Skip to content
Nerd & Tie Network

  • About
    • About Us
    • Comments Policy
    • About the Ryan Kopf Lawsuit
  • Shows
    • General Geekery
      • Famicom Dojo
      • Casual Trek
      • Celeste is Best
    • Actual Play
      • Let’s Be Legendary
      • Stormwood & Associates
      • The Meatgrinder
    • History and True Crime
      • Ask a Medievalist
      • Cool & Unusual Punishment
      • On This Day With Trae
    • Witchcraft
      • BS-Free Witchcraft
      • Hex Positive
    • (View All Shows)
  • Books
    • Trae Dorn
    • Charlie Etheridge-Nunn
    • E.H. Lupton
    • Bree NicGarran
    • (View All Authors)
  • Forum
  • Sponsor!
  • Contact
The Nerd & Tie Podcast
July 6, 2014 Trae Dorn Community, Harmony Gold, Heroes of Cosplay, Pacific Rim, Robotech, Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon 2014, SentientLumber, Syfy, Yahoo Screen

Episode 25 – Revivals Both Wanted And Not

http://archive.org/download/episode32_201507/episode25.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSIn this barely assembled edition of the podcast,

Read More
The Mega-Blog
July 4, 2014 Celeste Startwin Kickstarters, Robotech, WHY?

Harmony Gold Still Wont Give Up on Robotech

Normally waiting for news from Anime Expo is exciting, but sometimes it means being reminded of things that have overstayed

Read More
The Mega-Blog
July 4, 2014 Trae Dorn america, humor, weird stuff

Five Weird Things You Probably Don’t Know About The Founding Fathers

So today is the Fourth of July. Independence Day. America’s Birthday. Or, as they call it in Canada, “Friday.” Some

Read More
The Mega-Blog
July 3, 2014 Trae Dorn Batman, Batman v Superman, DC, Superman, Zack Snyder

Zack Snyder’s reason to use “v” in “Batman v Superman” is dumb

So we all know that the upcoming Zack Snyder follow up to Man of Steel, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of

Read More
3DO to GoThe Mega-BlogVideo Games
July 3, 2014 Trae Dorn Throwback Thursday, Total Eclipse

Throwback Thursday: 3DO to Go – Total Eclipse

Did you know that I used to do a series of 3DO game reviews called 3DO to Go? I did!

Read More
The Mega-Blog
July 2, 2014 Trae Dorn SHIELD

Clark Gregg Talks About Coulson’s Future, Agents of SHIELD Season 2

So IGN posted and interesting interview with Clark Gregg. In it, Gregg talked about the season 2 of Agents of

Read More
Celeste is BestThe Mega-Blog
July 2, 2014 Celeste Startwin Nick's Videos, Rena Innocenti, Sailor Moon

Nick’s Fiancée Interviews him about Sailor Moon.

With the new Sailor Moon anime just around the corner, I decided to actually read the original manga, and then

Read More
The Mega-Blog
July 2, 2014 Pher Sturz Anime, Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon 2014

Sailor Moon 2014 Transformation Sequence Leaked, As Do the Bladders of Everyone Excited for New Series

Last night, the transformation sequence for the 2014 reboot of Sailor Moon got leaked to fans all around the world,

Read More
The Mega-Blog
July 2, 2014 Trae Dorn Heroes of Cosplay, SentientLumber, Syfy, Yaya Han

Heroes of Cosplay: Now Only Mostly Awful

In Which Trae Talks About Season 1.5 of Heroes of Cosplay I have been working conventions for almost twenty years,

Read More
  • ← Previous
  • Next →

Latest Episodes

All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts

We make a bunch of podcasts at Nerd & Tie, we know it’s hard to keep up with all of them. So, with that in mind, we’ve decided to make a feed of all of them (well minus two)!

96. It’s a Metaphor for Capitalism!
byAll Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts

Happy Monday, everyone! To celebrate the start of the working week, we’re looking at Star Trek episodes where people mess with the memories of our cast and put them through menial, awful work.

