TV Scheduling Chaos, Apple Pay Security, and Batmobile

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-con .com. Hello and welcome to altered geek

unlimited episode 57. I'm your host Steve Megatron

Phillips and joining me this week is not Like

booth ninja powers, but a different Mike. Yes.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. It's the other white

bread See it's the other white meat. I know I

was like I was like I think it was that coffee

joke from sweet daddy D I'm sure I would remember

if the reference is thrown, but it's On Jeff

Dunham on the first special arguing with myself.

He says You know I'm like coffee, but I gotta

go through a big ass white filter first Something

like that Something about a big ass white filter.

I don't know still left turn You're making another

left turn come back in ten minutes you ain't

gonna miss a thing What do you get done you've

made a circle yeah So, how are you this week

I'm doing pretty good. I will say the episode

post I will have Some news Mm -hmm, but it's

not going to be unveiled until tomorrow Which

would be today technically according to when

this is released, but For me I've spent all day

today or all day yesterday if you really want

to get technical I spent three and a half hours

on the phone on hold I talked to two people for

a total of 20 minutes in three and a half hours

fucking government I'm sorry to drop an f -bomb.

I know I know you're trying to keep this show

f -bomb free, but Jesus My insurance sends me

a Notice of action that my dental cleaning I

guess the office coded it wrong or something

or other my dental cleaning Which is like 78

bucks? The insurance is not gonna pay for it

yet I'm not being charged for it's some weird

stupid thing. Apparently what they coded it as

is something only pregnant women get for their

teeth or something. I have no clue. It's... So

I spent three and a half hours on the phone today

to make sure, because I noticed on the slip that,

on the piece of paper that the insurance company

sent me, it's an address I haven't used in two

and a half years. Even when I was living at that

address two and a half years ago, I had a P .O.

Box then. So I called the insurance company.

Oh, well, we get all your address information

from the state and the federal government. We

can't update your address. I'm like, what? What

the hell kind of crap is this? So after I got

off the phone with them, I called the office

of Medicaid. Medicaid doesn't update addresses.

I spent two and a half hours on hold for a five

minute conversation with the lady at the Medicaid

office. I then spent another 55 minutes on hold

to talk to Social Security. And I know when I

moved into this apartment last October, I know

I called Social Security and I know I updated

my address from my P .O. Box to what this address

is. And apparently, they still didn't have it

correct. So yeah, in the last two and a half

days, I've spent, you know, a total of three

and a half, four hours on the phone with government

crap. And it's like, oh my god, why can't you

people do your jobs properly? So that's, I've

been dealing with that. The good news, the exciting

news is this coming Wednesday we are all gonna

get remote controlled because we are launching

a brand new TV podcast here on the GCRN called

Remote Control. It's going to take any TV from

2000 and whatever now is and talk about it. We're

gonna talk about the new season. We're gonna

have episodes on Gotham, The Flash. Red Band

Society, Scorpion, a whole bunch of other stuff.

It's gonna be awesome. So that's going on there.

Wasn't able to get a pullback out this week,

but I did get a Tooncast Beyond animation direction

spotlight on Bob. Bob clamp it out. Let's see,

what else have I been up to? That's pretty much

it. Other than watching the Apple event, which

I'm sure we'll talk about here in a little bit

and seeing all the new Batmobile pictures I haven't

been doing much I will say that last weekend

In total by this past Tuesday, I would have watched

20 different cartoon episodes for podcasts six

of those were probably Okay One out of the six

He -Man episodes I watched was good, so five

episodes out of 20 were just god -awful. So that's

what's going on there. I think that's about it

for housekeeping stuff, unless you've got anything.

Been working on images and stuff for Grand Con.

But yeah, I mean Not a lot's been going on Other

than editing this video that I'll Have out I'm

not speaking Yeah, I think with that we will

get to the first bit of news, which would be

TV. Any of these taken out of the list grab you?

I'm interested in Agent Carter, so it's nice

to see a first look at Haley Atwell's... You

know seeing her as as agent Peggy Carter again.

That's kind of cool I will say something that's

not on here Is that apparently before we started

recording I started seeing news items about The

fact that Teen Titans is supposed to be getting

a TV series and supposedly a Nightwing pilot

is coming and yeah I saw the the Teen Titans

bit a little bit earlier now the Nightwing thing

that's purely speculatory. Yeah. The Nightwing,

or the Teen Titans thing is happening. Yeah.

On TNT. Yeah. Which means totally not Titans.

Anyways. On the plus side, Green Arrow wants

to see Green Lantern on Green Arrow. Wait what?

