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adventure in geekdom is TF2 and Mike Hello, I

am here He is here and Mike booth ninja Yes,

yes, I am here I'm alive yep It's been quite

a while honestly, it's been two years Not made

not trying to make you feel bad. I'm just okay

So I was doing some research to figure out because

originally I thought it had been five years since

you had been on the show when we did the eight

-year anniversary in August of 2021 is the last

episode that I have you listed on and I listened

through the audio to make sure you were actually

there and I didn't just write your name down

But yeah, welcome back Thank you. I Yeah, I needed

to do Something different So awesome, what have

you been doing since the last time we talked

to you well Geez since the you know since the

pandemic and everything everyone I think you

know everyone just kind of settled into a new

normal. Yep normal for me was working from home,

which was getting done at 4 p .m. and going and

sitting on the couch downstairs and just playing

video games for the rest of the night. Right.

And that's been fine, except I've been like,

I don't know, doing that for consistently every

day for the last three years. I thought it was

time to like try to like break out of that. And.

Looked back into like trying to like start back

up like the geek stuff garage cast But my guys

and then I was thinking about like I think the

last time I talked I Feel like I had talked about

my experiment with like trying to stream Super

Nintendo games. Yeah, I remember then so like

I had that like on the back burner like I thought

about doing that and Like when it came down like

I went through and like I bought like software

and equipment And yeah, I remember that because

I was at a few of those streams when you and

Joe were testing Yeah, and I it just came down

to like I just remember like back in the day

like having to like wrangle everybody together

Like I was like that was like the the least fun

part about it and I kept going. Well, maybe if

I can get everyone Like just guarantee that they're

going to be there like one night a week. I don't

have to like wrangle everyone. Then I was like,

you know, that's that's even too much of a hassle

for me right now, especially after doing like

nothing for, you know, three years. Yeah, I've

been doing nothing all my life, so I'm used to

it. Well, I mean, I don't want to say doing nothing

for the last three years. I mean, like doing

like trying to change something up and going

back to what I was doing and but just wasn't

it. I couldn't bring myself to do it. And then

at the beginning of this year, beginning of 23,

I made the decision to drop social media, like

all together. Oh, fun. I took Facebook and Twitter

off my phone and my social media fix for the

six months so far has only been the Apple News

app on my phone. Okay, that's where I do my doom

scrolling. Yeah Because it wasn't that it wasn't

that bad to go back to it one because Twitter

became like a fire show. Yeah, it's still kind

of is but it's kind of stabilized. Yeah Twitter's

been a fire show though since 2014 just It's

it's just kind of stabilized now. Yeah, well,

the problem is my experience. The whole thing

is a little bit different than most people's.

I think I I have used since 2010. I think 2010

or 2011 I used an app called Tweetbot. Yep, I

remember and I bought that app at least. I don't

know five or six times. I paid for the Twitter

app that I was using. I'm not going to lie about

that. I paid $25 for it on my iPad. I paid probably

$30 for it over a period of more than a decade,

$30 or more for having on my iPhone. Right about

the time when I was like, I think I'm going to

give this up, is when Twitter decided to pull

the rug out from Under the third party app. Yeah,

and so I was like, you know what I can't I've

seen Twitter I've seen Twitter without an app

on top of it and it's garbage That's why I use

tweet deck on the desktop or I don't use it Yeah,

I I don't know how anyone uses the official Twitter

app. So like I was like, you know what you took

away my favorite My the only way I viewed your

platform So I'm not gonna view your platform

anymore. Yeah, I don't have to use it Which you

know in turn like coming in and trying to think

about how to like to do all this stuff like kind

of comes back around like full circle. It's like

I wouldn't even know how to get it out there

because I don't even want to use the platforms

to get it out there like like posting links and

stuff like that. That's why you just tell me

and I will do whatever you need me to do. That's

what I'm here for. One is glad to be of service.

Well, I've and I've dabbled in streaming this

year like I. Streamed or you know what it might

even be longer than that. I streamed like no

I was last year I streamed a bunch of stuff and

this year I streamed a bunch of stuff too, but

I don't stream in the way like most people want

someone to probably stream something like I stream

it for in the hopes that people just want to

watch the game or see the game like I don't I'm

not there to like see that's when I think you

should do pre -recorded stuff like I don't know,

because this is the first time we've talked to

Mike in a while, folks. Do you ever watch people

or have you ever watched people just do the playthroughs

on YouTube of games? I've watched playthroughs

of other, yeah. OK, so basically that's what

you're looking to do is you're looking to do

a silent playthrough. You might say in the beginning,

hey, this is Mike Powers or whatever you want

to say. And here's my playthrough of this game.

And then you just. Turn your microphone on mute

and just play the game. Well, like you always

play it. Well, that's and that's what I've been

doing. It's just now it's like I've gotten into

a rut too, where it's like it's hard for me to

find some of the play that's not Fortnite. OK,

because I don't like open world games like I

there's only like there's a certain just a certain

game criteria that has to be met in order for

me to want to sit down and play it. What is that

criteria? Just it's got to be. I need like a

single player thing. I don't like open world

games. I can't stand them anymore. I think the

most open world game I can probably play is Horizon

Zero Dawn. And even then, I'm angry about it.

Like, I hate playing that game. OK. But I like

I like the narrative stuff like I streamed this

year. I think I streamed both God of War games

or like late last year. No, it's. Oh, sorry.

That's how time gets away from you, right? I

streamed both God of War and God of War 2 in

November of last year. So that was six months

ago when I did that. But no, I just I'm bouncing

around here and forgive me because I haven't

done this in a while, but also because I don't

have social media. I'm not able to share my thoughts

that nobody cared about anymore. So. See, this

is why you come on Altered Geek and you tell

us your thoughts. That way, when I go to publicize

the posts, here's, and I know you deleted the

app, but your account is still active, here's

at boothninja81, you know, from GeekCast Radio

or from however you want me to, whatever. Like,

here's his thoughts on, insert thoughts here.

Right. Show up talk give your thoughts and then

let us handle the rest That way you don't have

to handle anything. You don't want to yeah No,

and that's and that's kind of what I was like,

man I think I want to get back into into doing

something where I can you know, I don't say like

thanks I'm not really nothing really frustrates

me anymore. So I Stop caring like I you know,

I see I still see movies and like I you know

my wife and I talk about them but we talk about

them when we like While we're walking out of

the theater and then we don't really talk about

them again Okay, so like I I just wanted like

an app like an outlet or I could edit it because

I don't have it I don't have it anymore and I

don't I mean I can talk with my friends about

it too, but for some reason it's it's way different

when you can just shout it into the into the

ether and Just be part of those like guys for

a hot second I guess In the so since the pen

just to let you know most of the audience should

know this by now, but since the pandemic hit

since at the time Karen and I moved out to Washington

state before the right before the we moved out

there in December of 2019. So it was right before

everything started. Something in me cracked by

the summer of 2020. And as a podcaster, I have

just wanted to record with Steve or record with

Kevin aka optimus solo or record with the people

I know that I like recording like like yourself

as well I mean Joe and I Joe and I have been

doing turtle turtles comics for ten years as

of next year on the pull bag So but in 2020 something

in me was like I want to talk to the people Now

for nine years or so now I've had the comic origins

on the pull bag. You were on one of those I've

expanded that into like all these other like

in 2016 we jumped into Transformers in in the

prevailing years since then it's gotten into

uh what's it gotten into Steve crap I don't remember

uh let's see uh comics transformers masters of

the universe which we haven't really done many

of those yet uh podcasting so there's 30 questions

about podcasting and then when i brought toy

cast back two years ago there's 42 questions

about toy collecting so i'm getting the stories

of various any anyone that wants to tell their

story is more than welcome to come on the gcr

and origins and tell their story whatever that

may be so i understand the the need to do something

different or get back to something or try to

figure something out and i also understand the

need of crap, this is too much work. I don't

care about this anymore. You know? Yeah. And

some of it like like going back to the streaming

thing for a second, like I I mean, I would I

would do that. But what I don't have a desk set

up. Plus, I don't play video games at a desk.

