TMNT Design Controversy, Girl Meets World Revival, and Social Media Arguments

Hey, this is Steve blue and you are listening

to the geek cast radio network Hello and welcome

to altered geek unlimited episode 25 I'm your

host Steve Megatron Phillips and joining me as

per usual Mike booth ninja powers welcome Hello,

yes, how have you been the last week? Not as

busy thankfully I got the guys website done.

It's actually live for the most part. There's

a couple minor tweaks I have to do, but it's

done. For that Indiebration magazine. That is

online, I got that done, so that's out of my

hair now. Got the GCRN awards kicked up and ready

to go. Yeah, I've been meaning to ask you, is

there a way that I can... That the people on

the website can actually look at the work that

you've done before it goes live or do we just

have to wait like everybody else? Unfortunately,

it's one of those wait and seize things. I'm

probably gonna publish it. I'm thinking I'll

probably have a teaser out shortly after this

episode You'll be able to see the categories

the voting will not show up until February 1st

Okay And then you will never see the answers

until I allow them to be seen. Some some GeekCast

Radio podcast in the future? Yes, it will be

covered. The goal is to run it for a month long.

However, if voting should taper off, we may do

it the GeekCast Radio episode early. OK, so.

Just kind of depends on how that goes, but it's

Everything's done all 26 categories That was

a complete mind rape on my side Because not only

did I have to build the images But I also had

to Set up the polls and then get the pages to

display the way I was hoping that they would

display Okay, so they're nice and separated I'm

interested to see how it turned out so yeah in

fact it might even be live soon yay voting but

yeah so that's that's been preoccupying my time

plus I redid the site header out of boredom I

saw that I went to the page earlier Earlier this

week and I noticed that the first thing that

showed up was just the the the GCR in five years

thing Yeah, and like that was all that loaded.

I was like today cool What happened and then

the rest of the page snapped in and then I realized

you'd only redone the top part and I was like,

oh, okay Yeah, I stretched the awards image out

a little bit so that it would kind of touch on

the five years my original goal so the vote would

be directly in the center below the five years,

but The rest of the image would have had to be

pushed and I didn't like how it looked so mmm,

and I was trying to make gcrn extra large Because

it was itty -bitty Before so right Looks like

an ass car logo. Yeah, I know it almost looks

that way doesn't it we need to be on the side

of a car I wish That would be awesome like that

the whole thing like the first annual GCRN Awards

like you know five years like I feel like the

number five should be the number five on the

car And then like all the rest that header should

just be like wrapped around one side or something

That would be awesome So oh Only in our wildest

dreams Yep Then again that makes that sounds

like I think NASCAR is a thing and I don't so

sorry if I offended anybody Yeah, I I'm not commenting.

I don't want it. I don't want to upset anybody

So Um, I'm not sure how how long I'm going to

be on the episode this week Because I have to

get up extremely earlier early earlier early

tomorrow for work I'm not sure if I'll end up

closing up the episode with you tonight or not,

or if I'll end up leaving you at one of the breaks

and for you to talk to yourself in a mirror or

something. Either way. I'm not sure how many

people actually listen to Off the Cuff, but listen

to Altered Geek. But I don't know if you know

the wife and I purchased a Xbox one over the

weekend I Wasn't sure I thought I read that but

I wasn't sure if I was reading it from you. Yeah,

we we went out Well, it's actually kind of funny

because I woke up on Sunday morning and You know,

I'm scrolling through my Twitter feed while I'm

sitting in bed and I noticed that Best Buy has

$20 off subscription for xbox live for one year

so it's like 40 dollars and i was like well that

would be really nice if i had an xbox you know

or if i used xbox live and uh as some people

may or may not know tomb raider the definitive

edition which is on the xbox one on the playstation

4 um released early like game stop decided to

break street date and just sell it um So when

my wife and I got up on Sunday, I was like, Hey,

I want to go out and get myself a copy of, you

know, Tomb Raider, even though I had a copy of

it coming from Amazon already. Um, but it wasn't

going to arrive till Tuesday, but I really wanted

to play it. So my wife and I went out, um, to

try and find it and she had just gotten her bonus,

um, from work and stuff. And so we were kind

of out and out and about and we found a copy

and then she went. over and was looking at the

xbox one and she has a thing for zoo tycoon okay

um which for people that don't know is basically

like a sim city but you're just building a zoo

um and they have they have a zoo tycoon for xbox

one um which i told her about as soon as the

xbox one came out in an effort to try and get

her to go have these with me on an xbox one um

but she wasn't buying it at the time but for

whatever reason we were out on Sunday maybe I

think it was just because she had gotten her

bonus and um she was like man I'd really like

to play zoo tycoon I said well why don't we go

why don't we get an xbox one you know and I said

I'd I'd pay half for it so we ended up picking

up one um brought it home hooked it up that thing

is huge it is unbelievably huge really yes um

It's as big if not bigger than the original Xbox.

It is pretty big. I mean, it looks nice. I mean,

I have some problems like the fit and finish

of the whole thing. The user interface for it

is very Windows 8, and I'm not really a fan of

it. I will say that Kinect 2 .0 actually works...

