Desi Geek Girls
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Swapna Krishna and Preeti Chhibber, two Indian lady nerds, talk geek pop culture, with some Bollywood thrown in for good measure.
Desi Geek Girls
6h ago
Swapna and Preeti return to the mic to talk about the future of Desi Geek Girls. TL;DR: We're sticking around, but not in quite the same way.
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Desi Geek Girls
8M ago
Preeti and Swapna are back with a few updates on quite a few things! They dig into their Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom* experiences, Swapna's new book STARGAZING, and fun comics things with Love Unlimited: Gambit & Rogue Part One out on Marvel Unlimited now!
*No actual spoilers for the Tears of the Kingdom discussion despite their assumption that there would be.
Episode Links:
Desi Geek Girls patreon: http://www.patreon.com/desigeekgirls
Swapna's WIRED column: https://www.wired.com/author/swapna-krishna/
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Desi Geek Girls
1y ago
This week Swapna and Preeti dive into some Star Trek episodes to prep for this month's premiere of Star Trek: Picard. They also chat through some of that DC news, go through the 2023 video game slate, including Jedi: Survivor, Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Final Fantasy, and more.
Star Trek Episodes discussed:
Next Generation:
“Elementary, Dear Data”
“Ship in a Bottle”
“Brothers”
“Attached”
Deep Space 9:
“Tacking into the Wind”** hugely spoilery for DS9 so don’t watch if you’re planning on watching that show for the first time
Episode Links:
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Desi Geek Girls
1y ago
Creators, writers, actors, and all around desi geek icons Jasmine Bhullar & Sandeep Parikh stop by the podcast to talk all about DesiQuest. DesiQuest is a high-quality actual play Dungeons & Dragons show featuring an all South Asian cast,
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Sandeep Parikh is a multidisciplinary entertainer and filmmaker. As an actor he’s appeared in popular shows like The Guild, New Girl, Californication and Community. He’s also writer and director of several digital series including the award winning interactive comedy That Moment When, Comedy Central’s The Legend of N ..read more
Desi Geek Girls
2y ago
Preeti and Swapna talk all things STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER!!
We start with a general non-spoilery reaction to the movie. Spoilers start at 6:20.
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Desi Geek Girls
2y ago
Swapna and Preeti discuss the second and third episodes of The Mandalorian. Additionally, they discuss The Dragon Prince, Queen of Nothing by Holly Black, For Small Creatures Such as We by Sasha Sagan, and Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order.
This entire episode is spoilers for Episodes 2 and 3 of The Mandalorian, so please do not listen if you haven't watched those episodes.
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Desi Geek Girls
2y ago
In this episode of Desi Geek Girls, we discuss Disney+, Sonic the Hedgehog, and the first episodes of The Mandalorian and His Dark Materials.
Spoiler tags:
16min 50seconds - 33min50 sec: The Mandalorian spoilers
33min 50 seconds starts the His Dark Materials conversation
37min - 46min10sec: His Dark Materials spoilers
Links:
The new Sonic the Hedgehog trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs0b2tOyA9o
Maclunkey: https://twitter.com/ericfell/status/1194180485129199619
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Desi Geek Girls
2y ago
In this episode we talk all about what's going on with our book deals: Anthologies!
Peter & Ned's Ultimate Travel Journal!
Stone Sword Table!
Interviewing the cast of Spider-Man: Far From Home!
Article on Asian YA rom-coms!
We talk about the news out of SDCC, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, and Abhishek Singh's latest book Namaha.
Spoiler alerts:
Spider-Man: Far From Home: 31:00 - 44:00 Veronica Mars, Season 4: 46:00 - 58:50
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Desi Geek Girls
2y ago
This week Swapna and Preeti dig into episodes 3 - 5 of Star Trek: Picard's second season, are very into Moon Knight's premiere episode, get into Bridgerton season 2, Young Justice season 4's mid-season return, and more! Spoilers throughout the conversation for Picard & Moon Knight.
Episode links:
Desi Geek Girls patreon: http://www.patreon.com/desigeekgirls
Swapna's WIRED column: https://www.wired.com/author/swapna-krishna/
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Desi Geek Girls
2y ago
Swapna and Preeti go all in on Spider-Man: No Way Home, cry their way through the Ms. Marvel trailer, and more. Spoilers throughout for Spider-Man: No Way Home!
Desi Geek Girls patreon: http://www.patreon.com/desigeekgirls
Swapna's WIRED column: https://www.wired.com/author/swapna-krishna/
Preorder Spider-Man’s Social Dilemma: https://www.printbookstore.com/book/9781368051699
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