BlerdTalk with Bola and Whitney

In honor of Women's History Month we are reviewing the girl power action film The 355. We are Blerding Out about Miss Marvel , The Batman , Bridgerton Season 2, Black Lady Sketch Show , Abbot Elementary , Proud Family: Louder and Prouder , Netflix's Marvel series, and Lillie's of Charleston hot sauces. Catch the Girl Power wave and listen in with us. Trevor Noah Idris Elba Bond https://youtu.be/4L...

This week we are getting musical and talking about the adaptation of musicals to film. Our case studies are Netflix's tick, tick... BOOM ! and Dear Evan Hansen . We are Blerding Out about The Book Bar, Soul Taco restaurant and HBO Max series Peacemaker . Join our riveting convo and Blerd Out with us! The Book Bar https://www.rvabookbar.com/main Soul Taco https://www.soultacorva.com/ Dear Evan Hans...

In the spirit of Black History Month, we are reviewing Black is King on Disney+, featuring Beyonce and a slew of African artists like Yemi Alade, Shatta Wale, Tiwa Savage and Buena Boy. We also are Blerding Out about Netflix's High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America , Ali Wong's newest comedy special, HBO Max series Raised by Wolves and Love Life , Hulu's Only Murders in...

This is our special minipod episode. We talk about our trip to Roanoke to see the Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design exhibit at the Taubman Museum of Art. It features costumes designed by Academy Award winning designer Ruth E. Carter, and films like Black Panther , Do the Right Thing , Selma , and Dolemite Is My Name . We also talk about the wonderful meal had at the local restaurant S...

This Valentine's Day we are talking about Black Love. We have a double feature in reviewing Amazon Prime's Sylvie's Love , and Needle in a Timestack . Our Blerd Out Topics for this week are: The Black Film Archive; For Colored Nerds Podcast; HBO's Love Life ; Target's Black History Month clothes; The Shaved Duck Restaurant; Come From Away , the Broadway musical; Disney's Jungle Cruise ; Netflix's...

Join us as we review Spider-Man: No Way Home. We also revisit Disney's Encanto . Whitney mentions her binge list of weekend Horror films and series and Bola makes Whitney take a Nerd Percentage quiz. Whitney's weekend horror movie binge watch list: Eli Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Insidious Insidious: Chapter 2 Insidious: Chapter 3 Fear Street: Part One - 1994 Fear Street: Part Two- 1978 Fear...

This week's episode we review Disney's Encanto . We also discussed various shows on Apple TV+ such as: Ted Lasso , See , The Morning Show , Servant , and Defending Jacob . We also talked about Amazon Prime Series Modern Love and films Everybody's Talking About Jamie , Boxing Day , and Being the Ricardos . Last but not least was the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special on HBO M...

Keresimesi! Merry Christmas everyone! Our last episode of the year is here. As advertised, we are reviewing Neflix's A Naija Christmas , produced and filmed in Nigeria. We also Blerd Out about the Van Gogh Immersive Experience, and TV series Hawkeye , Doom Patrol , The Witcher , and Santa Inc. Listen on Christmas day. Deck the halls with Festive Glasses. Link to Yoruba Christmas Song in this episo...

It's the Christmas Season and this month we are coming at you with reviews of new Christmas movies. This week's episode features our review of Netflix's Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey . Other topics discussed are Crocs, Christmas gifts, Christmas music, Christmas movies, Xena: Warrior Princess , Hawkeye and the live action Cowboy Bebop . Listen in and Blerd Out with us! Intro and Outro music i...

This week on BlerdTalk, we have a recurring guest, Jane Samuels, on the pod to discuss the film Promising Young Woman and all the important themes and topics that emerged from the movie. We are Blerding Out about films: tick, tick...Boom!, and Passing ; TV series: The Queen's Gambit , Maid , Bones , Centaurworld , and 13 Reasons Why ; and music from  Adele and Taylor Swift. Links and extras t...

In this week's episode we review Marvel's Black Widow . Other topics we discuss are the films The Harder They Fall , and the Twilight series. We also discuss the TV shows I May Destroy You , Sex Education , Lucifer , Legacies , Marvel's What If…? , food service HelloFresh, and Harry Potter merch. Listen in as we sing, talk, and all around Blerd Out. Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun F...

We review the new Sci Fi epic, Dune , and also compare and contrast the 2021 film with the 1984 version. Other topics we Blerd Out about are local food truck, Mobile Yum Yum, Halloween costumes, and Netflix series, Squid Game and   Midnight Mass . Links from the show: Mobile YumYum https://mobileyumyum1.com/# Squid Game Parody: https://youtu.be/vWdHPMhy270 Armie Hammer Vogue Article https://w...

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we reviewed the summer musical, Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights . This episode, we are joined by our friend Jane. Join us as we Blerd Out about various TV shows, movies and topics. Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Contact...

0:00 Rerun intro, and where to watch Pixar's Coco right now https://www.disneyplus.com/ 1:40 Starbucks issue 6:15 Marvin Gaye song 7:08 You should be on American Idol 8:04 Yoko Kanno 9:33 Composing 12:05 Blerding Out- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Whitney) 13:08 Krypton 14:02 “I’m a Dude” from Goodburger 14:38 Blerding Out- Threading eyebrows (Bola) 19:51 Blerding Out #2- Jacuzzi (Bola) 23:41 Pixar’s...

