The Periodic Table of Awesome Podcast

Mar 06 2025 31 ep. 70 mins 148
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The Periodic Table of Awesome is made by Geeks, for Geeks, bringing you the best of geek from week to week.

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TPToA Podcast 397 – 97th Academy Awards Recap

Mar 06 2025 75 mins  
97th Academy Awards Recap The 2025 Awards season has closed out, much the same way that liberty has died; with thunderous applause and too much Timothee Chalomet. We watched a bunch of the Awards favourites ahead of the Oscars, saw some of the Emmy's missed the SAGs and the BAFTAs and then came back together for the 97th Academy awards of whatever... and discussed them AND the Razz

TPToA Podcast 396 – The Gorge

Feb 26 2025 71 mins  
The Gorge Grab your sniper rifles, trip-mines and laser guided minigun turrets, friends... because it's time for a good old fashioned love story! Their eyes meet across a crowded gorge that may be the portal to hell, and from that moment Miles Teller and Anya Taylor Joy are falling, falling deep... into The Gorge. But, are you joining them in the fall into love or something worse?

TPToA Podcast 395 – Captain America: Brave New World

Feb 20 2025 60 mins  
Captain America: Brave New World In Captain America: Brave New World we follow on from the events of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Eternals, The Incredible Hulk, Winter Soldier, Endgame, Civil War and lets be honest here, 30 something other Marvel films and an indeterminate amount of TV shows. The key takeaways are that Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) is Captain America, he still flie

TPToA Podcast 394 – A Different Man

Feb 12 2025 66 mins  
A Different Man This week we are looking A Different Man, at a film that takes some pretty bold and experimental swings at a subject that many would be uncomfortable with; facial difference and the experiences of the people who live with it. Sebastian Stan takes on the role of Edward; a shy actor who has facial difference (it is not mentioned but it seems to be Neurofibromatosis ty

TPToA Podcast 393 – Companion

Feb 05 2025 60 mins  
Companion Ain't love grand? Is there anything more delightful that the excitement and drama of a new relationship? Well, if it ends in someone covered in blood and multiple dead or dismembered bodies strewn around the lake-side mansion of an Eastern European multi millionaire... then maybe there's a few things that are better. Companion is the new, dark, genre-hopping comedy, starr

TPToA Podcast 392 – Shocking Sci-Fi Shows! Severance & Skeleton Crew

Jan 29 2025 79 mins  
Severance and Skeleton Crew This week we are dipping our toes into a strange and disquieting corner of psychological sci-fi and then going on a child-friendly jaunt through inner and outer space! Most people don’t see Severance as particularly child-friendly, but it’s all in how you read it. And Skeleton Crew may not feel like a psychological exploration of the self, the Id, an

TPToA Podcast 391 – Season 2’s! Silo, Shrinking & Squid Game

Jan 23 2025 79 mins  
Season 2's Our month of “S” shows continues with a bunch of stupenduos second seasons, from Silo to Shrinking with some Squid Game on the side! Often the sophomore season brings a show unstuck, so let’s see how these second timers stand up to the serious scrutiny! Will Squid Game stick the landing? Does Silo slow to a slugs pace? Is Shrinking simply starting to soar? Stick a

TPToA Podcast 390 – Saturday Night

Jan 15 2025 71 mins  
Saturday Night In the 90 minutes leading up to the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975, producer Lorne Michaels battles against a swathe of challenges to get the unknown and untested conceptual nightmare of a show onto TV at 11:30pm. Personalities, egos, creative differences and unloved muppets are just the start of the challenges that they face. Welcome back to The

TPToA Podcast 389 – Christmas Thirst Traps

Dec 19 2024 70 mins  
Christmas Thirst Traps While we're getting ready to unwrap presents, it looks like we've gotten a bit thirsty and are ready to unwrap something else! Whether it's ugly-sweater beefcake, or Mrs Clause adjacent Cheesecake, we're down for it. By the end of the show we're actually talking about the comparative sexiness of Animated demi-gods and Anti-hero hedgehogs. It's a wild ride, th

TPToA Podcast 388 – The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Dec 11 2024 71 mins  
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? In this Anime feature film;The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, set in the Peter Jackson envisioned version of Middle Earth, directed by Kenji Kamiyama, thats where! Its got all the best bi