News roundup: Batman v Superman, Dumb and Dumber Too

Hey, this is Steve Blum, and you are listening

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host Steve Megatron Phillips and joining me this

week is... Dave2 and Mike. Yo. Yo. What be new

with you? This week has been really depressing

in my end. I just, I don't know what the deal

is. I finally got set up with my new doctor's

office and everything else at the end of... May,

beginning of this month. And they're basically

telling me what I've known for the past 10 years.

I just need to get up and, you know, slowly go

out each day and, you know, do exercises and

do this and do that to help me, you know, lose

some of the weight that I have. I've finally

figured it out. I haven't known. I've guesstimated

my weight for the last seven years or so. They

weighed me. I'm 6 '1 at 405, so... At least it's

not as bad as I thought it was because I originally

told several people that I was 450, 460, so at

least it's not as bad as I thought it was, but

here's the problem. It's not getting up and doing

the actual exercise like going out. I live in

a cul -de -sac, so going out and walking the

horseshoe, that isn't the problem. The problem

is going out and walking the horseshoe when it

feels like it's a hundred friggin' degrees outside.

And even at like seven o 'clock in the morning

sometimes here it feels like that and it just

Like if and see that's the other thing This is

just my personal opinion Spring and fall have

essentially have essentially gone away. We have

summer and winter year -round It goes from summer

weather to winter weather immediately That's

just how I how I feel about it, but now this

week I've had a really crappy week because I've

had massive headaches all day long. It doesn't

matter how many headache pills or whatever kind

of pills I can take as I go along throughout

the day, but it's still there. This has been

a really, really weird and crappy health week

for me. I've had no energy. I'm glad. I'm so

glad the pullback's Batman month is over because

if it wasn't... the pull bag would be in such

traction right now. I mean, I've still got the

episodes coming out and I'm still doing it, but

this whole week I felt like doing absolutely

nothing and I have so much yet to do. I've got

to watch six episodes of The Adventures of Super

Mario Bros. 3 for the next two episode records

for pixels in the animation. I've got to write

up several different reviews. I've got one. possibly

two interviews set up for us coming up in the

next coming weeks here in June. One of them is

Matt Hill, who was the suit actor for Raphael

in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, but people

will best know him as Captain N, the Game Master.

So I reached out to his people. As of this recording

I Earlier before we recorded I had sent a message

to not another message I commented on on somebody's

Facebook post on Facebook Christian lands Christian

lands is a voice actor Most people will know

his voice as sever aka fish face from the 2012

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon Uh, he was

showing off, uh, basically saying that his voice,

his real voice is nothing like Zever at all.

Uh, and he was showing off these various promos

that he's done. He is the American Idol guy.

Um, and I said, uh, you know, I just, I, I grabbed

our main interviews link and I said, Hey, you

know, I would love to eventually, one of these

days have you on GeekCast Radio Network for Never.

And he said, sure, I'd love to. So, potentially

have that coming up. What else is going on? Reading

a whole bunch of comics. I am so far behind in

my comics. I'll say this. I'm planning, I've

got it in the back of my mind that I might be

doing a pull bag after dark, another pull bag

after dark this month. This one will be on print

versus digital comics. print uh... but basically

it'll be it won't be a versus it will be a battle

but it'll be like do you prefer what is your

preferred reading method of comics because in

the beginning i was all pretty much print only

like i didn't give a ratatouille about digital

at all and then I found and I realized oh hey

comicsology .com I can actually just do this

on my computer I don't need a four or five hundred

dollar iDevice to read comics because I didn't

know because everybody always talks about app

this and app that and oh there's an app for everything

and blah blah blah I found that I can just read

them on their website you know so I signed up

and I've been reading comics digitally for at

least Geez six seven eight months now Absolutely,

I almost love it more than getting the print

issue now. I know That kind of goes against what

I've said in the past of I must have a physical

copy in my hands And you know in order to be

able to really enjoy it, but the digital with

the guided view technology that comics ology

has It basically takes you panel by panel like

individual panel by panel. It's basically like

storyboarding And it's absolutely amazing. For

me, it's much more enjoyable to read them this

way. Because for me, sometimes reading, it doesn't

have to be a comic. It could be an actual novel

or it could be a web page or whatever else. I

have a hard time sometimes reading stuff because

of my eyes. And there are times in print comics

where they'll do like an internal monologue on

the top of one page and then it'll, you know,

the next Picture will be you know a quote or

a bubble and I don't know sometimes I have a

hard time focusing so with this guided view technology

I'm just absolutely loving it. So I'm thinking

about doing that with the pull bag at some point

Transformers animated complete series set from

shout factory got that for review got that up

on the site for review and and uh... talk to

brian ward about that finally have all forty

two episodes in one box sets and that's really

what that set was all about for me i wish there

were a little bit more bonus features on it but

there are three new commentaries on the transfer

three -parter from season three so i like that

uh... other than that just kind of been i think

this week i have been more lazy than I ever have

in 34 years of me being on this planet because

I've just have I've just felt like doing nothing

all week I've been sitting here playing Mario

2 or I'll sit here actually this is gonna be

funny you're gonna laugh at this uh last night

I sat here in my at my computer and I spent I

kid you not Two hours clicking the random button

on geek cast radio .com Why would you click on

something for two hours Because I was fascinated

as what what articles would pop up and there's

stuff on there that popped up that I hadn't seen

in three or four years And like I said, I've

had easily entertained Well, yeah. Can't you

tell? Yeah. Anyways. What have you been up to?

