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 recommendingKris:
- 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
