The Nerdologues

Can a podcast take you to the movies?? No, of course not, that's dumb. But it can give you a bunch of great stories and songs inspired by America's Favorite Pastime (that's movies, right?).

After the world ending eruption, Jo Prendergast is stuck in her uncle's bunker with a ham radio and an abnormal amount of apocalypse supplies. Will she find survivors or will they find her?

In this preview we find Jo in her uncle's bunker, just after the end of the world...

In the summer of 2007, at 22 years old, Jon Lester had hit all his life goals. Now all he had to do was not mess it up. This week, we dive inside the playlist that helped him with that. 

Ever since he saw Jackie Chan's First Strike at the age of 7, Eli has been a huge fan of Chan. All of Eli's favorite fights and films are covered as well as some fun facts about the Chinese opera school friends Chan has made the most movies with and his penchants for singing the theme songs to his movies and making blooper reels of outtakes and stunt failures.

We continue our exploration of the wild women of the woods with an award-winning poet, a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-recognized spinner of intrigue, a gender-flipped Stephen Sondheim song, and so much more. 

Season two, baby! Blank Cassette's back, and we've got a new coproducer, the wonderful Ian Williams. This week, to launch the second season, Ian and Eric share their top ten side 1-track 1s. From Kanye to Boston to Kanye again, this playlist is pretty sweet. 

Maria Randazzo starts her week by perusing a couple of horoscope sources, so this conversation starts with signs (sun and rising) and continues through how these messages permeate her day-to-day life and thoughts on spirituality and the world beyond the physical Earth. She's also looking for someone to sponsor her interest in getting more frequest psychic readings, so inquire within.

We're jumping back to May with our first episode recorded at our new home, the Beat Kitchen, which doubled as a fundraiser for Chicago Women's Health Center! Get ready for some Good Witches Doing Good. 

Clint Worthington developed a love for film as an Illinois farm boy who was admittedly more of an inside, MST3K boy than anything else. Since those days of pirated satellite, he's spent years watching film with a critical eye producing reviews for his own podcasting network at Alcohollywood.com and for Consequence of Sound as well as becoming a member of the Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle. Clint talks movies as empathy machines, reviewing film through the lens of an audience and not just as one critic, and being a Michael Bay apologist.