Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 105 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! On this episode we welcome Erik Todd Dellums to the podcast! Erik extensive experience as an actor stretches over several decades, evolving from TV to Film, and eventually across major video game properties. You might recognize him as Arcann in Star Wars: The Old Republic, Koh the Face Stealer in Avatar the Last Air Bender...

In 2003, most of us didn't know what goes into the jobs that keep the world running... admittedly, most of us didn't want to know. However, one man dared to do those jobs; ALL of those jobs, and he brought every single, dirty one onto our TV's each week. Welcome to Season 3 Episode 104 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! This week Mark and Joe discuss Mike Rowe and his hit real...

2001 was quite the year for video games. The big three (Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox) were pushing out hits for their console exclusive titles like Super Smash Bros. Melee, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, and Halo: Combat Evolved. However, one game would outsell them all and keep us all playing for hours upon hours, thanks in part to its glorious radio. Welcome to Season 3 Episode 103 of...

Making the jump from TV to the big screen can be met with challenges, even if it you've done it six times before. Welcome to Season 3 Episode 102 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! Today Mark and Joe talk about the the starship Enterprise's seventh go at a feature film; Star Trek Generations! A film that was widely disliked by its 1994 audience, but are its narratives on passing t...

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 101 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! On this week's episode our hosts sit down and speak with Programmer, Designer, and Engineer... SEAN CALLAHAN! Callahan has experience creating games for MECC, Rocket Science Games, and Microsoft! Most notably you'll recognize his work on iconic games such as The Oregon Trail and Rocket Jockey! He even lent a hand i...

Joe and Mark live several hours away from each other. For years, this meant sharing conversations over the phone, discussing movies, TV, video games, and anything pop culture wanted to throw at them. That idea became a podcast, the conversations expanded to friends, celebrities, and digital creators. 100 episodes later, the Dissectors are joined by former host Chelsea Yonke, Seinfeld Soupposting c...

An anime that has managed to stay under the radar in the West finds its way to a Digital Dissection! Welcome to Season 3 Episode 99 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! Download today's episode to learn more about Guyver: The BioBoosted Armor; a 2005 attempt to bring the successful manga to the small screen! This series has a little bit of everything; monsters, an evil shadow organizati...

When you've been a plumber, an artist, a driving instructor, a typing teacher, pro carter, and a doctor; you begin to wonder what's next for yourself? You gather your best friends, and you build yourself an RPG. Welcome to Season 3, Episode 98 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! Today's retro review is the love child of Square and Nintendo joining forces to make one of the grea...

While Marvel has become synonymous with higher quality superhero cinema since 2008, the years leading up to the MCU had mixed results. Some gave us typical leather clad heroes thwarting extremist villains and others had performances so memorable they would be reprised in the modern movies...THIS was not one of those films. Welcome to Season 3, Episode 97 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity!...

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 96 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! Today hosts Joe, Mark, and returning guest host Chris get to sit down with writer and experienced pug blogger, Baron Destructo himself... Joseph Mallozzi! Join us today to hear about Mallozzi's experience getting started, the kinds of stories he likes to tell, his favorite and not so favorite characters to write, as wel...

Before the True Crime genre swept the world it existed as a half hour of our lives each week on the network of our choice. Before we had COPS and America's Most Wanted giving us either real footage of law enforcement in the streets or updates on the worst of society, the soothing yet chilling voice of Robert Stack came on our television. It was then followed by some of the creepiest music you&...

Deep in the lands of Zaron, the humans of Kupa Keep struggle to stay alive as they are attacked by the wicked Drow Elves of Larnion. They seek the humanity's most treasured relic: The Stick of Truth. Welcome to Season 3 Episode 94 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! Today, Mark and Joe are joined by good friend of the podcast Doug Eberle, to review the modern classic RPG South Park: Th...

As the weather begins to warm and magical feeling of spring is in the air, we all hope that someone special will pull us in close and say those seven little words we all want to hear..."I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence." Welcome to Season 3, Episode 93 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! Our hosts are excited to once again bring Nic Cage back into the fold as t...

