Explore every episode of the podcast The Cosplayer and Photographer Podcast | In Front of and Behind the Lens
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| More Than the Costume | The Craft Behind Cosplay with Kirakreates | 22 Sep 2026 | 01:00:55 | |
Hosted by Peter Voland Special Guest Cosplay is much more than wearing a costume. It takes creativity, patience, problem-solving, and a willingness to learn through trial and error. In this episode, I sit down with a talented cosplayer and creator to discuss their journey into cosplay crafting, how their skills have developed, and the work that goes into bringing a character to life. We talk about tackling new projects, learning from mistakes, preparing creations for conventions, and seeing completed cosplays captured through photography. We also discuss social media, sharing creative work online, navigating expectations within the cosplay community, and the advice they would give someone interested in creating their first cosplay. | |||
| More Than Matching Cosplays | Couples That Cosplay | 20 Sep 2026 | 01:09:21 | |
Hosted by Peter Voland Special Guests Wolf In this episode of the Cosplayer and Photographer Podcast, Peter sits down with a cosplay couple to discuss how they each discovered cosplay, developed their own creative identities, and eventually began sharing the experience together. They talk about conventions, creating content, navigating social media, supporting each other’s ideas, and balancing collaboration with maintaining their individuality. It’s a relaxed and honest conversation about creativity, community, relationships, and the connections that can form through cosplay. | |||
| Being a Female Cosplayer Starting Out, Finding Confidence, and Growing in the Community | 14 Sep 2026 | 01:09:49 | |
Hosted by Peter Voland Special Guests In this episode, Peter sits down with two female cosplayers for an honest conversation about getting started, growing within the community, and finding confidence along the way. They discuss their early cosplay experiences, attending conventions, building friendships, dealing with social media, and navigating body image, unwanted comments, and the sexualization of cosplayers. The conversation also explores what makes someone feel comfortable during a photoshoot, the qualities they value in a photographer, and how mutual respect can create a better experience for everyone. It is a thoughtful and relatable look at cosplay from the perspective of the people bringing these characters to life. | |||
| Getting Into Cosplay Photography | The Good, the Bad & the Algorithm | 07 Sep 2026 | 01:21:42 | |
Hosted by Peter Voland Special Guest In the first episode of the Cosplayer and Photographer Podcast, Peter sits down with Darrus of Moonlit Rivers Photography to talk about how they both found their way into cosplay photography and what has kept them in it. They get into their early shoots, imposter syndrome, finding a personal style, community drama, social media frustrations, and why follower counts do not always tell the full story. They also talk about the shift toward video content, dealing with Instagram’s algorithm, building real relationships with cosplayers, and why the creative freedom of cosplay photography still makes all the headaches worth it. Episode Notes
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| Good Bye Nerds Adulting, Hello The Cosplayer and Photographer Podcast | 07 Sep 2026 | 00:04:48 | |
| Broughy1322 YouTuber Interview | 28 Feb 2022 | 00:43:39 | |
NerdsAdulting.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbCR1pKRuuENroS-LkLXVuw Patreon: https://patreon.com/nerdsadulting Email: peter@nerdsadulting.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/pistolpete_nap Twitch: https://twitch.tv/pistolpete_nap https://twitch.tv/wickactual Discord: https://discord.gg/Py7dmcV Adam Brough/Broughy1322 joins Pete for a discussion about his YouTube journey to success. With over 270K YouTube subscribers, Broughy has cemented himself as the go to for all things related to GTA5 racing. https://www.youtube.com/broughy/about https://broughy.com/ https://broughy.com/twitchoverview https://broughy.com/socialmedia https://www.youtube.com/chokinghazardgaming Credits Protodome for intro music https://protodome.bandcamp.com/ Gaxel for outro music https://soundcloud.com/gaxel | |||