Working. Long hours, eight to six, which to me

is long because I used to work 730 to 430. So

the job's not too bad. But yeah, I don't really

want to go into too much detail. I'm out of work,

I don't want to even think about it. How's the

house coming? Pretty good. Got a lot of stuff

done. Got the stairs fixed. The ones that go

downstairs because they were separating. So those

are fixed so they're not going to creak anywhere

when we stand on them. Got both toilets replaced.

Bunch of their crap done But it's it's been a

chore it it's coming along little by little Kind

of can't wait for us to be totally done, but

Yeah, I'll have a nice before -and -after video

And pictures and everything once once we get

more done So, I think we'll take a quick break

and come back with some new media news. It isn't

65 years in the future, but Legends of the Dark

Knight has gone beyond. Batman Beyond, that is.

Ah, the new boy. Ears are too long, and I missed

the cape. But not too shabby. Not too shabby

at all. Join Steve and Mike as they delve into

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And we're back and so To start things off this

week. I thought it'd be kind of cool to bring

up the NASA's real -life enterprise This thing

is very interesting. It's almost got the there's

like this kind of an Orbital Enterprise thing

they they had in Star Trek mythos Which It shows

It's more so like it's a single warp device It's

after warp drive was invented and everything

else But it's got like this sphere around it

kind of like this does however the interior of

it has more of Like the the rebel starship inside

if you look at the the way the engines are in

the back the four engines, the quad thing and

how it sticks out a little bit. It's almost like

one of those rebel ships like what you see in

Star Wars. And it's kind of mixed with like almost

the kind of the space shuttle nose to it, but

it's mixed in a saucer section. Yeah. So honestly,

I'm kind of kind of intrigued to see what they

do with this. Just because it's a new interesting

concept. And they're saying that they think that

they have created warp drive. However, I don't

know how... I'll believe it when I see it. That's

kind of my thought on it because you have to

spend space -time creating a warp bubble. Which,

how are they going to do that without blowing

the ship up? They think they've solved it though,

so I'm kind of interested to see how they go

about building it and how long it takes. It'll

probably be like 2020, 2021 before it really

takes off. But the image of it going through

the two rings here... on the page that you linked.

You know what it reminds me of? What? Prepare

for emergency separation. That's too dangerous.

What choice do we have? Because if you look at

the front of it on that picture, it looks like

the front like horse shoe shape saucer thing.

It looks like it splits apart from the back.

And it very well may. Yeah, it very well may.

So that means when the hicks are drinking down

south, they'll actually see a flying saucer.

Yes, exactly. That would just be weird. People

would be like, oh my god, I saw this flying saucer,

and then, you know, they will get squashed. Yup.

Oh. So yeah, that's I'm definitely interested

to see what they do with that. I'm hoping that

they get more information on it soon because

I Wouldn't mind seeing more of it. Oh, absolutely

So jumping gears a little bit They released the

dumb and dumber 2 trailer which I know kind of

treads on and wire weekly I get it but I like

Jim Carrey almost as much as I like Adam Sandler.

Yeah. So... I'm excited to see Dumb and Dumber

2. I wish they would have updated them. Updated

how? Harry and Lloyd looked just like they looked

back in 1993. Well, they actually make a gag

about it in the trailer. Did you see the trailer?

Yeah, I've seen the trailer. Where he's sitting

there kind of catatonic and Harry meets Lloyd

every year and then He has this 20 year gag going

where he just doesn't say anything and then finally

he starts speaking He's like, oh you've got to

get over her. That was 20 years ago about the

Mary and then he He goes gotcha and then he's

like you've been doing that for 20 years I don't

know I just it feels like you never fell off

that that bike that they were you know riding

through the entire film yeah but then later in

the trailer when when Lloyd starts going all

goofy for Harry's daughter that That's where

it's gonna probably drop off for me for humor,

because it just... I don't... I... Ladies and

gentlemen, I am not a fan of today's comedies.

I'm not saying that I don't like Dom & Dom are

the original, and I might not like this one.

The trailer did excite me a little bit to see

these characters again, and I'm very optimistic

about the film, but there are just certain comedic

moments that I just can't handle from anything.

So I'm hoping they don't go too creepy with the

comedy in this It won't it'll be stupid. Trust

me Actually, it'll be kind of dumb and Dumber

too. Yeah, but I'm more I'm more enthusiastic

about this than I am the Shit fest that we got

for the dumb and dumber err Yeah, that is not

in continuity. That has nothing to do with the

Farrelly brothers. So if the Farrelly brothers

and Jeff and Jim didn't have anything to do with

it, it doesn't count. It's not in continuity.

