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#363: 2013 GWC International Meetup LIVE from 2013-03-26T01:16:56
We run down the week in geek, and most importantly we take you into the heart of the 2013 GWC International Meetup with a podcast recorded in front of a live meetup attendee audience. Enjoy!
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#362: Meetup 2013 Briefing from 2013-03-05T08:08:07
Sean is back, and the meetup is so very close! We take a quick moment to talk about the impending GWC meetup in Dallas.
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#361: The Dominion War from 2013-02-24T01:04:45
In this episode, Sean is out sick, so Chuck and Audra take the time to wax philosophical about their recent rewatch of the “Dominion War” episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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#360: Superman’78 from 2013-02-14T18:19:51
We give a long-overdue visit to 1978’s Superman: The Movie, appreciate the film’s cinematic quality and inspiring John Williams soundtrack; discuss the permeating Christian allegory of ...
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#359: The Next Generation of Old from 2013-02-05T19:36:06
We briefly revisit Star Trek: Generations, finally appreciating its place in the Trek canon and wondering why we had overlooked the significance of Picard’s family — and loss of family ...
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#358: Living in the Future from 2013-01-28T22:50:40
We jump straight into the buzz now that it’s confirmed: J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII, due in theaters in 2015 and starring much of the original crew. We walk through what th...
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#357: Sean Gets to be Debbie, No Death Star for U.S. from 2013-01-21T19:56:08
This week as we re-ignite the Disney princess discussion, Sean reaffirms the impracticality of staving off the tidal wave of pink and weighs in on the fun of wearing a sparkly headband while playin...
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#356: Alien Sex, The Tannen Law from 2013-01-15T02:18:36
We blast into 2013 with some nooooooos! and enjoy some classic GWC banter. And we run down the Week in Geek, including newly revealed details about Gates McFadden’s Season 2 departure from Ne...
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#355: K-Juanzaa, Best Of 2012 from 2013-01-01T17:48:11
In the year’s grand finale, we are joined in the studio by JUAAAAAN!! And we snub the ubiquity of the web’s year-end “Worst of…” lists, instead giving our own positive...
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#354: Nice Day For A White Onesie from 2013-01-01T01:38:09
We kick off 2012’s penultimate podcast by discussing 2005 movie The Island — wait, wut? Yes, The Island. After seven years of GWC-style analysis and geeky discussion, returning to this...
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#353: A Christmas Reboot from 2012-12-19T14:09:27
In this penultimate GWC Christmas episode, we re-think everything that makes our holidays what they are. We re-cast and reboot some of our favorite Christmas movies (read: Seth Rogen and Amy Poehle...
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#352: James Bond Part II: Skyfall from 2012-12-04T00:33:57
In this episode we continue to talk Bond, with Skyfall. And we take listener calls about all kinds of stuff!
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#351: James Bond, Part I from 2012-11-26T20:11:20
This ‘cast we dive into 007’s universe of cars, gadgets, sex, and intrigue. We identify our favorite Bond cars (and jets, submarines, and motorcycles), give props to Sean Connery’...
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#350: There Will Be Blood and Chrome from 2012-11-19T18:15:16
We are thrilled so far with the new BSG content, the web series Blood & Chrome airing now on the YouTube Machinima channel (and on SyFy/every other digital medium) in February 2013. We credit t...
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#349: Video Game Villains from 2012-11-12T22:57:48
We wrap up our discussion of video game heroes and villains with a look into how interaction changes the character and story experience. And we run down the week in geek, including new Spartacus ne...
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#348: Lucas/Disney, Voicemails from 2012-11-09T13:55:44
In this episode, we discuss the recent acquisition news regarding Lucasfilm and Disney, and take some voicemail calls.
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#347: Noooooooz! from 2012-10-31T18:16:49
We run down the week in geek, including a Spike TV reality show offering a $10 million bounty on bigfoot, the possibility of the Governator returning as an old Conan (ignoring the Momoa era flick),...
