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Two Gen X geeks who grew up hiding D&D dice from their parents now break down the franchises that built modern geek culture. Stand-up comic Steve Scarfo and Forever DM Jeff Shaw argue about Star Wars, Marvel, D&D, Star Trek, Fallout, comics, horror, and the shows everyone's actually watching — with comedy, sharp opinions, and zero gatekeeping. New episodes weekly. No homework required. 🎙️ New episodes bi-weekly.  Subscribe, roll initiative, and embrace your inner geek.

  1. 23h ago ·  Bonus

    Lanterns Episode 1 Review — Tom King, Kyle Chandler & Aaron Pierre | Random Review | Original Geek

    Connect with us! We set the topic. The dice set the direction. This week it's Lanterns, episode one — and both of us walked in already sold. The first roll landed on Tom King's fingerprints, which stung a little, since we were standing in the same building as him at Boston Fan Expo and never made it to his panel. What we got instead is a Hal Jordan who is nothing like the Silver Age version: worn out, cynical, driving like a maniac, and handing off the ring by rolling out of a moving car and leaving his successor on the side of the road. It is the single worst mentor handoff in superhero television and we both loved it. That leads into why DC has never been our default, why Marvel got to the damaged-hero thing first, and how a squeaky-clean Superman and a wrecked Hal Jordan can share a universe. The second roll fell apart completely — the question was about CGI suits from a movie that isn't this show — so we re-rolled into Aaron Pierre's John Stewart. Buttoned up, watchful, very dry, and quietly running the whole scene. Plus the counterfeit twenty in the jukebox, the True Detective of it all, the best line in the episode delivered over a grill, and the childhood flashback with a pistol, an apple, and a wall full of bullet holes that says everything about who this man became. Spoilers for season one, episode one only. New episodes Sundays on HBO Max — go watch it, then come argue with us. ⚠️ Explicit — a couple of f-bombs in this one. 🎲 Original Geek Podcast — Steve Scarfo & Jeff Shaw  📧 originalgeekpodcast@gmail.com 🔗 stevescarfo.com 🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from people who lived it. Hosted by Steve Scarfo and Jeff Shaw. 🔔 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube 🌐 originalgeekpodcast.com 📬 originalgeekpodcast@gmail.com 📱 @OriginalGeekPodcast on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

  2. 4d ago ·  Bonus

    Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3 Review — The Dungeon Anarchist Cookbook | Random Review | Original Geek

    Connect with us! We set the topic. The dice set the direction. This week the d20 pointed us at Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist Cookbook — and Steve and Jeff had no idea which two questions they'd be answering until the dice landed. Roll one sent them into the Iron Tangle, which surfaced a real split between the hosts: Jeff took Matt Dinniman at his word — don't worry about the map, just enjoy the story — and cheerfully ignored the mechanics. Steve did the exact opposite and obsessed over every loop, portal, and ghost train until his brain melted. Jeff was not surprised. Roll two landed on Carl and Donut, and the conversation turned into why this series actually works: how a book that gives you Splash Zone the Stripper and the penis parade can put you on the edge of tears two chapters later, how Katya goes from the crawler nobody wants to a member of the family, and how Dinniman keeps planting seeds of doubt about where Donut's loyalty really sits. Plus: the thing on the Book 3 cover that nobody notices until you put it under a black light, Donut's slanderous cocker spaniel testimony, and a moment where our AI may have been fooled by the book's AI. Spoilers for Book 3 throughout. Books 4 through 8 are coming — roughly one a week. Got a different take? Tell us. We read everything. 🎲 Original Geek Podcast — Steve Scarfo & Jeff Shaw  🔗 stevescarfo.com  📧 steve@stevescarfo.com 🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from people who lived it. Hosted by Steve Scarfo and Jeff Shaw. 🔔 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube 🌐 originalgeekpodcast.com 📬 originalgeekpodcast@gmail.com 📱 @OriginalGeekPodcast on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

