Episodes
Friday Mar 30, 2018
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Friday Mar 30, 2018
Friday Mar 30, 2018
[School of Everything Else 2018]
We're back on video games with a very intriguing commission. This one takes the form of a third-person action adventure with some protracted puzzling elements, but underneath the format there is a dark and upsetting, remarkably sensitive story about the nightmarish challenges that sometimes have to be faced when a person is suffering from psychosis.
Made by Ninja Theory, the dev team behind Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, DMC and Disney Infinity 3.0 this game does things with its soundscape that very few others do. If you've not played it this show might still be a good place to start because you might either find it frustrating or alarming to play or else miss quite a bit as you barge through the many horned enemies.
WARNING: This one gets heavy and maybe even frightening.
Guest:
Doctor Lorin Grieve from Year of Steam
Friday Mar 23, 2018
Miami Connection
Friday Mar 23, 2018
Friday Mar 23, 2018
[School of Movies 2018]
We are firmly back in nanar country with this film that is so spectacularly, incompetently made, so tonally baffling, so confusingly arranged, yet so sweet-natured and weird that it flips right the way around to being a fantastic experience to watch.
We begin with a tale of ninjas busting drug deals in Miami (or mostly Orlando as it turns out), an intriguing plot that gets abandoned until the end to instead pursue the earnest misadventures of a Taekwondo-skilled synth rock band named Dragon Sound.
Many punks are kicked, tears flow horribly among these beach bum friends forever, and this missing gang from The Warriors find themselves in a deadly street war against the ninja. The whole show is scored with the soundtrack to Far Cry: Blood Dragon, which should tell you everything you need to know.
Guests:
Kaoru Negisa and
Debbie Morse of Sequentially Yours
Friday Mar 16, 2018
Raising a Geek Child: Vol. 2
Friday Mar 16, 2018
Friday Mar 16, 2018
[School of Everything Else 2018]
We're back for the second part of this series (we may do another in the future, it really depends which parents want to contribute their experiences).
We have an even broader range of guests and questions, with geeky children ranging from toddlers to tweens.
Guests
Jesse Ferguson father of Connor aged 10 & Erin aged 15
James Batchelor father of Freddy aged 20 months (Bond & Beyond)
Matt Wardle father of Scott aged 12 (New Century)
Brittanie Boe mother of Hailey Boe aged 8 (BeBoldGames)
And Mike Hearn father of Lily aged 8 & Violet aged 3 (Walter the Wicked)
Friday Mar 09, 2018
Raising a Geek Child: Vol. 1
Friday Mar 09, 2018
Friday Mar 09, 2018
[School of Everything Else 2018]
The first of our two recorded shows on this subject so far. This was commissioned back in 2017 and Sharon and I began preparing copious notes on how we'd raised Lyra. Those notes became the beginnings of a sprawling self-help book which we planned to turn into audio. Then eventually we accepted that the subject was too big and far too important to just rely on our take.
So we pulled together two round table sessions with parents of geeky children. I go into detail on how that definition works at the beginning, but as it stands these interviews are packed with honest accounts and experiences that might help any number of parents out there. Whether you already have children or are thinking about having them or never want to have them at all but are interested in how the geekier parent might handle it, this show is essential listening.
Guests
Brendan Agenew, father of Marian, aged 1 (Cinapse)
Neil Taylor, father of Mikey, aged 3 (TheKidDogg)
Gary Blower, father of Imogen, aged 8 (GameBurst)
Sharon Shaw, mother of Lyra, aged 9 (New Century)
I'd also like to promote another geek Dad; Andy Robertson, who is running a project designed to help parents concerned about video games and technology: https://www.patreon.com/geekdadgamer
Friday Mar 02, 2018
Black Panther
Friday Mar 02, 2018
Friday Mar 02, 2018
[School of Movies 2018]
Arguably Marvel’s most globally significant movies to date comes roaring into the School of Movies, and have we got a show for you tonight.
We’re talking the stunningly beautiful and invigorating land of Wakanda, its fusion of African cultures, tradition and futurism, the royal family of heroes, the fascinating support cast, the transportive music, the detail and meaning packed into every onscreen element, and maybe the best Marvel villain yet, Eric Killmonger.
Guests
Brenden Agnew of Cinapse
Kaoru Negisa
and Debbie Morse of Sequentially Yours
Jerome McIntosh of GameBurst
Spencer Leeb of The Death of Subtlety
Aquila Edwards @aquilaedwards
Eric Jones of Waxing Cinematic
Arlington can be found here: https://newcentury.bandcamp.com/album/new-century-arlington