A Look Back at the Best of 2008 in Movies, TV, and Music

Transformers! More than meets the eye! Autobots

wage their battle to destroy the evil forces

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More than meets the eye! Transformers! Hello

there, this is Michael Blanchard of the TFG one

podcast and for this supplemental episode We

are Steve and see Phillips and I are combining

our podcasts this week So you will hear one episode

and it'll be the both of us talking about our

best of 2008. Hello Steve Hey Okay, that's a

you're supposed to keep talking yeah Well, this

is also the combined all things transformers

episode 10 10th episode congratulations Thank

you. Yeah, I should have had it a lot sooner,

but you were sick. You can't blame yourself.

I I've been getting sick a lot this season Which

sucks? Yeah, it does very much so And then yeah,

so for the most part just Either I've been too

lazy, been too worked, or the holidays and then

being sick. So that just sucks all around. My

view on the holidays is I would put, like my

thing is that I will put up, if I am going to

put up a Christmas tree like I did this year

and my mom did, but if I was going to do it myself,

I would put it up December 15th and it would

be taken down December 26th. That's it. That's

all you need. That's all the time you need for

Christmas decorations and crap like that. I cannot

stand people who leave up their stuff halfway

into July. It just, uh... It just irks me so

bad. Well, see, it took us three weeks to get

the tree completely done because we got the tree

up one Sunday. We got the lights on it the next

Sunday because we had to go out and buy more.

Then we got the ornaments on it the next Sunday.

This was all after Thanksgiving. Yeah. And then...

So we had the tree done about a week before Christmas,

and I'm supposed to tear everything down today.

Oh boy. It won't take too long. I told my mom,

because she had, before my grandmother passed

away a couple of years ago, my grandmother had

gotten this thing from my mom. It was a Grinch

doll. It was a Grinch doll with batteries in

it, and it played the theme song. But he also

he used to dance when he doesn't dance anymore.

Oh my mom bought a tree that was Wasn't too big

for her living room, but with an angel or a star

on it. It would have gone into the ceiling So

she put she put the Grinch doll up there as the

top of the tree and she's got like two branches

up his ass and like and like his legs are tied

around one branch so he stays up there he stayed

up there the entire time because I spent both

days the 24th and 25th at my mom's and he he

stayed up there the entire time I when I left

Friday the 26th I took him down I said okay that's

it give me a chainsaw we'll just you know cut

the tree in half with all the lights leave all

the lights on it I'll cut it in half, and we

can just take it out to the dumpster. You don't

have to take any decorations off. She's like,

oh no, I want to save some of the bulbs. I'm

like, come on, you want an easy way to get it

down, just chop it and just take it out with

all the shit already on it. So, yeah, Christmas

was fun this year. Alright, where are we going

from here? Do we have any news this week at all?

Is there anything going on? There isn't a whole

lot besides a few new figure releases and they

have a few pictures of Revenge of the Fallen

out this week. Which could probably be fake.

No, they're real because they're not from the

first movie. But they're saying that the teaser

poster will be soon up after this new year in

the teaser trailer will either be out in theaters

early February or on the Super Bowl it'll probably

end up on the Super Bowl you never know you know

it'll be it'll be on the internet at some point

probably either right before it goes on air on

TV or in theaters I guarantee you that somebody'll

somebody'll find it somebody'll do something

with it Okay, where oh my head Okay, do we want

to start the best of 2008 now Sure, let's go

for it. Who's starting? All right, I guess I'll

just kind of jump around the list. That's fine

I guess this dude the best of Basically the top

picks of 2008 for movies that you saw on theater.

Well, mine are Iron Man and Dark Knight. They

were the only two that I had any even gumption

to going to the theaters to see. Iron Man was

great. I loved it. I wanted to sneak back in

and watch it again, but I didn't. But yeah, Iron

Man was great. And the Dark Knight, even though

there are a couple of things that You know, people

have pointed out that are kind of problematic,

but like at the end where Bale's voice is so

gravely as Batman. Other than that, I love that

movie. It's just great. I actually have the two

disc edition sitting right behind me here. Finally

got that. So, what would yours be? Well, mine

are, of course, Iron Man and the Dark Knight.

But also, I saw... I have one on there on my

list that I'm not going to mention because I

haven't seen it and I was planning on it. Would

that be a certain robot? Would that be a certain

robot that was deserted on Earth by everybody

for about 700 years? No, I'd seen all of them.

That wasn't actually half as bad as everybody

had said it was. Everybody was telling me, oh,

there's no talking and everything like that.

But the graphics in it were still good for a

Pixar film. It was probably one of the best Pixar

films so far. And basically shows how lazy people

get in the future, which it's already headed

down that path. But the whole movie was pretty

good overall. The other two movies I have on

my list are Saw 5 and Bedtime Stories with Adam

Sandler. Yeah, I do not get into the Saw movies

at all. It's one of the things where I do not

do horror flicks, regardless of how cheesy they

may be, regardless of how supposedly not scary

they are. I just won't watch that stuff. So yeah,

I really can't comment on Saw the Hive. Well,

see, I normally hate, or not hate, but just don't

like horror movies or slash -mups, but for some

reason this series has gotten me hooked, and

it's not because the gore or anything, because

I really don't like that part, I just like how

entangled all five movies have been into each

other, where they're pulling from the other movies,

at constantly. The only one that wasn't pulling,

obviously, from another movie was the first one.

And each one connects with the previous one,

including various aspects throughout the entire

set of files. But it does pretty much tie it

up in this one to where they could either let

it sit or pick it back up again, because for

those of you that have seen it. Spoiler! or the

ones that haven't seen it though. I was gonna

say wait, I was gonna say wait for the people

that have seen it, they already know. But um,

they're the one FBI agents left in the end and

leaves it open for more. And I have heard rumors

that there's a sixth one on the way, which I

couldn't see them. It doesn't surprise me, as

long as any film will make the money like that,

it doesn't surprise me. and but like Iron Man

I really like that movie I don't own the two

disc but That would be by far my favorite movie

of 2008 See I can't I can't pick between them

because they are both my favorites that It's

basically a tie between the two of them as far

as number one movie of of 08 so But you you really

should go out and get that to disk especially

if you go if you have a FYE in your area go up

there and get the the steelbook edition it it

doesn't offer any like special like booklets

inside but it it's a really cool packaging uh...

i i got that one and i love it yet and uh...

the dark night i own uh... you know ray which

i bought and sale couple weeks ago and uh...

i haven't actually watched the blu ray copy yet

i've rented it at blockbuster for the Regular

standard video still have yet to watch it on

blu -ray and watch the special features on it

but This one comes with like the digital copy

and to where you played on and computer and everything

like that to disk and So it's pretty badass.

