General Geek Roundtable

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and welcome to Altered Geek Unlimited episode

115. I'm your host, Steve Megatron Phillips,

and joining me this week is... Dave, Joe, and

Mike. As you can tell, I am the extremely nasally

version of Steve Megatron this week. He's talking

through his nose. Yeah, I have a sore throat,

head cold, so... And the funny thing is I can't

really tell unless you're fully talking. I can't

really tell that much of a difference, but...

Yeah, because sometimes I talk neatly and sometimes

I talk in a different voice, so it's a little

bit better that way. How would you feel if I

talked like this for the rest of the episode?

It'd be a little awkward, wouldn't it? Sure,

why not? I mean, I can talk like this too. Of

course, I have to sit here and hold my nose to

talk like this. Yeah, I don't have to do that.

I'm used to changing my voice. I like them taters.

They call me Tater Salad. No, I was talking about

that Billy Bob Thornton movie, Sling Bladen.

Good Lord. So you want to know something really

interesting? Yeah. Altered Geek is only the second

podcast in almost seven years of the GCR industry

to reach 115 episodes. That's a travesty. You

know what the first one is? Doomcast. Nope. That

only went to 100. The Pull Bag. The Pull Bag,

yep. Well, if you count interviews that weren't

technically numbered, then it might actually

go higher. For Altered Geek or for The Pull Bag?

The Pull Bag. Or Andy and Tooncast Classic. Yeah,

The Pull Bag, if you count the Back Issue Classics

episodes, we're 44 episodes into Back Issue Classics,

so technically that goes higher, but I'm saying

the actual... overall numbered episodes we reached

115 when you and i did back to the future number

one from idw but now altered geek is right there

with it So what's the plan? Because, ladies and

gentlemen, this is something we haven't done

before with Altered Geek. We're recording it

on the... This is an impromptu, uh, before last

shitfest of an episode of... Uh, yeah, so what

essentially is happening here is, uh, holy shit,

I didn't count on that. Um, well, pardon my French

there, but it wasn't really French, but, uh,

the first episode of the Top 100 got about 110

comments. Highest ever in I don't know. I haven't

I haven't checked it I don't know vacation this

week so my ass has been behind on all geeky news

for the most part While you're looking that up

part one has 117 total comments so far Yeah,

well, part two has 84. Yeah. Which I wasn't counting

on. In the meantime, the rest of the website

is dead. We'll see you next time, everybody.

Oh, well, Tim Silver, you know, to give credit

where credit is due, Tim Silver did comment on

the recent released episode of Power is a Great

Skill series, so there is that. People have been

commenting on Talking in Circles and stuff like

that. Wish people would comment more on this

show, but where'd my people go? No, right? Hell

I wish people would actually comment on anything

I do I was surprised someone actually commented

on one of my written reviews basically grammatically

correcting me or pointing out the problems with

the review and I'm like Oh, hey, somebody actually

reads my stuff. Thanks. You know, it's like,

I can't help but answer sarcastically. Cause

I mean, this is going to go to a topic you wanted

to do a couple of weeks ago. What controversy

is fun? No, I, when I set out to do podcasting,

I set out to do it for myself. I still do it

for myself, but at the same time, deep down,

I still want to know. I still want that validation

that people are listening, that people are paying

attention to. anything I do. And if I don't get

it, I don't get it. I still enjoy sitting here

talking with you for an hour, two hours, however

long or Dan or Kevin or, or Amy and Nicole, Amy

and Nicole showtime synergy. Oh my God, folks

that doing the gym podcast is like literally

almost made me go in for reconstructive jaw surgery

from laughing so much at what Amy and Nicole

bring to that, that podcast. It's just hilarious

So I enjoy the the aspect like when I'm on mic

when we're doing this stuff. I'm at my happiest

before and after I'm just like Your zombie Mike

You know I'm just like you know that the night

that we almost didn't do part one of the time

yeah part one of the top one hundred i think

i was late or somebody was late i don't know

you were late yeah and i was there so i was late

steve to call me in i don't even remember it

is he was like zombie movies and he answered

the phone I thought it was my alarm, and I thought

I hit the end button. Apparently, I hit the send

button. Steve's like, yeah, you're making all

these... I'm like, I don't even remember hearing

you. He's like, no, you didn't. I'm like, oh,

okay. I'm like, all right, I'm here, I'm here.

And I get out here to the computer, and we get

on the Skype call, getting ready to do part one

of the top 100, and Steve's like... Okay, yeah,

you can't do like no. I'll be all right Just

give me a couple minutes because we had to wait

on something else or whatever I don't remember

what was it was Dan after that okay? Well, whatever

you know I don't remember and you know Steve's

like well I know you're not gonna be too you

know Energy, I'm like no no I just need to drink

some diet coke or I need to drink something I

need to smack myself in the face a couple of

times, and I'll be all right once we once that

once my little Condenser Mike's blue light starts

blinking. I'm fine I'm ready to go, I'm in show

mode, let's do it, whatever. Before and after,

there's no guarantees what anyone will hear.