Lot better than the first version of connect

which is not unsurprising It actually listens

to you when you talk Anyways So we picked it

up and it's it's a lot of fun. She had a lot

of fun playing zoo tycoon Me personally I want

it for a tiny little game coming out in March

called Titanfall So yes, you know I drop Basically

five hundred dollars on a console that I'm not

gonna play a game on for another two months,

but It's there in my house I Think my only real

gripe with the system is that it does that I

don't I don't know If you've read anything about

the Xbox one Steve, but it has this The idea

behind it is that Microsoft wanted to dominate

the input one on your TV Okay, so it has an HDMI

pass through it built into it and The idea is

that you're supposed to hook your cable box up

to you you run your cable box into your Xbox

one and then your Xbox one out to your TV or

your stereo and So when you turn on your cable

box, you can actually navigate your TV using

your Xbox And that's a really cool idea for people

have cable Myself, I was thinking that I would

try and conserve HDMI inputs, which, you know,

anyone that has a lot of electronics knows that

HDMI inputs are like, you know, a cherished commodity

in an entertainment setup. Well, I was thinking

I could piggyback, as blasphemous as this is,

I could piggyback my PlayStation 4 through my

Xbox One out to my TV. Lo and behold, the passthrough

does not work unless the Xbox One is turned on.

Which just kind of irritated me, because I was

kind of thinking, you know, why, if it has this

low power standby state, why does the passthrough

not just work? Like, I understand that it needs

to be on, but I just don't understand why it's

not part of the low power standby state, because

I don't want to have to run two consoles, my

stereo and my TV just to play a game. I know,

first world problems. So I I just unhooked it

and put everything back the way that it was I

actually had to unhook my standalone blu -ray

player just hook up my Xbox but No, it's it's

interesting. I'm interested to see what games

come for it My primary platform is still gonna

be the PlayStation 4 but at least now I'll get

to play the exclusives and be able to talk about

You know the games more in depth instead of just

being like yeah, I heard it was okay It's all

right And then No, I also I sold I Sold my old

my old my two -year -old iPad to my my dad well

to my mom to give to my dad for Father's Day

Mm -hmm, and I ended up purchasing one of the

new iPad heirs How is that it is a thing of beauty?

Actually, it's it's the story is a little more

involved in that I When I sold it to my mom I

actually ended up buying an iPad mini with the

retina display in it. That was that was gorgeous

and it was perfect for reading, you know, digital

comics or web pages or anything like that. But

I had decided that I wanted to get back into

drawing and I was going to just jump into drawing

on, you know, my on my tablet. So I bought I

bought this really nice stylus for the iPad.

It's actually called a pencil by a company called

53. And it's really nice because it's Bluetooth

enabled and there's a little gyroscope inside

of it so you can draw with it like you would

a normal pencil and when you flip it over it

automatically knows that you're trying to erase.

So you can use it just like it's a pencil. So

I bought that. And I was playing around with

it, and I drew a couple pictures. I posted some

stuff on Facebook. I don't know if anyone saw

any of it, but I realized that drawing on an

iPad Mini was a lot like drawing on, like, a

napkin square at a restaurant. Like, because

the real estate to draw on was very tiny. So

I ended up I was within my 15 day return policy

so I took it back down to the Apple Store and

I exchanged it for a full -size iPad Air and

Just like the last two iterations of the iPad

I mean from the iPad 2 to You know, it wasn't

called an iPad 3 they just call it an iPad, but

it was the third iPad It was probably the iPad

I think was like actually the fourth iPad So,

from the iPad 2 to the fourth iPad, they didn't

really change the look of it at all. It was basically

the same thing with just upgraded internals.

The iPad Air is the first major redesign since

the iPad 2, and it's a big difference. One, it's

a lot lighter, and there's some optical illusion

stuff that's going on, like the screen looks

bigger, but it's the same size screen as the

original iPad, but it just looks bigger because

they slim down the sides. And so I'm used to

seeing this this thick black border all the way

around the picture Which makes your which makes

the tablet look square, but now the tablet tablet

is now more rectangular It just you have to you

kind of have to hold one and then the other to

actually see what I'm talking about But it feels

like a brand new device yet It's it's just as

easy to use and I'm really I'm really enjoying

it So plus it matches the color of my iPhone

now, which I also appreciate So but that's I

realized that I had kept some of that stuff a

secret from a lot of people From from the listener,

so I just kind of thought I would share that

that I'm actually able to talk about that kind

of stuff now, too like I said, I mentioned like

the Xbox stuff on an off -the -cuff and we'll

see if we get any responses about that, but Other

than that I Have talked the wife into Letting

me I'm either gonna do going back to like the

TV talk I've she sold on either the 60 inch P

series or She may let me get the 65 inch reference

series which is Vizio's top the line TV this

year I Set the weight and see what the pricing

is of that so we had a we had a nice conversation

about that over dinner last night, so So I'm

kind of I'm looking forward to that. So I'm really

hoping Vizio starts announcing prices and release

dates because man if that's within That's within

my price range that I'm definitely going after

that reference series because Anyone that was

paying attention last week through that TV conversation.

I'm First of all, I applaud you for making it

through the episode But you go from you know

64 local dimming zones in the p -series to 384

in the reference series So the the picture quality

there's there's a definite definite step up in

the picture quality going from the p -series

to the reference series for Vizio TVs, so Well,

that's about all I got I figure maybe we can

move on to talking about Some media and then

I might skip out Okay, unless you unless you

want to share what you've been doing the last

I know you said you were doing a lot of work

I just I didn't know if there was anything else

you wanted to share. I don't care to elaborate

It was it was more than I I'd ever care to take

out most part just want to forget about it Yeah,

I want to bury it in the past All right So have

I know that this is the new hot button on the

internet right now. The Ninja Turtles stuff that's

been popping up, whether it be the poster or

the picture of the shredder or the toys. Okay,

I know we talked for a second off air about this

stuff. And I spilled my opinion. I want to know

what you think, Steve. Okay. I'm torn, actually.

