Seven Years, Comic-Con at Home, and Looking Forward

You're tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

Geek. Hello and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm

your host, Steve Megatron Phillips. Joining me

on this adventure into geekdom is TFG1 Mike.

Yes, and it's most likely the mic that most people

aren't wanting to hear on the mic, because I

assume that they were expecting to hear the other

mic seeing as how he's the mic that started this

podcast with you seven years ago. There's too

many mics hey The gang's all here folks Like

Mike and Mike oh wait That's right. It's funny

cuz I'm gonna Steve started to geek network and

then another Mike and a Steve started a geek

network Uh -huh So anyways, yeah, and in for

those that are that have commented no, I will

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go, I got it. You people want clicks? There's

your clicks. Well, it's funny because I... They

don't make a quiet mouse. Which you would think

they would. You would think they would by now.

Because there's often times I'm clicking between

tabs for information. Or I'm playing a game.

Uh, in the instance of certain games, you can

use a gamepad so you won't hear it. Um, Star

Trek Online, you cannot. So, uh, that being said,

welcome to Seven Years of Altered Geek. Mm -hmm.

We started with the BS that was BVS and, uh,

we ended on cancel culture by canceling ourselves.

Oh wait, oops, that's not true. Yeah, we got

in so much trouble for that. People were like

people were like you guys suck You're uninformed

Anyway, anyways Seven years of this podcast Wow

It's an accomplishment it really really is it's

kind of difficult when you think about it I mean,

a lot of podcasts don't actually make it past

like episode four. True. And then other ones

don't even make it past like year one. So when

you put it all together, you have a pretty blasted

good shot. We should. 370 episodes later, I mean,

I'm not going nowhere. Hey, you know what? Here's

the thing. When I lose my voice when I can no

longer talk when I can no longer say Fluckety

Fluck Fluck Fluck That's when I will give this

up. I Started this for myself Because I needed

something to do Yes, I absolutely love that people

have listened continue to listen want to interact

with me and I genuinely I've told you this offer

i haven't set it on air but i am even though

i'm not in my normal podcast machine mode at

this point. I am not being in my podcast machine

mode it's more like hey i'm listening to all

this new shit and i'm trying my best to cultivate

new friendships new relationships by listening

to these shows like. I know this is not the show

for this, but I'm just gonna say this anyway

I've been listening to the transmissions podcast,

which is a transformers. It's basically Is there

a Chris McFeely one? No, no, that's transformers

the basics and that's not a podcast. It's a video

series Transmissions is with Charles Shelton

Jeremy Dennis Mike something in Darrell something.

I'm sorry Mike and Darrell. I don't remember

your last names off the top of my head, but They're

basically They do news they do comics. They do

TV. They do could basically what we do on all

things transformers except Quite frankly they

cover it all and they cover it a little bit better

than we do sometimes because they're more into

every part of Transformers than we were we were

we on all things transformers pick and choose

What we're gonna do they kind of have people

that are covering everything well in TF radio

True with Brian Kilby and and Radio Free Cybertron

the OGs anyway, though. Oh, absolutely as they

are but transmissions recently did an interview

with FJ DeSanto who is the showrunner for the

new Netflix Transformers war for Cybertron trilogy

series and that was a Really really good interview.

And like I said, I know this is altered geek

and not all things transformers, but I'm pointing

out the flake You know, I'll I'll pull it up

right now and don't say out the the fact that

they actually covered something and it was good

Well, no, I'm pointing out the fact that I'm

Listening to thing like I'm not your horizons

Yeah, when I was when I am and when I was producing

stuff I had completely stopped well like when

I would listen to our stuff is when I would be

editing it and Then once we put it online I don't

listen to it again because I already heard it

when I edited it. But like I've been listening

to Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You, where he

interviews various people. Like he's interviewed

Justin Long. He interviewed Dr. Drew. He interviewed

Grant Gustin. I think the first interview, I

think I've mentioned this on this podcast before.

The first interview I heard him do was The one

with Stephen Amell where Stephen Amell had a

breakdown on the podcast and had to come back

and read and finish it later. Uh, so my point

is, is that in my off time of not producing the

mass production that I usually do, I'm doing

my best to Broaden my podcasting horizons by

listening to other things to figure out how other

people are doing What they're doing to see how

I can evolve what we do in the future Yeah, I

mean I I totally get that and I probably don't

listen to as many as I probably should of new

podcasts but I mean occasionally I manage it

but Quite honestly, I just I don't have time

because one, I don't drive anymore. Yeah. So,

yeah, I mean, I don't I don't have anywhere to

go for work because I walk down my basement stairs

and tada office, although not for much longer

because we we sold our house and we're moving

because quite honestly, we're trying to move

somewhere closer to all three of our jobs. My

wife works at the church. She works at the local

YMCA. I work at my job. And I'm already like

close to 30 minutes away. And her job, the one

where she cleans, that one's 30 minutes away.

