Birthdays, Casting News, and Casey Kasem

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to another edition of Altered geek unlimited.

I'm your host Steve Megatron Phillips and joining

me is Dave John Mike yo Yo It's episode 45 Yay

five more to 50 and I'm two more to 30 so No,

you're two more until your 3 .0 lifespan people

live that long? Oh my god, All Things Transformers

3 .0. Hell no. That show will die. No, it won't.

It will retire peacefully. Let's see, what have

I been up to? Nobody asked you. I'm just playing.

Getting a lot of interviews. uh... talk to bobby

kernel from idw publishing uh... as of this recording

i am planning to talk to captain and the game

master a .k .a matt hill who is the voice of

kevin keen on captain and the game master uh...

i've got several other ones that i want to line

up haven't just done that yet What else is going

on with me? I've been reading a lot I actually

went back and read through all seven issues of

forever evil. It's not Not very good for me.

It's not well. Here's the thing For those that

haven't listened to the pull bag Ryan Dross basically

made a comment to me during our Nightwing no

more coverage that He basically said you really

only care about the bat family in the DC Universe

dog show I said he Kinda. And I'm thinking that's

kinda true. While I did find a couple of the

Crime Syndicate characters like Johnny Quick

and Atomica funny and interesting, outside of

what centered around Batman and Nightwing, I

honestly did not care about Forever Evil. What

else have I been doing? I actually sat through,

and this is sad, I don't know, I honestly don't

remember if I mentioned this last week, but I

sat through X number of hours of someone playing

through Grand Theft Auto V and now I don't even

think I want to buy the game. Not that the game

isn't good, but I just already know what happens.

So maybe that wasn't the best option, but other

than that... you know, dealing with the neighbors

and people not doing what they're supposed to

do and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I've

had a rough couple of weeks. I've been in kind

of a funk. Like I haven't wanted to do anything.

I haven't wanted to watch cartoons. I haven't

wanted to watch a lot of stuff. So hopefully

I'm coming out of that. Well, I just turned 28.

Yay! Happy birthday! Yes, and um... The old fart.

Nah. Sounded more like a horse than a comet,

but... Anyways. So yeah, I've been doing that,

getting older, and then did some more work on

the house, because I took three days off, and

then... Went to the zoo Which was entertaining

I haven't been there to the Detroit Zoo and I

don't know Four or five years took my son there.

He liked it so he got tired then he just didn't

give a shit Gets the penguin exhibit and he's

like Holding his nose and like giving this like

smell like it stinks because the penguin area

is it does reek pretty bad and so it was kind

of funny and You'd think skipper and Kowalski

would keep it a little bit more cleaner. Hey

skipper Kowalski Yeah, I wish I could do those

voices, but I can't those that that film is or

that those characters in that TV series and film

are pretty awesome. But speaking of which, my

son's been watching the Penguins of Madagascar

TV series. He likes it. Of course, he also likes

the live action Scooby -Doo films, too, so. Well,

he's a kid. Yeah. I don't know how long I can

sit through them over and over. Like, I'm good

with them once, but I don't know about over and

over. The Penguins, I was highly entertained.

Just because they kick ass. But anyways, so I've

rented a bunch of movies, watched RoboCop and

some other films that I can't remember right

now because they weren't something I would have

rented for myself. But yeah, the the remake wasn't

that bad I actually liked it and approved of

it it It was mmm they kept a lot of the some

of the phrases and some of the aspects that you'd

recognize from the first and or from the original

and gave new tweaks to other things, but Like

I wouldn't buy that for a dollar that was in

there But uh That's one phrase I wish would die.

I was surprised it was in there when it came

in there I'm like, oh they put it in and then

I just kind of forgot It's kind of sick how Robocop

actually is when they show him not in armor You'll

just have to watch it to get my drift on that

Yeah, but anyways, yeah, so so I did all that

stuff And then I've spent the green a part of

the evening arguing with Comcast because my new

cable box I got yesterday that's supposed to

have DVR capabilities worked up until about an

hour and a half before the show started. And

I was on the phone with them and I did the manual

reset. They did the reset. The box continuously

reboots because what started out as I could watch

TV and I could Access on demand I discovered

my DVR service didn't work. So I also tried to

watch whose line is it anyway on The on demand

and Nothing played I saw a black screen So I

called Comcast and then they reset like I did

the the manual reset of the box that it lets

you do over the phone automated phone thing And

then it went in an endless loop of reboot. And

so they're overnighting me a new box. I'll have

it tomorrow and then they'll have me send the

other one back. So I get to argue tomorrow with

them to try and get some money back for my inconvenience

that I've been having consistently. You just

can't win with this company, dude. No, I can't.

