Episode Guide

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WARNING: The Once and Future Nerd contains adult language, graphic descriptions of violence, and explicit discussions of sexuality. This is, of course, in the interest of historical realism. We hope you enjoy our story about wizards, elves, and dragons.

How To Use This Guide

If you just want to listen to the episodes in order, right in your web browser, then you’ve come to the right place! Just below is a browser-friendly playlist of all our main story episodes, in order from top to bottom! And below that is a playlist of our bonus content.

If you were looking to double-check the correct order of episodes in order to listen in another app, or for links to all of our shownotes etc., then you’ve also come to the right place! Further down the page is an in-order list of all of our episode titles, with links to the original posts.

Main Story Playlist

  1. BOOK 1 PREMIERE: The Prince of Iorden COMPLETE
  2. Life In A Corner, Pt. 1
  3. Life In A Corner, Pt. 2
  4. Life In A Corner, Pt. 3
  5. Life In A Corner, Pt. 4
  6. A Little Blood, Pt. 1
  7. A Little Blood, Pt. 2
  8. A Little Blood, Pt. 3
  9. A Little Blood, Pt. 4
  10. Monsters, Pt. 1
  11. Monsters, Pt. 2
  12. Monsters, Pt. 3
  13. Monsters, Pt. 4
  14. Monsters, Pt. 5
  15. The Worthiest Knight, Pt. 1
  16. The Worthiest Knight, Pt. 2
  17. The Worthiest Knight, Pt. 3
  18. The Worthiest Knight, Pt. 4
  19. The Singing Sister, Pt. 1
  20. The Singing Sister, Pt. 2
  21. The Singing Sister, Pt. 3
  22. The Singing Sister, Pt. 4
  23. The Last Douchey Domicile, Pt. 1
  24. The Last Douchey Domicile, Pt. 2
  25. The Last Douchey Domicile, Pt. 3
  26. The Last Douchey Domicile, Pt. 4
  27. Evil Untold, Pt. 1
  28. Evil Untold, Pt. 2
  29. Evil Untold, Pt. 3
  30. Evil Untold, Pt. 4
  31. Evil Untold, Pt. 5
  32. Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Pt. 1
  33. Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Pt. 2
  34. Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Pt. 3
  35. Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Pt. 4
  36. Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Pt. 5
  37. The Evening Redness In The West, Pt. 1
  38. The Evening Redness In The West, Pt. 2
  39. The Evening Redness In The West, Pt. 3
  40. BOOK 1 FINALE: The Evening Redness In The West, Pt. 4
  41. BOOK 2 PREMIERE: A Cruel And Sullied World, Pt. 1
  42. A Cruel And Sullied World, Pt. 2
  43. A Cruel And Sullied World, Pt. 3
  44. A Cruel And Sullied World, Pt. 4
  45. What Used To Be Enough, Pt. 1
  46. What Used To Be Enough, Pt. 2
  47. What Used To Be Enough, Pt. 3
  48. What Used To Be Enough, Pt. 4
  49. What Used To Be Enough, Pt. 5
  50. Bridges, Pt. 1
  51. Bridges, Pt. 2
  52. Bridges, Pt. 3
  53. Bridges, Pt. 4
  54. I've Been Working On The Whale-Road, Pt. 1
  55. I've Been Working On The Whale-Road, Pt. 2
  56. I've Been Working On The Whale-Road, Pt. 3
  57. I've Been Working On The Whale-Road, Pt. 4
  58. An Impregnable Missive, Pt. 1
  59. An Impregnable Missive, Pt. 2
  60. An Impregnable Missive, Pt. 3
  61. An Impregnable Missive, Pt. 4
  62. One For The Team, Pt. 1
  63. One For The Team, Pt. 2
  64. One For The Team, Pt. 3
  65. One For The Team, Pt. 4
  66. Minisodes 001 - 002
  67. Minisodes 003-004
  68. What's Close To You, Pt. 1
  69. What's Close To You, Pt. 2
  70. What's Close To You, Pt. 3
  71. What's Close To You, Pt. 4
  72. Minisodes 005-006
  73. A Change Of Scenery, Pt. 1
  74. A Change Of Scenery, Pt. 2
  75. A Change Of Scenery, Pt. 3
  76. A Change Of Scenery, Pt. 4
  77. Minisodes 007-008
  78. A Handful Of Bodyguards, Pt. 1
  79. A Handful Of Bodyguards, Pt. 2
  80. A Handful Of Bodyguards, Pt. 3
  81. A Handful Of Bodyguards, Pt. 4
  82. A Handful Of Bodyguards, Pt. 5

Bonus Content Playlist

  1. Dialect Practice with Anya Gibian - November 2013
  2. Interview with Ian Harkins - May 2014
  3. 1st Anniversary Roundup - October 2014
  4. Interview with Greg Schulz - December 2014
  5. Interview with Dan Dobransky - January 2015
  6. First Listener Q&A - March 2015
  7. Book 1 Roundtable - August 2015
  8. Book 1 Retrospective - July 2016
  9. Making Of "The Singing Sister" - July 2016
  10. Interview with Justin Sloan - September 2016
  11. Interview with Stephanie Cooke - January 2017
  12. Listener Q&A for A CRUEL AND SULLIED WORLD - May 2017
  13. Interview with Tal M. Klein - July 2017
  14. Listener Q&A (LIVE) for WHAT USED TO BE ENOUGH - August 2017
  15. Interview with Zach Valenti - August 2017
  16. Listener Q&A (LIVE) for BRIDGES - December 2017
  17. Listener Q&A (LIVE) for I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE WHALE-ROAD - June 2018
  18. Interview with Multitude Productions - October 2018
  19. Listener Q&A (LIVE) for AN IMPREGNABLE MISSIVE - May 2019
  20. Interview with Long Story Short - November 2019
  21. Listener Q&A (LIVE) for ONE FOR THE TEAM - November 2019
  22. Interview with Liz Kerin - December 2019
  23. Interview with Margaret Killjoy - May 2020
  24. Commentary Track for B1C4 "Monsters" - June 2020
  25. Listener Q&A (LIVE) for WHAT'S CLOSE TO YOU - May 2022
  26. Listener Q&A (LIVE) for A CHANGE OF SCENERY - October 2022
  27. Commentary Track for B1C5 "The Worthiest Knight" - December 2022

