Transformers Animated, Revenge of the Fallen Updates, and Oliver and Company

What's going on Autobots and Decepticons? This

is Mike Captain Awesome Dodd from TheGameHeroes

.com and you are listening to the TFG1 podcast,

the best Transformers podcast on the net today.

Hello and welcome to Supplemental Episode 5 of

the TFG1 Podcast. I am Michael Blanchard with...

Steve slash Megatron of All Things Transformers.

Yes, and this morning it's, again, it's very

early during the week. It's two days after my

birthday and I am fucking pissed. Happy birthday

again. Yeah, thank you again, but yeah. These

people are just lucky that what happened last

night did not happen Monday night because I'd

be ready to kick some ass. Why? What happened?

Last night, about 8 .30, I decided to get off

my lazy fat ass and walk to McDonald's, which

McDonald's is actually closer. It's actually

a straight shot from where my apartment is. It's

about 10 feet closer than the actual Thornton

store. which starts as the local gas food mart

here or whatever. And so I decided to go there.

Well, when I opened my door, as I've said before,

my door is double deadbolted, so you have to

use a key on the inside to even get out of the

apartment. Open the door, and there is a used

fucking condom on my doorknob. Nice. I almost

threw up everywhere. I just, like, what the fuck?

Well, the neighbor that lives across from me

who is, because our, my job has clients over

here, that's why they moved me over here. Well,

I only know two people in these buildings as

far as I know that know that I'm over here. So,

knocked on his door politely, I just said, hey.

have you seen someone else? Because I thought

it might have been somebody else that used to

do that kind of crap. He goes, no. I said, okay,

do you have any idea? Or have you seen anybody

around my door? Because that's just nasty. He

goes, no. He goes, that's why you moved out of

the other place and get away. I said, I know.

And I hear another voice in this apartment, which

is someone that I absolutely do not get along

with and cannot stand and just think needs to

be fucking shot. So I asked him, I said, is that

what's his name? He goes, yeah, and he kind of

gives me, the client, he kind of gives me like

this dirty look, and I just kind of shook my

head, and I was like, oh, okay, because I didn't,

this kid's half mentally unstable, so I was like,

I ain't going to say anything, whatever. I took

a giant wad of paper towels in my hand, and through

the paper towels, I peeled off this nasty thing,

threw it away in the trash can outside, and wrote,

A very lengthy email to my immediate supervisor,

to the overall program supervisor, to my former

boss, and the case manager of the client that

lives across the hall here. And yes, something

better be fucking done. I've only been in this

apartment a week. Like I said, I only know two

people that actually live over here, and I know

no one else, and I don't know if anybody else

knows me. Now, it could be the guest that this

client had had, which I wouldn't put it past

him. They're that fucking immature -ish and hold

grudges and, like I said, they're mentally unstable.

But, yeah, I'm fucking pissed. Yeah, that kind

of pissed me off, too, if I woke up to that or

went outside to that. Uh, yeah. And considering

I finally got the fucking door fixed yesterday,

that kind of sucked. Because, remember I told

you before, the door... Wouldn't close all the

way. Well, I had maintenance out here to fix

the nozzle on the tub because the cold water

wasn't coming out, and I nearly scalded my hand

the other day trying to get in the shower. Nice.

Yeah. Yeah, really. And the door, for some odd

reason, it wouldn't close all the way, so I had

the maintenance guy out here, and he fixed it,

and it's all good, but it just, yeah. Yeah, I

am so glad you have no idea why these buildings

would not be standing if that shit happened on

my birthday. Everybody in their right mind, as

far as supervisors, executive directors, fucking

board members, they would be out here and they

would be seeing that shit. I also took a picture

of it and I sent it along with the email. And

in the email I said, you know, I'm very... Very

unhappy, very this, very that. And I said, you

know, you can see what's in this attached picture

and this, that, and everything else. And after

that sentence, I said, I go, yes, folks, that

is a condom. Okay, so supplemental episode five.

As I said in the beginning and as I said to you,

Steve, off the air, it's going to be a bunch

of randomness. So even though TFG1 is not a news

podcast, do we have any news on the All Things

Transformers side? Have you found any bits of

random news that you're... Transformers Animated

Season 3 is officially dead after Season 3. They've

deleted the plot connects that were planned from

Season 3 to Season 4. basically wipe that element

out of the season three so that they can tie

it up in this season. They don't tell why they're

canceling it, and I guess at least one character

is going to die -die. And it has something to

do with the garbage in, garbage out, so I'm guessing

it's either Ratchet or Rettgar. I don't think

anybody would be opposed to them killing Optimus

Prime in this series. But I had posted on Twitter

the other day, I'm so freaking disgusted at these

people for doing this Transformers cartoon in

the first place. Like Spada and Jesse and Ryan

and everybody over at TFWire and every other

Transformers podcast I've listened to have said

they completely fucked up the... timing of the

toy commercials along with the series. I saw

a commercial for Animated the other day and I

posted something on Twitter and I'm like, yeah,

I know why Animated has had no success because

they're running the fucking toy commercials when

the show isn't even on the air. I mean, Cartoon

Network runs it at weird times, and it's like

various episodes. It isn't like there's a set

time that Cartoon Network has. I've never seen

it as, like, normally when it's in syndication,

when any Transformers show has been in syndication,

it's either been on at 6 or 6 .30 in the morning.

