The Nerds got their Revenge, now what? That’s what comedians Holden McNeely, Mike Lawrence, and Jake Young are trying to figure out in the weekly combination tribunal/confessional “Nerd of Mouth.” Recorded from the dankest basement in the “Last Podcast on the Left” studios, we’re getting to the bottom of whether there’s more to life than any% WR videogame speedruns, limited edition action figures, and anime shows about ludicrously strong children beating each other up. Theme song by Grant Gordon, logo by Andy Kluthe. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Nerd of Mouth ad-free. Start...
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Sep 28, 2026 · 1:34:22
John Stewart was created with the best of intentions by two white guys named Neal and Denn to add some actual color to the very white DC Comics of 971 and he came out swinging,…
Sep 21, 2026 · 1:38:24
Jake takes the boys through a brutal tour of Wolverine's solo video game past and play through some real Weapon Excrement as they discuss games so bad you'd need a healing factor…
Sep 14, 2026 · 1:41:33
It's been more than a decade since Disney took over the world's favorite space opera. Having already cast our gaze at the PREQUEL trilogies Holden and Jake have decided to force…
Sep 7, 2026 · 1:19:23
The tragedy that was 9/11 changed everything so much that it’s hard to remember what things were like right before. Thankfully Jake is here to remind us of the movies, music, tv,…
Aug 31, 2026 · 1:39:08
Joss Whedon was a nerd God with quirky quips, inspiring world building, and positive portrayals of female characters. But unfortunately that’s just half the story: An icon on the…
Aug 24, 2026 · 1:13:34
Summer is almost over which used to be mean 2 things: The start of school and a new season of Saturday morning cartoons. But hey, they were not all created equally. Some…
Aug 17, 2026 · 1:48:14
From a gun toting glint in Ian Fleming's eye to a global box office sensation James Bond has been drinking vodka martinis and making bad puns for over 70 years. Mike is the M of…
Aug 10, 2026 · 1:41:17
Crack open a bottle (over a dumb thugs head) and get yourself a whole steaming chicken from a barrel cause we're talking Beat 'em Up video games. There's just something special…
Aug 3, 2026 · 1:41:33
Jake leads us through a tribute to physical media! Memories of VHS horror box art! The heyday and resurgence of vinyl! The reliance (and obligation) of giving books as gifts! We…
Jul 27, 2026 · 1:40:05
In the wake of Sony saying physical games are DOA our hosts wonder if this is really that bad of a thing.Is this just the future of gaming and are we actually losing anything?…
Jul 20, 2026 · 1:34:50
He's the best there is at what he does and what he does is stoically scold people while blasting people with his concussive eye beams! Cyclops is often portrayed in cartoons and…
Jul 13, 2026 · 1:20:31
Jake is our Qifrey as he takes Holden and Mike through the gorgeous world of Witch Hat Atelier, based on the manga by Kamome Shirahama. So many specific rules for magic! So many…
Jul 6, 2026 · 1:41:46
Independence Day just happened and what better way than to focus on those people who use their freedom to complain about lady characters in video games. The newest target is God…
Jun 29, 2026 · 1:38:50
Yeah, it's the wrestling episode of the year. The first one. And sure you may go into the comments and complain that there's a ton of wrestling episodes of this show from this…
Jun 22, 2026 · 1:34:06
It's very appropriate that one of our cohosts has a show called Cartoon Dumpster cause boy did we pull some rotten stuff out of it this week. And Gargoyles. Gargoyles is cool.…
Jun 15, 2026 · 1:30:41
It's not in your head and yes inflation is real but ticket prices have indeed kept climbing for years. One company has a monopoly on the industry and doesn't even have the…
Jun 8, 2026 · 1:39:50
For about the majority of Reagan’s presidency He-Man was the master of the toy aisle. Concocted by Mattel, aided by the synergy of a cartoon, and ultimately undone by corporate…
