Best Andy Geek Out Podcasts (2025)

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Episode #55: Curt Mega 45:29

3M ago45:29

45:29

He’s not just any agent, he’s a special agent! Sofia chats with the SPYTACULAR Curt Mega (Spies Are Forever, Black Friday, Glee, Buffering)!!! Curt is best known for starring as Agent Curt Mega in the Tin Can Brothers musical comedy Spies Are Forever. Curt has also starred as struggling writer Ben Little in the web-series Buffering and The Ben Diar…

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Episode #54: Tessa Netting 1:02:03

3M ago1:02:03

1:02:03

You’re just as sane as she is! Sofia chats with the MAGICAL Tessa Netting (Her amazing YouTube channel, the Fantastic Geeks Podcast, Spies Are Forever, Billy Elliott, Bunk’d)!!! Tessa made her Broadway debut at the age of 18 as the “Spastic Starfish” Ballet Girl in Billy Elliott. Tessa is best known for her Harry Potter and fandom-themed YouTube ch…

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Episode #53: Melissa Anelli 27:12

3M ago27:12

27:12

Sofia chats with the BRILLIANT Melissa Anelli (Harry, A History author, The Leaky Cauldron webmistress, Pottercast host, Mischief Management CEO)!!! Melissa is the webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron, one of the most popular Harry Potter fan websites of all time, the host of Pottercast, the first ever Harry Potter podcast and one of the first podcast…

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Episode #52: Jon Matteson 32:03

3M ago32:03

32:03

By Sofia Rosenbaum

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Episode #51: Anthony Rapp 21:57

3M ago21:57

21:57

Viva la vie bohéme! Sofia chats with the LEGENDARY Anthony Rapp (Rent, Star Trek: Discovery, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, If/Then, Six Degrees of Separation)!!! Anthony is best known for his iconic origination of the role of Mark Cohen in the revolutionary Broadway phenomenon Rent, and reprised his role in its West End production, as well as i…

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Episode #50: Nick Lang 59:31

3M ago59:31

59:31

He wants to learn to play the banjo! Sofia chats with the GENIUS writer and actor Nick Lang (Holy Musical B@man!, Starship, A Very Potter Musical, Ani: A Parody, The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals)!!! Nick and his brother Matt Lang are the founders and co-creators of Team StarKid and are the masterminds behind every Team StarKid musical to date, incl…

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Episode #49: Brian Holden 31:52

3M ago31:52

31:52

He is a man of justice, he is a man of might! Sofia chats with the TOTALLY AWESOME Brian Holden (A Very Potter Sequel, Holy Musical B@man!, Ani: A Parody, Starship, Me and My Dick, A Very Potter Senior Year)!!! Brian is a founding member of Team StarKid and has played many different roles in their productions, as an actor, co-writer, director and p…

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Episode #48: Andy Mientus 37:21

3M ago37:21

37:21

Sofia chats with the FANTASTIC Andy Mientus (Smash, Les Miserábles, The Who’s Tommy, Spring Awakening, The Flash, Wicked)!!! Andy is best known for starring as writer Kyle Bishop on NBC’s Smash. He has starred onstage as Tommy in The Who’s Tommy at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Marius Pontmercy in Les Miserábles on Broadway, Hanschën R…

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Episode #47: Joey Richter 38:43

3M ago38:43

38:43

He’s not just a sidekick! Sofia chats with the STUPENDOUS Joey Richter (A Very Potter Musical, Starship, Me and My Dick, Spies Are Forever, The Trail to Oregon!, The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals)!!! Joey is one of the founding members of Team StarKid, and made his YouTube musical debut as a hilarious, Red Vines-loving, blue headband-clad Ron Weasle…

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Episode #46: Jeff Blim 25:50

3M ago25:50

25:50

He steals everything! Sofia chats with the OREGON-TASTIC songwriter and actor Jeff Blim (The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, The Trail to Oregon!, Twisted, Holy Musical B@man!) Jeff is a longtime member of Team StarKid, and has penned the music and lyrics for their original musicals The Trail to Oregon! and most recently The Guy Who Didn’t Like Music…

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Episode 146: Spear by Nicola Griffith 52:54

