Nerd Nite Los Angeles - September 2025
Event description
Nerd Nite is fun-yet-informative lectures at a bar. It's like TED Talks...but with beer.
We all know that learning is more fun when you’re drinking with friends and colleagues. Thus, Nerd Nite is a monthly event held in more than 100 cities across the globe during which several folks give 20-minute fun-yet-informative and easily accessible presentations across all disciplines – while the audience drinks along.
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY DJ LdotAdot
FAQ's:
- Doors open at 7pm. Intro at 7:45pm. Presentations at 8pm.
- The Brewyard Beer Company is a 21+ venue.
- There is free street parking surrounding the bar, but we recommend utilizing a ride share service.
PRESENTATION LINE-UP:
PRESENTATION #1: An Award-Winning Idea: Why the Muppets Should Host the Oscars
By Matt Wilkie
Summary: Throughout its nearly-100 year history, the Academy Awards have been hosted or co-hosted by over 60 individuals from the entertainment industry, including Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, Bob Hope, Carol Burnett, Johnny Carson, Jane Fonda, and Donald Duck. But at the top of many people's lists of hopeful hosts sit the Muppets - it seems like a no-brainer, and yet, the brains that be have not done it! Producer and entertainer extraordinare Matt Wilke will be bravely stepping up and presenting on the many reasons why Hollywood needs to get their s**t together already and let the Muppets do what they do best on the Academy stage.
Bio: Matt Wilkie is a producer, writer, performer, and storyteller. Having worked for Marvel Studios on projects like Loki, Werewolf By Night, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and Wonder Man, Matt returned to his roots in sketch and improv comedy with his productions of The Muppet Script – live stage readings of the Muppet feature films starring comedians and actors like Paul F. Tompkins, David Dastmalchian, Nina West, Marc Evan Jackson, Janet Varney, Bobby Moynihan, and many more. He leads with kindness and inclusion in all of his productions, striving to tell good stories with good people.
PRESENTATION #2: Introduction to Brainrot: How to Have Skibidi Rizz and Avoid Cringe When Speaking to Gen Alpha
By Anne Marie Kelly
Summary: What the sigma is a “skibidi?” When did Ohio become a bad thing? Brainrot has taken over the internet, inspiring confusion, handwringing, and the occasional laugh. Educator and activist Anne will walk you through why it goes viral, and how to use it properly, so you can have 100% aura at your next family gathering. No cap.
Bio: Anne M. Kelly is an archivist, oral historian, and English Language Arts teacher with their Masters in Media Studies. She has published in The Cine-Files, Spectator, andThe Film Experience. A five-time Nerd Nite presenter, Anne has devoted her career to making the obscure popular and the popular obscure.
PRESENTATION #3: 100mph Hits: The Evolution of the Hockey Mask
By Trevor Valle
Summary: Modern hockey goalie masks are the pinnacle of safety equipment – Kevlar, carbon fiber, and inertial dampening gels. Full cages and neck protectors. Sloped to provide maximum deflection of frozen 1" thick rubber missiles. However, hockey enthusiast and Nerd Nite LA superstar Trevor Valle is going to go all the way back to 1959 (and beyond) with our audience, making sure that we see that things were very different back then when safety wasn't always guaranteed.
Bio: From LA to Washington D.C., Trevor Valle has presented at so many Nerd Nites that we've lost count. A drone pilot, a mitigation paleontologist, a certified spirits educator, and a maniac that drove over 10,000 miles in 37 days, Trevor is full of weird experiences and wild information. What a lot of people don't know is that he is a Canadian dual-citizen, diehard Toronto Maple Leafs fan (and casual Ducks fan when the Leafs aren't in town), and played as a hockey goalie for the better part of 20 years. He's also missing a tooth due to improper goalie mask practices.
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