New Year Catchup: Anime, Netflix, and Superhero Films

Hey, this is Steve blue and you are listening

to the geek cast radio network Hello and welcome

to Altered Geek Unlimited Episode 73! I'm your

host, Steve Megatron Phillips, and joining me

this week is... Steve, you and Mike. Mike, the

bird man died! I'm singing and dancing. Nice.

So, uh... I guess right off the bat, what has

been new with you guys since the New Year? I've

had the death flu for the last week and a half.

just coming out of it today. I've also discovered,

I think I know what it's like to S the D of Satan.

I call it Buckleys. Oh my god. If there was a

more foul tasting fluid on this planet, I dare

you to find it. All I taste is that fucking Buckleys.

Oh, and here's a Pro tip, wanna make your life

suck even more? You might think, Buckleys, sure,

it'll kill the cold. That's good and great. You

might think, you know what? Maybe I'll have a

mouthful of ice cream to get that taste out of

your mouth. No, wrong. That is a mistake you

will never repeat again. Ice cream, that tastes

like Buckleys. That's it. You heard it here first.

Yeah. public service announcement from viewers

of the Geekcast Radio Network. Holy shit, that

sucked. Aren't that playing a lot of Call of

Duty? I come back to Twig next week. Just kind

of hanging out, actually. Kind of enjoying the

time off, actually. It's been nice. Yep, and

for me, I've been dealing with a whole bunch

of crap. Oh, very descriptive, Mike. Oh, god.

Let's keep it to a minimum because there's been

a lot. No, I was going to speak of the last week

or so. For some odd reason, I really think my

mom's pain doctor is a phony. So he's a witch

doctor? No. A witch doctor. I like the pain doctor.

He sounds like the world's most awesome wrestler.

a which doctor would probably actually be able

to help my mom compared to what this guy does

he has zero bedside manner he because of the

new laws for narcotics my mom is on uh... hydrocodone

for pain uh... because she has rheumatoid arthritis

and vasculitis and all kinds of other ides it

can only be With the new laws, thanks to the

government that we have these days, you have

to actually go get the prescription from the

doctor and then actually go to the pharmacy.

Now, for normal people, this would be fine because

normal people drive and can get around. Well,

my mom can't drive anymore. I don't drive. I

haven't driven the entire 35 years I've been

on this planet. You know, it just... Just never

learned how and I just don't think I can honestly

with the physical disabilities I have was cerebral

palsy and everything else it just If people watch

me play Grand Theft Auto and Need for Speed,

there's no way in hell. Anyone would let me behind

a wheel of a real car So you're one of those

guys that has like bumper car syndrome bumper

car syndrome. Are you kidding me? I crash cars

into buildings and stuff, but that's what yeah

Crashing burns So it's but it's a it's a pain

in the ass every single month She goes through

this and it's it totally stresses both of us

out and everything else what I don't understand

and I Understand it and I don't understand. I

don't understand why they can't just write her

a three month prescription 90 day prescription

Then just come go back and see the doctor in

three months, you know Well, I guess we're gonna

have to convert them, but it's just it's just

you can move in with point there Yeah, so that's

been there we live with Blanchard no Yeah, I

know it yeah, I know Yeah, I know I don't want

to live with Dodd. Come on, I get all the cool

toys. He does. It's like giving candy to a baby.

Easy! Or a baby to a candy. That just sounds

wrong. Let's see. Here baby, here's some Pop

Rocks. I published my top 10 picks for comic

series of 2014. Which the top three are TMNT

from IDW, Cowl from Image, and Sex Criminals

from Image Comics. Let's see what else is going

on. You've spelled it out long enough. Shut up.

This is not an advertisement. Oh, shut up. We

finished up the GCR and Wars tournament, so there's

that. Because I'm totally sad I didn't get a

chance to get in on that. That's all right. I

was so dead and things was... I think there's

there's might be a spot for you in this thing

called the GCR n's top 100 video game favorites.

Oh 100 video games you have to well it's very

hard stretched because you can go back from the

the late 70s early 80s all the way to now and

these are just be my personal 100 or your personal

favorite 100 yeah oh yeah I could pretty much

do that. The minimum rule is we have to at least

submit 50. I still have to organize my hundred.

I tried getting a hundred but I went by games

that I've actually played. That's what I did.

Not just games that I like because sure I can

sit here and say yeah I like the new Need for

Speed game I've only seen it I haven't actually

played it so I tried to go by Games I've actually

played and I can only come up with 50 I've played

well over 150 games. I just had to whittle it

down You know there'd be a lot of sequels in

mine, but I know you know what I? Never the info

after the show and I'll get cracking on it when

I come back on Monday awesome But yeah, that's

that's definitely going to be something fun that

uh people will get to hear and it's Gonna be

like a closed house version this time. It's we're

not jumping all over because it's the GCR and

and Twig is welcome to contribute to Yeah, because

we've always kind of collaborated on stuff is

all along the way. So But yeah, we've the the

tournament finished up if you haven't listened

to it go listen to it I will say that none of

the the people you thought were going to win

one tournament the best part about episode 21

is the bonus vote yeah the bonus vote is is between

link and sonic which ought to go to show you

that they didn't make it to the finale i can

think of reasons why sonic could win i can think

of reasons why link would win But yeah, I'm gonna

have to go and listen so Yeah, it's I and I made

a graphic every step of the way. It's just it's

hilarious how it ended up I Predicted up to about

the quarters and then after that it was all hell

broke loose Can I you know who didn't see this

coming? Who future Spock? Yes, can I just say

Steve what the Who's higher in the results for

the bonus vote? Of the bonus vote? Right now,

currently, Link is higher than Sonic on the bonus

vote. I think it's the shit, but then again,

what version? The classic version. They're tied.

Well, they're not. I just voted. Well, stop that!

You already voted! You can't vote again! Didn't

vote none of the bonus round. Oh, it only lets

me vote once anyway per IP address Yeah, yeah

for my my household I can only do it once yeah,

I can do it again at work. No don't do that Doesn't

matter it'll go on forever Jack and Daxter forever.

I'm joking. Wretched and Clank! Wretched and

Clank! Those characters need to die! Anyways,

on a lighter note, I was driving home from work

today and my new recording is on Thursday, so

the day before it releases, and blizzards are

starting to come down. I started my car. prior

to leaving work just to kind of get running because

it's below zero and as I'm leaving at you know

six o 'clock when I get out I take one expressway

to another expressway to a road and then discover

that the road is backed up so I get on another

expressway because it's I usually have to take

three to get to one place which is annoying and

I managed to see a car going entirely too fast

on the expressway in the fast lane, the passing

fast lane, wipe out, crash into the sidewall,

flip around, do a 360 and end up pointing in

the opposite direction. Ouch. To which point

I got off the expressway. So yeah that happened

and I was like, yeah, there's no way in hell

I'm staying on the expressway now I wasn't really

wanting to do it to begin with that just was

a deterrent and then once I got under the main

road again And I started driving home The next

15 minutes was a back and forth of my car deciding

to shut off It would it would start losing power

and then it would shut off and then show me various

lights and then So I get it home and it stalled

out six times by the time I got home and Get

it in the garage. I start looking at it Bastard

is pretty much out of oil. Oh Jesus Wait a second

back up here for a second you work at a car dealership

with cars all day long How is your own car out

of oil? I've got a mechanic And two, it shouldn't

have been out of oil. I've let it go to 4 ,500

miles before an oil change. And it actually says

in the manual it can go up to 7 ,500. So I was

planning on getting it next week anyhow. But

I went up to the auto parts store and I had to

buy a couple quarts of oil, put it in there,

let it run for a minute, drive it around the

block four times. Nothing happened. It drove

fine. So I've come to the conclusion that's what

the problem was. You're hoping anyway, and you're

yeah, the brain juice was gone. So it didn't

want to function and So I'm gonna get the oil

change tomorrow when I go into work Just to make

sure that it's full and because some gasket could

be loose I don't know get them to check stuff

over to because if you let the oil go it sometimes

they can fuck up a couple things Yeah Luckily,

I work there so I can get some people to look

at it for free. But yeah I just didn't think

that it was going to do that. Don't you have

one of those fancy dance lights that turns on

whenever you're out of oil? Yeah, it turned on

and my check engine light and my battery light

so the car shut off. Oh my god. It was like,

screw you, you're gone. It was a triple threat.