2y ago52:54

52:54

Andi and Lise discuss and deeply appreciate multiple award-winning spec fic writer Nicola Griffith’s novel Spear (current Nebula finalist!)—a queer Arthurian story that will bring you right into the era from a perspective you didn’t know you absolutely needed. If, like them, you grew up on Arthurian/Camelot stories, Spear is like coming home to the…

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Episode 145: The Last of Us: One and Done/Fun 51:45

2y ago51:45

51:45

Andi and Lise jumped into the current zeitgeist and watched the first episode of the first season of The Last of Us on HBO Max, the TV series adapted from the video game of the same name (by Naughty Dog and Sony Interactive Entertainment, released in 2013). The storyline involves a post-apocalyptic U.S. in which survivors live in totalitarian walle…

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Rerun Episode 124: A Conversation with Karin Kallmaker 1:03:20

2y ago1:03:20

1:03:20

Lise is laid up this week and can’t get the latest episode edited and uploaded. While she recovers, please enjoy this conversation with Karin Kallmaker.By lisemactague

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Episode 144: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Does it Hold up? 50:01

2+ y ago50:01

50:01

Andi and Lise watched the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (the whale movie!) to determine if it holds up after all these years. Here, the Star Trek crew has to save Earth from destruction by an alien probe. To do that, they need…whales. Trust us on this! It’s a great plot device! Unfortunately, whales have been extinct for centuries. So the…

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Episode 143: Wednesday, Season 1 54:21

2+ y ago54:21

54:21

Andi and Lise rave about season 1 of the Netflix series Wednesday, which follows Wednesday Addams (a fabulous Jenna Ortega) of the iconic Addams family as she’s expelled from yet another high school and ends up at Nevermore Academy, a school for paranormal misfits where her parents first met. While there, Wednesday navigates tensions with the nearb…

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Models Workshop EP 130 - All Your Now Belong To Us (D&D Prismatic Paints) 2:51:37

2+ y ago2:51:37

2:51:37

In this episode Marie, Jessica, and Larry discuss the news going on in the industry including the short update for the Open Gaming License fiasco, a poor performance from Hasbro and the laying off 1000 employees. WizKids releases a Dungeons and Dragons paint line, does it add to the hobby or is it just another ego play. Hey everyone! Welcome to Mod…

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Episode 142: A Pale Light in the Black, by K.B. Wagers 51:06

2+ y ago51:06

51:06

Andi and Lise loved K.B. Wagers’ A Pale Light in the Black, the first installment of Wagers’ NeoG series. A fast-paced, diverse character-driven space opera meets sports story meets mystery with some of their fave elements: strong diverse characters with issues we can all relate to; space opera adventure; found family; sporting competition; creepy …

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Models Workshop-2023-EP2: ORC vs Wizards, Life News, and More 2:36:55

2+ y ago2:36:55

2:36:55

Join Larry and Marie as we sit down and talk about the death of the open gaming license (OGL) 1.1 and the birth of the open roleplaying creative (ORC) license that is being created by Paizo. We also discuss the StageTop kickstarter, a series of 3D Printed Gaming Table series. StageTop: The 3D Printed Gaming Table https://www.kickstarter.com/project…

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Episode 141: National Treasure: Edge of History: One and Done/Fun 40:51

2+ y ago40:51

40:51

In this episode, Andi Marquette and Lise MacTague discuss the first episode of Disney Plus’ new series National Treasure: Edge of History, based on the movies but starring a different cast with interesting takes on the characters and some of the issues they’re dealing with. Like the movies, this is a quest-themed movie that Andi likens to watching …

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Models Workshop - 2023- Episode 1 2:44:24

2+ y ago2:44:24

2:44:24

We strive for all things nerdy, bringing you vast geeky energy. We cover collectable card games like Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh to the world of miniatures game play from Games Workshop games like Warhammer 40k and Age of Sigmar to miniature painting and airbrushing. We also discuss our favorite movies, books, and music that we are …

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Episode 140: What’s up in 2023! 54:46

2+ y ago54:46

54:46

Andi and Lise chat about the changing of the year, taking stock, calendars, and a few of the things they’re looking forward to in terms of books, TV shows, and games, and also their dreams to win powerball and fund game studios. Lise: Tears of the Kingdom, the next Legend of Zelda game, available in May K.B. Wagers’ 2023 and 3rd installment in thei…

