All Things Transformers: Episode 10 – BEST OF 2008

Hello there, this is Michael Blanchard of the

TFG1 Podcast and for this supplemental episode

we are, Steve and C Phillips and I are combining

our podcasts this week so you will hear one episode

and it'll be the both of us talking about our

best of 2008. Hello Steve. Hey. Okay, that's

a, you're supposed to keep talking. Yeah. Well,

this is also the combined All Things Transformers

episode 10. Yup, 10th episode. Congratulations.

Thank you. Yeah, I should have had it a lot sooner,

but... Eh, you were sick. You can't blame yourself.

I've been getting sick a lot this season. Which

sucks. Yeah, it does. Very much so. And then...

Yeah, so for the most part, just... Either I've

been too lazy, been too worked, or the holidays

and then being sick. So that just sucks all around.

My view on the holidays is I would put like my

my thing is that I will put up if I am gonna

put up a Christmas tree like I didn't this year

my mom did but if I was gonna do it myself I

would put it up December 15th and it would be

taken down December 26th. That's it. That's all

you need. That's all the time you need for Christmas

decorations and crap like that. I cannot stand

people who leave up their stuff halfway into

July. It just, uh... It just irks me so bad.

Well, see, it took us three weeks to get the

tree completely done because we got the tree

up one Sunday. We got the lights on it the next

Sunday because we had to go out and buy more.

Then we got the ornaments on it the next Sunday.

This was all after Thanksgiving. Yeah. And then...

So we had the tree done about a week before Christmas,

and I'm supposed to tear everything down today.

Oh, boy. Eh, won't take too long. I told my mom,

because she had, before my grandmother passed

away a couple of years ago, my grandmother had

gotten this thing from my mom. It was a Grinch

doll. It was a Grinch doll with batteries in

it, and it played the theme song. But he also

he used to dance. Well, he doesn't dance anymore.

Oh my mom bought a tree that was Wasn't too big

for her living room, but with an angel or a star

on it. It would have gone into the ceiling So

she put she put the Grinch doll up there as the

top of the tree and she's got like two branches

up his ass and like his legs are tied around

one branch so he stays up there he stayed up

there the entire time because I spent both days

the 24th and 25th at my mom's and he stayed up

there the entire time when I left Friday the

26th I took him down I said okay that's it give

me a chainsaw we'll just you know cut the tree

in half with all the lights leave all the lights

on it I'll cut it in half and we can just take

it out to the dumpster. You don't have to take

any decorations off. She's like, oh no, I want

to save some of the bulbs. I'm like, come on,

do you want an easy way to get it down? Just

chop it and just take it out with all the shit

already on it. So yeah, Christmas is fun this

year. All right, where are we going from here?

Do we have any news this week at all? Is there

anything going on? There isn't a whole lot besides

a few new figure releases and they have a few

pictures of Revenge of the Fallen out this week.

Which could probably be fake. No, they're real

because they're not from the first movie. But

they're saying that the teaser poster will be

soon up after this new year in the teaser trailer

will either be out in theaters early February

or on the Super Bowl it'll probably end up on

the Super Bowl you never know you know it'll

be it'll be on the internet at some point probably

either right before it goes on air on TV or in

theaters I guarantee you that somebody will somebody

will find it somebody will do something with

it Okay, where oh my head Okay, do we want to

start the best of 2008 now? Sure, let's go for

it. Who's starting? All right, I guess I'll just

kind of jump around the list I guess this dude

the best of or basically the top picks of 2008

for movies that you saw in theater. Well, mine

are Iron Man and Dark Knight. They were the only

two that I had any even gumption to going to

the theaters to see. Iron Man was great. I loved

it. I wanted to sneak back in and watch it again,

but I didn't. But yeah, Iron Man was great, and

the Dark Knight, even though there are... Couple

of things that you know people have pointed out

that are kind of problematic, but like at the

end where Bales voice is so gravely as Batman

Other than that I love that movie It's just great.

I actually have the the two disc editions sitting

right behind me here finally got that So What

would yours be? Well mine are of course Iron

Man and the Dark Knight, but also I saw I have

one on there on my list that I'm not going to

mention because I haven't seen it I was planning

on it, but would that be a certain robot? Be

a certain robot that was deserted on Earth by

everybody for about 700 years? No, I'd say it

wasn't actually half as bad as everybody said

it was. everybody was telling me oh there's no

talking and everything like that but uh... the

graphics in it were still good for a uh... pixar

film it was probably one of the best pixar film

so far and uh... basically shows how lazy people

get in the future which it's already headed down

that path but um... the the whole the whole movie

was pretty good overall and The other two movies

I have on my list are Saw 5 and Bedtime Stories

with Adam Sandler. Yeah, I do not get into the

Saw movies at all. It's one of the things where

I do not do horror flicks, regardless of how

cheesy they may be, regardless of how supposedly

not scary they are. I just won't watch that stuff.

So yeah, I really can't comment on Saw the Hive.

Well, see I normally hate or not hate, but just

don't like horror movies or slash -mups But for

some reason this series has gotten me hooked

and it's not because the gore or anything Because

I really don't like that part I just like how

entangled all five movies have been into each

other Where they're pulling from the other movies

at constantly the only one that wasn't pulling

obviously from another movie was the first one

and each one connects with the previous one including

various aspects throughout the entire set of

five but it does pretty much tie it up in this

one to where they could either let it sit or

pick it back up again because for those of you

that have seen it spoiler or the ones that haven't

seen it though. I was gonna say wait, I was gonna

say wait a second for the people that have seen

it, they already know! But um, the one FBI agent's

left at the end, and leaves it open for more.

And I have heard rumors that there's a sixth

one on the way, which I couldn't see. It doesn't

surprise me, as long as any film will make the

money like that, it doesn't surprise me. Yeah

and But like Iron Man. I really like that movie.