Yes, my car tends to do that the wintertime Because

I found one issue my car has this this hold light

and check engine light that flash in the wintertime

if it's below 30 degrees It's always done this

since day one, which I'm guessing is why the

original owner traded it in and I bought it used

so It's not a sensor it ends up doing this a

almost misfire type thing Funny thing is, it

does it after it hits 45 miles an hour, it's

under 30 degrees out. After the vehicle has decided

that it's ready to fully function, which is about

20 minutes into the drive, as soon as I come

to a complete stop after it's done all this,

everything resets, it works fine. It does it

every winter. What are those quirky things? It's

a piece of crap Korean car. And it's had nothing

but electrical problems since I bought it How

cold is it there? Well considering I just heard

the polar vortex outside I think it's below I'm

pretty sure it's below zero. It's it's gotta

be I was outside snow blowing earlier and I don't

know the conversion to Fahrenheit, but we were

minus 33 Celsius it's pretty close to zero here

or something It's 11 degrees Fahrenheit in Swartz

Creek, Michigan right now It's too cold that's

the point but yeah, so That that's what I've

had to deal with today. It's still the same temperature

and flushing. It doesn't matter It's it's terrible

So yeah, that's that's what I was doing and then

I've been playing Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi.

It's the first time I played a Dragon Ball Z

game in about five years Because that's when

I had my ps2. I think there's a new Dragon Ball

Z game coming out right now. It's there's They

have another one that just came out in January.

This one came out like a year and a half ago

that I bought. It's not that Battle of Z or whatever

it is, is it? No, that one was the other one.

That's the one that came out this year. I can

say I'm not a very big fan of the new menu systems

and how long they take to load, but... I need

to go back to... What was it? Ultimate Budokai

Tenkaichi 3, I think is the best I've seen. It

was Budokai Tenkaichi 3 that was the best Dragon

Ball Z game ever. Yeah, fucking hands down the

best. Okay, it was minus 27 .4 Fahrenheit here.

Yesterday. That's cold. Thank you for that. Weather

lady, and I will leave you. Dragon Ball Z that

you and your Saiyans and your Goku's But um I

watched that new Dragon Ball Z movie though to

last week so that's kind of good Actually, it's

pretty it's really good. I Know there's a new

one coming out. I think it's this year. It's

called resurrection of F, but it's the Freeza

comes back or something Yeah, Frieza comes back

and he's got a fifth form. This is gonna be really

cool. I think even the guy from Battle of the

Gods comes back, that Beerus, whatever his name

is? Yeah, Battle of the Gods was actually really

fun. I thought it was gonna be total crap. And

the guy that wakes up the god of death or destruction

or whatever, he tells him that... So, uh, what

has happened to planet Saiyan, you know, or planet

Vegeta, and he's like, oh, it's destroyed, and

he says, oh, Frieza did a good job, and he says,

I'll have to go kill him later, and then he says,

too late, someone's already done that. Who killed

Frieza? This asshole, with the spiky hair. Yeah,

so, and then, they, him and Goku both find out

about each other through... You know, the one

finds out through his overseer and the other

one and Goku finds out through King Kai by accident

because he overhears Supreme Kai telling him

don't tell them to meet. And he's like, yeah,

I heard this prophecy about a Super Saiyan God.

And he just comes to Earth in the middle of Bulma's

birthday party and interrupts it, and then he

bitch slaps her and Vegeta almost goes like ultimate

Saiyan. But he's not strong enough and then they

find out Goku's been standing behind everybody

watching the entire battle take place And just

letting them get their ass handed to him But

I guess they had to have six Saiyans Transfer

their power to Goku to become Super Saiyan God,

which is basically Super Saiyan plus K .O. Ken

So like cuz Goku's hair is like red As a Super

Saiyan, so it's kind of crazy. You know, it's

funny, I've actually been watching a fair chunk

of anime over the break here. I finished Death

weeks ago. I'm actually watching the Robotech

series right now. I'm hoping to finish it before

the end of next week. Probably not gonna happen.

I don't know. It's kinda nice to go back and

watch older anime. Sometimes when they do new

stuff, it actually kind of works out. I kind

of miss the old like I missed watching Dragon

Ball Z to some extent. I know they've redone

it a couple of times, even though it's the same

series. I just wish there was an anime series

that would really, which would really grab a

hold of me again. Dragon Ball Z was the last

one. Yeah. Like for me, it was Gundam Wing. and

Death Note were the ones I actually watched with

any degree of regularity of it. I know, I think

Bleach is done and Naruto's done now, and I have

a passing interest. I don't know, it's so hard

to find an anime series that just grabs you anymore,

but I think it's because I, I think it's because

you and me, Steve, we come from the older generation,

with these kids and the Pokemans and everything

else, just don't necessarily get it. I don't

think. Maybe I'm wrong. I think you're right.

I just, I have a hard time getting into anything

that's modern anymore. I think it's just because

I'm old. I find going back to like old or something,

man, this is really good. Why does nobody talk

about this? I'm watching Robo Attack, as I was

mentioning, and I didn't realize how brutal that

series was. I mean, it's about, I mean, the name

alone is a little stupid. But when you go into

the storyline and you realize how many people

die per episode, it has this feel kind of like

Battlestar Galactica, or at least in the part

that I'm in right now. They're coming back to

Earth after being sent out near, like, um, uh,

you know? And they're bringing back the SDF -1

back to Earth, and the Zentradi are pounding

at them. And during some of the dialogue, they're

like, yeah, we just lost the entire fifth squadron.

I'm like... That's 72 people that are dead. And

the city gets partially wiped out when the big

battleship transforms. They're like, yeah, we

had massive casualties. And I'm thinking, they

started this with 70 ,000 plus people. By the

time they get home, that number's got to be well

under 60. So I'm just thinking, man, when you

really look at it and just... The overall story

of Robo -Attack, I mean, the Earth gets the shit

kicked out of it. It's not a happy ending. I

mean, sure, we win at the end of the day, but

not without losing, like, billions of people.

I haven't seen that in so long. Oh my god. There

was such a good box set put out by A &E, like,

three years ago. It's really well mastered. It's

got lots of special features. Stuff like that.

Um, I'm hoping... I know Gundam was put out by

Bandai, but I don't know whether the box sets

are still available. So if anybody knows, like

at ThisWeekendGeek .net, I'd love to track some

of these down someday. Actually, you know who

I should ask? I should talk to Spada and ask

him, because he would know. He would probably

know. But yeah, I don't know. It's just, uh...

