Episode 7: Apocalypse!

Rachel and Leeman discuss the End Times and other fun topics.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Die Hard, Babylon 5, Angel, Kraken, Shadowrun, Children of Men,Once Upon a Time, Left Behind, Thief in the Night, The Last Battle, The Hobbit, and the totality of existence.

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Episode 6: Lady Chains

Rachel and Leeman look at the various ways in which women are presented by the media, churches, and various works of Geekery.

It’s not pretty.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Babylon 5, X Files, the Vorkosigan Saga, BSG, DS9, Voyager, Hunger Games, Buffy, Firefly, Stargate SG1, Neverwhere, Gilmore Girls, and Due South

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Episode 5: Faith vs Fandom

Mother Rachel and Leeman discuss the wee tension that sometimes forms between the world of the religious and the world of the geek and ultimately prove beyond a shadow of any doubt how these two facets of our lives not only coexist but thrive together.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Our childhoods

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Episode 4: Bujold and Martin

Mother Rachel and Leeman look at some of the religious themes present in the works of Lois McMaster Bujold and George RR Martin while Bilbo occasionally makes noise.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Game of Thrones, Vorkosigan Saga, Tuf Voyaging, Curse of Chalion, and Newsies

Also, this awesome RPG column

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Episode 3: Looper

We hope you enjoy our in depth discussion of the movie Looper and some of our favourite depictions of time travel.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Looper, Futurama, Pastwatch, Left Behind, the course of human history

 

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Episode 2: Redemption and Atonement

Do enjoy our discussion of just how folks make up for the very bad things they do.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Hercules, Angel, Fringe, Mr Eko’s Jesus Stick and most decisively not Darth Vader

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First Episode! (sort of)

Please enjoy the first of what we hope are many episodes.  Today we look at the idea of the Created Family in various pop cultural surroundings.

Topics discussed and/or spoiled:
Buffy, Farscape, Community, The Office (UK), Gaming, Lasers, Archbishops, Muppet Babies

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Welcome!

Welcome to Geekually Yoked!  The world’s best Christian Married Geek podcast starring Mother Rachel Kessler, an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Toronto and her dopey husband Leeman, an actor and self-proclaimed Science Fiction Professional.

Our goal is to provide you with thoughtful (if overthinking counts) and whimsical discussions of the intersection of faith, family, and fandom.  Enjoy!

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