Geeks Without God

This week, we talk about the wildly popular Indian film RRR directed by SS Rajamouli. The film has been gaining a cult following for the last year and we are joined by Windy Bowlsby, who knows more about the Indian film industry than we do, to talk about this film and other movies you may want to see if you have seen RRR and want to see more. If you haven’t seen RRR, you should! And we sort of spoil it except it is a crazy huge meandering plot and spoiling it is hard to do. The movie is definitely worth your time. Windy also has five questions for us!

This week we bring back Jeremy Stomberg (take a drink) to discuss the latest Ant Man & Wasp movie – Quantumania! Please note we were recording remotely and Tim’s connection never got working so you aren’t going to get to hear that much from him this week. For some, that could be considered a feature and not a bug. Get it? Ant Man & The Wasp and it’s not a bug?????

This week is a geeky boners episode where we all talk about whatever geeky stuff has us all excited in a slightly creepy way. Tim talks about his latest trip to Disney World and the new Guardians of the Galaxy coaster. Molly is getting into some new video games. Nick delves deep into The Last of Us – both the games and the TV Series. We also have some listener answers to our five questions for the first time in a little while!

This week, we are joined by our friend Jen Cowitz to talk about geek hobbies and gatekeeping. We look at the difference between broad geek hobbies and deep geek hobbies. Do you get into something really in depth or do you explore all sorts of interests to a lesser degree? Neither way is better but sometimes you can feel judged for it anyway.

This week, we have our friend Bob Alberti on to talk about the first commercial multiplayer role playing game and the first commercial Multi-user MUD, Scepter of Goth! Bob was actually responsible for the creation of said game way back in 1983, which many of our listeners probably assumed was a time before computers existed. The story of the creation of the game and the eventual collapse is interesting stuff and we are thrilled Bob joined us to talk about his experiences.

Some links with more information:

TPT Documentary about the tech boom in Minnesota

Bob’s paper on the history of Scepter of Goth

Go here if you want to play Scepter of Goth! ssh -p 2233 [email protected] (password: muinet)

This week we take a look at how our response to social situations surrounding religion have stayed the same as we’ve become older and more willing to set boundaries for ourselves. Things like going to a religious family occasion out of a sense of duty or saying “Bless you” when someone sneezes. How has our response to these situations changed over time and how do we draw boundaries?

This week we are discussing The Menu, a black comedy/horror film featuring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nicholas Hoult. There are many spoilers to be had if you listen to this episode so we would encourage you to check it out on HBO Max before you listen to our discussion about the film. If you don’t, we cannot take any credit for spoiling your dinner.

This week we are joined by frequent guest Eric Knight to discuss religion in sports and specifically American Football. In the wake of a serious medical emergency at a football game, there were all sorts of pictures of a circle of football players kneeling in prayer while medical professionals saved his life. The store because about the players praying and not about the medical professionals. The demonstrative nature of religion in Football brings us to topics like really terrible supreme court decisions and Tim Tebow. Eric also get to answer our new five questions!

Hello friends! It is a new year and what better time to recap some of our favorite things from the year gone by? We could have focused on the negative but we totally didn’t! We talked about the cool geeky stuff that made us happy when we weren’t thinking about things that made us unhappy. Things we aren’t going to talk about in this intro text or in the podcast itself!

This week we are joined by Star Wars superfan Greg Parks to discuss the latest Disney Plus Star Wars installment – “Andor!” The show revolves around Cassian Andor, whom you might remember from “Rogue One.” If you don’t remember him from “Rogue One,” stop reading this and go watch “Rogue One.” Now, if you haven’t seen “Andor,” we are going to spoil the shit out of it so you should go watch that because it is fantastic and may be some of the best Star Wars ever. Yes, you heard us.