I can't. And truthfully, I would get AT &T in

a heartbeat if they actually serviced my area.

Yeah. They do internet, but it's the DSL and

it's like six meg service, and I'm not going

that low Yeah, I have to have 18 or higher which

I have to have you verse for but I can't get

you verse because they don't have the rest of

the services out here, so Yeah, it sucks gonads

and then charter which I also qualify for out

here It's too much damn money, so I'm screwed

with Comcast yet again The other thing that I've

been doing over the last few weeks that they've

been airing new episodes is I've been watching

the Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

cartoon. How many episodes have you caught recently?

I've seen them all. I guess we'll start at Wormquake.

That's probably... Not necessarily the most recent,

but Wormquake, aka the Manhattan Project, was

the big double episode that they aired. And this

was the one where they said, guess what? All

the old voice actors are coming back together

again. And I really thought it was going to be

more than what it was. Well, no and not so more

than what it was it was fine for what it was

But I thought that the and I hope this happens

in the future. Honestly, I thought that the 80s

cast which is Cam Clark Barry Gordon Townsend

Coleman and obviously Rob Paulson would come

up against the 2012 cast which is Rob Paulson

Greg Sipes and Sean Astin. So I wanted them to

interact with each other because I really, I

really want to see a conversation between 80s

Raph and 2012 Donnie. I really want to see Rob

talk to himself. But no, the episode was good.

I liked it. It was interesting. More recently,

when I saw the pizza face episode. As soon as

I saw the title, I'm like, okay, somebody go

out and rewrite Lady Gaga's lyrics from poker

face to pizza face. The most recent one that

I saw... Was it the one with the shredder having

his mask stolen? The Legend of the Kurokabuto,

yep. That's the most recent episode, and he had

his mask stolen by what I assume... Is the future

Bebop? I'm gonna guess a neutrino. I hope not,

but I think because of the purple and it's a

mohawk, I'm hoping it's future Bebop. But it

was really interesting seeing Shredder without

his mask the entire, like without his helmet

the entire episode. That dude got really roughed

up. It was kind of funny seeing Karai finally

realize her father. Yeah. Yep, that happened.

You know, I'm really loving this cartoon. There

are some episodes that don't hit me, you know,

positively, but it doesn't really hit me negatively

either. Like the one where it was mazes and mutants.

I didn't really care for that. They were playing

a live -action role -playing game. Wasn't my

thing, but hey, people like that, fine. But I'm

really looking forward to the rest of the season.

We've got two episodes left so far No, we've

got two episodes that I have not aired yet so

far I don't know if they're doing 26 or 22. I

know the first season was 26. I assume they'll

do 26 for this so And then they have been picked

up for season 3 and even season 4. Although season

4 doesn't say when. Well, you know what the funny

part is? Leonardo's being replaced for season

3. Oh, is he now? Yes. Oh, yeah. Seth Green.

I don't know about that. OK, think about it.

Think about it this way. um... you've uh... Seth

Green um... Nelson Nash from Batman Beyond you

want Nelson Nash as Leonardo? okay you can't

typecast him no no no I'm not typecasting him

I'm just saying that his voice as Nelson Nash

makes sense and I've heard Seth's voice in other

things outside of Batman Beyond. Well yeah, but

that's what I'm saying. I know everyone was really

skeptical about Jason Biggs at the time and who

knows, maybe his Leo will appeal to people. I'm

not going to sit here and judge it until I actually

hear the voice, but I'm wondering why. Now, I

know at one point somebody told me that there

was a, between Biggs and his wife, there was

a huge fight between the two of them on Twitter

at some point. And Nickelodeon found that pretty

not... PC. Yeah. I'm trying to see if... If it

gives any detail, it says that he left the series

during its second season. It was temporary Temporarily

replaced by Dominic cat rum bone Hmm, it says

Seth Green will permanently take over the role

from Vicks beginning in season 3 Huh interesting

Yeah, I mean I like Seth I don't dislike him.

I like his voice. He's got a cool voice. I don't

know if his voice is going to fit the characterization

of Leo because Leo's into all these... He was

super into that. Actually very well put together

cartoon within a cartoon compared to the old

Star Trek animated series. That's spoof of the

Star Trek animated series. He was really into

that and he has this kind of whole here You know

I have to be the leader in the hero complex I'm

not sure if Seth's voice is gonna fit that but

I'm open to see what Seth does with it Hmm Where

you want to go next well For one I kind of like

the show obviously for the fact that I watch

it a lot. But I also I'm kind of interested to

see where it goes in season three and how they

kind of adapt to all the changes and some of

the other aspects of it. I must have missed the

one where Baxter Stockman became a fly. I saw

that. It was creepy as all hell. It was kind

of awesome. Better than the original? Honestly,

I haven't seen the original episode where Pat

Fraley, Baxter Stockman mutated, so I couldn't

really say. See, I've seen the original, so...

