Geek Life, New Car, Headset Upgrades, and Screenplay Updates

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Geek Unlimited Hello and welcome to Altered Geek

Unlimited. I'm your host Steve Megatron Phillips.

I will be flying solo again this week. Unfortunately,

we were supposed to do an E3 episode. today and

what happened was is I was going to have Birdman

Dad on to talk about it and he was ill so I opted

not to do that stuff this week so I'm going to

hold off on that I'll probably do a double shot

episode next week having a bit of news and then

some of the like As far as like e3 news, and

then I'll have some topical stuff to Have fun

with So yeah I've been as everybody knows been

playing like live streams where I've been doing

like Battlefield 4 and I'm gonna do some other

games too. I just I haven't gotten around to

it yet I I'm wondering like as far as like these

games are concerned like because I know some

people play for like two hours or they play for

an hour or if they play for like five to ten

minutes like what's an acceptable like streaming

length for you like when you're when you're watching

somebody play a game or if you're You're watching

a video podcast of sorts like what's an acceptable

length of something to watch like I find myself

like more attuned to the If it's a gameplay thing,

I might watch like 15 minutes. I know I've streamed

like 30 or 45 minutes depending just because

it's easier. I play and then I just let it record

while I'm doing it and then I forget to press

the button to stop it. Or sometimes the match

literally lasts that long. But if it's like a

video podcast, I typically go like from the 3

to like 10 minute mark and I won't go beyond

it just because it gets too long. So yeah, I'm

kind of curious to hear what you guys have to

say on that topic. Side note, I just got a new

vehicle and I'm pretty geeked about it. It's

a 2016 Chevrolet Equinox. I replaced my 2005

Chevrolet Aveo. And I gotta say, I'm pretty pumped

about it. I really love the vehicle. It's an

SUV, so it's kind of a big bump up. It's nice.

Like a lot of the features that are in there,

like the technical side of things, like I figured

out how the Bluetooth works and you sync your

phone and you can make a call or you can do like

media or do like stitch or a Pandora from your

phone. So that's really neat. It will read your

text messages too, which is another cool feature.

So like yeah, I've been having fun messing with

that stuff and Just got it yesterday Really enjoying

it and then as far as my schooling stuff's concerned

like I've been doing that We're about a week

away from being done with the semester and then

I go back in August or August 27th or something

So I've been having fun with that for the most

part I got a couple of assignments left to do

but it won't take me that long But um yeah, so

I mean a lot of stuff's been going on lately.

I'm still waiting to hear back on the altered

generations Script I submitted to Amazon Studios.

I don't know whether they'll pick it up or not

If they do great if they don't then I'll shop

it around again I did find some things I probably

should have edited before I submitted it, but

I guess we'll just see when that comes So yeah

I've been having a lot of, I've had a few people

ask me anyway, and then it was even evident on

last week's episode when I was asked if I would

do my screenplay, which is basically like a superhero

time travel, everything impacts everything kind

of thing, like the future can alter the past,

and the past can alter the future, and it's like

a really weird dynamic, but I think I made it

coherent. You're kind of playing with the laws

of time travel, so it makes it a little bit different.

But one of the things that I've enjoyed with

the script is getting to craft these characters

and kind of build it into a series. And I was

asked if I would do like a audio play with it.

Because obviously I can't do an actual Video

of it because I need people and I need money

to actually shoot it. I don't have any like camera

equipment I know people that do I just don't

have like necessarily the time or the budget

to do that But born standing up says I really

like what you have for your screenplay stuff

You should put it together and do like a web

series or like an audio play. It could be cool

So like I I'm actually because of that idea I'm

probably gonna do like a 15 minute short episode

on it and try it out So I've actually decided

to go through with the idea. So I posted it on

a website which people of Geekcast Radio should

be familiar because Optimus Solo has been a long

time staff member there. Behind the Voice Actors

has a feature called Casting Call. And I've put

up 17 characters for my screenplay. The majority

of them are female. Because it's just how kind

of how the cast split up to begin with I do have

a few male characters Some of them villain some

of them not some of them short one characters

based off me. So obviously I'm going to voice

that one and Then there's like an announcer guy

which I may or may not do but people are welcome

to do that But anyway, so I've got a little bit

of a description of their voice a little and

style Some people are more generalized than others.

