The Enlightening History and Scary Future of the Nerd

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

An episode on the very history of nerds? Did we do that? Yes we did. Jake explains the history of the nerd archetype, where the word comes from, and how nerds were at first the antithesis of what young boys should strive to be. Holden and Mike bring up various portrayals of nerds in pop culture and we all share our Big Bang Theory theories and wonder just where do we go now that nerds have certainly had their revenge and are the evil billionaires we fear instead of empathize with. Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Nerd of Mouse.
0:20.2	Ladies gentlemen and non-binary entities, how are you doing?
0:23.9	It is nerd of mouth, your weekly, geekly deep dive into the world of Dorcas, malorkelously stuff.
0:31.8	Yikes.
0:32.4	What?
0:32.7	Okay, fine.
0:33.3	And if we lost you on the non-bine everything, we didn't want you as anyways. All right, right, right. One more time. But keep the first take. We're starting separate more times. Yeah, yeah. I want you to do it again, but we're going to keep the original as well. Dorks, dweeps, and geeks of all shapes and sizes. Welcome to Nerd of Mouth. Your week is each time.. Especially the big ones. Especially. All shapes and sizes except normal. Well, we're going to get into it because this week we are diving into, and I can't believe we've never done this before, the, what the fuck, the history of nerds. Yes. How did we get here? Why did we get here? Who made us here?
1:11.6	And why are we a distinct level of thing?
1:14.1	And the story that I've been like going through this past week has been like blowing my fucking mind.
1:20.1	And just to get this started right off the bat, this is a pet peeve of mine going through like the internet.
1:25.4	There was so much discourse about this.
1:27.4	There is no
1:28.2	difference between a nerd and a geek and a dork like if you think they mean different things
1:34.6	besides just the weak effeminate person that you feel justified and shitting on you are wrong
1:40.8	you are wrong you are wrong what they mean is what you feel comfortable buying at Spencer Gifts. Yeah. Like, it's all branding. It's such. I mean, as far as etymology goes, I guess, if you do a simple Google search, they will always mention if I ran the zoo by Dr. Seuss in 1951. Oh, that's no, no. We're going way back.
2:01.0	We're taking the way, way back.
2:02.2	Holden.
2:02.7	This shit starts in the 1800s.
2:05.3	Nice.
2:06.0	This is really where...
2:07.2	BC!
2:08.9	In the not too distant past.
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