Mind of a Geek

Jason Roy Gaston

This week on Mind of a Geek, Nate and Brandon welcome Jason Roy Gaston, the educator and content creator known for his hilarious dramatic readings of misspelled signs, baffling online comments, and spectacular examples of the written word going completely off the rails. Jason shares how a spontaneous TikTok video during the COVID era unexpectedly took off, turning a simple bit of amusement into a popular online presence and opening doors to opportunities he never anticipated. From being recognized in public to discovering that his online reputation sometimes arrives before he does, Jason reflects on the strange, funny, and occasionally awkward experience of becoming internet-famous.

The conversation also explores Jason’s life beyond social media, including his work as a fifth-grade teacher, his passion for helping students develop a love of reading, and how his knack for voices and storytelling carries between the classroom and his creative projects. The group discusses the state of online culture, the rise of toxic commentary and rage-bait content, and the importance of standing up to bigotry while choosing to put something positive into the world. Jason also talks about his growing collection of creative opportunities, from audiobook narration and short-film voice work to his long-form YouTube videos and ambitions to pursue more travel content.

Naturally, the conversation takes a few wonderfully geeky detours along the way, touching on The Lord of the Rings, Gargoyles, Quantum Leap, classic television, questionable movie logic, and the curious cultural legacy of Crocs. Jason shares his love of travel, his dream of visiting Antarctica, his plans for a possible nomadic adventure, and why experiencing unfamiliar places and meeting people from different backgrounds can change how you see the world. The episode wraps up with a look at his Gargoyles podcast and his series exploring Supernatural for the first time, leaving plenty of room for the kind of spontaneous geek conversation that makes Mind of a Geek what it is.

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Sam Workman

Episode 9 of Mind of a Geek welcomes Sam Workman, filmmaker, photographer, audio enthusiast, D&D creator, and one of the many people who apparently decided having one career was far too simple. Sam talks about how his journey into content creation began with D&D podcasts, eventually leading him through film school, audio production, narrative filmmaking, commercial work, weddings, photography, and eventually back around to tabletop gaming. Along the way, the conversation digs into the realities of working behind the camera, the difference between photography and video, and why the glamorous idea of being a creator tends to conveniently leave out the part where you spend endless hours editing, networking, and managing approximately seventeen terabytes of footage.

The conversation then turns toward Sam's work with D&D, including his early project Rollin' Bones and his ongoing live tabletop production, Lobster Roll. Sam explains how Lobster Roll evolved from a massive creative project with a huge cast and crew into something more manageable, while still maintaining its focus on live shows, community events, and a continuing fantasy storyline inspired by a very Maine-flavored version of the D&D world. The group also talks about the challenges of creative collaboration, the importance of having a team, and the strange magic that happens when independent creators stop assuming that everyone else is somehow more important or more established than they are.

From there, the conversation sprawls into the broader world of modern content creation, streaming, Hollywood, AI, and the changing ways people make and consume entertainment. Sam shares what he enjoys about working on creative projects in remote locations, while Nate and Brandon dive into everything from streaming services and YouTube to the absurd amount of work happening behind the scenes of independent creative careers. Naturally, the episode eventually wanders into D&D, Dungeon Crawler Carl, the creator economy, and several increasingly questionable hypothetical futures involving robots and the collapse of civilization. Because apparently three geeks discussing filmmaking couldn't possibly stay on one subject for more than five minutes.

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The Supreme

Episode 8 of Mind of a Geek welcomes The Supreme, frontwoman, songwriter, and creative force behind the Nashville-based metal band Omen Bringer. The conversation dives into the band's music, its elaborate mythology, and the creative intention behind their debut album, Thick Darkness. The Supreme breaks down the stories and musical influences woven throughout the album, including classical music, fantasy, witchcraft, and plenty of hidden references for listeners willing to dig a little deeper. From long instrumental passages to songs that are part of larger musical sagas, Omen Bringer's music is clearly designed to be experienced rather than simply heard.

The discussion then moves from the recording studio to the stage, where Omen Bringer truly comes to life. The Supreme talks about her background in burlesque and how that experience helped shape the band's theatrical live performances, which are intentionally different from show to show. Costumes, dancers, props, audience participation, rituals, pyrotechnics, and an ever-growing collection of strange and wonderful theatrical elements all contribute to an experience that goes far beyond simply watching a band play songs. The conversation also explores how Omen Bringer has built a dedicated audience in Nashville largely through word of mouth and a commitment to creating something unique.

