Original Geek
Two Gen X geeks who grew up hiding D&D dice from their parents now break down the franchises that built modern geek culture. Stand-up comic Steve Scarfo and Forever DM Jeff Shaw argue about Star Wars, Marvel, D&D, Star Trek, Fallout, comics, horror, and the shows everyone's actually watching — with comedy, sharp opinions, and zero gatekeeping. New episodes weekly. No homework required.
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Picard or Prof. X? Remembering Patrick Stewart & All Those We Lost in 2026 | Original Geek | S1E42
2026 has been rough on Gen X geeks. Steve and Jeff remember the faces we grew up with: Patrick Stewart, Walter Koenig, Catherine O’Hara, Tim Curry, Sam Neill, Chuck Norris and many more, plus the comics creators behind the books in our longboxe...
He Agreed With the AI?! J.D. Barker Reviews & Fan-Casts The Fourth Monkey | Original Geek | Random Review
The d20 calls Detective Sam Porter a cliché, and the author agrees.J.D. Barker joins Steve and Jeff for a dice-driven review of The Fourth Monkey. He explains how he loaded Porter with every cop cliché on purpose to use the read...
J.D. Barker: Interviewing Killers, Pantsing With Patterson & Fan-Casting the 4MK Series | Original Geek | S1E41
Thriller author J.D. Barker spent a year interviewing murderers in Florida prisons before he wrote The Fourth Monkey. He tells us what he learned and why he wanted readers to empathize with the killer.JD joins Steve and Jeff to ...
Mike Spring and the 80s Movies Nobody Wrote About (Live from Granite State Comic Con) | Artists Alley | Original Geek
Artist Alley is where you meet the creators behind the work, from the legends to the people you’ll be glad you stopped for. At Granite State Comic Con, we stopped for Mike Spring, writer and publisher at Outtatime Comics. His table was all 80s ...
The Butcher’s Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 5), with a Roll from Felicia Day | Random Review | Original Geek
The rules of Random Review are simple: we set the topic, and the d20 sets the direction. This time we got some help. At Granite State Comic Con, Felicia Day, actor, producer, and outspoken Dungeon Crawler Carl fan, agreed to roll the first die ...