Well, see, this one was on at, I think, 10 .30

in the morning on Saturdays. Right, it was, but

I'm saying, like, okay, like, say you have...

Say you have Beast Wars, excellent show. Say

it's 2000, so say it's already gone off the air

and Beast Machines is on the air. Say Beast Machines

runs at 9 .30 in the morning. They normally would

run old episodes, syndication episodes of Beast

Wars at an earlier time. You see what I'm saying?

Yeah. I always remember watching those cartoons.

when they were not currently airing or currently

making more of them at 6 or 6 .30 every morning.

But with animated, it's very sporadic, and I

don't see any reason why the show should even

continue, considering how they've got a lot in

Season 3 to connect from Season 2. Forget about

making connections just from Season 3 to Season

4. And that's probably their problem. Their forward

thinking. They're not thinking about in the now

and tying up. Hell, the cliffhanger ending of

season two when Sari rips off her skin and she's

a friggin' robot. Of course, we all know what

the hell happened. The old fat guy was bored

and lonely and created him a fuckin' robot daughter.

I mean, it's just what happened. So, yeah. Anything

else? Michael Bay talks Transformers Revenge

of the Fallen with Collider .com. In an exclusive

video interview, he states that the movie will

be approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes, but

still in editing. He also talks about the experience

filming in Egypt and IMAX scenes. He mentions

the film will be darker and... More like the

humans going on an adventure with the Autobots,

so it won't be more of a focus on just Autobots.

It'll be more robot. And so the humans will be

taking a back seat. and it'll be on a more epic

scale and robots who emote more. And lastly,

they asked him if he would return for a third

movie, and he says he would be interested in

doing it, but his immediate plans are to take

a well -earned year off. Yeah, well, you know.

First of all, you cannot say crap like it being

epic. And darker's fine, you know, whatever.

You can't say something is epic and only have

it be fucking two hours and 20 minutes. No, it's

going to be like three hours and 20 minutes,

like Lord of the Rings. Well, you said that he

said in the interview two hours and 20 minutes.

Yeah. Well, yeah, but I mean, it has to be longer

than that. It has to be at least like two hours

and 89 minutes or somewhere close to the three

-hour mark. 2 hours and 89 minutes would be 3

hours and 19 minutes. Whatever. It's almost 6

o 'clock in the fucking morning. I'm pissed and

I haven't been able to think, so, yeah, whatever.

I'm just saying... Drink a little bit more of

that caffeine there. Yeah, let's hope. Let's

hope it'll wake me up. I'm just saying that it

would have to be somewhere close to, like, maybe...

ten minutes off the three -hour mark to even

get everything that they're wanting to get into

that. And as far as the third one, really, honestly,

even though I am a Transformers fan, I've had

so much skepticism about this movie, I don't

even want to hear about a fucking third one.

Until I go and see this one, I don't even want

to hear shit about a third movie. I just don't.

I don't think anything bad will come out of it.

I'm not saying that. I'm saying that I just don't

want to hear about... See, that's the problem.

I like... The best example I can give is Spider

-Man 3. That movie was so overhyped, and everybody

says that it sucks. I liked it. I don't care

what anybody else says. I did like it. It's not

something I could watch every day like I could

watch Iron Man at least once a day if I so chose

to. But, I mean, it wasn't... It wasn't as bad

as, say, Elektra. Yeah, I never sat through that.

But, I mean, the same thing goes for Transformers.

It's like, don't... It's like I said before about,

you know, animated. Don't forward think it. Think

in the now. Don't start talking about... And

that's the problem with media, and that's the

problem with us as fans and everything else.

We want to know what's next, what's going to...

You know, we want more, and we want it now. And

me personally, I'm of the mindset right now that

I just don't give a fuck. I want to wait and

see the second one. You know, when it comes out

and see what happens in it. And then I will form

an opinion of my own whether I think that they

should make a third one or not. Now, my opinion

doesn't count for shit. But, you know, at least

I would have an opinion then. And I'm not...

It's like Wolverine and the X -Men or whatever.

The new Wolverine movie. You know, I haven't

really formed any opinion about it because I've

only seen what little trailer that there is.

And it's like, you know, I'm not going to go

there. I don't know. Yeah. Anything else in the

news? Well, not really in the news, but this

just kind of caught my attention. Well, back

when the 2007 Transformers movie was coming out,

they made use of this Transformers Webmaster

program. Now, in this program, they were... It

was supposed to help promote the movie, like

basically free advertisement by handing goodies

to other webmasters that would post information

about Transformers, whether it be ComingSoon

.net, Unicron .com, PredaconEmpire .com, TFW.

