April 13, 2024 • 36 mins
Remember the first time you walked into a comic book store and felt that rush of belonging? That's the spirit we're channeling in our latest podcast episode as Nicholas, Stacy, and Hannah share their journeys through the evolving landscape of geek and nerd culture. It's a heart-to-heart conversation about finding your tribe in the colorful world of conventions, action figures, and comic books. From the personal dynamics at play within the fandom to the gender challenges and triumphs, our stories are as diverse as the characters we adore.
If you've ever felt a connection to a fellow fan over a shared love for D&D or argued over the best superhero arc, you'll find common ground in our discussion on geek culture acceptance and its influence on personal relationships. We delve into anecdotes about navigating the dating scene with a geeky heart, the thrill of connecting over mutual passions, and the compromises we make when our significant others don't quite share our fervor for fandoms. Whether it’s in romance or friendship, these connections can be as intricate and rewarding as any game strategy or comic book plot.
Wrapping up, we extend a warm invitation to you, our fellow enthusiasts, to join in and share your own geek culture stories. Every episode is a chance to celebrate the quirks that unite us, and this one is no exception. So, pull up a seat, tune in, and let's continue to build this incredible community together—one episode, one story, one shared love for all things geek at a time.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
What is up, guys?
So this episode is geek culturein the modern society.
What we're talking about is alot of you watching this is
probably in some form or fashion.
This is either your geeks ornerds, and you want to hear
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about geek and nerd culture.
Some of you might not be a geekat all and you might be like
what is geek culture?
And hey, this topic is said bythese three geeks, so let's
listen to them.
We're all three geeks ofdifferent calibers, as we've
talked in previous episodes, andI feel like that really gives
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us a good variety of what makesit what.
What is geek culture like to us?
What is it like being a geek inmodern society?
What is it like dating inmodern society as a nerd, as a
geek?
Hannah's extreme, so Hannah issingle as of filming this
(01:19):
episode.
I'm married to Stacey, sobecause of that, really the
question becomes what is it likebeing a geek in today's society
?
Let's get chatting.
Let's get chatting.
Hi guys, I'm Nicholas.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm Stacy.
I'm Hannah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And this is Three Geeks Chatting.
I'm Hannah, and this is ThreeGeeks Chatting.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
With today's episode, I really wanted to kick it off
by asking everybody a question.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I already said yes, not that question.
So this is a very dire situationwe're in and I need to know Do
I need my lightsaber?
You always need the lightsaber.
How bad have you guys beentreated solely solely based on
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the fact you're a geek?
If you listen to the lastepisode, we talked about what
made us a geek and how we becamegeeks.
For me, it was childhood.
It was ever since I was born.
Hannah talked about when shewas about 10, she really got
into the geek culture.
Stacey didn't say an age, butshe was little and it was with
the Little Mermaid.
How bad have you guys beentreated being a geek?
(02:40):
We're going to touch deeperinto modern society as a geek,
but for now, this is where Iwant to start.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Depends on the environment that you're in.
Depends on the environment Likeif you're around other fellow
geeks, like my greatest movieexperience was.
I got to see Star Wars EpisodeIII at the midnight showing.
Everybody dressed up.
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Some guy came in in a reallygood Darth Vader costume and he
came in and he lived in it andeverybody went wah and the whole
not talking thing went out ofthe window with, you know, the
knowledge that they wanted towatch the movie.
But when Yoda came in and boomon those two guards in Darth
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Sidious's office, everybody juststarted clapping and cheering.
It was kind of like when theSpider-Man showed up.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
No, way home.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No way home that was probably my best movie
experience.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
That was so good.
That was so good.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So, like in those experiences, very good, very
accepting, very loving Comic Con, anime Cons depends on who
you're interacting with.
Mostly accepting Awkward.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Some of them a little flirtatious with my wife.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I remember you, I had a guy tell me he wouldn't bite
me unless I asked him to.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I wasn't even dating her.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You weren't there.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I wasn't even dating her.
I never knew this guy.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
This thing is not going to live.
Yeah, I'm talking about mytablet here.
I just about knocked it off thetable.
Yeah, that was like the awkward, like hi run.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No, thank you, but that also might be Run.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Run no, no, no, no yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
But that might also be part of being a female in the
nerd culture can be part of themale, because I know men get it
as well well, I feel like, too,that there's not a lot, whole
whole lot.
I know there is some, butthere's not a lot of like female
nerds, no um, but I do thinkfemales it's becoming more
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common for girls now but itdidn't start out back way back
then?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
no, it wasn't um, when we're talking about so,
something to clarify.
When we're talking about womennot being huge in the nerd
culture, uh, well, we're.
Or geek culture, geek community.
What we're referring to iswhere we currently are, where we
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were when this happened, um ourarea is not very our area is
not very accepting of a lot ofextreme geek and nerd culture,
some of the.
If you are from places such asCalifornia, you may have a giant
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population of women who areinto this.
This is not in any way ussaying that women are.
There's not a lot of women init.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I just feel like from around here.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, around here.
I want to clarify.
That's for us in our area andwe're canceled, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Woo.
All right, it's good to see youguys.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
All right, but like that.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Also, like I said, because we had this discussion
at our last Comic Con.
We were sitting here scrollingthrough the art and there's a
very not safe for work friendlyphoto of Ahsoka Tano and I'm
like, okay, why do I see 15 ofthese and none of male
characters?
Like okay, where's the malecharacters?
(06:34):
And some guy next to us, uh,was like because you you.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He goes because, uh, men aren't that good looking.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
The guy.
Another guy said that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, that's what the other guy said.
He goes because men aren't thatgood looking.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, I'm searching through all these fan art Very
beautiful art, very cool Some ofthem very, very not safe for
work and I'm like, well, okay, Ididn't want to see her in that
light Because I love Ahsoka Tano, did not want to see her in
that light because I love AhsokaTano, did not want to see her
in that light.
Think that you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
We have a cat named Ahsoka.
We do.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We named our cat Ahsoka.
But I'm sitting there I'm like,okay, why they do not do this
for men?
I found one photo that they didit for men and it wasn't even
really that much.
It was Sam and Dean washing theImpala and that was the only
one.
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But it's like going to, youknow, seeing all that stuff.
It can be a little interestingsometimes for girls, women in
our area.
I feel like it's more judged.
It's a little more judgedaround our area.
But, and we're canceled Anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And we're canceled.
Good job guys.
Okay, let's go home.
Wrap this up.
