Off the Cuff Returns, Marvel Changes, and Roommates

Hey, this is Steve Bloom, 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. I'm your host, Steve

Megatron Phillips, and joining me is... Michael

Powers from Off the Cuff. Welcome back. Yes.

Welcome back. Well, I mean, I'm back for this

show. I don't want to say I'm back. I'm back

for this show. I'm going to try to be back more

frequently than I have been, but I've... If listeners

care, I started Off the Cuff again. Well, I did

start again because it never ended in the first

place. I Just picked up where I left off and

then threatened all the listeners to cancel the

show It's done pretty good. I got 24 comments

this past week The show's sticking around it

was gonna stay. Anyways, we had already made

up our minds. We have fun recording it. I Just

thought and I don't know if people I feel like

we had talked about this where we did episode

49 of off the cuff that we said It was either

48 or 49 we said we were gonna pull a friends

and Say the next episode was gonna be the last

episode And then you know depending on fan outcry

we were gonna keep the whole thing going Some

people got that some people didn't either way

we got the reaction we wanted So we're sticking

around and we were gonna stay because we We just

decided, let's just have fun with it. We have

all new music coming with episode 51. We have

a little tidbit. We decided that because people

like what we have to say for some reason, or

they just like the chemistry that we have, I've

decided to bring You know, every once in a while,

an episode of Off the Cuff might have a little

bonus segment on the end of it. That's called

The Lunchroom, which is a throwback to the podcast

that the four of us used to do before we did

XRG Off the Cuff for Geek has radio. Yep, I remember

it, but it's various incarnation. We're actually

calling it The Lunchroom Volume Four because

it is the fourth iteration of The Lunchroom.

And it's gonna be after we fulfill our obligations

to talk about games and stuff like that. So But

there's that to look forward to and some other

stuff And we had Steve was on episode 50 briefly

I was wondering if it was fun. Yeah, I was wondering

if any of the listeners had picked up on that

We just wanted to have I don't know, it would

be a fun little cameo. He was there at the beginning

and he was the outro more or less. So thank you

for lending us your voice. I think you were the

best old man there. I've had plenty of practice.

So, you know, ours was all over the place. I

don't know if you've listened to the episode

or not. I haven't had a chance to actually listen

to it because of my new job specification. I

don't necessarily get a chance to listen to as

many podcasts, so I actually have a huge backlog.

Looking back, I should have used this other voice

that a salesman that used to work with us. He

didn't die or anything. He quit and went to work

somewhere else, but this dude was in his 70s

and he sounded like this when he talked. He was

a salesman? Yeah. And he was really slow when

he talks. Like kind of like that. And I could

do it so convincingly at work that I could make

people think that he was in the same room talking

to them when he worked there. And I would make

like obscene speech patterns come out of his

mouth. Because nobody would know I was standing

there But I'd be around a car or something and

make them think that it was the other guy and

then they'd walk around and notice It was me

and they'd call me an ass Hmm trick the general

manager with that trick too, so All right, well

other than that You know bringing back off the

cuff and getting ready for hopefully another

50 I Have I'm still chasing down the job that

I talked about like I don't know, what was it

like, probably eight episodes ago now? I'm still

chasing that down. They called me last Friday

and told me that, I had three different people

from the company apologize to me. Basically,

what happened was they took the job out of Detroit

and they moved it to New York. They were like,

if the job had stayed in Detroit, it was yours.

Great. So the job I wanted is now gone somewhere

else And so I kind of putzed around about it

for about 30 minutes and I was like, you know

what? That's something I you know, okay, so the

job moved so I called the guy back I said, hey,

I know the job moved but I'm still interested

in it I was like I will I will move for this

job and Well now I'm waiting to hear back about

that. So Well, good luck. Yeah, I I applied for

that one and then they had another position.

The same position was open in St. Louis, Missouri.

So I thought, you know, if I'm willing to move

to New York, I might as well be willing to move

to Missouri. You know, it is that type of job.

Like I'm just trying to get my foot in the door

because then it's kind of like you're golden

once your foot's in the door. Oh, yeah, that's

how it is with any company. So I don't really

care where I have to go. To get my foot in the

door more or less and my wife is like super gung

-ho about it She's like, let's just you know,

wherever we got to go if they'll have to let

you go, you know They'll hire you to go there.

Then we'll go So just waiting to hear back I

haven't heard anyone say no yet it's I guess

it's just something they don't get a lot of because

They probably want someone They probably just

look for someone's already in the area because

that makes it just really easy to hire them But

for me, I'm ready to go at the drop of a hat.

So it's like, just, you know, tell me I got the

job. I submit my two weeks. I spend two weeks

looking for an apartment complex, which my wife

and I already actually have picked out. Yada,

yada, yada. I can start in like three weeks,

you know, and I don't know. We'll see what happens,

but that's where I am with all that. And my mind

has been split between that and... Well, it's

like 90 % of that 10 % you know doing off -the

-cuff But it kind of puts a lot of our off -the

-cuff plans on hold Especially now because we

were gonna I was gonna try and do a Monthly Well,

I was gonna try and get us together monthly to

do like to record several videos to be released

like throughout the month So get together once

a month to record a month's worth of videos.

And that's when the job was in Detroit. And I

wouldn't have to work every weekend. So like,

you know, one weekend a month, I could go out

to Grand Rapids and hang out with Joe and Danner

and we could record, you know, some, you know,

video game, YouTube videos in Joe's basement.

Well, now the job's not in Michigan anymore.

So that that kind of went by the wayside. And

I can't really I can't really commit to doing

that now because the two jobs that I have right

now. They don't allow me to have weekends off.

Those went by the wayside. But the other thing

we're getting ready to experiment with is what

I talked to you about, which is that SpeakPipe.

And then we are going to mess around with the

Google Hangouts. See, I'm kind of curious about

doing that as well. You'll have to yeah on that

we we messed around with it after we recorded

episode 50 for like five minutes And then we

stopped and I was gonna dink around with it,

you know this week and just never got around

to it. It's From what I've seen just trying to

you know, not knowing anything really about it.

It's overly complicated to begin with And I'm

not sure if you can view it if you're not a Google

Plus member Know there's a link that I can put

out there And I'm wondering if that link allows

you to go You know just like go to that channel

and watch it without having to sign in The other

thing too is that it's nice because it automatically

archives it to YouTube Nice So I've seen other

podcasts or vidcasts on YouTube use Google Hangouts

to do their show so I know they're able to put

like intros and outros and and stuff like that

on there. So I'm kind of interested to get in

there and play with that. I thought that'd be

something to try, you know, from eight to nine

thirty while we're recording on Wednesday night,

see if we can get anyone to actually listen to

the show live. But. Oh, that's all stuff I got

going on. So what do you got going on, Steve?

I've been working on various things on the site

other than, I mean, I've just got my new profile

image up. in the GCRN staff area, which is totally

different than everybody else's. How so? Well,

it's an animated bio image. That's interesting.

So, like the originals, where it had our actual

mug shots. and then it was like the blue and

it had the text, the various text around it.

I made that set of profile images for like the

third version of the site and then it kind of

stuck for a year or so. And then I let the area

get kind of dilapidated. I've been building this

new version and even into now some things that

I wanted done that didn't get done are getting

done now and I included you know part of the

info mostly my Twitter profile information instead

of having that big long paragraph and then I

put you know my title and some of my social media

contacts and Podcasts that I'm on So it it looks

totally different. It's got kind of the the red

style that everything's moved to so Okay, and

when the other ones are built it'll look like

they all fit like a puzzle into each other Hmm

like kind of like I should break apart card stock.

I should look at this Where is that on the page

it's on the very top of the site it's it's GCR

and staff GCR and staff, okay. It's TV's Mr.

Neil. I had him design an animated image of me,

and he's doing one for Blanchard as well. I had

him kind of mix some of Tron, some of Batman,

a little piece of Star Trek, and then the Beast

Wars Megatron helmet. That is very snazzy, sir.

