Introducing Nerdificent

In Nerdificent, comedians Ify Nwadiwe and Dani Fernandez break down all that is nerdy. Whether you’ve spent years rolling dice in a friend’s basement or got hooked after seeing a comic book movie, they’ve got something for you. Each episode Dani and Ify deep dive into a nerdy subject or subculture and break down the history, culture, and future of it; all while making you laugh.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, how's it going? Um? If you Waidway and sitting
across from me is Danny Fernandez, and you are listening
to the trailer for Nerdificent, and you might be want, Hey,
this voice, it sounds familiar. Where might you have seen Well,
you might have seen me on such sites as Geak
and Sundry, Nerdue and uh also hyper rpg, BuzzFeed two

(00:32):
as well, and you might have heard me on many
of the how stuff works podcasts like The Daily Zeite Guys,
Culture Kings, and before this, the krill in It podcast.
Hell yeah, krillin It was our old podcast. It was
a dragon ball Z podcast where we got together with
other comedians and directors and watched old episodes of dragon
Ball Z. And then we also had one at hyper RPG,

(00:53):
which was Dragon Ball Super, which, as you guys know,
is the newer show that just came out the last
couple of years. I guess we can't say just came out,
but my voice you may recognize as well from hyper
RPG or my friends at Funimation or Geek and Sunjury
have also been at Mashinima, I g N and Collider.
So yeah, we are we are two nerds in this

(01:13):
space and Nerdificent is a nerdy deep dive for everyone. Yeah,
So whether you just picked up nerd them because Black
Panther was so damn that was when you decided, Yeah
you're like, yeah, no, I need to get into this,
or if you've been rolling dice in the basement for
like years now, we're the ones to talk about it.

(01:33):
We break down each nerdy topic subject by subject, deep
just getting getting to the nitty gritty. Yeah, and so
we're gonna be talking about the history of some topics
in the nerd world, like how did VR get started?
Or what is causeplay and how do people make an
entire profession out of it? If we know people that
have that are professional cause players making that money? What

(01:54):
is Twitch and how can someone get partnered with them
as if he is? Well, yeah, you know, we will
have some answers. We're not gonna give away everything, but yeah,
talking about Twitch, how it got started, our experiences with it,
and that's gonna be a lot of the podcast. We're
going to talk about the history of a lot of
these topics as well as our personal experiences in the
nerd world with him, like what is comic con like

(02:14):
after Hours? If he's pretty spicy, it's a little bit wild. Yeah.
So so it's a nerdy deep dive for everybody. Yeah
so if you're just trying to, you know, dip your
toe in the water and see what everything is about,
or want to crash course in everything. Now you just
pop Pop Pop this in your pod Yeah episodes Pop

(02:34):
Pop Pop Pop Episode zero drops March and you can
search Nerdificent on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts,
and make sure you search it on the social media's too,
and give us a follow so you can stay up
to date with everything you can get. Just at Nerdificent
on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. And for those who might

(02:55):
need to spell it, oh wait, you haven't even just
look at look at the name, it's spell and our
website nerdificent dot com. Or you can find little footnotes
with links to pretty much everything backing up these dope
statements we're making. And you can also look at our
comedy headshots. Let us know what nerdy topics you want
us to cover and some of your personal experiences too. Yeah,

(03:18):
that'll help us out because we're running out of ideas.
If you have a whole list, did you not see
the list. I have a whole list,