The Hills Have Nerds

Welcome to NERD JEOPARDY!

In this short episode Cody and Lee go head to head in a battle of epic proportions to flex their nerdiness and determine once and for all if a handful of quotes were said by our dear friend Aaron, or some of America's most prolific Serial Killers?! It's so hard to tell the difference!

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This episode all the Nerds have come out of the hills to talk about some games and characters that seem long forgotten by the gaming industry. Where has Star Fox been? Is Sly Cooper still thieving? Will we ever see another Castlevania game? Has Punch-Out punched out? And when the heck are we gonna get Half-Life 3?!

Come hang out and listen to the boys lament the apparent loss of some excellent franchises of days past and ponder if w...

(We apologize for some audio issues this episode had during the exporting process. We've figure out the problem so it won't happen again but this episode has some low volume issues in a few spots!)

Hey Nerds! In this episode Josh, Lee, and Travis invited good friends of the show Nelson Oliver (NelsonAllOverCards) and Payton Mullins (TwoTurntTonyStark) to talk about the trials and tribulations of their content creation career...

Two years of The Hills Have Nerds has flew by! Thank you all so much for your listenership and support!

All five nerds were together for a video live stream celebrating 2 years of the podcast on Youtube. This is the audio from that chaos. And despite some initial hiccups the stream went so great! Here's to much more nerditry and hilarious conversations to come!

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What are we playing and reading and watching right now?!

Find out with Lee, Aaron, and Travis as the boys take this episode to go over what games they've been playing, shows they've been watching, and everything else they've been consuming!

We want to hear what you're into right now! Join the discussion!

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Nerds! The Nintendo Switch 2 is coming! And, hooo boy, does it have some discussion surrounding it. This whole deal has got us thinking about the progression of gaming prices over the years and if we really are paying more now than we ever have?

Lee, Aaron, and Josh discuss the current Switch 2/pricing situation as well as take a look at the price of "Nerdom" through the years. Comic Books, Toys, Boardgames, and TTRPG boo...

We're Nerdin' Out Again!

In this Nerd Out the guys discussed their favorite video game sequels and spiritual successors, what makes video game sequels do better typically than other types of sequels, and what they consider to be the worst sequels in gaming.

Get in on the conversation as the boys discuss Diablo 2, Zelda 2, Resident Evil 4, Yooka-Laylee, and a ton of other games!

Which game series do you think had a sequel bette...

Raging waters can't keep a good nerd down!

The boys are back this month for a conversation about the history of Emulators, emulation as a whole, the ethics of it, and some of the Emulation Lawsuits "Greatest Hits", so to speak.

So sit down, strap in, ready your most recent save state, and prepare for a heck of an episode. Just don't tell Nintendo about it...please...we have families.

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In this episode the boys, and special guest Morgan "Bubbycat" Reynolds, sat down and jawed all about the history of the legendary gaming company FromSoft and all of the genre-creating and difficulty spiking games they've released.

From humble beginnings designing software for industrial agriculture to redefining what difficulty means in video gaming and causing Nerds for years to come to question if any new game is "So...

Today the nerds turn the lights down a little low, get some soft sensual jazz going, and bring the discourse to a husky whisper...it's getting romantic in here. Aaron, Cody, Lee, and Josh all sat down to talk romance in gaming and other media for Valentine's Day! The boys talk about their favorite portrayals of love and relationships, as well as their least favorite, and some romantic displays that were just plain strange. ...

Handheld Nerds unite! In this episode the boys sit down to discuss the rich and wild history/evolution of handheld gaming consoles from the early iterations in the 70s till the contemporary handheld computers we have today! So have your Lynx's, Wonder Swans, and Neo Geo's at the ready! It's a heck of an episode.

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Nerds! We're hyped! There's so much awesome stuff coming out this year!

In this Nerd Out the boys sat down and discussed all the different upcoming video games, movies, shows, board games, and books they're excited about releasing over the coming year. They hit on remakes, new IPs, expansions, sequels, and a ton of other stuff that's about to hit the nerdosphere over 2025. There's a ton packed into this episode and even more that ...

The boys get sentimental in this end of the year wrap up episode, as they sit down and talk about all the great things, and some not so great, that 2024 brough to the world of The Hills Have Nerds. From awesome opportunities, to incredible guests, and some run downs of their favorite happenings in Nerd Culture in 2024, there's a lot in this episode for everyone!

Thank you everyone for being with us through this past year and we got...

Spoiler alert! This episode is all about leaks and spoilers. But not literally.

Lee, Josh, Aaron, Cody, and special guest Steve from the Critical Encounters Podcast sat down to discuss the consuming of Spoilers and Leaks in our communities. What are they? Where did the terms come from? Are they inherently BAD things? Can it be fun to be spoiled? Do we seek out leaks? How do we remain unspoiled? What are some of the most famous spo...

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In this special episode Josh and Aaron sit down to have Aaron run through a debrief of his trip to Japan! A nerd left the hills?!

Aaron answers YOUR submitted questions about his trip and all of the wonderful cross cultural mayhem and wonderful nerdy stuff he got to experience while over there.

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This is the announcement post that 3 of your nerds are going to be live casting a DnD live play battle against the legendary Dragon Goddess - Tiamat.

November 10th 4pm-9pm EST Live Streamed on Twitch

There's an amazing event happening in just over a week and your very own nerds are so grateful to get to be a part of it! Extra Life Columbus (an incredible program of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals) is putting on an epic Dungeon...

It's time to enter the EVIL RESIDENCE!

In this episode Cody, Travis, Aaron, and Lee sit down to discuss the history and their experiences with one of the most iconic horror games of all time: Resident Evil. The nerds run through the creative process behind the game, it's development, it's predecessors and sequels, and their own love for the series as a whole...and some of the RE games that they don't quite love.

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Happy October, everyone!

In this return to our Spooky Specials, Lee, Cody, and Josh sat down to chill some bones with tales of creatures, hauntings, harbingers of woe, and supposedly evil spirits that lurk in the hollers and haunt the hills of our beloved home. This ones full of creepy tales sure make you check under the bed, shut the blinds, and probably leave the light on before heading off to sleep this evenin'.

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The nerds had wanted to do this episode since before the podcast was even started. The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers hold a near and dear spot in several of the boys childhood hearts.

Cody, Lee, Aaron, Josh, and, for the first time on the show, the elusive fifth nerd, Travis, all sat down to dive into the history, conception, current status, and absurdity of this monster fightin', teen angst'n, robot battlin' craz...