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Episode 80 – What’s in Your Closet?

Posted on April 23, 2013 by admin | 3 Comments

If you’re a gamer and a geek, then undoubtedly you’ve amassed a grand collection of wondrous treasures, from boxes and books to cartridges and discs. While some of these items may be considered mundane or even relics of geek ages long past, we all know that it goes against our very nature to part with such great gifts of enjoyment, even if we’ve never taken the shrink wrap off yet! Join us this week as we delve into our geek closets and discuss games of all types – purchased, played, and otherwise. Clear off the table, charge up those controllers, and for God’s sake read some damn instructions as you prepare for a brand new episode of Monkey in the Cage!

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Posted in Board Games, Books, Card Games, Comics, Food, Gaming, iDevice Games, Movies, Music, Podcast, Pop-Culture, Role Playing Games, Table Top Games, Television, Video Games

Tagged 21 Jump Street, 5 Second Rule, 7 Wonders, Arkham Horror, Ascension, Battleship, Battleship Galaxies, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Blazing Saddles, Boba Fett, Cards Against Humanity, Castle Ravenloft, Catacombs, Chewbacca, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Congo, Cranium, Crossbows and Catapults, Cthulhu Fluxx, Cyberpunk, Dave Bautista, Deck Building Games, Defiance, Discworld, DJ Qualls, DnD, Dogs in The Vineyard, Drax the Destroyer, Dungeon Fighter, Dungeons & Dragons, elder sign, Face Off, Fiasco, Filibuster, Firefly, Flashpoint: Fire Rescue, Gamora, Graham Greene, Groot, Guardians of the Galaxy, GURPS, H.G. Wells, Han Solo, Hero, Hiro Protagonist, Horse Punching, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jaime Murray, James Gunn, Jenga, Jim Jefferies, John Hughes, Jules Verne, Julie Benz, Justified, Keith Baker, Killer Bunnies, Kittens in a Blender, Knock Your Block Off, l.a. noire, Legend of Drizzt, Legend of Zelda, Legit, Link to the Past Sequel, Loaded Questions, Locke and Key, Loki, Lords of Waterdeep, Mal, Mansions of Madness, Michael Crichton, Michael Rooker, Mongo, Mouse Guard, Munchkin, Neal Stephenson, Newcastle Football, Nine Inch Nails, Nintendo, Nintendo 3Ds, Nolan, Nuts, Ocarina of Time, One Direction, Parks and Rec, Patton Oswalt, Penny Arcade, Poo, Risk, RISK Legacy, Robotech, Rocket Raccoon, Scrabble, Shadowrun, Small World, Small World Underground, SNES, Snow Crash, Soccer Hooligans, Spycraft, Star Wars Episode VII, Star-Lord, Sting, Strategicon, Super Nintendo, SyFy, Terraform, Thanos, The Crow Remake, The Last Night on Earth, The Walking Dead, Thor, Ticket to Ride, Tok Tok Woodman, Tom Hiddleston, Tsuro, Tsuro of the Seas, Uno, WCW Wrestling, Weird Science Remake, Wild Talents, World of Darkness, Wrath of Ashardalon, Y.T., Yondu, Zoe Saldana, Zombicide

Episode 77 – If I Were a Rich Geek

Posted on April 2, 2013 by admin | 5 Comments

“They” say money makes the world go round. “They” also say that money is the root of all evil. We here at To-Ag studios say “We need more money, dammit!” Join us this week as we discuss what we would do if we suddenly woke up and found endless amounts of disposable income at our fingertips. Sure, sure, world peace, green energy, and wiping out starvation are important, but we’re talking REALLY important stuff. Fire up your jet-packs, call in the contractors, and get ready to game until your eyes, ears, and fingers bleed as we talk instant geek riches on a whole new episode of Monkey in the Cage!

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Posted in Apps, Books, Comic Books, Conventions, Cosplay, Food, Gaming, Geek Gear, iDevice Games, Movies, Podcast, Pop-Culture, Ramblings, Role Playing Games, Table Top Games, Television, Toys, Video Games

Tagged AFK Tavern, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Arcade, Behold Studios, Bloodshot, Cartoon Network, Clone Wars, Club 33, comiXology, Community, Cryogenics, Crystal Caste, Dan Harmon, Disney World, Disneyland, Dwarven Stones, El Presidente, Ewok Village, Fiddler on the Roof, Fidel Castro, Gaming Dice, Geek, Geek Chic, Grognards, Hackeycat, Harbinger, Heroes, Hipster Cat, Hipster Gamer, Human Bone Dice, If I Were A Rich Geek, If I Were A Rich Man, Kalypso Media, Man Wrestles Shark, Meteorite Dice, Middle-earth LARP, MitC, Monkey in the Cage, Mutants and Masterminds, Neal Stephenson, Paul Marshallsea, PETA, Pizza and Sprite, Red Bull Blackmailed, Roleplaying Games, RPGs, Russian Hostage Crisis, Scientology, SexCereal, Snow Crash, Star Tours, Star Wars, Star Wars Detours, Steam, Sultan Table, Surface by Microsoft, Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Ted Williams, The Secret Garden, Tiny Tower, Tropico 4, Valiant Comics, Walt Disney, Wolverine, Wolverine: Not Dead Yet, Yidcore, Zero Charisma, Zombie RPG

