Let's All Really Geek Out! The LARGO! Podcast

Alternate Title: "The Last One is Phil Collins". The LARGO! crew finish their first foray into the wild world of music. Learning to play our instruments, the rest of our Top Fives of All Time, and GWAR. Recorded live at the Hawthorne Hophouse in SE Portland. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut. Be Warned! Due to the live nature of four fine gentlemen talking music for ANOTHER hour and a half, there is some adult language.

Alternate Title: "The Methadone of Depressing Music". The LARGO! crew begin their first foray into the wild world of music. Personal experiences with music, our firsts, half of four Top Fives of All Time, some songs we never thought we'd love, and just as many we absolutely can't stand anymore. Recorded live at the Hawthorne Hophouse in SE Portland. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut. Be Warned! Due to the live nature of four fine gentlemen talking music for nearly an hour and a half, there is some adult language.

Alternate title: "Frankenstein is Reading this Story". The LARGO! crew play General Managers, and draft their favorite Christmas stories, whether it be movie, audio, or book. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "My Dad'll Do It!". The LARGO! crew return for a quick chat about their dads, the idea of geek fatherhood, and try to answer some questions about how to approach being a good geek dad. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "Big Gray Butt". The LARGO! crew polish off the first edition of the Anime Club with two Hayao Miyazaki classics: "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Porco Rosso". Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut. (Production Note: LARGO! will take the summer off, but will return in the fall with new focus and new ways of geeking out!)

Alternate title: "Giant Robot Panty Anime". The LARGO! crew continue the Anime Club with two more contemporary titles: "Time of EVE" and "The Place Promised in Our Early Days". All this, plus a quick impromptu chat about video games! Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "I Don't Remember Roy Being so Rapey". The LARGO! crew open the Anime Club with on two of their early favorites: the condensation of Robotech's Macross saga ("Macross: Doy You Remember Love?") and the absolute classic, "Akira". Plus, the boys wax nostalgic about their chaldhood anime favorites. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut. Geeking out on: WJSV's full broadcast day (Sept 21, 1939) - http://archive.org/details/001WakeUpMusic

Alternate Title: "There are Bad Men in the Universe". The LARGO! crew take on the second half of Farscape Season 1, which is where the show really ramps up. Spoilers abound, as usual. Recorded live at the Hawthorne Hophouse in SE Portland. Devin Higgins hosts, with Matthew Johnston, and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "John Leguizamo is My Danny DeVito". The LARGO! crew confess their secret shame by sharing the worst movies they ever watched all the way through. Some are classics of the bad movie pantheon, some are obscure. All are exceptionally bad. But are they really, truly, the worst? Because there is another... Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate Title: "The World of Water Baronry". The LARGO! crew continue their quest to create their own sci-fi franchise. This time around, they talk shop about the "Man vs Earth" primer (http://podcast.radiocaravan.com/2013-04-20-scififranchise-primer.pdf) and pitch individaul stories. The universe expands to accommodate spore splatter, wearable computers, water baronry, and DIY punk Brita filters! Devin Higgins hosts, with Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston, and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate Title: "You Bicker Professionally". The LARGO! crew take on the first 11 episodes of Farscape Season 1, which contains some very good (and a couple very bad) episodes. Spoilers abound, as does guest contributor Richard Van Cleave. Devin Higgins hosts, with Matthew Johnston, Richard Van Cleave, and Patrick Wohlmut. Recorded live at home around the dinner table, next to the refrigerator.

Alternate Title: "Mind If I Chomp On This For A Little Bit?". The LARGO! crew finish up the Movie March Madness bracket of 64 movies (32 from the 80's, 32 from the 90's). It's Aliens versus The Fifth Element in the final battle! Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Greg Boone, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut. Be Warned! Due to the live nature of four Hudsons talking movies for an hour, there is some adult language.

