| transcript | |
|---|---|
|
00:00 - 0:00:07
The Monologue podcast.
|
|
|
0:00:07 – 0:00:26
One word, one monologue.
|
|
|
0:00:26 – 0:00:34
Let's go!
|
|
|
0:00:34 – 0:00:45
Hello and welcome to a new edition of the monologue podcast where I talk about words
|
|
|
0:00:45 – 0:00:58
It is a monologue. Yes, today's word, that's nerd. And how do I get that?
|
|
|
0:00:58 – 0:01:08
I was on another podcast I do with a couple of colleagues, the rehearsal podcast,
|
|
|
0:01:08 – 0:01:29
"End-time nerd" because I'm in a part of the rehearsal podcast where it's about music topics, about technical aspects, about nerd stuff, said,
|
|
|
0:01:29 – 0:01:38
I don't see any ads at home on Windows because I have a Pi-Hole there.
|
|
|
0:01:38 – 0:01:45
which I run myself on the server that is in my living room. And then said
|
|
|
0:01:45 – 0:01:58
The podcast guest, yes, that wouldn't be normal, that's just the case with end-time nerds. And yes,
|
|
|
0:01:58 – 0:02:06
I thought about it a little bit because I'm still from a time when I was born in 1977.
|
|
|
0:02:06 – 0:02:16
and in the 70s, i.e. late 70s and early 80s, nerd was a rather negatively influenced
|
|
|
0:02:16 – 0:02:25
Term, because he described someone who deals very intensively with topics or subject area,
|
|
|
0:02:25 – 0:02:33
mostly somehow scientific or also in the field of technology, computer nerds, people,
|
|
|
0:02:33 – 0:02:40
They had little social skills and looked funny. So if you are
|
|
|
0:02:40 – 0:02:48
still remembers the series, trio with four fists, there were the two cool guys and stop
|
|
|
0:02:48 – 0:02:59
the nerd, who could not deal with women, could not have real conversations, but stopped
|
|
|
0:02:59 – 0:03:09
It was a technical genius. Or in the movies "The Revenge of the Eggheads" or in the English "The Revenge of Nerds".
|
|
|
0:03:09 – 0:03:19
Yes, it was definitely all times very negative, because they were all outsiders. And the term
|
|
|
0:03:19 – 0:03:32
I think it changed in the 2000s because it's just people.
|
|
|
0:03:32 – 0:03:38
who are well versed, who have certain skills in technological,
|
|
|
0:03:38 – 0:03:48
the scientific field. And it was, I think, a series like Big Bang Theory or
|
|
|
0:03:48 – 0:03:53
the Marvel series, which created such a nerd culture and the people
|
|
|
0:03:53 – 0:04:02
It was depicted as cool. If they were such spleen people, the strange things
|
|
|
0:04:02 – 0:04:11
We did it and we were different. Yes, I think it was like that in the 2000s, that's when it started.
|
|
|
0:04:11 – 0:04:20
I can also remember a young woman. V-Log, a YouTuber from her
|
|
|
0:04:20 – 0:04:30
Children's room with a nerd glasses, that was just these typical black glasses, very large with
|
|
|
0:04:30 – 0:04:39
She was sitting there and told me that she was a nerd or we were nerds. And
|
|
|
0:04:39 – 0:04:46
As I saw it back then, in my late twenties, I've had it pretty much.
|
|
|
0:04:46 – 0:04:51
It was interesting to note that the term had changed so much at the time.
|
|
|
0:04:51 – 0:05:02
And I didn't take it negatively, as they said to me end-time nerd. I think
|
|
|
0:05:02 – 0:05:06
I said something like that, oh, that's almost a compliment when you say that today.
|
|
|
0:05:06 – 0:05:15
Now I have quite a lot of what I actually say in the explanatory parts
|
|
|
0:05:15 – 0:05:24
I wanted to anticipate. As I said, as a child, nerds were always weird people. And today are
|
|
|
0:05:24 – 0:05:33
There are many YouTubers who run gaming or burn extremely for any topic and because of
|
|
|
0:05:33 – 0:05:40
The skills they have are truly celebrated. When I think about how some
|
|
|
0:05:40 – 0:05:50
Livestreamers have such a huge fanbase, such a really big community, as they say so nicely,
|
|
|
0:05:50 – 0:05:59
where there are people who really admire themselves for being gamers who do nothing else,
|
|
|
0:05:59 – 0:06:07
It's like being on socks and talking a little bit. I had already been here
|
|
|
0:06:07 – 0:06:12
and in other formats as well
|
|
|
0:06:12 – 0:06:15
Loudspeaker radio or in the loudspeaker radio
|
|
|
0:06:15 – 0:06:18
Podcast formats. I once said that
|
|
|
0:06:18 – 0:06:22
We also streamed live here.