And it would give you a ranking and a point system

and all that. Supposedly, you'd get something

special from them, whatever. They never actually

did anything with it. They show, like I'm logged

into it right now, the last post they have for...

content for webmasters is online banners for

you to download and it's on friday june 22nd

2007 of just like pictures of some of the robots

and shit but i mean it's like a couple of the

pictures just from the movie and the poster and

there's no actual um like i'm they've got in

their little webmaster discussion forum one post

and about the Revenge of the Fallen, but they've

officially not put anything in there for the

webmasters to spread about. So, I mean, it's

a pretty pathetic website, and they don't do

anything with it, which is sad because it has

the potential for so much more. Yeah, that's

really sad. That's like they took down the 20th

anniversary DVD website for Transformers, the

movie, which really saddened me because they

had a lot of good content on there as far as

they had a... They had this thing that you could

add into your MySpace or Facebook pages that

plays different Transformers sounds, and they

had a whole bunch of audio clips from the movie

and stuff like that, which I've just made my

own, but just having a website out there that

has that content, yeah, it's been two years since

the 20th anniversary DVD has been released. Yes,

when sites go down like that, that really saddens

me because it was regardless of whether – oops,

that's not what I wanted to do. Sorry. Doing

two things at once here, and I went to the Cafe

Spark, and I didn't want to go to Cafe Spark

this morning yet. Where the hell am I going?

I'll go back eventually. I just don't want to

go there now. I'm looking for something else.

But, I mean, websites like that that go down,

it just – I understand the cost and stuff to

run websites and everything else, but I don't

know. Just having it is nice. So switching to,

unless you have anything else, unless you found

anything else. Not really. I'm in kind of a lazy

news hunting mood, so I don't really care. Well,

it is five minutes to six in the morning. Damn,

we're awesome for that. Yeah, I know it. I know

it. I don't blame you. But I was looking up.

I haven't finished getting all my birthday stuff

yet. Hopefully I can talk my mom into going out

and doing birthday shopping so I don't have to

actually spend my own money today. But the one

present that I did get from her was the Oliver

and Company 20th Anniversary Edition. Now, normally

when Disney has done, like, the Platinum Editions

or the Anniversary Editions, I don't know about

Jungle Book, but I'd have to look. It's been

two discs. Well, the Oliver and Company one is

only one disc. And the only features it has is

games and activities, all new Oliver's Big City

Challenge game, backstage Disney, making of Oliver

and Company. It has two animated shorts, and

it has a sing -along thing, music and more. And

I'm like, come on, the Aladdin two -disc set

had more stuff than this. And I've always loved

Oliver and Company, ever since I saw it. Yeah,

it is Disney's take on Oliver Twist, but... You

can't deny the voices that were... I didn't know

the voice of Oliver the Cat. You know who that

was? No. Joey Lawrence. And silence. Crickets,

crickets. Joey Lawrence. Whoa! He was in Blossom.

Remember the... Crap. I can't believe I just

admitted to watching Blossom. You know what?

I've never heard of that. You've never heard

of Blossom? No. Okay. Okay, anyway. Have you

ever watched the Disney Channel? Him and his

brothers were in a Disney Channel movie at one

point. I don't know. I don't watch Disney Channel

movies. I've seen the shows that are on there,

but... I like some of the movies. They're all

right. Like, The Luck of the Irish was pretty

cool. I'm not into this whole high school musical

crap and camp rock and all that. No, no, no,

no, no, no. That can burn in the eternal fires

of hell. Yes, yes, I agree, I agree. But, like,

some of their other movies, like Double Teamed,

which is based off of True Life Twins. Blonde

twins, basketball players. What was the other

one? The Jet Jackson movie. That was pretty cool.

I liked that show. I missed that show. But anyway,

Oliver and Company, like I said, it's based off

of Oliver Twist. And it's all these dogs against

this... with this guy named Fagan who owes this

other guy Sykes money, and Oliver comes along,

and it's got a stellar cast. Let's see, Billy

Joel, Joey Lawrence, Bette Midler, what was her

name, Cheryl Ralph. It's got a lot of good music

in it and everything else. I think Billy sings

a couple of songs. Bette Midler's in it. She

plays a really, really prissy poodle. It's not

far off from the mark. So, yeah. Yeah, this is

pretty random today, folks. I did not, with the

move and everything else, I did not plan anything

for Supplemental Episode 5. And seeing as how

our other podcasting friends are busy and in

the middle of moving from one place in Canada

to another. I guess we can go ahead and pimp

the forums. Come on, people. Come to the PredaconEmpire

.com forums. There's not enough people leaving

me comments on the podcast. There isn't a lot

of people leaving any comments right now. I think

the most conversation I've had was with Derek

Lapp over there about his Unicron. Yeah, I want

one of those. That looks so fucking cool. You

know what I'm talking about, right? Oh, yeah.

I sit there and I read every single post that's

posted on that board. No, you don't. Don't lie.

No, I seriously do. No, you don't. Don't lie.

