Oscar Criteria, Joker Casting, and Transformers 4 News

Hey, this is Steve blue and you are listening

to the geek cast radio network Hello and welcome

to Altered Geek Unlimited, episode 30! I'm your

host, Steve, Megatron Phillips, and joining me

again this week is... TFJ and Mike, hello. Hello,

welcome back, sir. Yes, yes. We should have the

original co -host returning again next week,

so it should be fun having the three of us converse

about something. Yeah, it's gonna be really interesting.

Yes. Getting into some general housekeeping since

this is coming out and Regardless if GCR comes

out or not it comes out before so Think of it

as a news update Geekcast radio the GCR and awards

did not record this week because Dan was sick

and Kevin had work obligations. So We had to

postpone it, so it'll be out next week. So look

for it then. Everything's been tallied. It's

kind of an interesting draw between everything.

I'm getting ready to put the page together, but

I have to wait until everybody's recorded it

with me so that it's not a surprise. Got anything

going on this week that you've been doing? Not

really I am aiming for some high gear Batman

reading With getting the pull bags and you know

people might say I'm silly for doing this But

and I mentioned this on the show on my little

guest run here before I'm one of those people

that I have to do everything in advance Like,

if I know I wanna... And the reason why I do

podcasting in advance is so I don't have to say

to people, hey, can we get this done this week?

Can we get this done this week? I mean, I do

still say that, but I say that a month or so

in advance and record everything in advance.

That way, when it comes time, like this month

is Marvelous March. I recorded all four, well,

actually five episodes of the Marvelous March

stuff in February. So I am kicking into high

gear with Batman stuff because in May the pullback

is going to do 75 years of Batman. I believe

it's going to be 10 podcasts with you and I doing

reviews on Year 1, Dark Knight Returns, Killing

Joke, some other stuff and we'll have probably

a Batman month once a year. I'm finding that

with pull bag I'm really reaching out there besides

superhero comics I read a description to you

off air I think it was last night or the night

before sometime this week about John Layman who

is writing detective comics right now and his

run will end actually I believe it ended this

month with detective 29 but he has his create

a creator on titled called chew and it's about

this guy who has super human powers because he

eats or munches on dead bodies and can figure

out who killed who and what it's basically a

cannibalistic law and order comic is what it

is and i just find that just strange hilarious

sick and wrong all at the same time and i'm just

trying to this year in year two for the pull

bag i am really trying to stretch as far as what

I'm reading and what I'm trying out and what

I'm giving the listeners versus just hey here's

the DC stuff this month or hey here's this this

month I do know that we will be having actually

in 2014 we will have three Marvel months currently

we're doing Marvelous March which starts airing

the 19th of this month in November we're gonna

have Punisher Month like we had in 2013 and then

in December we're going to have Daring December

and cover some I'm kind of like the third wheel

on a podcast called talking about my generation.

I just show up and give my opinion on whatever

they're reviewing. they have a gym episode coming

up, because the lady on there really likes gym.

I'm like, oh, OK. I'll have to go find the DVD

set and grab all the audio out of there. So I'm

doing that. You know, like I said last week,

I'm just really like, I am so ready and so stoked

for us to celebrate year five for GCRN. We've

got episodes 60 through 65 ready to go. Not all

of them are recorded yet, but the topics have

been decided and everything is just falling into

place. This summer I'm going to be bringing Tooncast

Beyond back and we're going to do something called

AD, which I will reveal at a later date. And

then this winter we're going to do something

super special and holiday themed on Tooncast

Beyond. Other than that, not much else is really

going on. Cool cool Myself I've been dealing

with issues half the week When I say that I mean

technical issues as far as websites are concerned

A site I got paid to build a while ago for whatever

reason and this is why I do not condone using

Yahoo or GoDaddy Because the domain name is hosted

with Yahoo, however, the issue relied on GoDaddy.

They also have a WordPress site that I set up

and it's for the online magazine. For whatever

reason, the .com quit working. The .com died!

The WordPress subdirectory, I had to go into

the database and change it back to... the sub

or the folder it was in so that it would at least

load in there and I couldn't even get an HTML

file to load in the root so I know this is Greek

to some people and I'm sorry, but Suffice it

to say the dot -com didn't work diddly -squat,

but the folder did You can't get the roots to

grow. You know you got a problem, so For whatever

reason I tried it again today I've been trying

it all week, but nothing tried getting a hold

of their support and of course, they don't answer

any of it so Their customer support sucks balls

I Tried it again the redirect that's just one

line of code It's all it is. It's one line of

code that's changed in the index file and then

it allows everything to work in the index or

in the root folder, so I fixed that, which, mind

you, since I completed the site, I haven't touched

any of the files. They haven't changed any of

the plugins or files. It just randomly quit on

last Friday. And then it started working again

today. So that, to me, tells me that they're

worthless. Not the site I built, but the hosts.

