Episode 53 - Now That You're Totally Uncomfortable - Week of 3/8/17
The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast
Release Date: 03/05/2017
The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast
The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the Star Wars novel (and graphic novel) Splinter of the Mind’s Eye (1978) to wrap up our month of Star Wars. Wasn’t this supposed to be the sequel? Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Deep Water (2022), messing with the schedule, John Q (2002), Blood For Dracula (1974), The Terror of Tiny Town (1938), Little Cigars (1973), Ten Little Indians (1989) Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Shoutouts: No new episode next week - scheduled week off 🙂 podcast...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015) as we continue our month of Star Wars. Sure, it was controversial, but was it any good? Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Kenobi, Gemini Man, The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1928) on Tubi, The Killer’s Game (2024), Death Race 2000 (1975), The Cancellation of Benny Hill (2025) Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Shoutouts: podcast network - go check them out! 🙂 - an awesome group of indie podcasters...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as we continue our month of Star Wars. The best of the bunch? Could be... Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Star Wars marathons, Secretary (2002), Baby’s birthday party, Time Warp part 3 on Tubi, boring Tom & Les again with Tolkien talk, Support The Girls (2018) on Max, the funniest movies you’ve never seen Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Shoutouts: podcast network - go check them out! 🙂 - an...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) as we kick off a month of Star Wars. We might have opinions 😀. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Woolly mammoth mice, TV adventures with Liz, an important announcement, The Silencers (1966) on Tubi, Ten Inch Hero (2007) on Tubi, reaction videos Neuromancer came out in 1984 - my mistake 🙂 Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Shoutouts: podcast network - go check them out! 🙂 - an awesome group of indie...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of The Nutty Professor (1963) as our April teaser for Horror Month. Jerry Lewis’ best movie? Opinions may vary. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Still on Daredevil and The White Lotus, artistic kids, doing the homework, recording options, accidentally watching Troma films, drunk EMT theater, some retro TV shows Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Shoutouts: Best wishes to artist Drew Struzan, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s podcast network - go check...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our Casting Call for a 1978 TV series of The Shadow. Who knows what lurks? Probably not us 😛. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Spring cleaning, Grey’s Anatomy is back, The White Lotus, a bit of ADHD talk, family stuff, The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) on Tubi, full movies on YouTube, the Repo at the OK Corral (Life’s Been Good) Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Shoutouts: podcast network - go check them out! 🙂 - an awesome group of indie podcasters supporting each...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the Super-Pets, starting with the introduction of Krypto in 1955. And there might be more than you imagine. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Throwing out your back, The White Lotus on HBO, Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+, Invincible on Prime, some ranting, Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters on Prime, on YouTube (especially the episode on Turkish Star Wars), a special appearance lol, Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero Epic Collection, DC Finest The Origin of Plastic Man collection, dashcam videos...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents comic series, started by Wally Wood in 1965. Indie comics were pretty cool back then too. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Invincible season 3, Hysteria!, Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Part 2 on Tubi, Rock n Roll High School and Bubba Ho-Tep with Joe Bob Briggs at the Texas Theatre, justifiable divorce, curious neighbor Tom was still having some sinus issues, so please forgive the coughing and such that I couldn’t really edit out 🙁 Also, this...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the first Marvel-DC collaboration, 1975’s The Marvelous Wizard of Oz. Note: this was before the hero crossovers. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Rewatching some horror movies, The Wild Robot (2024), a big tangent, First Men In The Moon (1964) on Tubi, a documentary about the Mandela Effect, the Space Ice channel on YouTube, escaping from a hospital, guest appearance with Alexa, a drunk bartender, child endangerment Disclaimer: a lot of jokes about drug use. They mostly reference a...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the “rural purge” of 1971, where the TV networks canceled several of their hit shows all at once. Lots of tangents in here… Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Finished Ozark, parental controls (a rant), Jeff Dunham at the AAC, Ray William Johnson on YouTube (true crime), more true crime gems Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Shoutouts: podcast network - go check them out! 🙂 - an awesome group of indie podcasters supporting each other; find a podcast...
info_outlineThe Fellowship is pleased to present our quarterly crowdfunding spotlight episode. This is where we go through the Kickstarter site to find some of the comics we support (or would support if we were made of money). So please check out the links below. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Eric (Terry Pratchett novel) - hilarious, as most Pratchett books are [Les was talking about Magic Kingdom For Sale-Sold! by Terry Brooks. -m]
Arena football - Les has season tickets to Texas Revolution games
Thing Classic - collection that reprints the Thing's solo series from the '80s
Check out our sponsor page! Head to the website and click on the banners for Things From Another World and Make Mine Indie! (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. And check out tons of great indie comics in the MMIndie catalog. And thank you!)
Sponsor note: the new Make Mine Indie will be available on March 20th :-)
Kickstarter campaigns to check out:
Monsters and Other Scary Shit: A Monster Anthology
Modern Animals - from friends of the Fellowship Fifth Dimension Comics
Transmigrant Interdimensional Taxicab Service #4 (T.I.T.S.)
Rifftrax Live '17 - not a comic, but who cares? It's Rifftrax! :-)
Fear the Night: Irish Ghost Story Anthology
Jailbait & Trailer Trash: A Mature Comic Book Graphic Novel
Honorable Mention: The Monster of Phantom Lake stage musical [already closed]
Honorable Mention: Femme Magnifique
Honorable Mention: Elder Dice
Note: A couple of our picks are based in the EU, so currency conversion charges may apply, depending on your credit card company. In my experience they are minimal, but they do exist. -m
Picks for the week of 3/8:
Earth 2 Society #22 - the final issue
Harrow County #21
Low #16
I.T.: The Secret World of Modern Banking #1
Green Valley #6
Copperhead #11
Honorable Mention: California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before the Mamas and the Papas [For those who didn't get the reference, Sophie Tucker was a brassy singer in the '50s & '60s. -m]
Honorable Mention: Redline #1
Shoutouts:
The upcoming Kickstarter campaign for The Golden Guard
Manny the Martyr - thanks for letting us use your music
#PodernFamily - an awesome group of indie podcasters supporting each other
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