Thank you. Very snazzy. I've played with the

colors too and I've made alternate copies as

well. So but that's that's the original Very

nice. So yeah, I've been I've been doing that

and then Because of my new job specification

during my downtime I build the I have plenty

of time to sit and research content for the show

every week now so Uh, I'm actually able to find

things that I actually give a damn about which

is nice I found something to talk about I thought

maybe I didn't And nobody has to worry. I'm not

bringing up batman for superman until we see

a trailer. I was gonna say you just did it Well,

that's the only thing I wanted to bring out.

Okay, other than that. It's not gonna be talking

about that fan made trailer The leaked trailer

does that count? It's it's stupid It's just it's

just Batman like standing in front of a screen

and they're replaying Zod's message that went

across the television screens, but it's across

like Batman's like 12 screens Okay, that's it's

it's and it just shows Batman slightly turn and

I think somebody just animated You know themselves

or somebody in there. It's not a not a huge It

looks neat, but it's nothing worth paying attention

to Okay, so moving on Do we want to get into

some media? Yeah You know one of the things I

was kind of interested to talk about and I was

like should we talk about this should I hold

this off like off the cuff and talk about this

or you know Where should I talk about this? I

realized you know what I have the perfect outlet

because I saw that you wanted to talk about it

a little bit on Facebook I Just want okay. No

you want to do a geek ass radio episode about

it. I know what you're talking about now, but

I want to throw in My two cents on the whole

thing This has to do with well at the time it

was Marvel making the announcement that Thor

was going to be a woman, which I saw mainstreamed

everywhere. And then the one today, well late

last night today, where the Falcon is going to

take over for Captain America. Well, I didn't

even know that that was happening until this

morning, but I heard that they were going to

depower Steve Rogers and have him age to be old.

See, I don't know. I didn't know anything about

that. I know like last night I heard about it

somewhere yesterday. I don't know where or who

He was like mentioned something it was like the

Colbert report last night is when they made the

announcement as to who was gonna take over for

cap and Maybe it's just me or the way that I

look at the world and I try to treat Everyone

equally like yeah, there are people that I dislike

but I just like them because of like who they

are like yep, not like I Will say like what they

are like who I so I just dislike their personality

Regardless, you know male female black white

whatever. I don't if I don't like you It's something

to do with your personality and not like what

you look like And so I don't find Either one

of these stories to be news. In fact, I posted

on on Facebook and Twitter today It's like I

enter I understand why it's news for either one

of these stories But at the same time if you

think about it, it's kind of sad that it's news

and The headline for like the slash film article

that covered the whole Falcon like You know taking

over for Captain America Was Captain America

is being replaced by a black man not Captain

America is being replaced with the Falcon or

that the Falcon is taking over for Captain America.

It's they lose that black man Well, see that's

the thing that I don't get is why they're turning

this into a male female white black thing for

Marvel when You know, they made miles Morales

into Spider -Man in a different continuity, which

fine, different continuity. I'm not saying they

have to change the core continuity. You look

at Earth 2 of DC, and they've got alternate versions,

or you look at the two different universes of

Marvel, and then look at the changes they've

made with Doc Ock and Peter Parker, and then

they switch them back after a year. It's them

just playing around with it, for one. And two,

I think the way that they're advertising it like

having the view come out with that as as the

news and then kind of glossing over it and everybody's

like wait what and then having the same thing

with the coal bearer thing i mean while it's

kind of news it shouldn't be that big of a deal

but see that's the thing it's like it's That's

what I mean. To me, it's not news. That's just

a character swap. That's what they do in comics.

Well, they've done it before. I mean, Bucky's

become Captain America, and you've had Dick Grayson

become Batman. I mean, they had Asriel in the

Nightfall comics become Batman for a little while.

I'm just saying, to me... It's not news to me.

It's like it's just interesting because it's

the whole character swap It's interesting to

me because of the whole the same reason that

you know why I didn't find Doc Ock being Peter

Parker interesting at all but it's the same reason

that idea was interesting I To me these are just

all I mean, they're just they're just characters

I mean, I don't want to say they're like people

but I the the color of their skin or their gender

has like Don't know that just does not make it

news to me and that's it's sad that that's what

then that's what the story was, you know, like

I Don't know I Maybe I'm just looking at it the

wrong way Like I said, I understand why it's

news because of what you know The the society

that we live in and I understand I know why Marvel

is doing it. I Understand why they're doing it

But to me, it's just not It's not the news that...

I don't understand. It shouldn't even be an issue

to be focused on. Yeah, exactly. And I don't

think it should. It shouldn't have been mainstream

news. It should have just been, like, in a stupid

little Marvel newsletter. Like, why... Like,

why put that in the mainstream? I mean, sure,

it might trickle down into the mainstream. If

you did that in the movies, it'd definitely become

mainstream. But I think what would have spoken

volumes about it is if they had done it in the

movies and not just the comics. Well, if they

would have done it from the get -go, but I mean

now they're kind of in this universe and they

kind of have to complete it at this point. I

mean, yeah, they could, when their contracts

are up with these actors, yeah, they could go

this direction. Easily. I mean, they've already

introduced some characters that are viable replacements

at this point. But at the same time, even listening,

I had been reading various articles from... Hollywood

writers, you know, animation writers, comic writers.

They were saying, you know, instead of Marvel...

I forget what it was. It was... Was it creating

new characters? Well, like, I saw somebody, and

this was somebody from another podcast that actually

posted this exact quote right here, but I've

seen various iterations of it in more lengthy

detail. This guy is saying Marvel says we need

more diversity. Let's create... you know, new

female and minority characters. No, wait, that's

too much work. Let's just swap the big three.

I mean. You know, I mean, I there's plenty of

background characters that could bring to the

front and then focus on them instead of having

to swap out these mainstream ones with different

people. I think that's a little to me, I think

that's a little bit snarky. I think I mean. I

don't know. New characters Marvel first of all

Marvel's not gonna change Marvel's not gonna

introduce new characters. They're going to The

reason they're swapping out the big three like

that and I and to be honest Thor still gonna

be Thor because we talked about this on Off the

cuff 51 for a second because obviously it was

news But Thor is the guy's name. Like you can't

take away his name just because he gives up his

hammer It's given the name to the chick, but

that's what is he gonna call himself then? They're

calling him scruffy scruffy Thor Yeah, they don't

have a name for me. That's what's calling a warrior

Thor But Thor doesn't come with the Thor is his

name. It's not the name of like Like I Don't

know we were discussing that last night. It Thor

is his name It's not like cuz cuz he has Mjolnir

that he becomes you know Thor makes him The only

one who gives him his powers, but Thor is his

name. Like, and he's still gonna have, he's still

gonna exist because he's gonna have another,

like, hammer that he lost when he was a kid.

I guess is what's happening. Well, they're gonna

give him a battle axe. Right. So he's still gonna

be Thor, and he's gonna have a mechanical arm.

It's just, like, I understand why they're doing

it with these guys because they're the ones that

people see in the movies. I just it's just not

news to me. Like I wouldn't be I don't I don't

bat an eye I don't bat an eye or take offense

to You know a color swap Or a gender swap I just

it doesn't whatever It's it's another one of

those just you know, they're trying to sell comics

thing They're gonna go but it I mean these are

a part of those year year and a half long Switches

that they do. It's just like when they kill a

character off. It is that And then they they

bring it back after a year in their original

role and then it's Briefly mentioned in the future

and then they just keep going. I mean, it's not

even I guess I just I'm just bummed that it's

news for the you know, the obvious reason of

why it's news. It's I think that's a bigger I

think that's a bigger deal to me than you know

The color swap or the gender swap. It's just

dumb It's dumb, and it should never have been

released the way that it was. It should have

been officially Marvel saying it instead of having...

But that's just the way I see the world, though.

That's just not a thing. That's not news to me.

I don't know. I hate this place. Seriously. Anyways.

I think we'll move on to something a little lighter.