It's kinda like the joke that Amy and I and Nicole

always say about Nicole. It's always after midnight

and you never know what the hell Nicole is gonna

say. But like for me, I don't I don't necessarily

need validation. I just like the conversation

So I always like it when people argue one way

or the other or they they comment right whatever

So I mean, it's not so much that I need someone

saying, you know commenting saying oh good job

in the episode I'm just saying What I mean validation,

I mean people actually commenting on a podcast

or something. Tim Silveris does an amazing job.

He usually watches the episodes and then listens

to our He -Man Shira podcast, and then he'll

comment and give his own thing. But that's what

I'm more or less saying about validation. I'm

just saying that I want people to comment on

my stuff too. Because it doesn't happen as often

as I'd like, doesn't mean I'm still not going

to do this because I still enjoy actually doing

it. Yeah. So. So, yeah, I'm on vacation this

week. Yeah, you're on a staycation. Yeah, basically,

I'm not going anywhere. Probably better. Yeah,

we've done a little bit of yard work. We've done

a little bit of prepping for winter, being that

it's 60 some degrees right now outside, which

is. Unheard of in Michigan at this point Today

I'm recording this on a Tuesday rather than a

Thursday because there's a possibility of being

in town But I'll get that out later So we went

I went to class today got exempt from my class

because I was going to the Scoring session for

the short film that we did The director had finished

adding the finishing touches to the film Which

I didn't have time for and then Because I I work

and you know I have class so it I just literally

can't get in there And yeah exported it I copied

everything over today We went talk to the music

tech kids And I say kids loosely I mean like

just other students yeah a lot of them are probably

our age, but So yeah, we're sitting in there

the teacher puts it on Me and the director sitting

there only guys from this that have been riding

this out the entire time the other two people

MIA doesn't matter so We're the second -to -last

group to get our film scored we have come back

in two Tuesdays, so Not next Tuesday, but the

one after I don't know why I'm explaining this

but And we have to go around and listen to the

concepts and the piecings because we timed everything

during the class and it allowed them to kind

of build the score for each section of the film.

There's like six sections of the film. So we

basically get to cherry pick the sounds we want

when we go back. And in the meantime, Then we

got to edit it all back in export it give it

to the teacher it goes into the film showing

which will be December 15th, which is a Tuesday

night, so I'm pretty psyched about it The one

group that's been the travesty the entire time.

I'm happy to say it's still a travesty from what

I hear I know it's wrong to say but like they

were doomed from the start and I knew because

of everyone that was involved because I I, it

is kind of wrong. I kind of make these assumptions

about people when I go into classes. And I don't

mean it in the wrong way. Like, cause I don't,

I don't sit there and make fun of people. I don't

sit there and, and you know, I, I, I more or

less, I pick people out ahead of time based on

whether I think they would make a good partner

if we do group work. Right. And if I deem them

not based on comments that they make or actions

that they perform in the class I actively avoid

them like the plague when it comes to group work

And again, it's it's just assumptions that I'm

making it's not necessarily right it's just that's

I just I see these certain types of people that

I see as either screw -offs or They're just gonna

annoy the crap out of me when we sit down And

that entire group was one of those. And they

annoyed me to talk to most of them. So basically

what you're saying is you feel like Mr. Strickland.

Slackers. A whole bunch of slackers. Nobody likes

a slacker McFly. I wouldn't even say they're

slackers. I don't know. Something about them.

They just irritated me. So I'm glad I didn't

go with any of them. Everybody else in the class

was good except for that one team like there

were a couple people here or there that were

Literally useless like they didn't show up to

anything But the majority of the class was good

for that session this session There's a guy in

my class that because we have to do the aesthetics

and a presentation in December on a film and

we chose Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows movie

that out of the grand scheme list that we kind

of compiled separately that and like two other

films like Fifth Element and Day After Tomorrow

were the the films that we kind of came into

agreement and then and Guardians of the Galaxy

and we're like No, I'm day after tomorrow Fifth

Element Well, we have to watch them three times

do the aesthetics on them Okay, and then Present

about it and I had to actually have visuals and

cues and we have to write a paper and a PowerPoint

presentation Okay, those are not films. I could

sit and watch three times Okay day after tomorrow.

I can see but fifth element I can watch it. I

Love I like it, but it's one of those ones. I

I watch once a year because I remember it enough

I don't really it's not one of my favorite sci

-fi movies. Okay And we also boot out Guardians

of the Galaxy just because I've seen it once

like actually twice. But again, I don't really

care to analyze it. Yeah. So I opted for. Sherlock

Holmes, Game of Shadows, which is funny because

everything I've written down in this class for

movie wise, like not television wise, movie wise

has been a Robert Downey Jr. film. And it doesn't

kind of like it was just afterthought. Yeah.

