Current Geek
140 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 355 ratingsTom and Scott discuss something from a geeky perspective. Some weeks it's a TV show, some weeks it's one of the greatest films of all time. Some weeks it's just what's in the news.
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Episodes
Current Geek 169: You'll Scare The Horses
May 09, 2018 01:04 - 45 minutes - 43.7 MBFinding old arcades is awesome. Comcast speeds things up for some. Pocket Casts sold out. Disney preps the next big animated show. Land of Oz is a thing. Self Driving Life and more!
Current Geek 168: Rear Window (100 best movies series)
May 02, 2018 00:33 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBLook out the rear window, because we are doing Rear Window! The 1954 classic is next on our list of the best 100 films of all time. Dive in with us and see what those weird neighbors are up to!
Current Geek 167: You've been Twinned Galaxied!
April 25, 2018 18:08 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBTwin Galaxies take it from Billy Mitchell. Jon Krasinski moves to Scifi next. MoviePass, and how numbered its days might be. What's up with Pitman Shorthand! Netflix gets all Elwes and Busey. What about those Cheese Wars? Will Mad Max recover from the suits? And way more!
Current Geek 166: The Seinfeld Chronicles
April 18, 2018 01:21 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBCurrent Geek 166: The Seinfeld Chronicles
Current Geek 165: How's your social credit?
April 11, 2018 00:52 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBMiddle Earth comes to Amazon. Solo got a new trailer. China is ranking people and it's a little scary. Virgin is gonna make you a deal on that flight to space. Korean AI is also weird. Will machines elect our future officials? And more!
Current Geek 164: Oz Needs That Wizard! (100 best movies series)
April 04, 2018 01:38 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBMovie time! Next on our list, 1939's The Wizard of Oz.
Current Geek 163: Data oh Data
March 28, 2018 00:16 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBSo what's the deal with this Facebook data thing? Tom knows. Lego Japan has some ideas. Event Horizon is a book, not a movie. Wondercon is the place for Trek cut scenes. Street Fighter is coming to the small screen! How sites will handle your data in the future and more!
Current Geek 162: Badly Breaking
March 21, 2018 04:07 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBIt's currentgeek, and another AutoPilot episode! Let's take a look at one of the most popular dramas of the last 20 years! Breaking Bad!
Current Geek 161: Ready Player 2
March 14, 2018 02:58 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBCreepy laughs on your Echo explained! Even Lego can fail. Need more star wars? Put Favreau on the job! Old bottles with old messages. Ready Player One gets a good reception in Austin. How autonomous is TOO autonomous? And so much more.
Current Geek 160: There's Sun on the Blvd!
March 07, 2018 00:15 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBWelcome to the Current Geek Film Festival, a special monthly look at the greatest movies of all time from a geeky perspective. This month we take on "Sunset Blvd"! I'm Scott Johnson and he's Tom Merritt!
Current Geek 159: We are LOST
February 28, 2018 02:14 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBThis is the Current Geek: Autopilot Edition. A chance for us to go back and watch the pilot episode of an old classic/geeky TV show and talk about how it differed from the series it became and what we remember about that series in general! I'm Scott Johnson, he's Tom Merritt, and this week, we're talking about the show Lost!
Current Geek 158: So much Star Wars
February 14, 2018 02:20 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBNetflix has a bit of a parodox. Star Wars gets really busy. Jet Fuel to Cars in Space! Sony makes some changes. Putting guts in beauty! Your emails and more!
Current Geek 157: Psycho! (our 100 best movies series!)
February 03, 2018 01:24 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Current Geek 156: Cluethulu
January 20, 2018 01:21 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBJoin us and some awesome guests to talk about all the nerd news of the week, and so much more! Also, CLUETHULU!
Current Geek 155: Into the woods!
January 13, 2018 19:54 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBJoin Scott and Tom with guests Bryce and Adam as they catch you up on all that has happened since we last met! Loads of nerd stuff, that I can tell you.
Current Geek 154: 52 Pickup
January 06, 2018 01:23 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBJoined tonight with Brian Ibbott and Hammond Chamberlain!
Current Geek 153: Citizen Kane
December 23, 2017 17:30 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBOur special 100 greatest movies of all times episodes continue, with our look at Citizen Kane!
Current Geek 152: When they go high, we go Kylo.