Exactly. So I did find that kind of interesting

actually. I'm real excited to see the movie though.

Yeah So jumping gears a little bit again They

have Batman Arkham Knight Has been delayed yes,

so 2015 which In a sense, I'm kind of glad about

because I really am NOT going to have the money

to buy the game this year You're right. But on

the other hand, you won't be looking at it for

Black Friday. Yeah, that's true. And I was really

looking forward to driving the Batmobile. Now,

I did see the gameplay trailer for the Batmobile

and it looks amazing. Yeah, I cannot wait. I

really think a lot of developers are taking the

Grand Theft Auto approach because the whole time

I was watching the Batmobile gameplay, I'm like,

oh my god, this is Grand Theft Auto Batman style

and it's friggin' awesome. Well yeah, you get

to drive it around, you get to turn on the rocket,

you get to actually plow into stuff, you get

to put turrets on the top and blow shit up, so

it's almost like... Twisted metal. Oh, yeah,

I'm 28 Yeah Except it's so much cooler because

it's the batmobile and he gets to blow stuff

up and then he gets to rock it away You know,

I can only imagine once the game releases and

they do a DLC skin pack for the batmobile. Oh

My god, I want 66 I want 89 I want 95 and I want

Batman Beyond Batman Beyond might be a stretch,

but they won't do Beyond because it's so Because

the way it is but they could at least do the

animated series Yeah, yeah But yeah Delays really

suck, but maybe they're delaying it because they're

gonna do it, right? Right. Yeah, maybe they're

delaying it because something needs to be fixed

or something needs to be improved upon or Who

knows? When did Arkham Origins just came out

last year, right? Yeah, it came out in October.

Of 2013, right? Yes. So two years between games,

that's about average. I mean, it's usually two

or three... Well, it's gonna come out in the

first quarter of 2015. Right, but okay, but it's

still 2013 to 2015, that's still two years. regardless

if it's two years to the day. Well, it came out

in October, so it's still... It's like a year

and a couple months. Yeah. But, you know, who

knows? But I did see the gameplay trailer and

it looks amazing. I've been looking at a lot

of the... I don't really pay attention to a lot

of the E3 stuff because I'm not a current -gen

gamer, but I've looked at several things. I'm

impressed with Sunset Overdrive and on the flip

side I'm kind of disappointed in Battlefield

Hardline because it just doesn't look like what

a Battlefield game should look like to me. Battlefield

to me is usually doing a spotlight on a certain

war. whether it be Vietnam, whether it be World

War II, whether it be whatever. And this is basically

Battlefield doing a Grand Theft Auto. That's

what it is, at least based on what I saw from

the trailer. But let's see here. I guess since

we're talking about Batman, this isn't in your

script, but did you see the news article about

DC's supposed plans? Yeah, I actually was going

to bring that up next so that it kind of worked

out. Oh, okay. Sorry, didn't want to steal your

thunder, but just wanted to... No, I'll let you

go ahead and intro that one since you brought

it up. Yeah, they... I gotta... Well... Damn

it. Now I gotta find this stupid article. Oh

crap, sorry. I got it up. Oh, do you? Yep. So

they're saying May 2016 is gonna be Batman vs

Superman. Mm -hmm. July 2016 is gonna be Shazam

Christmas 2016 is gonna be Sandman May 2017 is

going to be Justice League July 2017 is gonna

be Wonder Woman Christmas 2017 is gonna be a

Flash and Green Lantern team -up Which means

Hal Jordan will be in it May 2018 is gonna be

Man of Steel 2 okay first thing I want to focus

on flash and Green Lantern team up I know that

I know I will not get this wish but I'm gonna

just say this right now I'm gonna pull a you

like you did in GCR and Wars episode 4 Star Trek

versus Star Wars I want them to team up Wally

West with either Killawog or Jon Stewart because

Honestly, Wally West Flash and Jon Stewart or

Wally West Flash and Kellogg are the best Green

Lantern Flash team up. I honestly do not give

a crap about Hal Jordan. It doesn't matter what

actor is in the role. So far we've only seen

one live action Hal Jordan and he was basically

Van Wilder all over again except for The Great

Ring. Again, you're hating on him for a movie

that we should start out with. Anyway, the other

problem I have with this schedule is... In Man

of Steel, Man of Steel, the first Man of Steel,

it's supposed to set up this whole new universe.

