My Podcasting Future....

After about 5 and a half years of podcasting last February I announced my retirement from the podcasting field. I handed over the creative control of 'Geek Fallout Productions' to Geek Fallout Co-Creator Richard Rehder.  But I soon felt I missed it and planned on re-launching a new podcast for this fall. But I am here today to announce that will not be happening after all.

Earlier in the summer my laptop I used for podcasting was stolen. It was found and returned to me but unfortunately all my files on it had been erased. I had been in the habit of backing up all my files but got lazy in the last year or so and as a result all my podcast work for the last year was lost forever. I had spent several hours editing new opening music, bumpers and other things for the new podcast I was going to launch...all gone now.

And to be honest I thought with a break that my heart would be more into making a return to the podcasting drivers seat but it has not. Instead I have been talking with Richard Rehder, whom is still driving the 'Geek Fallout' vehicle, about coming on the show from time to time as a guest on the podcast. Hopefully that will happen. At this point all I want is to be someone else's podcast guest for a change. In the meantime I intend to focus on getting back to writing. I am currently working on a first draft of a new book (not a sequel to my first book). I also want to get more involved in the local pop culture scene. I am a member of both the USS Bonaventure (Edmonton Speculative Fiction Society) and The USS King Edward (Calgary based chapter of STARFLEET International) and I hope to do more with these groups.

For those of you who have taken time over the years to listen to me podcast I want to thank you. I did have a lot of good times podcasting and made a lot of new friends. I especially would like to thank to following people:

- Calvin Heighton. He was my "Co-Podcaster in crime" for the last few years. He is truly a funny guy with a great insight into pop culture, especially comic books.

- Erik Johnson. He has been on many podcasts with me and is perhaps our most loyal listener.

- MissM. She brought a great female perspective to the shows we did together. I'll miss our She-Ra discussions.

- Richard Rehder & Jeff Brown. We Co-Created 'Geek Fallout' together and they helped me a lot with the technical side of podcasting.

- The Atomic Geeks Podcast. Thank you Digio, Christian, Downs and Bloom for being my inspiration to get into podcasting. You guys are legends in my book.

- The Nerd Lunch Podcast. Thank you CT, Jeeg and Pax for the years of podcast gold you have given and for allowing me to get my first taste of podcasting by being a 4th chair guest many years ago.

- The Random Nerdness Podcast. My first podcast and my creation. Spent many hours podcasting with my sister Brianna, friend Tyler Kluin and brother-in-law (and our Engineer) Sebastion.

- Crystal Lockhart. My wife was generous to give me the time to work on podcasting when I probably could have been doing something else more productive.

And the following people in no particular order: Chris Gaida, Jason Roberts, Derek Ash, Evan Hanson, George Pappy, Dan Thale, Joseph Harvey, Dave Kish.

I'm sorry for anyone I forgot to mention as I have podcasted with a lot of people over the years!

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Talk to you later.

Geek Fallout reached episode 100 in 2014!!!

For Geek Fallout Episode 100

This was the essay I wrote for Geek Fallout episode 100. Now here it is in written form for you to read. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!!

For me it all started with the Random Nerdness Podcast. The first episode of RN debuted October 16th, 2012. I had been inspired to create my own podcast for The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network based on my blog after having appeared on the 'Nerd Lunch' podcast as a fourth chair guest. I had no experience with editing a podcast but as it happens my brother-in-law Sebastian and my sister Brianna had just moved back to Canada from Sweden, and Seb had actually gone to school for sound engineering. When I explained to Seb what it was I wanted to do he was onboard. I recruited my sister Brianna, best friend Tyler Kluin and step-sister Meghan to appear on the podcast and thus the conversation began. After a couple of pilot episodes we settled on a format that worked for Digio and the boys at the TAG Network and thus our podcasting adventure had just begun…

 

Original RN logo, designed by Curtis Sarapuk.