And so quite honestly, it's just hectic. Plus,

when you have neighbors that kind of suck, it's

all the more reason to get out. Plus we were

kind of pressured into this house with our realtor

because we were in one of those weird situations

where we were running from a property management

company and He was also the realtor and the only

way you could get out of your lease was to use

him as your realtor So but the other the other

kind of crappy instance was they don't they wouldn't

do month -to -month All that's stupid. Yeah,

but it was the cheapest place for the biggest

amount of property that we had when we moved

here to Colorado. And so we were a little irritated

with the whole process. Plus he was like, it's

a house. It's like the last one you looked at.

And we're like, no, it's not. This one's cleaner.

This one's not. This one has this wrong with

it. This one doesn't. And so he was just being

totally non -helpful. So we ended up buying this

house that we're in. And quite honestly, there's

nothing wrong with the house. If it weren't for

the fact that it's on a busy street, which we

didn't know because when we looked at it, it

was after a snowstorm. Didn't think anything

of it. And then the fact that the neighbor's

yards were covered up by snow. And the one guy

next to us, he just comes up, just waltzing into

my garage smoking, doesn't speak English. And

it's like, dude, I don't smoke. And he tries

to offer it for me. And I'm like, please go.

The house and they the thing is is this family

owns the house next to us They own the house

on the other side of us, then they own a house

two houses down So it's like super they're super

kind of trashy in a sense and They in the most

polite way I can say it are kind of trashy because

they they have Jesus. It's it's it's irritating

and I get woke up by it every day So what we're

going to do is We've been vetting the yards to

you next to us if they don't take care of their

yard. It's also another red flag of you know

But right, but we haven't been that picky over

it We've just been kind of picky over the neighborhood

in general and if it's by a busy street because

we want quiet But we also want some land and

we want a decent house. And so it's kind of you

know those little Places to you know fold into

one and the unfortunate part like I said is that

and then That we keep getting outbid on houses

we actually overbid on a house By like 11 grand

and still mmm. Oh With a lesser offers for whatever

reason and It was mind you it needed a lot of

work, but it had a ton of land and it was 1987

it basically was a spitting image of my Michigan

house. So we were going to buy it. Not because

of that, but because of the land. So we put in

an offer on it and they actually went with somebody

who paid less because of whatever reason. Probably

cash off or something. I don't know but It was

infuriating. So anyways, we've found a house

that hasn't been listed yet. It says coming soon

on the the listing sites and so We Offered to

we we went up to him. We're like, can we make

an offer on your house? We actually went to their

house Yeah, and cuz Mary's like, yeah, what do

we have to lose? We keep losing houses anyway,

so So yeah, so we did that and they Unfortunately

like their their realtor is still going to Keep

listed. Yeah. Oh, we're gonna see if there's

other offers which I've seen that come across

a lot and What what's been happening is? People

Like I swear these these realtors are super greedy

because we met the owners And we go through a

broker, and I know nobody cares about my house

situation. But the people, though, we're going

through a broker, and they don't take any commission.