I like the older stuff, and I feel like such

an old guy. I mean, it's kind of like... how

we think the music from our generation is the

fucking best and it may be us with the rose -colored

glasses or movies from our generation are the

best. Although I think you'd have a pretty hard

time arguing against a lot of the stuff that

came out of the 80s isn't awesome. Looking at

Ghostbusters and Aliens and all that cool shit.

I don't know. I really wonder what kids today

are going to look back at when they're 30 and

say Do you remember this it was awesome? I'm

really waiting for someone to make an argument

that Miley Cyrus is timeless There's no way and

While we're on the topic of singers Can we please

bring up and I just want Mike's reaction to this

really because I know Steve doesn't care Can

we please bring up the whole stupid Kanye Paul

McCartney thing? That was fake Someone told me

that was fake and it honestly doesn't surprise

me that kids don't know all McCartney is But

even still what the fuck? What which Gundam were

you looking for Mike the original the original

one from the 70s? 1979 yeah, okay But yeah, I

mean do you guys remember back in the 90s and

I know it's a lot of our geek cast Episodes go

like this, but hear me out. Do you remember when

there used to be those infomercials on TV? That

the dudes in the ugliest fuck Christmas sweaters

and they'd be like hey, man Do you remember music

when it was groovy and they'd be talking from

the 60s and 70s those shit? Infomercials yeah

now we're at that age where we can do that about

music in the 80s and 90s So I want you to think

about that in yet another 20 years The kids now

are our age or older and they're like, hey man,

do you remember Kanye West and Slipknot? Oh,

wait a second. They were Iggy Azalea and Meghan

Trainor. Weren't they awesome? That's when we

were jamming. I take pride in not knowing who

the hell half of them are. Yeah, like it's actually

I was watching this thing on watchmojo .com the

other day and it was the top 10 catchiest songs

that get stuck in your head that are annoying

as shit or something. And I realized, I don't

know what half these are. I just realized, for

a guy who works in radio, though admittedly I'm

99 % talk, I have no idea who half the music

people are now. I didn't hear that all about

the bass song until yesterday. I heard I Well,

let me just preface this with saying I I probably

would have heard it if I'd still had my old job

position being that they listen to this radio

station that plays like this mix of crap that

never stops and Meaning that they play the same

fucking songs over and over throughout the day

But I heard the Nerdist version first of all

about that bass and it's about the Death Star

and it's got these four geek chicks that dresses

like various versions of like Vader and sing

this song and it's actually really hilarious

How it comes out and then I actually because

I was trying to find it on a different browser

And I couldn't remember who made it I had to

type in the name of the song and I came up I

found a couple other parodies which is how I

found the warp zone I don't know if you've ever

heard of them dad But they do a lot of like gaming

related and parodies and and whatever but I I

find myself laughing at various versions because

they had one called All About That Ace and it's

League of Legends that they did on theirs. And

I actually like that one better but that's because

it's got cosplay chicks in it. There was a one

that came out a couple years ago. Do you guys

remember that song Kesha did called TikTok? No.

Yes. Okay. There was one... that some guy did

about the halo reach beta so that's a date about

how old this song is and it was so brilliantly

done how he could talk about all the different

guns to the beat of kesha he's like i got my

d emr and stuff like that and thought about sniper

rifles and shotguns and it was really well done

i saw another one where it was about captain

kirk And it was also done to like tick -tock

or something like that. It was ridiculous Yeah,

like it's so weird that we're so out of touch

Yeah, we know geek music well, I think it's funny

because like For instance they they're trying

to come up with a new ad advertising ways for

like people our age at the car dealership and

No, what I'm trying to say is that they're trying

to come up with new ways to sell to people our

generation the the problem is is our generation

doesn't fucking listen to the radio or watch

TV because one we want that instant gratification

of not having to watch commercials and to the

radios filled with so much garbage and repeats

that none of us want to listen to it anyway so

we load up our mp3 players or our streaming devices

or skip the whole process Or satellite radio,

yeah. Yeah, I mean, but the point is we find

ways to listen to what we want without the commercials.

Yeah. See, for me... I recently discovered Spotify.

Really? Yeah, it's so much better, yeah. Really,

you just now found that? It's only come to Canada

in the last couple months. Oh yeah, that's right.

You guys get everything ready. It's pretty cool,

though. For me, you know... I know everyone hates

iTunes, most everyone hates iTunes, but for me

it's great because I can create my own damn playlist

and skip whatever songs I want to skip. I think

the only time I ever listen to the radio is the

very few times my mom and I actually go out to

actually get groceries and stuff because we don't

have anybody else to actually take us to the

store. And when we go out, I either put on the

classic rock station or the greatest hits kind

of station where it's basically playing music

from 10, 20, 30 years ago. You know, it just

radio these days just no. Well, it's weird because

when me and Blair for a while, we used to listen

to the radio. a lot of music radio a lot and

then we notice we're only listening to really

old stuff and when you listen to the pop stuff

stuff that's like the hot 100 or the adult contemporary

top 20 or whatever you're right it's a lot of

repeats in the same songs now me and blair listen

to a station in toronto called an em640 talk

radio now this is how sad we are i can tell you

who the producers are and the call screeners

are on almost every show from 5 a .m. till about

6 p .m. every single day. I know exactly who

every host is, every show, every producer. That's

because you produce for them too, don't you?

You produce segments for that station. I've done

stuff with them, yeah. But it's just the fact

that I listen to them so much, like, oh, that's

Patrick, that's Mike Stafford, that's Tina. I

know who the traffic guys are. That's a new level

of sad. I'm 33, not 63. You know, I'll be 35

in less than a month, and I still, from my 20

-year high school reunions coming up in about,

I don't know, four years or so, and I still remember

the day... He is still the chief meteorologist

here in Louisville, Kentucky for Channel 32.

Jay Cardosi came into my high school with a bunch

of other guys and actually gave our media class

the old Channel 32 set, because they had got

a new set at the station. And it's just one of

those things where when we find somebody we like

to listen to or we like to watch, we stick with

that person. It's like, you know very true for

me I cannot watch any of the other local weather

people here other than Jay Cardosi and John Belsky

Those are the two that I absolutely love and

thankfully they're both at the same station now

And honestly, you know everybody says oh well

everybody's good rose -colored glasses on and

nostalgia's crap and then no it's not because

we grew up on what we grew up on and we like

what nostalgia is good in moderation yes yeah

because if you let it overpower overpower yourself

too much then you are just hating on it because

it's not what you grew up with but at the same

time it's not saying that our stuff's bad it's

just what we enjoy more well all right let's

let's do an example of this look at the turtles

look at the turtles in animation specifically

you had the 87 series which we all grew up on

you had the 2003 series which was new and different

but it still had a certain charm to it and now

you have the 2012 series that is somewhat still

going strong season three hasn't been we've talked

about this on all three so i'm gonna spend too

much time for you know long on this but you know

we have three different iterations that the other

two that came after what we grew up on are not

horrible reincarnations of the characters uh...

and of the situations in the stories uh... there

are plenty of stuff out there where what we grew

up on is better than what's What's currently

trying to be done? Transformers. I still cannot

believe they've done a Paddington Bear live -action

movie. Now supposedly that's really good. I've

heard really good things about it. I'm just waiting

now for a Teddy Ruxpin live -action movie. Okay,

if they did Teddy Ruxpin right, that could be

awesome. Well, and it could also promote reading

for kids. True. I always thought that the Teddy

Rocksman cartoon was also really fucking cool.