It's a new take a little bit of a new take on

Baxter. It's a obviously new design since it's

CGI and not traditional animation But It's alright

I Mean, it's not a bad. They didn't do any disservice

to the fact that he turns into a fly. I Don't

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have you heard the ramblings of the Madagascar

Penguins? I've seen the teaser trailer. What'd

you think? They replaced the voices for Kowalski

and Private, I believe. Kowalski in the animated

series was originally Jeff Bennett, and I understand

Jeff Bennett is a very busy voice actor, but

they kept the same voiced tomograph as Skipper.

and i'm optimistic about that i don't mean to

sound pessimistic i'd like for a side justin

like what i heard coming out of kowalski because

it doesn't have the same feel is what he was

character was on the cartoon i know the cartoon

series and the movie are different but did they

have was just been at the voice on the metagascar

films are you couldn't tell you but i will find

out because i'd obviously i could hear it I could

hear it in the animated one. That's funny, Rico.

John DiMaggio. That was Kevin Michael Richardson

originally. Really? Yep. Yep. Because I know

John DiMaggio does a lot of voices on that cartoon.

Yeah. Because I hear him every time somebody

opens their mouth, I hear that... John DiMaggio

does when he starts talking. It's kind of interesting,

too, to see James Patrick Stewart playing private.

Yeah. I would not have guessed either of those.

No, it doesn't look like he was. No, he wasn't

in the films. I don't even remember who I honestly

the Madagascar films I The best thing to come

out of them was the penguins. Oh, I totally agree

with you I'm not a Ben Stiller fan most days

The only thing that I I mean Yeah, Kowalski was

played by Chris Miller in in Madagascar and private

was Christopher Knights and Skipper was still

Tom McGrath, which I'm sorry if you changed that

penguin in particular It'll throw off the whole

dynamic Well see that that's why I think changing

Jeff Bennett from the TV series because a lot

of people watch that TV series Changing him to

whoever it is now in this new movie is gonna

throw people off because it's not the same dynamic

I'm still gonna see the movie. I'm not like I

love the penguins. I love their antics I love

the the cast of characters that they used for

the TV series funny that they show This is the

TV show James Patrick Stewart played Private

Right, but the original Christopher Knights is

playing in the Penguins of Madagascar So he'll

private will still be the same as all the movies.

I thought he sounded different in the show, which

that explains a lot and then What's what's the

other guy? Kowalski was Chris Miller Chris Miller

which Jeff Bennett played him in the TV series,

but Chris Miller is again reprising his role

and in the film. Oh, he is. Yes. I did. Yeah.

I still but in McGrath, he's he's like the staple

playing skipper playing skipper. Yeah. You can't

not have McGrath playing skipper because that

just really wouldn't sound. I'm not saying Chris

Miller is going to be a bad Kowalski I'm just

used to Jeff Bennett's version of Kowalski And

that's what I like, but I'm not gonna let it

detract from me seeing the film it is interesting

it brings the comedy from what I saw in the trailer

and At least they're you know doing a full -on

penguins movie versus Madagascar for escape from

Antarctica or whatever It's funny the Tom McGrath

guy that plays Skipper. It says he made his directing

debut as the co -director, writer, and co -creator

of Madagascar. It says he also created a memorable

squad of Penguin characters and voiced their

leader Skipper and then reprised his role as

Skipper and co -directed and co -wrote the sequel,

Madagascar 2. And then it says he's working on

the Penguins and then the Madagascar spinoff

TV series. He again did all that and then it

says that he directed Megamind. Oh wow, so Yeah

Quite awesome. Yes, very awesome. But yeah, I

mean I can see where you like Jeff Bennett. I

mean it's only because I Yeah, because I've seen

him voice Kowalski in X number of how many episodes

that TV series had I'm used to the other guy,

but that's only because I've seen all the films

first and then I saw this show Yeah, so it's

a little off -putting to hear the difference

in voices of these penguins But I don't necessarily

dislike them either I am kind of looking forward

to that though Oh, absolutely. That was the best

part of Madagascar. So that's the only reason

to really want to go see it. Oh, yeah. Have you

watched the pixels clip? Not not necessarily

the Adam Sandler video game comedy. I'm saying

like the other one. No, I haven't. Well, what

it is is it shows like aliens coming more or

less and they invade using like eight bit. Characters

from like the old Atari days like you know Galaga

and you know stuff like that Dig dug and all

you know very you know Tetris and pong space

Yeah, so I mean all those things come into play

in this this clip this guy made It's like a quick

like three four minute video And it basically

digitizes everything as it attacks. It's like

one of the space invaders alien shoots down and

it hits a car and it digitizes into 8 -bit and

then it just disintegrates to like Lego bricks.

