IDW Comics, Snyder Cut, and Elon Musk on Higher Education

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it almost sounded like bane there for a minute

from the dark knight rises i saw somebody with

a mask like they had a face mask of bane and

they were using it and they're like i actually

have a reason to use this and i says and if when

people can't understand you from wearing it just

like any other mask you have the excuse of well

i'm bane What we have here is a bunch of podcasters.

There's a podcaster that don't know how to podcast

because they can't do it professionally. Yeah,

so it's entertaining to me. I've been having

fun watching all these different masks that pop

up and the fact that you cannot understand anybody

that wears them unless you're standing within

their six -foot circle. Yeah, I promised myself

I was not going to bring this up this week, but

I'm sorry I have to. Before we recorded this

podcast, my wife and I had to go make a Walmart

run for some groceries and some other household

knickknacks we needed. I counted within seven

people that were behind me in line waiting to

get into Walmart. Six of them did not have masks

on. That's not counting myself and my wife because

we were wearing masks and I'm like, oh My god,

whatever. Anyway, we're here to have fun Because

the geek cast didn't work and altered geek entertainment

and whatever thing you want to age out on We're

all about the fun here at this podcasting network

Even though we make fun of really bad podcasters

that put their hand over their mouth while they're

talking Well, you should speak about yourself

Michael I am I swear that's what he did during

that entire movie There's like no possible way

that that movie sounded that horrible. Yeah,

I can't even fathom like why. Like why? That

was like one of my biggest pet peeves. I'm sitting

in the theater watching that in IMAX and I'm

going... You can't understand a word coming out

of his mouth. I felt like being, you know, Chris

Tucker and sitting there going, do you understand

what's coming out of my mouth? Um, at him, you

know, it just, I don't know. Anyways, uh, before

I went on that tirade, um, well, I guess we should

go to. Since we're already on this this kind

of crappy topic of kovat. Anyway IDW's recent

Announcement you should say I mean it's it's

very sad At first they were furloughing employees

and now they're just straight laying them off

IDW has been in trouble for a while before kovat,

but they've been in trouble for Just staying

afloat. Really? Yeah. That's sad because they

have such awesome content. I know! Like honestly

their art and their stories put DC and Marvel

to shame. I know. You hear that people? Get on

the IDW boat. I mean they have all your classic

80s franchises anyway. Yep. They have tons of

Star Trek comics for those trekkies out there.

I know I'm they have transformers They've been

getting back into those So they have transformers.

They have turtles. I mean seriously folks. I've

said this before and I'll say it again Anyone

who has ever been a fan of the Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles needs to read the IDW main ongoing

from the beginning because it is Singly the greatest

comic book series of all time. It takes everything

in the last 30 plus years, 35, whatever it is,

35, 36, whatever it is years of TMNT and just

absolutely is a love letter to the TMNT franchise.

Kevin Eastman is on it. Tom Waltz, Bobby Kernau.

Bunch of awesome artists the first 100 issues

are amazing Just go read it go read everything

turtles from w transformers all that good stuff

They just have such really cool interesting comics

Well and not not to mention that but we've been

quoted in them Yes, we have so I'm a little bit

more partial but But even then like I I don't

promote things that I don't personally like It's

funny you mentioned that because I actually bought

every cover of it after I saw that Yeah, you

did. I was like I was still haven't sent my copy

to me yet. You rat bastard anyway It's funny

you mentioned that because we were actually quoted

on issue 55 of IDW's Teenage Ninja Turtles This

is what I was saying earlier. If you have ever

been a TMNT fan, you need to check this out Geekcast

radio Now I love that they quoted the network

and not me I I absolutely love that because that

gets our name out our name. Our network's name

is on a fucking comic book. I'm sorry to curse

but holy crap What's even funnier is You know

back in the Back in the day funny. You should

you know also bring this up. I was reminiscing

about 2010 Mm -hmm, and I think you know where

I'm going with this Oh boy where we were literally

on every video game website on the internet Literally

everywhere well actually early Maurice LaMarche

was but But yeah, I mean we were we were literally

on every Gaming site on the net like you know

joystick which is now in gadget, but You know

just all kinds of Video game sites were just

it was just everywhere. I I could not believe

it Yeah, you could not believe it I was up late

at night, and I was just like I was looking at,

funny enough, I was looking at the Batman Arkham

games, and I was going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa, whoa. I was like, dude, this is everywhere.