Well, this is it everyone. This is the end...of season two! Mark and Joe take a look back at this season's special guests by talking about some of our favorite discussions with them as well as a few things that didn't make it to the final episodes. Our hosts also talk about what it was like adding reviews to this season, some of their favorite (non guest) episodes, and what it was like making the...

Myths have to come from somewhere right? Welcome to POP CULTURE LEGENDS, a Digital Dissection Mini-series. In our final Pop Culture episode of 2022, the Dissectors head to ancient Egypt to find out where pop culture and history collide. The curse of King Tut's tomb began in 1922, after the discovery of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh by Howard Carter. The body count would begin to pile up from there. Do...

In 2003 Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman entered our homes once each week to help us sort myth from reality. Welcome to Season 2 Episode 92 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! On today's episode, Mark and Joe discuss the monumental show Mythbusters! The show's original run had nearly 300 episodes where five hosts tested everything the internet could throw at them! From giant balls of Lego to duct...

Christopher Nolan's body of work speaks for itself -- and from Batman to Interstellar he has captivated audiences across the globe. In 2006, Nolan wowed movie goers with a Victorian tale of two competing illusionists in a way that is still memorable to this day. Welcome to Season 2 Episode 91 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! Today, Joe and Mark discuss the magic of The Prestige! This film ha...

The 2004 hit National Treasure starring Nicholas Cage and Diane Kruger helped to inspire a sense of adventure and a love of history in its viewers. Using prominent figures in United States history, as well as global fraternal organizations that date back several hundred years, National Treasure made a very convince piece fiction... but is there a chance this mystery was more than just a movie? Wel...

In 1992 The Legend of Zelda was still a relatively young franchise with just two games under its belt. We had previously traversed the fallen kingdom of Hyrule from a birds-eye-view and then returned to a well sold but poorly received side scroller. However, as the old idiom would have it, it turned out the third time really was the charm. Welcome to Season 2 Episode 90 of Digital Dissection: A Ne...

Welcome to Season 2 Episode 89 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! Today Mark, Joe, and Nate are joined by voice actor and food critic Dominic Armato! Join us as Dominic discusses how he got into voice acting and food journalism; as well as how to find the best authentic Chinese food in town. Stick around for the ups and downs of Flamin' Hot Cheetos, and his experiences on the beloved Monkey Is...

There are no clever openings this episode. Truth be told, it has been a difficult week after the passing of Jason David Frank and we wanted to make this episode in honor of how he came into our lives. This week Mark and Joe discuss the afternoon epic "Green with Evil." While we recall the greatness that came into our living rooms for five straight days in 1993, we also wanted to take the time to p...

Our modern era of cinema seems to be plagued with reboots and sequels. While many complain that the lack of new ideas is killing Hollywood, and they aren't entirely wrong, we argue that this rebooted gem from 1999 goes against that grain. Welcome to Season 2 Episode 87 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! Today, Mark and Joe discuss the swashbuckling success "The Mummy" starring Brendan Fraser a...

Welcome to Season 2 Episode 86 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast, where it's time for another retro review! Today Mark and Joe journey back to 1997 to review a movie tie-in that was released two years after the movie premiered. It also only had one joystick to navigate you through 64 bits of spy game glory! That's right, it is time to talk about Goldeneye 007 for the N64! Come and relive the f...

When you grew up watching your favorite cartoons on Saturday morning, you may not have noticed some differences in quality amongst your favorite shows. Maybe you were too busy getting swept up by the excitement, maybe they were just too subtle, or maybe you were too hyped up on the sugar we disguised as cereal to have noticed. It may forever be a mystery... just like the identity of whomever made...

Welcome to Season 2 Episode 85 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! Join us today as we sit down with producer, writer, and fellow nerd Dan Hernandez! Mark has a one-on-one chat with Dan about how he got into collecting comics, his adventures in table top, his first experience being on a San Diego Comic Con panel. He also discusses the rigors of producing an up coming animated series, and his cr...