Episode 21: Vampires Don’t Sparkle
As October leads us to the Fall Solstice we are celebrating the darker side of pop culture with month of goblins, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. We start the month by gather a panel of...
View ArticleEpisode 22: Brains — Nutritious & Delicious
Oh My God, they’re coming! As Halloween creeps closer your Geekin’ Out hosts gather around a table, eat candy and talk about everyone’s favourite shambling undead — the zombie! We cover the origins,...
View ArticleEpisode 23: Dracula & The Monsters
This week we got Comics Alliance writer Chris Sims (@theisb) to Skype us to speak about his new digital comic Dracula the Unconquered which launches on Halloween! To top it all off we even got to chat...
View ArticleEpisode 24: Ghosts, Slashers & Psychos, Oh My!
The conclusion to our Halloween Spooktacular (yes, I just wrote that). We’re discussing the modern movie genres from slasher, shock, gore and foreign remakes. We also discuss the phenomenon of Slender...
View ArticleEpisode 25: I’m Not a Hoarder, I’m a Geek
This week Kim, Brendon and Bree examined the need to collect — from comics, to figures, to movies, to shoes. Kim psycho-analyzes the compulsion to acquire “stuff” and asks when does the collecting...
View ArticleEpisode 26: Video Games are Stressing Me Out
Do you have a stack of video games that have gone unplayed? Are you rushing through a game because the next big release is out this week? Is the video game industry stressing you out? You’re not alone....
View ArticleEpisode 27: Josh Wedon is the Man (and Joss Whedon too)
We know you were all expecting a fun filled, epic wrestling episode, but American Thanksgiving forced us to reschedule for next week. Instead we give you a fun filled, epic episode about how much we...
View ArticleEpisode 28: Showcase of the Immortals
We threatened we were going to do it and we’ve done it. Once again Chris Sims (Comics Alliance, Awesome Hospital, Dracula the Unconquered) joins us along with Chris Haley (Let’s Be Friends Again,...
View ArticleEpisode 29: Brobots 2: The Remake
2011 has been a year of remakes, adaptions, and sequels in the film, TV and video game industries with 2012 looking very much the same. But is this entirely a bad thing? This week we discuss some of...
View ArticleEpisode 30: Queen & Country 10 Years Later
In March 2001 Oni Press, an small independent publisher, released a comic called Queen & Country with creative team Greg Rucka and Steve Rolston. This story, about a secret intelligence agent named...
View ArticleEpisode 31: So Begins the End of the World
2012 is here! Now that we are our future-selves we’ve decided to look back at all the nerdy things we loved (and hated) in 2011. Listen to the rundown of our favourite movies, comics, video games and...
View ArticleEpisode 32: Archetype is Not a Dirty Word
When we enjoy a movie, TV episode, comic or video game we give most of the credit to the great characterization of the hero, villain and everything in-between. Without good characters, there are no...
View ArticleEpisode 33: #whateveryoucando my80thleveldarkelfwizard candobetter
If you like to game you’ve probably clocked many hours playing online with your friends. Whether it be World of Warcraft, Red Dead Redemption or the newer Star Wars: The Old Republic, online games are...
View ArticleEpisode 34: Hanging Out with Adam WarRock
Adam WarRock is a Nerd-rapper and a very busy one at that. He’s about to release a new album on February 13th, then hit the road for a West Coast tour, so we were very lucky to have him take some time...
View ArticleEpisode 35: Fictional Love is the Best Love
This week Cupid will be busy shooting arrows in people’s butts to bring love into our world, and what’s better than real-life romance? Fictional romance in books, movie and comics. These are the...
View ArticleEpisode 36: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cantina
Star Wars is one of, if not the largest fandoms out there, so it’s only appropriate that we sat around to talk about it. Lucky for us, we also managed to convince the talented illustrator Katie Cook...
View ArticleEpisode 37: Web Comics for Breakfast? No Way!
We talk about comics a lot here on Geekin’ Out — DC’s relaunch, Marvel events, Independents — but rarely do we mention the largest of publishers, the Internet! We rectified this mistake by inviting...
View ArticleEpisode 38: Damn! I Failed My Saving Throw
This week on Geekin’ Out we talk about our experiences with role playing, and no, we don’t mean the sexy kind. Tabletop and live-action role playing games are a large part of geek culture, from the...
View ArticleEpisode 39: Taking a Walk Through Emitown
If the title wasn’t hint enough, this week we sat down with Emi Lenox to talk about her work on Emitown, the release of the second volume and just things in general. Listen to Brendon and Bree —...
View ArticleEpisode 40: The Science of Comics with Chris Roberson
Chris Roberson [@chris_roberson] is the talented writer behind such comic titles as iZombie, Memorial, IDW’s Star Trek/ Legion of Super Heroes, Fables: Cinderella and many more. He also happens to...
View ArticleEpisode 41: Knights of the Squared Circle: Chikara Pro Wrestling
Brendon and Kim sat down with wrestling announcer Leonard Chikarason this week to talk about the Pro Wrestling company CHIKARA. All three geek out about their love of wrestling; where it began for...
View ArticleEpisode 42: Emerald City Wrap-Up with the Fanboy Power Hour
Con season has officially begun! This weekend almost the entire Geekin’ Out gang, along with our buddies from the Fanboy Power Hour, roadtripped down to Seattle for Emerald City Comicon. It was 3 days...
View ArticleEpisode 43: Killing the Idiot Box
Television has had many nicknames over the years with idiot box being one of the most definitive. But, with shows like Sopranos, Mad Men, Friday Night Lights, and Game of Thrones, can we really still...
View ArticleEpisode 44: Matt Wilson, Come on Down!
Before this week, we’d had all but one member of WarRocket Ajax grace our microphone — Chris Sims, Chris Haley, Curt Franklin and Adam WarRock — but now we’ve officially caught them all by adding Matt...
View ArticleEpisode 45: Live from Fan Expo Vancouver
This weekend was not only the very first Fan Expo in Vancouver, but it was also the first time Geekin’ Out exhibited at a convention. De-virgined all around. Listen to us quickly wrap up the con in...
View ArticleEpisode 46: Nerd Flu with Marcus To
We just finished up our current convention season with Emerald City Comicon, Fan Expo Vancouver and Calgary Comic Expo and during that time we got a chance to meet the amazing DC comic artist Marcus To...
View ArticleEpisode 47: The Geeks Assemble!
We’ve stirred things up by trying our hand at new, segmented format. This week we talk mostly about the Avengers movie, and don’t worry, it’s pretty well spoiler-free, but we also discuss Kim’s new...
View ArticleEpisode 48: Where Bree Misnumbers the Episode Again
Ok, it’s time for episode 48, the episode where I manage to tell you in the first two seconds that it’s episode 49. I fail at counting. In this hour long menagerie of topics we converse about LEGO,...
View ArticleEpisode 49: One Year Later & Still the Same
We can’t believe it’s been a year since our very first podcast. Over that time we’ve struggled with microphones, changed formats and had so many amazing guests. But in the end, the three of us are...
View ArticleEpisode 50: All Hail the Giant Space Squid… and Ben Templesmith
The Giant Space Squid heard our prayers and we got the superbly talented and busy Ben Templesmith [Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, Fell, Welcome to Hoxford, 30 Days of Night] to join us on the podcast! Be...
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