Yeah. I would need to come up with some type

of setup to be able to do this. Do it from my

couch. Yeah. And that just doesn't that doesn't

that doesn't work for me. So. but I'm I don't

know I It's kind of what I've been up to is just

like I've been putzing around trying to figure

out like something else to do to like Get to

be able to share my opinions in the way that

I used to like on Twitter or engage with people

like I used to on Twitter And Kind of hoping

this at least like gives me a little bit of an

outlet. That's why I just kind of wanted to get

Backed into this but I'm interested to hear what

you guys have been up to because It's been two

years. Steve, you've got the floor. OK, so gotten

back into like Transformers and Star Trek and

things like that with not only the media, but

the figures or the ships or whatever. I've started

doing like model building. For some of the Star

Trek stuff I've been repainting Transformers

figures to match the the show content or Supplementing

my collection with new ones And then I've changed

jobs again, I've been working on Uh, cause my,

my birthday is coming up this weekend and my

wife has bought multiple things and I'm not really

sure what they are. That's the whole point of

a birthday. Well, I know, but I mean, like, but

I can't look at my Amazon or anything because

packages are showing up left and right. And then

she got me, uh, cause we have this little town,

this little village town thing that my, my grandpa

put together, uh, for his train set at his house

and years ago I took the leftover buildings that

he was going to just throw out and I've been

using it and Because my wife knows that the only

way that I'm not Playing a game or on the computer

or something is if I'm doing something creative

Like the model building or the painting of the

figures or things like that. So she brought me

a scenery building kit for those those houses

and I made a custom mountain that I'm still working

on and It's proving to be interesting But yeah,

I mean other than that it's kind of what I've

been doing aside from playing some some games

or trying to revisit old ones Mm -hmm and the

podcasting of course. Yes, that's not stop. Yeah,

we can't not stop. I'm still Yeah, exactly I

am a machine. As far as I go, what's the last

thing you remember knowing about me as far as

what I've been up to? I think just your move,

really. I knew about that. All right. So which

move? Indiana. I knew you moved it. I knew you

moved back. Yeah. So, yeah. Just yeah. So that's

I've moved back and pretty much all I do is record,

edit and publish. That's pretty much my life.

I mean, I've kind of, I haven't gone completely

outside of Funko with my toy collecting, but

I've gone a little, I've got a couple of the

3 -0 MDLX figures. I've got all kinds of lights

and sound stuff and Steve likes and whatever

some of these things, I think. There's that.

There's Optimus now. And I already had Batman

So yeah, I've got a bunch of Bunch of things

I've Finally gotten most of the art prints that

I've had for years. I finally have them all framed

now I just have to hang them all up in the apartment

So that's that's what I'm working on sadly my

PC of Did I get that 20 mom got it in 2010 that

died earlier this year? Or at the end of life

forget when that when the hell did that happen?

I don't remember my buddy Harrison had to build

me one so I have a Brand -new PC that hopefully

will last another 10 years or so So there's that

yeah, I'm just enjoying doing the podcasting

and Trying to do some writing but it's not really

working so much I watch movies and TV when I

want to half the time sad thing is half the time

I'm like, okay I need to go to sleep which episode

of forensic files is gonna put me to sleep because

I've seen them all so many times that it doesn't

matter what it is I just like listening to the

sound of may he rest in peace because he died

a couple years ago Peter Thomas's voice So I

get I guess I get that with the forensic files

thing. So the podcast I listen to, I listened

to podcasts from like 2006. I have like the entire

collection of like all the oneup .com podcasts.

And I had, so this is something interesting that

I found out. I don't know if you guys knew about

this. And again, if I was on Twitter, I probably

would have added you guys, but. A few months

ago now, there used to be this podcast called

This Year Collection. It was one guy and he took

all the podcasts that he listened to. I apologize,

there is a thunderstorm outside my house right

now for the first time in like a month. We've

been having them every day and it's normally

a drought here in Colorado. I'm actually surprised

it's not thundering here in Indiana. It's literally

been a drought for the last month and right now

it is just like nailing my house. And if it sounds

very loud, I apologize for that for anyone listening.

It probably sounds especially loud in here because

it's hitting directly on my solar panels. I can

hear the hail. That's not hail. That's just water

hitting glass. We get hail. Wow. So anyways.

He I downloaded he he did a this year collection

episodes for the one -up stuff so he had like

the bet it was basically the best of for certain

for podcasts that he liked to listen to so he

had like Retro like this year collection for

like retronauts 2007 and it was like a eight

-hour podcast and And he had like different ones

were like the games for Windows podcast and and

one -up yours and I had those saved on my phone

like for forever because he pulled his stuff

down and he stopped doing it because he wasn't

making any money on it. And it was it was good

stuff. And it was a way to revisit those old

shows without having to like skip from one episode

to the next. Yeah. Well, I went to go play one

on my phone and they were gone. Oh, no. And I

was like, OK, I'm I'm mad. How can I possibly

get this? And I found this out like right when

I was getting ready to go to bed that they weren't

there anymore. So I'm like I got up out of bed.

I go downstairs. I break out all my backup hard

drives and I'm looking through like time machine

to find out like where are these files and. Like

I can't I can't find can't find him anywhere.

OK, so I found this website called. Let me see

what it's called. Forgive me here guys. OK, that's

what editing is for. No, no, no. I'm interested

anyway, just because I wonder if some of my bad

contents there. Oh no. Have you guys heard of

Forble? No. F -O -U -R -B -L -E? No. So I think

the way it sounds to me, it's a website. F -O

-U -R -B -L -E. It's a website that kind of runs

on top of archive .org. OK. And so you can search

for a show that you want. That's on archive .org

and it will generate an RSS feed. That you can

subscribe to that one up yours archive is on

there. Unforbable, yeah, yeah, so I I went on

there and I grabbed the this. I went and found

that this year collection forble. and I downloaded

the episodes that I wanted that I had lost, and

I added all of One Up Yours, all of Games for

Windows Radio, and all of the Retronauts archives

from 2005. I now have RSS feeds to all that stuff,

so I don't have to worry about if they disappear

again. It's been a complete blast to go back

and listen to that stuff, because I remember

listening to that 15 years ago, something like

that. Eight, 15, 16 years ago. Yeah. But that

that that was that was something really cool.

So there's like an old podcast that's on archive

.org. Like it was really neat that it made an

RSS feed and you can even tell it to like do

like, oh, give me one new episode every week

or you can just say, give me everything all at

once. Like I just want to see it. I just want

to see it all listed at once. So that was really

cool to find. Steve, we've got to make sure headshot

isn't on there. I mean I'm kind of looking it's

not but that's good. So I think one of the other

things I got back into and I was kind of I've

been kind of interested to like talk to you Steve

only because you live in the state. My buddy,

my best friend got me back into sports about

exactly a year ago and I was always a Colorado

Avalanche fan. And I went to visit my buddy last

year on Memorial weekend. He's like, hey, you're

your team's in the in the playoffs. You want

to do you want to watch a game? I'm like, yeah,

sure. Whatever. I hadn't watched a hockey game

in like. God, since 2004, OK, and about that

for me. And he's like, hey, yeah, you just want

to watch the games again. Sure. I don't. Whatever.

And. I watched that one game with him and I came

down and like it was like a month later or like

two weeks later, I had subscribed to like ESPN

plus and I was watching the rest of the playoffs.

And my wife and I watched like every single game

this year, this this past season for Colorado.

And we went to we actually went to a couple of

hockey games, too, which was nice, which was

which was really nice. We went and saw Columbus

versus Detroit. And then we went to Detroit to

see them play Colorado. Nice school and I was

really mad that I couldn't just stay here in

Columbus and see Colorado play Columbus but Because

like we started looking for tickets at the beginning

of the season I was like, I'll just get Colorado

tickets when they come into town. No, they did

some like World Series type thing Where where

Colorado and Columbus went and played their two

games in Finland? Yeah, it was yes, it was some

special I'll have to look it up to remember what

the heck it was But yeah, there was some sort

of they do they've been doing certain special

super events now It's a little silly. I have

been hockey fan since I was two or three and

my team is the Boston Bruins and as long as they're

playing I'll watch I mean I'll watch for you

man yeah yeah don't don't get me started this

year we had the best record in like our franchise

history and that's a curse that's a car I know

hello I'm from Boston I know all about curses

thank you but it's one of those things where

As long as I can watch my team. I will I will

watch other team like when Was it But Bork went

from Boston to Colorado, right? Yeah. Yeah, but

yeah when Ray went to Colorado I was an avalanche

fan for the time that he was there Not that I

don't dislike the I don't dislike any hockey

team. I don't know Is there any hockey team that

I really? So funny enough, where I live, I live

in Windsor, Colorado. And it's close to Loveland,

Colorado, which is where the Budweiser Event

Center is. And the minor league for the Colorado

Avalanche, the Colorado Eagles play there. And

I've won tickets to that before, but due to my

current job. Some of the perks are I can go to

the games because we advertise through them.