Episode 42 – Favorite Books

Posted on July 31, 2012 by admin | 11 Comments

Let’s face it. If it wasn’t for books, we could hardly classify ourselves as geeks. From the stacks of tomes in our tabletop roleplaying libraries to the shelves lined with everything from history to science fiction, if a geek is anything, they are well read. Join us this week as we discuss our favorite books and authors, as well as the works that have been most influential on our creative minds. Be sure to grab your custom bookmark, set aside those reading glasses, and put that awesome book back on the shelf (just for a bit!) as you settle into that comfy reading chair and listen to a whole new episode of Monkey in the Cage!

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Tagged A Series of Unfortunate Events, Alice in Wonderland, Anita Blake, Assassins Code, Bane, Bane's Voice, Bardic Voices, Batman, Battle Royale, Black Hawk Down, Bram Stoker, Catching Fire, Christopher Nolan, Criminal Macabre, D&D, Days of Future Past, Die Hard, Discworld, DnD, Dracula, Dream within a Dream, Drizzt Do'Urden, Drowning City, Dungeons & Dragons, Eiji Yoshikawa, Gary Gygax Memorial, Geek, Good Omens, Guillermo Del Toro, Harry Potter, I Am Legend, Inception, Iron Man, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Keith Baker, L. Frank Baum, Laurell K Hamilton, Lemony Snicket, Lewis Carroll, Mark Bowden, Mark Sehestedt, Mercedes Lackey, Mike Mignola, Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi, Mystique, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere, OZ, Patrick Rothfuss, R.A. Salvatore, Richard Adams, Richard Matheson, Robert Jordan, Roleplaying, Romeo and Juliet, Shadowrun, Snow Crash, Step Up Revolution, Steve Niles, Surrogates, Tabletop, The Bard's Tale, The Book of Five Rings, The Book That Can't Wait, The Cleric Quintet, The Dark Elf Series, The Dark Knight Rises, The Dragon Factory, The Great and Powerful OZ, The Great Gatsby, The Harry Potter Series, The Hobbit, The Hunger Games, The King of Plagues, The Kingkiller Chronicle, The Lord of the Rings, The Name of the Wind, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Strain Trilogy, The Tale of Desperaux, The Tales of The Last War, The Vampire Diaries, The Wheel of Time, The Wicked Witch of The West, The Wizard of OZ, Through The Looking Glass, Tony Diterlizzi, Ultimate X-Men, Warehouse 13, Watership Down, Wicked

Episode 36 – Hey, I Just Met You

Posted on June 19, 2012 by admin | 8 Comments

Have you ever had one of those days where you just feel like doing whatever the hell you want, talk about whatever the hell you want, and listen to pop music? We do too! Join us this week as we chit-chat on mic, field some questions from our listeners, and have a good old free-for-all. We’re talking everything from sci-fi to questionable adventures in drinking on a brand new and unstructured episode of Monkey in the Cage!

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Posted in Books, Contributions, Cosplay, Gaming, Horror, Jared the Intern, Movies, Podcast, Pop-Culture, Ramblings, Role Playing Games, Table Top Games, Television, Video Games

Tagged 12 Monkeys, A Clockwork Orange, A.I., Alien, aliens, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Atari, Attack the Block, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Barbarella, Buckaroo Bonzai, Christian Bale, Co-op Console Games, Cocoon, Console Games, D&D, Daggerdale, Dance Central 2, Deathspank, District 13, Dune, Dungeon Siege III, Dungeons and Dragons, E.T., Equilibrium, Explorers, Flight of the Navigator, Game of Thrones, Ghostbusters, I Robot, Idiocracy, Inception, Issac Assimov, James Cameron, Land of the Lost, Logan's Run, Mad Max, MMORPG, movies, Napoleon Dynamite, Neal Stephenson, Neverwinter, Ninja Turtles, Pennywise, Pennywise the Clown, Predator, Randy Quaid, Ridley Scott, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction, Sigourney Weaver, Snow Crash, Soylent Green, Step Up, Stephen King, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Terminator 2, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Last Starfighter, The Pick Up Artist, The Prestige, The Road Warrior, The Simpsons, The Tarrasque, The Twilight Zone, Tim Curry, Tom Hardy, Treehouse of Horror, War of the Worlds, Weird Science, Westworld, Wilfred Brimley, Wizards of the Coast, You Got Served, Yul Brennar