Or it's supposedly supposed to. There are things

that happened to Superman in that film that need

their own movie first. So putting Man of Steel

2 all the way to 2018 makes absolute zero sense

to me. I can see partially their delay. With

them doing Batman and Superman as the next one

Because it's still going to explore both of their

stories, and it's like Batman's pre -established

anyway So instead of starting out going oh Batman's

parents died he became Batman blah blah blah

They're just skipping ahead Because he's veteran

Batman Yeah, but they're basically using the

Nolan verse as Cannon behind him mm -hmm, but

having been a flight place the same character

essentially I mean it's gonna be altered but

it's gonna be essentially the same yeah um so

you have that and you have you know superman

kind of coming at his own there but unfortunately

that's where the story stops until 2017 um and

then they do justice league and then you gotta

wait till 2018 for man of steel 2 which will

be just a superman story which It wouldn't be

such a big deal And I understand them spacing

out so Superman's out every year essentially

2016 2017 2018 But if you're gonna have a guy

play a young Clark Kent Superman Yeah, it's kind

of important to have him play it while he's still

young Yeah, um Yeah, I get the Batman being older

I get you know all the other you know kind of

characters in essence, but For one, I'm not a

fan of the Man of Steel. I'm not a fan of Superman.

I don't mind the movies. I'll watch them. They

aren't my favorite. I mean, I like them, but

I liked Man of Steel more than the last effort

we got. But here's the thing with Man of Steel,

Batman vs Superman and Man of Steel 2. i think

you need to a step because as you said batman

if they're if they're pulling on the coattails

of nolan's continuity batman's already established

you need to establish superman you need to see

a film with him going through you know the repercussions

of his first film here's how i would do this

i would put meh i know this isn't gonna happen

cuz i'm not in charge of warner brothers but

would have them make Man of Steel 2 first put

it at May of 2016 put Batman versus Superman

like Christmas 2016 and then Justice League in

May and I don't know I don't know where any other

movies would fit in but as far as like the Batman

Superman stuff I think Man of Steel 2 has to

happen first Batman versus Superman cuz that'll

set them up meeting and then Justice League will

set it up of them You know forming the Justice

League. I see the way they're going with it though.

They're gonna have Batman have to basically take

matters into his own hands as You know the the

leading superhero basically on the planet To

kind of put Superman back in his place like look

This is Earth. This is my planet. Quit screwing

it up. Quit killing people. You do more disasters

than Godzilla. Oh my god, no you didn't. No you

didn't. I saw a meme on it, but it was funny,

so. It's a giant freaking lizard with flame breath.

Does less damage than Superman does in Man of

Steel. Wow. So, you have that issue. So, technically

he's having to deal with the Ripper Cop. Since

in Batman vs Superman But it's also is dealing

with the repercussions without having to take

away from giving him an actually good story Yeah,

because if you had Batman vs Superman like just

say for instance, we took out Batman Mm -hmm.

It would be like watching Green Lantern Because

of what they have planned out for Superman in

that film it would be like watching Green Lantern

with this with shitty room So Batman was kind

of necessary for that film And then leading them

into Justice League because they're building

the justice by the end of the film Into the Justice

League and then they have to work together and

then it kind of makes sense to split them all

off afterward to give them more room to grow

It's it because It'll kind of introduce them

and cut like the Justice League film will at

least help them launch the other characters without

having them fail like Green Lantern did. Right.

And I think they're not wanting to gamble with

Green Lantern again, which is why they have them

teamed up with Flash. Yeah. But I honestly think

with Flash and Green Lantern, they should take

like screw Green Lantern for once. Like seriously,

just send them to the sideline, get Jon Stewart

or something, or bring in freaking Arrow. I knew

you were going to say that. Well, I mean, they've

already established Flash and Green Arrow. Yeah.

As same continuity, plus they're kind of friends.

And I don't know, it just makes more sense to

have them to do that. It makes more sense to

you to have them do that. The reason why it does

is because, as you just said, It's already in

the continuity of the television shows. The problem

is, Green Arrow is normally the random seventh

or eighth member of the Justice League, whereas

Green Lantern, whether it be Hal, John, Kyle...

Oh, I know. Well, usually Cyborg, Martian Manhunter,

and Aquaman are the ones that are swapped out.

Along with Green Arrow, because Green Arrow was

the seventh member in the DCAU Justice League.

But it was swapped out in place of some of the

other ones sometimes. But the thing about having

Flash is, if you're having it with Green Lantern,

it's pretty much Hal Jordan. He doesn't really...

I mean, yeah, if you count the Justice League

TV series, he hung out with everybody, but he

really didn't hang out with any of them. Jon

Stewart was more of Batman's friend than anybody

else's. Whereas Flash and Hal Jordan on all other

continuities are buddies. Yeah, but you got to

figure out which Flash you're going to use. Are

they going to use Barry Allen or are they going

to use Wally West? If they use Barry Allen, you

are correct. But if they use Wally West, there

was nine times out of ten in the beginning of

Justice League where it was John Jones. Wow.