It's $600. They list your house. Boom, you're

done. And so we were hoping that, you know, People

would be reasonable. Anyways, these realtors

as our brokers put it has to assert themselves

and make themselves feel important So they you

know, they tell the the homeowner. Oh, you don't

have to take that offer. Let's wait and see what

happens Which is why we keep losing houses Even

though we have the financing we have the money

to buy these stupid houses so The church has

a leftover house that we're gonna rent From their

property for the remaining time. Hopefully we

get this house I should know the next week or

the week after kind of depending on what the

situation is these people are trying to move

At the end of October, so I'm unsure what's going

to happen as far as my internet usage over the

next however long Basically what he means folks

is the seven -year anniversary of altered geek

might be the last episode for the little for

the next little while Could be could be I mean

You know I've said this since we started Life

comes before podcasting and you have to you know

Take care of yourself and your family and all

of that before giving out free content so you

know that's just the way it is cuz speaking of

free content comic -con yes comic -con coming

to a comic -con near you I'm coming to a home

near you cuz comic -con at home yeah so what

were your thoughts about this now granted I enjoyed

the fact that it was free yep but I felt like

there was a lot of wasted time and when I say

that I mean it with the utmost respect because

I know these people are just trying to put on

a show to tease things or to fill the slots and

they didn't have quite a few different things

in it but my entire thought process on it anyway

was that You know they They seem to talk about

some of the things a little bit too much that

we'd already heard a ton about Or they they had

like cast interviews or table reads or things

like that, which are fine I mean, I know they

do those at Comic -Con and those were kind of

neat But honestly, it was kind of flat being

that they didn't actually have the personal dynamic

I think that because I, you know, I want to cut

it a lot of slack because in what, 50 years,

first time in 50 years that San Diego has not

hosted the San Diego Comic -Con because hello,

the virus and everything else and everybody's

at home or whatever, and no large gatherings

or more than, can you imagine if we were two

of the lucky 50 people that got into a Reduced

comma Lake. That would be amazing. But I think

that this year Hopefully it's the only year that

this happens with comic -con at home and the

technology and everything else It's pushing the

technology to the technology limits. Like we

aren't We're extreme. We are extremely technologically

advanced. But at the same time when everybody

is using it at the same time, it's a Taxing toll

on what the technology is able to produce So,

you know the internet's not gonna be here forever

folks. Well, I What's funny is I watched the

Star Trek panel. That was really the main one

that I paid attention to Not that I didn't care

about the other ones. I did but that being said

I Felt like we were getting kind of Shafted on

some of it like yeah, they had they had lower

decks which whoop -de -doo like I mean, it's

not the truck for me I'm not gonna crap on it.

It's I don't particularly care for the humor

in it or the animation style I'm going to try

it Trailers suck generally Just putting that

out there. I am going to give it a shot. I'm

not saying that I'm going to continue watching

it I probably will discuss like some of that

when We're doing like another episode of this

right But yeah, so anyways, I I felt like that

was kind of like meh The voice cast was interesting

and then they had you know some stuff about discovery,

you know, which kind of told some stuff but Again,

I didn't feel it was that pertinent And then

Picard it was a lot of rehashed conversation

that we've heard them all say a bazillion times

So like I said, I wasn't too keen at least on

that one Yeah, and right now folks if you go

over to CBS all access per card season one is

free to stream it is That's what I've been seeing

in advertisements They're trying so hard to get

that show to to matter Not that it doesn't I

am grateful that they did bring it back. I'm

not particularly thrilled with some of the Goofy

isms that they've brought in Mm -hmm, but You

know it is what it is. So it's still track. It's

bringing somebody else to it It's even though

it may not be my cup of tea It's you know everybody

has their own flavor of stuff as it comes out

so kind of like TMNT or Transformers and you

know like I'm not a fan of the recent Ninja Turtles

but you know it's bringing people to it and the

thing is is you know you wait long enough it'll

circle back around to what you enjoyed anyway

as I've noticed with like Transformers we got

you know after Beast Wars we got kind of a crap

shoot um with um you know, RID and the Unicron

Trilogy. And then we kind of went back and got

animated. And quite honestly, like, that was

kind of the pinnacle of what we got. And then

it started going back up, back up. We got, you

know, Prime and then it kind of... the new robots

in disguise kind of fizzled out for me again.

And then we got, you know, the Machinima, which

was... So so I like the animation. I didn't particularly

care for the five episodes or the five minute

episodes in the Yeah, the shorter time frame

on it was a little much but overall For what

it was because it was the shorter time frame.

I Didn't have too much of a problem with it.

I enjoyed the story I enjoyed you know, some

of the story bits were a little much but By the

time they got to the third one, I think it was

Primors or whatever. Well, they had Optimus Primal.

