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The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Renee Murphy, Marc Massar
22 episodes
2 weeks ago
Send us a text Elastic Hears (Oh, Vulcanised Rubber) [Verse] Born from heat and sulfur’s kiss A miracle we can’t dismiss Tougher than the strongest thread Holds the world where we tread [Chorus] Oh vulcanised rubber you keep us alive Stretching and snapping you help us survive From tires to soles to seals that don't break You're the bond in the world we make [Verse 2] Rain won’t rot you fire won’t win You’re the armor on which we spin Bridges hold and engines hum You’re the reason we overco...
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Send us a text Elastic Hears (Oh, Vulcanised Rubber) [Verse] Born from heat and sulfur’s kiss A miracle we can’t dismiss Tougher than the strongest thread Holds the world where we tread [Chorus] Oh vulcanised rubber you keep us alive Stretching and snapping you help us survive From tires to soles to seals that don't break You're the bond in the world we make [Verse 2] Rain won’t rot you fire won’t win You’re the armor on which we spin Bridges hold and engines hum You’re the reason we overco...
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Episodes (20/22)
The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Elastic Hearts (Oh, Vulcanised Rubber)
Send us a text Elastic Hears (Oh, Vulcanised Rubber) [Verse] Born from heat and sulfur’s kiss A miracle we can’t dismiss Tougher than the strongest thread Holds the world where we tread [Chorus] Oh vulcanised rubber you keep us alive Stretching and snapping you help us survive From tires to soles to seals that don't break You're the bond in the world we make [Verse 2] Rain won’t rot you fire won’t win You’re the armor on which we spin Bridges hold and engines hum You’re the reason we overco...
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2 weeks ago
2 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E17 - Built on Rubber!
Send us a text Quick note - a few audio drop outs here and there. Tried to edit around them, but nothing too serious and you'll get the gist in all the spots with issues. Rubber is one of those materials we almost never think about, right up until it fails. From tyres and medical gloves to seals, gaskets, and global logistics, modern life quietly depends on a substance that still comes, quite literally, from trees. In this episode, Renee and Marc trace the unlikely journey of rubber f...
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2 weeks ago
27 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Steel Titans of the World - An Ode to Shipping Containers
Send us a text Just a bit of fun from Renee and I. If you're a listener, you know that Marc believes that double-entry bookkeeping might be the most important technological innovation ever. But...just maybe...he's willing to concede that the venerable Shipping Container might be up there with double-entry. It's silly, heavy, and catchy. Have a listen. Here are the lyrics: [Verse] Steel walls rise Fortress of trade Born to conquer Empires made Stacked like giants Towering high Brid...
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3 weeks ago
4 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E16 - The (Shipping) Container Monologues
Send us a text Everyone loves fast delivery, but nobody loves thinking about how it works. In this episode, we dig into the overlooked story of logistics: the steam engines that kicked it off, the wars that reinvented it, the barcodes and warehouses that scaled it, and the robots now trying to keep it all from breaking. A practical, funny look at the global machine we depend on every day. “You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost pri...
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3 weeks ago
54 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E15 - Bubbles Build the Big Stuff: How Overhyped Tech Leaves Us Infrastructure We Rely On
Send us a text Come for the canals and railroads. Stay for the part where Marc and Renee admit AI might just be the next overbuilt mess we rely on. In this episode, we explore the historical patterns of infrastructure bubbles, revealing how emerging technologies often spark both excitement and economic pitfalls. We analyze past transformative advancements, such as canals and railways, highlighting how they initially fueled industrial growth but ultimately led to speculative investment and sig...
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4 weeks ago
1 hour

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Bubbles Build the Big Stuff (Trailer)
Send us a text Come for the canals and railroads. Stay for the part where Marc and Renee admit AI might just be the next overbuilt mess we rely on. Join Renee and Marc as they discuss tech topics with a view on their nostalgic pasts in tech that help them understand today's challenges and tomorrow's potential. email us at nostalgicnerdspodcast@gmail.com
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1 month ago

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E14 - Cinema Reels and Digital Revolutions
Send us a text Cinema is built on technology, from the shape of the very first movie frame to the LED walls and AI tools used today. In this episode, Marc and Renee explore how film evolved in both sight and sound, and how the industry kept reinventing the moving image every time audiences drifted toward a glowing box at home. They walk through the widescreen battles of the 1950s, the triumph of magnetic sound and 70 mm spectacle, the rise of Dolby, the shift from mechanical projection booths...
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1 month ago
55 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Cinema Reels and Digital Revolutions (Trailer)
Send us a text Hollywood has tried every trick to keep us in the dark, from anamorphic lenses to lasers and LED walls. Renee and Marc unpack a century of cinema tech and ask what's the next spectacle that will draw audiences? Tune in tomorrow for the full episode. Join Renee and Marc as they discuss tech topics with a view on their nostalgic pasts in tech that help them understand today's challenges and tomorrow's potential. email us at nostalgicnerdspodcast@gmail.com
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1 month ago

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Please Enter Your Password...Again (trailer)
Send us a text Just a bit of B roll from Renee's story about Russian's listening in to her recording. Join Renee and Marc as they discuss tech topics with a view on their nostalgic pasts in tech that help them understand today's challenges and tomorrow's potential. email us at nostalgicnerdspodcast@gmail.com
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1 month ago

