Geek 4

On this episode of Geek4, I'm talking with Dr. Amy H. Sturgis about the connections between the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises. These are fandoms that have often figured themselves as being in opposition to each other - you're either a Star Wars fan or you're a Star Trek fan; but Amy has some interesting ideas about how much common ground these two franchises share.

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For those of you in the Greater Toronto area, Liz will be at Flying Books in Toronto on Feb 2  (from 6:30 - 8:30) as part of the launch of Strange Loops . I'll be there and would love to see you. Liz will be other places too, so check out her EVENTS page to see if she'll be speaking close to you.

For information about Liz', check out her website  https://www.lizharmer.com.  You can follow her on Instagram @harmerliz and Twitter @lizharmer.

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I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on th traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

You can check out Emily’s website (emilystrand.com) or her blog (LiturgyandLife.com). She's on Twitter @ekcstrand

She’s allowed me to post pictures of some costumes on www.michaelwboyce.com/geek4

For more information about the Star Wars costumers, check out https://www.501st.com and https://rebellegion.com.

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 I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on th traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

If you're interested in booking a trip to Epcot (or one of the good parks), you can find Carrie at https://puremagicvacations.ca/Meet-our-Team

For her podcast, Pixie Dust Fan, check out https://pixiedustfan.com/disney-podcast/ or wherever fine podcasts are streamed.

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I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on th traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Melissa Martin returns. Long time listeners may recall that Melissa was one of the first people I interviewed when I started this project a couple of years ago. I was thrilled when she agreed to come back.

We didn't really have a set topic for the conversation and agreed to just hit record and see what happened. What happened was pretty amazing. We talked about decluttering - both Melissa and I have been in midst of some pretty major life changes - and mid life crises. It's an honest, at times frank , and funny conversation with one of my favourite writers.

You can follow Melissa on Twitter at @DoubleEmMartin or Instagram at @doubleemmartin. Her writing appears in the Winnipeg Free Press

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I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on th traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

If you're interested TJ's online solo show course go to soloshowcourse.com. There is one better to help you develop a solo show.

And for more information about his creative projects and the work on the Enneagram go to www.tjdawe.ca 

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If you liked the show, hit Subscribe and please consider leaving a 5 star review. The more reviews we have, the more we show up in searches. Somehow. I think magic.

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I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on th traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

As regular part of his Christmas Eve celebrations, M.R. James, medieval scholar and academic administrator, would read original ghost stories to the delight of his friends and colleagues. James's ghost stories, which were part of much older British tradition of telling tales of the supernatural at Christmas time, are some of finest ghost stories ever written. He abandoned many of the dated tropes that had been common and had become chiched - gothic castles, the aristocracy.

Most of James's stories have a contemporary setting - often the English country side. His protagonists are typically unassuming, some times naive, academics... not unlike their creator.

As a bit of bonus content to mark this yuletide, I'm including an audio version of one of James's most famous stories, his 1904 ghost story "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' read by the incomparable Michael Horden.

Jack and I discuss the author M.R. James, the writer of many of the original stories who would read these stories to his colleagues at Cambridge and Eton as Christmas entertainment. We talk about what makes these adaptations so engaging as well as discuss what ghost stories we’d like to see made.

You can follow Jack on social media (Instagram: @jackjewers; Twitter for the time being: @jackjewers; and Mastedon @jackjewers ) and check out his website www.jackjewers.com for more about his writing and filmmaking.

Jack's novel, The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys, is available now where fine books are sold from Moonflower Publishing. Maybe ask your local bookseller to order it and support the little guy.

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I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on th traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

You can follow their show news about their show and upcoming performances at www.sixchickflicks.com, at Facebook at facebook.com/6chickflicksand @sixchickflicks on Instagram

You can follow either or both (I recommend both) Kerry and KK on Instagram @kerryipema and @kkapples

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I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on th traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.