Geeks Without God

This week’s episode was recorded live at CONVergence. Because it was recorded live, the possibility of technical difficulties goes up and indeed, about five minutes before the end of the episode, our mixer turned off! Fortunately, we had a recording taken in the room that is fairly poor sound quality but we were able to play with it enough to hear what’s going on. Sorry for the abrupt sound issues about 20 minutes in! We had a lovely conversation with Jerry Belich, who was chosen at random from our audience to join our podcast! He wondered if calling yourself agnostic is just being lazy. He also answered our five questions (which is the part of the episode with sound problems)!

This week we recorded our episode live at CONvergence 2023! Bridget landry, a real live rocket scientist from JPL joined us to talk about…Cosplay! In addition to working on interstellar spacecraft, Bridget is a master costumer with many great costumes to her credit. We talk about our takes on cosplay and Beidget gets a star at our five questions!

This week we bring back friend of the show Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay to talk about her Kung-Fu Zombie saga, which will be opening at Theater Mu in the Twin Cities later this month. We got a sneak peek at the script that is filled with fight scenes, blood, and insightful commentary about refugees. It’s gonna be a great show and while we know many of our listeners aren’t local. we hope anyone who has a chance to check it out buys tickets!

This week, we talk with frequent guest Ronn Bauman about a recent exchange he had with a (former) fan of the Tortuga Twins. While we don’t want to get too deeply into it, the (former) fan had an issue with a portion of the show in which they supported transgender rights. We talk about what the audience wrote, what Ronn and his fellow castmates wrote in response, and our response to all of it. There was some SERIOUS connectivity problems when we recorded and some of the audio is hard to understand. We also ended up having to Frankenstein together some of the episode because we didn’t think y’all wanted to listen to our conversation about how there were connectively problems. You’re welcome. Also, trans rights are human rights. Period.

This week, we are looking at Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Look, this movie is great. Not just great for a super-hero movie or great for a Spider-Man movie. It’s just great. So don’t let us spoil it for you. Go watch and you’ll be glad you did. Then listen to the episode!

This week, we take a look at the reportedly final season of Ted Lasso: Season 3! We were gifted Ted Lasso during the pandemic and now the story reaches its funny and touching conclusion. Maybe. Probably. Who knows, really? In any case, we spoil the shit out of all the stuff that happens in Season 3 and you want to see it for yourself so go watch it!

This week, we discuss a surprising series from Freevee that we all ended up watching – Jury Duty! This reality show is about one person serving on a jury where the entire trial is fake. All the other jurors are actors. As are the judge, the witnesses, the lawyers, and everyone in the building where the trial is taking place. It also features James Marsters as himself. The show is surprisingly charming because it turns out the subject is just a genuinely decent person. We are going to spoil a bit of the show so you may just want to watch it first. It is only eight 30 minute episodes long!

This week, we take a dive into the world of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. All three of us are big fans of the Zelda Franchise and especially Breath of the Wild. This direct sequel game is a massive expansion on Breath of the Wild and even though none of us have had enough time with it yet, we go through a lot of the stuff we have already been enjoying and a few things we find frustrating. But mostly it is the stuff we love. There are some mild story spoilers if you care about that sort of thing in your video games.

This week, we have an episode in which we answer some quick this or that questions like “Star Trek” or “Star Wars” and other such meaty topics. Not actually that topic, of course, because we talked about that topic in detail…a while ago. But if you’d like to know where we all fall on the question of rice or pasta, listen away!