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NW NERD joins Andrew Walsh and Genevieve Haas with After These Messages for a live podcast recording onstage at ACE Comicon in Seattle. The two podcasts combine forces to discuss the commercials that make us nerds, then Dyer tries to stump the other three on stage with a NW NERD style trivia quiz.

You asked, we answered. NW NERD calls in some help from Joel the Geek and Pixie Bomber Cosplay to answer questions gathered from across social media. Learn about the one guest that NW NERD was promised and never showed. How did Dyer injure his knee at a country and western bar? What's Nick's top advice for attending a comic con? And what the heck is Fernet? All that and more on this special AMA episode.

Comedian Drew Barth joins Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley to help them do an all-news episode of the show. They discuss the upcoming Magic: The Gathering Netflix animated series, a recently resurfaced alternate ending to Quantum Leap, why metadata is costing musicians billions of dollars and more.This is the season finale for Season3, but the show will continue to post offseason content, such as our upcoming AMA. So stay tuned, nerds!

This magazine episode starts off with Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley discussing nerdy news and headlines, including a policy paper that posits the collapse of human civilization as we know it by the year 2050 if we don’t start seriously fighting the global climate crisis, plus a couple of updates on stories we’ve covered in the past: The boom of cryptomining in Central Washington and the ongoing legal troubles of actor Nicholas Brendon. After that, Dyer takes us deep inside the world of custom, mechanical keyboards.8:00 -- News: End of the world14:00 -- News: Central Washington cryptomining18:20 -- News: Robert BATtinson24:55 -- News: Nicholas Brendon update32:27 -- Feature: Keyboard culture

Now that Game of Thrones is behind us, let's take a moment to consider the TV shows, movies, and books that we're excited for. Hosts Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley run through the upcoming attractions that they are most ready to nerd out about and welcome in some friends of the show--Pixie Bomber, Luna Lyrik, the Comic Dads, and Aaron Mason--for their picks as well.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead!Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley recap and discuss the series finale of HBO's Game of Thrones along with Seattle Met Magazine associate editor Rosin Saez. The three react to the latest episode and try to put it into context with the rest of the show and story. Plus, Dyer calls up the other guests throughout the season who helped us recap the show.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead!Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley recap and discuss the latest episode of HBO's Game of the Thrones. Nick offers up what he thinks would fix a lot of the season's pace and story issues. They both submit their final predictions for what will happen in the finale, including who will sit the Iron Throne (or its equivalent) at the end of it all. After that, Dyer sits down with KIRO 7 meteorologist and notable nerd Nick Allard for his takes on this episode and the season so far. Allard offers up some predictions for what's about to go down between Arya and Dany.

WARNING: Spoilers aheadNick Jarin and Dyer Oxley welcome in That Guy Named John from the About To Review podcast to break down the latest episode of Game of Thrones. They get into why they were overall disappointed in this week's offering and which of their favorite theories are still in play for the final two weeks. PROGRAMMING NOTE: Go check out this week's About To Review episode to hear Nick and Dyer discuss Pokemon: Detective Pikachu with John!http://www.abouttoreview.com/category/podcast/

WARNING: Spoilers ahead for both GoT and Avengers!Hosts Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley welcome in Jamala Henderson, a public radio vet and self-described recovering journalist, to help them break down the third episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. They get into Arya's big moment, the inevitable dragon clash, and where things go from here. After that, Dyer was so excited about Endgame that he wouldn't shut up about it. So Nick invited him to spoil the entire movie for him with zero preparation. Buckle up, because it's a wild ride.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead!Hosts Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley welcome in a good friend of the show to help the recap and discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones as part of their ongoing coverage of the final season of the HBO show. Ben Lewis of The Hoot Hoots and the Trash Food for Garbage People podcast joins them to talk all things Thrones and give a unique perspective for this show: Someone who isn't obsessed with Game of Thrones! For not being a fan, he has a surprisingly good theory for what the Night King is after. Plus, Dyer asks Nick to explain some leading theories for the fate of Jaime Lannister.After that, we present a special clip of Nick and Dyer's appearance on KIRO Nights on KIRO Radio FM in Seattle. They discuss Avengers: Endgame and why they're split on the hype.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead! Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley kick off their weekly recaps of the final season of HBO's Game of Thrones with some help from Seattle Met Magazine associate editor Rosin Saez. The three of them break down what happened this episode and what it means. They get into their favorite moments and some wild speculation. Nick tries to explain why it was weird that Dany wanted Jon to do a certain thing with the Rhaegal. Rosin traces the origins of the Night King's body art. Dyer reveals his theory for why the books are finished.

