Nerd Noise Radio

[2025 Addendum] Our third and final rerun which we’re releasing for July, and third and final rerun celebrating the memory of Masters of VGM (“MoVGM”), and our third and final of my bids to drum up excitement for the “VGM Hall of Fame” (“HoF”)  series spearheaded by Alex “The Messenger” Messenger of “A VGM Journey” ( https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey ), Professor Tom from “Shujin Academy...

[2025 Addendum….sorry for the long-winded] Our second of three reruns which we’re releasing for July, and second of three reruns celebrating the memory of Masters of VGM (“MoVGM”), and the second of three of my bids to drum up excitement for the “VGM Hall of Fame” (“HoF”)  series spearheaded by Alex “The Messenger” Messenger of “A VGM Journey” ( https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey ), Profe...

[2025 Addendum….sorry for the ultra long-winded] Normally, we only share one rerun a month at Nerd Noise Radio. But due to the confluence of a) our having missed the May rerun completely, b) our not getting a June rerun out until the very end of the month, and c) a very important thematic connection to an event currently happening in the VGM podcast scene this month, I’m releasing…..not one……not t...

2025 Addendum (original show notes below) Today’s rerun includes a tacked on 2025 introduction directed primarily at listeners on Terra Player, and also references links to two other “made on Steam Deck” NNR episodes. See those links below: C1E71: “The Wonder Years” [Channel 1]: https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e71-the-wonder-years/ C2R3: “Best of 2023” [Channe...

Today’s broadcast is C1E96 for Theme Thursday, June 26th, 2025 (happy 27th "dating" anniversary to my dear wife, St. Jodee). Today’s theme is a collection of music from games in my own personal Steam Library – planned, curated, produced, and distributed entirely on/from the Steam Deck (SteamOS desktop mode)! A collection dominated by music from indie games from the 2010's and 2020's and peppered w...

Today’s broadcast is C1E95 for VibeOff Vrijdag, May 9th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be a one-time-only special twist on a FaceOff Friday, where, instead of comparing different versions of the same track against each other, we're comparing pairs (and occasionally trios) of different songs against each other which either have similar movements, or melodies, or instrumentation, or simply just vibes...

2025 Show Notes Amendment: I love the setup we have here where on the first day of the month, we released our final ever TwoFer Tuesday, and now, here at the last day of the month, we re-release our first ever TwoFer Tuesday! It feels like a wonder twist on "bookends". As always when re-running early episodes, please excuse the atrocious production quality. One of my favorite things looking back o...

Today’s broadcast is C1E94 for Theme Thursday, April 24th, 2025 (Switch 2 pre-order day.....take 2......we hope!). Today’s broadcast is a celebration of the music from the various mainline installments of the Jackbox Party Pack – the greatest "social lubricant" in the history of video games - and the longest run-time [quote] "ordinary" Channel 1 episode in Nerd Noise Radio history, So, buckle up f...

Today’s broadcast is C1E93 for TwoFer Tuesday, very conspicuously releasing on April 1st, 2025. Today’s "can you find the hidden gag" broadcast will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 11 – our final ever installment of the TwoFer Tuesday series, and though technically the second-to-last planned April Fool's episode, our last April Fool's episode to present a novel idea (since 2026's installment is slated to...

2025 re-run bonus notes:   This episode is the third in a trilogy of music blocks (parts 1 and 2 were our January and February reruns). Long time listeners may already know what this trilogy is all about, but for those who don't and have been following the reruns, the introduction to this episode finally explains what the trilogy is all about.   So, the fun [for me] question: of the three music bl...

Today’s broadcast is C1E92 for Soundtrack Saturday, February 15th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be the soundtrack to the game Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, on multiple platforms (St. John played it on Steam Deck), composed by Button Masther aka Jake Silverman – an episode originally intended to release in June 2024, and then again in October 2024 before being bumped both times.    Tracklist!    ...

2025 re-run bonus notes:   This rerun is releasing on the precise 5yr anniversary of its original release - in other words, this celebration of St. John's 40th birthday, featuring his wife, both his kids, both his parents, and his brother is re-releasing on St. John's 45th birthday!   Also, it is the second of a trilogy of music blocks (the first of which was last month's rerun), which, if not alr...

Today’s broadcast is  C1E91 for Mishmash Monday, January 27th, 2025. Today’s Broadcast will be Mishmash Monday – vol. 16 – the debut episode of season 8, and our final "regular", "ordinary", "standard:, "customary" [pick your preferred term] season.      Tracklist!     Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Original Episode(s) / Originally Selected By / Timestamp     A1) Intro - 00:00:00 ...

