Favorite Media and How We Consume It

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studio 2009 I am of course TF2 and Mike joining

me as always Steve Megatron. Hello, sir. Hello

Yes, and if I had my computer, you know these

intros would be better Because apparently I'm

the worst podcaster in the world. Anyway tonight

we're gonna talk about our favorite media and

The way we watch our favorite media like the

way we consume it and things like that This could

be TV animation movies video games comic books

regular reading, you know novels that kind of

thing And over our lifetimes how we've consumed

it and obviously we now live in a day and age

where it's instant gratification everything is

there at the tip of your fingers, whereas 30

years ago, when I was 10 years old in 1990, you

had to wait a week for each new episode of Elf.

Yeah, I wasn't an Elf watcher. Not until later.

I kind of watched occasionally, but it wasn't

something that was totally interesting to me,

but I get the sentiment of waiting week to week

to week, which... The streaming services, surprisingly,

still think that that's a thing. Because the

whole point of streaming is you binge it and

you get another show. You binge it, you get another

show, not, oh, let's drip feed them like cable.

It's like, OK, if you're going to do that, just

put it on cable. Like for crying out loud, like

if I'm getting streaming, I want to see it now,

like all of it. Like just so I can watch it at

my leisure. Usually I'll finish, you know. Currently,

like this is kind of somewhat dating it, but

I'm watching the remainder of Fuller House just

because it's the last like eight episodes. So

we've binged so far four or five episodes out

of the remainder. Just, you know, I mean, I don't

need to watch all of them in one sitting, but

I can if I choose. or watch them multiple days

in a row and finish that in a week. So but no,

I mean, I totally get the sentiment, especially

when, you know, back in the day, you couldn't

even get, you know, and because of the covid

stuff that's gone on now, you can get movie theater

movies in your home for roughly the cost. It

would cost to buy the movie when it comes out.

Yep. But you can watch it at home. And that's

a totally new development that's happened this

year that wasn't even, I mean, it was thought

of, but it was kind of frowned upon before this.

Exactly. Because everyone used to love going

to the movie theaters. Until you had that lady

that's crunching and, you know, digging in her

plastic bag from, you know, Walmart. Yes. So

the... Thing is, we are slowly growing this show,

this podcast, this audio endeavor of ours. Studio

2009 is now on Facebook and Twitter. It is at

its Studio 2009 on Twitter, and I believe it's

at Studio 2009 podcast on Facebook, or if you

just search Facebook for Studio 2009 and you

see our little pot art. thing there is the picture,

that's us. I've been trying to think of interesting

questions to grab attention for, not that I'm

an attention whore, even though I am. Yes, I'm

a hypocrite, folks. Trying to get the show out

there. So I've been asking questions on both

Twitter and Facebook of various things. And one

of the questions was, and only one person actually

answered this one. What was you know your favorite

aspect of going to the movie theater? Why did

you go? Why did you enjoy seeing movies in theaters?

versus being able to watch them at home and the

only one that commented on that was to our good

buddy TV's mr. Neil and He said basically he

said one word atmosphere So I think for me it

was oh I get to go see this thing on a big ass

TV that I don't have at home because TVs in the

80s and 90s weren't that huge unless, you know,

you had the floor model kind of, you know, the

big screen floor model that happened in the mid

90s kind of thing. Uh, and it was really, really

cool. The seats were uncomfortable as hell half

the time, but movie theaters have really progressed

over time until obviously this year when everything

is shut down. And we're not here in this podcast

to be talking about all of that. We'll bring

all that up over an altered cake at some point.

So my point in saying all this is I'm trying

to engage our audience that we've built up over

the years to get them into our new show here.

One of the other questions I asked was dependent.

Privy to this episode. What are your media binge

habits? This could be watching a TV show streaming

or otherwise video games comic books films music

anything and Robbie Dadson answers TV mostly

streaming gaming and sometimes music or my binge

other stuff. It's on occasional levels I used

to binge on cable TV years ago, but then mostly

everything on cable sucked So I went for Roku

and streaming sites like Twitch, Hulu, and YouTube

instead. And then Neil chimes in on this. He

says, I used to be able to play video games from

early evening to about 3 or 4 in the morning.

