This week, Patrick and John welcome back an old friend – Kate Baker! Kate is the Podcast Director and Non-fiction Editor for Clarkesworld Magazine, is a Hugo Award winner, a British Fantasy Award winner and a World Fantasy Award winner, and is the Executive Director for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)! […]
Patrick and John are talking about Hulu this week, along with Patrick getting back into golf, the new season of Veronica Mars, how a pair of headphones should shout ‘I DON’T WANT TO TALK TO YOU’ in the grocery store, break room and the driving range – among other places, The Boys, Archer (DO YOU […]
Patrick and John are back talking about all the trailers and information coming out of SDCC, including The Expanse, Cibola Burn, Jay & Silent Bob Rebooted, The Witcher and more. Additionally, we chat about Led Zepplin, John’s music, never reading the comments, Clerks, The Eternals, Beyond the Trope and more… Links: John Anealio on Twitter […]
It’s Patrick’s turn to go it alone for episode 411, chatting with Stephen Aryan! His new book, Mage Bane, is out on August 6th. About Stephen: Stephen Aryan was born in 1977 and was raised and educated in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear. After graduating from Loughborough University he started working in marketing, and for […]
John Anealio is flying solo (get it?) for episode 410, chatting with Broadcaster / Host / AnchorNerd Ken Napzok! His new book, Why We Love Star Wars: The Great Moments That Built A Galaxy Far, Far Away, is available now. About Ken: Ken Napzok started his entertainment career as a disc jockey in Pismo Beach […]
Patrick and John are back talking about street tacos! Additionally mentioned in this episode: The Wheel of Time tv show, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, cooking shows and FoodNetwork, hickory smoked bbq, Solo, audiobooks, The Chef Show, upcoming fantasy and science fiction adaptations, Tacopalooza and Keb Mo, to name just a few… For the rest – hit […]
For episode 408, Patrick and John welcome back (for the second time this year!) – Tracy Townsend! Her new book, The Fall, is now available from PYR. About Tracy: Tracy Townsend holds a Master’s degree in Writing & Rhetoric from DePaul University and a Bachelor’s degree in creative writing from DePauw University, a source of […]
June has arrived and with it brought record snow storms across the US… That didn’t stop Patrick and John from an afternoon get-together AKA recording the Functional Nerds podcast, wherein they discussed such heady topics as: Summer snow storms, Constantine, Always Be My Maybe (Netflix), John Wick Chapters 1 & 2, Good Omens (Prime), broken […]
We’re glad to welcome back Max Gladstone – author of Empress of Forever – coming June 18th from TOR. About Max Gladstone: Max Gladstone has been thrown from a horse in Mongolia and nominated twice for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award. Tor Books published FOUR ROADS CROSS, the fifth novel in Max’s […]
It’s the post-Memorial Day slump AKA SUMMER! Patrick and John are back with the latest episode of the Functional Nerds aka Just Us and Titans, Young Justice and Kickstarter + buying furniture and other things online. Also mentioned in this episode: The Expanse RPG, Game of Thrones, social media, HBO Go, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, […]
This is not a 404 error – it’s episode 404 of The Functional Nerds podcast and our guest this week is Callie Bates – author of the the Waking Land trilogy: The Waking Land, The Memory of Fire, and the latest book: The Soul of Power… About Callie Bates: Callie Bates is the author of […]
The Functional Nerds assemble for a discussion with Mike Cecchini – Entertainment journalist and Editor-in-Chief for Den of Geek US. In addition to a SPOILER FREE chat about the crowd experience that is Avengers: Endgame, and the continuing power and influence Prog Rock has on John, we also talk about the new book, TV Geek: […]
Ep 402. It’s all downhill from here, folks! Probably. This week, Patrick and John talk about Star Wars Celebration and the release of the teaser trailer for Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker. That leads to a deeper discussion of Disney+ and the future of streaming that Patrick is pretty sure will piss someone, somewhere, […]
For 401, Patrick and John welcome back authors EC Myers and Andrea Phillips – two of the creative minds behind the new Serial Box project – Alternis. About Alternis: Game designer Tandy Kahananui has been developing Alternis for nearly a decade, perfecting its monsters and dungeons. But she never imagined her game would be co-opted […]
For the truly Epic 400th episode of The Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick and John welcome not one, but TWO amazing guests! Gail Carriger and Tom Merritt! With such combined intellect and wit, we tackle what’s changed in the 9 years since the Functional Nerds began, including but not limited to the following topics: podcast, publishing, […]
This week, Patrick and John pre-celebrate the upcoming 400th episode of the Functional Nerds by recording the 399th episode and talking about The Dirt, Motley Crue, media hosting, podcasts, podcast and advertising networks, DVDs, music concert DVDs, Bohemian Rhapsody, VH1, Chicago, The Miami Showband Massacre, and more… Links: John Anealio on Twitter Patrick Hester on […]
Episode 398 dawns and our intrepid Functional Nerds – Patrick and John – chat about many things, including but not limited to: Crisis On Infinite Earths and the Arrow-verse, The Magicians, Game of Thrones, Jack Ryan, The Umbrella Academy, Facebook, Battlestar Galactica, The BSG Orchestra, Supergirl, The Flash and Batwoman, Triple Frontier, Magnum P.I., S.W.A.T. […]
For episode 397, Patrick and John welcome back another old friend – Tracy Townsend! Her new book, The Fall, will be released on June 11, 2019 from PYR. About Tracy: Tracy Townsend holds a Master’s degree in Writing & Rhetoric from DePaul University and a Bachelor’s degree in creative writing from DePauw University, a source […]
Time for Episode 396 of the Functional Nerds Podcast! This is a mostly spoiler-free chat about The Umbrella Academy, as well as but not limited to the following random topics: groceries, Netflix, Fall Out Boy, the Arrowverse, The Tick, King Soopers, My Chemical Romance, Gotham, Mark Millar, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Dragon Prince Season 2 and […]
For episode 395, Patrick and John welcome back an old friend – Howard Andrew Jones! Howard’s new book – For The Killing of Kings is out from St. Martin’s Press in Hardback, eBook and coming soon – Audiobook! About Howard Andrew Jones: Howard Jones’s debut historical fantasy novel, The Desert of Souls (Thomas Dunne Books […]
Episode 394 of the Functional Nerds Podcast is here! What are Patrick and John talking about this week? A host of things including but not limited to: the hosting glitch we had, podcasting for as long as we have – and what’s changed in that time, SFSignal.com, John DeNardo, politics and social media (DUN DUN […]
It’s 393 people! And this week, Patrick and John welcome Becky Chambers – part of the team of writers who wrote The Vela, a brand new season of fiction from Serial Box! The writing team includes Becky, Yoon Ha Lee, Rivers Solomon, and S.L. Huang. About Becky Chambers: Becky Chambers is the author of the […]
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