I like the the two disk regular edition The front

cover of that has the bat pod and Batman on it

and then the as far as the slip cover and then

on the inside the actual disc case has the joker

on it which is really cool. I started watching

the special features the other day and I started

watching the Gotham Tonight features and I just

didn't really like that at all. Wasn't really

wasn't really my my thing. I haven't watched

the IMAX shots yet, but I've been too too focused

on a few other DVDs that I've gotten so Yeah,

I've gotten out of your many that you've ordered.

Oh Let's not even know I haven't gotten anything.

I've ordered yet. I've spent Money that I don't

even probably won't even have anymore. I actually

just made a payment to Columbia House But I have

spent probably over a thousand dollars on DVDs

in the past two weeks Yo, I just kept seeing

stuff and I just kept adding it to the cart and

just ended up checking out and one order was

like five hundred and fifty seven dollars and

nine cents Of course ninety four dollars of that

is shipping which sucks, but whatever yes that's

why i find places that if i'm going to buy it

stuff it's free shit you know that the free shipping

takes two weeks that's my thing i want it now

i don't have any of this amount of money that's

like i will not go to like uh... used cd music

dvd shops anymore because yeah yeah i know there

that the shops are really picky and everything

else and they want to take only the best but

i'm sorry there are going to be scratches on

on some use dvds that they're just are that's

just the fact of life unless you pretty much

keep them in pristine order which is what i do

with mine so uh... desire i'll watch a once and

also on the shelf for like two years before i

even watch them again So, you know, it's just

it's just ridiculous. But yeah, I had gotten

there was a thing I had posted over on earth

to net which you have now become a member of

Thank you very much. At least I at least I've

referred one person to that website I Had that

did a topic on there about Looney Tunes being

back on TV because I saw a commercial for a New

Year's Day Cartoon Network Looney Tunes marathon

And then I got to thinking, well, wait a second,

they have those on DVD. So I went over to Columbia

House and they have all six Golden Collections,

which is the actual sets. If you were going to

buy the Looney Tunes on DVD, the sets you want

to get is the Golden Collection, not the Spotlight,

because the Golden Collection has all the cartoons

on each of the sets. And yeah, so I ordered those.

I ordered a whole bunch of crap. Whole bunch

of crap. but uh... yeah um... see why don't we

move over to podcasts mine i had just started

like listening to podcasts this year design just

started uh... actually started the end of this

year started to that keeping his two thousand

eight we crap at the end of two thousand seven

and started listening to podcasts and what i

had found was i'd found tf wire And through TFYR,

I found This Week in Geek. And then I was looking

for stuff with Justice League, stuff with Batman.

And I had thought at first that World's Finest

podcast was done by the producers of the shows.

I was looking for something that had Bruce Tiller,

James Tucker, Glenn Murakami, or somebody on

there talking about their shows. Well, I found

World's Finest podcast. And it's and I've said

this before on my show and I've said it before

in your show. It's Michael David Sims and James

Doe Reviewing the entire collection of DC animated

universe cartoons and it's by far the best podcast

that I've listened to and I also Listen to earth

to net the show. That's pretty much my podcast

Ellen and your podcast obviously All thanks for

your But that would be my podcast list for the

year. Well, I got into listening to podcasts

somewhere in 2006 because I listened to a few

episodes of TF Wire, which is what got me listening

to them. And then after that I got hooked on

their other lines of shows and so I became the

host of the War Stories. which is the fan fiction

reading of various transformer writers or like

just fans but it's still I did all the voices

and narration and everything for that so that

only got 15 episodes and again was supposed to

be bi -weekly and after a year I had 15 episodes

which doesn't make any sense I should have had

like 20 some episodes but See, that's why before

I started doing TFG -1, I wanted to write out

everything I was going to do. I wanted to have

a set schedule that I know how long it's going

to be. Like I said before, World's Finest podcast

was where I got the idea to even do this. And

I basically have taken their format and just

put Transformers content instead of Batman, Superman,

Wonder Woman content in there. I know for a fact

that episode 25 will air at some point in October

of this year. So I know for a fact that this

podcast started in December of 08, it's going

to almost go to December of 09. And one of the

funny things is I looked up on the schedule of

episodes that I have and the Transformers 2007

-2009 roundtable that I want to do will air the

exact same day that the 2009 movie comes out.

So... May have to actually push that back, but

as of right now, June 26, 2009 is when episode

25 is supposed to air. I think... No, wait. Is

that episode 25? Wait a second. I might be wrong

on that. Go ahead and do some of your... I'm

gonna look something up here. Go ahead and talk

about some of your other stuff that you have

on your list. Okay. And then, uh... For my various

other podcasts, of course, I listen to the TFG1.

Thank you. And I listen to, I've listened to

This Week in Geek. Not from the beginning, I

started around February of this year, but I went

back and listened to every single episode since

day one. And I've listened to everything on the

TFYR network. I've attempted other Transformer

podcasts, but I just can't get into them. For

the most part. I just they don't catch my attention

So I pretty much with my own podcast TF wire

TFG one this week in geek I listened to this

week in tech Which is the screen savers or yeah?

Yeah, I remember speaking about that on TF wire

See and I used to watch that station so when

I heard of that from Jesse off TF wire I for

I started listen to the tech guy and This week

in tech from Leo the ports a twit TV network

and then Another podcast. I listen to this transformer

related is transformers anonymous which are Hosted

by my good friends jakeman jazz Santy and halton

And if you listen to their Christmas special

episode, which is a reading of pretty much a

mockery of several Christmas stories, I'm narrating

the entire story. That's cool. So that was pretty

fun. No, I was wrong. It's not the last episode.