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#346: Corn on Macabre from 2012-10-23T10:59:57
This week we celebrate Halloween by taking a close look at the psychology of scariness, including why zombies, ghosts, and Grim Reapers give so many of us delightful thrills rather than existential...
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#345: War of the Worlds from 2012-10-16T04:32:04
We discuss the historic 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds, what it means historically, why we associate it with Halloween, what it tells us about our society, and how our view of the radio show&#...
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#344: Friendly Robots from 2012-10-08T21:18:53
Up this week: robots who want to be your friend — or with whom you’d like to be friends — and what this tells us about humanity. Also, we run down the week in geek, including Jill...
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#343: Robots, Pt. 2: Bots Emulating Humans from 2012-10-01T17:52:39
We dive into the realm of robots who want to be (or emulate) humans and how they serve as a mirror for us to look at ourselves, individually and as a society. And we run down the week in geek, incl...
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#342: Chuck and Sean Doo the Nooos from 2012-09-25T02:37:46
We put the Robots arc on hold, as Audra is getting some well-deserved rest, so Sean and Chuck cover this week’s news. And yes, Audra will be back soon!
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#341: Robots, Part 1 from 2012-09-18T04:08:34
This week, we kick off a long-overdue discussion talking about robots: robots who want to destroy the world!
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#340: Villains We Love, Part 4: Dark Helmet from 2012-09-11T02:06:49
In this episode, we conclude our Villains we Love to Love arc, with Mel Brooks’ classic villain (of a sort), Dark Helmet.
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#339: Villains We Love, Part 3: GLaDOS from 2012-09-04T03:21:28
We continue our Villains we Love to Love arc, with a look at Portal 2’s GLaDOS, her Louise-Fletcher-like chilling calm, nurture-less “mother” persona, and impressively psychotic a...
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#338: Villains We Love, Part 2: The Monarch from 2012-09-01T22:48:22
In this episode, we continue our Villains we Love to Love arc with the Venture Brothers‘ outrageously-costumed, insecure, high-voiced swinger and villain extraordinaire: the Monarch. We exami...
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#337: Villains We Love, Part 1: Dr. Evil from 2012-08-23T19:08:35
In this episode, we kick off our “Villains We Love to Love” arc with a look at the sympathetic and narcissistic Doctor Evil, his pitiful, neutered grasping for power, and the important ...
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#336:“B”Movie Arc, Part 3: Judge Dredd from 2012-08-14T01:26:44
In our final “B” movie installment, 1995’s bum-shell Judge Dredd, we enjoy talking cheesy design elements, the dearth of non-ridiculous flying motorcycles, British views on Americ...
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#335:“B”Movie Arc, Part 2: Total Recall from 2012-08-06T16:26:49
We continue our “B” movie arc with the epically cheesy 1990 sci-fi flick Total Recall and realize that Arnold’s mechanical acting is ideal for a robot or a comic straight man but ...
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#334:“B”Movie Arc, Part 1: Trancers from 2012-07-30T04:08:18
We kick off our “B” Movie arc with the hilariously cheesy, sometimes campy, and all-around fun 1985 sci-fi action flick Trancers. We revel in laughter over the movie’s halfhearted...
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#333: Comic-Con Wrap-Up from 2012-07-23T04:08:54
We review our favorite parts of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, including bronies, ubiquitous butt cheeks, Sean’s awesome art acquisition, and hanging out with the small press peeps; a...
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#332: Toys, Part 3 (Table-Top Gaming) from 2012-07-14T07:02:14
We give love to the table-top games we grew up with and appreciate their role in a world before widespread video games. Audra talks about early digging on Trivial Pursuit, her meticulous Mouse Trap...
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#331: Toys, Part 2 from 2012-07-09T04:38:20
We reminisce on our favorite childhood toys and delve into memories of specific character-building moments. Audra recalls the excitement of older cousins’ 1980 Hot Wheels City Play Set and Ca...
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#330: Toys, Part 1 from 2012-07-01T20:50:29
We revel in remembering some of the best (and worst) toys of our childhoods, give props to homemade toys, and realize how much toys shape the kind of people we become. We recall what it was like to...
