Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Caitlin Henderson and her nerd love is  DR WHO. It's brilliant, just brilliant.Caitlin is an obsessed "Doctor Who" and "Staged" fan, LOVE "Good Omens" and love to watch "Derry Girls." She is currently starting a business of selling vintage and antiques. Living in Ohio, she is a huge lover of Hocking hills state park, it's her happy place.Hosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Michael Rovatsos and his nerd love is Tribute Bands. It's awesome.Michael hails from New York originally (moving to SoCal in 2004) and has been playing music since he was a young teen. He has led and performed with a variety of original rock groups and has played well-respected venues on both coasts and internationally. Playing bass is a passion for Michael but he is also multi-instrumentalist who composes, records and produces on an on-going basis. In 1985, already a big U2 fan, Michael caught U2’s 'Live Aid' performance as it was happening and was mesmerized with the performance. His favorite member of the band (then and now) was/is Adam Clayton. His unassuming swagger, performance style and unique musical sensibilities are just a few of the traits Michael brings to the role of emulating Adam.Adam is known as the “Jazz Man” of U2 which is a great coincidence being that Michael works for one of the best non-profit Jazz radio stations in the country (Production Director for KSDS-FM). Michael counts Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and Miles Davis among  his Jazz favs. The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and of course, U2, contribute mightily to his musical Rock/Pop DNA.Michael has been recreating the essence of Adam since 2014 and prides himself on being extremely detailed-oriented in the performance and presentation of Mr. Clayton with every gig he plays.Hollywood U2YouTube of Bono & Joe HierHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Jordan Gwiazdowski and his nerd love is Hospitality. It's awesome. Former world renown pun heavyweight and host of Punk Assed - a Pun Cast, cast member and DM on The Cast Die podcast, and current game developer for Dumarest: The Traveller - an upcoming TTRPG based of the pulp sci-fi series Dumarest.Jordan's InstagramJordan's Podcasts: The Cast Die Podcast & Punk Assed: A Pun CastHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Danielle Taylor and her nerd love is Bay Area Public Transit. It's awesome.San Francisco Bay Area native who has lived her life without a drivers license and enjoys all things planes, trains and buses! Danielle has spent most of her career working in public health and is passionate about ensuring that everyone has access to healthcare and proper infrastructure (housing/transit) to live happy healthy lives!Danielle's InstagramHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Anne Markt and her nerd love is Functional Medicine. It's awesome.Anne Markt is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and has been coaching clients to wellness for the past 10 years.Anne has coached patients of many functional medicine doctors across the country, as well as clients of NAO Wellness, while learning the best resources available for health and longevity.Her specialty is working with clients who have struggled with yo-yo dieting for years and feel confused, stressed, and metabolically burnt out!  She's successfully helped clients completely transform their relationship to food and their body.Anne is also the published co-author of the book "Never Stop Healing" with Regan Archibald, FMP and provides corporate wellness presentations virtually with NAO Wellness.Anne successfully overcame a years-long battle with binge eating thanks to meditation, transformed her childhood and college addictions to gluten, dairy, and sugar thanks to her health coaching tools, and successfully stopped calorie counting and obsessing over her weight. Leading with curiosity, compassion, and care, Anne helps clients discover their best healthy habits in alignment with their values, strengths and goals. Anne's WebsiteHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Ondine Boulter and her nerd love is Vanity License Plates. It's awesome.Adventure-seeking lover of nature, food, humans and all things miniature!  When I’m not driving my solar powered car you can find me pushing pedals up a hill on my road bike, shaking my booty on the dance floor, planting flowers in my garden or snuggling up to one of my 4 kids. Ondine's InstagramHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Olivia Oguma and her nerd love is Cirque du Soleil. It's awesome.OLIVIA OGUMA --began her career at the age of infant, when she was discovered by a modeling agency and thrust into the spotlight of commercials and magazine campaigns. Since then she has continued to work on stage, on screen and behind the scenes, as an editor and in your living room as the most in demand babysitter on the UWS. She has been on Broadway in LES MIZ, MAMMA MIA and A CHRISTMAS CAROL. She has appeared in many regional productions of Miss Saigon, and zero regional productions of the King and I. She has been on many TV shows such as Instinct, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Good Wife, Odd Mom Out, Law and Order and Great News--on which she ALMOST always plays the almost interchangeable role of "frazzled Asian assistant who drops something". In her spare time, Olivia runs an etsy store called @kanojodesigns and has solo backpacked thru 30 different countries! She is proudest of all, of her extreme devotion to Cirque Du Soleil. She is a member and Often contributor to HARD CORE CIRQUE FANS the FAN CLUB and currently has seen ALL current running Cirque shows in the world, except for one BUT she has a ticket to fly to Brazil and see it in a month. Olivia's Etsy StoreOlivia's InstagramHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and onlyJennifer Sanett and her nerd love is Wine. It's fizzy, sparkling and everything VINO. Raise your glasses!Jenn and Sasha went through Calabasas HS together, musical theater brought us even closer (cmon Pass The Candle!)... and then my senior year I discovered the Great Gatsby, and their prohibition era cocktails, and champagne in coupé glasses. Then, Jenn went to Disneyland...  