Yeah, it was. Just never saw enough of the cool

bad guys. Yeah. Now I will say something about

our nostalgia that actually is, you know, has

improved over however long it's been since it's

been on the air, but, you know, Reading Rainbow,

almost every single one of us that I, almost

every single one of my friends that I know at

least watched one or two episodes of Reading

Rainbow as kids. And now LeVar Burton is trying

to bring it back. For this generation, that's

cool. And that's amazing. Well, yeah, especially

because he has the whole Interactivity with I

mean that's a show that's improved with the time

kind of like Sesame Street. It's always remained

fairly consistent So, yeah, that's something

that's definitely worked out. Well, absolutely

Do you think a show like mr. Rogers could ever

work again? No That's kind of sad because I always

thought there was a guy I think it could work,

but I think it need that special kind of person

There was a show here in Canada, and I don't

know that you guys had him Did you guys ever

have a guy named mr. Dress up? No And he had

this thing called a tickle trunk, which is just

full of random things that you play with That

just sounds wrong, dude It sounds like... You

gotta talk shit about the tickle truck. The tickle

trunk sounds like something sex offenders use.

Come here, little boy, play with my tickle truck.

Oh my god, fuck you. It sounds like, there's

a little pee on it and it's... You have stolen

the family from the tickle truck, sir. Oh my

god, you're worse than Adler. No, come on now.

Hey, I learned this shit from you. Yeah, probably

Okay Yeah, it just like it was it was a more

innocent time In regards that and just I don't

know. I I don't see that on children's TV today

now occasionally Because I haven't saw me and

I don't sleep. Oh Watch what's on the fucking

kids networks? I don't know, man. I think about

the coolest thing they have is Dora the Explorer,

because that's still going. Oh, no. OK, OK, stop

right there. Have you caught... Hey, don't talk

shit about Swiper, man. No, I'm not. I'm not.

But you cannot sit there and say Dora the Explorer

is the coolest thing on the kids' networks unless

you've already seen The 7D from Disney Channel.

No, what's that? The 7D is The Seven Dwarfs Without

Snow White. It's Kevin Michael Richardson is

happy Maurice LaMarche is grumpy Shredder the

brain. Okay, keep going crap crap crap Wacko

Jess Harnell as one of the villains called grim

gloom It's meant for everybody honestly, there

is humor in it for adults and kids, okay Well,

when I say Dora, I mean the younger kids. Yeah,

but 70 does sound pretty awesome actually Okay,

have my attention sir. Okay, so it's also got

It's got Ozzy Osborne's daughter, Kelly Osborne,

as the other villainous called Hildeglue. So

she and Jess Harnell are quote -unquote in a

relationship. The whole plot of the show is they

want to take over Jollywood. And every time that

the Queen needs the 7D, she rings the bing bong

bell and they just appear. You also have Bill

Farmer, the voice of Goofy, as Doc. And the cherry

on top of all of this is that it's Tom Ruger

and almost every single cast and crew member

that worked on either Tiny Toons or Animaniacs.

Is this hand drawn or is it computer? I'd have

to look that up. I think it's a combination of

both, but let me check. And I honestly, unless

there was a really good actor, like a good middle

age, like 50, 55 year old actor, maybe 49, I

honestly do not think that Anyone could ever

not necessarily replace but continue on what

mr. Rogers? has done I'm trying to think if there's

anybody in that age range that would really do

that Probably not Lovar Burton would be the closest

we could possibly get oh Yeah, he's the kindly

old black man. Yeah, Morgan Freeman could do

it. Yeah That's true. Oh yeah. When we got done

watching Andy DeFrain, he was chopping up penguins.

It does not say here... It just says it's an

animated series on Wikipedia. It does not say

specifically... I can find you some YouTube clips

and you can look at it later, Mike. But it also

has... It has Billy West as the voice of Bashful.

Blacko, the shredder, Fry, the brain. That's

amazing. This voice cast sounds amazing. And

because Dopey does not talk, you have Dee Bradley

Baker just using sound effects for Dopey. That's

awesome. It is just, it's such a great show.

I've said this before, you can watch it by yourself,

you can watch it with your kids. It's so, so

cool. Um... And for any... What surprised me?

What? I just had this thought. Just inspiration.

Mm -hmm. Why is there not a new G .I. Joe show?

Just to keep getting cancelled. Why is that?

Well, Renegades got cancelled because of Rise

of Cobra. Which was crap. And... I mean, Rise

of Co... Um... Retaliation was better. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, G .I. Joe hasn't had a new

show in five years now. Yeah, they just, they

get raped. I don't know why they, you know, I'm

not sure why they don't have a new show. And

honestly, as far as Hasbro content, it all, now

that the hub has reverted back to Discovery Family,

I honestly think that... Hasbro's gonna have

to shop to Cartoon Network for any shows at this

point I mean hell the new Transformers show which

surprisingly I did not know this and I should

have Apparently Transformers robots in disguise

the new Transformers animated series is starting

next month in February No, it takes play well

Yes, and no it takes place more in the transformers

prime universe, but it's a combination of Transformers

prime and transformers animated as far as the

animation. It's basically 3d models on 2d backgrounds

Okay, so is it it is it its own continuity? It's

it still matches up with transformers. Okay.

It takes place a few years after the end of Predacons

rising. Okay, cool I was awesome. I'd love to

see GI Joe get a treatment like that because

you look at Hasbro's properties My Little Pony's

done. Awesome Transformers thumbs off. That's

done. Awesome. Yeah, Joe gets left in the dust

Sucks Yep, that was another thing which was kind

of surprising to me. We mentioned earlier I think

we mentioned this off air about stuff leaving

Netflix. I think friendship is magic is gone

think so. At least here in the US it is. Well,

in Canada it may be different because um because

I know see that's surprising me because I'm pretty

sure you guys still have a question of girls

which is the the movies. Yeah. The main series

though. The main series I'm looking at it right

now goes out. It's available until February.

It's available till Groundhog's Day. So, it's

all Puxatani Phil's fault. Wow, that's surprising.

See, that sucks that they're losing all these

really good shows. And it all comes down to stupid

licensing. What I'd like to know, if I ever get

to interview some whoever's in charge of the

contracts at netflix what i'd like to know is

how is it that they can have a contract for say

a movie like um oh i don't know the 1989 batman

film and it only runs on netflix for a month

and then it's gone Don't get that because it's

probably the studio stipulations. I don't think

it's Netflix themselves I think I'm thinking

that it's it's definitely studio that's interfering

see I don't get that though I mean the but they

control the content they own and I and I understand

I understand that part They're just assholes

and well there you go But I mean for a 25 year

old movie, you know Why can't it stay on there

Batman returns and Batman forever is still on

there? You know? Well, supposedly, specifically

because it's Batman, it's because Warner Brothers,

I remember hearing about this years ago, they

want to launch their own service like Netflix,

so they're being very careful on how they license

their content to digital. Yeah. Because it honestly

surprises me, like, why the fuck is Smallville

not on Netflix? For example. Because nobody wants

to watch, um... Ten years of a guy pretending

to get into suit I just want to walk. You know

why I want to watch it. I have the blu -rays.