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E13 - Please Enter Your Password… Again
Send us a text Renee and Marc break down the evolution of authentication in recent times. RSA tokens. The rise of mobile authenticators. The not-so-long, painful reign of SMS codes. They move through SIM swapping, behavioral biometrics, and the shift toward systems that study how we type, move, and interact. They dig into trust, privacy, and the growing gap between convenience and control. The conversation pushes toward the future: digital agents, intent-driven identity, and a world where aut...
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1 month ago
33 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E12 - From Shells to Stablecoins: The Tech of Money
Send us a text Marc once again drags Renee into a museum. This time the “Hall of Money." Five thousand years of humans trying (and mostly failing) to automate trust. From clay tablets that doubled as IOUs to Renaissance double-entry bookkeeping, colonial funny-money, credit cards born of embarrassment, and machines that now pay each other while we sleep, this episode follows money’s long journey. Along the way: Marc confesses his favourite room at the British Museum, Renee recounts the chaos...
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1 month ago
1 hour 22 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E11 Tech Ethics: A Short History of Doing It Anyway
Send us a text Warning up front - we discuss some ethical conundrums and situations with tech. There's one mention of suicide and we talk about the Manhattan Project. We're respectful, but we just wanted to put it out there. Every breakthrough in technology brings the same old question: just because we can, should we? In this episode of The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast, Marc and Renee are joined by tech ethicist, Chris McClean, for a time-traveling look at innovation’s moral blind spots...f...
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2 months ago
52 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E10 - Your Printer Hates You. And Now It Can Build Things
Send us a text Printers used to be the villains of the office...loud, cranky, and prone to eating your best work right before a deadline. But somewhere between the screech of a dot matrix and the hiss of a resin vat, something changed. Printing got interesting. Really interesting. In this episode, we trace the unlikely glow-up of one of tech’s most unloved inventions. From the early days of line feeds and perforated paper to the high-precision world of additive manufacturing, we explore how t...
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2 months ago
55 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E8b - Barnum Would’ve Loved the Bots: The Digital Freakshow (Part 2)
Send us a text Welcome to the second half of our big-top breakdown, where the circus goes digital, and the clowns have ring lights. Wait...did we just call ourselves clowns? Marc and Renee dive into the wild world of influencer culture, brand risk, and the not-so-distant future of agentic commerce — where your shopping bot might be negotiating with another bot for the best deal while you sleep. It’s a world where authenticity is currency, trust is optional, and your favourite influencer...
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2 months ago
33 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E8 - Barnum Would’ve Loved the Bots: The Rise of Agentic Advertising Part 1
Send us a text Step right up and join Marc and Renee in this captivating episode of The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast where they embark on an exhilarating journey exploring the interplay between the magnificent world of P.T. Barnum's 19th-century circus and the high-tech realm of modern digital marketing. With a shared passion for technology and culture, our hosts unpack the evolution of marketing from the dazzling spectacle of the circus to the sophisticated algorithms that now dictate the digital...
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2 months ago
46 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E6b - Throughput, Thrills, and Theme Parks
Send us a text This is Part 2 of our 2 part Theme Park episode! Roller coasters and databases have the same issues: concurrency, throughput, and panic when things go wrong. Theme parks are basically enterprise technology, just with more churros and slightly fewer COBOL programmers. Join Renee and Marc on another thrilling episode of the Nostalgic Nerds Podcast where we discuss the adventurous and thrilling theme park technology space. As always, we start in the past with the origins of modern...
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3 months ago
45 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E6a - Throughput, Thrills, and Theme Parks
Send us a text Roller coasters and databases have the same issues: concurrency, throughput, and panic when things go wrong. Theme parks are basically enterprise technology, just with more churros and slightly fewer COBOL programmers. Join Renee and Marc on another thrilling episode of the Nostalgic Nerds Podcast where we discuss the adventurous and thrilling theme park technology space. As always, we start in the past with the origins of modern parks and rides and soar all the way to modern d...
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3 months ago
56 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E5 - From Clippy to Agentic AI
Send us a text From Clippy’s awkward pop-ups to agentic AI plotting your next conquest, Marc and Renee laugh through the evolution of digital assistants. Annoying, nostalgic, and now maybe just a little too smart. Hop on the nostalgia train! This week on the Nostalgic Nerds Podcast, hosts Renee and Marc whisk listeners away on a whimsical exploration of digital assistants, from the often-beloved but clunky Clippy to the advanced AI tools redefining corporate enterprises today. Dusting off mem...
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3 months ago
41 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E4 - Bat Boy and How Algorithms Ate the Urban Legend
Send us a text Hold onto your tabloids! This week on the Nostalgic Nerds Podcast, Renee Murphy and Marc Massar explore the wild frontier where technology meets misinformation, tracing the outrageous claims that have captivated audiences across decades. From Bat Boy's tabloid fame to the chaotic spread of urban legends, the duo examines why we’re drawn to sensational headlines like a moth to a flame. They dissect the evolution of misinformation—from humble magazine racks to the sprawling digit...
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4 months ago
52 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
S1E3 - Sears, Amazon, and the Eternal Catalog
Send us a text To answer the burning questions from the episode - Could you buy dogs from the Sears catalog? Yes. Could you buy narcotics from the Sears catalog? Yes. How does Renee pronounce "downtown?" Well, listen in. By the 1970's Sears represented 1% of US GDP and two-thirds of American households shopped at Sears. Like for like, if you look at Amazon's US revenue (because Sears was mostly US in the 1970's), then Amazon is about 1.7% of US GDP today. Significant, but not orders of magnit...
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4 months ago
39 minutes

The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Send us a text Elastic Hears (Oh, Vulcanised Rubber) [Verse] Born from heat and sulfur’s kiss A miracle we can’t dismiss Tougher than the strongest thread Holds the world where we tread [Chorus] Oh vulcanised rubber you keep us alive Stretching and snapping you help us survive From tires to soles to seals that don't break You're the bond in the world we make [Verse 2] Rain won’t rot you fire won’t win You’re the armor on which we spin Bridges hold and engines hum You’re the reason we overco...