But the the I've seen the Eagles play. That's

really cool. I haven't seen an avalanche play

yet. But I've seen like the Colorado Rockies

for baseball. Their minor league is actually

in Windsor, the Colorado Owls. So I can watch

any of the minor leagues from like within 10

minutes of my house. Nice. Which is nice. And

the the majors are all about 45 to 50 minutes

from my house. So it's not about it. It's like

the distance of like Flint to Detroit. I mean,

yeah, it's basically the same thing. But like,

I'm not a basketball fan, but a lot of the people

at work are in there like they're like. huge

Nuggets fans, and they're like, they won. And

it's like the first time ever or something. So,

yeah, they were like ecstatic. Yeah, that was.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm just yeah, I got we got

really. Did you know, you know, Mike, that if

you have ESPN plus, you can watch every out of

market hockey game, right? Yeah, I know. That's

cool. So and and then anything that airs on any

other network shows up 24 hours after it's done

on ESPN plus That's that's great. That's amazing

right there. So we watched we I'm not kidding

We literally watched like every game like we

we were we even when we already like so I always

knew the score But right I always found it like

but my wife never knew the score But so we always

enjoyed watching it because I found it was really

interesting like yeah, I know the score, but

I don't know the story okay, like Were they just

like completely like blown out of the water or

like especially if it's a loss, right? It's like,

OK, how how did they lose? Yeah, the score says

they lost like three to one. But like, was it

like two to one the entire game? And then they

just got like an empty net goal to make it three

to one or were they just completely like out

classed in any way, shape or form? Like it was

it was a lot of fun to see because I but I didn't.

All I did was. to before the games was check

the score. I didn't see who scored the goals.

I didn't see when I didn't see any of that. I

just knew the I knew the final score when when

we would watch the games. It was a lot of fun.

It was it was really cool to have a block of.

You know, you've got like October to for me,

my season ended in April, but. You know, you've

got what that's six months, six, seven months

of like appointment viewing. Yeah. And that was

really nice to have something to like look forward

to. Yeah, absolutely. So. So, I mean, most after

15 years of me podcasting, most people know,

but I'll say it anyway. I grew up in around the

south shore of Massachusetts. I always say I'm

from Boston, but technically I was just an hour

south of Boston. And I'm sure this is this way

in every other city and state here in the US

with teams or whatever else, but just for me,

it hits a little different. In Boston, sports

is religion. And you watched every game of the

Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins every

season, win or lose. It didn't matter. You spend

the time, you watch those games. Sometimes we

win amazing wins, sometimes we lose amazing losses

and really crappy losses, and sometimes we have

great, great moments. There are so many great

moments in any sports team's history, depending

on what the team is. you just have to live in

the moment when it comes to sports if you want

to actually know the story of the sports or you

could just you know watch all the documentaries

and relive the moments that way and cheat. They

did a yes I think it was ESPN I'm pretty sure

because that's you know They did a special Boston

Bruins like 70 years or whatever, 50 years of

Bruins history a couple of years ago. Well, it

would be in 2020 because that would be 50 years.

From the time Bobby Orr did his amazing save

thing and whatever else and all that to current

at the time. And it's just, yeah, I mean. When

I'm watching sport like everyone's like, oh baseball

is so but it's not boring Everyone says it's

boring to watch on television. I'm like, it's

the best game to watch on television because

you can pretty much Go anywhere you want in your

house as long as you still hear the game, you

know what I mean? Like unless it's going to be

one of those massive immersive. Oh my god. It's

a Grand Slam or oh my god. It's a it's a 19 to

eight comeback or something or whatever it is.

It just, it just really depends. But yeah, I

loved my entire, it's not something that we've

talked about often on, on GCRN, but I have loved

sports since I was three and four years old.

I always have. Yeah. I, I mean, Steve knows this

being from Michigan. That's like staunchly red

wings. Like you don't. And for me, You know,

so I got into hockey, my cousins got me into

hockey in like mid 90s, so like 93, 94, maybe.

And then like Colorado came onto the scene from

the, from the Nordics and like 95. And I, I'm

not ashamed to admit this because it's a very

funny story. And I, I will 100 % stand behind

it because it's also very much me. I knew like

nothing about hockey. Like I knew who I knew

the red wings. I knew like Iserman and Fedorov

and like the, the Russian line and all that,

you know, Lindstrom and I knew all that. Five.

Yeah. I knew all that. But like when and I didn't

think the Quebec Nordiques were anything like

who cares? Like because whatever. And then they

moved to Colorado. And I kid you not, the only

reason I became a Colorado Avalanche fan is because

I like their jerseys. Absolutely. I can see that.

Like I was like I because Detroit's jerseys are

so bland. I know I know they're retro and they're

like, you know, an original team and all that

stuff. But like, man, But I just thought that

period of my life where it was like, you know,

something more bold than just red and white was

I just like the jersey. And then it just happened

to be that the Nordics were good. And I didn't

even know that. Right. And then there was the

I mean, I knew who Patrick Wall was. And when

he got, you know, traded to Colorado, I was like,

OK, now this is just over. But like living in

Michigan, like Like in saying like my best friend

knows I'm a Colorado arrows fan he doesn't give

me any crap for it but like going to college

and like meeting new people and like Them finding

out that I'm like a Colorado fan and they're

like staunchly like any Michigan sports fan like

they just yeah They it's it's the funniest thing

because like I like watching hockey games But

like I don't I just I think my buddy said it

best like I just want to see a good hockey game

I don't really care like who's playing. And so

like even if even if like even when Colorado

lost, I wasn't I didn't get mad. I didn't like

I even like my wife and I even said the other

team is playing really good and we're playing

like crap. And it's not it's not even saying

like like in a in a in an upset tone. So it's

like but everyone thought they were like coming

up to me saying like this like really letting

me have it by dissing on my team. And I'm like,

did I just on yours? No. I don't, I don't have

a problem with Detroit. I, but you apparently

have a problem with my team and that's, that's,

that's fine. You go ahead and say what you want

to say. It doesn't bother me at all. Yeah. Yeah,

exactly. That's their problem. That's not your

problem. It just, it just always amused me. Like

I mentioned with baseball and being able to basically,

as long as you can hear it throughout your entire

house, apartment, wherever your living situation

is. Hockey's kind of the same way, but you actually

want to watch it where you know something is

gonna like somebody's gonna break into a power

play or This this had yeah, but I was gonna say

this very it just doesn't happen too often But

back in the 70s and 80s man throw the gloves

off take the shirt What I like all that stuff

happens all the time, and it's just a part of

enjoying what hockey is. Yes, I would prefer

to watch the Bruins more than any other team,

but that's not going to stop me from watching

a different hockey game. I may not have any stake

in the game, but at least I can enjoy and relish

a good hockey game. Yeah, that was a blast this

year. It was really weird. Colorado got ousted

in the first round and I was surprised they even

made it. There with all the crap I had to go

through all season long. Yeah, and So I was okay

Colorado's out. I'm not rooting for anybody else

in the Western Conference like It's got to be

someone on the East Coast and I'm sorry Mike.

I blame myself. I I wanted Boston to win and

You'll see where I'm going here. You'll see where

I'm going here. Okay, so I wanted I wanted Boston

to win and so I started following I You know,

we were watching a couple of the Boston games

and Boston won there. Oh, no, they lost. They

lost in their first round. Yeah. So the other

thing that we then Ali and I were like, OK, it

was, you know, the Toronto made it past the lightning

for the first time made to the second round for

the first time in like 20 years. Right. So we're

like, OK, let's watch Toronto. Toronto will go

like they'll be whoever. And then Toronto lost.