Steven ml wants to see green lantern on arrow

Which I could see it happening but on flash Which

is the same universe, but I would see it in flash

Yeah, that's that's true But Yeah, so I mean,

who knows? I really like what they're doing with

the DC television universe. But full circle here

with the Agent Carter. I have no interest in

watching that show. Only because I don't care

about what happened in the past of SHIELD. Yeah,

if there's elements where it may cross over into

the future one, I would care, but if it's the

past, I don't. But the episode, the fact that

it's going to be a flashback episode, I'm fine

with that. I'm more interested in Agent Carter

than I am in Agents of S .H .I .E .L .D. I know

everyone says, oh, well, halfway through season

one, it gets so much better and blah, blah, blah.

I'm still of the personal, and my personal opinion

is I believe Coulson is dead and that is a life

model decoy controlled by Hydra. That's just

my personal opinion. You want my personal opinion

on it? Both of it. I'm just saying... Well, the

last third of the show was good, and they explain,

Fury explains to Coulson what he did and why

he did it. And that's fine, I... There's no way

he could ever be a life model decoy because of

what happened plus Because of the technology

and the alien surroundings There's something

that happened to Colson He's Colson, but not

a hundred percent Colson Because of an element

that happened to him and I think that because

he's the new head of shield you're going to see

him kind of reemerge. If they did something to

make him part alien, that is something that to

me personally takes everything away from his

death in the film. It basically ruins that entire

scene. Fury essentially said he's an Avenger

because he stood up to Loki and gave him a good

blast, but And he did die, but... Yeah. He'd

been dead for days before they kickstarted him.

Yeah. I mean, the only thing... Like, I know

you're not an agent, Carter, but... And we generally

normally agree on, oh, enough with the origin

stories, get on with it already. But in this

case, I loved the Captain America era in the

first... in the first Avenger. I loved seeing

Howard Stark in action. I loved all that stuff,

so I'm gonna give Agent Carter a couple episodes.

If it doesn't hook me up, you know, it's no real

loss. Yeah. This might be more up your alley,

though. I don't know. The Minority Report TV

series? Never even seen the movie. Really? Nope.

Again, it's just one of those things where I

just never have, it's never crossed my radar,

honestly. I was almost guessing you may have

just because it's a Tom Cruise film. Tom Cruise

movie? Yeah, no. Tom Cruise movies at this point

in time, I was still stuck in the 80s where he

was actually good in films other than Mission

Impossible. Do you know what the movie's about?

Yeah. I do. Well, the TV series is supposed to

take place 10 years after the film with the pre

-crime unit dismantled focusing on former pre

-cog who's having trouble adjusting to normal

life. So I'm not quite sure what that's supposed

to mean, being that it is kind of based off of,

I think, some books. Could be wrong, but I think

I read somewhere that I thought that it was based

off books. So I'd be kind of interested to find

out what's going on with it But I don't know

if I'll actually watch the show I Might catch

something like that. I'm like a Netflix or something

to that degree Yeah, it's not since we're talking

about TV we should talk about CBS really quickly

and how they're basically screwing all television

because CBS now has Thursday Night Football.

You're kidding me. Thursday Night Football started

this past, well it started tonight or last week

or it started within the last two weeks of this

episode airing. uh... they now have thursday

night football so basically you know i i i first

time in like three or four years that watch big

brother and cbs the big brother reality show

big brother and cbs star watching it and it moved

to sunday tuesday and wednesday instead of sunday

tuesday and thursday because of thursday night

football the big bang theory is moving to monday

night at eight o 'clock This means this is why

I say CBS is screwing all of primetime television

because now you've got Big Bang Theory on Monday

nights You've got from NBC The Blacklist and

The Voice on Monday nights from TNT you got Dallas

on Monday nights You've got CBS's show The Scorpion

on Monday nights Monday night is so jam -packed

my DVR will not record all this crap The thing

that sucks about it for me I'm in class until

9 o 'clock on Mondays and Tuesdays. So I won't

be home until well after 9. Oh, and I forgot

to mention Fox has Gotham on Mondays. So Mondays

is so jam -packed for television right now from

any of the networks that I watch. And I think

that CBS may end up losing out on that deal.

Only because, like you said, it's so jam -packed.

Like, I didn't know that they were doing that.

That's actually kind of interesting to find out

that they're doing that. Because you've got all

these action -packed shows that nobody's going

to want to watch it. Whereas, like, I mean, even

Tuesdays are kind of packed, too. I mean, you

get Agents of S .H .I .E .L .D. and you get Flash

and then you get Supernatural and all these other

shows, which, again, I think Supernatural's ending.

I still I'm holding to that that gun right there,

but But no, I mean, yeah, that's that's totally

stupid Yeah, but obviously somebody high up knows

more than we do yeah, I Miss Thursday night comedies.

I honestly do like I like this week because of

all these changes not even and because Thursday

Night Football runs till 11 15 my news brought

my local news broadcast runs from 11 15 to 11

35 now instead so they basically cut off 15 minutes

of news for football And don't get me wrong.