Was expecting to full -on nerd rage on this thing

and then the more I realized What you know because

let's face it people that have nostalgia get

really get like a hard -on for attacking things

that Ultimately don't matter whoa whoa Steve

come on now That doesn't happen. I'm I'm re -evaluating

myself lately, and I'm fighting. I'm doing the

nerd ragey thing a lot There's certain yes, there

are certain things at least continuity or not

continuity But like story origin wise of certain

things that that irks me when they don't do it

or certain Styles that they don't keep with I

didn't expect them to keep the old 90s hokey

look That was kind of that timeline I think that

the was at the 89 turtles Was it 90 or 89 or

90? It was 89 in 90, 91. It was 90 and 91 for

Turtles and Turtles 2. I like the design of the

Turtles in the 90s series in the 90s movie. It's

the designs after that in Turtles 2, Turtles

3 that just... I hate it. They looked really

bad. Here, I have some issues. with the um the

ninja turtles and it's it's more so i don't i

don't care that they've got you know the different

turtley textures and all that stuff because honestly

they kind of should my my problem is he michael

bay michael bay uh instead of bay formers he

did turtle like bay turtles um he added lips

to him which i find kind of Irritatingly creepy

like I don't like the Donatello one looks fine,

but I find it annoying that he has to wear nerdy

glasses or Yeah, I don't I don't know something

about that bothers me and then the fact that

Mikey and Raphael have noses Wait a second. I

need to go look at this because I don't it's

in the the dropbox folder I'll put it in is it

that poster that you put up? Yeah Don't know

I I'll post it in the episode. I'm looking at

it right now. Hey First of all, I don't think

that that that doesn't look like an official

movie poster to me. It doesn't but it's I've

heard that that's one of the teasing posters

out. I Mean I don't know I really have a problem

with them and it goes back to Thank you Hey my

wife brought my food in It goes back to the whole

issue that we kind of talked about with Oh, what

was it Green Lantern? You know a lot of people

had problems with the suit when they first saw

it and you know the two issues I had with the

movie beyond the script were you know the mask

and Blake Lively It had nothing to do with the

CGI suit and the guys that are handling this

this stuff It's the same crew that worked on

Planet of the Apes the remake Like the one not

not or I'm sorry rise of the Planet of the Apes.

It just came out like two years ago Yeah, it's

the same. It's the same team that's working on

these the motion capture for these guys So it's

one of these things where it's like one thing

to look at them in a picture But I have I have

to see them in motion Yes, I have to see this

stuff in motion. I don't even know if a trailer

is going to do it justice. I don't think so.

Honestly, I think this I think this is like the

equivalent of this is going to be the new hot

button between fans, I think. And I agree, I'm

jumping on that ship to some degree in this category,

but. I I find myself liking them but not liking

them and it's it's only because of those key

features like if they if if they Got rid of the

nerd glasses off Donnie because it's basing it

off a stereotype and let's face it Michael Bay

loves his stereotypes Yeah, but if you think

about though they've all been Stereotypes the

turtles have been you don't need to like shove

it my face essentially with the With the glasses

thing Like I get he's high -tech. He's he's nerdy.

He doesn't mean Again, we have to see how I still

I want to see how it plays out. I don't know

Like I'm more interested in the movie now than

I was maybe like a week ago I mean I was I'm

I like Ninja Turtles. I really do And I'm happy

anytime they get more screen time. I'm really

enjoying the Nickelodeon series and whatnot I

You know, I'm I'm actually more amazed that it

took this long for this stuff to come out No

for this stuff to come out like the artwork for

this movie to come out. They've kept it really

well hidden honestly. Yeah So I'm I'm excited

to see how it looks. I'm kind of bummed that

it got moved back to the end of summer. But that's

fine, because that just gives it more time to

finish up the effects. Now it is coming out this

year, right? Yes, it's this fall. I think it's

like a September, August or September. It's an

end of summer movie. I think originally it was

supposed to come out in March. I'm fine with

it as long as they can manage to do it right,

I guess. In the same vein... What do you think

of Shredder? I honestly love that. Because I

wasn't thrilled with the original Shredder from

the first set of films. So I'm fine with it.

Although there stands to reason that I'm wondering

if the Udram Krang are going to be in it. I'm

ready for the fact that they've said that the

ooze comes from another planet and from the looks

of it shredders stomach has the casing Well,

I mean I I've heard I remember when the whole

hype about Teenage Mutant when they were remaking

it and everyone was like, oh, it's Michael Bay

and there's a leaked script and it was this that

and the other thing I there was a really interesting

video and Maybe I will try and track it down

while we're talking here. We can put it in the

show notes done by a guy over on escapist magazine.

