Two voices, seven seasons, zero toxic fandom.
Void and Beej work through the week in geekery: new console hardware, big releases, streaming shows, and whatever else has piled up on the list. The tone stays warm and specific, with verdicts that arrive after the personal experience rather than before it.
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Geek to Geek runs on two familiar voices thinking out loud. Void hosts alongside Beej, and across seven seasons and nearly three hundred episodes they have built a format that is loose in movement but tidy in structure: a stated main topic, a geekery list of everything that has piled up since last time, and periodic year-end reckonings. Games sit at the center. Kirby and the Forgotten Land gets compared between someone who finished it in a weekend and someone who only played the demo. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart draws a long appreciation of set pieces stacked one after another until a mid-game level feels like a finale. Dark Alliance shares the same episode as the counterweight, with the pair holding back which is which. Hardware gets the same treatment. The PS5 review episode is organized as bullet points, easy items first, with loading speeds up top and a working assumption that anything minor will be patched later. The criticism is practical rather than performative. An extended Elden Ring exchange centers on respawn points sitting just outside boss rooms, and whether cutting the walk back diminishes the difficulty the series is aiming for. Both hosts conclude it does not, and they explain why. That habit — describing the experience, then reaching the judgment — repeats across topics. The range extends well past games into Star Wars: Visions, Marvel's What If, K-pop, Disney Plus, comics, and a Fortnite event built around fighting Galactus with a pickaxe. Life logistics are part of the text rather than an interruption. Scheduling pressure, work, and family come up plainly, and the finale episode makes the show itself the main topic, with one host explaining the shorter, lighter Disney-focused project they moved to and the lower prep it demands. The sign-off is a fixed piece of furniture: a Slack and Discord community, weekly geekery chatted through in real time, a running Keanu Reeves bit, and an invitation to escape toxic fandom. That last line reads as a mission statement. The pair are generous about who a thing might work for even when it does not work for them, and skeptical without turning skepticism into a personality. Sentences run long, doubling back with qualifiers before landing. Enthusiasm is grounded, caveats are honest. The closing beat of the finale lands on people coming together to love what they love without needing to hate anything, which is a fair summary of the whole run.
Made for: Adults who play games and follow genre film, television, and comics around jobs and family, and who want considered opinions rather than outrage. Especially suited to listeners who prefer a familiar duo working through a backlog over a polished review show.
What sets it apart: Verdicts arrive at the end of a described experience, not the start, and always with a note on who the thing might actually suit. The show's stated purpose is a positive fandom space, and the criticism stays specific enough to be useful anyway.
No matter what you geek out about, we want to geek out with you. This podcast celebrates geekery in all its forms -- in a safe, positive space for geeks of all kinds. You won't find any angry video game nerd rants here!We discuss balancing families, jobs, and responsibilities while still making time for the geeky things we love. We respect your time, so our show is structured and topical. So whether you love Nintendo, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, the MCU, Star Wars, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, Spider-Man, jRPGs, or even gardening or woodworking, we invite you to come geek out with us.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A candid pause note from two hosts whose schedules no longer line up.
Geek2Geek closes this stretch on a plainly self-referential note: Void and Bij say their schedules no longer line up, even after trying to build in more flexibility, and they treat the pause as frustrating but not final.
A relaxed double feature that weighs Kirby's easy entry against Elden Ring's more forgiving checkpoints.
Void and Beej keep the Kirby and the Forgotten Land talk close to the actual play. A demo, a nephew's visit, and one host's quick weekend run through the game give the segment enough shape without forcing it into bigger theory.
A loose catch-up that pairs The Magnificent Truffle Pigs with Squid Game and the dub-versus-subtitle debate.
Geek to Geek works best when it loosens up, and that is what this return does. It starts with The Magnificent Truffle Pigs, a recent Switch discovery described as Firewatch with a metal detector, then slides into Squid Game and the dub-versus-subtitle debate.
Rift Apart gets the polish, while Dark Alliance takes the sharper critique from people who played both.
The episode splits the week neatly between Rift Apart and Dark Alliance, and the talk feels grounded in real playtime rather than quick impressions.
A year-end geek catch-up that lands best on GURPS, Fortnite, and family play.
Geek to Geek spends its year-end catch-up clearing out a few lingering obsessions before the games-of-the-year list, and the strongest stretch lands on the GURPS discussion.
Practical tech talk with real-world friction.
Hands-on tech from the show floor.
AV talk with a field-work pulse.
Void and Bij open by saying this is the end for now, not goodbye.
Void opens by joking about Kirby as the ultimate Smash Brother and then pivots into Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
Void and Bij return after a stretch where recording kept getting thrown off track.
Void and Beej open by saying they have a good game and a bad game this week, then turn to Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and Dark Alliance because both games give them plenty to talk about.
Void and Beej use this episode to clear out the built-up geekery list before the year-end lists.
The hosts share their first impressions and nitpicks of the newly released PS5 console.