  3. Sep 7

    James Gunn's DCU Reboot & Lanterns Episode 1 Review | Original Geek | S1E38

    Connect with us! Two Marvel guys walk into the Green Lantern Corps. Steve and Jeff review episode 1 of HBO's Lanterns, then dig into James Gunn's whole DCU reboot — Super Friends to Snyderverse to now. Tom King's fingerprints on Hal Jordan. Kyle Chandler being a jerk with a power ring. The d20 hands Steve a question the AI made up. Plus: was recasting Henry Cavill the biggest unforced error in superhero movies? Spoilers for Lanterns S1E1 only. 🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from people who lived it. Hosted by Steve Scarfo and Jeff Shaw. 🔔 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube 🌐 originalgeekpodcast.com 📬 originalgeekpodcast@gmail.com 📱 @OriginalGeekPodcast on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

  4. Aug 28

    We Fan-Cast Her, Then Told Her To Her Face | Fan Expo Boston | Original Geek | S1E37

    Connect with us!  Steve and Jeff spent a day at Fan Expo Boston and brought back the whole thing: Chris Evans, the Hobbits, The Boys, and the moment they told Colby Minifie they'd fan-cast her as Cascadia in Dungeon Crawler Carl. Plus what a con actually costs, why six and a half hours isn't enough, and the trinket trade that turned 30 homemade 3D prints into a floor full of new friends.  The event Fan Expo Boston — Menino Convention Center, Boston MA 2027 dates: December 3-5 Vendors and makers we traded with Windy Ridge Makers — 3D printing and painting, DCC Book Nooks, Ren figuresScorch Design (@scorchdesign) — coasters, and they put an Original Geek sticker on their boothThe Colorful Geek — geek tees and stickersNella and Pendragon (@nellaandpendragon) — art and stickersCharity groups on the floor Massachusetts Ghostbusters — replica Ecto car, firehouse, and a ghostThe Star Wars group running the walkthrough set for Make-A-WishPanels covered Chris Evans · Elijah Wood and Billy Boyd · The Boys cast (Karl Urban, Laz Alonso, Colby Minifie, Erin Moriarty, Valorie Curry) Also there: Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Dominic Monaghan, Ashley Greene, Kristin Kreuk, Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance, Daphne Keen Mentioned: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from people who lived it. Hosted by Steve Scarfo and Jeff Shaw. 🔔 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube 🌐 originalgeekpodcast.com 📬 originalgeekpodcast@gmail.com 📱 @OriginalGeekPodcast on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

  5. Aug 20 ·  Bonus

    Carl's Doomsday Scenario (DCC Book 2): Do the NPCs Know They're Trapped? | Random Review | Original Geek

    Connect with us! Some of the monsters know they're monsters. And they can't leave. Book two of Dungeon Crawler Carl drops Carl and Princess Donut onto the third floor — and starts quietly asking a question the games we grew up on never did: what if the NPCs are aware? Jeff and Steve roll the d20 and let the dice decide how they review Carl's Doomsday Scenario — no plan, no idea what topic's coming until they're already saying it. This roll landed on the good stuff: the creeping cosmic horror of self-aware NPCs and whether Dinniman planted that dread too early, Carl's slow turn from "they're better off dead" to realizing they're real, and Audette's first sneaky moves — the specialized-build advice, the manager skill, and how a former-child-actor class quietly reels Mordecai in. Plus the case for why every D&D player owes it to themselves to read these for the class design alone. Haven't seen our full Dungeon Crawler Carl episode yet? Start there — link below — then come back for the book-by-book Random Reviews. And if you haven't let Jeff Hayes narrate these to you yet, fair warning: it ruins every other audiobook for you. Book three's coming. 🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from the people who lived it. ▶️ Full DCC episode: [link] 🎧 Everywhere you get podcasts · 📺 YouTube Like, subscribe, follow, share — and tell a fellow crawler. 🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from people who lived it. Hosted by Steve Scarfo and Jeff Shaw. 🔔 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube 🌐 originalgeekpodcast.com 📬 originalgeekpodcast@gmail.com 📱 @OriginalGeekPodcast on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

  6. Aug 18 ·  Bonus

    Is Spider-Man: Brand New Day a 10/10? Jean Grey, the Multiverse & Rewatchability | Random Review | Original Geek

