Today marked the three year anniversary of our Everything Geek Podcast. It still feels like yesterday that three of us (Graham, Dan and I) were sitting down to record our first podcast. A lot has changed with the podcast since then but the intentions are still the same. We started off wanting to bring content we thought fellow geeks would enjoy including guest interviews from your favourite films, TV shows etc. and three years on we’re still doing that (more regularly than when we started).
On a more personal level, I decided to set up the podcast originally for two main reasons. The reasons were:
I saw that there were a lot of podcasts out there focusing on one franchise but very few (at the time) that focused on numerous films, TV shows and anything else in the geek community. I myself was part of a Star Wars podcast at the time and I knew how many other Star Wars podcasts were out there as well.
I’ve always enjoyed challenging myself and I thought that creating a geek podcast would be a great challenge for me. I had no idea how much starting up this podcast would change my life. The thing I can say though is that I continue to be challenged and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The Amazing Spider-Man actor Leif Gantvoort was the first guest we interviewed on that first episode of the podcast. Since then we’ve branched out into interviewing guests from many different themes and we’ll continue to do so in order to appeal to all of the fans that we can. We’re only halfway through the year and I already think this has been one of our best years for guests so far. Some of the highlight guests so far this year include Captain America’s Crossbones actor Frank Grillo, former The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazarra, Gotham star Cory Michael Smith, the man behind Colossus in the Deadpool movie Stefan Kapicic and Pokémon star Haven Paschall. Guests like these show that we’re starting to get more and more bigger names on the podcasts and we expect that this is a trend that will continue the longer we go on.
Also on the guests front- we’ll be working more with networks (and other companies) to help bring you more interviews that you’ll want to hear. We recently worked with Fox to book the interview with Cory Michael Smith and we’re working with DreamWorks to arrange our interview with Dragons: Race to the Edge showrunners Douglas Sloan and Art Edler Brown (announced as part of our three year anniversary celebrations).
We’re only halfway through the year and we’ve already had lots of great guests on the podcast this year. It makes you wonder who will be joining us before the end of the year. Only time will tell. I can tell you that we’re already in talks with a couple of very exciting guests for next year though.
Looking forward in terms of other content: We’re completely dedicated to posting news articles, reviews etc. However, as we’re a podcast our priority is obviously to promote our content (like the interviews which we do frequently) but we do our best to stay on top of the news. I haven’t been on top of things recently because I keep trying to bring in articles from the past (weeks or months ago) that I think would be good to discuss. From now on I’m just going to focus on articles as they come in or during the week so I don’t keep looking backwards. Doing this will also give me more time to work on other material for the podcast. This method might mean we lose out on discussing important topics from earlier in the year but I think it’s necessary that we stay in the moment as we go forward.
One of the things I’m looking forward to posting soon is the articles from featured cosplayers who will be acting as guest contributors on the website. This is something I’m looking forward to as well because I think that there isn’t enough focus on websites like ours about what goes into a cosplay so I’m looking forward to learning more from our guest contributors as much as you are.
We’re also planning to start video-game walkthroughs and recordings of our Everything Geek Comic Cast companion podcast very soon. In addition to the merchandise reviews on our YouTube channel we’ll be starting reviews of comics on the channel (in addition to other types of reviews on the channel potentially).
I hope you’ve enjoyed our three year anniversary celebrations and all of the content we’ve posted today. We’ve grown a lot since our anniversary celebrations last year and hopefully we’ll be a lot bigger by this time next year as well.
Let me know what your suggestions are for the future of the podcast and the website.
Your founder,
Ruari Williamson
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The Everything Geek Podcast is DELIGHTED to announce that producers Douglas Sloan and Art Edler Brown are the next producers we’re confirming for a celebrity guest interview on the podcast!
Douglas and Art are best-known as the Showrunners, Executive Producers and Writers on Dragons: Race to the Edge, Dragons: Riders of Berk and Dragons: Dawn of the Dragon Racers. Douglas’ other credits include a Executive Producer and Writer on Power Rangers Ninja Storm and Power Rangers DinoThunder, a Supervising Producer and Writer on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo, a Director on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo and Power Rangers DinoThunder, a Producer on RoboCop: Alpha Commando and a Writer on The Incredible Hulk TV series. Art’s other credits include Co-Producer and Writer on Best Men and a Writer on Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
We’re looking forward to chatting with and interviewing Douglas and Art on the podcast. If you have any questions for Douglas and Art, please feel free to leave them in the comments. We’ll make sure to post updates once a date is confirmed for Douglas and Art to be on the podcast.
