Marginally Geeky Show

What would you do if Elon Musk showed up to your work out of no where and offered you a job doing what you do now but instead you would be doing it with a team of elite professionals solving crimes and catching bad guys? With a hefty pay raise of course. Would you take it? Thats what Sinclair Rutherford, a rookie cop hoping to make detective, did and became the newest members of The Authorities. N...

Everyone knows when you first start dating the sex if great and once you get married, it dies out. Or does it? Should it? Once kids enter the picture, sex exits it. But does it have to? Can you claim to be champion of equal rights if you enjoy subjugating someone or being subjugated in the bedroom. This month we discuss Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel which attempts to answer some of those que...

Mythicality: the quality or state of being that embodies a synergistic coalescence of curiosity, creativity, and tomfoolery, ideally experienced in the context of friendship and intended to bring goodwill to the universe. See, it is a real word… at least on Urban Dictionary. This month we look at YouTube sensations Rhett & Link’s book about how they met and how their lifelong friendship has em...

Video games are a huge business taking in even more money than most movie studios so there is no surprise that economies have grown up around them. People pay good money to help level up their characters, gold farm and do all of the other boring and hard things that get in the way of gaming. And even though people who do those jobs are still playing a video game, are they not still in sweatshops w...

What if women all around the world suddenly had a power that could make them extremely dangerous? A power that could kill with a simple touch or destroy a car with a focused thought? Would they take over the world? Rise up and seek vengeance against those who have oppressed them? This month week look at The Power by Naomi Alderman in which that very thing happens. Host: Eugene Stephens Guest: Jenn...

Space, the final frontier. We live in an age where we are about to start taking manned trips to the cosmos but what do we know about what we will find out there? This month we discuss Neil deGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry which takes a Cliff's Notes version of how the universe and all of space works. Get your thinking caps on for this one! Host: Eugene Stephens Guest: Ray Andrew...

It's our first author interview on the show! We have the pleasure of interviewing Scott Meyer, author of the Magic 2.0 series. Mr. Meyer has also written several other books including The Authorities, Run Program and Master of Formalities. He is also known for his online comic, Basic Instructions. We can't wait to geek out with him over his creations. Host: Eugene Stephens Guest: Jennifer Hetzel ,...

Brit the Elder has a problem, a big problem! So she goes to the Phillip for help, but tells him he can't tell Brit the Younger which is a big problem for Phillip. Meanwhile Martin accidentally proposes to Gwen which is a big problem and discovers a shadowy figure trying to get Phillip which is also a big problem. And even though they are wizards, magic doesn't seem to be the answer this time... wh...

After Jeff points out that all of the wizards have nearly been killed multiple times, they decide to start training and creating spells (macros) that can be used in battle. Jeff is tasked with creating an army for them to practice against and settles on dragons which are too predictable So he does something rash to improve them and it quickly gets out of hand. Now the wizards must split up and try...

After the events in the previous two books, Martin and Phillip find themselves in Phillip's rumpus room about to watch the second movie in their now weekly movie night when Phillip and several of their friends and fellow wizards disappear. They are stranded on top of a mountain with an old man describing a quest they must undertake. But who sent them on this quest and why? Stripped of their powers...

You're a wizard in midevil England. Well, actually your a computer geek who found a file that controls all of existance and use macros to do things that appear to be magic and you're passing yourself off as a wizard... same thing. Thats exactly what has happened to Martin, Phillip and the rest of thier friends when they get an invitation to visit Atlantis; a real place where all of the lady wizard...

In 1977 a little known movie, Star Wars, would go on to change the world of science fiction movies forever. But it didn't stop there. It changed how toys were licensed for movies; how everything was licensed for movies. It spawned fan clubs, costuming clubs, books, TV shows, cartoons, video games, etc. Star Wars literally seeped into every aspect of not just American pop culture but the culture of...