I like the NFL. I like football I love the New

England Patriots because I'm from Boston, Massachusetts,

but I am of the opinion that we have all these

sports networks We have ESPN numbers one through

a million and whatever else we have Fox Sports

We have why can't all these games be on those

other sport centric cable channels? I mean I

understand it's a contract thing with CBS and

Fox and all this and all that stuff to have it

on network television, so supposedly everybody

who doesn't have cable can watch the games, but

it just... And the other thing that makes me

so upset about this, I mentioned we have ESPN

number one through a million. We also have the

NFL Network. Why can't NFL Network have a bunch

of segregated stations? for all of their damn

game you know for all the i don't know um but

yeah monday is jam -packed i have no my dvr will

explode basically what's gonna have to happen

is i'm gonna have to get some of these things

on you know some of these episodes on itunes

the next day or something like that because i

can't my dvr will not allow me to record more

than two programs at one time If they overlap

one of them gets like, you know say Gotham is

from 8 to 9 and then from 9 to 10 is Dallas or

from 1001 to 1150 11 o 'clock it's it's the blacklist

if any one of those Overlap and it shows more

than two programs recording at the same time.

It'll clip all of them It'll clip a few minutes

of all of them and it's like oh my god If I had

the extra money I would just go buy all the goddamn

season passes on iTunes for all the shows that

I want to watch that are on Monday nights But

that would be I have like six shows at anywhere

between 30 and 40 bucks a pop I don't have that

kind of money. I don't know who does Shall we

talk some tech? That might be beneficial. Well,

actually, I have one more point to touch on.

Speaking of TV, Supernatural. They're dubbing

season 10, The Demon, but it's spelling it with

Dean. is what they're calling it uh because essentially

he gets to actually have fun being that he's

a demon yeah um and uh the promo is kind of funny

um i do think that they're trying to give it

a little bit lighter note but i also think that

they're also trying to uh Wrap it up with the

what everybody loved about the first three seasons

Mm -hmm, so I I'm looking forward to seeing because

they're in kind of uncharted territory now, so

it's kind of Whereas before it's kind of like

rinse repeat recycle, you know, I mean it's So

it's I'm looking forward to it in any case so

I guess we should move on to tech I think Starting

off with the other two and then working to be

First one being Google has has the self -driving

car to be built in Michigan Yes Which I noticed

the the information on this earlier earlier on

it Looks like a car you would see in a like two

-year -old A two -year -old's cartoon show Like

one of those like Thomas the train kind of front

ends on it the headlights and The centerpiece

it looks like a nose a mouth and eyes Yeah, it

looks Insanely ridiculous and it's a two -seater

car And it's got like a satellite type thing

on the top They're gonna build it in southeast

Michigan which you know whoop dee -frickin do

Well The thing I'm wondering is because they're

planning on building a fleet of 100 driverless

cars that don't feature a steering wheel gas

or brake pedal There the cars are powered by

an electric motor and top out at 25 miles per

hour So where the hell are you gonna drive these?

I'm sorry. Where the hell are they gonna drive

themselves? Because there's no road that goes

under 45 miles an hour around in most areas of

Michigan and if they do they go 35 because most

areas that go 25 are residential areas Right.

So if you're out on the main road, you're gonna

get barreled over by a giant SUV or a full -size

truck You know This is this because I'm looking

at the image of the car right now this is You

know basically, you know Reminds me of again

I'm gonna reference Jeff Dunham here reminds

me of his joke when he's talking about his his

h2 his you know his big Hummer Or his eyes h1

his big original Hummer that he had he says,

you know, we just got a Prius I used to pick

those out of my Hummer's grill That's what these

cars remind me of I know you've seen The current

Wayne Brady, let's make a deal. Yeah Have you

ever seen the smart cars that are on those that

they can win? I've seen those drive down the

street. Yeah, okay Well, I'm just saying that

that's where I've seen them I haven't seen them

anywhere else other than that So but that's basically

what this looks like to me is it looks like one

of those smart cars that all these other and

First of all a driverless car Okay, sure. I'm

a person that I don't drive. I have mild cases

for where policy doesn't allow me to drive, but

it's like, really? Seriously? I mean, this is

what the technology has led us to? A very, very

short, gray and white looking bumblebee car that

doesn't even have William Daniels voice in it?

