They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and quarantine has the potential to suffocate those who crave conversation and discussion, especially about pop culture and movies. Ex-New Yorker and current Texan Peter Marsh felt that strain and used his time off to create his own YouTube channel, AnchorPete, in which he does movie and book reviews and interviews with genre authors. Through a mutual friend, he contacted Chris D’Onofrio and me to do a horror podcast focusing on our favorite director, Mike Flanagan. After two successful shows on his channel, the three of us have created The Lasser Cast, a new channel and horror review video podcast now on YouTube.

The Dominant Paradigm is a weekly podcast where hosts Dwayne D, Andrew Sorcini, and Tosin Onafowokan discuss STARZ’s American Gods, the works that inspired it, and the larger questions about the lenses in which we see our world.

Welcome to the premiere episode of The Dominant Paradigm podcast. The truth is that the chances are — you’re already here. As STARZ gets ready to launch its highly anticipated new series American Gods, Geeks of Doom is proud to present a companion podcast, The Dominant Paradigm. In this first episode, hosts Dwayne D and Andrew Sorcini introduce themselves, and discuss how excited they are to cover the new content coming out of STARZ and the minds of Neil Gaiman, the acclaimed author and concept creator behind American Gods, and Bryan Fuller, the storied showrunner. Each podcast episode will go beyond fan theories to look deeply at the text, as well as the inspirational sources of the characters, and their motivations in our world, as they search for their place in the dominant paradigm.

This week, a spaceflight tragedy, police can unlock your phone with your fingerprints, YouTube looks smoother, a new perk for Amazon Prime users, Tim Cook speaks out, and much more…

Behold, rambunctious geeks of the Internet, a new milestone of independent news media has just been reached. This week, the Social Blend arrives at episode 200!! What does that mean? Well if you aren’t already excited, then for shame. And if you’ve never listened to Social Blend, then #200 is a good round number for you to start.

I remember the early days of the show, with a much younger Jay Fowler (aka SilentJay74) and a much more Australian-ian Greg Davies (aka cGt2099). It was good times that always kept me entertained within an hour (unlike those bastards over at The Drill Down… which, as a former host, is mostly my fault. heh).

SB has had tons of awesome guests over the years, including G4TV’s Chris Gore, Badass author Ben Thompson, Star Wars‘ official social media chick Bonnie Burton, Nataly Dawn from the awesome band Pomplamoose, and the firey metalhead from Roadrunner Records known as Jeremy Rosen, as well as regular guests such as myself.

In our very first episode of Gears of Doom — the Official Geek Gadget Podcast of Geeks of Doom — Tom Cheredar and Cinegeek editor Stephen Lackey discuss what’s new on the horizon, including Clearwire’s new pay-as-you-go 4G device Rover, cheaper Roku boxes, possible upgrades to Apple’s next generation of iPods and Samsung’s iPad competitor, the Android 2.2 Galaxy Tablet.

So if you’re a gadget geek, come check us out by subscribing to our podcast via iTunes or playing the episode using the widget below.

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