The Supreme also gives a look at what comes next for Omen Bringer, including the band's upcoming second album, A Knight on Black Mountain. The concept album draws heavily from fantasy, mythology, classical music, and geek culture, telling a larger story involving storms, shipwrecks, dungeons, dragons, and an ill-fated assault on an evil witch's castle. The band is also preparing a Kickstarter to help bring the album to life, with an assortment of unusual and highly personal rewards designed specifically for the campaign. Naturally, the conversation gets wonderfully weird along the way, because apparently this is what happens when you put a witch, a metal band, and a couple of geeks in the same room.

Beyond the music itself, the episode explores creativity, authenticity, witchcraft, fandom, and the importance of building communities where people can be unapologetically themselves. The Supreme talks about her personal connection to witchcraft, the role of intention in her songwriting, and her desire to make Omen Bringer a welcoming space for people who have often felt like outsiders. Lord of the Rings, Fantasia, animation, internet culture, D&D, dragons, and a whole lot of wonderfully bizarre lore all find their way into the conversation. Episode 8 ultimately becomes a celebration of embracing your weirdness, creating with purpose, and making something that feels unmistakably like you.

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Refashioned Hippie

Episode 7 of Mind of a Geek welcomes Maggie Weber, better known as Refashioned Hippie, for a conversation about fashion, creativity, content creation, and the absolutely baffling world of luxury fashion. Maggie shares how her background in theater and ten years working in retail eventually led her into reselling clothing and creating social media content. What started as a way to advertise clothes quickly evolved into a massive following built around her hilarious and often brutally honest commentary on some of the strangest and most absurd designs coming out of the fashion industry.

The conversation digs into the difference between genuine craftsmanship and simply paying for a brand name, the strange relationship between luxury and exclusivity, and why some of the world's most expensive fashion can also be some of its most ridiculous. Maggie also talks about her experiences as a content creator, including the challenges of relying on social media platforms, dealing with algorithms and demonetization, and finding ways to turn creativity into a sustainable career. Her creative work has expanded beyond social media as well, with several books covering everything from her experiences in retail to clothing resale and the history of questionable fashion trends.

From there, Nate, Brandon, and Maggie wander through a wonderfully chaotic collection of topics including thrift stores, horror movies, social media, retail horror stories, consumer culture, and the stories hidden inside vintage clothing. Maggie explains how her resale business allows her to give unwanted clothing another life while making affordable pieces available to others, turning discarded items into something with new value and, sometimes, a story of their own. Along the way, the conversation explores the importance of creating things simply because you enjoy creating them, finding humor in the ridiculous, and using that humor to connect with people.

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Rhae Lamp

In this episode of Mind of a Geek, Nate and Brandon sit down with content creator and Dungeon Crawler Carl superfan Rhae Lamp for a conversation that covers books, fandom, cosplay, and the wonderfully weird world of LitRPG. Rhae talks about how she discovered Dungeon Crawler Carl and how the series quickly became a creative escape and inspiration. That enthusiasm eventually led to her own take on Prepotente, turning one of the series' most ridiculous characters into a cosplay and comedy vehicle.

Naturally, once Dungeon Crawler Carl enters the conversation, things get appropriately out of hand. The group dives into what makes the series so compelling, including its characters, audiobook performances, worldbuilding, fan communities, rereading the books, and the seemingly endless details hidden throughout the story. Rhae also shares her experience participating in a live book club that worked its way through the series chapter by chapter, proving that there is apparently a perfectly reasonable amount of time to spend dissecting a book about people trapped in a deadly dungeon.

The conversation eventually expands beyond DCC into the wider geek landscape, including video games, fantasy, adaptations, fandom, and the challenge of keeping up with everything there is to read, watch, and play. Nate, Brandon, and Rhae bounce between their various geek obsessions while discussing why certain stories stick with us and how fan communities can transform something we enjoy privately into something much bigger.

Rhae also shares how cosplay has become a way to introduce people to books and characters they may never have encountered otherwise. Alongside Prepotente, she has explored characters from other LitRPG stories, using cosplay as both a creative outlet and a conversation starter for discovering independent authors and new worlds. Episode 6 is ultimately a celebration of the things that make fandom fun: finding a story you love, getting a little too obsessed with it, and then finding other wonderfully weird people who are just as excited to talk about it.

