347 – GCRN At The End Of 2024!!

This is Batgirl, and you're listening to the

Geekcast Radio Network. Welcome to the 347th

episode of GeekCast Radio. I am one of your hosts,

Steve Schumacher, and joining me is Steve Megatron.

Almost two in a row, folks. Woo woo! Yeah, we

had the Craig Miller interview, the director

of the, um, what's his, director of Star Wars

Fan Relations, that's what his title was. He's

also a film producer and writer and all that

good stuff. Dave Draper and I did that on Studio

2009 as well as GeekCast Radio. You and I just

did the breakout roles of Jim Carrey in episode

345, and this will be the... It's not a year

-end show, folks, because we are so underprepared

for that. But this is GCRN at the end of 2024!

So we're taking the even year and going out on

an odd episode number, so that's because we so

odd around here. How the hell have you been since

the Jim Carrey episode, sir? Pretty good. Pretty

good. You could say I'm all righty then. For

half a second there, I was going to say you're

the Grinch. I saw an interview about that, speaking

of which, where he was explaining how he did

that or he was showing it. And they're like,

oh, look, it's the Grinch. And he goes, you know,

whatever his phrase is and does the face thing.

And they're like, oh. It really wasn't a mask.

Yeah, no, I saw that one too. Yeah, I saw that

as a reel on Instagram. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

no, it was his actual face. It wasn't a mask.

It was, yep. Because back in those days, you

could actually paint somebody's face and put

them in a fur suit. Whereas nowadays, that would

probably be done with a bunch of computers and

images and artificial whatever. Bunch of fake

Hollywood crap. Huge difference in Hollywood

making fake crap out of nothing, whereas now

it's like, here, let's just put Gemini in control.

Or Copilot, or whatever. But we are here. It

has been another year. This was our 15th year

of Geekcast Radio Network. I have a note here

on my topics where I'm like, year -end talk,

less is more and more is more. And basically

what that means is... I've been slacking, and

I haven't really been promoting a lot of stuff,

because I'm just like, I'm being, I'm just getting

burnt out. But the more is more part is, as you

fine folks are hearing this, I'm in the middle

of pre -producing. The 31 days of Studio 2009

for December, because this one will air just

before Thanksgiving here in 2024. So happy early

Thanksgiving, everybody. We hope everybody has

a good holiday season. I'm going for a long winter

Rip Van Winkle nap after this. But yeah, year

-end talk. What are we talking about here at

the year's end of the 15th year, sir, with the

website and the stuff and everything else? Well,

just it's been a year. We've launched a new website.

We've transferred all of our stuff to RSS .com

off of Spreaker. We've gotten rid of the ads.

We're bringing back and reviving shows. And then,

of course, along with the new website and the

other things and blogs and video content and

things of that nature, we also launched a store.

Yes. Finally. Store. Well, he says finally, folks.

We had a store before, but it went under. Yeah,

I mean, I... I honestly really liked some of

the stuff that was on the old stores. However,

it got to be a bit much. Plus, Zazzle and Cafe

Press kept getting hacked. Yeah. And so that

didn't really help matters. The other part of

it was their structure for publisher cuts were

crap. And they didn't really let you customize

much. I mean, it was kind of, I mean, you got

to customize anything in their market. However,

you really didn't get much control over anything.

Like, it was just, I don't know, it was just

kind of complicated. And it was a pain in the

rear to really deal with. And so I tried a couple

other ones. Like, a few years back, I tried TeePublic.

They were kind of new at the time and they gave

me a promo thing with Altered Geek and I tried

it out and honestly the stuff I got from Cafe

Press and the stuff I got from Zazzle disintegrated.

Like the artwork. The artwork was gone. It disintegrated

or it faded. I still have the shirt from when

we went to Grand Con. uh the the geek cast radio

the gcrn shirt for grand con however the issue

with the shirt was the the graphic just eventually

just kind of tore away yeah and i was able to

peel the rest of it off and salvage the shirt

i still have the shirt yeah it's still and that

the shirt was a testament to mike power's uh

choosing of these shirts because we all wore

them and he chose a higher quality material,

and it still holds up. I mean, those were, what,

2011, 2012? Yep. And I still have the shirt.