Yep. And then I was like, OK, I don't want the

Panthers to win because I hate the Panthers.

I will. I think it was Carolina. Yeah, it's Carolina

Panthers. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, OK, I want

Carolina to win. Carolina lost. So then it was

like, OK, all that's left is the Panthers and

I don't want them to win. And who cares? I'm

sorry. I don't I don't hate any hockey team,

but I think the Vegas Knights are a joke like

like just. for some reason, the idea of Las Vegas

having sporting teams. All right. So let me give

you an example here. See, I didn't even know

Vegas had a team, but I think that's because

I've been under the loop. Like, yeah, I wasn't

aware of them or like Seattle or. Don't even

get me started on the cracking. A lot of them.

A lot of them have updated their logos since

I last hated. paid attention to them. And there

have been a few expansion teams added over the

last few years like Seattle, Seattle, whatever.

The funny thing is that coming from Massachusetts

and everything else, we're used to losing. Winning

for us is great when we do it, but most of the

time, not to switch sports, but look, folks.

Just because the just because most everyone knows

the Patriots had 20 years of sort of Cheated

excellence 20 years before that when I was a

kid when Doug Flutie was playing quarterback

for the Patriots the Patriots never hardly won

a damn thing So, you know as the funny thing

about some of these teams is some of these city

like the Nashville Predators there was a Who

were they the the farm team for? Out of all the

cities in the entire Midwest Louisville, Kentucky

back in the 90s they had a farm team for somebody

I forget who it was I don't think it was any

of the Detroit any of the Michigan teams the

Louisville River Frogs and that's just because

We're right by the Ohio River like Come on, give

me a break. So you're right. You wouldn't expect

Las Vegas, one of the hottest temperature -wise

hottest places in this country, to have a hockey

team, but yet they do, and they won. I think

it's just the betting. It's the betting. Yeah.

And I know betting is a part of sports. Whatever.

I get it. It's fine. But there's just something

like. like putting a hockey team where betting

is like the currency. Like, I don't. Yeah, that

was never really. Yeah. Plus for some there.

Steve, I know you don't know you can you can.

Mike, you probably know what they look like,

but see, you can Google it if you want to. They

have like, yeah, I just said that I love the

Colorado Avalanche jerseys and stuff like that.

The the the Knights and the L .A. Kings did this,

too. But the Knights have Helmets that have a

gold foil on them. So they're like they're chromed

It's gold. They're they're gold chromed helmets

and they are the gaudiest thing on the ugly And

and the Kings did it too, but they're they're

chrome. They're they're chrome looks like something

you'd see in Flint, Michigan Yes I don't they

just I yeah, I I don't know Nothing. I don't

really I don't really have anything like against

the Knights It's just they're just a week. It's

just weird that Vegas has a team like I I don't

know I think because the prayers have been around

longer and for some reason the Columbus Blue

Jackets are always a joke to me Like even when

they were first announced like in in the early

2000s like joke just just joke And I don't it

was a better like I don't understand that I've

never understood the whole name of the blue jackets

like I Mean, well, it's a it's Civil War Okay.

All right, so and it's we went we went to the

hockey game Alley didn't really get that either

and then you know when you when they score a

goal all the teams have their little like celebration

or whatever Yeah, and this they fire a cannon

off In an enclosed space it was the loudest I

get it freaked her out. She goes why is there

a cannon? I'm like, do you not know why they're

what? She's like, oh Mike yeah, it's annoying.

Yeah, it's very yeah So I like the night's jerseys.

I like the colors but yeah, like how do you not?

Fire a puck at that helmet. Like yeah, I know

it's shiny target like Damn, well, how does it

like Ali kept saying like how is that not cheating?

Like how are you not blinding other players?

No, right? Yeah So but yeah, no, I yeah It just

sucked that every team I wanted so next year

I know what to do next season which is every

team that I want to lose I have to root for them

because everyone that I wanted to win lost So

you get to apply the reverse psychology next

and then it got down to two teams that I didn't

I I could have cared less about like Yeah, I

mean same thing for me with any sport unless

like with hockey I will watch any like basketball

baseball football I most likely won't watch if

my team's not in the final games because I just

I don't care like Super Bowl Watch the Super

Bowl for the commercials, but I can catch those

on YouTube like 45 minutes after they air Mm

-hmm. So I don't know. Have you guys I don't

know. I don't know what your guys overall situation

is or how you're feeling about like Public spaces

and everyone's a little bit different But like

have you guys like what you guys seen any movies

like new movies or anything like that recently

Steve I have not been to the movie theater since

the last Terminator movie came out. Oh. I haven't

been to the movie theater since, I think, 2018

when Aaron and I saw it. But I have seen a lot

of more recent films. Yeah, we've seen stuff.

We just haven't gone to the theaters. So like,

what's the last, like, have you guys all seen

Across the Spider -Verse? Not yet. I'm waiting

for digital. I don't care. No, no, no, no. I

care. I'm like 20 minutes in. Yeah, he's not

commenting. That's why. OK, all right. But I've

seen Rise of the Beast. I'm waiting to see the

Flash because I care about it because of Keaton.

Otherwise, I don't care. So all right, I guess

we can kind of touch on this. With the exception

of Spider -Verse, we can touch on this for a

second. So Ali and I. Since we started kind of

like since like spring of last year we will Get

advanced tickets for screenings for movies and

then we'll like hold on to them and then the

day will come around and we'll like take one

last like evaluation in stock and be like do

we actually want to go right to the this movie

and So like last year, I think we only saw like

I remember seeing Doctor Strange 2 and Top Gun

in the theater because I can't not see Top Gun

in the theater. Like that's just that's nonsense

And I think I don't I'd have to look but I can't

see I can't even remember going to see anything

else in the theater last year other than those

two movies And only one of them was good and

that was Top Gun, right? And that's because we

kept getting tickets and then we would cancel

them And this year we kind of went, we went and

saw like more movies, but just recently, um,

we went and saw like a succession of movies and

we always go to the same theater, the same house,

the same seats. And the experience is just it.

There's always been something like off or wrong

with, with the theater and I don't like with

that particular house and it really irritates

me. And it's like started irritating Allie. So

like we had tickets for like rise of the beast.

We're gonna go on Saturday and like we went did

a grocery pick up and we got home and I was like,

okay Listen, I'm gonna do the smart thing here

I'm just gonna say like if you don't feel like

going like we don't need we don't need to go

and like she was like super relieved to not Yeah,

exactly and I'm like, you know, you can say you

don't want to go like I'm not like we've done

this for like the last like year and a half like

if you say you're like I'm not gonna be mad because

you don't want to go to a movie I don't Whatever.

So we cancelled the ticket for Rise of the Beast

and then we had tickets for Flash because I care

about Flash, but I care about it in the sense

that it's the end of the Snyderverse. And I,

everyone knows who's listened to any of these

older podcasts that are on GeekCast Radio. Like

I like the Snyderverse stuff. I'm not going to

fight anybody or argue anybody about it, but

I like it. So but she was like, do you do you

mind if we just cancel that too? And I was like,

yeah, we don't, you know, the only other movie

I care about seeing this year is Mission Impossible

Seven. So I don't like I'll buy like I've already

preordered Rise of the Beast. So I've got that

come in and then I'm waiting for Flash to go

up for preorder and I'll grab that too. I don't

I don't need to go to the theater to know that

I'm going to buy the disc for that. But. I just

kind of like I've seen This year it's been really

interesting going to the movies like it's been

refreshing to go and see non superhero movies

So what movies have you all seen so I watch one

of our non superhero movies Well, one of the

earliest movies that we saw this year That I

really enjoyed was 65 OK, or that's one with

Adam Driver in the time travel. Yes, and how

was it? I liked it. It was it. It was 90 minutes

and it was a tight 90 minutes and it knew what

it was going to be. And they're both. Yeah, it

was it was really tight like there wasn't it.

It just it it knew what it was and it wasn't

trying to be anything else other than then. I

mean, the plot is in the trailer. It's I've I've

I've crash landed and I need to get I need to

get home like I need to get from point A to point

B and get home. There is no like. I don't know.