2025 re-run bonus notes:   Our first re-run of our return to the practice is also the first-released [second produced] of a trilogy of music blocks. Long-time listeners of the show may already know what I'm talking about, but newer listeners and/or those who do not remember may be perplexed by what I'm talking about. Well, it will all be explained in the intro to the final of the trilogy (releasin...

Today, I have two special announcements for you - actually, three (though only the first two appear in the announcement recording)! Apologies for how awkward and unscripted this recording is: - The first is a repeat of the all-call, calling our listeners away from Spotify - redundant, but worth repeating! - The second is an all-call to the listeners to get me tracks (see the links below to relevan...

  [Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1R7: The Best of 2024”    ———————————————————  ———————————————————  ———————————————————    Today’s broadcast is  C1R7 for Wayback Wednesday, January 15th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be "The Best of 2024" - our look back at the previous year of Channel 1 as well as Channel 2 not already featured in the Ch 2 retrospectives.    Tracklist!     Track# / T...

Well, this is it, folks - our very last episode of Channel 2, taking a long….VERRRRRRY LONG last look back through the entirety of our show’s history, and featuring at least one track from every single episode! This episode really is obscenely long - just shy of 5 ½ hours! But it covers so much history, and is our way of putting a bow on everything. So we hope you will stick with us for the entire...

A 2024 rebroadcast of a 2016 production (with 2024 introduction) reading a 2012 essay on the events of Christmas 1989 - also a tribute to Christmas 1994 (by way of the 2024 intro) Background music in the 2016 production by Doctor Octoroc (mistakenly said "DJ Octoroc" in the recording) from their collection "8-bit Jesus" - except for brief interludes by Billy Joel and The Gregory Brothers. Backgrou...

Today’s broadcast is C2R4 for Wayback Wednesday, December 11th, 2024. Today’s Episode, our 2nd-to-last Ch 2 episode ever (or at least, 2nd-to-last one we PLAN to ever do) is our annual retrospective of the previous year of Channel 2 - in this case, of our Season 4. Today’s broadcast, therefore, is “C2R4 - The Best of Season 4” containing our customary two passes through history (by host), and book...

Season 4 (2024) - The Final Season of Channel 2!   70 Tracks   Season Runtime (MUSIC-ONLY vers.) - 03:27:17   Complete Season (MUSIC-ONLY vers.) Release Date:  12/08/2024 ---------------------------------------------------------- Episode: C2E16: "Songs with Words"   Original release date: 03/07/2024   Episode Theme: Game Music with Vocals   Theme Elaboration: N/A   Episode Theme by: Hugues   Episo...

Today’s broadcast is C1E90 for Theme Thursday, November 21st  2024. Today’s Broadcast is part 2 of a 2 part series on music from 100 of Hugues' favorite games as a part of his "farewell tour" to podcasting – 50 apiece for the occasion of his upcoming 50th birthday – curated, produced, and hosted by Hugues himself - on a program we're calling "Turning 50 – The B-Sides"    Tracklist!     Track# / Tr...

Today’s broadcast is C1E89 for Theme Thursday, November 14th, 2024. Today’s Broadcast is part 1 of a 2 part series on music from 100 of Hugues' favorite games as a part of his "farewell tour" to podcasting – 50 apiece for the occasion of his upcoming 50th birthday – curated, produced, and hosted by Hugues himself - on a program we're calling "Turning 50 – The A-Sides"    Tracklist!     Track# / Tr...

Today’s Broadcast is C2E20, for Theme Thursday, Oct 24th, 2024. All good things must come to an end. Today is the final “regular” (as in, “final non-retrospective” episode - and as opposed to “final all time” episode). This will be the final episode where we bring new tracks to the show, though. So it is still an ending. The theme, therefore, is ending music, on a program we’re calling “...all goo...

Today’s broadcast is  C1E88 for FaceOff Friday, Sept 27th, 2024. Today’s broadcast will be FaceOff Friday – vol. 7 – very likely to be our final FaceOff Friday episode!    A1) Intro – 00:00:00    01) Double Dragon - Mission 2 - Kazunaka Yamane  A) Arcade – 00:03:39 B) Genesis – 00:05:19 C)MastersystemFM – 00:06:59  D)MastersystemPSG – 00:09:06  E) NES – 00:11:15 F) Gameboy – 00:12:43 G) GBA – 00:1...

Today’s broadcast is C2E19 for Theme Thursday, Sept 26th, 2024. Today’s theme is…..well, there are two themes, and they’re both a secret. Each host has their own mystery theme - can you guess what the themes are? Today’s episode is called “Mystery Flavors”.   [Production Note: more details below, but we apologize if the conversation on the opening track sounds a little more halting or broken up th...