I mean, there's no graphic on it, but it's well

over 10 years old now, and it's still not showing

any sign of wear compared to shirts I bought

since then that have all kinds of wear, and I

wear that shirt a lot. The Tee Public shirt,

however, This is funny, too. I had an Altered

Geek hat at one point. Yeah, you did. I don't

remember what happened to it. I remember what

happened to the Geekcast Radio one. I eventually

peeled the decal off of it because it was starting

to fade or rip or whatever. I wonder if I peeled

the Altered Geek logo off, and that's the hat

I still have. I don't know. But anyways, I bought

new. like these have the screen transfer and

they're a little bit better because they are

not an oval piece that were kind of glued on.

Um, but I, I have the, the T public altered geek

shirt. Uh, actually, I don't know if this is

altered or if this might be Zazzle too, but it's,

it's one of those, it's like that stretchy, like

breathable material. Yeah. And it's got Alter

Geek and it says get Alter Geek geeky. And it

was when I was doing Alter Geek Entertainment.

And so that shirt still exists. And it's kind

of bled into the, like the way they did it, they

kind of bleed it into the material. So it's always

there. And so the T -Public ones are the ones

with the two versions ago of the GCRN logo and

Alter Geek side by side. And I still have, they

by accident sent me two. So I have one that's

starting to deteriorate because I've worn it

so much. And I have another one that's in a bag

that I'm just like, eh, when the first one eventually

disintegrates, I'll pop the other one out. And

so, yeah. But I was like, it's high time to get

a new store. This one was really nice. They approached

through my Altered Geek email, like the media

at Altered Geek, which I haven't used that in

a while. When I logged into it just randomly

the other day, and I was like, oh, there's actually

something worth something in here. The rest of

it's spam. So I pulled it up, and they were like,

well, I guess you don't want to. And I replied,

and I'm like, hey, let's take this conversation

to the Geekcast Radio email. I'll be happy to

continue this conversation. They told me a bunch

of information. The company is called Fourth

Wall, and they do the stuff for VLDL. um like

the philip defranco the mkbhd yeah so there and

there's a bunch of other youtubers and people

on there nice so i i kind of looked at it they

do they do stuff for youtubers twitch streamers

tiktokers artists musicians podcasters and comedians

so you can also do which i found kind of interesting

you can do not only merchandise but you can do

digital products And member only like videos.

You can launch a mobile app. You can, which I'm

looking into that. You can do, you can do memberships.

You can do, so like if we ever decided to go

that route, that is available to us. And I would

do it through there just because I don't want

to mess with the logistics in the back end of

the website. Yeah. Especially if we decide that

like, you know, this is a crap idea and it's

not going to turn out. beyond that you know i

don't want to have to gut part of the website

i can do it through the website i just yeah yeah

yeah i haven't and i mean if i did it through

the website then i keep 100 of the profit anyway

but as far as like not having to revenue share

with these places but i think they don't take

that much anyway for the digital product and

it's like 3 % or something. So no, it's not that

bad. And I've, I've heard Patreon can be a real

pain in the rear and I don't like, I, I, it took

me forever to try and figure out how to use Patreon

and it, and that alone told me I don't need to

use them. It's a, I don't know what it's like

on the creator side. Uh, I haven't heard anyone

say it's like too strange, strenuous, but. it's

a whole thing like you got like i don't know

it's just it's a whole other thing for a whole

other patreon could be a whole other episode

with other people on it with us that have actually

created i'm not saying you haven't but i'm saying

i know people that have patreon stores and subscribe

oh boy it's a it's a thing uh what i like about

this is number one first of all We always need

to be striving to find the best places that have

the best fabric for any material clothing. I

don't care if it's t -shirts, collared shirts,

pullovers, polo. It always needs to be the best

material that we can get. Because the point is,

if you're spending... Let's just... Geekcast

Radio Network polo for $30. If you're spending

$30, you want that logo in the left -hand corner

of the shirt. technically right -hand corner,

but left -hand corner once you're wearing it,

you want that to last. Same thing if you're buying

the t -shirt with the logo name on it, or the

mug, or whatever, the hat. You want the logos

to, like you said, the Zazzle stuff, while great,

it was amazing for the time, and the only reason

why I like Zazzle more than any of the other

ones is because for the shirts and stuff, they

actually offered 6XL, which is what I need, but

that's just me. But yeah, no, I mean, this is

fun. This is going to be interesting seeing what

we add to it, and hopefully people will buy a

bunch of stuff for it. I plan on buying the glass

pop can. I loved that idea. I was like, I've

never seen anything like that, and I was enthusiastic

about it. Now, they did give me some promo credits.