I don't own the two disc but That would be by

far my favorite movie of 2008 see I can't I can't

pick between them because they are both my favorites

that It's basically a tie between the two of

them as far as number one movie of 08 but you

really should go out and get that 2 disc especially

if you have a FYE in your area go up there and

get the steelbook edition it doesn't offer any

like special like booklets inside but it it's

a really cool packaging I got that one and I

love it The Dark Knight I own on Blu -ray, which

I bought on sale a couple weeks ago. I haven't

actually watched the Blu -ray copy yet. I rented

it at Blockbuster for the regular standard video.

I still have yet to watch it on Blu -ray and

watch the special features on it. It this one

comes with like the digital copy and to where

you played on and computer and everything like

that to disk and So it's pretty badass. I like

the the two disk regular edition The front cover

of that has the bat pod and Batman on it and

then the it As far as the slip cover and then

on the inside the actual disk case has the Joker

on it, which is really cool I started watching

the special features the other day and I started

watching the Gotham Tonight features and I just

didn't didn't really like that at all Wasn't

really wasn't really my my thing. I haven't watched

the IMAX shots yet, but I've been too too focused

on a few other DVDs that I've gotten so Yeah,

I've gotten out of your many that you've ordered

Oh, let's not even... No, I haven't gotten anything

I've ordered yet. I've spent money that I probably

won't even have anymore. I actually just made

a payment to Columbia House, but I have spent

probably over $1 ,000 on DVDs in the past two

weeks. Holy shit. I just kept seeing stuff and

I just kept adding it to the cart and just ended

up checking out and one order was like $557 .09.

Course $94 of that is shipping which sucks, but

whatever Yeah, see that's why I find places that

if I'm gonna buy stuff. It's free shit. Yeah,

but the free shipping takes like two weeks That's

my thing. I want it now if I'm paying this amount

of money. I don't that's like I will not go to

like Used CD music DVD shops anymore Because

yeah Yeah, I know they're that these shops are

really picky and everything else and they want

to take only the best But I'm sorry there are

gonna be scratches on on some used DVDs there.

They're just art That's just the fact of life

unless you pretty much keep them in pristine

order, which is what I do with mine so Because

I I'll watch them once and they'll sit on the

shelf for like two years before I even watch

them again So, you know, it's just it's just

ridiculous. But yeah, I had gotten there was

a thing I had posted over on earth to net which

you have now become a member of Thank you very

much. At least I guess at least I referred one

person to that website I Had that did a topic

on there about Looney Tunes being back on TV

because I saw a commercial for a New Year's Day

Cartoon Network Looney Tunes marathon And then

I got to thinking, well, wait a second, they

have those on DVD. So I went over to Columbia

House and they have all six Golden Collections,

which is the actual sets. If you were going to

buy the Looney Tunes on DVD, the sets you want

to get is the Golden Collection, not the Spotlight,

because the Golden Collection has all the cartoons

on each of the sets. And yeah, so I ordered those.

I ordered a whole bunch of crap. Whole bunch

of crap. But, yeah. See why don't we move over

to? Podcasts my I had just started like listening

to podcasts this year because I just started

Actually, I started the end of this year. It's

already to that keep thinking it's 2008 holy

crap at the end of 2007 I had started listening

to podcasts and what I had found was I had found

TF wire And through TFWire I found This Week

in Geek. And then I was looking for stuff with

Justice League, stuff with Batman. And I had

thought at first that World's Finest podcast

was done by the producers of the shows. I was

looking for something that had Bruce Timm or

James Tucker or Glenn Murakami or somebody on

there talking about their shows. Well, I found

World's Finest podcast. And it's and and I've

said this before on my show and I've said it

before in your show. It's Michael David Sims

and James Doe Reviewing the entire collection

of DC animated universe cartoons And it's by

far the best podcast that I've listened to and

I also listened to earth 2 .net the show That's

pretty much my podcast Ellen and your podcast

obviously All things transfer. Yeah Um, but that

would be my podcast list for the year. Well,

I got into listening to podcasts in somewhere

in 2006 because, uh, I listened to a few episodes

of TF wire, which is what got me listening to

them. And then, uh, after that, I got hooked

on their other lines of shows. And so I became

the host of the. war stories which is the fan

fiction reading of various transformer writers

or like just fans but it's still I did all the

voices and narration and everything for that

so that only got 15 episodes and again was supposed

to be bi -weekly and after a year I had 15 episodes

which doesn't make any sense I should have had

like 20 some episodes but See, that's why before

I started doing TFG1, I wanted to write out everything

I was going to do. I wanted to have a set schedule

that I know how long it's going to be. Like I

said before, World's Finest podcast was where

I got the idea to even do this. And I basically

have taken their format and just put Transformers

content instead of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman

content in there. I know for a fact that episode

25 will air at some point in October of this

year. So I know for a fact that this podcast

started in December of 08. It's going to almost

go to December of 09. And one of the funny things

is I looked up on the schedule of episodes that

I have and the Transformers 2007 -2009 roundtable

that I want to do will air the exact same day

that the 2009 movie comes out. may have to actually

push that back but as of right now june twenty

six two thousand nine is when episode twenty

five is supposed to hear no wait is that episode

twenty wait a second i might be wrong in that

go ahead and do some of your i'm gonna look something

up here go ahead and talk about some of your

other stuff that you have on your list And then

for my various other podcasts, of course, I listen

to the TFG1. Thank you. And I listen to, I've

listened to This Week in Geek. Not from the beginning,

I started around February of this year, but I

went back and listened to every single episode

since day one. And I've listened to everything

on the TFWire network. I've attempted other Transformer

podcasts, but I just can't get into them. For

the most part I just they don't catch my attention

So I pretty much with my own podcast TF wire

TFG one this week in geek I listen to this week

in tech Which is the screen savers? See and I

used to watch that station so when I heard of

that from Jesse off TF wire I for I started listen

to the tech guy and This week in tech from Leo

the ports a twit TV network and then Another

podcast. I listen to this transformer related

is transformers anonymous which are Hosted by

my good friends Jake men jazz Santi and halton

And if you listen to their Christmas special

episode, which is a reading of pretty much a

mockery of several Christmas stories, I'm narrating

the entire story. That's cool. No, I was wrong.