Episode 15, which is the season 2 recap, will

air the same day the 2009 movie comes out. the

uh... basically the last episode that i have

so far is the uh... the two movie or live action

movie reviews and that'll be friday the thirteenth

november friday november uh... thirteenth two

thousand nine so that's kinda scary ending on

friday the thirteenth yeah yeah Well let's see,

I guess we can go into DVDs. One of my favorite

shows is a cop show with Don Johnson and Nash

Bridges which got cancelled in 2001 off of CBS.

And I have been waiting patiently seven years

for this thing to come out on legitimate DVD,

not bootleg. And because every site that I've

looked for on DVD it's bootleg and there's no

special features. So the first season has been

released and the second season will be released

on DVD this coming March 3rd. I've gotten the

Iron Man 2 disc edition, Dark Knight 2 disc edition,

which we've already talked about. I got Fastlane

the Complete series. The only complaint I have

about that is they could not get the music rights

for the DVDs. There was... two episodes in particular

where there was a uh... pod song a papa roach

song and a saliva song that was supposed to be

playing in specific scenes and it's not in there

they're different songs uh... which played the

complete series which it was alright i kinda

lost got lost and confused but but but by the

time the second season of the series came around

And yeah, let's see, Birds of Prey complete series,

which was really good, even though people say

it kind of sucked, but I liked that series. It

was a different way of telling part of the Batman

story. True Calling complete series. Eliza Dushka

was so hot. Titan 2 Adventures, Season 1, Volume

1, and The Batman The Complete Fifth Season.

I only got The Batman The Complete Fifth Season

because... While it was airing on Cartoon Network,

I had tried to see the episodes where George

Newburn and Clancy Brown were voicing Superman

and Lex Luthor. And I never got to see them all,

so that's the reason why I got that set. So what

about, huh? Well, pretty much for my... DVD releases,

which also tie into my top TV series I have Supernatural

and heroes Yeah, I saw that on your blog and

I was like, oh boy, we're gonna get into an argument

over that Yeah I've kept I actually kept the

DVD releases and the TV series separate on my

list because the tv series there are some that

are already on dvd but there are some that aren't

yet as far as heroes and supernatural supernatural

the only reason why i dislike it is because it's

the whole me not watching horror or blood and

guts and gore thing it has nothing to do with

who's acting in it it has nothing to do with

with what the show is about it just has to do

with that genre and i just will not watch it

and heroes is just Just to quote Birdman, it

sucks balls. It just does. I mean, it's... I

know everything nowadays is a rip -off of everything

else, but that show is basically a Justice League

Junior. That's all it is. Actually, it's more

so an X -Men. Oh, yeah, that's right. It's an

X -Men rip -off. But I do like the whole series

and all the twists and turns because there's

nothing you can tell that's gonna happen By the

time you get something down, they switch it around

on you So, it's completely reversible on every

level. I have caught this year, since the new

third season, fourth season, whatever the hell

this season's supposed to be, I have caught the

tail end, because I have the show that's after

it. My own were sending me, I have that set on

my DVR to record. And I caught a couple of the

ending episodes earlier in 2008, where... I think

it's Peter's father. I don't know. I don't If

that's wrong, I'm sorry. I don't watch the show

But Peter's father was the actor that plays him

was actually the actor who played in fast lane.

He played Donnie Ray's father in fast lane, and

I really do like that actor So yeah, my TV listing

would be Knight Rider 2008 version I love that.

Just the special effects and stuff that they've

put into that show, it's great. Unfortunately,

we have to have a moment of silence for The Shield.

The Shield had its final season this year, will

no longer be airing, and the way they ended it

was just completely shocking. And I'm not even

going to go into it, because a buddy of mine

that's on the Earth2 .net forums, Jack Fetch,

he has not watched the end of it yet. And he

asked people not to spoil it for him, so I'm

not going to, but it's just... The way it ended

was completely fucked up. Smallville Season 8.

My own worst enemy I would say is the best other

than Knight Rider is the best new show of 2008

as far as TV because the concept in this is just

it's Christian Slater as Edward Albright and

Henry Spivey. It's two guys two personalities

in one body. It's basically an updated version

of Sybil but Edward is a super secret spy who

submitted himself to this program to have a personality

created inside himself and his turn on and off

switch is broken. So normally the Janus, the

company that he works for would flip his switch

to turn him or put him to sleep and wake Henry

up, who has a family, wife, kids, everything

else, or they would put Henry to sleep and turn

Edward on if he had to go on missions. Well,

apparently there's something wrong, and the switch

just comes at random. I mean, Edward could be

in the middle of Dubai trying to assassinate

some guy, and Henry would wake up with a gun

in his hand and be like, where the fuck am I?

So, regardless, I don't... and i know a lot of

people that i've talked to really don't really

can't see christian slater in tv and some people

really don't like him as an actor i liked him

in this it was just it was great and this also

brings back uh... michael mallee to tv michael

mallee plays uh... raiment and his alter is tom

and i'd first like michael mallee when he was

on yes dear that was a really funny show What

else do I have on here? I found something interesting

this year The Discovery Network has tons and

tons of channels on satellite and they added

a channel this year called the Investigation

Discovery Channel and it's basically like shows

that have already Been on TV that are in syndication

like FBI files and new detectives and stuff like

that, but it's also there you know their specific

new shows like uh... well like is wicked attraction

it's all about criminal couples about it could

be a father and son wife and husband sisters

whatever and it dives into into the minds of

these these these criminals and it's just it's

very very interesting Let's see, where do we

go from here TV DVDs Oh The other thing I want

to talk about was the Nintendo TV shows most

people may or may not remember back in from 89

to 92 Nintendo was basically Hitting a barrage

of media with their video games we have the super

mario brothers super show which on fridays included

the legend of zelda which i have those dvds uh...

also the adventures of super mario brothers 3

it was just really uh... the mario brothers shows

in the zelda show was just a really good way

to show off the video game as if it could happen

in animation It was really, really cool. And

then you had Captain and the Game Master, which

takes this real -life kid and puts him in a video

game. And who hasn't wanted to be sucked through

their own TV to be put in a video game? What's

funny about that show is I actually remember

the villain. Mother Brain. Yeah, that brain.