Screw that. I want to go back to 1982 and hop

in the Trans Am. I think that the... It's going

to be like that movie where all the cars just

gain sentience and then they just start hitting

people and killing each other. And I think that's

probably why Google made that Skynet clause for

their CEOs. Because they've probably already

developed Skynet and just don't want to tell

us. It's probably called the Googs. I'm trademarking

that right now Why still that'll be the name

of it when it comes out it wouldn't be the first

name that's been taken from me Moving on There

is Windows 9 leaks, which I was quite happy to

see because the horrendous Windows 8 which those

of us that know how to hack it to get your old

start menu back, it is nice because I hate the

Metro interface with a passion. I can't stand

it. I like being able to just use the menu like

I've always done. My Windows 7 is set up exactly

like my Windows XP machine, which in turn is

actually set up like my Windows 98 machine. because

my theme and everything I use looks pretty freaking

identical to the Windows 98 when I had it. I

mean, I will say, because I have Windows 7, I

bought the computer I've been running now for

the last four years. I got it in 2010. And that

was thankfully before the Windows 8 debacle came

out. I got Windows 7 and, you know, I came from

XP. and I loved XP. I was really skeptical about

Windows 7, but after I learned of the innovations

that they did to basically improve XP without

really doing anything to it that would make me

not enjoy it, I love Windows 7. I remember when

I had my XP machine. I remember too. Yeah. I

remember when I had my XP... Machine I actually

went to a way. I don't know if it's still live

or anything like that went to a website called

rocket doc Yep, they still because I wanted something

like the Mac doc and Obviously, you know Macs

are anywhere from a thousand to five thousand

dollars depending on what you put into them I

didn't have the money for a Mac and for me personally

Macs are Asked backwards when it comes to the

commands and everything else. I'm used to doing

a lot of keyboard commands. So control s control

You know e etc. Etc. Etc So when Windows 7 came

out I was super stoked and now that these images

have leaked I don't know if I'll be switching

to Windows 9 right away, but I'm very happy with

what what we've seen so far Yeah, I'm Like I

said, I'm enjoying the shots that I'm seeing

of Windows 9. They did bring back the start menu

and your typical start bar down at the bottom.

The start menu has gotten a facelift, so it's

not as standard as it once was. It does have

some elements of the Metro in the menu, but it's

on the right side where normally you'd have all

kinds of stuff anyway. We're still having your

actual all apps and everything else on the left,

which I thoroughly enjoy. And then the ability

to, there's a built -in store in it, which whatever.

And then they have virtual desktops. So you can

have different workspaces and kind of slide between

desktops. So if I have all my show notes on one

screen, I can just have it on the one screen,

or I can have my games on another, or I can have

my graphic design on another. That would be a

nice... The virtual desktop thing reminds me

of what we currently have, where if you have

multiple user accounts... Like, you know, you

turn your computer on the Windows screen boots

up if you have more than one user account It'll

take you to the Windows main log on screen whatever

else and you have like one or two three four

different accounts You have to switch between

them to use two different desktops That's what

that reminds me of and I like that. It's integrated

instead of having to log off. Well, it's essentially

They had like virtual desktop software Where

you could do this So, I mean it's kind of nice

that it's all integrated for once because I think

I want to say the Mac has that ability And it

always has but I could I could be wrong So, yeah

Getting into the last piece of tech before we

go down a Battle well, I was gonna say it, you

know a night of dark driving. Yeah, we should

get into the... Turn your headlights on, you

jerk. I'll blow your ass away. We should get

into the fruity news. Yeah, it's... Nobody loves

fruit. Nope. It should be called the para -u

-phone. All right, so Apple had their event they

announced the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 plus

I The only reason why I am I'm gonna die hard

I'm not opposed to using you know like a Samsung

Galaxy s5 or whatever it is now the new one that

Samsung has And I have used other Android phones

before but one of the reasons the core reason

why I love the Apple iPhone is because I use

iTunes for all of my music and all of my podcasts

and all of my TV shows and movies and et cetera,

et cetera, et cetera. So for me, I would rather

buy another Apple device if I was going to get

one, which I'm not. So the, you know, the syncing

can be, you know, streamlined and easier. I think,

honestly, the best thing to come out of the Apple

event was Apple Pay. What well the only problem

I have with it is you're talking about the same

company that managed to And it's not necessarily

the company's fault because Let me preface this

was saying celebrities are careless if you really

wanted to take nude photos of yourselves use

a digital camera you know like our parents did

stone age okay yeah but so don't use your phone

so well i'm just saying that's just that's just

a tirade that's a little different from what

they announced in the event i'm getting around

to that okay the get the the point of that is

if they can't secure some damn pictures and keep

them private. What makes you think they're going

to keep your six credit cards or however many

that you can program into this phone to pay your

bills or pay whatever? How are they going to

secure that if they can't keep private photos

from going out into the interwebs and getting

hacked? So especially with everything getting

synced to the iTunes and the cloud and all that

other crap, I'm sorry but That alone speaks volumes

to me. And I will never trust a device with all

of that information. In fact, I've never had

Facebook Messenger because of what it does. records

all your information as far as your internet

habits, your pictures, how long you're using

Messenger, what credit cards you've used, what

your credit card information, all that kind of

crap. I'm to the point where I'm going to take

off the actual Facebook app itself because I

don't trust them. Internet security has gotten

so bad. I don't know if it's because hackers

have gotten better or the companies have gotten

lazier. It's probably a mixture of both. I'm

sure it is. To me, the quick pay thing, while

it is a good concept and I can see things moving

in that direction, I don't trust it at all. From

what they said in the event, they said that it

... Continue. I wish you were here, Mike Powers.