He's one of TFG one Mike's favorites the movie

Bob He actually has some really compelling videos,

but he did a take a look at the actual history

for Stop stop, okay He did a look at the actual

history of Ninja Turtles like where they came

from and what their comic origins actually are

And supposedly the ooze is actually at least

the oozes from another dimension. That is one

thing. That's for certain like space another

dimension I Think it was like that's like six

of one half a dozen of the other right? Yeah

So I mean and he was he was specifically attacking

the people that were just like freaking out over

the fact that he's making the TV to turn he's

making the turtles aliens Now I can see people

being pissed about the aliens thing but the I

mean realistically I wouldn't expect humans to

be able to come up with something like that Well,

I'm just I'm just saying I'm thinking but that

that's what it always was though It was the ooze

is from another dimension or planet and people

were just rolling that into he's making them

aliens, but that's But that's what they've like

if you're looking at it that way technically

that's what they've you know always been I think

I think I have it right off the watch it before

I actually send it to you some later, but I Will

let you know if I found the right one But yeah,

it's just a really interesting look at people

getting mad about the rumors and the implications

behind it and Like super like and one of the

funny things he says in the actual video is says

that if people cared about the turtles as much

as the Act is as many people cared about the

turtles as the internet is raging right now Kevin

Eastman and Peter layer would be rich mother

efforts Was basically his joke which I thought

was really funny But I'm I'm interested to see

I'm just I'm glad it's coming back to the to

the to the screen the question is Can I get my

wife to watch it? My wife won't watch the original

set see that's I would never try and show my

wife two and three because I refuse to watch

those ones myself I love to because I grew up

with that one, but three is atrocious. I would

I would try and get her to watch like TMNT and

The 90s one because the 90s like I said, I like

the 90s one I like TMNT just from the visual

style that they they chose in the in these subtle

connections It has to the live -action series

the live -action films but I'm I'm interested

to see if If if I can get her to watch this,

I mean if not I'm sure I can get you know You

or some of my other friends to go with me. I

don't think so. I'm definitely planning on going

so Well, then we should probably make plans to

go together Yay! AGU on location, though. Yeah,

we can record while we watch the movie and ruin

it for everybody. Yeah, Mystery Science Theater

it up. That'd be hilarious. They'd be like, you

have to leave, I'm sorry. Alright, what else

we got? Oh... We have... Girl Meets World, which...

I don't know how excited you are for that show,

but it's a quasi continuation of Boy Meets World

from the 90s. I'm indifferent towards it right

now. I have no problem with Boy Meets World.

I actually remember liking Boy Meets World. I

actually own all of Boy Meets World on DVD. As

do I. I'm kind of mad. I ordered my wife one

of them. I think I got them for her birthday

last year. Ordered them off of Amazon and they

didn't have a box set yet. All they had was like

the individual seasons But some guy had bought

had put all the seasons together and he was selling

them that way So I bought that and I guess sometime

in the last year they decided to actually release

a box set of boy meets world So kind of irritated

I bought them years ago online They were all

bootleg and I didn't realize that when I bought

them Which is why I don't really buy stuff online

anymore when it's digital media So I have them

all they're all like stuff that people recorded

off ABC Family Like it's presented nicely and

they're they're nice for the most part. I have

three bad episodes out of the whole Batch of

the eight seasons or whatever There was like

a there's a thing with them Ellie McBeal It took

a long time for Ally McBeal to come to DVD like

that. There was a black market for Ally McBeal

on DVD Which was basically the you know, the

bootleg copies put into nice packaging And I

remember that was a thing because You know when

when those I don't think this is like the case

with like Boy Meets World But I know it was with

Ally McBeal when they used licensed music when

they produced the show, there was no DVD releases

of TV shows. So the music licenses were all just

for the broadcast of the show, and to release

them on DVD would require new licensing. And

so now, but now Ally McBeal is actually on DVD

and it's on Netflix and stuff. The question is,

and I don't know because I never really watched

the show, but I'm wondering if they went ahead

and got the licenses for those kinds of distributions

or if the TV shows have been altered and different

music was added in. If anyone knows, if there's

any Ally McBeal fans that know the difference

between when it aired on TV and if there are

any differences to like the DVD release or the...

The the streaming alia McBeals let us know because

I do know that that was like a thing Because

like one of my favorite TV shows two guys a girl

on the pizza place Is another one of those shows

that you can only get the high -quality bootleg

copies of they don't have a an actual DVD release

for it, which is weird considering that Ryan

Reynolds is like a thing right now So we have

so boys world never really I mean, I never disliked

it. I remember watching it on TGIF As to die,

I'm I'm interested to see what they do I'm more

interested in the fact that ABC has enough faith

in it in it to go to 21 episodes It's actually

Disney that has a surprise but it's ABC that's

the same thing, right? Essentially, I mean is

it airing on the Disney Channel or is it airing?

Yeah, it's airing on Disney Channel. Oh, ABC's

not even playing it. Nope. It's strictly Disney

Channel they They well they have a couple shows

ending currently so it's gonna be filling that

gap and I guess ABC thing nope They it's the

same producers and everything. It's it used to

be on ABC and ABC family so I mean it's still

a Disney subsidiary I mean they owned it overall

but yeah yeah yeah I'm just I'm just right here

on Disney Channel yeah I'm just I guess I'm more

I guess that's the big news to me really is that

it's not on ABC it's on Disney I think the reasoning

for that is is it's about a girl oh yeah Because

girly shows no offense. I'm not trying to be

sexist or anything But I'm just saying like shows

that have a main character of a younger girl

or whatever Generally always go on Disney whereas

if it's like a boy. They don't really have that

okay, so really this whole thing you just this

so I'm imagining what a girl meets world is like

Disney's version of iCarly which makes me sad

It could be I don't know but It's still gonna

feature prominently the guy that played Corey

Feeney is gonna be in the first episode. They've

already kind of confirmed that the older brother

and Eric and Sean the best friend will return

at some point Well, you know cuz I'm not doing

anything. I mean Kevin is only gonna get you

so far well The guy that plays Eric he does voiceover.

Oh, I know that I'm just pretty much just yeah

Sean he doesn't do anything Sean did cabin fever

and fell off the face of the planet so yeah he

does like independent like shows kind of thing

now i mean um but the chick that played tapanga

she's gonna basically own the juice bar from

uh either power rangers or saved by the bell

okay well i mean the kids hang out so man i'll

probably watch like i'll be amazed if this gets

past my two episode shake because i the fact

that it's getting pigeonholed into like the typical

Disney Disney channel stuff rather than you know

an ABC comedy is I don't know that's that breaks

my heart just a little bit I have this odd feeling

that it's gonna end up being a uh um one of those

almost throwaway -ish type shows I mean why couldn't

have had the same gravitas or gravity is like

last man standing because it's on disney right

but i'm saying like why wasn't it why did i mean

that's what i'm just saying like why could why

could it not have been on abc but done more of

like you know i just i feel like it's gonna be

worse than last man standing and i but i don't

think i like the i like the the the stories in

last man standing i like the message in last

in last man standing i just Was kind of hoping

that girl meets world would be that same thing

But and maybe it is like I could be wrong but

Like I said, I haven't seen one one thing from

this outside of like a screenshot so Who knows?