And because like I had to compare Iron Man 3

and Tropic Thunder. Mm hmm. Didn't realize that

they were both Robert Downey. Yeah. I knew Iron

Man 3, but then I wasn't thinking about Tropic

Thunder because he's the dude playing a dude

disguised as another dude. Yeah. So that threw

me. And then so I was glad I did that. And then

the game of shadows was I was like, well, I might

as well make it a hat trick. for those hockey

players out there. So we're doing that film,

and I haven't seen it in a while, and I enjoy

the Sherlock Holmes films. So there's a bunch

of different types of aesthetics in it, slow

motion, the rapid fire, the going back and explaining

things after it's happened. So there's a lot

of stuff in there, so I figured it would be the

easiest to cherry pick and put together into

a presentation. Fast -forwarding since like last

week our pooch passed away. Oh, yeah We've been

on the hunt for another dog, I know some people

think it's a little soon but It's a missing,

you know, like you said last week. It's a it's

a missing part of your life, you know Sadie's

not here anymore, you know You guys feel like

you, you know, you've told me off air and I hope

you don't mind me bringing this up. You've told

me off air that you just, you and Mary just don't

know what to do. You know, being in the house

and you told me there was one day where you guys

just got out and spent the whole day outside

of the house. I mean, you know, that's, that's,

that's, I honestly think it's normal. I think

it would be not normal for you to not want another

dog. within two or three weeks of her past you

know well i know some people like to wait a lot

longer like you know six months to kind of give

that grieving process in yeah the same token

though this house is not the same without a pet

right without and i say that lovingly towards

my cats because i have cats too cats are cats

are different though okay cats are like they're

like they're standoffish in the sense that They

like you when they want you. Yeah, but when they

don't want you they're like get the hell away

from me exactly so where's the dog comes to you

the minute you walk in the door, yeah and Swamps

you with love the entire time. Yeah cats are

Self -sufficient animals they don't need love

or don't get me wrong. You can give love and

affection to your cats. That's fine. That's all

well and good, but They as animals from what

I've understood and from what I've seen over

my entire lifetime, cats are animals that do

not necessarily need it right away. Like you

said, when they want it, they'll come to you.

With a dog, a dog is... That's like a wandering

three -year -old with four legs and hair. So,

wait, that's Ian's Halloween costume for next

year? No, that's literally what it was like having

my dog and having him. running around the house

it's it's like fire and gasoline getting like

you're constantly putting out the fire with the

extinguisher but it's not going away because

you know you have these two three -year -olds

that are just thinking they're hilarious which

is you know now that it's gone you know it's

my I don't know I think because my son's starting

to notice a little bit that You know getting

a little bit upset mad that we don't have a dog.

Yeah It's hitting him, but it's not hitting him

the way I hit us so we're We're looking for another

dog. So we've looked through the entire state

of Michigan can't find one that we absolutely

loved the appearance of And again, there's something

in the face That either draws us or doesn't and

we don't buy from breeders because There's plenty

of pets that have no home. So we're completely

against the whole breeder thing. I mean, yeah,

if you can't find a dog that you're looking for

a particular kind and a breeder makes it, then

great. But, you know, us personally, there's

so many dogs at these shelters and adoption places

that it just it drives us nuts that there's so

many that are unclaimed. There's so many pets,

yeah you're right, there's so many pets that

are unclaimed, but there's so many pets that

are out there that need the rescuing. I've seen

plenty of people, plenty of my friends in my

lifetime, my family members, whatever, where

they've come and rescued a dog. That's the best

thing that they had ever done So actually my

aunt Cheryl who was married to my uncle Richard.

Uncle Richard is actually my mom's brother She

actually used to be the animal control officer

on the Cape up north in Massachusetts She's retired

now and they're living in Georgia But I mean

they've always had German they've had German

shepherds ever since I could remember and that's

their breed you know, they always go after the

German shepherds or whatever and I mean, she

always gets, you know, rescued animals, you know.

Yeah, and in like my my oldest cat, Myra, she's

nine. We got her when literally she was the size

of. You know, I think, no, she's literally like

almost the size of a roll of toilet paper. Oh,

wow. Like, she was four weeks old when we got

her. She was eating bush, like cat food, and

she's the one that sits with me every time I

podcast, so if you hear her occasionally, I'm,

meh, just because that's who that is. Now Simba,

the other cat, we got him a year later, and it

was only because our friends were looking to

get adopt a pet. We went to the PetSmart Pet

Adoption with them. He was there with a little

girl Simba was like Seven How old was he he was

like? No, he was like maybe three four months

old okay, and Mary's like I don't know we will

wait you know because we don't we don't really

know if we want this cat well We looked around

a little bit, then we decided we want this cat

so we went to the the rescue place that had the

cat his name was Harold we were like that's not

sticking and we renamed him Simba and he's a

fun one too but and I say that lovingly lately

he's he's a good cat he just he's a he's a whiner

yeah and if there's string he's the typical cat

have you ever tried laser pointers with him?