So that it goes through this whole video doing

that kind of stuff and then eventually the entire

earth ends up like a giant cube. Because the

whole planet gets hit with like some kind of

a massive 8 -bit nuke. Wow. It's actually really

creative and funny. I'm not quite sure how the

Adam Sandler film is going to play into that.

Well, I do like Adam Sandler and I think this

is a direction to go. And it's supposed to be

as far as I'm gathering. It's supposed to be

live action, but I don't know that for certain.

With these eight bit things, so it it's supposed

to be like a video game comedy thing, but I again,

I'm not quite sure what to think. I, you know,

honestly. I haven't really dug any of Sandler's

stuff in, I'd say, the last... Honestly, almost

since Waterboy. I don't know what it is. I just,

I try to watch his movies now and I just... It's

just not my kind of comedy anymore. I don't dislike

the guy, but at the same time, it's like... I

don't know, I miss the good old days of, you

know, Happy Gilmore and Wedding Singer and...

All that stuff. I mean sure I can go back and

watch those movies and that's not a problem,

but I Don't know. I just I don't get excited

about hearing about an Adam Sandler film I will

say as I used to I Will say you may like blended

though The saving grace is the dynamic between

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore Sort of like

their seventh film that they worked on together

So I'm in three films, yeah Wedding singer fifty

first dates and blended. Okay. Okay. He's only

had the same like girlfriend slash wife and one

other film series and that's um grown -ups So,

yeah Weird ale is working on a new album coming

out in July Yeah, I can't imagine what he's got

up his sleeve that is one this that is one crazy

and creative, dude But yes, he is but there's

so many things like when was his last album.

Do you remember 2011? Okay, it's now 2014. It's

three years later There have been so many things

that happened in the last three years That I

wouldn't even know what to expect parodies from

him. I I almost bet there's gonna be some sort

of Kim Ye or Kardashian or some sort of Kim Kardashian

Kanye West parody. Well his new album is called

Mandatory Fun and it looks like he's like a general

with like tanks and little soldier guys. That

means he's probably gonna have a few pokes at

the military and... You know our quote -unquote

leader. Well from what I've heard He's supposed

to be parodying a 90s song too. Oh jeez I Could

be wrong, but that's that's what I've heard But

yeah, it's It looks interesting to say the least

But he's kind of staring off into this weird

direction and everything He also did the most

recent, I don't know if you've ever watched this

series, but the Epic Rap Battles. I haven't,

no. I've only recently, like the last few months,

started watching these. Normally rap is not my

thing. Same here. I can't get into it, but I

find when it's in a parody or if it's in a mock

comedy type aspect background. like something

weird Al may parody or Or You know and in the

sense of like these epic rap battles They're

actually quite entertaining because it goes Like

that how it how it talks Because it's making

fun of itself at the same time and they usually

have like one guy Rapping against another guy

like they have Adolf Hitler against Darth Vader

Wow. And then, you know, at the end, it goes

by votes to decide who wins the rap battle. But

they had Weird Al playing Isaac Newton against

Bill Nye the Science Guy. Oh, wow. That's crazy.

So it's actually quite funny. And they had like

another one with like Goku, which was Ray William

Johnson. Oh, against Superman. Holy crap. It's

I mean, it's his most bizarre like freakin things

but it's hilarious to watch because it's not

only it I mean and they're speaking like Like

saying things that I mean granted they put you

know, the the rap slam kind of stuff into it,

but they They take like historical facts about

the characters or about something that the the

actual person created or did and They throw it

into there and then they bash the other one with

it So I find that they're actually quite entertaining

to watch. Interesting. I guess I'll bring this

up since it's kind of current and it relates

to music. I think I talked about this a little

bit before but I haven't mentioned too much about

it. The full track listing for one of my favorite

band's upcoming albums on July 29th has been

released. Three of a Dead Men will release Savages

coming up on July 29th. They have two tracks

on this album that are collaborations. One song

with Alice Cooper and the other song with Joe

Don Rooney from Rascal Flats. I think that's

absolutely hilarious. these guys I watched a

video with them and they're just recently I might

put it in the post it's behind the scenes and

they're talking about the direction of the album

how they wanted to make it more guitar heavy

and basically go back to basics from what their

original album was almost 12 -14 years ago and

it's just one of those things that is absolutely

amazing Just to... I have no idea what to expect

from Theory's album, Savages, coming up on July

29th, folks, because with two songs, with one

that is a collaboration with Joe Don Rooney from

Rascal Flatts and the other from Alice Cooper,

I have no clue what to expect from this music.