So as far as the the Gotham pilot have you heard

what they're they're attempting to do with it

The pilot or the entire first season the entire

first season more or less I have we talked about

this on Twitter for a second the the Future different

Joker every week. Yeah, and I said it's all funny

games until you realize that bad man's beating

up an old man. I Saw that comment by you That's

not my bad man My Batman doesn't beat up old

people It's I don't know it was just it's kind

of strange to me I mean I I'm fine with them

trying to keep the guessing game going But I

don't think that it should be somebody that's

twice Batman's age Or triple his age at this

point because he's what 12 yeah, he's gonna be

12 So I mean to have like a 24 year old joker

in there I mean it just kind of wouldn't make

sense I can see if they're gonna make him like

16 or you know something But that doesn't even

that doesn't even most he's not even the joke.

Here's the thing He doesn't become the joker

till he's old. Here's the thing about this show

And I gotta I have the way to see it. I really

do I The more I think about this show and I don't

think about it all that much I really don't I

I'm gonna watch it cuz I have to I'm very certain

this is gonna go straight on my train wreck list

because most of these kids that are They're not

kids but most of the characters that they're

casting and they're casting like younger versions

of them like Why aren't they all just being like

rounded up and putting like foster care or like

What's the what's the? What's the minor version

of prison oh I can't even think of you be yes,

why are they not being rounded up and just thrown

in juvie or Like these aren't like adults. I

mean these are like teenagers that you can like

you know Lock in a padded cell like Why are they

having them in costume like some of them already?

I just like when they're kids like These are

supposed to be things that happen in their young

life that it you know Transform them in their

older life when they're like full adults like

I would rather just see a complete Reimagining

like I know it is I know I know it's a complete

reimagining. I'm just saying like Like a complete

ground -up reimagining. I you've seen the Gotham

High stuff, right? I don't seen Gotham High the

the animated Gotham High no I see but even if

you look at beware the Batman that that animation

series even things went differently Let me see

if I can find some art for you to put in Like

the the episode post or something. They were

going to a camera who was working on this but

it was they had character designs and it was

all the characters that you love from Batman,

but they were in high school and Bruce Wayne

was even there, but he wasn't like running around

as like Batman get up or anything, but See if

I can find this I Don't know I'll look for it

but It was really cool like that that idea like

everyone's in high school. We means everyone's

on the same playing field and they just put everyone

in kind of Slightly different roles, you know

But this just seems like it's like, you know,

they're trying to tell the origins of these characters

and for me I'm just kind of like why are they

just all locked up? But like I said, I'll I'll

watch it I just I Don't know what to think right

now I'm trying to get this. How do I get? How

do I get a picture of a website? I googled it.

Here, I'll send you this link and you can figure

out how to get it out. I'm good at that. Yeah,

I'm not quite sure what to think about that.

Now, the heroes talk is entirely different. Because

I watch everything, I was gonna watch this heroes

thing. anyways but you throw Sylar in there so

yep um because he was hands down my favorite

character in in that entire series well he was

the only reason to watch it well between him

and and peter having you know the ability to

absorb the powers as well you know they were

i mean Between the two of them they were really

the only reason to watch that show and he was

the only reason to watch it Because whoever the

guy that got like Peter was just horrible. I

know I Like what I would watch that I watched

that show obviously while I was working at the

theater Like I watch all my TV shows and I remember

I would be playing on my phone or doing something

else while I'm watching heroes Until I heard

Tyler like show up and then I'd watch the scene

with Tyler in it And when he left the scene or

the scene changed to something else, I'd go back

to whatever it is I was doing. No one else in

that series was interesting to me. And the way

that certain TV shows are now, where they're

kind of like anthologies, like True Detective

or American Horror Story or something like that,

I feel like heroes could have benefited from

that. And my original understanding of what Heroes

was supposed to be is that it was supposed to

be an anthology style show, where there would

be different characters in every season. The

problem is the audiences really liked certain

characters. So they had to kind of scrap that

idea and keep those characters around, which

I think hurt the show. I definitely think it

hurt the show. I think that they should have

swapped out the cast like they were planning

on doing, regardless of what people were thinking,

because I think as it gradually progressed, I

think people started hating it more because the

story started going down the crapper. But it

always felt small. Like Heroes was supposed to

be this global thing and it's confined to like

eight people. So you only hear their stories

and then everything's done. Yeah, like you could

have. I mean, you could have had one season set

on the East Coast, one season set on the West

Coast, and said you're following eight people

on both coasts. Well, I mean, they could have

eventually tied it all together. Yeah. I mean,

it just could have been a lot better than it

was. And the whole save the cheerleader, save

the world thing was just dumb. That got over

real quick. But I'm excited. Yeah, you bring

Sylar back. I'll watch it. For sure. He's unsure.

I was because I was reading about it. He's unsure

whether he wants to do it again. I mean, he said

that on the one hand he does, but on the other

hand, like his schedule, which I don't know what

the hell he's doing, but it doesn't seem like

a whole heck of a lot. Like, I don't even know

what he's in. But he could be doing he's in a

TV show at some point, but I don't know what

two seasons of American Horror Story. And the

only other thing I've seen him do was the Star

Trek movies, but. That doesn't mean he's not

busy doing other things. True. And I don't know

what he's doing, but it's just not something

we're seeing. Yeah, just not something we follow.

So obviously, it's not making our radar. But

I was reading that he, you know, kind of on the

one hand, like I said, wants to do it again,

but is unsure whether it's worth his efforts.

Maybe we should get to some tech. Yeah, a little

little different territory there. See here. I

Swear I bookmarked something. Oh Real quick because

we're talking about TV TV for a second Any true

blood fans out there? Deborah and wool who plays

Jessica in true blood She was cast in the Netflix

daredevil series Oh, yeah, she is going to play

Karen page Who is the love interest for Matt

Murdock? So we'll see how that goes I I mean

oh Again, just kind of like we were just talking

about heroes I was gonna watch daredevil on Netflix

cuz I have Netflix and well, I like watching

TV shows Yet it's just that there wasn't like

a compelling reason for me to watch daredevil

But now there is so have that to look forward

to Anyways, I just want to throw that in there

before we moved on There the only technique I

can think of Which may or may not be interested

just interesting to some people there's not a

whole lot of information about it is the new

Tesla That's car that's being developed But If

you've got some other stuff you want to talk

about Fire it out there. I mean if you want to

talk about the Tesla you can bring it up because

I don't know anything about it. Well Tesla I

mean I haven't done like a whole lot of research

and I went to the website just to find out what

the what the big deal was with with a Tesla car

and The way that they're built I Believe that

you are actually like, you know, you're sitting

like the Chevy Volt you sit next to the battery

In the Tesla cars you sit on the battery Like

the entire chassis of the car is basically the

battery and so as a result they get between 200

and 400 miles to the charge and Okay, they do

not have like a gasoline engine in them for like,

you know the whole range extender So that's what

makes the Tesla cars so you know Special is you

know, they're entirely electric cars There's

three models right now. There's a sport model.