And I would have loved for Gary to have come

back, instead of getting the deep voice that

we got. But, you know, I was fortunate and happy

that Primal was in it. The new Cyberverse, we've

got Cheetor in it. So, I mean, like I said, wait

long enough and there'll be something that comes

along that You can enjoy again. And so I guess

that's what I'm trying to make the point of is

Even if you don't like it Like I'm not a fan

of discovery. I find a lot of Canon and plot

holes and people are like, well, you should let

it do what it's gonna do And I get that to an

extent but if you're trying to build off of 50

years of Canon, then it's kind of Ridiculous

in my mind to try and retcon it heavily But like

I said it's They they corrected it by the end

of season 2 and so therefore we're kind of back

in the same boat of you know It should be things

that I enjoy again with strange new worlds and

so like I said things kind of circle back around

But yeah, I mean I was kind of I was intrigued

by the comic -con. I've saved multiple Things

more so for re -watch later I know they've got

it on their YouTube channel but quite honestly

I don't I don't want to watch it on demand plus

if I'm on the go it's easier if I download the

episodes later and I much prefer that so So yeah,

that's that's kind of the boat I'm in at this

point with some of it But I was grateful that

they did do a virtual comic -con is the first

time I've been able to go to technically an SDCC

one Yep Yeah, it was super fun it was interesting

it was you know, like I said, it was an experiment

to see how it would all work And yeah, I mean,

it was, it was one of those things where it was

so different that I will say that not having

it in person probably hurt a lot of, uh, uh,

mom and pop retailer shops because, um, some

of the people I know that run certain online

stores, um, because some of these companies are

going with big box exclusives versus just. Having

stuff like that was one big thing that came out

of comic con this year that. The big box stores

and the box for the pre orders like you look

at the neck of turtles stuff and how their target

exclusives and people with you know. You know

bots that buy up stock immediately and it's sold

out and this that the other thing and everything

else and it was a nightmare it was. Specifically

to my interests i'll just say this the funko

shop. There sdcc shared exclusives that were

supposed to be on funko shop those were gone

instantaneously but that's old hat. with funco

sadly because people will get on there and just

just keep buying keep buying keep buying and

i guess funco had issues with their their load

times or their screen times because somebody

would go on there and like for example this is

not out yet but i know it's coming someone would

go on there and and grab a transformers funco

pop g1 megatron It would be in their cart, they

would be on the shipping screen, they would be

on the shipping screen for seven minutes, they

would get to the final whatever, and then it's

not in the cart anymore. Yeah, see, that to me

is kind of crappy. But it's not just Funko that

that happened to, it was a bunch of other people

as well. No, and I'm not blaming Funko, I'm just

saying. Right, right. It's kind of just crappy

in general how that process works because the

website can't. take it or people are, you know,

scalping where they can. It's not easy to make

money when you're, you know, or I guess it's

easier to make money if you're not there. Because

you can just use the internet and the power of

the internet and bots and you can do whatever

you need to do. Almost sounded Phil Omar. That

dude's awesome. Anyways. Yeah, so I mean I I'm

I'm a huge fan of the fact that they did do a

comic -con mm -hmm So it's it could be worse

It was a great experiment Yep, and so therefore

I look forward to seeing what? They they do with

it again Absolutely And again like what we said

It's nice that every like okay. No one got the

Experience that it would be to go to San Diego

and see it in person But for everyone to get

it for free especially in these times of Covid

and and everything else that's going on It's

just one of those things where oh, this is nice.

This is something to look forward to this is

something that You know the comic con international

youtube channel will have the videos up there.

Unless you know. CBS is you know CBS and Fox

and everybody else gets copyright stricken by

their own stuff. Yeah that was another thing

that was super funny to me. They were a bunch

of companies that got copy written strikes by

their own content. Never happens. Yeah, that

never happens. It was it was hilarious to me

just because of the fact that They were playing

their own videos their own trailers and getting

shut down for it So In all honesty like I was

I was laughing at the fact that that happened

because a lot of times like we get flagged for

stuff And it's not it's something super minor

Like it's not even it's not even anything like

worth You know throwing a big fit over and They

played like whole trailers and they got flagged

Yeah Yeah, it's just crazy a few things that

I'm looking forward to that came out of comic

-con I I cannot wait for and I know this is more

of a me thing than a you thing but Finneas and

Ferb, Candice Against the Universe on Disney

+, that's gonna be awesome. I'm looking forward

to whatever IDW is doing. I'm looking forward

to, obviously, War for Transformers, War for

Cybertron, Siege. I will tell people that may

not go to the Transmissions podcast and listen

to that interview with F .J. DeSanto, even though

you should. If you listen to it, he tells you

what you're going to expect from the Netflix

series as far as the longevity. Each series is

going to be six episodes, so 18 episodes for

the entire trilogy. You know they're going to

get Beast Wars by the end of it. Yeah, Kingdom,

yep. They pull YouTubers all the time and pull

people that are of prominence. I honestly...

They they I better be Megatron Beast Wars Megatron

I've been I mean, yeah, I I'm gonna hold my tongue

cuz I don't know and I'm not I Can't I can't

even talk because it's just I heaven forbid I

say something on one of the GCR in podcasts that

Goes viral and next thing I know we're in trouble

again. Oh, you know something No, not really

but Tell me off here. Well, yeah, that's the

point anyways So so moving on in the safety regions

We we also have the fact that mp3s are 25 years

old. Yes, which is amazing. I didn't realize

that they've been around that long, to be honest.