They're not By any means have to be that voice

exactly just saying like a rough guideline of

what I would be looking for but It means nothing

and I've also taken quotes from the script and

everything and I posted it over on The voice

acting Alliance as well To try and garner some

attention there I'm hoping that I can at least

get these characters because I'm not sure what

segment of the the screenplay I'm gonna do yet

but it'd be interesting to try it out and if

it does well I might do the first section of

the screenplay because if it does well then I

will continue on with parts two three and four

of the because you had to break them up into

you know part one part two part three and part

four which is the general split up of a television

show anyway because of commercials and everything.

So I broke it up in that way, but I'm hoping

that when I do it, it'll garner enough attention

and do well enough that I can move on with it.

I'm hoping that it does well regardless. Like

I'm hoping it actually sells and becomes a series

because I would love to see it come to fruition

that way. Yeah, I mean I've had a lot of fun

developing it and coming up with it I may yet

turn it into a book series to kind of play around

and see what happens Only time will tell I guess.

So yeah, there's been a lot of stuff going on.

We did the hot car episode of Altering GeekCast

Radio with TFG1 Mike Jesse from the radio station

that's close to TFG1 Mike in Kentucky and we

had Michael Wilson talking about how parents

Have been leaving their kids in the cars when

it's hot Tune into that if you want to hear more

about that. I'm not going to talk about it much

on here And then there's there's another interesting

thing that kind of goes along with my my side

projects here We are reviving and when I say

we I mean like I'm kind of spearheading this

the dark glass project The beast wars dark glass

because there's been a lot of I mean it's 20th

anniversary. There's been a lot of attention

Originally the auditions went up and I'm on voice

acting Alliance looking at it is September 27th

2010 is when the initial lines audition lines

came up And for all the characters And then we

had About 20 people audition, which was kind

of cool And then after that it kind of Never

went anywhere after that like we got all the

lines recorded in their final renditions. We

got all the character rigs we got some of the

sets But there's a lot of stuff that needed like

sets that need to be made and then they needed

to be animated with all the sets of the rigs

So I mean with with the audio anyway, so I mean

it was it was getting it was I would say was

about 25 % done but uh It's kind of sad that

it didn't get done, but like the guys that were

animated were just two guys So like life obviously

took over so we're still we're trying to get

another team together to kind of work with those

two guys and kind of revive it and kind of bring

it out of the Out of the ground and see how well

a thing thing can go. I'm tempted to get like

a Like patreon Kickstarter thing for it to get

it completed because we actually have like It's

a really compelling story that actually kind

of ties together Beast Wars and Beast Machines

really well and it kind of has some throwbacks

to G1 and it kind of There's a lot of stuff in

it. They can make it really really interesting

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to the content of the episode. Like I said, we

were going to do E3, but opted not to based on

the fact that Our gaming people weren't around

and I wanted to wait until they were here to

accurately discuss gaming. So I'm going to do

comics. Well, comic related stuff. I'm going

to do brief overviews of all of these different

categories. I have a ton under stuff, so just

bear with me. The film roundup that I have...

We have Xavier and Logan on the run in the new

set images from the Wolverine sequel. And then,

of course, we see an X -Men apocalypse video

showing Hugh Jackman as Weapon X running through,

basically, with the helmet and everything. It's

pretty cool. And then Beverly Hillscop IV, Eddie

Murphy is going to return set in Detroit. I know

this has been kind of a production hell, in a

sense. mostly due to writing and Eddie Murphy

saying that he's not gonna come back for a paycheck

it has to be a good film he's not doing it for

the money it's it's got to be a gotta be a good

story so yeah there's there's that and they just

got a duo of directors it's I'm gonna butcher

these names but Adil L. Arby and Bilal Fala known

for their Romeo and Juliet inspired update, Black.

They've impressed, apparently impressed Paramount

and Eddie Murphy and are going to be directing

the film. And also they're huge fans of the original

Beverly Hills Cop. So I guess this film is supposed

to be stated kind of closer to and more in realm

of the first Beverly Hills Cop, but it's gonna

be more Detroit based. So that should be pretty

interesting to see. But yeah, moving on, let

me know your thoughts on any of that stuff in

the comments below. We're gonna be getting into

the TV section. Gotham looks to be recasting

Poison Ivy for season three. My only guess for

that is would be that they're gonna actually

use her to some capacity this season with All

these various villains roaming about so yeah,

so I I'm pretty sure that's what's gonna happen,

but Time will tell So legends of tomorrow aside

from having a Like 1940s version of vixen are

going to be having a new character It's I want

to say it's Captain Steel, but they're gonna

be doing like the Justice Society type of setup

between the crossovers. So yeah, there's that.