I'm not. I sit there and I read every single

thing that's posted because I have moderators,

but I don't. gauge what they say on stuff because

a lot of people have arguments and I decide what

is crap and what is like when Starscream gets

out of control. Oh, yeah. Let's not go there.

I wonder if anybody even over there listens to

TFG1. Oh, I know a few do. I think Starscream

actually listens. Well, I know he listens to

ATTF. I don't know if he listens to TFG1. I think

he might, but I don't know. I think Optimus Prime

listens to TFG1. He might. I know that they're

trying to come up with a podcast. I don't know

how well that's working out for them because

they've been planning this since last year. I

know that another good podcast to listen to if

you're completely bored with TFWire or burned

out with them, which lately I've been kind of,

I mean, I'm not trying to trash them, but because

I was a host on there and they did give me my

start, but it's kind of gone downhill. And, I

mean, I like the hosts and everything, but it's

just, it's, I don't know. But there's another,

instead of mumbling, I'm going to actually spit

it out. Close enough, but without the sound.

The TF Anonymous podcast is pretty good as well.

I think I tried that at one point. I don't know

what it was. I don't know. I might have to go

back and try it again. I think they're hilarious

because a lot of the time there's random just...

throughout the entire episode. And kind of like

the last episode of ATTF, there's just randomness

that you can't recreate. And TFWire seems to

have lost that with the toss of many different

hosts. And so the TF Anonymous are actually defected

members of TFWire. One of them being an old TFWire

host for, like, four or five episodes on the

main podcast and then the roundtable host. Yeah,

I would have to go back, like I said, and listen

to it in between dealing with bullshit already

over here and just unpacking in general. And,

yeah, like I said, I haven't done anything. I

have my... I have my G1 DVD sets out, but...

Think I've finished episode 13's script yet?

Fuck no. So it's nice that I actually have written

up until episode 13, so if I get the inkling

at some point, which I will, obviously, because

episode 6 has to be out next Friday. If I get

the inkling at all this weekend to record anything,

at least I have the script already ready, and

I don't have to worry about writing it out. That

be true. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, but I really

dug that picture. And really, I didn't even look

at it all the way first. I just saw the Unicron

thing. And I saw some of the other smaller figures.

I did not even see Hot Rod, Rodimus, whichever

one he was. I didn't even see him holding up

the Matrix in front of Unicron. I just saw the

smaller characters below it. And, yeah, it's

really cool looking. Yeah, that is a cool statue.

I probably still wouldn't buy it, but that's

just because I'm a cheap, poor bastard. And I

like the Megatrons over anything else, preferably

G1 or Beast Torch. Yeah, but I mean, to have

something like that from the movie regardless...

Yeah, regardless, it's an awesome piece. Damn.

But, you know what I'd really like to see them

remake? The freaking Beast Machines Maximals

and Vehicons. Like, remake them. Like, kind of

do, like, a classics type thing with them. Because

I'm sorry that Megatron that they had for Beast

Machines was complete and utter shit. It was,

like, literally. He's a freaking cheap -ass looking

dragon. He doesn't even look anything like the

Beast Wars one. I can understand if he was the

same size. And they somehow made his wings kind

of, like, interclasp together to, you know, form

the battle suit in front of him. And, like, had

the weird colorations and everything. No, they

didn't have a goddamn thing on there. They had

the, his wings were pretty much, I don't know

if you've seen the titanium scourge. I don't

think so. Well, I mean, that's a shitty figure,

too. I just bought it because that was my first

voiceover character. It folds over, the wings

fold over and cover the front of him. And the

detail on this figure is complete crap as well.

And it's supposedly a Mega, but it's more like

a Deluxe. They just had it in a Mega because

of how much space it took up because of the wings.

But it was complete garbage. There was no freaking

reason. I just wish that they redo a lot of their

old figures and give them... the detail they

deserve. Granted, it wasn't a blockbuster hit

series, but they still could have done a lot

more. Have they done any kind of anniversary

stuff with Beast Machines? I know they did a

10th anniversary of Beast Wars. I think it was

Dinobot and Cheetor and a couple of the other

ones, Rhinox. I remember they had had those at

one of the BotCons. I think it was either 2007.

No, not 2007. It was either 2006, I don't know,

it was between 2005 and 2007. No, it was 2006,

obviously. It was 2006. I was going to say, yeah,

wait a second, it's 2006, obviously, seeing as

how the fucking cartoon was out in 96, so that

would be 10 years, duh. So, have they done anything

as far as, or do you think that they will do

anything when eventually the... I think they

might, but I think they'll probably wait until

after the movie. I think... I'm not positive,

but I think the series debuted in 1999. If not,

okay, that's what I was thinking. My brain's

not working, but I usually have that information

on my site. The only reason why I remember that

is because it sounds right. Let's see, number

one, it sounds right. Number two, it's here I

graduated high school. Number three, Beast Wars

only had three seasons. So if you take 96 to

99, that's three years. And then, you know, the

start of Beast Machines. 99 to 2001. Wow, that

only ran for two. Yeah, that makes about sense.

