Toys, Cartoons, Comics, and Lost Icons

Hey, this is Steve blue and you are listening

to the geek cast radio network Hello and welcome

to Altered Geek Unlimited episode 67. I'm your

host Steve Megatron Phillips and joining me this

week is Mike the Birdman Dodd and Mike TFG1 Blanchard.

I feel we should all be wearing Eddie Murphy's

jacket from Beverly Hills Cop. Man, if you can

find one of my size, I'd totally do that. The

big red leather jacket? No, the the 67 jacket

that he had. Obscure, but I like it. Yes. As

Jim Carrey would say, I like it a lot. Thinking

of that, I hear that movie sucked. I've heard

mixed takes on it. I've heard that the film was

terrible, it was too long, and it seemed like

they weren't as dumb as they should have been

to kind of coexist with the original film. I

heard it was basically the first film redux.

I heard that but I heard that it was also a lot

of the there was no real I mean there was evolution

but not really real evolution of it I don't know

and I have not had the chance to see it yet I

really want to see it only because I like Jim

Carrey it has nothing to do with the fact it's

a sequel I watch every one of Jim Carrey's movies

so That's that's my reasoning for wanting to

see it. It doesn't hurt that it's a sequel to

dumb and dumber even though It's probably going

to suck. I'm just gonna have to shut my brain

off and just watch it laugh but Should be interesting

anyway So else you've been out to Steve After

our all things transformers bout Oh when we recorded

the clip show. Okay. Yeah. Yeah We did the clip

show and then we talked about master Galvatron

and other things. I did not find him I it's like

I told you 20 minutes after recording the show

I didn't give a shit and I went on to something

else. Yeah, I Rebuilt product on Empire Okay,

so Mike doesn't know what's going on here Monday

night this week Steve and I recorded ATTF version

2 .0 episode 49 we we had It's maybe your show.

I know I'm just saying, you know, uh, so, um,

basically what I wanted to do since we're ending

the podcast that episode 50, uh, in total, not

counting interviews or any other special episodes,

Steve's ATTF podcast over six and a half years

has had 108 episodes. Um, and this year, because

it is the 30th anniversary of transformers, we

did episodes 35 to 40. 35 to 40 were talking

about the different franchises and all this and

all that and everything else and I'm you know

I said to Steve well episode 49 I don't know

what we're gonna do let's just do something funny

and silly and actually you know have a this was

your podcast or that Steve Megatron this was

your life kind of thing and I went back over

about three and a half months ago and selected

ten different clips out of the 108 episodes.

And I wanted to really reflect on the beginnings

of all things Transformers. And that podcast

is about an hour and 10 minutes, I think, something

like that. So an hour and 10 minute clip show

basically, you know. we would talk and then a

clip would play and then we would talk about

the clip that played and everything else so it's

a nice little fun you know ride down memory lane

so that that was interesting um for me i have

been recording my ass off this week quite literally

um uh yeah uh i am in uh Pre -production on our

Jim review podcast with my friends lady wreck

and Beatles divas So we are gonna be doing that

that's gonna air sometime next year for Jim's

30th anniversary on GCRN I'm also I also this

week recorded with JT from Saskatoon because

we did a Review for a geek cast radio on Nickelback's

new album no fixed address and before anyone

groans or anyone says anything Let me just say

that this album, you know, everyone complains

that Nickelback, it sings the same damn song

every album. There are no, well, there are some

songs on here that do sound like we have, you

know, what we've known almost over 20 years now

of Nickelback being around, but there are a lot

of songs on here that I, didn't think they could

pull off. First of all, one song features Flo

Rida of all fucking people. And I just don't...

Is that a Tupac joke? This is where I say, wow,

Nickelback, you're really kinda scraping the

bottom of the barrel here if you're trying to

get him involved. At least, if you're gonna involve

hip -hop... Artist man get jay -z get someone

classy not this flow writer looking motherfucker

It's I don't know no fixed addresses. It's alright.

It's it's not a horrible album But it's very

different from like their their evolution for

me has pretty much been you know you know really

hard Sounding rock in the beginning all the way

up to say the long road the long road It kind

of got more poppy and all the right reasons kind

of had a mixture and everything else and they

sold out became radio -friendly Well a little

bit, but the difference is there's hardly any

songs on this album About drinking and sex. Oh,

so they they actually did something good for

one. Well, there is one song called Get Him Up.

It's... It's about erectile dysfunction, right?

No, no, no, no, no, no. No, they did it in like

the old, what was it, Stone Temple Pilots or

Rolling Stones or something. They get it up.

No, no, no, no, no. It's called Get Him Up. It's

basically this weird narrative about... Guys

who want to be bank robbers, but it's fucking

Sunday and the bank is closed and the cops catch

them anyway It's I Like the album I didn't think

I was gonna like it at first but there are some

really really cool tracks on it at least so So

that's what I do what huh? Oh So that's that's

what I've been up to actually the one of the

thing for we let Mike talk I interviewed since

this past Wednesday as of this this airing of

the podcast this past Wednesday November 19th

is the 20th anniversary to the day of Spider

-Man the animated series coming on television

and I sat down and interviewed John Semper Jr.