It was so dead simple. It was just so easy to

enjoy it. And then have you seen Super Mario

Brothers? Yes, that was really good. It was.

I was surprised. I. Yeah. And actually, what

really surprised me about it was Ali saw it twice

and she she hates Mario. He's smart, like she

thinks Mario is like overplayed, but that's because

like she doesn't like. She sees more like a like,

OK, she sees Mario 64 and Mario Party is like

the same game. They're not. But like like she

but it's it's still Mario. Like, right. Yeah.

Like, oh, so how many games like if I sit down

and think about it like Mario's been in like

eight games, there's only been eight Mario games

like there's dozens of Mario tennis and Mario

cards and Mario parties and all that other stuff.

There's only eight Mario games. Yeah. But to

her, there's 40 Mario games and it's overkill

and I get where she's coming from yeah so you

know she was kind of skeptical about wanting

to go see the Marvel movie and we went and saw

it and she we both had a really good time with

it we thought it was funny and cute and didn't

overstay its welcome too much and it was very

pretty to look at and then I think it was a couple

weeks later we went and saw I went with some

friends to see Evil Dead Rise. And Ali, obviously

she doesn't like horror movies, so she didn't

want to watch that. So she went and saw the Mario

movie again by herself. But we went to Evil Dead

Rise. That's awesome. But so, yeah, she liked

it enough to actually see it to see it twice.

And then another like surprise thing, have either

of you guys seen the Dungeons and Dragons movie?

Nope, no. It's amazing. It's great. Really? Yes.

Granted, I shouldn't be surprised. It's got Chris

Pine in it. It's OK. There's a. It's not I don't

think it's it's not spoiling anything. I think

it might be just setting expectations. It's it's

not. If you don't know anything about it, it's

not Jumanji. OK, it's it's not people sitting

around a table and then they're showing you.

What they're doing, so it's like a lived in world.

It's Lord of the Rings, but D &D. Oh, okay. It's

not like there's people, it's not like there's

people like sitting around a table and they're

like, there's like a storyteller and they're

telling the story and then it like fades into

the fantastical world and you see their characters

that are like, Chris Pine is not somebody's character

on a character sheet that somebody in the real

world is playing. Yeah, it's not AR, VR, any

of that stuff. Yeah, it's played straight. You're

you're in that world like you're like you're

in a Lord of the Rings movie and but the great

thing about it is it feels like a tabletop campaign

like you see the decisions that somebody was

making or where somebody failed a role or like

it's it's it's just it's a lot of fun. It's cool.

It's probably one of the it might be. Without

having seen Mission Impossible 7, it might be

the best movie I've seen this year. With every

behind -the -scenes thing I've seen of Dead Reckoning

Part 1, I don't know how they're going to beat

the expectations of Part 1. They go bigger and

better every film now. I feel like there's two

ways to do that, right? And this goes back to

another movie I've seen recently. And if I remember

correctly, Mike, I think you have a small soft

spot for the series. But I think bigger and better

has two different definitions, right? There's

bigger and better, fast and furious. Yep. And

then there's bigger and better, mission impossible.

Well, no. OK, so let's say this the proper way.

There's bigger and more outrageous, which is

the Fast and the Furious, and totally unbelievable.

And then there's the real world stuff that Mission

Impossible does, that could actually be thought

of them pulling off properly. Yeah. But man,

the Mission Impossible movies are so, Ali and

I are in the middle of rewatching them, getting

ready for Dead Dragon. They're so good. They

are. I love that series. I've loved that series

since 1996 when I saw the first film in theaters

back then when I was 16 years old. No, I will

say the only one that hasn't aged right to me

is Mission Impossible 2. Yeah, that, well, a

lot of John Woo films don't age well. I mean,

I think for me what it is, it's like, okay, so

when that movie came out, I was... It was a 2000

movie, right? So I was 20 so okay, so I was 19

I was turning 19 when that movie came out and

like that movie like okay So coming from Mission

Impossible the first one I Being a teenager mission

of the first mission impossible was cool But

didn't really land with me and then Mission Impossible

2 was the only thing I really had to compare

it to when it came out and to me Mission Impossible

2 was like the better movie because Kung Fu and

motorcycles and just dumb crap that's happening

yeah like and and so like i just remember being

like a teenager be like this movie this movie's

awesome it's so much better than the first one

and now it's the one that like sticks out like

a sore thumb on a re -watch it's just like it's

so bad it's It's not that it's okay. So it's

not that and you and I can have a whole separate

discussion over on studio 2009 about this franchise

again if you want to because I do plan on Obviously,

I don't know if I'm going to the theater to see

dead reckoning But I I do want to see those eventually

when they come out on digital it's one of those

things where It's a product of its time. It's

a product of the year 2000. But also again, like

I said, it's a John Woo movie and compared to

Don't have it pulled up. I don't remember the

array. Was it bright? Was it Brian De Palma that

did the first one? Yes Wow, I can't believe I

remembered that You go from Brian De Palma to

John Woo, and it's like holy crap This is the

coolest thing ever and then they go on and go

forward through the other three four five six,

whatever and the second movie is Think the reason

why it's so separated from the rest of the franchise

is because It's the sore thumb on the hand that

is Mission Impossible Like I Know they've used

the like that was the first time they use the

face masks. I know they've used them in few in

in in Films since then but it's kind of like

watching Mario 64 And then Mario, what's the,

not party, what's the newest like non -party?

Odyssey. Odyssey, that's what it is. Mario 64

on the N64 compared to Mario Odyssey on Nintendo

Switch, two completely different looks and they've

Obviously improved so much with that and that's

kind of the thing with the second film is What

I love about that movie is the music in that

movie the Hans Zimmer score from the second film.

Oh I can listen to that soundtrack that that

score over and over and over again. Well, it

was also Metallica did the theme song, right?

Yeah, I could do without that the score from

Zimmer the actual instrumental score from the

movie and Metallica disappear, please disappear

Metallica. So the one The one thing I learned

because like I'm doing that like these rewatches

that Ali and I do like all while the opening

credits are going on in a movie I will read IMDb

and read the trivia section Apparently Mission

Impossible 2, and I didn't realize this, but

it's held up so far. Mission Impossible 2 is

the only movie where Ethan actually goes on a

mission. In all the other ones, he's either been

disavowed or on the run. But Mission Impossible

2 is the only one where he's had a mission. Yep,

you're right. The first one he was disavowed,

he had to go underground. Third one, were they

disavowed? Yeah, they were. Ghost protocol, let's

not even go over the Vatican wall. And then fives

and six were back -to -back disavowments, or

he was disavowed through the whole time because

it was essentially a part... What do you think

of like say mission and I'm gonna say two just

because where it's more of a single story versus

the multi -part like Technically rogue nation

and fallout were part one and part two of each

other Yeah, yeah, so they obviously those movies

and and seven and eight are all done by the same

director but he wanted he stuck with he said

he told Crew is the only way that he would direct

those movies as if he could Apply a different

look and feel and visual style to those movies

because that was the that was the The crux of

the mission possible franchise was you got it

you get a new director for each one So they all

have a different distinct feel yeah But I do

know that they I think it was it started with

rogue nation or the seas were kind of planted

at the end of ghost protocol Ghost protocol,

but that with the rise of the Marvel films mm

-hmm. They were able to do more More of a connected

storytelling I Like the individuality of the

first Three films, but the rest of it. I like

the storytelling. I like what they've done I

like what Macquarie has done as a director with

the franchise I remember after seeing the second

one back in 2000, I'm like, I don't know where

this franchise is going, but I'm here for it.

And all these years later, I don't think I can

get her to do it. You mean it'll be difficult?

Very. Well, this is not mission difficult, Mr.

Hunt, it's mission impossible. Difficult should

be a walk in the park for you. There's something

like I know people like going back to Fallout

because that was the most recent one in theaters.