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Episode 139: HoliGAY Movies 55:25

2+ y ago55:25

55:25

For this, the last show of 2022, Andi and Lise watched some LGBTQ Holiday (Christmas) movies based on a list published by Cosmopolitan Magazine (we know. We were all “WHAT?” too). They chat about the movies they saw, and throw out some other recommendations (also on the list). And also, Happy Holidays to all y’all! Cosmopolitan list of LGBTQ movies…

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Episode 138: The Tangleroot Palace: Stories by Marjorie Liu 54:57

2+ y ago54:57

54:57

Andi and Lise loved this collection of self-curated short stories (plus one novella) by majorly award-winning spec fic writer Marjorie Liu. These stories represent a collection from roughly 2009 until more recently, and span a range of spec fic genres, including paranormal, post-apocalyptic, fairy tale, superhero, and steampunk. Liu writes multi-la…

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Episode 137: WTAF 46:43

2+ y ago46:43

46:43

Andi and Lise spent some time trying to process the recent mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They’re angry, devastated, and horrified. Sometimes, in order to find some support, you need to reach out and talk/vent and claim some space for yourself to do that. We hope that you’re able to do the same—to reach out t…

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Episode 136: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: One and Done/Fun 31:36

2+ y ago31:36

31:36

This week, Andi and Lise are doing a new kind of segment, in which they watch one episode (generally the first) of a series and determine if it’s One and Done (won’t watch anymore) or One and Fun, in which case they’re willing to go on and watch more episodes. They’re starting with the 2022 Marvel series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, available on Disn…

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Episode 135: The Nightmare before Christmas: Does it Hold up? 56:20

2+ y ago56:20

56:20

This week, Andi and Lise discuss the 1993 animated Tim Burton musical film, The Nightmare before Christmas (one of Lise’s faves). This film was nominated for an Oscar but lost out to Jurassic Park that year. Here, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King and linchpin of Halloween, is searching for something more and ends up trying to replicate Christmas,…

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Episode 134: Paper Girls (TV Series) 57:34

2+ y ago57:34

57:34

Andi and Lise are finally back! YAY! And they wanted to rave about the series Paper Girls (2022), first season available on Amazon Prime. This is adapted from the comic series written by Brian Vaughn and illustrated by Cliff Chiang. The story is about four young teen girls who are paper delivery girls in the Midwest in 1988. One morning, after Hall…

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Rerun Episode 52: Interview with Kameron Hurley 1:00:43

2+ y ago1:00:43

1:00:43

As Lise and Andi dig out from the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad couple of weeks they’ve had, please enjoy this rerun of one of their favorite episodes. They had a fantastic time geeking out with fabulous sci-fi author Kameron Hurley. Back next week, promise!By lisemactague

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Models Workshop - Episode 1 2:47:55

2+ y ago2:47:55

2:47:55

We strive for all things nerdy, bringing you vast geeky energy. We cover collectable card games like Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh to the world of miniatures game play from Games Workshop games like Warhammer 40k and Age of Sigmar to miniature painting and airbrushing. We also discuss our favorite movies, books, and music that we are …

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Episode 133: Dr. Who and the 13th Doctor 50:47

2+ y ago50:47

50:47

This week, Andi can’t make it, so Lise talks to one of her friends about the British sci-fi television show Dr. Who. Nyssa (AKA Feverwood), a Dr. Who superfan, regales Lise with all the reasons why Dr. Who, in general, is a fantastic show, and why the thirteenth Doctor, in particular is so wonderful. Along the way, Nyssa recommends the podcasts Ver…

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Rerun Episode 23: Paper Girls 21:33

3y ago21:33

21:33

Lise and Andi had too much come up and weren’t able to record this week. They’ll be back next time, but for now, enjoy this rerun episode of Paper Girls, an awesome graphic novel series we loved, and a hint about the topic for the next episode.By lisemactague

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Episode 132: Everything Everywhere All at Once 59:52

3y ago59:52

59:52

Andi and Lise really enjoyed this movie starring Michelle Yeoh that explores various themes around the idea of connection and finding meaning in our lives against the backdrop of the multiverse, absurdist comedy, action adventure, and moments of poignancy. Here, Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, who lives above the laundromat she and her husband own. They’re…

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