Geekually Yoked

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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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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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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Rachel and Leeman share germs and discuss the way women are depicted in various media. (Also Leeman still struggles to interpret the settings on the microphone)

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Miskatonic Musings, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Jodorowsky’s Dune, The Star Wars, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars, Heir to the Empire, Courtship of Princess Leiah, The Vorkosigan Saga, Miss Representation, Cleanflix, The Bechdel Test, Ironman 3, Pacific Rim, Superman, The Heat, Gilmore Girls, Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, The Smurfette Principle, Firefly, Orange is the New Black, Twilight, Hunger Games, Once Upon a Time, Xena, Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, Buffy, Farscape, Veronica Mars, Game of Thrones, Lost, Gleeroes, Sherlock, House of Cards, and…. Bernie?

Our outro is Debs and Errol’s “Gaming With You”

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Rachel and Leeman have the first of what promises to be many discussions on death and its role in literature and pop culture.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

Babylon 5, DS9, The World’s End, Spaced, Hannibal, Luther, Man of Steel, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Avatar, Elysium, Buffy, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Three Kings, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, The Discworld series, The Sandman series, and Never Let Me Go.

Our outro is Debs and Errol’s “AT-ATs In the Snow”

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Rachel and Leeman are struck by a whim and discuss the role of whimsy in the various books, movies, and TV shows we allow into our house. Also, we forget to check if our microphone was on so we’ve got a punk rock feel to today’s show.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

90s Christian rock, Babylon 5, Lois & Clark, Due South, Hercules and Xena, Farscape, Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Hannibal, Better Off Ted, Sandman, American Gods, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Next Generation, Buffy, Deep Space Nine, Heroes, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Red Dwarf, Dorothy Sayers, The Magicians, The Night Circus, and the Crossover Nexus

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Rachel and Leeman discuss the role of humanity and humans in Science Fiction

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Pacific Rim, Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek VI, Seventh Heaven, Vorkosigan Saga, Ender’s Game, CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy, and for some strange reason, Farscape

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Rachel and Leeman are joined by Dr. Andrew Reeves, US marine, Medievalist, Professor, and total geek. We talk about our past and future geek lives together and apart and discuss his current progress reading Game of Thrones.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

SUPER SPOILERS at least as far as the very beginning of Feast for Crows.

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Rachel and Leeman talk about the seedy underbelly of the internet known as the Manosphere and try to wrap their heads around it as best they can.  We also saw Man of Steel and spoil the heck out of it.  (SPOILER: No Krypto)

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Man of Steel, Joss Whedon’ Much Ado About Nothing, Deep Space Nine, PUAs, MRAs, Red Pill Wives, “Nice Guys”, and much much more.

For better discussions of the Manosphere, check out www.doctornerdlove.com and www.manboobz.com and for a map of this strange country, check out their rejected wikipedia article.

Also, this glorious song

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Rachel and Leeman discuss how they and their families regulated and self-censored the content of different media from movies and books to gaming.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, China Mieville, the Star Wars roleplaying game, Vampire: Dark Ages

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