Night of the Living Geeks

What will the world look like in the near future? A question that seemed fun and fancy free when asked and fully freighted now. But step into the future with us when we try to predict upcoming trends and, in one case, an anti-trend. It's a fun hour, leave your worries by the door they'll still be there when you leave! Our art is by @ManOverMars and our intro and outro music is Dansez by the band F...

Friends, have you voted yet? Do you perhaps need something to keep you company while you wait in line? Or maybe something to prevent you from doomscrolling your way through the day? Well, then let us offer you about an hour's respite from the election with our review of Smith and Jones (who, frankly, we'd definitely vote for!).

This month we're taking a look at the Rosicrucians! Not the AMORC order itself, but recounting what it was like to grow up essentially in the shadow of their museum and headquarters in San Jose, California! Yep, your hosts lived a small handful of blocks from this unusual property in the heart of Silicon Valley! Perhaps we'll discover just how much influence it held in our paranormal development.

Hello! One Talk à Deux coming up straight out of the oven hot and fresh just for you! We express our bi-monthly gratitude at the everyday wonders around us and prepare to segue for our lives in the next episode! Our art is by @ManOverMars and our intro and outro music is Dansez by the band Fasions. We're a proud member of the Night of the Living Geeks network of podcasts, feel free to donate to th...

Well, here's something new for your week...our review of New Earth! We'll spare you all the superfluous "New"s and instead point out that we forgot how solid this story was. It's one part Freaky Friday and two parts Night of the Living Dead! Also, don't forget to vote! That's super important that you do that. Because our next episode will literally land on Election Day!

We're talking about 1988's Beetlejuice in this culture club episode because the sequel came out only a month ago, and only a month after we recorded it! We talk about unpopular truths and I'm pretty sure I'm right (Hi, I [Nick] edited this one so it's me writing the description, how are you?) about which hand the Statue of Liberty is holding her torch in but while editing I had a crisis of confide...

Naturally, we had to follow Bad Wolf with The Parting of the Ways! We look back at the first season finale of Modern Who and remember what it was like to experience this all for the first time, what a bigger surprise it would have been if we didn't know a regeneration was coming, and how the effects hold up halfway decently for an almost 20 year old story!

October is here and, with it, spooky season has arrived in full force (despite the very not fall-like temperatures here in California)! So what better month for us to do our very first vampire story and it's a corker!! Seb brings us the tale of David Farrant and his efforts to rid London of the vampire in Highgate Cemetery. Mind you, he doesn't kick butt quite as well as Buffy did, but this story...

Better late than never is what we always say! While this episode posting may have been quite delayed, it is still jam packed with some weather, dark thoughts and laughs, and it’s very bovine-tastic. Our art is by @ManOverMars and our intro and outro music is Dansez by the band Fasions. We're a proud member of the Night of the Living Geeks network of podcasts, feel free to donate to them at patreon...

If watching Eccleston's penultimate episode this week has taught us anything, it's that even the deep future of humanity is going to still be fixated on late 20th and early 21st century pop culture! Your guess as to why is just as good as ours! But it is a trope amongst others that we discuss this time...a long with why the heck the Daleks decided to play a long game with humanity instead of just...

He would have gotten away with it, too! If it wasn't for those meddling kids and their crotchety old Time Lord! Yes, this week we watched The Sensorites! Honestly, a pretty good six-parter that wasn't exactly fast-paced and full of action, but also didn't really have pacing problems either. What it did have was one really crazy Sensorite who did not want humans (or their Time Lord) anywhere near t...

Happy September, everyone! Just because it's the start of meteorological Fall that doesn't mean that we're not pining for a tropical escape before the weather here starts turning cool(er). So this month PCL goes Hawaiian as we take a look at an unusual CEIII case from the mid-1940s on Oahu and make potential connections to an early 19th century case from the other side of the Pacific!

Man do we hope you like tangents because we were on something this episode and you can tell Silly Season has started from the intro! Is astrology Good, Actually? Plus a Clarkson's Farm update and some of the meanest things we've ever said. Are we proud of these mean things? ....I mean, yeah, kinda, in a way... And then we draft our favorite days! Our art is by @ManOverMars and our intro and outro...

