Podcast appearances and mentions of alpha counter

AlphaCounter's Sean Ryan joins me to talk about every topic under the sun.  He's watching all the cartoons, I'm winning all the pub quizzes, and we're both navigating post-lockdown life with much success. Tables get flipped over too many apps and hygge is found in the form of lovely crocheted mind flayers. Join the Patreon at www.patreon.com/matinghabits Email us at moderngeekcast@gmail.com Find this and other shownotes at www.matinghabitsofthemoderngeek.com  

Sean Ryan of AlphaCounter contacts us from a secret location to chat with Kelley about whether or not people can date someone from a different political party. Tables get flipped over Attack on Titan Season 4 and the crippling depression that comes from using wheel-based age verification widgets. Links from the episode: https://time.com/5896607/dating-political-ideology/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/24/most-democrats-who-are-looking-for-a-relationship-would-not-consider-dating-a-trump-voter/ https://www.popsugar.com/news/Pros-Cons-Dating-Outside-Your-Political-Party-45771864 https://www.thelily.com/in-the-age-of-trump-and-tinder-political-opposites-dont-often-date-but-these-young-couples-make-it-work/ Join the Patreon!   https://www.patreon.com/matinghabits Find all the show notes, links, and everything else at matinghabitsofthemoderngeek.com email us at moderngeekcast@gmail.com follow us @MatingHabits  Mating Habits of the Modern Geek is a comedy advice podcast for geeks, nerds, and the socially niche. Copyright Operation Exile, LLC 2021

It's our penultimate episode! Sean Ryan takes a break from daddy detail to chat with me about getting that second date. We spoil the shit out of Walking Dead, talk about Rise of the Tomb Raider, Destiny's Festival of the Lost, and Sean archives the entirety of AlphaCounter.com for prosperity. Tables are flipped and the begging begins in earnest for submissions for the last episode of Mating Habits, where all the hosts will be on hand to answer your questions, give your shoutouts, and bid farewell.

Sean Ryan of Alpha Counter and the Method to Madness Podcast helps me get ready for the hectic holiday season by joining me for this festive installment of Mating Habits. We discuss my recent break-up, Sean's broken PS3, and how you're a broken human being if you don't think Netflix's Jessica Jones is the best thing since Luke Cage's muscles. We discuss some finer points to navigating the holiday season with your significant others, play a couple rounds of One, True, Three, and flip tables that may or may not contain vegan cookies and almond milk left for Santa. Mating Habits of the Modern Geek: Love and Dating within Your own Species - your comedy source for relationship advice for geeks and nerds.

We made it to Episode 70!  It's our 3rd anniversary, and 70 episodes later we're still going strong. We ramble on about Batman: Arkham Knight, my haunted second bedroom, and my dead grandma's new Twitter account.  Paris and The Business, LLC talk about their wedding and show unmarried listeners what they have to look forward to when they finally find their true loves. The Business, LLC thinks kids who've lost their hair due to chemotherapy are just Airbenders. and he has concerns about the recently bankrupt 50 Cent.  Paris has got all the latest Reddit news and shares her concerns, and we come up with a new teen magazine for Star Wars nerds:  PalpaTEEN! For the main topic, we focus specifically on what's been happening in my dating life over the past month and why guys who I'm chatting with seem so aloof and uninterested after the initial online connection.  The Business shares some interesting insights as to what might actually be happening, Paris is concerned with why it's always up to the girl to steer the conversation, and I give some advice to guys in the dating world who are striking out and don't know why -- is it because you're doing the things we're talking about? Tables are flipped over smug guys I went out with once or twice two years ago who think I owe them sexting, and Paris is furious about internet trolls who just don't get it. Were taking a small summer break and will return with Episode 71 in three weeks.  In the meantime, check out what's shaking over at Alpha Counter, any of the #PodPals podcasts, and please listen to the first episode of Room 173 with M3JCNV - My Fair Andrew's new solo show! Mating Habits of the Modern Geek: Love and Dating within Your own Species - your comedy source for relationship advice for geeks and nerds!