But I think that is great because we're podcasters

and we live in MP3. Absolutely. Remember when

Napster and all those things were like such a

huge thing? Oh, yeah. It was. Yeah. And I completely

missed the Blake. I'm very I guess I was very

late to the party on the whole Look for free

music online thing Because I never got into Napster

Sadly, I was reduced to lime wire. See I use

Napster briefly before it went down and then

I use lime wire I used Kazaa, Morpheus, Winamex

There was another one I'd use limewire and kaza

a couple of times. Yeah. Yeah, I can't remember

what the uh, there was one more And to be honest

like I can't remember what it was So, yeah, I

don't know anyways I for the first time actually

tried YouTube Music the other day. Yeah Not bad,

actually I don't like the cost which is like

nine bucks a month But yeah, I mean, I think

that it's not bad because it cuts out all the

commercials. It cuts out the intro crap. Like

if you're listening to a YouTuber, for instance,

that does a parody of certain music, they actually

cut out them talking at the beginning and the

end. Oh Depending on I think they have to trigger

it that way or like plan it that way when they're

building it But I was I was quite amazed that

they had that set up because I was able to Play

it a bunch of because what it boiled down to

is I was trying to Play music while I was doing

some cleaning at the at the church with Mary

and I was like, OK, this is just getting ridiculous

at this point. Because I was having to skip constantly.

And they... What was it? I couldn't get my playlist

to play. But miraculously, once I got the YouTube

music, it played fine. And you can turn your

screen off. But I think it's a little bit much

yet. How much it costs? Yeah, but I I didn't

dislike the service if it were like $4 .99. I

have a feeling I would probably keep it Yeah,

because it's more likely for me to To use yeah,

but again that kind of boils down to the whole

mp3 thing anyway, but Right. Yeah, absolutely.

I've been using Spotify since I think 2017 or

2018 I think 2017 and that's pretty nice And

well it is yes but you can also get an actual

paid membership you get spotify premium and when

can i got together i was like hey. You have spotify

i have spotify they have this thing called spotify

family. Instead of us both paying nine ninety

nine or whatever it was i don't remember what

it was let's come we still have our individual

accounts except it's just under one. One banner

Spotify premium for families. I believe and it's

like under 20 bucks a month for the two of us.

It's like 1634 or something Which it really really

works. I did actually try out a 30 -day trial

of Amazon music only because I'll put it to you

this way, folks. I grew up with mostly rock and

roll, but when I got to the 90s and I ended up

in Kentucky for 25 years, I went a little bit

country. And sadly, the only place you can really

get the actual Garth Brooks tracks, because he

has a deal with Amazon Music, is Amazon Music.

So I tried out the 30 -day free trial of Amazon

Music and I dug it. I thought it was great. I

thought it was really cool, but I still prefer

Spotify over anything at this point because I

like the UI the most. Hell, I even listen to

a lot of podcasts. Anybody that says, for example,

say a friend of ours, whomever, insert name here,

hey, I was on this podcast, my first question,

is that show on Spotify? Is it on Spotify? Because

I don't shut up because I don't want to have

to look I'm working from my phone. I'm not on

my computer I really don't want to have to go

to 20 million different websites to listen to

all these podcasts So I get it I guess I guess

that's just me and my first world problems Considering

there's more to worry about in the world than

where you can listen to podcasts or music or

whatever But you know what folks we need some

sort of entertainment like i mentioned earlier

i you know something to look forward to with

um with the comic so you know some of the comic

-con stuff uh mighty ducks finally hit disney

plus the very first mighty ducks film and then

the other two sequels are going to hit later

this year and i had mentioned that to a friend

of ours and he's like yeah but i wish they were

there now i said well at least it's something

to look forward to Because it's something that

this person and I both enjoy is those three films.

I'm like, well, hey, you know, in October. No,

no, it is not Neil. I will state for for for

the record that my love of the Mighty Ducks is

not shared by TV's Mr. Neil. I don't think I've

never actually heard Neil talk about talk about

the Mighty Ducks movies. He's probably like,

it's a travesty, it needs to be burned. I don't

know, I could be wrong. But I know that we had

a conversation about sequels, and he was like,

some movies just don't need those. And I'm like,

why? I was looking, and this is behind the scenes.