John Stewart. And flash and there are times because

of how that show came out that it was Batman

and and John but for the most part They were

always teamed up together in that show It like

I said, it's just gonna depend on what they did

I I still don't think I Still don't think that

it's fair to Superman to not give him his own

sequel first have him deal with what happened

in the first film and then bring in whatever

other villain you want to bring in and like I

said then do the team I mean I see what you're

saying you know you're gonna have you know with

Batman vs Superman you're gonna have Batman come

in you know smack him in the face a few times

like hey pull it together this is what you got

to do and then they're gonna go off and do justice

league i honestly wish that they would as much

as i enjoyed man of steel i honestly wish warner

brothers and dc comics would have just started

with justice league in the beginning and then

just branched off from there with batman and

superman films and blah blah blah i'm hoping

this new future for the DC film universe for

Warner Brothers is going to be bright. I hope

that these other like Sandman and one I hope

though I really hope the Wonder Woman movie gets

made because over the last what is it 30 35 years

or so we've had nothing but Batman and Superman

films really if you think about it mainstream

yes sure there was Green Lantern yes sure there

was Jonah Hex but no other mainstream DC hero

has really had their big blockbuster budget movie.

Yeah, I mean, I kind of agree with you. I think

I would have preferred if they would have just

started out with Justice League over going the

other route. It would just make more sense. But

again, you know, they... opted for a different

route. But I think we'll move on now. Do you

see Disney is launching a new Lion King series?

Why? That's kind of my thought. It's usually

my thought that if something works, leave it

alone. But apparently they think that it's fun

to create a new show out of an old show, just

like film does. But the animation just from the

one shot that is out there kind of looks like

what we're used to in the original, I think.

It's called The Lion Guard. Which will be a TV

movie to begin with and then it will go in but

it's supposed to be a young cub named Kayan son

of Simba and Nala I ever but he's Simba with

a red mohawk and a paw print back to you I already

have a problem with this continuity because if

he's Simba and Nala's son Did they have did the

stork bring him after? The stork brought them

Kiara the movie is not continuity Yes it is.

I don't care what you say, yes it is. Because

Jason Marsden was the villain in that, well,

partly the villain in that. He was Scar Jr. He

was better than Scar Jr. Anyway, this series

is going to be on Disney Jr., so it's aiming

towards kids. I very rarely, if ever, watch Disney

Jr. As much as I love The Lion King, this doesn't

seem like something that I would check out. It's

not something that... I don't dislike. I mean,

I think it's interesting to... I guess I've always

had the opinion of, why do we need the new...

Why do we need something new? Just show them

the original movies? But at the same time, I

get it. You know, you need something to hook

the kids. Especially if you have children that

are out of school for three months during the

summer and the morning. You know, you want to

stick them in front of the TV and have them watch

quality programming instead of a purple dinosaur.

Well... It's almost like they're trying to recreate

the goodness of their, if you can consider that

a word, greatness of their old 90s animation,

where they spun off of films that they made,

which not necessarily were all great, but they

worked. I think they're trying to go back to

that a little bit. It's supposed to include the

original characters of You know, Timon, Pumbaa,

Rafiki, Zazu, Mufasa. Not really Mufasa, but

the other one. Yeah, I know what you mean. Probably

have them as a ghost. And then they're going

to have Kion's older sister Q. Yeah. This is

you know obviously it's not the first attempted

at Lion King spinoff because Timon had one, but

yeah, I don't know it could be interesting I'm

sure my son will watch it because he likes the

Lion King as does my wife So I I kind of look

forward to seeing what that's like All fart is

getting their own transformer who Walmart is

getting their own transformer why? You have it

in your show notes this this new futuristic it

looks like a cross between RoboCop and classics

Optimus Prime this new futuristic Delivery truck

that Walmart has. Oh, yeah, they're new truck.

Yeah. Oh my god. It looks so much like that classics

Optimus Prime mold a little bit the cab of it

does yeah, I It actually looks interesting and

I'll have it all in the show notes, of course,

but It almost looks like a car for the bottom

part of the front end. I'm trying to think of

what movie that looks like it's coming from.

It's almost like a RoboCop -ish semi front. I

think it's kind of neat. That's what Optimus

Prime should look like when he's in the year

2500. But no, no, it's supposed to be like ten,

you know increase the fuel efficiency and You

know It's got I guess all kinds of new technology

that's that's new for that stuff But they've

got a single driver's seat in the center of the

vehicle instead of off to one side because it's

kind of narrow in the cab And it's got from with

the pictures they show it's got a pretty sweet

System there with with the electronic displays

and It's it's got like a bench in the back and

almost looks like a coffee maker type thing and

it's got like a Opening up cabinet in the side

of it where you know, the shirts are and that

kind of stuff. So Kind of looks really neat Yeah,

it does Which makes me wonder why they don't

have more of that instead of more the loud -ass

shit piles that you're driving on the road now

I Don't know I just thought it was kind of something

different With the vehicle design, it's it's

just super smooth and everything It's a to quote

retgar. It's a sleek sexy import Yeah, it probably

is important but I don't know, kind of cool.

Oh, and you should probably bring up your Kingpin.

Oh, yeah. I was too busy looking through the

75 moments in Batman's history. But yes, Kingpin.

