#211: Firefly, International Meetup Live Show
This week we record GWC with a live audience of the friendliest people in sci-fi at the 2010 GWC International Meetup in Frisco, TX! Besides continuing our Firefly arc, discussing Shindig and Safe...
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Cleveland GWC Meet-up, October 2010
The Perfect Colorful Time for a Cleveland GWC Meet-up The fall leaves are full of beautiful color, the highs are in the upper 50s or low 60s, and there is a hint of joyful holiday anticipation in the...
View Article#259: Time Travel, Part I, Dr. Ron Mallett
We kick off our time travel arc with guest Dr. Ron Mallett, physics professor and author of Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality (soon to be a Spike Lee movie)....
View Article#260: Time Travel, Part II
We continue our time travel arc with a discussion of our favorite time machines and modes of time travel. And we run down the week in geek, including the world’s first robot-run marathon, a custom...
View Article#261: Time Travel, Part III
We wrap up our time travel arc with a discussion of the morality of time travel, focusing specifically on Back to the Future. And we run down the week in geek, including the Space Shuttle Discovery’s...
View Article#262: Bonus Time Travel
In this short bonus podcast we extend our time travel arc by imagining how we’d become evil time travelers. And we run down the week in geek, including the new Voltron movie, the Space Shuttle...
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Meetup Live Streaming
For those who aren’t able to attend the meetup this weekend, you’re not forgotten! Check out our GWC Live page this Friday at 7PM Central, as we’ll be streaming live from the hotel as Chuck, Sean,...
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The 2011 Meetup: From One Geek Of Many
The 2011 GWC meetup is coming to a close as I write this. This very minute the weary meetup goers are headed to find some stew at the last outpost of the weekends activities while others slowly gather...
View Article#263: 2011 Community Meetup Live Audience Podcast
This week we’re joined by the best guest ever: a room full of the GWC community! We introduce our next arc, the idea non-interference (known to Trek fans as the prime directive). And we run down the...
View Article2011 Community Meetup: A Short Video
Wonder what the 2011 GWC Community Meetup was all about? Or maybe missing your friends (old and new) from the event? Check out this short video and let us know what you think. Seriously, I’m buried in...
View Article#281: Aircraft
We continue our vehicles in sci-fi arc with a discussion of aircraft — how they differ from spacecraft and what makes them special. Audra teases out the origins of Chuck’s Halo Scorpion fetish. And we...
View Article#282: San Diego Comic Con
We’re just back from San Diego Comic Con and we talk about our experiences there and some of the awesome new news to come out of the world’s biggest geekfest. We take you right into the ‘con, too, with...
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OED Goes OMG
The Oxford English Dictionary is, well, the single standard reference of the English language. Printed, it comprises a 20 volume set that pretty much demands its own bookcase. The one pictured above...
View Article#289: Happy 5th Birthday, GWC
This week GWC turned five, and we take this opportunity to relax, be self-referential, and tell a few of those “meetup only” stories we always mention. If this is your first time listening to GWC, you...
View Article#8: Unlimited Data, Hosting a Personal Blog
We talk a bit about the realities of “unlimited” data plans. We dive into the ins, outs, and available options for hosting a personal blog. And we address a listener concern: what to do when you want...
View ArticleHappy 2012! Meetup News! It’s Thursday!
Happy new year, everyone! I’m pretty excited about where GWC’s headed this year and thought I’d share a few bits of news and happenings. First, we’re making some SERIOUS progress on our plans for the...
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Live Meetup Q&A This Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 8:00 p.m. CT
In the first week since we opened RSVPs and registration for the 2012 international meetup we’ve seen almost as many RSVPs as we had in all of last year. Clearly it’s gonna be a kick-ass time, as...
View Article#310: Bonus Live Meetup Q&A w/Chuck & Juan
In this bonus episode Chuck and Juan podcast live to answer questions from chat about the upcoming 2012 GWC International Meetup in Dallas, TX March 16-18. If this is your first GWC podcast, you might...
View Article#26: The Effing Meetup
Your crew this week: Audra, Juan, Chuck, and about 50 others fresh from the hotel bar just around the corner from the 2012 GWC International Meetup podcast room. We’re all a little punchy, but hey —...
View Article#316: Live from the 2012 Internat’l Meetup
We spend an hour and a half or so hanging out with some of our favorite people in the world — the 2012 GWC International Meetup attendees! It’s a pretty free-flow podcast, so if this is your first GWC...
View Article#30: Meetup Eureka/Our Favorites
We’re joined by a couple of Eureka fans who skipped dinner at the 2012 GWC International Meetup to talk Eureka. (They’re big fans, like us, yo!) We run down some of our favorite moments, favorite...
View Article#36: Modern Geeking the GWC Meetup
This week we run down some of the fun gear we use to live-stream the 2012 GWC Meetup podcasts and take questions from the live audience.
View Article#317: John Carter (Live from Meetup)
During the GWC Meetup we took a group of GWCers to see the newly-released John Carter movie, then hit a local bar for beers, snacks, and some podcasting — which you can hear as a segment in this week’s...
View Article#362: Meetup 2013 Briefing
Sean is back, and the meetup is so very close! We take a quick moment to talk about the impending GWC meetup in Dallas.
View Article#76: Meetup 2013 Gear Creep Roundtable
Modern Geek is going live! As the meetup approaches, we talk about the alterations to the recent schedule in preparation for the GWC meetup, and lay out the subject of our upcoming roundtable discussion.
View Article#47: Meetup 2013 Roundtable
It’s nearly that time of the year, so we take a moment to talk about the upcoming GWC meetup.
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What is a Meetup, Really?
“This looks familiar, vaguely familiar, almost unreal, yet, it’s too soon to feel yet. Close to my soul, and yet so far away. I’m going to go back there someday” – Gonzo, “I’m Going to go Back There...
View Article#363: 2013 GWC International Meetup LIVE
We run down the week in geek, and most importantly we take you into the heart of the 2013 GWC International Meetup with a podcast recorded in front of a live meetup attendee audience. Enjoy!
View Article#77: Everything Breaks Down
After wading through a slew of hardware failures, Chuck and Juan get an episode recorded! We wonder how we’ll move on from Google’s recent decision to retire Reader, and consider the long-term...
View ArticleCommunity Update
As you may have heard via the Modern Geek podcast, after the recent GWC meetup we experienced a significant multiple-item gear failure in the GWC studio. It disappoints us, of course, but we can’t...
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