Parental Geekery

Parental Geekery


Latest Episodes

Episode 75 – The extended Switch edition
March 10, 2017

We’ve got a Nintendo Switch and we’re darn well going to tell you ALL about it! Click to download

Episode 74 – This one’s for you Bill!
March 05, 2017

We’ve bought an electric car! Let us tell you all about our thought process and our analysis of the ultra-low emissions car market today. Here’s the apps we talk about in the show: Zap-map PlugShare ChargeCar Nissan Connect Click to download

Episode 73 – We’ll get back to you (eventually)
February 10, 2017

Today we natter about a grab bag of topics including bedtime routine, email for kids, turning off the internet, Lego Boost and Kuri. We even answer a year old audio comment! So relevant and topical as always.. Download this episode

Episode 72 – Slaying orcs and finding paths
February 03, 2017

This week we talk mostly about pen and paper RPGs and the fun we’ve been having playing Pathfinder – a D&D relation. We also talk about a fantastic podcast called The Glass Cannon Podcast which has taught us a huge amount about role playing and the rul...

Episode 71 – Messaging apps and social media for kids
January 27, 2017

Today we talk about a hunt we’ve been on for a little while to find messaging and social media apps for kids. We talk about what’s features those apps should have and why almost nothing fits the bill. Download here

Episode 70 – Remembering Grandma
January 20, 2017

Today we backfill some of the things that happened to us in the last year while we’ve not been recording, especially the loss of John’s mum, Joan and how that affected the family. Check out this episode!

Episode 69 (dude)
January 13, 2017

Today we’re back with a new setup and a new release process all designed to make recording and releasing shows as easy as possible. We witter about that for a couple of minutes, then we witter about Amazon Echo and how freaking awesome it’s been for ou...

Episode 68 – A Tale of Two Flat Caps
February 29, 2016

It’s a very special episode of Parental Geekery this week, as we are recording on Leap Day. We don’t think we’ve ever done that before! We open with a correction to what we said about Going Postal in the last episode – thanks to our listener Trudy for ...

Episode 67 – Weighing Anchor
February 15, 2016

We open this week’s episode of Parental Geekery with shoutouts to a few listeners. Thanks to Trudy and Neil for sharing our show on Facebook and Anchor respectively. We talk a little about Anchor, a new audio app that makes it really easy to join in wi...

Episode 66 – Kermit, Scratch and Python
February 08, 2016

Welcome to this week’s episode of Parental Geekery, where John appears to be channelling Kermit the Frog. Ruth recommends a new podcast she’s discovered, called Real Crime Profiles. Hosted by retired FBI behavioural analyst Jim Clemente,