 

Roughly a short time after my initial planning of the RN podcast began I was contacted through the Atomic Geeks forum by Richard Rehder, who was planning another podcast and wanted to know if I would be interested in helping out. I was very interested but told Rich I just wanted to come on as a personality, I really didn't want to try my hand at editing or any behind the scenes work (as I was already doing that with RN). Rich agreed and with Eric Torok on aboard we recorded a pilot episode of the podcast Richard named “Geek Fallout".

It was a fun episode to record for sure; in fact we were having so much fun the first original pilot ran about 3 hours. We really had no format in mind at the time other than share some geek news then have a main topic to discuss. I can’t even remember what our main topic was about but as I said it ran almost 3 hours. Rich edited and sent it off to Michael Digiovanni and Andrew Bloom to listen to and critique. To be honest I don’t think they were impressed. Without really realizing it we had essentially made a copy of their podcast format. Not totally non-understandable as the 3 of us were huge fans of their podcast and as they say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Digio asked us to do something different and Bloom asked us to keep our episodes to about an hour in length. At first Rich and Eric were a little disappointed, as was I too but I too went through this critique review with them when launching the Random Nerdness podcast. Eric suggested we should go out on our own and not worry about being a part of the Atomic Geeks Network, but I insisted we be a part of their network as the built in audience that listened to The Atomic Geeks, Nerd Lunch and Classic Film Jerks podcasts would probably give us a chance too.

One of the first podcasts I ever listened to was ‘The Atomic Geeks’, and they were Canadian and they were 'geeks' so it only made sense that we be a part of their network, which the Nerd Lunch and Classic Film Jerks podcasts already were. Rich asked me what we should do and so I told him I would brainstorm some ideas. Later that day I came up with this format:

Geek Fallout Podcast Episode Format Idea: Sept 28/2012 C.Lockhart

Here’s just a quick format idea I was thinking about for the podcast. What do you guys think? Let me know. Geek Fallout: The geek headlines discussion podcast, by geeks for geeks!

Segments:

1-      New Fallout with Richard (15 minutes): Richard moderates as each member of GF brings 3 geeky news items to the table for discussion.

2-      Comic Book Corner with Chris (10-15 minutes):  Chris leads the discussion with the other GF members on comic books, animated films/TV series. And upcoming live action comic book movies and TV shows

3-      Tech Talk with Eric (10-15 minutes): Eric leads the discussion with the other GF members on gaming, new tech, apps, phones, etc.

4-      Fallout On: (15 minutes): A member GF leads the discussion on a specific topic of their choosing.

5-      Final Countdown (10 minutes) Members of GF comes up with a countdown list of something to create discussion. (For example: 5 Hottest Women In Comic Book Movies)

                    Podcast Runtime: 60-70 minutes.

Richard liked the format but unfortunately Eric could not stay after the initial Geek Fallout pilot episode so Rich recruited Jeff Brown to join us. After some tweaking with the format we were off and rolling with episode one. When recording and editing were done Digio and Andrew Bloom again listened to our episode and gave us some good pointers, and after listening to our final cut pilot they accepted us into the network and finally we made our internet debut November 6th, 2012 on Podbean and itunes. 

                                                   

 

In January 2013 Richard told Jeff and I he would have to take a step back from the podcast, he would be able to edit and work behind the scenes but hosting would have to take a break. Jeff stepped up to take over hosting duties and we continued on with numerous guests including Evan Hanson, Marc Ealdama and others from the TAG Network.