This week we discuss and review Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. We also discuss the Teen Wolf TV series, our vacations, trying new foods, and as always, there will be singing. Join us while we Blerd Out! Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun Show Notes by Bola Hanson Audio engineering by Whitney Booker Show Conta...

2:07 Reminiscing About Old Cartoons 10:37 Blerd Out Whitney - Teen Wolf TV Show 15:00 Blerd Out Bola- Ben Barnes Music, “Hyrise”: https://youtu.be/p7kG5xnAMT8 20:20 Intro to Topic- Ready Player One Movie 23:31 Movie Plot 25:00 Negatives 36:37 Positives 44:34 The Shining Second Key 50:00 The Third Key 54:06 The Annoying Villain 59:30 Representation Matters 1:02:47 The Heartless Villain 1:05:15 Fina...

2:54 Intro to Month's Theme - Video Game Movies 4:53 Intro to Topic - Free Guy 6:13 Blerd Out Bola - Lizzo Song "Rumors" 9:35 TripleFQueen Theme Song 10:30 Ben Barnes' Birthday 10:50 Blerd Out Whitney - Humans TV Show 15:30 AI/VR Dangers and Ethics 18:45 What is Sentient? 26:30 Free Guy Plot 34:45 Other Cast Members & Cameos 42:45 Video Games 49:48 Portal game 53:57 Game Makers 55:25 The Love...

1:42 Intro to Raya and the Last Dragon 4:07 Blerd Out Bola - The Olympics 7:09 Simone Biles and Mental Health 11:48 Nigerian Food Cart 13:12 Blerd Out Whitney - BlerDCon 14:55 Bad Comedians 19:55 BlerDCon 2 27:36 The Good Fight 28:57 Creepy Images in Films 31:01 First Impression of Raya 37:07 Story/Plot 53:53 Main Messages 1:02:32 Lesson of Trust 1:09:34 Rating and Final Thoughts 1:10:42 Push to W...

2:00 Reboot and Toonami 5:20 Intro to Month's Theme: Animated Dragon 6:45 Reality Show Blues 10:11 Blerd Out Whitney - Masters of the Universe and Masters of the Universe: Revelation 14:16 Blerd Out Bola - Naija Wedding and Amtrak Train 19:24 Hot Pot 22:24 Wish Dragon 23:23 Love of Animated Movies 30:20 First impression of Wish Dragon 34:35 The Story 45:35 Cultural Points 49:10 Characters - Din an...

0:30 "Rock the Casbah" 4:10 Intro to Episode Cruella 5:00 New Disney Films 7:56 Blerd Out Whitney - Darkangel book series https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0010KIIDU/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_glt_fabc_ETB90WH8781A99C39YXT 10:38 Blerd Out Bola - Shadow and Bone book series https://smile.amazon.com/dp/125019623X/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_glt_fabc_T3HQAFTDY81PDE49KNWY 11:30 Audiobooks 15:58 Writing and Worldbuilding - Le...

0:40 90's Anime Cartoons 4:00 Intro to Episode Lupin 6:00 Languages and Subtitles 7:00 "Dragostea din tei" https://youtu.be/ILtz5nX3_fc 9:16 Netflix and Foreign Films 10:30 Workin' Moms on Netflix 13:37 Live Action Cowboy Bebop teaser https://youtu.be/te1kMMogOKk 15:41 Blerd Out Bola - Opening Up, Restrictions Lifting 18:18 Blerd Out Bola 2 - Juneteenth Dirty South Exhibit VMFA 21:23 Future Movies...

1:45 Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2:25 Intro into Episode Korean Movies Minari and Parasite 5:58 Where to watch both movies 7:08 Blerd Out: Bola - Ben Barnes 10:50 Ben Barnes Sings 12:54 Shadow and Bone Netflix show and book series 14:43 Blerd Out: Whitney - Fishing 22:35 Minari - Analysis 23:56 Slice of Life Film 30:33 African Doctor 31:45 Minari Male American Dream 34:54 An...

1:36 Topic intro Mulan 3:22 “Be A Man” 4:35 Mulan live action reaction 8:27 Chi - conceal, don’t feel 11:13 So many questions 15:24 Controversies around the film 19:24 Liu Yifei 20:25 Why Mulan didn’t work YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjK50kEgvo&t=326s&ab_channel=Sideways 22:48 Replacements 27:52 The Witch 29:55 Likes 36:37 Dislikes 42:39 The Villain 44:15 Better Asian M...

0:39 DMX Songs and Death 1:30 Prince Philip Death 2:28 Intro to topic Judas and the Black Messiah and The United States vs. Billie Holiday 3:43 Blerd Out: Whitney - New Equipment 5:43 Master Class  9:40 Blerd Out: Bola - Rege-Jean Paul not coming back for Bridgerton Season 2 16:10 Black Biopic 18:15 The Parallels 20:06 Institutional Racism 26:00 Whitney's Rating 28:22 Fred Hampton and Jesus 30:00...

1:19 Welcome to Season 2 2:13 Intro to topic WandaVision 2:22 Whitney - Blerd Out 3:25 Explaining Blerd 4:55 Bola - Blerd Out 8:08 Stop Asian Hate 14:43 Shout Outs - Anna Akana and Iamdulo 16:05 WandaVision - Initial Thoughts 34:28 Episode Breakdown 43:41 Quicksilver Controversy 49:21 The Bad Guy 50:16 Monica Rambeau’s Powers 56:55 Agatha All Along 1:04:45 Scarlet Witch - Wanda’s New Power 1:08:15...