Nowadays, I don't binge so much. I'm kind of

anti -binge, actually. After about two hours,

I lose my ability to focus on whatever I'm watching

and have to do something else. I think that's

also a testament to today's age in media. Because

we've kind of got into this era where attention

spans are low Consumption of media is extremely

high no matter what it is whether it's video

games your phone social media movies TV what

-have -you it's it's all vying for this attention

and so consuming this media becomes more of a

Okay, next like it's a like you're going to a

buffet and you're walking through the line and

you get your one item and then you're like Okay,

I'm done with that next item and then you're

done with that next item. And so that's kind

of how how we're at In a lot of ways, I mean

you can stream, you know your movies your TV

you can stream streamers You can stream video

games. So I mean it's it's literally like a you

know just oh select this and go it's it's just

as easy as an app you you click it you go you

watch it and oftentimes i find myself in the

boat of playing video games while i watch netflix

or listen to netflix or i work on graphics while

i'm listening to netflix or watching it there's

times at work where i have Menial tasks that

that don't require a lot of brain power It's

just a lot of okay click da da da da da and just

kind of making sure things get done And I'll

have my headphones on in the Star Trek episode

playing on my phone You know just ahead of me

what I mean, it's downloaded to my phone, so

it's not using bandwidth So but it's it's still

it's something to keep my mind entertained while

I'm going through mm -hmm monotonous tasks, and

I do that No matter what like even if I'm at

home Mary's like don't you get tired of watching

Star Trek and I'm like not really like I'll keep

watching You know a lot of times. I'll watch

an episode. I haven't seen recently or in a long

time or that I remember very little about just

because Like my goal is to go through and purposely

find episodes where there's not a red bar underneath

them And so I mean it kind of just I've even

gotten back into some of my music stuff that

I had on a flash drive because I drive now and

So I've been pulling it off my computer putting

in a flash drive so I can play to my car on my

drive Very cool very cool It's interesting because

we actually had more answers to this question

that I had asked on Twitter our good friend Bondo

Mike who has been a longtime supporter of GCR

and and all the shows that we do and Loves most

of the content that we do if not all of it that

he listens to anyway He says I like to watch

a different show every day when I go on the treadmill

I have my own schedule of what to watch on each

day Comics I prefer trades to individual issues.

He goes on to say that lately he's been Revisiting

the original Avengers cartoon that was on Disney

XD. It's at some point So there's that for me.

I like I remember when I was a kid. I Would read

the Sunday paper every Sunday. I don't know anyone

Any one of this generation that is not? Over

30 years old that even reads the newspaper anymore

Anyone under 30? I know no clue if they do what's

a little less there You young whippersnapper,

get off my lawn. No, I mean, I remember reading

the newspaper and kind of stemming it and looking

at the Juan ads and, you know, reading the comics.

And so, no, I mean, I totally get it. Yeah. Yeah.

I honestly they're kind of a dying thing. It's

like magazines. They still make them, but they're

they're digital now, because if you do a physical

print one, not not to say that I don't enjoy.

I mean, I used to love picking up like GamePro

or I used to want to emulate GamePro so bad when

I started early website stuff. My graphics, I

was trying to replicate their stuff and it's

just going back to it, it's like the year 2000,

it looks like garbage. But anyways, no, I mean

I used to collect a lot of magazines, I used

to get like Toy Fair, I used to get some of these

other, that was what I consumed, I mean it was

just as important to me as comic books or picking

up a chapter book. and then you kind of look

at the stuff that we've got now and it's like

if it's not digital nobody wants it here's the

interesting thing about newspapers and nowadays

and i just i mean i guess that's their model

and i hope that works for them but with the local

paper here actually my our my wife and i our

apartment is literally I can look out our balcony

and our local newspaper for Vancouver. The offices

are right there. I can throw a rock and hit the

office for the newspaper. They allow you two

free articles a month on their website and then

they want you to have a subscription for like

99 cents a month. Now I know newspapers at least

let's say 20 years ago were Anywhere from a buck

75 for the the the debt like Monday through Saturday

And then the Sunday paper was like 225 or something

to get the actual paper out of a paper machine

I don't remember what a newspaper subscription

used to cost But I just can't get behind the

whole thing of websites Charging you to read

articles whether they're a newspaper or not That's

just silly to me. I get I don't know. Maybe I'm

not in the right mindset. Maybe you know, I get

that they want to make money and Like you said

the newspaper business At times it seems like

it's dying out even though it really isn't Yeah,

I honestly like I find no use in a newspaper

It's funny because if it's not social media driven,

then there's still print things for advertising.

