Geek4 Lynch Theme
I’ve been playing with a theme for the Lynch specific episodes and I thought I’d give a preview. The song is Nondeterministic Infinite Automaton by ROZKOL from Rising of the Lights (rozkol.bandcamp.com)
Geek4 Lynch: Teaser
When I launched Geek4 in late August 2020, the original idea was to combine interviews and audio essays. I wanted to talk to people about the things they’re passionate about and I wanted to share reflections on things I’m passionate about. So far, I’ve only done a handful of audio essays – British comedy, Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
I’ve had a topic I’ve been working on for a few months, but each time I sit down to plot it out, I realize, This is just too big for just one audio essay. And that’s my love for the works of David Lynch.
Over the course of the next few months, I’m going to do a series of audio essays on the works of David Lynch. I don’t know how many. I don’t know how frequently I’ll be able to get them out. I don’t know if I’m going to look at all of his works, or just the ones I love the most. I do know that I will continue to conduct interviews with people about their fandoms, but will intersperse these Geek4 Lynch episodes as they’re completed.
I also know that I’m going to start with the work that introduced me to David Lynch, Twin Peaks. Honestly, there’s so much that I want to say about Twin Peaks, it very well may be a multi parter. I mean, there’s at least a hour half of things to say about that horrible tucked in sweater look Billy Zane rocked in season 2, right?
Tucking it in doesn’t make it better.
Episode 209: Going Holmes with Mike Rodaway
It was an unjustified experiment even for myself... Doubly so for a friend. I really am extremely sorry. “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”
I have been very fortunate to have people who have supported and encouraged me in this weird little project called Geek4. Podcasting is hard. Getting people to share, or review, or come on, is hard. Let alone getting people to agree to come on and be interviewed. Lots of people say they’re going to support you, but not everyone does.
On this episode, I welcome one of my most vocal supporters, and one of my oldest friends, Mike Rodaway. Michael Rodaway if his mom is reading this. Mike and I met in Grade 7 at Lake Vista Senior Public school. We continued our friendship into high school, GL Roberts, in south Oshawa where our mascot was a rat. I wish I was making that up).
When we talked about him coming on the podcast, we agreed to talk about his love from the stories of Sherlock Holmes (a love I happen to share). And we do talk about Sherlock Holmes. For about 5-7 minutes. The rest of the time we just chat. Two old friends reflecting on a shared history, tracing memories and reflecting on a shared history (including the story of me performing almost naked in front of the school). We reflect on the types of people we were and the realizations we've come to about that time.
The Bantam Complete Novels and Stories that Mike and I both own… and bought from the same bookshop
At one point in our Holmes conversation, Mike reflects on the friendship between Holmes and Watson as being the true heart of the stories. Watson makes Holmes better. Holmes makes Watson better. Mike makes me better. I won’t dare to suggest which of us is Holmes and which Watson, but you will hear every bit of the friendship, respect and love that characterizes that famous pairing in every joke, side tangent, and story me and MIke share. I’m very lucky to have retained so many good friends from this time in my life.
Maybe this one is a little too “inside baseball.” I don’t think so. I’m as proud of this episode as any I’ve done.
But if you’re REALLY keen on seeing the performance that Mike and everyone else thought would get me expelled (or the whole Roberts Revels Christmas Concert, head on over to my Youtube channel
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Episode 208: A Little Wilder with Tom Salinsky!
On this episode I'm joined by podcaster, author, actor, and producer Tom Salinsky. My listeners may know Tom for co-creating and co-hosting Best Pick Podcast along with previous Geek4 guest Jessica Regan and (hopefully future guest) John Dorney. And Tom joined me to talk about his love for the films of Billy Wilder, who is also one of my favourite directors.
Over the course of our conversation, we cover many aspects of a wide variety of Wilder classics and not-so-classics, including The Apartment (1960), Double Indemnity (1944), Some Like It Hot (1959), One, Two Three (1961), and The Emperor Waltz (1953).
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On this episode, I talk to Adam Roche about his “creepy obsession” with Old Time Radio. You may know Adam from his excellent podcasts about classic movies - The Secret History of Hollywood and House of Hammer, but he credits discovering Old Time Radio as the starting point for all he does now. His first (and still ongoing) podcast, Attaboy, Clarence, combines movie reviews and curated episodes of OTR.
As a fellow OTR lover, I LOVED this conversation. We talk about those radio shows that put on audio adaptations of Hollywood films (Screen Guild Theatre, Screen Directors Theatre, and The Lux Radio Theatre) often with the stars of the films or unique alternate castings (Adam tells me about a radio version of Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt with Cary Grant as Uncle Charley!). We talk about the detective shows, the dramas, and the sitcoms. And we manage to cover a bit of classic movies as well. I think you’ll like this one. Adam is a true gentleman.
You can keep up with Adam and his many projects on that new fangled internet!
https://www.attaboyclarence.com
Twitter: @Audiojoe, @moviehistories, @attaboyc, @HouseHammerPod
Instagram: @orpheusblack @secrethistoryhollywood, @househammerpod
Support him on Patreon. He provides excellent bonuses and perks.