Yeah, we used to do laser pointers with both

cats. Myra really loves laser pointers. It requires

him to move. He's kind of lazy sometimes. Unless

he feels like moving. That being said, we love

both our cats. But then we got Sadie a year later

from that. So it's 987. And we literally got

Sadie seven years to the day that she died. Because

we were looking at pictures and we were trying

to figure out when we got her and then It was

after a vacation to Chicago The year that Barack

was first inaugurated to office because I remember

hearing We were in one of the hotels close by

we could hear it right down the strip, but I'd

rather hear Matthew Broderick singing twist and

shout I would I'd rather hear Matthew McConaughey

talking about his Lincoln. That being said. That's

a thing for the lawyers right there. Well, Lincoln.

I think the Jim Carrey thing, too. Where he mocks

him. But that aside, we got back from the trip

and one of our friends told us that there were

Beagle Puppies at a place. Mm -hmm about 30 minutes

from our house. We went picked her up that night.

She was you know, like six weeks old So Now We're

looking We've looked all online There's no beagle

puppies other than from breeders and we don't

do that. So Well, I shouldn't say there isn't

any there are a few but they're something about

how they... I don't know, I call Mary the pet

whisperer. I have different names for different

points in time, like I call her the signs girl

for a while because even to this day she's very

particular about her water. If it looks funny,

if it seems funny, if anything seems off, she's

like, it has this wrong with it, it has this

wrong with it, and I'm like, what, does it have

amoebas in it, does it have this in it? Like,

you know, like the signs girl. So I gave her

crap for that for years, but That's how I would

introduce her sometimes with her waters But now

I call the pet whisperer because she picked all

these other pets and they were perfect There's

only one that's been speaking to her via picture

and it's this one that's at a shelter in Chicago,

so Go up there and take a look at the pet on

your way back. Stop by Michael Wilson's and have

a party. But it's a four and a half hour drive.

Hey, when it comes to a pet you might potentially

love, a four and a half hour drive is nothing.

It gets better. It's not our fault. She called

Monday twice. She called first like earlier in

the day. Mind you this pet along with 18 others

were rescued from a kill Center in Kentucky.

Oh So see that's not right So I'm thinking I'm

like, huh So this dog like and I'm surprised

cuz the dog is like as of right now like three

months old, right? So like I'm really confused

as to why this dog was on a kill list like along

with these 18 others Because it was a shelter

in Chicago that's authorized by PetSmart to come

in and save animals. So I'm trying to figure

it out. She calls Monday, and they couldn't give

her any information. As far as they said she

was ready for visitors on Monday. But we were

letting her know, look, we're from Michigan.

We'd like to come out and adopt the dog and take

her home. And they're like, well, we'll have

to let you know about how that procedure works

or whatever. So she calls back hours later, even

though they said they were going to call first.

And then they tell her, yeah, we don't know if

you can do that because you can't adopt them

the same day that you fill out the paperwork.

And we're like, huh? And they're closed Tuesday.

So it's really like. bothering us and and so

because we were planning on if Wait, are you

are you are you meaning to tell me that they're

telling you that you essentially have a five

-day waiting period So so adopting a dog is like

getting a gun. Oh, it's it's it's almost like

that But so we were what we're trying to tell

them is, you know We have no problem waiting

a day like because what we would do is we would

vacation there for a day Like go to a hotel stay

there overnight, you know, we'd see the dog first

go to the hotel You know, spend the night the

next day when they open, pick the dog up and

bring her home. Because they don't do things

that way. They make you come meet the dog first,

which I get. And they make you fill out the paperwork

first, which I get. What I don't get is they

say, after you've done all that, we'll call you.

So it's basically like you're applying for a

loan and you're applying to purchase a dog. Don't

get me wrong. Like I understand they're being

careful the same time if somebody wants to adopt

a dog Wouldn't you think you'd let them? Yeah,

like I mean they'd have a home I realize this

dog wouldn't have a problem getting a home But

like somebody that's like this adamant to drive

four and a half hours to come pick up a pet.

Yeah You know, so like I sent them an email I

filled out the application online just for s

&g's Send it to him email them told him our story.

I told him, you know the fact my other Pooch

happened to pass away. We know how a beagle works.

We know how dogs work, you know, it's We we love

dogs. So this is the dog that we want Is there

any way that we can get her? So like I'm gonna

have to wait until like midday tomorrow for a

reply because I'm I'm not gonna lie, I'm probably

gonna release this episode early because it's

gonna get stopped by the top 100 come Friday.

So yeah, I'm sitting here and I'm like, I'm hoping

that they call back. Like, cause what we would

do is we'd book the hotel for Thursday, stay

there overnight till Friday, pick the dog up

Friday. If they let us. I'm hoping, I'm hoping.

Cause if not, we're gonna just wait. See, this

is what I understand about a place like this.