That only ran for two seasons. Wow. Yeah. It

seems longer. Well, it had 26 episodes for the

whole series, which is as long as season one

of Beast Wars. So, in essence, it was not very

long at all because Beast Wars had twice that

amount of episodes and the entire series. Now,

see, I wish they would just... I mean, they did

a... Of course, they do this nowadays with everything

that has kind of like a one -shot deal. But I

wish that they would just... Re -release Beast

Wars as a complete series. Have all three seasons

in one giant box set. You know, that would be

really smart, instead of making people buy all

three separately. And I'd rather have the goodies

that would come with the box set. I actually

just talked to, the other day, I had talked to

a buddy of mine, Dwayne Walker. We're big Knight

Rider fans, and he had done... He had done a

little spot on the Knight Rider Online podcast

for them, and I started talking to him. We kind

of became friends because we were both fans of

Knight Rider or whatever. I actually just talked

him into buying the Complete Series box set with

the light -up scanner and everything else. He's

like, why? I have all the original forces. I

said, yeah, but... How many times do they skip?

Oh, I have them all on my computer. I'm like,

yeah, that's great and all, but DVDs, it's something

you can hold in your hand. It's something cool,

whatever else. They remastered the thing, so

he finally went out and bought that. Yeah, Beast

Machines ran from 1999 to 2001. I'm looking at

the IMDb now, and just wow, it just doesn't seem

like it was only that long. Yeah. And did you

notice Twitter just died? I haven't even checked

online or iPhone. I just turned off my new app

this morning when I woke up at 4 .55. I'm like,

I'm having this really, really great day. I don't

remember what time it is, but I know it was really,

really great. I want to wake up. The next thing

I know, I'm waking up. I'm like, oh, shit, what

time is it? Because I thought it was like 6 .30.

And, uh, and, uh, I, uh, get up and it's like

two minutes before my alarm's supposed to go

off. I'm like, oh, fuck. So I bought one of those,

um, kind of like, you know how you buy those,

uh, those wave sound alarm clocks? It has all

these nature, like, you know, those nature CDs

and crap that, well, I found an app on. on the

App Store for iPhone called White Noise. So I'm

thinking, White Noise, oh crap, it's going to

be nothing but TV static. So I look on there

and they have all these cool sounds like running

water and rainforest and all this and all that

other crap. So yeah, the last two nights I've

gotten really, really soothing sleep because

I left my Bose and iPod out here on the desk.

Yeah, I can tell you pretty much Transformers

Animated isn't going to take off. Oh wait, Gary

Chuck isn't in Transformers Animated. Nope, it's

David Kaye and various G1 voice actors. Wow,

he was in an episode of Supernatural. Who was?

Gary Chuck. Yes, not only. He wasn't the only

one. There was a few other. I'm only looking

at his IMDb page because I thought. Well, screw

you, buddy. Well, I thought he was in animated

at some point. I know he wasn't a major character,

but I thought he might have had something in

there. And the most three projects he has in

post -production is The Saints of Mount Christopher,

Angel and the Bad Men, and Scooby -Doo in the

Beginning. What the hell? Oh, he's playing Vice

Principal Grimes. What the hell is this going

to be? Scooby -Doo in the beginning. Give me

a break. We already have a pup named Scooby -Doo,

which is the best Scooby -Doo cartoon out there,

but that's beside the point. Wow, that was completely

random. See, folks, we are all random all the

time. Wow, Twitter's back. Yay. Yay, Twitter's

back. I sit there and I freak out. I'm sitting

there. I check it all day. I mean, I post all

day, but I'm checking it all day. Mm -hmm. Oh,

and I didn't do it. Yeah, I was reading the post

on the Cybertron archives, which is Optimus Prime's

site. It appears they're still in the running

to make their podcast because they actually came

to me for, or the guy that's wanting to start

it came to me for information. on what to do

so I may eventually end up guest starring over

there I don't know depends at some point but

they're talking about recording and doing an

episode I don't I'm not that far in the damn

thing yet so I don't know yeah wow everybody

looks like huh well I was saying everybody's

starting one nowadays yeah Well, they're all

jealous now that I've done my TFG1. So, yeah,

everybody's trying to be ripoffs, bastards. Yeah,

the original G1 site's going crazy and having

to make one. Oh, really? I don't know. I don't

know. No, I was looking at this Scooby -Doo thing,

and I looked at one of the stars, Hayley Kiyoko.

She actually looks like Velma, but she's hot.

But she plays Velma's voice. In this new, I guess

it's going to be a cartoon series. I don't know.

I don't really care. Whatever. Nice. Yep. I wish

that they would just take the people that did

it in the two movies, like Freddie Prinze Jr.

and all them, and just let them do an animated

Scooby -Doo series. I don't know. I don't care

that much about Scooby -Doo. Well, I mean, outside

of A Pup Named Scooby -Doo, which came out in

1988, I really don't care either way. But, I

mean, if they were going to do something like

that, it would be cool for them to use the actual

actors that did in the movie as the voice actors.