By Ruari Williamson
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On the next LIVE special guest interview from the Everything Geek Podcast which will take place tomorrow, we’ll be interviewing actress Haven Paschall! Haven is best-known as the voice of Serena in Pokémon. Her other notable roles include the voice of Jessie’s Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist, Miette’s Slurpuff, Sawyer’s Slurpuff, Swirlix, Concordia, Ellie and Florence in Pokémon and Bloom in Winx Club. We’ll be taking YOUR questions for Haven as well, so if you have any questions for Haven on any of her roles, please leave them in the comments or call-in when we look for questions or call-ins from our listeners on Channel1138! Haven’s full list of credits can be found here:
We’re officially celebrating three years of the Everything Geek Podcast tomorrow.
Here’s a list of what we’ll be doing to celebrate this milestone tomorrow:
Our three year celebrations will begin with a very exciting guest announcement. This interview will be very different and will give us an opportunity to do a different type of interview (a first for us) that we’re looking forward to doing. More details on this may be posted later.
We’ll be broadcasting our highly anticipated interview with actress Haven Paschall (the voice of Serena in Pokémon). Details on the time it will be taking place will be posted later.
We’ll be uploading seven new interviews to our YouTube channel: Nika Futterman (voice of Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Steve Coulter (Reg Monroe in The Walking Dead), Neil Bishop (a First Order Flametrooper, a First Order Snowtrooper and a First Order Stormtrooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Rony Bridges (a Starkiller Base Admiral in Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Brett Stanfield (one of Superman’s Soldiers and a Metropolis Paramedic in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Kent Wagner (a Walker and a Dying Man in The Walking Dead) and Kate Bristol (voice of Jessica, Astrid and Princess Allie in Pokémon).
A video we’ve put together of numerous funny moments/bloopers on the podcast.
Debuting a new intro and outro for the interviews when they go up on our YouTube channel.
A speech length post from yours truly during the celebration tomorrow (I seem to end up doing these on milestone days).
We recorded the first episode of our Everything Geek Podcast on June 15th 2013. That day we interviewed our first guest (Leif Gantvoort from The Amazing Spider-Man) and discussed a number of topics including Spider-Man, Call of Duty, Halo and other video-games. Since then we’ve continued to interview guests and branched out into discussing lots more topics.
This will be a great opportunity for anyone to listen back to some of the podcasts we’ve uploaded before (or a chance to give us a listen for the first time).
Come Saturday we’ll also be celebrating our 150th full episode. Be sure to tune in for what is bound to be an excellent podcast this Saturday.
By Ruari Williamson
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In the latest edition highlighting an interview of ours we recommend you listen to, we recommend you give our interview with actor Frank Grillo a listen.
“Join hosts Ruari and Al in this special guest interview with actor Frank Grillo, best-known for playing Brock Rumlow/Crossbones in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Sergeant Leo Barnes in The Purge: Anarchy, Alvey Kulina in Kingdom, Frank Campana in Warrior, Diaz in The Grey, Hart Jessup in Guiding Light and Nick Savrinn in Prison Break. He reprises his roles of Brock Rumlow/Crossbones for Captain America: Civil War and Sergeant Leo Barnes for The Purge: Election Year. In the interview they talk about how Frank decided he wanted to become an actor, how Frank felt returning for Captain America: Civil War and getting to wear the Crossbones suit, Brock Rumlow’s objective in Captain America: Civil War following the last time he fought with The Avengers, whether Frank knew that he would be playing Brock Rumlow in more than one movie when he originally signed the contract with Marvel, Frank’s upcoming acting roles and other projects, the most difficult scenes Frank has shot in his career and whether Frank can relate to his character of Sergeant Leo Barnes in The Purge.”
You can listen to the interview below:
Be sure to leave your feedback on the interview and enjoy!
By Ruari Williamson
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Here are the behind-the-scenes pictures we shared on our Facebook and Twitter pages today.
Cast member Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia Organa) on location for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
Cast members Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) preparing to film a scene for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
Dalek operator Nicholas Pegg and crew members behind-the-scenes of Doctor Who.
