NERD vs GEEK: How to Tell the Difference

what makes a nerd a nerd and not a geek. and a geek a geek and not a nerd let's. talk about. [Music]. that good mythical morning all right. yesterday we released a new music video. on our main Channel that's called epic. rap battle nerd versus geek's not my. thing but I don't care I look so good in. chain mail that it's not Renaissance. Fair thank you for checking that out for. commenting for sharing that among all of.

your Peoples especially if they're. interested in the worlds of nerdom and. geekdom which as we discovered in the. research of the writing of this song and. producing of the music video are two. distinct worlds. which cozy up to one another perhaps. they overlap in some areas there's quite. a bit of crossover well let's give you a. little background first um so this video. was uh sponsored by Tiger Direct thanks. to Tiger Direct our sponsor for letting. us shoot in the and giving us the stuff.

that we use in the video in Miami to. Miami that ain't bad um but the original. concept that we talked about was the. epic rap battle of nerdiness because you. know we have the original epic rap. battle we have the epic rap battle of. Manliness and then we were like let's do. epic rap battle of nerdiness and then in. the very early stages of developing the. idea we started doing some research on. like what makes you nerdy and all of a. sudden we saw these different articles. about geek versus nerd and we were like. oh that's even better cuz now there's a.

there's a battle between the geek and. the nerd well I mean I yeah it it once. it occurred to us that there was more of. a story there and and and those the two. characters being different and not being. nerds kind of thing it made it more. interesting I I mean I certainly had a. point of reference that nerds and Geeks. aren't the same thing I know I know that. yeah I wasn't saying that but it seemed. it seemed like a better thing to have a. rap battle about was not who's more. nerdy but the geek versus nerd dichotomy. but what I didn't understand was how.

intricately you could parse the. differences between the two and I'm. using words like parse in order to be a. little bit more nerdy or it not really. oh is it a guy named this is the dude's. name bur. settles which is also a sentence it's. also a sentence BR you should never. settle man don't settle this guy's a. unless it's your last name and then just. own it this guy's a nerd I think because. he developed he actually went in and did. this Global search of Twitter and saw.

how often certain subjects were. associated with the word geek or the. word nerd and then he created a graph. that has a bunch of words on it that. we'll put up here that shows uh it's. basically a function you know of things. become more geeky or things becoming. more nerdy on this scale and then. whether or not things are nerdy or geeky. and I I first of all I will say the fact. that someone went through all this. trouble like you said I'm pretty sure. that makes a nerd especially because the.

presentation of the chart it doesn't. look cool graphically that would be. something that a geek would do a nerd. would parse all this data and and figure. out how to segment it and and compile it. and all this type of stuff that you do. with data but then a geek would be the. one who would make it cool looking and. this one looks very nerdy and it's like. illegible as you get into the more geeky. maybe because he knows he's a nerd and. he's like I don't care about how geeky. you get that's when you can't read it. anymore here's what I want to do because. we did some research and I know you have.

looked at this but I want to see if this. stuff is still with you I'm going to. just name some of these things that are. right along this line whether they're. geek or nerd I want you to tell me. whether or not this is a geeky thing or. a nerdy thing well start further out. first okay further out uh. chist someone who plays the cello that's. a nerd now that's that's interesting. because I've never heard the term ban. nerd I've heard the term Band. Geek but when I think of someone who. plays the cello I picture a.

nerd well yeah and you were right this. it is the nerdiest thing on the scale. which is again this is so difficult. because. bandgeek what do they play they play. Brass yeah yeah if it's if I said tuba. you would you would go with geek I don't. know no I wouldn't I'm just listen I'm. not I'm just I'm the messenger here okay. what else uh web comic geek of course. okay here's here's something a little. let's go with uh genius nerd nerds are.

