Episode List

Overview Stephen attended the Pittsburgh festival of books and had some great things to tell – including meeting some wonderful independent comic creators. One with it’s […]

Overview Let’s talk about Vegas. Alan just went with his wife and we discuss what it means to travel to Vegas in today’s world. There are […]

Overview We get on the topic of politics. Didn’t really plan it, but there is quite a bit to discuss. Our politicians don’t always seem to […]

Overview Alan went to Mensa mind games. He shares the experience and the winners. There is a lot about playing 30 games in 4 days. Besides […]

Overview In preparation for last weeks episode with John Bruening, we talk about pulps. We really are time travelers, and this episode got caught in a […]

Overview Today we welcome a special guest, John Bruening. John is the author of modern pulp books starring the Midnight Guardian. We discuss pulps of old […]

Overview We start off with an intro to Relentless Geekery. You’re at episode 138 I hear you say, why would you do an intro now? Well, […]

Overview We have a fun trivia question this week, and it leads to updates on what we’ve been listening to lately. Al visited the fan expo […]

Overview This week we answer: Recommendations https://www.banffcentre.ca/banffmountainfestival/tour https://www.madmagazine.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Test_Dummies https://kentstage.org YouTube Transcript Alan: Good morning, Alan. Good morning. There we go. I okay. Wow. You’ve neatened […]

Overview We babble on a bit about colors. Then we talk about our buddy John Bruening who wrote the Midnight Guardian series – which you should […]

Overview Why do we like the shows we like? We aren’t sure, we just know we like them. While not all shows have been super throughout, […]

Overview We geek it up with movies and games. Stephen is getting the big Cryptozoic DC Deckbuilder that happened. Tons of great gameplay. We talk about […]

Overview If you like reminiscing about music in eras gone by, this is a great episode for you. We talk about music often because we are […]

Overview We talk about the realities of using social media as a content creator. We continue to try new things to get our geekery word out […]

Overview We jump around topics more than usual today. This could mean there are just so many things to talk about or it could mean lots […]

Overview We discuss a variety of topics today. Little weather since Alan is in California and experiencing the torrential downpours. There’s a bit of tv show […]

Overview Two of our favorite topics – gaming and music – are once again talked about. Stephen had a couple fun game day experiences and Alan […]

Overview And we are into a new year. While we enjoyed some things about last year and we had a good holiday season, it’s time to […]

Overview It is post Christmas and we discuss the swag we gave and received. We had a wonderful time with family and discuss the holiday festivities. […]

Overview There is a lot going on in the A.I. world, and we discuss only a portion. Starts off with weather and predicting it since Alan […]

Overview Tech is always on top of our list (and we don’t have to check it twice.) This time its VPN (virtual private networks). If you […]

Overview It is after Thanksgiving and we have our holiday report. Lots of family time. Recommendations YouTube Transcript rg 123 Stephen: Oh, hey, microphone . Alan: […]

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Overview It is almost Halloween, and Stephen is ready all dressed up in his Starfleet uniform. In a week, we will be at the Halloweem RG […]

Overview There is some reminiscing about past tech and the skills we learned by doing it the old way that have served us well as tech […]

Overview We talk about horror, sci-fi and comedy this week. Each of these is used to reflect society in different ways. Alan attended the Just for […]

Overview Alan is going through the stuff in his parents house and it leads to a great discussion on visiting the past. This could be through […]

Overview We talk about some sciency stuff with our universe and other universes and then we delve into made up universes in our favorite comic books […]

Overview We talk briefly about our weekend, which includes a talk that Stephen gave. this leads to a long discussion on education and whether its working […]

Overview There’s a lot of talk about travel. Including picking your own hunk of meat at a restaurant and taking your towel. Besides that, the Sonder […]

Overview We’re old guys. we have (hopefully) some wisdom to go with our experience. What we don’t have is the quickness needed for video games nor […]

Overview As summer winds down, we discuss some of the events we’ve been going to and some still to come. Summer’s are always busy, and we […]