Hero Season 5 is gonna have a new vigilante called

Wild Dog. I know nothing about that. And by the

way, the Legends of Tomorrow recruit was Citizen

Steel, which again, I know nothing about this

character either, so it'll be interesting to

see this play out through the show. They've cast

Tyler Hoechlin to play Superman on Supergirl

And from what it sounds like he'll be appearing

in maybe the first third and maybe another episode

throughout the season I just hope that they don't

make him like the big Like come in and rescue

her type thing I know that they said that he's

gonna come in and help Supergirl and then she's

gonna finish off the villain one of the episodes

So it'll be interesting to see that play out

and now that we've got Superman Supergirl and

Martian Manhunter and then in the other universe

we've got You know like flash and arrow and all

those guys It's gonna be really cool seeing how

all these characters play out the only thing

I wish they could touch on is like a Batman character

Having Batman show up to some capacity and Green

Lantern I feel like we're missing those but Guess

only time will tell it's it's still early on

and all these these shows lifespan other than

the arrow so Yeah, it should be pretty cool And

then the other kind of cool things is man TVs

returning to CW which kind of figures They're

the same ones that brought back whose line is

it anyway? After it was canned for me to see

family they revived it So it's kind of fitting

that they're bringing back Fox's show of mad

TV to the airwaves All new cast and it's going

to be starting Tuesday, July 26th. I'm going

to check that out. I'm not sure how well it's

going to do, but I'll give it a shot. Especially

with no programming through the summer. And then

we get our first Samurai Jack promotional art,

where Samurai Jack looks kind of gruff. He has

long hair, he's got the sword and it's bloodied.

They revealed it over in the UK during some kind

of awards or festival. Being a fan of the original

Samurai Jack Although I'm not well versed in

it. I was a fan of it I'm kind of excited to

see where this goes As far as like a miniseries

or a series revival Because it seems like series

revivals even if they're for a one season off

thing Tend to be a good thing for the show to

some degree as long as it's not heroes even though

I thought that that was better than the entire

second third and fourth season of heroes, but

Again, that's neither here nor there. Moving

on into, and I'm going to save my Transformers

stuff for all things Transformers just to kind

of keep this lighter. There's a bunch there,

too. Well, in the sci -fi department, we have

Hermione saying that Star Trek fan film lawsuit

on Axanar lives on. Although they, and this is

where I kind of think that they're... Being childish

in a sense like it says that It says within the

next few weeks it will be announced this is going

away and fans will be able to work on their projects

That's what Abram said Back in May However, there's

still an ongoing Counterclaims back and forth

between Axanar and Paramount CBS I, myself, think

this is really stupid that they keep dragging

this out. I think that fans should be able to

articulate and play in the franchises that they

enjoy. So long as they're not turning a profit

or trying to sell it without authorization from

the company. Now, if they're getting a Kickstarter

and getting money to budget it and put it together

and do it solely as a fan service thing, then

I think there's nothing wrong with that. But

if they're, you know, it... I can see where it's

a gray area but I don't see what it matters for

CBS and Paramount being that they haven't had

a successful television show since 2005 and their

films have kind of been mediocre at best. So

again, this is such a gray area but I have to

almost side with the fans just because this is

a company being petty. It's it's it's it's much

in the same realm as like YouTube flagging a

video because you used Like you did a fan dub

That's perfect example because I'm I'm involved

with fan dubbing of Transformers Headmasters

Anytime we put a video up No, it isn't me putting

the video. I'm one of the voice actors, but anytime

they put the video up YouTube flags it it goes

down and then they dispute it and then Hasbro

monetizes it So it's like a nice little, it's

like a slap on the wrist, we'll take some money

and use your voices that are in American doing

this series, but you can still show off your

fan dub and do the love for it. Now if Paramount

and CBS wanted to do it kind of like that, if

they wanted to piggyback off it a little bit,

then I could see that, but they shouldn't totally

disallow fans from... Expressing what they love

and kind of spreading the franchise out, but

I guess that's just me. I'm I'm kind of soft

in that department. I Enjoyed fan works. So yeah

DC Comics welcomes back Batman Day in September

and then Yeah, there's a ton of gaming stuff

for e3. Like I said, I'm not gonna touch on any

of that More so just because I don't want to

have to mess with it. So we'll be back right

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to the show. And we're back, so... One of the

