A monthly podcast about Gaming, Movies and Nerd Pop Culture
Tom and Phoenix have always been nerds. We’ve been debating who shot first since Lucas remastered the original trilogy. Even though we have jobs, kids and boring everyday grownup responsibilities, we still love nerd pop culture. Outside is Overrated is our monthly gaming podcast.
The podcast is our love letter to gaming. It’s an avenue to revisit classic properties like “Firefly.” We’re not a gaming news podcast, although we do discuss new games. We’re evaluating nerd pop culture from all eras and having an entertaining discussion about it.
We explore similar themes across media, like our Mars episode, which discussed the board game “Terraforming Mars,” the book “Stranger in a Strange Land,” and the movie “Total Recall.”
Our Values
- Everyone is Welcome: We invite everyone to join the discussion, whether you read LoTR before the movies or only recently watched “Firefly.”
- Games Are Fun: We’re all passionate about nerd pop culture. Everyone should have an opportunity to enjoy games and form their own opinions.
Downloads
5,000+
Episodes
70+
Monthly Since
2019
Outside is Overrated Hosts
Tom Sedlacek
Tom is the primary host of Outside is Overrated. the podcast is his creative outlet. He loves playing, discussing and writing about games.
Tom loves tactical board games. Two of his favorites are Scythe and Terraforming Mars. He is mostly a console gamer who can’t resist the Steam summer sale. He plays multiple genres but favors RPGs.
Follow Tom on X and Instagram.
Phoenix Sedlacek
Phoenix loves movies, sci-fi tv shows, anime and board games. She prefers cooperative games but does enjoy deck building and living card games.
She is an evolving video gamer. Some of her favorites are Diablo III, Sackboy’s Big Adventure, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, and Batman Telltale. One of her favorite passions is reading, if she not glued to her phone reading fan fiction she enjoys Harry Dresden, Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle and other authors, Nero Wolfe and the Iron Druid series.
Follow Phoenix on Instagram.
Hobby Box Joe Burns
OiO co-host Joe Burns plays everything with a particular affinity for PlayStation and old-school RPGs.
The resident rules expert, Burns owns a vast collection of board games and has spent approximately 10,000 hours playing Gloom/Frosthaven.
Follow Joey on X and catch his stream on Twitch.
Billy Parrot
Billy’s loved video games, music and movies since he was a wee lad on the mean streets of suburban New Brighton. He received his first Nintendo in 1989 and never looked back!
He fell in love with RPGs Some of his favorites would include the entire Final Fantasy legacy, Secret of Mana, Octopath Traveler and Breath of the Wild.
Outside of video games, Billy enjoys watching movies, reading fiction, baking and occasional hiking.
Pat DeGest
Pat is a comic based out of Duluth, Minnesota. Pat loves board games of all types. He prefers Ameritrash, dice-chucking and conquest games but can stomach a Euro game if the company is right.
Pat is also a mighty PC gamer and unabashed Nintendo fanboy. He prefers RPGs and strategy games but will also play any Mario, Zelda or Metroid game.
Expanding Our Nerd Empire
We’ve explored different podcast avenues. “New Game+” focused on new games each month and “Game Pass Forever” was a monthly discussion of games on that evolving service. In the future, we aim to continue entertaining audiences with our main show and welcoming new gamers into the fold.
Our Location
We record Outside is Overrated out of our home in Roseville, Minnesota.