And I remember the voice, and for some reason

I've always remembered the show. And I seen it

a long time ago. But I watched it again on my

Netflix the other day and I was like, wow, this

is really familiar. And Mega Man is so screwed

up in that game, that show. He sounds like a

bitch in like this. It's like Mega Man doesn't

sound like that. And then you watch the later

90s version of Mega Man and it's got like Goku's

voice. before they changed it to uh like the

newer voices yeah I didn't wasn't really I've

seen several different Mega Man incarnations

I don't actually remember any of them the only

one I can really remember the most recent is

like Mega Man and the NT warrior something it

was something on when kids WB was still around

I don't know it was something weird Uh, but yeah,

I had never really watched the old Mega Man show.

I don't even really remember. I just remember

Mega Man from being in Captain N. One character

I could not stand in that show was Simon Belmont.

Oh my god. This is just... just horrible. But,

uh, let's see. Haha! Kid Icarus was kinda cool

though. At least... Yeah, but he repeated his

words. That's true. I really don't have a whole

lot on actual video games considering as how

I don't have a next -gen console and my computer

does not have a video card that will play Need

for Speed Undercover, which I have had for like

the past two months that I've been dying to play.

Mirror's Edge looks really cool. I mean there's

a lot of stuff that I've seen that looks really

cool, but I just don't. I just can't play it.

PS2 which I have like Mega Man X8 for and the

Transformer Armada game and I beat those and

have like some of the old a bunch of old games

for it and I hardly play that last time I played

it was a couple days ago when I beat the Iron

Man video game which by the way is very easy

to beat because it's very hard to die and so

I Played that through, beat that, and I have

a Nintendo Wii which I've downloaded classic

Nintendo, Super Nintendo games onto to play,

and 64 games, so you can use your GameCube controller,

and I've played my Super Smash Brothers on the

Melee one from GameCube, and then I played Brawl

from the Wii, beat both of those. Pretty much

my... Although it's not a game of the year. The

system is a game or a system of the year because

again, it's the only one somewhere and Yeah,

it outranks ps3 and xbox 360 ranked next by the

360 and ps3 but I've said this before and I'll

say it again You know, I was born with a mild

case of cerebral palsy So I play video games

one -handed and people look at me like I'm crazy

until I actually show them how I do it And ever

since Nintendo stopped production on the Super,

I have not... not... subscribe to any other products

not bought any other products and I won't I just

because I cannot there's no way that I could

do it there there is no way even if somebody

was generous enough to buy me a Wii I would sell

it because there would be no way I could play

it because I've seen people you have to use two

remotes now I've seen people use one I have seen

people use one but for the most part you have

to use both of them don't you Well, this is the

correction to that they do allow for most games

for you to still use either the Gamecube controller

or the classic controller which plugs into one

remote with the batteries in it and Allows you

to play it's set up just like a super Nintendo

controller So you can play the original Super

Nintendo Nintendo games on there when you download

them, and you can play like Smash Brothers brawl

you can play that with the Super Nintendo controller

you can play that with the GameCube control yeah

when I When I was when I first started getting

into my eBay addiction which we won't go into

that anymore We've talked about that before when

I first got into my eBay addiction I found something

that was really cool And I thought it was going

to be the colors that it showed but it wasn't

I found what they call an FC twin which is the

NES and Super NES combined into one system so

I bought that for like 70 bucks which by the

way is cheaper than what you originally could

have bought both of the systems for considering

I remember specifically my mom paid $200 for

an SNES in 92 for Christmas for me don't ask

me how I found out how much she paid for it she

must have been drunk one night or something I

don't know anyway so she's not listening to this

when it goes on air uh... but anyway uh... yeah

i found this and i started buying super nintendo

games off ebay and i have like super mario world

is one of my favorites i have my very favorite

zelda game was linked to the past and i love

that game i could play that all day and all night.

I also found Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for

Turtles in Time. I love that game. It's the same

one as it was in the arcades, just on a smaller

scale. But it's the same gameplay, it's the same

deal. I'm trying to think what else I have, but

yeah. When I want to play something, that's what

I play. Unless of course I'm playing Need for

Speed Most Wanted, which is the only Need for

Speed game I can play on the computer right now.

Damn computer. drop -kick the damn thing. Well

they change so often. I've upgraded my computer

in January just so they could play Unreal Tournament

3 and I'm pretty sure it's outdated enough now

that I can't play any other newer games. Like

I said before when we were off the air you were

talking about your clean -up software picks.

I know software and I know some programs on computers,

but I know nothing of hardware. If I open a computer

and I look around, I don't know what the hell

I'm looking for to do. So I had my buddy come

over here and I actually got a new video card.

We're gonna install it. Well, I don't know what

kind of video card my computer takes. When I

had it built, they didn't tell me what it was.

Well, the card I got, the slot in the... No,

the slot in the computer where it's supposed

to go on the card itself The edge where it's

supposed to click in is at an opposite end of

where it is in the computer So like if you if

you have the video card in front of you The edge

where it's supposed to fit in is like to the

left of it But the actual slot where it's supposed

to go in the computer is to the right of it So

it would not fit so I just took it back and good

Actually, I got the Dark Knight DVD. I got a

couple of Disney DVDs that were going back in

the vault And yeah, I got my 80 bucks back and

I spent eight dollars worth of DVDs So yeah,

so need for speed undercover is gonna have to

wait until I can actually take the computer back

to the store where? Where I had it built and

just have them put in whatever they have to put

in to get it Let's see what else we're gonna

talk about today we did TV shows I wanted to

bring up music because a lot of people especially

From on the earth true .net forums are not Nickelback

fans, and I am like one of the biggest Nickelback

fans I had seen them for the first time in 2006

here at Freedom Hall here in Louisville and Loved

it, and I have been waiting ever since they released

2005's all the right reasons for them to put

out new material. Well, it finally happened this

year. Dark Horse, which is their new album, came

out in November, and it's by far my favorite

album out of everything that they've done. They

actually had Mutt Lang, who produced Back in

Black and Hysteria, doing production on this,

and it just sounds great. A couple of other CDs

I like this year was Theory of a Dead Man came

out with their third one which was Scars and

Souvenirs, Course of Nature, who actually have

not been in the limelight for eight years. The

last time they actually had a release was Super

Cala back in 2002 with... I don't know if you

listen to this type of music, but you may remember...