nerds are you know they're typically. very much centered in being smart Geeks. kind of they they're smart but they have. social sense or or they're more socially. aware maybe to a fault. Microsoft geek how did you know that. because typically is Mac is the geek oh. actually I meant to say nerd well you're. wrong Microsoft is on the line but he. has it on he has it on The Geek Side. it's on the line you can go either way. in the overlap vegetables.

what like I mean Foodies I think G you. can be a Foody geek so I would say geek. vegetables are nerdy I don't know. why um awkward there's a gray area. awkward I would say more nerd definitely. uh. zombies geek it's more anything more pop. cury I consider to be more geeky Doctor. Who geek.

because pop culture. Zelda uh still geek no he's got Zelda as. nerd and he has The Hobbit as a nerd. which incidentally we had the geek in. our rap battle become. Gandalf because that's it's so right on. the line because we thought that you. know a guy I don't consider myself to be. smart enough to be a nerd I respect. nerds because they're smart I'm just not. smart enough I can't achieve nerdom and. I'm a big fan of Lord of the Rings so I.

think that I mean I'm I I don't know if. I'm a geek I'm just you know I'm just an. everyday man I know I'm you're a hipster. I I I think that the um I think that the. fact that there are some YouTube. channels we talked about this a little. bit in our research too that tow this. line illustrates how much of a line This. is you've got geek ficia day right which. that makes sense it's like board games. pop culture type uh stuff that's very. much in geek geek but then you've got. the Nerdist Channel which is Chris. Hardwick and when I think of Chris.

Hardwick and in the Nerdist Network I. think of geek stuff I don't think I. don't think of nerd because he's a cool. guy know the guy he knows how to dress. still very much pop culture I would say. definitely Nerdist is geek they should. have been called geekus not Nerdist but. I think they called themselves Nerdist. because they were socially aware enough. to know that if I called us Nerdist it's. so uncool it becomes cool again so as a. socially aware geek I'm going to call us. Nerdist because it's a better title. which is why I think that your character.

clearly won the rap battle I I think and. I'm totally comfortable uh admitting. that well we collectively wrote the. whole rap it's not like we only wrote. I'm comfortable with saying that your. character won because it's so much. easier to pull for the nerd and there's. so much more irony in the nerd rapping. versus the they own it a geek might tend. to be so socially aware that it's you. know it's. uh just kind of not not being totally.

honest now here's a nerd Hank Green Hank. Green is a Bonafide nerd and he knows it. he's super smart like legitimately smart. about all the things that he speaks to. it isn't just a guy who's really into. things it's a guy who totally knows what. he's talking about when he talks about. something and that it's appropriate the. nerd Fighters are the people who are. fans of the Vlog Brothers actual nerds. um so we appreciate you guys sharing in. the comments what are what are your. thoughts you know this is this is an.

open discussion in a gray area I know we. may have entered a hornet's nest with. this one but we don't want to turn. anybody against this we're we love nerds. we love Geeks and if you like the song. We want to make the instrumental version. available we're going to do a contest. little community building exercise if. you want to take that and do a cover of. Epic Rap out on nerd versus geek you can. do that and you can share it uh make a. YouTube video but then share it with us. on the r link Community we got a link. down there in the description on how you. can get to that and then your deadline.

is Sunday October 27th you make your. cover video and the best one is going to. win a mythical prize pack consisting of. a mythical show t-shirt a mythical show. signed poster and an up to this point CD. our our CD with 27 songs on it so take. part in the instrumental don't just do. it the prize though do do it to have. some fun you know fun it up over there. in the red link Community you know what. time it is this is Rob and theia and. we're coming you from Saskatchewan.

Canada and it's time to spin the wheel. of. mythicality if you don't want to. participate in the community building. exercise and you just want to buy this. stuff it's all available over at Rett. link.com. store we'd appreciate that all of these. are signed or just participate in the. contest and buy something let's end this. episode Rhett is shrinking and Link is. growing W that's starting to feel kind. of weird man me too man what what what's. happened my.

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and wherever it lands and we will make a. music video before we die in the. location where lands okay.