It wasn't a ton, because again, there's you know

cost of everything and so right right and then

shipping yeah and i was like ah yeah it is what

it is but so i i ended up getting a um i got

a gcrn mug like just glass black mug the because

yeah with the logo just plain logo i was like

i just want a plain one so that i can sit here

and then you know if i do a stream i can be like

shameless vlog uh or if i'm on a just a random

you know like a zoom call or whatever because

i recently did a zoom thing with my old college

professor in his class and they're learning about

podcasting and i got to actually be interviewed

and speak on that class last week uh and So like

it would have been kind of interesting to be

like, here we go. Shameless plug. Right. But

yeah, so I ordered that and I ordered like a

polo shirt, like polo T -shirt with the logo

on it, kind of like an employee type shirt, because

I was like, you know, if I'm going to go to stuff

and I'm going to have like kind of that professional.

Yeah. I would like to have a professional shirt,

like not just a T -shirt. Now. I'm going to audit

it as well. Cause like they have, you know, like

Adidas shirts and things like that. And they're

stupid expensive. I would love to get my hands

on one. I just, it's, you know, it is what it

is, but I'm, I'm like, I'll try one and see how

well, cause they, they do. I've never had embroidery.

Yeah. And the polo shirts are embroidered, not

screen printed. Right. So I wanted to see how

well this turned out. So I used like a version

of the logo that's kind of like not all the little

glimmery effects on it. No, it's just the original

straight logo that you made a couple of years

ago when we did the relaunch of the logo. It's

basically like literally I was just looking at

that image. You had sent me an image, I don't

know, a couple of years ago. Whenever we did

this rebrand to the current logo. And I was like,

oh, cool. And it's basically just a logo on a

black background. That's exactly what this is.

It's just the logo. And it's against whatever

color. I think the shirts are only black, which

is fine. But that's fine. That works. That's

awesome. That's very cool. And so there's a bunch

of stuff. I can offer free shipping on large

orders to increase sales. You know, I can do

promo codes. I can do discounts. I can do, you

know, a variety of things. And obviously it comes

out of the profits. If you do those things. Yeah.

Which we have no profit right now. So I'm like,

I'm not offering much. Yeah. But, you know, like

if you spend a hundred bucks, you get whatever.

Yeah. And I'm trying not to like upcharge them

too much because I'm like, I'm just. I'm like

enough to pay for some stuff, but not like stupid,

crazy. And after 15 years, it's not like, have

we done like donation drives and things like

that? And whatever we did, we did, we did. But

I'm saying like, we have never been, Oh my God,

we need money. We need money now because we always

used to handle that by offsetting that with something

like what was done with Spreaker. and everything

else would be. That's why you had the ads in

the podcast, folks, at the time. And I'm not

talking about the ads that I put in. I'm talking

about the ads that are annoying as all hell.

Like, if you're not a YouTube Premium member,

the one -minute ad you'll see in the middle of

a video, in the middle of, you know, it's like

I'm sitting here talking, and the next thing

you know, would you like to buy some GCR and

merchandise? Go over to blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah. You know, like... Those interrupting ads.

See, now I can do shameless plugs for our own

content. Exactly. But yeah, so I'm working on

some ideas and I'm not going to divulge them

for the digital products right now just because

I want to make sure that I actually do them before

I tease them. And then we'll see where it goes

from there. Yeah, absolutely. There are things

I'm very actively working on and thinking about

and brainstorming. So there's that. We can, of

course, like I said, do memberships or subscriptions.

We can do a multitude of other things on it.

I can integrate it with our YouTube channel.

Nice. However, you need 1 ,000 subscribers to

make that happen. Yeah, that's true. You can

integrate it with TikTok. You can integrate it

with Facebook and Instagram, Twitch, X, Streamlabs,

Discord. Yeah, Discord's fun. You can X out that

Twitch stuff. No Twitch for that. Yeah, I don't

use Twitch. So, yeah, I mean, there's a world

of things I'm toying around with, and I'm trying

to see, you know, what. I think every major podcast

that we both do on this network of ours has to

have a glass pop can. Every logo has to have...

