World Gone Geek

Bella Maori is a Southern California native and was raised in Los Angeles. She started writing at the age of eight. Early in her career, she worked as a model and later starred in her first feature independent film, "The Internship Games," in 2015. In, 2021 she appeared as the lead model on the album cover trailer for Grammy-nominated Hip Hop rap star Baby Keem's debut album, "The Melodic Blue." B...

Alan J. Porter, writer, and podcaster, likes to talk about stuff and makes up stories too. With over 30 fiction and non-fiction book publishing credits and hundreds of magazine articles, he covers the worlds of Pop Culture, Comics, High-Adventure fiction, Movies, Music, Business Strategy, and more. His pop-culture non-fiction work has featured properties such as Batman, Star Trek, The Beatles, G.I...

Joe Stillman co-wrote “Shrek” for Dreamworks which earned him an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Annie and BAFTA Awards. Other produced features are “Beavis & Butthead Do America”, “Shrek 2”, “Gulliver’s Travels”, “Planet 51” and “Joseph King Of Dreams”. In television, he was co-producer and writer on “King of the Hill,” for which he received two Emmy Award® nomin...

Chris Warner began acting professionally over two decades ago in Austin, TX. After some marked success in film, television and commercials, Chris headed for the bright lights of hollywood! Chris’ first major studio film role was in academy award nominated Alan Parker's Feature The Life of David Gale. In his most recent role, you can find him going toe-to-toe with Academy Award Winner Nicolas Cage...

Join us for one part of our crossover with our good friends at Promptly Written podcast ! This past month Matt and Ian from PW and Yuta, Allea and Jeff from World Gone Geek worked on stories based on the prompt "Option 1." In this episode, you'll hear World Gone Geek gang reading their stories and providing commentary along with Matt and Ian. When you've finished, head over to Promptly Written in...

Mellow Brown is a software engineer and Cleveland native who is also a screenwriter who has worked for Starz, Netflix & Apple TV+. Working in a lot of huge IP on unannounced projects. Currently writing the origins of the Blade Runner universe. All Mellow's info can be found here: https://linktr.ee/MellowBrown If you'd like to help us battle pediatric cancers... donate here: https://www.stbaldr...

Cleveland native Rob Kovacs has a pretty impressive musical resume. He’s composed scores for several award-winning short films, and he’s worked on an award-winning virtual reality game. He also performs under the name 88bit, recording virtuosic note-for-note piano arrangements of Nintendo soundtracks. Find Rob: robkovacsmusic.com 88bitmusic.com Twitter @robkovacsmusic @88bit Instagram @robkovacsmu...

Daniel Ross is one of the most in-demand Voice Artists working in the business today. His voice has been featured on almost every network including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney, Netflix, HBO Max, WB, and Amazon. Most notably, he is the voice of Donald Duck in the smash hit series “Mickey and the Roadster Racers”, “Mickey Mouse: Mixed-Up Adventures, on Disney Channel and Disney Junior. He w...

AfroDuck Studios was created in 2016 by college graduates who sought involve themselves in the gaming/entertainment industry. With little to no experience, they created a company with a mission to develop various projects with an independently and creatively led team. They're currently working on "Zakumba: Episode Astraia" and tell us all about it and the process of developing a game! You can find...

Mark Cooper is a multi-disciplinary Rapper and Producer, carrying the torch of Nerdcore from Detroit, Michigan. His branded work consists of a large body of verses and cyphers touching on all things considered “Nerdy” or from Gaming Culture, including references from but not limited to Gaming Systems of all brands, Transformers, Power Rangers, Halo, Naruto, and Tron, earning the perfect branding o...

I hope you're ready. This is one epic episode! It's a bit longer than our usual episode, for a couple of reasons. 1) Our guest was running late, but we didn't know... so we spend a lot of time discussing other things waiting... and 2) We. Didn't. Want. It. To. End. I debated whether to edit out the bits where we were waiting for the guest to show up for time, but as I've said before... this is us....

Ian Lewis joins us to talk about his novel series, self-publishing and even a little James Bond. You can find out more about Ian and his work at: www.ianlewisfiction.com Check out the Promptly Written podcast wherever you listen to podcasts! Last chance to enter the contest to win a Stadia Premium Edition! Enter here before Dec 4, 2021: Stadia Premiere Edition contest! Thanks to our 90 Second Geek...

