TG Geeks Webcast

The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with Tommy Cannon who is one of our contributors who has brought us Dr. Zombie and The Nerdy Chupacabras. We chat about how we met and he became a part of the TG Geeks staff/ family as well as his other projects like Fred the Mustard Packet and his improv skills. We had a great conversation that was all over the board. As we tell our guests if we go off on a tangent, that is absolutely fine, we are here to talk about what they want to talk about. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About Tommy Cannon

Hello, world! My name is Tommy Cannon. I'm a cartoonist and improv comedian. I do all kinds of goofball stuff. I perform improv comedy at ImprovMania & The Torch Theatre. I'm a penciller for Philip Haldiman's comic book My Big Break (the autobiographical comic about him playing Denny in The Room). I'm one of the artists from Shane Carey's Supersonic Soul projects as well. I even helped the Great Arizona Puppet Theatre create a character called Terrific the Tooth! I've also worked in animation, theatre, and logo design. Characters that I've created on my own are Fred the Mustard Packet, The Cross Guardian, The Desert Doods, and Dr. Zombie.

My hope is to add extra fun to Phoenix and the world. Punch your ticket for the Weirdo Train, there's room for everybody!

About Tommy Cannon's Creations

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Dr. Zombie - Monster Family Physician

The concept is that Dr. Zombie is a monster family physician because the mad science lab doesn’t pay much and he has to have a day job to fund his passion.

 

 

Nerdy Chupacabras

Nerdy Chupacabras are here to nerd-up the internet!

 

 

Fred the Mustard Packet

 

Fred the Mustard Packet is an absurdist cartoon character who shows the bizarre nature of modern society through his jokes and adventures. He is arrogant, loving, excitable, and once-in-a-while brilliant. His comics are updated every Friday on Webtoons.com

 

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In our second segment, we chat about nothing since we spent so much time on the birthdays (probably the Ansel Adams segment....). We also highlight recent articles posted to tggeeks.com in the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever-popular feedback segment.

We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.

 

 

Our YouTube channel is audio only:

 

Show Notes / Links:

* TG Geeks Episode 361

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The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with each other about a number of things we have been wanting to chat about; The announcement of Season 2 of Foundation as well as the Season 2 trailer for Star Trek: Picard. Then there is the announcement that Season 3 of Picard might be the last, hmmm, we shall see. Two of our favorites right now are Book of Boba Fett and Star Trek: Prodigy, we can't get enough of these two shows. We chat about an anthology that might be of interest to the fans of KD Edwards, see the link below for Doom Days and we chat briefly about Netflix’s selection of Kyle Allen for Master's of the Universe. We also gave a shout out to Queer Sci Fi and there newsletter you should sign up for. And last but not least, we chat about our good friend, Brian Augustyn, who we lost this last week. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About The Two Gay Geeks

Ben and Keith are The Two Gay Geeks behind TG Geeks Webcast, where our motto is “You name it, We talk about it.” ®

Our website, tggeeks.com, is the headquarters for our Webcast as well as articles and reviews on a variety of subjects.

We cover all aspects of Geek-dom and Nerd-ery. As our motto implies, we talk about almost anything. We do tend to talk more about Sci-Fi, Comics, Film, Horror, and Genre, but we have been known to talk about Opera and Disneyland on occasion.

We have become passionate about supporting Independent Creators whether that is film, comics, music, or authors we are always open to talking with creators of all types.

So, come along and join our wildest ride in the podosphere.

Link to Doom Days and Gotham By Gaslight

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In our second segment, we chat about Spoilers... Why do people and websites need to spoil a show that most of the rest of the world has not even had an opportunity to see? No Spoilers, Please, and Thank You. We also highlight recent articles posted to tggeeks.com in the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever-popular feedback segment.

We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.