I will say we traveled a prettygood distance to a Comic-Con
recently.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Where I saw the photos.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And the demographic there.
It was very much different andthere were a lot of women there
who were also dressed up andcosplaying.
It wasn't just men dressed upand cosplaying, it wasn't just
men.
And I think one of the goodthings about current modern day
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being a geek modern day isthere's a lot of areas where
it's not accepting, but there'sso much social media out there
that really shows off howpopular it is across the board
gender-wise.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That culture several hours away.
Like I said, it depends on yourenvironment, how you're treated
, no matter what you are,whether you're a geek, whether
you know anything, it depends onthe environment you're in.
So that environment was moreaccepting and everything.
Like you walk by someone I sayI love your costume, like thank
you so much and that's so cool,and then I'm guessing people's
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cosplays wrong and my husband'slaughing his head off.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So how would you say you've been treated for being, I
guess, a woman who goes tothese conventions, like across
the board?
Would you say that geek culturehas been kind to you?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
For the most part, yes, sometimes it's like I said.
Sometimes it's awkward.
A few times I have been toldyou know, hey, that's not a good
thing to get into.
You shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
A lot of that.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I do get a lot of that, but that's not where
you're surrounded by other geeks.
It's the people who are notsurrounded by geeks.
So, but I have had a lot ofthat and I've had a lot of
support and everything.
So, like I said, it depends onyour environment, how you're
treated, how you're supported.
That is your environment I,what about?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
what about you, hannah?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I think like if you don't have the same type of
friends, you just get viewed asweird and that's also true.
Like why would you like this?
Why do you obsess about this?
Why do you go into thisextensive?
Why do you collect everything?
It's just weird, it's a wasteof money.
It's weird versus when you havefriends that do like all that
and they go in your room like,oh my gosh, that's so cool,
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let's pack your whole room upbecause I want it.
Versus someone who walks in.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I've said that to her before too.
Like hey, can I just have allof these?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
No we don't have room no.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So it's just very different aspects.
So someone walks in your room.
It's like who's that pop figureversus someone that walks in
and is like, oh my gosh, youhave that.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You know, Like I said , different your friends create
different environments.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Who you're around, you get excited to talk to,
versus people that are like,okay, that's weird, I don't
really care, so stop talkingabout it.
Yeah, really care to.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So stop talking about it.
Yeah, along the lines of.
So I I will say what I think isacross the board, no matter
where you're, where you grow upat um, especially as if you're
an adult, you've probably allexperienced this.
If you are younger and you'relistening to this podcast, you
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might not be too familiar withwith this concept, as I feel
like geek and nerd culture aregrowing more popular.
It is making people cooler.
I think it's becoming moreacceptable, more mainstream.
So me growing up, I grew up in apretty decent size, uh area,
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very populated, advanced highschool stuff like that.
One of the big things withwhere I grew up.
One of the one of my bestfriends was really popular.
I I wouldn't say like, oh, oneof the cool popular sports kids,
but he was pretty well knownand he didn't have any like
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anyone who was like, oh man,look at that nerd stuff like
that.
He was huge into filmography anddirecting and making YouTube
videos and I remember for us wewent and saw the Force Awakens
once and I was living at homestill.
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We went out, I was in, we leftat 7 pm at night, stayed out
until 5 in the morning at a24-hour mcdonald's, stayed out
all night watched the forceawakens which was like my third
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time viewing it in theaters andjust sat out talking about it.
We I mean in.
There was no consequences tothat.
As I said in my previous video,my parents didn't monitor
really a lot of what I did.
They as long as I wasn't dead,they didn't really care what I
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did.
Oh, I was like that's what youwatched, but yeah, they didn't
monitor what I watched and theydidn't really care too much what
I did.
What makes that?
What made it so different,though, was there were people in
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my school who were really nerdyand geeky and into this stuff,
and they were harshly judged.
They, they, they were viewedvery poorly.
I hung out with a lot of thekids who were viewed this way at
the time.
I wasn't very outspoken, so nota lot of people knew that I was
into a lot of geek culture.
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They knew I liked video games,but it wasn't like oh, he's an
anime cosplayer, stuff like that, which I don't cosplay.
But, you know, not a lot ofpeople knew what I did outside
of school.
I didn't really tell people, Ididn't talk to people.
We remember being judged forwhat we do.
You know the amount of timesthat people have said that's
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evil, or you shouldn't do that,or or you know why.
Why do you like, why?
Why do you like that?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
you know why, you know why you stay up all night
playing video games with friends.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Let's go to bed, you know yeah, and then proceed to
stay up all night at a barplaying like darts or or card
games or something like that,you know, but like completely
plastered out their mind by theend of it.
I mean it really is shocking onhow geek culture has changed.
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Now we we talked last episodeabout how the marvel cinematic
universe really blew, blew upmainstream comic books.
I believe they really changedhow people viewed comic books.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I mean comic books are I've gotten to start reading
more comic books, and wantingto.
Since I've watched MarvelUniverse, it's like it goes into
a deeper explaining ofeverything that happens.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
They're not even like bad.
I think there's a lot of peoplewho still don't read comic
books, but being able to say,yeah, I have these comic books
doesn't feel as shameful associety once made it feel.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, I don't know if you guys have felt that, but I
definitely feel Well, I feellike comic books are just like
okay, that's more like a readingaspect and a lot of people read
and they don't consider that aslike geeky nerdy versus.
They walk into your room andit's like full of everything.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Funko Pops posters collectibles.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Versus just a few stacks of comic books that you
have in the corner of your roomthat if someone walked in they
would never see, and if younever said you read comic books,
you wouldn't know.
You know what I mean.
Like I have, all I wear isMarvel t-shirts, star Wars
t-shirts, geeky t-shirts sopeople know that I'm a geek when
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I walk out the door.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, no, I, I, completely I.
I agree to that aspect.
You looked at, you know, wedungeons and dragons was one of
those things that I wouldn't sayit was dying, but it was very
rare and solemn to see it reallyaround as much as it is now,
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ever since Stranger Things.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Stranger Things, the Dungeons and Dragons movies.
They even have several shows onNetflix.
The biggest thing would beCritical Role.
There's a few other podcaststhat.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Dimension 20.
Dimension 20.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
That's the one I was trying to figure out Dungeons
and Daddies.
Oh, dungeons and Daddies, welove that one.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It really D&D has become such a mainstream thing
as well.
I believe geek culture isshifting tides uh.