|
|
|
0:06:22 – 0:06:25
TikTok and there was a cook-
|
|
|
0:06:25 – 0:06:27
Livestream, I did it where I
|
|
|
0:06:27 – 0:06:30
I cooked the food and later
|
|
|
0:06:30 – 0:06:33
Then my girlfriend stops it.
|
|
|
0:06:30 – 0:06:37
The food was livestreamed and it was there, let's say 95 percent.
|
|
|
0:06:37 – 0:06:42
He died and wore a patient's shirt. You know where in the back of the slit
|
|
|
0:06:42 – 0:06:50
Popo is free and so on. He had an aluminum helmet downstairs.
|
|
|
0:06:50 – 0:06:56
Yes, and she also had a huge following that she celebrated for
|
|
|
0:06:56 – 0:07:03
You are different. She had a big mouth, she was naughty, but also really serious and
|
|
|
0:07:03 – 0:07:13
socially critical issues addressed, but also such typical nerd stuff, stop gaming or
|
|
|
0:07:13 – 0:07:19
I also philosophize about music. Or both of us did, because we're going to
|
|
|
0:07:19 – 0:07:25
Essend were and that was always an hour and then the Essend livestream was too
|
|
|
0:07:25 – 0:07:32
The end. And so we stopped, depending on how complex the menu was, what I cooked,
|
|
|
0:07:32 – 0:07:42
we have an hour, two hours, sometimes an hour and 20, depending on what we had
|
|
|
0:07:42 – 0:07:51
Content. And then we were also admired for what I still find very strange, because I
|
|
|
0:07:51 – 0:07:58
I cooked and she ate. I don't think I'm necessarily a nerd. I have
|
|
|
0:07:58 – 0:08:08
social skills. I just don't like social interactions. There are various reasons,
|
|
|
0:08:08 – 0:08:16
but I can do it and I am always given back so feedback that I stop there
|
|
|
0:08:16 – 0:08:26
I also have my competences. Therefore, the classic picture, this old picture of a nerd I correspond
|
|
|
0:08:26 – 0:08:34
It's not. I've always felt like an outsider, but I've always had one.
|
|
|
0:08:34 – 0:08:42
Core group around people who also all felt like outsiders. Maybe it was so
|
|
|
0:08:42 – 0:08:52
This precursor of such outsiderdom, nerddom, no idea what it is like today. As I said,
|
|
|
0:08:52 – 0:09:01
People are celebrating today. I know that people with special skills and knowledge
|
|
|
0:09:01 – 0:09:11
to be appreciated. I've been working in IT for a while, that's been really many years
|
|
|
0:09:11 – 0:09:20
So over 20 years and I also realized that the most extreme is appreciated when you have someone,
|
|
|
0:09:20 – 0:09:28
who can wait for you your servers, your computers and you just sit there the next day
|
|
|
0:09:28 – 0:09:36
and how everything works again by magic or with other things. I've been in the
|
|
|
0:09:36 – 0:09:43
Holidays, I also went to school.
|
|
|
0:09:43 – 0:09:43
Holiday jobs where I
|
|
|
0:09:43 – 0:09:49
have carried out renovation work, or
|
|
|
0:09:49 – 0:09:51
That sort of thing. During my studies, I have
|
|
|
0:09:51 – 0:09:55
Also for radio and television technicians
|
|
|
0:09:55 – 0:09:58
I worked there, repaired the TV,
|
|
|
0:09:58 – 0:10:01
Washing machines delivered. And there I have
|
|
|
0:10:01 – 0:10:03
You also know how to value
|
|
|
0:10:03 – 0:10:06
To be an expert, an
|
|
|
0:10:03 – 0:10:09
Expert in information technology, expert in electronics, if you can.
|
|
|
0:10:09 – 0:10:21
Yes, so I think that the concept of a negativity, i.e. negatively affected
|
|
|
0:10:21 – 0:10:28
It has changed to a positive one. I've been thinking about nerds themselves ever since.
|
|
|
0:10:28 – 0:10:36
Calling them nerds, that's what happened. I could ask ChatGBT now or do a quick research,
|
|
|
0:10:36 – 0:10:43
But that would be boring for the walker and to read ChatGBT at the beginning.
|
|
|
0:10:43 – 0:10:55
Yes, of course I did and asked ChatGBT. I mean, I'm an inside nerd,
|
|
|
0:10:55 – 0:11:01
Why shouldn't I use something like that? And he lists four points, why it stops
|
|
|
0:11:01 – 0:11:09
The first three points are what I said and the fourth point is what I said.