I wish you were here to back me up on this, damn

it. Next time. They said in the event that, yes,

you put your credit card, you take a picture

of your card, you put it into the phone, but

Apple never keeps your information. They then

generate some specialized... purchasing pin number

thing. So the people that you're buying stuff

from don't, basically they're trying to make

it so the only people that know what you're buying

when you're buying it is you and your bank. Unless

you've got Facebook. Because they're like the,

they really are Skynet. Well, it's along that

thought of what I posted the other day on my

Facebook. Don't know if you notice that Lord.

I have to go look at this now keep talking Well

more or less I said something because I posted

about the Facebook Messenger and Because they

said you know because of what was popping up

well I found a meme that somebody threw together,

and it's got two two people talking or pigs or

whatever the hell they look like. It says, isn't

it great? We have to pay nothing for the barn.

And then the other one says, yeah, and even the

food is free. And then it says underneath it,

it says, Facebook and you, if you're not paying

for it, you're not the customer. You're the product

being sold. Yeah, that's. Oh, yeah. I got a box.

I'm I overall though the iPhone 6 and the iPhone

6 plus if I was gonna get one I'd get the 6 plus

because I want the larger screen Because I ladies

and gentlemen I am pretty much a homebody. I

go out maybe once Twice three times a month if

that I I don't like going out into the world

So I would just you know basically sit here and

watch Netflix all day on phone Alright, you know

You know do something like that. I'm not one

of these out and about people where a five inch

screen is going to bother me being too large.

Well, we can't forget Apple people. We're also

the ones that, oh, the screen's too big on the

Android phones. And then they're like, all of

a sudden it's, oh, great idea. Yeah. Our buddy

matrix prime from TF wire says I had asked him

on Twitter. So you are you gonna get the six

plus? He said too big the phone is over six inches

tall gotta fit in my pocket when I ride in my

motorcycle You know, I like Apple I like their

stuff honestly if I was gonna get an Apple device

it would be an iPad Because, like I said a second

ago, I'm pretty much a homebody. I really only

want a tablet at this point so I can use Comixology's

Guided View to read comics. I know that's kind

of, you know, stupid just to get a piece of technology

for one thing. But you know, I'd probably use

it for other stuff, but like, I'm not one of

these, you know, hustlin' bustle people that

need a phone all the time outside of the house.

because I rarely ever go outside of the house.

How about Batfleck's new car? Oh, boy. Oh, are

we opening another can of worms? Oh, no, I love

it. OK. I in this kind of goes along with Mike

Powers and I had said earlier on of, you know,

we were kind of hoping what the Batmobile would

be and Kind of looking at it, it's almost like

a cross between the 89 Batmobile and the Tumbler

with a Formula One race car for the wheelbase.

I am down with this car. I just want to see how

it works out. It looks like a pretty badass car.

It looks like it's gonna be fast. It looks like

it's going to be Sleek it's gonna be armored

like the the tumbler which will give people fans

of the tumbler something to cheer for in that

It pretty much looks like it could wipe out any

of the other batmobiles Especially the 66 one

yeah, it would run that one over the tumbler

would squish that one. Yeah, I do love the I

do love the article here on the the batman -news

.com, the title of the article. The Batman v

Superman Dawn of Justice Batmobile looks like

it would destroy the Tumblr. I want to see like

a fully finished, you know, car. I mean that

this looks really good. I like the way it looks.

I think it looks really really impressive. But

I want to see it all glossy and shiny and everything

else and because right now these pictures that

we have here looks like the Joker Didn't let

Batman put the finishing paint coat of paint

on But I mean no, I'm digging it I so cannot

wait for Batman versus Superman It looks absolutely

amazing yeah I just, I couldn't believe when

I saw it. I started seeing pictures popping up

one at a time randomly and then all of a sudden

the official picture popped and I was like, oh

hell yeah. It just looks more like, I don't know,

it kind of reminds me of the Arkham Knight Batmobile

in a sense. A little bit, yeah. So in that regard

too, I'm kind of happy. Speaking of Arkham Knight,

they actually have a release date. Yep. Which

is a lot later than what people thought it was

going to be, which is June 2nd, 2015, which gives

me time to save up money. Yep. Because I'm going

to get it for the PC. Oh really, you're not going

to get it for the 360? It's not on the 360. Oh,

it's only on the Xbox One and the PlayStation

4. You know Robo mechanic diaper I'm joking Point

being I'm not buying a new system so I can play

a game Right. My system is plenty good for it.