Alternate Title: "The Best Thrill Possible". The LARGO! crew continue the Movie March Madness bracket of 64 movies (32 from the 80's, 32 from the 90's). We start with the Sweet 16, and end with the final two movies chosen, ready to go to battle in the next episode! Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Greg Boone, Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate Title: "Kind of Stupid, Actually". The LARGO! crew continue the Movie March Madness bracket of 64 movies (32 from the 80's, 32 from the 90's). Part One dropped us to 16 of each, a cool 32. Now, those 32 movies enter, and the sweet 16 survive. Recorded live at the Hawthorne Hophouse in SE Portland. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Greg Boone, Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut. Be Warned! Due to the live nature of five dorkasauruses talking movies for an hour, there is some adult language.

Alternate Title: "Terrified of Pregnant Women and Babies". The LARGO! crew begin their annual (?) fool's errand (!) by attempting to tackle 64 movies in two hours. That's right, it's the Opening Round of the 1st Annual LARGO! Movie Bracket. 32 movies from the 80's battle each other, while 32 movies from the 90's do likewise. At the end of this Giant Sized podcast, 32 movies will fall, and 32 will battle another day. Recorded live at the Hawthorne Hophouse in SE Portland. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Greg Boone, Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut. Be Warned! Due to the live nature of five overgrown boys talking movies for two hours, there is some adult language.

Alternate Title: "The Most Dreary Call to Adventure". The LARGO! crew run through the could-be classic The Last Starfighter, comparing it with the new hotness short-film C: 299,792 km/s. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate Title: "He Only Saw the First Twenty Minutes". The LARGO! crew run begin comparing books with the movies they became by going to one of the classic conversions, Blade Runner, compared with Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? While the old adage is that "the book was better", when you're talking about Philip K. Dick, that might not always be the case. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Greg Boone, Thor Deacon, and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate Title: "It Could Also Be Amazing". Because we can't have enough lingering Part Ones in our podcast, here's another. This time, the LARGO! crew decided to do something geeky and creative and more than a little ambitious, because honestly, how hard could it be? This time around, its LARGO's very own sci-fi franchise! Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston, and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate Title: "He's Marooned on the Planet and Grows the Fake Beard". While we wait for everyone to send us their portion of the latest episode, here's Devin and Matt talking live-to-tape and off the cuff about one of their true geek loves: Farscape. This is a spoiler-free primer to the show and why they love the show, part one of an occasional series where the LARGO crew goes over portions of the series together. Devin Higgins hosts, with Matthew Johnston. Recorded live at the Hawthorne Hophouse in SE Portland.

Alternate Title: "You Don't Go Editing Asimov". The LARGO! crew run through four books that they think could never be made into movies, and also why they totally could. Classics abound: Rendezvous With Rama, Foundation, Asterios Polyp, and Jennifer Government. Pretty much spoiler-free though, so have at it. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Thor Deacon, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "What an Insensitive Thing to Say". The LARGO! crew run through the surprisingly deep Bill Murray vehicle Groundhog Day. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Greg Boone, Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "I Tried to Read Starship Troopers". The LARGO! crew take on the multi-award-winning-but-criminally-underrated novel The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "I Faked My Way Through Hellraiser School". The LARGO! crew takes on the Fritz Lang-meets-Film Noir classic Dark City. Also, a little follow-up for the Lord of the Rings recast. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "The Biggest Hollywood Risk in History". The LARGO! crew recast the now-classic Peter Jackson trilogy The Lord of the Rings. The rules are simple: pick a decade, pick a director, and have at it. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "He Turned Himself into a Salad". The LARGO! crew tackle one of their favorite films, the 1986 schlock classic Big Trouble In Little China. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Matthew Johnston and Patrick Wohlmut.

Alternate title: "Voldemort and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day". The LARGO! crew tackle the 1995 sci-fi film Strange Days, just in time for the apocalypse. Devin Higgins hosts, with contributors Matthew Johnston, Greg Boone, and Thor Deacon.