 

 

Our YouTube channel is audio only:

 

Show Notes / Links:

* TG Geeks Episode 363

* Andrea’s Angle | Hotel Transylvania: Tranformania Fun Addition to Series

* Andrea’s Angle | Moonfall – Ludicrous Fun

* Ben’s Breakdown | The Witcher – Three Episode Thoughts

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The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with our good friend Brian Webber, also known as Arkle. Brian has an exciting anniversary coming up, the Fifth Anniversary of his Youtube show, Shameless CashGrab. We talked about Brian being one of our first listeners. We also chatted about his long experience with podcasting and then Youtube. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About Brian Webber

Brian "Arkle" Webber started out as a podcaster with the shows Geek of All Trades, Gilmore Girls Rewatch, and Singular Achievement Phenomenon (the latter being a show about One Hit Wonder songs). In 2017 he started Shameless Cashgrab, inspired by seeing the cover art for a blatant (nay, Shameless) attempt to cash in on the popularity of Stranger Things. He currently lives in Rialto, CA, and can frequently be found on Twitter getting suspended for being rude to transphobes and anti-vaxxers.

About Shameless CashGrab

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Shameless Cashgrab is a show about those DVD collections featuring multiple otherwise unrelated movies, often arbitrarily grouped together around a theme. Arkle watches them, makes jokes, and ranks them against each other at the end of each season. Most of the films are forgettable or bad, but there have been some surprises, like a solid post-apocalyptic drama starring Mark Hamill and the late Bill Paxton, a 1960s Italian horror film with great atmosphere, and quite possibly the only 80s sex comedy without a single homophobic joke in it.

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In our second segment, we chat (no spoilers) about The Book Of Boba Fett and Star Trek: Prodigy. We also highlight recent articles posted to tggeeks.com in the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever-popular feedback segment.

We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.

 

 

Our YouTube channel is audio only:

 

Show Notes / Links:

* TG Geeks Episode 358

* TG Geeks Episode 359

* TG Geeks Episode 362

* Dragonriders of Pern Movie | What We Know… Not Much!

* Hamish Downie's Feature Film, Matcha and Vanilla to Premiere on GagaOOLala 12/24

* Disney+ Has Ordered a Thrilling Quest Based on Percy Jackson and the Olympians

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The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with KD Edwards, author of “The Tarot Sequence” novels and Josh Hurley who has narrated The Last Sun and The Hanged Man, the first two books of “The Tarot Sequence” for Audible dot com. This was such an exciting interview opportunity and there is a little treat in the last part of the interview that you will not want to miss. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About KD Edwards

K.D. lives and writes in North Carolina, but has spent time in Massachusetts, Maine, Colorado, New Hampshire, Montana, and Washington. (Common theme until NC: Snow. So, so much snow.)

Mercifully short careers in food service, interactive television, corporate banking, retail management, and bariatric furniture have led to a much less short career in Higher Education.

The first book in his urban fantasy series THE TAROT SEQUENCE, called The Last Sun, was published by Pyr in June 2018. The third installment, The Hourglass Throne, is expected soon.

 

About Josh Hurley

Josh Hurley is an actor, narrator, and improv & sketch comedy performer currently residing in New York City. Josh grew up in Southeast Idaho and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Acting/Directing from Idaho State University. He is a narrator/performer in over 130 audiobooks and recipient of several AudioFile Magazine Earphone Awards. He is co-creator of his hometown improv group ‘The Comedy Project’ and has performed with many sketch groups and improv teams at different theaters and venues throughout New York City.

In addition to voicing ‘The Tarot Sequence’ by K.D. Edwards, recent series include ‘The Iron Raven’ (in the Iron Fey series) by Julie Kagawa‘, and ‘The Dragonrider Heritage’ series by Nicole Conway. Other recent multicast audiobook projects include ‘Letters From Camp’ starring Jamie Lee Curtis, the ‘Rivals!’ series by Scott McCormick, ‘American Girl’ by Wendy Walker, and ‘Camp Red Moon’ by R.L. Stine. Hurley also performed the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ audiobook, ‘The Abominable Snowman’ and voiced characters for ‘Starfinder’, both interactive experiences on Amazon Alexa.

Josh geeks out over board games, VR gaming, anything Stephen King, D&D’ing with friends, dogs AND cats, and to embellish verbose biographies with words like “embellish” and “verbose”. Thanks to you, all the amazing audiobook listeners out there, who keep the love of great stories and storytelling alive and well.