O’Brien must continue to suffer in Hard Time, where he’s lived through decades of prison time just for being a bit nosey. Can he deal with the mind-shattering prison sentence, or will he still be traumatised and we’ll never speak of this after the episode’s end?

Then our main feature is a two-parter where the crew of Voyager are brainwashed into factory jobs (apart from Paris who couldn’t even manage that). Watch the rivalry between the Emergency Command Hologram and Harry Kim! Janeway has a romance plot and there’s some bad CGI!

Timecodes:
03:30 What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Been Enjoying
09:02 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Hard Time”
41:43 Star Trek: Voyager “Workforce”

Talking points include: Poirot’s facial hair, talking Miles down from reading Ayn Rand, Mark Morrison, No Gods No Mayors, a harsh burn from Miles, DS9 has a counsellor? What is Miles’ middle name anyway? A bee gets loose in Charlie’s room. Buffy. Farscape. Tek War. Isn’t it good that prisons aren’t run for profit in the real world? Prestige TV ghosts of the mind. David Cage wishes he could get this emotional. Bryan Fuller doesn’t get weird with it. Tom can’t even hack being a brainwashed labourer. Just be Janeway’s consort, Jaffen! Charlie’s upsetting second Voyager: Across the Universe playthrough. Anything can pull rank on Harry. Charlie got contacted by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Oh, and occasionally Star Trek.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

[ Support this show on Ko-fi ]

Subscribe to this Podcast:

Apple PodcastsSpotifyAndroidRSS

The post 96. It’s a Metaphor for Capitalism! first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.

96. It’s a Metaphor for Capitalism!
96. It’s a Metaphor for Capitalism!
June 8, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
C3E21. Take Me to Church (Vaulted Part 2)
June 5, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
95. An Honest Review of Thumper Forge’s “The Chaos Apple”
May 30, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
C3E20. A Talbert Tale (Vaulted Part 1)
May 29, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
C3E19. Re-Kidnapped (A Rival Family Part 4)
May 22, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
C3E18. Eloise Explains Organized Crime (A Rival Family Part 3)
May 15, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
95. Space Scamps – Oh Good, Another Breeding Program!
May 11, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
C3E17. Hello, My Name Is Chum! (A Rival Family Part 2)
May 8, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
Casual Tangent – The Time Miles’s Mum Called Him a Wanker
May 4, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
100. What I’m Tolkien About
May 1, 2026
All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts
Search Results placeholder
[ See All Shows ][ See All Updates ]

Advertisement

Connect with us!

“facebook"“Bluesky"“tumblr"DiscordForumsContact Us

Advertisement

Support Us


The Nerd & Tie Network runs on support from listeners like you. If you'd like to support our shows, please consider sponsoring us or donating to one (or more) of our Patreons
facebookBlueskytumblrDiscordForumsContact

patreon
The Nerd & Tie Network runs on support from listeners like you. If you’re interested in helping us out, please consider sponsoring us or donating to one (or more) of our Patreons

 Takoyaki Entertainment  Ocelotdude Designs

All Nerd & Tie Podcasts Feed

Apple PodcastsSpotifyAndroidRSS
The Nerd & Tie Podcast
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

Cool & Unusual Punishment
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

Pour Man's History
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

Famicom Dojo
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

2BWTT
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed
BS-Free Witchcraft
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

Hex Positive
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

On This Day With Trae
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

Casual Trek
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

All Network Podcasts
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed
Let’s Be Legendary
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

Stormwood & Associates
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

The Meatgrinder
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify Podcasts
  • RSS Feed

Celeste is Best
  • Youtube Channel
  • RSS Feed

About Us
  • Convention News (RSS)
  • The Ryan Kopf Lawsuit
  • Comments Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
Copyright © 2026 Nerd & Tie Network. All rights reserved.
Theme: ColorMag by ThemeGrill. Powered by WordPress.