To go deeper into the geekculture outside of comic books
and video games, look at uh.
Or comic books and dnd.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Look at video games I think some of it has to do with
some of the stuff is when it'sfirst sorted out, like Iron man
and stuff.
He's just building a metal suitand flying around, basically
that's it, and then the fall.
As we get into it we have moremagical powers because Doctor
Strange comes in Wanda.
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Then we have who else.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Spider-Man.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Spider-Man, he gets bit by a spider.
So you have more thought outthere, thor.
You know.
Thought out there that peoplethink, or you know you got
Wonder Woman, superman, batmanthe Flash.
He gets struck by lightning,the arrow gets trapped on an
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island and then turns into DC.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
to what would you?
Consider the Arrow.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, starts out as a killer and then decides it's
not a good way and decides toprotect the city, you know?
So I mean.
And then they think, okay, well, that's weird, why would you
want to watch that?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh yeah, and that's the thing.
Like dc took uh the tv uh or tvshows by storm, marvel took
over movie cinematics by storm.
I mean you were having twofronts of these massive dramas
going on.
And then you have podcasts likecritical role.
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Who's taken over the internetfor dnd stranger things?
You have uh youtube.
You know all these things arebecoming more accurate and
people of geek and nerd cultureare taking we're taking over,
you know, massive media fronts.
Then you get into video gamesand even video games.
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Even in in uh schools haveesports teams around around the
united states.
I mean when I was in high school.
I would have killed for anesports team.
I would have went to Halo.
You know what I could have donewith Halo at that time?
I would have done some damageto some of those kids in high
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school if they put me on a Haloesports team.
I was in hate clans on Halodoing massive battles and small
tournaments when I was in 6thand 7th grade with like grown
adults.
I was a 7th grader in smalltournaments online for these,
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for these teams.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I couldn't tell people that, though I think some
of it too could have toldpeople that though I think some
of it too is like the peoplethat's not really into it sees
you buying all this stuff andthey think it's a waste of money
.
So they tell you like you couldbe buying on more productive
things than what you're spendingon.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So you kind of get judged from that aspect too.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Like I said, it just all goes back to your, your
environment that you're in.
Yeah, it was like back then.
You know, your environment wasthey didn't have esports, it was
all sports, normal sports.
And now it's come into.
They have esports and stuffesports esports yeah, esports,
that's more common now in some.
Some areas it's not very commonstill.
So, like I said, it's yourculture, it's your environment.
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It's just where you're at andhow you're treated.
Some people are treated, youknow, terribly.
Some people are treatedwonderfully.
Unfortunately, you know, somepeople are treated terribly,
it's not fun.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Sadly, I think a lot of people in the geek culture
are treated terribly.
I honestly think that I'm veryopen where I work, about what I
enjoy, but there are times whenI don't talk a lot about it
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because, even working with grownmen, they still will.
I mean, I'm doing the same jobas them, I'm working the same
thing.
They are, they're nowheredifferent than what I'm doing.
And there are some grown menwho still have that view of oh
well, that's immature or that'schildish or you know, it is what
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it is.
But I truly think, while geekculture is growing, at the same
time it still has a lot ofpeople pushing against it for
multiple different reasons,different reasons.
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Uh, and I think that reallyaffects, uh, the, the social
aspect.
I mean, being a geek, being ahigh functioning geek or nerd is
is weird at times, you knowgrowing up, not being accepted
in a lot of stuff makes me veryuncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Sharing my thoughts makes me very uncomfortable and
anxious about sharing thingsthat I enjoy and I just wait for
everybody else to talk about.
They wouldn't like what are youlike?
Oh, just fun stuff, like games,like know we have board games
or something.
I won't tell them a whole lot.
People who are close to me thatsee me all the time they know I
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love Star Wars, they know Ilove Dungeons and Dragons, but I
don't get into a lot of deepdetails about it.
Growing up where it wasn't asaccepted as environmentally
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acceptable still has an effecton me today as an adult.
Um, I was the weird kid as at.
You know, when I was little Iwas the weird kid.
I was, you know I didn't have awhole lot of friends growing up
.
I had.
I still don't have a lot offriends.
No, you have five.
You talked about this last one,yeah, anyway, but now it's
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becoming more socially andculturally acceptable to be a
geek and everything and I lovethat and I'm so excited about
that and it makes it so mucheasier.
But still, past trauma makes ithard to talk about.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And I definitely agree, and I feel like that
affects so many more aspectsthan people realize, because it
really you're hiding who you are.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I was going to say it comes more down to being afraid
to show your true self.
Yeah, because of what peoplewill say I think that really
messes with people.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I mean, even even now , like I still you don't want to
be open and honest yeah, and itmakes you feel alone and in the
circles that you do find, whereyou can be open and honest,
like us, when we're by ourselvesand we're all together and
we're having a good time.
I have people on the internet Ican share that with and I'm
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comfortable and I can tell themall about that and they they're
excited for me and I'm excitedfor them and it's totally
comfortable.
But like outside world walkingaround, if you get excited, like
about something, like if, likeyou, find a book you've been
looking for, you go, yes, peoplelook at you and stare at you
weird at comic-con found thebook.
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I really like.
I went, yes, and everybody'slike what do you got?
This is like, this is coolDepends on your, like you said
I've been saying this whole time, it depends on your environment
, how you're treated.
That's how you react.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That's how you learn to adapt to everything that we
have grown up with and haveexperienced.
Growing up as a geek, I feellike it also makes dating harder
.
Now me and Stacy are marriedmarried.
We dated for a little bit andwe were just friends for the for
a very long time.
But I remember trying to dateas a geek, as a nerd, throughout
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high school, throughout you youknow middle school, throughout
my college career, before Idropped out.
It was difficult because peoplewere really hard to talk to
about what I was interested in,because it was almost a shameful
experience.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It was almost a shameful experience.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You know and I don't know what your guys' I mean I
know what Hannah's dating lifehas been like.
I don't know what your datinglife was like.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
First relationship really didn't last that long.
I've only been in like threeserious relationships.
That includes you.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I won.
Suck it.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It didn't last very long, but I think he was aware
of what I liked and stuff.
But it wasn't long.
It was only a few months.
The next one, we shared thesame love as Star Wars.
That's what basically bonded usand everything.
So we had a bond there in thatand then that lasted a couple of
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years and then that ended andthen I decided it was easier to
be single.
So that's probably when Iblossomed into my geekiness like
everything, dating you, weagain.