Theory of a Deadman. Gotta love it. Yeah, you

follow more than I do. Yeah. What else do we

want to talk about for news? Well, I think we

should talk about the big purple elephant in

the room. Aquaman? I didn't know he changed his

colors. That's right. He is an elephant. They

casted... Aquaman. So now we have Superman, Batman,

Wonder Woman, Cyborg, and finally Aquaman. I'm

walking away, honestly. I can't even talk about

this, people. Just I don't I mean it's gonna

get me so upset. I can't even talk about it,

dude. I Don't understand if it's supposed to

be Batman versus Superman why they're having

all these other characters show up Have them

show up. I mean, I guess they could have them

show up at the end Kind of like like they're

like a to be continued almost like mounting an

attack Against like Luthor and his Facebook like

company Well, it is Jesse Eisenberg Yeah, and

he's gonna have hair To begin with And then he's

gonna have a company like Facebook You may have

the social network all over again Just with superheroes

It's important to support people. I can so see

his Zuckerberg being a young Alexander Luther.

Oh my god, that's so crazy. I don't think Lex

would be that stupid though to blog and post

animal pictures. Oh god. It's supposed to be

like a hipster company. Oh jeez. Yeah, that was

my thought. Really don't want to talk about this.

I just figured I'd make an Aquaman joke to kind

of you know mention the casting but it's just

one of those things where I Just want to see

the damn movie. I don't care. I want to see it,

too I just I'm curious how they're gonna make

this work with having all these superheroes Over

I'm curious if any of these news stories are

even true. Okay sure we know Henry Cavill we

know bat fleck is gonna be there you know honestly

until I see an interview with Zack Snyder like

a year before the film comes out a year people

think about this and I've mentioned this before

the show and I'm sorry to repeat myself this

damn movie was announced a year and a half ago

or something like that and it's not coming until

two years from now like But Wonder Woman's daughter

should have been Wonder Woman in the movie I

do agree with that. Hey, well, I mean not nothing

against Gal Gadot, but Linda Carter's daughter.

Mm -hmm Jessica Altman Mm -hmm would look pretty

hot as Wonder Woman. Yes. Yes, you would Yes,

we can also, before we get to the sad news, I

guess we can talk about the fact that they're

doing Robots in Disguise version 2 .0. I think

that is the dumbest thing in the world. Okay,

I don't understand this. I don't understand why

they're calling it the same thing as the other

show. Granted, not a lot of people. And it's

animated. It's animated all over again. Yeah.

It's combining animated and prime styles. It's

basically so the Hub and Hasbro don't have to

pay those big bucks to full on CGI like Prime

was. The funny thing is, the same studio that

did Prime, Polygon Studios, is doing this cartoon.

And they're basically mixing Prime and animated.

What I do love about it though, the whole thing

so far is though, that Bumblebee will have a

voice. And it will be Batman still. It will still

be Wilfredel. I do love that. I just... The naming...

Sure, not a lot of kids are gonna remember, like

not a lot of, you know, kids that are probably,

you know, I'd say 18 and under, are gonna remember

the original very, very horrible Robots in Disguise

cartoon from 2001. But... I wish it was named

something else, honestly. Transformers Legacy,

Transformers... Dawn of Futures Past, Transformers...

Transformers, Transformers... Transformers Earthfall,

Transformers Return to Cybertron, anything but

Robots and Disguise. Transformers Dawn of the

Future. Yeah, or hell they could instead of sick

calling it robots in disguise they could call

it transformers more than meets the eye Then

it would only be copying one thing which is the

current IDW comic book I'd be down for that Yeah

But overall though outside of the name I like

the I like the way the logo looks and I cannot

wait to see the cartoon itself I mean, I'm very

stoked for it. So But the name is a little Yeah,

I guess it's about that time to To talk about

America's top 40 This Casey Kasem ladies and

gentlemen was a radio first of all he's not just

a voice actor He is a radio icon. I was gonna

say that Sorry, no, it's fine he He has been

active in the entertainment industry since 1954

he has been active for six decades in entertainment

He did American top 40 in its multiple variations

over the years for 39 years And I don't care

who you are. I don't care what kind of music

you like or listen to every single person on

this planet, at least in North America, was touched

in one way or another by listening to Casey Kasem's

countdowns. He's a guy that has one of, if not

the best radio voice. I mean he's got one of

those iconic voices that you just know when you

hear it mm -hmm You know I was saying the other

day. I think it was when I think it was on an

episode of talking about my generation with Doug

Abel that Casey Kasem Okay nowadays in the internet.