What was the name of that song? Oh, I can't even

remember it now. Oh crap, what the hell was the

name of that song? Cotton the Sun, sorry about

that folks. Cotton the Sun was one of their Make

Me Famous songs off of their Supercala album.

So it was nice to have them release their second

album in eight years called Damaged. Shinedown

I have on here on the list because I didn't really,

when I first got turned on to Shinedown, I didn't

really catch onto them too much. But when they

released their third album, The Sound of Madness

this past year, It's the best album that they've

done 12 stones put out their third album anthem

for the underdog Which I actually know it's funny

story. I actually know the drummer of 12 stones

Aaron Gaynor, he goes by AJ But he was a DJ at

one of the rock stations down in Biloxi, Mississippi.

I think it was 97 .9 WCPR and He was the midday

DJ and I just kind of My biggest thing, wherever

I move to a different city, I always try to get

in good with the DJs because I've always wanted

to be on radio. Hence why I'm doing podcasting

now. So anyway, uh, yes. So uh, wow, that almost

sounded like David Kay. Holy crap. Let's not

go into that. So yeah, so um, and then the other

two that I have. The other one that I have listed

as far as new for 2008 that came out was Three

Doors Down's self -titled album, which is pretty

good. My incredible find for 2008 would be the

Titan AE soundtrack. I have loved the Titan AE

movie since it came out. It was a really great

anime style. It wasn't really an anime style.

It was good animation. I don't know if you've

seen it, Steve, but it was basically set in the

future. They have to find this ship to save the

world basically from these things called the

dredge which are just pure electric energy. Well

the soundtrack has a few good songs from like

Lit and Power Man 5000. They also have a song

called by the urge called It's My Time to Fly

and I just loved hearing that song in the movie

so I wanted to find the soundtrack for it. I've

seen Titan A .E. before. It's a pretty good movie.

And I don't really have much of music picks,

but the ones I'd have to say is I love the band

Disturbed. I'm not normally one for very hard

rock, but I've always liked that group, so their

newest CD's pretty good. Indestructible, I think.

Indestructible. Yes. It came out last year, actually.

I know it's hard getting used to it. It's Saturday,

I don't know what the date is, but I know it's

Saturday. I just know that I'm not at work. Yeah,

so I like that one a lot better than the second

CD. It reminds me more of their first CD and

some of the third. The third I actually won on

a radio contest. Yeah, because I have this problem

where every now and again where I hear something

I won on the radio and I sit there and I get

it down to a science of calling in and getting

through. And I've won several things. I've won...

TV I've won CDs I've won TV's off the radio Wow

Yeah, it started off as a joke trying to call

in radio songs and then after that I started

calling in for contests and I actually won Believe

it or not. I won tickets to game 7 of the World

Series when the Detroit Tigers were in it And

then they bombed it in the fifth game so that

my tickets no longer were valid I was pissed

Like I won tickets two days before the game and

I was going to either a Go or B, throw them up

on eBay and make some cash. But yeah, so I was

so pissed about that. The only really team that

you can count on being a Game 7 for World Series

is, of course, the Boston Red Sox. Well, no,

actually, make that the Championship Series,

because the World Series that they have won,

they've won it in four games. So yeah, I take

that. I retract that statement. You want to go

to the championship series, you're going to get

a Game 7 World Series with the Red Sox. You ain't

getting past Game 4. Especially being from Detroit.

I mean look at the Lions. We're screwed. I don't

even like football. That has to be. the all -time

worst losing record ever. Now if they can just...

It's almost a reversal of this year's Lions to

last year's Patriots. The Patriots almost went

19 -0. Now just imagine if the Lions can go 0

-19. That would be great. That would be hilarious.

It would actually be a record. It's almost like

my high school football team. We won one whole

game the whole year. And it was for homecoming,

I think. It was the only game they could ever

win a year. Until my class graduated. Yeah, because

we're real winners here. I bounced around from

school so many times that I couldn't even tell

you what team won what. When I was in high school,

I bounced around to so many different high schools

I didn't even know. A couple of things I added

to my list, I added three categories, best and

worst moment, and one thing you spent the most

money on. I really don't have any best like personally

defining moments for 2008. However, as we've

said before, there were a ton of DVDs that came

out that I had been excited about. than being

able to reacquire my Transformers toy collection

from my childhood. My worst moment would be,

of course, being told that I'm being kicked out

of everything at my job. My job entails me being

an apartment manager. Well, obviously, if I'm

no longer working here, they don't want me in

this apartment. But actually, there has been...

negotiation on that and I am going to be still

working with the same company I'm still gonna

be getting free rent utilities but at a two -bedroom

apartment but I will not no longer be getting

any pay which sucks because relying on $576 every

two weeks is gonna be hard to cut down from thank

God I've stopped my eBay addiction I think the

only thing I've bought on eBay since I bought

my BotCon set was I was looking for an old Daryl

Hall CD and it was only $8 on eBay with free

shipping so that's the only thing I've bought

in the last six months and of course the one

thing that I've spent the most money on this

year was the BotCon 2008 complete set with all

the exclusives and everything I paid $866 .99

which included shipping So, yeah. My best moment,

I'm not really sure. Other than the fact that

I got paid vacations this year. Hey, at least

you get vacations. Which was nice. I haven't

had a vacation from this job since I don't know

when. And you really can't count my grandmother

dying in 2007 as vacation leave for me to go

up there to see the funeral in Massachusetts.

So, yeah. Yeah, that's not really a nice way

to spend time off. You kind of think of time

off as sitting on your rear end, watching movies.

So what about your worst moment? I'm not done

with my best moment. Calm down, Megatron. Don't

rush me, man! Other than that, for best moments,

I've gotten more out there online over the past

year than I was previously. My podcast was launched.

My site's gotten more people to it, considering

various other small transformer -related sites.