There's a Luxury sedan they have an SUV coming

later next year or early next year but all of

them are like Cadillac expensive like really

expensive cars But they just announced the they're

calling it the Tesla model 3 and it's supposed

to be, it's supposed to retail for around $35

,000 and get between 200 and 300 miles to the

charge. Oh nice. So this is the, this is like

the average Joe's electric car, I guess. I mean,

yeah, $35 ,000 is still a lot of money to some

people, but it's not, you know, $80 ,000. The

only problem with that is if you go on a road

trip. Well, here's the thing about Tesla and

here's the really nice thing about them and I

don't know how they do this because I Feel like

Chevy may have done something similar with the

spark EV Not entirely sure. I haven't really

looked into the technology behind everything

But I know that Tesla built a grid of charging

stations across the country That they're placed

exactly like 300 miles from each other like on

a route So you can drive the car from one charging

station to the next and get across the country

Hmm not only that when you put the Let me see

if I can pull this up real quick because all

this information is on their website They have

some wicked fast charging for their cars You

charge if you charge it for 30 minutes You know

you plug it in for 30 minutes you get 170 miles

to the charge for that 30 minutes Wow, it takes

me it takes me three and a half hours To charge

the battery in my volt for 45 miles Like hmm,

I don't know that make there's just something

That's what's so great about the Tesla cars and

that's why it's It's gonna be interesting to

see what happens with this one I mean, I don't

know that I would actually buy one because I'm

part of a Chevy family Yeah, but they've made

their they have said they will not Sue anybody

that uses their technology in their cars Because

they want electric cars to succeed so technically

if GM wanted to they could actually build cars

using the same technology as what Tesla uses

and They wouldn't have to worry about it. But

you know Head in the sand. They probably won't

do that. I Mean 35 ,000 plus you get the whole

tax credit thing I mean it puts it within spitting

distance of being as much as a volt. I Just like

I said, I just don't know if I could do one if

I could do that just because I'm a Chevy family

guy But Yeah, it's it's a really cool. It's probably

the coolest thing I've heard all You know in

the last the last week or so is that this car

is coming? Because I like my car. I like I like

my electric car so They're nice. I just they're

not for everybody no, so You got anything yeah,

actually um it's going to bring up the NVIDIA

is planning to launch a new Android device capable

of playing streamed PC games I thought that's

what the shield was. The shield? The Nvidia Shield.

That might be what it's called, I don't know.

That came out already. Oh. Is there a link here

in your notes? Yeah. It says Nvidia may launch

new Android device capable of playing streamed

PC games. Came out the 14th. Okay, I want to

see this, because I thought they were... Yeah,

it's Nvidia Shield. Yeah. Oh, similar to the

company's Nvidia Shield. Launch another Android

device that can stream full -blown PC games from

a network computer. How is this not referring

to the shield? You can stream high -end PC games

over a Wi -Fi network. But you could do that

with the shield. What the hell is this? I think

Nvidia is just making stuff to make stuff. I

think they don't know what they're doing. Don't

get me wrong. It's kind of cool. Looks like an

Xbox controller attached to a screen. Well, that's

what's out now That's that in that picture. That

is the she gets the shield. That's the shield

That is available right now for a hundred bucks

Hmm Tempting it's also a portable handheld like

you can actually take it with you and play games

on it That is so tempting Not necessarily like

you don't have to have to be streamed to it like

if you read further down the article You'll see

that portal and half -life to have been ported

over to the shield But No, it's It was a neat

idea. I Just I don't know like I I couldn't it's

struggle to find this shield is sort of to find

a market So I'm kind of amazed that they're you

know going for you know round two Well considering

I've never even heard of it before this. Yeah,

this was announced last year Anyways, no, it's

a neat idea. I just I don't know I most PC gamers

they don't Why would you not just put a controller

into your computer? Like I think that's part

of the problem that they had with it is that

the message The message for the device is like

lost Because that's all I do. I mean I can see

if like you just want to you know sit in bed

or sit and you know Do something like that and

play one of these games because It would make

it easier oh absolutely, but when I plan I'm

playing I either use my 360 or I plug my Xbox

controller into my tower and I play the game.

There you go. It's just easier. Yep, that's what

I do. Google's developing a smart contact lens

which is I guess right now what they've made

it do is attempting to make it do and it's got

like these digitized lines stuff around it it's

the kind of their special contacts for diabetic

patients yeah that analyzes tear fluid in the

eye and gives them real -time measurement of

glucose levels to their phone I want to see Google

but I want to see them do like Geordie eyes You

know, are you interested in Google Glass at all?

I kind of am, but not for $1 ,500. I'm kind of

interested in it, but I don't want to pay for

it. Yeah, no kidding. It's just expensive, and

I don't want to spend the money on it. But if

they gave me one to try out to kind of beta test,

I would so do that. Oh, Google is now doing free

glass demos. It's right here in the side column.

That is hilarious. We're talking about the article

for the Google Contact Lenses. Let's see what

you have to do here. What groups you have to

jump through? Oh, you'll need to schedule an

appointment. You can't just show up, which will

then take place at one of Google's existing glass

service centers in San Francisco, Los Angeles,

and New York. So sorry, Steve. That's crap. Sorry.

Not only would you have to sell at $1 ,500 if

you liked it, you also have to fly. You have

to pay for the travel to get to it. Well, it

shoots that in the foot so oh You know what I

got one. I got one because this is a YouTube

video you could actually embed What embedded

YouTube videos? I've done those before hells.

That was the weird house. Yes. I saw this The

other day, I think this is the news story I wanted

to share Planes are pretty freaking crazy airliners

You know, like the Boeing 747s and the airbuses.

I never, I always thought them as like big lumbering,

like, don't move very fast, kind of fly in a

straight line, kind of plane, you know what I'm

saying? Yeah, is it like a vertical takeoff landing

type thing? No, this is a Boeing 787, this is

a video of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the new,

I think it's the newest Boeing. that there is,

and it's at an air show. I've never seen a jumbo

jet or a passenger plane move like this before.

If you want to take a second, you can watch the

video real quick. It's not very long. I'm actually

watching it. It's kind of amazing the crazy angles

that they're taking. It almost looks like it's

shaped more like bird -like. Yeah, I mean, I

was just you don't think of them as being able

to move like that And maybe it's just cuz they're

always kind of like lumbering around you see

them lumber around on the ground on like a runway

and stuff like that and then when they take off

They kind of just fly on a straight line, right?

Yeah, this is making curves and yeah It's I don't

know. Maybe that means faster flight. It looks

like it could dodge some serious shit And it

it it moves like a jet. Yeah. Well, I mean it

is jet I mean at the end of the day like a small

jet Yeah, I'm just saying like at the end of

the day it is a jet So it's kind of it's one

of those things where it's like, I know it's

jet, but it does not look like it should move

like that I just thought was a really cool video

as citizens I've never seen a move like that

and I showed it to my wife and she's like, wow,

that's crazy Have you got to the part where it

lands and then immediately takes off again Yeah,

that's just that's that's crazy. Yeah, it's pretty

sweet Yeah, I'll embed that in the show that's

that's pretty cool So There's this other bit

that I thought was kind of neat Kind of off -the

-wall stuff this week, but whatever Prosthetic

limbs that are lifelike. I'm looking for this

one. Oh, there it is. Found it. Company Green's

Pestetic Limbs. They show this hand that's missing

part of the thumb. I can't open the fucking link.

That shortened link does not want to open for

me. Don't worry about it. Keep going. But it

shows this guy's hand and this is in Germany.

made a thumbs what sorry I just saw the picture

they made a thumb and then they made it look

like it's almost indiscernible you know discernible

about the the detail to it you can't even tell

where the the thumb ends and begins what yeah

that's what I was trying to figure out and like

the thumbnail for it they made it out of the

same stuff that they put like those fake nails

on It's yeah, it's they have to like grab the

right color from pigment from People's hands

and other fingers it's it's that's some crazy

stuff Wow, I mean it does say like down here.

There's a paragraph between two pictures where

it says bronze damos Admits the realistic looking

appendages don't function as well as prosthetics

with built -in bionics The fingers are flexible

enough that for someone to play the piano the

artificial arms and feet can also perform Basic

tasks he said which at the end of the day. I

Guess it kind of depends on what you're doing

or what you want to do. I feel like So you can

own one of each you could have the one for what

you really need to do and then you could have

the one that looks good so you can Yeah, that's

what I was gonna say. I mean it might depend

on like how you just want to feel Yeah, I mean

if you're comfortable with not having a lot of

function and have one that looks like you know

a regular hand or if you're comfortable having

the other one then You know great. I'll get it

right. Yeah, it's just it's it's kind of interesting

the technology that's coming along that allows

it to emulate The realistic here's what's really

creepy about this right this looks better than

movie makeup. I know So imagine that app now

take that application That's kind of use yeah,

that's Yeah, it's it's quite interesting that's

I oh here's the catch here's where they get you

it's between $2 ,500 and $8 ,500 for one So I

guess any other size, so I guess it don't get

one unless you really need it Well, don't get

one unless you really want one that looks like

what you used to have So like if you just have

pools of money and can afford it So but yeah,

it was just it was too good to pass by I had

to know that's really cool put that in there

And then of course the I I This is a YouTube

video. I just found it funny Modern kids playing

or reacting to playing Gameboy. I have not watched

that I have been meaning to watch that but I

have not watched it. It's it's actually quite

funny because these kids are like, what is it?