Cast member Steven Yeun (Glenn Rhee) filming a scene for The Walking Dead.
Cast members Grant Gustin (Barry Allen/The Flash) and Jesse L. Martin (Detective Joe West) during filming of The Flash.
Cast members Daniel Craig (James Bond) and Léa Seydoux (Madeleine Swann) filming a scene for the James Bond film Spectre.
Cast member Tom Holland (Peter Parker/Spider-Man) behind-the-scenes of Captain America: Civil War.
Cast member Gwendoline Christie (Captain Phasma) on location for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
By Ruari Williamson
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On the next LIVE guest interview from the Everything Geek Podcast which will take place today, we’ll be interviewing actress Brina Palencia! Brina is best-known as the voice of Paige in The Walking Dead: Michonne Telltale Game, Elizabeth, Mia Park and Joan in The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, Mad Moxxi in the Borderlands video-games and Ciel Phantomhive in Black Butler. Her other notable roles include Chiaotzu and Puar in Dragon Ball Z Kai and Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Natsuki Shinohara in Summer Wars, Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece and One Piece: Unlimited Adventure, Vi Graythorn in Detective Conan, Yumi Azusa in Soul Eater, Kurumu Kurono in Rosario + Vampire, Juliet in Romeo x Juliet, Eliade in D.Gray-man, Ai Enma in Hell Girl, Christin Gillum in Rakuen Tsuiho: Expelled from Paradise, Iris and Hitomi in Appleseed Alpha, Blue Biter in the Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D video-game, Widow Greenpaw, Chao the Voice and Jandice Barov in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, Grand Cleric of Orlais in Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, Nina Tucker in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Arale Norimaki in Dragon Ball: Origins 2, Frank in The Maw, Videl in Super Dragon Ball Z, Yue Ayase in Negima and Elsa in Gunslinger Girl. She also played Sophia in Star-Crossed, Ana in The Walking Dead, Kayla Bates in The Troubadoors, LuAnn Potts in Lumberjack Man, Micah in Ghost of Goodnight Lane, Crystal in The Ladies of the House, Emily in Chariot, Woman in Club in Upstream Colour and Jody Evans in Castle. We’ll be taking YOUR questions for Brina as well, so if you have any questions for Brina on any of her roles, please leave them in the comments or call-in when we look for questions or call-ins from our listeners on Channel1138! Brina’s full list of credits can be found here:
The official announcement trailer for Injustice 2 (the sequel to Injustice: Gods Among Us) has been released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment.
You can watch the trailer below:
NetherRealm Studios Creative Director Ed Boon stated in a press release:
“In Injustice 2, we are introducing new features that will change the way fans play fighting games. We’re always interested in pushing the genre forward and allowing players to customize and level-up their favorite DC Super Heroes and Super-Villains is a significant leap.”
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment President David Haddad added:
“Expanding the DC Universe in games continues to be one of our top priorities, and Injustice 2 showcases amazing gameplay and an original story to bring the characters to life for players. NetherRealm Studios is offering fans an experience of customizing and battling with DC’s iconic characters in an entirely new way.”
Injustice 2 will continue the story of Injustice: Gods Among Us “as Batman and his allies work towards putting the pieces of society back together while struggling against those who want to restore Superman’s regime. In the midst of the chaos, a new threat appears that will put Earth’s existence at risk. Players can play from the biggest DC roster ever offered in a fighting game, from classic fan favorites such as Batman, Superman, Supergirl and Aquaman, to astonishing new villains like Atrocitus and Gorilla Grodd. Battles will take place across arenas that have evolved in scale and span across iconic locations such as Metropolis, Gotham City and Atlantis.”
Injustice 2 is scheduled for release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sometime in 2017.
Thoughts on the trailer? Are you looking forward to playing Injustice 2?
Kenneth Choi (Captain America: The First Avenger, The Wolf of Wall Street, Sons of Anarchy, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story) is the latest addition to the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Choi will reportedly be playing the principal at Peter Parker’s school.
This will mark Choi’s third appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He played James “Jim” Morita in Captain America: The First Avenger (a role he reprised for the Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D TV series). Morita was a member of the Howling Commandos in World War II.
Spider-Man: Homecoming is scheduled for release on July 7th, 2017.
Thoughts on this casting? Are you looking forward to seeing Kenneth Choi as part of the Spider-Man: Homecoming cast?
