Geek Apocalypse

Laura Napran from Writing for Wellbeing (www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk) joins Steven on the show! We talk How her business started, How writing really does help your well being, mindfulness and its definition, how Laura came here from Canada and our mutual love of poetry and history you can follow(we both have history degrees!) We also talk what her sessions involve, dealing with grief and depression and how turning even the hardest things into a positive. I found Laura fascinating which is why it was hard to end the podcast!! You can follow Laura on twitter @write4wellbeing and us @geek_apocalypse

Steven is joined by Alix and Jo from NHS Humber (thats national health service for none uk peeps) !!! We talk NHS in general, service users, dealing with mental Health, helping people vs helping yourself, Jo and Steven geek out about Derren Brown, we talk hobbies and much more random tangents! really fun debating episode!

Steven's good friend Ricky Thamman @VividRicky (co host of mentally Sound on Itunes) joins Steven (@Geek_Apocalypse) to talk about all things football! Thats soccer to Americans! We talk Euro 2016, England teams throughout the years, Our dismal performance in these euro 2016 in France, We talk the tournament in general, alittle about our team Newcastle, and as always, we debate other tangents too!!! Great fun, if you like sport debate, this is fun!

Friend of the show Lawrence O Brien from Wotan Games returns to the podcast! We talk Uk Games Expo 2016, We finally talk about UK leaving the European Union, the affect its had on Lawrences industry, Why Lawrence delayed his new kickstarter 'War of the 9 realms', advice/debate on kickstarters in general, and much more random fun times! Great guest, I laugh a lot in this episode. Lawrence's new Game War of the 9 realms is being kickstarted end of this month! go to www.wotangames.com for more info and sign up and follow them on twitter @Wotangames!

Jessica Hawke from Geek Syndicate joins Steven on the podcast! We talk cosplay, liking unconventional things, going to conventions, being a women in geekdom, making your own costumes, writing, blogging, playing games, going to conventions and much more! super fun episode, she is really awesome! You can find her blog/ videos on Geek Syndicate and she is on twitter @JessHawke92 !

Steven chats to the legend car wars boss Scott Haring!!! we talk bringing the car wars game back to life,the board game industry,working for Steve Jackson and what he is like behind the scenes, writing for Ghostbusters and forgotten realms, starting a magazine from scratch and ofcourse,all the past editions of car wars plus car wars new edition due next year!! Really enjoyable podcast, hope you guys like!! Want more Steve Jackson info?? you can head to their website http://www.sjgames.com/ ,after listening to the show first....obviously ;)

Mary Jo Pehl and Jo Schaak join the show to talk about their comedy show Renfest, about a women named elisabeth hilariously trying to restore authenticity to a very uninterested crew at a renaissance festival, thats currently looking for funding on kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renfest/renfest . We talk how the project started,improvisation, working on passion projects, the premise of the show and its influences like the office, also differences in american culture, working in LA and ofcourse how Renfest was made as well the kickstarter!! plus working with William Shatner and Shaq cos I am a fan of both and much more more fun conversation! If you would like to know more info about the series other than kickstarter, you can find it here: http://www.renfest.tv/ I apologise for the sound issues towards the end of this, I officially hate skype right now and i took as much as I could out of post.

Part two of our interview with the great Ryon Day (Geek and Sundries Co-optitude) which we did live on twitch. We talk america, the joys of dating, staying healthy, team hooman, streaming on the internet plus much more conversation!! plus we take questions from the audience as well as the people on the geek and sundry forums!! really enjoyed this was super fun!!

Ryon Day (Geek and Sundries Co-optitude)returns to the podcast broadcast a couple of weeks ago live on twitch! In part one, we catch up with Ryon over the last year about his life, we debate defining things like geek,his fans Team Hooman, we talk photography and also a little about co-optitude plus much more random talk! we are long lost brothers! Co-optitude is available on Geek and Sundries youtube channel every monday and Ryon Day is on twitch https://www.twitch.tv/ryonday

Steve O'driscoll, author and contributor to our mentally sound radio show, joins Steven and todays co host Ricky to talk the show, mental health, dealing with abuse, and we share fun stories about life!! We also debate friendship, whether dedicating one day to things is a good idea, how to turn your life around, we tease Ricky about being smug about being the permanent co host of mentally sound and to end, Steven tells a story about mentally sound being nominated and how the award ceremony two weeks ago was not all that it seems!!! Mentally Sound is a monthly award winning show about Mental Health that Geek Apocalypse produces that is also available as a podcast!! So we obvious encourage you to subscribe to both!