Sean Ryan of Alpha Counter joins me to continue what might have been one of the best conversations we ever had after two drinks...then we had a third drink and totally forgot what we were talking about.  This episode is the result of that decision.  I watched the EA portion of E3 and share my disapointments and excitements.  I'm in an abusive relationship with Ubisoft and I'm going back to them for Assassin's Creed: Victory.  You just don't understand Ubisoft like I do - and in their defense, they only beat me when I deserve it.  There's more Mass Effect Pretty and The Last Guardian has a release date - and you know that's not going to have a happy ending. WE SPOIL THE SHIT OUT OF GAME OF THRONES, so there's your warning.  If you haven't seen the finale, I suggest you stop listening at the warning and come back in at the 40-minute mark.  I will tell you that you should probably begin your HYPE preparations for CLEGANEBOWL! Piecing together the memories of that night, Sean and I discuss the Uncanny Valley we experience when we look at photos of ourselves, and the body image issues we all face.  We compare toxic relationships from our past and try to figure out why we stayed so long.  It was an interesting night, and would have made for an interesting show if we could have remembered it. We flip tables over the spoiler police and frustration over movie poster billing.  Mating Habits of the Modern Geek: Love and Dating within Your own Species - your comedy source for relationship advice for geeks and nerds!

We begged for it, and you gave it to us! Paris and the Business join me this week for a super-sized show about various kinks and fetishes to satisfy our curiosities. We discover The Business is a damned Hawk, talk about getting “Wifed,” while playing video games, and Paris gets her first taste of a childhood movie being rebooted. We’re 100 percent wrong about the ending of Mad Men but whatever, we were right about everything else. We just saw Mad Max and WE LOVED IT! Spoilers abound as we tell you all the ways this is the best movie of the summer. Thanks to the generosity of our brave listeners, we have a couple of interviews and some great emails (Narrated by Sean Ryan of Alpha Counter) and we discuss paraphilias and fetishes in general, sharing some of our own kinks as well. It’s the final installment of My Fair Andrew  They grow up so fast. Even though it’s sad to see him go, we were happy to take the journey with him. Find out how his experienced helped him, and what he has planned for the near future. Tables get flipped, y’all. I’m tired of people policing what other people wear, The Business is over potlucks and 100% done with home brews, and Paris thinks Facebook is the last place you want to ask for advice when buying tech. Mating Habits of the Modern Geek: Love and Dating within Your own Species - your comedy source for relationship advice for geeks and nerds!

Sean Ryan of Alpha Counter joins me in my sick, weakened state for another jam-packed episode of Mating Habits. This episode, we discuss the act of "Catfishing," an internet phenomenon that happened to me a couple of weeks ago, and we're lucky enough to have listener-submitted emails sharing their catfish sagas, and we even snag an interview with our own Paris who comes clean in Paris's Catfish Confessions - she's been a bad girl... We also discuss our recent ventures into film making with Bottom Shelf Films, delve into the Walking Dead Finale for some quick speculations, and I caught a Zeff Cold from my friends at the Die Antwoord concert. Things are looking up for our hero in this edition of My Fair Andrew - but let's not jinx it ;) We flip tables over "Innocents" in the comment sections, and folks who don't like to have fun, especially on April Fool's Day.   Trigger Warning: Jokes. Mating Habits of the Modern Geek: Love and Dating within Your own Species - your comedy source for relationship advice for geeks and nerds!  