So that's probably when Iblossomed into my geekiness like
, um, everything, um, dating youwe again.
That's basically what introducedus is, uh, our being geeks, um,
being able to talk about it andcompare stuff and enjoy and
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have conversations and youteaching me things and I teach
you things about each other'sgeek life.
You know we have more than justgeekiness that we love about
each other.
It's just 90% of ourpersonalities.
Even today, like this isprobably the hardest, even
though this is our thirdtechnical episode.
This is the hardest for me todo is talking about geek culture
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and how I've been accepted andrejected and stuff and how it
has integrated into my life.
Like I feel a little fearfulabout this episode.
Just to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It is hurtful and if you're not.
But I feel like that's why it'sso important, because I feel
like people who are geeks or arenerds should know that they're
not for one, that they're notalone.
But it's also important that ifyou're not a nerd, that they're
not for one, that they're notalone.
But it's also important that ifyou're not a nerd, if you're
not a geek, that you know, trustme, we, we see it.
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You're not hiding it.
If you are a person who haslooked at someone funny, I would
bet money that they noticed it.
I really do at At least oneperson.
But it's important for us thatpeople do know that one of the
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things with this podcast is tobring people in, that they have
a new community.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
They have people who are like us, who see us, who you
know I've never been to us withuh how their opinions, and we
don't judge them for liking thething you know, not just for
liking the things or ouropinions.
Hopefully, um, but you knowthey don't have to fear there's
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a lot of rejection in geekculture.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
What is, what has it been like, cause you know you're
currently single.
What has it been like as a nerd, as a geek, in today's society
for you?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Well, I mean, I do think it would definitely be
easier to find someone that youshould have some interest in.
I have not yet had thatexperience.
Everybody that I've been withnever really liked it.
Like some of them was okay withit, like yeah, you want to go
watch this movie?
Sure, I don't really care, Ihave no idea what's going on,
and I don't feel like it makesthe experience as fun.
(30:06):
You know what I mean?
Like you're over here ramblingabout how excited and everything
and then they're just like sotoday, you know, they just don't
even, they don't care, and itdoesn't make it as fun.
And I mean that's noteverything you have to have in
common with someone.
But I feel like it is a littleharder to find someone that has
(30:28):
the same interest, because itall boils down to the fact is,
you're going gonna have to havesomeone that you share a common
interest in and go, do fun stuff.
You're not gonna enjoyeverything that the other person
does and everything like that.
But I mean you have to havemore than just one or two things
in common to really.
You know right make it work.
(30:49):
But I mean, at the same time, Idon't know, it's just, it can't
be difficult, because you knowsome people think it's weird, or
why do you want this?
Or you know, okay, if we do getserious, whatever, you're not
doing this anymore, you're notbuying, you're not watching this
(31:09):
, you know yeah, those have beenfun.
That's been fun to hear about iswhen people say you're not
allowed to do this, no more likeif you find someone that is
more into the stuff you're into,you don't feel as lonely I
would agree, yeah because youcan excitedly share your stuff
(31:29):
versus someone, like I just justsaid earlier, that doesn't even
care and you're just listeningbecause they feel like they have
to and they just really simplywant to tell you to stop talking
about it and change the subject.
Well, I don't want to go watchthis movie, but if I tell her I
don't want to be mad.
So just go watch it, not reallyenjoy it or want to do it, but
they just do it because theydon't want to cause a fight or
(31:50):
anything like that.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
On that note, Stacey, I have something to tell you.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Oh God no.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I do not want to watch Indiana Jones.
Do not have an interest inIndiana Jones.
I'm sorry to break it to you.
Yeah, he doesn't want to watchIndiana Jones with me, which is
fine.
However, on that note, we havewatched Indiana Jones together.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
We've watched two.
Well, I mean, you don't havecertain things.
That's not always in common,and that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I mean because he likes a lot more animes than I
do and I'm just like, yeah, youcan watch it.
And then he likes the videogames that I don't like, like I
and Hannah, and I'm not thebiggest fans of Rainbow Six
Siege.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Rainbow Six Siege.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Oh see, I don't even, I can't even do the thing.
I apologize.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Other words known as trash.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Toxicity.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Anger.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Aggression.
It's like a really bad powerpuncher Breaking your remote,
throwing the keyboard.
You threw the keyboard, no.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Punching your screen, getting screamed at.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, being cursed out for actively dying.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oof.
Yeah, I also feel like Call ofDuty is very toxic.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Oh, it is.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Very toxic.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
To go along with geek culture.
Something to remember is yourenvironment plays a big part of
it, but your environment is notjust outside, around everybody
else.
You have to remember that youhave an environment inside.
You have a culture that you'rean environment inside.
You have a culture that you'rebuilding inside where you live,
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inside your friend group.
If you have friends who arejust not nice about what you do,
I'm sorry.
You probably want to get betterfriends, you know, in all
honesty, surround yourself witha culture that understands what
you're into.
They don't have to all be intothe exact same things, but if
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they're just as supportive andenthusiastic about it as you are
, surround yourself with them.
I mean, it's better.
I feel like that's importantwith geek culture.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's important with any culture.
It's important for any culture.
Yeah, it's important for beinga human.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You know, find your culture.
If you're listening to this andyou're not a geek, that's fine.
You don't have to be a geek,you don't have to be a nerd.
It is such a broad statement.
I would go as far as to saypeople who are really into
(34:36):
sports are sports geeks.
You know, I mean, everyone is ageek.
It's being really into stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, that's true, but I just feel like when you
say you're a nerd, you just getmore.
Okay, the weird, stay away.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Versus like a sport nerd For us where we are, I feel
like geeks are cool hipsterkind of people, while nerds are
the stereotypical TV nerds andsome aspects.
In some places, even an hourfrom where we currently are,
(35:18):
nerd is like oh yeah, they'rethe cool nerds.
And geeks like oh, those areweird, you got to stay away.
I mean the term nerd and geekkind of flip flops depending on
where you're at, but I thinkthey both.
If you're a nerd or geek, youare the word's one in the same.
It's one in the same.
(35:39):
In my opinion.
You guys feel a little lessalone.
Hopefully.
You guys kind of heard threerandom people on the internet's
perspective of what geek cultureis in our personal experience.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
We hope you feel a little less alone.
We hope you have greatexperiences in your areas for
your geek culture, um.
Share your geek culture below.
Tell us all about it if youwant, or if you don't want to
that that's okay too.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
With that, guys.