But as far as what people use to advertise, magazines

and newspapers are not one of them. Do you remember

when comics used to have ads in them? Oh yeah,

absolutely. They still do, don't they? As far

as I know, they don't. Unless it has something

to do with... the company that owns them. So,

yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know either.

Yeah, but like as a kid, I used to love reading

the paper. I would I would read the front page.

I would read like the metro section. I would

read the sports section and then I would read,

obviously, the comics like Garfield and peanuts

and all that stuff. Family circus and whatever.

Nowadays if it's not something I can't read online.

I probably am NOT paying attention to it because

everything nowadays is online I Have zero like

the magazines you're talking about The last couple

of well last year I bought and this is the reason

why I don't buy them but I bought a couple of

special like Time magazine special things like

one was on Abraham Lincoln one was on like because

I had just had brain surgery back in May of last

year one was on how you know things affect our

brains and things like that these magazines were

somewhere around between $13 .99 and $15 .99

US which is probably putting it at like somewhere

between $15 .99 and $18 .99 Canadian and I'm

like this is this magazine isn't even as thick

as a book. How is it $15? Oh, I know I couldn't

I could not believe that like I remember buying

magazines for like $5 .99 $7 .99 and most and

if they were like over $7 .99 or even if they

were $7 .99 half the time I was like Do I need

this or can I just read it in the store and then

get all the information I need out of it? Exactly

I mean, nowadays you could just take pictures

of it, which is kind of stealing. But, you know,

back in the day, like you used to have to just

kind of memorize, you know, like what you wanted

out of that magazine. And now I will say that,

and I know hopefully our good buddy movie, Dan,

who does stuff with the cinema geeks and other

podcasts on our network for GCRN. I do know he

is a high recommender of the library and I do

know over the years since things have progressed

into the age that we're in now, libraries do

carry a lot of old magazines. So not current

stuff, but you can at least go there and read

old magazines. Heck, episode 199 of Geekcast

Radio was all about Optimus Solo's old magazine,

old copy of Entertainment Weekly talking about

the top 100 influential celebrities of the last

century or something or other. Go back and listen

to episode 199 of GeekCast Radio, folks. You'll

hear all about that. But like I basically made

a podcast around the fact that he had this old

magazine from like 20 years ago. So magazines

are out there. You don't necessarily have to

buy them if you don't want to. kind of thing

like you know use your local library and that

kind of thing for that but yeah I'm like we don't

even use movie phone anymore like I remember

back in the day you had to wait for the Sunday

paper or for whatever daily paper to see the

movie times for that weekend I remember that

kind of thing and then in the 90s we had movie

phone where you could call and hear Don LaFontaine

or whomever it was I know it wasn't him but you

know it was like yeah you could call your local

theater and you could be like uh you know what

you know you just dial the number and it would

say this friday coming to the theater is back

to the future three with you know and then it

would give you the rating and the times and then

you know it was just i know back to the future

three wasn't there i just threw that out um but

i i just don't want to get lambasted on social

um but you won't yes you will um Send all hate

mail, feedback at geekcastradio .com Send all

hate mail to Mike at thisweekendgeek .net Anyways

So yeah, I mean I remember doing that that I

totally forgot about it until you said something

but yeah Like what was it? Oh yeah, we found

something, it had cassettes, like audio cassettes,

and EHS tapes or something, and my son's like,

what are those? And I'm like, these are from

an older time. I says, there were devices that

you could listen and watch things and they would

save your spot for the next time you were on

it. I says, whereas an MP3 player does not, depending.