Yeah. See, as the guy who was doing the interview,

I... Thought Maurice LaMarche was gonna come

after me not that he ever would he's an amazing

person. He's a nice Guy, but like seriously,

I know people and I'll mention their name in

a moment here I know people that have gotten

cease and desist on interviews from dist from

Disney lawyers. Oh wow, okay Yeah, so what you

have no idea the agony that day after we get

off that interview because I my biggest thing

with interviews is unless we have a certain date

we have to hit Now back then I was getting interviews

out as soon as I could Which was good as soon

as we could get them out because I'm like, okay

I just did this amazing talk with this person

whomever more race to Marsh whomever doesn't

matter if it's him or if it's somebody else.

Oh my god the world needs to hear like our Kevin

Connery interview that to this day is still my

favorite Kevin Connery interview not because

we did it but because the answers he gave to

our questions the way he tells his September

11th story on our interview is my I've heard

him tell it other places but the way he told

it to us is by far the best version That story

really? Yeah But no that day after we get done

with with Maurice LaMarche and we got the interview

online and it went viral and I'm like just waiting

for an email to come in from it from his people

or from him saying hey, please take this down

Blah blah blah blah. He wasn't supposed to say

that blah. I was waiting for Warner Brothers

or whomever was doing the I forget Rocksteady

was doing I was waiting for Warner Brothers or

Rocksteady to contact me and say you need to

like x -nay that interview say Because I'm oh

my god. I was quite surprised that that even

came out in the first place I was I was ecstatic

to see it. I was like, oh this could be our our

big break I mean, yeah, I mean, it just could

have gone anywhere. But I was, again, I was ecstatic

to see that it had blown up like it did. Yeah,

because that was an interview that myself and

Optimus Solo did, Kevin Thompson. And that was

not like the way we structure our tune cast interviews

or our voice actor interviews. We have all these

voice actor questions. One of those questions

is. What type of voice acting do you prefer to

do? And we, he listed animation, video games,

you know, what, what, you know, narration, whatever

he listed, like through different things and

video games was in there. Maurice started out

his answer with, well, it's funny you say that

about video games. Cause I just got out. Like

it wasn't like we, we found out, like, I didn't

even know he was going to be Mr. Freeze in Arkham

city. Did not even know. Cause I was not, and

I'm still kind of not up on the current generation

of gaming. Wasn't then I'm not now So I had no

clue and I'm like, oh really? It isn't like I

sought this information out to say hey Can you

give us a sample even though I did ask him in

the interview to give us a sample and he politely

said that he could not because of obviously NDA

but yeah, totally As expected. Yeah, but it wasn't

like we sought out the fact that he was in it

It was just a simple question about voice acting

and what type of voice acting did he prefer to

do. And then he said it's so funny about the

video games because it's basically you in a room

talking to yourself. Which most of the time it

is. That's true. So yeah, that was a very fun

time for the network. I think that in the IDW

comic quote, are the two most make -me -famous

things we've ever done in 11 years. I would say

so. Aside from the fact that we threw, when we

did the first Top 100, that thing was huge. Yeah.

And each subsequent one has gotten kind of less

and less notoriety. I think one, because it's

a lot of us just tooting our own horn, and two,

just nobody cares. Or just doesn't care about

the topic. It's a lot of work and a lot of things

have changed since we did that first one Yeah,

I mean we did some that they were pretty good

I think the TV one was about the last time anybody

actually gave a crap like not only hosts, but

the guests or the listeners And and the first

one was kind of a giant Basically middle finger

to IDW or not IDW but IGN and Kevin and all of

us were kind of trolling, you know, back in what?

2010 we were trolling IGN because they had a

top 100 of all time, you know, animated series

and they made you click through 100 pages, which

I mean, I get it. You're ad based. You need the

revenue from the clicks. But at the same time,

It was a bit ridiculous like so when we did ours

we made this big point out of going Hey, you

only have to click four times Because the page

would have been too insanely long to load and

so we just like okay, here's the first 25 Here's

the next 25. Here's the next 25 and then the

final 25 well that and also optimus solo wanted

it to be a podcast episode series because We

could then Back it up. Explain why. And we took,

I think, 20 or more different. It wasn't just

us. It was 20 or more different networks. A lot

of it was about half of them were defunct now.