It's not the last episode. Episode 15, which

is the season 2 recap, will air the same day

the 2009 movie comes out. the uh... basically

the last episode that i have so far is the uh...

the two movie or live action movie reviews and

that'll be friday the thirteenth november friday

november uh... thirteenth two thousand nine so

that's kinda scary ending on friday the thirteenth

yeah All right, let's see I guess we can go into

DVDs One of the thing one of my favorite shows

is a cop show with Don Johnson Nash bridges Which

got cancelled in 2001 off of CBS? And I have

been waiting patiently seven years for this thing

to come out on on legitimate DVD not bootleg

And because every site that I've looked for it

on DVD it's bootleg and there's no special features

So the first season has been released and the

second season will be released on DVD this coming

March 3rd I've gotten the Iron Man 2 disc edition

Dark Knight 2 disc edition which we've already

talked about I Got fast lane the complete series

the only complaint I have about that is they

could not get the music rights for the DVDs there

was two episodes in particular where there was

a P .O .D. song, a Papa Roach song, and a saliva

song that was supposed to be playing in specific

scenes, and it's not in there. They're different

songs. Which played the complete series, which

it was alright. I kind of got lost and confused

by the time the second season of the series came

around. And yeah, let's see, Birds of Prey complete

series, which was really good, even though people

say it kind of sucked, but I liked that series.

It was a different way of telling part of the

Batman story. True Calling complete series. Eliza

Dushku is so hot. Tiny Toon Adventures Season

1 Volume 1 and The Batman The Complete Fifth

Season. I only got The Batman The Complete Fifth

Season because... While it was airing on Cartoon

Network, I had tried to see the episodes where

George Newburn and Clancy Brown were voicing

Superman and Lex Luthor, and I never got to see

them all, so that's the reason why I got that

set. So what about, huh? Well, pretty much for

my... DVD releases which also tie into my top

TV series. I Have supernatural and heroes Yeah,

I saw that on your blog and I was like oh boy,

we're gonna get into an argument over that Yeah

I've kept I actually kept the DVD releases and

the TV series separate on my list because the

TV series I there are some that are already on

DVD but there are some that aren't yet as far

as heroes and supernatural supernatural the only

reason why I dislike it is because it's the whole

me not watching horror or blood and guts and

gore thing. It has nothing to do with who's acting

in it. It has nothing to do with what the show's

about. It just has to do with that genre and

I just will not watch it. And Heroes is just,

just to quote Birdman, it sucks balls. It just

does. I mean, it's... I know everything nowadays

is a ripoff of everything else, but that show

is basically a Justice League Junior. That's

all it is. Actually, it's more so an X -Men.

Oh yeah, that's right. It's an X -Men rip -off.

But I do like the whole series and all the twists

and turns because there's nothing you can tell

that's going to happen. By the time you get something

down, they switch it around on you. So, it's

completely reversible at every level. Now, I

have caught this year, since the new third season,

fourth season, whatever the hell this season's

supposed to be, I have caught the tail end, because

I have the show that's after it at my own worst

enemy, I have that set on my DVR to record. And

I caught a couple of the ending episodes earlier

in 2008, where... I think it's Peter's father.

I don't know. I don't If that's wrong, I'm sorry.

I don't watch the show But Peter's father was

the actor that plays him was actually the actor

who played in Fastlane. He played Donnie Ray's

father in Fastlane, and I really do like that

actor So yeah, my TV listing would be Knight

Rider 2008 version I love that. Just the special

effects and stuff that they've put into that

show, it's great. Unfortunately, we have to have

a moment of silence for The Shield. The Shield

had its final season this year, will no longer

be airing, and the way they ended it was just

completely shocking. And I'm not even going to

go into it, because a buddy of mine that's on

the Earth2 .net forums, Jack Fetch, he has not

watched the end of it yet. And he asked people

not to spoil it for him, so I'm not going to,

but it's just... the way it ended was completely

fucked up smallville season 8 my own worst enemy

I would say is the best other than Knight Rider

is the best new show of 2008 as far as TV because

the concept in this is just it's Christian Slater

as Edward Albright and Henry Spivey it's two

guys Two personalities in one body. It's basically

an updated version of Sybil but Edward is a super

secret spy who submitted himself to this program

to have a personality created inside himself

and His on it hurt his turn on and off switch

is broken so normally the Janus the company that

that he works for Would flip his switch to turn

him or? Put him to sleep and wake Henry up, who

has a family, wife, kids, everything else, or

they would put Henry to sleep and turn Edward

on if he had to go on missions. Well, apparently

there's something wrong, and the switch just

comes at random. I mean, Edward could be in the

middle of Dubai trying to assassinate some guy,

and Henry would wake up with a gun in his hand

and be like, where the fuck am I? So, it... it...

Regardless I don't I know a lot of people that

I've talked to really don't really can't see

Christian Slater in TV and some people really

don't like him as an actor I liked him in this

it was just it was great and this also brings

back Michael Malley to TV Michael Malley plays

Raymond and his altar is Tom and I first liked

Michael Malley when he was on yes dear that was

a really funny show What else do I have on here?