Thank you so much for listening, for watching, for checking out
our channel, checking outTikTok YouTube, wherever you
find your podcasts.
Thank you so much for listening.
We'll be having an amazing dayafternoon, night, evening,
whatever time it is when you arelistening to this podcast.
(36:34):
We will see you guys in thenext video.
Goodbye.
What is up, guys?
So this episode is geek culturein the modern society.
What we're talking about is alot of you watching this is
probably in some form or fashion.
This is either your geeks ornerds, and you want to hear
(00:32):
about geek and nerd culture.
Some of you might not be a geekat all and you might be like
what is geek culture?
And hey, this topic is said bythese three geeks, so let's
listen to them.
We're all three geeks ofdifferent calibers, as we've
talked in previous episodes, andI feel like that really gives
(00:53):
us a good variety of what makesit what.
What is geek culture like to us?
What is it like being a geek inmodern society?
What is it like dating inmodern society as a nerd, as a
geek?
Hannah's extreme, so Hannah issingle as of filming this
(01:19):
episode.
I'm married to Stacey, sobecause of that, really the
question becomes what is it likebeing a geek in today's society
?
Let's get chatting.
Let's get chatting.
Hi guys, I'm Nicholas.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm Stacy.
I'm Hannah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And this is Three Geeks Chatting.
I'm Hannah, and this is ThreeGeeks Chatting.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
With today's episode, I really wanted to kick it off
by asking everybody a question.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I already said yes, not that question.
So this is a very dire situationwe're in and I need to know Do
I need my lightsaber?
You always need the lightsaber.
How bad have you guys beentreated solely solely based on
(02:17):
the fact you're a geek?
If you listen to the lastepisode, we talked about what
made us a geek and how we becamegeeks.
For me, it was childhood.
It was ever since I was born.
Hannah talked about when shewas about 10, she really got
into the geek culture.
Stacey didn't say an age, butshe was little and it was with
the Little Mermaid.
How bad have you guys beentreated being a geek?
(02:40):
We're going to touch deeperinto modern society as a geek,
but for now, this is where Iwant to start.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Depends on the environment that you're in.
Depends on the environment Likeif you're around other fellow
geeks, like my greatest movieexperience was.
I got to see Star Wars EpisodeIII at the midnight showing.
Everybody dressed up.
(03:10):
Some guy came in in a reallygood Darth Vader costume and he
came in and he lived in it andeverybody went wah and the whole
not talking thing went out ofthe window with, you know, the
knowledge that they wanted towatch the movie.
But when Yoda came in and boomon those two guards in Darth
(03:30):
Sidious's office, everybody juststarted clapping and cheering.
It was kind of like when theSpider-Man showed up.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
No, way home.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No way home that was probably my best movie
experience.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
That was so good.
That was so good.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So, like in those experiences, very good, very
accepting, very loving Comic Con, anime Cons depends on who
you're interacting with.
Mostly accepting Awkward.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Some of them a little flirtatious with my wife.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I remember you, I had a guy tell me he wouldn't bite
me unless I asked him to.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I wasn't even dating her.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You weren't there.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I wasn't even dating her.
I never knew this guy.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
This thing is not going to live.
Yeah, I'm talking about mytablet here.
I just about knocked it off thetable.
Yeah, that was like the awkward, like hi run.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No, thank you, but that also might be Run.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Run no, no, no, no yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
But that might also be part of being a female in the
nerd culture can be part of themale, because I know men get it
as well well, I feel like, too,that there's not a lot, whole
whole lot.
I know there is some, butthere's not a lot of like female
nerds, no um, but I do thinkfemales it's becoming more
(05:07):
common for girls now but itdidn't start out back way back
then?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
no, it wasn't um, when we're talking about so,
something to clarify.
When we're talking about womennot being huge in the nerd
culture, uh, well, we're.
Or geek culture, geek community.
What we're referring to iswhere we currently are, where we
(05:31):
were when this happened, um ourarea is not very our area is
not very accepting of a lot ofextreme geek and nerd culture,
some of the.
If you are from places such asCalifornia, you may have a giant
(05:52):
population of women who areinto this.
This is not in any way ussaying that women are.
There's not a lot of women init.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I just feel like from around here.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, around here.
I want to clarify.
That's for us in our area andwe're canceled, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Woo.
All right, it's good to see youguys.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
All right, but like that.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Also, like I said, because we had this discussion
at our last Comic Con.
We were sitting here scrollingthrough the art and there's a
very not safe for work friendlyphoto of Ahsoka Tano and I'm
like, okay, why do I see 15 ofthese and none of male
characters?
Like okay, where's the malecharacters?
(06:34):
And some guy next to us, uh,was like because you you.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He goes because, uh, men aren't that good looking.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
The guy.
Another guy said that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, that's what the other guy said.
He goes because men aren't thatgood looking.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, I'm searching through all these fan art Very
beautiful art, very cool Some ofthem very, very not safe for
work and I'm like, well, okay, Ididn't want to see her in that
light Because I love Ahsoka Tano, did not want to see her in
that light because I love AhsokaTano, did not want to see her
in that light.
Think that you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
We have a cat named Ahsoka.
We do.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We named our cat Ahsoka.
But I'm sitting there I'm like,okay, why they do not do this
for men?
I found one photo that they didit for men and it wasn't even
really that much.
It was Sam and Dean washing theImpala and that was the only
one.
(07:32):
But it's like going to, youknow, seeing all that stuff.
It can be a little interestingsometimes for girls, women in
our area.
I feel like it's more judged.
It's a little more judgedaround our area.
But, and we're canceled Anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And we're canceled.
Good job guys.
Okay, let's go home.
Wrap this up.
I will say we traveled a prettygood distance to a Comic-Con
recently.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Where I saw the photos.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And the demographic there.
It was very much different andthere were a lot of women there
who were also dressed up andcosplaying.
It wasn't just men dressed upand cosplaying, it wasn't just
men.
And I think one of the goodthings about current modern day
(08:30):
being a geek modern day isthere's a lot of areas where
it's not accepting, but there'sso much social media out there
that really shows off howpopular it is across the board
gender-wise.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That culture several hours away.
Like I said, it depends on yourenvironment, how you're treated
, no matter what you are,whether you're a geek, whether
you know anything, it depends onthe environment you're in.
So that environment was moreaccepting and everything.