So I'm going to get it for that. I Don't know

if you notice people have been kind of throwing

around Benedict Cumberbatch because he's a fun

person that everybody likes um been trying to

say that oh he should be Brainiac or Martian

Manhunter in Justice League which I can see him

playing either one because he can play the kind

of straight no emotion character at times but

I don't necessarily think that that's what they

should do I don't be wrong I'd like to see both

of those make a screen debut But I don't know

necessarily if I would pick him Mm -hmm Just

cuz I I just I don't know Yeah, I like his acting.

I mean he's a good actor It's just I I don't

know one way or the other what they you know

should do I've only seen him in the wrath of

Khan redux and he to me after watching him as

Khan He would be alright as Martian Manhunter.

He's not... You need somebody that's more...

I don't know. But I think he could pull it off

too. So I mean, that's kind of hard to say. Yeah,

well, he would be alright as Martian Manhunter.

I don't have a... I don't doubt that. But as

Brainiac, you need somebody more... Cold at...

You know, he... Clancy Baronish. Well... I would

say... Cory Burton, because Cory Burton was the

voice of Rainier. Oh, I know. I was thinking

that in my head. Yeah, I mean, you need somebody

who can... I don't know. Hid Jarvis. Oh, God.

Oh, wait, he's already doing something like that.

Paul? Paul? Paul Betnay, yeah. Which they've

shown his look, too. God, I know this is probably

going to be insensitive, but wake Ricardo up.

I mean he could do worse. He's already been a

grandpa in the spy kids movies No That would

be like saying get Antonio Banderas to play him

I'm being insensitive to ass, but... No, I know

this isn't M .Y. and we have nothing to do a

week into the movies, but I have to say this.

The only thing I didn't like about The Expendables

3 was Antonio Banderas. What did you see? Puss

in Boots? Yeah, pretty much. That'd be like putting

Mike Myers in a comedy movie. Oh wait, he's Shrek.

Well, I mean, Austin Powers is... I don't know,

I don't like him. He's an ass. I'd rather watch

Bill Murray and I'm not a huge fan of him either.

But at least he's not an ass. He's just goofy.

Now I feel really bad bringing up Ricardo. He

passed away five years ago. You dick. Let the

man rest in peace. He already got blown out of

the sky and the reliant. So I actually found

an article of something which is Disturbing on

so many levels Is it from the onion because usually

whatever they know it's it's actually from sploid

gizmodo It says what happened to your favorite

cartoon characters after they got famous And

it's I watched I watched this you bastard I watched

this crap and it just It's just so wrong and

so you have you have like a droopy and elf and

optimus prime working fast food and Jessica rabbits

like I'm freaking like hippo and It's a male's

voice coming out of her. Yeah, because she's

so large and in charge Then you got you got Johnny

Bravo, you know in the restaurant you got big

birds sitting there you got You know got he man.

He's bald and Well, he's he's had he's half bald.

He's he's got his his side. He's good. It's the

side pieces He's doing a George Costanza, and

and you have a man a man of arms in the pool

yeah, and The castle grayskulls pink This and

sunglasses it just it's they're so ridiculous,

but it's hilarious It's scary too. That's why

I said it's disturbing in so many levels What's

disturbing is she doesn't or he doesn't know

what the hell? He's sitting on every time he

goes back to sit on the couch in the end of the

video A certain cartoon character does not make

it because Jessica rabbit sat on that cartoon

character I think it's funny that they have you

know, like spongebob industry zinc and Venus

and butthead construction limited and you have

like the the Smurfs doing construction work and

you have Donald Naffy sweeping the ground and

you know, Inspector Gadget watching over him

and his like hobo, you know, ripped up costume

and you know, insurance office. You get Top Cat

and Care Bearer and one of the Thundercats and

Skeletor at a help desk. Yeah, that was the best

part about it. Skeletor. Skeletor is at a help

desk. Yeah. Because Skeletor is like, ah, bitch

hung up. Which is funny. And then you've got

Mamorah and April O 'Neil on the, or not April

O 'Neil, Lionel. Next to the carcinogenic mutant

vegetables. Yeah It's just it's it's hilarious

But again disturbing Garfield getting lifted

with a crane and then all the all the I'm never

eating a Burger King ever again Bring back bad

memories No, there's something new that they're

gonna be doing Starbucks or not Starbucks Oh

my god, I can't Wax on wax off Burger King in

Japan What are they doing? Oh my lord It's okay.

This is just nasty. It's called the Kero burger

It has bread and cheese both blackened by bamboo

charcoal and a special sauce made from squid

ink That just sounds disgusting Yeah, that's

squid ink And it's it's it's completely black

like literally completely black Is so nasty looking

and it's funny because all the comments are like,

I'm sorry, but that looks nasty And then there's

some other ones that says so why is this news?

