Hosts Tara – an avid reader of all things ASOIAF and Manny, a Game of Thrones fan who is Unsullied (aka has never read the books) break down the newest trailers for season 2 of House of the Dragon, including their Hot (aka First) Reactions, new characters/dragons/locations they spied, and more.
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 92: HotD Takes on The Season 2 Trailers
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Hosts Tara and Manny from Geek Saga Podcast series Hot D Takes and 90s & Noughties Cringe Factor are back for yet another Cringe Factor installment, in which we watch, dissect, and discuss the most popular “teen movies” of the 90s and early 2000s! Our fourth episode is a thoughtful discussion regarding the 10 Things We […uhh…] Hate(?) About Mean Girls…as well as the “These’re All That” things that we actually enjoyed about this movie, and our final 90s & Noughties Cringe Factor rating of it on a scale of 1 to 10 Zach Morrises!
Join myself and special guests Paul Jenkins, Mary Anne Butler, and Bill Watters as we discuss the #StopToxicFandom movement, featuring an in-depth look at our experiences with “The Axanar Problem”, a toxic situation that has run rampant in the Star Trek fandom for far too long.
A note on this episode’s length: The live webcast from which this audio was pulled ran approximately 3 hours, 10 minutes. While this podcast version is approximately 27 minutes shorter, I did not remove anything that was imperative to the discussion. With one minor exception (a portion of a sentence that I spoke *about myself* between approximately the 2:44:20-2:44:35 mark in the webcast), the only things removed from the original recording were pauses/periods of silence punctuated by unnecessary words (‘umm’, ‘like’, ‘right’, ‘you know’). Therefore, this episode is a lot more raw than most of my recent podcast episodes. Apologies to my regular listeners for that, but I knew that if I cut out anything other than what I listed above, I would likely be subject to accusations of trying to hide/erase “bad things that were said” (or some other such nonsense phrasing along those lines).
Additionally, I would like to give a trigger warning for a brief mention of SA, which takes place between the 2:16-2:23 time stamps in this podcast episode.
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 90: When Fandom Goes Too Far Part 2 – The #StopToxicFandom Movement
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Hosts Tara and Manny from the Geek Saga Podcast series Hot D Takes are back for the next episode in our Cringe Factor podcast series, in which we watch, dissect, and discuss the most popular “teen movies” of the 90s and early 2000s! Our third episode is a diatribe that features the 10 Things We Hate About Never Been Kissed…as well as the “These’re All That” things that we actually, err, “liked” (?) about this movie, and our final 90s & Noughties Cringe Factor rating of it on a scale of 1 to 10 Zach Morrises!
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 89: 90s & Noughties Cringe Factor Discussion of “Never Been Kissed”
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Moderated by myself and featuring Violette L. Meier, Rebecca Fant, and Seth Lockhart, this panel focused on the first season of HBO’s House of the Dragon.
(While some minor sound editing was done to make the original recording somewhat easier on the ears, please keep in mind that this was recorded live and therefore the sound quality is uneven at best.)
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 88: House of the Dragon at Dragon Con 2023
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Moderated by Rebecca Fant and featuring myself, High Fantasy track director Jennifer Liang, and Nami Sparrow, this panel focused on the relationship between Alicent and Rhaenyra in HBO’s House of the Dragon.
(While some minor sound editing was done to make the original recording somewhat easier on the ears, please keep in mind that this was recorded live and therefore the sound quality is uneven at best.)
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 87: Princess & the Queen at Dragon Con 2023
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Moderated by myself and featuring Brian D. Anderson, Ryan Cahill, Dakota Krout, and K.N. Lee, this panel discussed how, as society’s understanding of mental health and neurodivergence has evolved, so have the depictions of mental health and neurodivergencies in high fantasy.
(While some minor sound editing was done to make the original recording somewhat easier on the ears, please keep in mind that this was recorded live and therefore the sound quality is uneven at best.)
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 86: Madness of the King at Dragon Con 2023
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Moderated by myself with assistance from my fellow Sagas & Sass cohost Nami, and also featuring Kevin Davis, this panel was all about season 2 of Netflix’s Shadow & Bone, based on Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels.
(While some minor sound editing was done to make the original recording somewhat easier on the ears, please keep in mind that this was recorded live and therefore the sound quality is uneven at best.)
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 85: Shadow & Bone at Dragon Con 2023
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Moderated by myself and featuring Jay Boyce, JF Brink, Gail Z. Martin, Frank Morin, and William Joseph Roberts, this panel focused on why most post-apocalypse stories are about loners and the factors that can drive loners to become pillars of societies they aren’t really a part of.
(While some minor sound editing was done to make the original recording somewhat easier on the ears, please keep in mind that this was recorded live and therefore the sound quality is uneven at best.)
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 84: Loner vs. Community at Dragon Con 2023
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Moderated by Christina Goodman and featuring myself, John G. Hartness, Frank Morin, and Kevin Davis, this panel focused on Brandon Sanderson’s novel Tress of the Emerald Sea and its place in the Cosmere as a whole.
(While some minor sound editing was done to make the original recording somewhat easier on the ears, please keep in mind that this was recorded live and therefore the sound quality is uneven at best.)
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 83: Tress of the Emerald Sea at Dragon Con 2023
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