Yeah, they they kind of discontinued like Pop

Culture Network and Chicken Pop Pod and some

of these other ones that were big at the time

that kind of floated away. And it was great collaborating

with all these different geek networks which

kind of also was another staple I feel that Is

kind of lost in today's landscape of podcasting

And I say that because everybody yes, everybody

interviews with each other everybody, you know,

they'll bring out a guest or something, but I

feel like the actual These these big projects

don't happen as often as they should and I feel

like a lot of people either a just choose not

to be part of them or Or they just don't There's

there's not a lot of people willing to back up

their opinion Mm -hmm in a large Kind of almost

committee based type thing and that's kind of

what happened with the top 100 Yeah For me, it's

it comes down to basic this basic etiquette of

email. If I am going to sit and write out a pitch

for anyone, anyone and everyone to look at to

have them be included in something so. All encompassing

and such a large project. If you can't even spend

the time to read the email and hit reply or reply

all and say either a quick yeah sure we'll take

care of it or no we don't have time for that

right now or we appreciate you thinking of us

just an answer. Now this goes for me this goes

to everything in my life I hate absolutely loathe

waiting for an answer from Anyone. So do I. We

live in a world where we all, most of us, have

a smartphone, a computer, a tablet, something

with an email application on it that if you get

an email from somebody saying, hey, I need to

hear from you by this date or something, please

respond. Yada yada yada. It takes you two seconds

to get that reply or reply all and say Either

yes, I will take part in your project or I'm

sorry. I can't do that right now or whatever

it is I don't care if it's a no I can take somebody

telling me no, that's not the problem. The problem

is not knowing and as we all know Knowing is

half the battle The other half is red laser,

blue laser. Or extreme violence. I saw another

meme that was that it was it says knowing is

half the battle. The other half is violence or

something. And it was like it had Flint from

G .I. Joe. And I was like, well, I'm not reposting

that meme because it's just not cool. I was like

the red laser, blue laser. Yeah, OK. That's that's

100 percent part of the battle. But I saved this,

but I have not. Posted it yet. I don't think

I will so We all know the classic optimus optimus

sign who the hell is optimus slime? Anyway, somebody

from Transformers Ghostbusters Optimus Prime

You know the the classic scene from Transformers

the movie where he disembarks the ship COVID

-19 must be stopped no matter the cost and I'm

like Oh, and can we also talk about the other

meme that's going around now? You gotta be specific.

Oh, I will the meme that at this point in my

lifetime is so friggin I'm so over it and just

so just I cringe every time The the my plans

and then 2020 plans meme. Yeah, that one's gotten

old. You remember when memes were actually inventive?

Yeah, and they didn't like I created this this

funny thing on my Facebook my Facebook called

Monday memes. Yeah, or me I did it more so as

a sarcastic kind of slap in the face to the fact

that they're out all the time and bookmark them

like no other and it's funny because like I'll

just do a massive dump of all of them like on

my phone from from the last time I did it yeah

and some of these like yeah they're they're funny

and they're inventive but at the same time like

I don't I don't think that they're lasting like

when when these things first started and I made

this dumb I came up with it I scripted it it

was just I made a movie trailer basically called

the meme killer uh I remember in my first year

of college and uh it started off with you know

like the dancing baby thing like the ukechaka

you know um song from like the late 90s. It was

like a CG baby that was just dancing to Ooga

Chaka over and over. And so it starts off with

that and then it goes through like these various

different ones and at the time the whole, you

know, the Street Fighter one, the Hadoken, that

was one of them, or the the Vader, you know,

Force Choke, or the Owling or Planking or...