Some do, but. some don't and like their their

radios in their rooms do not and so they they

were like oh and i says yeah and i says do you

know what happens uh when the tape comes out

and he's like no i says you have to put a pencil

in there and make it and wind it back up and

he's like oh like just kind of gave me this look

and i says yep that's right i assume this was

an yes No one has no idea. Ian's like, what are

you talking about? He's the one that's very curious

about things and some of the archaic things that

aren't that old actually. I have him playing,

and this even as far as video games, I have him

playing old educational video games that I played

when I was in kindergarten and first grade. Oh

wow. you know like math rescue and word rescue

and some of these they're apogee games um yeah

apogee i don't remember what happened to them

but they anyways they used to make some stuff

and then like the learning company how that was

like a big thing back then i haven't gotten in

mind some of those yet but i plan to uh but no

i mean you can play those online now for free

like because they're just they're abandoned where

and It's great because you can still get a lot

of the stuff, but I don't have to have it very

visually stimulating to give him the same experience.

Like nowadays, like everything is so visually

stimulating that you get bored very quickly.

Right. He's content just running up and down

the, you know, the game, even if, you know, he

doesn't get the level beat, he's just content

with just running around it because it's just

fun. You know, so. I mean it's it's crazy the

amount of media or the amount of Things that

we used to consume have changed So rapidly over

the last 20 years yeah like I have to binge watch

stuff now I can't not do it because it's just

ingrained in me because I love I Just love doing

it now. There are shows that I will binge and

binge and binge over and over again. Like I said

on one of the altered geeks at one point, I've

seen the old CBS show numbers a number of times

now on Hulu. I've like rewatched all six seasons

of it at least four or five times. I've seen

What's another one on there? I've seen person

of interest like seven or eight times now. It's

just like The old TV shows is what I enjoy more

than Anything that's trying to start new now

Although there are some New shows that I have

really really Resonate enjoyed isn't really resonated.

It's kind of freaked because one of them has

freaked me out like beyond belief, but It just

well, okay. So the tool that I'm gonna bring

up it's like These are not shows that you would

normally really watch normally you wouldn't think

that they would be on air But they are because

they just are Upload from Amazon Prime is basically

instead of dying and going to heaven or dying

and being put in the ground, your brain and your

personality gets uploaded into basically a cloud

kind of thing. And it's just a freaky way to

think about. It's a new and interesting way to

think about dying. Well, no. I don't want to

die, man. No, yeah. We all don't want to die.

I know. I'm just being facetious. Right. I know.

It's one season so far. They have been picked

up for a second season. It's 10 episodes. So

it's not like it's a 22 -episode season. And

that's the good thing I find about today's TV

for streaming is that it's shorter episodes,

but you eventually get more seasons. So, and

the other one is just really creepy. It's about

a serial killer. When I initially saw the thing.

Ha ha ha. This is not hackers. This is not 1995.

You leave Matthew, you leave Shaggy out of this.

Originally, I thought it was about stalking and

the point of view of a stalker and it's not.

It's more of a Netflix deep version of like what

kind of like what Dexter was, but not really.

It's called You. It stars Penn Badgley, who was

Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl. That's the only

thing I really remember him from. but basically

he's this guy Joe Goldberg in New York and he's

stalking this girl and wants to know everything

about her and wants to be in the relation in

a relationship with her and they actually do

start dating kind of thing and he starts eliminating

all these obstacles to them having the perfect

relationship so he kills her ex he kills her

best friend It's just it's a really weird. It's

it's not weird. It's a really unique and interesting

kind of sadistic thing that like it's a TV show

that I never would have thought would have ever

been on actual network television. And it's not.

It's on Netflix. It's just kind of interesting.

And I don't know. I find myself going between

the old nostalgia stuff that I've seen for years

and years and years. and then a couple of new

things that really pique my interest when it

comes to TV. And like we already said, streaming

for me is all about, I don't always binge. I

mean, I binge, but I don't binge like, okay.

I don't always binge, but when I do, I watch

the most interesting, the world's interesting

man. I'm trying to say this correctly, but I'm

not it's been a rough day anyway Perfect example

is for me to get through six seasons of television

of actual something that was on television for

a 22 23 episode season It took me one full month

To sporadically get through and I watched every

single episode All six seasons, six out of the

seven seasons of The Blacklist that's on Netflix.

Season seven has not been added to Netflix yet.