I found something interesting this year The Discovery

Network has tons and tons of channels on satellite

and they added a channel this year called the

Investigation Discovery Channel and it's basically

like shows that have already Been on TV that

are in syndication like FBI files and new detectives

and stuff like that, but it's also there, you

know their specific new shows like uh... one

i like is wicked attraction it's all about criminal

couples it could be a father and son wife and

husband sisters whatever and it dives into into

the minds of these these these criminals and

it's just it's very very interesting uh... let's

see where do we go from here tv dvds The other

thing I wanted to talk about was the Nintendo

TV shows most people may or may not remember

back in from 89 to 92 Nintendo was basically

Hitting a barrage of media with their video games

We have the Super Mario Brothers Super Show which

on Fridays included the Legend of Zelda which

I have those DVDs Also the adventures of Super

Mario Brothers 3 it was just really The Mario

Brothers shows and the Zelda show was just a

really good way to Show off the video game as

if it could happen in animation. It was really

really cool and then you had Captain and the

Game Master which takes this real -life kid and

puts him in a video game and Who hasn't wanted

beats who hasn't wanted to be sucked through

their own TV to be put in a video game? What's

funny about that show is mother brain remember

the villain that another brain Yeah that brain

and I remember the voice and like for some reason

I've always remembered this show and I seen it

a long time ago and But I watched it again on

my Netflix the other day and I was like wow,

this is really familiar and Mega Man is so It's

like Mega Man doesn't sound like that Like and

then you watch the later like 90 later 90s version

of Mega Man and it's got like Goku's voice before

they changed it to Like the newer yeah I Didn't

wasn't really I've seen several different Mega

Man incarnations I don't actually remember any

of them the only one I can really remember is

the most recent is like Mega Man and the NT warrior

or something it was something on when kids WB

was still around I don't know it was something

weird but yeah I have I had never really watched

the old Mega Man show I don't even really remember

I just remember Mega Man from being in Captain

N one character I cannot stand in that show was

Simon Belmont oh my god this is just Just horrible,

but see This is kind of cool though at least

Yeah, but yeah, that's true words. That's true

I really don't have a whole lot on actual video

games considering is how don't have a next -gen

console and my computer does not have a video

card that will play Need for Speed Undercover,

which I have had for like the past two months

that I've been dying to play. Mirror's Edge looks

really cool. I mean, there's a lot of stuff that

I've seen that looks really cool, but I just

don't. I just can't play it. like Mega Man X8

-4 and the Transformer Armada game and I beat

those and have like some of the old a bunch of

old games for it and I hardly played that last

time I played it was a couple days ago when I

beat the Iron Man video game which by the way

is very easy to beat because it's very hard to

die and so I Played that through beat that and

I have a Nintendo Wii which I've downloaded classic

Nintendo Super Nintendo games onto to play and

64 games so you can use your Gamecube controller

and I've played my Super Smash Brothers on the

Melee one from Gamecube and then I played Brawl

from the Wii beat both of those. Pretty much

my Although it's not a game of the year. The

system is a game or a system of the year because

again, it's the number one seller and Yeah, it

outranks ps3 and xbox 360 ranked next by the

360 and ps3 but I've said this before and I'll

say it again, you know I was born with a mild

case of cerebral palsy So I play video games

one -handed and people look at me like I'm crazy

until I actually show them how I do it And ever

since Nintendo stopped production on the Super,

I have not subscribed to any of their products,

not bought any of their products, and I won't.

there's no way that i could do it there there's

no way even if somebody was generous enough to

buy meal we i would sell it because there would

be no way i could play it because i've seen people

you have to use two remotes now i've seen people

use one i have seen people you know one but for

the most part you have to use both of them don't

you well this is the correction of that they

do allow for most games for you to still use

either in the gamecube controller or the classic

controller which plugs into one remote with the

batteries in it and allows you to play its setup

just like a Super Nintendo controller. So you

can play the original Super Nintendo Nintendo

games on there when you download them. and you

can play like uh... smash brothers brawl you

can play that with the super nintendo controller

you can play that with the gamecube controller

yeah when i uh... when i was when i first started

getting into my ebay addiction which we won't

go into that anymore we've talked about that

before when i first got into my ebay addiction

i found something that was really cool and i

thought it was going to be the colors that it

showed but it wasn't i found what they call an

fc twin which is the nes and super nes combined

into one system so i bought that for like seventy

bucks which by the way is cheaper than what you

originally could have bought both the systems

for considering i remember specifically my mom

paid two hundred dollars for an SNES uh... in

ninety two for christmas for me uh... don't ask

me how i found out how much she paid for it she

must have been drunk one night or something i

don't know anyway uh... let's hope she's not

listening to this when it goes on air uh... but

anyway uh... Yeah, I found this and I started

buying Super Nintendo games off eBay and I have

like Super Mario World is one of my favorites

I have my very favorite Zelda game was linked

to the past and I love that game I could play

that all day and all night I also found Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles for Turtles in Time. I love

that game It's the same one as it was in the

arcades just on a smaller scale But it's the

same gameplay. It's the same deal I'm trying

to think what else I have, but yeah. When I want

to play something, that's what I play. Unless,

of course, I'm playing Need for Speed Most Wanted,

which is the only Need for Speed game I can play

on the computer right now. Damn computer. Dropkick

the damn thing. Well, they change so often. I

upgraded my computer in January, just so that

I could play Unreal Tournament 3. I'm pretty

sure it's outdated enough now that I can't play

any other mirror games. Like I said before, when

we were off the air, you were talking about your

clean up software picks. I know software and

I know some programs on computers, but I know

nothing of hardware. If I open a computer and

I look around, I don't know what the hell I'm

looking for to do. So I had my buddy come over

here and I actually got a new video card. reinstall

it well i don't know what kind of video card

my computer takes the the when i had it built

and they didn't tell me what it was well the

card i got the slot in the com no the slot in

the computer where it's supposed to go on the

card itself the edge where it's supposed to click

in is that opposite end of where it is in the

computer so like if you if you have the video

card in front of you the edge where it's supposed

to fit in is like to the left of it but the actual

slot where it's supposed to go in the computer

is to the right of it so it would not fit so

I just took it back and got actually I got the

Dark Knight DVD I got a couple of Disney DVDs

that were going back in the vault and yeah I

got my 80 bucks back and I spent $8 worth of

DVDs so yeah so Need for Speed Undercover is

gonna have to wait until I can actually take

the computer back to the store where I had it

built and just have them put in whatever they

have to put in to get it to freaking work. Let's

see what else we're gonna talk about today. We

did TV shows I wanted to bring up music because

a lot of people especially on the earth to net

forums are not Nickelback fans and I am like

one of the biggest Nickelback fans I had seen

them for the first time in 2006 here at Freedom

Hall here in Louisville and Loved it and I have

been waiting ever since they released 2005's

all the right reasons for them to put out new

material. Well, it finally happened this year.