You know various other stupid ones like that

and then they started tying music to some of

them Before they had like all the current programs

that people use now Whether it be tick -tock

or some of that other garbage I'm old. I don't

care about that stuff. So So anyways, they were

doing all these different memes and I was I was

one meme short when I was getting it put together

and I was like, okay I need one more and then

I waited to like cuz they were they used to come

out like about every month and then they were

like every other week and then they were every

week and then they start coming out almost daily

and I was like getting ready for the next part

of the shoot and I'm like, okay I need another

meme and I was doing research and then I was

like, oh it's supplied and and so I was able

to use it in the video, but No, it was just it's

funny because those were more memorable than

a lot of the stuff that's up now because people

just kind of Forget, you know, it's just it's

gone and a lot of that old stuff kind of still

You know even the double rainbow like that was

that was something that I used in that But again,

it's I don't know I feel like the memes just

are not as productive as they they used to be

Yeah Yeah Um, so the one that always gets me

and I just saw this back on the 20th of May and

obviously it's because of, you know, the world

we live in now, but it just, it just always rubs

me the wrong way. Cause it seems like only maybe

10 friends of mine or less likes hot rod or slash

Rodimus prime from G one from whatever my plans

optimus 2020. hot rod obviously meaning that

hello because yes he did kind of get uh um uh

so that that is actually from patriot prime reviews

but star joes was the one that um that uploaded

it they also uploaded um 1985 thundercats my

plans 2020 thundercats roar um the best one though

from transformers the movie with this This, you

know, my plans 2020 thing. My plans, you know,

I am the leader of the Decepticons now. 2020.

Dust. This is bad comedy and it's Galvatron in

his in his canon mode, you know, but that's a

meme I am so already over at this point. I'm

just like done with that. Honestly, just give

it a week. No, I know something else will replace

it But they just keep coming up with new ones

sadly, that's my favorite one right now is the

one with with Thanos Yeah, you and Thanos is

like I've collected all these rocks. I've I've

done this and then You know he says just to end

the you know and then cues get some smart alecky

remark Be faster for me to pull this off on my

phone The Like I'm gonna read one just because

These are humorous. Well. I saw what was it Jeremy

Jeremy fine. I think was posting something the

other day or Somebody it was and that was him.

I couldn't help it. I just had to had to do these

um you know he's like you're strong but i could

snap my fingers and you'd all cease to exist

that's cute you know Q and then the federation

thing and then um you know there was another

one it was uh Thanos grabbing the helmet of uh

Robert Downey jr's iron man says i'm tired of

you people and then it pulls it off and it's

him from tropic thunder where he's like you know

the jewish guy playing a black guy and It says,

what do you mean, you people? And then it's got

a fake news report, and it's got Thanos' face

with a sad face and a news report. It says, Thanos

pressured to give back infinity stones. Thanos

claims he's not racist because he has black friends

or something. Oh my god. I was like, that's a

horrible meme. But you know I my favorite one

is is the once I've gotten this infinity gauntlet

and collected all six stones I'll finally be

able to shape reality with just a snap of my

fingers and the cues on the bridge smile I says

lower life forms are so amusing and snaps So

there was an image going this is not a meme is

just an image an image going around Facebook

I wish I had shared it at some point, but I didn't

it was recently Thanos on the left Iron Man on

the right. They were face to face and underneath

it has like a Text of some of what what's going

on? So they're they're facing off against each

other the text says that You know, it's like

this this hidden hidden moment from Iron Man's

history in the MCU Where Thanos says to him all

that for a little drop of blood You go back to

Iron Man 2. What did Venko say to him? make a

god bleed and You know Nobody's gonna pay attention

to that god anymore and I'm like, oh my god,

I can't believe they They've been I mean I knew

that they were planning Thanos and Avengers and

all of that, but just seeing that written out.

I was like Holy crap the Marvel Cinematic Universe

is friggin deep It's definitely some strong writing

unlike some of the DC films Yeah, not that I

haven't enjoyed some of it in the past But I

don't know like I don't know I Feel like they've

kind of missed the boat, but I think it's a lot

of Studio I Don't know what it is. I Mean, I'm

very sad that Snyder had a loss in his family

at the time and so I he had to drop out of Justice

League But I really want all these people to

shut up about the dang gum Snyder cut And now

that we're getting it, maybe they will. This

will just be one of those other things people

complain about. Do we really need to spend all

this to get it? Exactly. It's just, yeah, I don't

I don't honestly care. I don't either. Like it

came out the way the fans are just crying about

this thing. I don't even care. Like it's it's

it's old news. When did the movie even come out?

What was it like three years ago? Justice League

was 2017. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I mean why

why are people still clamoring for this? Like

it honestly doesn't matter. Yes, we were dealt

a bad hand but It's not affecting your daily

life And it's not even that we were dealt a bad

hand. Well, Snyder's cut was but It's still gonna

have some of the other guys shots in it because

there were things that were not shot Yeah, exactly.

