Geekerati Radio

Comic Con begins July 25th and the Geeks are Going!

 Do you ever listen to or watch the bonus features on your DVDs? We do and we want to talk about what we like and don't like about special features.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was one of the big summer releases in 2007 and the Geekerati Team are big Pottermaniacs. We discussed our love of the franchise and our excitement about the upcoming film in this archived episode.

 Matt Forbeck is one of the busiest freelance game designers in the hobby industry. His past work includes content for games ranging from Dungeons and Dragons to Deadlands and his fiction content ranges from original SF/F like Carpathia and Amortals , kid friendly media tie-in work like Endless Quest books and Secret of the Spiritkeeper , and adult media-tie in work for Wizards of the Coast a...

Our 8th episode featured our second interview and our first with a content creator, in this case Science Fiction and Fantasy author Susan Palwick. Susan Palwick is an American SF/F  author who began her professional career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1985. Raised in northern New Jersey, Palwick attended Princeton University and...

From the Original Star Trek Series to Jericho, fan uprisings have helped shape television entertainment. Shows rise and fall on more than ratings and sometimes a passionate fanbase can encourage networks to pickup or continue a show on the edge of cancellation. 

In 2007, there was a brief "Blog Like it's the End of the World" meme going around the blogosphere where bloggers were supposed to do a few blog posts as if they were currently experiencing a Zombie Apocalypse. The Geeks used this as an opportunity to discuss Zombie Movies, The Coming Apocalypse, and Internet Memes.

 We had our first on air interview in our June 11, 2007 show.  Luke Y Thompson , then of OC Weekly,  joined us to discuss Independent Genre films and OC Weekly's June 8, 2007 Summer Blockbuster Issue. Luke Y Thompson is a graduate of USC's School of Cinema Television who has been editor-in-chief and staff writer at many irreverent humor and pop-culture news sites including Nerd...

In 2018 we take the interactive nature of "television" entertainment for granted, but in 2007 when this episode aired the concept of Entertainment as Dialogue with the audience was relatively new. The Geeks discussed the potential for digital platforms to transform television shows into choose your own adventure style entertainment.

In this episode we discussed the early 2007 summer film season, television's "off season" season, and the Cineplexity party game. In the mid-2000s television networks like USA created what we at Geekerati called the "off season" season during which they ran shows like MONK, BURN NOTICE, and WHITE COLLAR. These networks used the hiatus of the bigger networks as an opportunity to promote and distrib...

The Upfronts are an annual gathering where the television networks formally introduce their upcoming fall line up to advertisers. In this episode, the Geeks discussed the upcoming (2007) season. The 2007-2008 season was eventually interrupted with a major strike, a strike we covered in later episodes. 

This mildly embarrassing first episode aired on May 14, 2007. In it the Geeks talked about the exciting line up of films slated to come out during the summer of 2007. Even though there are minor tech issues, we engaged in an interesting discussion about the film slate and set the stage for a show that streamed for over 100 episodes.