestors settled in Askansas seeking oil, his grandfather Arkansas (...for real...there’s a Jr and a Sr...) ate a raw onion from their Louisiana farm at every meal after they had to ghost the oil boom towns, and thanks to a high school break up that inspired an ill-fated visit to Texas A&M, Charles eventually landed in Chicago to develop his performance skills.

Get ready for this Sunday's live show -- and the upcoming few weeks of the pod -- with this episode of another Nerdopod, Blank Cassette.