I mean the dude had a death in his family It

wasn't like he got fired for no good reason or

for some weird, you know sexual in you and don't

reason or something the dude had a death in his

family and I'm I feel very sorry for him, but

at the same time I Don't really Haven't even

I've only seen bits and pieces of Justice League.

I am so it came out. I have not watched it since

I Haven't even watched it all the way through.

I've seen bits and pieces. I know about You know

whatever but like I don't I I don't have a problem

with the DC EU or whatever they call it whatever

Man of Steel was okay, I thought the way they

told the origin story was somewhat unique and

how they told it, not the origin story itself,

because we all know what the origin story is,

just how they framed it, I like that. But what

has, you want to talk about, even though we were

never really famous for this, but you want to

talk about something a podcast was friggin' built

on. Altered Geek was built. on the BS that is

BVS. I mean, come on. You know, you started the

show in 2012. Well, the night we were going to

launch, there was no topic. Yeah, there was.

We were going to talk about it. And then all

of a sudden, about 35 to 40 minutes before we

recorded, we were asked about the Batman information.

And we saw that coming out. We were like, Hmm

that could be fun. Yeah And then we gave the

idea of what we wanted to see and we got exactly

what we wanted to see mm -hmm so And it's funny

not to not to transition but to kind of tie it

in I Had watched it before but apparently a second

season has come out on Hulu they have this series

called iconic characters And what this is is

is basically actors coming on Who are being interviewed?