Like I remember like. hearing people talk about

how like boring like the mission of pasta movies

are and stuff like that and I just kept going

like Like I just have to think that people don't

the average the average movie go or probably

thinks those movies are boring But they don't

realize what they're seeing. Yeah, they yeah

and and like I I'm in this particular instance

I'm referencing the halo jump that they did in

the beginning of fallout and like in any other

movie like yeah sure you're fast and the furious

movie is way more kinetic and the camera is moving

everywhere and like but that's because a lot

of it isn't real like they can put the camera

wherever they want but when you're doing something

as intricate as like the halo jump and they're

actually doing it like you can't the camera can't

move yeah no exactly it's an People are just

so conditioned to seeing like action being something

like the camera moves all over the place and

whips you around Like what they used to call

like empty MTV style editing Yeah, pretty much

and and the mission impossible of these don't

do that because they can't Because they're reliant

on real world things that could potentially actually

happen. So you take all right perfect example

And I can't I just posted about this earlier

today as we're recording this we are two years

away from Pierce Brosnan's 30th anniversary of

him being in GoldenEye. And you take that damn

jump that he did in the beginning of the movie

and you take the halo jump from Fallout. Same

kind of stuff where the camera is static and

not moving, but the action is moving around it.

That is better in the instance of those separate,

obviously Bond and Mission Impossible are separate

universes, but for those specific universes and

characters, having the camera not move, whereas

you can have Dom break dancing and having the

camera move all around him and people are going

to love it because it's Dominic Toretto. You

can have him fly into space in a GTO or whatever

the hell he does. I don't remember. Yeah, I think

it's, to me, it's just they don't realize they're

seeing something, they're seeing something real

being filmed. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Reality

is bitten them in the eyes. I also saw Fast 10.

Haven't yet. I mean to I again for me. I'm I

wait for all the digital stuff because I don't

drive I don't go I don't leave my apartment half

the time. So that's fine. You know, I'm just

fun That's good. I mean, it's a Fast and the

Furious movie. You already know what you're getting

Well, yeah, so I mean every single trailer and

clip that they've shown I know what I'm get besides

the fact that I've been a fan of the franchise

for 20 Two year, yeah. Yeah, 2001, yeah, 22 years.

Wow, God. I am old, damn it. What's it like down

there feeling like a young whippersnapper, Steve?

I don't feel that old or that young. Dude, I'm

working with people that are younger than me.

I was trying to buy a whole store of people that

were younger than me. You know, it's weird. Not

to go off on another little tangent here, but

I don't know if you've ever felt this way, Steve,

because working in an environment like with other

people, anyone that is in a position higher than

me, like a manager or assistant, just someone

higher up the ladder than me, I always think

that they're older than me. I don't know why.

I like to think that too, but it doesn't always

apply. Well, and that's the thing, like, and

I've noticed that recently, like, at work, like,

I'm one of the older people in my department,

like, and I don't I think I, I think I might

be older than, like, my bosses. But like, I,

it's only like, and I mean, but I don't like

think about it regularly. Like, I just think

like anyone that's like, like a higher level

person than me and like the company is automatically

older than me. But I don't know. Yeah, I don't

know if you've ever felt that way, like. Just

in general, I typically think of them as like,

I mean, in the last place I worked, they were

older than me. But where I work now, if you work

in corporate, they're older than me. If they

work in the store level, they're all pretty much

younger than me, which. I had because where I

work now, they they made you have to do training

at the local stores before you went to corporate.

That's for any position. And I was hired into

corporate, but I was like, oh, so, you know,

blah, blah, blah. How old are you? You know,

and then they were like, oh, I'm 28. And they're

like the site manager, like the store manager.

And I was like, oh, I was like, I was thinking

at least they were on par with my age, but they're

not. So I felt like very old with everybody else

I was working with. What's that one movie with

Dennis, is it, oh, Dennis Quaid and Ashton Clitcher?

Good company. Yep. There you go. Yeah. Yeah,

the. Yeah, that's a deep cut. Yeah, I thought

I was the only person who ever saw that movie.

Yeah, I saw that movie. I had it on DVD for a

while. Yeah, it was And it wasn't Ashton Kutcher.

It was tow tow for grace It worked he's the characters

kind of a Weasley character so it kind of works

But what was funny about it is they all knew

I was being trained at the store level to understand

what they do but also knowing I was going to

corporate. So they were all really nervous around

me because they were like, oh, he's he's corporate

guy and we're training him. You know, and it's

like I was the one that was more nervous because

I was like, I got a bunch of young people showing

me how to do this job. You got to you're the

cop behind everybody on the expressway. Yeah.

Yeah. That's what they were afraid of. They're

like, are we going to do this right? Because

he's going to go up into the corporate office

and. Yeah, so it was it was just interesting,

but it's just weird seeing myself as the old

one now. I still don't feel old. I don't feel

old. I just it's just weird when you put the

numbers of age out there and then you're comparing

it with the people you work with and then you're

like, oh crap, I am older. I think I think I

feel old when I think about. Like the dates for

things like the fact that Jurassic Park is 30

years old. Or like when you have to sign up for

something and you have to like kind of keep scrolling

to hit your year. Yes, that too. I've noticed

that one recently, like because I've had to put

on a lot of stuff. You know, let us just type

in the year. It's so much simpler. I feel older

when I have to do the scroll away and watch it

just keep rolling down until it hits like 20

years. And then I'm like, I got to do it again

or or on a survey. You don't get to pick one

of the first two age brackets. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah Damn it. Now. I'm in the third one 20 to

39 40 to 49 whoops too far yeah, and I Don't

know what it is about. I don't want to say ageism,

but ageism Because of the physical things I've

gone through and all of that lately in the last

Well my whole life, but let's just say the last

five or six years. I feel older now than I did

when I was 33 and that was a decade ago. So and

this is this is funny because when I was 33 somebody

thought I was 23 and I'm like, no sadly not that

hasn't been in a while and it just I Get up every

morning. I go do the exercise that I try to do

some days I can't do it some days I can do it

but before I get up every morning my back cracks

like every like my whole body will crack and

it's like God really That's how that's how I

feel old at this point is the physical Being

of old as far as like this doesn't work This

isn't supposed you're supposed to get up and

have a pep in your step not need Pepto -Bismol

at the first sight of the morning It just sucks

and then there is where I'm trying to find something

specifically for you Mike and I can't find it

there was a the image I shared on Facebook a

while back where it's hockey keeping the tooth

fairy in business since 1875 and I'm like, yup,

I feel that image. Yeah, I know, right? Steve,

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this and

I'm only going to ask it because we've never

played video games together. Okay. and I know

you like shooters. Have you dabbled in the Fortnite

Zero build at all? I have not. OK, well, if you

ever want to, let me know, because the Zero build

stuff is a lot of fun. Fortnite Zero build? Yeah.

OK, I'll have to take a look at that. I do have

Epic Games, but for an entirely different reason.

I got the the new Star Trek resurgence game.

OK. by the Telltale games remnants. Yeah. OK.

They sent it to me for review. And so I I recently

redownloaded all of the unreal epic games launcher.

And I think I tried Fortnite a while back, a

couple of years ago, but I couldn't get it like

as far as like I didn't understand it. So when

Fortnite was all about building, if you didn't

know how to build in Fortnite, you were SOL.

And that turned a lot of people off. That's probably

why I stopped playing it. I tried it a couple

of times and I was getting nowhere. And so I

just decided, OK, I'll just not play this one.

Yeah, because if you're not playing with... If

you're playing in builds and you're not playing

with... If you're doing solos and you're just

starting and you're playing in builds, it's not

going to be fun because if you're not willing

to put in the time to... I say this in all seriousness,

if you're not willing to put in the time to get

good, it's a horrible experience if you're playing

by yourself. But I was fortunate enough to be

able to play with my friends through... in the

builds and I even like disabled building on my

controller like altogether. I just got good at

killing people using their own builds against

them. That's like that's probably my favorite

comment. So because that's what I did in Battlefield

four or Battlefield one. I would detonate the

buildings that they were in rather than go after

them. Yep, that's that's what I that's that's

what I did. That's that was my that was my strategy

for the whole thing. But last year in late last,

I think it was last December. Actually, you know

what? Again, time is so messed up right now.

No, it has to have been. Because sometime last

year, I want to say it might have been like December.