I actually joined Cafe Spork. I don't post on

there. I don't post on there, but I did join.

I had to go through the other day and delete

all the zero post people. I guess I better get

to work then. Not you. Well, all the ones from

like 2006, 2007. Just because they haven't visited

since they... Yeah. Reminds me. I just watched

yesterday. I just watched Muppets Christmas Carol

reminds me of something Michael Cain's version

of screws said decrease in the surplus population

Duck hunt anyone yeah and i've met quite a few

people online that uh... either been influenced

by or gotten got me like you uh... birdman i've

actually talked to birdman on the phone once

uh... isn't i've emailed a couple times mostly

twittered uh... i don't know is what you see

i don't know is the idea just He left me a message

I'd Twitter the last time I What was it last

time I sent him a message cuz I was like so gonna

get back to me soon and he puts I will totally

back by the side sound good and I was like, yeah,

and I just I think it was funny when you posted

me on Twitter You're like get in touch with Birdman

thinking like I have some sort of in inside track

to him or something which I don't Well, he talks

to you more. Like, I'll post some comments, reply

comments, and he'll not reply to mine, but he'll

reply to yours. I just know he's busy. I leave

him alone if I can, unless I'm just commenting,

just to comment. Yeah, so that would be my best

moments. Worst moments are... Well, of course

the economy and wanting to find a job and something

other than what I'm doing, which is working at

a car dealership. Not that it isn't bad. I do

get paid pretty decent, but I, and the people

I work with are nice too. And the job's pretty

easy in the fact that I don't really have too

many people watching for me, even though I have

like four bosses. But I pretty much just report

to the bosses and get more slack because I'm

constantly running around doing tech work. Do

you have those TPS reports ready? I don't have

to do that kind of stuff. I just tell them what

to order computer -wise and I fix it. Well, you

said four bosses and the only thing I could think

of is people from office space having eight different

bosses telling him the same thing. That's pretty

much how it goes, but I just... I don't know,

I just want something better job wise than what

I'm doing. I want something either in the tech

field, something in media, something doing...

I watch a crap ton of movies, I'd love to do

movie reviews and be kind of a critic in those.

I love technology, I love old cartoons, building

websites, although I can't build a website for

the most part for just anybody because I get

bored. I could build it for like, for instance,

you, or I could build it for my site, but other

than that, I get bored real easy. Yeah, I know

nothing about web design or any of that stuff,

so I would not be able to do that. Um, yeah,

so, I don't know. But, yeah, my worst moment

would having to be working two jobs, uh, my fiancé

working three part -time ones. I work one full

-time and one part -time. I'd just like to be

able to work one job to be able to cover all

that and still halfway decently enjoy what I

do. If that makes any sense whatsoever. I gotta

interrupt the episode here for a minute, folks,

because Steve, your audio keeps going in and

out. You keep breaking up. Oh, really? So does

yours. I'm not doing anything. Freaking Skype.

Yeah, it's Skype. Yeah, because I'm not doing

anything here. the economy sucks jobs just you

know I don't even think anybody who has a dream

job that they want that they absolutely love

going to I don't even think you know at some

point you're gonna be upset with your job you

know regardless of what it is yeah but yeah and

the thing I spent the most money on this year

is I bought a bedroom furniture set, which I

finally paid off. Go ahead, sorry. Well, it's

the most funny thing I'm going to pay off this

year. Because I did have to buy another car because

in May, my truck that I had, which was an 89

S15 pickup, which I loved, but display started

going out on me last winter. Then it would come

back and then it would go away then it would

come back and then Then I started eating more

fuel and I was getting 10 miles to the gallows

to 18 and then so I was like yeah I'd let everything

go wrong with it that I possibly could and then

It died on me one day coming out of work I pulled

out of the parking lot and it died in the middle

of the road it coasted into a parking lot started

again I traded it in that day but I got two warrantied

vehicles now Well, the last time on ATTF episode

9 I was talking about several different figures

that I have. And I figured before we even started

recording this today that I would get out my

Galvatron to talk about him a little bit more

because you had asked me if it was the eHobby

version. I looked on toy arena and yes, it isn't

the hobby version It's the one where he is movie

accurate the movie accurate colors, and he has

the golden matrix Necklace that goes them, but

I just wanted to confirm that it wasn't I at

the time I didn't know it was an e -hobby figure

I just knew it was through toy arena, and then

it was movie accurate So I actually got This

one I actually got his legs apart the last one

I had the original G1 off -color model one I

could not get the legs apart, so it was just

like one giant stock at the bottom So yeah, I

actually have all my I'm sorry I've seen it I

was just gonna say I've seen it before I've seen

the original and the hobby and I could I kind

of could guess that you had a hobby just by the

It was just I got the original just because I

thought that was the only one that they that

they had made I didn't know that there was another

one out there and then I think I Think it was

Jesse or spade or somebody from TF wire had mentioned

golden matrix necklace with on color and on face

model of Galvatron so I looked around eBay and

I got it through toy arena off eBay but yeah

I actually have I actually wanted to impress

because one of the meetings I had with my bosses

to discuss this unholy crap that they've put

on me at the time I wanted to make a good impression

so I cleared my desk I put all my transformers

in my in my pantry in my kitchen so actually

the entire collection outside of Galvatron is

inside the pantry locked up right now and considering

I'm going to be moving within the next three

weeks I'm gonna have to start boxing them up

which I have no idea how I'm gonna do without

actually I don't know mangling some of them Some

of them are in robot mode like Galvatron is,

and I am not transforming this guy back into

cannon mode for anything. He's got his guns on

him and everything else, so packing those is

going to be a nightmare. Yeah, ain't that the

truth. I don't probably have to try that. I think

I sent you a message on Skype I've been going

through just let everybody know TFG one will

be going on like I said through the end of this

year But I've been going through now and writing

scripts up of episodes to come. Well, when I

was ripping the audio from the DVDs, on two of

the episodes, I think it was Microbots and Megatron's

Master Plan, I think that's what it was. I don't

know. I know Microbots. The audio clip for it

is over nine minutes long. Because I'm trying

to capture with each of those audio clips, I'm

trying to capture what... specifically the episode

is about like there's one episode that I did

a Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's court well

obviously you want to have some part of audio

with the episode that has the people from that

time era talking obviously you're not going to

get what the episodes about other than listening

to the synopsis so but yeah there there are a

couple audio files coming up in future episodes

that are extremely long Let's see, all right,

what else do you want to talk about today? Well,

I was thinking about your time. I was gonna say

if we had recorded this maybe a little bit earlier

we could have said for next year, but yeah I

for 2009 I don't really know. I've watched the

X -Men Origins Wolverine trailer. couple of times

and I'm not really impressed I love Hugh Jackman

as Wolverine and as Logan I think it's a great

character and I think he did an excellent job

in the X -Men movies as Specifically Wolverine,

but we have seen his backstory so many times.

