A lively Severance discussion turns split identity into a pointed question of bodily rights.
Broadcast Geeks turns to Severance with a sharp, uneasy focus on the show's central problem: when an innie and an outie share one body, whose choices count?

Fast fan arguments, loose lore, real chemistry.
Broadcast Geeks runs on loose, overlapping fan talk about superhero adaptations, cult TV, animation, streaming releases, and whatever personal chaos enters the room first. It is less polished review show than loud couch debate, with jokes, corrections, lore arguments, and sudden detours doing most of the steering.
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Broadcast Geeks is a loose pop-culture comedy show built around people arguing, remembering, speculating, and interrupting each other about the stuff they watch. Comic-book movies and television are the home base. The actual route is rarely straight. A conversation can begin with sleep trouble or hot weather, slide into Spider-Man news, then wander through Wednesday, King of the Hill, Severance, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Transformers, Titans, Invincible, or old Nickelodeon shows. That sprawl gives the show its identity. It is not trying to deliver clean criticism in tidy segments. It sounds like longtime fans picking apart the logic of fictional worlds while life keeps leaking into the room. The jokes are blunt. The pace is quick. The pleasure comes from the way a half-formed take gets challenged, corrected, exaggerated, and turned into a new tangent before anyone has fully parked the old one. Episodes often use fandom as a launchpad for bigger comic arguments: reboot fatigue, multiverse tricks, animation shortcuts, revival casting, character deaths, and the strange ethics of shows like Severance. Then, suddenly, there is a personal anecdote about cars, travel, kids, school, social media, or someone being awake too late. Broadcast Geeks works because those pieces are not separate modes. The messy human stuff and the geek stuff keep feeding each other. It has the energy of friends who know each other's taste, weak spots, and old bits well enough to argue without slowing down. Fans looking for measured recap coverage may find it chaotic. Fans who like pop-culture conversation with lived-in chemistry, sharp pivots, and plenty of affectionate nonsense will understand the appeal quickly.
Made for: For listeners who want comic-book TV, franchise movies, animation, and streaming-show chatter delivered as a rowdy hang rather than a formal review. It suits fans who enjoy tangents, callbacks, and half-serious theories as much as verdicts.
What sets it apart: Broadcast Geeks stands out by letting the conversation stay visibly unfinished, with opinions forming, collapsing, and mutating in real time. The show’s appeal is the familiar group rhythm: messy, funny, referential, and more interested in the argument than the scorecard.
Welcome to Broadcast Geeks! On this podcast we discuss all things geek related with a focus on comic book adaptations for television and the big screen.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sharp disagreement, detailed recall and unruly chemistry make Broadcast Geeks a revealing conversation about television, movies and superhero storytelling.
Broadcast Geeks turns screen talk into a lively argument among Matt Orrin, Jake Becker and Mitch Jones, with opinions tested and corrected in real time.
Severance theories with the kind of friends who notice when you missed a line.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A lively Severance discussion turns split identity into a pointed question of bodily rights.
Broadcast Geeks turns to Severance with a sharp, uneasy focus on the show's central problem: when an innie and an outie share one body, whose choices count?
Transformers fandom, Max login trouble, and a nude calendar bit push Broadcast Geeks episode 310 pleasantly off-center.
Broadcast Geeks' episode 310 works best as screen fans making the case for pleasures that can look silly from a distance. The hosts frame Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as fun because of its comic-book hokiness, not despite it, setting it against older Transformers cartoons…
An Invincible disagreement leads to childhood TV scares, Alex Mack and a McLovin story.
A disagreement over Invincible sends the hosts back to the television that scared them as children. They talk through animation shortcuts and a season finale, then linger on Are You Afraid of the Dark?




Fandom talk with the tangents left in.

Streaming talk with maximum side-quest energy.
Broadcast Geeks Episode 310 spends most of its time on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, with the hosts comparing Beast Wars, Reboot, and other early CGI cartoons to the movie's comic-book feel.
The hosts banter and introduce themselves before diving into a discussion about the Marvel series Echo.
The hosts engage in humorous banter about geek culture, including comic book adaptations and random topics like recording consent laws.
The hosts engage in casual banter and technical setup before discussing comic book-related TV and film topics.
Hosts Matt Oren and Jake Becker, with guest Midnight Mitch Jones, debate recent TV shows and streaming content.
Broadcast Geeks episode 337, "Na Na Na Na Ratman!", spends most of its runtime on Spider-Man continuity, King of the Hill revival notes, South Park business drama, and a stack of recent film and TV recommendations.
["Broadcast Geeks episode 336 brings Matt Orne, Jake Becker, and Midnight Mitch Jones back from hiatus for a long Fantastic Four debate.", "Matt says the film looks campy and comic-accurate, praises Galactus and the Silver Surfer baby crisis, but thinks Pedro Pascal's Reed Richards and the rest of the quartet feel flat.", "Jake says he watched it at a midnight showing beside 17 teenagers who talked through the movie and kept leaving for the bathroom, and he wanted the faster-than-light escape to be the ending.", "The conversation then jumps to James Gunn's Superman, Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor, the King of the Hill revival, South Park's 50-episode run, and a Frank Drebin / Police Squad tangent."]
Broadcast Geeks episode 335, "Cagney and Laceium," starts with a June 28 to July 20 Lamborghini track-day plan and a debate over paying $500, $80, and $129 to drive the car.
Broadcast Geeks Episode 334, 'We Have a Ham!', spends most of its runtime on Severance season two, with Matt Oren, Mitch Jones, and Jake Becker trading theories about Miss Wong, Mark, Helena, and Irving.
The hosts discuss comic book adaptations, focusing on the animated series Invincible and its season finale.