And I'm not opposed to that, honestly. I really

do like the idea. I was like, I would love nothing

more. That would be amazing. Yeah. So, I mean,

we'll see. I still have to resize a bunch of

podcast art just to make it fit. Well, yeah,

obviously. The benefit of when I'm doing some

of them on Canva is because I've kind of switched

over to Canva for doing some of the art because

I was using Adobe Fireworks still, and I still

do to some extent. Like my day job, I use Adobe

Illustrator. And then I'm still I'm dabbling

in all different software right now to kind of

see what fits. I like Canva for the sheer simplicity

of it. And the fact that I can easily drag and

drop into like certain frames that I've created

in there and it just simplifies things. And if

I need to expand the logo, I'm not losing any

resolution. Yeah, you know, I mean, I could do

that in Illustrator as well, but it's it's still.

Yeah. And some of the one digital product I'm

working on is related to some of that in Canva,

and so I'm kind of screwing around with that.

But I made the Altered Geek logo in Canva, as

well as the interview art and the Cyber Dragon

Ball art and the Geekcast Radio business cards.

Yay! And our Geek Meter. Yes, the Geek Meter.

The good old Geek Meter. The Geek Meter. That's

right. So, yeah, I mean, I'm toying around with

all of those things. So we'll see. I mean, a

lot of interesting stuff to come for the Geekcast

radio network going into 2025. There's a few

things I'm also working on that I'm hoping to

revive. Like the voting, the awards, the GCRN

awards. I can't believe I blanked on the name

of it for a minute. Well, we haven't done it

in so long. You're like, what was the name of

that thing again? You're like that one thing

that we used to do that was kind of interesting.

Yep. But yeah, I mean, tons of interesting things

going on for Geekcast Radio Network, which I'm

quite proud of. We've come a long way. 15 years.

Oh, boy. 15 years. I'm getting too old for this

shit. My podcast can drive. Yeah, kind of. So

it looks like if we did a membership feature,

we can do a mobile app. Oh, Lord. We've been

trying to do mobile apps. But we would have to

charge for the content to make it work. Well,

yeah, no, we'll look at that another day. Yeah,

but again, I was just like, it's an interesting

thing to look into. Yeah, in the future, yeah.

Yeah, folks, so right in time for the holidays.

You want some GCR and merch? We've got new things

that Steve's going to be adding. As time goes

on, but you can get geek cast radio t -shirts.

You can get altered geek stuff right now. I'm

sure he'll add some of the other podcasts as

well before the holidays. So head on over to

the store and check all the stuff out. And yeah,

seriously, every podcast logo we've ever done,

every major podcast that has a major logo needs

to be a pop, a pop class can. Anyway. So, yeah,

2025, things we are excited about doing and doing

in the new year and whatever is coming for the

new year. I just saw, and I know you don't really

care about this, that's fine, but I just saw

the Mission Impossible, oh, God, what the hell

is that, Final Reckoning trailer. So this is,

thank God they changed the title. They were going

to do the same thing that Harry Plopper did and

other things. Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Part

2, thank God they didn't do that. They didn't

do it as that. But the new Mission Impossible,

D23 was over in Brazil recently and they announced

a whole bunch of stuff. Star Wars Andor is coming

in April of next year. What If? Season 3, the

final season of What If? The animated series

is coming in December. The last eight episodes

is coming in December this year. It's going to

go daily on Disney+. There's just a whole bunch

of stuff that I'm kind of really looking forward

to coming up in 2025 so far. Yeah, I mean, I'm

looking forward to a number of shows, for one.

I've been watching everything Dragon Ball related,

one, to prep for the Cyber Dragon Ball, but two,

because I've got some of the figures now. And

so what I'm thinking about doing, too, is since

we have a YouTube channel, and I'm trying to

amplify that a little bit, is bringing my...

