Podcast of the Month for December 2012 is:
Geek Out Loud!
As Steve Glosson says at the beginning of every Geek Out
Loud podcast, “Welcome to Geek Out Loud, your safe place to geek out.” which is
precisely what he and his “podcasting partner for life” Derek, do on each and
every episode. Geek Out Loud is one of the most loosely structured, but categorically
comedic podcasts on the Internets. Every Geek Out Loud episode is unique in
both subject matter and structure. What is consistent is the big heart and geek
love that Steve communicates in each podcast. Steve occasionally works solo, or
with guest co-hosts, but he is at his best when working with Derek, who has the
ability to make Steve laugh uncontrollably and often.
Here is how Steve and Derek describe themselves on their
Geek Out Loud website:
Steve Glosson
He resides in a small town in Southern Georgia USA. He’s
been a geek his whole life. “It started with Star Wars and grew from there.”
says Steve of his geekdom. Steve is the founder and primary contributor to Geek
Out Online, and the host of Geek Out Loud: The Official Podcast of Geek Out Online.
Steve’s vision was to create a place online where people would come to talk
about the things they enjoy as it pertains to geekdom rather than complain
about everything that is wrong with comics, movies, and sci fi. As Steve says
of Geek Out Loud and Geek Out Online, he tries to make this a “safe place” to
geek out. Whether it’s bad impressions or poking fun at himself, fun is the key
and Steve tries to bring a little bit in all he does.
Derek Russel
The host of Starkville’s House of El and The Skynext
Podcast. Derek is another lifelong geek who, by his own testimony, wore a
Superman cape on his first Halloween. He and Steve met through a series of
e-mails and circumstances and have been a dynamic duo ever since. Derek appears
occasionally on Geek Out Loud and works behind the scenes with Steve to help
him keep up with all the coolest news, latest trailers, and geeky goodness. It
has been said that Derek and Steve actually share some sort of Vulcan mind meld
type thing. To this outlandish idea, Steve was heard to reply, “Vulcan? Of
course not. That’s Star Trek, and everyone knows how I feel about that show.
It’s the force…and it’s totally serendipitous.” Check out Derek’s blog Totally
Serendipitous for his thoughts on television happenings, his life, and
occasional Vlogs.
Episodes of Geek Out Loud have ranged in topics from
films like The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises to TV shows like
Smallville and Clone Wars. Topics range the full gambit of all things geek; so
be prepared for anything to be discussed on Geek Out Loud. What keeps me
listening to each episode of Geek Out Loud is the back and forth banter between Steve and Derek. Sometimes Derek has fun messing with Steve, like the
time he declared that from now on he wanted to be known as Sean Phillips. Derek
also was jealous of Steve’s co-host Buck on The Big Honkin’ Show, a podcast
that they did live every Saturday morning on Usenet. Derek kept saying that he
wanted to be Buck, because Buck was much cooler than him and it took much
cajoling from Steve (between fits of laughter) to convince Derek that he was
just as cool as Buck.
If you want to be entertained by a podcast and sometimes
informed, Geek Out Loud is a safe place to geek out – indeed!
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