No Cluster 2 and Candy Shack 2, I kind of agree

with them. But I get that it's some things or

entries to certain people to Geekdom. Hey, I

probably would have never noticed Beverly Hills

cop if it wasn't for Beverly Hills cop, too You

know, but anyway No, so I mean the whole looking

forward to suckers here's the thing we had comic

-con we had San Diego comic -con at home this

year What are the holidays gonna look like this

year? I've heard People say that there have been

Halloween things on store shelves already I have

not actually seen this myself, but I've seen

people on Facebook Say that there have been Halloween

stuff on shelves already, and I'm like it's not

even August yet What's going on here? It's Christmas

in July? Yeah, I don't know it's it's been a

strange year and I think it's going to continue

that way. So, kind of jumping ship a little bit

to different topics. Something that kind of sucks,

this happened to Steve Blum. He had a live stream

Or not a live stream, but he he was giving out

free autographs people would send him stuff You

know is with a return label and so on and so

forth Well Unfortunately people took advantage

of him and his good intentions and Sent you know

way too many things and they would sell them

for enormous profit or abuse his time with unrealistic

expectations and He Basically pleaded with people

not to do this not to ruin it for everyone and

he's like You know he says I can't allot all

my time to a free service and constantly be abused

He says he really didn't want to do it, but he

had to shut down his PL box So all items would

be returned to sender he says you know this doesn't

mean that you still can't get personalized stuff

He says just you know resetting to go through

regular channels like everybody else so So now

he does like signings through his Livestream

and announced certain things on you know, Instagram

or things like that, but he's not doing You know

through the original methods anymore Well, it

makes sense because you know what? Here's the

thing somebody asked me And I've done this before

so it was only because I was desperate more so

than anything else I've sold autographed CDs

before the they were not personalized to me they

were just hey the band signed this you can purchase

it kind of thing it's a huge difference for me

to to sell something that is just the band signatures

versus say someone who's famous in the transformers

world that says to mike all the best and then

they put their name you know uh that that because

no one's gonna buy That because it's personalized

to me you would have to find another mic in order

to sell that to that person thing But so somebody

asked me a while ago about selling DCA you DVDs

that are autographed and I'm like don't do it.

It's not worth it the signatures like if especially

if they're personalized to you if it has your

name on it and then their signature it is absolutely

not worth it they you got that autograph for

you yeah you know and that's my thing is like

i couldn't like i've got autographs like i've

got them from like um uh i'm trying to think

of their names now um i know i got david case

um i got a photo with um frank walker i've i've

gotten uh autographs from uh bob budianski um

scott mcneal Yep, and and a plethora of other

people There's no way to give up those like yeah,

I don't have them displayed like they're not

I'm not getting rid of my Autograph stuff. Yeah,

if they just anyone goes a lot good. Yeah, exactly

if anyone goes over to my YouTube channel, which

is like I haven't used in years, but at least

have Some of the old I actually went through

and deleted a bunch of videos because YouTube

a while ago was like Oh my god, if you don't

do this the whole mark for kids thing mark not

safe for kids I'm like, okay, I'll just delete

all this then because what you might not say

for kids and then it's fine. Well, right? Yeah

But at first I was like, yeah, I'll just delete

some of it and then I did mark not safe Cause

I found out how you can do that for the entire

channel not just each individual video but anyway

if you go over to my youtube channel and you

look at my 2017 tour of where I was living at

the time in the apartment in Louisville on one

of my walls I have something that my mom got.

In 1986 when I was six years old which is part

of the autograph package for David Hasselhoff

I have a framed signed to Michael. You know David

Hassel, I have basically it's an 8 by 10 photo

of the guy You know how you used to always get

the the 8 by 10 glossies of either stars or radio?

Personalities or that it's basically that kind

of picture Like I would never take that anywhere

because it has my name on it with his signature.

It's like No, and it means a lot to you Exactly.

It's like the David Kay thing. Like there's no

way I'd sell it Like, I honestly want one of

those things where it goes, yes. But I just can't,

yeah, it's 30 bucks and I don't have that. So,

but yeah, so I mean, I don't know. It's just,

it's the fact that they took their time to do

it, even if you had to pay for it, like it's

the fact that you had to take your time to ask

for it. So to me, I honestly not part with it.

So yeah, so I totally agree with them there Yeah,

and I mean even if Steve bloom or any anybody

else that's in Voice acting or whatever else

if they want to offer a service where they're

like hey if you provide postage You know or whatever

or you know or it you know kind of like how didn't

you a couple years ago? Buy something from David

K or something or like I bought No, I bought

some autographed photos. Right, right. Exactly.