uh my own version of a geek showcase or you know

yeah the the the megatron repaints like showing

some of the repaint stuff show me some some of

my 3d printed showing you know just kind of discussing

some of the figures and uh some of my favorite

collectible items yeah that's gonna be very very

cool and yeah you could do almost anything with

the gcr on youtube channel you could do it as

an altered geek thing on the gcrn channel or

whatever you want to do that's fine i mean that's

that's what that's there for is for somebody

to create videos on it because it sure as hell

ain't gonna be me audio only folks audio only

and and to say that as well uh it's funny because

scanner 51 was was mentioning he's like i thought

you guys quit podcasting Wait. Oh, he thought

we quit. He didn't say, how about you guys? No,

no, no. He says, I thought you guys quit because

we were posting on Facebook once and he goes,

oh, you guys are still doing this? And it was

like, yeah. Never stopped. It was funny because

I didn't expect that answer, but it kind of made

sense because he was... subscribing on Google

Play Music or Google Podcasts. And as everyone

knows, well, Google had this issue where Google

Play Music kind of screwed the pooch, as it were,

and they spun it off into Google Podcasts. And

then what happened was when we submitted all

of our shows to it, they didn't stay with the

RSS feed. that I submitted them with, Google

would randomly decide to update the RSS feed.

And this is a Google issue, not an RSS issue.

Because I would submit them, like, for instance,

we had, and this is just a background history

of podcasting, but also of Geekcast Radio, we

used to handwrite our RSS feeds. So we had...

You know, for instance, geekcastradio .com slash

pod slash attf slash rss .xml. That's one. Then

we had FeedBurner. Yep. Then we had the PowerPress

plugin installed. Yep. Which created another

RSS feed. Because it was a podcast on there.

And so we'd create it, you know, slash category

slash, you know, all things Transformers slash

podcast or whatever. And then we had, you know,

feedburner .com slash all things Transformers.

And then we had blogtalkradio .com slash all

things Transformers. And then it went to Spreaker,

spreaker .com slash, you know, whatever the thing

is, all things Transformers. And then... And

then when we created the new website, it was

trying to do this again, but I killed all the

RSS feeds on the back end of this website. I

had to do some digging and research on how to

do that. So I neutered the theme, and then I

also added a plugin to prevent anywhere from

pulling RSS feeds from the website, which would

confuse a lot of these places. Because the other

issue I'm dealing with now is we have 15 years

of places like TuneIn and other sites that don't

let you submit a new RSS feed, but they won't

update the old one. So TuneIn, for instance,

I've sent them updates to the RSS feeds that

they do have because there's no way for you to

submit a new show. Because they're going through

some kind of a change and they don't have any

idea when they're going to have this active again.

So at the time, I'd removed Altered Geek from

it because I was like, you guys aren't updating

it. And then I figured maybe I should update

them with the new RSS feed and tell them what

it is. And then I sent it to them. They still

didn't update any of them. I did the legwork

of running through this to figure this out. Now,

mind you, when we switch from Spreaker to RSS

.com, it has a redirect option, and I selected

that for every show. Some sites don't pull from

that, and they don't care. So they don't acknowledge

that, and I don't know if it's a Spreaker issue

or the fact that TuneIn is outdated, even though

TuneIn has a contract with Discord to where they

can stream TuneIn stuff to Discord now. I have

never cared for nor have I ever used TuneIn nor

will I ever use TuneIn. Well, and this was the

thing is like Stitcher, Apple Podcasts and TuneIn

were our biggest places at one point. And so

I was trying to do my due diligence and update

these. Some of them updated, some of them did

not. So I had to go into because Spreaker still

had the entire archive of everything uploaded.

uh in their back end even though i wasn't paying

for it and it was supposed to be like limited

and they were like you need to pay for this in

order to have these but it would still have all

access to it and it was still monetizing it for

a short you know for because some sites were

still pulling from it i'm like how is this even

possible so i was able to figure out where this

was going on yep And so I went to these sites

and I started trying to do the legwork and then

it wasn't working. And so I uploaded new podcast

art to all the shows because I can't delete the

shows because it ruins the redirect, which I'm

hoping some of the sites fixed their sites. But

the. I fixed it so that the thing shows the Geekcast

Radio logo, and then it says, if you're seeing

this version of the logo for this podcast, this

podcast no longer exists on this site. Go to

rss .com or Geekcast Radio. That's right. And

so I did that, and then I deleted all the episodes

from the thing, so that if somebody does try

to play it from these other sources, it won't

play. TuneIn still shows all things Transformers.

Last episode is in April. And it won't let you

play it because I deleted everything off Spreaker.