So the interviewee the the interviewer is off

-camera sometimes you hear them ask questions

and sometimes you don't you just basically each

actor is you know, they'll say whatever film

it is like Take like Simon Pegg Star Trek Star

Trek into darkness and Star Trek beyond so he's

talking about all three of these films kind of

thing and then sometimes the the The interviewer

will ask him a question So basically there's

20 something episodes of this series on Hulu

and it's a fun little interview series that you

get to hear from the actors How they either feel

about the director how they feel about the film

that they did or whatever and it's really really

cool and interesting I actually really enjoy

watching it because I know I know for a fact

is as Amazing and I don't want to say I don't

want to say anything negative because I would

never It is amazing is what we've done in 11

years and the the interviews that we've gotten

I know for a fact we're never gonna talk to Hugh

Grant or Ethan Hawke or Arnold yeah Arnold Nick

Cage I just love watching the series because

it's a fun look and it's from their own mouths

this isn't you know whatever news outlet reporting

oh you know this person said this about this

and whatever like it's a cool little interesting

series where you get to hear the actors talk

about their certain films from their filmography

like the like the title of the series says iconic

characters so they talk about each certain film

now there's another series on youtube from vanity

fair now say what you will about vanity fair

the magazine but um oh episode 309 of Cyberverse

is out. Sorry. Anyway distracted There's a series

on there from Vanity Fair called Oh, what's it

called? Crap basically, it's the same kind of

thing but oh it's it's career timeline. That's

what it is Where? They take a certain actor and

interview them From the you know from the beginning

of their career to whatever their current project

kind of is So, you know, that's kind of in the

same vein. I really dig that You know, it's just

fun it's interesting stuff to me because it's

not often that we're gonna We're going to you

know be able to Get these yeah career timeline

has 42 videos on on YouTube Very very cool some

of the video like Let's see James Marston Kristen

Bell Wahlberg Anthony Mackie Anthony Mackie's

episode mm -hmm was how I found out about the

banker, which is that Apple TV plus movie It's

with him and Samuel Jackson Harrison Ford has

an episode on here Jude Law Kathy Bates Jamie

Lee Curtis Rob Lowe Willem Dafoe, you know, so

there's all these there's all the and it's Really

an interesting thing where you get to hear it

from the actor You don't have to hear it through

a third party news report You don't have to look

on TMZ and see what scandalous thing is going

on now You get to hear it from their mouths the

stories as it happened Hmm. It's just really

really cool. So yeah Yeah, I'm definitely gonna

have to watch some of this stuff Yeah, I just

sent you the career timeline playlist and iconic

characters. Like I said is on Hulu So, since

we're talking about streaming services, back

to the future. Oh boy, back to the future. There

always seems to be something that people complain

about with this one. This one's kind of a good

reason. So, when was this posted? May 22nd. Yeah,

okay, May 22nd. Back to the future, writer asks

Universal to destroy its censored version of

Sequel. Bob Gale says neither he nor director

Robert Zemeckis knew this Netflix streamed version

existed. Bob Gale is asking fans not to be too

hard on Netflix for a censored version of Back

to the Future Part 2, which was streaming for

a short while. Fans of the series were irate

when they discovered that a tiny portion of the

1989 sequel was changed, poorly. It has since

been replaced with the standard version. The

alteration happened when Marty Finds the ooh

la la magazine within the sports almanac dust

cover The moment was cut short with the cover

of the magazine edited out Gail the screenwriter

of the beloved trilogy explained what happened

and why it was not Netflix's fault The blame

is on Universal who somehow furnished Netflix

an edited version of the movie Gail said I learned

about it some ten days ago from an eagle -eyed

fan and had the studio rectify the error The

version now running is the uncensored, unedited

original version. He continued, apparently this

was a foreign version which neither director

Robert Zemeckis nor I even knew existed for some

country that had a problem with the Ooh La La

magazine cover. I ask that the studio destroy

this version. FYI, Netflix does not edit films.

They only run the versions that they are supplied

to them. So they are blameless. You can direct

your ire at Universal, but I think they will

be a lot more careful in the future and with

the future. Now, I remember when this news came

out, and I know of several, at least one specific

YouTube channel that I won't mention, did two

videos on this. They did one when it was shown

that it was edited and they did one when it was

shown when it was fixed. I read several other

articles. I like that article from what was it?

The Hollywood Reporter Yeah, yeah, I like that

article because they have actual direct quotes

from Bob Gale some of the other articles were

just like blaming Netflix and doing this and

doing that and Personally, I knew the back -to

-the -future movies were on there I've owned

those since God knows when so Edited unedited

version really didn't mean that much to me. I'm

not gonna lose sleep over, you know The fact

that Universal screwed up giving the wrong version

to a streaming service and Gayle is right Netflix

does not edit for sensor like they don't they

don't censor stuff. It's whatever is given that

like Okay, you know how we always talk about

streaming services and how certain things go

from one to the other Yeah, or what like like?

How they just jump around and there's no rhyme

or reason it seems right exactly like right now

the Dark Knight is on Hulu At some point. I'm

sure the Dark Knight will be back on Netflix

or something right now The Back to the Future

movies are on Netflix in a year's time they might

be on Hulu or whatever. What's the other one

that's a perfect example? I was watching the

2008 BB series Merlin, basically. Yeah, I vaguely

remember that. Yeah. So I was watching that originally

on Hulu, and I didn't get to finish it on Hulu

because it disappeared from Hulu. So I jump over

to Netflix and lo and behold, it's all on Netflix

now. So, you know, the streaming rights thing,

the streaming rights game is so crazy. I mean,

unless you're specifically DC or Warner or Disney

or whatever. It's like as much as I would love

everything I watch to be on Netflix and Hulu

only, because that's what I pay for. Every now

and then I'm gonna pay for Disney Plus because

I may want to see Certain content that they have

and at least I know that contents gonna be there

I may want to watch DC Universe at some point

when I want to catch like an episode or two of

Lois and Clark Well, I know it's gonna be there

because that's their content. It isn't them as

a third Excuse me third party Yeah, I in terms

of the kind of switching and part of that of

the sources There's there's a website and I honestly

dislike anything that comes from them Okay, then

why are we bringing them up? Well, there's usually

two One of them They post really stupid articles.

Well, no, I mean, I'm saying that legitimately,

it's, what's the last it's like, Hero Hollywood.