But from June 3rd, no, from May 3rd to June 3rd,

I watched every single episode of The Blacklist

that I could. So in 30 days, I streamed probably

close to a hundred and something episodes. Nice.

Yeah. But it wasn't like I was like I would watch

like five or six a day kind of thing. And it

didn't. It depended like each like throughout

the day. So I would probably end up watching

12 or 13 episodes per day. I don't know. It's

just one of those things where because I have

no life. I have no job prospects and whatever.

I have all this time on my hands that I can do

this kind of stuff. And now Studio 2009 gives

me an opportunity to talk about it. I also wanted

to bring up on this episode of the show for our

favorite media and ways we consume media is that

the differences between people and their fandoms.

Like we're both diehard Transformers fans. We

each like specific parts of the Transformers

fandom Well, not the the brand I should say not

the fandom. Yes the brand and I like almost all

of it except for that Mid -2000 stuff the unicorn

trilogy. Anyway, oh Yeah that yeah. Anyway, but

my point is we're both Transformers fans. That's

how we kind of met almost Basically 13 years

ago. Yeah, basically because yeah, I was I just

jumped on Twitter and You were starting a podcast

or you wanted to start a path. I wanted to start

about yeah So yeah, so But where we differ is

You're more of a die -hard Trekkie. I'm more

of a casual Trekkie Whereas you could give a

crap less about the Fast and the Furious films

where I actually enjoy them It's the differences

that makes it like, yeah, everybody can like

one thing or another, and multiple people can

like the same thing. But I think it's the differences

that make it interesting. As of this recording,

I've seen upload on Prime. You have not. So it's

going to be interesting if we ever review that

on this show to see. You've heard what my reaction

to it was a little bit. and then once you watch

it we'll see what you're and see you know what

i mean so the the differences is how we come

together and our enjoyment of media and other

things to do along with that video games i find

currently i'm not into modern gaming i actually

like watching playthroughs Like I watched our

buddy our good buddy Mike Laidman and his buddy

Chris Blonsky who do part -time nerds full -time

dads I watched them do a their Extra life twitch

stream thing. So I watched Mike play like this

Tetris game on ps4 or whatever it was So, yeah,

I don't mind watching like game playthroughs

and things like that but modern gaming is just

not for me No, and I totally get that. Like that's

I honestly don't get into all that much of games.

There really isn't a lot that totally resonates

with me. So, yeah, I mean, it's it's kind of

it's kind of give or take. Like, I mean, I'm

still primarily a Transformers fan when it comes

to my gaming. Right. I'm Dragon Ball Z. You know,

Unreal Tournament, Command and Conquer series,

Star Wars, Star Trek. I play Star Trek Online

like no other. Literally, if I have free time,

that's what I play. I'm like, I have it installed

on a flash drive so I can run it on my computer

upstairs on my laptop. Because the laptop hard

drive doesn't run it fast enough, so I run it

off flash memory. But I play it on both. and

I get like the little the little events done

and figure out new ways of doing things. But

anyways, yeah, I mean, I've always played pretty

much the same games like throughout my entire

gaming career, as it were. It's it's yeah, I

mean. Whether I miss Beast Wars, to be honest,

like the Beast Wars game, I have it. I can play

it. The only problem is is the graphics suck.

And there are certain parts of the game I cannot

get past because it's just too blocky and glitchy.

I used to play it on the MSN Gaming Zone. I don't

know if you remember that. Very cool. Yeah, I

remember it. You could play four player online

multiplayer. Basically deathmatch with it. And

I reigned supreme. That was back in the days

of dial -up, 56k modems and all that. I used

to take up my dad's phone line for like an entire

day and I'd drink so much like caffeinated drinks

and sit there playing for so long that like I

was literally shaking and spazzing out because

the adrenaline and because the caffeine. And

then my dad's like, you should probably get some

sleep at some point. Yeah. But yeah, I mean,

I used to play a lot of games and some of it's.

changed over the years, some of it not so much.

It just kind of depends. But no, I mean, I can

resonate with the fact that certain things just

don't really aren't really that cup of teas that

were. Right. So. Yeah. I don't know, I just think.