We know David Kay is Beast Wars Megatron. We

know that Peter Cullen is Optimus Prime. We know

that Frank Welker is Megatron in his many iterations.

Back in the day in the 80s, we cared about the

characters that people voiced. We cared about

the actual voices. The difference here is because

Casey was such a public guy, he was always in

the public eye because he was on the radio. Even

I knew as a Six seven eight nine ten year old

Casey Kasem was the voice of Shaggy Rogers You

know, but back then generally no one really None

of us kids back then really paid attention to

the names of the actors of the characters. We

just love the characters Yeah, I definitely agree

there I mean I was trying to figure out who was

who? But I based them on Who they you know, what

character any of they sounded like? Mm -hmm But

nowadays, I mean pretty much everybody knows

who everybody is Yeah, and Casey Kasem. He's

just I mean he played the original Robin Yeah

in the animated series and then You know obviously

Shaggy for so long and that was top 40 and I

Think it was top 40. Yeah It was American Top

40, there was American Top 10, and Top 20. But

I mean, the way I look at Casey Kasem, have you

ever seen that movie with Richard Dreyfuss called

Mr. Holland's Opus? I can't remember if I've

seen it or not. He plays a music teacher that

is at this hard -knocked school for over four

generations of music. No. Okay. Anyway. That's

that character in that film is kind of who I

like who I align Casey Kasem to be in real life

because the man has been like from 1970 to 2009

at least four different five or four or five

different decades of music he has seen music

tastes change Nearly 40 years at least Up to

2009, 40 years. Like I said, he is someone who

touched our lives in many different ways through

his entertainment. I loved him as Young Shaggy

on A Pup Named Scooby Doo. He would eventually

pull a Larry Kenny, because Larry Kenny was Lionel

in the original Thundercats. He came back to

play King Claudius Lionel's father in the 2011

version. Casey came back to play Colton Rogers

on the Cartoon Network's Scooby -Doo Mystery

Incorporated, the one that Derek J. Wyatt did

Art Direction on. So that was kind of nice. The

saddest thing about Casey Kasem's life is how

his personal life has gone. Now, I've said this

many times, ladies and gentlemen, I care about

what... the artist or the actor or whomever.

I care about the product that they're putting

out or the voice that they're putting out. I

don't necessarily like paying attention to their

personal life. But a few weeks ago, before Casey's

death on June 15th, 2014, there was an article

that popped up online, Casey Case of Missing.

And I was like, what? Yeah, I remember that.

So I went looking and I went doing some research

and and everything else that The saddest thing

about his illness. He was originally Diagnosed

with With Parkinson's but he actually had Lewy

body dementia, which is it's difficult to different

differentiate from Parkinson's The saddest thing

about his illness is, due to it, he was no longer

able to use his voice. Quite possibly the greatest

radio DJ of all time lost his voice. That is

depressing. I don't want to get into the family

drama. I just know that there was something with

his current wife at the time, Jean Kasem, where

she wouldn't let his children from his first

marriage see their father. And I know that Julie

Kasem, one of his daughters, she said in a video

interview, you know, we don't care about the

money. We just want our dad. You know, but I

mean, Casey Kasem, what a man. I mean, seriously,

he, I don't know. I don't know. What are some

of your thoughts? Because if I talk anymore,

I know I'm going to end up bursting into tears

because it is very sad that he passed away. Well,

I mean, I kind of think it's... I mean, I'm not...

I'm more familiar with his animation work than

with him... On the radio? Yeah. I mean, I have

heard him. on the radio because it's one of those

iconic voices that it's kind of hard to forget.

But it's also, again, like I said, I know him

from Robin, I know him from Cliffjumper, I know

him from Shaggy. I also know that he's from,

originally, from Michigan. Yep, Detroit, Michigan.

And he actually worked in Flint. Yep, which is

strange to me But that was a long time ago, yeah

Because I was born in Flint, Michigan But yeah,

it's it's kind of crazy how long he did the you

know American top 40 and then his top 40 and

then Yeah The top 40 second run You know, I would

love if I really had the time and I had access

to them, and I know this is thousands and thousands

and thousands of hours of content, but I honestly

would love to listen to five different American

Top 40s from each year, from 1970 to 2009. You

would be there a while. No, I know, but I'm saying,

even if it was only one per year over 39 years,

so if it was one episode, it would just be 39

episodes. I would love to, and see, that's the

beauty about... Those countdowns rely on weekly

numbers. They still do to this day because Ryan

Seacrest is currently doing American Top 40.

