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Hey, this is Steve blue and you are listening

to the geek cast radio network who would want

to broadcast for up to eight hours i can think

of somebody uh... i'm going to keep quiet on

that one uh... so welcome to altered geek unlimited

episode fifty -five hello fifty -five see i think

this show is encouraging me to keep up with Off

the Cuff. Because if I keep going right now,

I will still be one episode ahead of you. If

I stop, then you'll be tied or you'll pass me.

One episode difference, isn't it? Yep. Although

it's kind of sad when you think that Off the

Cuff has been going for... Two years, yeah two

years I actually went and decided to listen to

The very first pod episode of XRG that we did

Today while I was at work. That's why I sent

you the message. What's the FTP? It's up for

the website so I could get that mp3 to listen

to it at work Okay, I haven't finished listening

I'm basically I'm I'm basically listening to

see if we have delivered on anything that we

set out to do. Makes sense. So this is kind of

like a joke, but you know, we'll see. I haven't

finished listening to it yet. Occasionally I

do that with podcasts, but most of the time I

don't only because I mean, I do, but I don't.

I never remember what I say after I've recorded

the podcast. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I'm pretty much

the same way. I'll record something and then

I'll let it go to die. Which is why I have a

hard time going back in episodes. Like, every

once in a while, I'll get a message saying that

so -and -so commented on an old episode and I'll

go back and read the comment and I'll have no

idea what they're talking about. in uh... in

said episode so what have you been up to uh...

well do you say who we were i guess in the bottom

so we really have to do it anymore that's not

very separate formal who are you it's well i'm

steve megatron phillips obviously uh... and uh...

you know the last week i haven't had all that

much entertaining go on uh... was playing around

and made a a Kind of I Made like a background

picture you could call it Basically, it's just

It's one I made for My computer at work It's

Basically this Okay, the original altered geek

yeah, I took my my avatar that TV's mr. Neal

made me Which combines various elements of like

drawn some Batman some Megadron and Tiny bit

of Star Trek and stuff and I created a transporter

underneath myself, and made the transporter effect

by just randomly drawing straight lines of different

color. Well, that's one way to do it. Pretty

sure that's how they did it in the movies. I

wouldn't be surprised. But yeah, so that's what

I did. And then I actually got a... coke that

has my name on it i have yet to see one that

says i mean i've seen shouldn't say that i've

seen pictures of ones that say michael or mike

i have i have not seen one in the flesh yet but

i haven't done looking that's nice you're validated

as a person now sir you exist uh it says share

a coke with steve um it was actually the first

one i bought out of the machine the other morning

so uh Didn't realize that it had my name on it

till I already drank it all and then I flipped

it around Saw the name and I was like, oh shit.

That's me You drank yourself. Wonderful That

just sounds dirty But uh, yeah, that's pretty

much all I've been doing over the last week Well,

I am Mike booth ninja 81 powers as it says at

the bottom of my screen right here I... Well,

okay, the last... I had trouble talking last

week, too, if I remember correctly. I've spent

the last week playing Diablo 3 with my wife.

Good game. And I played and beat Infamous First

Light on Wednesday. Came out on Tuesday. Let's

see I figured out how to put video into you know

off -the -cuff the the video version of it which

I I Don't know. I'm right there on the bleeding

edge of just going video only with that I mean

I have not done what I said I was going to do

which is post the audio for it like a week like

a week later And really after yesterday's experiment

with the gameplay footage in the video and then

placing the the raw footage in the video when

it goes into the YouTube archive like that I

kind of solidify the whole idea of taking the

show video only because video games are a visual

medium it's nice to be able to show people what

you're playing yeah I can kind of kind of get

that um I uh There may come a point where I may

end up doing some kind of video tutorial or kind

of doing a behind the scenes while I'm editing

a podcast or something, I don't know. I eventually

might also do some, because I played like Unreal

Tournament Online and various old games like

Red Alert 2 and stuff like that. So there was

that and then today I Went and got myself a new

toy, which if anyone's I don't know how intently

people look at this podcast, but I have Well,

these are my old headphones which are still Really

good. They're sure 440s which headphones who

really cares about headphones I care I went on

a quest like I don't know it started in 2011

when a game called sword and sorcery came out

for the iPad and they were just like the music

for it was really good so I wanted to have a

decent set of headphones so I could actually

experience the game because half of the game

was the music that was there for it so I was

like I I want to be able to experience that the

way it's meant to be experienced so I went on

this whole like thing about headphones is that

the other thing and So today well at the beginning

of this year blue the guys that make our microphones

I Love blue they make such good stuff The the

guys that make our microphones back in January

at CES they tease that they were going to get

into the headphone business And I was like what?

So I was listening and I was paying attention

I signed up for their little email so like once

a month I get an email newsletter about like

blue mo it's called the blue mo fi and here's

the little instruction manual that comes with

and i was like you know they're coming they're

coming eventually sometime this year here's a

little teaser video but they would never show

you what the headphones look like until it's

kind of like one of those things i don't know

um so i went in uh this past tuesday or last

week i think was last thursday they announced

that on the 26th they were going to show off

the headphones they're finally going to release

them purchase and on the 26th I went to Boo's

website and there they were. Won't be able to

hear Steve if he's asking any questions but I'll

take these off and show you guys. See, it's nice.

It's a Boo headset. Yes, the blue headset though

I'm kind of enticed only for the fact that My

current headset is almost five years old now.

