Geekually Yoked

Inspired by the spirit of Pentecost, we are eschewing planning in favour of just seeing where the spirit moves us. This won’t end in disaster at all! (Major apologies for Bilbo’s noisiness in this episode)

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

Jesus? Orange is the New Black, Rachel’s liturgical fashion thoughts, Hijacked funerals, Deep Space Nine, Babylon Five, Friendship is Forever, Babylon 5, B5 did it first, Battlestar Galactica, Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, Quark on humans, Farscape, and Game of Thrones.

Our outro is Debs & Errol’s Gaming With You

Geekually Yoked is a proud member of the Crossover Nexus

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Rachel and Leeman talk about shows filmed in Toronto and why we love them.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

List of Toronto shows, Crossover Nexus, Doug Jones spoke with us!, Bob & Doug McKenzie, Rob Ford’s TV show, Suits, Due South (Best tv theme!), Gordon Pinsent reads Justin Bieber, Today’s Special, Hannibal, Scott Pilgrim, Being Erica, Orphan Black, and Farscape (How?!)

Our Outro is Debs & Errol’s Geek Love Song

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Rachel and Leeman welcome Doug Jones from Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Hocus Pocus, and more to talk movies, faith, and theme parks.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

King’s Island, Hocus Pocus, Neighbors, Hellboy (Rachel watched this clip one thousand times during her dissertation), Benchwarmers, Pan’s Labyrinth, Rise of the Silver Surfer, Legion, Falling Skies, Hush, Mac Tonight, Whispers From the Shadow anthology series, Dust of War, Raze, The Operator, Crimson Peak, The Strain, and follow Doug on twitter at www.twitter.com/actordougjones

Our Outro is Debs & Errol’s Gaming With You

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Rachel and Leeman talk about all things British and Comedic!

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled Baptisms! Was It Something I Said? Happy Hour with the Zappa Brothers, the Discworld movies, Dylan Moran’s stand up, Black Books, Spaced, Simon Pegg Should Be Friends With All of Us, Are You Being Served? Keeping Up Appearances, Thin Blue Line, Blackadder, Mr Bean, Keeping Mum, Downton Abbey, Rowan Atkinson’s stand up, Absolutely Fabulous, Pride and Prejudice, Jennifer Ehle WAS going to be in Game of Thrones! Monty Python, Mystery! Coupling, The Office, Extras, Life’s Too Short, Bill Bailey’s stand up, IT Crowd, Moone Boy, Big Bang Theory sans laugh track, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Peep Show, Blackadder (Peter Cook played Richard III – Theatre Major fail -leeman) , Dueling Sleepy Hollows, Young Ones, Jesus Christ Superstar, Father Ted, Vicar of Dibley, Rev, John Oliver, and Star Wars Liturgy for May the Fourth Sunday

Our Outro is Debs & Errol’s Pachebel Song

PS. We are SO sorry for having a brain fart and completely forgetting Fawlty Towers which is actually the most important Brit Com of all time.

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So no full episode this week due to reasons explained but we should be back on track! In the mean time, check out our other internet hijinx listed below!

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Crossover Nexus, Rachel’s Blog, Ask Lovecraft, Leeman on Twitter, Rachel on Twitter

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Holy Week is upon us so Rachel and Leeman talk about how death and resurrection are used in pop culture with occasional editorials from Amanda.

Topic Discussed and/or Spoiled

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge, Friday Night Lights, Batman, Superman (warning! language and Frodo, The Boys, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Game of Thrones, Vorkosigan Saga, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Angel, Buffy, Narnia, and… umm… Jesus.

Our Outro is Debs & Errol’s BSG

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Rachel and Leeman talk about cynicism in pop culture and in faith

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

Church Bytes, Mad About You, True Detective, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Community, Farscape, Star Trek, BSG, Vorkosigan Saga, Game of Thrones, Sandman, Small Gods and Rachel’s Blog.

Our outro is Debs & Errol’s Walkthrough

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Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine join us to talk about their books, podcasts, and a gun-totin’ priest.

WARNING! This episode contains the worst euphemism ever.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, Hapax, Weather Child, Tales From the Archives, Podiobooks, The Shared Desk Podcast, The Curse of Dillinger’s Diamond Kickstarter, Patreon, Ministry Initiative RPG, Ticket to Ride, Dixit, Killer Bunnies, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Bioshock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia, Hannibal, Helix, True Detective, Deep Space Nine, Luther, The King in Yellow, Vinnie the priest, and Lent Madness

Our outro is Debs & Errol’s Commodore 64

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In which we ramp up for Season 2 of one of our favourite family-unfriendly TV shows.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

Hannibal, the rest of Bryan Fuller’s oeuvre, Farscape (somehow), Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Luther, True Detective, and Fillmore!

Our outro is Debs & Errol’s If I Were an Undead Crawler

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Bilbo provides a nice warm accompaniment to our episode all about our favourite and not-so-favourite romances in our various fandoms.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

Snakes & Lattes, Orphan Black, io9’s Romance Fails, All the Star Treks, The Office (UK & US), Vorkosigan Saga, Emma, Downton Abbey, Harry Potter, Lois & Clark, Lost, Farscape, BSG, Fringe, Northern Exposure, Whedonverse, Babylon 5, Discworld, Sleepy Hollow, and Once Upon a Time.

Our Outro is Debs & Errol’s Falling Quickly

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