See you already filled up the application so

they should be processing the application well

I said today I know but I'm saying like the way

you explain it to me It was like you go there

you spend some time with the dog you fill the

application then you have to wait No, what you

do is you you either already have the application

filled out and you send them to it online or

where However, whatever they then process it

in whatever else you then go there spend some

time with the dog if you and the dog get along

maybe during that time that you're spending with

the dog they then go into a huddler corner or

whatever and just go bleh whatever you know and

decide okay these are the people that this dog

needs to go home with and so that way there's

no waiting period on your part you know what

I mean it's like yeah don't go there fill an

application out spend fifteen twenty thirty minutes

of the dog and then have to wait two days? I

mean well they didn't say two days they said

no which is ridiculous to me because I let them

know like look and she told them she's like we're

on vacation this week like literally this is

and we didn't take into account their clothes

Tuesday and I physically told Mary I said if

they make us have to drive out there like to

go visit the dog and we spend the night and then

they still won't let us pick her up I would drive

out there like whatever freaking day it is to

go pick this dog up because like it means that

much to us but Like I shouldn't have to jump

through that many hoops to adopt the dog to adopt

a dog like when I got Sadie We went to a it was

a hunter that had a bunch of dogs that got out

of their pen Yeah, and had an oops batch. He

tried to sell us two for a hundred We're like

no we only need one. He's like all right seventy

five boom done Yeah, I mean granted. That's from

somebody who's just backyard, but still like

I could go to the Humane Society by me, pick

up a dog, and get it home today. When my mom

got Snow White, our dog that we had for the longest

time, we got her in 2006. We went to feed her

supply, actually. We saw she was there, and she

was a year old at that point. My mom just fell

in love with the dog, we filled out the paperwork,

she spent time with the dog, we took the dog

home like 45 minutes later. So I don't understand

this whole... The state of Illinois has some

weird pet adoption practices. Still, Illinois

has some weird practices, period, but that's

just insane. It's because there's a lot of weird

people that live in Illinois. You mean the ones

that come from it? get into office. No, I mean

in general. All over the state. There's nothing

wrong with Michael Wilson. Okay, he says he's

from Chicago. He lives in northwest Indiana.

There's a big difference. Okay, so he's free

and clear. Yeah. So there's stuff wrong with

everybody else then. Yeah, pretty much. Yes,

I realize that. It's a fun poke and laugh. I

was beating around the bush with that. It's not

like you're going to go there. You're going to

go to Aurora, Illinois. You're going to be able

to go down to a guy's basement and watch him

and his blonde buddy bang out in headbangers

ball. there's no all co it's all it's always

world joke come on i didn't know that let's do

this could be doing who i don't watch it that

much less everybody remembers the whole list

of this could be doing why remember that uh...

but yes so Aside from that, it's in Chicago Heights

or something like that. It's right in Chicago.

So it's going to really suck if we have to drive

there and then still can't pick up the dog. Hit

Wilson up. Well, that ain't even it. We have

limited time and then I got the two kids. It's

got to work out in just the right manner. Yeah,

that's true. Family's not very reliable in that

Not not like keeping them overnight right during

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Radio, iTunes, What are your thoughts on the

Top 100 so far? Like without getting into much

detail. It's interesting. It's weird to me that

we're doing it 25 at a time. Don't get me wrong.

I think it's great. I think it's interesting,

but it's weird to me because Right now part one

and part two are the bottom 50 Which means part

three and part four are gonna be the top 50 and

then part five is gonna be the closing Which

it's just I don't know it's a little I like it

it's all right is Certain shows that I like okay.

I'll point one out The shield is way too low.

I plan on bringing this up on the actual part

three of the top 100 uh... the effects show the

shield is way too low i believe i had that number

two on the list i i submitted that is easily

one of the if not the best one of the best cop

shows that is ever been on television and it

uh... i'll get into that when we do the top 100

parts of it overall i'm enjoying it i like that

it's you know bring comments on the website different

debates and whatever else So there's that see

what else Since we're recording this early folks,

we don't get to sit here and say hey We watched

all the superhero shows this week and this one

was good. This one wasn't this one was good this

one So we don't really get to say that right

now I've seen the latest episode of Supergirl

and I've seen the latest episode of Gotham So

obviously we're recording this Tuesday night

and the flash just aired a few hours ago obviously

haven't seen it yet because it hasn't shown up

on Hulu it doesn't show up on Hulu until the

next day but I'm really digging Supergirl now

I don't want to bring the show down but I do

have to bring this up Supergirl was going to

air an episode about bombings or about some sort

of city violence or something this past uh...

monday the sixteenth of november twenty fifteen

they switched that episode with the live wire

because uh... over the past weekend this past

friday there were a bunch of attacks in paris

and i think it was great for cbs to do that to

switch the episodes out and not air something

with a similar material as to what happened in

real life i think it's a really good move for

them and it might throw the show continuity out

of line, but who cares? It's kind of like what

happened September 11, 2001. Everybody had an

extreme long moment of silence in the television

media. I've been watching Superhero and Gotham

and i'm really diggin supergirl i understand

why some people may not be i don't care that

jimmy olson is not a white guy because the actor

that's playing jimmy olson he just fits the jimmy

role oh he's great he just fits that in the pilot

when you know she eventually tells him and he

kind of already knew obviously cuz he's superman's

pal and she goes to fly off into one of the seats

and he's like, you know, I'll pump it away. And

I just like, oh God, this is just so hilarious.