So you bought the autographed photos. Did he

personalize them to you or was it just, yeah,

see this? Yeah, that's the thing. I was perfectly

fine with that. No, absolutely. See, that's the

thing. Like you can do something like that. You

know, if you want the guy's autograph or the

lady's autograph or whoever's, you know, whoever's

autograph. They offer a service of hey, I'll

autograph this stuff for you You know as long

you know then do it. I mean, it's not that big

of a deal I mean as long as they're offering

it and especially now with the world we live

in with the whole virus and Even though we're

not really on lockdown right now It still feels

like we should be but we're not you know most

people are not wanting to go out of their house

unless they absolutely have to still. Pretty

much. I know I've always been that way where

if I don't have to go out of the house I won't

kind of thing so the virus for me didn't change

how I felt about it at all. Now I know you guys

used to used to go to parks and... Oh we go to

parks still. Well right but I'm saying... And

we go to the national parks and stuff like that

so... But yeah Yeah, I mean it's just one of

those things where I Don't know it just seems

like Conventions at this point I Would I've always

wanted to go to San Diego to BotCon to whatever

but now with the whole oh gatherings of 50 people

or less like I just I don't want to deal with

the crowds. I actually enjoy even though I watch

Only bits and pieces of the comic -con and home

panels that I watched I still enjoyed watching

it because I could do it on my time and I can

always go back to it I don't have to be locked

into oh You have from Thursday to Sunday to see

everything you can possibly see in this 100 or

200 ,000 square foot or however big San Diego

Is you know like the biggest thing for me with

San Diego comic -con is that over the years?

It's gotten so big that it's you really do have

San Diego comic -con is essentially Disneyland

or Disney World you have to pick and choose what

you want to do because unless you're You know

a rich orange asshat you really can't afford

to do every single thing can't afford it anyway

Most people can't afford it like in general.

Well, yeah So, but yeah seven years man, geez

Feels like just yesterday we started you started

this show Yeah, it does quite honestly, of course

it always centers around a Batman movie so who

knows Have you okay so speaking of masks Okay,

that's not where I was gonna go with that, but

sure. It says, and this is a funny one about

face masks, so don't get up in arms, anybody.

I'm not mocking it, I'm just saying this is funny

as far as what it's caused. Face masks are breaking

facial recognition algorithms, says new government

study. Yay! Because I'm not a big fan of facial

recognition technology because I think it's kind

of it should be illegal because Like it's yeah,

I think that's like an invasion of privacy So

Mass surveillance for the lose So that's like

one good thing that I find with the masks is

that You're free from being spied on by Pretty

much everybody. Walmart, Kroger, government,

street signs. You can't enter any of those places

unless you're wearing one. I know, so it's all

the better that you're not allowed to get my

face either. It's so funny, and I think I mentioned

this a couple episodes ago or whatever else,

but I went in for a sleep study, finally. I kind

of already figured out that I have severe sleep

apnea. It is what it is. Um, so I went in for

the sleep study. The technician that was supposed

to meet me at the, at the door to let, you know,

bring me into the thing was like, Oh, well, if

I don't see you or I don't recognize you from,

you know, your ID picture, which that's the one

good thing about this whole virus thing I'll

say about the whole medical profession is everything's

online here. We need your. your driver's license

or your photo ID just take a picture of it with

your phone and like the whole paperwork thing

for having to go to the doctor is all online

now absolutely love that but anyway I had to

like take my mask off for half a second and just

show her hey look it's me she goes oh yeah that's

right I'm like yeah I don't know how you were

gonna recognize me with this thing on with this

tomato on my face yeah exactly but no the, you

know, you mentioned the, you know, altered geek

in the Batman movies and whatever else. Seven

years ago, you and Mike Powers started with the

BS that is BBS. And now we just got the trailer

dropped for the interactive Batman Death in the

Family Direct -to -Video DVD. Did you see the

trailer? I didn't. I heard. I heard. So. Think

I posted the trailer on all of our on geocast

radio networks Twitter and Facebook and everywhere

else So you can probably go back and watch the

trailer, but basically it's similar to what the

Carmen San Diego Thing not that not this not

the television show series But they did a choose

your own adventure Carmen San Diego special on

Netflix. It's similar for all that I don't think

so because like I know Netflix got in trouble

for it for black mirror or something like that.

I don't I've never paid attention to Black Mirror,

so I have no clue. Well, the thing is, Choose

Your Own Adventure, if they use that title, it's

owned by a company called Choose Your Own, and

they can sue anybody that uses it, so I'm just

kind of curious. I honestly do not remember.

