Our final installment of #GeekMonth features the head honcho of Geeks Who Drink, John Dicker. The road to Geek Bowl IX is nearing its end, and I’ve saved the big dog for last. On this week’s episode, John shares with me the humble origins of what has become this pub quiz juggernaut, how he’s successfully…
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A couple of years ago, my friend Jason and I got good and drunk and saw the movie Escape Plan. If you don’t remember it – and why would you? – the movie features Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to break out of a prison built to be inescapable. Spoiler alert: It’s not, however,…
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Christopher Short is a six-time Jeopardy! champion, and the Chief Editor for Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes. Pretty much all of 22,000 or so questions asked at any of the 700+ quizzes Geeks Who Drink hosts all across the country have passed in front of Christopher and been given his blessing. It’s a monumental undertaking,…
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Deeper, ever deeper, we penetrate Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes on the road to Geek Bowl IX! Having now heard from a fearsome team of players and an awesome party host of a quizmaster, we level up once again by going inside the black box of the editorial process with Geeks Who Drink Head Editor…
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Our road to Geek Bowl IX continues with trivia guru, party host, geek enthusiast, and all-around-great-guy, Quizmaster Johnny! I first played with Johnny almost five years ago, and he has been my favorite Geeks Who Drink quiz master ever since. He brings flair, panache, delightful (but not over the top) enthusiasm, pointed bitchiness, occasional good-natured…
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Continuing Geeks Who Drink month on the road to Geek Bowl IX is Quizmaster Johnny! You’ve heard from the players, now hear from one of the many who work every night of the week (except for basically Friday – because, y’know, bars don’t really need help getting traffic on Fridays) bringing you the geekiest, drinkiest…
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Kicking off a four-part series spanning the month of January are the Slumpbusters Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz juggernauts. “Evil” Rob Knight McEwen, Russ Esposito, and Julio Trujillo are the primary members of the Slumpbusters, and they have been terrorizing and frequently reigning supreme over the Tuesday night quiz at Denver’s Irish Snug for some…
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As everyone’s certainly heard by now, Stuart Scott, most famous as a newscaster on ESPN’s Sportscenter, died on Sunday after a long battle with cancer. Of the many tributes, obituaries, and stories about Scott, my two favorites came from his longtime Sportscenter co-anchor Rich Eisen, (who, in a later interview, reminded everyone that it’s spelled…
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Welcome to 2015! To kick off the new year, and because I love the company so much, all throughout January I’m featuring Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes! That’s right, we’re on the road to Geek Bowl IX, and to get you in the proper frame of mind, we will be spending the next four weeks…
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In this very special edition 2014 Wrap-Up of Jon of All Trades, you get a very intimate session with Jon Eks. I talk about favorite thing about doing the podcast, my least favorite thing about it (and there is one element that I very intensely dislike about doing this podcast), answer viewer mail and much…
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