There's two sides to every story and in some cases a lot more than that. Everyone knows the story of Cinderella and how she managed to escape her horrible life and find love with a prince to live happily ever after. At least, that's her version. But what happened in the eyes of her stepsisters? This month we're planning on finding out what happened from some of the other players viewpoints. April'...

When you think of falling in love with vampires, werewolves and other creatures of the night, most people probably think of Twilight. It was wildly popular and managed to get people a little hot and bothered for being a YA book series. Imagine that being a 5 and turning it up to 11 by adding demons, hard core sex and violence. This month we read the first book in the Demonica series that does just...

Dating is hard. When arranged marriages lost momentum in most of the world, people started selecting thier own mates and usually it was someone who lived on the same street or at least in the same town. But now with the Internet and sites like eHarmony and OK Cupid as well as apps likes Facebook and Tinder, the choices are near limitless. So has technology made dating harder or has it always been...

If you found a hidden file on a server that controlled all of reality, what would you do? Increase you bank account? Fly? Time Travel? So when and where would you go once you screw things up and get the feds on your case? Perhaps back to midevil England where you could use your new powers to perform "magic." This month we do exactly that in the first book of the Magic 2.0 series! January's book wi...

We've read a lot of books that have taken us on adventures to space, alternate dimensions and back in time. We've learned about how to hopefully save the planet, why it's ok to be weird on the internet and what was really going on behind the scenes during the filming of Star Wars. But not everyone was able to keep up or able to share their thoughts. This week we're going back and taking a second l...

Imagine you wake up in the future and instead of being defrosted from being cryogenically frozen, you find out you've been turned into a computer program? Oh and the world is about to end? And you might be the last best hope for humanity's survival in space? This month we get to explore the cosmos with a guy who goes from visiting a comic con to hopefully saving the future... with 3D printers! Nov...

There are certain pillars in geeky culture that are expected to be known. Star Wars. Lord of the Rings. Monty Python. This month we read one of those pillars. What happens when the last human in the galaxy has to find his way around it with nothing but the clothes on his back? Grab a towel and come along with us for an adventure! October's book will be: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Tayl...

Climate change is a fact and yet there are those who refuse to believe it. We need to start making changes to the way we live and treat this planet or this planet will stop being ours. There are some big changes we can make but in the end it may be the small changes that save us. Bill Nye "The Science Guy" discusses recycling, alterative fuels and the other things we can do to help save Earth from...

In a post-apocalyptic world where most of the populous has become sterile, women who are able to give birth have become rare. But instead of being able to use this to their advantage, they have become breeding stock to the wealthy and powerful. Written by Margaret Atwood in 1985, The Handmaid's Tale is a terryfiying look at a future where women have lost almost all rights, even to those over their...

Big Brother is watching you. We've all heard that saying about how the government is monitoring your actions but this is the birthplace of it. Before we started installing cameras on every public building and giving up our private info to social media sites, George Orwell envisioned a dystopia where everything you do is monitored by the government to include your very thoughts. The scary part, muc...

Being a geek these days is pretty sweet but it didn't always used to be that way. We were shunned for liking certain things and perhaps a little socially awkward. No, you're weird! Thank goodness we have awesome geeks like Felicia Day to help make geek chic. This month we discuss her memoir and share some of our own geeky coming of age stories. We also announce our next book for May; 1984 by Georg...

Abraham Lincoln is still considered to be one, if not the greatest president of the United States. So the idea of using him in historical fiction can be tricky especially if you plan on having him do things like behead vampires. But Seth Grahame-Smith managed to walk the line and deliver. This month we share our impressions of what our 16th president was supposedly up to and why he really had to d...

For a large portion of the population when you ask them about "their princess" they will probably respond with Diana. But for us geeks and nerds "our princess" will always be Leia. In honor of Carrie Fisher's passing, we read her last book, The Princess Diarist, where she recounts her time during the filming of the original Star Wars trilogy. Told only the way she could, it's sassy, funny and down...