Welcome to Episode #12 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Presented by Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, for this episode we descend into the shadowy realms of 'Dark City' and 'The Thirteenth Floor' — two cult gems of late-90s sci-fi that challenge our perception of reality itself. From simulated worlds to manipulated memories, we explore how these films construct el...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 58 min
Welcome to Episode #23 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair celebrate the 1998 album from the neo-soul pioneer, D'Angelo's 'Live at the Jazz Cafe'. Recorded in 1995 following the release of D'Angelo's debut full-length 'Brown Sugar', 'Live at the Jazz Cafe' i...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Episode #72 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Tee-J, Imran and Dan have a sit-down to discuss two of the WWE's most revered periods - the Attitude Era of the mid-late-90s and the current HHH/Netflix Era which continues to garner rave reviews as it pushed the WWE onto increasingly new heights in the post-Vince McMahon years. The trio discuss a variety of matters from looking at the respective stars of each era, the representation of women in each, the tag divisions... and they...
May 19, 2025•2 hr 3 min
Welcome to Episode #22 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series typically sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode but this episode sees the duo take the conversation in a slightly different direction than usual. Today's episode finds Imran and Rhonda discussing Kate Nash's comments at the end of last year statin...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 41 min
For our first hit of VHS based film nostalgia, Stu, Imran and Dan review the 1986 Australian filmed kids action movie Frog Dreaming, starring Henry Thomas of E.T fame. But did they find it a damp squib with strangely dated racist overtones, or a mystical Goonies like adventure, full of teenage wonder and old school magic?
Mar 15, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Welcome to Episode #21 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series typically sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode but this episode sees the duo take the conversation in a slightly different direction than usual. In a follow-up to episode #19 of our podcast series which delved into the monumental rivalry of hip-h...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 30 min
Welcome to Episode #11 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Presented by Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, for this episode the duo delve into all things related to 'The Crow'. With origins from James O'Barr's 1989 comic book series 'The Crow', the impassioned piece of work spawned its first on-screen iteration with the Alex Proyas-helmed movie in 1994. Starring the de...
Feb 17, 2025•2 hr
Welcome to Episode #20 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series typically sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode but this episode sees the duo take the conversation in a slightly different direction than usual. The show today is inspired by Andre 3000 and his comments made to GQ in November 2023 about rapping a...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Episode #71 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Tee-J, Imran and Dan have a sit down to discuss more wrestling-themed antics... Today's episode finds Tee-J playing quiz show host as the Close Encounters trio seek to unpack their wrestling fandom over a series of questions ranging from your openness as a wrestling fan, dream stables and reinventing AEW. PLUS, there's an excellent 'guess the wrestler's entrance theme' round (with a dastardly twist!) and we ask how many chops from...
Jan 11, 2025•1 hr 47 min
Welcome to Episode #10 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Presented by Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, the duo delve into the cult phenomenon of 'The Room' (2003). Directed, written, produced and starring the enigmatic Tommy Wiseau, 'The Room' has since gone on to live in an unprecedented level of infamy - initially hailed as one of the worst films ever made, it's ...
Nov 23, 2024•2 hr 14 min
After a long hiatus rap fans TeeJ, Imran and Dan are once again back to alphabetically discuss the best (and worse) of 90s hip hop - this episode focusing on groups and artists beginning with the letters J, K and L. Including legendary artists such as Kool Keith, LL Cool J, Jay Z, Kid n Play and many many more. Disclaimer: No larger soulful rap artists were hurt during the recording of this podcast.
Nov 19, 2024•2 hr 14 min
Episode #70 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Tee-J, Imran and Dan settle down to classic movies from the year 2000. For the fifth in our 'catching up with the classics' series, each of the team pitches three movies they haven't seen to the group with them voting on which movie each person should watch. This go-round sees the team explore the glorious gems of the year 2000 as we seek to fill the gaps within our own catalogues. This is part 2 where the team discuss the films t...
Sep 03, 2024•1 hr 48 min
Episode #69 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Tee-J, Imran and Dan settle down to classic movies that we've never actually seen. For the fifth in our 'catching up with the classics' series, we each pitch three movies we haven't seen to the group with them voting on which movie each person should watch. This go-round sees the team explore the glorious gems of the year 2000 as we seek to fill the gaps within our own catalogues. There's lots of preamble about the year itself as ...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 40 min
Welcome to Episode #9 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Presented by Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, the duo spend some time reconnecting with the 90s cult classic limited run series, The Maxx. Initially unveiled in 1993 by creator Sam Kieth, The Maxx was swiftly picked up by MTV for a thirteen-part series forming part of their Oddities brand in 1995. The premise ...
Jun 24, 2024•2 hr 6 min
Welcome to Episode #19 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series typically sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode but this episode sees the duo take the conversation in a slightly different direction than usual. In terms of head-to-head confrontations this year, the world was blessed to see The Rock step back in...
Jun 22, 2024•2 hr 6 min
Welcome to Episode #8 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Presented by Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, the duo continue their revisiting of projects comprising Phases 4 and 5 all in a bid to rekindle Vahé's now floundering affections for the product. Rounding out our trilogy of MCU-based chat are more in-depth conversations about Black Widow and Shang-Chi, both rele...
