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Episode 088 – Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young

Patrick Hester — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:30:15 +0000

In episode 88 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young.

About Andrew Mayne:

Recognized as one of the most creative innovators in magic, Andrew has produced over 30 books and videos on the art of magic. His website can be found at ShockMagic.com

About Justin Robert Young:

A graduate of Syracuse University, Justin has worked at several major metropolitan daily newspapers including “The South Florida Sun-Sentinel” of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and “The Morning Call” of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Links:

Andrew Mayne (books)
Andrew Mayne (blog)
Andrew Mayne (Twitter)
Justin Robert Young (iTricks.com)
Justin Robert Young (TWiT.tv)
Justin Robert Young (Twitter)

This podcast contains original music by John Anealio.

Episode 087 – Peter Brett & Myke Cole

Patrick Hester — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:30:24 +0000

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In episode 87 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome back Peter V. Brett and Myke Cole.

Links:

Myke Cole (author’s website)
Peter V. Brett (author’s website)
Myke on Twitter
Peter on Twitter

This podcast features original music by John Anealio & an excerpt of Boxcar Boogie performed by Dr. John

Episode 086 – John Hlinko

Patrick Hester — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:30:03 +0000

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In episode 86 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome John Hlinko to talk about Share, Retweet and Repeat – a ‘guidebook’ to optimizing your social media and promoting your message.

About John Hlinko:

As a youngster, John Hlinko never dreamed he would one day record a Grammy-winning duet with country music legend Willie Nelson. And indeed, it never happened. But he has been long recognized as an innovator and “Buzz Czar” on the grassroots marketing front, using a combination of emerging technology and creative communications to achieve maximum results within extremely constrained budgets.

Hlinko has worked with some of the biggest breakout viral success stories, starting with MoveOn.org in its earliest days, and continuing up to a “draft Obama” effort to build support for Barack Obama in advance of his presidential run.

He is the founder of “Left Action,” a network of more than a million progressive activists (LeftAction.com). Hlinko is also the author of the forthcoming book, Share, Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Message Read and Spread, to be published in early 2012.

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This podcast contains original music by John Anealio.

Episode 085 – Samuel Montgomery-Blinn and John DeNardo

Patrick Hester — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:30:32 +0000

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In episode 85 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Samuel Montgomery-Blinn and John DeNardo into the super secret Functional Nerds lair to chat about nerdy audio stuff like audio books and spotify.

About Samuel Montgomery-Blinn:

Samuel Montgomery-Blinn is a husband, father, and software engineer and speculative fiction magazine publisher from Durham, NC, with an abiding love of audiobooks. His blog is a completely unaffiliated blog and guide to what’s worth listening to in the world of science fiction and fantasy audiobooks and podcasts, with a focus on what’s coming to Audible.com’s Science Fiction and Fantasy section.

About John DeNardo:

John is an avid reader and reviewer. (See John’s review criteria.) His book reading comes second only to his book buying, which some (including John himself) might call compulsive. (We often use the B-word.) His frequent jaunts to the local bookstores are legendary in his own mind. Although John reads an occasional fantasy/mystery/non-fiction book, his tastes lean heavily toward science fiction. John’s tastes within any genre vary, but he is fond of classic sf even though he has a hit-and-miss experience with classic award-winning sf. John also likes to alternate novel-length fiction with shorter works, so he frequently reads anthologies between reading sessions. John’s favorite authors tend to be Golden Age authors like Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov etc., but he also likes the new kids on the block like Alastair Reynolds, John Scalzi, etc.

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This podcast features music by John Anealio.

Episode 083 – Cherie Priest and Sam Sykes

Patrick Hester — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:30:15 +0000

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In episode 83 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Cherie Priest and Sam Sykes.

About Cherie:

Priest is a Florida native, born in Tampa in 1975. She graduated from Forest Lake Academy in Apopka, Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as Florida, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. She moved around regularly until college. In 2001 she left the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with an M.A. in Rhetoric/Professional writing, and in 1998 she graduated with a B.A. from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee. Priest lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee for twelve years. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington with her husband and her cat.

About Sam:

Sam Sykes is the author of The Aeons’ Gate trilogy, a vast and sprawling story of adventure, demons, madness and carnage. Suspected by many to be at least tangentially related to most causes of human suffering, Sam Sykes is also a force to be reckoned with beyond literature. Sam currently lives in the United States with his two hounds and, at any given time, is probably yelling at something inanimate. Tome of the Undergates is his first book, but far from his last. At 25, Sam Sykes is in an excellent position to provide entertainment while other authors are dying from various infections and stress-related illnesses. Sam Sykes looks forward to being one of the sole providers of fantasy entertainment, assuming no other authors are actually discovered in the next forty years.