There has never been a point in my life where

I felt like I need to be in like I need to have

my Toes or my fingers or whatever you want to

say whatever Like I don't need to dip my my geeked

him into the pond of everything and that's the

point We all like different things. Sometimes

we all like this, you know, I'll get you myself

Peek on Mike sometimes optimus solo or some of

these new people that I've made friends with

for transformer stuff You know, and we all like

varying things within the brand of Transformers,

but we all are Transformers fans. I highly doubt

Unless and I'm not saying anyone should do this

because no one should even though I wouldn't

mind it unless I'm gonna become a sellout and

somebody pays me gobs amount of money. There's

no way in hell I'm gonna dive into the Harry

Potter fandom or the Lord of the Rings fandom

or whatever. I've said this on other podcasts

on GCR, but I'll say it here now since this is

a new show. I have nothing against those properties.

Those just aren't properties for me. When I was

14, my dad was working for a bus company and

every now and then, you know, when they have

the the trips where the the elderly people go

down to you know like Gatlinburg, Tennessee and

go down to the casinos and things like that.

Sometimes they leave stuff on the bus. One time

somebody left a copy of Fellowship of the Ring,

the book, on the bus. My dad brought it home

and gave it to me. You know, you want to talk

about consuming media. As a kid, I read everything.

I started out on golden books. As a little, little

kid, I went up to the Barronstein Bears. I read

the Hardy Boys. I eventually got into John Grisham

as I got older. So I've read all kinds of books.

I tried reading this thing at 14 years old. My

14 -year -old... Dumbass brain could not get

past the line and I did eventually read the whole

book I did eventually get past it But when I

first read it, I could not get past the line

in the very first part of the book where they

say It's Bill Bowes or Bilbo or however you say

his name. I'm not a Lord of the Rings fan people.

Don't crucify me It's his 11 de first birthday

You know what 11 de first birthday is means he's

a hundred and eleven years old Like I get it

that was the language that token or Tolkien or

however you say his name I get that's the language

he was using for that, but I Don't know how I

don't know how they expect kids to understand

some of the language that's in some of those

Classics, do you want to know how they erase

the classics and they don't teach it to them?

They do they just teach about modern stuff and

that's it That's sad because there are certain

things that every kid should learn That you take

the Barronstein bear books from back in the day

Everybody should read too much TV in the messy

room Because it's always have It's it's a lesson

that not necessarily too much TV rots your brain,

but too much of one thing at one time You can

kind of get addicted to it. That's with anything.

It's not just with television In the messy room

obviously was the story where they had to clean

their room up and make sure it was all nice and

neat because that's what you want to be able

to do and that's a lesson that you want to teach

your children I know that's a lesson my mom wanted

to teach me half the time. I never learned it,

but I tried So, I mean there's plenty of things

in the old you know the old books and things

like that that can be taught to kids but I Don't

know man. Some of this some of these things.

It's like I Don't know. So let's pose this question

Do you think as far as media and in our favorite

and media consumption? Do you think that it's

gotten better or worse or it's kind of a wash?

It depends on your habits. Like if you're like

Neil, where you kind of lose it after, you know,

two hours or so or whatever. I can kind of understand

that if you're someone like me who can, you know,

binge like an entire like a time entire 10 episode

season. In like two days. I don't want to say

it's a wash. I don't want to say it's better

or worse. I think it's I Think it means something

different for everybody depending on how they

approach it. I Think the access has made it better

because Like you said earlier even with theater

at home like okay theater at home. I can go on

like right now I couldn't do this 20 years ago

I can only play my, you know, my snake game on

my Nokia phone. Nokia 5120 something or other,

whatever, but I can go on Voodoo right now and

I can pull that up on my phone if it'll load.

Come on. Okay, they have two theater at home

listings. High Note Home Premier and then Scoob.

Okay, they also have rental sale they have Yada,

yada, yada, but yeah so like half the movies

that they list here used to be theater at home

or whatever because they've been out something

like bad boys 3 has been out for a while or Birds

of Prey has been out for a while Sonic has been

out for a while But I love this that I could

just go on here and and and find a movie that

I could just buy and watch it Yeah, I mean they

have Well, I was gonna say like in some regards

like I miss Some of the old media except for

the fact that it just takes up way too much space

Such as like VHS tapes. Oh, yeah, just for the

fact that you know you had the struggle of oh

It's got to have tracking Yeah, or or you know

you had to deal with other elements of it where

you, not just tracking, but like you could actually

watch the video and pick up where you left off.