Well, folks, we were warned. We were warned that The Mutants was going to be a bit of a slog. And let us tell you, it was definitely a bit of a slog. Especially after Fear Her. But! It wasn't all bad. We worked our magic and found what we really enjoyed about this story: the costuming, the sets, Jo, Stubbs & Cotton, and just how utterly bonkers episode six is! So sit back, grab a cup of whatever m...

We discuss the weirdest movies this Wednesday! And through some cosmic plan we hyperfocus on certain topics often such as sportsball, food, and World of Warcraft. This episode does not disappoint. We also review all things nerdy, and put cheaters on notice. Our art is by @ManOverMars and our intro and outro music is Dansez by the band Fasions. We're a proud member of the Night of the Living Geeks...

Well, we have a saying around here, folks...They can't all be great. And when that happens, we do our best to try and Sleep No More it into something we would have liked. With Fear Her, honestly, we did our best. We really tried, but it just isn't something we liked much at all. This episode actually makes Raygun's breakdancing look good.

August is here and with it we take a look at two different Merlins! Two Merlins, however, who both have interesting ties to UFOlogy. First seen in our second episode as All Night with the Living Geeks, Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II was a mutton-chopped feature of the Alien Highway movie. Frankly, without his efforts we wouldn't have that stretch of Highway 375 named The Alien Highway. Then, we take...

Hey, have you ever wondered about....... REVENGE? Well so have we, though we are alas too pure and good to have ever actually gotten real REVENGE so we discuss what we did instead. Then we chat a lot about a show that Classi is getting back into! What celestial body would you fist fight if you could? And would you want to raise a clone of yourself? But the bulk of the episode, as every fourth epis...

Well, friends, we were right! The Invasion of Time definitely influences the creation of Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS! This time around, though, the TARDIS is scooped up by salvagers during a vulnerable moment and then the race is on to locate Clara and fix the engines before everything goes to heck!

Welcome to Wednesday, winners! We dig in deep on our World of Warcraft thoughts and experiences before asking an age-old question about what skills we could spontaneously master. For our culture club we watched Clarkson's Farm and learn a lot about SOIL and boy do we have thoughts! Our art is by @ManOverMars and our intro and outro music is Dansez by the band Fasions. We're a proud member of the N...

Friends, we are back in more ways than one! After a nice summer break after Ncuti's first season wrapped, not only are we back with a review of the 4th Doctor story The Invasion of Time, but the NOTLG website is back up and running! So when we say check the story notes, you absolutely can once again!

Hello and welcome once again! Did you think we were done talking about allergies? Oh you foolish mortal, no, we are all Mother Nature's bitch and she will punish us for our hubris! We talk serving size lies and pies before moving on to our activity in which our deepest secrets are laid bare before you like Natalie Imbruglia once sang. Are you a cupcaker or an apple piesman? Do you prefer the cheug...

Friends summer is here and that means one thing: reruns! Wait, you don't watch regular old broadcast TV anymore? Well, then how do you get your reruns?! Ah, yes, streaming. This month, we've grabbed hold of our Paramount+ subscriptions, fired up the old boob tube, and watched an episode of the original Star Trek series in which the crew of the Enterprise accidentally abduct two humans from Earth 1...

Well, here we are friends. At the end...of the season (not of everything, don't worry!). The Third Wave of Who (#thirdwavewho) is well underway and we've wrapped our season with Empire of Death! It certainly gave us a lot to chew on and discuss. And while we enjoyed the episode overall, there were some aspects of it that just didn't stick the landing. But the only way out is through, so let's get...

Holy smokes, friends! The Legend of Ruby Sunday...the first part of our season finale...has given us so much to chew on! Not only is it the return of Sutekh to the show after almost 50 years, it's the possibility of who dropped Ruby at the church in 2004, it's how much we'd be very cool with a UNIT spin-off, it's speculation on Mrs. Flood, it's will Cherry ever get her tea, and so much more! And t...