I just don't want to get up It's the same reason

why I watched Ace Venture on Netflix is because

I don't want to stand up and go put the DVD in

We have turned into a lazy generation folks.

It's pretty much. It's pretty much what it is

when you when you deal with streaming It's because

you're too lazy to get off your ass and put it

in the DVD player. Okay, I'll do you one better

and... This is not necessarily my whole thing

of oh, I don't want to spend my money on this

It's part of that, but that's the other reason

why half the time I don't go to the movie theater

anymore It's like oh, it'll be on Netflix in

three or four months. I can wait or five or six

months or however long It's like I don't really

need to see the movie that badly I'll wait till

next year. Yeah is you look at what happened

this past Christmas with the clusterfuck that

was the interview. It opened in theaters and

on video on demand on the same day. I'm willing

to pay more, stay at home, watch a movie. That's

in theaters. I'm on the other side of the fence.

I'd rather go to the theater and see it. but

that's only because I like the gargantuan screen.

The only thing that's a detractor from me doing

that is the fact that I have kids now and it's

such a pain in the ass to try and coordinate

going to a movie. because we're not sure if we're

gonna be able to get rid of the kid for the day

and have one of our parents watch him or just

any of that kind of stuff. I mean, it's not that

we don't wanna go. And then the other kind of

detractor that kind of is annoying as hell is

when you have to deal with all those shitheads

that are sitting around you. That are going or

or crinkling shit in the background while you're

watching the movie or or they invade your personal

space like kicking your seat or you know pissing

and moaning because There's 50 other seats in

the theater, but they decide to sit right behind

you and then piss and moan because they can't

see the screen Yeah, and it's and I to which

I just laugh because I'm like, I'm not moving

asshole. I was here first You know, I know that

we all have our different movie theater traditions

and whatever else and the way we approach going

to the actual theater and see it. For me personally,

mine, because of my vision and because I know

no one else will sit up here, the movie theater

I go to is basically a hole in the wall in a

mall that hasn't done anything. It's not an outlet

mall, but it's not like... It's not like the

bigger malls out in the in the suburbs where

everybody goes to and For me I can go down sit

in the front row and the screen is far enough

away where I'm not just careening my neck to

look up at it I'm pretty much just sitting straight

looking on forward at it and I know sitting in

the front row and Going in like the middle of

the day during the week like on a Tuesday or

a Wednesday at like noon or 1 p .m No one except

maybe seven people are gonna be there So I never

have the problem of people being too loud and

whatever else I I just I absolutely hate that

but I Like going to movies where it's just a

smaller theater actually rather than the big

IMAX ones I mean because I'm now Getting used

to moving around with a disability Like not just

using a cane. I actually occasionally have to

use a wheelchair now I realize how much of a

pain in the ass it is to like get around and

I don't know like although seeing a movie like

the Avengers That's something you want to go

to a theater Yeah, yeah, no no no I'm not saying

like the big stuff. But like for me, and I mentioned

this on the show before, and everybody can go

listen to Mike Powers and I on M .Y .R. Episode

115, for me, Guardians of the Galaxy, because

I didn't know the characters, I didn't have any

connection to the characters, wasn't as big of

a deal as it was to everybody else on the internet.

So that was a movie that I waited on until it

hit media. No, I agree Avengers or an Iron Man

or you know, whatever something like that Oh

or Batman or a Superman. Oh, hell. Yeah, I'm

going to the movies No, I'm Trying to think of

the last movie I went to that I actually care

enough to go see in the theater. It was Guardians

Anything since that I could not be bothered The

only time I really go to a movie anymore is if

it's something that my wife wants to watch as

well. Sometimes I don't really care one iota

of seeing whatever it is, but we go because it's

the only chance we have to get out. But on the

other hand, there's some movies that we go because

I want to see it. Bad enough. Which is usually

a superhero movie because that's pretty much

when I drag her out. I kind of wish I'd seen

Hunger Games See we go see those But I can wait

till that comes out on blu -ray because at least

I'd rather have the intimate experience at home

But yeah for something like Avengers. Yeah, that's

something I have to go Speaking of superhero

movies has everyone seen the Ant -Man teaser?

I find the term teaser Funny because that seems

like a full trailer to me. It was a minute and

something so it's a full trailer my eyes I'm

just going by what what the advertisement said

on the age and this is a lot about the movie

well no it doesn't and that but that's a good

thing though because everybody's like old teasers

are old trailers all we hate trailers cuz they

basically reveal the whole movie and lately we've

been getting teasers and trailers that basically

give us a glimpse of something but don't tell

us the entire plot of the film well i was talking

about this Double D. We were saying that from

the Ant -Man movie it comes across as a lot more

serious than what we thought it was gonna be.

I thought this was gonna be Marvel's more light

-hearted -ish movie. No, that'll be Deadpool

when that happens. Oh, that's also Fox and their

thing, but... Still. Still, like I see like I

kind of saw this as the Ocean's Eleven heist

movie with Marvel. I'm getting a little bit more

of a serious tone from it, but it looks like

it's still gonna be cool It would have been cool.

We got a shot of the villain yellow jacket But

they probably don't have the special effects

finished yet So which is why a lot of the stuff

that teaser was so fast and kind of motion blurred,

which is fine It still looks cool. Oh, yeah,

it's gonna be a cool Scott Lang. I just hope

he sticks around in the role After this movie

is done. Will he come back? I'm more interested

to see if they do a flashback of Michael Douglas

in the role. I think they will. Then they would

have to. See, I could care less. Steve could

care less. I, well, I mean, it's not that I don't

dislike them. branching off and all these lesser

known characters because I do think that it's

kind of cool that they're at least trying to

do something different and kind of break away

from the Batman's and the Superman and the Iron

Man and the Wolverine and all these you know

mainstream media versions of superheroes, but

it kind of goes into this other article that

kind of came out earlier in the week that again

kind of ties into the media thing is I forget

who said it but They basically said that people

are just getting sick and tired of all of the

Dark superhero films. Yeah, I can see that it's

it's just it's gotten to the point It was Matthew

Vaughn says people have had enough of dark superhero

movies Which I can see because I mean honestly

the the numbers are starting to kind of not show

as much and You know Look at, you know, and he

even mentions in his article, he says, look at

the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. Because

there was comedy in there, there were light moments,

and it was still actiony and still dark in spots,

but it wasn't, the whole tone wasn't, it wasn't

that direction. Well, yeah, I mean, because if

you look at, you know, Captain America 2, you

look at the X -Men, you look at, you know, pretty

much every other movie that came out, you know,

Transformers, I mean, Yeah, they may have banked,

but that's because people want to see the film

anyhow, but it's not that they actually enjoyed

the film. See, I think Captain America 2 is a

better movie than The Avengers. The Avengers

is a better experience. Which I agree. Yeah.

I mean, I - I can totally see his point. I'm

just trying to think though. It's it's turned

to that point though that people are getting

sick of the Nolan type idea of Film you or the

Tim Burton or you know, I mean that kind of very

dark sinister superhero film and honestly, I'm

kind of getting sick of superhero films in general

because With their huge slate of knocking them

out until the end, you know an end of time It's

it's kind of Not only do you expect them, but

then it kind of kills the momentum of them. They

can have the plan in place, but they don't need

to announce it is more so what I'm thinking.

