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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 22/09/2026

Steely Dan Podcasting Continues! Countdown to Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic with myself, @slatron.bsky.social and John Szymanski. John has produced live stage shows and does music for pinball and other video game machines. mikeslater.com/ygcto-32.html

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 16/09/2026

Clickbait 101, but also a fun example of "truncation loses information" if we're just talking analog-to-digital comparisons.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 20/08/2026

Hopefully you're subscribed to "You Gotta Check This Out" with me -- links in the article below! The amazing @atifmyers.bsky.social of Sus Stories has been on the last two episodes, and his comic knowledge was a blast to review this masterpiece mikeslater.com/ygcto-29.html

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 20/08/2026

Didn't realize Jon Bernthal and Dane Cook were related …

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 27/07/2026

Finding out these are "The Righteous Brothers", who sang one of the most romantic songs ever, is, for me, pretty much like that scene where Anton Ego found out who Remy was in Ratatouille.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 26/07/2026

. @slatron.bsky.social And I am onto the next season of the podcast, and we're doing "The Power Fantasy" starting with the volume 1 trade paperback. The fantastic @carinslater.bsky.social guests, and we discuss "the right way to read comics." Hint, Mike is wrong! mikeslater.com/ygcto-28.html

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 06/01/2026

mikeslater.com/ygcto-12b.html @slatron.bsky.social is a ruthless editor that will cut anything that hampers the flow of our amazing podcast -- a must listen for Babylon 5 fans! He does take the scraps and make great bonus episodes though, and I guess I said this?

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 24/12/2025

No way this meme hasn't been done before ....

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 14/12/2025

At the Packers / Broncos game. There were a bunch of green shirts / jerseys walking in but I don’t see them in the stands. Im guessing they’re still at the bars or getting a beer inside.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 12/12/2025

I was just talking to a friend about the issues with FIDE and the state of the "World Chess Champion" and how tournaments are presented and run in top chess ... and I realized I was basically just saying Jukido points from WMAC Masters ... but about chess ...

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 31/10/2025

Look, Babylon 5 turned out amazingly and Richard Moll had a stellar career (RIP, you awesome awesome human), but a part of me is always going to feel sad we never saw a @straczynski.bsky.social B5 spinoff about Richard Moll as Blade/Matrix style space criminal.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 25/10/2025

Thanks @basketball-reference.com for verifying what I already knew. @nuggets.bsky.social Aaron Gordon is very much like Wilt Chamberlain ... www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_...

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 11/10/2025

A’ja Wilson put up like a Reverse-Shaq like shooting line in the #WNBAFinals

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 06/10/2025

. @thelogantrent.bsky.social @johnnyrimes.bsky.social …. I was too busy this weekend and almost missed this … and I’m infuriated that I’m going to lose an hour and half listening to this, but, we all agree, it’s a must listen Patreon.com/gamefullyynemployed (@gamefullyunemployed) episode, right?

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 01/10/2025

That’s until my startup to make robots powered by the ghost of Alan Thicke takes off. (also RIP to an all time great)

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 16/09/2025

"Why is Babylon 5 filled with 'Newsies'?" asked any overly analytical nerd after watching the show a lot of times. And luckily, @slatron's friend Evynne had an immediate fix that is pretty ... Strange ... Dr. Strange ... it makes sense if you read the article! slatron.github.io/fix-1.html

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 24/08/2025

A phrase I never thought I would say about NBA and TV legend Charles Barkley “I like the Jeff May version better.”

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 02/08/2025

. @heytherejeffro.bsky.social(patreon.com/jeffmay) and @andreaguzzetta.bsky.social (patreon.com/andreaguzzetta) have an amazing monthly show called "The Monthly Flow" behind both their Patreon walls, and you can decide who titled this month's episode better ...

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 01/08/2025

The 2018 Houston Rockets in game 7 of the Western Conference Finals were going to have the biggest miss associated with the Rockets franchise until …

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 22/07/2025

Fun #SDCC experiment, if anyone is at or near San Diego Comicon and somehow knows how to get @heytherejeffro.bsky.social a copy of "Red Robin #1" the JG Jones variant, lemme know and see if we can work something out.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 30/06/2025

After dealing with injuries to his squad @thelogantrent.bsky.social's WNBA Fantasy Squad is suddenly the hotest team in the @adamtodbrown.bsky.social WNBYay! league. Also check out this ridiculous consistency the last two weeks:

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 23/06/2025

It's wild to watch an NBA game in real-time and almost view it as a chess game. This was such an even game, and my thesis is this 9-0 run in the third by OKC was the "and here our GM makes a blunder they never recover from."

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 06/06/2025

Thanks to either Chaitanya Dadhwal or their editor for this fantastic headline from two weeks ago :) #NBAFinals sports.yahoo.com/article/step...

