Pets, Star Wars, and Holiday Cheer

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your host, Steve Megatron Phillips, and joining

me this week are... Mike the Birdman Dodd! Welcome

aboard! I have to say the Skittles Orchards flavor

is the worst Skittles I've had in my entire life.

The funny thing is you like to taste the rainbow.

I've had skittles in so long, now I want some

fucking skittles. I'm gonna make it a point to

get some tomorrow. And then forget. And then

probably forget. Although, evidently, if I have

skittles or anything sugar, I'm going to die.

There was a funny incident on my Facebook last

week where some fucking ass clown decided to...

Tell me, because I like to try weird things,

I'm evidently worse than Hitler. I am fast food

Hitler, so. Your fans are an abomination when

they say stupid things like that. Oh my god!

See, like, okay Mike, we've known each other

for a long time at this point, and I can go ahead

and say this. You need to limit your fa - like

Facebook, because oh my god, some of the people

that are - It's a dumpster fire! Like you need

to go through your friends list and just cut

everybody that you don't associate with on a

daily like people that are just fans That's what

the that's what your fan like Mike the Birdman

Dodd fan pages That's put all that shit on there

and take it off See I like interacting with people

It's just when people take it way too friggin

far like it was like I couldn't believe half

the crap I was reading. But then again, I have

some of the best fans in the world because people

came out swinging for the fences. Well, yeah.

They're like, oh, you insulted Dodd. You've done

fucked up now. It was like, my god, I also found

out I've got a goon squad. You should call him

the Dodd squad You should come up with a logo

and everything and just make t -shirts and sell

them on a like a Zazzle or something and I bet

you'd have people buying it, you know team Dodd

or or the Dodd squad Steve suggested why don't

you do it Steve? So what's everybody been doing

this week? A lot of gaming, because it is the

season for it. I don't think I've slept much

this week because of it. I am just so... We've

talked about this before, not just on AlterGeek,

not in the past two years on AlterGeek, but in

the past seven years of GCR. End of the year

starts with Halloween skips over Thanksgiving

and goes straight to Christmas Don't get me wrong

folks any other year. I would be fine with it

But for some odd reason this year, and I don't

think it's just cuz my mom passed away But just

it just feels wrong like the one of the radio

stations I've listened to locally since I don't

actually watch regular TV anymore Like two weeks

ago They switched from their regular format to

Christmas music. It's November, people. The fact

that it's just after Veteran's Day, too. Well,

it's tis the season to be spending. Yeah, I guess,

right? Because you got, what, you got Thanksgiving

slash Black Friday coming up, what, about a week

and a half? Yep. No. Wait, is it a week and a

half? Hell, I don't even know anymore. Yeah,

it's about, no, it's about two weeks, actually.

Two weeks from the night is Thanksgiving, so.

Yeah, I don't know I'm just so so far out of

the whole Christmas thing this year, it's just

I'm surprisingly into it this year Mostly because

a friend of mine's family and this is a real

sad story. So be prepared for some tears here

So a friend of mine her kids have to do this

thing for school like this thing called volunteer

hours, right? So it's part of their education

to get their diplomas and all that shit. They

have to do so many volunteer hours a year. So

what they did is they teamed up with a local

cat rescue and they took in a like cat and it

had kittens and they're supposed to raise it

for 10 weeks until the kittens can go find their

own homes, right? Over the last nine weeks, all

but one of the kittens has died. And the last

one died or the second to last one died last

night. In my friend's arms So what sucks is because

the family has grown attached to these animals

they want to do everything they possibly can

because this is a volunteer organization They

don't necessarily have a lot of money for like

kind of vet bills and everything. So the mom

Decided to like all right. Well, I'll pitch in

some of my own money to make this happen, right?

Cuz you know, no one wants to see up But a like

sick animal so what she had to do and this is

really unfortunate with the permission of her

kids she had to spend some of their Christmas

money on vet bills and What happened is she came

to us last night in absolute tears saying guys.

I don't know what I'm gonna do I don't know whether

I'll be able to give my kids a Christmas now

so luckily I reached out to a couple of my professional

contacts and Some of them have been remarkably

generous. Even some of my fans contacted me tonight

saying all right Dodd Well, what can we do to

help out? So yeah, we've got people sending them

stuff. I think people are making stuff people

from Etsy are sending stuff That's awesome. Yeah,

if you guys want to help out Mike at this week

in geek .net I'll send you all the gory details

now. I'm gonna keep the stuff here until just

before Christmas and Surprise the kids like hey

guys, guess what Brown Santa? and Just hopefully

their Christmas will be awesome. So I'm really

really looking forward to seeing What's going

to be showing up here over the next couple of

weeks? That's very awesome Yipper see what have

I been up to this week? This will be up actually

that hopefully the same day as alter geek depending

on if I get images that I need to get for art

stuff, but Joe Reed and I from Joe Reed from

off the cuff and geek stuff garage sale or geek

stuff garage cast We interviewed Mr. Tom Waltz

the writer of the IDW TMNT series. Oh my god.

That guy is a great interview He is awesome We

just talked about essentially the entire for

almost five years that i did have used of the

turtles license and just how well that book is

turned out if you guys are reading i d w's t

m t ongoing you need to start really start from

the beginning of the best way to do that is it's

no best way to do it is the wait for the hard

cover additions because they're arranged in story

reading order because if you get the trades you

have to get like volume 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 and Then if you want the micro series like

the one shots for the characters You have to

get those trades what they do with the hard covers.