The other problem was, Sunday I get emails blowing

up on me because our Canadian sister site, This

Week in Geek, either got hacked or got massive

explosion of spam comments or their server told

them that a lot of their plugins were depreciated

as well as their theme. Yeah, which doesn't make

sense to me that that theme is depreciated to

the point that it was screwed up Which I'm thinking

that there's some kind of a mass internet blast

like attack that was going on across multiple

hosts because There were too many coincidences

between different hosts going on Plus the theme

they were using was newer than version 2 .0 of

geek cast radio and the current site because

this current site is technically version 3 and

I just morphed it into what it is which is version

4. Both the retro theme that if you go to retro

.geekcastradio .com you'll see what the site

looked like before it turned into what it is

right now. Up to the very last post that was

on the site before it switched which I thought

was kind of ironic that I did it that way. I

went to the exact day that we stopped posting

on that layout with that theme, so it's actually

funny. But no, so that theme works fine, as does

the current site. So that kind of boggled my

mind, but suffice it to say, once they managed

to get the site at least to load up, basically,

because there were so many errors going on, I

had to FTP and move the theme. out of the folder,

the one that was active, so that I could even

get it to default by it, because WordPress, for

those that don't know, it automatically defaults

to or deactivates the theme or the plugin once

it's moved out of that directory, so it will

function. And it quit working, went to the default

theme, I installed a new theme, got everything

working again with all brand new plugins, and

the site is golden. so they're back up and running

and that was like a two -day project for me but

and then our site went down yeah the funny thing

was I woke up this morning and everything was

honky -dory fine I could use WordPress everything

else I I don't know I probably went out or went

to watch TV or did something else and You know,

four hours later, you're sitting there DMing

me on Twitter, the site is dead, the site is

dead, oh no. I never even noticed a problem.

Because I just wasn't around, I guess, when it

happened. Yeah, I just, I was like, you suck

for that because you didn't even get to see the

problem. But anyways, I was going back and forth

with support and then come to find out that Our

web host was hit by a DDOS attack that affected

their entire network. So I was like, oh, that's

just wonderful. And so, but they had the site

back up and running within a couple hours, like

all of their accounts for the most part, I mean,

with minor glitches, but everything is actually

back up and running by the time we're recording

this, which amazes me because... It it it was

remarkably fast compared to the other two Media

temple is some fast little rabbits you I will

say this you do pay more and It's not unlimited

everything it is limited, but you get what you

pay for yeah, and they host places like Adobe

and ABC so I kind of I think that it's definitely

worth paying the extra to have something that

works 99 % of the time over... Well, you get

the idea. So I think I've rambled on enough about

that. So what we're going to do is, before we

totally change gears, I figured that we haven't

done listener questions in a while. So I figured,

instead of bringing it up at the end of the show,

why don't we bring it up in the beginning of

the show? Now that I've bored everybody to death

and I can cause quick controversy with the show.

So the first question, which actually was brought

up by Jason Ritter in the comments, was... Last

week's episode. Yes. He says, so who would you

want to play the Joker? a solo bat fleck Batman

film of the new DC Cinematic Universe Anybody

except Green Goblin About it is is they will

not they they won't do anybody over over 40 Which

is fine if they shouldn't be really that much

older than Affleck Don't agree with having Nicholson

come back because he's too damn old and He's

only he's only 76 the point is he's in his 70s

and Batfleck is in his 40s. That's not even a

comparable Like age bracket like I have a seem

my my whole point on last week's episode in the

comments was I Get it that we're doing a bat

fleck film But my whole point was my answer to

Jason's general question of playing the Joker.

In general, I'm thinking, ooh, Jack could come

back and he could be an old Joker. I love Batman

Beyond. That's what my thinking was. I know that

wasn't exactly what his question was, but that's

just what popped into my head. But the thing

about it is, again, he's too old to mix Batman

Beyond into this new universe. It's just silly.

It doesn't make any sense. He sees doing it with

New 52, so... They're mixing beyond, but it's

not beyond. Because if Nightwing was killed in

New 52, and then he's alive and beyond, that

tells me that the continuity doesn't mix. I knew

that would get a rise out of you. So, he suggested

Gary Busey or William Defoe. If it was a choice

between the two of them, I would go Defoe all

the way, but... He's already done the superhero

thing. So he doesn't really fit anymore Gary

Buse. He's just a nut job Who doesn't need to

be near anything related to comics? See in in

before we get into it any further Danner says

Ben Foster and Mike Powers says rise Wakefield

which rise Wakefield was in the purge And he

was the guy the head of the the crazy group that

was going around killing people and if you look

at his face He actually has the mannerisms of

like the Jack Joker in his face He's 25, but

I could definitely see like just with a little

bit of extra prosthetic or makeup or whatever

He could look pretty freaky as the Joker Wasn't

Ben Foster that guy that was in Evanescence or

something or other. No, he's he's another actor.

He was in uh He was actually an x -men the last

stand In 30 days of night and oh, I know who

he is now. Yeah. Yeah less wasn't oh Yeah, angel.

Okay I don't know if I could see him playing

the Joker. I can see him playing like a pretty

kick -ass riddler, baby Yeah, I don't I don't

know if I could see Ben Foster doing the Joker

simply because He looks as young as Heath looked

at the time when Heath was doing the Joker. That's

the other thing, honestly. For me personally,

the Joker, you have to be able to get into that

mindset. You have to be able to transform yourself.

Both Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger did that,

and they both had excellent live action Joker

voices. Well, the thing about it is, again, that's

the jumping to conclusions thing that we're doing.