They even throw in the fact that he has his watch

for Superman. My thing about Supergirl is, and

it has been this, but I don't want it to turn,

it's been her show, it's been her story. but

when they do reference Superman and Clark and

whatever else, at first I just felt like it was

like, okay, either show him or don't show him,

and I don't care what Warner Brothers, Time Warner,

whatever the hell, whatever deal they have not

to have Superman or Batman on, I don't give a

crap about any of that company stuff. Either

show him once in the suit, or show him as Clark,

or show him at least once. Not this constant,

oh, he's a red and blue blur and blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah. If he does show up as Clark,

I hope it is Tom Welling that plays him. He ain't

doing nothing else. That's true. It's not like

he can do cheaper by the dozen three. And have

to get the rest of the cast to want to show up.

Yeah, really. And hell, they're all grown up

at this point. And Steve Martin's old as crap

and whatever. Yeah, he could still do it. Oh,

I know he could, but I'm just saying. But I like

where the show's going. I like how the character

development's going. I'm really interested to

see what the hell is going on with Hang Hand

Show. I know everybody's assuming it's Martian

Manhunter, aka John Jones. It'd be interesting

to see if they throw it that way. I'm really

digging Super Hero. Gotham this week was, it

was good, it wasn't bad. And Gotham Season 2

overall has been fairly decent. I know our buddy

Jeremy Fine doesn't particularly still care for

Gotham, but I think Season 2 is so much better

than Season 1. But this week's episode was a

little off, a little more violent than it has

been in the past. Like some of the gunshots and

stuff and... some of the like there was a point

where somebody slits somebody else's throat you

could really see the blood guy i mean it got

a little violent like almost beyond the tv fourteen

rating on gotham yeah that was a little bit for

a show that airs at eight o 'clock on fox that

was a little a little almost overboard uh...

i'm not complaining about it i'm just stating

a fact of ever Like I said, I can't wait to see

what flash does and what arrow does I've really

turned around on arrow folks And I'll say this

and I will always say this arrow for me is seasons

one two and four Yes season three happened. Yes

It gave us, you know the scientist and blast

off and the whole Barry origin and that's all

well and good but the rest of season three I

Can't say it enough. It was too damn dark and

I'm so happy that they are now doing this whole

later for arabs for alice here okay it's pretty

bad ass and his justice league it's getting bigger

it's like flash if you think about it arrow is

the Well, no this year's because arrow and flash

both are gonna be the bridges Because uh -huh

so in arrow season 3 arrow season 3 was the bridge

to get to the flash show in Flash season 2 and

arrow season 4 because I remember Yeah, this

is the coolest thing. Okay folks. I don't know.

I wish Grant Gustin was a little bit more You

know online as much as steven mel is the seat

of those are what all the time he's always doing

his little face book videos stuff like that he

did one worries you know somebody asked him about

the crossovers this year And he made a statement

he said you know the crossovers last year you

could watch one without watching the other and

vice versa Whatever else if you know he understood

that some people watch flash and some people

watch arrows some people watch both He said this

year the crossovers are going to matter and you're

going to have to watch both shows regardless

and This year the crossovers matter because they're

essentially the kickoff for legends of tomorrow

at least the first one is anyway Because the

first one, one of them is titled Legends of Yesterday

and what's the other one titled? Legends of Today.

I love Legends of Today, yeah. So I honestly

can't wait. And I love what they're going to

eventually do with Killer Frost on the Flash

because yes it is going to be Danielle Panabaker,

but it's not going to be our Caitlyn, it's going

to be Earth 2 Caitlyn. So because i was really

worried about that because if you look at our

caitlin's path and where she is now She hasn't

okay. Sure. Yes ronnie died. She was sad. She

was pissed He came back and then he went away

again, then he died again or whatever else but

There isn't anything really right now that our

caitlin can go through that would make her turn

that evil So i'm more so interested to see how

the earth to caitlin Like, I can't wait to see

what her story's like. That's gonna be awesome.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm really enjoying the show. I know

that they're gonna make a super serum for extra

speed, but... I hope they don't do that. I hope

they just explain it in a way that he's tapping

into the speed force a little bit more. Well,

the new Harrison's gonna make it. Oh, okay. Well,

here's Harry No He's gonna give it to Jay Garrick.

