Best Marc Massar Podcasts (2025)

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S1E10 - Your Printer Hates You. And Now It Can Build Things 55:39

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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…

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S1E8b - Barnum Would’ve Loved the Bots: The Digital Freakshow (Part 2) 33:43

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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…

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S1E8 - Barnum Would’ve Loved the Bots: The Rise of Agentic Advertising Part 1 46:59

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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,…

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S1E6b - Throughput, Thrills, and Theme Parks 45:29

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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 N…

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S1E6a - Throughput, Thrills, and Theme Parks 56:30

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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…

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S1E5 - From Clippy to Agentic AI 41:27

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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 explorati…

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S1E4 - Bat Boy and How Algorithms Ate the Urban Legend 52:06

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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 dr…

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S1E3 - Sears, Amazon, and the Eternal Catalog 39:10

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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 a…

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S1E2 - Your Own Hyperlocal Meteorologist in Your Pocket - The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast 38:51

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Send us a text Tune in for hot takes, cold fronts, and a 70% chance of questionable metaphors. In this episode, Renee and Marc of the Nostalgic Nerds Podcast take you on a trip through the evolution of weather forecasting. From the nostalgic days of dialing up forecasts to today’s AI-driven, hyper-local predictions, they reminisce about how technol…

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The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast - The AI Gigawatt Hunger 47:46

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Send us a text Great Scott! 150 NFL Football Stadiums running at night - all at the same time. That's how much energy a new Wyoming AI data center is chugging. 1.81 Gigawatts. Just think what Doc Brown would say about that. Join Renee and Marc on the Nostalgic Nerds podcast as they dive into data centers consuming 1.5% of global electricity with a …