Right. because we don't honestly know who would

make a good fit. Obviously, these two actors

look like they could play it very well. And again,

you don't see the prosthetics on them or the

facial makeup or anything like that. So there's

no telling what they could actually do. But there's

I'm sure there's some random choice out there

that they have in mind that they're grooming

because, you know, they're going to bring in

the Joker at some point. It's just I hope he's

not in the Justice League films. Unless they're

doing like the Legion of Doom or something and

you know That would be kind of cool if they did

wild cards The Joker has 25 bombs planted in

Las Vegas. Yeah, they won't do that They're they're

breaking the mold with that but Yeah, that's

that's my thoughts on it I think they should

either get it somebody new like that's unheard

of or get like these kind of two guys it Although

I will agree that they are too young If you're

going against Affleck who's in his early 40s,

they should get somebody around the same age

to play it So it's it leaves that to you know,

I gotta I gotta double check this but I just

had an awesome awesome thought Yes, but I want

I gotta double check his age uh... what was it

that's the whole on bends forty right uh... i

think stands in his forties uh... yeah this would

be so awesome i don't think you could pull it

off though but it would be so awesome if bends

batman and you had his uh... his brother casey

as the joker is casey's thirty -eight uh... bends

forty -one That would be interesting. Ben and

Casey Affleck as Batman the Joker. That would

be, wow, yeah. That would be kind of cool. No,

because you can't have two Boston accents in

the same thing. Oh, come on. You don't know what

Ben's Batman voice is going to sound like. He

ain't going to park the Batmobile in Avid Yard.

No, it'll just sound like Daredevil. I'm joking,

don't crucify me. I obviously don't know anything

about it yet, but I don't think Casey Affleck

would make a good fit. You know, I was just trying

to think of people around the same age as Ben,

and I figure who better than his own brother.

But yeah, anyways, so I'm looking to see what

you guys think, since we've rambled on about

that for a while. The other question is, what

makes a film Oscar -worthy to you? I only say

this and I guess we can bring it up more next

time. You'll get to hear some of our opinions

anyway on the actual award show of why we think

things got rated where they did as far as our

list is concerned. Yeah, because obviously Dan

and Kevin and their special guests talked about

it on my weekly I personally have the opinion

that Films that end up getting into the Oscars

are ones that I don't give a rat's behind about

More or less I'm not saying that the actors and

the actresses don't deserve a claim because they

do and I'm not saying that the films don't deserve

a claim or the directors or anything because

I I do But I think that the way the playing field

is set up, it's already rigged from the get go.

Yeah, it's it's not that I'm trying to say that,

you know, oh, superhero movies are the best thing

ever because they're not. I'm not I'm not even

trying to create that illusion because I know

that they're not. But I also think that there

are other films that don't get a fair shake because

you get too many of these films like. Captain

Phillips or Gravity or Her or that kind of stuff.

That's what I'm getting at. It's not that I'm

saying that they're bad films in any way. To

me, they don't interest me at all. To me, what

it is with the Oscars is that the nominations

go more for... Okay, Gravity is a mass -released

film. It's a mass marketed as far as as far as

mainstream film going It's basically this generation's

version of Apollo 13 I'm just generalizing here

people. I'm not saying that one is better than

the other But that's what gravity looks like

to me as far as the marketing campaign for it

and as far as the genre that it's in and it's

a mass market film. Whereas, is it Spike Jonze,

Spike Lee, one of the damn Spikes that did her,

I don't even know. It kind of got shafted because

of the fact that Gravity took away so many of

the awards. Well, see, here's my thing. I'm very

much a mainstream film goer. I believe I've mentioned

on this show on my little guest run here that

You know, I only go to the theater for stuff

like Transformers or Captain America 2 or X -Men

7 or whatever. You go for the comic and nostalgia

purposes. Right, the big budget, you know, type

of franchise films. That's what I reserve my

theater going for. Now, do I know that Iron Man

3 isn't going to win Best Picture? Sure, I know

it's not going to win Best Picture, but what

I find is it's so funny, the Oscars... takes

the you know someone like me who doesn't who

might have seen a preview for let's just say

her or twelve years a slave or gravity or whatever

else films i know i'm not interested in seeing

the theaters they'll take those put them in the

best director best picture best whatever and

then on the flip side they'll take something

that i do know like iron man and put it up for

best soundtrack best score like what What is

essentially is, I don't want to say a secondary

award because all of the awards are, you know,

it's giving a claim and, and, and, and, and accreditation

to the people that worked on them. And I think

it's great that, you know, Brian Tyler got, got

nominated for best score. That's amazing. Um,

but it just seems to me like all the films that

I wouldn't necessarily know about get the noms

for best picture and best this. And to me, personally

they seem like indy films because i i just don't

pay attention to them i'm not saying they are

indy films but and all the other ones like you

know dark night that one for what special effects

and and and whatever else and it didn't win a

best picture but it's still won an oscar as far

as what do i consider uh... as far as a movie

for oscar worthiness Don't really pay attention

to the Oscars anymore. I think they're one the

presentation of them as far as the actual airing

of the event with the red carpet and whoever

You know Cliche hosts they want to get for the

year. It just doesn't impress me this year. I

watched maybe five minutes of Ellen and I was

like Oh, God, let me watch the Kardashians. It's

so much better, please. I would rather not watch

the Kardashians, but you're either a person that

likes Ellen or you don't. It's like Seth MacFarlane.

You either like him or you don't. Yeah, I mean,

you know, I used to like her. She used to be

funny. I just I think the problem is anyone that

hosts that show has enormous shoes to fill because

of past hosts. Why not just let Billy host it

every year? I think is a successor to him. I

think Ellen did a great job. That's as far as

I know without actually having watched it because

again, I feel I can't relate to the Oscars because

they don't actually have categories for Geeks.