THE ONCE AND FUTURE NERD

– Book 1 –

PRINCES OF IORDEN

Chapter 1: “The Prince of Iorden” (Script)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 – discretion advised

Part 5

Part 6

As a special gift to our listeners to celebrate our 10,000th download, you can also listen to all of Chapter 1 without interruption here.

Chapter 2: “Life In A Corner” (Script)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Chapter 3: “A Little Blood” (Script)

Part 1 – discretion advised

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Chapter 4: “Monsters” (Script)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 

Part 4 

Part 5 

Chapter 5, “The Worthiest Knight” (Script)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Chapter 6, “The Singing Sister” (Script)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 – discretion advised

Part 4 – discretion advised

Chapter 7, “The Last Douchey Domicile” (Script)

Part 1

Part 2 – discretion advised

Part 3

Part 4 – discretion advised

Chapter 8, “Evil Untold” (Script)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Chapter 9, “Darkness On The Edge Of Town” (Script)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 – discretion advised

Part 4

Part 5

Final Chapter, “The Evening Redness In The West” (Script)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 – discretion advised

– Book 2 –

MYTH MADE FLESH

Chapter 1, “A Cruel And Sullied World” (Script)

Part 1 – discretion advised

Part 2

Part 3 – discretion advised

Part 4

Chapter 2, “What Used To Be Enough” (Script)

Part 1 – discretion advised

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5 – discretion advised

Chapter 3, “Bridges” (Script)

Part 1 – discretion advised

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 – discretion advised

Chapter 4, “I’ve Been Working On The Whale-Road” (Script)

Part 1 – discretion advised

Part 2

Part 3 – discretion advised

Part 4

Chapter 5, “An Impregnable Missive” (Script)

Part 1 – discretion advised

Part 2 – discretion advised

Part 3

Part 4 – discretion advised

Chapter 6, “One For The Team”

Part 1

Part 2 – discretion advised

Part 3 – discretion advised

Part 4 – discretion advised

Chapter 7, “What’s Close To You”

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Chapter 8, “A Change of Scenery”

Part 1 – discretion advised

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 – discretion advised

Chapter 9, “A Handful Of Bodyguards”

Part 1 – discretion advised

Part 2 – discretion advised

Part 3 – discretion advised

Part 4 – discretion advised

Part 5 – discretion advised

19 thoughts on “Episode Guide”

  1. I’m enjoying the series very much. The voice actors are doing a wonderful job enacting a well written and highly entertaining storyline. You keep producing the shows and I’ll keep listening to them! Thanks!

    1. Christian here, and I think I can speak for the whole cast & crew in this: It’s great to know people are listening and you wouldn’t believe how energizing random kind words can be. Thank you!

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  4. Found this while searching for fantasy podcasts today. My work as a painter is very tedious, and this has been a great find. I’m starting chapter 2 as we speak, and I just wanted to let you know how amazing it is so far. Thanks for the effort, I’m looking forward to the next chapters!

  5. Love the show. I’m a painter also who found you after getting bored with the same old stuff. It would be awesome if there was a button to take you to next episode instead of having to backtrack to episode guide each time. Keep up the good work.

    1. Hey thanks so much for listening and for the feedback! It’s probably best listened to through a podcast app, which will queue things up in the right order, but it’s helpful to know that some people are listening through the website. So we’ll take a look and see if there’s a better way to play them there.

    2. Hey! Thanks again for your feedback and your patience on this. Just wanted to let you know that we’ve updated the Episode Guide with an in-order playlist of all our episodes that should work straight from your web browser and all on the same page. Give it a whirl and let us know if you run into any trouble!

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    1. Nope, not at all! We just take longer breaks between chapters is all. We’re hard at work on the script for the next one, and we’ll announce release dates as soon as we have something to announce!

  8. I love this show so much, I’ve listened to most of it prolly four or five times. I just hate waiting so long for episodes!
    I appreciate y’all have lives and things to do, and that it takes a while to write and produce to the standard you do though, so I guess I’ll keep checking in. Thanks so much for the content!

    1. Thank you so much for your kind words! We wish we could make episodes faster too. Unfortunately I don’t see us recording in the immediate future what with the pandemic and all. But as soon as there’s something to announce, we will!

  9. So…. More than one year after the last comment… I was hoping. I guess it has been abandoned… It’s now coming close to two years without episodes.
    I’m sad

    1. Not abandoned, we promise! The pandemic forced us to rebuild our entire production process, but we’re working on a batch of episodes right now. We also wish we were able to make the show faster, but we appreciate your patience until we can!

      1. I was also starting to get worried, I am so glad to see your comment Christian!
        You have so many fans who love the series and can’t wait for the next episodes. That being said, I hope you are also all staying safe and taking care of yourselves during these troubling times. In the meantime, I’ll just keep relistening to the episodes that are out!

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