Dark Horse, which is their new album, came out

in November, and it's by far my favorite album

out of everything that they've done. They actually

had Mutt Lang, who produced Back in Black and

Hysteria, doing production on this, and it just

sounds great. A couple of other CDs I liked this

year was Theory of a Dead Man came out with their

third one which was Scars and Souvenirs, Course

of Nature, who actually have not been in the

limelight for eight years. The last time they

actually had a release was Super Cala back in

2002 with, I don't know if you listen to this

type of music, but you may remember, what was

the name of that song? Hell, I can't even remember

it now. Oh crap, what the hell was the name of

that damn song? Caught in the Sun, sorry about

that folks. Caught in the Sun was one of their

Make Me Famous songs off of their Supercala album.

So it was nice to have them release their second

album in eight years called Damaged. Shinedown

I have on here on the list because I didn't really,

when I first got turned on to Shinedown, I didn't

really catch on to them too much, but when they

released their third album, The Sound of Madness

this past year, It's the best album that they've

done 12 stones put out their third album anthem

for the underdog Which I actually know it's funny

story. I actually know the drummer of 12 stones

Aaron Gaynor he goes by AJ But he was a DJ at

one of the rock stations down in Biloxi, Mississippi.

I think it was 97 .9 WCPR and He was the midday

DJ and I just kind of My biggest thing, wherever

I move to a different city, I always try to get

in good with the DJs, because I've always wanted

to be on radio. Hence why I'm doing podcasting

now. So anyway, uh, yes. So uh, wow, that almost

sounded like David Kay. Holy crap. Let's not

go into that. And then the other one that I have

listed as far as new for 2008 that came out was

Three Doors Down's self -titled album, which

is pretty good. My incredible find for 2008 would

be the Titan AE soundtrack. I have loved the

Titan AE movie since it came out. It was a really

great anime style. It wasn't really anime style,

it was good animation. I don't know if you've

seen it, Steve. but it was basically set in the

future they have to find this ship to save the

world basically from these things called the

dredge which are just pure electric energy well

the soundtrack has a few good songs from like

lit and power man 5000 they also have a song

called by the urge called it's my time to fly

and i just love hearing that song in the in the

movie so i wanted to find the soundtrack for

it I've seen Tiny E before, it's a pretty good

movie. And I don't really have much of music

picks, but the ones I'd have to say is I love

the band Disturbed. I'm not normally one for

very hard rock, but I've always liked that group,

so their new CD's pretty good. Indestructible,

I think. Indestructible. Came out last year,

actually. I know it's hard getting used to it.

It's Saturday, I don't know what the date is,

but I know it's Saturday. I just know that I'm

not at work. Yeah, so I like that one a lot better

than the second CD. It reminds me more of their

first CD and some of the third. The third I actually

won on a radio contest. Yeah, because I have

this problem where every now and again where

I hear something I won on the radio and I sit

there and I get it down to a science of calling

in and getting through. And I've won several

things. I've won... TV I've won CDs I've won

TVs off the radio Wow Yeah, I have a very fast

But uh Yeah, it started off as a joke trying

to call in radio songs and then after that I

started calling in for contests and I actually

won Believe it or not. I won tickets to game

7 of the World Series when the Detroit Tigers

were in it And then they bombed it in the fifth

game so that no longer were valid I was pissed

Like I won tickets two days before the game and

I was going to either a Go or me throw them up

on eBay and make some cash But yeah, so I The

only really team that you can put on being a

game 7 for World Series is of course the Boston

Red Sox Well, no actually make that the championship

series because the World Series that they have

won they've won it in four games so yeah, I take

that I I retract that statement. You want to

go to the championship series, you're going to

get a game seven World Series with the Red Sox.

You ain't getting past game four. Especially

being from Detroit. I mean, look at the Lions.

We're screwed. I don't even like football. the

all -time worst losing record ever and now if

they can just it is almost a reversal of this

of this year's lions to last year's patriots

the patriots almost went nineteen and oh now

just imagine if the lions can go all in nineteen

that would be great it's almost like my high

school football team we won one whole game the

whole year And it was for homecoming, I think.