|
|
|
0:11:09 – 0:11:17
cultural shift towards knowledge and competence. And that's what I already
|
|
|
0:11:17 – 0:11:28
Said people appreciate it when you have someone who has ideas, who has the knowledge. And also
|
|
|
0:11:28 – 0:11:34
Today, when I look at people who do things like Diamond Painting. I mean, hello?
|
|
|
0:11:34 – 0:11:45
I glue round or square small stones on a foil sorted by numbers and create
|
|
|
0:11:45 – 0:11:52
It's more or less art. And yes, I looked at it because my girlfriend
|
|
|
0:11:52 – 0:11:57
I've tried it, and it's amazing what beautiful things you're doing.
|
|
|
0:11:57 – 0:12:05
can. And if someone is doing this excessively, then this is also someone who is already doing it.
|
|
|
0:12:05 – 0:12:12
It's nerdy. Yes, or especially if it's topical. I mean, there's something for that, let's say,
|
|
|
0:12:12 – 0:12:23
From the Nintendo universe, Mario, there's everything. And I think it's cool. I think it's cool,
|
|
|
0:12:23 – 0:12:31
that it is now so that it does not stop because you are interested in something or because
|
|
|
0:12:31 – 0:12:37
You burn for a topic, you are no longer condemned for having changed that way. I find
|
|
|
0:12:37 – 0:12:46
That's good. Chat GPT writes an interesting and often admired person who is passionate and
|
|
|
0:12:46 – 0:12:56
They have deep expertise to pursue their interests. Yeah, that's me. I mean, there are people,
|
|
|
0:12:56 – 0:13:04
They've been following me on the internet for years. I mean, I've been doing this since 2006,
|
|
|
0:13:04 – 0:13:12
Although totally without success, but there are people who have been following me since 2006 with the things,
|
|
|
0:13:12 – 0:13:20
Which I do. And holy moly, I found this kind of interesting because I feel it myself
|
|
|
0:13:20 – 0:13:29
I'm not particularly intelligent, eloquent, interesting. And yet there are
|
|
|
0:13:29 – 0:13:37
People who read every blog post, no matter what the topic. There are people who hear
|
|
|
0:13:37 – 0:13:43
all my podcast productions and every now and then one of my
|
|
|
0:13:43 – 0:13:48
Says "Hey, cool thing, interesting episode, made me think" and the
|
|
|
0:13:48 – 0:13:58
Next gives me two books without me really having such great contact
|
|
|
0:13:58 – 0:14:03
with whom they had. I know his name, but I got two books.
|
|
|
0:14:03 – 0:14:14
It's interesting because I don't think it's very interesting or
|
|
|
0:14:14 – 0:14:22
educated or something. I'm just someone who is interested in technology, for many others
|
|
|
0:14:22 – 0:14:30
Topics for social, political,
|
|
|
0:14:30 – 0:14:35
for philosophy, for religious studies,
|
|
|
0:14:35 – 0:14:38
for music theory and you don't have
|
|
|
0:14:38 – 0:14:41
There are so many things, but I
|
|
|
0:14:41 – 0:14:43
Don't think of me in any way
|
|
|
0:14:43 – 0:14:45
somehow competent in any of
|
|
|
0:14:45 – 0:14:48
these areas. There are so many things I
|
|
|
0:14:45 – 0:14:53
I don't know and yet there are people who say, hey cool, yes I'm a nerd and
|
|
|
0:14:53 – 0:15:01
Maybe I'm an end-time nerd. If you have the definition of end-time nerd
|
|
|
0:15:01 – 0:15:09
If you look at it, it would be someone who is preparing for the end of the world and
|
|
|
0:15:09 – 0:15:18
like such a prepper, setting up warehouses and hamstering supplies and simply preparing for the
|
|
|
0:15:18 – 0:15:26
Society and the world is sinking. But no, that's not the case. But, like me, the term
|
|
|
0:15:26 – 0:15:35
As I have heard, I have simply connected it positively. Someone who is the ultimate nerd. me
|
|
|
0:15:35 – 0:15:42
I mean, I know a lot of people who have a small server at home and have some services running on it.
|
|
|
0:15:42 – 0:15:45
And I have that too.
|
|
|
0:15:45 – 0:15:49
And I'm not any better now or anything.
|
|
|
0:15:49 – 0:16:03
I'm interested in it, I deal with it and think it's cool that I get my ads filtered out 96 percent of the time.
|
|
|
0:16:03 – 0:16:14
And that includes all of Windows' tracking. I don't see any advertising. And all the way to advertising, what I see are on some other websites.