Ryan Seacrest is also doing Dick's Rockin' New

Year's Eve. Which was sadly anti -climatic this

year. My point here is... Even though those like

like if you listen to the countdown this past

Sunday And this song was at number one in this

coming up Sunday that that number one song from

the past week was knocked down To number two

and number three or number four whatever else

I get it. It's it's it's a way to track current

music But one of the reasons why I'd like to

go back and listen to some of the older Casey

shows is not only just to hear his voice again

and to hear his show but to see what the music

was back then to really remember Those 40 songs

from whatever year that I listened to it from

Anyway What else is there anything else we want

to say about Casey Just sad to see him go yeah

Then of course we have kind of a different note

Heroes Reborn Know you didn't watch the original

did you? No, I watched I think I think three

episodes of the first season and Okay, well the

reboot they're gonna bring back the guy with

the glasses Mm -hmm that works for this fake

paper company that hunts the people with powers

Right And at present they don't know how many

of the original characters are gonna bring back

The only thing that's funny about it is that

company company was disbanded During the original

series of it. It's supposed to be kind of a continuation

Which leads you to believe how the hell did he

get to be the head of the company again or like

in this company again? Mm -hmm and then the fact

that Hardly any of the original actors have been

approached Yeah It'd be nice to see Spock back,

I guess Tyler yeah since he's since he hasn't

done much of anything else Yeah, Zachary Quinto

is pretty much been Spock and that's pretty much

it mm -hmm I mean He has because I'm looking

at his filmography here now He has two things,

two films this year that are supposed to be coming

out. We'll never have Paris and something called

Agent 47. As far as television, the last thing

he was on was American Horror Story from 2012

to 2013. So... I don't know. I kind of see him

as Spock now for... And the strangest thing about

him Seeing him as Spock and then going back and

watching him as Adam on the early seasons of

24 I didn't watch enough of 24 to even know It's

It's kind of like if Zachary Quinto a la Star

Trek went back in time to talk to the Zachary

Quinto of 24, it's kind of like what you would

get with Leonard Des Moines and Quinto in the

Star Trek movies, it really is, because they

are so, it's so far apart from each other as

far as where they are in their lives. But, you

know, hey, if NBC wants to bring back Heroes

to see if it'll work again, great, you know.

Heroes might be the Only television show I actually

agree with what Sheldon Cooper says about it

Heroes was good in the beginning and then it

just kept declining till nobody cared Yeah, it's

about right So I think we'll jump into some Listener

feedback okay so last week we asked the question

of what has been the biggest or more so what

this year has been the biggest geek news film

event important to you what would you say has

been yours I'm trying to think here. I don't

know. I mean, because I'm always up on the news,

you know, for my interests. I'm trying to think

the biggest thing. Maybe that James, well, I

think that story came out before this year. I

was going to say maybe that James Spader was

going to be Ultron, but... I guess I got to go

comic on it and say that there's two things.

Number one, that they killed off Nightwing's

series to basically make him the Nick Fury of

the DC universe, and the other one is the fact

that... Batman Beyond Universe is going to start

going weekly eventually. Those are the ones that

were kind of important to me. They're not like

huge epic movie news or huge epic geek news stories,

but those are kind of the ones that resonated

with me, but I don't know. I can't pick big news

stories like that kind of stuff. Plus the year

isn't even over yet. So, so far just, I don't

know. I kind of have a hard time with it, but

I would almost say that The franchise films mm

-hmm like you have You know like you're dumb

and dumb or two you have transformers for you

have You know the Batman film information you

have like Captain America 2 and X -Men dawn at

futures past and I would say a lot of that stuff

has been kind of on my radar more or less this

year and kind of been big to me anyway. Not necessarily

the news, but just the actual events themselves

of things happening. More so of the releases

of them. Right, right. And then other than that,

I'd probably say the, you know, like the scientists

trying to invent warp drive and the new enterprise.

Yeah You mean the actual new enterprise not the

one that sits underwater, right? I don't mean

that piece of crap JJ Abrams film I meant I meant

the the NASA built enterprise that you know is

meant to be in space not underwater So we go

off to the the comment board we have brush Kellogg

who says the biggest geek thing that has happened

this year that his friends have been talking

about most is the season of Game of Thrones huge

deaths of course finally some SOB gets his and

then it's his spoilers the controversy of the

now famous scene after that and so much more

each episode it's something awesome to talk about

very sad the season is over and then superfilm

fan says he agrees I've never seen Game of Thrones.

