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Henry San Miguel

Host/Executive Producer

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In Henry's Own Words:

So the web designers asked me to "tell my story" for this section. OK, let's see. Well, I guess I'll start where all of this started from: May 28, 1977 in San Francisco. Specifically at the Coronet Theatre. That was the day that I remember as if it just happened an hour ago. My family went to see this Star Wars movie that everyone was raving about. I've always said I don't remember anything before Star Wars, but thinking back, I guess I did. I remember reading Spider-Man comic books (but I don't remember how I got the comic), watching Star Trek on TV and not being bored (remember, sci-fi was slow & shiny back then. This was a few months before Star Wars). I remember Spider-Man being in The Electric Company, for some unknown reason. The Electric Company was a show similar to Sesame Street, but for older kids. After watching Star Wars for the first time, it was like my eyes were opened to Geek Culture, even though it wasn't called that back then. Suddenly, I found there were a whole bunch of characters besides Spider-Man. I discovered Superman and Batman (but had no idea they were from different publishers. Hey, I was five years old.) I don't remember how, but I also discovered some of Ralph Bakshi's animated films, including The Lord of the Rings and then I discovered the books. My childhood was a typical late 70s, 80s childhood. Basically what we see in Stranger Things... minus Vecna and demogorgons and Mind Flayers. Yes, that meant I was the weird kid in school. All the stuff we all love now? Not everyone did back then. Honestly, that's what made it special to me. That only I knew about The Force and the Enterprise and that Spidey was Peter Parker. I think...no, I know that's why I hate today's spoiler culture. I feel sorry for today's Geek Culture consumers who won't experience iconic moments for the first time because it's been spoiled on social media months before the movie comes out. Remember the audience reactions during Endgame? Imagine that every time you watched a movie. That was my childhood. No, it's not the same. Audiences weren't "still wowed" when all three Spider-Mans showed up in No Way Home...because they knew about it a month before....Anyway, back to my story....

When I was 9 years old, my sister took me with her to a shopping mall back in the San Francisco Bay Area. That's where I saw the promotional van from the radio station I listened to. Turns out the DJ I listened to was also there. He gave me some station stickers and I think a t-shirt (that I remember didn't fit me, but he was just being nice.) I told him how I enjoyed his show, especially all the "noises" he had on it. ( I didn't know they were called sound effects.) I learned this many years later when he told me he was pretty impressed that a little kid paid attention to that and I stayed there talking to him while my sister went to wherever she was going to go. (It was a different time back then, obviously. Don't do that with your kids today.) He invited me to visit him at the radio station and after he came over to my house to meet my parents (It wasn't that different. Parents still parented back then.), I visited what would be my second home for the next three and a half decades: the radio station. From that point to the year I started The Geek Speak Show, my life was in radio. On air, the "Voice of God", commercial production (including voicing, meaning yes, you heard me long before The Geek Speak Show, you just weren't aware it was me.), programming and producing. Pretty much every aspect of radio broadcasting, except for sales. During all that time, I never lost my love for Geek Culture. There was a period when I stopped reading/collecting comics, but once I started making more money than I could possibly imagine, like most of you would, I went back and bought omnibus collections and caught up on the big comics events I missed out on. I still watched movies and TV shows and played all the Playstation video games. I've seen Star Wars and Star Trek fade away and make comebacks. I see what the MCU is doing for a whole new generation with the universe that Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby and of course Stan created. I'm not a filmmaker, but making friends with them, especially Kevin Feige, JJ, James Gunn and other important names in Geek Culture, have given me a new appreciation for the entertainment industry. That's what I want you all to hear when you listen to Geek Speak episodes. It may sound like I'm complaining or becoming the "get off my lawn" guy in my old age, but it's not. it's authentically not enjoying the direction Geek Culture is heading in. Where "influencers" and social media determine if and why something is good or bad. If you don't enjoy that, either, welcome home. The Geek Speak Show, Vol. 2 is the kind of place you've been looking for.

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Enjoy the ride....

 

                 Henry San Miguel

          June 2025 

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