I believe what is it called here? Is it is it

the IDW collection? tg and turtles the IDW collection

volume 1 this collects the first 12 issues of

the ongoing with the Raphael Michelangelo Donatella

Leonardo and splinter micro series one shots

spliced in between so they're basically giving

you an entire story in the preferred reading

order that it's supposed to be so you don't have

to read one issue and then go to the next and

skip that one but come back to it and whatever

else but the next volume is actually due out

in February but volume one is on Amazon right

now But no, it's it was awesome talking to him

just getting his his story and how he came You

know to be on IDW's team and how the TMNT team

You know we talked about the fact that they quote

-unquote killed Donatello and then put him in

metalhead and everything else and oh man. It

was just so awesome Let's see what else have

I been doing this week. Oh, I got all my my current

because i have no idea what other debts i have

on my credit report uh... my all my current debts

like the cable bill i thought i was gonna have

to i don't even know what the hell to do with

it got all that taken care of thanks to a uh...

to a lump sum payment from social security so

i'm essentially free and clear at this point

for my current finances no i i i know i know

uh... let's see what else I'm still listening

to La La Land Records soundtrack for The Flash

Season 1. Oh, so good. I know everyone loves

The Flash, me included, but man, listening to

that music outside of the show, it's so damn

good. But that's pretty much what I've been up

to. What have you been up to, Steve? More than

I care to count. Well, we were doing the top

100 last night, I had to bail, but that was due

to kids screaming because for the last week and

a half they haven't wanted to sleep through the

freaking night. Not a one of them. What's that?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure those aren't legal on humans.

Your state laws may vary! Yeah, I don't think

they give you money for that either um So yeah,

we did that In doing so I Got to watch a few

of our shows fall that I wasn't anticipating

Big Bang Theory dropped last night mm -hmm and

I can spoil this because It's gonna come out

around same time as the other episodes yeah It

doesn't matter if I say anything, so fight me.

So yeah, we went through the list. I think I

bailed around like 62 or 63 because of the technical

difficulties and how late it was being. But Big

Bang Theory dropped in the 50s. And I was pretty

sad that it didn't at least make it in the top

50, but it was like just above 50, so it was

fine. got to watch Batman 66 drop last night.

Was not happy about that either. And of course,

they're trying to represent like Big Bang 3 the

best they could when they did that one. Like,

I was like, ugh. None of them are fans of it.

Yeah, cause they're not, like, none of them are

fans of it. None of them watch it either, so

that makes it worse. None of them were super

fans like we are of it. Well, they don't understand

it, and I think that's part of it. What's there

to understand? Well, what I'm getting at is they're

like, oh, it's the same joke over and over and

over is what they're trying to say, like they're

highbrow, kind of. I mean, it's... They're not

wrong, because the writing has gotten progressively

weaker on that show. And I won't disagree with

that, but... So they are changing things up every

season and so I mean and adding and the guests

that they add are Priceless and some of the scenes

that they do But yeah full house dropped last

night, which I wasn't surprised Community dropped

last night Yeah, you'd be surprised it was like

74 Big Bang made it to the 50 so I was happy

about that. Fresh Prince was in it last night.

Do you know if Arrested Development was in there?

I want to say that it wasn't But I could be wrong.

I know True Detective dropped last night Couple

other comedies a couple other HBO type shows

I was I was sad cuz arrow dropped last night

And it just barely just barely didn't make it

into the the top 50 and I was I was quite sad

because Somebody ranked it at four on their list.

I had it ranked at six So It hits it all there's

blasphemy it was um It was it had 636 points.

So it's technically tied with the next one that

came out after it Which was dick van dyke This

I'm telling you this list is like the biggest

like I WTF like I don't even know where it's

going at any given point Right, and we have,

what is it, over 29 different people that contributed

lists, so it's one of those things where when

we set out to do the GCN Top 100 TV countdown,

we knew this was gonna be unlike any of the other,

like when we did Animated Series, when we did

Animated Fed, we knew this was not going to be

something that we could ever... Steve is brilliant

at predicting crap. He can't predict... anything

on this countdown. Oh, Kevin's actually been

pretty damn spot on. So if you listen to anything

Kevin's decided on on his list, he's pretty freaking

close. Yeah. I will say that 17 out of my top

100 have actually been on the list so far, and

we're 50 down. Yeah. I'm going to make a prediction,

though, that which is sad because like Supernatural

dropped the first episode. I was so I was so

peeved. Kevin's girlfriend was worse. Yeah, she

kind of lost it. I'm going to say Boy Meets World,

TNG, The Flash, all show up in the top 10. Let's

hope. The rest of them, I have no idea where

they're going to go. I don't know if I'd put

The Flash in the top 10, but I would put definitely

TNG in terms of what they call this culturally.

I'm thinking because because it's gonna be based

on how many lists it's on and how many total

points it accumulates between the lists Yeah,

so I'm betting that it because Yeah Yeah, so

I Mean we still haven't seen once upon a time

heroes Star Trek blacklist, you know Prison break

like any of those type shows show up Gotham hasn't

shown up yet Saturday night live hasn't shown

up yet What'd you say Mike CSI That has not shown

up either no, there's another I don't know there

was a cop show that came on last night But I

didn't pay attention to the name of it because

it wasn't on my list Watch it be that one now.

I Really don't know I paid attention for the

ones like that. I knew the show and that were

on my list and the rest of them I If I knew something

about them, I spoke about them. If not, I didn't.

But it was... There was a couple of people going,

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Sunday night, unfortunately, my dog passed away.

How old was your dog? Seven. Wow, that seems

rather young. Yeah, the sad part was we had her

seven years to the day. So she was about seven

and like four or five weeks. She was ill the

day of my son's birthday party. His birthday

was the next day, but like his birthday party.

Yeah, just. She was fine the day before, no symptoms,

nothing. Next day, not eating her food, having

a problem. She went to the bathroom, she threw

up, she did all this normal dog stuff and then

kind of moped around the house and kind of slept

a little bit. Later in the evening, because we

thought maybe she had a dog flu or something,

because sometimes she gets that little bit of

a cold or something, just doesn't feel like eating.