So if you're on one of these weird platforms

and you wonder why the show is not there or that

it's not updating or it won't play, it's because

somebody else screwed up somewhere and I've tried

to fix it and they will not let me. So that being

said, I have uploaded some of the podcasts to

YouTube. They have a podcast tab now, although

it still kind of muddies the water because it

still bleeds into the YouTube video area. But

there is a podcast tab. And so I do have some

shows on this. And if you're on our YouTube channel.

And I'm trying to pull this up as we're talking.

I'm already there. Yeah, so anyways, if you go

to it, there's only select shows there. Like

ATTF, Podcaster Meets World, Geekcast Radio,

Studio 2009, The Beast Unleashed, Tooncast, Cyber

Dragon Ball, Altered Trek, and Altered Geek.

I'll probably add some of the other ones when

you get back to doing... phineas and ferb and

you know for pauka and some of the other shows

i'll probably add them to this also at the same

time don't necessarily want to upload the entire

archive no no because they're going to play an

ad they're going to monetize it yes they're also

they're also flagging some of the shows for copyright

because we played 20 seconds of a song. Or it's

in the trailer of something. Yeah, in the trailer.

Look here, folks. Studio 2009 has the most flags

out of everything on this list. Well, that's...

I go by fair use. And I've gotten better over

the years and not throwing in everything. But

I'm sorry. If we're going to sit here and do

a Deadpool and Wolverine... Podcast on Studio

2009, which should be episode 101 coming this

December. I'm going to put at least one of the

trailers in. Now, if I have to put the 30 second

teaser trailer in, I will. That's fine. I don't

have to put a two and a half minute trailer in,

but I find at least one trailer per film. So

people listening, even though I know people already

know this, I've done this for years with trailers.

And again, I will always consistently cite fair

use on that. And this is why I don't like. youtube

having a podcast anything because youtube is

not for we just did that we just did this folks

we just did podcasts and video are not the same

uh back in episode three whatever 300 and whatever

it was a few weeks ago a few months ago so i

mean it's great that it's there i like that you're

selecting various things and only various things

to put up there You know, but it's crazy. Well,

on certain shows, too, I've gotten to the point

where I only uploaded, other than Beast Unleashed

and Studio 2009, I've only uploaded episodes

from 2024. Okay, yeah, good. Because, in my opinion,

nobody's going to go back that far. I mean...

Probably people might if they Google it and it

comes up on the search on YouTube. However, I

don't really want to have to, because this is

one thing with Google, they can't seem to stick

to anything. No, no. They get an idea and then

it's great for now and then they neuter it later.

By doing this, I'm also just kind of hedging

my bets to make it easier on myself. If I need

to delete it, it's easier to remove. Yep. And

the other thing is, YouTube doesn't need to have

our 15 -year catalog. That's what our website

is for. And I understand, like everybody else,

not everyone uses the website or not everyone

uses... Like, they all want to use Spotify or

Apple or whatever the newfangled thing is now.

I think Pocket Casts is another new thing that

has been around for a bit that... does podcast

playing fine whatever as long as that rss feed

is is is correct it should be fine so youtube

honestly for me when it comes to the podcast

it's in constant like i would rather have you

doing new exclusive video con like if you did

altered geek live video not saying you're doing

it live but you know what i mean like yeah the

video version of stuff i would rather have you

doing video versions on our youtube channel been

having the podcasts on our YouTube channel because

that's what our website's for. Like, why have

you worked your ass off on this website for 15

and a half, almost 16 years to, oh, let's have

people go to our YouTube channel. Doesn't make

no sense to me. But yeah, no, lots of fun stuff,

folks. Lots of fun podcasting things. Things

that are coming up is, man, like I said, Disney

just announced a whole bunch of stuff at D23

Brazil. You know, we've got Mission 8 coming

next year. We've got, I don't even know what

else. Star Trek, I know because I just looked

at this the other day, Star Trek Section 31.

You've got to be excited for that film, right?

No. If I wanted to get kicked in the face with

a donkey, I would be excited for it. I'd rather

have my kid give me a black eye than watch that

movie. Holy God. It tells you how much I do not

care for that. Ladies and gentlemen, we have

a blast from the past. I will never watch that

movie. I will never buy that movie. It sounds

like a shirt. Yeah, exactly, that you could get

at the Geekcast Radio store coming soon. Yes.

Oh, God. Oh, man. All right. Yeah. So 2024, for

me and podcasting, it kind of went a little wonky.

