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A Geek Culture Podcast - Two life-long Nerds explain, critique and poke fun at the major pillars of Geek Culture for your listening pleasure.
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- Screen Zombies · 52 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 130For the conclusion to our annual Halloween series we lean into a modern dread and treat it like a horror creature: the Screen Zombie, a modern twist on the undead where the…
- Wes Craven · 48 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 129This week we continue our Halloween celebration with a Horror legend! Wes Craven’s name gets tossed around in the background, but we wanted to actually put him in perspective. We…
- Warlock · 1 sa 14 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 128We’re in Spooktober mode, and we’re planting our flag. For our continuing October Halloween exploration we bring you an often overlooked Horror movie series: Warlock. It's one of…
- Classic: Tales from the Dark Side · 28 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 127In this classic Halloween episode we look back upon a near-forgotten Horror anthology TV series - Tales from the Darkside. We trace how Creepshow and the EC Comics tradition…
- Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat · 58 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 126In a scattered discussion, we break down the cult vampire film Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat. We talk through the movie’s best hook: a hidden vampire community that’s trying to…
- Star Trek at 60: The State of Trek Today · 38 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 125Star Trek turns 60 and somehow the big story is this: the pipeline is drying up, the creative direction feels scattered, and the one show still on the air is starting to lose us…
- Star Trek at 60: NüTrek: Supplemental (Classic) · 8 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 124In the classic monologue we go into some of the details we didin't get to in our previous NüTrek breakdowns. We jump back into the debate around Star Trek: Discovery and the…
- Star Trek at 60: NÜTrek Part 2 · 1 sa 24 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 123In another installment of our series celebrating Star Trek's 60th anniversary we bring you a classic episode breaking down the fanchises' 4th wave. We spend real time on the…
- Star Trek at 60: NüTrek Part 1 · 1 sa 10 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 122In our ongoing celebration of Star Trek's 60th anniversary we revisit our commentary on Trek's 4th wave (as of last year). We dig into the real-world mechanics behind the J.J…
- Star Trek at 60: Trekonomics (Classic) · 1 sa 6 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 121To celebrate Star Trek's 60th Anniversary we thought we'd present a series of both old and new episodes that cover a wide swath of Trek topics. First up, an early show we did…
- Comic Books 101 · 1 sa 7 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 120Comic shops can feel welcoming and hostile at the same time, mostly because the language is a maze. We break that maze into simple, usable terms so you can walk in knowing what…
- Classic: Artificial Intelligence Part 3 · 42 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 119In a classic and timely episode on Artificial Intellegence we wrestle with the personhood problem. If a replicant can feel fear, build memories, form attachments, and fight to…
- Classic: Artificial Intelligence Part 2 · 1 sa 16 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 118In a classic - yet timely - episode we continue digging in to what we call Artificial Intellegence these days and what it's been throughout pop culture. We sort through the terms…
- Pets and Companions, Part 2 · 30 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 117An animal companion isn’t just cute, loyal, or marketable. The best ones force a moral choice, expose a character’s blind spot, or act like nature’s voice when humans get too…
- Classic: Artificial Intelligence Part 1 · 53 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 116While we're deal with some crazy life stuff we thought we'd revisit a rapidly changing topic in Artificial Intelligence. We walk through the foundations that make AI feel…
- Pets and Companions · 33 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 115Why do pets and animal companions in fiction feel so immediate, so universally legible, and so devastating when a story takes them away? We pull threads from everywhere, comic…
- The BC Fourteen Cinematic Universe · 45 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 114Bigfoot in space, Krampus as a demonic Christmas weapon, a clone of Alistair Crowley, reptilian Stalin, Satan pulling strings, and a title card that promises a fight that may…
- Sci-Why? F.U.! - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace · 1 sa 4 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 113* Redownload if necessary* Greetings, fellow traveller. For our Sci-Fi Channel series finale we bring you Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, a short-lived but brilliant British parody…
- Sci-Why? FU! - Max Headroom · 42 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 112Max Headroom - a glitchy cyberpunk face that seemed like a novelty in the 1980s - somehow became a pop culture anchor through commercials, parodies, and wall-to-wall brand…
- Slash Fiction · 36 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 111We step away from our sci-fi channel mini-series for Pride Month to give slash fiction the spotlight it deserves, because it is not just “spicy fanfic.” It is a long-running…