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Episode 5 of Mind of a Geek gets hardcore as Nate and Brandon welcome Maine independent wrestler JP O'Reilly, the self-proclaimed and thoroughly earned Hardcore Maniac. JP looks back on roughly twelve years in professional wrestling, from discovering the independent scene in Maine and beginning his training to watching the local wrestling landscape transform around him. He shares stories from his journey, the people who helped shape his career, and what kept him coming back to the ring year after year.

The conversation dives deep into the different sides of professional wrestling, including the contrast between being a babyface and a heel, developing a character, working different types of crowds, and understanding what a particular promotion expects from its performers. JP explains why shows such as the infamous Gino's events give wrestlers an opportunity to embrace a more chaotic and unconventional side of their craft, while also discussing the importance of knowing where the boundaries are depending on the audience and promotion.

Naturally, once you invite the Hardcore Maniac onto a podcast, the conversation eventually reaches deathmatches and weapons. JP discusses the creativity behind constructing hardcore wrestling spots, the ridiculous objects that have found their way into his matches, and some of the genuinely dangerous experiences that come with the territory. He recounts memorable deathmatch experiences, including a particularly chaotic encounter involving light tubes and an audience that seemed disturbingly enthusiastic about being showered with broken glass.

But beneath all the blood, broken furniture, questionable wrestling moves, and discussions that absolutely cannot be explained to someone unfamiliar with professional wrestling, Episode 5 is really about the people and experiences that make wrestling worth doing. JP talks about the opportunities he's had to share the ring with respected names in hardcore wrestling and how embracing that particular style opened doors that might otherwise never have appeared. It's a conversation about passion, performance, community, and finding your own identity within a strange little world where getting hit with increasingly absurd objects somehow qualifies as a career.

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Episode 4 of Mind of a Geek heads into the squared circle as Nate and Brandon welcome Ethan Scott, a longtime fixture of the Maine and New England independent wrestling scene. A ring announcer, commentator, interviewer, and self-described guy who will happily work with just about any promotion that gives him the opportunity, Ethan shares how a chance opportunity behind a microphone turned into nearly a decade of announcing wrestling.

From there, the conversation becomes a love letter to independent wrestling and the people who make it happen. Ethan, Nate, and Brandon explore the growth of Maine wrestling, the creativity of smaller promotions, and the incredible variety of characters and performers that can emerge when wrestling is allowed to be weird, fun, and unapologetically itself. From family-friendly character wrestling to professional pogoing somehow becoming a legitimate crowd-pleasing spectacle, the episode proves that wrestling can make almost anything work if the performers and fans are willing to embrace it. Humanity really did invent a sport where a pogo-stick cutter can be taken seriously, and frankly, that's progress.

Naturally, the discussion doesn't stop at the local scene. The trio dives into wrestling history, unforgettable moments, larger-than-life personalities, and the modern state of WWE and AEW. They talk about the matches and moments that become permanently attached to memories, why certain performers inspire such passionate reactions, and what happens when the spectacle occasionally threatens to overshadow the actual wrestling. Because wrestling fans don't just watch history, they catalog it, debate it, and will absolutely remember exactly where they were when someone drove a milk truck into an arena.

At its heart, Episode 4 is about fandom and finding your place in the things you love. Whether you're stepping into a ring, picking up a microphone, or sitting in the crowd cheering for someone chasing their dream, Ethan's story is a reminder that being part of a community can be just as meaningful as being the person in the spotlight. It's an energetic, nostalgic, and thoroughly geeky conversation about professional wrestling, creativity, community, and the simple joy of getting together with other people who are just as excited about the weird thing you love as you are.

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Episode 3 of Mind of a Geek welcomes Joe, better known as The Unethical Dungeon Master, for a conversation that dives headfirst into the wonderfully strange world of Dungeons & Dragons. As part of the UK-based Crit Happens D&D team, Joe has built a following around his delightfully villainous DM persona, offering morally questionable advice that lives somewhere between genuinely useful game design and teaching Dungeon Masters how to be just enough of a menace to keep their players nervous. The secret ingredient, naturally, is a collection of ridiculous mustaches and a healthy understanding that satire sometimes needs a giant flashing sign saying, “Please do not actually become a terrible person.”

Nate, Brandon, and Joe explore what makes D&D such a unique form of storytelling, from the joy of building worlds and watching players unexpectedly reshape them to the creative problem-solving that happens when real life inevitably interferes with a campaign. The discussion is packed with clever ideas, including what to do with absent characters and how retired player characters can take on a life of their own once handed back to the Dungeon Master. For Joe, the magic of running a game comes from creating a framework and then watching the people at the table turn it into something better than anything he could have planned alone.