Overview Even though we don’t cover all our chosen topics, we flow between talking about tech topics quite nicely. Stephen just got a new computer to […]

Overview Magazines, remember those? We talk about reading magazines and how that has changed. We talk comics and books – genre’s which are all over the […]

Overview We are all over the board today. Even more than usual. The Webb telescope has allowed us to see back in time. Target shooting is […]

Overview Yes, we have topics planned, but we start off talking about drugs, and media control, and not accepting of facts, and how all these things […]

Overview Alan should be going to the Mensa AG and giving his talk. Instead, he needs to fly to California about family business. We discuss what […]

Overview Alan is once again flying, so we discuss how flying has changed over the last several decades. Using websites and apps and the ability to […]

Overview Alan had to deal with a situation where app automation would have been helpful. This includes apps to help with travel plans. And with traveling […]

Overview The Mensa AG is coming quickly. If you’ve never attended, there are so many great programs and we talk a bit about them here. There […]

Overview Stephen attended the Supernatural con in Chicago and tells all about it, including the awesome concert with Louden Swain. Alan has been virtually attending the […]

Overview We share a couple car stories and then delve into the current status of buying cars. What should we look for in a car? New, […]

Overview Some name dropping going on today – Weird Al and Armin Shimerman specifically. But before that, we discuss getting a new car and what the […]

Overview Once again, we are here to help you and solve all the problems in the world. we start off by talking about bucket lists. Where […]

Overview This past weekend Alan and Stephen attended Fan Expo in Cleveland. This is the old Wizard World convention. While we enjoy the comics, there is […]

Overview We conclude our tech talk of the last couple weeks – at least for now. This time, it’s still a bit about remote work, but […]

Overview Al is back in California, so we have a lengthy discussion on how much easier it is to work remote compared to several decades ago. […]

Overview The times have changed with tech. We focus on the weird HDMI issues and copy protection. And the connectors? Do you know all the problems […]

Overview COVID is still around and still has people catching it – and there are new variants. We don’t usually complain, but we have complaints about […]

Overview Stephen and Alan discuss something that is more philosophical and less geeky, yet it ties in with Nathan Fillion and how he has guided Stephen […]

Overview Alan with his orange skynet starts us off today. Actually, it’s only briefly mentioned before we are off on tv and movie zoom backgrounds and […]

Overview If you didn’t know, Alan likes orange. And we start off discussing why his Skynet is orange. So geeky in many ways. Do you know […]

Overview It can be difficult when a loved one dies and even more difficult to talk about arrangements after your own death. Alan has been experiencing […]

Overview It’s not been a great couple weeks for Alan as he’s dealt with his father’s passing. He has all of our condolences and he knows […]

Overview We love it when our conversations tie together, and today it all comes down to the user experience. It starts with the simple things in […]

Overview Stephen’s tech troubles with his 3d printer leads to a conversation on how fixing tech problems has changed. Home networks are also big, and Stephen […]

Overview https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/winter-storm-weather-live-01-17-21/index.html How could we not talk about the incredible snowstorm? It’s the most snow we’ve gotten in quite awhile. Everything may have been closed, but […]

Overview We have toyed with talking about COVID, so we dig in to discuss it today. It’s been around for 2 years now and doesn’t seem […]

Overview Before we delve into some dungeons, we talk about some reality TV – Wipeout and American Ninja. The guilty fun of the shows. And a […]

Overview We got lots of cool swag for Christmas. Alan got a ton of music and recommends all of them. Stephen is getting a cool handmade […]

Overview We have a special guest on today – Stephen’s son Colin! Colin works at a comic book store and recently attended C2E2 in Chicago. We […]

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Argh! We start off – by missing the first 10 minutes of our conversation. Totally my fault. We didn’t even notice that it wasn’t recording. At […]

Overview Our conversation starts with recycles and how people choose NOT to do things to help the environment. Recycling has improved over the years, yet some […]

Overview Our talk starts with a great Facebook post about what makes high IQ people different from others. The most common element is openness to new […]