I know it was, I think they call them Interactive

Adventures now, or Interactive something, or

whatever it is. I honestly do not. I honestly

do not remember but the point is is that this

new movie didn't I put it on the cheese here

and I Guess I didn't I guess I'll have to anyway

It's basically death in the family and instead

of calling a 900 number like back in the 80s

or 90s You can actually choose whether Robin

dies whether Batman saves him whether he comes

back from the day, you know you have three different

choices of what happens to Jason Todd Robin within

this movie and there's multiple endings that

you'll be able to see uh... so I don't know I

I think it's kinda lazy for a movie to do that

but whatever I mean it's interesting I'll give

him that yeah I like the concept I just don't

see it applying necessarily to that So another

thing that kind of dropped at Comic -Con is that

apparently G4 is returning in 2021. Yeah, I saw

that and I was like, okay, I could get behind

that. What I missed from it is they had this

show that was, that's actually how I got introduced

to Unreal Tournament 2004, is they had a game

show where they They kind of had teams play the

game deathmatch style against each other on it

And so I liked that show and that's actually

I think where Kevin Pereira came from Before

he became like the host of the screensavers attack

of the show or whatever I think it's funny that

Leo Laporte took back the name the screensavers

G4 like had bought out tech TV, which had bought

out ZD net or ZD TV Yeah, I'm old Yes, we are

all. And tech TV. But anyways, yeah, I think

that idea is kind of neat to come back for a

new generation. Yep. And what else? Let's see.

Sadly, not that I want to end the episode on

a sad note, but Regis Philbin passed away. Very

very sad As far as I know not due to the virus

no he died of old age Okay, there's that so that's

that's a plus. He didn't die of Unnatural causes

No, he wasn't he wasn't the weakest link he he

Wanted to be a millionaire, but unfortunately

that doesn't save you from that Bad joke, sorry

Wow Well, it's nice to know altered geek really

hasn't changed all that much in seven years Not

really not really but anyways, yeah, it's it

is sad that he died yeah, it's Because I know

that he was like a cultural icon for a number

of people Yeah, I mean multiple generations especially

with His morning show his live show because it

used to originally when I remembered it was live

with Regis and Kathy Lee Yeah, because it was

Regis and Kathy Lee Gifford and then obviously

it was Regis and Kelly because Kelly Ripa came

on and now it's live with Yeah, now it's like

live with Kelly and Ryan or something. I forget

Yeah, they keep changing they it's funny because

they gave one guy like the shot at it And he's

like he was there for like a month and a half.

He's like, oh, I'm going to Good Morning America

Yeah So was that Michael Strahan? Yeah Yeah,

I never cared for that guy. I never cared for

me there But I thought it was kind of humorous

that he's like I used you for the bumping step

to get to the better show the one that everybody

pays attention to I don't care for either one

of them I find them both like I don't know I

don't I don't find any of them very entertaining

but when Regis was on I love yes I love Regis

and Kelly because it was so the not just the

age gap but the the the difference of their experiences

and what was going on in their lives at the time.

I love that contrast on the show. It's funny,

Jeopardy is running classic, they're doing out

of the vault stuff. And as of this recording,

Monday, July 27th, they ran the episode. where

Regis Philbin was on Celebrity Jeopardy with

Alex, and I forget who else was on, and I gotta

watch that. I thought you were gonna say Celebrity

Deathmatch, and I was like, what? No! No, no,

no! Next time on Celebrity Deathmatch! Um, anyway.

Regis Philbin versus Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek

in a triple threat! Against Ryan Seacrest, Nick

Cannon, and... The old squad destroys the new

one It's yeah, I don't know there ain't no school

like the old school no But you know say the V,

but I guess that about rounds out this episode

Yes, it does so things that people found entertaining

at Comic Con That's what I would like to know

Yeah, exactly. What are some things that I possibly

missed because let's face it I didn't watch all

of it. So I probably missed quite a bit Yeah,

I'm right there with you So what Would you like

to pimp out for this episode? Oh, let's see.

I don't know 12 years of all things transformers

the pull bag has made a sort of return not really

but sort of it's kind of nice that I and luckily

and I appreciate them being able to do this episode

381 and 382 actually you edited episode 381 but

episode what episode was that I don't remember

anyway Two of the episodes recently, and one

of those that's coming up, I actually got other

people to edit for me that wasn't you or I, because

I can't currently edit. But yeah, episodes 381

and 382 are coming up. They're both origins of

comic reading episodes. I'm not really doing

anything else other than whatever you and I do

together at this point, because... My computer

is still in storage. Hopefully with this next

stimulus package we can get that storage unit

out here and I can actually have my computer

back. Of course, that scares the hell out of

me because it has to go through so many damn

updates because it hasn't been updated since

December of last year. I think there's only been

four. I don't know. It didn't break anything.

I'm still using everything, so there's that.

That's good So So yeah, so yeah, that's About

it. I think so until next time get altered get

geeky with the alter gate