aside from the overt comedic content, "planet nerd" also features original, semi-serious documentary segments which explore and celebrate various facets of geek culture. subjects have included the roleplaying and wargaming convention arcanacon, robogames, sony's wonder technology lab and national ict australia. a similar semi-regular segment is "geek of the week", in which a subject is interviewed by ben mckenzie about their nerdy hobbies or profession.