I mean and I I really can't speak for the comics,

because I don't read the comics, but like the

X -Men 1992 cartoon series. It tells his story

in there and it goes into different stuff. We've

got his story in, you know, X -Men and X2 and

X3 and I just don't know... I just don't know

if that would be something I would go to theaters

and see. Let's see... I'm not a Trekkie so I

won't be seeing the Star Trek movie. I will be

going to see Transformers 2 regardless of how

how many humans are in it compared to robots.

Hopefully there are less humans So yeah, that's

I really don't know what else is coming out for

2009 other than like the Star Trek thing the

X -Men Wolverine thing and Transformers I did

see it the trailer for the Pink Panther 2 on

IMDB the other day, but that would be a DVD thing

for me if I was going to even watch it. What

about yours? Mine are the Transformer movie,

obviously. I used to be a huge Trekkie when I

was growing up, so I'm going to see the new Star

Trek movie. I especially like the original crew

and the next generation. So on but I don't I

don't really deep space 9 from what I've seen

of it was alright. It wasn't Yeah, it was more

tolerable than say Voyager and and what was that

Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise was like a direct

slap in the face to everything canon on that

whole saga of Star Trek because it Destroyed

I didn't even watch that much. I didn't really

watch anything enterprise that much all as I

know is Scott bacula was in it and That pretty

much seems to me that they're trying to rip off

quantum leap Which he also starred in And my

other picks are like the Wolverine movie. I know

it's not gonna be as good as like the X -Men,

but should still be pretty decent. So, yeah.

I'll probably still see that. Dragon Ball. That's

just an interest because I like the Dragon Ball

Z series. I probably won't. I liked it. I actually

had a site on it. It was my second website ever

built and that's actually still online, but no

updates since like 02 and But yeah, I'll probably

just see that on DVD same with the Wolverine

But I'm gonna see Star Trek transformers 2 and

GI Joe not too not too big on the GI Joe thing

I did watch the the 80s version of it, but I

didn't like why I didn't follow it faithfully

Like I did transformers and he man and all that

stuff So yeah, I don't think I'll be going to

see that I Don't know. It's just lately there

haven't been a lot of movies that really piqued

my interest to want to go see Like like I was

talking about earlier with the with me Spending

money. I don't have at Columbia house com with

all these DVDs. I've ordered You know I've put

stuff in my cart that I just think are You know

like best movies all time like Michael Keaton

and Christopher Lloyd in the dream team What

else did I put that? I put a whole bunch of stuff

in there from like the 80s and the early 90s

and stuff like that Just films that like City

Slickers and City Slickers 2 Just films that

I grew up on that I don't have in my collection

yet, but I will eventually and it's like as Cheesy

as like City Slickers was it was a overall good

movie You know it wasn't like You know people

actually put thought into the script that they

wrote for that movie. It wasn't like you know

Hate to bring it up, but you know saw saw two

saw three saw four saw you know I mean just like

repeating all this stuff over and over and over

again. It was I don't know Let's see what else

we're gonna talk about Upcoming on TFG one episode

three should be airing hopefully this Friday

actually that's the date that I have set for

it to air I'll probably be recording that tomorrow

I can email you a list if you want of the episodes

I'm talking about if you want to be I don't know

if you're gonna have time this week to record

again but if you want to be on that we can do

that uh... supplemental cartoon episode i'm not

exactly sure when as of right now it is set for

in between episodes three and four just depends

on what the hell the bird man's doing because

i would like him to be in on that and he said

he would like to be on that it just depends on

when the court is uh... so i've got a cage him

up trying to get him to figure out something

what he's going to do uh... Other than that,

really nothing else going on as far as me. 2008

was an alright year. It wasn't one of the best

years, but it was better than 2007. That's always

a good thing. Always, there's so much crap that

needs to be done. It's one less expense I need.

I got two vehicles, a trailer, a huge credit

card, I'm paying on a wedding with me and my

fiance. She's paying part of two and yeah, it's

just overwhelming the amount of money that we

have to make to have to save to throw away back

door bills. Oh yeah, like I said earlier. off

the air i said that even though i'm writing up

all this stuff now for the scripts for tfg1 i

will have to definitely go back and watch each

set of episodes before i do the actual record

that way i it's fresh in my mind but i'm already

through um i'm at season two part two now and

it just it just amazes me some of the some of

the and i'll talk about this more on the recaps

but it amazes me I so wish Hasbro would get off

their ass and release the series again so people

can have it instead of having to pay like I said

before between $300 and $700 to get these DVD

sets. It'd be nice for them to do that, but I

don't think they're going to do it anytime soon.

Well, if stupid BMG and Sony Wonder wouldn't

have gone under in 2007, we would have had it

re -released because there were plans for Generation

1 to have a new DVD set release for tie -in with

the first live -action movie, but Sony's Wonder

division went down. And then Hasbro spent like

7 .5 million dollars to reacquire half of their

library, which Transformers was included in that,

and they have not done nothing with it. I would

like to mention that when I was at Best Buy the

other day picking up the DVDs that I picked up,

I was looking for Transformers stuff over there,

and the only thing I found was Energon and Cybertron

complete series sets. I found absolutely no copies.

Known copies of any of the animated releases.