So I mean, there's a lot of pluses and minuses

to both, but I feel like because we have this

instant gratification, people are almost borderline

spoiled. Yeah, we are. So yeah It's it's it's

a different world for sure I will say that and

I will say I don't know if it's any better or

any worse, but I feel like our Generations as

they're progressing Are less tolerant of waiting

For any yeah, but I also feel like some of the

media itself is more rushed and more And that's

not to say everything but I feel like some of

the at least as far as animation goes and some

of the films I'm looking at you DC You know,

there's there's elements where you know, they

they just can't Compare to things that came out

20, 30 years ago. And I'm not saying it's better

or worse. I'm just saying that there's just this

level of difference that you just can't compare

the content. Yeah, there have been good innovations

like we have movie budgets on TV now, which we

didn't have back then. But we also have a lot.

We have so many movies now. Granted, COVID changed

all that, but we have so many now that it's rather

difficult to kind of wrangle it down and kind

of choose. Yeah. So. Yeah, I mean, it's the thing

about having choice is there's too much choice.

I talked about this years ago when we were doing

Movie Week in Review. I plotted that. that podcast

for two years, based on my DVD collection, and

yet half the time, unless we were doing the podcast,

I didn't, like, I would go, I don't want to watch

that. Sometimes having too much choice is a bad

thing. I know, and that's part of what's caused

arguments with my wife and I. is we'll be trying

to watch something on Netflix and she's like,

she's like, are you going to pick something or

am I going to be sleeping? Like, because I'll

sit there and I'll be like, I don't really feel

like watching this or I don't I don't really

want to watch this. And I remember this one too

much. And then, well, Mary won't like this one.

But then I like this one. But, you know, and

then so it's just kind of a back and forth over

and over. And, you know, eventually we just kind

of get nowhere with it. So I eventually have

to choose something and I usually just choose

something that's kind of Middle of the ground

because otherwise neither of us will be happy

But but I mean it's just it's It definitely is

a struggle. Yeah Yeah, it is very much a struggle

so I know people generally don't like Here's

a way to consume media most people will use podcasting

clients like Apple iTunes whatever you want to

call it or Spotify or some people use stitcher

some people we use our home for our files speaker

and All of these have apps where you can listen

to all these podcasts from us and from others

but I like to put questions in our website posts

and I'm basically calling these the studio asks

you So the two questions that are going to be

on this post are, what are the ways you consume

media? And what are your media favorites? I have

too many favorites. We would both be here all

day. We've mentioned several of them, Transformers,

Star Trek, Star Wars, you know, that we each

like. But there are way between comics and video

games and like the old video games that I used

to love and that kind of stuff. You know, there's

just way too many. So hopefully people will answer

these questions for us. Comment on the website.

Or you can send us an email. Feedback at geekcastradio

.com. Subject line Studio 2009 media consumption.

With whatever answers you may want to say. Or

you can comment on this post on social media.

Whatever you use. Facebook, Twitter, that kind

of thing. Where can the people find you on Twitter

sir? They can get at me at SCP -21 I'm at TF2

and Mike on Twitter as I said in the beginning

of this episode. You can also follow along with

studio 2009. It's I Wish you hadn't named it.

It's but it is it's studio 2009 on Twitter You

can search it on Facebook studio 2009. You'll

be able to find it We are in the iTunes store

currently as we get up to four or five more episodes,

episode four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

whatever we end up getting up to. We will be

on more platforms like Spotify and others as

well. We are currently in the iTunes store, which

I will post out on social media. Any final thoughts

on our favorite media or ways we consume media,

sir? No, I just think that it's very transformative

as the years go by and I think that we're only

gonna see Some bigger and better changes come

along down the pipe. Absolutely. For now, I am

TFG1 Mike with... Steve Megatron Phillips. Saying

that you'll hear us back in the studio soon.

In a world... There, I said it. Happy.