Ask a Medievalist Joins the Nerd & Tie Network!
We’re excited to announce Ask a Medievalist is joining the family of Nerd & Tie Network shows! Dr. Jesse Njus
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Read MoreIt’s time for a podcast about a podcast! Yes, we’re talking about Star Trek: Khan, the official Star Trek podcast. What happened between Space Seed and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Dr Rosalind Lear wants to know and brings some familiar faces to Ceti Alpha V to dig up some old recordings. Does she want to humanize this space tyrant or exonerate Kirk for his actions? Flashbacks, being stranded in a hostile wilderness, Naveen Andrews… Is this Lost? Kind of. At least, it’s enough for Charlie and Miles to talk about Lost a lot, as well as serialized fiction and the plot of the first three episodes of Star Trek: Khan.
Read MoreIt’s that time of year where we try and delve into the strange and scary for our Halloween episode and this time, we’ve hit upon altered states (not the Ken Russell film) where our heroes undergo a strange transformation. In the TOS episode ‘Wolf in the Fold,’ Bones’s obsession with getting Scotty laid ends in a lot of mysterious stabbings that date back to Victorian London, while in Voyager’s ‘Darkling,’ the Doctor’s attempt to improve himself by adding bits of other people into him starts making him very large in the tooth and a little too psychosexual towards Kes. Then in DS9’s ‘Empok Nor,’ O’Brien, Nog, Garak and a collection of clearly important side characters mission to a deserted Cardassian Space Station to steal some wiring ends with psychotropic drug-induced violence. Typical. Happy Halloween!
Read MoreStarting in the middle ages, a rumor spread of a female pope, elected because of her incredible learning, who went undiscovered until she gave birth to a child. At which point, everyone lost their minds. Join Em and Dr. Jesse to learn about the veracity of this tale and the wacky test it (allegedly) engendered. (Ha.)
Read MoreIf you spend any amount of time on social media these days, especially TikTok, you’ll find a surprising amount of anti-Wiccan sentiment… and a lot of it’s pretty weird. Thumper Forge, Gardnerian Wiccan and author of the forthcoming The Chaos Apple, joins me as we, frankly, debunk some of the worst of it and talk about why we think this has happened.
Read MoreWelcome to spooky season and we’re horrifying Miles specifically with a crossover between Star Trek and his favorite fandom! Can you hear the finger of a monkey’s paw curling? Assimilation Squared has been a threat on this show for a while, but why is that? Listen on and we’ll explain the story and the many questionable art choices.
Read MoreInsert all your tired 2025 jokes here because after the last nine months, we’re pretty much out as this episode, we go “All-Voyager, All the Time” with a slate of episodes concerning “The Year of Hell,” one of Voyager’s more infamous wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey moments.
Read MoreThis episode marks seven years of this podcast, and as we start the eighth, I decided that it was time we looked back on how much things have changed in the modern witchcraft space since then, along with how different things are since I first became a witch over twenty-five years ago. Because what is witchcraft if it’s not change?
Also, I’m standing in a park most of the episode, which is why it sounds like that.
Read MoreWe’re excited to announce Buried Memories, the fourth installment in Trae Dorn’s Mia Graves Saga is available for pre-order!
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