 

So during 2013 I continued on with Geek Fallout regularly. Jeff would take over editing the podcast from Richard and I would take over the arrangement of guests as Rich needed to take a further step back ultimately leaving the podcast altogether. However although Rich was away from the podcast he did create the ‘Geek Fallout’ official blog. Rich has done most of the blogging on that site, and although it has not been updated for a few months it still is worth checking out at www.geekfallout.wordpress.com

At the end of summer 2013 Jeff told me he could not continue to edit Geek Fallout every week, so we could either reduce the weekly content or I could take a hand at editing. Since RN was on hiatus anyway I figured I could try my hand at the old editing thing. With the help of my brother-in-law Sebastian, and with tips from Jeff and Richard began editing half of the episodes of Geek Fallout starting September 2013. Since I was now editing and with RN being dormant I decided to tweak the GF format a little bit by introducing RN segments into GF. I even started a monthly comic book episode with regular GF guest star Evan Hanson, and by the end of 2013 we had done 3 comic book episodes. By January 2014 Evan had unofficially been promoted to full time Co-Host status. By that I mean we had bugged him so much to be on the podcast he pretty much was on just as much as Jeff and I were.

 

 

On January 24^th ‘Geek Fallout: The Comic Book Episodes’ podcast launched, based on the episodes Evan and I were doing. Evan and Shawn Robare appeared on the first episode but with episode 2 the regular cast of me, Chris Gaida and Jason Roberts settled into the bi-weekly comic book discussion podcast rotation. Evan continued with Jeff and I on the main ‘Geek Fallout’ podcast. At this same time Evan and I with Dave Kish and Joseph Harvey launched the ‘Trek1701’ podcast. To say I had been bitten with a podcasting bug would be an understatement.

 

Things continued on with Jeff and I splitting editing duties on GF. As we began to approach episode 50 Jeff told me he like Rich would be leaving the podcast. He agreed to stay on till episode 50 but I would have to figure something out after that. I completely understand not being able to stay with a podcast when juggling family and career. I completely understood why Jeff was leaving and I was going to miss chatting with this friend (whom I have never met in person) every week. So I began to search Twitter and the internet seeking out new Co-hosts to join Evan and I on GF. I had been listening to an episode of ‘Nerd Lunch’ and really enjoyed listening to one of their fourth chair guests, a woman named MissM. I immediately checked out her ‘Diary of a Dorkette’ blog and was greeted by an image of She-Ra. Being a diehard He-man myself and a fan of She-Ra cosplay I knew I had to talk with MissM and convince her to join us on the podcast. Lucky for me she actually agreed to join the show!! I also made contact with Brian Farrell and he too agreed to join GF. On episode 51 both MissM and Brian made their podcast debut and have been an important part of our show ever since. Soon after Derek Ash and Erik Johnson too joined the ranks of Geek Fallout podcasters. Geek Fallout Co-Founder Richard Rehder also from time to time makes guest appearances again, and it really is great having him back again even if it is as a guest. Jeff also came back to discuss season 4 of ‘Game Of Thrones’ with us in June.

 

May 23^rd 2014 Geek Fallout jumped podcast episode numbering by going from episode 57 to episode 75 in one week’s time. No we did not have a marathon recording session in that week; we simply changed numbering to accurately reflect how many actual podcast episodes we had done. Previously we had done ‘un-numbered’ podcast episodes from time to time when the discussion strayed from our regular format style. But when asked by someone how many episodes we had actually done I thought it was silly not to have the episode number not accurately reflect the actual episode number. And thus we went from episode 57 to 75, and no I am not dyslexic.

 

And now we are here at episode 100. I must say this is a dream come true for me. I have been a fan of podcasts for years and once I could only dream of talking with those I was listening to. Now I have a hand in creating this listening material for others to enjoy. I get to have regular discussions with great people on a regular basis and others get to listen to our talks. Probably the greatest thing about doing this podcast thing is all the great people I have met and now consider friends. It’s weird having friends most of whom I have never actually met in person, but again that is the great thing about podcasting. I can talk about ‘She-Ra’ with MissM who is in Texas, discuss ‘Game of Thrones’ with Jeff who lives in Ontario and swap wrestling memories with AJ Maggot (host of ‘The Bloke Show’) who lives in Australia. Podcasting is truly amazing.