But Steve, it's the internet. It's the age of

we need everything now. We're still not getting

it. I know. We're getting it five, six, seven,

eight years from now. And it's just it's a waste

of like, it's like saying, hey, check out our

movie. It's coming out this year, but this is

what we're going to do. And then you just hear

bullshit for it for the next eight years. We're

still hearing crap from Spider -Man 3. And it's

2015, and we're still hearing bullshit for Spider

-Man 3. Honestly, who cares? Who cares if the

studio got involved? Who cares if the director

at that time screwed it up? He can admit it all

he wants now. Nobody cares. It's cannon fodder

click bait. Yeah, I mean, I think blowing their

wads this early was... I can see it from a marketing

standpoint, but at the same time, give us something

to be excited about. I mean, because you're going

to waste all that momentum, not even at a Comic

Con or something like that. That's when you want

the big push. I mean, yeah, they've announced

them at the Comic Cons and everything. But I

mean, look at how much good and bad PR we've

gotten from things. that are not even coming

out yet. Or not even being announced or any details

on them yet. Not like us talking shit about Suicide

Squad, for example? Well, I mean that, Batman

vs Superman. I mean, I'm glad I'm done talking

about that. I'll talk about that when I see a

trailer. Supposedly this month. Which they're

saying it's going to come out with Jupiter ascending.

I'll believe it when I see it. They said that

about it coming out with Hunger Games and with

it coming out with The Hobbit, so again, it comes

out in 2016, I'll believe it when I see it. See,

I wish that they would do, and I know DC and

Warner Brothers is not Marvel and Disney, but

instead of, like for some people like me who

aren't going to go to the theater to see whatever

movie, just to see a damn trailer, you know,

do something like what they did with Agent Carter

and Ant -Man. have it as a sneak peek on TV.

Warner Brothers and Fox and whatever can make

a deal to have it air at the end of a Gotham.

Well, they won't want it confusing people, so

they'll put it with Gotham. That's what I was

going to say. They could have it at the end of

an episode of Gotham or something like that because

it's a Batman -related show and whatever else.

You know, I don't know. I just I'm more optimistic

for Marvel right now than I am for DC films because

DC DC films we're just waiting at this point

Marvel has their shit together when it comes

to planning and marketing. Yeah He's playing

catch -up and they're rushing through and that's

the problem Like, you know Mean I don't want

to get too much into this because Steve and I

are gonna talk about it on a remote control but

I just saw the two -hour premiere for agent Carter

and For someone like me who didn't give a crap

about ages of shield the first six episodes and

I haven't watched an episode since I Just don't

care to I'll come back to it five ten years down

the line when nobody gives a crap about the show

anymore And hopefully it's not on air anymore.

You should be watching agents season two It's

going to make Age of Ultron make a lot more fucking

sense. Yeah, but that also goes into the thing,

and I know Steve and I have talked about this

before, that, oh, you need a TV show to have

movies make sense, or, oh, you need a toy line

to make sure you have a TV show so they all make

money. I'm so tired of that. It goes back to

what we were saying about GI Joe earlier. The

GI Joe toy line does all right, I guess. But

there's not even a presence at Toy Fair this

year. Yeah. That says something. Yeah. I mean,

I don't know. I am happy for one thing. I am

happy that Marvel took back the rights to Star

Wars because now I can actually get Darth Vader

in the Ghost Prison or the, um, what's that trilogy?

Um, crap. Mike, help. The... No, not the Thrawn

trilogy. The other one. No, no, no, I'll find

it but so what I'm saying is I love the fact

that Marvel has Dark Empire that's what it was

That Marvel has the Star Wars comics now cuz

they're all on comics ology and I can get whatever

Star Wars comics trades that I'd like to like

to Now, I'm not sure about this, but yeah, you

could buy all the Dark Horse comics. Now, I don't

think you can get them anymore. I'm looking at

it right now, Marvel Comics. Okay, alright then.

I just remember seeing a link somewhere about

that. Is it, like, new, like in the last 12 hours?

No, I'm thinking back at the end of the month,

but then again, maybe I'm thinking, like, in

their original form. Okay, maybe that's it because

I'm looking at comixology .com right now Star

Wars debut Marvel and it has all The all the

Star Wars omnibuses it has Boba Fett is dead.

It has all that stuff Oh, those are all the old

Dark Horse printing. I guess I assume I want

to see Disney use Star Wars characters in Kingdom

Hearts, but that's probably never happened. Although

having Darth Vader as a boss in Kingdom Hearts

3 would be fucking sick. It's gonna be a lightsaber.

Speaking of Kingdom Hearts 3, did you see Square

Enix's tweet? Oops, there was a goof. no release

date yet because apparently bill farmer said

something on twitter about the fact that he thinks

that most of the voice acting is done and the

game is coming this year in square enix tweeted

back and said oops there was a goof i thought

that was hilarious that's funny i would like

to see that game come out because that's a series

i'm gonna wait till everything's out and then

i'll just play it one shot i love the first two

games i really did I like the idea. I really

think the idea is fantastic. I know it's confusing

as all shit, but Actually, I still need to get

Kingdom Hearts 2 .5 remix for my ps3 At some

point I'll get around to it I've got the first

game What else you want to talk about Steve well

Forget what we talked about last week, but There

has been quite a few people that have recently

quit IGN. I'm surprised that those guys all took

off. Yeah, it's there were four of them. I believe

they all went to go do their own Patreon, podcast,

Twitch type thing. Honestly, I'm not surprised.

I'm not either, because I think IGN kind of and

they more or less said that is that they got

tired of being tied down and told what to do.

Because they weren't allowed to cover things

they wanted to cover they had to cover stupid

stuff like, you know hot dogs and weird stuff.

Oh God, all I can think of is that Captain N

episode where they get turned into the Burger

Time characters now Shut up you. What? It was

a fun episode. Yeah, only you know about. Mike,

Mike, do you remember? I don't remember the Burger

Time episode, that's for sure. I remember the

Tetris and the Game Boy one, but not Burger Time.

I'm surprised they got the rights to do that.

That's really cool. So, um, yeah, there's that.

It seems like a lot of the good internet in content

is, like, from the big guys is gone. Like, Revision

3 is fucking toast. IGN is shifting. Well, Revision

3 got bought out. But all the good people are

gone. Like, there's no Nick, Tara... Or, um,

my favorite guy was, aw, shh, Scott Bromley and

Max Scoville were, like, my two favorites. There

was a show he did, he only did like four or five

episodes, but it was Scott Bromley's Internet

Rabbit Hole. And it was so well researched and

so well done. I fucking miss that guy. Anyway.

Um, but anyways, uh... Um, yeah. So recently

they had Harry Potter in Flint, Michigan. Oh,

they had Daniel Radcliffe? Yes. Hanging out why?

Apparently his actress girlfriend is from here.

Oh, that's cool. Because they were making a big

deal about it. They're like, oh, he went to Bob

Evans and... in like Grand Blank and in Flint

and they were going around town buying stuff

and People were making a big deal out of it and

I mean, yeah, it's kind of neat but then yeah,

I Don't I mean I don't care because it's Harry

Potter if it were somebody I actually, you know

enjoyed watching on screen, I'd probably jump

at the chance but Some employees managed to snap

pictures of it and post it all over. Who wouldn't?

Oh, I brought this up with Blanchard the other

day. NASA is willing to pay you $18 ,000 to stay

in bed for 70 straight days. You're you're allowed

to be on your phone your computer your you know

read comics read books whatever watch TV You

just cannot get up Ever you have to lay there

for 70 days $18 ,000. Yep. Yes You do not have

to physically get up you can do you can Skype

you can be on the phone you can do I don't know.