What happens when you ask the internet to share personal stories about infidelity with you?  A 3 hour and 15 minute podcast, that's what.  But look at it this way, you've got three weeks to listen to it while we go on our cycle break.   Sean Ryan of Alpha Counter invites us into his studio to talk about one of the most negative sides to dating and relationships: cheating.   Emails and interviews came pouring in from you, the much-loved listeners, and in addition to some emails (a couple of them from fellow #PodPals) we got five interviews from all sides of the spectrum:  Bill, Pete, and Erin are straight-up cheated on, while Amy and Dandy - well, it's more complicated.  We thank them profusely for coming forward and sharing their personal stories.  We truly have the best listeners in the world!   In more faithful news, we geek out over Destiny, and a game called Starwhal where you can be a narwhal in an afro, dressed in a sushi costume, piercing the hearts of your fellow narwhals IN SPACE! We check in with My Fair Andrew for reports from his fourth task and assign his fifth - always a delight! Sadly, the 24-hour news stations had to take a break from reporting about llamas in blue/black or white/gold dresses to deliver the sad news that Leonard Nimoy passed away on Friday, February 27th at the age of 83.  He was beloved, lived long and prospered, and his talents will live on forever.   Tables get up-ended over guys who respond to regular non-flirty question with confirmation that they have a girlfriend/wife/partner, and Sean wants you to give up he ghost on any of your comic movies ever being like it was, "Well, in the comic..."    See you back on March 23rd for another round of Mating Habits - don't go cheating on us with any other nerdy relationship podcasts.  We'll find out!   Mating Habits of the Modern Geek: Love and Dating within Your own Species - your comedy source for relationship advice for geeks and nerds!  

We gather together at this special time of year to celebrate friendship and fandom.  I set up in the kitchen studio of The Business, LLC and Paris, and Sean and Vane Ryan of AlphaCounter come by to make merry. I did a twitch thing - twice! And I am wracked with guilt about killing sleepy dragons Steven Segal saves Christmas.  Jem and the Holograms are back, and they're not grunge.  Thundercats are still RAD, and The Secret is bullshit. We premier our newest business venture were we dress as post-apocalyptic bards and we sing about '80s and '90s action movies as if they were real historical epics at RenFaires and Cons. There's a lot of singing in this episode,  and none of us were drinking.  We have a Total Eclipse of the Heart, thanks Bonnie Tyler! I announce a new episode segment for 2015 that involves Andrew from Two Loose Screws where we follow his step by step progress in gaining confidence and getting out there to meet new people.  I want to apologize in advance to him if I decide to call the segment, "My Fair Andrew."    Black Mirror is the best/most messed up thing on Netflix right now.  My Next Tweet scares us (or maybe it's just our predictability that frightens us...) Sad Country Christmas Songs can just bugger off, we've decided.  Nothing ruins the Holiday Season more than songs about poor, frozen and/or beaten-to-death children. From all of us over at Mating Habits of the Modern Geek:  Have a Safe and Festive Holiday!   Mating Habits of the Modern Geek: Love and Dating within Your own Species - your comedy source for relationship advice for geeks and nerds!

Sean Ryan from Alpha Counter and Andrew from Collection DX take us on a fantasic journey through the future in a magical transforming space-plane fueled by the power of Japanese pop music.

Are you in a dating slump? Been a while since you asked someone out? We discuss what the heck might be going on with you. Sean Ryan’s wife left town for the weekend, and while she’s away I set up my Mating Habits Recording Studio in Alpha Counter’s Recording Studio...it’s like Podcast Inception! Mating Habits is going to Tilt Expo! We’re bringing more freebies to our appearances - namely, buttons (or “badges” for our European listeners) and THERE WILL BE SPEED DATING! I invent a new term for grainy, illicitly cell-phone shot, SDCC trailer footage - “Bigfoot-age:” You know you saw and heard the trailer, but no one else will believe you. We discuss the Batman v Superman trailer from SDCC, our Wonder Woman hopes and dreams, and how angry is Xena that Wonder Woman stole her look? My crush-rotation/”Maybe” pile is empty, and Sean helps me figure out what’s going on with my feels, and hopefully work out a plan for the future. Sean flips tables over RTI (Random TARDIS Insertion) on t-shirts, and I’m angry about Apple's refusal to let me put my music on my other Apple devices. Apple, you’re not my mom! Sean has an old solution for an even older problem:  A Mace for Ladies! Links! Alpha Counter Podcast Tilt Expo Carbon Dating Kickstarter Loot Crate Mating Habits of the Modern Geek: Love and Dating within Your own Species - your comedy  source for relationship advice for geeks and nerds!