Oh, okay. Well, that's fine then. No, that's

fine. See like When it comes to flash, don't

get me wrong. I love Barry in this new show But

before then I was never a Barry Allen fan because

growing up with Justice League. It was Wally

And you know you look at those last few episodes

of Justice League season Justice League unlimited

season one where we get you know panic in the

sky and divided we fall and all that stuff and

Wally ends up speeding so fast to destroy Lex

Luthor's suit and he ends up going so fast that

he becomes part of the speed force and You know

and then they all have to you know everybody

has to just basically reach in there and pull

him out Because he goes so damn fast. He's like

I can never go that fast again and like That's

the flash that I know that's the flash that I

I enjoy But coming into this show learning about

Barry and learning about Iris learning about

learning about all these characters that are

in the CW show I absolutely love it, and I can't

wait for every week and anyone that says that

the writing on the flash Is bad and cheesy. Yeah,

okay. There is some cheese I'm not gonna say

there isn't but anyone says the writing is bad.

You need your head examined Because I don't I

don't see how the writing is bad on this show

They don't leave anything They leave open -ended

story bits, but they don't necessarily just leave

storylines and just go to something else And

the way I look at the flash now is season one

was a combination of Villain of the week for

the first maybe 15 or 20 episodes. Well, no first

15 episodes Maybe you know and as we got closer

and closer to the season then obviously it came

more about Harrison Wells reverse flash very

small all that season two It's not villain of

the week. It's a full -on streamlined storytelling

piece where Barry did this thing now all this

shit is happening because Barry did this thing

and some people will say oh sure yeah but it's

still villain of the week blah blah blah blah

it's not no the I like the overarching way that

they have everything set up so absolutely What

else has been in the news? Let's see. Crap, I

can't think of anything. Well, I know next year

I'm planning on doing the GCRN Awards again.

And I'm gonna tweak it a little bit, but it'll

be pretty much the same formula. I'm also going

to do the Top 100. I'm gonna release information

on that one When it gets closer, but I have an

idea to level the playing field as it were okay

Like I said, I've got an idea just gonna figure

out how I'm gonna work it But it's it's gonna

be interesting That's all I'm giving you yeah

So this year has kind of all been about anniversaries

whether it's 10 years 5 years 15 years 30 years

We've had 30 years since back to the future 30

years since Breakfast Club We've had 50 years

since get smart premiered back in 1965 and apparently

this is also the 25th anniversary of the original

home alone Who still watches that The original?

Come on, everybody does. Every Christmas, it's

the only time I watch the first two. Why is Bill

Murray doing a Netflix variety show of very Murray

- Oh God. Because people like Bill Murray. There

are just some actors that I - Well, I have to

say that some of his stuff that he's done, I

enjoy, but not - Like if he's doing a serious

thing, I don't like him. Yeah, I Don't know maybe

it's the old man and me talking I don't know.

I just like I'm pretty much over Bill Murray

at this point. I really am like he's over himself

That's why he hangs out with fans instead of

making more Ghostbusters movies Where are you

putting this out? Tomorrow oh it's on Wednesday

so the same day that our interview that my interview

with Joe and I Joe Reed from off the cuff and

geek stuff garage cast we interviewed IDW's Tom

Waltz he's the writer of the TMNT ongoing series

here's what's up is he actually also i believe

it's a rights goes busters as well for any of

you i could be wrong i don't looking at the information

that i just know he is something with the ghostbusters

title right here he said he's seen several versions

of the script and whatever they have now he said

it's pretty good for the new ghostbusters Don't

know I just like what I think of Bill Murray

people I think of like obviously Ghostbusters

one or two but like stuff like what about Bob

and his little cameo appearances in Space Jam

and Like I think of you know Groundhog Day Say

what you will about the first Charlie's Angels,

but him is Bosley the first Charlie's Angels

That's really all I think of him as and I can't

think of a move A movie in the last at least

five to ten years that I've actually watched

of his that I actually enjoy. Has he even done

anything in the last five or ten years that is

remotely that I would even know what the hell

it was? Probably not. I don't know. I don't know.

What? What are you hoping to get now? I'm not

asking for you to spoil your thoughts here, but

what are you? Hoping to get out of the farce

awakens um You know I don't really know And I

say that with the utmost love of the franchise

like I just I don't know what to expect yeah,

I I've kind of beat the dead horse already with

what I think is going to happen. But I don't...

I'm one of those guys that I'll keep watching

the damn trailers as long as they keep coming

out. I'm still going to see the stupid movie.

It doesn't matter. And I say stupid meaning like...

I know what you mean. Yeah. Yeah. It's not stupid.

I just... Yeah. So I... I'm not really sure what

I'm looking for in the film other than the fact

that it's the first time we're gonna get the

original characters Together yeah Okay, so the

last five or ten years or so he was agent 13

and get smart in 2008 he's in zombie land for

Bill Murray he was ice -picking dumb and dumber

too. Yeah, I remember that. Coming up, he's going

to be the voice of Baloo in the Jungle Book.

Not surprising. That's a little strange for me.

Why is Garfield in there? Yeah, I did one of

your references. You know what's funny though?