They added in, no, I'm sorry, I'm wrong. I don't

know. Anyway, at some point within the last year,

OK, they added a new mode. They basically split

the player base down the middle so they have

traditional Battle Royale, which has all your

building in it and everything. And then they

have a zero build mode. Which is just a Battle

Royale. 100 people still drop into the lobby

and you pick up all your loot, but you don't

have to worry about somebody being better at

building than you. All you have to do is worry

about being better at shooting somebody than

you are than they are. So interesting. It's just

a third -person shooter now. So if you've played

Battlefield and all that other stuff, it's that.

I don't know if you ever want to give it another

try. My buddies and I always play it. I'll definitely

check that out. Mike, you're more than welcome

to join, too. I don't want to cut you out, but

I've never really heard you talk about shooters

at all. Well, I used to like them. So anybody

remember America's army? It's a long time ago.

This was like 2002, 2003. It was like, for me

it's like. Is it on a console? Cause I don't

know. Yeah, see that's the thing like I started

my life on consoles when I was a kid and then

sometime in the late 90s Twisted Metal 3 4 and

Crash Bandicoot 2 Sent me to the piece in Spyro

2 or 3 sent me to the PC but yeah for me It's

like outside of my loveliness and SNES classic

that I've had for years SNES classic brought

to you by Michael Powers You know outside of

that You don't have to credit me. You paid me

for it. It's not like I gave it to you. I don't

care. So? I'm still going to credit you. I remember

the one thing he said, if I sell this to you,

you can't ever sell. I'm like, the whole point

of buying it from you is so I can play these

games again. I'm never getting rid of this thing.

This thing will, you know, it's going to, it'll

be buried with me even though I'm being cremated.

You know, that and I... I play that and I play

GTA 4 by myself when I need to de -stress. Like,

I don't play video games the way I used to the

past 40 years of my life. I just don't. It's

just not my thing anymore. Alright, no, hey,

that's really fine. Yeah, it's just, I don't

know. People are like, a couple other friends

are like, oh, we'd like to have, I'm like, yeah,

no, I don't want to deal with any of that. I

would rather sit here for two hours talking about

absolutely nothing or everything than play a

video game for two hours with more than one other

person. See, that doesn't bother me. I just yeah,

as long as I'm having a good time, I don't care.

I think the next game I'm going to try to stream

is Final Fantasy 16 for as big as that game is.

That'll be a pain in the ass to try to stream.

What is going on in 16? What's the story of?

I have no idea what the story is. OK, I can tell

you. I played the demo recently. They released

a demo and that was enough to get me. I mean,

I was interested in before, but. Like now I kind

of the demo like so it's not a traditional Final

Fantasy. There's no more menu based combat. It's

they. It's kind of more Devil May Cry. OK, like

a third person action adventure game, then it's

not like you're it's not like you're running

around and all of a sudden you get in a fight

and menus pop up on the screen. Right. Yeah.

So it's it's not that anymore. And it's a so

that will make it a lot more fun, I think, to

be able to stream because it's more interesting

to look at. But I was kind of worried about it

because it's like you hear, oh, OK, you made

this into a Devil May Cry game. And I love Devil

May Cry. And I like Bayonetta and I like God

of War and all those those types of games. And

it's like, hey, you guys have never really done

this before. And the couple of times you did,

you weren't good at it. But they they they seem

to have at least in the demo that I played, they

seem to have gotten it. It felt really good.

Combat felt really good. So that was made me

feel more a lot better about playing it. Plus,

my my wife is actually interested in playing

it because I got her to play the Final Fantasy

seven remake. Nice. Yeah. Earlier this year.

I was like, hey, why don't you? I'll sit next

to you on the couch while you play this like

because I had already played it and I kind of

wanted to revisit it again And she's like, okay

as long as you stay here on the couch with me

and play it. I was like, yeah I'll do that. And

so she played through the whole thing. She did

it. She did it all herself managed all her material

and spells and equipment and all this other stuff

and cool And she's like, Oh yeah. And she said,

none of these are like sequels. Cause you know,

she's only she's playing seven. She's like, yeah,

exactly. Yeah. She's like, I don't have to play

any of the other ones. Like now the only ones

that only a couple of them have sequels and they

have, they have nothing to do with each other.

They have like, they share elements. Yeah. But

they're all individual stories of each other.

Yeah. And she's like, that's, that's just so,

that's just so weird. I'm like, yeah, it's, Oh,

it's weird because they're calling it. 5 6 7

8 9 10 15 17 whatever yeah, they want to keep

that numbering because they've had that It's

like DC legacy numbering. Oh my god, even though

we rebooted we have to have DC issue 1000 or

whatever Well, it's a and you can see what they're

the whole thing gets even dumber when you realize

there's Final Fantasy 10 to yes Final Fantasy

13 to and 13 3 it's like just make the next number

Exactly. Like yeah, they're on like Final Fantasy

20 at this point. That's that's about as dumb

as how Colorado names roads out here This ought

to be interesting. Well, we have roads that'll

be like Like when I lived in Greeley, it was

18th Street Road. Yes or they'll do like there'll

be a county road that it'll have four different

names for the street and Depending on who you

talk to or what? what form of Google it is for

the maps or something else. It depends on what

the road is called. So it might be called the

County Road 13, but it has another sign that'll

say like. County Road 26. No, 64 and a half road.

Yes, yes. Or it'll have, you know, Larimer County

13. or, you know, just some like it'll change

like depending on what spot you're sitting at.

But it'll be the same road all the way down.

I watched one road change from 42nd Street to

60 to US 66 to County Road like 50 or something

like it would change names like four times in

the span of like four or five miles. Yeah. And

it was the same straight shot. Come get your

kicks on Route 66. Yeah, that's like, and this

is so weird and we're geeks, folks. We've been

talking about all kinds of geeky things in the

last hour, hour and a half or so. I don't understand

addresses that have haves on them. My cousin

Heather used to live at a, I forget what street

it was, but it was four hundred and a half. I'm

like it wasn't a split house. No It was one whole

house Was not no and even with the split house

or a split level or a duplex I used to I grew

up in a duplex It was 184 Main Street was one

side and we were on 186 Main Street, which was

the other side of the same house It's just weird

crazy crazy and I I've only told I think I've

I may have mentioned this to Steve at one point

or another if I haven't sorry news to you, sir.

I Mentioned the order the GCN origins earlier

I'm working with one person who I've worked with

in the past a couple of times But I may work

with you guys to get it up and running I am adding

to the GCN origins because I have been wanting

to do some sort of video game something for years

The only way I can think to do it is to take

30 questions that are all about cartoons and

transform them into questions about video games

So we're gonna have a gamer origins thing sometime

this year. I don't know when but sometime this

year What else what else you got in your mind

Mike? Two things real quick. Well one one I actually

one I can ask when we're done recording because

I don't want to record it but the other one is

Steve you said you're in the middle of watching

across the spider verse I I don't know. I don't

know if you guys have anything planned for like

when you're done watching that, but I would like

to have a conversation like maybe on the next

episode or something about. Oh, yeah, totally.

About that, because like I've been I've talked

with like some people about it, but like I like

I said, I'm just trying to get like I have I

have I have a thought and an opinion on across

the spider verse. And I would just like to be

able to share that. So, oh, yeah. And I don't

want to spoil anything for you. So. So we're

not going to spoil it for him. I will say that

I have had plans ever since the sequel was announced

to do reviews of both films, one per episode,

over on Tooncast. And right now, Tooncast is

about to release its 300th episode. After that,

anything is fair game. So, if the four of us

want to do it, or three of us want... I can't

see. My eyes are just... Yeah. Yeah. I'm a foreigner

in my own podcast Well, three of us want to discuss

the two films. I yeah Yeah, so just to preface

another another quick thing not not not a spoiler

Steve You know, this is like part one, right?

Yes. Yes. Okay, just making sure just making

sure I know there were a lot of mad people so

I I Don't know. I had seen the trailers. I had

seen whatever websites posted about it, whatever

Wikipedia had about it before it was released.

