While we're not singing "Imagine," we are getting together from our respective homes, through the magic of the internet, to geek out about lowering streaming quality so as to NOT break the internet, how COVID-19 is affecting pop culture, and a whole bunch of gaming news, including Animal Crossing: New Horizons!

04:31 - Ahsoka Tano in the Mandalorian, revisited (now that we can understand Pol)

08:50 - Bud’s Weekly Geek-Out: virtual wedding in the time of COVID-19

17:13 - Netflix is slowing down in Europe to keep the internet from breaking / Disney+ to launch in UK with lower streaming quality due to COVID-19

24:00 - Shaun of the Dead Gets a COVID-19 Update Thanks to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

26:12 - Internet unites to mock Gal Gadot's celebrity "Imagine" video

34:52 - All the movies coming to streaming early as COVID-19 closes theaters (US availability; unsure about Canada)

- March 13: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (iTunes, Prime Video)

- March 15: Frozen 2 (Disney+)

- March 20: The Invisible Man, The Hunt, Emma (iTunes & Prime Video, $19.99 USD for a 48-hour VOD rental), Onward ($19.99 USD for purchase, free on Disney+ April 3)

- March 24: Birds of Prey (iTunes & Prime Video, $19.99 USD to purchase): Bloodshot ($19.99 USD for purchase)

37:52 - Marvel Has Reportedly Met Brie Larson's Demands to Lead the New Team in 'Avengers 5'.

51:26 - Leia Organa - A Princess, A General, A Mentor

56:16 - Kevin Smith Has Heard a Rumor of a Famous Marvel Lawyer in Spider-Man 3

1:00:00 - GameStop FINALLY Closes Stores To Customers

1:01:45 - Twelve video games have been named as finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame

Bejeweled, Frogger, Guitar Hero, Minecraft, Centipede, GoldenEye 007, King's Quest, and NOKIA SNAKE!

An expert committee will choose the honorees, but fans can weigh in with an online ballot through April 2nd.

1:08:55 - Animal Crossing: New Horizons

1:13:11 - The JackBox Party Pack

1:16:46 - You Don't Know Jack

1:19:33 - The Hunt

1:23:55 - Picard

1:27:29 - Westworld (non-spoilery)

1:30:25 - Westworld (SPOILERY)

1:35:58 - The Walking Dead (ALSO SPOILERY)

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03:30 - Bud’s Weekly Geek-Out: Animal Crossing: New Horizons

10:15 - Netflix pauses production on ‘Stranger Things,’ other shows due to COVID-19

23:37 - Simpsons fans try to make a “prediction” out of a coincidence (yet again)

27:50 - Sir Michael Caine isn’t sure what his new movie ‘TENET’ is about (July 17, 2020)

34:00 - The Orville is getting new comics to bridge the gap between seasons 2 and 3

44:18 - The New Mutants (still apparently coming out, April 3)

50:22 - Picard

54:47 - Westworld

1:04:07 - Sonic the Hedgehog

1:08:35 - Onward (and Soul trailer)

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All hands are finally back on deck, so we talk at length about everything from pelicans to black widows, robots to Batmobiles, and we review & recommendaysh a tonne of good shows and movies!

04:25 - Bud hands out Christmas gifts in March

06:40 - Bud's Weekly Geek-Out: Cell Peli, the pelican who ate an iPhone

09:54 - Black Widow - final trailer (Marvel film, May 1)

12:33 - Vin Diesel spoils Guardians in Thor: Love and Thunder

17:49 - Eternals update

20:38 - Westworld S1 (The Maze) & S2 (The Door) recap in six minutes (S3, The New World, on HBO March 15)

26:29 - No Time to Die release pushed from April 10 to November 25 because of the COVID-19 coronavirus

31:49 - Matt Reeves reveals The Batman’s Batmobile

37:26 - The Kids in the Hall are returning to Amazon Prime after 25 years

40:15 - TWO animated Charlie series on Netflix coming from Taika Waititi

42:17 - Max Von SEE-doh has died at age 90

53:17 - Tom Brady launches 199 Productions w/ help from the Russo brothers

56:01 - Honest Trailers - The Witcher

43:49 - The Last of Us series in development at HBO from ‘Chernobyl’ creator

45:18 - Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé joins the Gamestop Board of Directors

51:29 - Nintendo + LEGO and Nintendo + Levi's partnerships

57:23 - The Invisible Man (Pol & Kirsten)

1:03:04 - Onward (and its Simpsons pre-short) (Bryan)

1:04:41 - Bad Boys for Life (Art)

1:08:12 - Yesterday (Pol & Kirsten)

1:15:19 - Succession (Art)

1:16:05 - Star Trek: Picard (Pol)

1:19:05 - Onward's Simpsons pre-short (Bryan)

1:11:42 - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Pol, w/ Kirsten yelling)

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A Jeep eBike, bye bye Bob Iger, Indy 5, and only good guys use iPhones.

02:15 - Bud's Weekly Geek-Out: Jeep eBike

12:52 - Bob Iger steps down as Disney CEO

17:59 - Steven Spielberg not directing Indiana Jones 5

25:04 - Villains using iPhones

31:35 - Konami Code creator dies

33:48 - COVID-19 coronavirus cancellations

38:44 - Was Emperor Palpatine a clone?