Overview There have been a lot of trailers for upcoming movies and shows and we start with Boba Fett. We didn’t see the Obi Wan trailer […]

Clip Overview We dive into some science discussions – like how sci-fi has become reality. Everything from camouflage to black holes to apatosaurus and fifth state […]

This week’s geek: It is that time of year and we love Halloween. How much more Halloween can you get than to dress up? And if […]

Clip Stephen is going on a trip for Vampires of New Orleans with The Author Success Mastermind. Alan saw James Bond and we reminisce about the […]

Clip Episode Overview It is October, and that means horror movies! And to make it geeky – a company just ran a big study to find […]

We start off today with a bit of health talk and how tech has affected our health. https://baseline.google.com https://www.twilio.com/ https://www.uber.com/ During Alan’s issues, Facebook had its […]

We’ve had a week off, which gave us plenty to discuss. Al went to the Strong National Museum of Play. https://www.museumofplay.org/ We discuss how preserving these […]

We talk a bit of tech and then all the new Marvel movies and tv shows that are coming out. YouTube

Al is getting a COVID check today, which starts the episode. We intended to talk about several things, but of course we flit from subject to […]

A couple weeks ago, we discussed old tech. This week it’s new tech – starting with Windows 11. We do delve into some old tech talking […]

Some recent health issues – root canal and broken bone – lead to a great discussion on improvements in health care. Things like using your own […]

We reminisce about old tech programming compared to newer programming. Full of tech stories which I’m sure some of you can relate to. Al has fun […]

Is Orange really Green? Maybe we don’t answer that question. But we do talk about the gifts big Al received for his birthday – including a […]

Kathy is the author of Creepy Cat – a collection of tales about her travels to spooky places. She talks about her love of horror, starting […]

We start off today after having not been able to troubleshoot tech problems. As Al says, two Codger Alpha Geeks that are usually the ones to […]

We do a catch up with a bunch of news. Of course it’s not just the news, we pontificate on each item. Our big Clued Up […]

We have an upcoming, outdoor Clue type mystery game this weekend we are playing in Cleveland. Fun times running around solving things with friends. Stephen talks […]

Stephen spent the weekend at a writer’s retreat in Salem, MA, so we start off discussing that and lead into talking about witch hunts in general. […]

We hit the topic – Bam Bam Bam One of the first items of discussion is books, and particularly the two that I am reading – […]

Now that the weather is nice there are several naturous hiking adventures we reminesce. Alan has gotten a new garage – but what an adventure. There […]

Today’s theme seems to be fun and wonder. These are things that kids have but adults tend to lose and we wonder why. We start off […]

We have another special episode that we recorded live. The topic is working from home, which we have quite a bit of experience with. In the […]

We tie everything together nicely today – how tech has changed and that has changed the games we play, but we can still play old board […]

As usual, we discuss several topics – but a lot of it is around what we plan to do for Memorial Day. Alan is going to […]

Well, it took us almost an hour to finally mention it’s our 1 year anniversary episode. Before we get there, we discuss the grays in the […]

Our discussion starts with grammar and lexicography. We discuss how to say words and how word meaning changes. We have another comic discussion because Al has […]

For our 50th episode we delve into the big new Marvel trailer. The discussion veers between all the upcoming movies and tv shows, but also the […]

Apple has just implemented a new security update that gives users more control. This has a lot of Facebook advertisers concerned. We discuss some of the […]

We had some trouble getting the episode going this time. Lost a few minutes of conversation because it wasn’t recording. Did some reboots and everything came […]

If you’re dealing with diabetes, check out our conversation this week. Since both of us are dealing with it, understanding diabetes and how to control it […]

We actually keep on topic and discuss (almost) everything we wanted to touch on. There’s a bit of tech talk at the beginning, but it just […]

For whatever reason, we have a long discussion on fashion. Nerd fashion. <smh> Yeah, I don’t know why that became a complete discussion today. https://www.netflix.com/title/80241581 The […]