The Hills Have Nerds

Hey everyone! This episode the Nerds are settling in, getting comfy, and having a nice relaxing chat about the Cozy Games genre. Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, The Sims, Minecraft, and about a million others have all been referred to in one sense or another as "Cozy Games", or those games that have relatively low pressure gameplay and low tension environments to explore, craft, build, and just e...

Hello fellow nerds! Today we're nerding out about a brand new indie game that erupted onto the scene and gaming news, Palworld! Palworld is an open world base building survival game where you can befriend cute creatures, partner with them to take down bosses and build a sprawling homestead, and ultimately...slaughter them for meat and supplies when times get tough. It has broken concurrent pla...

Howdy, everybody! Today we're getting divisive! In this episode of The Hills Have Nerds we take on the cultural phenomenon The MCU: its history, its ups and downs, our favorite movies, and tackle one of the internet's favorite screaming points - Is it dying? We feel you'd be hard pressed to find someone in nerdom without a strong opinion on the matter so we're sitting down to yell...

Howdy, Nerds! We're breaking into 2024 with a new type of episode: a Nerd Out. In these episodes, which will be in addition to our regular monthly episodes (but may not be monthly themselves), we're sitting down and nerding out about something we're really into right now. This first Nerd Out is about the Table Top RPG campaigns that we're currently involved in. Josh, Aaron, and Cod...

Howdy, nerds! We're settling in after the holidays and we're giving out a late Christmas gift to all of you out there of a brand new Episode! In today's episode we're joined by a dear friend of the show, Nathan, to discuss those brick and mortar mecca's we all flock to for our nerdy fix and to siphon discretionary income from our wallets - The Friendly Local Game Store. Nathan...

Back from a Thanksgiving of stuffing ourselves with Sensu Beans, Super Mushrooms, Tomatoes, Power Pellets, Whole Wheels of Cheese, Citrus Berries, Entire Cooked Chickens found inside walls, and washing it down with hearty glasses of Nuka Cola, Lon Lon Milk, and Butter Beer, we're dishing out a hearty new episode for all the listeners we're thankful for this year. In this episode we nerds g...

We're doing a giveaway! Read more about it in the description. (We apologize for the audio issues about 10 minutes from the end of the episode. Lee apparently had some sort of demon latch onto him and his voice starts doubling.) And here it is! Finally! The last episode of October 2023, our Spooky Special #2 featuring Lee and Cody! In this episode the boys sit down and discuss, in a little mor...

Howdy fellow Nerds! Join us for our first of TWO extra episodes of The Hills Have Nerds this month! In this episode Aaron and Josh discuss some of their favorite Horror themed or Horror "adjacent" media and activities. Come along as Aaron recounts his dream of the whispering Pale-faced creature, and Josh recounts tales of his harrowing trek to Point Pleasant West Virginia to hunt the elu...

Goooood Evening, fellow Nerds... We'd like to invite you to listen a special spooky edition of the The Hills Have Nerds in honor of October and Halloween! In this terrifying, jaw-clenching, heart stopping episode join the boys as we discuss Horror media throughout the ages! From the time lost poems of French werewolf love to contemporary tales of gore, slaughter, and "WHERE THE HELL IS MI...

Howdy everyone! The nerds are back this month with an episode about Table Top Wargaming. We discuss what the hobby is, what are some pitfalls to avoid when you're looking to get into the hobby, a little bit of history, those big ole' scary price points and ways to navigate that to Wargame on a budget! We're joined this episode by good friend of the show Jefferson Jay Thacker AKA Perram...

May the "fourth" be with you... In this episode we all sit down to discuss those rapid slideshows we all know and love, Cartoons, particularly western animation. (We're not to the anime episode yet, you weebs, calm'er down for now, but know it's coming!) Come listen to our tales of cartoons we loved, both short and feature length, some of the problematic portrayals within, an...

Come head down memory lane with us as we take a trip through nerdy time and discuss a history of JRPGS from the 80s all the way up to the far away future year 2000! We talk about some of our favorites, a little bit of lore and development stories about a few of the games, and lay out a timeline of the genre's progression through a couple decades. Make sure to review and rate the podcast! It he...

Hey! We decided to do another episode! We weren't laughed out of the holler after the first one so hopefully you'll all dig this one as well. We were lucky enough to be joined by our special guest Pat! In this episode we start with our regular "topic of the week" format. We're nerding out about Table Top Role Playing Games, our favorite rule sets, themes, systems, and a brief...

Howdy and welcome, ya'll! Thanks for listening to the first episode of "The Hills Have Nerds". We're a monthly podcast on Nerd Culture brought to you by four guys born and raised in the hills of Kentucky who have a sincere passion for everything nerdy. Come and join us as we discuss some of our interests and have a pretty broad discussion on what we think makes us nerdy in our in...