She wouldn't even sniff food and I was like,

something right and then she started kind of

having a weird breathing issue and was Starting

to bleed a little bit and have convulsions and

it was just all of a sudden started happening

So we rushed her to emergency and by then she'd

already bit her tongue and everything and I had

it took everything in me to hold her still in

the car We got her in there and it was it was

pretty much too late What was the official cause

of death? Well, they didn't know until they did

a blood test, but apparently she was extremely

anemic weird and I was Like I pretty much knew

as soon as we took her to the emergency because

of how bad she was I knew we weren't coming home

with her but it hit me hard while we were there

and It is both hard fortunately for us the kid

didn't seem to take it too hard Our our youngest

was sleeping in his his car seat the whole time

and the older one who's three he was like Yep,

he's he's he was like Yep, Sadie's up in heaven

God's new friend, you know, and we were like

Very profound for a three -year -old, you know,

we're sitting there blubber and he's handed us

like Kleenex and everything and it was It was

horrible. I felt bad that the kid had to even

be there for that, but there was really no time

for anything. So yeah, she's gone. We had her

cremated. We got a little shrine to her in the

living room in the curio cabinet. I've been spending

the last few days gathering videos and pictures

of the dog and putting them in a giant folder

that I'm going to turn into a... Memorial sort

of thing. Yeah, basically like a giant like DVD

of of remembrance of the dog What you should

do Steve you should buy one of those like video

picture frames Yeah, I would except we've had

those in the past they don't really work all

that well They they tend to at points like freeze

Which is odd like I bought one years ago like

rather five years ago I had problems with it.

So yeah, we Yeah, so now we're in the process

of because there's this hole As far as pets are

concerned and the I mean we have two cats still

but it's still not same not having a dog running

around So we're actually looking for another

dog at the moment Which is kind of short but

like at the same time like it's I don't know

I think it'd help with our coping Are you gonna

a daunt? Yeah, yeah, I'm not well our one rule

is we won't get from a breeder because like they're

just kind of wrong Because they're just breeding

them just to sell them and instead of getting

one of these poor dogs that have no home Good

on you. So that's and we're still probably gonna

get a beagle. That's what I had That's what I

what we both like so and they're you know, we've

been searching we found some like We've narrowed

it down to like six that we're interested in

that are in like a I don't know four -hour radius

from where we're at Mostly in Lake, Illinois

and Indiana. So yeah but yeah, we're that's what

we've been doing over the past week so that kind

of put a damper on everything but Other than

that, I think we should move into the show Yeah

In remembrance of my dog, so. In remembrance

of the kittens. Yes. So yeah, uh... Well, when

we're on the death part, we might as well go

with Robin Williams' will. Yeah! Good transition,

dude. Good transition. How is Todd gonna be able

to put that in there legally? Like, he must have

had a really good contract to have the rights

to that character. Didn't you that's like such

a wicked thing that that he had well apparently

they had so many Outtakes that they could have

filmed an entire another like Aladdin sequel

with the genie That's kind of amazing They can't

legally Well, I I think that they can use some

of the outtakes, but they can't legally use it

for anything Now does that mean they just can't

use it for profit or or they can't share it period?

Can't show it period. They can't use it at all.

Wow This is Robin Williams. Will prevents genie

outtakes from being used for Aladdin sequel specifically

the sequel But like they can't really most of

it cannot see the air the light of day Although

they did throw one of the outtakes scenes of

him doing some various stuff like physically

showing him in the remaster of the the Aladdin

You know, whatever it is 20th anniversary disc.

Yeah but yeah, it's a They're not allowed to

use any of the footage for 20 years. That's insane.

So like, you know, in 20 years, we might see

another Aladdin sequel where you get Robin Williams

voice miraculously popping up. That's just not

right. Which I kind of think, well, he did it

because of an estate thing, because I think he

figured there was going to be a big battle over

his estate when he died. Right. Well, that's

a hell of a bit of foresight. The man had a lot

of foresight. I mean that guy Was you know, I

Said this on an episode with Doug. I'm talking

about my generation. We were talking about Well,

hell it was recently we're talking about We were

talking about we ended up talking about Robin

Williams and how He essentially became his care.

Yes, Adrian Cronauer from Good Morning Vietnam

was an actual real -life person but Robin in

his real life became That character that he played

in Good Morning Vietnam because he was always

going over Seeing the troops and doing all that

stuff and that's what made him happy was going

over and doing all that kind of stuff and you

know just being able to give them the laugh that

he could or whatever else and That guy was an

amazing, amazing man. I watched part of the interview

with a widow, and I was gonna watch more of it,

but I just never did. It was on Good Morning

America at some point, I think in the last week

or so. And it's just so tragic, really is. Yeah,

it's an unfortunate story for sure. Obviously,

he was a treasure to everybody that saw him and

everything. I do think it's kind of funny that

he had the forethought to put this in writing

that Disney can't profit off of him until 20

years after he's been gone. That's a good thing.

Really, seriously, folks. It would have been

a poor taste because he probably figured they'd

try and release something to capitalize on it.

Even 20 years from now, do we need another Aladdin

sequel 20 years from now? No. Do we need any

sequel, truthfully, after X amount of years has

passed? Do we need a sequel period? See, I was

okay with some of the original Aladdin sequels.

I mean, I liked them. I didn't like Return of

the Jafar, but that's because the Genie wasn't

Robin Williams. Who was that? It was Dan Castellanos.

It was Homer Simpson. Yeah, I The only reason

why and I know a lot of people don't like this

one But the only reason why I like Aladdin the

king of thieves is because we actually get Backstory

for Aladdin because his father ends up being

the king of thieves. I Like that and I like the

fact that the genie is back as Robin Williams

and then they animated more of them because of

Him being yeah Robin Williams But uh, I guess

moving on from that they had Back to the Future

Part 2 updated with 2015. That was pretty smart.

I thought that was really, really funny. They

had Jurassic World in there in place of like

Jaws and then they had Donald Trump in there.

I couldn't help but laugh. It was great. That

was such a... It was pretty good photoshopping

it though. It says Donald Pleasured. They replaced...