Or they're like, oh, it's like a DS. And some

other kids are like, you know, it looks like

a cell phone. I hate people. But they're all

like 10 year old kids or, you know, and under.

It just it made me laugh because, you know, because

they make those cell phone covers that look like

Gameboys. You know, so some kids have seen them,

but they don't know what, you know, what they

are. And there was like one kid that was You

could tell was super dirty and he's like, oh,

that's a game boy He's like my brother has one

of these I Don't know I haven't seen I'm sorry.

I really I can't say anything about cuz I haven't

seen it I mean it the idea the premise behind

it seems funny because I can only like imagine,

you know, just people's reaction to seeing that

That I've never seen it before. It's kind of

like when you meet someone that hasn't seen Jurassic

Park or was born after Jurassic Park or For example

the movie Titanic when it was re -released a

couple years ago in theaters There were a number

of comments that I overheard from people going

teenagers going to see that movie that they thought

it was fiction Hmm That's our future folks Yeah,

I'm not Makes me not even getting in on that

makes me sad What is that it looks like a Big

old box and the screen has crappy color Which

back in the day that was great Hmm got some comments

written down here, but I can't tell if they're

from an older episode or for what They're from

last week's episode. Okay, alright. So I guess

I'll get down to what the questions were. Because

last week I talked about there was this website

that if you joined there, they had a Kickstarter

where you could have custom superhero action

figures made of yourself. Okay And I had something

else another article that was about a 3d printer

in there as well and The superhero thing what

they do is they take a picture of your face and

they actually Match it up to the figure and it

because they only have so many styles of every

figure and then they kind of you know It's your

face on the toy Which is kind of neat So And

then I had another one about like they have these

bricks that you can actually build houses and

buildings with that are basically little giant

sized Legos Okay, that explains that first comment.

Yes So Freddy Savage mentions after this episode

all I can say is I want a full -size house made

of Legos Be kind of drafty Because well what

what they're saying is is that they would basically

put these like metal rods through them so they

actually stay attached in a sense. I'm not quite

sure what the application would be or how it

would work, but there's somewhere planning on

building one. See how that works out. Yeah. Andre

Walter says super super impressed with the solo

podcast. I won't lie when it started. I was wondering

how it could work Solo podcasts aren't something

I tend to dig it kept my interest throughout

though It was weird like you were talking to

me as you know something in a good way not saying

get rid of your host or anything Just needed

to give out those kudos, which I was glad to

hear Yeah, I I know I gave you the recommendation

for You know to check out Garnet on games for

a good solo podcast to kind of you know homage

or whatever The reason I asked you about speak

pipe is because he uses speak pipe And he you

know, he poses questions to the to the listeners

so that it's not necessarily him You know, I

mean he's taught he you know, you're leading

him through the show But when you bring up a

topic you can interject, you know that you're

gonna talk about you can drop in a comment from

Another audio comments with someone explaining

their point of view on something. I mean, that's

something I I've kind of found about that Like

I know I know THG when Mike has asked me to record

clips for shows and he's offered to record clips

for off -the -cuff and I don't know. I'm gonna

try it out with the I want to try it out with

the speed pipe thing And I don't know what your

opinion is on this. I just feel like When there's

an audio recording like I feel like if you're

not there to do you you're not there to like

It's kind of like a one -sided conversation,

you know, I'm saying you're not really there

you can't really um There's no like dialogue

there's no discussion I mean you're kind of like

and you're you're dropping stuff in into a black

hole to see Just to get a response which I guess

is fine. And I mean there's there's ways that

you can do it and it's all nice and fun and all

everything but That might that might be something

to try like when you know, if you know, you're

gonna be doing a solo podcast or something Once

we have that back up and running People could

submit, you know, you can tell people what you're

planning on talking about or what some we don't

want to Ask them what they thought the big stories

of the week were and they could you know throw

in there two cents and then we could riff off

of what they think. Yeah, that's that's definitely

an option. I kind of I'm kind of wanting to move

that direction anyhow. I just for one, I'd forgot

about SpeakPipe since I haven't had on the site

in probably two years. For whatever reason, we

had a version of the site that malfunctioned

and it was on there and I took everything off

and then never put anything back. So I just got

to figure out how to put it back on the site.

You guys can look like like I said off the cuff,

you know, we're looking forward to it So you

guys can look forward to it there and you can

look forward to using speed pipe to interact

with Steve Maybe and like I said, maybe that's

another way that we can get stories to talk about

on here because people can phone in with what

they think the story of the week was Yeah, and

we could you know, we could be like, so let's

see what the so -and -so thought the story of

the week was and then we can riff on what you

guys have to say Just another direction to and

that would also work in a solo show too because

You know you get us They say what they think

the story is and then you get to give your two

cents on it and you move on to the next one so

Anyways good side. I've got you know sidetracked

there, but That's fine Justin Washington says

I think it would be cool to use a 3d printer

for game pieces and stuff like that He said I'd

love to use it to I'd love to use it to make

custom Monopoly items or just general pieces

for games. I can see that, using it to make game

pieces. That would actually make it a lot easier

on people too that want to do that kind of thing.

Brian Jackson says, I'd love to have my own action

figure so I can say I'm playing with myself and

it not be weird. I couldn't help but laugh at

that when I read that. Connor Murphy says This

is more like it because I posted a comment on

Facebook earlier in the week to About what people

liked or didn't like about various shows And

he basically mentioned the To improve the show

step away from the Batman first Superman because

we talked about it for weeks and weeks Which

yeah that it did get bad But he says, you know

last week's was this is more like it not talking

about the BBS rumors and then talking about he

hate the rumors and then talking about another

So yeah that That was good. Then he says I was

never bored and Steve You kept it moving from

one thing to another good mix of topics as well.

So another kudos on last week Animation addict

says my one worry with having an action figure

of me is having my likeness in a package with

the label warning choking hazard small parts

So everybody was using actually toy toy conversation,

but making it sound dirty Ryan Cox says When

was the last big movie to kill off the main character

during a franchise, which I think I'll probably

save that for another date Wait a second where

this one come from. I miss this one. It was somewhere

in Twitter. I Feel like we were having a conversation

about this that may have been and I think I'd

put it in there Okay, but we can always do a

little bit of detail on that later on. Yeah Maybe

if anybody wants to you know, maybe we could

Yeah, why we just as everyone that might not

have seen the Twitter conversation. Yeah. Yeah,

that can be the question for the week Um, when's

the last time a movie killed off a major character

or ended on a cliffhanger? and when I say that

I'm talking I basically we the conversation devolved

out of Something we didn't actually talk about

surprisingly, but we were getting kind of I didn't

want to start talking about movies But we kind

of are now We started talking about Star Trek

Into Darkness and about how, you know, a couple

of tweaks to that movie could have made it, you

know, better than it was. And one of those being

that, in my opinion, Kirk should have died. Which

immediately makes me actually think of the original

Star Trek II, Wrath of Khan, where Spock does

die. I feel like if Kirk had actually died, it...

It just it would have been interesting to see

that because I mean we all know they could have

brought him back somehow It's Star Trek for crying

out loud or you could have actually because it's

a different timeline You could have started going

down that road without Kirk, which I think also

would have been kind of cool to see But the fact

that they killed him and brought him back in

the same movie just kind of cheapens the whole

thing Like they could have almost skipped the

death Yeah, they were gonna do it that why even

have him like Die in the first place. I don't

I don't know maybe that's because Spock got mad

and then you know tore off across San Francisco

in a high -speed foot chase But like yeah, what's

the last time you saw like a major character

to like die in a movie? They you know, they've

got wrath of con as an example Or like a cliffhanger

ending for all intents of perfect like back to

the future I know the ending to the first Back

to the Future was reshot when they went to go

do Back to the Future 2, as well as the beginning

of Back to the Future 2 was reshot. You know

what I'm saying? Yeah. Because they added Marty.

I believe Marty ran back around the corner in

1 and 2, did he not? I think so, but I know that

if Marty you're running back around the corner

and back to the future one was added Like that's

not the original cut of the movie That was all

added like later when they were gonna make it

into a trilogy of stuff So that's kind of like

a cliffhanger ending I guess in a certain in

a certain sense I mean it wasn't when I originally

aired but it is now if you were to watch it Guess

cuz it's just kind of baffles me when studios

are trying to make franchises and maintain continuity

Well, it's like the second back to the future

and third or probably a better example just because

they're shot back -to -back well, not only that

but Doc this is gone Doc's gone, right? But see

that's what I'm talking like that's I guess that

that's a really good example and that that kind

of follows the example of Pirates 2 and Pirates

3 Where you know? Jack Sparrow is, for all intents

and purposes, dead. And they have to get him

back. At least that's how I kind of interpreted

what happened to Jack. Well, yeah, I mean, he

basically did. He went into the not dead, not

alive. He was just kind of existing. In limbo,

purgatory, I guess. So, I mean, if you look at

it like maybe not necessarily. I'm not looking

for, like, the one -off movie that never got

its sequel that has a cliffhanger. And, like,

as we just, the two examples we gave were Back

to the Future 2 and 3 and Pirates 2 and 3. I'm

just wondering, when's the last time you saw

a movie, you know, get that, like, the cliffhanger,

you know, the reason for the audience to come

back? Because lately it's kind of like, while

they want to build franchises and continuities

and everyone's building worlds and all this stuff

and... The movies are still self -contained and

that's fine, but I feel like the stakes are just

always so low Well, I mean it's like, you know,

we mentioned Star Trek into darkness look at

The transformer films every film prime either

dies or almost dies and then gets restored and

then kicks every guy's butt at the end, right?

So there's there's no reason to even have that

in there if you're not even gonna actually But

it's a bummer because you know there's going

to be another Transformers. We know that there

was going to be a Star Trek 3. Why would you

not just off the guy? Once the last time you

felt like you needed to come back for a sequel.

I haven't really felt like that in a long time.

I go to see them because it's like a continuation

of the characters, but I can't remember the last

time I needed to go back and see something. Watch

things more out of out of Necessity for the characters.

I don't Like the stories half the time. Like

you said, they're self -contained. They just

it doesn't matter. So I Maybe we kind of ever

aren't asking asking them questions and this

whole conversation was a little long -winded

But yeah, when's the last time? You saw a good

cliffhanger ending Or like a major character

death in a franchise Even if that character comes

back later Like when's the last time you saw

in another film? Yeah, when's the last time you

saw a good character death? Just let us know

that's what we were talking about on Twitter

so and then the final Statement for the questions

last week is Caleb Brown who's saying I would

combine the questions and use a 3d printer to

make my own action figure I'm going to go with

Star Wars classic scale I'd love to have my likeness

in an old Jedi uniform or stormtroopers. There

you go. Which would be fun. Alright, where can

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Geeks. See you next time. Bye. Welcome back to

the bonus segment of Altered Geek Unlimited.

Here we have the owner of Lion Productions, Bradley

O 'Lion. Glad to be here and thank you for having

me. Not a problem. If you're unfamiliar with

him, he's brought you such films as Little Creeps

and Monsters on Main Street. Today he's joining

us to discuss his new upcoming comedy TV series,

Roommates. So if you would, please tell the listeners

a little bit about yourself. Well, first of all,

I want to say I totally understand for those

of you who may not have seen Little Creeps or

Monsters on Main Street. As a matter of fact...

That's half the reason why I actually have to

do the current IndieGoGo campaign we're doing

because we just haven't done a great enough job

of getting our films out there yet. But they

are fun films. They're not your typical backdoor

independent film. There's great cast and monsters

on Main Street features. Marty Kleba from Pirates

of the Caribbean and horror icon Robert Siddar.

Little Creeps has a ton of people in it from

Charlie Sheen's uncle Joe Estevez who's been

in 200 films himself. So Dustin Diamond, Larry

Voorhees from Saved by the Bell, Roberts in it

as well. Just a great cast altogether. Heck,

even Hall of Famer Jake the Snake Roberts is

playing my father. Nice. Nice. But as Steve alluded

to, we're currently working on a new television

sitcom called Roommates. And Roommates is kind

of like the Big Bang Theory meets a show called

Holliston. where it's about a group of friends

have kind of moved together for all the wrong

reasons. They didn't know each other initially.

But there's a subline plot to where one of the

characters is really obsessed and paranoid by

horror films. And it's actually his paranoia

that leads all of his previous roommates to continuously

moving out. So finally, the landlord says, hey,

you've got to get another roommate or you're

out on the street. So he winds up searching for

new roommates, puts an ad out there, and Victor

moves in. And Victor's out of work. movie director

but he pitches this concept of letting me do

a reality show right in this person's apartment

giving him 24 -hour access and of course Kyle

the paranoid monster freak agrees he's thrilled

to have the idea but what he doesn't realize

is he just gave this guy 24 -hour access who

doesn't have a penny to his name so there's now

two broke people living in the apartment and

with no way to pay rent But Victor, being the

creative guy he is, comes up with another concept.

Let's go ahead and go out and run a casting call,

have people audition to move in with us for my

supposed reality show that I have no money for.

And the winners of the casting call will get

to pay rent and help cover the cost of living

here. So he winds up pitching this people move

in we've got this great fun concept But the interesting

aspect to on that underlined whole plot is the

question gradually becomes episode through episode

Was Kyle really that crazy and paranoid and delusional

or does he actually know a little bit something

is he? On to something that's going on in their

own little mythical world You know do zombies

and and werewolves and vampires on some level

actually exist The problem came down is we put

together a great team to put the show on. I mean,

awesome producers, we've already assembled a

really cool cast, but we made an initial budget

that didn't include the construction of various

sets because we've always shot on location. The

problem is our location didn't work out for our

apartment. We couldn't really control the external

sound that makes it high -end and high -quality.

So without being able to control those... you

know, cars driving by and the train tracks that

happen to be a mile away but we're still noisy,

we wound up having to build a set that we just

didn't have the budget for. So we've launched

an Indiegogo campaign that you can find at www

.helproommates .com and you don't need the W

so just helproommates .com works and you go there

and you get all kinds of perks from from little

things like stress balls and sign posters and

official t -shirts all the way up to Cameo appearances

in the show and even your own producer credit

Yeah, those are some definitely Awesome incentives

for people to jump into the series and kind of

help make it their own as well Almost definitely

the one thing that we want everyone know who

contributes is not only do you matter to us and

we're so appreciative and thankful But when you

become a contributor, you're becoming part of

the team, part of the family. So we want you

to really feel rewarded. And if you're able to

help on a strong enough level, we want you to

feel like you've really become part of the show.

This is your show. Yeah. I watched the video

and actually it was quite humorous when I saw

it the first time on the Indiegogo. where it's

kind of doing the almost Ferris Bueller type

talking to the camera. You got it. Which I absolutely

love. Yeah, there's a real fun, lovable concept

to that. Many moons ago I once produced a film

that we actually almost went that complete route

of. We wound up having a second version of a

script we put together that won a couple of awards.