But, I don't know. Hopefully I have my Apple.

confirmation email, because if I don't, I'm going

to kick Steve Jobs' ass. Not really, but... Yes.

Apple Store. Order acknowledgement. Hopefully

it ships today, dammit. One of my... One of the

people over in the earth2 .net forums had actually

gotten robbed and got his iPod stolen. His...

His iFake stolen from him. It's basically a generic

term for a non -iPod MP3 player. Nice. And, yeah.

And so I had offered to him. I said, hey, look,

you know, I've got some extra cash from whatever

that's coming in. You know, do you want one,

whatever else? And I had made this. before he

had actually had this happen to him. And he had

sent me a message the other day asking if it

was still, you know, if the outfit was still

on the table. I said, yeah, it's fine. So I went

and got him a custom blue, custom blue with some

engraving on it and whatever else. And hopefully

it'll ship out today. Oh, yeah, my other vent,

my publisher, oh, my God. These fucking people

just... No, you have no idea, okay? I'm going

to type something to you here in the box here.

This will be a title of one of the poems. This

is what it looks like on the final proofs that

he has given me. This is... Oops. This, what

I'm typing now... Sorry, folks. Ah, shit. This

is... This is what it's supposed to look like.

You see the difference? They're all capital letters.

And I keep... I kept going back and forth, back

and forth with them. So the first one's acting

like a child. With lowercase letters, and then

the second one is a sighting like a child. No,

it's supposed to be acting like a child. I know,

I just screwed with you. Shut up. Damn it. But,

uh... I thought you were writing, uh, I was acting

like a child, so I put that other post, that's

why. That's why I told you. I told you. I said

this. I said I'm going to type something to you.

I said this is what it looks like. And then I

was typing what it's supposed to look like. But

it's like, and he's like, oh, well, those changes

that you're asking us to make are stylistic and

it's not going to affect the marketability and

the outcome of your book. And I'm like, dude.

I didn't say this, I'm thinking this, I'm like,

dude, fucking change it the way I want it to

fucking be. I mean, I can understand that, you

know, if it was a... And the other thing is,

like, one poem is, like, halfway down page 98.

going into page 99. That's not the way they're

supposed to be. They're supposed to fit on all

one fucking page. So, yeah, I don't think I'm

going to like the outcome of this book at all.

I was really impressed and really pleased with

the last two books, but this one is going to

be a complete fuck -up, and I almost wish I didn't

even fucking submit it. This is probably going

to be the one book of poetry that I fucking regret,

and that sucks. Bunch of bastards. Do it great

or don't do it at all. Fucking people from Frederick,

Maryland. Bastards. This is probably what's going

through their heads. I'm Meatwad. This is bullshit.

Oh, yeah. I had to throw the meatwad. Yeah, that's

what I do when I'm either tired or... Yeah, I

heard that voicemail. Oh, you did? Yeah, I listened

to that. I caught up on the Game Heroes. Yeah,

I heard your... commercial on Twig this week.

What? Yeah, they had your commercial on the latest

Twig, the episode 47. Oh, Friday the 13th. I

have not listened to that yet. Good episode overall.

They got lots of commercials in there. You're

one of them. I need to record one. They got one

of the same Game Heroes one, like the one I recorded

that I was telling you that was a bitch to record.

They got somebody else that's doing it. It just

sounds like it just flows. But, no, it goes in,

like, the same 30 -second time slot. And I'm

like, what the fuck? How's this guy doing this?

Because, like, I'm sitting here trying to ramble

it off as fast as I can get it out. Well, it's

probably because different people, different

voice speeds and stuff like that. Yeah, we can

speed our voices up or slow them down. But, I

mean, you know, different people have different

talents. So I very highly doubt anybody can do

Beast Wars Megatron as good as you other than...

you know, the original creator of David Kaye.

But, I mean, like anybody, like General Joe Schmoe

Geek. So, yeah. Yeah, I've been doing that one

a long time. Yes, you've had a chance to harness

your ability on that. Oh, excellent. Yes. I don't

know. I think I'm going to send my mom an email

and see if she'll even agree to go out to Best

Buy today, because I would like to see if I can

find those, at least the Beast Machines DVD set.

You won't find those. Shut up. I'm serious. Shut

up. How do you know? Because I couldn't even

get mine in the store. I had to go to the dam

like they had it, and then I didn't have the

money at the time. Then I went back a couple

months later, and they had all the crap from

Animated. I had mentioned this to you a while

ago when I had gone to Best Buy for, I think

I was picking up my Bill Cosby Complete Series

set, and I had looked around for animated, and

I could not find a single animated DVD. And I

didn't even think to look for Beast Wars or Beast

Machines. You know why? Everybody wanted animated.

They just couldn't keep it out of the damn shelves.

I call bullshit on that. I probably do too. I

don't think they even stocked it. I call bullshit

on myself. Alright. Let's see. Going to prove

you wrong here. Fine. Take me a couple of minutes.