What's his face? Yes, yep So yep, that was that

was probably the coolest thing of them them doing

it and they have a dinosaur that comes out in

the hologram instead of That stupid shark. Yeah,

so Yeah, that was pretty cool This is more so

for dad and I on this one, but tsunami lands

Dragon Ball super English dub Looking forward

to this, although a lot of the stuff I've seen

for super hasn't been, well, super consistent.

So I'm hoping that I know the dub is going to

be amazing because, well, I know half the cast

for the show, so they're going to give it like

they're all. I just don't know how I feel about

the show itself. But then again, I guess we'll

just have to wait and see. And I think it premieres,

what, next year at some point? I believe so.

Mid 2016. Oh boy. Alright, so... We've got a

show that came out the same day that this Ultra

Geek episode comes out. It's called Mayhem Mics,

and I only bring this up really quickly. Nothing

too in -depth. Did you get the Jimmy Fallon thing?

No, not Jif. To hell with Jimmy Fallon. He can

burn and die in a fire for all I care. Jimmy

Fallon's awesome. You shut your hole. You shut

your whore mouth. I just get tagged in a comment

about wrestling from one of my friends to one

of his friends, I guess. Then the status says,

the status is strictly for my wrestling fan friends.

What if Stardust or Kalisto won the WWE Heavyweight

Championship? Wouldn't that flip the wrestling

universe for a loop? Or was that how it felt

- I was gonna say, clearly they've run out of

ideas. Or was that how it felt when Rey Mysterio

won the belt? I was out of the wrestling loop

on that point. I just saw that I had to mention

it because we were talking about that the other

night. Boo! Wow, I don't know what they're gonna

do. Boo. Yeah, on other note, Shia LaBeouf likes

watching himself in film. That was, like, did,

did, like, you guys watch it? Did he really watch

all of his films? They have a live stream where

you can watch him. Watching his films. Including

like like friggin like even Stevens. Yeah, he

did like everything Yeah, he binge -watched all

of his movies And you get to watch him watching

his movies. Yeah on a live stream It was sad

as he's my age and he's nuts Although if you

were actually there he like bought you pizza

and popcorn and stuff, so that's pretty legit

if a little weird Yeah, he is a little strange,

but like it works for him. I think he just kind

of accepts it now what I can't get over with

this story is It says he did it in three days.

I'm sorry. The guy has been in Multiple two and

a half three hour movies. Okay. Sure. If you

take the Transformers movies out of there. He

still was in I robot he was in Disturbia he was

in holes he Just those three movies alone. That's

six hours. How are you gonna watch all of your

films? Yeah, well he did two days worth But yeah,

he they had I Robot Charlie's Angels full -throttle

fury lawless Transformers series and last Indiana

Jones They got a full like lineup. He had like

man down fearing nymphomaniac Charlie countrymen

company you keep lawless all the transformers

films eagle -eyed wall street new york you know

even his animated stuff like he's got surf's

up he's got dysterbia um dumb and dumber too

so but yeah he was in a lot of crap so it will

be many years before he's recognized as brilliant

for something i don't know what yet he's gonna

be one of those like cult guys that everybody's

like uh... that won't be appreciated till tel

-tel's career is like long cold sort of thing

which case go get them shia whatever works for

you buddy anybody remember the old nbc and then

syndicated show viper no bagley it's finally

getting a dvd release gage the ten fans who remember

Yep. We have one of them here right now. It's

finally getting a DVD release from Visual Entertainment,

Inc. Speaking of series that should... What the

fuck is this show about? It's about a... I'll

tell you later. I'll tell you later. No, I'll

tell you later. Speaking of shows that should

die... Die hard. Mm -hmm. I think they need to

take this guy up on his pitch that he published

in the... Variety or something? Well, he he promoted

it in the Hollywood Reporter and he paid like

a hundred dollars to get this posted But they

pitched their idea for like a John McClane like

year one type thing Well, it's like diehard year

one But it's supposed to be like their version

of it and then they set out like the full premise

of the plot of it and it's supposed to you know,

do a both like a back -and -forth like there's

an event that happens when John McClane's like

young and then he's coming back from saving Jack

in Russia and he gets arrested right off the

bat and thrown into supermax prison because he

got framed for murdering some guy from way back

when I'd watch it I think that's kind of a neat

idea I just Well, and I think that's why they

had it set up like this is because this would

allow it to actually die hard like doing full

circle You know something that caps the beginning

and the end I'd watch that I think that'd be

pretty cool and the guy had it so that you know

it's more grounded because he said that uh you

know to include an origin story in like 1979

or something and He said that uh Basically make

him like a normal guy again that happens to be

in the wrong place at the wrong time instead

of having him be this Supercop yeah, this like

unrealistic supercop that that stands on top

of a jet, you know jet -wing or You know is on

top of a SUV driving on top of traffic or you

know stupid crap Basically a little less PlayStation

a little more reality Well, they said ordinary

man extraordinary circumstances That's what they

actually wrote in there so it's actually kind

of kind of funny and then they like Tempt them

at the end like with a phone number in an email

and then it says now I know what you guys are

thinking. Do you want to? Do you really think

I have a chance mr. Cowboy contact me? I'll give

you the answer Like they're pretty legit they

were taunting them but like I won't see the light

of day. It's just I think it's funny It's better

than the other idea that I heard floating around

that they're gonna go to China Any time any time

they take an action movie or a comedy movie or

something and they've moved it like they've had

an entire series in the US and then they move

it into another country at bombs Well, it's because

they want to capture that for an audience Yeah,

but if the for an audience is the villain Yeah,

I don't know. I thought the whole thing with

the Russia thing was just played out and then

the because they did the same thing in The 80s

early 90s with the police Academy the minute

they they went Away from the Academy and then

they're like, oh, let's go to Florida. Oh, let's

go to Russia. You know, it was just like, okay,

I'm done No, but I'm just saying in general when

when they They jump the shark and move out of

the country and do something do their next film

It's time to quit But Yeah, then there's of course

Michael Keaton Which I like this story it was

on Jimmy Fallon And What happened is He was saying

that he was you know in line in a phone store

trying to get his phone fixed or something to

that degree always a cracked screen on his iPhone

and One of the spider -man's was playing spider

-man movies was playing in the store On the TV

the sales clerks seem to be more interested in

the movie than helping Keaton So it says at first

Keaton was worried that Serial's clerk was going

to recognize him and it would turn into a big

thing about him having played Batman. But the

clerk didn't even notice him or notice, have

a clue who he was. He started watching the movie

with the clerk. And then it says when an emotional

scene came on involving Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy,

Peter Parker started crying and it says Keaton

asked the clerk, this is Spider -Man, is he crying?