Yeah, I mean essentially I understand perfectly,

you know all of these categories that they actually

have in the Oscars are, you know, very noteworthy.

So, I mean, I'm not arguing with the fact that

everything got rated where it did. I'm just arguing

with the fact that they don't have, you know,

you have best animated feature, which that one

I agree with out of the entire list. But you

don't have things that are. You don't have like

best comic book film. You don't have best action

film. You don't have Yeah, you know things like

that. It's It's all these set specific categories

that nobody really knows about anyway And and

so I don't see things in there that I can personally

relate to so I don't care where I think that

that's where we did it correctly in the the GCR

and awards is Dan and Kevin when they because

Mind you I'm you know, Mike and I are more closed

-minded unfilmed. I'm just gonna say it, you

know, we're more minded unfilmed I'm a little

bit more open than you are I'll at least give

the films a chance once they hit disc or Netflix

I will watch them once they hit that phase I

just will not pay to see a film that doesn't

interest me at least in the trailer or or premise

of it for the theater run I'm like you I'll go

see a film that I know I want to pay to see in

the theater whereas if it's a film like Gravity

or that kind of thing. I would rather wait until

it's on disk and then watch it give it a fair

shake rather than Well, I'm gonna say I'm the

same way with the exception of the crappy Lego

movie. It was not bad I watched it. It was it

was actually really good anyway back to the host

for the Oscars like Just I don't find Ellen funny.

It's not that I dislike her I just I haven't

found her funny in a number of years now And

what makes it worse is when Saturday Night Live

parodies her. Oh, they're god -awful They're

Saturday Night Live should it's like old yeller.

It should be taken out back and shot It hasn't

been pertinent since the last time it was actually

halfway decent Betty White was on it Yep, and

then that was the last episode. It was actually

good As far as you know like you said oh well

some people like Alan some people don't some

people like Seth Macfarlane some people don't

well Seth actually cuz Dan and I did the Oscars

last year for M wire and Seth Macfarlane actually

did the Oscars last year and outside of the the

singing numbers your boobs or yeah or whatever

Yeah, outside of the song and dance numbers,

I didn't mind Seth as a host of the Oscars. He's

got that kind of host mentality and it also kind

of helps because he does a lot of the roasts

hosting of it. I like the fact that they brought

in Captain Kirk and that was interesting. He's

kind of vulgar. In some of his jokes and run

-on jokes, but anyways Hosting aside. I just

I don't find the Oscars to be as noteworthy as

they could be I Think that it's it's one of those

run -on -dog Things like it's not the Academy

Awards technically anymore. They just call it

the Oscars which Doesn't really make it sound

any better But I think that more categories being

that There are new genres and new things that

should be added to this list. For as big of a

deal as they make out of this whole thing of

the all of these different award shows that go

on through the year, they need to add new categories

to them or update them or something, because

I feel alienated even trying to pay attention

to them. Yeah, because some of those films I

either haven't had a chance to watch yet or just

don't care about. Yeah, I. I fully intend on

checking out a few of these before the next record

so that I can at least give a fair shake to argument's

sake on some of the movies. Yeah. The best Oscar

show I ever saw was when Sardis and Mildew won.

Anyways, I think we've dragged that comment on

long enough. Yes. We'll be back after this with

some quick media news and following that the

Blitz. Agents of SHIELD promo teases Captain

America's SHIELD, the new subtitle and earth

-shattering revelations. It still does not take

away the fact that none of the main team characters

are interesting to me anymore. I'm kind of waiting

to see with this new direction that they're planning

on going Because with them teasing Captain America's

shield and the uprising subtitle and They've

kind of alluded to the fact that something is

going to happen and it's gonna tie in kind of

with Captain America the Winter Soldier and Avengers

2 It's all connected in this giant thing going

around right now. They're basically saying that

the Marvel Universe is going to be changed forever.

the original logo for the show had the eagle

with the with the eye patch kind of foreshadowing

that nick fury played by samuel jackson would

show up and he did uh... so maybe with them using

cap shield as the background maybe chris evans

will show up as cap and i'm all it anytime the

marvel cinematic universe main characters show

up in the show i'm fine as the show has progressed

i still I don't find a single one of the team

members likeable for me personally I just don't

I don't hate the show I don't hate the characters

I just don't find them likeable When was the

last time you watched an episode of it? 9 or

10 It's gotten better since then It really has

Because they started explaining things Instead

of just speeding around the bush and going oh

blah blah blah. Oh Tahiti It's a it's a magical

place and you know all this these stupid little

one -liners like They actually starting to actually

dig into the series Does it have the traction

of arrow? Hell? No? It doesn't have the potential

possibly but I think we're Marvel Reign supreme

is the film universe and where DC Reign supreme

is the animated and their television stuff now,

post Smallville. There were bad times in Smallville,

but there were some really cool moments as well.

There were, but the CW dragged it on way too

long, which I know they're going to do with Arrow

at some point, because they're already doing

it with Supernatural. optimistic to see where

they take shield yes um shall we uh take a blue

pill and not jump down the rabbit hole i'll let

you cover that one i don't give a rat's behind

about it okay the only reason why i'm bringing

this up is because partially i've been listening

to the reloaded and revolution soundtracks from

lowland records over the last four days um but

uh I guess this is kind of us feeding the monster,

as someone so succinctly put it on one of the

other comments. The article I found was from,

well the article you found or whatever was from

Geek Nation, but they say that the story comes

from Latino Review. I don't believe anything.