On the list of topics covered:

Skyrim
Batman: Arkham City
Google+

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This podcast features original music by John Anealio

Episode 082 – Matt Forbeck and Jay Garmon

Patrick Hester — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:30:35 +0000

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In episode 82 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome author Matt Forbeck and professional geek Jay Garmon to the super-secret underground lair to talk about nerdy things.

On the list of topics:

Batman: Arkham City
Garageband for ioS devices
Kickstarter
The Avengers movie

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This podcast features original music by John Anealio

Episode 081 – Ed Lazellari

Patrick Hester — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:30:07 +0000

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In episode 81 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome TOR author Ed Lazellari to talk about his new book, Awakenings.

From TOR’s website: EDWARD LAZELLARI has worked as an illustrator and graphic artist, doing projects for Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, and Jim Henson Productions. His short story, “The Date,” won Playboy magazine’s prestigious college fiction contest in 1999. Lazellari lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. Awakenings is his first novel.

Links:

Ed Lazellari (author’s website)
Awakenings (Amazon)
Ed on Twitter
Ed on Facebook

This podcast features original music by John Anealio.

Episode 080 – Julia Sherred

Patrick Hester — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:30:02 +0000

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In Episode 80 of the Functional Nerd Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Julia Sherred from the Geeky Pleasures Radio Show.

From her website: Confirmed to be a “Geek God” by some online quiz and dubbed “The Queen of Geek” by many of her fans, Julia “Jules” Sherred is a mother, writer, author, radio personality, blogger, gamer, tech enthusiast, science nerd, sci-fi and fantasy freak, hard core Trekker, has an unnatural obsession with Optimus Prime and so much more. She emerged from the womb fully embracing her geeky tendencies, with a book on Astrophysics in one hand and a deck of cards in the other. Growing up, games were always an important part of her family, including family board game nights, Christmas family poker games and trying to pry the ColecoVision® and later NES controllers from her mother’s hands. She has now passed on this tradition to her own children and is raising the next generation of geeks and gamers.

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This podcast contains original music by John Anealio

Episode 079 – KV Johansen

Patrick Hester — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:27:39 +0000

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In episode 79 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester & John Anealio welcome PYR author KV Johansen. KV’s new book, Blackdog, is one of the subjects discussed in this episode.

Links:

KV Johansen (author’s website)
Blackdog

This episode features original music by John Anealio

Episode 078 – Bryan Thomas Schmidt

Patrick Hester — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:30:45 +0000

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In episode 78 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Bryan Thomas Schmidt, author of the new novel – The Worker Prince.

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Episode 077 – Jeff and Ann VanderMeer

Patrick Hester — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:30:16 +0000

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On this week’s episode of the Functional Nerds Podcast, John DeNardo sits in for Patrick, and joins John Anealio in welcoming Jeff and Ann VanderMeer to the show.

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Episode 076 – Rigor Amortis Panel

Patrick Hester — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:30:15 +0000

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In Episode 076 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome John Remy, Andy Penn Romine, Steven Scearce and Galen Dara to celebrate the re-release of the Rigor Amortis anthology.

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Episode 075 – Andrew P. Mayer

Patrick Hester — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:30:52 +0000

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In the 75th episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Andrew P Mayer, author of The Falling Machine, Book One of The Society of Steam, available from PYR.

Links:

Andrew P Mayer (author’s website)
Andrew on Twitter
The Falling Machine (Amazon)

Episode 074 – Peter Giglio

Patrick Hester — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:30:58 +0000

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In episode 74 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome author and editor Peter Giglio.

When Peter Giglio isn’t writing, he plays with fire, juggles clowns, and dirty dances with the benevolent ghost of Patrick Swayze. Thankfully, he writes all the time. He is the co-author of “The Better Half: A Love Story”, appearing in the anthology Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within, edited by John Skipp. His first novel, ANON, will soon be published by Hydra Publications. And he has two e-books on the horizon: A SPARK IN THE DARKNESS from Etopia Press, and BALANCE from MuseItUp Publishing. Several of his short stories will soon appear in anthologies from Pill Hill Press and Library of the Living Dead. With Scott Bradley, he is working on the screen adaptation of a well known short story and several other classified projects.

Peter Giglio (on Twitter)
Peter Giglio (author’s Website)
Peter Giglio (Facebook)

This episode features original music by John Anealio

Episode 073 – Lev Grossman

Patrick Hester — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:15:51 +0000

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In episode 73 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat with Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians and The Magician King, both available from Viking.

Links:

Lev Grossman (author’s website)
The Magicians
The Magician King
Lev Grossman on Twitter
Lev Grossman on Facebook
Lev Grossman at Time Magazine

This podcast features original music by John Anealio