The clerk replied, yeah. And Keaton waited a

little bit and then said, pussy. When the clerk

glanced over at him. keaton added batman would

never cry and i'd i'd laughed at that like i

thought that was great batman may get mopey but

he don't cry so yeah that was pretty much all

the news i had this week so what do you guys

want to bring up oh let me see well this has

been a pretty big week for game releases we've

had fallout 4 which is obviously it's a bethesda

game so bug city uh... But that's not necessarily

a bad thing. There's a glitch right now where

you can get one of the most powerful guns in

the game in the first half hour using your dog.

There's an infinite money glitch which I totally

expect to be patched by like next week. But it's

a really good game. I actually just started playing

it today. The character creator, it's so nuanced.

I've seen people create Vladimir Putin. Like

almost photorealistic. I've seen John Cena Chuck

Norris Christopher Lee And Gillian Anderson from

the X -Files all recreated But it's a pretty

cool game. Although evidently if you lived in

the UK If you ordered your copy from the retailer

game, you are shit out of luck So if you wanted

like your pit boy edition Yeah, well you got

jolly well fucked Another game that came out

this past week was rise of the Tomb Raider, which

is the Xbox one exclusive My god, that series

got really good. Like it takes the original Tomb

Raider from 2013 improves upon almost Everything

like in the original game. There wasn't a whole

lot of tombs to raid now. There's almost entirely

too goddamn many combats been Refined there's

like so many little systems like you can learn

different languages and help you find stuff in

the environment It's pretty kick -ass Star Wars

Battlefront came out as of this recording today

for EA access members on On Xbox one. It's not

a bad game. I just wish they had a true single

-player campaign like like the original Battlefronts

But from a multiplayer standpoint, it's so much

fun Like, I literally kicked the crap out of

people as Darth Vader today, walking across Hoth.

That was really amazing. And then I saw a video

of a guy who as... I think, yeah, I think he

was Darth Vader. He whipped a rebel trooper into

a snow speeder and shot it right out of midair.

Like, that's a serious friggin' trick shot. I've

never seen anything like that before in my life.

I thought that was pretty badass. You know why

that happened. Because it was a Battlefield 4

player that was playing Battlefront. Yeah, I

guess so. Like, holy shit. Because I play Battlefield

4 with a lot of guys online, and my brother is

my dad. And they periodically jump on Battlefront

or whatever game happens to be out on Origin,

which is EA's game service. They're version of

Steam, yeah. What's that? It's like their version

of Steam for those of you that aren't... you

know keep it score yeah um but anyways they uh

they played battlefront a lot of them like some

of the guys like it and do tricks that they do

on on battlefield and then other guys that have

played it that have played uh battlefield don't

really care for it because they find it kind

of nerfed compared to battlefield yeah i i would

say that's not an unfair assessment of it it's

definitely a different creature in that regard

i mean i wouldn't You're not gonna see this thing

being played competitively. That's for sure.

Um, but it's still fun, though Yep, speaking

of Star Wars Yeah, they still can't find Luke

Okay, can we talk about that for a minute, please?

I've been meaning bring that up for weeks Okay

First of all We live in an age where people complain

about everything People complain about a teaser

that only gives you glimpses of what you're gonna

get. People complain about a trailer that spoils

the entire flippin' movie, okay? Here's the thing,

any, and I have not watched the new TV spot,

because I generally don't watch the TV spots

unless they're actually on TV, because it really

makes no damn sense to watch a TV spot on a friggin'

computer when it's only, what, 30 seconds or

less? Well, it's like your typical, like, kinda

teaser. I know, but like, yeah. You're not missing

a lot of extra scenery. I know. Well, the international

trailer had a lot of different scenery and a

lot of new footage. Don't get me wrong. I watched

that. That was awesome. But here's the thing.

Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens. They've

shown Han, or not, yeah, they've shown Han, they've

shown Chewie, they've shown the new characters,

they've shown the Millennium Falcon flying all

over the place and blowing shit up and whatever

else. Okay, that's all I need to see. The fact

that I can go on IMDB or wherever and see the

fact that Mark Hamill is in the movie, that's

all I need. I don't need to see, I don't need

to, this isn't friggin' Tron. This isn't, you

know, this isn't Kevin Flynn. This isn't, you

know, Flynn lives with, you know, Skywalker lives

or whatever. Who gives a crap? Go to the movie,

be surprised when Luke shows up. That's all there

is to it. with a publishing company up here in

Canada, their division of Random House, any of

the books for Star Wars The Force Awakens, they're

all sitting in a warehouse right now being all

ready to be shipped out just before the movie

or as the movie comes out, right? They have a

guard on the books who is armed and he gets paid

$125 per hour. I want that job. To guard a crate.

Want that job? They're taking security this seriously

I mean I remember when the Harry Potter stuff

came out and people were pissed that like even

that got leaked just because people got access

to like Pre -release copies or spoilers. I think

you actually may see Star Wars buck the trend

of having information leak on it Because it is

it's Star Wars I don't think you're gonna see

much come out about it before they want it to

come out I think that being that it's the biggest

franchise of all time It's it's going to they're

doing this on purpose because one it's they're

building up for the like probably the biggest

Box office office. We're ever going to see well

It's already on track for its opening weekend

to do something like 204 million which beats

the Avengers, which beats Twilight, Harry Potter,

Titanic, everything. I'm going to forecast that

it's going to beat even that. Oh, absolutely.