43:39 - Tom Holland praises Sony's original MCU exit plan

46:42 - Friends' Central Perk LEGO set

47:29 - Westworld Promotional e-mail

49:27 - Jungle Cruise Boat Sinks

51:49 - Review: Dispatches from Elsewhere

54:25 - Mailbag: Liza Downtown / Pokémon Sword & Shield

58:17 - Animal Crossing

1:03:15 - Preview: Wizards of the Coast

1:05:03 - Pol stuff

1:12:03 - Star Wars Calendar Month Change

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With Pol and Art now away, Bryan & Kirsten are back with Bud to geek out hard about Transformers, Westworld, and Pointy Batman, with reviews of Bird of Prey, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Boitano's trip to NYC/NBC, and details about our appearance at the Capital City Comic Con!

06:18 - Bud's Weekly Geek-Out: drone-frying laser

05:54 - Westworld Season 3 Trailer

11:53 - Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy

17:21 - Paramount rebooting Transformers

19:48 - Friends reunion special

21:12 - New Batman extremely pointy

28:05 - Review & Recommendaysh: Birds of Prey

35:07 - Picard update...kinda

36:21 - TWD midseason premiere

37:14 - Boitano's trip to NYC/NBC

45:37 - Review & Recommendaysh: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

51:44 - Rose's Apple Podcasts review of The Geek-out Podcast

54:37 - Capital City Comic-Con update!

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With Bryan away and Kirsten sick, Pol, Art, & Bud hold down the geeky fort with talk of He-Man, Sonic, Stranger Things, and more!

2:01 - Kirsten's sick. Where's Bryan? A reflection on radio of olde . . .

06:18 - Bud's Weekly Geek-Out: VR with the dead

14:45 - Masters Of The Universe: Revelation voice cast announced (Kevin Smith-directed Netflix animated series, sometime in 2020)

26:55 - 'Sonic the Hedgehog' races to best opening ever for a video game film / Related: James Marsden honestly does not know what is happening on Westworld

37:44 - Tilda Swinton and Mark Ruffalo to star in HBO’s Parasite TV adaptation

42:12 - Stranger Things 4 teaser (Netflix series, sometime in 2020)

47:47 - Billie Eilish - No Time To Die

55:04 - Matrix 4 filming in San Francisco. PEOPLE JUMPING OFF SKYSCRAPERS

58:15 - Matt Reeves reveals The Batman's Batsuit in new screen test video

1:02:58 - Avengers: Endgame made Oscars history this year ... in a bad way

1:11:18 - Indiana Jones 5 to begin filming this spring, Harrison Ford reveals

1:12:49 - A Frozen land is coming to Disneyland Paris in 2023 - here's what it will look like

1:15:04 - You can now own a Millennium Falcon bounce house for $9,495 USD. Or this one (wet or dry) for only $5,795 USD

1:17:24 - Reviews and Recommendayshes: Picard vs The Expanse

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Exoskeletons in Squamish, humans (and friendship...ew) in the desert, Morbius, McAdams, Matrix, and Mary!

01:40 - Bud's Weekly Geek-Out: Prosthesis Mech Racing

07:36 - Spiral trailer

09:49 - The Jesus Rolls trailer

14:20 - Mandalorian Season 2 is coming October 2020 (and an Apple tangent)

18:25 - Sam Raimi to direct Doctor Strange

24:46 - Birds of Prey title change

34:36 - Captain Marvel 2

40:24 - Morbius set photo

47:04 - Rachael McAdams NOT in Doctor Strange 2

51:40 - Matrix 4 shooting in progress

52:55 - Fast & Furious 10 (parts 1 & 2)

57:44 - Reviews & Recommendayshes: Star Trek: Picard (plus mailbag: Mary's e-mail)

1:09:16 - Mailbag: Grant's message

1:11:28 - Mailbag: Spencer's e-mail

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We totally overanalyze the new Marvel/Disney+ commercial, say "WOW!" a lot, and eat chili and crunch chips. It's a good pod though, really.

04:25 - Weekly Geekout Topic - Untitled Goose app

09:47 - Disney+ Marvel Superbowl Spot

37:53 - First Aid Tangent and Farting in Pol's Face

40:46 - Fast & Furious 9

53:18 - Spider-Man Animatronic at Disneyland Avenger's Campus

58:19 - Maricar Ordered to Pay Nintendo FIFTY MILLION YEN

59:41 - Picard Season 1 so far...

1:10:25 - Disney+ Short Circuit (not the Johnny 5 movie)

1:14:40 - Lilo & Stitch Live Action Remake

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Wuhan coronavirus talk (wash your body parts, folks), a big Bud surprise, and Kirsten gets HYPER-CLEAR about the result of taking off one's clothes.

Star Trek: Picard, Clone Wars' final season, and more, including who would win in a fight? Harry Potter or Gandalf?

04:19 - Bud's Weekly Geek-Out: The Week in Geek , featuring stories from around the internet, from Radiohead to Studio Ghibli to Breath of the Wild

12:02 - Guinan coming to season 2 of Star Trek: Picard

16:18 - Captain Marvel 2 in the works w/ 'WandaVision' writer

18:04 - Coming soon: Star Wars The Clone Wars final season (February 21)

26:00 - Coming soon: Westworld season 3 (March 15)

35:24 - Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai release date confirmed for HBO Max animated series

47:02 - Wyatt Russell spotted filming The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

55:31 - io9 previews Dune, Saw 9, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and more

40:25 - Netflix puts ‘Mindhunter’ season 3 on ice, releases cast from contracts, due to David Fincher heading to LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS

59:51 - Reviews & Recommendaysh: Motherhacker (podcast)

1:01:41 - Reviews & Recommendaysh: The Rise of Kylo Ren (comic)

1:04:04 - TAKE OUR POLL: Who would win in a fight? Harry Potter or Gandalf?

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