Well, I really I mean, I see it's kind of hard

to review something. I've had it for about an

hour now out of the box. There is a noticeable

difference between. This and my other set of

headphones that I that I have been using for

like the last year. The big difference is these

are like. Way more comfortable Like really? Yeah,

they're they're a lot heavier than the Shurs

are but they're way more comfortable for some

reason I think it's just the fit. I mean they

look kind of they do look kind of futuristic,

you know when you turn to the side and everything

Now the big thing with this the reason they call

it mo -fi instead of hi -fi is they kind of looked

at the portable you know, the mp3 player market

and stuff like that and they were trying to it's

like why does music have to sound like shit coming

out of an iphone or an android phone or anything

like that and what they did is they there's a

battery a rechargeable battery in the headphones

um and there is an amp in that built into the

head a powered amp built into the headphones

oh okay so you don't have to so basically you're

mp3 player your mobile phone even my computer

i'm not relying on that to drive the speakers

in the headphones um the there's a there's a

analog amp not a digital amp there's an analog

amp in the headphones that you know powers the

drivers so everything it does it sounds a lot

better you there's three settings on it one is

like off and that's what i'm using right now

for recording this um and then you can turn it

you can turn the amp on and then you can basically

turn it one more setting and that's basically

like applying like a bass boost you know it makes

the bass a little bit punchier but just turning

them on is like a big difference they claim that

you can get 12 hours out of a single charge of

the battery and it takes like three or four to

fully charge Will say this and I'll take the

headphones off again so I can show it to people

Because like I said, it's battery powered and

they're really there isn't an on off There is

an off switch like you can turn them off, but

they turn themselves off When the headphones

come together like this they actually power down

That's kind of a cool feature on their own. So

You don't have to worry about whether or not

you remember to shut the headphones off So I'm

you know an hour with them. I'm pretty happy

I read a couple of reviews from some websites

that I actually care about to see what they have

to say about them that I just I just like things

to sound good it comes with a Like I was they

said three meters. So a nine foot cable. Oh Wow

comes with a nine foot cable. It comes with a

connector for airplanes So you can use an airplane

comes with a wall charger the USB cable for it

They are primarily marketing it as an iphone

accessory or an ios accessory so there's an ios

control and microphone um a separate cord for

the ios microphone and built -in controls and

that's what i'm using because i don't need nine

feet of cable while i'm sitting right at my desk

um but no i i like them i like the way they fit

um there's a bunch of other stuff like the There's

a lot of joints and pivots on it so that the

headphones stay flush against your ears and they're

not doing stuff It's a bunch of mumbo jumbo that

I'm not entirely qualified to talk about but

I know I do notice a difference So I'm pretty

happy about that and oh it comes with this nice

bag to carry them in And it is a magnetically

sealed bag Which is kind of cool They look if

you see it in pictures and stuff like that. They

look kind of cheap Especially when you find out

how much they are But they are actually made

out of the same It feels like it's like the same

type of aluminum that the Yeti is made out of

Okay, so it's it's metal you're looking at metal

even though it looks might look like cheap plastic

in a photo It's there. It's metal for the head

for the headband part. So That's good unlike

you know my shurs which they're cheap plastic

but these are actually really good for um i use

these for mixing you know off the cuff because

it's like if i can hear something in these then

i can probably hear it in anything else so i

still like these my wife thinks i should sell

them i'll have to figure out what i want to do

with them That's what I've been up to No, and

I didn't I this is the only toy I brought to

show off oh I Did another big thing happen this

week Not not big really Back in well first of

all there's just there's this device coming out.

It's called coin. Have you heard of this coin?

No, it's like a okay. It's a startup. It's a

tech startup their product is a Credit card if

you will that can store multiple cards on it.

So you okay? Yeah, okay. Well, there's there's

quite a few companies out there doing the same

thing I chose to jump on the coin bandwagon so

back in May I Pre -ordered a coin so I could

try one out or just to have one because if you

pre -order it it was half off So I was like,

oh go ahead and do that Within the last month

they started sending out emails saying that the

coin beta was gonna start at this time and whatnot

and then like two days later they announced that

they weren't gonna be able to hit their coin

beta like coin wasn't gonna be released this

fall like they said it was going to be and whatever

long story short They finally got their stuff

in order and the official launch for coin isn't

starting until and I can't not laugh I'm sorry

the official coin doesn't launch until next spring

but they decided to do like a coin beta program

for like 15 ,000 people that pre -ordered okay

and I actually right before we signed on here

I actually went and redeemed my coin beta so

I'll be receiving it sometime I don't really

know when but I'm interested in it because I

carry like a very minimalist wallet and I have

like three I have like my debit card for my spending

account, I have my debit card for my joint account,

and then I have a credit card for emergency funds.

And the idea behind this one card is that you

program it with all of your, with those three

cards, and there's a little button on the front

that you tap to cycle through, and there's a

little e -ink screen on the front of the card

that will like... show you like it'll say like

visa like if you you can label it different things

like let's say you had a visa card a master card

and a discovery card the little screen would

say this is your visa card this is your master

card this is your discover card and so like you

just tap it until you find the one that you want

to make your purchase with and then you swipe

it and then it makes your purchase with that

card so it just eliminates the need to carry

like you know five six cards you can they said

that you can load a coin up with eight cards

at a time Okay, yeah, I was just about to ask

that yeah, you can you can load it up with eight

coins with eight cards at a time but the app

holds like 12 and It syncs with your phone over

Bluetooth so if you want to use a different card

That's not currently on your coin. You just open

up the app and say I want this card in there

and this one not Okay Like I said, I haven't

actually been able to play around with it because

I've received it But I am hopefully will have

it before the end of the year They'll notify

me with mine actually ships so I Will probably

talk about that more when I actually get it because

I actually think that's kind of neat I know there's

a lot of questions about security and all this

other stuff. I know that like like for example

if you're out to a restaurant and You know the

waitress comes and she takes your card and you

give them this card and it's like well what's

preventing them from Changing the card that you're

paying with you know you send them away thinking

I'm gonna pay for this using my Visa card, and

then they change it to like your American Express

card or whatever, right? When it gets out of

range of your phone, it locks to that card. So

it can't be changed again until it's back within

range of your phone. Another thing that they

do is they allow you to disable the card, like

if you lose it. Or even if you leave it on the

table and you walk so far away, your phone will

buzz and say, hey, you left your card behind.

That's cool So it does a lot of neat things and

like I said, I don't have all the answers for

everybody yet I'm still waiting like most people

are to try it out. They said it works at like

85 % of the card swipe things and that's what

the beta is for so that they can learn more about

what You know card readers it works with and

which ones it doesn't so that they eventually

they can get it to like a hundred percent So

I'm looking forward to that I guess I guess quite

a lot happened this week It didn't feel like

it, mostly because I've been sitting at home

hanging out with my wife playing Diablo and playing

Infamous First Light, so. I haven't played Diablo

in quite some time. I mean, I have my issues

with it, like I said, and off the cuff. They're

more like superfluous things or superficial things.

Like, you know, the fact that you equip equip

different weapons to your character, but you

never actually attack with them. Oh, how it's

just the same weapon every time you hit. Well,

I mean, it's not necessarily the same weapon.

I mean, you can change this. What you equip changes

the look of your character, definitely, but you

never actually physically attack with that weapon.

There is no character animation for attacking

with a sword, which is just a minor thing. I

had that gripe like way back when I started playing

Diablo 3, even on when you gave me your key for

Diablo 3. I could try it on the computer. I had

that issue with it. But it's fun. I mean, at

the end of the day, when you're playing with

three other people and your character gets buried

under a mob of guys, you really can't see what

you're attacking with. All you're doing is pressing

buttons and hoping that you come out alive. So

I am playing as a wizard. So that's what I played

as as well. I I like the I Like I like the spell

that gives you not not the spell. It's the passive

ability that gives you the shield Okay, yeah,

I know what you're talking about. That's how

I know that I'm in real Deep doo -doo is when

I go and rush into the middle of a mob and I

start like raining down Hellfire And then I see

my health start going down when I see my health

start going down That's what I know like I'm

probably messing with something that I should

probably think about And then I started dodging

out of the way to get out of the middle of all

those guys. But if my health doesn't go down,

I just run right in the middle of everybody and

just start electrocuting and dropping meteors.