Like you walk by someone I sayI love your costume, like thank
you so much and that's so cool,and then I'm guessing people's
(09:10):
cosplays wrong and my husband'slaughing his head off.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So how would you say you've been treated for being, I
guess, a woman who goes tothese conventions, like across
the board?
Would you say that geek culturehas been kind to you?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
For the most part, yes, sometimes it's like I said.
Sometimes it's awkward.
A few times I have been toldyou know, hey, that's not a good
thing to get into.
You shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
A lot of that.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I do get a lot of that, but that's not where
you're surrounded by other geeks.
It's the people who are notsurrounded by geeks.
So, but I have had a lot ofthat and I've had a lot of
support and everything.
So, like I said, it depends onyour environment, how you're
treated, how you're supported.
That is your environment I,what about?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
what about you, hannah?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I think like if you don't have the same type of
friends, you just get viewed asweird and that's also true.
Like why would you like this?
Why do you obsess about this?
Why do you go into thisextensive?
Why do you collect everything?
It's just weird, it's a wasteof money.
It's weird versus when you havefriends that do like all that
and they go in your room like,oh my gosh, that's so cool,
(10:30):
let's pack your whole room upbecause I want it.
Versus someone who walks in.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I've said that to her before too.
Like hey, can I just have allof these?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
No we don't have room no.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So it's just very different aspects.
So someone walks in your room.
It's like who's that pop figureversus someone that walks in
and is like, oh my gosh, youhave that.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You know, Like I said , different your friends create
different environments.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Who you're around, you get excited to talk to,
versus people that are like,okay, that's weird, I don't
really care, so stop talkingabout it.
Yeah, really care to.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So stop talking about it.
Yeah, along the lines of.
So I I will say what I think isacross the board, no matter
where you're, where you grow upat um, especially as if you're
an adult, you've probably allexperienced this.
If you are younger and you'relistening to this podcast, you
(11:26):
might not be too familiar withwith this concept, as I feel
like geek and nerd culture aregrowing more popular.
It is making people cooler.
I think it's becoming moreacceptable, more mainstream.
So me growing up, I grew up in apretty decent size, uh area,
(11:49):
very populated, advanced highschool stuff like that.
One of the big things withwhere I grew up.
One of the one of my bestfriends was really popular.
I I wouldn't say like, oh, oneof the cool popular sports kids,
but he was pretty well knownand he didn't have any like
(12:12):
anyone who was like, oh man,look at that nerd stuff like
that.
He was huge into filmography anddirecting and making YouTube
videos and I remember for us wewent and saw the Force Awakens
once and I was living at homestill.
(12:33):
We went out, I was in, we leftat 7 pm at night, stayed out
until 5 in the morning at a24-hour mcdonald's, stayed out
all night watched the forceawakens which was like my third
(12:55):
time viewing it in theaters andjust sat out talking about it.
We I mean in.
There was no consequences tothat.
As I said in my previous video,my parents didn't monitor
really a lot of what I did.
They as long as I wasn't dead,they didn't really care what I
(13:16):
did.
Oh, I was like that's what youwatched, but yeah, they didn't
monitor what I watched and theydidn't really care too much what
I did.
What makes that?
What made it so different,though, was there were people in
(13:41):
my school who were really nerdyand geeky and into this stuff,
and they were harshly judged.
They, they, they were viewedvery poorly.
I hung out with a lot of thekids who were viewed this way at
the time.
I wasn't very outspoken, so nota lot of people knew that I was
into a lot of geek culture.
(14:03):
They knew I liked video games,but it wasn't like oh, he's an
anime cosplayer, stuff like that, which I don't cosplay.
But, you know, not a lot ofpeople knew what I did outside
of school.
I didn't really tell people, Ididn't talk to people.
We remember being judged forwhat we do.
You know the amount of timesthat people have said that's
(14:24):
evil, or you shouldn't do that,or or you know why.
Why do you like, why?
Why do you like that?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
you know why, you know why you stay up all night
playing video games with friends.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Let's go to bed, you know yeah, and then proceed to
stay up all night at a barplaying like darts or or card
games or something like that,you know, but like completely
plastered out their mind by theend of it.
I mean it really is shocking onhow geek culture has changed.
(14:58):
Now we we talked last episodeabout how the marvel cinematic
universe really blew, blew upmainstream comic books.
I believe they really changedhow people viewed comic books.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I mean comic books are I've gotten to start reading
more comic books, and wantingto.
Since I've watched MarvelUniverse, it's like it goes into
a deeper explaining ofeverything that happens.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
They're not even like bad.
I think there's a lot of peoplewho still don't read comic
books, but being able to say,yeah, I have these comic books
doesn't feel as shameful associety once made it feel.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, I don't know if you guys have felt that, but I
definitely feel Well, I feellike comic books are just like
okay, that's more like a readingaspect and a lot of people read
and they don't consider that aslike geeky nerdy versus.
They walk into your room andit's like full of everything.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Funko Pops posters collectibles.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Versus just a few stacks of comic books that you
have in the corner of your roomthat if someone walked in they
would never see, and if younever said you read comic books,
you wouldn't know.
You know what I mean.
Like I have, all I wear isMarvel t-shirts, star Wars
t-shirts, geeky t-shirts sopeople know that I'm a geek when
(16:32):
I walk out the door.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, no, I, I, completely I.
I agree to that aspect.
You looked at, you know, wedungeons and dragons was one of
those things that I wouldn't sayit was dying, but it was very
rare and solemn to see it reallyaround as much as it is now,
(16:55):
ever since Stranger Things.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Stranger Things, the Dungeons and Dragons movies.
They even have several shows onNetflix.
The biggest thing would beCritical Role.
There's a few other podcaststhat.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Dimension 20.
Dimension 20.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
That's the one I was trying to figure out Dungeons
and Daddies.
Oh, dungeons and Daddies, welove that one.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It really D&D has become such a mainstream thing
as well.
I believe geek culture isshifting tides uh.
To go deeper into the geekculture outside of comic books
and video games, look at uh.
Or comic books and dnd.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Look at video games I think some of it has to do with
some of the stuff is when it'sfirst sorted out, like Iron man
and stuff.
He's just building a metal suitand flying around, basically
that's it, and then the fall.
As we get into it we have moremagical powers because Doctor
Strange comes in Wanda.
(18:01):
Then we have who else.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Spider-Man.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Spider-Man, he gets bit by a spider.
So you have more thought outthere, thor.
You know.
Thought out there that peoplethink, or you know you got
Wonder Woman, superman, batmanthe Flash.
