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We're back at it again with our third Catch Up Geek Out!

Hamish gives an update on his Beauty and the Beast thoughts before collapsing in found-family feelings with the all-new Power Rangers. Jade pays tribute to Rex Manning Day and promotes the The Strange Case of Starship Iris and Movies with Mikey.

A general theme of the episode is diversity in ensemble casts and how this increases our investment and love of characters and how easy it is to do. Our hosts also briefly plug some exciting non-Box-Not-Included projects that they're involved with.

Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller - grahamwaller.com

If you want to get in contact, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose

The three words every nerd loves to hear: who’s your Doctor? And no, we’re not looking for a medical recommendation - we’re talking about the long-running science fiction adventure series Doctor Who!

Consider this a first dip into the multi-media franchise, as your hosts Hamish Steele and Jade Rose step into the Tardis and discuss their first experiences with the show, different eras, the companions and our favourite Doctors. We aptly cover the show’s past, present and future and consider how we’d contribute to the show given the opportunity.

Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller www.grahamwaller.com

If you want to get in contact, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose

What's your Guilty Pleasure? As geeks, we often find ourselves categorising, no matter how consciously, what we love into things we're proud to be fans of and things we'll read the room before acknowledging.

In this episode, your hosts bravely admit their darkest guilty pleasures while discussing the concept of them in general. Yes - we should never feel bad about enjoying something ... but we often still do. And that can be for a number of reasons, some less obvious then others.

Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller www.grahamwaller.com

If you want to get in contact, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose

LGBTQ+ people have fought for decades for positive representation in movies and tv shows. And we started winning! A slew of very friendly gay characters started to emerge, but so did a suspicious trend. In today's episodes, your hosts tackle the Gay Best Friend trope.

GBF's are often walking stereotypes - but are stereotypes really a bad thing? And when the price of representation is a character only there to support the main character without any real depth themselves, is it worth it?

Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller www.grahamwaller.com

If you want to get in contact, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose

Warning: The following podcast contains spoilers for the following - When Marnie Was There, Sherlock, the first episode of Riverdale and the most recent season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Taking a dive into more topical waters, in this episode Hamish and Jade attempt to tackle the often mentioned and highly infamous subject of Queer Baiting.

With the discussion ranging from the Hayes Code to Sweeps Week Lesbian Kisses, two fandom juggernauts looming over our shoulders and our pockets now significantly lighter in loose change thanks to overuse of a certain word, we offer our take on this insidious media phenomena.

Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller (grahamwaller.com) and if you want to watch the videos mentioned in this episode you can find them on their youtube channels - Chez Lindsay and Rown Ellis.

If you want to get in contact with us, we are BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and @gmail.com and we also have our individual twitters at @hamishsteele

and @jadeoxfordrose.

WARNING: The following podcast contains discussion about Harry Potter & the Cursed Child that while free from plot spoilers does contain small details about the show.

The geeking out never truly stops here at Box Not Included so we’ve put together another episode where we share with each other what’s been square in our geeky sights since we last nerded out on air.

Hamish goes into detail about his long standing relationship with Nintendo, an anthro indie game and his impending trip to Skull Island to visit a certain ape. Jade talks about literal theatre magic, a TV show made by those good good podcast boys and a welcome return to graphic novels. We also share some of our thoughts regarding the upcoming Beauty & Beast movie and a certain villainous sidekick who's been getting a lot of press.

WARNING: This episode contains a discussion of celebrity death.

This episode was recorded in 2016, a year made infamous for its seemingly high death toll of famous and influential people. But why are celebrities so important to nerds and does being queer and neurodivergent add to this?

In this episode, Jade and Hamish analyse celebrity status in fandom: how we treat famous people in person and online, how they can help us like ourselves more and how we'd act were we to reach super stardom.

Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller www.grahamwaller.com

If you want to get in contact, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose

This week, your hosts Jade Rose and Hamish Steele take a step back from leading the discussion and answer listener submitted questions! It's our first NoBoxVoxPop!

Questions range from silly to serious, big to small. Today, we try and answer questions such as: why the Marvel movies are so popular and the DC movies so derided, how to respond to homophobia in geeky spaces and what fantasy class our favourite sci-fi heroes would be!

Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller www.grahamwaller.com

If you want to get in contact or send in a question to our next NoBoxVosPop, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose.

Hail and well met, weary traveller, and welcome to the (first edition) of our Table Top Roleplaying discussion! Having made brief references to Dungeons and Dragons in our previous episodes, we thought it was best to clear the table and say where we stand on perhaps geekdom's most stereotypical hobby.

We discuss how we lost our roleplaying virginities, the different kinds of gaming systems we've used and our current games before delving into how we can queer-up the gaming scene. However - this is just our introduction to this topic: we shall be returning to it in the future!

Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller www.grahamwaller.com

If you want to get in contact, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose.

WARNING: The following podcast contains spoilers for the Harry Potter franchise including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Hogwarts. The Golden Snitch. Muggles. Horcruxes. The Wizard World of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series has shaped geekdom well beyond the pages of her books. We've all tried sorting ourselves (and our favourite characters) into the houses but for some of us, finding our place in this magical world can be a little tricky.

In this episode we take our first delve into the huge (and growing) Harry Potter franchise and begin to wonder where we fit in. As ever, we do our fair share of geeking out and appreciation but move on to discuss - Queer People and Where to Find Them?

Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller www.grahamwaller.com

If you want to get in contact, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose.