Gaming, TV Shows, and Beverly Hills Cop

Hey, this is Steve Blum, and you are listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hi, this is Pat

Fraley, purveyor of duck, dog, and villain voices,

and you're watching Altered Geek. And welcome

to Altered Geek Unlimited, episode 46. I'm your

host, Steve Megatron Phillips, and joining me,

as always is... TfJo and Mike. Hello. Hello.

So... What's been new in your world lately? Since

we're gonna get into a bunch of fun TV -related

geeky conversation later. I got accused of trying

to steal a car tonight. How do you get accused

of stealing a car? Okay, so I'm gonna try to

make this story really short. Okay? Okay. Just

look at yourself and then look about five feet

away from you. My apartment is where you are.

About five feet away from you is where I was

taking my dog to do her business. About 20 feet

in the opposite direction is the parking lot

from where I'm standing Okay, having the dog

do her business, okay? So I'm 20 feet away from

my apartment building and this SUV comes rolling

in like it's gonna do a damn drive -by with blaring

ass music Okay, and I'm 20 feet away from the

building and I can still hear the music if I'm

in a completely do the place where I take my

dog is it's a parking lot but it has a grassy

area away from where the building is obviously

I do still pooper scoop and all that crap but

still it's one of those things where it's away

from my apartment complex and I can hear this

van or this SUV blaring ass music so I figured

the drivers sitting in there waiting on somebody

to come out of whatever of the building I go

up I walk up to the vehicle it has tinted windows

the windows are about a quarter of the way down

even if I wanted to I couldn't get my hand in

this damn vehicle I was just trying to see if

there was somebody in it to ask them to turn

the mother bleeping music down because it's 10

o 'clock at night and my mom is trying to sleep

and they're they're basically blocking the parking

lot from any other cars getting out of the parking

spaces and their car is five feet away from my

mom's bedroom window so i'd i can't even see

i i just go to yell and maybe five five steps

away from the car and not like right next to

it but i'm close enough to work and yell into

it i said hey can you turn the music out because

i couldn't say i can see if there's anybody in

the stupid car I go to walk away. I get five

feet away from the car. The owner comes up. I

don't appreciate you being around my car, man,

like you're gonna steal it. I got my dog in one

hand. I'm half crippled with cerebral palsy in

my other hand. How the f - am I gonna steal your

car? Why would I want to steal your damn car

in the first place? All is I came over there

to do was to say, hey, can you turn the music

down? Because it's 10 o 'clock at night and my

sick mother is in a room trying to sleep. Are

you - Swear, I hate people so much sometimes

and then the guy wouldn't he he kept going on

almost get away from my car blah blah blah I

live here too blah blah blah blah and He wouldn't

even listen to what I had to say drove off nearly

drove over my foot Next time that vehicles here,

I'm definitely calling the cops If you're going

to park somewhere and go in a building turn your

flinging car off don't just let music blare at

10 at 10 o 'clock at night while people are trying

to sleep and then I went up to my neighbors across

the building across from me is where he came

from I said does he live because he tried he

tried telling me that he lives here I asked him

I said does he live here no Why do I don't understand

if you ask people something why they I know it's

in general people's nature to lie about everything

but Why lie to me whether you live in the building

or not? That's so friggin stupid. Oh god, so

I'm dealing with that other than that I've been

playing classic Mario 3 the Super Mario all -stars

version in preparation for TV's mr. Neely reviewing

Adventures of Super Mario Brothers 3 upcoming

in the next era of pixels in the animation We

did just do an interview with Captain and the

Game Master himself, Matt Hill. Nice. Very, very

awesome guy. Completely cool. Dude, he is 46

years old. He doesn't sound it at all. Yeah,

from the promo clip that you played earlier,

I was like, wow, he doesn't sound any different.

To begin with, I thought you were playing an

episode clip. Like, I was completely confused.

Well, I was in the middle of editing it when

we first started the call. I was in the middle

of putting music behind it. And, um... No, I

mean, the dude is awesome. Did you know that

he was the voice of Raph in Next Mutation? And

he was also the suit actor in the third movie

for Raph? Huh. Yeah. Weird. Yeah, very weird.

But awesome. I mean, the guy is amazing to talk

to. He's so fun. He... What oh it was the the

in in James Corlett interview we did where I'm

like, oh wow You're you're you're he's like,

yeah. Yeah, I am because a lot of times I don't

expect the voice actors as regular voice to be

whatever character I know them as and I wasn't

expect like I was expecting Matt to have to put

on the voice of Captain N and It's just his voice

and I what's so weird right before we had the

interview. I saw I caught a clip of him on one

of my movie channels that I get in Shanghai Nights,

I believe. Shanghai Nights. Shanghai knew one

of those Jackie Chan films. It's Captain and

the Game Master in western wear talking to Jackie

friggin' Chan. And I'm like, dude, that's Captain

and he sounds just like he did 20 -some -odd

years ago. It's crazy. It's awesome, but it's

crazy. So that was really fun. I'm having a blast

doing the pull bag. We just released the Turtles,

the IDW main Turtles series review for Secret

History of the Foot Clan. I'm telling you guys,

anybody that's reading or hasn't read IDW Publishing's

main title for T .H. United Turtles, go read

it from the beginning. It is very awesome. It

is a love letter to every single incarnation

of Turtles that has ever been. Simply awesome.

Nice. So that's pretty much what I've been doing.

Yeah, I've been dealing with Comcast still. I'm

still on my 30 -day window, but... Yeah, it's

such bullshit. You're gonna be in a 30 -day window

for the rest of your life, dude. I mean seriously

I'm gonna cancel it they I still I just checked

my bill while you were telling me everything

and Yeah, those bastards still haven't Fixed

it all the way like they dropped it partially

down because what they were doing is they were

charging me for The the damn HDR but error HD

DVR box Well, I shouldn't be charged for it at

all because it's a part of my package. So I don't

know where the hell that's coming in. And then

they still charge for one of the self -install

kits, it looks like. Oh, no, they credited that.

My bad. But yeah, it's... I don't know. They

just want too much damn money for... Crap quality.

It's I don't know. I've had so many problems

since I signed up again So I'm hoping that I

can find out from I'm hoping that I get a hold

18 team to find out if they're actually you know

in this area Because I would drop this crap in

a heartbeat So that's that's personally what

I've been doing There's a change going on with

another podcast on the network, which I'll wait

to reveal More so it's a title change in our

art change than anything else. It's not actually

a Content change. Yeah, the content will remain

the same as well the people involved and everything

else it's just a title change to make it make

a little bit more sense and kind of Not have

a double acronym Yeah So... But... Or an acronym

that says... You know, that could have been done

with actually mentioning the podcast. What? I

didn't say anything. Yes you did. You foolish

it. It's not like I said we spent... You're such

an ass. Oh, come on. I'm just having fun. Yeah.

You're such an ass. Come on with all this stuff

that I've been dealing with today. Come on. I

gotta have some sort of fun You can have that

later. There's there's better conversation Weekend

at the comic book store weekend at the sporting

event. You're fired get off the call Weekend

at the NBA Finals No Anyhow Think we should get

into some media content. Yes, since That's more

interesting than listen to you babble on about

a podcast title That should not be named. Anyway,

I Didn't say anything. No, but you're still babbling

about it So have you seen that I kind of put

it in there too, but there's this video of Andy

Serkis on Conan the only reason I watched it

cuz like don't get me wrong I don't care for

late -night TV at all like I some of it's okay

I like Jimmy Fallon I but that's because I've

watched him since Saturday Night Live, so it's

not Like I mean I didn't follow him on the late

show or anything, but I Find his personality

entertaining so I can stomach his show um but

uh conan's uh kind of hit or miss i it's more

i'd rather watch him than letterman but um anyways

uh andy circus was on there and he brought up

the fact that you know what would it sound like

if and played the you know the general fan um

you know what if this person talked to this person

scenario So he channeled Gollum and talked to

Caesar from Planet of the Apes and had them have

a conversation back and forth. And it was quite

entertaining. And it's funny because seeing his

facial reactions while he's doing it just makes

it so much more entertaining. I miss Johnny Carson.

I really do. Late night TV. As much as I used

to like Fallon on like Weekend Update and stuff

like that, I don't care for his late night style.

Seth Meyers is just godawful. His show, what's

funny is, certain pictures I've taken, people

have compared his look to mine. Which, I can

see it. some regards But he's so freaking dry

compared to like Fallon or any of the other most

like it's I Would rather watch the British guy

that's on the other station like on the other

local stations. I mean Craig Ferguson Craig Ferguson.

I yeah Craig. He's funky. He's funny. Yeah, but

Seth Meyers isn't No, Seth Meyers is good for

impressions. That's what he's good for But no,

I haven't watched late night like I try I really

did try with Jimmy going to tonight show I've

seen his late night show or After tonight show

or whatever the hell whatever the hell it was

called I don't even remember late night or whatever

I had seen several episodes of that over the

years, but I just I prefer him in movies than

I do on or or on SNL than I do anywhere else

and his tonight show just it it's a tonight show

for this generation it's not a tonight show from

my generation because the tonight show from my

generation is more so having a conversation with

the guest of what you're currently doing maybe

a few other off -topics and then Whatever, I

just can't get in and Conan. Oh god. I just don't

like that guy. It's has nothing to do with his

show I don't like him. I don't like his style.

I don't like his oh Everybody always complains

about JJ Abrams and lens flare Conan is my lens

flare for late -night county knows he has the

hair flare Well, yeah, that's what I'm talking

about the hair flare. He always has to you know

brush up his Donald Trump -esque toupee, or whatever

the hell it is, or get in the camera's face.

And it's like, oh my god, how is that funny?

It's not. But late night's not my thing anymore.

It really isn't. Yeah. So anyways, had you watched

the video? No. Roundabout way of getting back

to the topic. Okay. I think you should. It's

kind of funny, though. Because he does the Gollum

Schmiegel conversation against Caesar. And then

I learned some things I don't do when I do the

voice, so I now know what I need to add. Have

you seen the news on that? Oh, yeah, I am psyched

Yeah I'm not sure how it is gonna make any difference

with like Brett Ratner directing and being produced

by Jerry Bruckheimer who's You know Ratner did

I believe? X -Men 3 X -Men 3 and the rush hour

movies and okay. Okay, the rush hour movies kind

of redeems them then Because I mean I can see

I'm doing this kind of comedy then And then Jerry

Bruckheimer knows action because pirates and

national treasure and all that stuff. I'm still

waiting on that damn movie. When is he going

to give me National Treasure 3? I believe they're

working on it. Like, I'm working on trying to

get it going. I've been hearing about that for

the last four or five years now. We're also hearing

about Dumb and Dumber 2 and look what's happened.

It's not like it's Ghostbusters. Come on, that's

a low blow. Well, they've been blowing on that

horn since 2005 Nobody's answered the call Get

it Yes, yeah, there's nobody to call they all

went home they got bored adults They shot one

of them I Think that in this day and age of franchises

like born like no matter if people like it or

not like the current state of the Fast and the

Furious franchise, the heist film state of that

franchise, franchises like Bourne, like one other

action franchise, the Expendables, those kind

of action film franchises, I think with Beverly

Hills Cop, One, Two, and Lesser Extent Three

being all action comedy films, I think the right

way to go for them is to do more Beverly Hills

Cop films versus a TV series. Oh yeah, definitely.

I just hope that they don't pull a die -hard

five. I don't have a problem with any Murphy

coming back playing the character and I don't

have a problem with it, as long as they keep

true to the character and the style of Beverly

Hills Cop. Right. I know they're gonna modernize

it and I they they have to keep that that axle

Foley music Oh, I'm sure they will they have

to because that would just sure suck ass if they

replaced it Harold Fulton Myers axle F theme

is just amazing. I know I love that theme Anyways

and then the other guy that's that's in it that

was in the first three I believe he's going to

reprise. He reprises? Oh my god. And then it

would be funny if they got, what's his face?

It's on last minute standing. Hector Elizondo.

Yeah. Well Hector Elizondo was on the third one.

Yep. He was funny on that one. Yeah he was. I

liked him better than the other guy. Just but

just think about this. Okay, judge Reinhold the

first time I ever saw him was in the first two

well first three Beverly Hills cop movies the

next time I saw him was as Neil in the Santa

Claus and just imagine an old Billy Rose an old

Billy Rose would oh my god, that's funny. I I'm

hoping like I don't loathe Beverly Hills Cop

3, but at the same time, I don't like it compared

to the other two, but it is a decent movie. It

evolutionized the characters a little bit. Taggart's

off in retirement. Billy's this new head of DDJ,

GSI, whatever the hell it is. I really enjoyed

the third one just because it seemed like it

evolved their characters and wrapped them up

better. Right, exactly. It was like the button

on the trilogy. Yeah, no and I and I and I and

I agree with that But in that movie they basically

gave Billy who is Irresponsible is all hell a

lot of times and can't make good decisions. They

gave him all this power. And of course, what

does he do with it? He doesn't make good decisions.

So I'm hoping they don't redo that I'm hoping

that if Billy Rosewood does come back if judge

Reinhold does come back that they do something

with his character that Still retains the comedy

of the original Versions of the film and the

character, but not the stupidity that happened

in the third one. He'll be police chief now.

Is Ronnie Cox still alive? Because if Ronnie

Cox is still alive, I would love to see Boga

Mill. That would be funny. But yeah, and the

funny thing is they're filming it in Michigan.

Yes, they are. In the Detroit area, which seems

to be a trend we've had. Oz, the great and powerful.

We've had Transformers 4. We've had Batman, Superman.

And then it'll be Beverly Hills Cop, which is

awesome that all this stuff's coming to Michigan.

It's like Michigan's the new Hollywood. Yeah,

pretty much. We have all the better scenery and

it's cheaper here. We're all poor. But no, I'm

kind of glad that they're bringing this back

instead of doing the TV series like we kind of

talked about in some earlier episode last year

Yeah Just because I it doesn't work without Eddie

Murphy. I Mean if it was something that Eddie

didn't want to do the character anymore. I mean

he still When was Beverly Hills cop 3 what 93

some 20 some yeah somewhere around there. I mean,

it's been almost 20 years It's like almost the

difference between Diehard three and four and

even that wasn't that it was like a 12 -year

gap Yeah, so I mean it's been 20 some odd years

since Beverly Hills cop 3 I know it's been at

least 25 almost 30 years since Beverly Hills

cop 2 so As long as he wants to keep coming back

and doing them all well good and fine but if

something ever happens where he doesn't want

to do Axel anymore or heaven forbid anything

happens to him at all you know a lot of these

you know a lot of actors that sometimes will

pass away unexpectedly like Paul Walker's you

know sad to see him go but sometimes the movies

that they're that they're in sometimes they don't

go the direction of a margin the character versus

just rebooting sometimes they just do a straight

reboot so if at if any never ever wants it doesn't

do it anymore my whole point here is as long

as they have him in some sort of cameo role after

this next film and then he passes on to his son

and they have some sort of up -and -coming newcomer

that's Axel jr. Or whatever I I don't quite mind

that but I'm glad to see that he is coming back

and I I'm so stoked for whatever this next one's

gonna be I'm stoked for it. I just I Honestly,

if they're not gonna have him reprise I'd rather

see them not do the film Mm -hmm. It's it's the

same thing with like die -hard or Indiana Jones

or any of those type things like if you're gonna

have the guy have the guy don't Don't replace

them, you know, don't don't I mean even in police

academy when they they got rid of Steve Guttenberg's

character They replaced him with a different

guy Who is more of a bumbling guy, but he kind

of looks similar so that kind of filled the same

role And then they had him do it for the last

three films they at least made a different character

and At the same time never really made reference

to the Mahoney character again after that but

I'd rather these, because of how great they were

in the 80s and early 90s, I'd rather see them

keep it pure and not just dilute the waters and

add more things that don't need to be there.

Kind of like, I mean, you look at Die Hard 4

and 5. 4, I would argue, is pretty good. It's

like a modern evolution of the Die Hard films,

okay? Die Hard 5, bad shit, terrible. Should

have never been made because one it's in it's

in freaking Russia. It has nothing to do with

like he's just randomly there because his son's

there and You know and at the same time like

that entire film The John McClane character was

phoned in Compared to die -hard fought before

and then all you hear him yell pretty much to

the entire film is Jack Jack And his son and

the character, you know, it's it's just it was

terrible So and by adding that dynamic is I mean

look at Indiana Jones for I mean they added Shia

LaBeouf and and it buffed right down to the toilet,

so The only good thing about that movie is the

ending and I don't mean that because I wanted

the movie to end But I mean what happens at the

ending with with referencing Sean Connery's character

But I mean I I haven't physically seen it yet

But I haven't finished watching the other Indiana

Jones films, which I know blasphemy on me, but

I just I haven't gotten around to it. I've watched

so many other movies. It's kind of sick. So I

guess we should move on to other news. Did you

see the next born film information delayed? Yeah.

Did you see why Damon yeah, they might actually

get him back If they get him back great, you

know That's that's fine with me I am glad that

I'm not one of those early adopters of blu -ray

at all considering that they're finally Fixing

that Star Trek debacle Yeah I don't know what

to think about that Yeah, it's another cash grab

kind of pisses me off honestly But but at least

all the content is in one place now instead of

over multiple different retailers you have to

buy the damn movie well from so many damn different

places just to get a Commentary or to get this

or to get that well in in the breakdown as it's

supposed to be the ultimate blu -ray set of of

you know the The compendium or whatever the Abrams

version which still gonna be wrong. They're all

right I don't have a problem with it, but if

I'm gonna spend 40 bucks I'm gonna buy the entire

like original series set of films or the TNG

set on Blu -ray or I'm not buying two damn films,

especially when I already own them in Blu -ray,

I mean for instance you get Star Trek 2009 you

get a high definition, you know commentary with

all the producers, writers and director and then

the disc too has the to boldly go and then they

have all this more information from them talking

about their challenges and strategy for it and

then the branching of things in it, the casting,

the new vision and starships and just them trying

to explain their version of everything. Which,

you know, fine, whatever, but truthfully I don't

give a rat's ass about any of that stuff. They

do have the score stuff in there, they do have

the gag reel, which those I usually like. I mean,

I like some of the behind the scenes stuff. I

just don't care when they're sitting there talking

through my movie. And then you get into darkness

and you get the IMAX version. which, why they

didn't do that in the first place, kind of eyeballs

the mind. And then they start going through more

of the, you know, rebuilding and all the vengeance

and, you know, the ships and, you know, all that

other crap. And then they've got, which this

kind of irritates me is for Into Darkness, they've

got the new deleted scenes, new gag reel. The

the costumes it's funny that they mentioned the

costumes because The Admiral uniforms were rehashes

from Star Trek the motion picture What jeez like

they're the same exact damn uniform and then

and the the little red ones It's like a mixture

of that and the original series like red uniforms.

So it's it's again. It's another one of those

situations where There's not really that much

originality in it. It's all copied from original

canon. If I really want to watch either one of

the films, at least Into Darkness right now is

on Netflix. I mean, I'm not gonna go out and

buy this. I am happy that they are putting all

the content in one release though. I know you

don't care for them. You normally don't care

for commentaries on films sometimes, but I know

some people really are interested in the director

commentary or whatever. is on there. And you

can only get that with one version of it from

one store or whatever it was. And so I am kind

of glad that they are putting it all in one,

but I'm like you, I'm not gonna put 40 bucks

into it. I'll buy, I'll, you know, I'll jump

into darkness when, you know, it drops down to

20 bucks, but. If it ever does I do like the

fact that you know, I'm this link anyway They

show the IMAX verse blu -ray footage and the

IMAX does away with those black bars And you

do actually get more picture back Which is nice

don't be wrong. I just yeah, I'm not paying 40

bucks for Crap that should have been in it first

place. Oh No, I agree What's what's next what's

next on the gauntlet? I got it through this in

last minute Supernatural season 10 They're plotting

a retrospective special Jumping from the first

nine seasons So they're gonna air it before season

10 errors more or less probably to catch people

up because as I stated before and my theory in

this the show Think season 10 will be the end

Because they you know the spin -off failed You

know the way that the characters are you know

looking to tie things up as I mentioned with

my theory before And it's a supernatural will

premiere its 10th season on October 7th after

the series premiere of arrows spin -off the flash

which I'm kind of glad that, you know, I'll have

the flash and then Supernatural to watch. Yeah.

And then it says on October 6th, they'll see

that nine season retrospective at 9 p .m. I think

I'm assuming Eastern time because that seems

to be the main one that everybody goes by. It

says immediately following the sixth season premiere

of The Vampire Diaries, which So sorry if anybody

likes that show I just I can't do the vampire

shit It says that uh The guy that plays Crowley

will finally for season 10 become a series regular

which makes sense with my theory Again, because

you know angel with Sam demon with Dean So, um,

but it's going to go through the, you know, the

season nine finale and, uh, um, this is, uh,

the CW has also committed to developing another,

uh, spinoff to replace the failed bloodlines

because they're trying to grasp at straws to

replace it instead of just making like a Wonder

Woman show or making a, you know, uh, Cyborg

show or Green Lantern show or something, you

know jumping into another character instead of

Trying to milk this I think people are kind of

done with the supernaturalistic stuff, which

is why a lot of it's going away and not coming

back Everybody's jumping to superheroes now which

again, I don't have a problem with either way.

I just I Don't like generally spin -offs of shows

Whereas arrow I think did it right with using

Barry Allen in the show and then kind of you

know growing him Through episodes plus everybody

knows who the hell he is Yeah, when you looked

at supernatural the characters were ultimately

unlikable and It was I don't know it was kind

of a boring episode to be a pilot that they had

in there but Yep, they'll In Comic -Con 2014,

they're supposed to reveal their information

on season 10 and whatnot, so. Interesting. Yeah,

there's so many things that are called Comic

-Con nowadays, since Comic -Con International

has a Comic -Con in every damn city. It's kind

of like, hey, wait, didn't that art? Oh, no,

you mean the real Comic -Con, the one in San

Diego. Okay. As you see, no, I was talking about

the... See to eat you know, I meant, you know,

NY NY comic -con. Oh shoot. Which one are you

talking about again? I guess I'll bring up the

Transformers Hall of Fame this year. Yeah Simply

amazing it's 1986 all over again ladies and gentlemen

because on the fictional side Hot Rod aka Rodimus

Prime and RC got in. On the human side, Stan

Bush is in the Transformers Hall of Fame. You

know, and this is actually quite interesting

because with the recent backlash from fans about

their early screenings of Transformers 4, more

so because they stated it's a three hour film.

It shouldn't have been more than two hours and

20 minutes. because obviously they threw in a

shitload of human crap that wasn't needed. I

also heard that the last 20 minutes is actually

the only parts that have the Dinobots, which

it's supposed to be age of extinction yet. You

don't bring in the damn dinosaurs until the end.

Seems mighty lackluster and stupid to me, but

you know, whatever. I haven't seen it, so I can't

really comment accurately. I'm just going off

of what I've read from people commenting about

it that have seen it. I know. But that also leads

to the other part of this conversation, which

is that many sites are coming up with the reason

why Transformers, the movie, the 1986 animated

version is the only good Transformers film. Yes,

which it's funny that the tagline is on the movie

poster is beyond good, beyond evil, beyond your

wildest imagination, because it's actually true.

It's actually good You know I actually took that

tagline and it's part of tune cast beyond you

know that right You know It's one of those things

where Some people I know not personally but some

some Podcast I don't even remember I I got so

mad I had to stop listening the first 20 minutes

of some podcast that I forget what it is. It's

these three guys that constantly, as far as I

can tell, they don't set out to tell you that

their podcast is about reviewing bad movies.

There's a difference. If you're going to sit

there and do a movie review podcast, but you're

going to do 20 minutes of just bashing the stars

before you even get to the plot of the movie.

Sounds like you and Green Lantern. No, it's like

10 minutes, but anyway. um point is I've heard

several people bash the transformers movie oh

and I'm so sick of this oh it was just done to

sell they killed optimus prime so they could

sell the new toy line whether that was true or

not transformers movie has a story from beginning

middle to end there are some things that are

very nonsensical in it I I will admit that it

but out of everything generation one related

it is the best thing we've ever gotten it's the

only thing generation one i can still watch all

the way through and not fall asleep okay then

um what else are we talking about um what is

uh okay I assume since I looked at this link,

I assume you're applying to this I hope you get

it, but because I want to support you man, but

I'm sorry I could not support king of the nerds.

I saw that on DBS last year and I'm like, oh

my god Well, the thing about it is it's not really

even fully that Yeah, it's a stupid reality show

let's be for real yeah, but that's what I'm saying

I Saw that and I'm like again. They they over

inflate people's personalities Which is any reality

show? Yeah, and then they put them in things

that There are situations that may or may not

actually go with anything that they know about

Mm -hmm despite the fact that you know, it's

what it is And then they give them these weird

I mean, I'm sure some of them are weird, but

you know that a lot of that's played out as far

as you know personality i mean i'm sure some

of them really are that way but i'm sure that

it's extended um but no i mean i figured hell

why not i just came across the link the other

day and i was like i think i'll give it a shot

never know oh yeah no i mean you know i doubt

i'll hear anything back from it but again i You

know, never know if you don't try. Absolutely.

So I'm going to make a video after recording

this and submit it. And if it actually sees the

light of day, then great. If it doesn't, then

I gave it a shot. Break a leg. The funniest thing

about King of the Nerds isn't even the reality

show itself. It's who's in the show. as the host.

Oh, I know. It's the Revenge of the Nerds. Yeah,

it's the Revenge of the Nerds guy, Robert Carradine.

But the strangest thing is, I didn't recognize

him because of those movies. I recognized him

because he was Lizzie McGuire's father on the

Disney Channel. See, I recognize him for the

other reason. Yeah. And then Curtis Armstrong,

he's Metatron on Supernatural. Oh interesting

Since I brought up the Disney Channel, I guess

we can go that route now you said you don't necessarily

like spin -off series Typically, I don't if they're

because most of the time they're not done right

hmm arrow Has done it right with the flash from

everything I've seen so far all right Disney,

which, because we'll get more into this in a

second, but they've recaptured the same writers,

series creator, producers that published the

show that the sequel is for. They put it on the

family channel in ABC. Which is the higher up

version of Disney Channel? Well ABC family is

is yeah, it is like the it's it's like the older

version of the of Disney Yeah, it's the tween

channel pretty well. It's actually above that

a little bit. It's it's like the high tween But

anyways okay anyway they I Think they're doing

it right here after having watched the first

episode I think they'll do it a lot of justice

because like I said, it's everybody involved

that was in the original thing. So it's not gonna

get screwed up. It's been 14 years since Boy

Meets World's last episode aired. In the series

finale, Corey and Topanga moved to New York.

Fast forward to now, 14 years later, the Disney

Channel has launched, or will be launching as

of this recording, Girl Meets World. It is a

sequel series. It does star Ben Savage and Danielle

Fischl, Escora and Topanga. And they have two

children, Riley and Augie. They are in New York.

Cory is now a teacher. And Riley is his seventh

grade age daughter. Now I've been stoked about

this ever since I saw a promo on the Disney Channel

YouTube page Because let's face it boy meets

world captured in a lot of hearts that show was

amazing Boy meets world was to the 90s as the

wonder years was to the 80s. Well, it's got the

same brother Well Fred Savage and Ben Savage

are brothers, but yeah. But Girl Meets World,

I'm really interested to see where it goes after

watching the first episode. I think it's doing

everything right. I love the line that Riley

says, how long do I have to live in my father's

world? And he comes back at her and says, until

you make it yours. I love that line. I love the

end of this. Well, I love the, the, well. Go

ahead. Because obviously we can't do a full -on

review yeah Of this at this point anyway But

it was kind of interesting seeing All the similarities

between boy meets world and girls meets world

Because you have the friend that's like, you

know, you have the the quarry which is his daughter

and you have the the Sean which is and you know

remember the you know there's this like Sean

doing the rebellion in class and then Maya doing

the same thing and Farkel's like the Fink like

the Finkus or whatever Minkus whatever and then

you know so they have the same thing kind of

going on Well, here's the funny thing. I don't

think Muck is since Maya's last name is not Whatever

Sean's last name was yes. She is a Sean like

character The funny thing is Farkel is Minkus's

son That's funny and I do know from doing research

online that William Russ Betsy Randall the Corey's

parents Alan and Amy Sean and I believe also

Minkus will be returning as guest stars. I don't

know how often. I know Harley Keiner is going

to be back. He's the janitor at the school. Yes.

What really interests me about the premise as

far as Cory and Topanga's angle is At one point

during the episode, Cory mentions the principal

of the school. Now, we know that Mr. Feeny retired

at the end of the series, of the original series.

I want to say that it's going to be Turner. That

could be. Because they never explained in the

original what happened to him after his motorcycle

accident. Right, right. So it would make perfect

sense if he was the principal of the school.

I could see that. And I could also see if it

was Feeny as well, because he was the principal

of the other school at one point. Well, this

is the thing. Did you pay attention to the the

wall markings in this? A little, you know, at

the end, you mean? No, no, I'm saying like in

the beginning. No, it's the same damn school

that Cory went to. Oh, yeah. They take the train

to get there. Yeah, it's the same damn school

because the New York is they said it's only like.

45 minute ride from the Philadelphia or whatever

That particular spot It's still the John Adams

middle school And I caught that while I was watching

and I was like that is actually really funny

and then they have a Feeny sign that says, you

know read, you know Like one of those, you know,

something you see in a library type thing, but

they had it like, I don't know if it was the

subway station or if they had it. Yeah, it was

at the subway station. Yeah, it was. It was the

final scene. Well, they had it earlier in the

show too. Yeah, but it was it was funny because

I'm seeing all these similarities to the original

show in this. And then I'm like, some of this

has played out before in Boy Meets World, which

made it that more enticing because it's happening

to Corey. Yeah. See, that's the thing. It's because

it is a continuation. Instead of it happening

over and over and over to Alan and Amy, his parents,

it's now happening to him because he's the adult.

And then he's trying to teach and everything

else. And it's funny. And then some of the quips

that go between Corrine Topanga and the show.

They haven't lost their chemistry as actors playing

those characters at all. No, and she said this

one comment, well, the thing is, is their chemistry

that they had towards the end of Boy Meets World,

you can definitely still feel that vibe. Absolutely.

Especially in that smartass comment that Cori

said to Topanga, or Topanga said to Cori, and

Cori says, well, you let me do it. Yeah. I think

I think the line was let's get married. You said

let's have kids you said Well, you let me do

it. Yeah But yeah, it was it was great and then

you know the end where you know She kind of reclaims

the world kind of thing or starts taking on her

own world and you actually see Feeny Yeah, which

was great like in it and it was like in a in

a passing kind of thing but you know of a Him

imagining it but Well, yeah, because he looks

they're they're in the subway station and you

have younger Feeney with a poster There's they're

in the subway station you have a stay -in -school

poster with George Feeney on it and then you

have Cory looking at the poster and then imagining

Feeney being there and He just has that one line

I don't know how often or if he'll come back.

William Daniels looks... He looks old. Old in

that shot. But I do believe that there is going

to be a recurring rule for him. I'm trying to

see here. I think that they're all going to be

there. give or take I think that I Think that

they're they're going to have some of the older

characters show up like Harvey, you know Harley

Kiner He's in like three episodes Right, and

I found it funny because I've seen the screenshot.

He's gonna be the janitor Shawn's gonna be in

two episodes Yep, Sean Hunter. He's only in one

episode. I have a feeling that he may show up

for one more, but I don't think that he'll really,

I don't think he'll show up again. I think it's,

it was more of a nice nod. And then the parents

have been in one episode, you know, that have

been recorded. And then Eric Matthews, it says

unknown, which means he's probably been in more

than one, but they don't want to give that information.

Well, see here's the thing this is gonna be in

one and yeah, here's the thing according on take

this with a grain of salt people According to

Wikipedia the recurring cast is Farkel. Obviously

Farkel's part of the new cast really Sean Hunter

Joshua Matthews now a lot of people might not

remember Joshua Matthews. Oh, yes Joshua Matthews

a baby score. He was Corey's younger brother

at the end of boy meets world Feeny Harvey as

you said Stuart Looks like he's going to be part

of the recurring and obviously Alan and Amy Matthews

the put the parents What's so funny is Stuart

Stuart Minkus now looks nothing like his nerd

days as a child the guy have you seen the picture

of him and you clicked on on his On his bio at

all. He looks totally different. He looks totally

different. They're gonna have to really nerd

him up to put him back in or maybe just have

him wear some glasses and play up to Farkel.

I don't know. I love the whole concept of the

show. I'm not gonna lie, I teared up as all hell

at the end of the first episode because of that

cameo. So did I. It's mostly because of the nostalgia

that we've, you know. Yeah, and it's one of those

things where it's the way it was shot. It was

those angles and the way their facial features.

It wasn't even that. It was the way the final

shot is before Feeny disappears from Corey's

mind. They have a shot where it's Feeny leaning

up against the poster and it's the back of Corey's

head to the camera. I've got a picture of it

all. Have you throw it in the poster? I have

it too. I screen shined it too. It's just one

of those things where it's like, oh my god, they

are doing everything right with this series.

Boy Meets World itself was, in the first season,

it was the grade school years. Seasons two through

five was high school, and then seasons six and

seven were college and then adulthood. It started

out as a really fun comedy that tackled a few

young grade school kid issues. As it grew, it

tackled a lot more, not necessarily controversial

issues, but complicated issues, I'll say. The

whole storyline with Sean's father and everything

else. I don't know what's going to happen with

this, but I cannot wait until more episodes.

I'm loving it so far. How often do you actually

get to see Actors reprise a role not very You

know over a decade later. I mean and when I say

that not in film Yeah, yeah, I mean you may sometimes

see an animation. You know it happens, but in

TV generally never see them play that character

again So I mean it to me that's like the ultimate

nod and then I like the fact like I said that

it's the original Creator and series writers

and producers and everything. I think that's

why it still captures that essence. Absolutely.

That's the beautiful thing because Disney owns

ABC and vice versa or whatever it is. I don't

know who owns who. I think it's Disney that owns

ABC. Disney owns ABC. Disney owns everything.

if only they owned Warner Brothers and DC Comics.

Anyway. Well, then you'd have all kinds of funky

crossovers. That would be a good thing. Anyway,

because it is Disney, because it is ABC, that's

where Boy Meets World originated, was ABC. And

having it be on the Disney Channel brings you

a new audience, but it also brings people back

like us that have watched the original show.

And it's that heart that... Girl Meets World

is gonna last on the Disney Channel, I don't

know for how long, but where if it was on ABC,

it might not catch that kid, because ABC has

gone way towards more adult programming now.

They don't do TGIF anymore, any of that kind

of stuff. And I think Girl Meets World is going

to at least last one season for sure, I know,

and then maybe a second or I hope a third. I

think this show has a lot of potential, even

if it does repeat the format of the original

series of grade school, high school, adulthood.

Well, I think that that would make sense for

this because they've done that in every other

Disney show. I mean, that's just a logical progression.

You can't have them not age. Yeah. It will also

I mean I know that some of the storylines are

gonna get reused and there's gonna be a different

twist to it But it's gonna be similar and then

because it's gonna be the reaction of Cory having

to deal with it Instead of him and Sean originating

it Plus the unique dynamic that it's his daughter

Yeah, like oh like when he dragged away the boy

that she liked and then he says you ever been

to Mexico or whatever It was Texas. He says come

on. Let's go and then he wheels him out I mean

it's I mean it's it's it's it's nice This was

a little bit before your time, but Well, you

remember one part of this reference. You won't

remember the other part. I Was really surprised

to see Jackie Harry as a guest in this on the

subway the lady the lady on the subway When she's

like here this is for you and she picks my she

picks Riley up and sits her on the boys laughs

she likes Jackie Harry was the mom from sister

sister. I remember that I that's what I thought

when I saw her face I was like, that's funny.

She is also Originally, I first saw her back

in the 80s as a child on the series 227 Hmm Very

very girl meets world. They are firing on all

all cylinders. Really they are And I guess I'll

bring this up briefly I'm still in the middle

of writing this up a little bit. Resilient Isles

on TNT is a police procedural starring Izzy Harmon

and Sasha Alexander. Most people will remember

Sasha Alexander from her time as Kate Todd on

NCIS with Mark Harmon. But it's a TNT police

procedural and it's based in Boston. So obviously

I'm from Boston. I love it. When I first started

watching this show, I was like, oh, hey, wait.

That's the famous Jet Jackson. He's all grown

up. They had Lee Thompson Young as one of their

stars on Resilient Isles. And sadly, last year,

he committed suicide. and they had taken a while

to take care of his character on the show and

this past week they really did and I it wasn't

just because they worked with him for the four

previous seasons on the show so when Angie Harmon

was reading the eulogy as the character on the

show it was like Wasn't just the character reading

a script. It was her and you know the cast having

emotions, you know Lee's gonna be sorely missed

He was a great actor, but it just kind of surprised

me that a former Disney Channel star ended up

on You know a full -time, you know kind of other

network drama thing versus what we would normally

see him on Disney Channel and you know may he

rest in peace But it was a great way that they

dealt with with the character on the show. Absolutely

love that What else have I been watching? I've

been watching Turtles. Turtles has been doing

fairly well. Coming up this coming weekend. They

are going to be doing trans 4th of July on the

hub. They're gonna be airing Multiple different

versions of transformers over the years. I think

this is the first I could be wrong about this

I'm not looking at any info, but I think this

is the first time ever the hub is going to air

transformers the movie I could be wrong. I don't

know. I've only had the hub a couple of years

now um... but they're going to hear that they're

going to hear rescue bots they're going to i

think they're going to hear a few other g1 episodes

sometime between eleven a .m. eastern and two

or three p .m. eastern saturday july fourth or

friday july fourth i'm sorry they're going to

have a sneak peek of next year's robots in disguise

i wish i knew what time this was going to be

on because i can't DVR all this entire thing.

It's a Friday afternoon. I might not be doing

anything. So I might be able to watch the whole

thing, but I don't know. So I'm just really interested

to see that that preview of robots in disguise

for next year. Yep, I'll probably tune into that.

Well done on the hub, but after the fact, I don't

have the hub. Pretty sure I won't have cable,

but. It's Comcastic. It's Comcrastic. It's craptastic.

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So what? So what? So what, what? All right. Okay,

before we get into feedback, since we went on

this track of So What's What, what do you think

of Jack Kirby's heirs trying to basically stop

Marvel from doing anything with any of Kirby

-inspired characters or Kirby -created characters?

I know we're out of the media news, but I had

to bring that up. Honestly? Yeah. Don't care.

And when I say that, I don't mean it to be kind

of a dick more or less. Go ahead. Marvel has

always credited Kirby. Always. This isn't a situation

like Bill Finger, where Bill Finger has gotten

absolutely zero credit a lot of the time for

Batman. or for Gotham City, or for any of the

other things that he helped Bob King create.

This is basically them saying, well, we want

money, so we want these characters back, so you

can't have them anymore when, according to the

article that you're gonna have in the show notes,

I believe it says in there that Kirby was a work

for hire. So, sure, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created

characters together, but it's not like Stan has

all the credit. You know and it's like these

heirs want Marvel to stop using his characters

really that means you're not gonna get any more

x -men You're not giving you any more spider

-man, you know, are you kidding? I get anything

because there's no Avengers no x -men. No Fantastic

Four no Thor Yeah, exactly. Why are these heirs

trying to do this? I don't understand I don't

understand this at all. It just it boggles my

mind what some people will do for Cheap a quick

buck. But anyway Feedback feedback. What do we

have for feedback? Yes Personally, I'd like feedback

on that but uh Well, yeah but yeah Well feedback

is Last week we asked What is a thing you'd like

to see come true that was invented with an icky

-dicky show I don't know if I actually mentioned

that in the show or if I wrote it after the fact.

Probably wrote it after the fact. But it was

answered a little bit. King of Kong says, I'd

love to see the TARDIS come true. One of my all

-time favorite science fiction inventions. And

then SuperFilmFan98 says, I'd only be OK with

the TARDIS existing if we also have a Time Lord

to make sure it is used properly. Otherwise,

we would have chaos. I'll take a DeLorean before

I take a time -traveling police box, thank you

very much. I would take the powers of the Q.

I can bend space -time and get anywhere I want

within seconds just by snapping my fingers. Thank

you very much. Omnipotent. It's better than dying

every time they need a new, you know, universe.

Yeah, he just snaps his fingers and he leaves

Sorry, I didn't mean to have a bad Doctor Who

smash there, but it does kind of happen I always

when anyone ever says oh his name is the doctor

his name isn't Doctor Who I always say Doctor

Who like it's a question What is that show? Who

is that? Where is that doctor? You know, Doctor

Who is a show that has had an immense fan base

growth and that's all well and fine. It's not

for me, honestly. It really isn't. I've tried.

I really have. I've watched three episodes of

the 2005 series from each doctor. So I think

up to the ninth or the tenth one. I don't know.

Whatever's on Netflix. And I just It's a British

show. I can't get into it. I Hate sounding like

that too, but that's kind of same thing with

me. I have a hard time watching British shows.

I don't know why Maybe I'm unintelligent in that

area. It just maybe that's why it doesn't you

know, I just I can't I Have a hard time watching

anything with like a That kind of I don't know

maybe I'm just stupid I don't know Freddy Savage

says I feel bad, but the only reason I knew about

Casey Kasem was because of Saved by the Bell.

For a long time, I didn't even realize he was

a real person. I thought he was just a character

from the show. What can I say? I was young and

dumb. I knew him because I knew he did the top

40. I'd heard it from time to time when stations

were changed. But I also knew he was Robin and

Shaggy. And I mostly knew him as Shaggy and Cliff

Jumper later on. And then Andre Walter says,

I never really listened to the Top 40 either,

but I did know him for his voice work, which

again, that's pretty much the same situation

as me. At least everybody's heard of him. That's

the key thing. Like I said last week when we

talked about Casey Kasem that that to me was

my Like everybody goes to church on Sunday or

most everybody goes to church on so it was like

your holy grail of the week That was my church

on Sunday. It was listening to Casey Kasem. It

really was I Want to replicate that voice now

no, I Don't mean it to be disrespectful. I just

meant so that it would it would live on forever

You know the funny thing I said this I think

on the talking about my generation podcast The

saddest thing about and I think I said this last

week and I don't mean to repeat myself constantly

but sometimes I have to I wish that his illness

had not taken away his voice because As soon

as I saw one of the ripped apparel designs, the

one with the cassettes on it, the t -shirts that

I have on it, it says instead of time life music,

it says prime life music. I would love to hear

a Casey Kasem voice saying prime life music.

That would be so amazing. You'd like him to just

go up and go, this is prime life music. Yeah,

pretty much. No matter how you knew him as long

as you knew of him. That's this really all the

all that I'm getting at people Was was among

the the he will live in the stars as a voice

God Mm -hmm Absolutely and You know What else

are we doing in this episode? Well, I think briefly

because I noticed this was an off -the -cuff

Mike powers said he Because he was talking about

the the battlefield Hardline lines I actually

got beta access to that. Did you? Yeah I played

it Didn't quite care for it It kind of reminded

me of It gave that I almost wanted to say Grand

Theft Auto vibe, but it didn't something about

it just rubbed me the wrong way. It was almost

like playing Call of Duty mixed with something

else. Like it was, the graphics were kind of

jarring compared to like Battlefield 4 or something

like it. I have my graphics like I have good

system and it looked kind of choppy to me. My

Unreal Tournament 3 looked better in most cases.

And I don't know. I didn't like how it ran from

the browser. It wasn't just an application. It

was an application, but it ran through the internet

browser. I don't like that. I got it through

Origin or whatever, because that's how you had

to get it. They had two different levels you

could try out, like Heist and something else.

And I played both. It was all right. I tried

out the machine gun thing and then it like jumps.

I had to reconfigure all my keyboard stuff so

that I could actually move and shoot good. And

then I finally got I switched to a sniper rifle

and I was doing a little bit better picking stuff

off. But because of how high you have to go to

some things and some of the lighting was kind

of goofy and people were picking me off pretty

quick. But I mean, it was it was all right. It

was just it was kind of weird because it's You

know, it's it's not military, it's cops. So like

that's like you have these like terrorists. It's

almost like watching 24 attacking regular cops,

you know, the the terrorists attacking cops,

because that's pretty much what it was with trying

to get the money from the banks. And you can

drive, you can drive the motorcycle, you can

drive a helicopter, you can drive a cop car.

And now, don't get me wrong, it's like a Dodge

Charter. So the fucker moves. And it was nice.

And I plowed through like other. cars, blockades,

I hit some some poles and blew right through

them, but another cop car, and it does damage

the car, but I just I didn't like it. I uninstalled

it. See, that's one problem with this new Battlefield

game is you said it right there. It's like terrorists

versus cops or cops versus terrorists. When I

think of a Battlefield game, I think of like

1942 or Battlefield Vietnam or something that

isn't. We have Battlefield 4 out right now, and

that's more modern. Right, but that's what I'm

saying. When I think of the Battlefield franchise,

I think of 1942 like Vietnam. They're reenacting

actual wars or maps from actual wars that we

have had in our history as a country here in

the U .S. you know so that's what I expect from

a battlefield game I don't expect battlefield

hardline to be spy versus spy or you know cops

versus terrorists like if it's cops versus terrorists

or if it's the military versus terrorists go

have it set in Iraq don't have it set in LA or

wherever I don't I honestly don't know where

it's set I I've only seen the trailer to the

game and what I saw I just didn't really care

for Yeah So and and that's kind of where I get

my whole reference that I it's Grand Theft Auto

like I'm not saying it is Grand Theft Auto or

Battlefield is copying Grand Theft Auto, but

just the fact that it's Not in this war -torn

Environment where it's in a just a major city

that that to me screams battlefield or modern

warfare or Whatever other game you want want

to call it. It's not the battlefield franchise

that I know. And at the same time, I'm probably

not going to play it because I don't have a system

right now. I have a computer. I mean, hell, it

takes two, three years for a PC port to ever

happen on any game. So, you know, it's not like

I'm, you know, crying over spilt milk here. I'm

like so upset about it not being a traditional

war game that it's going to make me go out and

do something stupid. But at the same time, I

don't know. What else, what else, what else,

what else? I'm trying to think. BotCon was this

past weekend. I did watch majority of, I actually

went back after it was not live anymore and I

watched the three videos that Shout Factory put

out, 30 years of Transformers in three days.

What they basically did was Brian Ward was on

the floor at Shout Factory at Botcom for Shout

Factory. He had interviews with David Kay, he

had interviews with Susan Blue, talked to a bunch

of the con cosplayers and other con attendees.

My friend Mariah Baby, she was on one of the

ATTFs talking about cosplay or something, Transformers

Cosplayers. She was on one of the episodes before.

She was actually in the video... So that was

pretty cool. And throughout this, in between

what Shout Factory did was they showed episodes

and bonus features from all of their Transformers,

DVD... content that they've released so far.

So they showed several G1 episodes, they showed

several Beast Wars episodes, et cetera, et cetera,

et cetera. So it was a really cool little fun

online event to kind of, you know, for those

of us that don't go to BotCon or can't go to

BotCon, it was kind of a nice thing that Shout

Factory did doing that. I thought that was pretty

cool. Yep. Other than that, I think that's about

it for this week. Yeah, I think so too. I got

a new cell phone this week or this past week,

but Sprinting sprinting sprinting to no service.

Um, yes exactly Yeah, I got AT &T. I got the

galaxy s5. It's actually quite nice And because

I'm trading in my HTC Evo 4G LTE phones on Amazon,

both of them, my wife's and mine, because we

both get the same phone every time, I'm buying

my Batman animated series $35 phone case. I was

trying to find one. She's like, oh, just get

a Batman one. I'm like, you can't just get a

Batman one. It has to be my Batman. See I would

want It's the Kevin Conroy Batman. It cannot

be the Christian Bale Batman. That's not what

I was gonna say If they didn't have a Kevin Conroy

Batman, I would want to him again us or I would

want Oh Nightwing so yeah So I get to go review

transformers wind blade after this yay No, it's

a good book so comic But yeah, I think that about

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