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A weekly dose of Geeky Questions answered and a touch of trying to stump our own in-house expert.
About the show
The Aeronauts, Zac and Tyler, drop in to answer Geeky Questions and try to pry loose some of Zac's deep down genre knowledge before taking back off on their adventures through Nerdery.
Episodes
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Bestest Pets
March 20th, 2024 | Season 11 | 14 mins 58 secs
grail, michael the bee, red bee, silver, tippy, wildstorm
What's the best animal sidekick? Who is Grail?
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Little Boy Blue
March 13th, 2024 | Season 11 | 21 mins 21 secs
azazel, chris claremont, destiny, kurt wagner, margolie szardos, marvel, nightcrawler, seth cowie, wildstorm
Who are Nightcrawler's parents? Who is Seth?
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A New Contender
March 6th, 2024 | Season 11 | 24 mins 26 secs
darkhorse, image comics, jim lee, substack, todd macfarlane, warblade, wildstorm
Who is the next Image Comics? Who is Warblade?
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A Long Time Ago....
February 28th, 2024 | Season 11 | 15 mins 14 secs
akira kurosawa, ashe, flash gordon, hidden fortress, star wars, the dam busters, wetworks, wildstorm
What is the inspiration for Star Wars? Who is Ashe?
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Remember Me
February 21st, 2024 | Season 11 | 15 mins 55 secs
grifter, sentry, stan lee, wildstorm, wizard magazine
Was the Sentry a "lost" Stan Lee creation? Who is Grifter?
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Solved Mysteries
February 14th, 2024 | Season 10 | 44 mins 38 secs
family man, giallo, horror, house of mystery, one below all, spaghetti western
The Aeronauts have completed their journey to the House of Mystery. It's time to fix all the info Zac tried to give earlier in the season as well as play a game of Giallo or Spaghetti Western?
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Time Terrors
February 1st, 2024 | Season 10 | 30 mins 59 secs
celestial toymaker, cyberman, dalek, doctor who, judoon, sontaran, the master, the rani, trigon, vashta nerata
Who are the best Doctor Who villains? Who is Trigon?
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Alone on the Range
January 17th, 2024 | Season 10 | 33 mins 4 secs
bass reeves, devil hunter, devil slayer, john r. hughes, john reid, lone ranger, silver, texas ranger, tonto
Was there a real Lone Ranger? Who is Devil Hunter?
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Weird World
December 21st, 2023 | Season 10 | 18 mins 17 secs
a fat little nothing, danny the street, dc, dollmaker, fat fury, herbie, maggot, marvel
Who is the weirdest superhero? Who is the Dollmaker?
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Crossing the Streams
December 13th, 2023 | Season 10 | 20 mins 2 secs
cross over, genre, j jonah jameson, j jonah jameson iii, man-wolf, marvel
What are the best genres to cross over? Who is the Man-Wolf?
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Super Early
December 6th, 2023 | Season 10 | 14 mins 27 secs
constantine, dc, doctor occult, hellblazer, superman, the family man, the golden bat, the moon man
Who is the first superhero? Who is the Family Man?
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Shielding Wakanda
November 29th, 2023 | Season 10 | 15 mins 49 secs
adamatium, blade, captain america, deacon frost, shuri, vampire, vibranium, wakanda
Does Shuri ever use the same metal from Cap's shield? Who is Deacon Frost?
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Jurassic Bawk!
November 22nd, 2023 | Season 10 | 23 mins 3 secs
dinosaurs, dracula, feathered dinosaurs, jurassic park, manly men doing manly things, marvel, prehistoric planet, sauria, shadow colonel, vampire, xarus
Are there any series with feathered dinosaurs? Who is the Shadow Colonel?
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Needling the Audience
November 15th, 2023 | Season 10 | 29 mins 16 secs
albert fish, aunt harriet, frederic wertham, grant morrison, professor pyg, seduction of the innocent
What connection exists between serial killer Albert Fish and comic books? Who is Professor Pyg?
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Hot Head
November 8th, 2023 | Season 10 | 20 mins 12 secs
anton arcane, danny ketch, ghost rider, johnny blaze, robbie reyes, swamp thing
F...Marry...Kill: Ghost Rider edition. Who is Anton Arcane?
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Out of Our Skulls
October 31st, 2023 | Season 10 | 17 mins 16 secs
greyskull, hideout, hulk, immortal hulk, one below all, phantom, secret base, skull
What is the best Skull-based hideout? Who is the One Below All?