What value is it to report in the USA new a nuclear

blast in Japan? Yes a fast food menu item. No

It says Fukushima burger with extra uranium it's

going on the black market Looks like something

I'd scrape off the bottom of my shoes It looks

like Darth Vader would eat it. Oh It's so horrible

these comments Oh That's so nasty, why did you

bring that up? I was looking your Facebook trending

and One of the headlines was Burger King to introduce

black burger in Japan That's what the headline

said. Let's talk about your absolute favorite

movie writers. Let's talk about them, because

this just popped up. Apparently, Alex Kurtzman

says the appeal of his Venom film is allowing

the anti -hero to do things that you can't do

with Spider -Man. What, die? Kill? Explode? Oh

lord. Shoot spidey daggers? Like I honestly anytime

that dude is tied to something both him and his

head roll life mate. Whatever you want to call

them. I just I want to gouge my freaking eyes

out because I I've said this a million times

it's my other soapbox but Just I can't stand

that the duo like they were fine in Transformers

Prime They're fine when they they bring a series

out, you know, yeah point being, you know Transformers

Star Trek Keep them the F away from anything

that's a sequel to something because they ruin

it and And because people give them money they

keep hiring them Yeah, it's not that I don't

say, you know support the movie support, you

know, blah blah blah. I Will not support them.

I Won't even go see a movie if they're in it

anymore because it's just it irritates me It's

so irritates me to the point that I don't want

to even watch the movie And didn't they write

amazing spider -man 2 I'd have to look I want

to say one of them was tied to it. They're tied

to three and four and this venom thing is supposed

to be a spin -off But I'm not sure we're gonna

show Venom's nice side Yeah, they wrote it Did

they really? Yes, they did Which explains why

there were problems Yeah, screenplay, yeah, yeah,

that's true. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy

it, but... I could sense bullshit a mile away

when, oh, this is the most cliched spot, blah,

blah, blah. Like, I mean, just dialogue kind

of like that. I mean, granted it's funny, and

Spider -Man does kind of break the fourth wall

sometimes like that, but... It's it's crap like

that. It just drives me nuts when those two were

attached to it because they just Obvious stuff

is obvious Yeah, yeah Shall we take a quick break

come back and wrap up with feedback? I think

we shall You know kids, a lot has changed while

your old uncle Joker's been away. New Gotham,

new rules, even a new Batman. 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 the remaining

episodes of the podcast where they'll cover Batman

Beyond, products, games, and more. Check it out

only on GeekCastRadio .com. And welcome back

to Altered Geek Unlimited. So, I think we'll

get into some feedback. Yes, um I will throw

out Questions after but and then if you have

any you can throw them out as well Just don't

throw them in the recycle bin. Um Yeah No, I

just didn't get yeah, it was a bad joke, um,

yeah, so Freddy Savage says so is it safe to

assume you'll be talking about the new Batmobile

images on the on the next episode lol And then

I kind of replied I was like, yeah Yeah, Brian

Jackson says I'm not liking the design looks

too much like a sports car or a roadster I'd

rather see something that could put up a better

defense. Well in its defense It does have a crap

ton of armor it looks like the Arkham Knight

vehicle It uh, it looks like it's kind of like

we've mentioned before a cross between the tumbler

the 89 and the like a Well, I mean if if you

did zero year Mm -hmm. He had a roadster. Yeah,

so I mean they and essentially they kind of mixed

it with that so I mean I'm fine with it. It's

because each each director is gonna come up with

their own Batmobile. That's just It's happened

that way in history. So Yeah, so anyways, I think

that it's it was a smart Design Yeah, I mean

it does look really cool. I'm just waiting to

see the finished product I yeah, I'm stoked for

it. I and I agree. I'm waiting to see it in action

Let's see, Justin Washington doesn't get the

hype behind the new iPhone. He says, Apple has

long lost its crown for having the best smartphone.

It is nothing but image at this point. Nothing

about the new iPhone is all that exciting, just

a waste of money and time. I will say, I didn't

get to say this earlier because Steve was on

his soapbox, I will say for those people who

like working in landscape mode, I do like that

they added the two columns to that, you know,

with email and messaging and all that stuff and

everything else. Rachel Manning had replied to

him, Yeah, I work at AT &T and most people that

buy iPhones just buy them because they are the

phone to buy. Nothing but name recognition. There

are clearly benefits to Apple products and they

always have a visual appeal. I personally prefer

HTC or Samsung, currently rocking a Galaxy S5

and loving it. I had chimed in with um... Think

the Supergirl show needs to be on Fox that way

you can cross over between Supergirl and Gotham.