And I figured it was going to be part one of

two because I remember something somewhere where

they said, oh, the spider verse movies, it's

going to be a trilogy. Well, when they announced

when they announced across the spider verse,

it was part one. It had the it had the subtitle

of part one. And then they dropped it from all

the marketing, all the marketing. Yeah, that's

fun. So they're in. You know people went and

saw it and you know people people being people

That also well and don't follow stuff as closely

as we do let's be honest here You know mass market

mass market anything causes problems for people

that don't follow it as closely as we do they

they were they they were mad so and But yeah,

I just wanted to make sure to help set expectation

Absolutely. Yep Well, the one show I've really

enjoyed as of late, and Mike Blanchard knows

where I'm going with this, is Star Trek Picard,

season three. And I say season three because

season one and two, I like to pretend other than

the few nods that it's given in season three,

it doesn't exist. Can you watch season three

without the first two? You can. Nothing it references

two things that happen and one in season one

one in season two and then You really don't have

to watch them. They're very convoluted and terribly

written Season three is very well done. It's

done by the guy that did He was a production

assistant and a writer on Voyager and Enterprise,

so he's part of the old guard Okay, and there's

a lot of callbacks in his production his season

three that kind of tie back to Wrath of Khan

and the original series films and some of the

next generation films and voyagers ending Nothing's

really I mean, it's very heavily tied into the

old stuff Okay, so it's not if you've not watched

any recent track You can come into this cold

pretty much Well, I okay. So I tried watching

Picard, but I tried watching from the beginning

and I don't even think I made it through the

I don't even think I made it through the first

episode, man. I I I was bored. I was uninterested

in what was like happening. I don't even think

I could give it the two episodes shape. But then

I'm hearing all this like great stuff about like

season three and I'm so I don't three actually

made it to the top 10 streaming of Nielsen. And

season one and two didn't. And none of the other

new tracks have made it on that top 10 list.

Only Picard season three. And that's and that's

like I'm just like, I mean, I want to watch it.

I don't want to have to sit through the, you

know, the first two. But like I it's so weird.

It would be so weird for me to watch like a TV

show like that. Like if you want like a primer,

I can tell you. No, I don't think so. You can

skip season one and two. I'm pretty sure there's

like a previously on or something when you start

the first episode, right? Yeah, probably. Of

what? Season three? Yeah. It kind of starts with

its own fresh storyline. A lot of the nonsense

storylines of season one and two were dumped.

There's a life event that happens for Picard

in the last episode of season one. And there's

a life event that happens in the last episode

of season two. And if I recommend anything watch

those two episodes And Forget the rest of the

season because none of it matters There you go

season finales and then start with season three

and start fresh Yeah, I've always had a defiant

fascination with Star Trek So I live on the outskirts

of that universe the only episode of for card

I've ever seen is when number one and D .M. and

Troy show back up in season one, wasn't it, Steve?

Season one, episode seven, the Penn thing. Yeah.

Or six episodes. No, it was. No, seven. OK. Yeah.

Yeah. There's 10 episodes a season. But yeah,

I mean, it was. Yeah. Yeah. Season one and two

were terrible. Two was worse, I felt. But one

just had excessive gore and terrible writing.

It was very bland. I heard so many negative things

about the second season not that I was gonna

watch it anyway, which is convoluted and a lot

of it just I think they threw things in there

just because they wanted to do it and it was

just bad season 3 I Definitely would recommend

they retconned some things that and have some

nice little Easter eggs in it that I enjoyed

Is um is strange new worlds as good as everyone

thinks it all it's I that is What's wonderful

about that is they took the old school formula

of Star Trek of it's episodic. So if you watch

an episode and you really like it, you can watch

it out of context because it's not tied to an

overarching seasonal arc. Yes, like the it's

like TNG in the sense of the characters have

an arc like as they evolve over the season. But.

The episodes. But the episodes don't like the

plot lines do not converge on the next episode

or have really any bearing unless, you know,

a character dies or something. OK, so so it's

very much like TNG in that that regard. So if

you're a fan of the old stuff, it kind of scratches

that itch and does it pretty well. I've been

thinking about watching that and I think I watched.

Watched two or three seasons of What was the

other one was the first one that came back discovery?

Yes, that one's terrible It doesn't matter what

season you watch the only one that was bearable

with season two and that's because it had Captain

Pike I think the only one that the only Having

not seen strange new world or only the first

or first episode or two of Picard the only New

Star Trek that they've made that I've actually

enjoyed his lower decks Lower dex has actually

been really good and prodigy isn't that bad either

So But yeah, the it's And they talked about doing

like a section 31 movie or TV series, but they've

decided to do it as a movie instead Which I'm

thankful that they're gonna do like basically

direct to streaming movies of Some of their ideas

rather than turning them into series Yeah, but

yeah, I've I've enjoyed strange new worlds and

like I said Picard season 3 it was like a nice

kick of nostalgia, but also Returning the characters

to their kind of true to form writing styles

and interactions like basically he dumps because

they they pretty much wipe all of the slate clean

with characters from seasons 1 & 2 By the end

of season two, so season three there's like two

holdovers and everybody else is like TNG cast

Okay, so I I and the jokes and the you know the

banter between characters it feels like you're

watching TNG so it's it's very natural and like

And then they have creative ways of bringing

people back Okay So I definitely recommend it.

I'll probably give it a shot here eventually

because I'm running out of, I spend more time

scrolling through all my streaming services looking

for something to watch than actually watching

something. Yeah, I typically do that too. It's

mostly because there's stuff that I watch, but

I've gotten really good at I can watch an episode

or two and be like, I need to show this to Ali.

And and then when you know, she sits down and

she watches with me and she likes it like I I

will no longer watch an episode without her So

then the next time I sit down to go and watch

something now I have to start all over again

and go on the hunt and try to find something

else and yeah I'm on my upteenth rewatch of white

collar and I for the first time in Well since

it aired 22 years ago Found that Amazon Prime

has the pretender with Michael T Weiss and and

all that so I'm going back and rewatching that

show I have been watching silo on Apple TV Which

nobody had yes. Yeah, sorry There are plenty

of things that have been on Apple TV that I would

love to I think I have somebody sent me a video

file for the banker, which was the The anthony

mackie movie that was on there. It's him and

somebody else i forget samuel jackson. Yeah,

that's the yep. Yeah Nick fury and Captain america.

Yay robin banks. I think i'm about i'm i'm i'm

about talked out Okay, this is well i'm just

saying this is more talking than i've done with

anybody about anything and Well, not not counting

my wife, but this is more talking than i've done

with anybody about anything in a while, consecutively,

for a consecutive amount of time. So this has

been... It's been a blast. Yeah. Just like old

times. Yeah, exactly. It's like riding a bike.

Once you get on, you remember how it works. Yeah,

I'm installing Fortnite, so I'll see if I can

figure out how to play again and then... go from

there and I'm going to do the zero build just

to kind of familiarize myself with it. You can

share this after the stream is over because I

have a question I want to ask you guys after

the stream is over too. Sounds good. You are

more than welcome to come on to the cartoon origins

or anything that you want. You know us to do

it's fine with you want to come back next week

and talk whatever we want to talk next week It's

fine, too. So, you know what? I I do want to

come back. I just I'm gonna take baby steps here

I don't like myself out of like more appearances.

So I like I like the potential every other week

of altered geek for now. Yeah, but I didn't mean

I didn't necessarily mean this week. That's I'm

just saying I'm just I'm just Talking but I do

want to say my um Because this is just a quick

aside don't need to get really in depth of it

but I know that we had talked like a couple years

ago about like the doing like a You want to do

like a pull bag on like why the last man and

all that stuff? Yeah, did you watch the series?

No, I never even read the comic The series was

so man that the show was actually really good

And they canceled it. Isn't that the way, though?

You like something, you think it's really good

and everybody else likes it and everybody else

thinks it's really, oh, if this is really good,

then we must take it away from these people because

they can't have nice things. Well, I think what

it was is it was all done like. It was shot like

either right before or during the pandemic and

then it release it. It took it. They didn't release

it for like two years. Yeah. Yeah. And so like

everyone that they had like that was like under

contract was like no long run. So even if they

wanted to go, it was going to be like really

expensive to get everything running again. That's

that's so sad. It because it took them forever

to get it to TV. And it it was so good. It was.

Yeah, I just want to say because you you and

I talked like on and off again about doing like

a pullback for like the why the last man I just

I just popped in my head because that was another

TV show and it was really good and gone just

gone This seems to be how it all goes All good

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