Christmas Tree of Fail

Bleu, Kate (aka The Kate), Jeff, and Sean come together once again to discuss the hard hitting issues of geekdom – like self driving cars, whether fathers should discipline daughters through flagrant use of firearms, why old coots use YouTube, whether or not Kevin Smith’s backed AMC television series Comic Book Men is a positive [...]

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To Geek With Love

In a very special Valentine’s Day episode Bleu, Jeff, and Sean gather together to do what all geeks love to do – geek out over geeky things!  Valentine’s Day can be a special day for geeks just like everyone else. We talk about CNN’s geek blog, special geek valentine stuff, Kevin Smith’s new reality program, [...]

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Facebook is for Hackers?!

Bleu, Jeff, and Sean are such geeks they’d rather sit at a table in front of a bunch of audio equipment to talk about geek stuff instead of watching the most watched event on TV.  That’s commitment, or at least that’s not caring about football.  So be it. Luckily Downton Abbey doesn’t have to watched [...]

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Spam and Spinach

Jeff and Sean settle in with a glass of scotch and microphones to solve all the world’s problems. Unfortunately all they ended up doing was talking about Monty Python, Legos, Animation, Killer Asteroids, and Hackers. So really, while no problems were solved, it was a kick ass standard geek conversation.  

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All the Battles, All the Time

Jeff, Bleu, and Kate brave the cold and snow to return to the studio table and chat with Sean about SOPA/PIPA, the day the net fought back, MegaUpload, Apple, and well, Star Wars, because honestly what serious conversation doesn’t at some point end up revolving around Star Wars?

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Sweden is the Zappos of Countries

Rampaging into the new year with a vengeance.  Bleu and Sean sit down to discuss CES, Chinese factory conditions, why Sweden is awesome, and a variety of other fun and meaningful topics that you will want hear.  Come join the geeks  as they ramble on.

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Butt Identification Confirmed, Mr. Bond

Welcome to 2012 and welcome to another year of Universal Geek. We are excited about all the possibilities 2012 has to hold. A new year, new challenges, new rewards, and new optimism.  Of course, by June we’ll be ready to pitch 2012 on the trash heap and will be hoping 2013 is a vast improvement. [...]

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A Good Year for Geeks

The year has come to an end and now is the time to reflect back on the year that was. Sean returns to the roots of the Universal Geek podcast and does a personal rant about technology, movies, comics and what-have-you. Happy New Year!

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Naked G.I. Joe in a Jeep

Christmas has come and gone but we still have all those wonderful toys Santa brought us to play with.  Universal Geek rounded up some parent-type people to talk toys. Jeff, Bleu, and Sean welcome Peter Meyers and Eric Martel to our first ever use of Google+ Hangout to record a show.  Very exciting, groundbreaking, and nerve-wracking. [...]

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It’s Full of Tangents

Big Hugs Half Acre Brewery Chicago IL

Welcome to the very special, very crazy episode 42 of Universal Geek. Wow, did we go overtime, did we drink a lot of yummy delicious Big Hugs from Half Acre Brewery, and did we have a great time doing both.  We attempted to Live stream the podcast but ran into a few problems — don’t [...]

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Don’t Contaminate the Alien Corpse!

This week we get to talk about Facebook and location services, Twitter redesign, Apple iTV, Amazon being evil, and why don’t we know one way or another whether or not cell phones will bring down a plane? Have to apologize, there was a definite microphone problem in this episode.  Jeff, Bleu, and Sean were joined [...]

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Zombie Father Christmas

Bleu and Sean settle in for the fortieth episode of Universal Geek and the beginning of the Holiday season.  Together they take a quick look at the follow up to the Carrier IQ fiasco, discuss Zombies and Christmas, the second death of Napster, flying robots autonomously assembling a massive structure, and Facebook’s massive hiring surge. [...]

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