Well, do some voices or do something because

it's taking this page an awful long fucking time

to load. Why the hell would I do a voice? Because

I told you to, damn it. They stole it from us.

My precious. Oh, God, that's scary. Yeah, I can

do an exact one of that, too. I used to get in

trouble in school. I'd sit there and I'd mock

the teachers doing that kind of crap, or I'd

go, like, I love this, especially when I was

working, like, some crap jobs and I was working

McDonald's and everything. I'd sit there and,

like, my boss would tell me to do something and

they'd piss me off because I was always the one

that had to do something. Never anybody else.

No, it's always, Steve, go do this. Steve, go

do that. And so I was like, I'd just start doing

all my voices on them. They'd start laughing.

I'd actually be a smartass with them doing the

voice and tell them, kind of reflect how irritated

I was. Yeah, and I'd say, like, and, you know,

do shit like that. And so they'd just start laughing,

thinking I'm joking, but I'm serious, and I'm

just doing the voice to kind of disguise that.

Come on, load, you bastard, load. Open. Damn

it, open. No, fuck. You suck. It's unavailable

at every single store in this area for pickup.

I can order it online, but... Damn it. All right,

let's check Beast Wars. Wow, that's freaking

crazy. Freaking Beast Wars. LeVar Burton, I was

just reading on Twitter. Yeah, on Twitter, I

guess it says tomorrow he's doing a, or which

would be today, he's doing a voice for a new

Marvel cartoon, The Superhero Squad. Wow, that

sounds gay. Anybody ever hear of a character

called Rhodey is what he says. And then Birdman

says, oh, you're War Machine. Yeah, I am not

liking where they're taking the Marvel animation.

Have you even seen an episode of that Wolverine

in the X -Men? I've seen the animation clips,

and I think, duh. It's... I don't know. It's

probably all right, but I don't know. I like

the old 90s kind of more serious tone than this.

Oh, we're going to do Teen Titans all over again.

I mean, Teen Titans had a good story, but the

fucking animation sucked. Then they gave that

to animated. Oh, that's part of the reason why

the series bombed. I mean, they wrote it for

like... Five -year -olds? Yeah, I didn't. I was

never a fan of Teen Titans. First of all, I don't

read comics. I haven't read a comic other than

my BotCon comic. I have not read a comic since

I was probably 14, 15, 16. I don't even know.

So I'm not like one of these 20... Oh, Christ,

I'm 29. I want to be 28 again. I'm not like one

of these 30, 31 -year -olds who are way into

comics that, you know, just absolutely must have

comics every month. It's not that I don't like

comics. I just haven't been into them in a long

time. And half the stuff that I was into was

all Marvel. I very rarely ever picked up a DC

book whatsoever. Oh, yeah, and get this. Fucking

Best Buy is backordered on Beast Wars Season

1 and Season 2. So the only thing, if I wanted

to get anything, shut up. The only thing if I

wanted to get anything would be Season 3. You

know what's funny about that? That's the first

season I bought at Best Buy. And then I bought

Season 2. And then I bought Beast Machines. Oh,

Beast Machines. And then I bought Season 1. Yeah.

I did everything ass backwards. Yep. Because

I like Season 3 best out of Beast Wars. What

was in Season 3? I forget. Primal changes into

his optimal Optimus form. Megatron becomes a

dragon. No, bad dragon. No, hell no. Fucking

red ass dragon. Don't say bad dragon. Bad dragon.

Why is that? I don't know. It just doesn't sound

right. Christ, the star pickup is limited availability.

Let's see. Come on. Load, page, load. Like I

said, open, damn it, open. You have got to be

fucking kidding me. I would be better off trying

to go to fucking Borders and getting it there

than looking on fucking Best Buy. Unavailable,

unavailable, fuck. Damn it. You people suck,

fucking Best Buy. They suck balls. Yes. I guess

the podcast for the Cybertron Archives, I guess

they already recorded episode one, but they're

unsure of how to edit the episode. And they're

all new at it. I mean, I didn't know what the

hell. hell i was doing to begin with i just kind

of started sitting there playing with it that's

why when i originally got the brainstorm that

is tfg1 i wanted to find some unwitting fool

to do all the editing for me because because

uh yeah i would end up screwing it up i know

for a fact i would end up screwing it up because

when i recorded um When I was originally started

using Audacity for my DVD ripping, I had recorded

something, and I wanted to add something to it,

and I went to click at the end of the thing,

and it recorded at the beginning, and it recorded

over what I had just previously recorded, if

that makes any sense. Beautiful. Yeah, so no,

I don't do editing. I just do the recording.

It's much easier. Yeah, the recording. Kind of

sucks balls. Wait, wait, wait. The recording

does? You mean the editing, right? Okay. Yeah,

whatever. Brain's not working. It's too fucking

early. It's only 6 .30. Yeah, well, when you

have to get up and you've only had two and a

half hours or three hours sleep, then it's just

freaking wonderful, and then you've got to go

back and do the whole 16, 17 -hour day again.