 

As I said in the title this is The History of ‘Geek Fallout’: A Journey Into Podcasting done by yours truly. I’m sure there is some that I have left out and for that I apologise, but I hope you enjoyed my ramblings. To end this discussion I am writing out a list of guests and podcasters that have appeared during the 100 episodes of ‘Geek Fallout’. If I forgot someone again I apologise.

Richard Rehder, Eric Torok (unaired pilot), Jeff Brown, Evan Hanson, Marc Ealdama, Dave Kish, Mark Dury, Raf (not sure on your last name), Adam Volk, Sharon Copeland, Brianna Rydvall, Michael Digiovanni, AJ Maggot, Chay Lopez, Mike Downs, Christian Nielson, CT, Paxton Holley, Sebastian Rydvall, Monk Torius, Curtis Holomey, Jeeg, Brian Adams (from coolandcollected.com), George Pappy, Crystal Lockhart (my wife), Chris Gaida, Shawn Robare, MissM, Brian Farrell, Derek Ash, Erik Johnson, Joseph Harvey, Jason Roberts, and Carly Vore.

Again I am sorry if I forgot you. Please e-mail me at geekfallout@gmail.com if I forgot you and I will make a correction on a future episode.

Well thank you for taking the time to listen to me ramble on. I hope you stay with our podcast as we intend to continue on and on.

Welcome to the wasteland.

 

Hope you enjoyed this little essay. Thanks again for taking the time to read it. Here are the links to the podcasts, and all are available on iTunes 

www.randomnerdness.blogspot.com

www.geekfallout.podbean.com

www.geekfalloutcomicbook.podbean.com

www.trek1701.podbean.com

www.randomnerdness.podbean.com

 

 

 

GF The Comic Book Episodes #1: With ChrisL, Evan, ChrisG & Shawn Robare

GF The Comic Book Episodes #1: With ChrisL, Evan, ChrisG & Shawn Robare

January 24th, 2014

 

Hosts Chris Lockhart, Evan Hanson and Christopher Gaida are joined by Shawn Robare (Cult Film Club podcast, 'Branded in the 80's') in this first all-new episode for the all new Geek Fallout: The Comic Book Episodes Podcast!! We are talking our favourite comic book artists, we talk comic news, our picks then an in depth discussion called "Battle of the comic book companies".

This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network.
If you are a 'Star Trek' fan be sure to listen to Chris Lockhart & Evan over at the 'Trek1701' podcast. It is available on iTunes or to stream at www.trek1701.podbean.com

Geek Fallout Ep 42: “Skype doesn’t like me” with Chris and Shawn Robare

GF Ep 42: “Skype doesn’t like me” with Chris and Shawn Robare

January 23rd, 2014

Chris is joined on the episode with Shawn Robare, who is from the 'Cult Film Club' podcast and the website 'Branded in the 80's'. They discuss the new 'Man of Steel' movie, Sif appearing on 'Agents of SHIELD', Star Wars Episode 7 news and predictions, and then end the episode with the 'Top 5' TV series from the 80's.

This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network.

Be sure to tune into the upcoming 'Geek Fallout: The Comic Book Episodes' podcast, launching soon!!

If you are a 'Star Trek' fan check out Chris, Evan and Dave over at the Trek1701 podcast!! www.trek1701.podbean.com
and it is available on iTunes.

 

New Podcast Episodes!!

RN Ep 21: ‘Doctor Who’ Discussion

> January 11th, 2014

Chris is joined on the show once again by Evan Hanson. This time they are discussing the 50th Anniversary of 'Doctor Who', the Christmas Special and Peter Capaldi as the 13th 'Doctor'.
Random Nerdness is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network.