That would be kind of cool And then King of Kong

says but the Batman universe is already on CW

with arrow And it makes more sense to cross over

the arrow at this point then her teaming up with

a boy Bruce Wayne or Detective Jim Gordon. And

then Epicurious says, why not just do a super

crossover with all of them? It's only a matter

of time. Yes. That would be awesome, actually,

but you'd have to wait 10 years for Batman to

come to life. Yeah, very true. And then... Scanner

51 says... Google Play has all JLU, Superman

the animated series, and Batman the animated

series. And he said with hashtag, wife ain't

gonna like it. Ain't gonna like this. Which is

funny. And then there's also a continuation of

the Man of Steel 9 -11 imagery conversation.

Yeah. Which I won't go into too much detail on

that. And then Epicurious says, my question with

Netflix buying Gotham before it airs is what

are the details of the deal? Are they promised

so many episodes for how much they paid? Fox

has already canceled the new fall show before

it even aired and shows after a few episodes.

If Netflix has promised so many episodes but

the ratings are awful, is Fox stuck making more?

I would be curious to see what happens in that

situation. Yeah, I wish some sort of number had

come out about the Gotham deal and a few more

details because granted the blacklist, season

one has already aired on television. Netflix

came out and said, hey, we're paying $2 million

per episode for 22 episodes in that first season.

Holy crap, that's a lot of money for one show.

But yeah, I'm with Epicurious. I wish there was

a little bit more detail to the deal revealed.

I honestly think Netflix isn't going to help.

Because broadcast television, like Fox, NBC,

they still rely on Nielsen. They still rely on

Nielsen ratings and ratings of people actually

watching the stuff on their televisions, let

alone... other streaming services. Yeah, I guess

so. I wish there was more information as well.

I don't really know what the goal is of it and

what the deal is. I think you're going to see

a lot more information come out on that as things

start going in this direction. Mm -hmm, but I

think because it's so early on that there's just

it's More or less as as they said it was I Guess

we just have take it at face value at this point

Yeah, pretty much Andre Walter says I didn't

realize that black Adam was outside the Batman

V Superman stuff that makes no sense to me. Why

would they do that? they go against their MO

not saying it's a bad idea just shocking and

then Film for phone says From when I read it

is still up in the air if he'll be in it at all

in a way It sounds like Black Adam will have

his own movie And then King of Kong says it is

weird, but I'm okay with it BBS was Already overloaded

adding Black Adam to the mix would only make

things messier who knows they can still team

up later down the line Which I'm kind of a bad

opinion. I think that eventually they may end

up making them all crossover But I think at this

point they're gonna do standing heaven stand

alone until they figure out exactly what they're

doing with this universe. Yeah. You know, I'm

not gonna get on my high horse about all this

stuff, but I'm just gonna say what I've been

saying since last year when Man of Steel came

out. Make Man of Steel 2 first. Then do a bunch

of Justice League movies. That's all you have

to do. And they're gonna make Superman Batman's

Bitch. Just saying. It'll happen. They're making

Superman out to be this hardcore bad guy, which

they've been doing in comics lately anyway, which

further justifies Batman's method for madness.

Did you hear a couple weeks ago the Arkham Sessions

when they did Robin's Reckoning Part 2? What

about it? Did you hear the podcast? No. For those

that don't know, it's only because you bring

this up about Batman's parents. Dr. Andrea Letamendi

and Brian Ward have a podcast called The Arkham

Sessions. Go to iTunes, look it up, you'll like

it. It's basically all about the psychology of

Batman and they talk about the episodes in Batman

the Animated Series. A couple weeks ago they

reviewed Robin's Reckoning Part 2. In it, Brian

Ward asks the question... You know, he says that

Bruce Wayne doesn't want Dick Grayson to go to

that point of having to kill Tony Zuko because

he would eventually, if Dick Grayson had killed

Tony Zuko, he would have become like what Bruce

is. And Brian hypothesized that what if Bruce

was at a moment in his life that he did this.

What if he killed Joe? What if he went too far

and that's why he doesn't kill anymore? Because

he killed Joe Chill at one point during his career.

Brian wasn't, you know, trying to create any,

you know, not necessarily, he wasn't trying to

create interest or anything like that. He was

just asking the question if, because in Robin's

reckoning, Bruce is so, you know, gung -ho about...

Not allowing dick to get revenge and do something.

He's gonna regret what if Bruce and BTIS actually

Had already gone down that path, and that's why

he's so dark as a character Almost like in the

flashpoint where you have Thomas Wayne Yes, and

caps and people yep That'd be an interesting

take you see Batman and his second commands Yes,

yes, so I Think that runs about this week. I

was going to try and do a ten -minute blitz But

I think we're gonna keep the episode rounded

out at the the hour mark So if you want to see

those information Like you know the military

working on turning soldiers into Wolverine with

healing or Google voice coming to hangouts a

overview of the Star Wars Episode VII Millennium

Falcon, what if Batman's parents are still alive

from Nerdist, which was kind of funny, and then

the Internet Explorer 12 major update information.

Those will all be in the show notes, so be sure

to check those out. So until next time... You

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