Up Your Nerd Cred

Did you used to know everything happening in the Marvel and DC universes? Did finding out that some superheroes are from Marvel and some are from DC blow your mind? Has keeping track of everything happening there… and then realizing we’re talking about the comics universe, not the cinematic ones… and the different universes with their own multiversal crisesses has gotten a little bit out of hand, don’t worry. Up Your Nerd Cred is here to talk about gods cosplaying as men, men cosplaying as gods, and how much the cinematic universes are leaving out.

Up Your Nerd Cred is a leisure podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 53 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Up Your Nerd Cred, a leisure show with 53 episodes published.

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  She Can't Go on a Date with You, She's Gotta Finish Homework for 4th Period | UYNC S3 Ep 9

  Aug 17, 202632 min

  Why does pop culture keep asking whether teenage girls are “mature enough” for adult men instead of asking why those men are pursuing teenagers in the first place? In this solo episode, CiCi looks at how books, movies, television, celebrity coverage, and fandom have normalized—or occasionally challenged—wild age gaps and major power imbalances. From the persistent misreading of Lolita and the manipulation at the center of An Education to The Crush , Hard Candy , American Beauty , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Twilight , Sabrina , Entrapment , and A View to a Kill , we’re examining who gets treated as responsible, who gets romanticized, and why the adult is still responsible for saying no. We also talk about changing attitudes toward grooming and age-gap relationships, the decline in teen sexual activity and teen birth rates, the disappearance of teen-centered physical spaces, and how predators moving online did not make them disappear—it changed the pipeline. Content note: This episode discusses grooming, child sexual abuse, statutory age differences, exploitation, and teen pregnancy. For a deeper examination of how Lolita has been marketed and culturally misread, listen to Jamie Loftus’s Lolita Podcast . https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-lolita-podcast-73899842 Listen to Up Your Nerd Cred on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @UpYourNerdCredPod Follow CiCi: @ciracdavis Follow AM Diaz: @AMDiaz_art #UpYourNerdCred, #NerdCulture, #PopCulture, #AgeGapRelationships, #GroomingInMedia, #Lolita, #BuffyTheVampireSlayer, #Twilight, #FilmAnalysis, #MediaCriticism, #LovecraftCountry, #Podcast

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  Respect the Toy Box if You Want the Cash! |UYNC S3 Ep 7

  Jul 20, 202649 min

  This week on Up Your Nerd Cred , we’re continuing our toyetic movie conversation with film producer, distributor, sales agent, and friend of the pod Ben from Disrupt Entertainment. After talking last week about movies built from toys, games, comics, and merch machines, we’re getting into what happens when those adaptations grow up a little. Or at least try to. CiCi, AM, and Ben talk through Captain America 1990 versus Captain America: The First Avenger , the deeply chaotic 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie versus the modern animated Mario movies, the emotional violence of The Transformers: The Movie , Michael Bay’s Transformers , why Megan Fox’s character probably should have been the actual lead, and how The LEGO Movie understood the assignment better than it had any right to. Plus: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Daredevil fanfiction, the problem with being embarrassed by the source material, and why respecting the toy box does not mean copying every piece exactly. Production note: this one is arriving a little later than planned because, between a laptop outage and a basement flood, it took a while to get time to edit. We are still investigating why Xi Jinping wanted to flood CiCi’s basement and ruin her Bowflex specifically [TO WHAT END?], but for now, the episode is here and the toys have been picked up. Part 3 comes tomorrow. Listen on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Follow the pod on Instagram at @UpYourNerdCredPod. Hosted by CiCi and AM Diaz. Follow CiCi at @ciracdavis. Follow AM at @AMDiazArt. Follow Ben at @theguerrillarep. Learn more about Disrupt Entertainment at disruptentertainment.com . #UpYourNerdCred, #NerdCred, #Toyetic, #ToyMovies, #ComicBookMovies, #CaptainAmerica, #SuperMarioBros, #Transformers, #TheLEGOMovie, #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, #TMNT, #MichaelBay, #MeganFox, #MovieAdaptations, #NerdCulture, #PopCulturePodcast, #Podcast

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  Bro, We Could Tell Y’all Were Embarrassed By This... | UYNC S2 Ep 6

  Jul 7, 202654 minS0

  <p>This week on Up Your Nerd Cred, we’re talking about the merch grab of it all. From Care Bears and Clue to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mortal Kombat, Pokémon, and Battleship, we’re looking at what happens when movies come from toy aisles, board games, arcade cabinets, comic shelves, and full-blown brand ecosystems.</p><p>Because here’s the thing: a movie being made to sell toys, games, cards, Happy Meals, action figures, or tickets is not automatically the problem. Sometimes the merch grab is the reason the weird little movie gets made in the...

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  Bro, We Could Tell Y’all Were Embarrassed By This... | UYNC S2 Ep 6

  Jul 7, 202654 min

  This week on Up Your Nerd Cred, we’re talking about the merch grab of it all. From Care Bears and Clue to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mortal Kombat, Pokémon, and Battleship, we’re looking at what happens when movies come from toy aisles, board games, arcade cabinets, comic shelves, and full-blown brand ecosystems. Because here’s the thing: a movie being made to sell toys, games, cards, Happy Meals, action figures, or tickets is not automatically the problem. Sometimes the merch grab is the reason the weird little movie gets made in the first place. The real problem is when the movie is embarrassed by the thing it’s adapting. CiCi and AM talk through the camp, the cash grabs, the practical suits, the arcade chaos, the collectible feelings, the three separate Clue endings, the full-body commitment of Power Rangers, and why “You sunk my Battleship” is not, in fact, a narrative. Plus: why some movies become beloved because they embrace the ridiculousness, while others struggle because brand recognition is doing all the heavy lifting. Listen on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Follow the pod on Instagram at @UpYourNerdCredPod. Hosted by CiCi and AM Diaz. Follow CiCi at @ciracdavis. Follow AM at @amdiazart. #UpYourNerdCred, #NerdCred, #Toyetic, #ToyMovies, #ComicBookMovies, #CareBears, #ClueMovie, #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, #PowerRangers, #MortalKombat, #Pokemon, #BattleshipMovie, #MovieMerch, #NerdCulture, #PopCulturePodcast, #Podcast

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  How Long Do They Stay Heroes Without the Heart? | UYNC S3 Ep 5

  Jul 1, 202639 minS0

  <p></p><p>This week on Up Your Nerd Cred, CiCi is flying solo and talking about one of the most disrespected team roles: the Heart.</p><p>Sure, the Leader gets the speeches, the Brain gets the plans, and the Lancer gets to be correct in an irritating way, but what happens when a team loses the person keeping everyone connected to the mission, to each other, and to the people they’re supposed to protect?</p><p>We’re looking at Ma-Ti from Captain Planet, Sailor Moon, Steven Universe, Phil Coulson, the Flash, and Green Arrow to talk abou...

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