They started out as like a news site, now they

just post mostly like garbage. Like they do have

some news of movies. But like for instance they'll

have Basically they'll have an article that's

like clickbait It says you know Johnny Depp transforms

into the Joker for Robert Pattinson's the Batman

Okay, and then you open it it's like it's it's

fan art Like though and sometimes we'll throw

fan art at the end of the the quote But usually

it gets cut off and depending on where you're

reading it like the the text And then it'll have

fan art and they do this a lot Geez and and so

that that was like one reason I stopped following

him was because it's just all mostly that The

other site is we got this covered No, don't even

I Okay, this is gonna be all your fault and I

really really want you to make cover art for

this episode now that you brought them up There's

an image It's on my Facebook somewhere. I'll

see if I can find it later. Whatever People started

sharing links from this website and I've looked

at several of them over the past year or so and

none of The information is factually correct

None of it is We got this covered has nothing

covered the image that I was mentioning just

a moment ago is basically Chris Farley yelling

at two kids For the love of God, please stop

sharing links from we got this covered Well,

like it's funny because certain things they'll

Like they'll they'll quote their source sometimes

Like for instance, there's there's an article

that Like Indiana Jones five producer doesn't

want fans to worry says they've got the best

of everything if you click on it on their site

It says you know movie web is the source But

if you click on the Johnny Depp one that's on

there They have You know that stupid teaser video

that they had of the the Batman and then they've

been at the The article then they've got the

same image and same basic article is what's on

heroic Hollywood except they posted it first

and then they quote the the thing of you know,

oh, it's an Instagram source and then You know,

there's there's other things That they'll post

Trying to find a good example of it on here They

They'll say sources closest to us, you know of

we got this covered or something and then they'll

source themselves That's just that's just horrible.

Yeah Yeah, so I mean It's it's kind of one of

those sites that I just I don't particularly

care for and I mention it because it's Yeah,

anytime anyone shares anything from that website,

I post the image I mentioned and I always say,

please, for the love of God, stop sharing links

from this website. This is not news. They have

nothing covered. Their sources are garbage. Pretty

much. So, yeah, I mean. That's one side of just

I don't I don't care for So Going down some happier

shoot here Okay, there's a there's a hashtag

going around of make solo to happen Please don't

second anniversary of the movie hitting the theaters

and more or less, you know Disney Plus and Disney

is not I Don't think they're gonna focus on any

more movies anytime soon Being that their Star

Wars slate is pretty packed with their TV content

with Mandalorian with the possible lb1 show with

you know Various animated projects that are going

on and then another like prequel series Don't

I don't honestly think they're gonna revisit

it, but people are trying their blasted best

to make this movie happen You know like I know

it's still a hashtag or or putting you know this

spot reserved for solo 2 for their DVD collection

or Just various other things that don't Yeah,

I am It was an okay movie as a Star Wars movie,

but it wasn't an excellent movie Yeah, I haven't

even seen it Like, I know it's on Netflix, I

think I started it, but I never actually finished

it. It's not bad, but... it's relatively unneeded.

I don't know, man. Yeah, I mean, like... Look,

I'm perfectly happy with what Star Wars content

we have currently. I'm very excited for Mandalorian

Season 2. I'm very skeptical about all these

cast announcements for it though because I'm

like What rule is that person gonna play? What

are they gonna like? I just I don't know. Anyway

Yeah, I'm very happy with the Mandalorian I actually

was just today earlier today listening to the

soundtrack again It's on Spotify and I'm sure

it's on other places as well You know, so But

it's just like I Don't know like really come

on people do we really need another? sequel This

kind of goes into something we were gonna be

well We're actually gonna be planning it not

gonna say what it is yet But I was gonna do this

topic as part of that new thing that we're working

on You know not all films need sequels not all

films need prequels not all films Need to become

Franchises there are movies out there that can

be a Solo movie pun intended Yeah, and unfortunately,

that's not the case Unfortunately not So so I

don't know and then there's I saw an article

by Elon Musk about college. Oh God It says college

is basically for fun, but not for learning and

that did that a degree is an evidence of exceptional

ability Did he actually go to college I don't

even like I've heard of him and I know what you

know, he created Tesla Yeah, Tesla. I know but

I'm just saying like Some of these people that

come out and say some of the stuff is like really

well, that's that's He founded SpaceX the boring

company It's a tunnel construction service Neuralink

Tesla X Dot -com which is a bank thing open AI

zip to the musk foundation and PayPal Yeah, PayPal,

yeah. It says he's an engineer and a citizen

of like three different countries. He's a little

bit wacky and out there, too, though. Most eccentric

billionaires are. Yeah, but he went to the Queen's

University in Canada and then he went to the

University of Pennsylvania. OK. But he's also

like a multi -billionaire, so I don't know. Exactly.

But regardless. His comment is basically that

college is not for learning and that you could

basically learn anything you want for free Which

I agree to some extent just because I went into

college a number of years ago and Knew how to

do majority of the things that were in it Yes,

did I learn some different things about aesthetics

and some different visual components for the

video aspect But I knew pretty much a lot of

the other stuff that was being handed out where

I'd done a lot of the other stuff that was being

handed out at some point. So it was mostly, I

mostly went to college so I could get the paper.