This magazine episode starts off with Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley discussing nerdy news and headlines, including a plan to break down Washington’s digital divide, some hard numbers on how much Vancouver, BC is crushing it in the film industry, and the casualties of Avengers and Game of Thrones swallowing up all of our attention. Dyer’s feature this week takes us to the “nerdiest downtown in America” where Renton will be unveiling their very own dragon. 1:45 -- News: Mox Boarding House expands to Portland7:30 -- News: Broadband for Washingtonians16:00 -- News: Vancouver film boom26:00 -- News: Joker trailer35:20 -- Avengers fatigue41:15 -- Feature: The Renton DragonProgramming note: Next week starts our Game of Thrones coverage. We're doing Thrones-centric shows for the next six weeks to celebrate the final season.

This round table episode has friend of the show Aaron Mason (The Leap Home: A Look Bakula) join Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley to celebrate the seminal sci-fi that premiered in 1989. They talk about the show’s highlights, lowlights, and signature moments, including the time Sam leapt into a woman about to give birth, the time he saved the Civil Rights Movement, and much more. Finally, they discuss what episodes they’d like to see if Quantum Leap ever returned.

You may not expect that a small, neighborhood pub with comic book wallpaper, Star Trek on a big screen, and customers in cosplay would have some of the best cocktails in the city, perhaps the country. But that’s what The Nerd Out aimed to do when it opened in Portland’s Belmont neighborhood in December 2017. Since then, this small pub has grown a community and a pop culture inspired menu of craft cocktails. Owner Mitch Gillam argues his bar now has the best (Spider) Manhattan in Portland, and perhaps the best White Russian in America.

This magazine episode starts off with Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley discussing nerdy news and headlines, including some Avengers: Endgame news (they even try to fix the film’s most glaring flaw!) and a bill in Olympia to declare Washington State’s official dinosaur. After that, Dyer profiles the home of the Spider-Manhattan and other inspired, geeky drinks--Portland’s The Nerd Out. Finally, Dyer surprises Nick with a quiz on nerdy cocktails.1:20 -- News: Avengers: Endgame 11:30 -- News: Washington’s state dinosaur17:30 -- News: Funko Field in Everett23:00 -- News: Space herpes28:00 -- Feature: The Nerd Out43:30 -- Quiz: Nerdy cocktails

For this round table episode, Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley are joined by Jeff Gomez of Starlight Runner, a transmedia company that specializes in building out an IP's story mythology. Have you every picked up a book based on a game you love? Or vice versa? That's transmedia. Well, a piece of it. Gomez explains his specialty and discusses his upcoming project with Tsuburaya's Ultraman.

Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley kick off this magazine episode with a couple heads up about this year's Emerald City Comic Con. They discuss some other nerdy news and then Dyer plays a mini-feature story about the Critical Role podcast coming to Seattle this weekend for the convention.If you see anyone in a NW NERD cape during ECCC, take a pic and enter our contest (instructions in the intro)

This round table episode has Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones join Dyer Oxley and Nick Jarin in studio to talk about his career as a crimefighter and whether he is really retiring. Phoenix gets candid as he talks about his reasons for hanging it up.

The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) has started hosting game jams – when avid gamers gather to create a video or tabletop game under a tight deadline. Normally, indie games can take years to develop. These gamers are building one in a weekend with the help of Seattle Indies. Last fall, the ADL hosted a game jam with the theme of identity, and the goal of creating empathy and fighting hate. This is what happened.

This magazine episode starts with a news section, where Nick Jarin and Dyer Oxley discuss changes to Rotten Tomatoes to limit troll campaigns, what makes Bill Gates happy, and their trip to Wizard World in Portland. Plus, they announce their upcoming photo contest during Emerald City Comic Con. After the news, Dyer takes us to a hackathon with a mission: The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Game Jam. How can games help fight hate?