He gets struck by lightning,the arrow gets trapped on an
(18:29):
island and then turns into DC.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
to what would you?
Consider the Arrow.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, starts out as a killer and then decides it's
not a good way and decides toprotect the city, you know?
So I mean.
And then they think, okay, well, that's weird, why would you
want to watch that?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh yeah, and that's the thing.
Like dc took uh the tv uh or tvshows by storm, marvel took
over movie cinematics by storm.
I mean you were having twofronts of these massive dramas
going on.
And then you have podcasts likecritical role.
(19:10):
Who's taken over the internetfor dnd stranger things?
You have uh youtube.
You know all these things arebecoming more accurate and
people of geek and nerd cultureare taking we're taking over,
you know, massive media fronts.
Then you get into video gamesand even video games.
(19:33):
Even in in uh schools haveesports teams around around the
united states.
I mean when I was in high school.
I would have killed for anesports team.
I would have went to Halo.
You know what I could have donewith Halo at that time?
I would have done some damageto some of those kids in high
(19:56):
school if they put me on a Haloesports team.
I was in hate clans on Halodoing massive battles and small
tournaments when I was in 6thand 7th grade with like grown
adults.
I was a 7th grader in smalltournaments online for these,
(20:24):
for these teams.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I couldn't tell people that, though I think some
of it too could have toldpeople that though I think some
of it too is like the peoplethat's not really into it sees
you buying all this stuff andthey think it's a waste of money
.
So they tell you like you couldbe buying on more productive
things than what you're spendingon.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So you kind of get judged from that aspect too.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Like I said, it just all goes back to your, your
environment that you're in.
Yeah, it was like back then.
You know, your environment wasthey didn't have esports, it was
all sports, normal sports.
And now it's come into.
They have esports and stuffesports esports yeah, esports,
that's more common now in some.
Some areas it's not very commonstill.
So, like I said, it's yourculture, it's your environment.
(21:13):
It's just where you're at andhow you're treated.
Some people are treated, youknow, terribly.
Some people are treatedwonderfully.
Unfortunately, you know, somepeople are treated terribly,
it's not fun.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Sadly, I think a lot of people in the geek culture
are treated terribly.
I honestly think that I'm veryopen where I work, about what I
enjoy, but there are times whenI don't talk a lot about it
(21:49):
because, even working with grownmen, they still will.
I mean, I'm doing the same jobas them, I'm working the same
thing.
They are, they're nowheredifferent than what I'm doing.
And there are some grown menwho still have that view of oh
well, that's immature or that'schildish or you know, it is what
(22:13):
it is.
But I truly think, while geekculture is growing, at the same
time it still has a lot ofpeople pushing against it for
multiple different reasons,different reasons.
(22:42):
Uh, and I think that reallyaffects, uh, the, the social
aspect.
I mean, being a geek, being ahigh functioning geek or nerd is
is weird at times, you knowgrowing up, not being accepted
in a lot of stuff makes me veryuncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Sharing my thoughts makes me very uncomfortable and
anxious about sharing thingsthat I enjoy and I just wait for
everybody else to talk about.
They wouldn't like what are youlike?
Oh, just fun stuff, like games,like know we have board games
or something.
I won't tell them a whole lot.
People who are close to me thatsee me all the time they know I
(23:18):
love Star Wars, they know Ilove Dungeons and Dragons, but I
don't get into a lot of deepdetails about it.
Growing up where it wasn't asaccepted as environmentally
(23:38):
acceptable still has an effecton me today as an adult.
Um, I was the weird kid as at.
You know, when I was little Iwas the weird kid.
I was, you know I didn't have awhole lot of friends growing up
.
I had.
I still don't have a lot offriends.
No, you have five.
You talked about this last one,yeah, anyway, but now it's
(24:00):
becoming more socially andculturally acceptable to be a
geek and everything and I lovethat and I'm so excited about
that and it makes it so mucheasier.
But still, past trauma makes ithard to talk about.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And I definitely agree, and I feel like that
affects so many more aspectsthan people realize, because it
really you're hiding who you are.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I was going to say it comes more down to being afraid
to show your true self.
Yeah, because of what peoplewill say I think that really
messes with people.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I mean, even even now , like I still you don't want to
be open and honest yeah, and itmakes you feel alone and in the
circles that you do find, whereyou can be open and honest,
like us, when we're by ourselvesand we're all together and
we're having a good time.
I have people on the internet Ican share that with and I'm
(25:01):
comfortable and I can tell themall about that and they they're
excited for me and I'm excitedfor them and it's totally
comfortable.
But like outside world walkingaround, if you get excited, like
about something, like if, likeyou, find a book you've been
looking for, you go, yes, peoplelook at you and stare at you
weird at comic-con found thebook.
(25:24):
I really like.
I went, yes, and everybody'slike what do you got?
This is like, this is coolDepends on your, like you said
I've been saying this whole time, it depends on your environment
, how you're treated.
That's how you react.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That's how you learn to adapt to everything that we
have grown up with and haveexperienced.
Growing up as a geek, I feellike it also makes dating harder
.
Now me and Stacy are marriedmarried.
We dated for a little bit andwe were just friends for the for
a very long time.
But I remember trying to dateas a geek, as a nerd, throughout
(26:11):
high school, throughout you youknow middle school, throughout
my college career, before Idropped out.
It was difficult because peoplewere really hard to talk to
about what I was interested in,because it was almost a shameful
experience.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It was almost a shameful experience.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You know and I don't know what your guys' I mean I
know what Hannah's dating lifehas been like.
I don't know what your datinglife was like.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
First relationship really didn't last that long.
I've only been in like threeserious relationships.
That includes you.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I won.
Suck it.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It didn't last very long, but I think he was aware
of what I liked and stuff.
But it wasn't long.
It was only a few months.
The next one, we shared thesame love as Star Wars.
That's what basically bonded usand everything.
So we had a bond there in thatand then that lasted a couple of
(27:24):
years and then that ended andthen I decided it was easier to
be single.
So that's probably when Iblossomed into my geekiness like
everything, dating you, weagain.
So that's probably when Iblossomed into my geekiness like
, um, everything, um, dating youwe again.
That's basically what introducedus is, uh, our being geeks, um,
being able to talk about it andcompare stuff and enjoy and
(27:45):
have conversations and youteaching me things and I teach
you things about each other'sgeek life.
You know we have more than justgeekiness that we love about
each other.
It's just 90% of ourpersonalities.
