Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast

Welcome to Season 2 Episode 51 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! Every few years competitors from across the globe come together to proudly represent their countries. They put forth everything to compete, struggle, succeed, and...drink beer from a glass boot?  On today's episode, Mark and Joe dissect the often overlooked and definitely underrated comedy from Broken Lizard, Beerfest. You...

Welcome to Season 2 Episode 50 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! On today's episode, Mark and Joe turn back the clock to 2012, dodge a scheduled apocalypse, and sharpen our hidden blades once again to tackle Assassin's Creed III in our first ever Retro Review. As usual, our hosts discuss development history, characters, actors, and the story of the game, but this time they also discuss what t...

Welcome back to Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! For our season 2 opener we have one of our most anticipated guests yet! Noah Watts sits down with Mark and Joe to discuss some of his favorite movie franchises, his heritage, acting career, Assassin's Creed III (as the voice of Connor Kenway), and how he pours his heart and soul into his music. Oh, and he might know a thing or two about surviving...

We would like to thank everyone that gave our podcast a chance, a listen, or a look for our first season! For our finale, Mark and Joe look back on their favorite memories from the first season.   We hope you've enjoyed the road so far. we'll be taking a short break before Season 2 begins. Thank you for making this first season an incredible experience and fun for all of us. Music Credits: "P...

Welcome to Season 1 Episode 48 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! On the fifth and final episode of our Creator's Spotlight, we welcome artist Vince Sunico! Vince has been drawing for over 40 years and has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and skill in his craft.  Vince talks about how he has been drawing all his life, how he got into drawing comics, and his experience with LOATHE -- his...

Welcome to Season 1 Episode 47 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! This is week four of our Creator's Spotlight! On today's podcast we continue our conversation with video game designer Jesse Sosa! This time we talk a little Neon Genesis Evangelion, the struggles that many movie sequels face, and we circle back to some of Jesse favorite moments of Ghostbusters: The Game (some of which didn't ma...

Welcome to Season 1 Episode 46 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! This is week three of our Creator's Spotlight! On today's podcast Joe, Chelsea, and Mark have a discussion with video game designer Jesse Sosa! Jesse talks about his early art development, overcoming the fear of going to college on a tight budget, entering the video game industry (Terminal Reality, Dinosaur Games, Gearbox Softwa...

She has a PhD, she's written for DC, Marvel and Dark Horse Comics, and can hold her own in a muay thai match! On this week's Creator's Spotlight episode of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast, Chelsea, Mark, and Joe welcome writer Stephanie Williams to the show! Stephanie discusses her love for the characters she writes, writing inspirations, which comic book character she would spar with, and...wa...

Welcome to Season 1 Episode 44 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast, and the first episode of our Creator's Spotlight!  On today's episode, Chelsea, Joe, and Mark talk with artist Dia Jamandron about her career in digital art and animation! Dia has worked for Disney, Nickelodeon, and Netflix on various shows as well as her own personal artwork! We hope you enjoy hearing about how she got her...

Welcome to Season 1 Episode 43 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! On today's episode Mark and Joe have a conversation with actor Dileep Rao! You have likely seen him in films and series such as Inception, Avatar, and Drag Me to Hell, and Z Nation! Dileep not only goes over his career as an actor, but he also touches on his early life, how he came into his craft, valuable life lessons, and...th...

Once upon a time we didn't need uniforms, high speed internet connections, a Twitch audience, or fancy trophies to show off our video game dominance. All we really needed was our friends, greasy pizza, a slightly musty environment, and a pocket full of quarters so we could enter our initials and claim dominance over our favorite arcade game. Welcome to season one episode 41 of Digital Dissection:...

Have you ever been gaming on a vintage console and wish you could take those good old games with you wherever you went? Well luckily for you, we know a guy... Welcome to season one episode 35 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! Today, Joe and Mark sit down with Ben Heck (Ben Heck Hacks, The Ben Heck Show) to talk about making consoles portable, his early days in graphic design, and independent...

From a young age, Kyle Hebert was fascinated with cartoons and anime; but his love for them was more than just their animation and sweet Saturday morning storylines.  Kyle developed a deep appreciation for the men and women whose voices brought his favorite characters to life. Today on season 1 episode 33 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast, esteemed voice actor Kyle Hebert from shows...

