Episode 61 - There's the Joke Right There - Week of 5/3/17
The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast
Release Date: 04/30/2017
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 preview of the summer movie season. So many movies, so many different genres, and we talk about, well, a lot of them. Some we want to see, and a few we don't. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Thomas' Big Bag o' Nothing™ - working a lot
Getting my kid hooked on Weird Al
One of us went to C2E2 and had a blast - schmoozing with comics people, getting autographs, getting the con crud, and a string of name dropping :-)
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We're using the summer movie list at MovieInsider.com with a few references to IMDB's list
[Note: music for The LEGO Batman Movie was by Lorne Balfe. -m]
[Note: I could not have been more wrong about Annabelle (2014). It did just fine. -m]
Picks for the week of 5/3:
James Bond: Hammerhead hardcover trade (Dynamite)
Courier #2 (Zenescope)
Medisin #1 (Action Lab Danger Zone)
Several Image First titles coming out this week - $1 copies of first issues of Image titles from the recent past
Lilith Dark #1 (Alterna)
Youngblood #1 (Image)
Honorable Mention: Bloodshot Reborn #0 second printing (Valiant)
Honorable Mention: Gladstone's School for World Conquerors hardcover trades (now an Image title)
Honorable Mention: Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Goblin's Last Stand (Marvel)
Shoutouts:
Thanks to Les for being here even though he's sick :-)
Manny the Martyr - thanks for letting us use your music
#PodernFamily - an awesome group of indie podcasters supporting each other
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