Ep.31 - All or Nothing! Ask Someone Out, Dammit!     It's an Alpha Counter Invasion! Sean Ryan and M join me to round out Cycle 6 and continue the discussion about dating "Outside your weight class," and how your attitude (or the wrong pants) maybe a bigger problem than your weight.     It's the last day of school here at the MHMG Learning Annex, and your homework this week is pretty simple: Take what you've learned from the previous 4 episodes and go ask someone out on a date!     No table goes unflipped in this episode. I don't care what you think about movies, M just wants you to give her an answer, and Sean is 100% done with all the dick pics...so stop sending them!       Find more from Sean and M at Alpha Counter! http://alphacounter.com/       Fat Logic with Boogie 2988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44WJWAnDL3k     Secret Shame http://www.whompcomic.com/2012/08/17/inconspicuous-consumption/     Lifehack! http://www.whompcomic.com/2012/01/25/cookie-ronster/     Puttin' on a Show for FedEx http://www.whompcomic.com/2013/01/11/the-forbidden-pants/

In this very special episode of the Spiraken Movie Review,We are joined by the host of Method to Madness, and Alpha Counter, Sean Ryan. So it back and relax and Xan and Sean review the 1999 Cult Classic Vigilante Film, "The Boondock Saints" directed by Troy Duffy and starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Williem Dafoe (The Super Cop Power Top),David Della Rocco,Billy Connoly, Bob Marley, Scott Griffith , Carlo Rota, Ron Jeremy and Gerard Parkes First off apologizes for the length of time it took for this episode to come out, Due to real life and circumstances both technological and personal, this took a while, but we hope that you have fun listening to Sean and Xan discuss what is going on at Alpha Counter.com and then discuss some of these fine point the concept of the film (being either two boys mission from god or a vigilante film), how Doc from Fraggle Rock went crazy to become a bartender, how young Indiana Jones and Daryl are not real twins, santa claus kidnapping children and Liam Neesan having to Save Them , Kevin Spacy Cross Dressing and other intriguing discussions. There is also discussion on why Williem Dafoe is a Power Top Also there are spoilers about the movie so we do warn you to watch the movie before listening to this episode. Also Due to a poor internet connection, the sound quality of this episode is really meh, Our apologies Please send us any comments concerns and ideas on how to make this podcast better. Let us know so we can do something about it. Rate us on iTunes, check out the facebook fangroup Spiraken Movie Review, purchase some stuff from our amazon store in order to fund this podcast and finally, listen to the primary podcast, The Spiraken Manga Review and check out Sean's Awesome podcasts at Alphacounter.com Hope you enjoy the episode Music For Episode: Intro Music - The Blood of Cuchulainn by Vangelis ( Boondock Saints OST), Background Music -Saints Along The Street by Vangelis ( Boondock Saints OST), Background Music - Rock Hard by Vangelis ( Boondock Saints OST), Background Music - Rock n Roll Wardrobe by Vangelis ( Boondock Saints OST), Background Music -Terminal Velocity by Vangelis ( Blade Runner OST), Ending Music - The Blood of Cuchulainn by Vangelis ( Boondock Saints OST) Our Website http://www.spiraken.com Our Email Spirakenmovie@gmail.com My Email xan@spiraken.com Guest Host's Email acpodcast@alphacounter.com Guest host's Twitter @alphacounter @thegreyghostnet Guest host's Website www.alphacounter.com Our Twitter Spirakenmovie Our facebook fangroup Spiraken Movie Review Our Amazon Store www.amazon.com/shops/Spiraken Xboxlive Gamertag Xan Spiraken Random Question of the Week: What would you buy from that hidden shop run by the IRA?