I like doing that. It's been fun. The couch co

-op has been interesting. But you should come

over and try it out sometime. definitely so as

I like the game I just I'm not I'm partially

accustomed to it having played the demo on the

360 but I mostly have played it on the PC but

I haven't played it since the announcement of

the the add -on pack right so which the the new

version the ps4 version has that so we were my

my wife and I are actually there we started doing

that part of it, but we haven't gone it I think

we've only played like 30 minutes of it because

it you know, the original game is only four acts

and When you're playing the the ps4 the newest

the new version that came out It doesn't like

it's not like it stops the end of act 4 and like

credits roll. It just barrels right into act

5 which is reversals It's pretty much typical

of Diablo i want to say like i was expecting

it to like break and go back to like the main

menu and then be like do you want to go or do

you know now you can select act five or you've

unlocked this but it just it barreled right into

which was nice don't get me wrong it's just it's

not what i was expecting i think diablo 2 did

the same thing uh now that i think about it um

But I've never really been a fan of the act fives

usually like I played it Diablo 2 and I really

didn't care for it But I don't know how it'd

be Diablo 3 Granted the games changed a lot since

we Since originally getting the game when it

came out and I think 2012 Yeah, I honestly I

think this is what's that like that's three It's

three releases well not counting the expansion

pack but Diablo 3 has now been released three

separate times over two years um on like well

because there's the there's the pc release then

there's the ps3 360 release in 2013 no yes did

Diablo came out in 2012 I thought I think so

Then there was so 2012 in the 2013 saw the release

of it on the piece ps3 in the 360 and then 2014

sees the release of it on the ps4 and the Xbox

one I Was thinking about that this morning. I

was like that's it's kind of crazy that one game

In two years has seen like three separate releases

of the same game That's I mean, yeah, that usually

happens. But for me, it's usually like a console

thing like oh, hey, you got that game and now

six months later Oh, look, it's on my system.

I don't really think it's ever happened with

a I guess it's gonna happen again with Grand

Theft Auto though Really? I mean Grand Theft

Auto 5 was released last year and then this year

it's being released on Xbox one ps4 and PC so

That was a dumb train of thought Yeah, my headphones,

for instance, obviously I can't hear, they are,

the padding on them is shredding on all the kind

of rubbery, quasi -leather padding on the entire

headphones and the top of it. I've had those

headphones that long and it's kind of irritating

because I like the headphones and originally

this is how I recorded Geekcast Radio before

I got the blue microphone. But I've had these

I think five years. They're still comfortable

and they still work. It's just I don't I don't

want to replace them but I don't like the fact

that every time I take them off I have like some

of this black crap that falls off it. One of

the first pair of headphones that he had, like

a long time ago, I'm talking like 2001, 2002

-ish, was a pair of Koss headphones, which is

like the Walmart brand of headphones, as far

as I think. Walmart or Meyer? Koss. Yeah, they

both sell them. K -O -S -S. And they were like,

you know, big, over -the -ear cans. They had

that cheap, not leather, but like that, like

the plastic... Yeah, the rubbery plastic looks

like leather not leather Stuff and I those started

falling apart on me. I use those from like 2002

to Probably like sorry between 2008 and 2010

like They drove themselves into the ground like

one your cup stopped working Um, and I, I primarily

used it at work. So like eventually all that

plastic stuff like came off and I just had like

the cloth earmuffs around it, which was fine.

That's fine. But then one headphone like died.

And so like when I was at work, I'd like wear

it, you know, one like off and one on kind of

like a radio DJ or something like that. Um, and

then eventually I was just kind of like, you

know what I need to get, um, another That's when

I started diving in, you know, like 2011 rolled

around I started diving into like headphone research

and I replaced my work headphones with a pair

of Sennheiser 208 HDs or 808 HDs or something

like that. They're they're nice for just like

cheap. They were cheap and They're good to throw

in a drawer at work And I take them out when

I'm watching my movies or TV shows or something

And they have a nice little cable like wrap the

cable up around this like belt clip thing Which

I you know don't use the belt clip, but it's

nice to have a cable management system because

the headphone cord is really really long but

Nope, I'm a sucker for good sound so that's kind

of like what I look for Although I I kind of

like the same type of thing It as far as Like

my headphones and my microphone, I don't like

having the kind of crackly sound at all. Just

even little things like pops, clicks, or any

kind of random noise that would come through

from cheap equipment bothers my ear. Now the

one thing I will say... You know, I love I love

headphones. I also have a I I think it's a nice

surround sound system my family and my friend

my best friend He thinks it's a nice surround

sound system Mainly because the speakers that

I'm using well, I've changed the receiver like

in the last, you know 14 years the receivers

been upgraded. I'm still using the same speakers

that I bought 14 years ago when I got my first

round sound system They're little Sony speakers

they're about the size of this pop can here and

they They still work 14 years later, and I often

think about You know I go on Amazon. I look up

a price. I mean I have I have a set of speakers

like picked out that is Their clips hd speakers

um and they go on sale every once in a while

i look at them like man i could really i'd really

like to upgrade my speakers and then it's kind

of like will i even notice a difference but i

like but is at the same time i was like i like

to think i would notice a difference because

the speakers i have are 14 years old like newer

speakers must sound better right but then you

hear all this stuff about how speakers need to

be broken in and headphones need to be burned

in and like you turn them on and you leave them

playing like a white noise to stimulate all the

the glue and all that and all that stuff and

break them in but i guess the the speakers i

have for my home theater are they're just they're

old but they still sound great like i really

don't have a complaint about them it's just like

part of it's just like man they're 14 years old

i should probably get some new ones and then

i never do by the way This is like the most amazing

thing to me. I don't know if I've showed this

off before. This is a thumb drive, and it is

64 gigabytes. And it is USB 3 .0. Nice. Yeah.

This thing is tiny. I... am amazed by this. I

have one slightly bigger than that, but it's

a 64 as well. So... Anyways, I don't know. I

had it sitting right here, and it just amazes

me that something this tiny, like... The first

Mac I had, had a hard drive just a little bit

bigger than this, like capacity -wise. And here's

basically a solid state. Yes. Please tell me

that muted. It did. Okay, good. We had a small

issue on Off the Cuff Live yesterday where Dan

thought he muted himself, but he didn't mute

himself. But then at the end of the show we realized

he didn't have his microphones set up the right

way Nice Yeah, the nice thing that just talking

about our equipment here the nice thing about

The Nessie that I really like is that it unlike

the Yeti where it has the you push the button

to mute it the Nessie has That is just a touch

sensitive button like you just oh, okay And then

it unmutes. So you don't ever end up with a click,

like a bop bop noise in there when you use that

mute button. Anyways, enough about that. Do we

have any news that people might care about? Do

we have any viewers? No viewers, unfortunately.

Maybe people are over the live shows. Yeah, maybe.