Yeah I Hope that they do it justice. I hope they

don't botch it, right? I'd really be sad Because

I I did love boy meets world like it was one

of the shows. I watched every week as a kid so

mm -hmm But all right, it's about as far as I'm

gonna take that one We're gonna just the last

bit of media, which is just fun stuff. Yeah Legos

I lost my mind when I saw this today at work

I Wow i like i love ghostbusters um i find the

first movie to be endlessly quotable sadly i

don't own either the first or the second one

on on dvd or blu -ray i really feel like i should

rectify that soon um but i've seen them dozens

of times and you know it's it's one of those

obviously those series are those two movies are

one of the movies that you get your catchphrases

from right like you use phrases from those shows

and like your regular life um or from those movies

in your regular life. My favorite one is, yes,

have some. Very few people understand that's

a Ghostbusters reference, but I love that. And

I also, as Steve said, we're gonna talk about

Legos, and I love Legos. I love them. Now, so

much that I'm older, I just kind of buy them.

I buy the really nice ones, and I put them on

my bookshelf to display. Well, why shouldn't

you? Right, exactly. You're not going to beat

them all to hell anymore. I mean, you're just

going to have them as nice display pieces. Exactly,

because some of these new ones look, you know,

they're definitely displayable. And, lo and behold,

I caught the news from SlashFilm that the Kuoso,

I don't know if it's Kuoso or Kuso, is a Lego

thing where you can submit your designs and your

designs can be voted on. And if it reaches, I

think, 10 ,000 votes, LEGO will seriously chase

down the rights to produce the set that was voted

on. Nice. They've done like Back to the Future,

like they've had the DeLorean. Which it wasn't

just a DeLorean from one of the three movies,

it was a DeLorean that you could build to look

like whichever DeLorean you wanted. Which is

infinitely awesome. Yes. However, in defense

of the DeLorean, the set that LEGO released is

not as cool as the set that the guy built for

submission. That's sad. That is kind of sad.

But then again, you realize it's LEGO and they

have to be able to, you know, earn somewhat of

a profit or, you know. However, going back on

topic, the lead up here is they are going to

release the Ecto -1. With the four minifigures

of the Ghostbusters Nice and I am So excited

for this They don't have a release date yet.

They said that it was coming later this year

And again, they also said the design has not

been finalized So as cool as it looks in the

pictures and the links that we're sending you

it may not look that way because One of them

I believe one of the pictures actually has the

damn thing lighting up And I don't know if that's

gonna carry over to the final build, but man,

I hope it does. That would look, that'd make

an awesome nightlight. Just leaving that on out

in my family room. But yeah, so I'm definitely

looking forward to that. And Steve, you found

one. Yeah, the... Lego Batmobile. Which, of course,

there's no reason not to get excited about that

either. Oh, no. And the funny thing is, when

I Googled it, there are tons of different ones

that people have made. I didn't know that they

actually had released certain ones. I think they've

done the Tumblr. They did the Tumblr. They also

did one that's got that bat symbol head thing

on the front. The front hood scoop thing. And

it's got the two fins in the back. That's an

official Batman set But I've also seen on the

internet People have made the Batman Returns

Batmobile The animated series Batmobile and the

Arkham Batmobile, okay Which for me those three

I I'd have to own Was I you know, I'm gonna see

if I can track down a tumblr set because that's

my favorite batmobile. I Mean, I I do like I

don't get around I like the animated series.

Well, I like all the incarnation of the animated

series batmobile But I there's just something

about the tumblr that I really really like I

think it was because it was practical like it

wasn't a sports car. It was actually usable But

side note talking about the Batmobile And I can

send you the picture if you want to put it in

the notes Steve Okay, you know I took that picture

of the Cadillac at the Auto Show I think that

is that may be the car that they're going to

turn into the Batmobile Okay I don't I'm not

100 % sure but I know that just looking at it.

It looks like the Batmobile. For anyone that

wants to know, it's the Cadillac El Mirage. It's

just a concept, but we all know that concept

cars can become film cars, case in point, the

Camaro. But anyways, you're excited for those

sets, Steve? Yes, definitely. I need you to carry

the show because I'm trying to email this picture

to you. Not a problem. I will throw that in the

show notes. So I think we'll take a quick break

and come back with the Blitz, and then if we

see you or not after that, it remains to be seen.

Sounds good to me. All right, we're back we're

going to do the blitz looks like this time we've

got three topics lined up so it'll be about six

minutes give or take a few to reset the the old

timer here and after that I'm going to We'll

take another smaller break. So I'm gonna jet

after that So, let me get out my stopwatch here

and I think you know what I'm gonna do it this

week I'm actually going to find a nicer ring

for the show for the buzzer anyways than what

I've been using so all right the first thing

we've got we found a story about a man builds

a shrine to a retro video game collection this

little little setup here are there any numbers

in this article Nope, that's just a really nice

looking shelf. Okay. Looks like Joe's basement.

All right, anyways Yeah, we'll go ahead and start

the timer here I'll go I'm gonna count down from

three and then I'm gonna let Steve take it away.

So three two one So yeah the Images that it shows

on this link of this guy's retro video game shrine

he has a ton of classic games controllers all

the different versions of the game boy in multitudes

of colors and variations all the way through

a lot of modern stuff and then he's got stacks

and stacks of like Nintendo Super Nintendo Sega

like every game console nicely organized it's

insane yeah it looks nice I'm just wondering

like is this See I'm wondering if it doesn't

if he's got more games somewhere else in the

house because this does seem very Limited like

the shots are all like the same wall And that

is really cool that he found a way to display

maybe I'm guessing what are probably his favorite

games for those systems I wish I had all my I

mean I've had most of these I've had the you

know the Super Nintendo the 64 the PlayStation

the GameCube the NES Looks like he's got something

down there on top of the NES. Can't really tell

what it is I know if Joe was here he'd be able

to tell us what this is For those that are interested.

