Episode 78 - Since We've Got Past the Donkey - Week of 9/6/17
The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast
Release Date: 09/03/2017
The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast
The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the career of legendary actor Dick Van Dyke. We wanted to celebrate him since he turns 100 in a few weeks, and he’s done some great stuff to boot. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Watching a lot of YouTube, The Cocoanuts (1929) on Tubi, old TV & movie tangents, The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956), The VelociPastor (2017), working on next year’s topics, cutting back on bodycam videos Please note: no new episodes until the beginning of January - happy holidays to all, and we’ll see...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the career of legendary effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen. Groundbreaking doesn’t even begin to describe his contributions to film. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Parrots in bodycam videos lol, the very first LeAnn film review, under the weather, so many tangents, Count Dracula (1970) on Tubi, 4 Milfs vs Zombies (2015), The Minis (2007), losing faith in humanity Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Producer’s note: We record using Discord since Skype went...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our Casting Call for American versions of James Bond. We’re covering several timeframes here, so buckle up. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Weapons on HBO Max, MeTV Toons got Terrytoons, Friday the 13th stuff, the Rifftrax edition of HG Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come (1979) on Tubi and others, Yongary, Monster of the Deep (1967), Burn Witch Burn aka Night of the Eagle (1962), Spooktacular! on Prime, big bag o’ nothing Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Producer’s...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the 1990 TV film Jekyll & Hyde, wrapping up Horror Month. Michael Caine and Cheryl Ladd - what could possibly go wrong? Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: More Halloween rewatches, a couple of new horror series, the Jensen Report(™), The Thin Lizzy Story (2008) on Tubi and others, Frankenthug (2005), Don’t F*** In The Woods (2016) and the sequel (2022), The Big Bus (1976) Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Producer’s note: We record using Discord since...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the 1971 Hammer film Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, rolling along with Horror Month. Another different take on the story, with some other historical stuff added. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Entertaining small children, discovering Halloween lol, The Vampires Night Orgy (1973) on Tubi, Blood Games (1990, Les called it Blood Sport), Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985), caught up on the scheduled movies, some bodycam “fun” “What’s Opera, Doc?” was the title I couldn’t...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the 1960 Hammer film The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, getting back into Horror Month. An interesting take on the story, with a different role for Christopher Lee. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Rogue One (2016) and other tangents, The Man From Planet X (1951) on Tubi and others, Primitive War (2025) in theaters, watching Weapons (2025) through reaction videos Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Producer’s note: We record using Discord since Skype went away and,...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our conversation with Madeleine Holly-Rosing, who’s kicking off a new Kickstarter for Mystery at Pike’s Peak #3-4. Get in now, and you can catch up with the first issues too!. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Internet problems, TV updates, finished Police Squad! (so good), Jack-O (1995) and other terrible movies, Driving With John and other YouTube shorts, a singing debut, dashcam videos And go get in on Mystery at Pike’s Peak with the early bird specials - And keep an eye out for the next...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the 1941 film Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, kicking off Horror Month ‘25. Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Ingrid Bergman - nuff said. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Andor update, starting Gen V, keeping up with Horror Month, Police Squad (1982) series, a true crime channel on YouTube, Batman Day at the local comic shop, In Search Of (197x) series on YouTube, YT algorithms and the "bro" phenomenon Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Producer’s note: We record using...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our Casting Call for some lesser-known villains that we’d like to see in upcoming Superman movies. Some deep cuts here, but plenty of fun. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Illness plus a scheduled week off, Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (2025) on Netflix (spoilers), a meteor in Panama, Suzi Q (2019) and Peeping Tom (1960) on Tubi, some comics recommendations, Hopscotch (1980) on YouTube and others Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Producer’s note: We record using...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It’s been around for 40 years now, though it only ran for 10. And boy, was it a good one. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Illness last week, some of Shyamalan’s movies, TV updates, War of the Satellites (1958) on Tubi, The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) on Tubi, Nobody 2 (2025) in theaters, Big Bag o’ Nothing(™) The kid from the Looney Tunes cartoons was Ralph Phillips, in “From A to Z-Z-Z-Z” in 1954 and “Boyhood Daze” in 1957. Come see the...
info_outlineThe Fellowship is pleased to present our latest Q&A episode. Topics for the questions this time include horror comics and a look at our own podcast. And then there was the almost false start. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
I was invited into a very cool group of podcasters on Twitter - lots of support and friendliness
Justice League Action - new series on Cartoon Network; good stuff
Thomas' Big Bag o' Nothing® - unsuccessful vacation (as in not relaxing)
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!)
Many thanks to Kenny Gore ( @Kensington_Gore ) and Win Charles ( @wisdomoffashion ) for providing the questions.
Picks for the week of 9/6:
Samurai Jack: Quantum Jack #1 (IDW)
Rocket Girl #9 (Image)
Star Wars Adventures #1 (IDW)
Nancy Drew Hardy Boys: The Big Lie #6 (Dynamite)
Kingsman: The Red Diamond #1 (Image)
Elsewhere #2 (Image) [Apologies to Sumeyye Kesgin for the mispronunciation :-) ]
Honorable Mention: Manifest Destiny vol 5 TP (Image)
Honorable Mention: The Black Beetle: Kara Bocek collection (Dark Horse)
Honorable Mention: Actionverse: The Stray #1 (Action Lab)
Shoutouts:
Our thoughts are with those dealing with Harvey (200-300 miles south of us)
Condolences to the family and friends of film director Tobe Hooper
Also condolences to the family and friends of Charlie Stubbs, a local comics fan (and friend of the shop Thomas works at)
Manny the Martyr - thanks for letting us use your music
#PodernFamily - an awesome group of indie podcasters supporting each other
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Question of the Week: not this week. But we'd like to do another Q&A show in the future, so please send us your questions :-)
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