Be sure to check out Chris & Evan on the 'Trek1701' podcast which will be launching this month!! Check it out on iTunes and at www.trek1701.podbean.com

RN EP 20: Star Wars Trivia Challenge, Part I

> January 10th, 2014

Chris is joined on the line with his Co-Host from 'Geek Fallout' Evan Hanson. They are trying the first round of a new segment of Random Nerdness for 2014: The Star Wars Trivia Challenge. Who will win?? Listen and learn some Star Wars facts you may not have known...or may not have wished to know...

GF The Comic Book Episodes #5 with Chris & Evan

January 13th, 2014

Chris & Evan are back talking comic books. In this episode they discuss writer Peter David, their pics & pans and then they tell Marvel & DC Comics what they should be doing.
This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network.

Be sure to check out the 'Trek1701: A Star Trek Podcast' launching this month!! Go to Trek1701.podbean.com or download it from iTunes.

Again 2 new episodes of Geek Fallout!!

GF Ep 41: Predictions & Resolutions

January 8th, 2014

Geek Fallout is back with their first all new episode of 2014!! Chris is hosting with special guest (and Chris's sister) Brianna Rydvall joining in on the podcast. Chris & Brianna discuss the passing of actor James Avery (Uncle Phil) and an atomic wedgie gone wrong. Then they discuss their Top 5 things they are looking forward to in 2014, then Chris discusses his personal Top 5 resolutions for 2014.

This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network.
Have you seen Jeff Brown??

and

GF Ep 40: 2013 Year In Review Pt II

December 30th, 2013

One final episode for 2013!! Chris flies solo for this outing with his Top 5 Comic Books, Top 5 TV Series and Top 5 Movies.

He also discusses what went wrong with 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' and 'Man of Steel'.

This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network.
See you in 2014!!

 

The last 2 new episodes of 'Geek Fallout' in 2013!!

GF Ep 39: 2013 Year in Review, Part I

December 20th, 2013

Chris, Jeff and Evan break down the year that was in 4 easy to chew segments which include: TV Shows in Review, Movies in Review, Video Games/Tech Review, Comic Books & Novels Review.

 

This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network

And....

GF Ep 40: 2013 Year In Review Pt II

December 30th, 2013

One final episode for 2013!! Chris flies solo for this outing with his Top 5 Comic Books, Top 5 TV Series and Top 5 Movies.

He also discusses what went wrong with 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' and 'Man of Steel'.

This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network.
See you in 2014!!

 

RN Ep 19: The 2013 Chris Lockhart Christmas Special

RN Ep 19: The 2013 Chris Lockhart Christmas Special

> December 15th, 2013


       

Well it's that time of year again, and once again Chris Lockhart is talking Christmas with his friends. Featuring guest appearances from the 'Geek Fallout' podcast's Jeff Brown, Evan Hanson and Marc Ealdama. We discuss Chinese Santa, puking on Christmas Eve, and awkward moments in Christmas history. Then Chris sits down with Random Nerdness Co-Host Tyler Kluin and they share some Christmas cheer and memories.

The 'Random Nerdness' podcast is back ladies and gentlemen!! See you in January!!

This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network!!

 

All-New 'Geek Fallout' episodes for your ears!!!

GF: The Comic Book Episodes #4 with Chris, Evan & CT

December 13th, 2013

In this all-new exciting episode Chris and Evan are joined by CT from the 'Nerd Lunch' and 'Pod, James Pod' podcasts. CT recounts his first time reading comics and how they have impacted him, his internship at Marvel Comics and visiting John Byrnes house. We discuss 'Arrow', we have some picks & pans and we review the 2013 Comic Book movies. 

We also do another 'Nerd Conversions' segment at the end of the episode where we discuss 'Doctor Who'. 

This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network 

Geek Fallout Walking Dead Season 4 Mid season wrap up

December 5th, 2013

Jeff and Chris along with Marc and Evan talk the first half of season 4 of The Walking Dead.  Is the show starting to show it's age? Are the writers getting lazy? Is Evan becoming more like that old guy who sits on his porch all day?