Latino Review's website to me is basically the

onion for movie news. Well, sometimes they're

correct though. It's just and it's with anything

you're gonna take it with a grain of salt, but

I mean it's more so I'm sure there are rumblings

of it. It's just a matter of Whether people are

gonna be excited or not. Yeah. Well, the story

is basically that the Wachowskis are Potentially

working on a new matrix chill trilogy Potentially

The studios aren't confirming anything, but supposedly

the first film in the new trilogy will explore

the beginnings of The Matrix, which would basically

say, hey, we don't need to have the cast return,

let's make these prequels and have a whole new

cast. I automatically don't like that. I want

to see how far Neo and Morpheus and Trinity and

everybody has come since Revolutions. We know

Mr. Smith won't be in it because He's just not

Well, look look at what happened to him at the

end of revolution. So yeah, you know, but No,

I'm kind of of the same opinion I don't I don't

really like this whole Star Wars route of doing

the best four or the best three first and then

going to the the next three That actually or

before I don't think going back and doing a prequel

is intelligent on film I think either move on

or start a new franchise. I can honestly say

I've never finished the Matrix trilogy. I've

never watched the third film. It's not for lack

of trying. I actually have the first one. The

second one I caught on HBO a while back, like

years ago. And then the third one I kept. Trying

to get a hold of but I forgot what was involved

with the second one. So I never got to actually

watch the third so I have to get my hands on

those on rental sometime at Some rental place

that happens to be still open Yeah, I just it's

so funny this story popped up because I believe

it was Last night or two nights ago after we

recorded this or before we recorded this actually

But by the time people hear this is about where

Wednesday the fifth or so I believe I actually

caught matrix on on cable. I forget if it was

on stars or if it was on a Might have been on

AMC and I still outside of neo's whole rebirth

when he takes the red pill and jumps down the

rabbit hole outside of the whole rebirth and

outside of the whole baby plantation thingamajig

scene. Those are the only two scenes in that

movie that make me just go all kinds of queasy

and no. Everything else in that movie though

is absolutely fantastic. Absolutely love it.

You know all these years later bullet time still

rings true. as a very awesome special effect.

I mean, I can't say enough good things about

the franchise. And again, I hope that if they

are going to do a new trilogy that it is after

Neo. Or that it's still Neo continuing on or

something. Like you said, I mean, prequels nowadays

aren't the best thing in the world. I mean, just

look at Dumb and Dumber. Yeah, well at least

they aren't going back and doing a sequel now.

Yeah, that's true So I can get behind that So

Have you seen the official look at the new flash

helmet? Yes, I did see that that looks interesting

I'm kind of excited to see what they do with

it I'm kind of worried and they're basically

using Arrow to set up all this new stuff. Well,

you get to think about it this way. Arrow is

almost like the Batman of the universe that they've

been set up. So you have to kind of figure that

they are setting it up with that intention, but

the Flash, they already introduced him. through

Arrow. Right, and that's what I'm saying. It's

weird to me. I think it's great that they're

doing this. I think it's a good marketing ploy

to set up all the characters in the show that's

proven itself for one full season and we're in

the middle of the second season now. I think

that's great. I just think it's kind of weird

because are you going to have, okay sure, you

introduce the Flash and then the Flash is going

to go to his new show. But are you going to have,

is it going to be like Angel and Buffy in the

old WB days where you sometimes will have crossovers

between the two shows? I'm sure there occasionally

will be. And are they going to do that with every

single character that comes out of Arrow to get

their own show. Obviously, they can't do it with

Batman because you've got Fox and Gotham, which

we'll talk about later. But, I mean, I'm interested

to see what the Flash stuff is going to do. Yeah,

I mean, I'm interested to see what they're going

to do, but I have high hopes for it, actually.

I think that they finally have a team that understands

everything. So we may actually be on the road

to a good continuity. Yeah, I can see that. Alright,

so Wolverine's new look. He's looking pretty

ragged in days of futures past. Old and grizzly.

Yes. Old and grizzly, Bob. Yeah, it's interesting

I find it really funny that they've gone for

more of a Kevlar Batman type of look for the

uniform It's not you know blue and yellow spandex,

and it's not black leather like was in the original

trilogy It's it's cool. It's interesting. I just

want to see more close -up image because this

this one image on here the image of the top of

the article doesn't it's not a super close -up

I want to see the claws pop I want a poster like

we had with the x3 poster I don't care how many

people say oh x3 that movie sucked I want a poster

like that with the claws just on the poster I

don't think it'll happen but whatever never know

Oh, never know So Yeah, yes the first trailer

for Ninja Turtles is going to be coming with

Captain America The Winter Soldier. Yeah, I'm

I'm excited to see what they're gonna do with

Ninja Turtles I know I've talked some crap in

previous episodes about it It's I still am kind

of leery on the concept of what they're doing

to the characters, but It's still hard to tell

until it's in some kind of visual form Yeah,

I'm just happy they're not teenage tattoo alien

fighters from Beverly Hills Yeah, I think I'd

have to punch something You know I've been really

silent about the turtles stuff I've seen all

the like the the mock -ups and everything else

that have been leaked online and What really

has me interested for the new turtles film is

to see how William Fickner plays shredder That's

really what I'm interested in yeah, so then then

the turtles themselves So yeah, I mean that's

And hey, I mean, you know, that's great that

it's going to premiere in front of Cap for a

trailer. So at least we can see something of

the movie. So everybody can stop basically doing

what I do and bitch when you haven't even seen

anything yet. Because it's great if they show

us mockups or if mockups are leaked or if early

designs are leaked and everything else and we

get a glimpse, we don't get the whole picture.