This is what Joe reads Joe read from off the

cuff Most of the stuff is in his basement, except

it's not this well organized The most important

part about all this I think is that he has it

hooked up to a standard definition television

Which in my opinion is the best and only way

to play those systems. So More power to you sir

for keeping that around Yes, it definitely makes

sense and it from the appearance it actually

looks like he might actually have them hooked

up to a switch box on the side That's that's

what I noticed too because he's got one set of

cables running into the front of that TV Which

why you'd run them into the front. I have no

idea why But either way easier. No, it's it's

it's cool Yeah, I mean, I wish I had a way to

display this other than you know, just the spines

of my game cases All right, let's see here Let's

see Next up this will probably be more just possibly

us ranting a little bit Last week we put out

a feelers to see if anyone had heard Any information

regarding like the multi -picture deals that

like Samuel Jackson and Chris Evans had signed

to play, you know Nick Fury and Captain America

in in either like if their cameos count as like

towards their picture deal. And Dragono responded

with, I heard when it comes to the picture deals,

it counts for an appearance they make with the

character. So again, we're going to start, I'm

going to count down from three and then I'm going

to let Steve take it away. So three, two, one.

I honestly think that. Anytime they show up in

a motion picture of any kind such as like when

Robert Downey jr. Showed up in Hulk or in other

Little little minor scenes kind of thing. I think

that that kind of applies You know same thing

with like Nick Fury or Captain America and anytime

any of them cross over between films I think

that it's a part of their motion picture deal

I'm not sure how the TV thing works. I kind of

think that that's a separate entity on itself

Because they made that it's up to the actor whether

they want to go down to TV level Right. I don't

know. I just think I think it's weird I mean

obviously they're paid a lump sum of money to

do the role nine times. I guess it doesn't matter

how how big or small that appearance is. I guess

I didn't really think about that last week when

we kind of posed that question, you know, it's

like you're contractually obligated, we're going

to give you this much money and we're just going

to use you nine times, whether it's like for

an entire movie or, you know, it's like 30 seconds

as a cameo. I guess I don't know. It just seems

weird because for some reason I feel like, yeah,

they're contractually obligated, but I feel like

it's they... for some reason in my head at the

time i was thinking that they receive like a

million dollars for like you know 30 seconds

worth of a cameo it's like are you kidding me

i mean yeah that happens like sometimes but um

i just i totally forgot that it was probably

like a whole package deal where they've already

received the money that they're gonna receive

outside of any like box office residuals which

is what robert downey jr gets um But, yeah, I

don't know. I guess we just had our heads stuck

up our asses last week. Or I did, at least, because

that really shouldn't even have been a question.

I just wasn't thinking about it in the right

context, so... Yeah, that'll about do it for

that one. Yep. Oh, time. And then the last one

we've got... apps for podcasting or apps for

listening to podcasts on smartphones mostly Android

If you'd like us to we're gonna do this in the

in the blitz But if you'd like us to expand on

this we can do that at the top of the next episode

Or maybe like the night maybe the episode after

that because I think we've got a plan for next

week's episode, but We can expand on it in a

later episode. Yes, so Countdown from three and

Steve take it away. So three two one Well, if

you're looking for the streaming route, I would

say stitcher depending on if the website actually

Has the show submitted there kind of like we

do but if you're not looking into streaming options

There are varying podcast players some free some

pay just kind of depends on how you like the

interface of the apps I in the show notes because

I don't want to go in and list every single one

of them. I have multiple links with varying Android

apps, and I've heard of some of them, so it should

be cool. Yeah, I was gonna, at first I was gonna

suggest Downcast, but he said he wasn't a fan

of that. I know that it works fairly well on

iOS. It's actually rivaled Against Apple's own

podcast apps which up until Maybe six months

ago was a piece of garbage But they've since

fixed the app by itself But downcast was like

the alternative to the their put the true Apple's

own podcast app. Well, it was broken Another

thing and again, that's iOS. So that's not your

thing, but I swear by Apple's podcast app that's

what I use right now because it just makes it

so easy to subscribe to podcasts and whatnot.

I always suggest giving downcast another try

if it's been a while since you've used it. The

other option that I will put in the show notes

is an app called Double Twist. I think what part

of the problem might be is that you might need

just a way to get them on your Android that's

easy and from what I've used of Double Twist

it It runs in parity with iTunes, and I know

a lot of people don't like iTunes, but they have

a really large podcast directory. But if I remember

correctly, it runs side by side with iTunes,

only it will interface with your Android device

and allow you to sync your podcasts and music

that you have in iTunes to your Android device.

Shoot. So if you would like us to elaborate on

that any more in the future. Just ask us, you

know, remind us and we'll come back to it. But

yeah, definitely try out Double Twist. And there's

a link in the show notes. There was one other

thing that Tim Silver's brought up just to save

time on you. I think we'll come back and cover

that next week as far as catching up on shows.

That's what I was going to say. Yeah, I wanted

to talk about I was going to bring that up. as

if we could come back to the catcher thing because

I did I you know we had that late submission

from Tim and I did want to talk about that just

not this week so yeah obviously because that

would go too far in depth and right you're you

have to work I do I do I do I do and I have Taco

Bell sitting here to eat yay Taco Bell so yeah

we'll cover that probably in the beginning of

the show I think next week will be more so a

topic show yeah I think we're going to We're

going to do the Super Bowl commercials, right?