Now, here's the thing, okay? Kingpin... I knew

him as a Spider -Man villain in the Marvel Universe.

I know he's a Marvel Universe wide villain. He's

not really regulated to Spider -Man. But I first

noticed him on the Spider -Man 94 cartoon series.

I enjoyed him there. And then the 2003 Daredevil

came out and they cast Michael Clarke Duncan.

May he rest in peace. It's always been my belief

since Duncan. couldn't find someone to bulk up

enough to play. They couldn't find someone to

bulk up enough or they couldn't find someone

already big enough to play the role of the kingpin.

That has all changed. Vincent D 'Onofrio. Most

people will know him as Gomer Pyle from Full

Metal Jacket, or Detective Robert Gorin from

Law and Order or Criminal Intent. He was also

another superhero. He was Thor, God of Thunder,

in 1987's Adventures in Babysitting. I will have

to have you embed the video of that in the post

so people can see it because it's so hilarious

seeing him in it like that. He is going to be

the kingpin for Marvel and Netflix's Daredevil

series. I could not be more happy with this casting

because I think D 'Onofrio can really pull it

off. He's got the acting chops and he has been

known to sort of conform to a role and to fit

a role so he will change his appearance. He will

gain or drop weight if he has to. I think this

is going to make that Daredevil series really,

really well done. A really well done series.

And I haven't even seen a trailer. I don't even

think that they have a trailer for it at all,

but I'm really interested to see what they do

with him as Kingpin. Yeah, I'm kind of wondering

what they'll eventually do. I'm not too familiar.

I mean, I'm familiar with Kingpin from Spider

-Man. The animated series? Right. But beyond

that, I couldn't tell you. Yeah. Did you have

anything to bring up about the 75th or the 75

moments of Batman? I'm just going to list it.

in the show notes because it's too many to sit

there and count, and we've already talked Batman,

so. Yeah, that's true. How about Warner Brothers

versus Amazon? Yeah, I thought that was kind

of weird. I thought it was so hilarious. I mean,

you thought it was hilarious because they have

the Lego movie as the spawning point. But yeah,

it says that they aren't taking pre -orders for

the film. Yeah, well Amazon removed their pre

-orders mm -hmm For the blu -ray and DVD and

they did it for 300 transcendence winter's tale

But Yeah, they are having some kind of a contract

dispute yeah Which makes me wonder If more companies

will follow suit in the future? I'm not sure.

I don't even know what's behind the contract

dispute. Obviously, they're not going to disclose

that. But I just found that absolutely hilarious.

At least people can still get it digitally. You

know on iTunes or am well I don't know I don't

know if they'll allow it to be done done digitally

on Amazon if they're having a contract to speak

with Warner Brothers But you know I Just thought

it was funny that people aren't gonna be able

to get the Lego moving on DVD Yeah, I But I just

I just wonder if this could be the start of the

downfall of Amazon If if they're like blackballing

a lot of stuff that Warner Brothers has yeah

might I don't know but Don't know it's I think

people may be reading a little bit too much into

it so far kind of like my comment that I just

made but Yeah, you know who knows I mean it could

be just these specific movies. I mean it it may

not even be the entire WB lineup so right right

And then we have Harrison Ford The Millennium

Falcon broken. Well, I was making a joke at work

when I was talking about it. I said Because they

have a picture of Harrison like we're in like

the It clearly looks Photoshop, but it could

very well not be But it says it hurt his ankle

on the set and I Started joking that he tripped

on the entryway to the Millennium Falcon Mm -hmm

and pulled his ankle and he says god damn it.

You didn't put it back together, right? I was

on this goddamn ship for five years and you couldn't

get it, right? But um Yeah, that was a gag. I

was thrown around people were just laughing at

work. I'm like, it wasn't that funny, but it's

still kind of funny You know, and then of course

the other thing that happened this week you have

Mark Hamill talking Star Wars at the at the Disney

Park Where he is the Joker and Luke was so amazing

and he was he was Being interviewed by James

Arnold Taylor Yeah, who plays Obi -Wan and the

Clone Wars So that was kind of neat seeing him

do that Because he was answering as the Joker

and acting like you know, he was Luke's dad and

it was funny But yeah, he I'm definitely looking

forward to seeing how that film is going to turn

out I'm kind of avoiding most spoilery type images

or information but like things like You know

the The other reason the injury grabbed me was

because of the fact that, one, I made a joke

about it, and two, it had a picture of what Harrison

Ford may look like as old version upon. But I

mean, for the most part, I don't care for the

news because I'm not going to help fuel it. But

at the same time, I think it's kind of interesting,

some of the stuff that's involved. That's not

necessarily spoilery or trying to be spoilery

or rumory. It's Just kind of interesting factoids

kind of like JJ trying to get Simon Pegg in the

film So he can be in two star shows having a

wars of sorts with his trek to space oh God can

you imagine if it was Simon's Scotty? Scotty

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About news. I don't want to know a news story

about the first Here's what's going to be said

in the first five minutes of the movie or here's

the description of what is going to happen in

the first five Instead of putting up a news story,

and I'm not saying this about sites specifically

But I'm saying this about the companies instead

of sending websites a news story giving the people

a Written version of the first five minutes of

the film when I just put on the first five minutes

trailer of the damn film So, as far as avoiding

movie news, the only news I really pay attention

to at this point is comic news. Some stuff I

catch, some stuff I don't, but I just want to

be able to see the movies at this point. That's

really all I want. So, essentially... That pretty

much wraps up the news as far as that's concerned.