Jun 1, 2026 · 1:13:40
Remember when you’d get a newspaper to feel smart and informed and just go straight to the funny pages to gab with Garfield, chat with Cathy, and umm, see whatever the heck…
May 25, 2026 · 1:34:58
Even a blind man can see that Daredevil has been one of the most consistently compelling heroes in the Marvel Universe despite going through more changes than the real life…
May 18, 2026 · 1:19:18
This episode is made possible by listeners like you! You gave us some genuinely thoughtful questions about the future of video games, alternate realities, and whether or not life…
May 11, 2026 · 1:27:38
The boys head to the Outworld to rank every single fatality from the first two Mortal Kombat games in this spine ripping barnburner of an episode! We celebrate the truly gruesome…
May 4, 2026 · 1:35:06
Noooooooo!!! Actually ,yes., We're re-examining the Star Wars prequels with their racist portrayals, wooden dialogue, and still kinda badass lightsaber fights. If you hate these…
Apr 27, 2026 · 1:39:27
We've talked about video games based on movies but this time we're going the other way and focusing on movies that are based on video games and why they usually suck. Holden…
Apr 20, 2026 · 1:44:15
In honor of 4/20 we're doing a movie length podcast blabbing about the man behind Silent Bob. Holden Mcneely (Who had that name before Chasing Amy came out!) guides us through…
Apr 13, 2026 · 1:38:49
Matt Dinniman was an aspiring author and lowly professional drawer of cats (as if there could be any other kind) who struck gold with an ambitious Lit RPG world of shoeless…
Apr 6, 2026 · 1:27:32
What do Sephiroth, Aunt May, the Daleks, and Leonardo the Ninja Turtle all have in common? They're now a part of the world of Magic: the Gathering which now with it's Secret…
Mar 30, 2026 · 1:35:06
A boy named Jimmy studied internet algorithms instead of books and created a gigantic empire to become the most subscribed to YouTuber and is now a billionaire with multiple…
Mar 23, 2026 · 1:27:37
Special guest Joel Kim Booster (Scrubs, Fire Island, K Pop Demon Hunters!!) joins our hosts to review and rank the first arc of every Absolute DC book, the line of comics that’s…
Mar 16, 2026 · 1:09:39
Sonic refused to be contained in one episode very much like how continually refuses to be counted out. Holden runs the boys through all his failed video game comebacks…
Mar 9, 2026 · 1:26:36
We try to go fast through the history of Sonic the Hedgehog but there's too many spikes of random information that pop up and get in our way. Our three egg men answer questions…
Mar 2, 2026 · 1:32:04
To paraphrase Tony Montana: First you come up with a mascot, then you make the platformer game, then you make the money. Yes, with the advent that little blue meth/ring imbued…
Feb 23, 2026 · 1:24:42
It is the argument that has ended friendships, a debate that often leaves two people screaming at each other like Goku. But don't worry, we have a rather civilized discussion on…
Feb 16, 2026 · 1:33:53
A whole episode on Steve Urkel? Yes we did do that. What happens when a one off guest star becomes the focus of a show and family no longer matters? What other examples are there…
Feb 9, 2026 · 1:23:05
Holden talks us through the ins and other ins and more ins of fantasy football and while he lays down the history, comedian Trae Crowder talks about the personal satisfaction and…
Feb 2, 2026 · 1:38:33
Peter Parker and Mary Jane had one of the most storied romances in comic book history and they even got married until their love was bitten by a radioactive editorial mandate and…
Jan 26, 2026 · 1:27:47
Get ready for a hundred hand slap of knowledge as Holden takes the lead and describes the mechanics and aesthetics that make a great fighting game roster. He lists all the…
Jan 19, 2026 · 1:23:31
Avatar is the number one box office king of the world and yet it leaves no real cultural footprint despite being hella pretty to look at. You don't see cosplays, there aren't…
Jan 12, 2026 · 1:25:08
