Geekshow Podcast
{{Short description|Pop culture podcast}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox podcast
| title = Geekshow Podcast
| image = Geekshow.png
| host = {{flatlist|1=
- Kerry Jackson
- Leigh George Kade
- Shannon Barnson
- Jimmy Martin
- Jay Whittaker
- Tony Eccles
- Rebecca Frost
}}
| genre = Pop culture
| language = American English
| updates = Weekly
| length = 60-90 Minutes
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 910
| began = September 7, 2008
| provider = Broadway Media
| website = {{URL|https://www.geekshowpodcast.com/}}
}}
Geekshow Podcast is a weekly conversational podcast about popular culture produced by Broadway Media.{{Cite web|last=Jacobson|first=Matthew|date=November 12, 2015|title='Geekshow Podcast's' Message: 'Don't Be That Geek'|url=https://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/arts/is-my-geek-showing/2015/11/12/geekshow-podcasts-message-dont-geek/75514670/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210918144037/https://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/arts/is-my-geek-showing/2015/11/12/geekshow-podcasts-message-dont-geek/75514670/|archive-date=September 18, 2021|access-date=September 18, 2021|website=The Spectrum & Daily News|publisher=Gannett|language=en-US}}
Background
The show began in 1998 as a segment in the Radio From Hell program hosted by Kerry Jackson.{{Cite web|last=Jacobson|first=Matthew|date=October 15, 2015|title='Geekshow Podcast' Pioneers Pave Road for Current Geeks|url=https://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/arts/is-my-geek-showing/2015/10/15/geekshow-podcast-pioneers-pave-road-current-geeks/73923506/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210918144059/https://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/arts/is-my-geek-showing/2015/10/15/geekshow-podcast-pioneers-pave-road-current-geeks/73923506/|archive-date=September 18, 2021|access-date=September 18, 2021|website=The Spectrum & Daily News|publisher=Gannett|language=en-US}} The show includes discussions focused on movies, comics, TV shows, and games.{{Cite web|last=Renshaw|first=Scott|date=September 4, 2019|title=The Geek Issue|url=https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/the-geek-issue/Content?oid=14190452|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210919190204/https://m.cityweekly.net/utah/the-geek-issue/Content?oid=14190452|archive-date=September 19, 2021|access-date=September 19, 2021|website=Salt Lake City Weekly|publisher=Copperfield Publishing|language=en-US}} The show is hosted in Kerry Jackson's basement.{{Cite web|last=Sheehan|first=Gavin|date=October 7, 2015|title=Geek Show Podcast's Kerry Jackson|url=https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/geek-show-podcasts-kerry-jackson/Content?oid=3017292|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210919190211/https://m.cityweekly.net/utah/geek-show-podcasts-kerry-jackson/Content?oid=3017292|archive-date=September 19, 2021|access-date=September 19, 2021|website=Salt Lake City Weekly|publisher=Copperfield Publishing|language=en-US}} The hosts of the show are friends so the format of the show is conversational.{{Cite web|last=Matthew|first=Jacobson|date=October 29, 2015|title=Tragedy Strengthens Utah's 'Geekshow Podcast'|url=https://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/arts/is-my-geek-showing/2015/10/29/tragedy-strengthens-utahs-geekshow-podcast/74682660/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210918144112/https://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/arts/is-my-geek-showing/2015/10/29/tragedy-strengthens-utahs-geekshow-podcast/74682660/|archive-date=September 18, 2021|access-date=April 11, 2019|website=The Spectrum & Daily News|publisher=Gannett|language=en-US}} Jeff Vice, a host of the show and a journalist for Deseret News, died in 2014 at the age of 48 due to an asthma attack.{{Cite web|last=Kennedy|first=Gene|date=May 29, 2014|title=Family, friends gather in SLC to honor memory of Jeff Vice|url=https://fox13now.com/2014/05/28/family-friends-gather-in-slc-to-honor-memory-of-jeff-vice/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210919190444/https://www.fox13now.com/2014/05/28/family-friends-gather-in-slc-to-honor-memory-of-jeff-vice/|archive-date=September 19, 2021|access-date=April 19, 2019|website=KSTU|publisher=E. W. Scripps Company|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Morgan|first=Emiley|date=May 29, 2014|title=Jeff Vice, longtime Deseret News reporter and movie critic, dies|url=https://www.deseret.com/2014/5/29/20542274/jeff-vice-longtime-deseret-news-reporter-and-movie-critic-dies/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210919190500/https://www.deseret.com/2014/5/29/20542274/jeff-vice-longtime-deseret-news-reporter-and-movie-critic-dies|archive-date=September 19, 2021|access-date=April 19, 2019|website=Deseret News|publisher=Deseret News Publishing Company|language=en-US}}
Reception
The show won "Best podcast" from 2009 until 2015 in the Salt Lake City Weekly awards.{{Cite web|date=November 4, 2015|title=Best of Utah 2015: Welcome to Year 26 of Best of Utah|url=https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/best-of-utah-2015/BestOf?oid=3057506|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210919151838/https://m.cityweekly.net/utah/best-of-utah-2015/BestOf?oid=3057506&fbclid=IwAR1cXpVwiF_Lpcjy59ysExQ3SCWe50vjtBN8wdPX1TYpDJ3BEtCwnxUXubo|archive-date=September 19, 2021|access-date=April 19, 2019|website=Salt Lake City Weekly|publisher=Copperfield Publishing|language=en-US}} The show later won second place for "Best Local Podcast" in the 2020 Salt Lake City Weekly awards.{{Cite web|last=Limón|first=Enrique|date=November 17, 2020|title=Best of Utah 2020: The Complete List of Winners From Our Readers and Staff|url=https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/BestOf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210919190518/https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/BestOf|archive-date=September 19, 2021|access-date=September 18, 2021|website=Salt Lake City Weekly|publisher=Copperfield Publishing|language=en-US}} The Geek Show was included in the illustration of a Harley Quinn comic.{{Cite web|last=Means|first=Sean P.|date=June 19, 2014|title=Geek Show Podcast Member Immortalized in 'Harley Quinn' Comic|url=https://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/blogs/moviecricket/58089200-66/harley-quinn-geek-hardin.html.csp|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210919151327/https://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/blogs/moviecricket/58089200-66/harley-quinn-geek-hardin.html.csp|archive-date=September 19, 2021|access-date=September 19, 2021|website=The Salt Lake Tribune|language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.geekshowpodcast.com/}}
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