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The Last Sun

In this debut novel and series starter, the last member of a murdered House searches for a missing nobleman and uncovers clues about his own tortured past. Rune Saint John, the last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home. With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune's Court. In looking for Addam, can Rune find the truth behind his family's death and the torments of his past?

 

The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with each other about a series we are very late to the party on; We just finished The Witcher Season 1 and Oh My Gosh! what a wild ride and confusing at the same time. We discuss what we liked about it and some of the interesting plot points and the apparent discarding of characters. All in all, we liked it and are on to Season 2 and can't wait, at the moment, for Season 3. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About The Two Gay Geeks

Ben and Keith are The Two Gay Geeks behind TG Geeks Webcast, where our motto is “You name it, We talk about it.” ®

Our website, tggeeks.com, is the headquarters for our Webcast as well as articles and reviews on a variety of subjects.

We cover all aspects of Geek-dom and Nerd-ery. As our motto implies, we talk about almost anything. We do tend to talk more about the Sci-Fi, Comics, Film, Horror, and Genre, but we have been known to talk about Opera and Disneyland on occasion.

We have become passionate about supporting Independent Creators whether that is film, comics, music, or authors we are always open to talking with creators of all types.

So, come along and join our wildest ride in the podosphere.

The Witcher

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Geralt of Rivia, a brooding professional monster hunter for hire also known as a witcher, struggles to keep his humanity in a medieval dark fantasy world ruled by corrupt kings, queens and mages, where poverty, violence and intolerance are rampant, normal humans are sometimes worse than actual monsters and most jobs that pay well involve the darkest of human emotions and desires. Yennefer of Vengerberg is an ambitious mage who came from nothing and wants everything. Princess Cirilla or Ciri is a young girl who may or may not possess some great mysterious power within her. Their destinies, seemingly quite different, slowly intertwine in a rather cosmic fashion. Their companions include Jaskier the bard, Geralt's endearingly annoying friend and hype man vowed to spread the word of his heroics throughout the continent even if he has to embellish them a little for a few coins more, Tissaia de Vries, Yennefer's secretive mentor who believes in tough love, and Triss Merigold, a good-natured druidic mage and trustworthy friend. The Nilfgaardian Empire's sudden brutal invasion of the kingdom of Cintra ruled by Cirilla's protective grandmother, warrior queen Calanthe, puts their lives in great danger.

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In our second segment, we chat about our guest for next week, KD Edwards. We also highlight recent articles posted to tggeeks.com in the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever-popular feedback segment.

We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.

 

 

Our YouTube channel is audio only:

 

Show Notes / Links:

* TG Geeks Episode 357

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The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with each other about a couple of things we are passionate about; "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" in all incarnations. We do a dive into this season of "Star Trek: Discovery", the new Star Trek show "Star Trek: Prodigy", all of which we tried to stay as spoiler-free as possible. We then chatted about our re-watch of Season 1 "Star Trek: Picard" but were a little more spoiler-y since it has been out for a year. We wanted to catch back up before Season 2 airs next month. Of course, there was our usual banter and digressions as well as derailed trains of thought. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About The Two Gay Geeks

Ben and Keith are The Two Gay Geeks behind TG Geeks Webcast, where our motto is “You name it, We talk about it.” ®

Our website, tggeeks.com, is headquarters for our Webcast as well as articles and reviews on a variety of subjects.

We cover all aspects of Geek-dom and Nerd-ery. As our motto implies, we talk about almost anything. We do tend to talk more about the Sci Fi, Comics, Film, Horror, and Genre, but we have been known to talk about Opera and Disneyland on occasion.

We have become passionate about supporting Independent Creators whether that is film, comics, music, or authors we are always open to talking with creators of all types.

So, come along and join our wildest ride in the podosphere.

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To Watch Star Trek go to Paramount Plus

To Watch The Book of Boba Fett or any of the Star Wars entries go to Disney Plus

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In our second segment, we chat about a little about the new Star Wars entry, "The Book of Boba Fett", once again, spoiler free. We also highlight recent articles posted to the tggeeks.com in the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever-popular feedback segment.

We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.