Stephen A. Smith Criticizes Tyrese Haliburton: "Just Because You Show Up In Clutch Moments Doesn't Make You A Superstar"

Headline from Yahoo Sports article.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 20/04/2025

any casual regular at @chess.com recognizes this at “paired against a Master+ in the first round of a Swiss” #NBAPlayoffs

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 18/04/2025

www.patreon.com/posts/nerd-e... One of my favorite episodes of Nerd! ever with one of my favorite guests ever (@slatron.bsky.social) about one of my least favorite subjects ever - Image Comics Youngblood. Thanks @heytherejeffro.bsky.social for the artwork at least ...

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 15/04/2025

#JoeDumars (He spent a Chauncey Billups and Chris Andersen's salary on these two, right before his team dropped 12 wins from the season before and missed the playoffs for the first time in 9 years in 2009)

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 11/04/2025

There was a massive win in Wisconsin for the Supreme Court seat recently, and I just want to note that if you check out the poll over at patreon.com/jeffmay, I'm currently leading @heytherejeffro.bsky.social by the same margin :)

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 11/04/2025

Hoping to make polls a more regular thing at @heytherejeffro.bsky.social's Patreon. This week is a doozy on an argument we've having about the X-Men member that took down Wonder Woman. www.patreon.com/posts/126403...

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 09/04/2025

This is 100% believable, 100%

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 03/04/2025

Hey there @heytherejeffro.bsky.social fans! The outcome of the @mvbramley.art poll for "DC vs. Marvel" is out! Check out some fantastic fan art! And what's that? ANOTHER DC vs. Marvel poll? But for trading cards? I don't think it's possible to get nerdier! www.patreon.com/posts/125814...

Homage to Lobo vs. Wolverine in 1996 DC vs. Marvel but with Jeff with Gambit powers and Dre with Impulse powers. Jeff wins and opens some cards.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 17/02/2025

Early access for Patrons to @heytherejeffro.bsky.social's and my podcast on Impulse (Comics), my favorite take may be that Jeff calls White Lightning the "Stone Cold Steve Austin" of the DC Universe -- a solid 2-years before he made it to WWE as that! www.patreon.com/posts/nerd-e...

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 12/01/2025

D'oh! Good endgame tactic to make sure you have in your hand. Assumed this was a draw where I'd just repeat down a few pawns, but turns out I can trap the rook! Can you spot what I should play here? #Chess

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 24/12/2024

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 17/12/2024

Nerd! with Dre and Jeff this month is killer. Anna and the Apocalypse comes out on Thursday, and Patrons (patreon.com/jeffmay) get "A Very Morlock Christmas" of X-Men TAS! It's a Christmas miracle!

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 05/12/2024

Alright! A now annual Nerd! with Dre and Jeff Tradition is to have a Patreon exclusive episode AND to release last year's episode for free at Christmas! This year we're releasing our episode on Iron Man 3 EARLY! You lucky ducks! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 03/12/2024

First, this scene has no readily available GIF, which feels unforgivable. Second, look, I'm just saying this is recreatable.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 26/11/2024

. @rixtergt.bsky.social and I did the most important thing - rank a bunch of games we played and how MetroidVania-y they are!

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 22/11/2024

1990s WWE Survivor Series had some amazing four-person teams. From the podcast w/ @heytherejeffro.bsky.social and @moviehooligan.bsky.social we've made our own team. What do you name this group of nerds? (Episode here - www.patreon.com/posts/nerd-e...)

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 21/11/2024

It's depressing this @xkcd.com (xkcd.com/793/) comic basically sums up Musk's attitude ... and he was able to buy himself into a position thinking so many government systems are "easy, right?"

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 20/11/2024

Sneak peek of a random topic amongst a sea of similar topics on an upcoming podcast episode with @heytherejeffro.bsky.social and @moviehooligan.bsky.social (patreon.com/jeffmay if you wanna be the first to hear it!)

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 19/11/2024

Post a picture of yourself two show the newbies what they’re dealing with.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 19/11/2024

What are @heytherejeffro.bsky.social's Favorite DC television shows? On his most recent episode of Jeff Has Cool Friends with Joey Bragg - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j... he lists em! Can you guess them?

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 19/11/2024

twitch.tv/rixtergt, we're playing "Clash at Demonhead" and @rixtergt.bsky.social has a memory of a game from his childhood. We'll see if his amazing sketch shows up in the game.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 16/11/2024

Sneak peak of videos you'll get:

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 28/05/2024

Going live with @rixtergt.bsk.social to talk the movie What If from 2013 and play some FF8 twitch.tv/rixtergt

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 18/10/2023

Happy #RookieCardWednesday! Pulled the following out of the $1 bin at local card shop!

Rookie cards for Dikembe Mutombo, Chet Holmgren, Chris Webber, Juan Toscano-Anderson, Evan Mobley, Scottie Barnes, Ben Wallace

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