Episode 34: Family Fun

Rachel and Leeman talk about those elusive shows and movies that are actually good for all ages and not just the lowest common denominators.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

Leeman’s guest spots on Seattle Geekly and Miskatonic Musings, Jim Henson, Muppets (Kevin Clash, not Risk, apologies), Are You My Mother? Pumpkinhead, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge, The Nerdy Show, Star Wars, Krull, Visual Effects Oscar Winners, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Mystery! Murder She Wrote, Disney (Fred MacMurray, not Murray, apologies), Pixar, VeggieTales, Doctor Who, Animaniacs, Looney Tunes, and Adventure Time

Our Outro is Debs & Errol’s A Virtual World

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Episode 33: Crossover!

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Rachel and Leeman welcome Matt Anderson from The Sci-Fi Christian to talk Top 5 Fandoms.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

Angel, Buffy, Farscape, Lost, Call the Midwife, Doctor Who, Sherlock, BBC Chronicles of Narnia, Fringe, Deep Space Nine, Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls, Hannibal, Being Human, Misfits, Can-Con, Sleepy Hollow, Black List, Marvel’s Agents of Shield, My Friend’s Coffee Shop in Minneapolis, GY’s Lost Episode, Quantum Leap, Star Trek, Star Wars, Next Generation, Technical Difficulties, Madeleine L’Engle, Sliders, Doorways, Discworld, Jim Henson, Batman, X-Men, Spiderman, Lucasarts Adventure Games, Double Fine, Tell Tale Games, Back to the Future, Genddy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars Minisodes, Star Wars Holiday Special, The Council of Nerd-Cea, Hypertime, George RR Martin, Lois McMaster Bujold, Dollhouse, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, My Brother My Brother And Me, Ken And Robin Talk About Stuff, The Bugle, One Bad Mother, Stuff You Missed in History Class, Dorothy Sayers, Shadowlands, Friday Night Lights, and a passing nod to Bruce Campbell, Tolkien, and X-Files.

 

The Crossover Event

The Sci-Phi Show — http://sciphishow.com/
Untold Podcast — http://www.untoldpodcast.com/
The Sci-Fi Christian — http://thescifichristian.com/
Reel World Theology — http://www.reelworldtheology.com/
The Storymen — http://www.storymen.us/
Geek This! Podcast — http://geekthispodcast.com/
Voices in My Head — http://rickleejames.com/podcast/
Are You Just Watching? — http://areyoujustwatching.com/
Strangers and Aliens — http://strangersandaliens.com/

Our Outro is Debs & Errol’s My Partner’s a Nerd

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Episode 32: Food!

We talk food and its delicious role in our lives

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

Downton Abbey, Suits, Hannibal, Iron Chef, Philander Chase, Pasta, Alexander Schmemman, Father Capon, Chronicles of Narnia, Game of Thrones, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, Conspiracy, Doubt, and Ramen Fondue.

Crossover Nexus

Our outro is Debs & Errol’s TIE After TIE

PS: We totally failed to talk at any length about Alton Brown who is the epitome of Geek+Food+Christian so we may have to come back and do an entire episode just on him. Our apologies, Mr. Brown!

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Episode 31: Geekmas

Have yourself a merry little Geekmas

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Community, Christmas Pageants, Fellowship of the Ring, Lady Gaga’s Muppet Holiday Special, Sandman, Spiderman, Christmas Shoes, Crazy Stupid Love, Love Actually, It’s a Wonderful Life, Shut Up and Sit Down, D&D, BBC Christmas Specials, Vicar of Dibley, The UK Office, Phantom of the Opera, Muppet Christmas Carol and/or Special, Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas, Star Wars Holiday Special, Holiday Vacation, Lion in Winter, Nightmare Before Christmas, A Colbert Christmas, and shamelessly Think Geek

Our outro is Debs & Errol’s Tribbles off their new album Ctrl+Alt+Duets

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Episode 30: On Repeat

Rachel and Leeman talk about the shows, movies, books and other things that we like to come back to over and over and over and over and over again.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled and/or Obsessed Over

Once Upon a Time, Star Trek, Babylon Five, Room 237, Arrested Development, UK Office, Scrubs, Crimson Tide, Air Force One, When Harry Met Sally, Enchanted, Stardust (movie and book), Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth lake scene), Gilmore Girls, Family Guy, Farscape, Get Smart, Batman the Animated Series, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Pratchett, Bujold, Gaiman, Tolkien, Martin, Austen (the regulars), Tom Jones (the book), Lovecraft, Jane Eyre, Dracula, Homestar Runner, Geekson, Webcomics Weekly, The Vlog Brothers, and The Bible and Liturgical Year.

Our Outro is Debs and Errol’s Let’s Vomit Exclusively

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Episode 29: Kids Ruin Everything

A tight nugget of an episode in which Rachel and Leeman talk about what happens when you a drop a kid in the middle of a show or movie.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Untitled Dr. Reeves Project and its spin off, The Kesslers. The Brady Bunch, The Cosby Show, Buffy, Farscape, Shoot Em Up, Pasta, Mad About You, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, Star Trek,  Boy Meets World, Home Improvement, Pete and Pete, Phantom Menace, Iron Man, Goonies, Harry Potter, Bridesmaids, The IMDB Game, and Little Monsters.

Our outro is Debs and Errol’s “Cuz He’s a Geek Guy”:

(Apologies for our distance discrepancies which makes Leeman sound way louder than Rachel. Consider it payback for Episode 24)

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Episode 28: Traumatizing Children

In which Rachel and Leeman talk about how and when to introduce the terrible movies of their childhood to their spawn.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Exciting New Purchases, Shakespeare’s Star Wars, Miskatonic Musings, Name of the Rose, Episode I, Look Around You, Caravan of Courage/Battle for Endor, Princess Bride, ET, Secret of NIMH, Black Cauldron, My Little Pony, The Care Bears Movies, The Witches, Willow, Up, Finding Nemo, The Fox and the Hound, Robin Hood, The Little Mermaid, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Bed Knobs and Broomsticks, The Terrible Works of Sid and Marty Krofft, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, An American Tail, Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Nightmare Before Christmas, Despicable Me, Hellraiser, Lovecraft Children Books, Mystery!, Bridge to Terabithia, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Mortal Instrument series, Stardust, Phineas and Ferb, How to Train Your dragon, Rise of the Guardians, Dr. Who, Murder She Wrote,  The Hobbit (Rankin and Bass), and… Honey Booboo.

Debs and Errol’s new album!

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Episode 27: Gravity

Rachel and Leeman saw Gravity and have thoughts! So many thoughts!

 

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Gravity, Father Capon and pelicans

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Episode 26: Whedon

Rachel and Leeman talk at length about Joss Whedon, his works, and the implications thereof.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Entire Whedon Canon (including Roseanne)

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Episode 25: Appointment Television

Rachel and Leeman talk about the strange phenomenon of actually sitting down at a specific time to watch TV as it is actually airing and its ramifications.

Topics Discusses and/or Spoiled:

Next Generation, PERDU, Marvel Agents of SHIELD, Buffy, Angel, Tribes, Breaking Bad, Fringe, BSG, Arrested Development, Babylon 5, Justified, Hannibal, Time Trax (that was its name!), Quick Witz, Mad About You, Big Bang Theory, Andromeda, House of Cards, and Lots of Shameful 90s Television.

Our outro is Debs and Errol’s “BSG”

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