This will be like at the opening weekend. Because

I think because what you're going to run into

is a bunch of people taking and seeing the movie

three, four times or seeing it Thursday, Friday,

Saturday, Sunday. So are they going to count

like all the damn pre -sales? Well, yeah. Well,

yeah, because they are tickets sold. Right. So

if you count, what was it, 65 million or whatever

it was, whatever it was that broke Fandango and

moviepoopshoot .com or whatever the hell other

website it broke. Poopshoot. You know, whatever.

I mean, it's like, so you take that money, you

take the weekend box office money for regular

people who actually just go to the theater and

buy a date. Like, I am sorry. I know this is

a day and age where everybody wants to have their

stuff set in stone, and I'm like that too myself.

Certainly, I'm not gonna deny that, but I will

not buy a movie ticket two months ahead of the

damn movie. I've done it before. I did it for

Avengers. I did it for, what was the last movie

I did it for? I did it for Star Wars, definitely

the night that it opened. I definitely bought

my tickets. I did it for Hunger Games. I did

it for the last Harry Potter movie. That type

of shit, it sells out quick. And honestly, on

the one hand, I don't blame people for getting

the tickets early, because... I mean, I don't

blame them, but it's just one of those things

where, I don't know, I just... I don't know,

for me it seems like it ruins the movie going

experience that you already have the ticket.

Like the whole point of going to the theater

for me is going in, buying the ticket, getting

the concessions, going in and sitting down. Like

that's the whole - See, for me, I'd rather have

my ticket in my hand so I can just go grab my

concession and sit down. This way I don't gotta

worry about shit. Yeah, that's true. So, the

other Star Wars thing I was going to mention

before I jump back onto a certain movie train

wreck that we'll talk about in a minute. Is Yoda's

alive? No. Marvel has been releasing certain

books and they're about to do a giant crossover

and everything else. So Marvel released the four

-issue series called Shattered Empire, Journey

to the Force Awakens. This coming November 18th,

one month until Force Awakens opens, they are

starting their first epic crossover between the

Darth Vader ongoing and the Star Wars ongoing.

It's going to be called Star Wars Vader Down.

When Darth Vader accidentally finds himself facing

off against the Rebel fleet on his own, the Rebels

will learn the true strength of the dark side

of the Force. Once Vader crashes on a nearby

planet, the Rebellion is willing to risk everything

for this once -in -a -lifetime chance to take

out one of their biggest enemies, Luke, Vader,

Leia, Aphra, and Chewie. And all manner of droid,

good and evil. If you guys aren't reading the

current Marvel Star Wars comic Darth Vader comic

ongoing, you really need to. It's awesome. I

have it at my local comic book shop. I just haven't

picked up my actual kind of books yet. But I

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other piece of movie news that I think we ought

to bring up is the fact that both Steve Jobs

and Jim got pulled from... Which is really weird

because I think the Steve Jobs movie I heard

was quite good. Yeah. I mean, obviously it's

filled with inaccuracies being that it's, you

know... Compressed time and everything but well,

it's just there's there were stories like that

Wozniak even said never took place that He says

it was a good movie, but it was there were things

that never happened that were in that movie.

Yeah And then and honestly, I don't care to see

jobs But that's because I've seen Pirates of

Silicon Valley and the other one that had Ashton

Kutcher in it I thought Kutcher did, like, I

was so... I think he did a pretty solid job and

I had no reason to watch Jobs. Yeah, I was so

scared of the Jobs film with Kutcher because

it's Ashton Kutcher. Like, most everyone remembers

him as Kelso or, you know, the idiot on Two and

a Half Men's ninth and tenths, ninth season or

eighth season, whatever it was, you know. The

movie that changed my mind on him was The Butterfly

Effect. Yeah, that movie was awesome. I love

that movie that movie was awesome. I'll give

you that but Jim and the Holograms universally

yanked it so hard they Pulled that out. Oh god.

It didn't even get a chance to get its money

back Not that it was not that it was going to

but I mean Something like that Well, when it

doesn't follow the source material, I don't quite

blame it for bombing. Well, it's the fact that

it wasn't given the right advertising push for

one. Yeah, its deviation from the source material

was definitely a major strike against it. Kids

today, the audience they presumably wanted to

get with this, has no connection to it with Transformers.

Transformers has always had a presence on TV.

G .I. Joe's always had a presence in toy stores.

When was the last time you heard about fucking

gem outside a shout factory? 20 years ago? No,

30 actually. See? 30 this year. Well see, here's

the thing, okay? So, was it December or January?

December last year, January of this year, something

like that? IDW announced that they were gonna

do a Jim and the Holograms ongoing series and

this was right either before or after John Chu

Said that he was gonna be doing the Jim and the

Holograms movie So And what always bugs me about

John Chu is that it's not anything about him.

It's that people always confuse him with soo

lu from star trek they always think of john chow

uh... the jim holograms company you know you

guys are talking about the movie wasn't really

close to the source material what they were trying

to do i think was be close to the source material

and also do the whole family thing in the sister

thing they just pulled it off poorly the comic

book though the comic book the problem was I

wonder how much this was studio interference

like I wonder if John Chu you said it too I wonder

how big of a fan he was of the original source

stuff I don't know I'm not sure I kind of wonder

if he's like okay you need to make glitter but

less shitty yet somehow he managed to fuck that

up is he the guy that directed the second GI

Joe yep how did he mess it up so bad retaliation

Retaliation, okay, this is what a buddy of mine

- G .I. Joe Retaliation was actually good compared

to Rise of Cobra. Rise of Cobra had its moments,

but yeah, it was overall pretty, yeah. It was

crap. Yeah, pretty much. With the Jim and the

Holograms comic book from IDW, guys, if you're

not reading this, I mean, if you're a Jim fan

like I am and like a few other people that I

know are, What kelly thompson as the writer sophie

campbell is the artist a few of the other artists

is right now in the middle of an arc where sophie

is not on the book. They start out they introduce

us to the characters they have the whole they

basically don't all mod they all mod the the

cartoon series but they pay more attention to

the source material than anything else. At the

same time kelly thompson is writing an original

story of how. And they're tying it all into being,

you know, I don't want to say culturally, I don't

want to say politically correct, but culturally

relevant at that point because they've essentially

taken what we knew as the cartoon series and

updated it to a point where it's going to capture

this generation of teens and whatever, but they

have to read it. And it's so good. Issue 9 is

about to come out next week. And because I am

on IDW's media email thing, I've actually already

read Issue 9. It's the end of the viral arc.