And New York. This is when Jenn realized she could combine her love of wine/booze from Gatsby, and her proximity to Solvang and Los Olivos, to start becoming a wine goddess!Find JenniferHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Donovan Vejar and his nerd love is Woodworking. It's awesome."Hello I'm Donovan, I've been building things since I was in jr high. There's always something cool you can build, from turning pens on a lathe to making a solid white oak table."Find DonovanHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Awun Bell and her nerd love is Leather work. It's awesome.Awun works as an x-ray technologist. In her spare time, she is a self-taught leatherworker, maker, photographer and Lord of the Rings nerd. She spends her weekends adventuring in the mountains around her home of Calgary Canada & creating prop replicas & costumes from her favorite movies & tv shows.Find Awun:EtsyInstagramHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Jack Harris and his nerd love is Physics. It's awesome.Hosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Clara Park and her nerd love is Gilmore Girls. She also loves Cake and ZELDA. A true Renaissance womanClara has worked in healthcare for over 10 years and has been a Gilmore Girls fan for over 20. She has moved around a lot but Gilmore Girls has always provided a sense of home.Hosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Thaddeus Kolwicz and his nerd love is Memes. It's awesome.He is just a shy guy in the entertainment business. He works on film and tv sets, acts here and there, and acts as a project developer for his production company. He moved to Portugal in December 2022 to be with his Portu-Gal and for a new perspective on life and experiences! He is a huge nerd when it comes to video games,  anime, cartoons, synthesizers, and scripts.Hosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Bert Coslow and his nerd love is Destiny, The Video Game. We dive into MMO's and what it means to be a gamer.Hosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only  Steven Silverstein and his nerd love is Bewitched. It's awesome.Steven Silverstein has music directed and accompanied the famous and near famous on Broadway (Blood Brothers, Swinging on a Star, & the revival of Promises Promises); Off-Broadway, (When Pigs Fly, The Green Heart, & Annie Warbucks); Regional Theatre (Goodspeed Opera House, Papermill Playhouse, & Westport County Playhouse); and Specialty (54 Below & Noel Coward: The Women of His World at Lincoln Center with Dava Ivey, Dee Hoty & Cady Huffman). He has coached and played piano for Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally, Harry Connick Jr., Carole King John Treacy Egan, Neva Small, Tony Award Winner Bill Irwin, and the Tony award winner Annaleigh Ashford.  In addition to his vast experience as a musical director and coach, he has a MAC nomination (Manhattan Association of Cabarets) and has tickled the ivories for cabaret performances at 54 Below, The Duplex, and Don’t Tell Mama in NYC. Steven is also a prolific published composer and arranger, having published two children’s shows (Enchorage Press) . His work was  performed at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.    Steven's song Shoot Me (with Andrew Zachary Cohen)  received an  honorable mention from the City Center's Lobby Project 2022 highlights as composer: His musical Forever and A Day (with bookwriter lyricist Marcus Scott) was part of the Downtown Urban Arts Festival in  June,  His musical Nothin But Love (with Andrew Zachary Cohen) had an informal reading in July,   Six of his songs (with Michael Colby) in OTHER LIVES were presented as part of Winter Rhythms at Urban Stages in December. He shares his love and passion for music and musical theatre with students of all ages at American Music and Dramatic Academy.  He also has been on the faculty of  The Neighborhood Playhouse Junior School, Marymount Manhattan College, PACE University, SUNY  Purchase and NYU. Steven’s students have appeared on Broadway in Annie, Newsies, The Producers, 30 Rock among others.  Steven holds a B.A. in Theatre/B.S. in Finance from the University of Bridgeport and an M.A. in Music Education. Upcoming: 2023 Students at Western Connecticut State University will be doing a staged reading of his musical HOW RUDE (written with Phillip George of Forbidden Broadway). Find Steven:YoutubeTwitterFacebookWebsiteTikTokInstragramCheck out Steven's podcast: "Stay Awake with Silverstein" and Making the News SingHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Nicole Rabinowitz and her nerd love is Disney Vacations. It's awesome.Nicole is the Queen of the Disneyverse & The Fairest of them all.Hosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie YamaokaAmazon shoe rackNicole's Instagram

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Jason Picus and his nerd love is Adventure Time. It's awesome.Jason is a cartoon loving, DnD playing gay-mer and he loves his dogs. SLUGS AND HAWKS, NOT CATS! Hosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Alex Mercado and his nerd love is Film Making. It's awesome.Alex Mercado is an artist from New York City who works in film and graphic design. A graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology he's used his artistic skills and obsession with cinema to produce unique visions in storytelling. Always with a dark sense of humor, he finds that human beings, while ultimately flawed can create beauty and a sense of wonder in this world for others to experience something amazing.Find Alex:Instagrams@alexmercadodesign @midnightpatrolfilm@theyorkershowHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Travis Mitchell and his nerd love is Billy Joel. It's awesome.Hi! Travis has been an actor in NYC for 25 years. Though he got his start in improv, he has been lucky enough to have been extensively involved in plays, musicals and numerous short independent films as well as two feature horror films,.  And, of course, the obligatory stint on Law and Order SVU in a scene opposite Mariska Hargitay. We’re besties now, though she won’t return my calls. Travis currently as of this bio submission right now has three short  films in post production and is in pre production for another. He also has grown his beard and hair out for some recent roles and auditions. He looks ridiculous.Also, he’s a licensed New York City tour guide.  Find Travis:WebsiteInstagramHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka

Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only  Patrick Benedict and his nerd love is Craft Beer. It's awesome.  Patrick, under the monicker of BenedictBeerBlog, is a craft beer lover, social media manager, and beer influencer.  He owns BenedictBeerBlog, and does social media and content creation for breweries and beer brands in New York City and Seattle.  He makes silly beer videos on various social media networks that sometimes include talking about poop.   Find Patrick: Tik TokInstagramYouTubeBig Alice BrewingTavourHosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha WeissTheme song written by Korrie YamaokaPerformed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka