Get Geekish Podcast

With the Halloween Season nearing its end, we decided to talk about some of the strange phobias we have, and some of the strangest ones we've ever heard of. Did you know one of us has a bit of "Trypo…

Sometimes movies are made to have sequels. Sometimes sequels are made, even if they are not needed. And sometimes...sequels that should never have even been imagined get the green light. We talk abou…

Ryan Reynolds is just about everywhere right now. Why? Because people love him, us included. We take a few minutes to talk about where he came from, what he's done, and some of our favorite things he…

Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor behind the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as the ex-wife to George Lucas, is apparently furious over the new Star Wars sequels and thinks they butchered a …

Music has changed a lot over the past few decades. How we make it, how we listen to it, how it's distributed, how it's promoted...they have all changed drastically. (Some for the better, some for the…

It's that time of year when 'back to school' is at the to of (nearly) everyone's minds. We talk about what back to school is like now having school age kids, as well as a trip down memory lane of som…

From the cliff divers of Casa Bonita, to the tropical birds of the Rainforest Café, to the foul-mouthed servers at Dick's Last Resort. We talk about theme restaurants in the week's podcast. Some of t…

He-Man was one of my beloved heroes as a kid. But when I grew up and went back to watch show the show, I was underwhelmed, to say the least. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe has been rebooted a…

Pop culture, and TV shows in particular, is known to have its fair share of annoying characters. Sometimes it drives the plot, sometimes it adds to the story, sometimes it's bad acting or writing. An…

Slip and slides, Super Soakers, box fans, snow cones, and swimming pools. We relive the ways we used to stay cool as kids on hot summer days in this week's podcast. What's you're favorite way to stay…

The  1990s and early 2000s were the golden age for hidden tracks on CDs. Some were just extra songs, some were ways to sneak things past people, some were there just to mess with fans, and some took …

Do VHS tapes deserve a renaissance? Vinyl had one, cassettes are trying to have one, could the nostalgic draw of VHS tapes be enough to start another marketing gimmick to bring a little bit of the 80…

People have always made music. They've also been making music about all kinds of 'taboo' or 'inappropriate' subject matter. Some are just better at cleverly hiding it, or working it in with wordplay …

With the opening on Super Nintendo World in Japan, we got to thinking about theme parks. Will things like The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Super Nintendo World lead to even more fandoms gettin…

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We're talking slang in this week's podcast, some of the new words 'the kids are using these days', the slang we still use that probably makes us sound old, and some slang from histo…

From the humble beginnings of the kid's meal at Burger Chef in 1973, to the launch of the McDonald's Happy Meal in 1978, kid's meals at fast food restaurant almost always added a little magic to your…

With the release of the (eventual) release of The Justice League's Snyder Cut we got to thinking about all the different movies that have had 'director's cuts', 'alternate editions', 'extended cuts',…