Geeks Without God

This week’s episode takes a look at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. A whole bunch of comedians got paid a lot of money to perform at this festival, which had some pretty serious limits on what kind of jokes they could tell. Of course, it raised the same old questions about what comedians can and cannot tell jokes about although that is really more about what they should and should not tell jokes about. We offer our opinion on the matter as three comedians who were not invited to appear! We also get to answer five questions from a listener for the first time in quite a while!

We get a bonus helping to Tony Miller this week! He sits down to talk about resilience and resistance in a time of fascism. The world we live in can be exhausting. How do we keep going and find the energy not only to simply exist but to continue resisting? We talk about what we are doing to keep ourselves focused and fighting. Tony also brings us five questions!

We are excited to be joined by Tony Miller this week! Tony is a Renaissance Festival circuit performer and Trinket Trading has become a big thing at Festivals these days. How do performers like Tim and Tony deal with the explosion of baubles that people sometimes think are a reasonable exchange for services instead of – you know – money?

It’s time for us to look at our boners once more and you can join in! This week we are taking a look at a couple of video games that have us super excited. Tim’s boner is pretty old, as is to be expected. Molly’s is a lot newer. Nick is excited about an Anime/Manga romance, which is about as unexpected as you might imagine.

This week we take an in depth and spoiler filled look at “Andor Season 2!” The latest Star Wars series on Disney Plus might not be quite as great as Season 1 because it feels like they tried to get too much done in a single season but it still pretty darn good. Listen to our hot takes!

Hey – another episode about a super hero movie! This time we are talking about Fantastic Four: First Steps. If you have super-hero fatigue, we totally get it. We still think this is one of the better installments in the MCU and about as good a Fantastic Four movie that isn’t “The Incredibles” as you are going to get! Spoilers a-plenty are in this episode so watch the movie first if you care about such things!

All right friends! This week we are going to be talking about the new Superman film directed by James Gunn. While our resident DC apologist Ronn Bauman is not available, we all give the film a glowing review as one of the best depictions of Superman in the movies. Also, some doggie treats for Krypto as well! This is a spoiler filled episode so beware!

This week’s episode was recorded live at CONvergence 2025 and featured two fantastic Guests. Dave Rand-McKay and Lee Harris joined us to talk about Generative AI in their workplace and in the world at Large. Dave works as a professor of Geography and Lee is an Editor with Tor Books. We all talk about our encounters with AI both positive and negative and it is super interesting!

There’s a new documentary about Paul Reubens on HBO or MAX or HBO MAX or whatever the heck they are calling themselves these days. And speaking of an identity crisis, this two part documentary about Reubens and his most famous character, Pee Wee Herman is a really interesting watch. Reubens himself seems uncomfortable with the idea of a documentary although he clearly also definitely wants to make it. We definitely recommend checking this out!

It’s almost time for CONvergence 2025! As you may well know, our podcast debuted at CONvergence many years ago and we return there like the sparrows returning to wherever they return to every year. This week, we review our schedules for the con (we have a lot of crossover) and if you are coming to the con, we hope you are looking forward to it as much as we are!