December 16, 2017 01:41 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBJames and Ryan join us for some rad nerd talk this week! Don't worry, ZERO Star Wars spoilers!
Current Geek 151: Posey in your Pockets
December 09, 2017 01:41 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBOur guests are Mike TV and Jason Howell! Enjoy!
Current Geek 150: The Tropes
November 19, 2017 18:14 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBAdam Portais and Bruce Leslie from the Hero Movie Podcast join us today!
Current Geek 149: Historically Weird
November 11, 2017 19:26 - 1 hour - 625 MBJoined this week by Tawny Platis and Paul Csomo!
Current Geek 148: Casablanca (TOP 100 MOVIES SERIES)
October 28, 2017 00:21 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBOur second TOP 100 Film Fest: Casablanca!
Current Geek 147: Attacking the Night
October 14, 2017 00:48 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBJustin and Brian from Nightattack join us! Hold onto yer butts!
Current Geek 146: Treking with Light Sabers
September 30, 2017 00:19 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBAll the nerd news and talk you want, with Tom, Scott and guests Garrett Weinzierl & Claudia Dolf!
Current Geek 145: Poke Ee Men
September 23, 2017 17:16 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBKristi and Brian join us for a good time talking about the week in geek!
Current Geek 144: Get off my Blaine!
September 16, 2017 00:18 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBYour info is in trouble! Apple stuff. Lucasfilm is changing seats again. Harrison Ford punched Ryan. And so much more!
Current Geek 143: Read my face
September 09, 2017 00:33 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBBaseball, the FDA, beer, facial recognition, Disney streaming, the Pop Quiz, predicting the future and MORE!
Current Geek 142: The Godfather
September 03, 2017 02:14 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBWe are doing something special today! We are covering a classic film as part of our CurrentGeek Film Fest!
Current Geek 141: Talk with your face!
August 19, 2017 00:21 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBChris and Ryan join us for talk about a director for a Old Ben movie. MoviePass is doing something crazy. Good Omens is getting an exciting adaptation. Great 78's for everyone. Where is Captain Kurt! Non-verbal communications and more!
Current Geek 140: No single clicks here
August 12, 2017 16:50 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBA weeks worth of nerdy news with our awesome guests, THE DOUBLECLICKS!
Current Geek 139: Better Khan Saul
August 05, 2017 00:28 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBFacebooks AI robots get shut down. WoW gold vs the Bolivar. Rick and Morty get their sauce. A second new Trek show. Biking for Netflix. The worth of redted stuff! Self Driving Cars and who owns them.
Current Geek 138: Self Running Everything
July 15, 2017 00:33 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBJonathan Schiefer & Scott Fletcher join us for this week's breakdown of news and views on the nerdiest nerd topics we could muster!
Current Geek 137: Legal Things
July 08, 2017 19:53 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBThe Legal Geek joins us for a big roundup of this week's nerdiest stories!
Current Geek 136: Where's Ron Howard when you need him?
June 24, 2017 00:31 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBChristopher Kubasik, writer & creator of Booth at the End on Hulu and Joel Robertson, host of Retro Movie Geek join us today! Star Wars stuff plus loads more today!
Current Geek 135: We miss Adam West
June 17, 2017 03:43 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBJessica Downey & Rachael Drummond join Tom and Scott for a great new episode of Current Geek!
Current Geek 134: Quaking in your vinyl
June 10, 2017 17:23 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBHow to get fired. Rezner getting back to Quake. Youtube built this plane. The real game of thrones at Harvard. Lots of apple things. And MORE!
Current Geek 133: It was in the shed!
June 03, 2017 00:31 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBA full roster of great nerd stuff this week! Join us and our guests!
Current Geek 132: Zombies Never Go Away
May 20, 2017 00:20 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBLou Page and Stephen S. join us with talk of Wonder Woman, Star Trek this fall, and MUCH more!
Current Geek 131: You cant spell Hellboy without HBO
May 13, 2017 01:20 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBNancy Frye - Actress, model, writer, cat herder, AV geek, tabletop game character. Jaime Ruiz-Avila - Tech guy - Physicist, Inventor of Robotic Mythical Creatures.
Current Geek 130: Guarding More Galaxies
May 06, 2017 00:27 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBJoined by Charles and Brian for a great look at the week's top nerd stories.