And the second version came in from other people

who pitched being part of our crew. And one of

the gentlemen wanted to be a director for us,

and he was interviewing. And he came up with

this really fun concept, and we almost went that

direction. But in all honesty, we had a great

opportunity to bring in another director, Terrence

Winkliss from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Oh, wow. Yeah, Terrence is a fantastic cat. He

didn't want to go that direction, and he loved

the original concept because it was more. true

to real life, because a lot of it was kind of

based around my experiences as a minor league

football player. And yeah, when we hammered out

those ideas, we just came up with saying, hey,

this is a real film. Yes, it's comedic. It's

fun. It's it's not necessarily based on real

life, but it's inspired by some things out of

real life. But we wanted that real element that

really said this is a movie. It's too dramatic

and too powerful to just be kind of a farce of

itself. And the funny with all that having went

on. Literally just a couple days before we started

to film. Something happened and Terrence and

I couldn't get together to get Terrence out here

and make everything work out. So another buddy

of mine who worked on Green Street Hooligans

2 and I met him on American Virgin, Clenay Verde

-Rose came out here and knocked it out of the

ballpark for us. Awesome. So how did you come

up with the concept to create the show? Like

like what was going through your head while you

were kind of percolating the information to kind

of Make this well, we had already game plans

saying we want to jump into the foray of Episodic

television whether it is for Netflix or for Hulu

or winds up on FX or spike We wanted to kind

of throw our hat into the ring and create something

that was similar to the things we enjoy But at

the same time was a little more relatable to

certain types of characters and people that we

don't really see that often in television. I

loved shows like Friends back in the day, but

in reality, not every one of us is a science

professor like Ross. Not all four or five of

our cast members happen to be geniuses like the

Big Bang Theory guys that, you know, work in

these different science departments. Sometimes

they're just average Joes who come together and

are, you know, quirky in their own way. So we

really wanted to give real life people that we've

met, that we saw, that we are on some level,

and create a show that says, hey, this is us,

real life people you can relate to in these interesting

and funny and comical situations. Makes a lot

of sense, actually. Because, I mean, there really

aren't that many shows out there that are more

relatable in essence. I mean, yeah, a lot of

them are enjoyable. but there's not really that

much room for people to actually, really actually

associate with the character. You got it 100%.

You know, far too often you're looking at a character

that you have to strive to find certain elements

of their personality that you either connect

to, or the show gives you one or two side characters

you connect to. And that's not to say these shows,

like you said, aren't great. Like for instance,

um... Two and a half men. I mean, I know that

shows canceled and it's not the same thing since

Charlie Sheen was on it But it's they've got

great characters But in reality not everyone's

a millionaire living in this fantastic wasn't

a Malibu Beach House or whatever the heck he

has, you know It's hard to relate to those guys

who have millions of dollars like half the characters

are on TV And what they replace Charlie with

a character who's a billionaire They just tend

to one -up him. Yeah living these extravagant

lifestyles that I mean it'd be great if we all

could live but we don't you know we're average

day people it would be nice watching a show about

average day people kind of like you know back

in the late 80s early 90s whenever a Roseanne

was aired Roseanne people loved that show because

it was them it was relatable it was your next

-door neighbor it was your mom it was whomever

the heck you could connect to it was real people

you saw in everyday life And that's what roommates

is about. It's about some interesting, quirky

people. But they're people that you might have

run into every single day of your life. You might

work with at the, you know, at a coffee shop

or, you know, might have waited tables with you

because, you know, this is the average common

person. We're not all movie stars. And yes, I

given I work in film, but this is the independent

level of film. You know, I'm not sitting here

in a skyscraper or You know hanging out in some

five hundred million dollar studio on Universal

Studios. I'm out here literally in Flint, Michigan

You know making movies for a living paying my

bills Paycheck to paycheck, but having fun gained

enjoy creating art that people are entertained

by Definitely an awesome message to be Stacked

up next to So What what kind of distribution

are you hoping to get like I heard you mentioned

Hulu or or Netflix like what would be the ideal

place for you guys to get picked up at? You know

if it were to happen, I mean Well, first of all,

we sure hope it is like right I know that you

guys will end up doing it, you know into some

capacity somewhere. It's just Where your goal

is more or less? Well I do want to say this,

and it's thanks to other people, not from my

own resources. I wish I could actually verbally

credit them right now, but it's something we

really can't do in our industry until papers

are signed. Understood. Tees crossed. But I had

a couple of gentlemen who auditioned for our

films who are outstanding actors. They've got

amazing resumes that really, you know. I'm honored

just to have these people audition and don't

even know why they want to give us the time of

day But they got a hold of the script, you know,

they asked me like hey, you know, I really like

these sides Can I look at the script and I sent

the script out? They're like, you know, I love

this stuff. I love this script. This is funny

This is good. And that's such a great compliment,

you know when you're hearing guys who've worked

on, you know Literally prime time TV that you

would watch every day And they said, hey, can

I show this to someone? Do you mind? I said,

you know what? It's registered. I trust you.

Go ahead. And thanks to them kind of passing

the script around, we had two different distributor

slash studios that represent their acquisitions

people for networks that said, hey, we want a

first look. We sent out papers. We sent out contracts

and said, we want to be the first ones that actually

has this copy on our desk to review. Because

the writing of this is something we really believe

in. and think could be a solid show. So we have

our opportunities. So I don't want to disrespect

necessarily any of those networks or streaming

networks. But with that being said, I think roommates

can have the right home on really any network

if they want to take that time slot and say,

hey, we're going to go after this demographic.

And the beautiful part is this demographic isn't

just one single age group it spans a wide age

group and has relatable people to a lot of people

but it is fun it is quirky it does have that

that horror subgenre you know in a comedy type

feel of a of a big bang theory like we referenced

beforehand um do i think there's networks that

have made certain types of content that says

hey we are kind of similar to some of their contact

like an fx or spike sure We're definitely right

up those alleys, but I think it's an ideal type

of place that a network like Combi Central would

be right at home in. I think it'd actually find

a really good home anywhere at this point because

a lot of shows are actually coming to an end

and some networks don't have shows like this

or not anymore. I could definitely see the potential

for it going just about anywhere like you were

saying. Every single channel every night being

reality TV and don't get me wrong. I'll flip

on our last comic standing I watched a little

bit of that this evening really funny show, but

you know a lot of us just want to release We

want to be able to sit home turn on the TV Watch

a show for 30 minutes or an hour that makes us

forget about our daily stuff connects with the

other people because they're like us and just

get to Sit back and laugh and enjoy the the few

minutes of the day that we actually have to ourselves

Yeah, I can totally relate to that for the fact

that I'm I'm not a huge I'm not really that huge

into reality TV The the most I get into anything

is probably like Shark Tank or You know whose

line is it anyways kind of a game show slash

live it's it's different beast entirely, but

Those are really the only type of shows I watch

of that kind of nature. I'm not a huge reality

TV person So when seeing an actual series to

this degree kind of show up it kind of has me

interested in The potential and its its future

so Yeah, it's it's it's definitely cool to hear

you say all that well, I really appreciate that

it's nice to To hear other people agree with

certain philosophies. You know, you sit there

and you think to your head, I believe this and

I feel this and I believe other people feel this

way, but it's never any better than when you

actually hear people say, hey, I hear your philosophy,

I hear what you're saying, I see the ball you're

pitching, I'm ready to swing because I agree

with it, you know? Yeah, exactly. I think TV's

gotten kind of, I wouldn't necessarily say lazy,

but I would say that it's gotten They've tried

to do everything on the cheap by going with the

route of reality TV. I think it was big a few

years back, but I think that they've become too

big and too many to where people are just sick

of it again, which is why you're seeing old shows

come back revived or actors return back to their

founding stations with new TV shows that are

family -oriented or friend -oriented of some

kind. So it's it's refreshing to see more of

this start popping back up. Well, you know, we

have went through a golden era of television.

There's been some great projects out there. I

mean, I like a two broke girls and two and a

half men and any show that has the number two

in it, I guess. But I understand, too, that there

is some draw for reality TV, but you hit it right

on the head. We've been hammered with it so much

and they took it as far as they can in so many

different ways. that now we're just getting repetitive

shows and people want to enjoy being entertained

by people who spent the time honing the skills

to actually entertain us. There's almost so much

of your time you want to spend watching a person

that has no actual skill, no talent. They're

just there because they could be anybody that

was cast to be that reality TV star. Exactly.

