Make Me A Nerd with Mandy Kaplan
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Hey folks. Mandy Kaplan here. I’d like to share a bit about my intentions and mission for MMAN if you’ll indulge me. You will? Huzzah!
Look, I am a lot of things. I’m a writer, actress, mother, and lover of musicals and cats, but NOT Cats, The Musical. Give me a little bit of credit, would ya? So...throughout my life, I’ve been surrounded (and intrigued) by all things nerd. A sister who plays D&D, a Star Wars-obsessed husband, friends who love anime, comic books, video games, and...well, you get the picture. Somehow, I have always held it all at arm's length. Not to get too deep, but maybe I never thought I was smart enough to follow it. Or maybe I have control issues and have never been able to embrace fantastical things like dragons and time travel. Until now!
So, with an open mind and heart, I am ready to join this massive (and beautifully inclusive) club and GEEK THE #%$ OUT! It’s time for all my wonderfully strange friends to baptize me into NERD-DOM. Please join me on this journey. Who knows? Maybe you’ll discover or remember a side of yourself along the way. Or at least make fun of me as I try!
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- Sinners with Rhonda Smith · 46 min · Épisode 121Mandy Kaplan turned off Sinners a few minutes in, the same week everyone she knew was calling it the best movie of the year. She has been apologizing for that ever since, and…
- Brazil with Andy Nelson · 48 min · Épisode 120Andy Nelson has been sitting on this one. He's been talking about movies on The Next Reel since 2011, and when Mandy asked him to come back and pick anything, he chose the film…
- Stargate with Jonny Lee Jr. • Ancient Aliens, but More Fun · 43 min · Épisode 119Until this week, Mandy Kaplan did not know the word "Stargate" existed. Not the 1994 movie, not the ten seasons of television that followed, not the conventions full of people…
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Matthew Fox · 46 min · Épisode 118The whole premise of Make Me a Nerd is that Mandy has never seen the thing. Matthew Fox arrives to honor the late Tim Curry with a movie he has attended dozens of times and, by…
- Werecats and Beignets: Scooby Doo on Zombie Island with Journie Ma-Johnson · 40 min · Épisode 117In 1998, Hanna-Barbera handed a direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie to a crew of veterans and then, by all accounts, forgot to supervise them. The crew used that freedom to do the…
- Super Sentai: The Spandex Empire Behind Power Rangers with Omari Miller · 46 min · Épisode 116Mandy spent her son's Mighty Morphin years with one nagging question: why are the Power Rangers wearing their helmets in every single fight? She never asked anyone. This week…
- What If There Were Too Many Dogs? The Andy Griffith Show with Breaking Mayberry · 57 min · Épisode 115Marty Schneider and Dan Ludwig, hosts of the podcast Breaking Mayberry, explain that they once built two rating scales for The Andy Griffith Show: an Andy-meter for how good the…
- Fackam Hall with Justine Huxley · 45 min · Épisode 114The British period drama is a genre built on restraint. Longing glances across drawing rooms. Inheritance law. A great many people declining, for six or seven seasons, to say the…
- The Smell Test: Parasite with Sherry Mandujano · 49 min · Épisode 113Three times in the theater. Twenty-odd more at home. Six years of having thoughts about Parasite, and roughly four minutes total in which anyone has let her share them. This week…
- Formula 1 with Pete Wright: Everybody Wants Kimi · 57 min · Épisode 112Mandy Kaplan came to this with three episodes of Drive to Survive and one other piece of racing knowledge, which is that she can recite Talladega Nights from memory. Ninety…
- Pushing Daisies with Jessica Jimenez: Mandy Would Like a Cheese Box · 50 min · Épisode 111Mandy has a real, non-joking anxiety about death. You'd think that's the sort of thing a person would mention to a friend before that friend assigns her a series about a man who…
- We Bleed the Red of Hollywood Video: The Last Blockbuster with Jason Yeung · 52 min · Épisode 110Jason Yeung spent more than a decade working in video stores — not Blockbuster, mind you, but Hollywood Video, a distinction he holds with the unwavering intensity of a man asked…
- Twelve Percent and Worth It: Sphere with Kynan Dias · 48 min · Épisode 109Every so often a guest arrives having chosen not the safe pick, not the crowd-pleaser, but the one movie they have been quietly waiting years for somebody to ask them about…
- Neverland Has Xenomorphs Now: Alien Earth with Rick London · 52 min · Épisode 108Rick London came for Alien: Earth — Noah Hawley's reportedly quarter-billion-dollar fever dream about corporations, immortality, and dying children installed in adult bodies —…
- A Desire for More Cows: Arrival with Justin Jaeger · 59 min · Épisode 107The instant a movie is pitched to Mandy as "aliens come to Earth," she has already changed the channel, mentally relocated to a spa, and started a calmer life. So naturally, this…
- When the Music Is Happenating: The Grateful Dead with Jeffrey Nicholas Brown · 57 min · Épisode 106The Grateful Dead's own biographer opens their official four-hour documentary by admitting it's really hard to love this band if you're not already a fan — which is a bold…
- A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother: Psycho, Deconstructed with Jesse Fister · 57 min · Épisode 105Mandy has never seen Psycho. She has, however, seen Hot in Cleveland, which — it turns out — quotes Psycho constantly, meaning Mandy has been unknowingly absorbing the cultural…
- My So Called Life with Sloan Just · 1 h 1 min · Épisode 104There exists a specific cohort of women who, if you say the words "do you remember My So-Called Life," will respond — instantly, involuntarily, with the faraway look of someone…
- Dr. Horrible’s Sing a Long Blog with Krissy Lenz & Kyle Olson · 59 min · Épisode 103This week we have a three-act superhero musical, shot on a borrowed studio lot during a labor strike, financed by one guy's personal credit card, in which approximately none of…
- Batman Pulled a Gun: Batman Beyond with Jason Yeung · 55 min · Épisode 102Batman: he does not use guns. This is practically the whole point of him — a man so committed to a single rule that he built an entire personality, a cave, and a frankly…
