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Parental Geekery Episode 1 – Introductions

Welcome to Episode 1! In this episode new listeners can meet Ruth and John, and listeners from our previous podcast, Just Relax It’ll Happen, can catch up with us again as we tell you a bit about our...

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Parental Geekery Episode 2 – The Nexus 7, Gangnam Style

This episode has been slightly taken over by John’s new-found obsession with Korean rap music. The video he talks about is Gangnam Style by PSY, but be warned, it’s 4 minutes of your life you’ll never...

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Parental Geekery Episode 3 – Eat, Fast, Live Long and Prosper

Welcome to our third episode, and this one is rather special as it was recorded on our 14th wedding anniversary. Yes, when you’re an old married couple you apparently have nothing better to do on your...

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Parental Geekery Episode 4 – It’s Dark and We’re Wearing Sunglasses

We’ve come over a little Blues-y this week, thanks to our friend Neil. The discussion about The Road continues, and Neil recommends Blood Meridian as well. We also discover that Neil is a Western Swing...

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Parental Geekery Episode 5 – The iPhone 5 Edition

After taking a week off last week we’re back in full swing this week with a show recorded just after the Apple iPhone 5 announcement. Find out what we made of the new iPhone, and whether we’re planning...

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Parental Geekery Episode 6 – The Mystery Sound

Hello and welcome to another episode of Parental Geekery. This week we kick off with an update on David’s sleep habits, and say a very special hello to our friend Claire (no, not that Claire, another...

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Parental Geekery Episode 7 – Return the Map!

Welcome back to Parental Geekery. We’re back with our mega iPhone 5 review show, although we seem to talk about loads of other stuff at all. John reveals that he really wants a MakerBot so that he can...

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Parental Geekery Episode 8 – Drawing with Sausages

We open this episode of Parental Geekery with an excerpt we hope you all recognise, which leads us to talk about Catherine’s new-found love for Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of the Worlds....

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Parental Geekery Episode 9 – A Moustache for my Birthday

Welcome back to Parental Geekery! Our big event this week has been Catherine’s fifth birthday, although it takes a little while for us to get around to telling you about that. We meander through a rant...

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Parental Geekery Episode 10 – We’re in double figures!

Welcome back to another episode of Parental Geekery, and we’re delighted to have made it in to double figures! This show is inspired by the TV Show “Red Dwarf”, with apologies to any International...

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Parental Geekery Episode 11 – Smooth as a Microsoft Surface

It’s been a week of big announcements, and we’re talking about them all here on Parental Geekery. Disney have bought LucasFilm, Google have announced new hardware and Microsoft have announced a load of...

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Parental Geekery Episode 12 – Air double bass?

Welcome back to another episode of Parental Geekery. After an in-depth discussion on how to play air clarinet and air double bass we launch straight in to our comprehensive review of the iPad mini....

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Parental Geekery episode 13 – Ubisoft made us do it

First of all, apologies for the late release of this episode. We recorded it last week, but a combination of kids being ill, busy times at work and general panicking about Christmas has prevented us...

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Parental Geekery episode 14 – Parental Nookery

Happy New Year! It’s our first show of 2013, and we talk about what we’ve been doing since our last show. We open with a slightly embarrassing revelation about Ruth’s music taste, and the revelations...

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Parental Geekery episode 15 – spam, spam, spam

We open our show this week with some Monty Python, and John then points out a similarity between that and  a certain John Williams theme. We give our take on the current horse meat scandal that has...

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Parental Geekery episode 16 – geekus interruptus

It’s Her Royal Highness’ Matched Luggage. A quote from one of our favourite films. Find out what Catherine did this week that made that quote come to mind. Junk modelling – love it or hate it? Ruth...

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Parental Geekery episode 17 – Tech things parents should know

We open with a classic Blackadder moment, for no reason other than we like it and wanted to share. In our show today we work through the Sunday Times’ list of 14 tech things that parents should know....

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Parental Geekery Episode 18 – is this a kissing book?

Welcome back to another episode of Parental Geekery. We open the show with some quotes from one of our all-time favourite movies – The Princess Bride. We share an update on John’s facial hair, which we...

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Parental Geekery episode 19 – steal someone’s chair

We open our show this week with an extract from the film The Hunt for Red October Catherine is off school for the Easter holidays, and Ruth has two weeks off work to look after her and wants to know...

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