things that that I've been wanting to kind of

talk about is well the fact that I Just had to

order a new headset. This is kind of a sidetrack,

but I've had this USB Logitech clear check Pro

headset for I don't know eight years now, I don't

know it's I've had it long enough that Since

we were doing all things transformers version

1 .0, but before GeekCast radio and the headset

on it was really cool Really comfortable. I loved

it It had the volume controls on it had a mute

on it so you can mute the microphone the microphone

folded down or fold it up I Quit using the microphone

about the time. I get my blue Yeti microphone

but The the headsets always been comfortable

well over the last. I don't know three years

the rubber or the the fake Like almost vinyl

let pleather type stuff has been flaking off

the last three years and It's been ridiculous,

and I'm one of those people that when I get something.

I'd like I don't really want to change What it

is so like if it's software I don't want to upgrade

to the new stuff if it's if it's like a setup

that I have because like I have this And I don't

know how you guys are with your equipment or

with your software or your desks, but I've got

this weird OCD that every time I've moved, and

I've moved probably like, I don't know, a dozen

times over the last 15 years, my desk has to

be set up exactly the same. Everything has to

go in the same spot, everything has to be plugged

in the same way. It's really, people think I'm

weird on that. But anyways, since I built that

new desk, I've got a certain setup and this is

how I like it and that aside, that kind of plays

into my need to keep the same stuff. So anyways,

this headset's been flaking off for the last

three years. Pieces have been on my head when

I take it off. I ended up electrical taping the

top part so that it doesn't flake on the top

of my head and it felt comfortable. So that held

that together and then the ear pieces were doing

it too and there's nothing I could do about that

aside from replacing them but I couldn't get

it off. And then one of, about six months ago,

one of the extensions that go to the, so you

can extend the head piece to the ear pieces actually

cracked and broke off and I managed to shove

it back in there and I extended the other side

to compensate so that I didn't have to buy another

headset. So fast forward to last week when I

was actually recording Altered Geek and Doing

my gaming and all of a sudden part of this sound

starts going Like that and I I started kind of

freaking I'm like, okay is something wrong with

my computer and then Was finishing my game because

I can only hear out of one earphone, and I took

my headset off and the earpiece itself Detached

from the headset fell off and was dangling by

a wire so I knew the thing was shot so I tried

taking it apart last night when I went to go

game and I don't have any other headphones in

my house like that was my headphones those were

my USB I have a speaker but I don't like to use

it when I podcast and so I had to go find my

mp3 player headphones and they were so faint

and I did not like it because I had to be right

in front of my monitor to use it because the

cords like a foot and a half and my USB headset

was an eight foot cord so I could have a snake

behind my monitor and relax in my chair and lean

back and play my game with my other eight foot

cord to my Xbox 360 controller that I could play

my games with on my PC so I usually lounge in

my chair well yeah the headset wasn't doing it

for me the the cheapo one and the USB one I ended

up having to throw in the garbage because I tried

to repair it last night and it just wouldn't

take and I I kind of knew that that was the death

of the headphones so I had to order a new set

today and they don't sell that exact one That

exact one, actually, if you go to buy it now

on Amazon, it's like $160 and I paid $35 for

it when it was new. So I had to find a comparable

one and I bought it for $35. I should have that

next week when I record Altered Geek. But yeah,

it's sad to me when my equipment dies and I have

to upgrade because I feel horrible about it because

I'm like, it's this part of me. I can't let it

go. It's kind of like my car when I upgraded

my car this week I it's been such a part of my

life for the last nine years and I know every

feel I know every like I Know everything about

the car It's like a it's like an extension of

who I am like kind of like the headset or the

microphone or you know It just it becomes like

a part of you, so it it it's hard to let it go

when it's time So I mean I've had a couple big

changes this week got a new headset comment.