If somebody else did the jumping on top of, I

think that it could be, you know, the play could

be good. I'm just trying to think here. Like,

are they studying the effects of muscle deterioration

or? I think so. It's to test muscle atrophy and

things like that. Now, do they hook you up to

a catheter or like how you go to the bathroom?

I'm pretty sure they do. I don't know if I could

do that, then. I don't know about shitting in

a bed pan, I don't know. I told Steve - I told

- But the benefit is somebody else wipes your

ass for you. $15 ,000 for a little bit of indignity.

I told Steve - 70 days. I told Steve that's not

enough money. For me, like for me to actually

do it, it would have to be like $118 million.

If you knew that would change your life, if you

got that money right now, that would change your

life. That's a lot of money. Hell, I would come

down to Kentucky Blanchard and help you set up

your podcasting studio so you can broadcast from

bed. No. The only thing I couldn't do is edit

laying down. That would be really hard. But not

impossible. I don't think you have to actually

lay down. I just think you have to be in bed.

Oh, in that case, fuck yes! Look a brother up,

stick a rod up my leg, wipe my ass, let's go.

Wait, how do you shower? You don't! Very carefully.

SpongeBob! Is that with SpongeBob? No, he said

SpongeBob. I guess it's no different than being

in, like, a nursing home, I guess. Yeah. Not

really, except the difference is you can move

there. And flail your arms madly. You know what,

honestly, I would do it. For $18 ,000, I can

deal with that. It would be fun to act like a

crazy person, too. Oh, man. Lay there. God damn

it, get off me! They're in my eyes. You just

stabbed me in my face, you motherfuck - Oh. So

yeah, I thought that was kind of neat Blanchard's

like no way now. No, and I'm like I'm a slut

for money man. What did I say? No, if I if I

built my desk around a bed And I just had to

lay there I think I could do it and if you could

maybe find a way to get like one of those Cuz

you'd have to do some kind of exercise, but I

guess if it's for your muscle atrophy Rebuilding

your legs is gonna suck, but you could do that

with a pool in like a month or two Yeah, I have

to do for my like visit for for my physiotherapy

is I have to go in the water So I Don't know

that's a lot of money and it's just it's a lot

of your I guess to do it though you You'd have

to be in the right position in your life and

financially secure. But still, $18 ,000 should

just lay there. You're forgetting the other part

of this for 70 days. I haven't left the house

in three weeks. I'm part way in there. You're

like, I'm part way there. You can see it's all

about the state of mind. But um, so yeah, that's

there's that Sony has the Walkman trying to make

a revival for $1 ,100 $1 ,200 yeah And the best

part about it is it's got high resolution audio

playback is Wi -Fi Bluetooth and NFC enabled

It runs on Android 4 .2, which is outdated Touchscreen

Android apps via the Play Store And it comes

with a 128 gigabyte hard drive with 60 hours

of playback For $1 ,100 no $1 ,200, but yeah,

and it has the ability for an extra storage micro

SD slot So they're just trying to sell the name

at this point Essentially But it's it's like

a glorified iPod mixed with Mixed with The Walkman

it's it's strange plus plus an Android phone

if you mix it so you Know I think it's interesting,

but I would never pay that much I'm just taking

a look at this at the bed study Yeah, fuck that

Just looking at some of the requirements you

have to do it holy shit What are the requirements

Okay, first off you have to go through a 13 or

21 day training period You have to go to this

facility in Texas well you've been to texas before

yeah well it's only dalveston so whatever um

yeah you have to spend 105 days and non -exercising

subjects will spend 97 days in the research unit

holy shit and you have but if they it's you're

in such an odd position but you do exercise they

just have you do it laying down It's really weird.

Oh, no way! You can... You are limited to getting

out of bed, except for limited time for specific

tests. You might be able to go take a shit. It

may not be so bad! For peeing, they give you

a bottle of Mountain Dew. And then they feed

it to their scientists. I'm sorry, I'm looking

into this way too hard, but that's really funny.

Oh, AT &T has now, starting January 25th, they're

going to have rollover data. Like how they used

to do the rollover minutes. Actually kind of

like that idea the only restriction is is they

let you roll out roll over for one month So it'll

prevent you from having overages, right? Every

month, you know provided you don't go over on

the previous month so I Have three three gigabyte

plans. So I'm quite happy I Did have two and

then they were giving away the third, you know

that extra gig for free for the same price So

I was like well sign me up then So they did and

so now I'll essentially roll over about about

two gigs every month because we operate on Wi

-Fi mostly So it should be fun, yeah, that's

pretty cool Thank you swears, they're gonna come

out with a back to the future shoe with power

laces this year, but I call bullshit, okay Supposedly

they're having trouble figuring out power supply

And I was and someone in like a chat thread I

think on io9 said well Why not make it USB powered

and only have enough for 10 laces then you have

to charge them up again This shouldn't be that

hard. I don't see why they can't make it so that

they charge by you walking That would be awesome

induction. Yeah, yeah Even put like a really

small kind of solar cell on there Or another

way of doing it is they could do like the the

Wii Fit board With a power induction system and

you have to stand on it while you when you put

your shoes on And it will auto lace it up While

you're standing there because it'll generate

the power So instead of having it plugged in

you just stand on this board while you're you're

putting your shoes on It'd be interesting. Yeah

jackets. I Mean what are the applications of

the self -latency other than being fucking cool

is For example, I have difficulty tying my shoes

because I'm a bigger guy, right? It's a pending

over can suck Yes, it is a kid Well, it'll help

it'll help you in that instance, but it'll also

make kids Stupid because they won't know how

to tie their own damn shoe And let's face it

though nobody but people like us are gonna want

these shoes No kid Okay, um Steve unless you're

going to raise Ian to the point that you know

10 -15 years from now and When the power lacing

shoes have already happened and have gone down

in price of like 50 bucks sure you're gonna You

know teach him about it and whatever else, but

like teenagers today. They don't Care about back

to the future No, but they are anti -social putzes

most of the time so true Very true They stare

at their phones more than we do and and I thought

we were addicted We at least socialize and go

to conventions and oh wait they do some of that,

but they don't actually go and pay attention

I'm digging a hole jumping ship Microsoft I don't

know what their latest thing is but they're they're

enjoying this this halo thing because Halo is

like their their mascot now They're coming up

with the Spartan web browser to replace Internet

Explorer, which should have been retired years

ago. And then on top of it, the Windows phones

has Cortana. Which is pretty, pretty badass.

I'm not denying that. I've seen actual footage

of that working. I would love to have a Windows

phone, but I'd like my Android phone too much.

I like my iPhone too much, the Switch. Hate Apple

I I do I cannot stand that company. They recently

made us get iPads for for signing up customers

for General Motors Like credit cards or credit

or or whatever to buy a car. Yeah So now that

they're making us use these stupid things I had

to go around and set them up for these Finance

people who have no fucking clue how to set it

up either because they don't have iPhones And

I don't either and I hate them with a passion

so it bothers me it's like it's it's like putting

a Like garlic to Dracula it's It's one of those

things it just bothers me I can't stand it because

it's probably some guy our age that's like The

corporate world sitting there telling them this

would be such a great idea We should get an iPad

in there and then have everything run through

that Okay, so we don't and I hope Steve you don't

mind this but I have to bring this up since I

just saw this on Facebook and Mike I know you'll

like this because you like wrestling um Bleacher

report has the 2015 WWE pay -per -view schedule

The only name on here that I have no idea what

the pay -per -view is going to be is February's

pay -per -view, which is titled Fast Lane. I'm

like, wait a second. What are they all going

to do? Get into cars and have like a need for

speed race or something or other? Maybe it'll

be like a beat the clock challenge or something.

