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The History of the Grinch | Get Geekish Podcast #181
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Dr. Suess’s classic ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ has been a staple of holiday television, and for almost 55 years, and has remained there, despite two full remake movies. How did a curmudgeony green mountain creature that hates everyone find his way into the heart of the Christmas season and stay there for half a…
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Things Other Than Harry Potter That Turned 20 in 2021 – Get Geekish Podcast #180
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All the ads for ‘Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts’ force us to realize that the first Harry Potter came out in 2001…How the heck has it been twenty years?! The Potter Movies, Lord of the Rings, System of a Down’s ‘Toxicity’, and many other things that don’t seem that old are a almost…
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Squid Game: Love It Or Hate It? | Get Geekish Podcast #177
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‘Squid Game‘ has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, making Netflix some 900-million dollars and becoming a staple costume at every Halloween party in 2021. Millions of people love it, and millions don’t. Derek and Beano are split on loving and hating it and discuss why in this week’s podcast.
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Fictional Foods and Friends You’d – Get Geekish Podcast #177
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The Thanksgiving season is here! In this “special” holiday edition of the Get Geekish Podcast we talk about some of the imaginary food we’ve seen in movies and cartoons that we wish were real, as well as discuss who, among our favorite fiction characters, we would you like to see sitting around our turkey day…
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Bad Movie Sequels | Get Geekish Podcast#174
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-axs33-110eac3 Sometimes movies are made to have sequels. Sometimes sequels are made, even if they are not needed. And sometimes…sequels that should never have even been imagined get the green light. We talk about some of the worst sequels ever made and some others that might be awful, but we still like them anyways. What’s…
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Star Wars Sucks (According to George Lucas‘ Ex) | Get Geekish Podcast #172
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Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor behind the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as the ex-wife to George Lucas, is apparently furious over the new Star Wars sequels and thinks they butchered a legacy. I feel like I (mostly) disagree with her. But then again, Star Wars has become one of the biggest, and also…
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Does VHS Deserve A Renaissance? | Get Geekish Podcast #162
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Do VHS tapes deserve a renaissance? Vinyl had one, cassettes are trying to have one, could the nostalgic draw of VHS tapes be enough to start another marketing gimmick to bring a little bit of the 80s and 90s back to life? We discuss in this week’s podcast. Dust off that VCR! Kitchener store part…
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The Future of the Fantastic Four | Get Geekish Podcast #161
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With the release of the teaser trailer for phase four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we were all able to get excited about the next few years of Marvel movies in the works, and the very last graphic in that teaser gives us the Fantastic Four logo. We discuss what the future may hold for…
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Director’s Cuts and Extended Editions – Get Geekish Podcast #156
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With the release of the (eventual) release of The Justice League’s Snyder Cut we got to thinking about all the different movies that have had ‘director’s cuts’, ‘alternate editions’, ‘extended cuts’, and the like. Some of them are amazing, some of them are awful, and some of them make us question why one version or…
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Quarter-Sucking Arcade Games Were The Best | Get Geekish Podcast #154
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From Pac Man, Asteroids, and Galaga, to Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Lethal Enforcers. Arcade’s used to be the place to be and we have fond memories of pumping quarters into those cabinets. We discuss some of the best arcade games ever made and that fact that arcades (or video games in general) will never…
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Marvel Villains That Could/Should Join the MCU | Get Geekish Podcast #153
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is ripe for some big new villains to bring some chaos an havoc to the next generation of heroes. WandaVision got us all speculating nd thinking about what the future villains are going to be and we take a dive into discussing characters that may have already been hinted at, or…
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Sitcoms Part 2: The 80s, 90s, & 00s | Get Geekish Podcast #152
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We finish up part two of our trip down sitcom lane with the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. We reminisce through about exponentially growing list of sitcom TV shows, both good and bad, that have flooded the airwaves, and now our streaming services. What sitcom from this time period is your ‘go-to’ when it comes to…