Riley Tune is an author (Icons series, Warper series) and proud geek, lover of video games, superheroes and the 80's and 90's. We'll chat about how he got into writing, his process and where his inspiration comes from. Find out more about Riley and his books: www.rileytune.com Enter our contest to win a Google Stadia Premium Edition! https://kingsumo.com/g/nwgx9v/world-gone-geek-road-to-4k-win-a-s...

Our talks with writers in the month of NaNoWriMo November continues as this week we welcome Danielle M. Orisno, author of Birth of the Fae series. We chat about her books, her inspirations, her writing strategy and her passion for cosplay! Find Danielle www.birthofthefae.com Instagram: @birthofthefae_novel Twitter: @birthofthefae Cleveland Gaming Classic https://www.gamecleveland.com/

On the show today we recap our Extra-Life efforts (24-hour gaming marathon to raise money for children's hospitals), commiserate over our frequent technical difficulties (this is one of the reasons I don't do a ton of editing to the show, we are raw and real and you get us , warts and all, lol) talk with award-winning audio drama writer, actor, producer, sound designer, you name it, he can do it,...

We have an old fashioned film discussion with Ed Hartman, composer, who has helped bring a lost silent film from 1938, by a then 20 year old Robert H. Lyford (Walt Disney Pictures) into the spotlight! Supplying a brand new soundtrack for the film, Ed has become somewhat of an expert on Lyford, and we'll discuss the film, it's re-discovery and Ed's career as a composer all before "As The Earth Turn...

Get in that Halloween spirit and join us as we obsess over pop culture and CANDY with the proprietor of Fear's Confections, Cassandra Fear!

From his website: "Hailing from the Scandinavian Peninsula country of Norway, Rocky Kramer is truly a modern day Viking, poised to take no prisoners as he conquers the hearts, minds and souls of rockers around the world! Armed with a guitar, this graduate of Metal 101 constitutes a triple threat as a composer, vocalist and formidable musician." Rocky Kramer is on the show this week! We'll discuss...

Well, we were supposed to have a guest this episode, but due to some email issues on our end, they never received the communications about the details... so we talked about Marvel's Disney+ series "What If...?" in anticipation of this week's finale! Spoilers if you haven't watched the series yet... but we'll weigh in episode by episode on what was revealed and discuss theories about the finale!

This week we are joined by five friends who dodge responsibilities for a couple of hours every week to slay monsters and crack wise. We'll chat about Role-Playing games, Pathfinder (which they play) and how actual-play podcast "Roll for Intent" came to be with the cast themselves! We'll also play a little bit of a game borrowed from a quiz found at Skybound Comics called "Dungeons & Dragons Mo...

We are joined by prolific actor, KURT YUE, who might just be one of the only actors to appear in three different Marvel Universes (other than Stan Lee, himself, of course!)... find out more about his career, stories from the sets and what it's like being a working actor on our next episode!

Join the gang as we discuss our reactions to the premiere episodes of Marvel's "What If...?" and the theatrical premiere of "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." Is the new Marvel animated show as good as other Marvel shows? Is "Shang-Chi" now the greatest film in the MCU? Listen to the takes of Jeff, Yuta and Allea in our premiere episode of Season 2!

We are so grateful you have all stuck with us through the ups and downs of our first season. We think we're finally getting our format figured out just in time for our season finale, :P That said, we wanted to go out with a bang and we did! We welcome FREE DAPS, a hysterical freestyle hip-hop comedy group our of Orlando who will tell us how they do what they do, why they do it... and do some aweso...

We are joined by Master Alan White, martial arts instructor and lightsaber combat instructor! He runs Level Up Lightsabers where you can get a sparring ready, custom color changing light saber and training on how to fight with them! We also chat about The Bad Batch and the new Filoni era of Star Wars. Master Alan made us an affiliate during the show, so If you buy with our link you get a great lig...

On this episode we celebrate Lego! We share some folks who are passionate about the brick building toy as well as talk to the writer/director of BRICK MADNESS, a hilarious mockumentary about the world of brick building that both pokes fun at and celebrates the creative world of AFOLs (Adult Fans of Lego).    Support the show! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/worldgonegeek   Support...