I don't know. Oh, TFJ wouldn't like sick. That's

weird. Let's just read our Twitter feeds. Yeah,

we'll just read our Twitter feeds. I was reading

something about that they're saying Captain America

3. They're, I guess, wrapping up the story of

Steve Rogers. Which means if they do that he

won't be in Avengers 3 His contact his cut. I

said that Evans contract is through Avengers

3. Ah, okay now it's kind of weird the way it's

worth the whole thing is worded like obviously

this is gonna end the The story arc that was

set up by the first Avenger it doesn't And yes,

Chris Evans has said he's done with movies after

he finishes his role as Captain America, but

everyone knows that unless you're Christian Bale,

people could pretty much back up Brink's truck

and you might make a movie. Until Chris Evans

doesn't show up in another movie after Avengers

3, then I'll believe that he's not Captain America.

Like, he's not going to keep playing Captain

America, but... I do believe that, you know,

the teasing here is that Captain America 3 wraps

up Steve Rogers' story. It's the story that they

started telling with First Avenger. It doesn't

mean that Cap 4 couldn't start a whole new trilogy.

It just means I take the wording to mean that

they're just wrapping up that story. And then

of course you throw in the whole, like, you know,

Chris Evans is gonna retire after he's done with

Captain America, which who knows, he might. We

don't know. Keep in mind, Robert Downey Jr. also

said he was done playing Iron Man after Avengers

3, but just a couple weeks ago he said he's open

to Iron Man 4. It's just a matter of how much

money he gets paid. I think it was between that,

and I think it's also the fact that he said that

it depends on the storyline and whether he and

his agent decide that it's a good move or whatever.

Yeah, there's no way it's not going to be a good

move. I will be right back. Start talking about

something interesting or surely there's something

I'll be right back. I have to blow my nose Okay

So I Well, I'll start with this I have It took

me a while to find this ending actually to get

it online the Hot Wheels came out with I Think

it was in 2011 I could be wrong, I think. Nope,

they came out in 2009. I just didn't get them

until 2011 or 12. They came out with these battle

damaged, or not even battle damaged, just Star

Trek ships. And they are, I'm trying to figure

out the scale of it. It's like a model in a box,

and they had the Enterprise D, they had the...

1701 Enterprise, Refit, they had the Enterprise

1701 for the Abramsverse, the USS Reliant from

Wrath of Khan, and the Klingon Bird of Prey,

and among those they had the USS Enterprise 1701A,

which just happens to be my favorite ship, and

it's battle damaged, like on Star Trek 6 the

undiscovered country when the the ship got the

most air time and As you can see if you're watching

the live feed or watching the YouTube video It's

got battle damage on the nacelles or not the

nacelles the saucer section and along the The

bottom kind of right in there Where it got hit

in the actual Film But yeah, this is by far my

favorite enterprise out of any Star Trek right

here. Steve found a toy. Yes. I actually really

like this one. Battle Damaged Enterprise A. And

then this is something that you can't buy. Did

you steal it? No, I'll do one better. I made

it. Oh Yeah This is my Batman Beyond return of

the Joker figure that that I made I did this

a few years ago. I decided because occasionally

I get this itch that I want to try something

that I've never done in geeked up and Much like

recording audio or doing voiceovers. Yes, I know

there's a cat in the background of the video.

And then, you know, doing the video and learning

new stuff. Psycho cat. So I decided I was going

to do kit mashing and customs. See? Crazy cat.

So what I did is I went out and I went to Michael's

and Joanne's Crafting stores or whatever. I took

actual pictures of Joker from Return of the Joker

like close -ups of the color on his skin and

I actually went out and color matched it Which

is I bought that color and I bought black and

I bought green because his hair is it's in return

of the joker it's like black with a tint of green

to it yeah so you see the one shine across the

the edges of the head which i don't know if the

video do it justice probably not um but you can

see like a slight green kind of around the uh

from the head kind of see it i don't know if

that's if that's the green or if that's the reflection

it's here back it up a little bit You can kind

of see it it kind of goes around the yeah right

in there so anyways, I did that and then the

hands were actually all black before and I actually

painted them the same color as the head and Put

the nails on there so that it looked all gnarly

like the film Joker yeah so I used I had to buy

two different figures to make this one and the

other figure was Actually the Joker body The

Joker body is completely butchered Because the

only piece I used was the head Okay, and of course

he's got like the And I have some other jokers

And see like these are these are two of the newer

remastered jokers here This one is a newer one

that came with like the Justice League unlimited

Batman and the great ghost set This one is a

part of the wild card set. I got one of these

for five bucks on eBay and I it kind of sucked

because I had to, with very smooth sandpaper,

I had to sand his head down to get the points

off on the head, because otherwise his head looks

like that in comparison. And I actually used

a razor blade to cut a lot of it off, and then

I did that, and then I had to... Color the the

yellow from the mouth and eyes white So that

it actually matched But yeah, and I popped the

figure anyway that I used is Nightwing And I

popped the head And then I actually I couldn't

get jokers to come out of his other body and

fit into this one So I actually cut the pieces

down because there's a way you can actually make

it slide in there without breaking the body and

I did that but yeah, I think it came out pretty

well for making something that doesn't exist

and I've toyed around with the idea of making

another one just to Do it better and maybe sell

it There you go Don't know. I don't know if anybody

buy it but it's a thought there's stairs. There's

somebody there's somebody that'll buy it. I mean

I All it cost me is you know the parts in the

time But it wouldn't be any different than Joe

on off the cuff sitting there remastering figures

Feed yep. Yeah, he makes he makes for good dead

space. I mean we had people complain about you

know the switching camera switching But Joe's

always got toys there, so it's really good to

just leave the camera on Joe. Yeah, just thought

I'd show off my Joker. Funny enough, I keep it

kind of closed up because I don't want it getting

any damage. But that's at least until I make

another one. Right. So, yeah. Other interesting

news. I don't know. Do you watch the Emmys? No,

I mean my my wife found out that they're on it's

an award show Who cares? I don't watch them.

I watched some of the YouTube videos after the

fact We watched now. I'll be honest. We watched

the Billy Crystal tribute speech to Robin Williams

Which is great we threw that out on YouTube,

we watched that and that's about the extent of

what I saw on the Emmys I watched that and I

watched I watched the Seth Meyers kind of intro

thing which was neither here nor there, it was

okay and then I watched the Weird Al piece Where

he's just adding words to the theme songs of

TV shows It was alright I heard about that one

too I didn't I Didn't see it I heard about it

so I heard for weird out wasn't that He was trying

to make songs out of theme songs well shitty

theme songs like there was there was no way he

could have absolutely put vocals to those and

made it sound decent friend just kidding it'd

be funny if one said precious hey you know the

diet coke one might say that i don't know like

lord of the rings and do a video my precious

Mean I mentioned that off the cuff, but I know

there are people that listen that watch alter

geek that don't watch off the cuff my wife is

She's very upset because Coke diet coke obviously

diet coke is marketed towards women and coke

zero is marketed towards men And she's really

upset that diet coke doesn't have one that says

share coke Share coke with a gamer Because she's

a big gamer and but coke zero has one that says

share share coke with the gamers this is like

what does coke not think girls can be gamers

why don't i get those so like like the coke zero

ones say like share coke with your bros or or

or buddy i've seen a lot of those i've gotten

a lot of the buddy ones from from coke or or

legend or grill master or you know Obviously

things that are like macho and guy oriented,

but I do understand where she's coming from because

she is a female gamer and she doesn't like Coke

Zero and I Get it Did you have a script for today?

i didn't really make one uh... because i kind

of was trying to see what would happen if we

just kind of blew up the handles to see you know

whatever caught interest uh... but uh... yet

then uh... uh... what's your opinion just out

of curiosity of uh... shutter island since they're

now making that into a tb series i don't know

i was gonna say i know where this conversation

is going I haven't seen Shutter Island. Really?