|
|
|
0:16:14 – 0:16:22
That's why, yes, I've been laughing for so long now and I didn't want to fret for so long. This should be a quick number today.
|
|
|
0:16:22 – 0:16:32
It is a monologue. So, nerds were almost an insult to you and today they are
|
|
|
0:16:32 – 0:16:39
Sometimes admired people who are admired for their abilities. I find it absolutely
|
|
|
0:16:39 – 0:16:48
granios. So, now I have to say, thank you for your interest. It's nice,
|
|
|
0:16:48 – 0:16:52
I'm looking forward to the next edition of the Monolog Podcast.
|
|
|
0:16:52 – 0:16:58
When you're back. If you have any questions or suggestions, write them in the comments.
|
|
|
0:16:58 – 0:17:05
And there's nothing else to tell me. Goodbye, Sasha.
|
|
|
0:17:05 – 0:17:07
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:07 – 0:17:10
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:10 – 0:17:17
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:17 – 0:17:23
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:23 – 0:17:29
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:29 – 0:17:35
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:35 – 0:17:42
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:42 – 0:17:47
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:47 – 0:17:50
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:50 – 0:17:53
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:53 – 0:17:56
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:56 – 0:17:59
[Music]
|
|
|
0:17:59 – 0:18:02
[Music]
|
|
|
0:18:02 – 0:18:27
[Music]
|
description
Are you a nerd or just a curious ghost? Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of nerds and their transformation from outsiders to celebrated personalities! In this episode, Sascha sheds light on the change of being a nerd, from oblique own-breeders of the 80s to role models in pop culture. Find out why nerd is almost a compliment today and how love of technology and curiosity have developed into new coolness. Ready for a trip between pi-hole and pop culture? Turn on and dive in!
Topics Outline
Introduction and definition of terms
- Explanation of the term nerd and its origins.
- Personal anecdote on the ‘end-time nerd’ in the trial podcast.
Being a nerd in the 70s and 80s
- The cliché of the nerd in the early years: Outsiders, tech freaks, social isolation.
- Examples from pop culture, such as ‘Trio with four fists’ and ‘The revenge of the egg heads’.
Changes in the nerd concept in the 2000s
- Influence of modern series such as Big Bang Theory and the Marvel series.
- Being a nerd as a cool trait, changing social perception.
Nerd culture today
- Nerds as valued experts, especially in technology and IT.
- Examples from everyday life and how nerds are admired for their skills.
Personal insights into the nerd identity
- Why the host does not see himself as a typical nerd, but still feels attracted to the nerd culture.
- Experience from the IT career and recognition for technical knowledge.
Modern nerd culture and diversity of interests
- Diversification of nerd culture: Gaming, streaming, creative hobbies like Diamond Painting.
- The broad fanbase and community support for nerd interests.
Final Thoughts and Outlook
- Summary of the positive development of the term nerd.
- Invitation to listeners to turn back on next time.
Links to the issue:
-
Sample Podcast BONUS: 019 Pöbeln gen Obst - Probe Podcast
-
Trio with four fists - Wikipedia
-
Revenge of the Eggheads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
-
The Big Bang Theory - Wikipedia
-
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
-
Kelly MissesVlog - Wikipedia
Support our podcast
Follow us on
Advertising:
Contributors to this episode
Sascha
Playing time: 0:18:28
Date of admission: 15.11.24
This episode is from Season 2, there are a total of 2 seasons.
One According to Funk Publication Cartel Production - Where stories are transmitted unmistakably.
Podcast license:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Note: This post contains affiliate links. If you shop through these links, I'll get a small commission at no extra cost to you.
Related posts
Author: Sascha Markmann
Sascha Markmann ist ein kreativer Kopf mit einer bewegten Biografie – und ein Mensch, der das Leben nach einem Schlaganfall noch einmal ganz neu für sich entdeckt hat. Nach Stationen als Rettungssanitäter und Altenpfleger fand Sascha seinen Weg in den kreativen Ausdruck. Als Blogger, Podcaster, Musiker und visueller Geschichtenerzähler bringt er heute Dinge zusammen, die nur auf den ersten Blick nicht passen: Er kombiniert seine handfeste Begeisterung für Technik – von selbst gehosteten Servern bis hin zur elektronischen Musikproduktion – mit emotionaler Tiefe und einem schrägen Sinn für Humor. Seine Beiträge entstehen irgendwo zwischen Borderline, Acid Basslines und Beistand – ehrlich, direkt und gerne auch mal mit einem Augenzwinkern. Leitmotiv: „Audiovisueller Stumpfsinn mit keinem Nutzwert – aber vielleicht genau deshalb so wertvoll.“ View all posts by Sascha Markmann
English