Originally, this year, I was going to do the

90 Nights of Nightwing inside the pull bag. Two

problems. Number one, I was going to do that

starting at episode 600, and currently we have

only released up to episode 562, so I have 20

-something episodes to get to 600 at this point.

Number two, the problem is DC Comics, because

the way I wanted to do this was I didn't want

to do it single issue, I didn't want to do it

miniseries, I wanted to do it in trade paperback,

because that's just the easiest way to do it.

It's the most... linear way to do it and unfortunately

there are only about 58 episodes so from 601

to 658 that I can actually list all the Nightwing

trades from the entirety of Nightwing's comic

book history so I don't actually have 90 full

episodes of the 90 Nights of Nightwing so that

got pushed to the back burner and And I've been

doing stuff with Jesse Early, a .k .a. Matrix

Prime, on his show, Another Comic Review. We've

been covering the Energon universe. I've only

been syndicating the episodes for Void Rivals

and the G .I. Joe stuff from Skybound Entertainment

and Image Comics to The Pull Bag. So we'll have

some of those coming up here at the end of the

year. But Studio 2009, folks... Oh, boy. Like

I said before, less is more and more is more,

and this is where the more is more comes in,

because I'm crazy. We all know I'm crazy, but

I'm crazy. We've got coming up in December the

31 days of Studio 2009, starting with episode

100, which will be the final podcast approach

of the year with my buddy Terry Smith. I'm hoping

Deadpool and Wolverine will be episode 101, and

then... My buddy Dave Draper and I have gone

through and finished off, for now, the 12 months

of Star Wars that we've been doing since Studio

2009's inception all the way back on June 2nd.

June? Yeah, June 2nd, 2020. So we finished that

off. So that's episode 102 to 110. And then Dave

and I are going to go mystery hunting, and we're

going to discuss the first nine episodes of Columbo.

So we're going to go back to some old mystery

TV stuff. And then from episode 120 to 130, it

is all anniversary celebrations for films. I

just added this one. I need to re -email a buddy

of mine about this, but... La La Land Records

announced the 20th anniversary re -release, not

re -release, but new release of Spider -Man 2's

score. So even though we've already done the

Spider films, I was going to be like, hey, let's

look at it from the music side and celebrate

20th anniversary of that. You've got the 20th

anniversary of iRobot and Taxi. You've got 25th

anniversaries of Office Space, Bicentennial Man.

And then 30th anniversaries of Drop Zone, Pulp

Fiction, Forrest Gump, Demolition Man, The Shawshank

Redemption, and then Maverick and Street Fighter.

So at the very end of all of this, folks, episode

131 of Studio 2009, the New Year's Eve of podcasts.

And my idea here is we want you, basically the

listeners, to send in their MP3 audio clips to

us, however you want to do that. You can send

them to feedback at geekcastradio .com. Just

in the subject line, put New Year's Eve of podcasts.

Basically, what I'm looking for is any New Year's

resolutions you've had in the past, any kind

of New Year's traditions you have. For me, and

I'll say this in the actual episode when we do

it, but for me it was more like let's all go

to whichever relative's house it is and play

cards till midnight or whatever and yadda yadda

yadda yadda yadda. So it's kind of like we're

kicking out 2024 and bringing in 2025 kind of

thing. So that's what the New Year's Eve of podcasts

is going to be all about. Anything else you'd

like to say, sir? Is there anything else you've

got to bring up before I go to an ad break? I

don't think so. It's been an interesting 15th

year, folks. It really has. And Steve has put

in a lot of hard -ass work on this website, so

go check out the website. I remember I did a

YouTube video of this, but when I was looking

at the website and I was looking at the... One

of the sliders on the main page, I was like,

it auto -slides! That's so cool! Not the header.

I think it was the featured podcast. I was like,

wait a minute, I can just press this once and

it'll just move itself? Yay! That's so cool!

But I know, folks, it's a little stupid thing.

I get excited over little stupid things around

here. But yeah, we've got a whole bunch of new

stuff coming in 2025. We've still got stuff here

in 2024 that we're doing. Like I mentioned, 31

Days of Studio 2009, all that stuff. Hopefully,

if we can get around to watching the show, hopefully

Steve and I can finally close off Podcaster Meets

World because damn, man, that show. I blame the

GCRN Top 100 TV countdown for that. Number 50.