Even today, like this isprobably the hardest, even
though this is our thirdtechnical episode.
This is the hardest for me todo is talking about geek culture
(28:09):
and how I've been accepted andrejected and stuff and how it
has integrated into my life.
Like I feel a little fearfulabout this episode.
Just to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It is hurtful and if you're not.
But I feel like that's why it'sso important, because I feel
like people who are geeks or arenerds should know that they're
not for one, that they're notalone.
But it's also important that ifyou're not a nerd, that they're
not for one, that they're notalone.
But it's also important that ifyou're not a nerd, if you're
not a geek, that you know, trustme, we, we see it.
(28:41):
You're not hiding it.
If you are a person who haslooked at someone funny, I would
bet money that they noticed it.
I really do at At least oneperson.
But it's important for us thatpeople do know that one of the
(29:03):
things with this podcast is tobring people in, that they have
a new community.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
They have people who are like us, who see us, who you
know I've never been to us withuh how their opinions, and we
don't judge them for liking thething you know, not just for
liking the things or ouropinions.
Hopefully, um, but you knowthey don't have to fear there's
(29:30):
a lot of rejection in geekculture.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
What is, what has it been like, cause you know you're
currently single.
What has it been like as a nerd, as a geek, in today's society
for you?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Well, I mean, I do think it would definitely be
easier to find someone that youshould have some interest in.
I have not yet had thatexperience.
Everybody that I've been withnever really liked it.
Like some of them was okay withit, like yeah, you want to go
watch this movie?
Sure, I don't really care, Ihave no idea what's going on,
and I don't feel like it makesthe experience as fun.
(30:06):
You know what I mean?
Like you're over here ramblingabout how excited and everything
and then they're just like sotoday, you know, they just don't
even, they don't care, and itdoesn't make it as fun.
And I mean that's noteverything you have to have in
common with someone.
But I feel like it is a littleharder to find someone that has
(30:28):
the same interest, because itall boils down to the fact is,
you're going gonna have to havesomeone that you share a common
interest in and go, do fun stuff.
You're not gonna enjoyeverything that the other person
does and everything like that.
But I mean you have to havemore than just one or two things
in common to really.
You know right make it work.
(30:49):
But I mean, at the same time, Idon't know, it's just, it can't
be difficult, because you knowsome people think it's weird, or
why do you want this?
Or you know, okay, if we do getserious, whatever, you're not
doing this anymore, you're notbuying, you're not watching this
(31:09):
, you know yeah, those have beenfun.
That's been fun to hear about iswhen people say you're not
allowed to do this, no more likeif you find someone that is
more into the stuff you're into,you don't feel as lonely I
would agree, yeah because youcan excitedly share your stuff
(31:29):
versus someone, like I just justsaid earlier, that doesn't even
care and you're just listeningbecause they feel like they have
to and they just really simplywant to tell you to stop talking
about it and change the subject.
Well, I don't want to go watchthis movie, but if I tell her I
don't want to be mad.
So just go watch it, not reallyenjoy it or want to do it, but
they just do it because theydon't want to cause a fight or
(31:50):
anything like that.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
On that note, Stacey, I have something to tell you.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Oh God no.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I do not want to watch Indiana Jones.
Do not have an interest inIndiana Jones.
I'm sorry to break it to you.
Yeah, he doesn't want to watchIndiana Jones with me, which is
fine.
However, on that note, we havewatched Indiana Jones together.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
We've watched two.
Well, I mean, you don't havecertain things.
That's not always in common,and that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I mean because he likes a lot more animes than I
do and I'm just like, yeah, youcan watch it.
And then he likes the videogames that I don't like, like I
and Hannah, and I'm not thebiggest fans of Rainbow Six
Siege.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Rainbow Six Siege.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Oh see, I don't even, I can't even do the thing.
I apologize.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Other words known as trash.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Toxicity.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Anger.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Aggression.
It's like a really bad powerpuncher Breaking your remote,
throwing the keyboard.
You threw the keyboard, no.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Punching your screen, getting screamed at.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, being cursed out for actively dying.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oof.
Yeah, I also feel like Call ofDuty is very toxic.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Oh, it is.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Very toxic.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
To go along with geek culture.
Something to remember is yourenvironment plays a big part of
it, but your environment is notjust outside, around everybody
else.
You have to remember that youhave an environment inside.
You have a culture that you'rean environment inside.
You have a culture that you'rebuilding inside where you live,
(33:35):
inside your friend group.
If you have friends who arejust not nice about what you do,
I'm sorry.
You probably want to get betterfriends, you know, in all
honesty, surround yourself witha culture that understands what
you're into.
They don't have to all be intothe exact same things, but if
(33:59):
they're just as supportive andenthusiastic about it as you are
, surround yourself with them.
I mean, it's better.
I feel like that's importantwith geek culture.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's important with any culture.
It's important for any culture.
Yeah, it's important for beinga human.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You know, find your culture.
If you're listening to this andyou're not a geek, that's fine.
You don't have to be a geek,you don't have to be a nerd.
It is such a broad statement.
I would go as far as to saypeople who are really into
(34:36):
sports are sports geeks.
You know, I mean, everyone is ageek.
It's being really into stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, that's true, but I just feel like when you
say you're a nerd, you just getmore.
Okay, the weird, stay away.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Versus like a sport nerd For us where we are, I feel
like geeks are cool hipsterkind of people, while nerds are
the stereotypical TV nerds andsome aspects.
In some places, even an hourfrom where we currently are,
(35:18):
nerd is like oh yeah, they'rethe cool nerds.
And geeks like oh, those areweird, you got to stay away.
I mean the term nerd and geekkind of flip flops depending on
where you're at, but I thinkthey both.
If you're a nerd or geek, youare the word's one in the same.
It's one in the same.
(35:39):
In my opinion.
You guys feel a little lessalone.
Hopefully.
You guys kind of heard threerandom people on the internet's
perspective of what geek cultureis in our personal experience.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
We hope you feel a little less alone.
We hope you have greatexperiences in your areas for
your geek culture, um.
Share your geek culture below.
Tell us all about it if youwant, or if you don't want to
that that's okay too.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
With that, guys.
Thank you so much for listening, for watching, for checking out
our channel, checking outTikTok YouTube, wherever you
find your podcasts.
Thank you so much for listening.
We'll be having an amazing dayafternoon, night, evening,
whatever time it is when you arelistening to this podcast.
(36:34):
We will see you guys in thenext video.
Goodbye.
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