So I don't have anything to say about it. Like,

the reason I haven't seen it is because there

wasn't, obviously it's a Scorsese film with Leonardo

DiCaprio, neither of those names does anything

for me. Like they're not a reason for me to go,

oh I have to see that movie. I don't have a problem

with either one of them or their portfolios,

but maybe I'll check it out now so I have some

basis of what the... show is going to be about

but you know i have not seen it's kind of interesting

uh... i don't remember all that much about it's

uh... i think that's it's these two fb agents

investigating this this kind of system house

like ward isn't it is is a giant psych ward uh...

not house and uh... dicaprio supposed to be deciphering

what's going on then and uh... uh... you have

Can't remember his name right now, but he plays

the Incredible Hulk He's his his partner and

As the movie progresses they both get Entered

into normal population with the the crazies and

then supposedly a murder happens and then there's

more Eventually DiCaprio ends up being a drugged

and you know and all this kind of stuff So they

make you it's almost like inception in the sense

that it makes you kind of think that it could

be either way That he could actually be one of

the guys in the nut house, which is what they

want him to believe or he could be the opposite

Yeah, they make it seem like he's he's you know,

he's controlling the situation and then at points

it makes it seem like he's a guy that's that

went nuts and kind of uh... went into remission

and that's why he's living out his fbi life to

kind of live out a scenario that make themselves

seem not crazy i remember the trailers uh...

but like i said i haven't seen it i think it's

on something maybe hbo go was streaming it right

now i might be able to check it out i don't know

i have it i mean it's not It's not anything spectacular.

I mean, I have Leonardo DiCaprio movies too.

I mean, I have, I think I have Romeo and Juliet.

If I don't, I should probably fix that. I was

actually, I actually liked that movie. I do have

Departed. I do have that. That was a fun movie.

I'm sorry. Now I'm playing with scissors. It's

jaws What's that music that jaws Psycho no, I

was trying to think Halloween Nope, that's probably

the 13th. That's right. It's a tan. I can't get

my Can't get my music straight yeah, Halloween's

is more like high -pitched like I care about

Halloween was but yeah, well you just said that

yeah, that was that was definitely Friday the

13th I'm putting crap back at my desk. That's

why I haven't switched the video back. Oh, okay.

So it just stuck on me acting like a fool. Got

it. Exactly. So, oh, here's something neat. I

don't know if it was you or Mike or somebody

else. I actually don't remember where this came

from, but someone kept retweeting tweets from

Kenner Toys. Okay. I don't know who, I don't

know. It may not have been one of you guys, but

somebody in my Twitter feed that I follow was

retweeting things from Kenner Toys, which the

Twitter handle is at Kenner Toys. And I don't

know if it's Kenner themselves or like a fake

account for Kenner, but they keep posting pictures

of old Kenner Toys. old Star Wars toys and masks

and like all those toys that Kenner used to make

and they keep posting pictures of them and I'm

just like holy cow I remember I remember that

that that set or that figure why are they I guess

I don't get the point and why they're posting

I think it's just for nostalgia purposes like

I think it's just someone that you know they

felt they'll post like a picture of someone's

like collection of toys and they'll post like

um official stuff um like they had a bunch of

like the batman returns action figures like penguin

and batman and like all the toys that kenner

used to make i get like for me it was interesting

seeing all these toys that i had one one at once

upon a time but i never realized they were all

made by kenner you know it's it's it's weird

to realize to think about how big That toy company

was and that they were practically like nothing

now like a 500 gigabyte SSD for $200. It's not

bad. No, it's not coming down in price So, uh

just out of randomness I'm starting to notice

more conventions in Michigan that I didn't realize

were here. You mean more than just GranCon? Well,

I knew there was more than GranCon. I know there's

Grand Rapids Comic -Con. I know there's Motor

City Comic -Con. I know there's like Comic -Con,

which is tiny. Who aren't fans of the Grand Rapids

Comic -Con? You guys have been to that one? It's

not that we've been to that one. We know between

the guys that run Grand Con and Joe and myself

and Danner and just the geek sale, we know the

guy that runs it. Not his biggest fan. I've gotten

that drift from everybody. not say i would actually

really go but no i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

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i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

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i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i The only thing

that kind of intrigues me about it is the fact

that they do have some pretty name people, media

-wise. Like, I mean, any of them can get a lot

of the comic people if it's a Comic -Con or stuff

like that. But like, they have people that have

done all different kinds of comics or... You

know the authors and everything but then they

had one up it almost with the the media guests

I mean, they're not like a -listers or anything,

but they're they're they're not bad either Yeah,

it's it's it's something it's it's something

and that's the only thing that makes it enticing

more so Like they have the the lady that played

the original over They have some some lady on

that was on supernatural for like a whole season

Like the queen of hell or whatever they have

Like Mark Ryan and the the lady that voices ash

on Pokemon and One of the Power Rangers See for

me. I'm not I'm not familiar with who all these

people are so I'm not I'm familiar with them

Which is the only thing that's kind of neat,

but I at the same time They're not anybody like

I would go out of my way to see right No, I have

noticed that there are other conventions around,

too, that have... Like, for instance, I would

want to meet some of the guests that show up

at them if it weren't for the fact that they

charge $50 to $100 for a photograph or a signature.

Man, I don't get that. Like, I was looking, William

Shatner costs $80. for a picture with him and

$80 for his signature I Really don't I just I

to me that kind of cheapens the experience I

Can't see like I mean, I understand if they want

to charge something but if you're gonna do like

a photo op charge do like 20 bucks I Just I can't

I don't know because like even even I mean that's

that's one of the draws for one of the conventions

that I was looking at and then the other draw

was I know you're not really a fan of it, and

I'm not really either anymore, but Like the Green

Ranger White Ranger Power Ranger guy Jason David

Frank that has been interviewed on the network

by Mike Blanchard I'd like the Power Rangers.

I mean, I don't know. Okay. Here's the weird

thing Power Rangers was a thing. I didn't watch

it on TV like I knew enough to know Like what?