Holden, Jake, and Mike try their best at predicting the future in the volatile world of nerdery. Will Avengers Doomsday just be financial Doomsday for Disney? Will GTA 6 close…
Jan 5, 2026 · 1:32:09
We ring in the new year by immediately reflecting on the old year. What were the best games, movies, comics, shows, and songs of 2025? We'll tell you and even read some of your…
Dec 29, 2025 · 1:29:00
Yes, we're a little late for Christmas but that's because we were busy watching Michael Caine act his ass off in front of a bunch of Muppets. Jake, Holden, and Mike talk about…
Dec 22, 2025 · 1:21:45
Get ready for the festival of lights that lasts eight nights with about half a dozen TV specials and movies that you can enjoy gelt free every Chanukah! Jake talks about growing…
Dec 15, 2025 · 1:30:45
The Rock was on top of the world for years but now he's making moves that have raised everyone else's eyebrows but his own. In the past few years he's tried to lay the smackdown…
Dec 8, 2025 · 1:24:53
Nintendo, the company we grew up with and loved for it's cute characters and intuitive gameplay will now tell you "Hey Nintendon't mod your system or we'll brick the damn thing".…
Dec 1, 2025 · 1:57:42
We ranked the MCU Avengers and you seemed to like that enough to fill us with enough delusions of grandeur to rank the colorful (often green or gray) bad guys of the MCU. We're…
Nov 24, 2025 · 1:41:49
With the holiday season upon us it's time to talk about some of the toys that break us! Mike, the one of the three who has not resisted the temptation of plastic crack makes more…
Nov 17, 2025 · 1:31:13
Video game magazines came and then the internet delivered a killshot and dropped a giant bomb on video game journalism. Holden walks us through the journey of how it all started…
Nov 10, 2025 · 1:24:44
Remember when you’d spend your allowance on some grainy photos of Castlevania IV and trust a cartoon frog to tell you which console to buy? There were tips and also tricks in the…
Nov 3, 2025 · 1:38:07
How does a street level vigilante turn into a meme of a character that can do anything and beat anyone? It takes time, popularity, Grant Morrison, and casually sacrificing the…
Oct 27, 2025 · 1:39:09
We conclude spooky season (To be fair it's been a pretty damn spooky year) with a history of haunted house attractions. Holden takes us all the way back to when haunts started…
Oct 20, 2025 · 1:36:22
The hills are silent with the bloodcurdling sound of our voices as we talk about the origins, the fall, and resurgence of horror in video games. If you played it with the lights…
Oct 13, 2025 · 1:20:56
To herald both spooky season and Smarch Madness Jake Young Frankenstein, Holden Mckneel Before Zod and permanent third host Mike Lawrence are celebrating one of the most beloved…
Oct 6, 2025 · 1:23:40
Aim lock yourself in a room and listen as Holden goes through the entire history of cheating in video games and discusses the different kinds of cheating that happen. This one…
Sep 29, 2025 · 1:13:54
Anime is demon slaying the box office right now and all it had to do was…just be itself? Jake explains how we got to this golden moment and how to sustain it. This one’s got…
Sep 22, 2025 · 1:22:59
This week while Mike was off in Japan, Jake and Holden welcome Seena Ghaznavi (from LPN’s The Foreign Report) to talk about the waning era of the gadget! From walkmans to…
Sep 15, 2025 · 1:11:59
We're doing a good ol' fashioned deep dive on the man from the Great White North who made Hollywood his second city and blew up the box office! We go through Rick's early life,…
Sep 8, 2025 · 1:30:03
Witness as a boy is born and uses fantasy to escape the reality of living in the foul wasteland that is Bayonne New Jersey. Young George RR Martin is the ultimate fanboy,…
Sep 1, 2025 · 1:36:28
In honor of Labor Day we’re laboring over the first 17 years of Marvel movies and ranking every Avenger from Ant Man to Quicksilver. Yes that Quicksilver. We could have done this…
Aug 25, 2025 · 1:30:00