I think that that is part of the reason why you're

seeing a lot of these shows have the revolving

door anymore. Between either whether it's a show

with judges or with cast members or concepts

or themes, it's constantly rotating because they're

just running out of ideas and because it made

money in the past, they're just beating it into

the ground. That's neither here nor there. So,

what's the current goal for the Indiegogo run?

Well, we ran a 42 -day campaign and we're literally

right at that halfway point. Matter of fact,

I think we just passed halfway. We're probably

about 20 days left in it. The original goal for

our total budget we needed to build the set was

$12 ,000. Now the $12 ,000 actually isn't all

of our costs. We have a budget and we're actually,

we have a contingency that we're able to put

a little money into it. But the $12 ,000 covers

our costs of renting the facility in which we're

actually building the set, buying all the supplies

and building materials to create it and the time

in which it costs people to actually build the

set. And these are real people that will be employed

in mid -Michigan. given it's not a full time

job for the next 26 years, but you know, it goes

back to the community. It's not just going in

our pockets and making ourselves rich. It's us

making a set, renting a Michigan facility, building

something that can help make this show that much

better. And even though it's $12 ,000, part of

that actually goes to some of the perks. I just

spent, like literally last night, I just spent

500 bucks just buying up the t -shirts alone

for the campaign. So we bought a stack of really

cool t -shirts. We're buying these stress balls

and posters. And the funny part is like, if we

go out and give a signed script, sometimes people

are like, hey, you know, that's awesome. I got

a signed script, but that's script beyond what

I physically feel like personally the value of

it. You know, it didn't really cost you anything.

And then I remind people, well, heck. 100 page

script cost me about 10 bucks to print cost me

seven eight dollars to mail to you. The sad part

is, you know, you might be, you know, buying

apart a perk for 25 bucks. But sadly, you know,

only 10 or 15 bucks were, you know, is actually

going back to the cause. The other part is going

to actually fulfill that perk. So every single

dollar is really important and really helps us

because it goes to helping us fill the perks

and rewards for you and also helping us create

this set and making a better opportunity for

our cast and crew. Cool cool, and so I see you've

been making more casting announcements recently

as well. Oh, yeah, I'm stoked You know we had

oh goodness Eight nine maybe ten different open

casting calls on some level some were invitation

based But we've seen hundreds and hundreds of

people I've received Auditions for video auditions

nationwide people in Canada people in Europe

for Pete's sake I probably saw two to three thousand

video auditions So we've really went through

some amazing people and you know I'm blessed

to have came across some of the people that wanted

to be a part of this that just blew me away Recently

we announced pop star Kira Akwesi came on board

and you might know her from that Beastie Boys

remake fight in You saw her on Real Housewives

of New York City. But she blew me away in her

video audition. Because when you have a music

star that spent years and decades of their life

honing their musical skills, they haven't probably

spent that time training as an actor, you don't

think. So when I get those artist submissions,

I'm like, I'm worried a little. I don't want

to be offensive. I hate telling these people,

hey, you might have. not have what I need because

I need the people who spent all the time you

worked on music working on acting. But then I

came and I watched these videos and I'm like,

wow, you know, you're really strong. You have

great range. You understood the character. And

she wanted to explain to me like, hey, I love

acting. I take it seriously. I train. I take

classes. I have personal instruction classes,

group classes. And she really impressed the heck

out of me. So beyond just having someone that

has 500 ,000 followers on Twitter and a huge

social media background, her last music video

I think had like one point. 2 or 1 .3 million

hits for Pete's sake. We had someone who was

really talented that truly fit the role from

a emotional range standpoint and we played with

it a bit and we kind of altered the character

because the character we cast her for, I always

had kind of more of an alternative grunge look

but she really emotionally fit it so well that

she made me believe she fits the character. That's

amazing how sometimes that can just... You envision

one thing and then it totally changes by the

time it's it's time to cast. Oh, yeah You know,

I always tell people who are fresh get into film

and you'll hear You know directors see it every

day and writers, especially they'll always say

like you put down on paper You know what you

envision is never what really winds up on screen

But sometimes when you're really lucky what winds

up on screen is even better than what you dreamed

about and I have a ton of hope and believe that

that's really going to happen here because I

mean, Kara's fantastic. We found these two guys

who are just utter diamonds in the rough. David

Lu Cooper and Mackenzie Trevor. I mean, you know,

I normally don't want to chance an entire sitcom,

let alone, you know, feature film when I'm making

them, you know, on, you know, kind of new faces.

But these two guys, I mean, they battled in every

audition. I played like Lloyd Kaufman here and

dragged them out to probably five or 10 auditions,

you know, per person just to make sure like they

wanted and they were really like that strong.

But time again and time again, they'd be everyone

that was in there and just really, really said,

hey, you know, we might not have the resume of,

you know, Joe Esdevez or Robert Zadaro who's

been in, you know, 100, 200 films, you know,

respectively. But there we can act we've got

great range, you know, we believe in the characters.

We can be the character We can act natural and

unnatural circumstances and I'll tell you what

man that uh David he's like a young Jim Carrey

only I like him better than Jim mostly as a person

You know Mackenzie Mackenzie, oh my lord, you

know, the thing is if you're around this guy

in real life You know, he's a really cool great

fun guy like a person you don't mind hanging

out with But the character he plays is a better

nerd that I see on on the Big Bang Theory I mean

you really believe him to be this like quirky

crazy guy because he's believable as a quirky

and crazy guy I mean he sells it. These two guys

are outstanding. I couldn't be happier with them.

They're gonna bring it home Care is going to

do a great job. We've got a couple other people

on Gean Ray to announce that once we get the,

once again, the T's crossed, you know, that are

just phenomenal. Robert Zidar, of course, that

I mentioned previously, he's going to appear

in this first season. And Bobby Z has been everything

from the maniac cop, you know, to the face from

Tango and Cash. So, I mean, we've got some really

fantastic people involved. Awesome. Awesome.

So how long until You guesstimate that we'll

see maybe a sneak peek at what's coming. Well,

here's the thing. For anyone who wants to going

to helproommates .com, we're going to do a special

screening of one of our episodes. I don't want

to use the term pilot because we've actually

green lit. It's called like going to series in

the world of television, but we've green lit

our first three episodes ourselves. We're producing

them ourselves. that first episode is going to

actually be screened theatrically following a

special screening of Monsters on Mainstream.

So before anyone in the world gets to see it,

before it hits TV, if you go out there and it's

gonna be a long event where you get to see Monsters

on Mainstream, you get to see the TV series,

there's a questions and answers session, but

you can get the ticket at helproommates .com

and you can come out and actually see it live

and in person. Awesome. So, anything else you'd

like to inform the listeners about before we

let you go? Well, A, please help because we badly

need it. And the perks, they're really cool.

They're things where we don't try and gorge your

wallet. We understand and respect these are hard

economic times. We just need your help. So we

give you perks that really have the value for

the dollar. For instance, for less than 200 bucks,

you can actually get your face, a picture of

you. on the wall at the coffee shop that one

of our lead actors works at as one of the customers

of the month you know just I mean little things

that aren't that expensive they don't kill your

budget that you know can actually provide you

like a real like intimate you know foray into

our TV series but you know outside of roommates

you know little creeps is going to be coming

pretty soon to home video on VOD Looking forward

to that. It's finally finished its festival tour.

We've got one festival that's been asking us

like hey Can we show this can we show this can

we do this before you go home video and that

may be the case? The monsters on Main Street

is gonna do a select theatrical tour coming up

really soon We originally wanted wanted to be

out there back in October to hit the time You

know for that Halloween original season, but

you know, we got our hands kind of tied on a

final edit of the film But now it's going to

be ready and we're going to push it out here

this fall, a limited theatrical release. And

then we're going to come to VOD and home video.

So keep your eyes out for that. Always check

out lionmotionpictures .com for possible casting

opportunities and other opportunities to be involved.

And of course, we've got a fan page on Facebook

like everyone else. So all you got to do is search

Lion, which is L -Y -O -N. So search Lion Productions

or Lion Motion Pictures on Facebook and you can

find us. Alright, sounds good. Thank you for

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