I got a new car So it's just really weird for

me When you're not used to change Or you don't

like change and simple thing going now. I'm having

to go through my office and I'm sorry if I'm

boring you I hope I'm not but And I don't know

how you guys how you guys hold your collections

or anything I have like a curio cabinet type

thing in my office that has my figures in it

that are open and I have my other ones with thumbtacks

Hanging on the wall that have their backs and

boards to them still And I have my comics in

the closet in the in the office and I have to

share the office with my wife so Part of her

stuffs in there and part of mine I have a lot

of the closet space taken up because I have crap

that I just refuse to put in the crawlspace Or

in the attic mostly my comics some of its toys

some of its tech some of its just crap that I

Probably won't look at to be honest I just it's

that nostalgia of the fact that it all used at

one time fit in my desk or under my desk and

I don't have anywhere to put it so it just stays

in my office in case I need to get to it which

I rarely do So I get where my wife's coming from,

because I am a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but

I'm a pack rat. So it's kind of difficult for

me. I always want to get rid of stuff, but at

the same time, I'm like, well, I might use this

for this. Like, I have some Dragon Ball Z magazines

that I'm going to use for the Cyber Dragon Ball.

And I'm like, well, I could throw these away,

because I could look it up. But I'm like, no,

I could have this as quick access. So it's, yeah,

it's a lot of that kind of stuff. Don't know

how you guys are with your collections and with

your stuff that you you have in your office I

It's it's very hard for me I And I would assume

that anybody that has a collection of things

or things that they've had for the last like

20 30 years It's it's got to be hard to not Display

it or being told that you need to liquidate And

I've already liquidated a lot of my toys. I just

Due to space reasons I just I had to get rid

of them plus I wanted to buy the masterpiece

optimus primal coming out in October So I had

to trade in almost every transformer figure I

had which wasn't that many to afford The masterpiece

figure and then of course I get the announcement.

Oh, we're making a masterpiece cheetor now So

I'm like, oh, well that's super because I've

never seen a good cheetor figure And now they're

coming out with a good cheetor figure which probably

won't be till next year But still I'm like you

kidding me man because it's probably gonna be

like $89 like the other you know because the

leaders are always more and then they charge

less for the you know the secondary characters,

so So I'm guessing they're gonna go through all

the Beast Wars cast like in their season one

forms and then they might do season two and three

but When they come to rat trap I'm probably gonna

just Use his because of size reasons If they

do a rat trap masterpiece I'm probably gonna

use the 30th anniversary version because that's

Show accurate as you're gonna get and then I'll

probably do the same thing with the Rhinox that

came out for the 30th and the Waspinator and

then I have the Dinobot from the like 25th or

maybe it's the Universe line, but anyways, it

looks they look close enough to the show I'm

not concerned with getting the masterpiece and

they were only like Anywhere from like five to

fifteen dollars, so I'm not heartbroken if I

don't get them as a Holy crap, I see a trolley

driving down the street. That's just weird Sorry

for that. I just it's strange I've never seen

a trolley down the city before drawing or driving

down the street so Yeah, I'm Ecstatic for the

Beast Wars figures as they come out. I'm looking

forward to like a masterpiece Megatron for sure.

I know I'm gonna get that when that comes out.

That's that's a hundred percent cheater I might

get it depends on the cost If they come up with

a masterpiece scourge I might do that too from

Transformers Headmasters Only for the fact that

I've been voicing him for the last 10 11 years

on TFCOG So it's got this this close personal

spot with me So it I don't know there's certain

things like I can barely get rid of and then

there's certain things like I'm like I would

love to have a show accurate version of this

as opposed to having the original version which

if you bought it new it would cost about the

same as the masterpiece but it doesn't have the

articulation or the the look of the new thing

so that's where I guess we're technology is better

now so this in and of itself kind of lends itself

to the The same type of thing as the Transformers

with the Batman figures or Ninja Turtles. I'd

love to get my hands on a Show Accurate Crang

from the 87 Turtles, but obviously they aren't

going to have the masterpiece of that. But like

the Batman stuff, like I've gotten a few of those

and those have been pretty spectacular, so. But

yeah, that being aside... What would you guys

like to see come from the show in the next couple

of weeks? Sorry little jumbled on vocals there

Because I'm I'm planning for the big 150 to do

like a live show like maybe a live stream or

Some kind of thing on like Google Hangouts and

maybe try and get some varying hosts or varying

guests on to participate and kind of see how

that goes maybe do like a giant Q &A or kind

of cycle through some of the old feedback and

kind of answer it now with maybe some updated

information or so just just sound off in the

comments below and let me know and then so I

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