Yes. We're going to cover those and kind of go

across them and give our thoughts about them.

And I think we should do what we should do, Steve,

is we should find a way to compile a list of

the commercials that were shown and do a poll.

I'll see. I'll see what I can because I know

Hulu does a like a Super Bowl commercial section

where you can watch all the commercials. Now

do we want to have the poll up for this episode

or do we want to have it up for next episode?

Well, I'm thinking that if we can get it up like

Monday and Then we could you know just pull it

for we can do it from Monday to Thursday Okay

Again because I will have to pull the list of

ads that we can find You know that actually aired

on like Sunday kind of kind of on Monday and

maybe posted on Monday Just just run it until

Thursday People can vote on what their favorite

one was And we can kind of just you know kind

of go off of that Or something. I don't know

just throwing it out there You can find myself

on Twitter at booth ninja 81 so if you want to

shout at me there So yeah, I will be back next

week guys don't have too much fun with Steve

Alrighty, so we'll catch you after the break

Bye! Welcome back to altered geek unlimited it

is the headshot segment of the show This segment

will actually be rotated in and out Off and on

in the future between the blitz and There's a

couple other segments that will be rotated in

and out as well it just kind of depends but This

time on this edition of headshot Which in case

you guys didn't get it the concept yet. It's

kind of like the family guy thing of You know

it grinds my gears So yeah, that's basically

what it is This time I'm going to complain because

Social media seems to and I mentioned this earlier

in the show It runs rampant, not only with fan

raging, but it also traverses across with social

media, only for the fact that people tend to

get bent out of shape over things people post.

And it doesn't really matter what it is. And

you have various personality types. You have

the people that go overlay board with the comedy

of it, making fun of something, whether it's

hilarious or not. Some of them go overboard with

it. For instance, well, I'll get into the other

typical types. Then you have the one that's posting

it. really to be mean or anything but just because

it's something that it's something that they

believe or something that they like but don't

necessarily want comments on it and then you

have the ones that are in full support of whatever

it is or you have the ones that are on the polar

opposite that are like you're evil for posting

this blah blah blah I I kinda have a hard time

with posting on Facebook anymore. And I think

the big dilemma is when I'm posting something,

I rarely post on Facebook on my account there.

I really don't use it all that much. But for

example, I posted earlier today a image and it

was between It was between the snowfall thing

and it had to do with The the extreme snow that

that fell here in the northern states like Michigan

and It was poking fun at the fact that you know

in Atlanta. They had no snow, but it was all

ice I found it humorous because Again, I can

relate to it because of the fact that It shows

like the the Atlanta snowpocalypse in the northern

snowpocalypse and the snow in Michigan I can

relate to only for the fact that I live here

and I have to drive through the crap and I have

to work in the crap so It showed a side -by -side

in the Atlanta when it has bumper -to -bumper

traffic and everybody you know on ice and the

cars are kind of staggering and it says atlanta

snowpocalypse motorists stay overnight in cars

or take 16 hours to drive home and then it says

northern snowpocalypse motorists grow impatient

walk home even miles abandon their cars now granted

i know that people in atlanta did the same thing

that's irrelevant it's it's one of those stupid

internet memes floating around just kind of poking

fun at the difference between atlanta snowpocalypse

and northern state snowpocalypse Okay. They're

equally bad, they're equally terrible, they suck

either way, nobody likes them. It's just, it

was making fun of the fact that one has ice and

bumper -to -bumper traffic, and the other one's

bumper -to -bumper traffic with a foot of snow,

or two feet of snow. So... It was in no way meant

to be derogatory towards anybody, I just thought

it was a little funny. Well... I'm in class,

and it's... this particular class was boring

the crap out of me. So I was checking my Facebook

and lo and behold somebody says a lot of Atlanteans

did abandon their cars and walk home also friendly

reminder that southern states infrastructure

is not set up to handle ice and snow conditions

okay so it's not but you know it's it's funny

to me because I'm from the north and I can drive

in the snow and I can drive on ice for the most

part I'm not saying you know trying to discount

it or anything and this person is making me out

to be the bad guy for posting it when I didn't

make it I just reposted it because I thought

it was funny and so I tried I said you know wasn't

trying to stir the pot just found it funny both

are equally suckage and then this particular

person said lots of folks find it funny I doubt

the nearly 200 families who lost loved ones the

past two days think it's all that laughable And

then I had to, you know, reply, I'm like, again,

was laughable at the image, not the predicament.

I live in Michigan, so the one with snow is relatable,

so please don't twist it around like I'm laughing

at the dead. That's the example of one person

going the polar opposite and making it out to

be something that it's not. It's a joke. Get

over it. But again, it's one of those people

that like to argue about stupid shit. So... Another

person on my Facebook proceeds to because that

person's done talking at this point. And so this

other person says, well, I'm laughing at the

dead, so bite me. And then the person immediately

after says, not everything has to be twisted

in a gloom and despair. And then it was kind

of back and forth between that person and another

person. And mind you, I'm not mentioning names

because I don't want to call anybody out. So

it was just a back and forth kind of making fun

of you know life and stupid stresses that people

put on themselves and It just kind of went back

and forth between there and then they proceeded

to post winter car crash fail compilations of

2013 and they have like the snowpocalypse in

the north and the south and It was just humorous

and then they said that they should be set to

the theme of Benny Hill, which I, again, had

to laugh. Now mind you, these people are just

poking fun at it. It's not a big deal, like,

yeah, I'm sorry for people if they lost somebody

in the snow stuff, like, that's horrible, I'd

never laugh at that, but I was laughing at the

image, again. So, for those that have access

to my Facebook account that are on my friends

list, I posted, you know, WTF Is it with people

wanting to argue so damn much about shit that

doesn't matter? I post an image or find something

funny, it doesn't mean I want a negative comment.

