Hi everyone and welcome back!   As you might imagine there’s going to be some Iron Man 3 talk this week.   We both saw it, both dug it and try to talk about our enjoyment of it as spoiler-free as possible.   Jason also has a leg up on the rest of us as he got to see an early screening of Star Trek Into Darkness.

Like many in the community this past week we were saddened by the news of the passing of the legendary Ray Harryhausen.  Also like rest of the world we were captivated by the man’s work our entire lives.   Jason and I both had the opportunity to meet the man on separate occasions and we share some of our remembrances.

In this episode we cover:

• - Electronic Arts announce exclusive deal to do Star Wars games
• - World’s End release the first official trailer
• -  Our Iron Man 3 thoughts
• - Iron Man 3 takes in $175 mill in opening weekend.
• - Jason’s spoiler-free thoughts on Star Trek Into Darkness
• - Dueling Spocks Audi commercial
• - Daniel is enjoying playing the Star Trek video game from Namco Bandai.
• - Nathan for You on Comedy Central.
• - Mattel’s Surprise MOTUC “Spirit of Hordak” figure
• - New Arkham City and Arkham Origins figures announced by DC Collectibles.
• - Documentary of the week: The Art of the Steal
• - Jason finished up ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix.
• - Daniel will again be judging at UCB’s Tournament of Nerds, May 5/18 at midnight.  You can get tickets here for only $5 here!

All that and more in this week’s brand new episode!

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Did everyone have a good Free Comic Book Day?   And now you are celebrating Free Podcast Day!  Which for us is every Monday.   Welcome back for for another week of headlines and geek talk.  It was another busy week in the world of pop culture and we do our steady best to sum it all up for you.

Just for the record I did NOT jump the line at my local Free Comic Book Day.  I waited just over and hour outside with my buddy Bill who went with me, so not small hearts were broken as Mr. Big-shot strolled past them.

Iron Man 3 opened over the weekend and word is it has the second highest weekend opening of all time, right behind The Avengers… The geek truly shall inherit.
In this episode we cover:

• - Pacific Rim Wondercon footage posted by WB.
• - Dr. Demento documentary “Under the Smogberry Trees” on Kickstarter.
• - The Bobs have a new  Kickstarter campaign for their next album.
• - We briefly revisit the topic of the Zach Braff Kickstarter project.
• - Daniel recommends another podcast: Kevin Smith’s ‘Fatman on Batman‘
• - Chris Guest’s new HBO series ‘Family Tree.‘
• - ‘Veep’  get’s picked up for a 3rd Season.
• - John Williams is supposedly in to score SW VII
• - Jason saw part of Les Miz
• - Wings Over America [Deluxe Edition] coming out
• - Good shows coming to an end: final season of “Dexter”, “Breaking Bad” and one more season of ‘Mad Men.”
• - And it’s not called out but there are some season 3 Game of Thrones spoilers at the very end of the episode, so if you are not caught up beware!

All that and much more here in Episode 71!

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It only took 70 episodes, but I think we found our catch phrase! Now it’s time to fire up the merchandise machine! Mugs! T-shirts! Mouse Pads!  Beanies!  Shot Glasses! Custom License Plate Frames!  Oh man, the sky is the limit!

Once again we set out to cover the “week in geek” in about an hour and ended up with a little over an hour and a half at no extra charge!    There is a lot to discuss from the world of film and the upcoming releases of Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel, then couple all that with a weekend packed with Free Comic Book day and that makes it easy to profess that this episode truly IS full of “Geeky Goodness!” (But don’t worry… it’s not hurting anyone.)

In this episode we discuss:

• - Thor 2 trailer hit this past week.
• - Iron Man 3 already passed Avengers overseas. Weekend opening $195.3 vs $185.1.
• - Daredevil rights back under Marvel Studios.
• - Halle Berry Storm picture from X-Men: DoFP.
• - Michael Shannon reads the Sorority letter. (In NO WAY safe for work!)
• - Hollywood Tests Movie Ticket Sales at Walmart With ‘Man of Steel.’
• - Fake ‘Man of Steel’ opening is released.
• - Universal closing Gibson Amphitheater for “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
• - Jason started watching House of Cards on Netflix.
• - Man of Steel Mattel toys leaking early.
• - Zach Braff Kickstarter movie project “Wish I Was Here” (Also Jason sent this link to me today to help solidify his thoughts on this.) PS- It’s funded the $2mil.
• - Free Comic Book day May 4th.
• - NECA Making Batman: Dead End Albino Predator figure.
• - Jason watched ‘Behind the Candelabra‘

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 This episode is almost too much show!  There was so much happening in the world of pop culture the last few days, we have to pick and choose what to cover in this episode.  We could spend an entire episode just talking about the new trailers from this week!   So much good stuff to cover and an anniversary on AFi make for an hour and twenty-two minutes of fresh geek talk.  And a new staff position opens up on the show.  Are you up for it?

In this episode we discuss:

• - Action Figure Insider is celebrating our 8th Anniversary this week – April 22nd-26th.
• - New Man of Steel teaser and a fantastic trailer.
• - New Star Trek Into Darkness trailer.
• - New Lone Ranger trailer.
• - Disney announces new Star Wars movies coming every summer starting in 2015.
• - Figures Toy Company Retro/Mego announcements – 66 Batman, Tarzan, Conan, Dukes of Hazard and more!
• - Jonathan Coulton “Code Monkey Save World” comic book Kickstarter campaign.
• - Batman: Arkham Origins announced
• - Free Comic Book Day -  May 4th.
• - Harrison Ford’s latest appearance on Jimmy Kimmel.
• - Gerry Rafferty documentary narrated by David Tennant;
• - Daniel is watching Vikings on the History channel. Vikings and Bates Motel get 2nd season.
• -  Jason celebrated Record Store Day this past Saturday with a Paul Weller box set.
• - Stone Roses documentary ‘Made of Stone’ directed by Shane Meadows coming out in June.
• - Jason ran into Maurice Lamarche last week.
• - Legendary album cover artist Storm Thorgerson passed away.

All that and more!

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 Jason landed safe and sound back in the states and we still managed to squeeze in a new episode for this week.   That’s our stone cold dedication to you listeners!  You’re welcome!

It was a tough week for loosing folks that impacted geek culture and pop culture.  The impact of losing Roger Ebert, Jonathan Winters, Annette Funicello and Carmine Infantino will be felt for many years to come.    Our thoughts and prayers go out to their friends and families.

Also we are posting this late in the day on Monday the 15th and the events from earlier today in Boston still weigh heavy on all of of our hearts.  We are sending good vibes to the people involved in that tragedy.

We were trying some new tech in this episode, and it worked great at first… and then one of the channels went South.  So bear with us this episode.

In this episode we discuss:

• Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere on BBC radio
• New “Man of Steel” images and info  from Entertainment Weekly.
• Daniel was whizin’ with Tom Skerritt.
• Jason saw ‘‘Cloud Atlas.‘   Now he’d like for the rest of us to see it so we can all discuss it.
• Speeder Bikes on Tattoine in Return of the Jedi?
• Death of Thatcher and ‘Ding Dong the Witch is Dead’ climbing the charts in the UK!
• New ‘Neon Neon’ album Praxis Makes Perfect hits end of month.   You can check out some of their other stuff here, here and here.
• Jason educates us on the finer points of Rastamouse.
• ‘Tales of Television Centre’ doc about the history of BBC
• More goodies that Jason got on his trip to the UK.
• All that and much more!

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