Greetings from Yancy Street, you podcast enjoying crum bums, we’re celebrating the Worlds Greatest Comics Magazine and a film franchise you clearly have gotten enough of, the…
Aug 18, 2025 · 1:18:54
It’s our 25th episode spectacular but don’t worry, we do the same thing we do every episode, Pinky (narf!). In honor of the new season of King of the Hill which we all enjoyed,…
Aug 11, 2025 · 1:23:29
We love movies and we love video games but the two often go together like two things that don’t go well together. Holden talks us through the history of greedy publishers cashing…
Aug 5, 2025 · 1:05:00
Mike sits down with comedian, pro wrestler, and cohost of the wrestling podcast B4 The Bell Martin Morrow to talk Hogan's legacy, Martin's relationship to him as a fan, and the…
Aug 4, 2025 · 1:34:31
Well folks, it came crashing down and it hurts inside. The immortal Hulk Hogan was mortal after all and in this episode while Jake is on the road to live in LA (!!!) Holden and…
Jul 28, 2025 · 1:11:03
Ms. Rachel started a Youtube Channel called "Songs For Littles" in 2019 with the goal of helping babies and toddlers develop speaking skills and in less than a decade has built a…
Jul 21, 2025 · 1:30:37
There's no "I" in Esports! That's a factual statement. This episode is crammed full of factual statements as Holden takes us on a tour from the very beginning of Esports in 1962…
Jul 14, 2025 · 1:32:54
Don't worry nerd of mouth breathers, there is lots of joy and very little wrath in this episode, it just fit the pun too well. We're excited to talk comic (and everything else)…
Jul 7, 2025 · 1:19:26
Look! It's a nerd! It's a podcast! It's a nerdy podcast about the importance of Superman just as a new iteration of the trunks wearing titan appears on the big screen. Why do…
Jun 30, 2025 · 1:32:40
If you watched the janky oddity that is the 2017 Death Note movie or the Scarlet Johansson Ghost in the Shell that also came out in 2017 (what a tough year) this is the episode…
Jun 24, 2025 · 1:12:31
In this bonus episode, Holden is joined by LPN's in house Disney Dude, Ed Larson, to rank some of the Disney live action remakes! And don't forget! If you are in the LA area, Ed…
Jun 23, 2025 · 1:23:54
Hi ho nerdy listeners!!! Be our guest as we discuss the whole new world of Disney Live Action remakes over the past decade or so. Some have been great and some have been bippity…
Jun 16, 2025 · 1:27:31
Are we born nerds or are we raised to be them? What impact does our environment have on who we are and what we love and just how important are the people around us? Our hosts…
Jun 9, 2025 · 1:20:40
Having a bad fur day? Well throw on your leisure suit, escape monkey island and join us as Holden takes us through the history of humor in video games in an episode demanded by…
Jun 2, 2025 · 1:27:45
Holden talks us through that once beloved tradition that was born of both cinema and corporate synergy: The summer movie song. Whether it was Seal grinding on a Bat Signal, Kenny…
May 26, 2025 · 1:20:23
Face front true believers and angry accusers!!! It's the trial of the century where we argue about that guy that was almost alive for a century: Stan Lee. Is this man also this…
May 19, 2025 · 1:29:48
As Jake was starting to talk about the collectors market for video games last episode Mike interrupted (productively for once) to suggest the world of collecting deserved it's…
May 12, 2025 · 1:27:39
With his steady calculator and studious notes handy, Jake makes like an Atari Jaguar and does th math to talk Holden and Mike through the expensive cartridge highs and cheap ass…
May 5, 2025 · 1:12:05
While our lovely network takes a much deserved station break our hosts decide to take questions and thoughts from our wondrous whimsical listeners! It's just like a reddit AMA…
Apr 28, 2025 · 1:30:21
It’s the end of Autism Acceptance month and we hope you accept this episode all about autism! Mike opens up about his autism diagnosis, how his symptoms manifest, how life is…
Apr 21, 2025 · 1:26:35
