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Eric's new podcast: Call 'Em Like Museum

Call 'Em Like Museum is a weekly podcast exploring how museums really work, and why we love them. Host Eric Johnson talks with museum directors, curators, experts, and pa

Watergate Weekend, Part Two: Dick (1999)

And now for the REAL story of Watergate. This movie offers a bit of a lighter take on the scandal, as well as a guess at the identity of Woodward and Bernstein's infamous

Watergate Weekend, Part One: All the President's Men (1976)

Tomorrow will be the 46th anniversary of one of the most important political events of the 20th century: The break-in and attempted bugging of the Democratic national hea

Gossip Girl (2007)

Hey, Upper East Siders (and, you know, all listeners). I've got the biggest episode EVER. Ok, maybe not. But it is the second episode stemming from the Golden Globes bet

Grand Theft Auto V Heist Videos (2014)

Way back in January, Emily and I made a bet: Whoever could predict the winners of the Golden Globes more accurately would subject the other to a Geek vs. n00b pick that t

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Surprise again! Although if you listened to yesterday's bonus episode, then this will not be surprising: On this show, we talked about the new movie adaptation of "A Wrin

A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

Surprise! We're back with a bonus episode. In honor of the movie coming out (more on that later), we're rereading A Wrinkle in Time. The book follows Meg Murry, her littl

The Sound of Music (1965)

We're closing out the season with a pick that's somewhat surprising for a show with this premise: The Sound of Music. Yes, there is (or was until recently) someone who'd

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

- OK, so It's a movie about vampires. - Oh I love it! And they're terrorizing Los Angeles? - No, they just hang out in Wellington, New Zealand. - You've lost me. - They a

Twin Peaks (1990)

Life in a sleepy small town is turned upside down when a teen girl - pretty, blonde, a good student, the prom queen - is found, brutally murdered. Before long, the secret

The Court Jester (1955)

"The Court Jester" has everything: Medieval palace drama! Implausible hypnotism! Acrobatic dwarves! ... Oh, I'm being told that "The Court Jester" is not New York's hotte

The Net (1995)

This week, we're traveling back to the 90s, when the internet was relatively new and very slow and weird, for a dated thriller that feels oddly relevant today: The Net. I

Sports Night (1998)

With the exception of that one episode about the Tour de France, we haven't done a lot of sports here on Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b. But a TV show about a SportsCenter-like

Star Trek: The Next Generation

And now, it's time for round two of Star Trek: a foray into The Next Generation. Set long after the original show, this popular series returns to the Trek universe for an

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

"Hurtling metal, meat and rubber through the concrete jungle at dangerous velocities." That's how, in 1998, Ken Li described New York's underground street racing scene. H

Star Trek

As we explained last week, this season we're shaking this up by bringing in guests to help fill in some gaps in our shared pop cultural knowledge. This week's is a big ga

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

You've been waiting patiently for it for months, and now it's finally here: Season 6 of Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b. This season, we're shaking things up by bringing in frie

The Thin Man (1934)

And now for the second part of our after-Christmas discussion of movies that are not exactly about Christmas. Much of this one, fittingly, takes place in the time between

Gremlins (1984)

After a slightly longer-than-expected break (several months instead of several weeks), we're back! Last year — when we watched The Nightmare Before Christmas and Santa Cl

30 Rock (2006)

It's no secret that we both love 30 Rock. A lot. Tina Fey's seven-season comedy for NBC is, in our opinion, one of the best ever, and we've both watched it countless time