At least with a Thirty second one minute two

minute trailer you get the whole you know some

of the whole picture You can actually see what

the actual film is gonna look like Yeah, I'm

I'm having high hopes I can't wait to actually

see this Show up, you know when I see cap And

then finally rounding out the news Don't know

if you've ever paid attention to this before

but Have you seen the Jeff Gordon Pepsi commercials

where he drives like a bat out of hell I Believe

so. I mean, it's not really news of any kind.

I just thought it was kind of funny Well, there

was a first one about a year ago where he went

to a car dealership and He had a camera mounted

on a Pepsi can like a Pepsi max And he had one

on like his hat or you know They they set it

up in this Chevy Camaro Well, he got this guy

the salesman from the dealership and then Proceeded

to test drive it and then started driving like

a madman All around these cleared out areas Scaring

the shit out of the driver or the um the salesman

and he's going holy shit like and it's it's It's

hilarious. Well, the vehicle website, Jalopnik,

which also does other stuff too, but one of their

editors runs his mouth about the Jeff Gordon

thing and the Pepsi Max saying, oh, it was fake,

blah, blah, blah. Well, one of that guy's buddies

set up another one to have the editor. Get stuck

in one of those but he had Jeff Gordon dressed

up like a taxi cab driver and had it all rigged

and Had like the glass and everything and in

the thing and made it look like an authentic

like taxi and It's another Chevy vehicle like

an SS or something But Jeff Gordon starts driving

like crazy and scares the shit out of this guy

and he's just losing it back there kicking the

glass and kicking everything like going And it

was just funny and then a cop starts chasing

them And then they pull up to the dealers you're

up to the this building and get out and everything

guys freaking the hell out It's just it was hilarious.

I I watched that earlier this week. Of course.

I also watched a video where And I'm not going

to go into the exact wording but It's definitely

something that Michael Wilson would get a kick

out of recording a Transformers podcast because

we always go to YouTube These guys from my parts

department at work Found this video of this lady

that's telling a news conference or a news article

thing on on location And it's live. And this

guy just comes out of nowhere. Runs up on real

low, grabs the microphone and says. Effer and

the, you know, and the location and then so he

and then it's just all of a sudden like cuts

abruptly and the the the person in the studio

that's showing like just a random like field

or something. They're like, I'm sorry for that

vulgar interruption that happened there. we're

not sure what happened I apologize blah blah

blah it was just hilarious because like the guy's

reaction and how he did it but it's it's not

that funny but it's funny just because of how

quick he said it and how he just dove in there

it was like something you would see on one of

them stupid some kind of a comedy film in modern

-day This guy runs up with a hood, and he just

grabs it. It's, yeah. So I think we'll cut it

short. No, wait. No, wait. We have to talk about

the best dessert ever. Ah, yes. I forgot that.

And I killed Mike. Yes. I saw this on Facebook

this morning. The best dessert ever is a shot

of milk inside a glass made of cookie. The tastebud

teaser, Dominic Ansel, he's the master pastry

chef who created the cronut, has come up with

another dessert so brilliant that the internet

is salivating at the mere picture of it, and

wondering why it didn't exist before, a chocolate

chip cookie milk shot, as in a shot of milk inside

a quote unquote glass that's actually made from

a chocolate chip cookie. Can you say I'd like

two dozen please? Uh, this thing looks amazing.

Would you eat it? I'd eat it and drink it. I'd

drink it first, then I'd eat the cookie. And

it'd be all nice and to soak it. Yeah, pretty

much. Um, but these things look so good. Normally

I don't go for the fancy bakery pastry kind of

stuff, but this is so simple and awesome. It

just, yeah. It defies logic. But it looks delicious

damn it I'm not saying I wouldn't eat it because

I would I just I'd tear that shit up, but you

know But yeah, I just that that's that's actually

really cool. I'm seeing that float around everywhere

It's even floating around on CNN on Twitter right

now. I was like, that's amazing. It's we're talking

about it and there it is So I think we'll cut

this down so we can get to the Ten Minute Blitz

and following that a couple of short segments

and close out the show. Alrighty, we're back

with the Blitz, and, well, I think that we should

talk about a couple of different topics that

are very short that happen to be kind of annoying

throughout the week. Some of them annoying, some

of them not. So, I will start the timer. For

now and we will talk about the famous Oscar selfie

gets the Simpsons treatment What do you think

about that sir Is this whole Oscar selfie thing

with Ellen is this kind of like Kanye? Interrupting

I'm gonna let you finish but But my pants are

full how did i know that was coming? i don't

know it was a good michael wilson quote from

a while ago so it had to come up you had to finish

the show with that anyway no we have better outtakes

now i don't know like the simpsons are fine for

me like i haven't watched religiously since god

knows when i've tried to watch episodes here

and there but Just I think the Simpsons have

just kind of faded into the background of geek

culture I I don't remember when the last time

that I actually sat down and watched a full episode

of the Simpsons I really don't I don't know when

it was the last time I did either It's been quite

a while. I know that they're still pertinent

for the most part, but it takes them a little

while longer My whole thing with this is this

is actually a perfect opportunity to bash the

stupid selfie because one, I think it's fucking

retarded. Pardon my French that it's called a

selfie. You're taking a self shot. You know,

it's it's just just saying it's a self shot.