That was the only game they could ever win a

year. Until my class graduated. Because we're

real winners here. I bounced around from school

so many times that I couldn't even tell you what

team won what. When I was in high school I bounced

around to so many different high schools. I didn't

even know so One couple of things I added to

my list I added three categories best and worst

moment and one thing you spent the most money

on I really don't have any best like personally

defining moments for 2008 However, as we've said

before there were a ton of DVDs that came out

that I had been excited about than being able

to reacquire my Transformers toy collection from

my childhood. My worst moment would be, of course,

being told that I'm being kicked out of everything

at my job. My job entails me being an apartment

manager. Well, obviously, if I'm no longer working

here, they don't want me in this apartment. But

actually, there has been... negotiation on that

and I am going to be still working with the same

company I'm still gonna be getting free rent

utilities but at a two -bedroom apartment but

I will not no longer be getting any pay which

sucks because relying on $576 every two weeks

is gonna be hard to cut down from thank God I've

stopped my eBay addiction I think the only thing

I've bought on eBay since I bought my BotCon

set was I was looking for an old Darrell Hall

CD and it was only $8 on eBay with free shipping

so that's the only thing I've bought in the last

six months and of course the one thing that I've

spent the most money on this year was the BotCon

2008 complete set with all the exclusives and

everything I paid $866 .99 which included shipping

So yeah My best moment I'm not really sure Hey

at least you get vacations I haven't had a vacation

from this job since I don't know when and you

really can't count my grandmother dying in 2007

as vacation leave For me to go up there to see

the funeral in Massachusetts. So yeah Yeah, that's

not really a nice way to spend time off. You

kind of think of time off as sitting in your

rear end, watching movies. So what about your

worst moment? Oh, okay. I'm not done with my

passport. Calm down, Megatron. Don't rush me,

man! Other than that I for best moments. I I've

gotten more out there online over the past year

than I was previously My What is it? My podcast

was launched my site's gotten more people to

it considering various other small transformer

I don't post on this I don't post on there, but

I did I had to go through the other day and delete

all the zero post people. I guess I better get

to work then. Not you. Well, all the ones from

like 2006, 2007. They're taking up space. Yeah,

they haven't visited since they...yeah. Reminds

me. I just watched yesterday. I just watched

Muppets Christmas Carol reminds me of something

Michael Cain's version of screws said decrease

in the surplus population Duck hunt anyone And

yeah, and I've met quite a few people online

that I've either been influenced by or gotten

to meet, like you, Birdman. I've actually talked

to Birdman on the phone once. I've emailed him

a couple times, mostly Twittered. Still waiting

to hear back. I'm not going to push it. I know

he's busy too. I know he's busy. He left me a

message on Twitter the last time I, what was

it, the last time I sent him a message because

I was like, so, gonna get back to me soon? And

he puts, I will totally call when I'm back playing

inside. Sound good? And I was like, yeah. And

I just laughed along. I think it was funny when

you posted to me on Twitter. You're like, getting

in touch with Birdman thinking like I have some

sort of inside track to him or something, which

I don't. I don't know about that. Well, of course,

the economy and wanting to find a job and something

other than what I'm doing, which is working at

a car dealership. Not that it isn't bad. I do

get paid pretty decent. And the people I work

with are nice too. And the job's pretty easy

and the fact that I don't really have too many

people watching over me, even though I have like

four bosses. But I pretty much just report to

the bosses and get more slack because I'm constantly

running around doing tech work. Do you have those

TPS reports ready? I don't have to do that kind

of stuff, I just tell them what to order computer

-wise and I fix it. Well, you said four bosses

and the only thing I could think of is you from

office space having eight different bosses telling

him the same thing. Yeah, that's pretty much

how it goes, but I just... I don't know, I just

want something better job -wise than what I'm

doing. I want something either in the tech field,

something in media, something doing, like I watch

a crap ton of movies. I'd love to do like movie

reviews and be like kind of a critic in those.

I love technology, I love old cartoons, building

websites, although I can't build a website for

the most part for just anybody because I get

bored. I could build it for like for instance

you or I could build it for my site but other

than that I get bored real easy. I know nothing

about web design or any of that stuff so I would

not be able to do that. My worst moment would

be having to be working two jobs. My fiancee

working three part time ones. I work one full

time and one part time. I'd just like to be able

to work one job to be able to cover all that

and still halfway decently enjoy what I do. If

that makes any sense whatsoever. I gotta interrupt

the episode here for a minute, folks, because

Steve, your audio keeps going in and out. You

keep breaking up. Oh, really? So does yours.

Well, I'm not doing anything. Freaking Skype.

Yeah, it's Skype. Yeah, because I'm not doing

anything either. the economy sucks jobs just

you know I don't even think anybody who has a

dream job that they want that they absolutely

love going to I don't even think you know at

some point you're gonna be upset with your job

you know regardless of what it is but yeah but

yeah and the thing I spent the most money on

this year is I bought a bedroom furniture set,

which I finally paid off. Go ahead, sorry. Well,

it's the most money thing I'm going to pay off

this year. Because I did have to buy another

car because in May, my truck that I had, which

was an 89 S15 pickup, which I loved, but display

started going out on me last winter and Then

it would come back, and then it would go away,

then it would come back, and then it started

eating more fuel, and I was getting 10 miles

to the gallon, still at 18. So I was like, yeah,

I'd let everything go wrong with it that I possibly

could, and then it died on me. One day, coming

out of work, I pulled out of the parking lot,

and it died in the middle of the road. It coasted

into a parking lot, started again. I traded it

in that day, got rid of it, but I got two warrantied

vehicles now. Well, the last time on ATTF episode

9 I was talking about several different figures

that I have. And I figured before we even started

recording this today that I would get out my

Galvatron to talk about him a little bit more

because you had asked me if it was the eHobby

version. I looked on toy arena and yes, it isn't

the hobby version It's the one where he is movie

accurate the movie accurate colors, and he has

the golden matrix Necklace that goes them, but

I just wanted to confirm that it was I at the

time I didn't know it was an e -hobby figure

I just knew it was through toy arena, and then

it was movie accurate So I actually got In this

one I actually got his legs apart the last one

I had the original G1 off -color model one I

could not get the legs apart so it was just like

one giant stock at the bottom So yeah, I actually

have all my I'm sorry. Yeah, I've seen it I was

just gonna say I've seen it before I've seen

the original and the e -hobby and I could I kind

of could guess that you know hobby just by it

was just Described I got the original just because

I thought that was the only one that they that

they had made I didn't know that there was another

one out there and then I think I Think it was

Jesse or spade or somebody from TF wire had mentioned

golden matrix necklace with on color and on face

model of Galvatron so I looked around eBay and

I got it through toy arena off eBay but yeah

I actually have I actually wanted to impress

because one of the meetings I had with my bosses

to discuss this unholy crap that they've put

on me at the time I wanted to make a good impression

so I cleared my desk I put all my transformers

in my pantry in my kitchen so actually the entire

collection outside of Galvatron is inside the

pantry locked up right now and considering I'm

going to be moving within the next three weeks

I'm gonna have to start boxing them up which

I have no idea how I'm gonna do without actually

Don't know mangling some of them because some

of them are in robot mode like Galvatron is and

I am NOT transforming this guy back into cannon

mode for anything so and he's got his guns on

him and everything else so Packing those is gonna

be a nightmare Yeah, that's the truth I'll probably

have to try that Yeah I think I sent you a message

on Skype. I've been going through just let everybody

know TFG one will be going on like I said through

the end of this year But I've been going through

now and writing scripts up of episodes to come.

Well, when I was getting, when I was ripping

the audio from the DVDs, on two of the episodes,

I think it was Microbots and Megatron's Master

Plan, I think that's what it was. I don't know.

I know Microbots, the audio clip for it is over

nine minutes long. Because I'm trying to capture

with each of those audio clips, I'm trying to

capture what... specifically the episode is about

like there's one episode that I did a Decepticon

Raider in King Arthur's Court well obviously

you want to have some part of audio with the

episode that has the people from that time era

talking obviously you're not going to get what

the episodes about other than listening to the

synopsis so but yeah there there are a couple

audio files coming up in future episodes that

are extremely long Let's see, alright, what else

do you want to talk about today? Well, um, I

was thinking about your time... I was going to

say, if we had recorded this maybe a little bit

earlier we could have said for next year, but

yeah, I... For 2009, I don't really know. I've

watched the X -Men Origins Wolverine trailer.

a couple of times and I'm not really impressed.

