Episode 007: The Best Comedy Requires Work: On Inside Jokes, Monty Python, and the Value of Comedy

October 11, 2020 by Michael Boyce

This week’s episode is an audio essay about my love of the Monty Python and how trying to “get the jokes” impacted my life.

I’m very grateful to my friends Allison and Kyle at Mythos & Ink Publishing for permission to produce this expanded audio version and for including this essay in their upcoming book, Always Look Up (and Other Wisdom I Learned from Geek Culture that Changed My Life) — Area of Effect, Vol. 2 (coming Oct 2020).

So buy the book!!!!

Episode 006: To Boldly Go with Murray Leeder.

October 04, 2020 by Michael Boyce

If you’re talking traditionally geeky subjects, few things top Star Trek. This week I talk Star Trek with Dr. Murray Leeder - from the original series, to TNG and DS9, to Picard and the future of the franchise. Murray is a research affiliate at the University of Manitoba’s Institute of Humanities with a wide variety of interests. He’s published several academic and non-academic pieces on Star Trek.

Episode: 005: 1 Up with Allison Alexander

September 27, 2020 by Michael Boyce

This week we’re talking video games with my friend, writer and editor extraordinaire, Allison Alexander. Allison is the Editorial Director for Mythos and Ink, a small Winnipeg-based press with a passion for publishing great stories and the community built around them. We talk about her early love of Commodore 64 games, her deep and abiding love of Zelda, and being a female gamer.