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#329: Prometheus from 2012-06-24T19:16:59
We dive into a great discussion of Prometheus and the questions it raises about human creation and corruption; the colonization of ancient earth; alien warning frescoes; self-sacrifice vs. selfishn...
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#328: Space Geeking from 2012-06-18T07:34
We talk specifically about how the US space program affected us during our formative years, and we speculate on how it might play into the development of today’s young geeks. And we run down ...
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#327: Growing Up Geek Wrap-Up from 2012-06-13T17:00:15
We wrap up our growing up geek arc this week with some mixed discussion of how our various media selections fit together to make us who we are today. Also, we run down the week in geek, including R...
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#326: Growing Up Geek/The Hero and The Crown from 2012-06-03T12:51:24
We continue our growing up geek arc with the novel The Hero and The Crown, which provided Sean entry into the worlds of reading and fantasy. We discuss how his experience (and others like his) lead...
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#325: Growing Up Geek/War Games from 2012-05-28T13:42
This week we check out a media object significant to Chuck’s early development as a geek: War Games. We talk about the differences between getting “into” computers in the 80s vs. ...
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#324: Growing Up Geek/Flight of the Navigator from 2012-05-17T15:44:34
We kick off a new arc in which each of us choose one media object that had a significant effect on our development as a young geek. Up this week is Audra, who takes us on a tour of Flight of the Na...
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#323: Avengers Pt. 6, The Avengers from 2012-05-08T20:10:49
Finally! We watch the new Marvel Avengers flick and offer our comments and analysis. Excuse this short (but spoiler-free!) description, but suffice it to say that we had a great time and found lots...
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#322: Avengers Pt. 5, Captain America from 2012-04-30T03:39:49
Avengers releases this upcoming week, so we’re wrapping up our pre-Avengers re-watch of recent Marvel flicks with 2011’s Captain America. We discuss Steve Rogers’ unsung true supe...
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#321: Avengers Pt. 4, Thor from 2012-04-23T19:06:07
The Avengers release grows ever closer as we take a look at the general public’s introduction to Marvel’s Norse god Thor. We find inspiration in Thor’s each-day-at-a-time attitude...
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#320: Avengers Pt. 3, Iron Man 2 from 2012-04-22T03:37:34
Our Avengers lead-up arc marches on with a re-watch of Iron Man 2.
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#319: Avengers Part 2, Iron Man from 2012-04-11T01:24:53
We continue our Avengers arc with the first Iron Man movie. Chuck relates why he connects so much with Tony Stark. We question whether we finally live in a world where a new Iron Man-like story cou...
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#318: Avengers I, Hulk from 2012-04-02T00:03:27
We kick off our epic Avengers arc leading up to the release of he 2012 movie with a re-watch of the 2008 flick, Hulk. We discuss the magic of comics and what draws people to identify with one hero ...
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#317: John Carter (Live from Meetup) from 2012-03-26T02:01:19
During the GWC Meetup we took a group of GWCers to see the newly-released John Carter movie, then hit a local bar for beers, snacks, and some podcasting — which you can hear as a segment in t...
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#316: Live from the 2012 Internat’l Meetup from 2012-03-26T01:29:51
We spend an hour and a half or so hanging out with some of our favorite people in the world — the 2012 GWC International Meetup attendees! It’s a pretty free-flow podcast, so if this is...
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#315: Mass Effect 2/3, Jennifer Hale, Maggie Baird from 2012-03-13T13:37:52
We roll through Mass Effect 2 and some non-spoilery ME3 discussion joined by guests Maggie Baird (voice of Samara) and Jennifer Hale (voice of FemShep). Ms. Baird introduces us to the world of voic...
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#314: Mass Effect 1/2 from 2012-03-06T00:21:38
We continue our Mass Effect 1 discussion, running down characters and races, then tread briefly into the second game’s more advanced storyline. Also, we run down the week in geek, including a...
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