Andrew Hackard, the Munchkin Tzar himself from Steve Jackson games, returns to the podcast!! yay! We talk new Munchkin marvel, plus all the new editions thats coming out including the guest editons and re issues. We also talk stand alone editions, his daily job, steve jackson, chez geek, advice on getting into the industry, and ofcourse, board games in general and random tangents in between. Really fun episode, he is a super nice guy! for more info on Munchkin, you can go to Steve Jackson games on the interwebs and also, you can follow Andrew on twitter @RedPenofDoom !

Steven is joined by simon, jamie and Phil from the Engage Podcast for a joint show to recap FCD 2016! we talk meeting in person, we recap the whole convention from start to finish, we debate how the convention went and share stories, we share opinions about the guests and conventions in general and Steven has a bromance with phil throughout the show and ofcourse, we talk about a load of random geeky stuff too! I encourage people to not only subscribe to our show, but The Engage Podcast on Itunes too!!

Steven travelled down to Telford for FCD 2016 to talk to Claudia Christian about Babylon 5,her fans, the trouble with conventions,her own Claudia con and doing Playboy. We talk to stuntmen John Corrigan about Bruce Lee, Gene Roddenberry encouraging him, and working on Independent work amongst other things! We finally talk to the great J G Hertzler about playing Martok, politics in America, visitng england,which series was his favourite plus episodes he guested in, and he ends the show speaking klingon!

writer, artist and Union-verse creator Kit Cox joins the show to talk writing the characters Major Jack Union + Benjamin Gaul,life philosophies, influences and more! We talk meeting at MCM, our love of B movies, the writing process and video/board/card games such as his game 'Evil Ted' published by Steve Jackson that may be coming back! really in depth friendly, funny episode :) For more info, you can download some pdfs and more by going to Kits site www.kitcox.com!

Fun international episode recorded a couple of weeks ago as Steven talks to Danish Drawer, illustrator, and DIY Geek Catharina Jorgensen (@Tonniecat)! We talk her involvement in our web series Looking Forward to Failure, how her love of drawing started, her fondness for cooking, generational differences, her heritage, growing up in Denmark, Drawing for other people and ofcourse, we talk being Team Hooman members! I love doing this podcast!

Really fun star trek themed episode as Steven talk to Risa group founder and also creator of fan site Star Trek Risa Richard Evans! We talk Star Trek Series,how his Risa project started, us both being FCD media partners, being starstruck when meeting Garrett Wang, FCD last year, and who would be our ultimate crew across all star trek franchises!! love geeky episodes this was super fun. for more info you can checkout www.startrekrisa.com and follow them on twitter @startrekrisa !

A great friend of the show Alex Jarzinski from Battlebards (www.battlebards.com) returns to talk about the upgrades to their sound mixing software, their logo/design change,kickstarter campaigns and roleplaying in general. we also talk the pressures of running a business, the benefit of a understanding support network and joke throughout what we would do if a famous person wanted to be part of one of our ideas. Its a quality episode, I laughed a lot during this!! for more info about Alex and his team please go to www.battlebards.com for more info and a free trial!!

Delayed episode finally released where Steven Talks to his good friend Chris Warburton Brown about how we met,our mutual love of board games, family and his unique job involving permaculture!!! really fun episode with a very fun human being!!!

Really geeky fun robot themed episode as Steven reveals he is actually a robot...only kidding!! Mark Stay (@markstay), Screenwriter of the film Robot Overlords staring Gillian Anderson (x-files) and Sir Ben Kingsley (everything good), talks how the film started, the stress of casting, how the book written after the film expands on the universe and the pros and cons of making a British film. We talk influences, independant versus mainstream filming and also future projects, including maybe a sequel to Robot Overlords!! ( suspense drum roll!) you can find marks blog at http://unusuallytallstories.com/ really great episode!!

part two of our celebration of the 100th show (technically 101 but hey, whose counting...), we play a live version of the 100th song 'save the world' and talk/share stories/reminisce to Drew Gotobed,Gary Pollard (blogger: www.mentellheath.org),Alex Jarzebinski(creator:www.battlebards.com),Harry Bentley(founder:www.dragonhoard.co.uk) Gunnar Roxen (author/writer, wyld hunt+dead angels), Chris Birch (modiphius games) and the hosts of the Engage podcast!! super long extended show, but stick with it its great and a fun way to celebrate 100/101(really)