Get ready for some puppy podcast power as we delve into the history of Scrappy Doo and other characters that take over a beloved property and dominate it Poochie style. It’s a…
Apr 14, 2025 · 1:19:42
Finaaaaaaaalllllly the pod has come to pro wrestling and if you’re not down with that we got two words for you: Listen Anyway! Mike gives a hell of a sell on the merits of pro…
Apr 7, 2025 · 1:24:13
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…
Mar 31, 2025 · 1:11:31
They can't just kill the Looney Tunes...can they? What's up dorks! That wascally Wall Street is trying to get rid of our beloved Looney Tunes so of course you know this means…
Mar 24, 2025 · 1:29:15
We're so thankful that you are fans of us, especially on this, our fourth podcasting journey into the mouth of Nerdom where we dare ask "Can a fandom ruin a thing?" Perhaps Rick…
Mar 17, 2025 · 1:22:02
Greetings Nerd of Mouth Breathers, on this, our third episode "Is it Too Late to Get Into Anime?" Mike reveals that anime is quite the blindspot for him and gives an oversharing…
Mar 10, 2025 · 1:19:13
Ahoy hoy True Believers and Nerd of Mouth Breathers, get those thumbs into working shape as we download episode 2 into our brains and ask “Can a boss fight ruin a game?” We will…
Mar 3, 2025 · 1:24:17
Lo and Behold True Believers and Nerd of Mouth Breathers, our all new #1 episode where we dare to ask “What makes a good superhero movie?” and share some of our favorites and for…
Feb 24, 2025 · 1:27:48
A funeral dirge echoes through the halls of the LPN studio, as the bloated and festering corpses of both The Wizard and The Bruiser lie on the floor. The room begins to warp and…
Feb 17, 2025 · 1:17:02
This week on WizBru Holden and Jake are joined by fellow nerdling Mike Lawrence to break down the history of DC's "Teen Titans"! Want even more WizBru? Support us on Patreon!…
Feb 10, 2025 · 1:29:31
For over 10,000 years Holden has sat immobile and decaying upon the Golden Throne as 1,000 Jakes per day sacrifice themselves to maintain their co-host, it's Warhammer 40k this…
Feb 3, 2025 · 1:17:56
Jake and Holden are talking cocaine, World War II, lighting Michael Jackson on fire, Dr. Tuggle's Compound Syrup of Globe Flower, and Kendall Jenner casting out all evil from the…
Jan 27, 2025 · 1:10:36
On this week's WizBru, Holden and Jake cover the history of everyone's favorite Hitler punchin', discus shield tossin' Avenger, Captain America! Want even more WizBru? Support us…
Jan 20, 2025 · 1:36:59
This week on WizBru, Holden and Jake grab their crowbars to pry back into the history of Valve, providing a newly and better researched history of the company as well as giving…
Jan 13, 2025 · 1:13:03
This week Holden, and Jake who now manifests himself as Holden's third perfect breast, head to Mars to have some fun with the PKD inspired 1990 classic Total Recall! Want even…
Jan 6, 2025 · 1:09:58
This week on WizBru, Holden and Jake don their black trench coats and head to Space Colony ARK to witness the creation of the ultimate life form...Shadow the Hedgehog. Want even…
Dec 30, 2024 · 54:35
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Dec 23, 2024 · 1:16:42
This week on WizBru, Holden and Jake dodge killer lawn darts, dive-bombing Sky Dancers, hair eating Cabbage Patch kids, and much more toy based terror in this round up of banned…
Dec 16, 2024 · 1:23:33
This week Holden and Jake take a look into Marvel's iconic hero Iron Man. From his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 to the massive Robert Downey Jr led blockbuster, and…
Dec 9, 2024 · 1:50:50
This week on WizBru, Holden and Jake are joined by MJ Knefel of Page 7 to head down unda' to dig their heels into the adorable and heartwarming world of the Heeler family from…
Dec 2, 2024 · 1:19:07
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Nov 25, 2024 · 58:30
During this Turkey Week we've reached into the archives for an interview! Holden is joined by streamer Stew_ to take a deep trip into some banana caves as Stew_ talks about his…
Nov 18, 2024 · 1:04:06
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