I love Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and as Logan.

I think it's a great character and I think he

did an excellent job in the X -Men movies. as

specifically Wolverine but we have seen his backstory

so many times I mean and I I really can't speak

for the comics because I don't read the comics

but like the X -Men 1992 cartoon series it tells

his story in there and it goes into different

stuff we've got his story in you know X -Men

and X2 and X3 and I just don't know I just don't

know if that would be something I would go to

theaters and see I'm not a Trekkie, so I won't

be seeing the Star Trek movie. I will be going

to see Transformers 2, regardless of how many

humans are in it compared to robots. Hopefully

there are less humans. Really don't know what

else is coming out for 2009 other than like the

Star Trek thing the X -Men Wolverine thing and

Transformers I did see it the trailer for the

pink panther 2 on IMDB the other day But that

would be a DVD thing for me if I was gonna even

watch it What about yours? Yeah, mine are the

transformer movie obviously I used to be a huge

track you when i was growing up so i'm going

to see the new trend your star trek movie and

uh... i'd just like the original crew and like

the next generation and uh... so on but i don't

i don't really space nine for what i've seen

of it was all right uh... it wasn't yeah it was

more total rights is how i adjourned and uh...

was that uh... enterprise Enterprise. Enterprise

was like a direct slap in the face to everything

canon on that whole saga of Star Trek. Because

it destroyed things that weren't even created

until later. I didn't even watch that much. I

didn't even really watch anything Enterprise

that much. All I know is Scott Bakula was in

it. And that pretty much seems to me that they're

trying to rip off Quantum Leap. Which he also

starred in. Captain Quantum Leap. is now on the

Enterprise but yeah and my other picks are like

the Wolverine movie I know it's not gonna be

as good as like the X -Men but should still be

pretty decent so yeah I'll probably still see

that Dragon Ball I never get into that show.

I like the Dragon Ball Z series. I probably won't

I Liked it and I actually had a site on it. It

was my second website ever built and that's actually

still online, but no updates since like 02 and

But yeah, I'll probably just see that on DVD

same with the Wolverine But I'm gonna see Star

Trek Transformers 2 and GI Joe not too not too

big on the GI Joe thing I did watch the 80s version

of it But I didn't follow it faithfully like

I did Transformers and He -Man and all that stuff.

So yeah, I don't think I'll be going to see that.

I don't know, it's just lately there haven't

been a lot of movies that really piqued my interest

to want to go see. Like I was talking about earlier,

with me... spending money I don't have at ColumbiaHouse

.com with all these DVDs I've ordered. You know,

I've put stuff in my cart that I just think are...

You know like best movies all time like Michael

Keaton and Christopher Lloyd in in the dream

team What else did I put that? I put a whole

bunch of stuff in there from like the 80s and

in the early 90s and stuff like that Just films

that like City Slickers and City Slickers 2 Just

films that I grew up on that I don't have in

my collection yet, but I will eventually and

it's like as Cheesy as like City Slickers was

it was a overall good movie You know, it wasn't

like, you know, people actually put thought into

the script that they wrote for that movie. It

wasn't like, you know, I hate to bring it up,

but, you know, Saw, Saw 2, Saw 3, Saw 4, Saw,

you know, I mean, just like repeating all this

stuff over and over and over again. It was, I

don't know. Let's see, what else are we going

to talk about? Upcoming on TFG1, episode 3 should

be airing... Hopefully this Friday Actually,

that's the date that I have set for it to air.

I'll probably be recording that tomorrow I can

email you a list if you want of the episodes

I'm talking about if you want to be I don't know

if you're gonna have time this week to record

Again, but if you want to be on that we can do

that uh... supplemental cartoon episode i'm not

exactly sure when as of right now it is set for

in between episodes three and four just depends

on what the hell the bird man's doing because

i would like him to be in on that and he said

he would like to be on that it just depends on

when the court is uh... so i've got a cage him

up trying to get him to figure out something

what he's going to do uh... Other than that,

really nothing else going on as far as me. 2008

was an alright year. It wasn't one of the best

years, but it was better than 2007. That's always

a good thing. Oh thank god I don't drive. There's

one less expense I need. I got two vehicles,

a trailer, a huge credit card I'm paying on a

wedding with me and my fiance. She's paying part

of two and yeah it's just overwhelming the amount

of money that... We have to make oh, yeah have

to save to throw away back like I said earlier

off the air I said that even though I'm writing

up all this stuff now for the scripts for TFG

one I will have to definitely go back and watch

each set of episodes before I do the actual record

that way I it's fresh in my mind, but I'm already

through I'm at season two part two now, and it

just it just amazes me some of the I so wish

Hasbro would get off their ass and release the

series again so people can have it instead of

having to pay like I said before between $300

and $700 to get these DVD sets. uh... it'd be

nice for them to do that but i don't think they're

going to do it anytime soon well if stupid uh...

bmg and sony wonder wouldn't have gone under

in two thousand seven we would have had it re

-released because there were plans for generation

one to have a a new dvd set release for uh...

tying with the first live action movie but so

the sony's uh... wonder division went down And

then Hasbro spent like $7 .5 million to reacquire

half of their library, which Transformers was

included in that, and they have not done nothing

with it. I would like to mention that when I

was at Best Buy the other day picking up the

DVDs that I picked up, I was looking for Transformers

stuff over there and the only thing I found was

Energon and Cybertron complete series sets. I

found absolutely no copies. known copies of any

of the animated releases. I know that Transform

and Rollout, the three -part intro, and then

season one is out. I think season two comes out

January 6th, but I could not find them anywhere

at Best Buy the other day at the store I went

to. So either they're selling or they've already

sold out and they just haven't ordered anymore

because apparently there's not that much of a

demand of it. I don't know, but wasn't anything

on the shelves other than Cybertron and Energon.