Like Megazord went with which color Okay, obviously

they're all color -coded, but I knew like who

was Like what was what I did like the first theatrical

movie. I just like that that one was actually

pretty good and The toys, I loved the toys because

they kind of just reminded me of Voltron. The

whole thing just kind of reminded me of Voltron

in a lot of ways, but I don't not like it. I

especially like the Green Ranger and the White

Ranger. I'm very interested to see what they

do with the new movie that's coming out. Although

as much as people hate, I can't tell people are

being serious. Or people are just joking or like

joking around but there's been a lot of like

in my Twitter feed and on Facebook and stuff

I've seen like a lot of people, you know, they

pose the question who should direct Power Rangers

and everyone keeps I keep see keep seeing Michael

Bay People calling it like the Bay Rangers and

it's like wait a minute Why do you want him to

do? Power Rangers when you're mad at him for

you know Poopooing all over Transformers like

I don't I don't I don't get it. I don't want

to see him anywhere near it I I mean, I don't

care if Platinum Dunes does it but here's the

thing Michael Bay is not gonna do Power Rangers

Saban is Saban is producing it and Lionsgate

is producing it and they don't like to spend

a whole lot of money on things No, that's why

they have canned footage from Japan for just

about everything. Yeah, Bay Michael Bay costs

about as much as like the entire franchise well

Probably cost about as much as like Lionsgate

wants to spend on making the movie. Let's just

put it that way Yeah, I can kind of get that

so I don't really think I mean Platinum Dooms

might go near it, but I highly doubt it because

Platinum Dooms has a deal going with Paramount

But that makes sense here. I don't see them going

anywhere near it Therefore I don't see Michael

Bay going anywhere near just from a money perspective

But kind of like the same thing with like Transformers

Like Transformers to me is giant robots blowing

shit up and that's what Michael Bay gave me when

I think of my thing of Power Rangers I think

of high school kids and giant robots fighting

giant monsters and destroying entire cities color

-coded costumes like I don't see how Power like

especially in this day and age and this is way

off the mark of what we're kind of talking about,

but How do you make a Power Rangers movie without

a can avoid the whole September 11th talk? like

i mean it happened with godzilla it happened

with man of steel i mean these are giant robots

and heavily populated areas they're gonna be

knocking buildings down this is what happens

like how do you avoid like i i'm i'm not trying

to be insensitive here but i'm sick and tired

of every like disaster movie or anything that

has to do with like a building falling down in

metropolis all of a sudden being 9 11 imagery

um So I feel like I mean Power Rangers is obviously

just gonna fall right into that trap I mean they're

gonna it's gonna be compared to it and it'll

be interesting to see what happens because obviously

Power Rangers for me was popular way before that

stuff ever happened, but I Went off on a weird

tangent, but most of what people want for the

franchise is I don't think it's gonna happen

I mean granted they do have quality Quality writers

and producers on board but That doesn't mean

they're going to go and get a good director.

On the comments, as far as some of this is concerned,

Jason Ritter posted about 54 seconds ago that

the Michael Bay thing is a joke. OK, I wasn't

sure if people were being at all serious about

that. I would hope not. I mean, I'm okay with

Michael Bay to some degree, but I don't particularly

like him. I mean, I'd watch Power Rangers done

by Michael Bay. I would watch it, just like I've

watched the Transformers films. I mean, people

are going to pay for it regardless because they

want to see what happens, but it doesn't necessarily

mean, you know, the money on it doesn't necessarily

mean it's going to be a good film. Right. And

then he actually made another comment. It says,

what do you guys think about the new Dr. Doom

in Fantastic Four reboot? I haven't heard about

this. There's an image floating around on Twitter.

I had seen it kind of earlier, kind of floating

around. Checking to see if it's on. if it's on

slash film or not i know there was something

that went around um uh last week about the thing

supposedly getting posted to twitter um but it

wasn't on like an official thread why am i like

for me yeah it is kind of arrogant but if slash

film didn't post anything about it then i probably

didn't hear anything about it So I I guess well,

what is it? Do you know what he's talking about?

Like he I've seen a picture of it. I'm trying

to see if I actually have one somewhere It kind

of popped up I'm not really sure I mean, it's

not too detailed. It's it's kind of like this

and the new fantastic four okay let's find out

yeah uh... he's he's got kind of like the the

medley mask -type thing like he always does but

uh... it's i don't know that article doesn't

show it but it's they're they're mostly it's

kind of like kind of well i was he's British

well all i see here is that they're like will

look like this and they're thinking that they

show exactly what it looks like in the comic

book so what's the i don't know i guess i don't

see what the problem is unless i'm not seeing

i mean i haven't seen really anything like official

other than like a end of shooting photo put up

by Kate Mara and maybe a couple of other things.

Like there's very little known about the Fantastic

Four movie, but as far as I'm concerned, I haven't

seen or heard anything bad about the movie yet.

And I mean, if there's articles trying to tell

me something that I'm not seeing by way of pictures,

because I'm not trying to read during a live

podcast here. Well, I posted a picture up on

a overlay. Oh, okay. So it's more... I don't

know, I don't... I don't really know what to

think about it, I mean, it's... Well, it's all

like a context. Yeah, it's not a context, I mean,

everything is green -screened around him, and

then I'm guessing that this is... the thing?

No, that's not, I mean, that might be the guy

that's like standing in to play the thing, but

that's not the actor, the cast has been grim.

Okay. I... Here's the thing, I... I think anything

we see between now and the time the movie comes

out is gonna end up looking a lot like the first

time we saw the bat or Dark Knight Rises or the

first time that we saw like Ryan Reynolds in

the Green Lantern suit. Like it's not gonna look

good out of context and a green screen shot Obviously,

that is entirely out of context. We have no idea

what's going on. You don't know if the suit's

gonna be added onto with like CG or anything

like that, although I didn't see any motion tracker

balls in there. But you also don't know when

in the movie that takes place. So that could

be like the beginning of the movie, that could

be the end after he's defeated. Who knows? I'm

not willing to pass judgment on a movie from

a green screen cell phone shot. It's just...

I don't know. It has not lowered my enthusiasm

for the movie at all. Yeah, I'm kind of... I'm

not going to pass judgment on it. I'm going to

wait and see what happens because I'm not thrilled

whenever they change the concept of the characters,

but I'm not going to hate on it either. being

that I haven't seen any actual footage. Here's

what I think, okay. Yes, it's suspicious that

Comic -Con came and went and we had nothing to

see from Fantastic Four. It's even more suspicious

when you find out that Fantastic Four finished

shooting a week after Comic -Con ended. So they're

purposely generating people... Well, there's

nothing to go on about this movie. There's like

nothing out there, which is really weird for

a superhero movie, but I Look at it this way.

I like the cast that they chose for the movie

So they've got the cast going for it. I'm okay

with that. I like Josh Trank because I really

like Chronicle I know you had your issues with

the shaky cam and stuff like that, but that I'm

with the people it's just I don't I don't like

the the way it was shot I think it was shot normal.

I would have liked it, right So, I like the movie

as a whole package, but the other thing here

is, let's not forget, Disney has hired Josh Trank

to handle a Star Wars spinoff film. So, they

must have seen something, because I don't think

Disney would have given him a Star Wars movie

just off of Chronicle. I mean, maybe, but...

I feel like they must have seen some footage

from Fantastic Four. So they kind of had a better

idea of what they were getting. So along with

me enjoying the cast and me liking the director

and Disney giving the guy the reins to a Star

Wars movie, which is, you know, obviously Star

Wars is their big franchise. They're trying to

get back off the ground in the movie theaters.

