Hello there and welcome to a very special bonus episode of Nerdist Camp. I'm joined by my regular partner in crime, the ying to my yang, the Mulder to my Skully, the sausage to my squishy buns, Andi Elliot.
Welcome to our review of 2025. We'll take a look back at the episodes of the year, the topics we covered, and we look if anything we talked about needs updating.
We're also going to read out some listener's comments that have come into the show, so thanks to everyone who has contributed to those, and we'll be looking if we have anything further to add, or any updates on the topics we covered.
We'll also look forward to next year, the topics we will be covering, the features we'll keep, and those we might drop in order to focus on the bits we all love.
Our 2025 Episodes:
- Science fiction
- Computer Games
- Bond, James Bond
- 80s Gameshows
- Disaster Movies
- Nuclear Disasters
- AI
- Board Games
- The Promise of Space
- The War of The Worlds
- UFO!
- Titanic
- Heist Movies
- Adult Fans of Lego (AFoL)
- Music Formats and the Rise of Digital
- John Carpenter
- Bunkers & The Cold War
- Bear with me, it's good (films you might give a miss that are worth the time)
- Christmas Films
- Christmas Toys
Tech news
- Meet the Archival ‘Magician’ Restoring Massively Degraded Tape Recordings Before They’re Lost to Time
- Disney Brings Olaf to Life: The Engineering Marvel Behind a Walking, Talking Robot | The Neuron
- Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors | WIRED
- In partnership with Boston Dynamics, using their Atlas robot
- Blu-ray hits 20 years old, and it isn't dead yet — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006 | Tom's Hardware
- According to Wikipedia various dates are mentioned, but a lot happened in 2006.
- The first Blu-ray Disc titles were released on June 20, 2006: 50 First Dates, The Fifth Element, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, Underworld: Evolution, xXx (all from Sony), and MGM's The Terminator.
- The earliest releases used MPEG-2 video compression, the same method used on standard DVDs. The first releases using the newer VC-1 and AVC formats were introduced in September 2006.
This fortnight we are recommending
Kris:
- BBC Radio 4 - One Person Found This Helpful - Frank Skinner.
- Route Masters
- The War of the Worlds - Graphic Novel (Kindle: Dobbs, Cifuentes) - 99p
- Titanic Sinks Tonight - BBC iPlayer
Andi:
- Carry On Up The Podcast
- Susan Calman and podcaster and journalist Mike Muncer as they embark on a bumpy chronological journey through every film in the iconic 'Carry On' series...from 'Sergeant' to 'Columbus' via 'Screaming' and 'Camping'!
- As well as reviewing and ranking each film in the series, Susan and Mike will be discussing the lives and careers of its iconic stars, from Sid James to Kenneth Williams to Barbara Windsor.
- Deepest Dive - Podcasts on Audible
- In light of the renewed robotic search for MH370 (The company is best known for providing the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust with submersible experts and underwater robots that helped to locate Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship Endurance in 2022).
- Was it one of the largest ever acts of mass murder, a hijacking that went wrong, or was it something less sinister like technical failure?
- Co-presented by journalist and broadcaster Jana Wendt and Peter Waring a former Australian naval officer who worked on the search. It re-examines the evidence and tells the inside story of those whose lives have been consumed by aviation’s most perplexing mystery.
- Dealgorithmed × 001 • Buttondown, a newsletter about the web
- “The web is still a fucking awesome place. Sure, you can spend an hour doomscrolling Instagram, but you can also browse antique maps and atlases, play delightful word games, watch mesmerizing wind patterns simulations, listen to radio stations from all over the world, generate wacky typographic animations, or learn how to survive a drone.”
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