Yep So I think we'll get into a small bit of

listener feedback before we kind of close it

out this week Doing a little bit shorter this

week. I have some ideas for next week anyway

That can be hopefully fleshed out with a third

chair So I had a comment by Epicurious Mm -hmm

to me saying that he was surprised to hear that

I said Silicon Valley was boring He says I don't

know if I've categorized it as dry humor exactly

maybe quieter comedy at times But there are some

rather raunchy moments as well The last episode

of season had one of the best dirty jokes I've

heard in a long time not to mention how smart

it was But uh There were a couple different comments

about that show Among other things and it isn't

that I really find it boring. It's that it just

doesn't interest me I'm not a huge fan of anything

that's on HBO to begin with So that's part of

the problem the other thing is While I like techie

geeky type stuff Kind of dry humor dark humor

type stuff never really graphs me Like people

that like the office or people that like the

community I've watched some of community. It's

okay, but it's nothing I'd care to sit through

But I find that a lot of the a Lot of those type

shows I just I don't get into them and it's not

for the same reason that you don't get into them

Whereas you don't get into them because everybody's

making a big deal about it. And then you say,

well, I don't like this because I tried watching

it and everybody's made a big deal out of it.

I don't see what the big deal is. So I go from

a different stance because I try and watch it.

And then there's nothing that grabs me whatsoever.

Like I have no interest in whatever the topic

is. Plus, like I said, I don't get into the drier

humor. In essence, it kind of bores me, but it's

just not interesting. So I end up flipping the

channel and finding something that does, which

honestly I find myself going back to a lot of

stuff from the 90s because the 80s, 90s, and

some of the 2000s are actually watchable. So,

it's just kind of one of those things for me.

I'll tell you one summer series that I'm looking

forward to. It's actually made me go back and

watch some of the reruns of its predecessor.

You know exactly what I'm going to say here in

about two seconds. Pretty sure I do, but I'm

not sure. I honestly cannot wait to see what

happens in Girl Meets World. That's a little

bit different story. Right, right. But I kind

of agree with you. I'm enticed to want to see

that. Not because it's a kids show, but because

I watched the original. And it's some of the

original characters, and it's Koran, Topanga,

at least. At least it's them, and who knows if...

There's been confirmation of a lot of older characters.

Right returning right at least for cameos What

I like so much about them doing a sequel to boy

meets world now is That you take the entire series

of boy meets world you take everything Corey

has learned in those I Know you're gonna correct

me. It was seven seasons, right? Hello, yeah,

it was seven seasons Okay, take everything Cory

learned in those seven years and all of his evolution

as well as Topanga's and Bring it into the you

know the 21st century now where they have their

own kids. They have to teach their own kids That's

a really good way of doing a sequel television

series is You're building upon the model for

what has already come. Now, there is a few things

that I think they are just doing to homage older

stuff, like Farkel. Farkel, I don't think it's

really said that Farkel is Finkus's son, but

I think he probably is, or he's his uncle, or

something or other. Well, I know that the actor

has been confirmed to return. I don't mean Finkus.

Wasn't his name Minkus? I forget what his...

So shouldn't the kid's name be Markle, not Farkle?

So many of the Disney Channel original shows

have gone off the air that I liked, and there

are shows on there right now that I just don't

care for. So I'm happy. that girl meets world

is finally happening and it's it's corey all

grown up he and he's teaching his kids you know

and the best line out of that trailer uh... she

said his daughter riley says how do i have to

live in my how do i have to live in my father's

world and he goes back and says until you make

it yours and i just absolutely love that this

is good writing absolutely uh... The other thing

I do kind of want to bring up really quick kind

of before you close it out is June 17th Resilient

Isles returns for season 5 and I believe it's

somewhere around the 25th or the I think it's

like the second or third episode of season 5

where I read a description that they that the

the team of cops that uh, Angie Harmon's character

is on they say goodbye to a friend and a colleague.

I believe that's the episode that they are going

to, uh, write, uh, Lee Thompson Young out of

the show since he committed suicide last year

in real life. Um, but they, as of the end of

season four of the show, they hadn't. They hadn't

done anything with Frost. They hadn't done anything

with his character. So that's something that...