50, my ass. Oh, God. I'm not going to insert

the overall clip that I have from the GCRN Top

100 TV Shows episode that we did where Boy Meets

World came in at number 50, but I remember just

the sheer indignation from both of us. Like,

only 50? Really? And that's what spawned me into

doing... Into creating Podcaster Meets World.

And I've mentioned this before in other shows.

And I've mentioned it on Podcaster Meets World.

Originally that show was going to be like 100

episodes. Steve's like, no. Okay, fine. We'll

do it in seven seasons. And it'll be a limited

series. He's like, okay, fine. 20 episodes. I'm

like, yep. That'll work. We're up to, we got

to do season six and seven right now. of Boy

Meets World, and then we're going to get to Girl

Meets World next year. So we will end 2024 with

Podcaster Meets World with season basically four

episodes. Season 6, Part 1 and 2. Season 7, Part

1 and 2. And that'll be that. And it's kind of

interesting and fun to be listening to the other

show, the actual celebrity show, Pod Meets World,

because they are getting close to where we've

already been. And I'm like, ooh. That's why I

love listening to that, is because it's Danielle

Fishel, Ryder Strong, and Will Friedle, Topanga,

Eric, and Sean. going back and reliving what

they did and reacting to these episodes themselves.

And I just, I love that. I love listening to

them. So, yeah, folks, 2024 was an interesting

year. I will say another highlight for me for

2024, the few interviews we did get. Very, very

awesome. Thank you to everybody who came on the

show. for the interviews that we've gotten this

year. I'm just scrolling down here. Yeah, the

first interview we did was the Dynamic Music

Partners interview, the part one where they released

Batman Beyond Volume 1 digitally. Mr. BZ Collins,

I interviewed him. He's a voice actor. He does

a lot of Green Lantern stuff and other things.

He's a very, very awesome dude. And then we interviewed

Michael Hirsch for Animation Nation, his book,

and then... Batman Beyond Volume 2, so I had

Christopher, Lolita, and Michael back for a second

interview, and then we've got the Craig Miller

interview coming up, which will probably be out

by the time this is already out. So, yeah, very,

very awesome. So thank you to everybody. We're

going to be getting back into interviewing people

a lot more next year, folks. So, yeah, but we

have a very rich history with interviews, which

reminds me you should probably put up a whole

new graphic of all of them. Like just one big

picture. Everybody. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see.

We'll see. All right, folks, we're going to set

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and destroy you. Yes. All right, folks, that's

going to do it. This is GCR episode 347. I did

want to do another topic this year. I don't know

if it's going to happen this year or not, but

I was going to take Mr. Powers, Mr. Booth Ninja,

through his... Through his job, through his movie

projectionist job that he either used to do or

still does. I forget what's going on. I think

he used to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when we

did the two -and -a -half -hour Why iPhone episode,

I immediately had a thought of, like, because

he was talking about being a movie projectionist,

and I'm like, oh, that would be a cool podcast

episode because maybe I'm not listening to the

right podcasts, but... I don't hear a lot of

people who used to be or who are movie projectionists

talking about that kind of thing, and I think

that, for me, would get me more interested in

maybe going to the movies again. Probably not,

because I don't want to leave my apartment, but

that's beside the point. So that was going to

be an episode, and we've got a bunch of other

episode ideas that we will be doing in the new

year as well. What have you got going on, sir?

Well, aside from working on the new website,

I have goals. I don't know if I'm going to hit

them. I have goals of knocking out a few more

episodes of Altered Geek and of the Cyber Dragon

Ball before the year closes out. My goal is to

hit at least another two or three of each. We'll

see where that goes because we're almost here

against Thanksgiving. And then, of course, I'm

working on a couple of secret projects for Geekcast

Radio, and we'll see how this plays out. I've

got to get some other stuff in the works first,

but after I get that, I'd like to get into actually

doing video content, even if it's short form

that requires very little editing, because, let's

face it, I don't have all the time in the world

to even record the podcast anymore. True. So

I would like to make it simple, but I'd also

like to kind of do something. Yes, absolutely.

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Step into the future, it says. That's not what

I heard in my head. the seeds of the future oh

that really should read seeds of the future not

step into the future but i get it i get it oh

well that was that was honestly just a template

word so well it was like it's good i'm not changing

it there you go for now i am tfg and mike with

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