Best David Gee Podcasts (2025)

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S10E7 - The Best Escape Room in the World: Jonathan Driscoll and Sacha St. Denis of Escaparium 1:05:48

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" We're evolving the [escape room] experience towards something that's more theatrical, with puzzling, gaming, and immersive art all together." Magnifico is currently (as of November 2025) the top escape room in the world, as voted on by experienced escape room enthusiasts. For 2.5 hours, we were transported to another world where magic is real and…

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E216: Pete Paphides on ABBA + Stevie Wonder + Broken Greek 1:31:03

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In this episode we're joined by Pete Paphides, former rock critic for the London Times and author of 2020's acclaimed memoir Broken Greek. We start with our guest's unique "'Starman' moment" – seeing the Brotherhood of Man lip-sync to the ghastly 'Save Your Kisses for Me' on Top of the Pops in 1976 – and then plunge straight into a celebration of h…

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Using netlab for Classroom Training with Sander Steffann

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In March 2024, I received my first PR from an airplane: Sander Steffann was flying to South Africa to deliver an Ansible training and fixed a minor annoyance in the then-new multilab feature.Of course, I wanted to know more about his setup, but it took us over a year and a half till we managed to sit down (virtually) and chat about it, the state of…

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30: Warhammer (ft. Jordan Sorcery) 32:13

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"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war." In a dark, grim world, forty thousand years in the future, goblins, ghouls, and elves are battling for supremacy. Their armor is polished, their muscles are bulging, and the paint is almost dry. This is the massive world of Warhammer. In episode 30, Jordan Sorcery joins us to dive down the…

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S10E6 - Play as Learning: Breakout EDU with Adam Bellow 1:07:00

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"Bringing the escape room to the classroom." I might be just a teeny bit obsessed with disguising learning as play, and being tricked into learning. There is a joy to figuring things out for yourself, and iterating on past knowledge to further your skills. Besides the fun of solving puzzles, there is also a real sense of collaboration and the payof…

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S10E5 - Ambitious and Unhinged: Stephen & Stevie Kristof of 60 to Escape 1:11:42

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"Quietly ambitious and a bit unhinged." Somewhere in the Midwest, a talented young couple is quietly building an escape room empire. Their company, 60 to Escape, has over 12 different escape rooms across 3 locations, a puzzle-filled mini-golf experience, and a haunt so extensive and scenic that it was used as the set for a horror movie called Haunt…

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E215: Simon Price on Melody Maker + Manics + Radiohead audio 1:31:28

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For this episode — the first to feature RBP's editorial co-ordinator William Pike — we're joined by Melody Maker legend Simon Price for a discussion of his career, his championing of Manic Street Preachers, and Radiohead's first tour since 2018. Beginning in the South Wales town of Barry, we hear about Simon's boyhood, his formative pop passions an…

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29: The Mandela Effect (ft. Tony from Hack The Movies) 33:00

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" Your memories can't be trusted." Everyone remembers that 90s movie called Shazam starring Sinbad as a genie, right? Was it Berenstein Bears or Berenstain Bears? Did Mandela die in prison, or is that just a glitch in our collective brain? In today's episode, we explore the Mandela Effect, a phenomenon where a large group of people collectively mis…

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S10E4 - The Worlds Largest Trivia Contest with Jim "The Oz" Oliva 1:05:52

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" Think of it as a wild Midwestern version of the MIT mystery hunt for a slightly different crowd where people drink quite a bit more." For three whole days, over 10,000 trivia challengers descend on the tiny town of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, for The World's Largest Trivia Contest. The contest runs on the local college radio station at the Univer…

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S10E3 - Will & Kim Rutherford, Escape Artist Greenville 1:07:28

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"With a performer, players can make their own stories." Will and Kim Rutherford met at a summer pool party while in college. Kim recruited Will to help her win a floaty race across the pool. Alas, they lost. " I thought the floaty race was for fun and apparently it was for, I don't know, life bragging rights or something," says Will. Since then, th…

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E214: Lisa Verrico on Vox + Oasis + Billie Eilish + My Bloody Valentine 1:19:46

