NERTZ

"The Late, Great Len Wein" w/ Len Wein

A very special tribute episode of NERTZ in which Mathew Klickstein's 2014 interview with legendary (and, as of 2017, late) comic book creator and icon Len Wein (co-creator of Wolverine, Swamp Thing, et al; editor of Alan Moore's Watchmen, etc.) is expanded and explored, delving into the changing face of the comic book industry today.

"Who You Callin' Emo?" w/ Matt Pryor

After a lengthy hiatus (which has become par for the course), your favorite nerd/geek culture podcast -- NERTZ -- returns triumphantly with a VERY "indie" new production including brand new intro/outro music and a very special, very apropos guest: Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor. The Get Up Kids being one of the pioneers of so-called "emo" music, despite the fact Pryor, his band and most people in that "scene" so to speak detest the title. But the music is great, Pryor is an articulate and passionate interview subject and now you too can find out what it is that makes "indie rock" (HA!) so very nerdy and geeky on this episode of NERTZ.

"Are We Not Nerds?" w/ Mark Mothersbaugh

It's another huge get for the world of NERTZ, fellow NERTZERS: the one and only supreme geek rocker himself, Mark Mothersbaugh! Find out all you ever wanted to know about the intersection between the birth (and sustaining resonance) of Devo and nerd/geek culture, why Mark just looooves Andy Warhol and making music for "geeky" indie filmmakers like Wes Anderson and why the Internet helps him find all the weird and wacky music his innovative brain can handle. It's one of our super geekiest episodes yet!

"BOOM! For Real!" w/ Sara Driver

BOOM! It's Sara Driver, longtime partner and collaborator of the one and only master of indie films, Jim Jarmusch. Driver is also a filmmaker in her own right, having made a handful of movies back in the day and her recent documentary Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Driver was a close friend of Basquiat's, and her intimate portrait of the late artist is quite the quite-the! And speaking of, we have quite the quite-the episode here: Driver explains where Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and she used to see people get mugged ... in the same spot where now there's a Damien Hirst gallery that you can't even get into if you're not dressed right! We talk about how the "nerdy" weirdos of those days grew up to create a lot of what became No Wave and the Cinema of Transgression .. before there would eventually be such a thing as the "indie" movie scene ... and why the hell we should care on a podcast like this.

"Buzzing With Too Much Coffee Man" w/ Shannon Wheeler

Time to get caffeinated! On the this episode of NERTZ, we have one of our favorite all-time comix folks: Mr. Shannon Wheeler, the creator of one of the great indie comix of all time: TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN. Tah-dah! Wheeler also teaches and writes about comix (and comics; you'll find out the difference, as you will whether or not folks in the industry actually LIKE the term "graphic novel"), regularly contributes to the New Yorker and recently put out what is becoming an incredibly popular book, Shit My President Says: The Illustrated Tweets of Donald J. Trump. There's so much to glom off of Wheeler, his adventures through the world of comix, comics, graphic novels, illustrations, conventions, what R. Crumb is REALLY like, and much-much more.