 

 

Our YouTube channel is audio only:

 

Show Notes / Links:

* TG Geeks Episode 356

* TG Geeks Episode 359

* Ben's Holiday Breakdown | An American Christmas Carol

* Ben’s Breakdown | K.D. Edwards’ The Hourglass Throne Is a Thrilling and Breathtaking Ride!

* Ben’s Breakdown | Can The Matrix Resurrections Resurrect a Franchise?

The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with Alek Shrader, opera singer and geek turned ComicBook Writer. Alek tells us about an exciting new project with Arizona Opera, a graphic Novel of Carmen. Alek tells us about the process and how he came up with the idea as well as teases us with the Kickstarter info that will be coming very soon. Stay tuned to TGGeeks.com for more information. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About Alek Shrader

The brilliant lyric tenor Alek Shrader continues to impress audiences with the “luxury of his phrasing, the clarity of his diction and the sensitivity and expressiveness of his characterizations”.

Alek Shrader made his professional debut as Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville at the Opera Theater of St. Louis, where he had spent the previous two summers as a young artist. He has appeared in Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino with the Gotham Chamber Opera, in William Bolcom’s A Wedding at the Music Academy of the West, and participated in Renata Scotto's Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Opera Studio. Shrader’s roles in previous seasons have included the title role in Le Comte Ory, Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tony in Bernstein’s West Side Story, and Ramiro in Rossini's La Cenerentola.

Alek Shrader is the recipient of a Sara Tucker grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation and a winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

About Carmen Graphic Novel

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Experience Bizet's Carmen like never before!

Arizona Opera is partnering with tenor/director/writer Alek Shrader, artist P. Craig Russell, artist Aneke, and award-winning letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, to adapt Bizet's Carmen opera into a 90-page graphic novel!

Get notified when the project is live on Kickstarter by visiting the link below!

Carmen Kickstarter Link

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In our second segment, we chat about Star Trek: Discovery. We also highlight recent articles posted to tggeeks.com in the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever-popular feedback segment.

We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.

 

 

Our YouTube channel is audio only:

 

Show Notes / Links:

* TG Geeks Episode 355

* TG Geeks Episode 358

* Hamish Downie’s Christmas Playlist Part 2

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The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with Richard Fairgray, who has written and illustrated multiple books, comics, among other things. We chat with Richard about how he got started and what he is working on currently. Look for his new, should I say, webcomic that will be appearing in January and be updated regularly. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About Richard Fairgray

Proud human garbage, living in the filth of Hollywood and making books about all sorts of things. Blind, gay and grumpy about both. I've been making comics for a really long time and I've made a lot of them, mostly in New Zealand and mostly out of print and lost on hard drives during the dark ages before cloud storage. What you'll find on this site is a deep dive into the last ten years of my work, with a mix of short and long comics and stories. All up it's about half of what I've had published. On top of that, there are some samples from books that are with other publishers, the complete run of the American edition of BLASTOSAURUS, and my new series HAUNTED HILL (beginning 01.20.22). I have a lot of new books coming, so sign up for the mailing list and keep checking back in.

About Haunted Hill

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In our second segment, we chat about KD Edwards Short stories that fill the time between his TAROT SEQUENCE novels. We also highlight recent articles posted to tggeeks.com in the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever-popular feedback segment.

We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.

 

 

Our YouTube channel is audio only:

 

Show Notes / Links:

* TG Geeks Episode 357

* Regarding Dragonriders of Pern Movie | What We Know… Not Much!

* Nerdy Chupacabras #79

* Andrea’s Angle | The Tender Bar – Great Performances, Shallow Story

* Andrea’s Angle | Sing 2 – As Fun as the First

* Andrea’s Angle | American Underdog – Emotional, Hopeful Story

* Andrea’s Angle | Matcha & Vanilla – Bittersweet yet Loving

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The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with our good friend and collaborator, Hamish Downie. Hamish has directed a new film, Matcha and Vanilla which is releasing this week on the Gay Streaming Service, GagaOOLala. Hamish fills us in on what he has been doing since we last spoke with him and what he has coming up. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About Hamish Downie

Hamish Downie is an Australian LGBT filmmaker and producer based in Osaka, Japan. After teaming up with Paul Leeming and directing some music videos for world music diva, Robyn Loau, he made his first short film, Silence, which did well on the festival circuit in Europe. Buoyed by that success, he ventured out to make his first feature film, Matcha & Vanilla which reunites the creative team behind Silence.

