Welcome to Nerdist Camp—the podcast where pop culture, curiosity, and a little bit of caffeine collide! I’m your host, and your banker, and your dungeon master, and today we’re rolling the dice on a topic near and dear to our nerdy little hearts: board games! In this episode, we’re taking a journey through time—starting with one of the original board games, chess, then marching our counters through classics like Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit and Ludo, and then settling into the golden age of tabletop with modern marvels like Catan, Pandemic, and Ticket to Ride.

So grab your favorite snacks, shuffle up your cards, rattle your dice, and try not to flip the table—because at Nerdist Camp, we play to learn, to laugh, and sometimes to totally overthink a game about collecting plastic pieces of pie. Let’s get rolling!

This week we are recommending

Kris:

• Deep Sea Adventure (Board Game)
• Pan Am (Board Game)
• Back to the Future (Funko Board Game)
• Alien: Fate of the Nostromo (Board Game)
• The Vault (Netflix)
• Grenfell Uncovered
• Ara San Juan: The Submarine that disappeared.
• Mike Oldfield- Hergest Ridge
• Squid Game 3
• Andor

Andi:

• Titan - Netflix
• Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin, 1999)
• 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle - The Space Shuttle - Introducing: The Space Shuttle - BBC Sounds
• In related news, When We Were Shuttle
• Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer - YouTube - based on a book by Andy Weir (The Martian)
• Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix
• Jaws: The Restoration (1975) Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment Universal Studios - YouTube (8 minutes)
• AI & I podcast by a publication called Every (not the “delivery” company)

Links

Inkarnate - Create Fantasy Maps Online

NerdForge - I Built a Coffee Table with a Library Inside - YouTube

How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’ | WIRED

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Hello there and welcome back to Nerdist Camp where I, Kris Grainger and my partner in Crime, Kyle to my Cartman if you will, Andi Elliott discuss all things nerdy and geeky, basically, things that make us tick and notch up the interest gauge into the red. This week’s topic is all things nuclear that have gone wrong, so let's crack out the geiger counter and hurriedly scout around the cupboard for the iodine as we look at all things that can kill you, without necessarily going boom!

We discuss nuclear accidents, safety concerns, historical incidents, military nuclear disasters, radiation exposure, whistleblowing, environmental contamination and film adaptations of true events.

Therac-25 - Wikipedia

Therac 25 - Kyle Hill video

Disaster at Silo 7 - Wikipedia

Exploring an Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant - YouTube

Manhattan Season 1 | Prime Video

Physicality: the new age of UI

Sandi Toksvig - Ghost encounter

Kris recommends:

Explorer from Another World - Movie

Department Q on Netflix

Atomfall

Andi recommends:

The Vast of Night | Prime Video

The Irrepressible Pancho Barnes | National Air and Space Museum

Rematch | Disney+

Prime Video: Clarkson's Farm – Season 4

Better Call Dave - This American Life

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Hey welcome back to Nerdist Camp — the podcast where we get as nerdy as you possibly can without busting a blood vessel.

I’m your camp captain, Andi, and this week I’m huddling around the proverbial campfire with Kris Grainger, right before it gets doused by a tidal wave, buried by lava, or sucked up into a category five twister — that’s right: we’re talking disaster movies.

From the 1970s golden age — and by “golden,” I mean “everyone is screaming in bell bottoms” — we’ll relive classics like Airport 1970 (the one that started it all), The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and Earthquake.

Then we fast-forward to the 1990s, when disaster movies came back louder, dumber, and somehow sweatier: Volcano gave us Tommy Lee Jones fighting lava, Twister gave us flying cows, Dante’s Peak gave us Grandma boiling in a lake.

And we’ve got to talk about the spoof that managed to both parody and perfect the disaster genre… Airplane! It’s the film that reminded us that the most important thing in a crisis is to stay calm, and most importantly, ‘don’t call me Shirley.’

Why do we love watching things go catastrophically, explosively, absurdly wrong? Is it the spectacle? The heroic last-second saves? Or just that weird part of the human brain that thinks, ‘You know what would make this airplane ride better? An engine fire and a nun with a guitar.’

So grab your emergency supplies — a flashlight, bottled water, and your most mel-o-dramatic inner monologue — and join us for this episode of Nerdist Camp.

Links to things we waffled about:

Top 30 70s Disaster Films

The Big Bus

Engineers revive 'dead' thrusters on Voyager spacecraft 24 billion kilometres from Earth

Crime Next Door podcast

Stereolab’s new album

Cal the Stourbridge artist

Morcheeba, Escape The Chaos

Murderbot

Long Way Home

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Today we say Gronda Gronda listeners as we are nerding about challenge-based adventure shows that were popular on British television, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s. The Adventure Game, The Crystal Maze, Knightmare, The Krypton Factor, Treasure Hunt, and Fortboyard. What do they have in common you ask? Each show features participants undergoing physical, mental, or problem-solving challenges in a structured or fantastical setting. Its like doing a puzzle whilst solving a riddle, while you’re in a maze with other people, on a travelator, and on telly.

