The Grills catch up on our geeky goings on, and then have a chat about the BIG list of upcoming Marvel movies and shows that have been announced. Some we are looking forward to, some? not as much… Will you be headed to a theatre? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpxoFcdORI https://www.cnet.com/news/marvel-cinematic-universe-phase-4-the-full-list-of-release-dates/

Discussion Topic : “Mentrification” https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mentrification https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/29/mentrification-how-men-appropriated-computers-beer-and-the-beatles https://wordability.net/tag/mentrification/ https://twitter.com/hashtag/mentrification?lang=en

Linda, Rey, and Ember have a discussion about Disney’s pay to watch “experiment” for some new releases on Disney +, after catching up on all our geeking goings on.

MadCap_Misc, Reiaino, and NineOf12 talk about reopenings that are happening, and the ones we are looking forward to.

Linda, Rey, and Ember catch up on what’s been up in our lives, and then talk about NFT. Non-fungible token – Wikipedia I’m not getting into NFTs and Crypto Art anytime soon – YouTube https://www.inverse.com/innovation/is-cryptocurrency-bad-for-the-environment https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d1cymTRm3UBcRQYFpsnnlnP1rOyJEyFCp1e58kM9nX8/edit?usp=sharing The “Pockets” MadCap Misc was referring to: https://youtu.be/uaRoWPEUTI4

MadCap_Misc, Reiaino, and NineOf12 talk about the amazing history of the “Night Witches” of WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Raskova http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=653 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/soviet-night-witches-female-fighter-pilots-red-army-172364

The grills catch up on all our geeky goings on, and have a discussion about this quarters selected book. We also roll to choose the next one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Tent_(Diamant_novel) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4989.The_Red_Tent?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=8A4TyKElFW&rank=1 If you’d like to read along, that episode should be in June, and we’ll be talking about Lamb, by Christopher Moore The Game Linda mentioned is … Continue reading "Book Club – The Red Tent by Anita Diamant – Episode 189"

The Grills catch up as usual on our geeky goings on, and then have a discussion about the recent kerfuffle at Kickstarter during Zine Quest 3. Content Advisory : Part of the controversy involved a sexual assault scenario in a streaming RPG last year. https://www.polygon.com/2021/3/2/22307956/kickstarter–luke–crane–perfect–rpg–canceled–adam–koebel https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/6/21207309/rollplay–far–verona–sexual–assault–lets–play–season–2–canceled https://youtu.be/0Y21hx6FEPE

The Grills talk about Blizzconline 2021! Get the run down, and remember, you can go watch the VODs free….or just rely on us, we covered all the important stuff.

The Grills clarify cryptocurrency, and chitchat about our geeky lives and projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency Fiat currency- https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp ^^^Which Crypto is not https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox – interesting geeky connection to the first actual bitcoin exchange MTGOX Documentary : https://youtu.be/sZ-aUlNY9_g