Geek Fallout is a member of the Atomic Geeks podcasting network

 

 

Geek Fallout Ep 38

December 1st, 2013

The gang is back again, Jeff, Chris, Evan and Marc go through a whole episode of geek news.  The boys finish off with a quick walking dead discussion leading up to next weeks mid season finale.

Welcome to the Wasteland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Podcasting One Year Later: The 'Geek Fallout' & 'Random Nerdness' Story

Podcasting One Year Later: The 'Geek Fallout' & 'Random Nerdness' Story

As Told By Chris Lockhart

Wow, it's hard to believe it has been over a year since my journey into the podcast world has begun. I have appeared on 45 episodes of 'Geek Fallout', 21 episodes of 'Random Nerdness', 4 episodes of 'The Bloke Show' and 1 episode of 'The Atomic Geeks Podcast'. At the time I write this I have appeared on 71 podcast episodes, not including my previous appearance on 'Nerd Lunch' and episodes yet to be released. 

This has been quite a journey and it seems that it is only going to continue into 2014 and beyond. But let me reflect on the year that has passed. The first episode of RN debuted October 16th, 2012. I was inspired to create my own podcast for The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network based on my blog after having appeared on 'Nerd Lunch' as a fourth chair guest. I had no experience with editing a podcast but as it happens my brother-in-law Sebastian and my sister Brianna had just moved back to Canada from Sweden, and Seb had actually gone to school for sound engineering. When I explained to Seb what it was I wanted to do he was onboard. I recruited my sister Brianna, best friend Tyler Kluin and step-sister Meghan to appear on the podcast and thus the conversation began. After a couple of pilot episodes we settled on a format that worked for Digio and the boys at the TAG Network and thus our journey began. 

The Original 'Random Nerdness Podcast' logo. Design by Curtis Sarapuk

Roughly a short time after my initial planning of the RN podcast began I was contacted through the Atomic Geeks forum by Richard Rehder, who was planning another podcast and wanted to know if I would be interested in helping out. I was very interested but told Rich I just wanted to come on as a personality, I really didn't want to try my hand at editing or any behind the scenes work (as I was already doing that with RN). Rich agreed and with Eric Torok on aboard we recorded a pilot episode. Eric could not stay after the pilot episode so Rich recruited Jeff Brown to join us and after some tweaking with the format we were off and rolling with episode one debuting November 6th, 2012. 

When planning the RN podcast and helping with the planning of GF I knew we had to be a part of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network. One of the first podcasts I ever listened to was The Atomic Geeks, and they were Canadian and they were 'geeks' so it only made sense that we be a part of their network, which the Nerd Lunch and Classic Film Jerks podcasts already were. Digio and Andrew Bloom in particular gave us some good pointers after listening to our pilot episodes and they accepted us into the network after listening to our 'final' episode ones. On November 13th 2012 I made my guest appearance on 'The Atomic Geeks' and it was literally a podcast dream come true. I had listened to these guys for years at this point and now I was talking with them (minus Christian, whom I was filling in for). Bloom, Downs and Digio couldn't have been more nicer and we had some great conversations that episode. 

When I started the RN podcast I knew I would be doing a 'Christmas Special' episode, in honour of the Bea Arthur 'Star Wars Christmas Special'. And since I was paying for the bandwidth for RN, and since I am the Host I decided to call it 'The 2012 Chris Lockhart Christmas Special'. For me that was a great episode as I had a number of guest stars including The Atomic Geeks, Richard and Jeff from 'Geek Fallout' and my friends (Brianna, Seb, Tyler, Meghan, Cousin's Brandy and Curtis, friends Dennis and Jamie). It was a great episode and turned out better than I had imagined thanks to the Engineering magic of my brother-in-law Sebastian. 

Bea Arthur on the Star Wars Christmas Special

In January Richard told Jeff and I he would have to take a step back from the podcast, he would be able to edit and work behind the scenes but hosting would have to take a break. Jeff stepped up to take over hosting duties and we continued on with numerous guests including Evan Hanson, Marc Ealdama and others from the TAG Network. 