    Connect with us! Only one Spider-Man is allowed a 10 on Steve's scale. Jeff disagrees. Loudly. The dice decide how we review Spider-Man: Brand New Day — we set the topic, the d20 sets the direction, and we don't know what we're saying until we're already saying it. This roll landed on the two best arguments in the movie: whether the Department of Damage Control is the darkest turn the MCU's taken yet, and just how rewatchable this thing actually is. Jeff and Steve get into Damage Control's evolution from comic-book punchline ("who fixes all those buildings?") into a paramilitary mutant-hunting machine, Tramell Tillman quietly stealing every scene he's in, and the sacrifice that proves how far these guys are willing to go. Then the real fight: Jeff calls this the best Tom Holland trilogy, Steve holds the line that No Way Home is the only true 10 — and the two land on different scores. ⚠️ Light spoilers ahead — Jean Grey, the X-Men setup, a couple of crossover faces, and where all of this points for Doomsday and the multiverse. Which Spider-Man is your 10? Drop it in the comments. 🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from the people who lived it. 📺 More Random Reviews: originalgeekpodcast.com 🛒 Grab a shirt (that's the DCC one Steve's wearing, Jeff's rocking Bunker Geek) and help support the show. Like, subscribe, follow, share — and tell a fellow web-head. 🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from people who lived it. Hosted by Steve Scarfo and Jeff Shaw. 🔔 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube 🌐 originalgeekpodcast.com 📬 originalgeekpodcast@gmail.com 📱 @OriginalGeekPodcast on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

  7. Aug 13 ·  Bonus

    OG Call Sheet: Fan Casting Dungeon Crawler Carl | Original Geek

    Connect with us! The first edition of the OG Call Sheet is here — the segment where we cast our favorite stories the way they were meant to be.  With a Dungeon Crawler Carl adaptation reportedly in the works at Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door, Steve and Jeff go one-by-one through 13 characters and lock in their dream cast — from Carl and Princess Donut to Mordecai, Odette, and Elle. Expect a couple of eerie matches, at least one hard disagreement, and a lot of "wait, why didn't I think of that." Who's your Carl? Who's your Mordecai? Let us know. This is a standalone cut from our full Dungeon Crawler Carl episode. Dungeon Crawler Carl is written by Matt Dinniman; audiobook narrated by Jeff Hays / Soundbooth Theater. Fan commentary only — unaffiliated with the author, publisher, or any production.  🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from people who lived it. Hosted by Steve Scarfo and Jeff Shaw. 🔔 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube 🌐 originalgeekpodcast.com 📬 originalgeekpodcast@gmail.com 📱 @OriginalGeekPodcast on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

  8. Aug 8 ·  Bonus

    Random Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl (Book 1) — The Hardest Book to Recommend? | Original Geek

    Connect with us! A guy in his boxers. Crocs. A talking cat. Try recommending that to a normal person — they'll look at you like you've lost your mind. Then they read one page of Princess Donut, and they're in the cult too. Steve and Jeff roll the D20 and let the dice pick the angle on Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 1 by Matt Dinniman. Top-three characters, the odd-couple buddy-cop dynamic, the great info-dump debate — and why this series turns readers into believers. Impossible to sell, or exactly why the cult works? 🎲 🎧 OriginalGeekPodcast.com/listen-now 🎙️ Original Geek — Gen X geek culture from people who lived it. Hosted by Steve Scarfo and Jeff Shaw. 🔔 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube 🌐 originalgeekpodcast.com 📬 originalgeekpodcast@gmail.com 📱 @OriginalGeekPodcast on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

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Two Gen X geeks who grew up hiding D&D dice from their parents now break down the franchises that built modern geek culture. Stand-up comic Steve Scarfo and Forever DM Jeff Shaw argue about Star Wars, Marvel, D&D, Star Trek, Fallout, comics, horror, and the shows everyone's actually watching — with comedy, sharp opinions, and zero gatekeeping. New episodes weekly. No homework required. 🎙️ New episodes bi-weekly.  Subscribe, roll initiative, and embrace your inner geek.

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  • Creator
    Original Geek Creative
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    55
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    © 2026 Original Geek Podcast
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