It's not any faster than saying selfie. It sounds

that sounds retarded. But I like the fact that

Homer's been kicked out of the shot, pranking

the whole thing. Yeah, and somebody says the

true ugly true story of the ask yourself it can

finally be told let's break Twitter again look

for Bart See that's the thing I'm looking for

him and I Wow, I Know didn't find him in time

oops you are the weakest link. Goodbye. Yes,

that's right. Um so moving on I found this earlier

this week it is the Jurassic Park computer system.

Oh, my God. Have you looked at this yet? Yeah.

Wow. And you can actually move the consoles around

and you can actually somewhat type stuff in there.

Like not all of the dialogue works, but. Oh,

yeah, you can see the screen that was there when

on the movie. And the fact that somebody turned

this into a website is just genius. Although

it does show you that they were using Windows

3 .1, but... Yes, well, that's how old Jurassic

Park is by now. Yeah, so, but I mean I thought

it was kind of interesting that this site even

exists to begin with. Yeah, it is pretty cool.

Wow windows has really come a long way since

then I mean, it's not really windows, but the

the boxes look like a pseudo windows It's just

yeah, it's funny to look at regardless just because

it's so dated You know, I think it'd be an awesome

nod if they had something like that had the picture

of the guy That goes uh -uh Yeah in the new film,

I think they would just be genius So I think

we've taken that one as far as we can go, you

know So I will restart the timer and We will

go on with Doc Brown brings real back -to -the

-future hoverboards to Los Angeles Even though

it's a fake it's a trap Yeah, it's a crap. It's

a crap. It's a yeah, they created a fake viral

campaign and had Doc Brown show up in it. What

is your thoughts of this? I mean, we're a year

away from the 30th anniversary of the thing.

Why not? And this actual hoverboard, or fake

hoverboard that they have here, looks ten times

better than the Mattel replica. I agree. I think

it's funny that it's called Huv -R. Yeah, I Think

it would be cool as hell if they actually invented

this oh Yeah, I do too because then that means

that cars would actually be coming to them No

more tires, you know Well, they still have to

have landing gear Yeah roads where we're going.

We don't need roads. We just crash into really

big trees Yeah, so I mean, I agree with you.

The hoverboard actually looks halfway decent

because it's not like the pink board in it. Well,

it is. It is movie accurate. Well, I mean, they

have one in one of the images. They have another

image that's not. But right. But I think it's

kind of interesting. And then the fact that they

have Tony Hawk. He could do a nine thousand with

those hoverboards. I the level of. Editing going

on in this is just amazing to me Talk about a

high -tech student film What oh nothing is it's

just fake viral yeah, oh yay dismiss So I'll

let you bring up the next ones and I'm turning

the counter right now Okay, these are gonna be

really quick. So hopefully I can do five minutes

apiece with these This first one is I was gonna

bring a bone on the pull bag But I just I don't

feel like it warrants a real, you know full -on

news story here Gail Simone's Batgirl 30 bumped

by Marguerite Bennett's Batgirl 30 This was the

solicited bad girl number 30 written by Gail

Simone art by Fernando Pasternan Jonathan Galapian

covered by Alex Gardner on sale April 9th An

ordinary day is taking a turn for the worst when

Barbara Gordon must find a way to save her roommate

Alyssa From fan favorite villain rag doll dun

dun dun This has now changed. The contents of

April's Batgirl 31 will now be moved to May's

Batgirl 32, and 32 will be moved to June's Batgirl

33. Batgirl 30 will instead be written by Marguerite

Bennett, with art by Robert Gill, and a cover

by Clay Mann. In this issue, after a sinister

game gone wrong, Batgirl confronts a supernatural

legend risen from the primordial depths, the

Midnight Man. The likelihood is that 30 just

wasn't ready in time, and this is an inventory

issue created for just this occasion, we hope.

uh... this is a bleeding cool story and i dc

editorial really makes me mad okay sure i get

it if the issue isn't ready that's fine and great

issue twenty seven i believe kicked off issue

twenty seven kicked off the silver arc the new

villain silver uh... and issue 28 last month

continued that and issue 29 as far as I knew

as far as I thought well issue 21 maybe issue

29 is the end of the silver arc I don't know

it's just one of those things where it's kind

of like the zero year where 24 20 23 24 and 26

are the Batgirl wanted arc but 25 has to be the

zero year tie -in it's just crazy It's just it's

just silly stupid and And the other one really

quickly was The fact that apparently Andrew Garfield

is a douche in real life Because he backed out

of the bat kid segment at the Oscars Because

he says that his his lines he didn't like his

lines but apparently he is gonna accompany the

kid to Disneyland. I just can't, because the

whole point of this segment on the Oscars was

to, for the Oscars, for the Academy Awards, to

promote this kid as an actual, to basically give

him superhero status. Bat Kid is one of those...

He's one of the make -a -wish kids five -year

-old boy with cancer who played superhero in

San Francisco So yeah, it is kind of douchey

that he did that but I don't see a segment like

this Working on the Oscars and the article even

says it probably wouldn't have worked with the

way the Oscars are structured So, I don't know

Whether he was he stormed off or not is irrelevant

like cuz who knows I mean yeah But I For one

you're an actor you're paid to say lines. Just

shut up and do them like yeah I mean really you're

not any more important than the rest of us. It's

I mean any of us would gladly do that I'm not

saying that being an actor is easy because it's

not otherwise most of us would be trying to do

something like that, but I don't know. For one,

it was a partial charity thing. Two, it's an

award show. I mean, for Christ's sake, just do

it. But I also agree that it wouldn't have worked

with the Oscars. And at least he ponied up and

went to Disney with the kid. So I can't fault

him really too much on that. No. And that was

perfect timing, so that's it with the Blitz.