Wait a second. You've been up this whole time?

What? You've been up all night? Okay. No. No,

I went to bed about 1 .30. I think I fell asleep

about midnight, 12 .30. I don't know. I think

it's really helping me having that app, though,

because I'll either put on the beach waves, which

is just like the ocean crashing into the beach

sand, or I'll put on the actual ocean waves.

And, yeah, that's really helping me sleep. So,

yeah, this episode really has absolutely no direction

whatsoever. I'm surprised if I don't lose listeners

with this episode. Not saying I want to, but,

yeah, we've been all over the place today. At

least we didn't have any... Oh, yeah, this episode's

been... At least we didn't have any kind of,

you know, mention of... Astro Trainer Blitzwing

love. That was fucking ridiculous. You know what?

I don't even know where the hell that came from.

I was just sitting there, and my brain was getting

scatterbrained, and I was just like... And just,

like, spitting out words. I didn't even know

what that was. I was like... I was like, I couldn't

even... That's why I kept saying, okay, that's

it. That's it. I'm out of here. See you later.

Bye. And I'm like, what? I cannot believe. And

then I didn't let you leave right away. I cannot

believe that he just said that. That was like,

holy freaking crap. Oh, good lord. Yeah, pretty

much. That's messed up. That is so messed up.

Yeah, at least I'm not. Bringing that back up.

Well, that's fine, but that's... Well, it wasn't

exactly as sporadic as it originally was, so,

I mean... It goes along with the randomness that

is Supplemental Episode 5. So, yeah. And if this

stupid program would load... I'm trying to pull

up the script for... I think it's... Episode

5 I have to pull up because obviously I need

to get the closing correct. Let's see, 13, 5.

Because obviously episode 6 will be after this.

All right. You got anything else you want to

say? Hell if I know. I don't know. Freaking early.

I just know I'm going to be... This episode's

due out this Friday, which technically is not

this Friday. It's technically today, which, yeah.

Well. Because we're recording this. It's coming

out two days from now, correct? But I'm going

to record the intro. I'm going to record a separate

intro and outro. So technically, this episode

comes out two days from now, but technically

it's out today. No, because... Because by the

time they'll be reading the live recording, it'll

be today. Oh, God. Stop making my fucking brain

hurt. I'm going to record my intros and my outros

as it was... Why the hell would you want to do

that? All right, whatever. I'll just do it now.

You'll have one clip. You only have to use the

two themes. Okay. What? Well, no, we'll use your

theme. Oh, God, stop it. That's what I'm saying,

the two themes, the intro at the beginning before

this clip and then the outro music at the end

of this clip because I'm going to just go ahead

and do my ending speech now. So I just slap the

ending on it. Pretty much. The season two audio.

You put it on here before we talk as of right

now. So we're talking now, but when you go to

edit it, you put the season two audio before

this clip, and then this clip, and then the season

two outro music to end the... So I have to cut

this clip. You have this clip in the middle.

Your beginning is the Season 2 audio, which you

play first, then the clip, and then the Season

2 ending audio, which you play after this clip.

It's like you put the three things in a playlist

and you play them all at once, but they're all

different files. Yeah, I kind of figured that

out the first time. And don't forget to embed

the artwork. Yeah, if my iTunes actually lets

me do it, it pissed and moaned. What did your

iTunes do last time? It basically gave me a big

little finger. Okay. Why? What was happening?

It told me no. It says fuck you. Oh, Lord. You

still have the instructions, right? Do you need

me to email them to you again? You know what?

If I really need the instructions, I'll just

listen to this clip again. No, no, no. I mean

as far as embedding the artwork. Okay. No, I

have that. I remember that part. That's easy.

All right. So, that's it. That's all for this

episode of the TFG1 Podcast. Join me next time

when I'll be reviewing five more episodes from

Transformers Generation 1, Season 2. Those being

The Immobilizer, The Autobot Run, Atlantis Arise,

Day of the Machines, and Enter the Nightbird.

There are four ways for you to get in touch with

me or leave feedback for the podcast. The first

is that you can visit the PredaconEmpire .com

forums and get all your Transformers discussion

topics there. The second is that you can follow

me on Twitter. My name on there is tfg1podcast.

The third is you can visit the earth2 .net forums.

That's www .earth -2 .net. I have a forum thread

over there under the banter subheading for the

podcast. And the fourth is the email address,

which is tfg1podcast at gmail .com. Before I

do the little closing thing, I'd like to say

the email segment has pretty much been dropped

for right now, seeing as how I get no fucking

emails. So, yeah, for now, I'm Michael Blanchard

with... With... Steve slash Megatron. No, I was

just delaying it on purpose. Oh, okay. Let's

read... See, you're supposed to catch that cue.

No, you're supposed to... do the friggin' Q on

time. Okay, for now, I am Michael Blanchard with...

Steve slash Megatron of all things Transformers.

Saying the immortal words of Optimus Prime, transform

and roll out, and thank you for listening. Until

next time. Yes.