Long-form talk for specific fandoms.
ThisWeekInGeek collects several nerd-culture side rooms under one feed, from tabletop convention reports to retro sci-fi movie autopsies and gaming showcase roundups. It suits listeners who enjoy detailed, lightly chaotic talk where tangents are part of the evidence.
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ThisWeekInGeek is an umbrella feed for geek-culture conversations that prefer the long route. It is loose by design. Recent episodes move from tabletop role-playing conventions to 1950s horror, from gaming showcase recaps to forgotten Canadian bands, and from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to movie flops that deserve another look. The show’s strength is its willingness to stay with the details. A movie episode can spend real time on whether a curse explanation makes sense, why a character’s death changes the tone, or how a screenwriter’s credit complicates the history around the film. A gaming episode can jump from Ninja Gaiden and Koei Tecmo’s visual style to Silent Hill, God of War, Stalker 2, and the strange rhythm of quarterly showcase news. The tabletop episodes have the same patient texture. Gryphcon becomes a way to talk through game sessions, nuclear winter mechanics, Fallout lore, and the social pleasure of spending three days around dice and rules. Gift-guide talk is not just a list; it becomes a conversation about blind-bag dice, hobby notebooks, display boxes, class symbols, and why tactile objects matter to players. The music episode turns an eight-track premise into personal memory, songwriting, regional sounds, American Idol, and bands that stuck around in someone’s life. That range can feel messy. It is also the point. ThisWeekInGeek sounds like people opening the drawers of their own fandoms and comparing what they found. The feed is especially strong for listeners who like corrections, digressions, half-remembered references, and arguments that get revised in public. It does not flatten geek culture into quick recommendations. It treats even strange or uneven media as material worth testing. The result is conversational, occasionally abrasive, often funny, and surprisingly granular. It is for people who want the whole table, not just the verdict.
Made for: For listeners who enjoy tabletop games, video games, movies, genre franchises, and nerd-culture history discussed in detail. It especially fits people who like conversational tangents and do not need every topic trimmed to a quick verdict.
What sets it apart: The feed’s variety is its advantage: separate formats give tabletop, gaming, music, and movie talk their own rhythm while keeping the same detail-first personality. It feels less like a review outlet and more like a rotating table arguing from memory, affection, and evidence.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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