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147 - Which Was Hilarious, Of Course - Week of 2/6/19

The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast

Release Date: 02/03/2019

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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of Christmas spirit and how we get into the holiday mood. This has been kind of a rough year, so we have some mixed feelings here. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂.   What we're up to this week: Invincible season 2 (Prime), Sleeping While Standing (2022 graphic novel), survived the holiday, Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Stories of Joe R. Lansdale (2023 collection), bingeing Gunsmoke again   It seems that background noise was a thing this week - sorry about that😞   And here's the Les was...

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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the PBS show Reading Rainbow. This show had a big impact on children's literacy in a certain generation, and we think reading is awesome. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂.   What we're up to this week: YouTube tea (the recent Pokimane scandal, among others), social media tangents, short week long podcast to edit lol, Retrofan magazine with a Bob Clampett article, Thankskilling (2009) on Tubi if you dare, scammers and cultural differences   Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News...

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The Fellowship is pleased to present a slightly different Casting Call, in which we select new hosts for some famous game shows. Some of us may have taken this more seriously than others😉. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂.   What we're up to this week: IT problems, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), the Bored Ape festival disaster, a on YouTube, The Holdovers (2023) in theaters, It's A Wonderful Knife (2023) in theaters, stumbled across the old Green Hornet TV series on YouTube, reruns of The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour   Come see the...

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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the 1948 comics series Funnyman. This was a Siegel & Shuster creation which came at kind of a rough point in their careers, and it's kind of a hidden gem. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂.   What we're up to this week: Gen V (and boy oh boy does this start a tangent-fest), Invincible, the Halloween Ends rant redux, rewatching The Red Green Show, the FanboyFlicks channel on YouTube, scambaiters (specifically Misfit Corner Scams)   Here's the for the Funnyman issues   Come see the articles...

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The Fellowship is pleased to present more Horror Month 2023, where we'll be discussing the sci-fi horror movies of the 1950s. Our final entry is the 1951 classic The Thing From Another World. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂.   What we're up to this week: Gen V (2023) on Prime, tangents on streaming services and other shows, check us out on the 's Halloween episode, some bonus commentary on It! The Terror From Beyond Space, playing with the show's schedule for next year, Happy Halloween🙂   Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News...

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The Fellowship is pleased to present more Horror Month 2023, where we'll be discussing the sci-fi horror movies of the 1950s. Next up is the 1958 classic It! The Terror From Beyond Space. Plus our usual random talk, geek news, and tangents🙂.   What we're up to this week: The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) on Netflix, Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House on Hulu about McKamey Manor (not the best doc), barely keeping up with Horror Month, enjoying the movie for this week, Mission: Impossible on Pluto TV   Come see the articles we talked about in the...

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The Fellowship is pleased to present our #AllTheHorror episode for 2023. Amelia from Pitney and Amelia's Bitchen Boutique joins us to discuss Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958). Plus our random talk and tangents in overdrive🙂.   Many thanks to Amelia for joining us - and go check out her awesome show! Pitney and Amelia's Bitchen Boutique X/Twitter: , , ,   The ATH theme was written and performed by Sean Faust    (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. Thank you!)   Shoutouts:  podcast network - go check them out! 🙂...

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The Fellowship is pleased to present more Horror Month 2023, where we'll be discussing the sci-fi horror movies of the 1950s. Next up is the 1958 classic The Fly. Plus our usual random talk, geek news, and tangents🙂.   What we're up to this week: Gen V on Prime, Get Out (2017), assumptions and expectations (a tangent, not surprisingly), busy with podcast stuff, the Bone omnibus, slow week, more GoodBadFlicks reviews, burning out on Match Game reruns, YouTube ads   Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment !    (Click through the TFAW...

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The Fellowship is pleased to present our first installment of Horror Month 2023, where we'll be discussing the sci-fi horror movies of the 1950s. First on the agenda is the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Plus our usual random talk, geek news, and tangents🙂.   What we're up to this week: October TV, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023) in theaters, a movie tangent, keeping up with our movies, trying NOT to buy Baldur's Gate 3, the Halloween event in Dungeons & Dragons Online, documentaries about Dave Stevens and The Ventures, the GoodBadFlicks YouTube channel...

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The Fellowship is pleased to present our newest Casting Call, this time for a 1968 Halloween movie. Yes, that Halloween. Ten years makes a huge difference in that timeframe, so this will be interesting. Plus our usual random talk, geek news, and tangents🙂.   What we're up to this week: True crime on YouTube, a string of tangents (please don't make me list them all out😉), home improvement, no comment lol, warming up for Horror Month woohoo   If this is your first time listening, (a) welcome, and (b) Steve is the NSA guy who listens to our show**   **Don't worry,...

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More Episodes
The Fellowship is pleased to present our latest Casting Call! This time we're looking at the 1974 live-action Shazam TV series. It ran for two seasons (alongside the Isis series) on Saturday mornings back in the day. We've got heroes, villains, some varying interpretations, and a whole lot of other stuff. Plus our usual strange perspectives, as well as our picks of the week.
 
Announcements:
Come hang out with us! We have monthly meetups on 2nd Saturdays at our local comic shop (A Galaxy Called Dallas in Garland, TX); details on Facebook & Twitter to come soon
 
What we're up to this week:
The Kickstarter for Boston Metaphysical Society: The Spirit of Rebellion is live now, and runs through Feb. 22, so get out there and back it!
Still reading Hellboy, and just barely got back on the internet in time to record this
Under the weather, rearranging the house (finding comics), and reading comic strips online (tangent on the new Nancy strip)
Big Bag o' Nothing - also not feeling well
Watched a Twitch stream about the super blood wolf moon thing, check out science communicator Skylias
 
Check out our sponsor page! Head to the website and click on the banners for Things From Another World! (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. Thank you!)
 
Here's the intro clip of the show that we mentioned. And I mentioned it at the end, but you might need to Google some names for this one. We got a bit obscure at times (even though Liz forgot The Princess Bride! 😛 ).
 
Picks for the week of 2/6:
Wrong Earth #6 (Ahoy Comics)
Punchline #4 (Antarctic Press)
Batman The Maxx: Arkham Dreams #4 (DC/IDW)
The Girl In The Bay #1 (Dark Horse/Berger)
Gunhawks one-shot (Marvel)
Lann collection (Hermes Press)
Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #5 (Dark Horse) - Netflix series coming soon
Feathers trade (BOOM! Studios)
Honorable Mention: Red Sonja #1 (Dynamite)
 
Shoutouts:
Condolences to the family & friends of actor Dick Miller, who died this week age 90, and makeup artist Matt Rose as well
With the cold weather all over the US right now, please remember to bring your pets inside - if you're cold, they're cold
This was a banner month for the podcast - thank you to all of you who are involved, and welcome to all new listeners 🙂 
Pop Goes The Culture podcast - thanks for inviting us into your network 🙂
Manny the Martyr - thanks for letting us use your music; check them out by clicking the link
#PodernFamily - an awesome group of indie podcasters supporting each other; find a podcast on literally anything by searching the hashtag
You, dear listeners! Thanks for listening, and if you haven't yet, subscribe so you won't miss next week's exciting episode :-)
 
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