I know it's gonna sound really weird for me to

say this, but it's something I'm looking forward

to, to see how they do it. To see if it's gonna

be completely off -screen, because even after

his death... there were episodes in season four

showing with him in them so you know you know

it's you know these tv shows are they film film

film in advance and then they you know release

the episodes x number of months later so i don't

know that's something i'm looking forward to

other than that you know it's it's Big year for

us. We've got a lot going on. We've already got

10 plus interviews this year, and the year's

not even over yet. Usually by this time, we have

like five interviews in one year for GCRN, and

by the end of the year, we usually end up with

12 or 14. Not this year. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'll

shut up now. I will say that we will... Cover

net neutrality. Mm -hmm I'm just waiting until

We get my powers Back on the show Absolutely,

because I would like a more rounded conversation.

Yeah Because I do have some thoughts on it, but

I'm also of the opinion that We're kind of screwed.

Especially when you have the elements of, you

have Comcast digging their freaking hands and

everything. It's just, it's not looking good

for us with the damn internet in general. So

yeah, that's part of it too. But again, we'll

cover that on the next one. He's he's here also

I'm not going to sit there and attack Comcast

even though they're pieces shit, but Yeah cable

companies in general are just crap So I totally

get everybody's complaints about You know the

the scare tactics and all the Companies More

or less taking control of everything I think

people hate their cable company more now than

they ever have Because they just don't give a

damn I'm still waiting on my bill to get adjusted

and it's been two weeks since I signed up Because

they charged me for having two lines installed

that Weren't actually installed. I just had them

checked to make sure they worked And I'm paying

for the linebacker thing which is supposed to

prevent being charged for crap like that But

they said it's exempt for the first visit So

essentially it's bullshit and I signed up for

this TV internet package that they sold me for

It was like 39 yeah, 39 .99 It was complete crap

channels, and there was not really any benefits

to it So I downgraded to the 1999 internet after

arguing with them, but they still have me down

as the other Even though the cable part doesn't

work Yeah, they finally turned off my Xfinity

Wi -Fi hotspot which piggybacks off of your connection

Which is why I was getting down as far as like

two megabyte download speeds I finally got that

shut off like a day ago. But the new special

that just came in the mail today, which again,

only is provided for new customers, which I am

no longer because I've been with them two weeks.

It's $49 .99. You get the Xfinity TV, internet,

and HD DVR for $49 for 12 months instead of the

six -month deals that I've spent for bullshit

before. And it includes free HBO for two years

and you get the modem rental and the speed is

double what I'm getting now. Plus the channels

are what I had in my original package at my old

place. So it's complete horse shit. So I can

argue with them about that. And if they won't

let me do it, I'll just cancel and go with AT

&T or something. because I'm still in my 30 -day

window of redemption. Yeah. I've slowly been

pondering and pondering and pondering if I should

switch to satellite. Not that I have a problem

too much with Time Warner, but as far as the

cable television side goes, but I don't know.

It's just one big nightmare, honestly. All together.

Let's see, what do we got coming up? You and

I are going to be... Oh, go ahead. I was going

to say, I do have a question. And I kind of posted

it on the interwebs earlier. I only got a reply.

Yes, and It was from Jeremy Because I asked what

This year has been the greatest or biggest geek

news slash film slash event that's been important

to you I'm having a trouble narrowing it down

myself for one. I put the five years of gcrn,

but that's You know, that's just personal. So

Jeremy says, for me, it's Arkham Knight being

pushed back. I invested in a PS4 only to wait

two more years for this crap. So, yeah, I kind

of get that. I refuse to invest in another game

console because of how quickly they're planning

on doing the turnaround next time. Plus, I just

got this one like two years ago, so I have no

intention of upgrading. I'm going to dig through

all the nice used games quality and I'm going

to get Arkham Knight for the PC because my machine

is a beast. So that's the question for next week.

So we'll kind of go from there and anything else

before close out? No, go check out geek cast

radio episode 65 where Steve and I spend an hour

in something talking about the evolution of the

network We kind of teased at some new stuff that's

coming up over the next year or so and Other

button pushing elements of the network Pull bag

still going strong. I'm very much leaning away

from the DC stuff right now episode okay well

after this this coming week I will be episodes

I've got coming up are Rocky and Bullwinkle from

IDW some turtle stuff some Transformers stuff

there is a little bit of DC superhero stuff mixed

in there because only because I need to go ahead

and get it done so I can get it out of the way

Check out tooncast and tooncast classic and tooncast

beyond with tooncast classic if you check it

out Please bear in mind that that show is five

years old so in the beginning we were very raw

in 2009 I would suggest if you find your favorite

episode before episode 50 great if You listen

to anything past episode 50 and tooncast classic

most of it is pretty good quality content Good

audio quality content, I should say. And Tooncast

Beyond, as I've said before, this summer, at

some point, we're doing the animation direction

spotlight, where we take a look at golden age

animation directors, people like Walt Disney,

take a look at their careers, what they've done

over the years. People like Chuck Jones, Tex

Avery, Fritz Freling. And this this Christmas

is I know that's a ways away But this Christmas

is the first ever to cast beyond 25 days of Christmas

So that's pretty much what I've got going on

Nice Yep So I think that about wraps that out

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