It's on HBO. I'm not paying for HBO. Even though

I know two or three people that have HBO Go accounts

and I have at least access to one of them, Game

of Thrones is just not my thing. I may give it

a shot when it's done, but I don't know how long

I'll stick with it. I don't typically stick with

that era very well, whereas my wife does. Yeah,

so But who knows Film for fun says to me the

biggest news story has been this Superman verse

Batman movie Just so much has been said about

it. The casting of Luthor was a huge deal The

reveal of the suit was huge online. Even the

title was all over the place for a while It is

the story that won't die. Isn't that the truth?

Yeah That's an understatement. I mean this story

has been good. This isn't even a news story anymore

It's a news phenomenon because it's been going

on since they announced it at comic -con What

2012? 2013 I don't even remember All as I know

is Batman versus Superman better be the best

damn comic book movie that has ever been made

with all the damn hype and I can say hype ladies

and gentlemen because there have been so many

fake news stories and so many real news stories

the only thing I believe is the suit the Batmobile

and the fact that Henry Cavill and Batfleck are

gonna be in it everything else I have zero until

it comes out of Zack Snyder's mouth I Do not

believe in any of these damn news stories Okay,

sorry It's fine So moving on Ryan Hannity says

I cannot really think of anything all that big

that has happened this year in the geek world,

honestly He says original sin for Marvel has

been really good so far and hearing how they're

going to kill Wolverine has me interested in

seeing how that plays out Yeah, he'll be back

Yeah, I kind of put that in there. I said not

sure what they plan to do with Wolverine I'm

intrigued, but they'll never stay dead. Just

like Batman Superman Superman spider -man Green

Lantern, etc Yeah Yeah, I'll come back eventually

except for uncle Ben and Bruce's parents And

even then it you know the only one that really

came back was the dad at points Yep Andre Walter

says Don't know if this qualifies as geek per

se for me as a childhood dream come true that

the WWE Network Yeah, I mean That's the coolest

thing now with with wrestling even though some

of the stuff that they're doing currently in

the WWE I don't particularly care for I've always

been a fan of wrestling specifically WWF WWE

WWE Network is a 24 -7 Network for those that

don't know it's 999 a month. There's a six -month

You have to agree to at least six months of service,

but it's 10 bucks a month versus 40 bucks a month

for pay -per -views. It's 10 bucks a month and

you get all like pay -per -views from everything,

not just the current year's pay -per -views.

You get all the old stuff from WWE, WCW, and

ECW. So it's a high value thing if you want to

go back and watch the old wrestling stuff. interesting

yeah I used to watch wrestling back in the day

I don't know exactly what happened and when I

quit watching it but when I quit watching it

was WCW NWO which was a long time ago yeah NWO

as a kid I think that was 90 somewhere 91 93

somewhere early 90s early to mid 90s As a, you

know, almost pre -teen slash teenager, NWO really

screwed with my head, because as a kid, I was

a huge Hulkamaniac fan. I actually saw Hulk and

Roddy Piper live at a show. And, you know, so

I was a huge Hulk fan, and to see him go evil

was like, oh my god. It's almost like seeing

Red Hulk. Yeah, pretty much. What else we got?

Dragonos says, I think the biggest thing to happen

this year was probably the casting of Star Wars.

And people speculated for months before it was

finally revealed. Yeah. I would almost argue

that as well. Only for the fact that, you know,

we've gotten all the original cast back for the

most part and then they're trying to figure out

who the new people are. The only other movie

that's getting as much casting rumor news is

the Batman vs Superman. Yep. But I find myself

slightly more intrigued by the Star Wars end

of it because it's gonna be a Star Wars film.

Justin Washington says, with the Amazon against

WB debate, which we kind of brought up last episode,

Amazon has nothing to worry about. WB needs Amazon

more than Amazon needs WB. Amazon is the highest

rated company in the US, highly profitable and

constantly growing. WB on the other hand can't

even get their heads on straight enough to figure

out what they're doing and Then I said aren't

you right sir WB is a clusterfuck They never

know what they're doing so no thanks for the

correction Because we weren't exactly sure what

stands to take on that You know the only reason

why I brought that up last week is because I

was I was kind of happy that no one that used

Amazon would be able to order the LEGO movie.

That's the only reason why I brought that up

last week. And even now, the thing stands because

I just searched for the LEGO movie on Amazon

and it's not showing up, so apparently that contract

dispute is still in dispute. Anyway. So, I think

that about rounds it out this episode. Thank

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