Who was the head story writer and producer of

the series? And that was an hour and four minutes,

I think. It's a really interesting interview

because he got his start at Hanna -Barbera. I

mean, he was, you know, he was on 13 Ghosts of

Scooby -Doo as his, you know, story editor, or

not story editor, but a writer, and he wrote

two episodes of that. So that's a really cool

interview I think everyone should check out,

but that's pretty much what I've been up to.

What about you, Mike? What the hell is going

on in Canada besides the snow? Oh, well, I'm

up to my ass in game reviews. Holy shit, I forgot.

I thought October was bad? No, I forgot the third

week of November was fuck you, you don't have

any time. This week, I received Grand Theft Auto

V on Xbox One. I got Assassin's Creed Rogue,

which I haven't dug into yet. Super Smash Bros.

Wii U, which I've been playing for two weeks.

Dragon Age Inquisition. WWE 2k15, I'm still working

through Grand Theft Auto, or not Grand Theft

Auto, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, Pokemon

Omega Red and Sapphire or something, the new

Pokemon game anyway, and I wanna say I'm missing

more. All I know is sleep is not gonna happen

this week, and my lord, it's, you know what,

this is probably one of the worst lunch. Windows

I've experienced in a long time Because multiple

games I've had are broken on day one I played

Assassin's Creed unity last week and into this

week and I Didn't have as many technical problems

as other people did but the fact that Ubisoft

had the issue of press release to the BBC definitely

says something WWE 2k15 is having as of this

recording is having massive pickups with its

online services and unlocking crap. So I might

just attribute that to day one garbage. But it

just seems like every major game is having a

bullshit release this week. I'm really hoping

when Smash Brothers comes out over the weekend,

because it should be coming out today as of because

this comes out on Friday. Yeah. Really hope Nintendo

doesn't have any trouble. I don't suspect they

will. But. Other than that, I'm writing my first

article for a magazine, which is pretty cool.

It's going to be on role -playing games. I should

be talking about the licensed RPG. I mean, if

you don't know the Lord of Dungeons and Dragons,

fine. Check out Doctor Who or the Marvel Universe

or something like that. So I should be talking

about that. That should be in CNG Magazine, I

think, next month. So look for that. I'll probably

talk about it the next time when I actually have

my article submitted. Last week, I was on Comic

Book Men again when they went to BrodyCon. So

that was pretty cool. Got a lot of nice messages.

Got a few hate -filled messages, too. Nice. I

watched that episode. I didn't even see you.

I was right in the beginning. Oh. I must have

missed it. Basically, they were like, hey, do

you remember when that Brody guy came in last

year and flashed back to me for like a minute

and a half? Oh, so you weren't actually... It

wasn't a new thing, it was a clip from your original

appearance. Yeah, I was using a flashback. So

that was fun. Do I think of what else? Other

than that, working on this month's topic show

for Twig, we were going to do Twin Peaks, but

I'm not in the mood for weirdness, so I'd rather

have guys in rubber suits, and we're going to

do Godzilla movies, since it's like his 60th

anniversary. I didn't think the franchise had

been around that long. So that's a lot of fun

being yelled at in a foreign language. Godzilla!

Fuck you! Jesus Christ, giant monster! Don't

think of what else. I think that's pretty much

about it. Just a lot of video games. Oh, yeah!

Dave is back on our website now, which is pretty

cool. We record a bunch of DVD commentaries.

He's a liar. And yeah, that's pretty much been

my week, week and a half. Awesome. I hear these

rumors that you have these turtles. Yes, yes.

Thanks to my good friends over at Playmates.

Gotta thank that beauty manager over there. I

think her name is Lisa. She sent me the Walmart

exclusives for now. Bebop and Rocksteady, they

haven't appeared in the cartoon show yet. Well,

Bebop has as an unmutated person. Yeah. And they're

not bad figures. Like they're really good sculpts,

but the pose ability is a little... Shitty. Well,

it sucks though, because Rocksteady is... He's

basically a rock. He's one salt. He's like, he

has like arms. He's a brick. Yeah, he's basically

a brick. Like, he's not sitting in any vehicles,

that's for sure. He's not doing high kicks. But

the sculpt is really, really nice on him. He

has this whole Russian thing going on, which

I think is actually kind of badass. He comes

with a hammer and sickle, and on the back of

his hands, they have the corresponding symbols,

I guess, to tell you which hand. Even if it's

not that for kids that are a little bit derpy.

that's actually kind of badass, because they're

like brass knuckles. And Bebop, he's in this

weird Tron -like suit with an open chest, and

he's got his purple visor thing, which he had

when he was the Master Thief Ant on Zek, I think

was the name of the character. He comes with

a flash bomb and like a sticky bomb, so what

looks like a potato and a cell phone is the best

way to describe them. He's got really nice legs.

I don't mean that to sound homoerotic. It's just

the sculpt and the poseability on those legs,

they're really nice. The joints feel really,

really smooth. And for some reason he has wheels

on his back and on his feet, roller skates or

something. Just kind of strange. So I don't know

whether we're going to work that into the cartoon.