I think Fantastic Four is going to be okay. I

could I could see it being alright Or I think

it's gonna be better than most people think it

will be Jason Ritter says As far as the kind

of backtracking to the Power Rangers thing says

that the or see Kurtzman team is working on Power

Rangers. I'm okay with that, too I'm okay as

long as they get away from it after the first

film. Is it Orsi? I thought it was just Orsi

that's doing it. I didn't think Kurtzman was

doing it. They're still doing some collaborative,

but they're not actually working fully as a team

anymore. I mean, I was talking about Power Rangers

as a whole. I thought only Orsi was doing Power

Rangers because Kurtzman is working on Spider

-Man with Sony. That could be. So, but we've

talked a lot about Or see and stuff like that.

I mean, let's not forget. He's also a producer

One of TFG one Mike's favorite shows, which is

the blacklist which is an okay show. I mean they've

The thing is or see encouragement have proven

that they can do good stuff Or they're capable

of coming up with good ideas and they should

let other people run with them So like I like

I said nothing I've heard out of Power Rangers

really has me Like going, oh man, I don't want

to watch that movie. In fact, I think because

Orsi's attached, I'm more likely to pay attention

to what's going on with that movie than if it

was just like, oh, they're making another Power

Rangers movie. Makes sense. So. By the way, if

you click that, is he commenting on the YouTube

chat or is he Twitter hitting you on Twitter?

It's YouTube. If you click that little eyeball,

it shows up in the feed. Little eyeball next

to on his comment. I Don't see one in the commentary.

Yeah, there's no little eyeball. Oh Oh, I see

Russian and remove Are you still on source or

you're on stream? I'm at source go to scream.

Hey that explains it Watch just gonna be a whole

bunch of comments in there now There's only four

I was wondering why I wasn't getting anything

in there now. Do you have a little eyeball? Yeah,

I see it now Yeah, if you if you click that it'll

it'll show up in the stream. And this is this

is what he says about Dr. Doom's mask That's

what dooms mask looks anyways, I don't know I

really don't know what people want That's what

it looks like to me Mean Some some some some

things will just never make anyone happy I mean,

I'm not I don't know I'm familiar with doom on

just for like very few things but I Don't know

I I mean I was still on board with them when

the rumor was that doom was gonna be turned into

a female So I was still okay with that because

I at least thought that was gonna be interesting

So Yeah So I guess I will have some stuff from

the website That way we can nurse about that

The last episode we of course did our second

trial run of the of the live show and The Well,

we were talking about the the ice bucket challenge

mm -hmm Ryan Hannity says at first I thought

the entire thing was ridiculous I bought into

it after I saw a friend who has a family member

with ALS and they said it was kind of cool to

see that they raised $50 million and it's hard

to hate on it. And then Freddie Savage says,

hate to say it but it's becoming overkill. That

said, I would rather something that gives to

charity become overkill rather than 90 % of what's

on social media. Right. Which I kind of get because

it's I think it's kind of done over with like

not the the the fact of giving but the fact that

everybody's just doing the stupid video I Mean

everybody like you even seen the man of steel

in his costume do it Yeah, but are they donating

like I like because yeah, that's what I'm not

seeing because a lot of them They're they're

like, oh I've been called out and we're accepting

the challenge and and and blah blah blah, but

You rarely hear anybody saying that they're donating.

Yeah, but I think they... I mean, I know people

are donating and some of them probably aren't.

I like to think they're donating even though

they're not saying that they're donating. I like

to think that too, but at the same time it was

originally meant as a way to be a cop out from

donating. But I guess... I don't know. And then,

of course, we get to Jedi Disaster that says,

would you ever do call -ins for the live show?

I've seen a few podcasts doing this through Twitch

that does calls and sometimes through Skype.

If it happens, it'll probably happen on off the

cuff first mainly because I try everything out

and then share what I learned with Steve However,

I can't see the first the first show that we

did for off the cuff live I Had to do a second

take of it because I started the hangout and

it was just Joe and I and Danner was gonna join

us at a later date If for some reason I could

not get Danner could not join the hangout after

it already started um in that regard i don't

know how i don't know if it was just a fluke

it didn't work that time um that's something

that we'll have to try out on like a a later

show at some point maybe when i do another like

lunchroom live or something like that because

the lunchroom stuff we can kind of play around

with but as far as being able to add people into

the google hangout which we can do um It's you're

supposed to be able to do it, but I haven't been

able to successfully do it after the hangout

has already started We'll see we'll have to see

how that goes when I when I able to test it I

think you can actually invite people Through

the top to invite people and I think you might

be able to have them incorporated. Oh you can

we were doing that but Either Dan or wasn't getting

the invite or wouldn't let him join after the

hangout had already started Okay, like after

I click go live like he couldn't join so I don't

know if it was just a fluke like that day also

I'm I would be a little weary of how Skype like

us adding a Skype like a basic putting Skype

on speaker and having that go into the Google

Hangouts it's not something that we're opposed

to I just have to work around to Figure out a

way to work. Yes figure out how that all works

and stuff like that. So because apparently there's

like a way that we could do like the Google chat

and people can chat like right in the window

with us and Yeah, there's it's it's it's in there

Yeah, you can you can do a group chat too. I

just I don't know how that works yet Yeah, so

anyways, we're obviously it's still work in progress.

We've only done a Steve's done three and I've

done three, three or four. And each week I try

to figure out something new for each week and

then implement that into Off the Cuff and then

implement that into Altered Geek. We didn't do

video in Altered Geek, which is what I added

to Off the Cuff this week, but it's fairly straightforward.

You just do a screen share of the video that

you wanna. that you want to share so anyways

it'll probably come eventually i just have to

work it out and how that all works so so look

forward to that in the future um hopefully uh

andre walter says do you glue your legos after

you build something like the tumbler i'd love

to see them make a desert camel one as well um

Well the answer the first question no I do not

glue my Lego sets together and I never will even

though I don't expect them to come apart in any

way shape or form I just I don't know there's

something I find incredibly wrong about making

a permanent Lego set Even though I do buy these

with the idea that they will stay together for

As long as they want them to stay together. I

just can't bear the thought of a permanent Lego

set The desert camo tumbler, I don't know that

that would actually look good out of Legos. Because

Legos are, they're like all hard edges. They

don't, it's not like curvy or it doesn't like

flow like you'd end up with like, it'd be tan

with brown squares on it. I don't know. I don't,

I, well, I do think that the camo tumblers look

cool. I... don't think it would make for an interesting

looking Lego set, in my opinion. But man, is

that an awesome Lego set. Yeah, I've thought

about gluing them before, but I couldn't bring

myself to do it if I wanted to. Just for the

same reason you said, I wouldn't want to... I

would like the option to tear it apart again

in the future or add on to it. Yep. And then

there was talk about who we think should play

cable. The only suggestion that was in the comments

that Justin Washington put was Stephen Lang.

