The Dart Jam

With Boomstick Mods out on leave to carry on dad-duties, Nathani and Spud Spudoni have on Blaster876, the coach of Team Smog and fellow teammate of Nathani from this year's Maryland Foam Tournament, to discuss and review the event end-to-end! Where to find us: Dart Jam Discord: https://discord.gg/c9MYJfQamh Boomstick Mods: https://linktr.ee/BoomstickMods Nathani: https://www.instagram.com/enne...

We're joined by Andrew aka DartSweep to discuss choosing venues for your club, the debate between free and paid events, and how to market yourself to a potential location! Where to find us: Dart Jam Discord: https://discord.gg/c9MYJfQamh DartSweep: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/dartsweep35 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@dartsweep3406 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dartsweep35 Boomstick...

Boomstick Mods (Neal), Nathani (Nate), and Spud Spudoni talk about addiction, burnout, heartbreak, and other stressors we face in the hobby. (Slight content warning: suicide/self harm) Check out our brand new Discord Server to keep up with the show! Use the Linktree link below. Where to find us: Podcast Links: https://linktr.ee/thedartjampodcast Boomstick Mods: https://linktr.ee/BoomstickMods Nath...

Boomstick Mods (Neal), Nathani (Nate), and Spud Spudoni talk with Gautam of United Nerf Ops and TNT Events about the largest pvp and casual competitive tournament on the east coast APOC/BPOC! Where to find us: TNT Events: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/tntevnts/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TnTEvents1?app=desktop Website: https://tntevnts.com/ Boomstick Mods: https://linktr.ee/BoomstickMods...

With this year's Endwar concluded, Spud Spudoni along with guest host Nico talk about their experience in the event this year, aided by hosts Boomstick Mods (Neal) and Nathani (Nate) to bring in their insight from the outside. We cover the events of Foam Con and Foam Pro Tour in great detail, as well as covering all missions and mechanics from Endwar as a player and from the inside as a Foam C...

To incorporate the anticipated buzz surrounding the historic Apocolypse (APOC) nerf war in its 20th year, as well as the 2nd year of the BPOC competitive sister-event happening August 3rd-4th, Boomstick Mods (Neal), Nathani (Nate) and Spud Spudoni bring on guest host Zelkos (Jason): the TNT Events organizer for the BPOC competitive event. Zelkos brings plenty of insights into what its like to host...

In preparation for Maryland Foam Tournament 2024 this Friday, Boomstick Mods (Neal) , Nathani (Nate) , and Spud Spudoni invite on King of Games (Cail) and Flankmaster (Jesse) who are the two team captains of Nebula and Magic Smoke respectively, to talk about how they prepare for competitive nerf tournament play, how to build team strategy, blaster builds, team cohesiveness, and a bit of their take...

Boomstick Mods, Nathani, and Spud Spudoni host this episode, covering the ins-and-outs of running nerf events and creating nerf clubs from the modern era to the early 2010's. Additional information and guides on running and hosting events/clubs: - Meaker VI's 'NERF War Global Rules & Gametypes' - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f0IOQJlIBmAiDRSz6qMDxYOU7C15xCa8bW-2G66FAa...

We bring in guest host Domochevsky for an episode with hosts Spud Spudoni and Nathani, to discuss how Domo got into the hobby, what his workflow is like for designing blasters, and other thoughts on producing and selling creative work in this hobby.

This episode, recently pulled out of the WIP vault, is all about the intricacies of running a Humans Vs Zombies Event, differences on setting, good players and gamemodes, and much more. Boomstick Mods, Spud Spudoni, and Nathani while collectively have a lot of experiences with HvZ events, brought in our HvZ expert, Buffdaddy of Blaster Hub to give us his insight.

For this year's 2023 Endwar weekend, Spud Spudoni was the only member of our podcasting team to attend. To help fill out the experience, friend of the podcast DartSweep joins us to talk about his experiences as well, with Boomstick Mods and Nathani around to listen in and ask questions about their experiences. This is our longest episode yet, and is full of great content and conversation!

For episode 13, Boomstick Mods, Nathani, and Spud Spudoni ask questions and ponder ideas on how reviews are made, how they affect their viewership / nerf community, and how information is spread on hobby related topics. This is a deeper open ended discussion that has a lot of interesting points.

Nathani, Boomstick Mods, and Spud Spudoni enter The Meakerverse of Madness, reflect on relatively recent events, ponder past peculiar pleasantries, and attempt to ascertain advancements in our abilities in 2022, all while trying to translate Meaker's off recording shenanigans to get into our thoughts and predictions for 2023.

Boomstick, Nathani, and Sillybutts sit down to talk about shell fed blasters. Why do people use them and how do they work?

After PLENTY of technical difficulties on this one, the long awaited episode on recording gameplay footage is out! Boomstick Mods, Brandon Diaz, Spud Spudoni, and Nathani host the conversation with special guest, Beret, and discuss different types of gameplay footage, different cameras and camera setups, and how to reach audiences on Youtube with your videos. 

Join us at the fire for some tales and scares. Featuring stories from Boomstick Mods, Spud Spudoni, Archer, Hank The Tank, and Atean Armory. Happy Halloween foam flingers.

The final part in our 3 part series covering the entire Endwar event schedule. Covering Endwar itself, Spud Spudoni and Boomstick cover each mission, with Sillybutts coming in later for the final few mission recaps. We cover event critiquing, playing as both humans and zombies, each mission breakdown, player attitudes and atmosphere, and plenty other moments.

Part 2 of 3 in our recap series for Endwar and all of the events surrounding it. This episode, we have Boomstick, Spud, Nathani, and Sillybutts back on to talk about the convention floor on the day, recap the stalls present, what it was like to run a booth, and our overall consensus on the event. 

This is the first of a three part recap breaking down the 4 days in Rochester for FPT, Foam Con, and Endwar. With Spud Spudoni competing and qualifying in the 1st qualifier, Boomstick competing in the 2nd and also the 4th along with Nathani on that Thursday before Endwar, and Sillybutts being at the final where Spud Spudoni competed with Combo #5, we had a large amount of information to pull from...

Here comes another episode, with Meaker, Brandon Diaz, Boomstick Mods, Nathani, and Spud Spudoni, regarding different propulsion methods of blasters within the community. A wide range from stringers, air tanks, spring powered, flywheels, and plenty of other propulsion methods. 

After a slight gap in scheduling, this month, Boomstick Mods, Nathani, Steampuke, and Spud Spudoni get into a comprehensive deep dive into the various FPS (Feet Per Second) ranges by choosing to analyze the different use cases, builds, and play patterns within the FPS groups of 100, 120/130, 150, 200, 250, 300, 500.

Meaker and Boomstick discuss their different mindsets about shields, how to balance games around them, as well as safe methods of construction.

This month's episode, with the help of Brandon, Boomstick, Nathani, Spud, Sillybutts, and newcomer Steampuke, revolves around the history of Nerf ammo types through the years, the history of ammo types within the NIC, and theories on where current ammo types can go in the next few years and their availability over that time.

Welcome to the first episode of The Dart Jam Podcast, discussing anything and everything around the Nerf hobby and maker-space within it. This week's hosts consisting of Boomstick Mods, Brandon Diaz, Meaker VI, Nathani, Sillybutts, and Spud Spudoni open with a quick introduction of themselves and what Nerf related content they've been up to over the past week. Then the group gets into a serious di...