Well, they've never been one to actually have

a crap ton of transformer Anyway, I don't know

I know my local one has Yeah, yeah except for

the obviously G1 Beast Wars I thought about that

as soon as we walked out of the store with what

I got After we checked out and thought, I didn't

even think about it because I just, it just slipped

my mind totally. I was just looking for the animated

stuff just because I wanted to just see, you

know, see the box and stuff. And I didn't even

think about Beast Wars or Beast Machines, which

I eventually have to get. So, yeah, I don't know.

Oh, Spada did post something on Twitter the other

day about all the TF figures in his area are...

Gone as far as the shelves, which isn't such

a bad thing. I guess Maybe they sold out of those

two. I don't know Yeah, well every time I go

to a toy department which is out it which isn't

much considering I've Considering I'm very g1

centric as far as my collection, but every time

I go into the toy department Find maybe one or

two things transformers, and it's not even movie

stuff. It's just Random it could be our motto

figures that could be energon figures that could

be animated But it's like one or two on the shelves,

and there's nothing else everything else is like

Gundam wing and and Dragon Ball Z And it's just

it's weird these people are weird down here.

They don't know what the hell to sell right So

what else we got what else is going on with all

things transformers over there For the most part

just gonna try and do a little bit more regular

updates to it Depending on the transformer related

news I do want to have a roundtable episode at

some point Yeah, anybody that would like to guest

host or guest, you know in the entire conversation

can also suggest discussion I have no idea yet

and Well, I have an idea with one with halfin,

but we most more so have to iron out a time that

we'd both be able to So and I do want to get

the transformer anonymous hosts on for an episode

Not sure what it would contain at this point,

but Other than that I would have to say That

would be it for all things transformers as for

Predacon Empire comm I have like four toy reviews.

I still have yet to add Probably won't do till

next week and Yes, so Other than that, I don't

know either. Probably just going to try and continuously

update, try and add features to the forums. I

know a couple old Transformer Network people

are looking to join the site and one in particular,

Derek on the CafeSpark forums, is going to develop

a skin for it because he's developing a Transformer

the movie related site and is going to Yeah,

and he's going to use my forums for the discussion.

Oh, that's cool. One thing I would suggest for

the Cafe Spark is specific podcast threads. Oh.

Be right back. We can keep talking about it.

Specific podcast threads because over, and I

don't know how much of earth2 .net forums you've

explored yet, but over there they have set up

specific threads for each of their podcasts and

then they've set up each specific like episode

topic like you can discuss like episode one episode

two episode three so that's what I would suggest

for cafe spark is have like a Predacon Empire

or not pretty kind of ATTF forum like as far

as a basic general Like thread and then inside

that have each episode where people can discuss

it more Yeah, that'd be cool, so I think I think

we're about done considering we're already up

to about one hour and ten minutes almost so Got

any pretty much on a sign another note Oh yeah,

they did. Oh really? See. Just now. Oh, okay.

I didn't even notice that. See, I thought 162

was going to be the clip show, but it was just

Ryan doing his solo thing, which was kind of

cool. Nope. Yeah, it wasn't too bad. It was actually

kind of different and nice. I'm really not gonna

I've bashed Ryan enough on the TF wire forums.

I'm not gonna go into it again He's a cool guy,

but it's just I'm new topic Yeah, I don't want

to dig myself into an even bigger hole, yeah

Cuz I'm probably gonna pack away half of my DVDs

now just to start getting them off the shelves

and stuff So this has been the TFG one a all

things transformers Combined at crossover combined

episode whatever you want to call it. This will

take the place of TFG ones supplemental to episode

And this will also be all things transformers

episode 10 Oh yeah, we need to update my description

too. I sent that to you, you never updated it.

Yeah, you might want to send that to me again

because I think what happened is I copied it

and I went to go paste it in there and I deleted

it before and so when I went to paste it in there

there was nothing to paste. So yeah, so yes I

will look actually I'm in the process of looking

for it now because I have to actually find the

thing because I don't know if it's in one of

the actual actual overall some because I put

together when I first started out I put together

just an overall file of everything I wanted to

discuss an overall description, so I don't know

where I don't know where it is Well Yeah, let's

let's make sure you do this because That is not

my fault it's not my fault that you only have

18 subscribers and I have over 60 that ain't

my fault man No, it doesn't suck. See, that's

one thing that - It's because my show sucks.

And I'm sorry, I know I said I wasn't going to

go back to this. That's one thing that I'm starting

not to like about TFYR. Is Ryan always saying,

oh, we only have three listeners and why does

anybody even listen to - Saying that type of

stuff is going to get people not to listen to

you. Now, I have - Granted, when I first found

TFYR, they had already been like 76, 80 episodes

in, so I went back from the beginning and listened

to them all. not obviously in one sitting but

I would listen to them each day all the episodes

up until I got current and you just cannot sit

there and podcast and talk about all this stuff

and then say oh well if any of these three listeners

even care about this well that makes people not

care about your podcast I mean that that that's

gonna that's gonna diminish your listenership

yeah Yeah I try not to bring that up because

I mean it really doesn't matter because I'm not,

I mean I'm doing it for others as well but I'm

also doing it for myself. There, there's the

damn description, I found it. Alrighty. Let's

get that updated then. So I think we should go

ahead and close. Yeah, because I've got to edit

the feed and then make a description for this

episode. Well, actually I don't have to put much

in there. You can put like, TFG1, ATTF, crossover,

best of 2008. We discuss whatever we liked and

didn't like about 2008. Now are you gonna release

this as two separate episodes for each feed?

Okay Yeah, okay, yeah They'll be both on both

feeds All right. Well, this is Michael Blanchard

with the TFG one podcast and just want to Wow.

Oh boy. You were done. It's a good thing that

this is not a live radio show. Alright, you finish

yours real quick. The FCC would so fuck us up.

Alright, retake. This is Michael Blanchard with

the TFG1 Podcast. Just want to say thanks to

Steve with the ATTF Podcast for doing this recording

today. And we will see you all soon. Bye folks.

And this is Steve slash Megatron signing off.

their battle to destroy the evil forces of the

Decepticons.