That's the guy from I think the last thing I

saw him in was uh He was in Conan Avatar yep

Avatar that's her Nova. Yep. Yep. Yep. I Yeah,

I mean He's better than the other one that was

thrown out there, which is Bruce Willis I could

not see Bruce Willis playing that he was fine

as Joe Colton, but he'd be I don't know I don't

think that that would do justice to Cable to

have why not like one of the big muscle -bound

guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger that would just

be funny oh Cable's always a big guy I mean obviously

for like the movie incarnation of him they don't

have to he doesn't have to be a big guy but and

he'd have an Austrian accent Cable's not one

of my favorite characters like I really don't

have a stake in who would play Cable I know there

was a lot of like nerd hype hoopla that cable

may have been in days of future past like in

the beginning of the movie um which i i'm gonna

when that comes out on blu -ray i'm gonna go

back and check that out i'm pretty sure it was

debunked that it's not cable but i want i want

to see for myself that it's not cable doesn't

mean they have to use the same actor because

let's be honest uh the xba movies have never

been known for using the same actor um Outside

of like the principal cast I should say And then

going back to The the hangouts Jason Ritter says

I did the ice bucket challenge last week Even

Homer Simpson did it Um, I have not done it.

I have not been challenged to do it. I will not

do it and I will not donate Because I am a cold

-hearted sob Well, technically I already challenged

everybody from the GCR and but you know, well,

yeah not gonna happen Only reason I did it was

because my wife was on me. Otherwise, I would

not have Not that I don't support it I just I

just, I don't really want to. Did you donate

or did you just do it? I just did it. So you're

part of the problem. I don't have any money to

donate. So wait, hold on. So you're really part

of the problem here because we - No, I did the

cop out. Oh, okay. Because you're supposed to

douse yourself. That's the whole thing. If you

douse yourself, you're not - You don't have to

donate. You don't have to donate. That was how

the whole thing started. You either donated or

you doused yourself with water. It just turned

into eventually that you did both. Okay. Cause

I was like, um, yeah, I don't have any money

to hand over and I wasn't going to do that either.

Um, but she was like, Oh, just do it. Then they

wanted to do it at work. And I grabbed like the

bucket with the least amount of water in it.

and lifted it over. I got a shot glass. Mark

Hamill, he did it with an eyedropper. He said,

because the shortage of water here in California,

I'm going to use this eyedropper. You know, I

think the entire production cast are dumping

water on him. You know, I think that is a bigger

there's a bigger story here, which is they started

The state of California has started fining people

that are doing the ALS challenge. Yes. Like really

heavy fines, apparently. I saw that on. Of course,

it could have been an onion thing. I didn't click

on the article. I just read the headline. Who

who reads articles on Facebook? I don't. Anyways,

yeah, it's like it could be true, could not be

true, but yeah, they were. Yeah, yeah. Um, just

to round out the last few things for this episode,

um, Jason Ritter says, uh, as far as the, um,

who he thinks should play Cable, um, he puts

Michael Bien or Ron Perlman. No, I'm still fine

with the first choice. I mean out of all the

ones I've heard so far. Yes. That's the one that

I like the most I You know who else might be

okay because I think he kind of Like I and this

could just be me being dumb. I feel like he could

be easily mistaken for this person I feel like

Bruce Greenwood could be easily confused for

Stephen Lang I Can see that just not with all

the the the white or gray hair Well cable has

way here. I know but I'm saying Bruce Greenwind

doesn't But uh And then there's the last challenge

the third not challenge um Question that Jason

Ritter has before we close it out He says what

do you think of the actress they cast as mockingbird

and agents of shield? Xena Not wait it no, I

thought mockingbird was Adrian Yeah, I thought

that's who that was Plus she was cast as her

because I like her from I mean I wish she was

gonna be Wonder Woman in the NBC show But I also

like her from NBC's Friday Night Lights Am I

am I wrong but this is not who I'm thinking of

I Think you might be right She Yeah, Adrian Policki

is knocking bird Agents of shield which I'm not

familiar with that character, but I also know

that Lucy lawless Which is I think who I got

it confused for is playing an agent in agents

of shield as well It's agents of shield. I don't

really care what they do. I It's still it's still

in the train wreck category I mean that show

took way too long to get good on its own and

then it only got good because it was anchored

to a movie Well, yeah, it was it was boat anchored

right into the Captain America 2 which is the

only thing that made it worth watching right

exactly so Unless season 2 finds a way to stand

on its own I don't really care who they add like

they could I mean as long as they find a way

to get to stand on its own then yeah fine awesome

great great casting choices you found a way to

make a successful TV series out of a Marvel property

yay but if they add all these people and they

can't find a way to make it good and stand on

its own way to waste everyone's time yeah I'm

kind of I'm kind of of the same opinion at this

point in time I still like Colson. I like Adrian

Padalecki. I don't have a problem with Xena the

warrior princess. I like the direction they were

going in. I just hope they can keep that momentum

going strong. I like the idea of Agent Carter

like taking over in the mid -season during the

mid -season break for Agents of Shield. The real

downer to Agent Carter is what if Agent Carter

is better than Agent Shield? Well, technically

it would be the first So I think I think agents

Agent Carter is gonna benefit from being that

midseason replacement being 12 to 15 episodes

rather than you know 22 to 25 episodes But of

course that remains to be seen Yes, it does So

And also we'll probably do a some kind of a live

stream or something from Grand Con Yep, there

will be something from Grand Con. It'll probably

be the Four of us in my hotel room gathered around

my computer talking about stuff Yep, yep, I just

said that so I think that about rounds it out

this week. Sounds good to me. Sounds good to

me. I'm gonna edit and game. I wanna see if my

wife is still awake and maybe I can get her to

play some Diablo. Diablo? Diablo. I actually

loaded it up in ages. I probably should try.

We are, because I realized how easy it was to

do some stuff yesterday with the video editing

tools that I have. It was just... It was remarkably

quick. I couldn't believe it We're going to start

doing like I think we're gonna call it like off

-the -cuff showcases Where we'll do like 10 to

15 minutes of gameplay footage and do like a

commentary track with myself and one other person

Like over top of the game that we're playing

like talking about it, you know, why it's cool

what people are seeing This is a way to get more

content on the on the YouTube page. So we're

gonna have that and Possibly video reviews of

the games which would pretty much amount to the

exact same thing 10 to 15 minute video gameplay

footage of a game that we're reviewing so basically

we would write a short script or review for the

game and just read that over top of gameplay

footage and then post the score at the End of

it, and of course we'll use the Geek -Ass radio

Scoring system, but the reviews are farther down

the road But the overview or showcase videos

as I'm I'm going to choose to call them We're

gonna try and do one for pictures of shooter,

and we're gonna try and do one for Diablo 3 so

People can look for those fairly soon if there's

any off -the -cuff Watchers for listeners that

listen to this show to that stuff is is is coming

to the YouTube channel. Yep. So thank you for

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