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I respectfully acknowledge that I live in and work on Treaty One Territory and in the traditional homeland of the Métis nation.
Episode 206: An Interview with a Vampire Fan, Murray Leeder
After Anne Rice’s death on December 11, 2021, Geek4 alum, Murray Leeder posted a thoughtful Facebook reflection (such things can exist) on Rice, her work, and being a former fan. She was, he notes, “the first author [he] ‘fell out of fandom’ with.” (see Murray’s post below).
He describes his early fascination; his participation in the then-infant online fan communities. He talks about his loss of interest.
Murray’s words, engaging and thoughtful as always, got me thinking about forgotten fandoms, loss and nostalia for things that we left behind. Or left us. It provided me an opportunity to invte Murray back on Geek4 and talk about not only Rice and her influence (not only on him, as a fan, but as perhaps the most signifcant figure shaping vampire lore since Stoker) but also an example of a forgotten fandom - one that, for some reason or other, slipped away. .
It was great conversation about Rice, her legacy, and coming to terms with lost loves.
Episode 205: Seeing Red (Dwarf) with Alistair Cornwall
On this episode, I'm joined by Alistair Cornwall to discuss his love for the long running science fiction comedy series, Red Dwarf. Ali is the co-host of Film Guff (with former Geek4 guest, Cev Moore), the podcast that offers low brow talk about low rent movies. In addition to space sitcoms, he has a wide variety of geeky interests. Everything from gaming Batman, car racing, and Funko Pops. And I learn a bit about British soup vending machines, which sound horrifying.
You can follow Alistair’s YouTube Channel - www.youtube.com/c/cornwolf
Twitter - @Corn_Wolf and follow FIlm Guff at FilmGuff.com and your podcatcher of choice Ali also hosts Codec Moments, a podcast about gaming and Just Send It, a podcast about motorsports.
You can follow me on Twitter @mwboyce and Instagram @mwboyce and follow my website michaelwboyce.com/geek4
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I respectfully acknowledge that I live in and work on Treaty One Territory and in the traditional homeland of the Métis nation.
Episode 204: poetic license with Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite
I recently had the opportunity to host a public conversation with Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite about art and literature and the intersections with faith. Steve is an award winning singer-songwriter-storyteller from Winnipeg, MB. Malcolm is a priest and poet from the UK. These two friends have an infectious love of stories and songs and poetry. I knew that, if I got them talking about the art that influenced them and how they developed as artists themselves, I just needed to stay out of their way.
We talk about Shakespeare and Keats, Bruce Cockburn and Coleridge, and staying connected in the pandemic. I loved every single second of this conversation. At a time when most of us “feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread,” to quote Tolkien, this conversation was life giving.
I’m grateful Steve and Malcolm allowed me to share out talk on Geek4.
Check out Steve’s music, including his pandemic Loft Sessions, on his Youtube page and follow him on Instagram @signpoststeve and Twitter @signpoststeve
You can follow Malcom on Twiiter @malcolmguite and watch his “Spell in the Library” series on his Youtube page.
Episode 203: Talking Potter with Katy McDaniel
Confession time, geeks: this episode has been in the queue for a while.
It’s been a hard winter. In addtion to record snowfall in on the Canadian prairies that has left me buried under a mountain of snow, the academic year has been very demanding. And there’s this pesky pandemic. we’re all still navigating. On top of all that, there were some audio challenges on my end that made editing take longer than usual. Days turned into weeks, weeks became months. You know how it goes.
But it’s finally ready and this was a fun conversation with Katy McDaniel, a professor of History at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio.. She's also the editor of Virtual Dark Tourism: Ghost Roads as well as the co-editor of Harry Potter for Nerds II and she co-hosts the podcast, Potterversity with Geek4 alumn, Emily Strand, which is part of the MuggleNet family,
You can check out all the back episodes of Potterversity, including the AMAZING episode 15 with yours truly. Or, subscribe on your podcatcher of choice.
Potterversity is also on social media: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. If you have a Potter-based question for Katy and Emily, you can always email them at potterversitypodcast@gmail.com.
You can follow me on Twitter @mwboyce and Instagram @mwboyce and follow my website michaelwboyce.com
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If you listen on Apple Podcast and like the show, please consider leaving a 5 star review. The more reviews we have, the more we show up in searches.
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I respectfully acknowledge that I live in and work on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Assiniboine, Dakota and Dene Peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.
Episode 202: Getting Ghosted with Margo MacDonald
On this SPOOKY episode of Geek 4, I'm talking to award-winning actor and playwright Margo MacDonald. Margo is also a long time ghost researcher and has been leading ghost tours for www.hauntedwalk.com
for almost 20 years. We discuss her fascination with ghosts and the supernatural; the relative who investigated The Fire-Spook of Caledonia Mills; and her own spooky encounters with the paranormal. We also talk about way people are drawn to scary stories, particularly stories that suggest life after death.
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