Herd Nerds Media LLC
We are not just a podcast or website, we are a fully registered business in the state of West Virginia. Our business name is actually Herd Nerds Media LLC, and we hope to continue to grow into the vision we have for the company. We started with The ThunderCast podcast in 2022, and we have also launched Inside The Thunder as a video-exclusive podcast interview show. Now with ThunderCast Online, we have ventured into written coverage of Marshall sports. But we are just getting started. If you want to collaborate with us, drop us a line at thundercast.pod@gmail.com.
KD Hudnall and Rus Livingood, Two Knuckleheads with Mics
KD Hudnall was the long-time “man behind the curtain” with Moonshine Throwdown, a popular Twitter handle and podcast covering the Conference USA rivalry between Marshall and Western Kentucky. He coined the name for the rivalry and ran the Twitter handle and podcast for eight-plus and six-plus years respectively. It was something he enjoyed but also felt like he was quite good at what he did: engaging fans; talking about Marshall and its rival: and staying on top of all the news that went along with this hobby. But alas, things abruptly changed. With conference realignment, came a much-needed and much-desired move for Marshall to the Sun Belt Conference. The rivalry with WKU would be no more. So what could he do? Start a new rivalry podcast and social media presence from scratch with a Sun Belt opponent? KD wasn’t really feeling that. Enter someone he had known as a brother for nearly 25 years, Rus Livingood.
Rus Livingood had never listened to a full podcast and only snippets of them when friends sent them, really. He was not too sure where you would even go to find them. But one thing Rus did have was an ear to listen to his friend KD, who called him up and was bouncing ideas off him about where to go with a new podcast. Rus told KD he thought it would be best to do a Marshall-only podcast rather than a conference podcast or another rivalry podcast, but that new podcast should focus on more than just football. KD had already been thinking that very thing, so ideas just started flowing as they often do between this two. What was born was an idea for a show and an entire concept outside of that show on fan interaction and amplifying the fan experience. So who would be a good partner for KD with all these ideas? Well, they both agreed they should do it together. Within a day, the name of the podcast–The ThunderCast–was born, and a massive outline of where they wanted to go with everything came with it.
So these two knuckleheads that met each other in 1997 as pledges of a fraternity and went on to become roommates are now talking up everything Marshall Athletics weekly fir your ears and your eyes. And it is still hard to believe. One thing that is not hard to believe is that no matter where you see them, they will be saying, “GO HERD!”