So In my small way I'm a big man on mulberry street

 Holy crap i've been so busy that the blog has been seriously ignored, We have a week left in April and i have only blogged three times. This is actually the third. I'm letting both of my fans down. Taking a quick time out from working on show related stuff to blog. I found something cool on you tube to have on in the background while i blog. Someone  posted a concert that i was actually at in 1990. Billy Joel in Toronto on the Storm front tour. Its bringing back a lot of good memories--its also making me feel really old. Storm Front was my favorite Billy Joel album. You guys might remember the hits that came from it--We Didn't Start The Fire and I go To Extremes.  Watching this concert and thats how i want to remember Billy Joel. Back then he was in his prime. He didn't milk his greatest hits. Unfortunately he hasn't had a new cd since 1993 so  when he does tor its only greatest hits. Back then he used to move around a lot as well and would even get up from the piano once in awhile. These days he doesn't leave the piano much. I know he's older now and i'm not expecting him to jump off the piano like he used to but come on man.   Really feeling nostalgic watching this concert--i was actually there!!   So many good memories from that night. Man that guy could rock. It was the first and only time i got to see him play the songs Shameless and Leningrad. I was still friends with Colin and he was with me at that show. By the way--how was that 23 years ago? It was seriously in my top 10 concerts of all time. Now if someone would just find footage from my first Billy Joel concert back in 1984.

Hi to Andrea

 Just want to give  a shout out to one of my best friends Andrea. She is a follower of the blog. Yes the very blog i have been neglecting. When i was going over the stats on our web site i found out that the geek survey we did with her is the one that people have checked out the most. So congrats Andrea and hope you will come be part of our little show again someday!!

April is here--how did that happen?

Holy crap i have been neglecting the blog. First blog in April!!  Man. It's been an awesome week. We crossed the 1900 hits mark on our we got the geek web site and we are on the fast track to 2000 hits. We got our portable recorder. We took it on our first interview to Pulp comics to  ask Paul about free comic book day and the Niagara Falls comic con. It was awesome. The sound was  great ! We put it up on our site yesterday!! Turned out great. We're getting ready for free comic book day and Art 0 con--both events in a couple of weeks. Gonna b a great weekend. Hoping to catch Iron Man 3 in that weekend as well. The regular day job has been completely sucking. I wish the show was my day job. I'm sure i have said that a time or 2. Been really busy. Don't want to neglect the blog. I'll do my best to keep up folks.

We Got The Geek live appearances

 The good news continues. In may our pod cast We Got The Geek has been invited to 3 live events. So excited


The first show is one we've been going to for a few years called Fun Expo. It's a great little Star Wars themed show in Welland Ontario and all proceeds go to charity. Bulmer really talked us up  to the guys putting the event on. They let us have a table for free and we're right near the door where everyone will need to walk by. I have loved going to this show anyway so its going to be really cool.


Bulmer also got us into a show in Burlington Ontario called Art O con. They have artist and crafts and all sorts of cool things. John had a big table and had room for us to sit and do our show. So stoked.


Thn last week out of the blue Paul from Pulp Comics messages us and asks us if the new pod cast wants to take part in free comic book day again. Of course we said yes. Last year we were there with the old show and had an amazing time.

Things are shaping up folks, I am happy and that is amazing.

Yup you guessed it more podcast goodness

 Wow i'm kind of on a roll so I'm gonna talk more about the podcast. All my expectations are being met and then some. Kath has gotten all our segments up on our site and even on itunes. Stuff that should have been done on the old show. Kath even has a section of our website where we can see how many people have viewed our content. Are you ready for this? In a month 1,300 people have visited our site. I am beyond floored. People  seem to like us. That makes me happy. We have 22 segments recorded and we are trying to get new stuff up often. We have a movie review section, a comic book segment and of course news and geek surveys. Ryan has some friends that want to come in and record segments on horror movies and steam punk and gaming. I would produce and his friends would be the hosts. That's pretty cool. Its taking off for us. So are you all getting sick about hearing about the pod cast or should i go back into retirement  from blogging again?

A new geek pod cast is born.

  So February 19th we went public with We Got The Geek. We alerted everyone in our group about the change and we got a ton of positive support. People were extremely happy for us. Our first official podcast was with my good friend Andrea and we reviewed A Good Day To Die Hard. Andrea hadn't appeared on the old show so was really happy to finally record with her. She was great.

   I've really been enjoying the comic book segments we've been doing. For a solid hour I get to talk about comics. So far we've done segments with Hunter and Bulmer and Ryan and then  on a couple magical nights it was a full table of us laughing and having a great time. There is nothing but  good feelings with this show. I don't feel like i have to be constantly looking over my shoulder waiting for the show to drop. These are guys i trust completely. Its  been awesome. No racist jokes or blurting out facts that just aren't true. Having a good time is the name of the game here folks.

Farewell to Gygo

  So February 18th was upon us. I invited Bulmer,Kristen and Hunter on. They all knew what was coming. I was really nervous i was going to quit  on the air. It was something i had loved doing. I was tired of the way i was being treated on my show. I was tired that my vision of the show just wasn't happening. I wanted people to actually be able to listen to us. It was time to quit Gygo. One cool thing happened before air time. Kath was supposed to work but then got the night off. This was good i needed all the support i could get.

 So the show started at 7 and i was actually having a good time. For a change the show was going great. This was pretty ironic as this was to be our last show. Then i started to panic. Did i really want to quit? I was having second thoughts. There was 5 minutes left in the show and i went for it. As much as i wanted to be out of this and move on to our next venture i wasn't a dick about it and i didn't point fingers. I said my piece and i thought it was a great farewell speech. I thought i was going to puke and cry the whole time. While i was in the middle of quitting  my phone started getting a massive amount of texts and my facebook messages started lighting up. My friends were concerned and happy for me at the same time. The speech ended i concluded with a line Billy Joel uses to end his concerts--"don't take any shit from anybody."The final song was a really nice Ray Charles song i had first heard on the final episode of the 80's series Moonlighting called We'll Be Together Again. I was hoping this would be true when our pod cast started--that everyone would join us there.  By the way the final speech was recorded by Kath and you can see it here   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Mbl3JdoUE

  So nothing was said when the show ended. I wasn't asked for an explanation as to what brought this decision on or what was going on in my head. I hadn't been happy in a year and the incident in January cemented my desire to move on.  Gygo was done and it was now on to my next adventure with our new partners John and Ryan.