The term "Nerd" has changed over the years, and it has done so for the better.  With nerd culture having become pop culture, people can wear their interests on their sleeves with relative acceptance.  However, this wasn't always the case. For many years interests that were considered to be nerdy typically had to be kept secret or at the very least limited in order to maintain social acce...

So, like most lifestyles, how we gamed in the midst of a pandemic was different than how we did before life seemed to have shut down. Doug Eberle rejoins us today to talk about how he upgraded his gaming during this time while some of us actually slowed down and enjoyed life on an island...a virtual island...run by a racoon.  Music Credits: "Pixel Peeker Polka (Faster)" Written and Performed...

What do you get when you mix a humble upbringing in a small Wisconsin town with a love for role playing table top games, college LAN parties, and wandering through the desert for inspiration? If you guessed one of the best game designers/directors in the video game industry, Josh Sawyer, you'd be right! Welcome to Season 1 Episode 26 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! Today we sit down with Jo...

This is one of our most anticipated weeks ever, we will be talking with esteemed video game Designer and Director Josh Sawyer on Wednesday! Today Mark and Joe talk about some of the games Josh has worked on as well as the different companies that he'd connect with over the years. If you aren't familiar with him you'll have a little background before this week's main episode.  Music Credit: "P...

Today we say goodbye to the Golden Age of 80's and 90's RPG's and continue our trek through the genre into the modern day. Welcome to Season 1 Episode 25 of Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast; gone are the days of adorably simplistic pixelated sprites and we now enter S.P.E.C.I.A.L. systems, Old Republics, and the World...of Warcraft! Join us as we look at the pillars of modern RPGs and the dawn o...

Welcome back to Digital Dissection: A Nerd Podcast! On today's Side Stitch we talk about Action RPGs!!...and how we kind of hate them...well we definitely have problems with them and now you're going to hear about it.  But do we think they are all that bad? Listen and find out! Music Credits: "Pixel Peeker Polka (Faster)" Written and Performed by Kevin MacLeod

As you've heard our hosts say before, role playing games (RPG's) are some of their favorite video games to play and in some cases, play again. Join Chelsea, Joe, and Mark as they talk about some of their favorite RPG's as well as a few honorable mentions.  Since our hosts are by no means experts, they aren't saying these are the best RPG's out there, but they really loved them and get ready t...

After 30 years of content creation Trey Parker and Matt Stone have become household names and...hit Broadway producers? Join Chelsea, Mark, and Joe as they discuss "The Book of Mormon," a hilarious take at spreading any religion in the modern world, no matter how passionate you are about it. If you're enthusiastic about it then it can't be all that bad right?...right? Music Credits: "Pixel Peeker...

When you create 20+ games over 35 years you're likely to have some peaks and valleys.   While most Hyrulian based video games may be generally addictive, exciting, and cause the video game world to lose their minds -- some, well ... don't.  Join Joe, Mark and NEW HOST CHELSEA as they kick off Zelda week by discussing their favorite -- and least favorite entries in the series.   Musi...

The verse of Firefly was notable for many things -- chief among them a unique musical score that controls the feel of the show.   The TV series (2002) and Serenity (2005) film however would differ heavily in their composition.   Joe and Mark join forces with Chris and Leslie Lott of Measuring the Score to break down the musical compositions of both properties. We learn a lot along t...

Ah the video game movie... we've seen many favorite properties get a big screen adaptation.  Unfortunately it's a sea of mediocrity with a few bright spots lightly peppered throughout.   Joe and Mark dig into some video game movie history before analyzing what we know about the Borderlands movie.   Optimism? Worry? What do you think based on what we know?   Music Credits:...

Joe and Mark head back to mega city 1 for a chance to see just how well they remember the Sylvester Stallone film.   What has largely been lumped into forgotten action movie history is a film that has some surprisingly well fleshed out aspects of the 2000 AD universe.   Does it all work?  That is for you to decide -- you be the JUDGE.   Music Credits: "Pixel Peeker Polka - Fast...