| Thrill Kill (PSX) Revisit with Producer Kevin Mulhall | 29 Oct 2021 | 00:55:59 | |
NerdsAdulting.com Patreon: https://patreon.com/nerdsadulting Email: peter@nerdsadulting.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/pistolpete_nap Twitch: https://twitch.tv/pistolpete_nap https://twitch.tv/wickactual Discord: https://discord.gg/Py7dmcV Special guest, Kevin Mulhall joins us to discuss the behind scenes story on the most famous game to get cancelled - Thrill Kill! Credits Protodome for intro music https://protodome.bandcamp.com/ Gaxel for outro music https://soundcloud.com/gaxel | |||
| Night Trap 1992 - Violent Video Games Part 3 with Rob Fulop | 18 Jul 2021 | 00:26:00 | |
Nerds Adulting Bytes by Peter Voland NerdsAdulting.com https://www.patreon.com/nerdsadulting https://discord.gg/SCH7vbu Email: peter@nerdsadulting.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/pistolpete_nap Twitch: https://twitch.tv/pistolpete_nap Nerds Adulting Bytes are short, easy to consume "bite" size episodes that explore various nerdy topics by taking a deeper look. This episode Peter explores the story and behind the scenes of the game Night Trap. Special thanks to Rob Fulop Music Streambeats by Harris Heller https://open.spotify.com/artist/0a9BgwCCRSeKbh2xXZsUaN Protodome https://soundcloud.com/protodome | |||
| Mortal Kombat 1992 - Violent Video Games Part 2 with Master Daniel Pesina | 13 Jun 2021 | 00:24:19 | |
Nerds Adulting Bytes by Peter Voland NerdsAdulting.com Email: peter@nerdsadulting.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/P1stolPeet Twitch: https://twitch.tv/pistolpeete Nerds Adulting Bytes are short, easy to consume "bite" size episodes that explore various nerdy topics by taking a deeper look. This episode Peter explores the story behind the scenes of the game that wasn't meant to but persevered thanks to the hard work and brilliance of Daniel Pesina and John Tobias. Special thanks for Master Daniel Pesina for sharing this story. https://twitter.com/masterpesina http://www.masterpesina.com/ Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generation-ebook/dp/B00FJ379XE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=console+wars&qid=1623626498&sr=8-1 John Tobias Twitter thread on origins of the Lin Kuei https://twitter.com/therealsaibot/status/1374750434011668482 Music Streambeats by Harris Heller https://open.spotify.com/artist/0a9BgwCCRSeKbh2xXZsUaN | |||
| Death Race 1976 - Violent Video Games Part 1 | 28 May 2021 | 00:09:20 | |
Nerds Adulting Bytes by Peter Voland Nerds Adulting Bytes are short, easy to consume "bite" size episodes that explore various nerdy topics by taking a deeper look. Peter takes a dive into first violent video game controversy and talks with authors Dr. Patrick Markey and Dr. Chris Ferguson Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wronghttps://www.amazon.com/Moral-Combat-Violent-Video-Games-ebook/dp/B01N76VRLM/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=moral+combat&qid=1622226374&sr=8-3 Music Streambeats by Harris Heller https://open.spotify.com/artist/0a9BgwCCRSeKbh2xXZsUaN | |||
| Nostalgia | 05 May 2021 | 00:11:29 | |
Nerds Adulting Bytes by Peter Voland Nerds Adulting Bytes are short, easy to consume "bite" size episodes that explore various nerdy topics by taking a deeper look. Peter takes a dive into what nostalgia is and talks with New York Times columnist John Tierney. Breaking Geek Radio The Podcast https://lrmonline.com/news/tag/breaking-geek-radio-the-podcast/ The Power of Bad https://www.amazon.com/Power-Bad-Negativity-Effect-Rules-ebook/dp/B07Q3NHPGZ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+power+of+bad&qid=1620257165&sr=8-1 Music Streambeats by Harris Heller https://open.spotify.com/artist/0a9BgwCCRSeKbh2xXZsUaN | |||