Either like it, comment nicely, or move on. And

that's pretty much what's breeding on Facebook

and social media at this point, is the fact that

people just want to argue about stupid shit.

It's just, it's not worth it. It's, I mean, it's

fine. to disagree or to state a viewpoint, okay,

but if somebody's posting something like that,

they don't really want to hear a downer. It was

meant as humor. People take shit so seriously

on social media. I'm not gonna lie, sometimes

I'm guilty of it, but it's only, again, in my

fanboyisms. I don't... Sometimes politics, I'll

give you that, because I know some people I've

irritated with that too, but... I try and steer

clear of everything now because I don't want

to end up in a 12 -hour argument on Facebook.

I had one of those with the political thing and

the Obamacare. I really don't care to redo that

scenario of 12 hours of arguing and again over

two differences of opinions. Now mind you, the

other day, and this again comes back to the same

stupidity clause, I was recording with TFG1 Mike.

I believe it was like Tuesday night or something

like that he posted something again political

and he found it humorous and I I couldn't help

like I I liked it or whatever and he was complaining

about something with the Obamacare and I Made

a slight comment or something towards it. Well

a couple people that know us online that we collaborate

with Took an irritated Well, they put it under

the microscope and just zoomed in and basically

just started ramrodding us with it It was stupid

Like, I don't understand why people want to argue

about crap when it has nothing to do with them.

I mean, honestly, it's... I don't jump on other

people's Facebook pages just because they say

something and they're like, oh, this is my opinion,

you know? They'll say their political views or

their belief on this and that. I ultimately don't

care. Like, it's not a big deal. I'm not going

to argue with somebody because everybody has

differing opinions. That's anything. It's like...

bungholes. Everybody has one. So I'm not going

to try and get in on this but anyways it had

to do with the exchanges and how you know young

people aren't enrolling or something like that

and Mike says don't enroll. Well one person starts

flipping out and then it was back and forth between

him and then my brother joins in and then I join

in and then this person wouldn't stop. And then

it eventually came to a point where I said, we're

obviously going to have to agree to disagree

here. No one is going to sway the other party.

And I'm frankly done discussing it. You'll do

what you're going to do and I'll do what I'm

going to do. And then they said, fair enough.

And then more people started in on it. So there

were two other people that started in on it.

And then not really trying to argue, just bringing

it back up. And then one of our Canadian contributors

jumps in on it who has nothing to do with. the

conversation, like I'm not trying to be mean,

but it's... I don't sit there and talk about

Canada's healthcare or Canada the way it's run.

I don't really care to hear it. So then this

other person's jumping in again on it and suffice

it to say this person likes to argue just like

the other person likes to argue that did it to

me. So it was a little annoying to me. And then

I check earlier today and there's another scenario

similar to that of something that was posted

by somebody and I think it might have been Mike

posted another thing and The same people jumped

in on it, and I was like seriously you're gonna

sit here pissing moan about it again But I'm

not trying to drag the show down the down the

crapper like honestly. I'm not I I'm sorry for

and again. This is what headshot is and I'm trying

not to I'm trying to keep it PG 13 rated because

the original headshot was our like X rated as

far as like vocals were concerned and the colorful

euphemisms we would use so I'm just saying that

with comes social media Comes stupidity as far

as like wanting to argue with people And I'm

not trying to call anybody stupid, it's just...

Arguments on social media, it's as dumb as people

saying, I ate a can of tuna for lunch, I went

to the bathroom, I took a shower and I'm going

to bed. You know, it's just dumb. So... And...

Like I said, it's it's it's social media for

you. I mean it I agree It's it helps to connect

people and I love it. It's it's nice and all

that but It's These are I'm gonna quote two more

things Not these are just on my WTF part One

person says you got it right if you got rid of

the constant Facebook post crap of, I slept in

this morning, my bowel movements have been irregular.

Worst case of jock itch ever. Stayed in tonight

and fixed a TV dinner, then threw up two hours

later. Piss off dude, say what? These pages would

be damn near blank. Point being, if it really

matters that much to you, then pick up a damn

phone and say your piece and hang up and do something

meaningful. So another person says it's because

some of us feel we have to be right and the other

guy gal has to be wrong Sorry, I know how you

feel I'm trying to reach a point in my life where

I don't discuss politics or religion But that

cuts out half of the good jokes. I've heard so

it's tough. So I mean again, it's it's just I

I'm gonna end this diatribe before the show goes

down the crapper. So we'll be back after this

Welcome back to altered geek unlimited so I figured

this week I'll go ahead and give you guys a couple

of questions to play around with before I close

it out first being what are some of the Super

Bowl commercials that you're looking forward

to or that you liked that you've already watched

be sure to let us know when the Feedback area

and we'll Maybe put those for a revolving poll

So we can kind of narrow down by the next episode

Which ones everybody kind of likes overall and

we'll cover those ones on the episode The other

thing is if you could be in a TV show or film

No, let's stick with TV show and work with particular

show or person what show would you want to be

on and guest and get to to meet the star of the

show just a fun one there so I think that about

rounds it out for this episode I don't want to

drag it down the rat hole unfortunately I did

during the headshot segment which I apologize

for but should be fun in any case through this

show and the remainder and everything else Maybe

we'll cover something a little bit different.

I know we're going to cover some of the ways

to download TV shows legally next episode, as

well as a little bit of breakdown of the GCR

and awards. Those should be available for viewing

of the categories and the nominees by the time

this episode is live. The voting polls will not

appear until february first so will have to wait

for that uh... other than that uh... i think

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