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S2E49 The War Movie That Tricked America into Cheering for Fascism | Checkpoint Thursday
If this is your first stop in the Dystopian Trilogy, welcome aboard!The journey started with:Part 1 - V for VendettaIdeas are BulletproofPart 2 - EquillibriumFeel Nothing Or DiePart 3 - Starship…
S2E48 Master Chief's Two Greatest Promises | John-117 Part 3 of 5 | Mainline Monday
How does a soldier become a legend?And how does a legend become a myth?In Part 3 of our John-117 series, we’re diving into Halo 2 and Halo 3, the two games that transformed Master Chief from…
S2E47 How Did We Get Here? Part 2: Morning In America | Sidequest Sunday
My dad was a Vietnam veteran, a biker, a sci-fi nerd, and the man who taught me to question everything.He also believed in Ronald Reagan with a conviction I spent decades trying to understand.But…
S2E46 Feel Nothing or Die: What Equilibrium Got Right That We're Still Pretending It Didn't
What if a society decided that human emotion was the problem?In 2002, Equilibrium imagined a future where love, grief, joy, art, music, and even compassion was outlawed. Citizens of Libria survive by…
S2E45 Beneath The Armor | The Origins of Gaming's Greatest Hero: Master Chief John-117 | Mainline Monday
In Part 1 we established the thesis. The recipe was there for Frankenstein’s monster. Instead, what emerged was the best of us.Now the Human - Covenant War kicks off proper.In 2525 humanity…
S2E44 How Did We Get Here? Edward Bernays and The Manipulation Playbook They Never Taught You - Part 1 | Sidequest Sunday
"He Wrote It Down"In 1928 a man named Edward Bernays wrote a book called Propaganda.As an instruction manual.Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud took everything his uncle understood about the…
S2E43 Ideas Are Bulletproof: How One Mask Became the Face of Every Revolution | Checkpoint Thursday
A Catholic militant who died in 1605 is currently the face of anti-corporate protest worldwide.His executioners burned him in effigy for four hundred years.Now Time Warner sells his face for $10. To…
S2E42 For Ripley...What My Dog Taught Me About Being Alive
This one’s a little different.No script. No structure. No fake sponsors or Producer Steve.Just Me sitting down on a Tuesday night with a microphone because tomorrow marks one year since I lost…
S2E41 Before the Armor | The Origins of Gaming's Greatest Hero: Master Chief John-117 | Mainline Monday
Everything was in place to create a monster. Kidnapped at six years old. Replaced with a dying clone so his parents never knew the truth. Experimented on as a teenager. Trained from childhood to be a…
S2E40 FLAWLESS VICTORY? Annihilation, The Dark Years & The Mortal Kombat Comeback Story | Checkpoint Thursday
In 1997 Mortal Kombat Annihilation took one of the greatest video game movie successes of that decade and kicked off a string of events that would culminate in the bankruptcy of the company that…
S2E39 Darth Vader: The Greatest Character in all of Fiction | Mainline Monday
“My favorite character in all of fiction is a child-murdering space fascist.Your honor, I can explain.“In this episode of Average Joe Nerdcast, Nate explores why Darth Vader may be the greatest…
S2E38 The Document | Side Quest Sunday
What happens when a government counterterrorism strategy places an undefined ideological label in the same category as terrorist organizations?On May 6th, 2026, the White House released a document…
S2E37 FINISH HIM! The Origins, Congressional Hearings & Rise of Mortal Kombat | Checkpoint Thursday
In 1992 two guys at Midway Games got passed over by Jean-Claude Van Damme and accidentally created one of the most controversial and consequential video game franchises in history.This is the full…
S2E36 "Only I Can Fix This"...The Arsonist and the Firefighter | History Rhymes
“Only I can fix this.”You’ve heard that phrase before. Recently. But here’s the thing, you’ve heard it before THAT too. A lot.In this episode of History Rhymes, Nate breaks down one of the oldest and…
S2E35 90's Kid Syndrome: Nostalgia, Anxiety, and the In-Between Generation
Remember when life just made more sense?Riding bikes until the streetlights came on. Blockbuster on a Friday night. Dial-up internet that sounded like it was having a medical emergency. The…
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What is the Average Joe Nerdcast? Honestly it depends on the week. Could be a Halo deep dive. Could be dismantling a conspiracy theory. Could be calling out political BS regardless of who's in…
S2E34 What Actually Broke America...And It's Not Who You Think | CTRL + ALT + REALITY
Everybody has a name for what’s wrong with this country right now.But what if the name doesn’t matter? What if the thing everyone is arguing about is the fever and nobody is talking about the…
S2E33 The Pentagon Did What?! A.I., Classified Networks, and the Question Nobody Answered | Side Quest Sunday
On Friday May 1st 2026 the Pentagon announced deals with seven of the largest AI companies in the world - OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, SpaceX, and Reflection AI - to integrate their…
S2E32 Idiocracy Was a Documentary - Mike Judge Predicted Everything and Nobody Was Paying Attention | Checkpoint Thursday
In 2006 a movie opened in 130 theaters with no trailer, no ads, and no press screenings. The studio buried it. It made $495,000 at the box office. And then it came out on DVD and everyone realized…
S2E31 The JFK Files: 80,000 Pages, 62 Years of Secrets...What Did They Actually Find? | CTRL + ALT + DELUSION
In 2025 the government finally released tens of thousands of classified JFK assassination documents. The most significant in decades. So what did 80,000 pages of government secrets actually tell us?…
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