| Courtney Hope Interview | 25 Feb 2021 | 00:51:11 | |
Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/AwGHFVA https://www.nerdsadulting.com Email: peter@nerdsadulting.com Support the pod with gear from Retro Gaming Wear and save 10% with discount code nerdsadulting https://retrogamingwear.com/?ref=0rivl9c1lm7h Discord members get access to the entire uncut video! Courtney Hope from Control, Quantum Break, and the Bold and the Beautiful joins us for an amazing interview. She provides some incredible insight working with Remedy and Sam Lake, her nerdiness, and much more! Credits Protodome for intro music https://protodome.bandcamp.com/ Gaxel for outro music https://soundcloud.com/gaxel | |||
| Eric Molinsky from Imaginary Worlds | 05 Jul 2020 | 00:34:42 | |
Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/AwGHFVA https://www.nerdsadutling.com Eric Molinsky from Imaginary Worlds Podcast joins us to discuss his show and all things regarding nerd/geek culture. For more on his show please visit https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org Intro music credits Artist: Protodome Song: Soda Swing | |||
| Kyle Higgins - Best Selling Author - Talks Nightwing, Batman, Power Rangers | 22 Mar 2020 | 01:07:11 | |
Kyle Higgins joins us to talk about his influences and how he became a writer. We discuss Batman the Animated series, Power Rangers comic, Nightwing, and much more! | |||
| Michael Katz - Special Guest Former President of Sega of America | 09 Mar 2020 | 01:37:16 | |
https://www.patreon.com/nerdsadulting https://www.nerdsadulting.com Michael Katz was a video games pioneer during the 80s. He worked for Mattel as marketing director, Coleco as vice president of marketing, President of Epyx, President of Video Games division Atari, and President of Sega of America where he oversaw the launch of the Sega Genesis. His stories were pretty amazing and I hope you all Enjoy the interview. Book I referenced was “The Ultimate History of Video Games” by Steve Kent 24:00 - Mattel 36:30 – Tiger Electronics 40:00 – Epyx, Atari 55:00 - The Atari Genesis 1:04:00 – Sega of America Intro Music by Kanyon Schumacher https://soundcloud.com/bleesh/empty-streets-chiptunehiphop Outro Music by Academy Garden https://soundcloud.com/academygarden | |||
| Thank you. | 01 Jan 2020 | 00:00:30 | |
Thank you message to everyone. | |||
| David Hayter Interview | 25 Oct 2019 | 00:44:22 | |
Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/AwGHFVA David Hayter https://twitter.com/davidbhayter Follow me! https://twitter.com/P1stolPeet Special thanks for the music goes to https://soundcloud.com/cidjay https://soundcloud.com/academygarden | |||
| Chris Ferguson Ph.D., Psychologist - Violent Video Game Studies Discussion | 13 Oct 2019 | 01:20:37 | |
Chris Ferguson https://twitter.com/CJFerguson1111 http://www.christopherjferguson.com/ Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Combat-Violent-Video-Games/dp/1942952988/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=moral+combat&qid=1570998543&sr=8-1 How Madness Shaped History (Pre-order) https://www.amazon.com/How-Madness-Shaped-History-Narcissists/dp/1633885747/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=madness+shaped+history&qid=1570998575&sr=8-1 Special thanks for the music goes to https://soundcloud.com/cidjay https://soundcloud.com/academygarden | |||
| Heroine Addicts - Our favorite Heroines | 26 Mar 2018 | 01:08:55 | |
Unfortunately Brandon has left the GuN to pursue bigger and better things but will always remain with us in Podcast Spirit so today we are lucky to have Rosa and Meg as our honorary nerd guests for today's episode, Heroine Addicts. We discuss current news, our week in nerdiness, and our all time favorite heroines. Thai's friends work https://www.allstarpresschicago.com/ Meg's comic book mention http://www.monstrousworld.com/ | |||