I know that Transform and rollout the three -part

intro and then season one is out I think season

two comes out January 6th But I could not find

them anywhere at Best Buy the other day at the

store I went to so either they're selling or

they've already sold out and they just haven't

ordered anymore because apparently there's not

that much of a demand of it I don't know but

wasn't anything on the shelves other than cyber

char and energon Well, they've never been one

to actually have a crap ton of transformer anyway

I know my local one has Yeah, except for the

obviously g1 Beast Wars I thought about that

as soon as we walked out of the store with what

I got After we checked out and thought, I didn't

even think about it because I just, it just slipped

my mind totally. I was just looking for the animated

stuff just because I wanted to just see, you

know, see the box and stuff. And I didn't even

think about Beast Wars or Beast Machines, which

I eventually have to get. So, yeah, I don't know.

Oh, Spada did post something on Twitter the other

day about all the TF figures in his area are...

Gone as far as the shelves, which isn't such

a bad thing. I guess Maybe they sold out of those

two. I don't know Yeah, well every time I go

to a toy department which is out it which isn't

much considering I've Considering I'm very g1

centric as far as my collection, but every time

I go into the toy department Find maybe one or

two things transformers, and it's not even movie

stuff. It's just Random it could be Armada figures

that could be energon figures that could be animated

But it's like one or two on the shelves, and

there's nothing else everything else is like

Gundam wing and and Dragon Ball Z And it's just

it's weird these people are weird down here.

They don't know what the hell to sell right So

what else we got what else is going on with all

things transformers over there For the most part

just gonna try and do a little bit more regular

updates to it Depending on the transformer related

news, I do want to have a roundtable episode

at some point Yeah, anybody that would like to

guest host or guest, you know in the entire conversation

can also suggest discussion and I have no idea

yet and Well, I have an idea with one with halfin

but we most more so have to iron out a time that

we'd both be able to So and I do want to get

the transformer anonymous hosts on for an episode

I'm not sure what it would contain at this point,

but other than that, I would have to say that

would be it for all things Transformers. As for

PredaconEmpire .com, I have like four toy reviews

I still have yet to add. Probably won't do until

next week. Other than that, I don't know either.

Probably just going to try and continuously update,

try and add features to the forums. I know a

couple old Transformer network people are looking

to join the site and one in particular, Derek

on the CafeSpark forums, is going to develop

a skin for it because he's developing a Transformer

the movie related site and is going to Yeah,

and he's going to use my forums for the discussion.

One thing I would suggest for the Cafe Spark

is specific podcast threads. Be right back, you

can keep talking about them. Specific podcast

threads because over, and I don't know how much

of earth2 .net forums you've explored yet, but

over there they have set up specific threads

for each of their podcasts and then they've set

up each specific like episode topic like you

can discuss like episode one episode two episode

three so that's what I would suggest for cafe

spark is have like a Predacon Empire or not pretty

kind of ATTF forum like as far as a basic general

like thread and then inside that have each episode

where people can discuss it more. Yeah, that'd

be cool. So, I think we're about done considering

we're already up to about one hour and ten minutes

almost. So, got any? Pretty much. On another

Just now. Oh, okay. I didn't even notice that.

See, I thought 162 was going to be the clip show,

but it was just Ryan doing his solo thing, which

was kind of cool. Nope. Yeah, it wasn't too bad.

It was actually kind of different and nice. I'm

really not gonna I've bashed Ryan enough on the

TF wire forums. I'm not gonna go into it again

He's a cool guy, but it's just New topic Yeah,

I don't want to dig myself into an even bigger

hole, yeah I'll download that and listen to it

while I start packing some of this stuff up Because

I'm probably going to pack away half of my DVDs

now just to start getting them off the shelves

and stuff. So this has been the TFG -1A All Things

Transformers Combined episode, whatever you want

to call it. This will take the place of TFG -1's

Supplemental 2 episode. And this will also be

All Things Transformers episode 10. Oh yeah,

we need to update my description too. I sent

that to you, you never updated it. Yeah, you

might want to send that to me again because I

think what happened is I copied it and I went

to go paste it in there and I deleted it before

and so when I went to paste it in there there

was nothing to paste. So yeah, so I will look

actually I'm in the process of looking for it

now because I have to actually find the thing

because I don't know if it's in one of the actual

actual overall some because I put together when

I first started out I put together just an overall

file of everything I wanted to discuss an overall

description, so I don't know where I don't know

where it is Oh, well. Uh, yeah, let's, uh, let's

make sure you do that, cause... Hey, no wait,

no wait a second here. That is not my fault.

It's not my fault that you only have 18 subscribers

and I have over 60. That ain't my fault, man.

No, it doesn't suck see that's one thing that

my show sucks, and I'm sorry I know I said I

wouldn't go back to this that's one thing that

I'm starting not to like about TF wire is Ryan

always saying oh, we only have three listeners,

and why does anybody even listen that's saying

that type of stuff is gonna get people not to

listen to you now I have Granted when I first

found TF wire they had already been like 76 80

episodes in so I went back from the beginning

and listened to them all not obviously in one

sitting but I would listen to them each day all

the episodes up until I got current and you just

cannot sit there and podcast and talk about all

this stuff and then say oh well if any of these

three listeners even care about this well that

makes people not care about your podcast I mean

that that that's gonna that's gonna diminish

your listenership yeah Yeah I try not to bring

that up because I mean it really doesn't matter

because I'm not, I mean I'm doing it for others

as well but I'm also doing it for myself. There,

here's the band description, I found it. Alrighty.

Let's get that updated then. So I think we should

go ahead and close. Yeah, because I got to edit

the feed and then make a description for this

episode. Well, actually I don't have to put much

in there. You can put like, TFG1, ATTF, Crossover,

Best of 2008. We discuss whatever we liked and

didn't like about 2008. Now you are you gonna

release this as two separate episodes for each

feed Okay Yeah, okay, yeah They'll be both on

both feeds All right. Well, this is Michael Blanchard

with the TFG one podcast and just want to Oh

boy, it's a good thing that this is not a live

radio show. FCC would so fuck us up. Alright,

retake. This is Michael Blanchard with the TFG1

Podcast. Just want to say thanks to Steve with

the ATTF Podcast for doing this recording today.

And we will see you all soon. Bye folks. And

this is Steve slash Megatron signing off.