Geek Show Podcast

My job has me driving all over Baltimore, DC and Virginia, which sucks. What sucks harder is listening to the radio. It's not the bland standardized music that makes me insane, is the annoying commercials. In marketing they say repetition is recognition, which is why they'll just spout off the same 1-800 number 4 times in a row, 6 times an hour. But for me, it was the reason I bought commercial free satellite radio, and then moved on to a full schedule of Podcasts.

One of my favorite podcasts right now is The Geek Show. 5 or 6 geeks sit around a table for an hour or two a week (sometimes they also upload mid-cycle additional content), and talk about the latest comic book news, sci-fi movies and TV, and any other assorted geekery that's going on. Lots of inside geek jokes about Saturday morning cartoons and quotes from Star Wars make this an exclusive for our people.

When I first started listening, the story that got me hooked was about one of the guys driving down the sidewalk on a little scooter. He saw these two jocks, and one had on a Cobra T-shirt, so drove over and stopped in front of them and said accusingly "Quick, who's your favorite member of Cobra!" and when the guy didn't have an answer, he yelled "HA! Posers" and burned out on his little scooter. The visual image that left in my mind, of a true fan of a franchise defending it's honor, and the fact that he was yelling at guys twice his size, then relying on a scooter to get away, locked me in.

Go into Itunes, find The Geek Show and subscribe to it, you're here reading this, so I already know you'd like it. Even if you don't subscribe, go to their website and listen to their interview with Chris Claremont, who wrote The Uncanny Xmen for 17 years (1975-1991), and is now returning to pickup where he left off.