Maybe. But yeah, you know, the standard, you

know. Obviously January, you know that this month

is the Royal Rumble, Fastlane is in February,

WrestleMania is in March, Extreme Rules is in

April, Payback is in May, Money in the Bank is

in June. The rest of them are pretty much the

same. What surprises me about some of these things

is the locations that they choose. Like when

I think of SummerSlam, I think of like, or hell

even WrestleMania, I would love for them to do

more outdoor venues for those two pay -per -views.

Like I think the only time I've ever seen an

outdoor venue for WrestleMania was WrestleMania

24 when I was in Florida That's yeah, that's

true. I don't know. I think Toronto we can move

on now Steve. Sorry So kind of leaving all of

this news behind If you haven't already checked

out on the Geekcast Radio website, we are having

the GCRN Awards. And in doing the awards, basically

you click on the banner on the website just below

the logo, it says submit, click here, or check

out the Facebook fan page. This awards is running

differently than last time, in case I didn't

explain it last episode, which... Again, can't

remember. I think I vaguely touched on it because

we were doing the GCRN 75. This one, because

of some of the backlash last year during the

tournament, we had selected amongst the staff

what would be in each category. for the top fives

to vote on. So what we're doing this year is

we're making a forum where you, the listeners,

have to fill it out yourself. Because I think

it's kind of unfair for sites in general, you

know, when you do like the MTV Movie Awards or

you do, you know, whatever. I think that critics

and all of these ways that they do it are total

bullshit, the reasons how they come up with things.

Um, because in my eyes, a lot of the stuff that

should win doesn't win. And a lot of the stuff

that shouldn't win does win. So I, I'd like this

method better. Um, so we're experimenting with

it this year. Um, there's the TV category, animation,

cartoons, games, comics, movies, geek cast radio

network, and podcasts, non -GCRN, uh, categories

now. There's varying numbers of the fill out

forms below each one. Whether it be best new

show, best action adventure, best sci -fi, best

new release, best story, best whatever. It's

all on one page. People will be happy about that.

We're not doing click bait like IGN or other

sites. The benefit of doing it this way is we

get to go through the entire month of January

filling this out and in February I will change

this page over and it will have the voting of

the top fives of each category which will be

again selected from the top five of each submission

that goes through. The voting will be the entire

month of February and after that on the beginning

of March, once we have all the tallies together,

we will come back and do a Geekcast Radio episode

of the GCR Awards results. Yep, it will be GCR

episode 80 in March. Any thoughts or comments?

I'm looking forward to it. I will say that because

I've looked over some of the forums, the comics

one is vastly the one that people have skipped

in various degrees because if you don't know

some of those, then it's not going to be one

that's going to be easy to fill out. Then the

one for the podcast, originally it had whatever

the first one was in that list and then it was

brought to my attention by one of our partner

podcasts. Their partner podcast is number one

if you know, they were gonna have the drop down

So I put select one in there to kind of prevent

that Because I it was again it was an experiment.

I didn't really Think that it was gonna go that

way even though I filled it out afterward I didn't

really put too much thought into it but So it

is corrected. It should be fun should be a nice

experiment to find out what happens Should we

also bring up the other Thing we're looking for

a couple of things we're looking for as far as

writers and other submissions Yeah, I kind of

I mean we can well I was just gonna bring up

the writers We're pretty much looking for like

a someone who can be a tech writer for us to

write up articles on technology Video game writers.

We're looking for those So music miscellaneous.

Yeah, something that's not TV or film related.

Yeah, something that's not TV film That kind

of thing with the podcast submission thing to

join the network We are looking for specific

Topic shows from this point forward So if you

have a Captain Planet podcast, if you have a

My Little Pony podcast, if you have a Ghostbusters

podcast, if you have anything that we don't already

have a podcast for that is in the syndication

portion, you know, the partner portion. Or if

it's something we cover already, then we're not

going to look for it either. Right. But like

if there's one Doctor Who, we're not looking

for a second one honestly and so on like if it's

turtles or whatever it's just it's to prevent

doubling up. Yep pretty much. No disrespect to

anyone if you were attempting that but it's just

to kind of make it easier. We're also doing the

donate to GCRN and in this effort the goal is

to help us protect the site, our name, the keeping

quality content coming to you and all that kind

of stuff. So that's at the top of the website

too. So yeah, that's pretty much all the site

stuff information. Yes, I said it without an

R. And I was going to bring up something else

that has nothing to do with the site. What was

it? I was gonna talk about the fact they changed

power girl again. Oh, no, they did seriously.

Yeah. Yeah, they well they it says power girl

girl loses her cleavage in new outfit. Oh Seriously,

yeah open group window is gone. They've replaced

her with Because they had a scientist in in earth

to send power girl back to her home universe

And they've been setting up this Tanya Spears,

which is African -American to replace her So

she's got like this leather jacket type thing

and like an all -white uniform with some some

black on it and It says the new power girl Who's

16 years old? Well, no wonder she had to lose

the cleavage She's she's a minor yeah Yeah, it's

a completely different character. So in this

case, I don't care. But if they had taken the

exact same character, it's it's like taking steel

and, you know, he's like a Superman knockoff.

It's. Different character, it's or or basically

like having another Green Lantern, it's. It's

it's more more equal to that, I would say. It's

not like the whole Captain America Thor thing

from a while back. That's why I didn't want to

bring it up because I didn't want to jump on

that I know Steve isn't reading a lot of comics

these days. I don't know if you read a lot of

comics Mike I'm going to pimp this out here.

It's it's been a couple of weeks, but Over on

the pullback I had Jim and Eric from weird science

of DC blog on the show and we actually went through

and talked about DC comics is 13 cancellations

Before their big convergence event so they can

move from New York to LA starting in March or

April of this year. So head on over there for

all that fun DC discussion news stuff. Some of

the books that are in Convergence, some of the

two -part story books that are going to be in

there, I'm really looking forward to, like the

Dick Grayson Oracle or Green Arrow. that kind

of thing but I've mentioned before on the show

my comic reading has pretty much expanded beyond

DC Comics at this point because they're just

not doing anything I really care about and I

gotta say Image Comics best original publisher

at this point as far as original content and

creator own content they have some really cool

friggin books over there So yeah, anything else

guys before we I Come back to twig beginning

next week with the nerd news network Office show

this month is Bill Murray. It should be a lot

of fun Got some prototypes movie madness is coming

up Where we might have some downtime later on

this month as we move to a new host So sorry

for our dust and stuff we find under the couch

Hopefully things should go pretty smooth. I'm

looking forward to it should be should be pretty

cool So same great content nothing really changes

as far as I know so Sounds good TFG one yes,

anything else? Yeah, pretty much uh... no i can't

think of too much else uh... look for more and

wires more to cast the arms this year uh... we

are finally after about i don't know six years

gonna get to the gargoyles episode at some point

this year uh... so that's pretty much it ice

cream ice cream you scream will show that uh...

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