I’m your nerd host, Chris Hardwick
Nerdist is a place where we nerds come together and share the nerdery that we find. It's also my home to various elements of the Nerdist Empire. You might recognize me from TV. You don't realize that's where you know me from, but it is. You think you went to college with me or I look like your cousin's friend, but that is not the case. At one time or another you stumbled upon me on your moving picture box in such cerebral gems as MTV's "Singled Out" and Noam Chomsky's "Shipmates." and so much more...


Fantastic show!! Sucks Kumail couldn’t be there, but hopefully there will be many many more of these that he can be on.
Great Show! The Zelda timeline caused me some problems when I was trying to choke back the laughter. Getting me in trouble you two.
My favorite ingredient to eat:
Large Antlers.
“Is that… That Khajiit… Is he eating a tree branch? Is that… I’m gonna get closer, hang on… OK, no. That’s antlers. He’s eating antlers.”
I love how Emily shouted from the other room in the beginning, and how Bagel was meowing. I don’t know why, I just think it’s adorable.
Also, I never get tired of hearing you guys talk about Skyrim. None of my friends play it, so I enjoy eavesdropping on your conversations
Oh, also, speaking of putting things on peoples’ heads in Skyrim…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUiMTPh6UY
And relatedly, even more amazing…
Another great episode. This had a lot of lols in it for me, causing people at work to ask me whats so damn funny, and then not really being able to explain it to them. Too bad about Kumail, but Mira was just fine as a replacement.
Before it’s pointed out to me again, I want to acknowledge the mistake I made in saying “Chocobo Toe” instead of “Cucco Toe” during the live episode, in reference to Zelda’s crotch area. I was very into fake animal breeding in both Zelda games as well as Final Fantasy games, and my brain got them crossed.
I hope you can forgive me for this slip, and if I’ve caused any stress or fury with my mistake, I do deeply apologize.
Love always,
Emily
For the record, people that collect butterflies in real life are creepy.
So Jordan Morris looks like Michael J. Pollard? Fun Fact: Pollard played the role of “teenager” Jahn in the Season One Original Series episode of Star Trek called “Miri.” An ironic role: Jahn was supposed to be much older than his physical age of 14 — and the actor himself was 27 at the time.
Guys, I don’t wan to brag, but I share birthdays with Dana Gould, David Koechner, Stephen Fry (narrator of Little Big Planet, one of my favorite video-games), AND Hideo Kojima: creator of my favorite video-game series of all time, Metal Gear Solid.
What Matt was saying about gears with the guns. I would consider that really good balancing.
Btw the thing with Sam and Dom’s tattoo is that he had the tattoo before of his wife’s name in a heart and after gears 2 he asked Sam to change it to a cloud with his wife’s name being held by an angel. Sorry I’m a total gears nerd and have read everything written about it lol. Oh and with the idea at the end of Gears 3 that we were the bad guys, the locust may have been being killed themselves by the lambent, but in all fairness the locust could have come out of the ground, shaken our hands, and worked together to stop the lambent but instead they decided to completely murder us with no explanation.
They shit on dead island again in the podcast
They shit on dead island again in the podcast
Congrats on Emily for hosting a very entertaining episode. For some reason, I just want Matt to co-host IDK with either Kumail or Emily in a future episodes. Also, good to hear from Bagel again.
:/ KuMatt Nanjimira might just be a cherubic face with gigantic sideburns with Kumail’s deepest accent and a yearning for the Dave Matthews Band.
Did anyone else play Shadows of the Damned based on Kumail and Emily’s recommendation? I definitely didn’t enjoy it as much as they did and ended up quitting after trying to beat the ‘big boner’ level and failing about 25 times. The worst part was having to listen to Johnson orgasm over and over in the preceding cutscene.
Love the show guys. This is the only game that I disagreed with and I don’t want this post to come off as dickish.
Ahhh, Jordan was doing a great job representing the hardcore fighting game fans…. until he slandered the name of Tekken!!! >XO lol
Please put up the Kumail/Mira lost episode. Please pretty please!
I enjoyed this episode. Skyrim is indeed the game of the year. I also got to catch Kumail on the Nerdist best of 11. I laughed really hard. It was nice to know he tries his jokes out on the podcast before releasing them in the wild.
I’d love to see an Indoor Kids live show in Seattle.
How go play Mass Effect already.
Bo Jackson was good on Tecmo Bowl…but Walter Peyton was THE best!
Thanks for the huge Gears 3 spoilers with no spoiler warnings…..