The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
A podcast exploring the history of technology, and what it teaches us about now.
The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Latest Episodes
S3E02 - Pins, Machines, and the Perfect Game
A bowling alley looks like the least engineered place you can spend an afternoon. Rented shoes, sticky floors, someone's name spelled wrong (or rudely) on the display. Underneath the grime, neon, noise, and beer stains is four thousand ye...
S3E02 Bonus - Seven Ten!
Tomorrow's episode is all about the history of bowling technology. Pins, pinboys, automatic pinsetters, rubbers, resins, polymers! Oh, so much chemistry and mechanical engineering. But this week's lively soul/funk groove is all abou...
S3E01 - Going Up
For most of history, the top floor was where the poor people lived. Nobody wanted to climb four flights, so the ground floor was the good address and the attic was the punishment. Then a man in Yonkers built a brake, stood on a platform in fron...
S3E01 Bonus - One Floor
Have you ever entered a full elevator car just to ride the elevator one single floor? Did you feel the judgement? Did you feel the shame?This week's song is a begging, pleading, song about that unforgivable sin. The single floor elevator...
S2E26 - Aniversary, B Roll, and Renee as Orca
Happy One Year Anniversary! Marc and Renee want to thank you for a great year of the Nostalgic Nerds Podcast. We've been on a bit of a holiday with the summer months, but people are still listening. This is just a bit of...