Hamish hopes to continue to make films that have a multi-cultural focus, and in the future would like to make an animated series. For his next project, he hopes to make a musical

web series.

About Matcha and Vanilla

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Yuki and Ai are a long-term lesbian couple living in the closet in Japan's traditional society. When Yuki is diagnosed with terminal cancer, they must fight against their family, the hospital, and society in order to stay together until the end.

Director's Statement

Fear is one of my biggest muses. The Never Let You Down music video was about the time I was getting stalked by a fan. An American Piano was my cry for world peace at a time that felt like we were going to have another world war. And Silence was about an abusive relationship I was in. Now, with my debut feature film, Matcha & Vanilla I'm tackling both love and fear. I've been in a long-term relationship for a while and moved to Osaka to be closer with this person. Things are going well, although we don't have a lot of money.

My biggest fear is that one of us gets sick, and we can't financially support each other. More importantly, as we don't have Marriage Equality in Japan if my partner were to get sick and go into hospital, I might never see him again as I'm not recognized as being his family. This is a real fear that all LGBT couples in Japan have. So, I wanted to hold up a mirror to that with this film. Making the film was very cathartic for me, and for our team.

I've definitely been inspired by the Australian film Three Dollars and Happy Together (one of the few LGBT films about poverty), as well as Last Days by Gus Van Sant. I wrote the script for Tomoko Hayakawa and Qyoko Kudo especially. They are the two best actors I know in Japan and we've collaborated on many projects now. I also needed Paul Leeming both behind the lens and as the colorist to realize the style of the 80s and 90s arthouse films that I love.

 

 

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In our second segment, we chat about The Hourglass Throne by KD Edwards. We also highlight recent articles posted to tggeeks.com in the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever-popular feedback segment.

We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.

The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with Carl Thiel, Director and Taylor Wallace, Star of the short film, "Displaced". We find out how Carl and Taylor came together to make the film and talk briefly about Carl's involvement with film making prior to making this film. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

 

About Carl Thiel

Writer/director Carl Thiel is an award-winning film & TV composer/producer who splits time between Austin, TX and Los Angeles. Early in his career, after having made significant strides in the film world, Carl’s other passion, music composition/production, took off and required his undivided attention. He has since scored countless projects with great success, including many of director Robert Rodriguez's most prominent films. This recent pandemic afforded him the opportunity to rediscover his love for story telling through film. He invested that time developing several scripts, and eventually, directing a new short feature. What started as an exercise in fun with actor Taylor C. Wallace and cinematographer Karl Toft turned out to be a full-throttled passion project. And thus we now have “Displaced.”

About Taylor Wallace

Taylor C. Wallace is an actor and musician who currently resides in Austin, TX. Taylor achieved success in the early 2000’s as a recording artist in Los Angeles making two notable albums with his band Trigger Point that went on to worldwide acclaim. After spending time behind the scenes as the executive producer on the Red Bull documentary “Long Way to the Top”, Taylor decided it was time to step in front of the camera to meld his love of performing with his love of making films.

About Displaced

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DISPLACED is an exciting new mind-bending sci-fi short starring Taylor C. Wallace, written and directed by award winning film and TV composer Carl Thiel (Spy Kids 4, Machete Kills, Sin City 2), now exploring his voice as a filmmaker.

LOG LINE- At a low point in his life, urbanite Peter Sabik goes on a solo camping trip in hopes of finding inner guidance, only to discover a mysterious message which sets him off on an extraordinary adventure defying the laws of time and space.

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In our second segment, we chat about Star Trek Discovery. We also highlight recent articles posted to the tggeeks.com in the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever-popular feedback segment.

We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.

 

 

Our YouTube channel is audio only:

 

Show Notes / Links:

* TG Geeks Episode 351

* TG Geeks Episode 353

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