Because no episode of Mind of a Geek is legally capable of staying on one subject, the conversation eventually expands into a full-scale geek culture tangent. The trio talks comics, Marvel, Deadpool, Star Wars, nostalgia, and the delicate balancing act of expanding beloved fictional universes without losing the things that made fans fall in love with them in the first place. Somewhere along the way, Brandon also learns that apparently being British does not automatically mean you've watched Doctor Who. Civilization continues to disappoint us all.

At its core, Episode 3 is about the joy of creativity without taking yourself too seriously. Whether it's designing an elaborate campaign, inventing a ridiculous trap, or putting on a fake mustache to become the world's most suspicious Dungeon Master, Joe's approach is a reminder that the best geeky experiences often come from embracing the weird ideas and seeing where they lead. It's a conversation full of laughs, storytelling, questionable ethics, and enough D&D inspiration to make even Brandon consider finally rolling up a character.

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Alexandra Chilton

In Episode 2 of Mind of a Geek, Nate and Brandon sit down with Alexandra Chilton for a conversation that wanders through creativity, storytelling, technology, horror, and the strange but wonderful ways people find their way back to the things they love. Alex shares her passion for helping creators make room for their actual creative work by taking some of the organizational chaos off their plates, because apparently human beings needed to invent even more ways to bury themselves under administrative nonsense.

The conversation explores the changing world of content creation and the importance of having people behind you who support creative projects, whether that support comes from collaborators, friends, partners, or the behind-the-scenes people who help turn a good idea into something real. Alex also gives listeners a glimpse into a horror-related project she has been developing, setting the stage for plenty of geeky discussion about the genre and the stories that stick with us.

Naturally, the conversation eventually descends into horror. The group compares the movies, games, and stories that have genuinely gotten under their skin, touching on everything from psychological horror and creepy children to claustrophobic caves, VR nightmares, and the difference between something being bloody and something actually being frightening. Along the way, The Menu, Sinister, The Descent, Resident Evil 7, Until Dawn, and more all enter the conversation.

Episode 2 is another reminder of what Mind of a Geek is all about: sitting down with interesting people, finding out what makes them tick, and then following the conversation wherever it happens to go. In this case, that journey includes creativity, horror, technology, and, naturally, the deeply unsettling realization that children standing silently at the foot of your bed might actually be the scariest monster of all.

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Corey Scott | August 11, 2026

Episode 1 of the revived Mind of a Geek brings the show full circle as Nate and Brandon reunite with longtime friend and former Mind of a Geek guest Corey Scott. The conversation looks back at the podcast's earlier incarnation, the friendships and creative community that grew from it, and what it means to return to podcasting after years away. Corey talks about his time with Podcast of Terror, the pull of creating again, and how friendships built through podcasting became some of the most meaningful relationships in his life.

The discussion then wanders through the changing landscape of podcasting and online communities. Nate, Brandon, and Corey compare the intimacy and authenticity of smaller independent shows with today's massive celebrity-driven podcasts, while reflecting on how the medium has changed since they were last doing this together. For the group, podcasting was never really about becoming famous. It was about finding people who shared their interests, making something together, and creating a record of those friendships along the way.

From there, the conversation gets deeply geeky. Corey shares his long history with comics and his perspective on how Marvel and DC have evolved, including the problems caused by sprawling crossover events, excessive continuity, constant relaunches, and the industry's increasing focus on events over individual characters. The conversation touches on everything from X-Men and Age of Apocalypse to Cable and Deadpool, independent comics, and the joy of discovering creators who are making things simply because they love doing it.

At its heart, though, Episode 1 is about creating things because they matter to you. The trio gets surprisingly candid about imposter syndrome, creative burnout, photography, writing, art, D&D, and the fear that can come with putting yourself out there. Corey talks about finding his creative voice again and how watching others pursue their own art has inspired him to start creating again himself. It becomes a fitting mission statement for the new Mind of a Geek: less about chasing numbers and more about making meaningful things, sharing them with people who understand them, and maybe inspiring someone else to create something of their own.

And naturally, because this is Mind of a Geek, the conversation eventually sprawls into social media, comic shops, nostalgia, D&D, convention culture, podcasting technology, and enough completely unnecessary tangents to make you wonder whether anyone involved has ever successfully stayed on topic. Which is precisely why this feels like Mind of a Geek again.

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