And it's just so good. I actually just stopped

reading the book mostly because I wanted to focus

on Star Wars. But I would agree with you. It's

a pretty solid book. The problem is to have a

movie Well, the book is separate from the movie

But comic book fans, I guess unless you're DC

or Marvel, you know what I mean? Yeah Although

that being said IDW should have probably saw

a big bump in turtles stuff after the movie But

then again, that's also got the successful show

on Nick. So well But again, the movie, the cartoon,

and the comic are all three separate. Like, okay,

the Turtles book, have you ever read it, Mike?

Uh, the odd issue here and there, yes. What,

do you remember the number off the top of your

head? Oh, hell no. Okay, so... I don't remember

what I had for breakfast this morning. Yeah.

So, if you start at the beginning of Turtles,

it tells you the story of how... The family is

essentially broken because Raphael is out on

the streets out on his own. And then you get

Mikey, Leo, and Donnie and Splinter in the sewer.

And then as the story progresses, what they do

is instead of, you know, four baby turtles falling

down, you know, falling out of a boy's fish bowl

and down the sewer and getting mutated, they

tell a reincarnation story. Interesting and it

I'm telling you man. I will get you that link

to get that hardcover it is Awesome. It really

is. It's something you really should You of all

people as a turtle fan dude, you ought to read

this I'll have to reach out some of my contacts

and see what magic that I can pull I do know

that IDW is not Because I even asked when when

the first hardcover came out there and they were

not giving review copies out so there I'm just

saying because I tried I tried to get one I'm

just saying I tried to get one and my contacted

IDW said they were not giving review copies out

what else you want to talk about Steve I don't

really know. Kind of left with a hole with the

top 100 going on. Let's see. We've got... Well,

I'm not going to be doing... I'm not trying to

promote or anything. I'm just stating a fact.

I'm not going to be doing 25 Days of Christmas

this year for Tooncast Beyond, but we are going

to be doing some cartoon movies, some other cartoon

series by season, that kind of thing. What else

is actually going on? Oh, I got my my sign things

from David Kay. Oh, did you know awesome? They

were actually they got lost in the mail the first

time So like it was like two weeks after and

he sends me an email. He's like hey Those got

lost in the mail. He says I talked to the carrier.

He's like so Give me your address again So he

sent it to me and like I got him like three days

later And I got the two that I asked for and

I got an additional one I think because it got

lost. Oh awesome. So Yeah, I gotta get frames

now Side note Anybody seen the Star Wars Entertainment

Weekly cover with Old Man Han Solo recreating

his pose from The New Hope? Yeah, looks like

he's gonna throw out his hip Eh, or break a leg.

Yeah, you know, one or the other. I find it funny

that they tried to recreate it exactly and then

they made him, you know, of course he looks scruffier

and older, but like his jacket, like he's got

sleeves this time. And it looks all like shinier

leather instead of like that, that like fabric,

you know, vest that he had. Well Steve, at his

old age, he gets cold. The circulation doesn't

work like it used to chewy His grandpa solo Speaking

speaking of solos There was a news story that

they're glad it doesn't want to be called princess

anymore. They're dropping the princess They're

gonna be calling her general Leia Organa solo

They call her in the old expanded universe. That's

nothing new But yeah, but the expanded universe

doesn't mean shit anymore to the movies. Well,

unless it's like rebels or whatever Which is

an amazing show. I just started watching that

in the last like week and a half and I'm almost

done season one All right. Yeah, you gotta keep

watching through season two. It gets better.

Good. God damn that shows cool I love that show

that's that's actually really well done and it's

supposed to bridge the gap against the taste

place four years before a new Hope what I'm doing

actually to tie into Star Wars stuff as you guys

know I do that that role -playing podcast, Terrible

Warriors. I'm actually doing a Star Wars game

that will hopefully premiere for The Force Awakens.

The game starts literally about five minutes

after Order 66. Oh damn, so yeah, they're gonna

like hey, mr. Clone trooper. Can you grab me?

Ah shit So I've got some pretty cool ideas for

that. So that's an exclusive detail for your

listeners right there I've got four Jedi And

yeah, it should be a pretty cool game. The idea

is to have the games run from all the way from

Order 66 all the way up to the force awakens

So like a huge arc for these characters, so I'm

really hoping it turns out well. I have to read

about Two Thousand or more pages to get all my

research done and I got to do that in the next

two weeks fun Did you guys see the arrow and

flash crossover photos? That was only last week

It was good This came out when this come out

It came out within within the last week or so

over it coming soon and it's it shows flash arrow

speedy Black canary Diggle and then hot girl

and Hawkman. Oh That photo yeah See what else

Oh the Star Wars stuff I remember when the new

posters came out I Shared the Han one and I'm

like, yep still shot first Who was actually going

to see that movie along with the other six films

that take place before Because I even if I had

the money and the option there's no way in hell

I would do that I've had no intention of ever

stepping foot in there doing both like it's it

or doing all those those movies That's not something

I care to do What you do is you watch one of

the films every night leading up to the night

You're gonna see episode 7. Yeah, cuz then you're

not worn out, but it can still percolate in your

brain Yeah, I mean I don't think I could ever

do that. I really don't. And then what you really

do is you skip the first three and you move on

and do the original trilogy, and then you got

all you need to know for the new movie. Well,

I would say you skip the first two. Episode three

wasn't as bad as the first two. Yeah, but now

there's that 20 -year gap between three and four,

so you gotta wait till Rogue One comes out to

bridge that gap. Which I'm never gonna watch.

