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Popping into life from a script that was never meant to be made into a film, produced by Steven Spielberg and helmed by a rising horror director, Gremlins made a giant splash in the summer of 1984. Which is odd since it’s a Christmas movie. Colin hosts this week as he feeds the regular crew, sans Jaime, after midnight. The unlikely origins of the film, it’s cast, and production challenges are all discussed as well as that crazy ‘why I don’t celebrate Christmas anymore’ monologue that creeps us all out.
 
Cryptogeekology: 20 Questions – Heather joins us again and the gang struggles with a new topic: Actor. See if you can guess who it is before they do.
 

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Hosted By: Brandon Cramer, Alex Hirsch, Caleb McCallister, Jamie McCallister & Colin Perkins
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Dungeons & Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game that took the world by storm. The Satanic Panic was a cultural phenomenon during the 80s and 90s damning nearly everything totally rad. This week the crew gets together to talk about both. Alex hosts this week as he guides the cast through the history of D&D, Gary Gygax’s early career, how D&D works, and the causes of the Satanic Panic (as well as why D&D holds some of that stigma today). There’s also an impromptu dungeon encounter somewhere in there that no one was ready for.
 
Cryptogeekology: 20 Questions – Heather joins us again and the gang crushes the new topic: Board Games. See if you can grab it before they do.
 

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Hosted By: Brandon Cramer, Alex Hirsch, Caleb McCallister, Jamie McCallister & Colin Perkins
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The crew runs over the NES megahit and franchise starter: Castlevania. Caleb talks about his dad. Caleb brings a solid description of the game and the crew make their best attempt at staying on track. While we go over the many sub-weapons of the game, Jaime reminds us real life daggers go, you know, stabby-stab-stab. Brandon makes the reference of his life.
 
Cryptogeekology: 20 Questions is about a video game this week. Heather joins the crew again and it’s starting to look like she’s a bit of a good luck charm
 

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Hosted By: Brandon Cramer, Alex Hirsch, Caleb McCallister, Jamie McCallister & Colin Perkins
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Show Mail: podcast@geeksquatch.com
Show Site: geeksquatch.com

There’s a point in every kid’s life where miniaturized cartoon characters are always picked out of toybox first. From well known brands like G.I. Joe and Transformers to the often forgotten M.A.S.K and Battle Beasts, action figures took many forms during their prime in the 80’s and 90’s. Colin hosts this memory driven show as the crew discuss their favorite action figures from their adolescence. Each cast member had experience with them at different ages, so you have 15 years of plastic figurine favorites to keep you company.
 
Cryptogeekology: 20 questions has a TV show on deck this week. The crew get on the right path fairly quickly. See if you can beat them to the punch.
 

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Hosted By: Brandon Cramer, Alex Hirsch, Caleb McCallister, Jamie McCallister & Colin Perkins
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Show Site: geeksquatch.com

The original Mega Man games had a great run on the original Nintendo, but the series had gotten stale. Capcom had maxed out their creativity over six annualized games and, given the processing power that was available on the NES, the franchise was due for an evolution. Enter Mega Man X. Released a few years into the Super Nintendo life cycle, Mega Man X lived up to the expectations of longtime fans and is still considered one of the best mega man games ever created. Caleb takes you deep into the greatness. The Geeksquatch crew dive into the game’s lore, evolved gameplay, and fan community that took the Mega Man universe to the next level!
 

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Hosted By: Brandon Cramer, Alex Hirsch, Caleb McCallister, Jamie McCallister & Colin Perkins
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Show Site: geeksquatch.com

The under-appreciated. The Ugly Logo. The Cult following. The Sega Dreamcast is the topic of this weeks discussion as Alex yells at the gang for an hour about how amazing this oft forgotten console was and still is. Brandom makes a Crazy Taxi joke. The rest of the crew discuss why this failed and why they missed out on this iteration of Sega’s era in gaming console production.
 
Cryptogeekology: 20 questions dips back into the TV show category and Alex might just stump us. Or not. Listen and find out.
 

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Hosted By: Brandon Cramer, Alex Hirsch, Caleb McCallister, Jamie McCallister & Colin Perkins
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Show Site: geeksquatch.com

The 90’s saw a resurgence of great Disney animated films. Classics like Aladdin, The Lion King, and Toy Story brought forward new stories and new characters into their roster of animated personalities. In the middle of the renaissance was a feature starring one of the old standby’s, Goofy. The star of Goof Troop is given a modern dilemma as a family man trying to connect with his teenage son, Max. A Goofy Movie was a film that Brandon is behind the discussion, taking Geeksquatch on a roadtrip to Powerline. The crew covers the plot, their favorite moments from the film, and discusses the voice actors that bring the story to life.
 
Cryptogeekology: 20 questions dips back into the video game category. The gang get to the answer pretty quick, so you’ll have to think fast to keep up.
 

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Hosted By: Brandon Cramer, Alex Hirsch, Caleb McCallister, Jamie McCallister & Colin Perkins
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Show Mail: podcast@geeksquatch.com
Show Site: geeksquatch.com