These shows appealed to all ages, focusing on puzzle-solving skills rather than trivia knowledge. They transformed viewers into armchair adventurers, letting them experience thrilling challenges from home. Viewers love thinking "I could do better!" while watching contestants race against the clock.

We also introduce our new Grainger Things section where we discuss the alleged UFO Crash – in Penkridge, Staffordshire in 1964. Was it a coverup or just a local myth?

Link to things we discuss in the show:

Adventure Game Documentary

Adventure Game WIKI

Crystal Maze WIKI

The Crystal Maze Experience

Vader AI goes Rogue

Galloping Galaxies WIKI

Interceptor WIKI

Run the Gauntlet - UKGameshows

Run The Gauntlet (ITV - Thames Television) - 1988 - YouTube

UFOs on Cannock Chase?

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There are few things more British than tea, queuing politely, or apologising when someone else bumps into you.

But nestled comfortably among these national treasures is another great tradition: James Bond on TV every single Bank Holiday Monday—like clockwork.

Somehow, Bond has become a sort of collective cinematic comfort blanket. He might be jumping off a dam, skiing off a cliff, or fighting divers and sharks—but you? You’re in your pyjamas, wrapped in a duvet, with a mug of tea and your Mum asking, “Is this the one with the underwater car?”

Whether he’s being played by Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, Craig, or Whoever’s-Next, James Bond is with us—not just in the cinemas every few years, but every bank holiday, tucked into our homes like an old mate who always brings explosions and never does the washing up.

Today we are discussing all things Bond!

GoldenEye 007 N64 "Pause Music" (K.O. II + OP-1 Field REMAKE) - YouTube

Watch A Man on the Inside | Netflix Official Site

North Sea Hijack | English Full Movie | Action Adventure Thriller - YouTube

North Sea Hijack - Trailer | IMDb

007: Road to a Million | Amazon Prime

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Welcome to the second episode of our podcast. Today Kris and Andi head over to Area 52 of the Nerdist Camp, just behind the toilet block, and climb into the time machine to help us party like it's 1980(ish).

Stepping out of the doors into another era, we discuss our first computers and consoles, early games that were a formative part of our tastes, and what we're playing today.

We also discuss our current reading, listening and streaming TV, as well as the current pile of Blu Rays.

We also review Steve McNeil's wonderfully funny book on the history of video games Hey Listen!

Atomfall, Tunic, Donkey Kong Country HD, Tomb Raider 1-3, Stray, Alien Isolation.

Tomb Raider III (still) Halo, Doom Eternal, Mario Kart

Watching: Andor S2, The Studio

Reading: Backlog of Pics & Ink “Free Range Magazines”

Listening: Lighter, Darker by ILM (podcast, just finished the Bryce Dallas Howard episode)

Recommending: Paradise (Disney+), Doctor Odyssey (Disney+),

Watching: The Diamond Heist (Guy Ritchie, 2025), Edge of Darkness (Troy Kennedy Martin, 1985).

Reading: Berserker by Adrian Edmondson (Audible)

Listening: Crime Next Door (BBC Sounds)

Recommending: The Residence (Netflix), Only Murders in the Building (Disney)

OpenEmu - Multiple Video Game System

High-quality retro video game books and collections | Bitmap Books

Tomb Raider | Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

Montezuma's Revenge! on the App Store

Betty Boo - Doin' The Do 1990 (Official Music Video) Remastered - YouTube

Being Freelance podcast and community

Podcast Episodes Archive | Industrial Light & Magic

Watch The Studio - Apple TV+ (UK)

Paradise | Disney+

Doctor Odyssey | Disney+

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Welcome to a brand new podcast, Nerdist Camp. Each week we'll set up our tent, firmly in the camp of all things geek, in the hope of sharing our enthusiasms, obsessions and knowledge. We also hope to debate controversial takes on topics, ask questions about subjects we're less familiar with, and invite expert guests to fill us in on areas we've had the curiosity, but not the time, to pursue. Following on from that, we hope to get out and about and do some special episodes, visiting conventions, interesting spaces, and meeting people we wouldn't normally have the chance to drag into the studio; with drag being the operative word here as you know, many nerds are highly allergic to sunlight.

In this first episode, we meet our hosts and discuss Classic Sci-fi, what defines the genre for us and what were our first encounters and experiences of the genre? We discuss our top films, books and audio books in the genre. We look at those hobbies that we started but never finished, despite major outlay for all the right gear, and we ask forgiveness for our sins of geek.

Here's some link to things we discussed in the episode:

Star Wars fan edits and restoration

Star Wars Fan Remasters And Project 4K77 Explained

Empire Strikes back 35mm restoration feedback thread (POUT) (a WIP) - Original Trilogy

Star Wars, Film Preservation, and Fan Edits - Original Trilogy

Andi’s links:

Craig Charles is Spaced Out - YouTube

Shiftcam Grip

LensUltra

Thanks for listening and see you next week, under the canvas. At ease soldier!

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