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In this episode we invite the highly entertaining Lisa Verrico to join us from her native Glasgow and talk us through her career from IPC's Vox magazine to The Times. Commencing with her memory of first hearing Prince's 'Little Red Corvette' as a kid on holiday in Spain, our guest recalls her days of raving (and working in radio) before describing …

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28: The Power Glove (ft. Adal Rifai) 28:13

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"I love it. It's so bad." At a glance, it's glove at first sight. But gamers in the 80s and 90s soon threw up their hands in disgust while trying to get The Power Glove to power anything besides their rage. Prolific podcaster Adal Rifai joins us to explore The Power Glove and play some games. Adal is certainly no stranger when it comes to puzzling …

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S10E2 - Exploring Stephen Sondheim's Deep Relationship with Puzzles (ft. Barry Joseph) 1:07:29

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"The Shakespeare of our time." Stephen Sondheim practically reinvented musicals with his flair for theatrical storytelling through his lyrics and music. A lesser known fact is that Sondheim also played a huge role in the puzzling world. Before he was famous for musicals like West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, and Sundays in the Park with George, Sondhe…

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Working for a Vendor with David Gee

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S10E1 - Will Shortz, The Puzzle Master 1:00:58

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"Will Shortz has probably done more to elevate public consciousness of puzzles than any other individual in history." For decades, the name Will Shortz has been synonymous with puzzles. Will Shortz is the crossword editor of The New York Times, the puzzle master on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, and the only person in the world with a college degree…

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E213: Michael A. Gonzales on TLC + The Source + DJ Kool Herc 1:15:36

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By Barney Hoskyns, Mark Pringle, Jasper Murison-Bowie

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27: Bees! (ft. The Infinite Escape Room) 31:45

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By Peih-Gee Law & David Spira

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...From Empire: State Religion w/ Erna Kim Hackett and Barnabas Lin 1:25:22

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In this epsiode Brandi is joined by Barnabas Lin and Erna Kim Hackett to talk about state religion and the ways that empires (throughout history) take on religious identities, co-opt them, and twist exploit them for power, privilege, and influence. This conversation was inspired by a recent trip they took to the West Bank and work that Brandi has b…

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E212: Greil Marcus on Mystery Train + Sex Pistols + Jamie Reid 1:09:59

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In this episode, we ask one of the greatest music writers of the rock and roll era to talk about Mystery Train as he celebrates its 50th anniversary with a brand-new edition of his classic book. Talking to us from Oakland, 6,000 miles away in his native Northern California, Greil Marcus looks back on the pivotal moments that led to his starting wor…

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26: Sensurround (ft. Tony from Hack The Movies) 30:54

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Movie theaters were already going for full immersion in the 1970's with Sensurround. David breaks down this little known movie technology, which delivered an earth-shaking intensity to movies (literally). Tony Piluso from the Hack the Movies YouTube channel joins us for a dive into obsolete film tech. He also shares film lore about work prints and …

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From The Vault: The Nightmare of Eveline Shadow Part 1, Entered & Logiclocks 58:42

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The Nightmare of Eveline Shadow was a haunting experience where guests stepped into the nightmarish writings of a horror novelist. They had to navigate a hotel filled with nightmares, while being guided by the narrator’s prompts and scripts. The closure of hotels during the pandemic quarantine era created a golden opportunity for a trio of talented…

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This Episode Goes 2 11: A Spinal Tap special with Alexis Petridis 33:56

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For this special "bonus" episode of the Rock's Backpages podcast — fittingly number 211 (geddit?) — we're joined once again by The Guardian's Alexis Petridis for a discussion of timeless rock mockumentary This is Spinal Tap and its breathlessly-awaited sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues... With reference to A Fine Line Between Stupid and Cleve…

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Attention is the New Currency 9:32

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In today’s economy, the scarcest resource isn’t money. It isn’t talent. It isn’t even time. It’s attention. Here are a few quick ideas to make the most of your precious first few seconds.By David Gee

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Labbing Network Technology Details with netlab

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It’s been over four years since I published the last Software Gone Wild episode. In the meantime, I spent most of my time developing an open-source labbing tool, so it should be no surprise that the first post-hiatus episode focused on a netlab use case: how Ethan Banks (of the PacketPushers fame) is using the tool to quickly check the technology d…