Oh, fuck you, you art! I'll bet you fucking a

hundred dollars you'll see it. Yeah, on DVD.

You'll bend the pressure. I won't see it in theater.

Better I'll send you a fucking gift card of like,

suck my dick, go see the movie. I'm not seeing

episode seven in theater. You're a communist,

Steve. It's not because I don't want to, it's

on my wife's birthday and that's not really her

exact idea of fun. Communism is just a red herring,

Mike. That's why you go honey, there are some

things in mares that are more important. Yeah,

you like so this divorce statement. Yeah Yeah,

she's tolerating me right now because the kids

I've heard them like at least three or four times

during this record screaming bloody murder upstairs

and she's like running between the kids so I

Okay, so maybe not tonight's the best idea to

say this Don't think any nights the night to

say that I'll wait until the week after it comes

out and then say I'm going That's my New Year's

present to myself So while I was recording another

Podcast last earlier this week or last week or

I don't know. It's all one in here. I was recording

our gym show and You guys know Nicole Beatles

Diva Hale, right? Yeah, so she finds this Facebook

fan page called Jimpocalypse and as we're trying

to record and review episodes of Jim and the

Holograms the cartoon series she's going through

all these pictures and Linking us to them in

Skype, and I'm like I'm not looking at that you

need to concentrate on this not that After we're

done recording I go to this thing and I find

one with synergy Holding a fiery arrow and it

says John Chu you have failed this movie I just

saw something amazing on Facebook. I Need someone

to do this for me. It's one of those build -it

-yourself projects Oh no. You can build a giant

eight foot squid pillow, and all you need are

two yards of felt, one yard of patterned fabric,

one piece of medium black felt, and about five

pounds of stuffing. There's a few other things

here and there, but still. I would like a squid

pillow. I don't know how I'm supposed to receive

that information. Hey Blair, you're gonna make

me a squid! Now I can think of his poor hot rod

being attacked by the squid and he cuts the things

arms off and it blows the ink in his face And

also I can hear in my head is specter generals

nothing's gonna stand in our way contact I had

years ago and one of the last things they were

going to send me was a thing called the chum

buddy it was a sleeping bag that was half a shark

you got inside the shark's mouth and look like

the shark was actually eating you oh it was really

really freaking cool what would be really great

is if it had like red felt around the teeth and

it made it look like you were bleeding it did

it did that's awesome I think I woke my neighbor

up, I better be a little less enthusiastic. Sorry!

I got excited. Just throw something out the window

and hit him in the head, knock him out. Are you

kidding? He's huge! He'll kick the crap out of

you! Tell him this is the land of Dodd, move

on. Batman, don't run so fast. Wheel maybe, run

no. Use your lightsabers. If only they worked.

Don't you still have that laser? Use the laser!

I actually gave that away to somebody, but I

don't know who. Ah, it's their problem now. Drunken

tirade. Hey, take this. I want that recording

equipment. No, I need that to live. No, I meant

he gave me the recording equipment. So... Yeah,

I was checking they made a comment last night

on the top 100 and I was I was trying to put

that information down they We were wondering

what the most commented on post of the website

was To date It is part one of the top of the

TV show one yeah at 94 comments, that's insane

before that we had It was the I Want to say it

was the animated? Films or series, but I can't

recall which but there was one and it had like

83 or 80 no it was 85 So that was the most on

one of those so yeah, we're We're already golden

so I can only imagine what the second episode

is going to have on it So yeah, the second episode

is gonna have a whole hell of a lot of comments

on that So yes after this nice unorthodox episode

of alternate geek is there anything you guys

want to pimp out before we go? uh yes actually

uh i actually got around to recording a new episode

of bot's role which steve should hopefully syndicate

to geek cast in the next couple of days i did

it on call of cthulhu i called the episode collect

call of cthulhu talking about that role playing

game which it's kickstarter they just sent the

game to the printer so after two and a half long

years should be available rather soon I'm gonna

have a couple of rads this weekend. I'm gonna

have Call of Duty Black Ops 3 Rise of the Tomb

Raider Jamie with the prototype record a show

on League of Legends, which is the MOBA which

should be pretty kick -ass um I'm also going

to be doing my holiday gift guides across my

various radio stations over the next couple of

weeks So you should see some new cool reviews

coming in there So be on the lookout for that

if you listen to me across the course radio network

in Canada Other than that though obviously still

doing this we can keep net nerd news tomorrow

Before midnight, so I have an interview with

some podcast developers actually though It's

for a some kind of a media project. I'm not entirely

sure what but I just said yes anyway, um So yeah,

so that's what I got coming up For me I'm not

sure. Um, I know I've got the pullback coming

up where Hopefully, Joe Reed and I are going

to talk IDW's TMNT 47049. We're also going to

talk IDW's issue number 50. I can't even say

anything about the current TMNT arc because it'll

just spoil it for Mike. And I know sometimes

Mike doesn't care about spoilers, but with this

book, you need to... Oh man, so good. So we got

that coming up. Showtime Synergy episode 19 just

came out. Next week will be episode 20. Episode

20 is actually the first live, not live as an

audience, but live actual current production

that Amy, Nicole, and I did because the previous

19 episodes of the show were all pre -recorded

a year and a half ago. So we got that going on

we got the top one hunt you cast right our top

100 TVs countdown going on Steve and I are gonna

be heading to infinity and beyond in a couple

of weeks as well celebrating the 20th anniversary

of the Toy Story franchise Yes about it you got

Steve I have no idea I know that I'm on vacation

next week, which is awesome So I'll probably

be on some shows next week And if I can't be

on them later in the week being that I might

be out of town Then I will do some stuff in the

early week. Not sure what I have my office to

myself tomorrow. So I'm probably gonna record

a podcast Not sure what though, um, so yeah Guess

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