We'll be back after this quick break with the

All Things Transformers news segment. And we're

back with the All Things Transformers segment.

It is Transformers 4 time. Have you seen the

viral image? Yeah, I don't get it. I've seen

and I'm looking at it right now. I don't get

it. The Transformers are dangerous dot com. Yes,

it's not the Transformers. It's Transformers

are dangerous dot com. But anyways, it's got

a picture of Optimus Prime and one of those like

army. Like recruiting images where it's all kind

of like garbled and they're dangerous. This is

spread the word join the fight which Essentially

tells me that they're gonna hunt optimus prime

after all the work. He's done to help the humans

Here's a big swim kicking the balls prime Well,

have you seen the new trailer? No, I haven't

actually watched yet. I I have and that's Essentially

what's going on? is that they are hunting Optimus

Prime. From what I saw in the trailer, I will

say that I'm very happy with what I've seen so

far. Michael Bay seems to actually be listening

to the fans now because we actually get Optimus'

G1 alt mode in... I assume it's just his disguise.

I'm pretty sure it's not going to be his alt

mode for the entire movie, but it is his G1 flat

-nose cab alt mode, and it looks amazing. But,

you know, I just want to see the movie already,

you know? I'm through trying to analyze it or

trying to figure out how the movie is going to

suck, if it does or if it doesn't. I just want

to see it and make my own assessments afterwards.

at this point. Yeah, I'm I'm kind of interested

to see what they do with it. I like the fact

that Mark Wahlberg's in it. I also like, like

you said, the fact that they have the prime trailer.

Yeah. It's interesting because it's almost like

they've set up Wahlberg to be spark plug. In

essence because he's kind of working on the truck

and everything and in a garage and then The fact

that he powers it on mmm, you know And the daughter's

almost kind of like Trying to think Jesse from

the Marvel Comics run It's almost kind of that

essence and then the the boyfriend or whatever

is almost like Buster from the comics, okay So

I kind of get a lot of the correlations that

are in there I I'm interested a lot more to see

what's going on in this one. I think it's funny

that They've kind of abandoned the Transformers

in it, and Bumblebee's there, and I'm just wondering

who all the main villain is gonna be. I know

that they have the Dinobots in it. That's the

other thing that happened in the trailer. Optimus

Prime bitch slapped Grimlock. Yeah, I'm actually

watching the trailer now, and I see the ships

floating overhead, and Bumblebee fighting in

his current... Camaro mode You know the funny

thing about this this new movie and I guess it's

cuz I'm from Massachusetts that I started watching

this show But I don't know it was one late night

Didn't know what to watch so every now, and then

I'll throw it on A &E if I see something I'm

like oh the wall burgers. What is hey? It's the

wall burgers, and they have us they have a restaurant

in Hingham mass called the wall burgers And it's

this this gourmet burger place, and it's basically

Paul Wallberg is the chef and and Donnie and

Mark you know, our investors with him. And part

of it was showing Mark out in Hollywood or on

a jet and Paul was saying, well, you know, oh,

no, no, no, Paul was waiting for hours at the

airport for Mark and Mark was like, yeah, Polly,

I can just, you know, say, excuse me, Mr. Bae,

can we hurry this up? My brother's waiting. It's

like, no, I'm not going to say that to him. So

that was, but yeah, no Transformers 4, I'm really

excited for it now. I'm really interested to

see how everything's gonna play out. Yeah, I'm

kinda, after having just watched the trailer

while we were talking about it, I'm actually

kinda geeked to see the film now. More so than

I have been since the very first film. The very

first film was the last time I actually enjoyed

one of the films. I'm not saying I didn't like

the third one because I did, but I didn't enjoy

it as much as I did the first by comparison.

But I have a feeling that I'm going to really

like this film just by not only the nods to the

fanboys stuff that's in it, but also the new

premise and then the, you know, the continuation

without really needing the continuation. Explanation

anyway, so I think the only thing that really

continues. I'm sorry to cut you off I think the

only thing I noticed on the trailer that really

continues from the third film is There's a sign

where Chicago once was and it just says remember

Chicago So yeah, I mean I'm I'm super stoked

for Transformers 4 Yeah, I I honestly cannot

wait to see it I I hope that everything goes

as planned As far as what's what they have going

on I hope that people don't get to Like oh screw

you Michael Bay, you know, cuz he actually is

not doing all that bad for once I have to give

him I have to give him kudos it this looks immensely

better Than anything else that we've got going

on In the film verse so far. Oh Yeah, so I say

kudos to you of my hats off and I cannot wait

to see this film this year Yep, same here So

I think since this episode's gone on quite a

while anyway. Rather than jump into another set

of topics or another segment, I think we'll just

close out the show this week since we talked

a little long about the Oscars and some of the

other stuff that's kind of come up tonight. And

we'll bring it up next week. So you'll get to

hear some of our comments about Batman Arkham

Knight next week, as well as some of the Gotham

TV show. whatever else happens to pop up in the

news plus your comments and questions. So we

will catch you next time. So thank you as always

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