The new year would be see changes to RN as well. Sebastian and I were both busy with work so RN went from being a weekly podcast to twice monthly (Jan, Feb & March) to monthly April, May and June, to halting completely. Not only was Sebastian busy at work but he and the family went back home to Sweden for a bit to work out some immigration issues, also they bought a lovely new home so they were busy with packing and moving. In 2013 we did some good episodes of RN, I am especially proud of Episode 14 which was our 'He-Man' episode. I am also proud of my 'Captains Table' interview with actress Claudia Christian, better known as Commander Ivanava on the 90's TV series 'Babylon 5'. I interviewed her about her biography 'Babylon Confidential' and I also was able to ask her some Babylon 5 fanboy questions. It was especially satisfying for me to talk with her because she is one of my 'geek crushes'. I also did a couple Captains Table episodes talking with George Pappy about his 'Green Girl' biography film about actress Susan Oliver, and I also got to talk with Larry Nemecek whom many consider to be the authority on all things 'Star Trek'. The Random Nerdness podcast is currently on hiatus, but I do intend to do an occasional episode of it now that I have my hand in the editing aspect of podcasting. We will have a RN/GF 2013 Chris Lockhart Christmas Special coming in December so be on the lookout for that.

A Geek Crush: Actress Claudia Christian

The updated RN podcast logo (less pink)

So during 2013 I continued on with Geek Fallout regularly. Jeff would take over editing the podcast from Richard and I would take over the arrangement of guests as Rich needed to take a further step back. April 6th I made my first appearance on 'The Bloke Show' (episode 8) talking with AJ Maggot and Chay Lopez about wrestling and other things, in particular the night I got drunk with 'The Honky Tonk Man'. May 23 Episode 14 I made my second appearance on TBS with Jeff, this time we made a journey to the mythical 'Atomic Geeks Super Fight Dome'. July would see the historic TAG Network crossover take place and GF was right in the middle of all the fun. The week of July 25th Geek Fallout (with Brianna and Rich) took over The Bloke Show and AJ/Chay took over Geek Fallout. But also leading up to the crossover series 'Geek Fallout' had numerous TAG Network guests including AJ, Brianna, Digio, Downs and Chay joining us for our regular episodes and a 'Game Of Thrones' special. 

At the end of summer Jeff told me he could not continue to edit Geek Fallout every week, so we could either reduce the weekly content or I could take a hand at editing. Since RN was on hiatus anyway I figured I could try my hand at the old editing thing. With the help of my brother-in-law Sebastian, and with tips from Jeff and Richard I am now editing half of the episodes of Geek Fallout since September. Since I was now editing and with RN being dormant I decided to tweak the GF format a little bit by introducing RN segments into GF. I have also brought over my 'Captains Table' episodes to GF and I have started a monthly comic book episode with regular GF guest star Evan Hanson, so far we have done 3 comic book episodes. 

What does the future hold? I will be continuing with 'Geek Fallout' for the foreseeable future. The Comic Book Episodes will continue once a month with Evan and the regular 'Episodes' will continue with Jeff. I plan on doing an occasional (maybe monthly or twice monthly) episode of the Random Nerdness Podcast. I am also planning a third podcast which will make it's debut in January and will be a part of 'The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network', and that is the 'Trek 1701' Podcast. It will obviously be a 'Star Trek' podcast and so far will feature myself, Evan Hanson, Dave Kish (better known as 'Dave from Toledo') and Joseph Harvey (a good friend of Dave's). We will be doing the podcast monthly and discussing all things Trek, so be on the lookout for that in January. 

Sadly with all this podcasting I have neglected my blogs. But that's the price you pay to podcast and I am loving every minute of this ride! See you in the future!!

Chris Lockhart

@chrisloc1701