He wasn't well he was at one point, but that

was originally in Lorenzo music even though it

sounded like no Murray For Garfield and friends

really yeah I don't know it was Star Wars. I

just I'm like you. I just want to see the damn

thing like I Wish I could really outside of Basically

just clicking an X and saying I don't care. I

don't care. I don't care. I wish I could really

cater my facebook trending articles to what i

really want to see trending on facebook because

i've seen the stupid story about disney releases

tv spots and behind the scenes footage for star

wars episodes i don't care about tv spots tv

spots are thirty seconds or less we've already

seen all the trailers we're going to see we are

of Wednesday when this episode goes out we are

officially two months to the day or no a month

to the day until the damn movie comes out let's

just get December 18th here already since we're

talking about this what did you think of the

story about the guy who got to see an early uncut

version before he passed away I think actually

that's great yeah yeah there's there's no reason

why he shouldn't have I mean that that's like

a make -a -wish foundation type thing like you

should give the guy that to go away with absolutely

so absolutely what else is outside of Star Wars

What other geeky and for me the hobbit doesn't

count I'm sorry I'm just not into that but one

of the geeky things are coming into the last

two months of this year I can't really think

of anything This this mayor may not be bullshit.

Um, oh, oh Folks you're ready for this. Uh, I

And I don't like spoilers and I don't like rumors.

So like This this may like I said a large grain

of salt people Although it would be a welcome

grain of salt. Yeah, you know how they were talking

about that What is it called? God damn it. I

can't remember Anakin Skywalker might come back

episode seven or eight or whatever. Yeah Now

there's a thing going around that Qui -Gon might

return as well He'll come back as a force ghost

just like everybody else He said that he Like

there's some saying that he has been asked and

then there's some saying he hasn't Okay, I think

it would be great if he was the force ghost that

was helping guide Luke. Yeah Don't get me wrong

folks. I like Liam Neeson. Thank you. I like

Liam Neeson as an actor. I'm sorry. What else

is that guy doing? Okay. Every action movie ever

that looks the same as the last one. so taken

four five six seven eight nine ten eight late

don't get me wrong folks i'd like we have these

i loved him as animals i know a lot of people

like the the twenty ten eighteen movie and that's

fine i liked him as handle smith in the the uh...

the eighteen film but like seriously what is

that guy doing it I don't know, folks. I just

don't know. It's one of those things where, okay,

if you look at his filmography, he was the raccoon,

he was the voice of the raccoon of the nut job

last year. He was bad cop, good cop, pop cop

in the Lego movie last year. He had taken three,

run all night, and entourage this year, along

with Ted too. And next year he's got something

called Silence, Operation Chromite, and a Monster

Calls. So, like... I don't know, I like the guy.

I wish he would do more mainstream stuff, but...

I was really gonna wonder to see if there's a

third or fourth taken movie coming, because it's

like, hey! You know, the taken movies, there

are only three of them so far, but they are,

to me, what the Paranormal Activity movies are

to some people. There's like a million Paranormal

Activity movies at this point. It's like, hey,

I honestly wonder, how in the hell can Paranormal

Activity have five, six, seven different movies

when it doesn't seem like, and again, I'm not

looking at the information in Paranormal Activity,

but. Doesn't seem like those movies make a lot

of money Yeah, I don't know I'm Yeah, I just

don't know so anything else you'd like to bring

up before we close it out Yeah, we're both getting

nasally and it's getting hurting to speak. I

am sneezing my face off right now, folks. I've

had to go on mute three times so I can clear

my throat. So just be glad. Judicious use of

mute. OK, well, the first paranormal activity

in a budget of $15 ,000, that can't be right.

No, that's right. That's why Paramount bought

it. Okay, well, the box office was 193 .4 million.

So, okay, the movies make money, but it just...

I just don't understand how... Well, that's what

killed Saw. Yeah. Bastards. Saw was such a better

series, even though they killed off the guy in,

like, third movie. You haven't seen it tough

shit It's it's old as hell now it's been out

for years So yeah So you guys I'll probably do

another episode like this like early next week

too because of Thanksgiving airing on or I don't

know Because Thanksgiving being around you could

have this we can record it Tuesday and you can

have it air on Thanksgiving That's true uh...

you know i don't know that's the uh... although

we are there is we are to go through before then

we are both all black friday sales and we can

have a black friday show that would be hilarious

actually yeah that's what we need to do uh...

It just to keep on this paranormal activity train

so I don't sound like a complete moron saying

I'm not looking at any information as far as

the movies made money or not the second movie

had a budget of 3 million and made 177 .5 so

I guess they're making but it just Seems like

for me a series like paranormal like to there's

I hear more and more and more and more and more

Oh, there's another oh, there's no hey, it's

another three months. Let's do another one. You

know it's it's like it's everywhere It's kind

of like what? you know after pretty much after

freddy's dead the file like mayor i'd pretty

much stop paying attention to that ralph street

because it's like hey let's do the next three

or hey let's do this right you know it's like

well whatever i don't know but yeah we really

ought to get out of here because good night everybody

good night so you can hold me on twitter at scp

twenty one and yourself sir So until next time,

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