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E210: Alexis Petridis on Acid House + The Guardian + CMAT + KISS 1:13:51

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For this episode we're joined by the immensely respected Alexis Petridis, The Guardian's principal pop critic since September 2001. Our guest tells us about his childhood in Yorkshire, his teenage years in Buckinghamshire and his initiation into the Acid House scene while at Cambridge University. Work experience at MixMag in the mid-'90s led to his…

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25: Infinity (ft. The Infinite Escape Room) 26:58

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The only thing better than an escape room is having infinite escape rooms! The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy podcast where a bunch of friends write escape rooms for each other to play while chatting over a cold one. Infinite Escape Room co-host Jamie Gibbs joins us as as we all collectively get our minds blown by the inconceivable concept of inf…

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Season 9, Best of the REPOD Bonus Show 1:12:19

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"I have so many burning questions." Our podcast, Reality Escape Pod, isn't exactly short-form content. Most episodes clock in at over fifty minutes, and yet, I always feel like I didn't get enough time with the guest. "But I've still got some burning questions!" I think to myself. Or maybe I have follow up questions, but I didn't want to interrupt …

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E209: David Nathan on Dionne Warwick + the Bee Gees + Michael Lydon R.I.P. 1:19:27

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In this episode we invite David Nathan to look back on his illustrious 60 years as "the British Ambassador of Soul". Our guest commences by recalling his gateway into Black American music: the covers of Shirelles and Miracles classics included on the first two Beatles albums. He furthermore describes the thrill of seeing Motown star Mary Wells supp…

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24: Maroonings (ft. Stephen Fishbach) 28:44

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The reality show Survivor loves to open with a splash—literally. The most famous opening episodes start by having contestants jumping off a ship while trying to grab anything useful they'll need to survive the next month stranded in a deserted locale. Survivor calls this a "marooning," but in today's episode of PG's Playhouse, David tells us about …

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...From Empire: Accelerationism w/ Andrea Emerson 1:21:45

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In this episode Brandi is joined by Andrea Emerson to talk about accelerationsim (political) and the ways that pushing people and systems to rock bottom has been a historic hallmark of destructive Christian practices and how we might choose a different way. Andrea and a group of folks have dedicated themselves to support the Ouda family, a palestin…

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REPOD Season 9 Key Moments: Editor’s Choice by Steve Ewing 1:09:03

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"Highlighting the most interesting, entertaining, and impactful moments." Have you been feverishly refreshing your podcatcher in anticipation of the return of Reality Escape Pod? Don’t worry, Season 10 of the podcast will be here in the very near future. To pass the time, have a listen to some memorable clips our editor Steve Ewing selected from ea…

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E208: Byron Coley on Beefheart + Lydia Lunch + Terry Reid R.I.P. 1:23:36

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For this episode we're joined online from northwest Massachusetts by the legendary Byron Coley, champion of all things weird and non-mainstream. After describing his somewhat peripatetic childhood, our guest explains – very amusingly – why as a teenager he hated the Beatles and what led him eventually to the more subversive sounds of the Mothers of…

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23: Survivor (ft. Stephen Fishbach) 27:25

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You're starving, sweaty, exhausted, and your best friend on the island just stabbed you in the back. Ahead, a giant obstacle course awaits, with a complex puzzle afterwards. And you've got to juggle all this while outmaneuvering a bunch of other contestants all hungry for the win. With over 49 seasons, Survivor is one of reality television's longes…

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...From Empire: Civil Resistance w/ Andre Henry 1:26:41

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In this episode, Brandi is joined by Andre Henry to talk about how we move toward social change, pressure power and systems to move, and maintain our humanity as we content for the world that we believe is possible. You can find Andre's work here! If you like what you hear you can subscribe, rate, review, or tell others about the show. You can help…

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E207: Val Mabbs on Record Mirror + Jimi Hendrix + Walker Bros. + Ozzy R.I.P. 1:24:32

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For this episode we're joined by the excellent Val Mabbs, who talks to us about writing for Record Mirror in the late '60s and early '70s. We start with our guest's early life as a mod in Hertfordshire – and her memories of seeing the Who/the High Numbers in 1964/5. Val then explains how she got her foot in the door at the Mirror and recalls collea…