It really didn't have much to do with wanting

to, I don't feel like I learned as much as I

probably could have in a sense, but it wasn't

like, I mean it wasn't a totally bad experience,

but I also had to struggle just to get there.

I didn't thankfully have to pay for any of it

because I was below a certain income range and

At the time Mary was pregnant with our first

son and so I Qualified for financial aid Which

had never happened before which is the only reason

I didn't go to college until that point And then

I spent the next four years on a two -year degree

because I had to work full -time just so that

I could make ends meet and still go to school

to get this piece of paper. Right. And so, I

mean, to some degree, I kind of agree because

I did get my my first job of working with podcasts

and media for a bigger organization, which was,

you know, the Blaze. And but I got it without

a degree. I got it because I had. You know eight

years of you had radio under my belt Exactly.

You had experience that didn't need You know

degree. Yeah, and so like I mean now I work a

totally different job That's still in the podcasting

space and an entertainment aspect So some of

my college does come into play into that but

again, I feel like I could have done that with

out the degree. And so I do kind of agree with

him in that sense, because they do make you take

a lot of nonsense classes when you're going for

a degree. And I get that they're saying that

it's to make you more well -rounded. It's also

so they can take your money. Because there's

no reason college is as expensive as it is. I

can take a course online for a fraction of the

cost and learn the same thing. It's just not

accredited by anybody. Really. I mean, unless

you're taking like edx .com or Coursera or something

class like that that has a college class or getting

a certificate, it's you know, so either way,

like I don't. I don't regret getting it, but

I also don't think that it's necessary if you

have the job skills ahead of time. Yeah, so.

Yeah, I mean it's kind of a slap in the face

to the teachers and everything because I had

some wonderful teachers when I went to college

but And and they You know nobody goes into being

a teacher without actually enjoying teaching

people Or being done with their career path and

wanting to inform new people But yeah, I don't

know. It's it just kind of boggled my mind to

see that blowing up over the internet at some

point Cool As I've been doing the last couple

episodes and I'm only doing this because we're

at the 37 hours to go mark the white dragon Not

only has it been funded We're almost at four

hundred thousand dollars Wow So we will be getting

the trade paperback comic book issue for issue

miniseries. That's a prequel to the Mini the

extended series that they're gonna be doing but

yeah, we're 37 hours left and counting for the

white dragon For those that don't know who have

not Heard me talk about this or seen it online

through Jason David Frank Jason font other people

Basically, it's going to be an extended miniseries

kind of thing. In the aftermath, the city was

left decimated, a past reminder of the great

battle and fall of heroes. The heroes were blamed,

stripped of their titles, and hunted. But as

evil once again threatens to return, they must

rise from the ashes with the power of the White

Dragon. So very very cool cannot wait Very excited

about this and it says the rewards will be says

the rewards will be expected somewhere around

December of this year because they still have

to Even though they now have the funding they

still have to go out and make the thing So, yep,

which they should be able to start doing soon

Sunish I saw your thing. I forget the title of

it your your 80s sci -fi thing. That was like

5 000 funded. Oh, yeah before and i'm looking

forward to that. Yeah So that's very that would

be very very fun Yeah I find that I no longer

because i'm no longer in my normal Oh my god,

I have to produce 20 podcasts in one night Kind

of thing mode because my computer's in storage.

I find I have more time to interact again and

listen to other. I know I've said this before

in the last couple of weeks. I keep adding podcasts

to my Spotify. I don't always listen to every

episode, but I try my best to keep up with each

one of them. And oh boy. I'm not saying we're

connected, but we've got a whole, there's a whole

slew of people I plan on reaching out to once

I get back to my full and rigorous schedule that

I give myself for producing stuff. Yeah, so it'll

be a lot of fun anyway. Absolutely. That's the

whole point. Yes, fun. So anyways, I think that

about rounds it up for this episode. I think

so. I think so. So the good people can get a

hold of us on the Twittersphere at SCP -21 and

TFG1 Mike, or they can email feedback at geekcastradio

.com. And I'm not quite sure what the next episode

will hold. I guess it will just kind of depend

on whatever's kind of happening or whatever topic

we come up with ahead of time. But I will say

that just as a teaser, there are some big things

coming. Um, not necessarily on this show, but

on the network as a whole. So stay tuned for

that. And we'll be back in the studio soon. Yes.

So until next time, get altered, get geeky with

the Altered Geeks.