May 11, 2024•2 hr 7 min
How much Wu Tang is too much? Does rapping in your house mean you were a 90s rapper even if you were 4 years old at the time, who are Hijack? Is Ice Cube typecast in movies, do cats always attack during podcasts? Who is Organ Freewill? Join TeeJ, Dan and Imran on another episode of the A-Z of hip hop along with deranged metallic rap fan, Optimus Grime!
May 04, 2024•1 hr 54 min
Welcome to Episode #7 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Presented by Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, the duo continue their revisiting of projects comprising Phases 4 and 5 all in a bid to rekindle Vahé's now floundering affections for the product. With Part 1 of our MCU series including talk about Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Ant-Man's Quantumania and She-Hulk, thi...
Apr 30, 2024•2 hr 21 min
We want to extend a special thanks to our friends over at Blue-in-Green:RADIO for allowing us to share the enclosed audio. Since the shocking, and frankly horrifying, events of last month, the radio station has made the difficult decision to end phone-ins during their live broadcasts. Although a difficult decision to make, it is one that many have understood to be the only course of action available. Despite the police maintaining that no laws were actually broken, the radio station has no recou...
Mar 20, 2024•36 min
Finally we've made it to the letters E-F which marks episode three of our strange Hip Hop 90s nostalgia journey. So listen to those crazy cats, TeeJ, Imran and Dan as they once again pick the best hip hop groups and artists active from 1990 - till the very end of 1999. Like a sexier episode of Sesame Street with a slightly insane robot rather than the Count.
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 45 min
Welcome to Episode #6 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Following their three-episode mini series delving into the Bad Lip Reading project, 'Axe Assassin Albertson', Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, kick-start the first of their next trio of episodes this time revisiting films and shows that made up the MCU's Phases 4 and 5. As devoted fans of the staggering achiev...
Feb 29, 2024•2 hr 51 min
Welcome to Episode #68 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast which sees Tee-J Sutherland, Dan Collacott and Imran Mirza finally delve into our long-talked about fantasy booking of the perhaps-never-going-to-happen PPV, AEW vs WWE. An incredibly fun episode that should both excite and infuriate wrestling purists as the CENK trio outline an exclusive WrestleMania-esque two-night event allotting for eight matches per night, three pre-show matches, including selecting the venue as well as...
Jan 05, 2024•2 hr 1 min
TeeJ, Imran & Dan discuss their 90s hip hop picks for the letters C & D. Including Coolio, Del the Funky Homosapien, Cypress Hill, DMX, Dr Dre and many more, including some re-occurring bugs bunny and Arrested Development related themes. Aided by strange robot toy knock off and rap expert, Optimus Grime.
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 59 min
This episode of the Close Encounters... Minicast sees the team host an in-depth conversation about the making of 'Old Boys Club' - the first from the 4ever in Electric Dreams-The Monsters Within Us horror anthology. Imran Mirza, Denis-Jose Francois and 'Old Boys Club' creator Dan Collacott have a sit-down to discuss the show, how and why it came to be, along with the challenges of creating a horror-based narrative that relies solely on what a person hears. If you have never heard 'Old Boys Club'...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 16 min
TeeJ, Imran and Dan kick of the 90s Hip Hop A-Z series as they try and list all (or as many as they can remember) hip hop groups and artists from the 90s, starting with the letters A and B!
Oct 14, 2023•1 hr 29 min
Welcome to Episode #67 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast which sees Tee-J Sutherland, Dan Collacott and Imran Mirza discuss all things CM Punk. The 2nd September 2023 saw the termination of CM Punk's relationship with AEW following a tumultuous period that saw some well-received matches, promos and rivalries, not withstanding two AEW World Championship title wins. Punk's time in AEW was sadly not without incident however. Following the All Out PPV, 4th September 2022, the press co...
Oct 14, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Welcome to Episode #5 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Imran Mirza from London, UK, connects with Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, to continue their trio of podcast discussions revolving around the Bad Lip Reading project, 'Axe Assassin Albertson'. And in the epic finale of our Bad Lip Reading/Axe Assassin trilogy, we take a final look into some of the finer plot points of the over-arching narrat...
Oct 03, 2023•2 hr 12 min
After a lengthy hiatus - and with great excitement - the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast finally unveils Episode #66 and sees Dan, Tee-J and Imran reconnect over their shared passion for square circle related discussions. More specifically, the team are discussing the ground-breaking AEW PPV - broadcast live from Wembley Stadium, Sunday 27th August 2023 - which also saw Tee-J in live attendance with some of our 4ever affiliates, Richard Roth and Richard Iacono. We discuss the full matc...
Sep 17, 2023•2 hr 22 min
Welcome to Episode #4 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams podcast series - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Imran Mirza from London, UK, connects with Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, to continue their trio of podcast discussions revolving around the Bad Lip Reading project, 'Axe Assassin Albertson'. The incredible tale of a lonely AI, one hundred years in the future, who decides to piece together humanity's past using corrupted footage from the musical 'Hamilton'. Today's episode...
Sep 14, 2023•2 hr 17 min
Welcome to Episode #3 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams podcast series - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Imran Mirza from London, UK, connects with Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, to kickstart a trio of podcast discussions revolving around the Bad Lip Reading project, 'Axe Assassin Albertson'. So that everyone is up to speed, we'd recommend checking out the incredible 5-part BLR series via the following YouTube link before delving into our 3-part podcast discussion that sees u...
Sep 02, 2023•1 hr 39 min