I would imagine maybe he has like jet skates

or something, so. Other than that though, they're

not bad figures. They're a really nice update

for the 2012 Turtles line. They're exclusive

at Walmart for the first couple of months, at

least until after holidays, and then you should

be able to find them at major retailers. They're

going to be hard to find. What do you think about

the TMNT classics? I love them. I've got the

entire set currently. That's the original ones

based on the 87 series, the ones based on the

1990, and Bebop and Rocksteady. My favorite one

is probably Raphael from the 87 line and Michelangelo

from the 1990 Turtles movie. The worst of the

line, I think, is Leonardo from the 1990 line

because he just looks like he smelled something

really bad and is just on the verge of puking.

Doesn't he have the grin face from when Shredder

had the thing to his neck? It's weird. It's kind

of like that. It just looks like, like I say,

it looks like he's about to puke and he's trying

to be really, really nice about it. He's got

the grimace face. Yeah, basically, yeah. It's

just a very attractive face, though. Michelangelo

is spot on. Like, it's such a good -looking sculpt.

Bob and Rocksteady are pretty badass too, especially

Bebop Like that like that series when they get

to Krang and Shredder I think they had promo

art or like a proto sculpt Yeah, they did for

New York City Comic Con. Yeah. Oh my god skeet

skeet that looks Amazing. I want them to do like

Baxter Stockman as a fly because that would be

so cool looking Or if they could do Kurai from

the new Ninja Turtles cartoon and give her that

treatment, that'd be badass. Even April, I don't

think it'd look badass. I really want that Krang

that's about to come out. I can't wait, and I'm

so glad I've got a good relationship with playmates

that they do semi this type of stuff. Like, the

Nick Turtles line... It's probably my favorite

action figure line in like a number of years

Like kids really get a bang out of it the fact

that they do Throwbacks to the party wagon the

turtle blip I'm actually staring at right now.

The funniest thing is is they're coming out with

the the What is it 20th anniversary or 25th anniversary

figures 25th? Yeah Well, they're coming out with

like the old, you know, you get some of the old

turtles, but they came up with or they brought

back the party van they brought back. They're

just kind of continuously sprinkling the old

stuff back in. Now, granted, I don't really like

the originals now that I look at what they can

make. Because like I bought myself my son, the

the Michelangelo figure. from the new Nickelodeon

cartoon. And he runs around the house going,

turtle. And it's to the point that he goes to

my mom's and he's yelling, turtle, turtle, turtle.

My mom turns on Ninja Turtles and he sits and

watches it. And he's like grinning ear to ear,

which is awesome for me because it gives me an

excuse to watch the cartoon. But yeah, I mean,

I really want to get the classics. I just can't.

currently afford them, unfortunately. And like

I said, the Crang is just something I really

love out of it. At least the 87 version, I don't

particularly care for the Nickelodeon ones, but

I have to agree though that the toys, that's

probably the only line I actually like at this

point. They're the only line of my toys because

I've hit a bit of a rough patch because I've

been selling a lot of my toys off. It's the only

toy line I will not sell off unless they're coming

to shut off the hydro because that's how much

I really really like them are my classics and

the new Nick turtle ones I'm actually surprised

with the with the anniversary set. They haven't

re -released the sewer play set They haven't

re -released the tech the technodrome If they

do, I could see those being San Diego Comic Con

exclusives. Oh, easily. Well, if not, I see them

being highly expensive. Yeah, that too. To the

point that just normal people can't afford them.

I picked up my Technodrome this past spring.

I got a near complete one, 95 % complete. I paid

20 bucks for it. Online, they go for at least

150 plus. And that's depending on whether they

have blocks or whether they have all the little

things inside of it. Yeah, I used to own it up

to about, I'd say, four years ago. The only reason

I got rid of it was because of space and because

I'd already destroyed the shit out of that thing

as a kid. My turtles were played hard as a kid.

you know, as a kid, because I owned everything

of it. Yeah. My favorite thing that I sold and

I'm so kicking myself in the ass. I really wish

I actually kept this piece was Krang's Android

body. Yep. I paid ninety five bucks for this

this past year. I got it on for a steal. He had

his and his antenna wasn't tapped on his head.

The glass was clear on the front of him where

Krang sat and. Figure had no scuffs on it. And

that's the one figure. I really wish that I never

gave up when I sold everything but I'm really

happy I'm happy that playmates is at least doing

that. They're respecting the collector and showing

kids. Hey, this is how things started Right,

right Let me ask you guys. Have you been watching

season 3 of the Nick show? I'm just catching

up on it now. I think the last episode I saw

where they fought, like, this plant monster that

looked like Jason Voorhees on a couple episodes

behind. Death Green's voice sounds weird coming

out of Leonardo. I'm not used to it. I've gotten

used to it. I like how they explained it in the

season premiere. I thought that was kind of cool.

Oh, he was really clever. His voice was injured.

It may never recover. Yeah. That's it won't Jason

Biggs. That's such a good job. Oh, I know he

was terrific is Leonardo like this voice cast

I I love it almost as much as I love the the

87 and to some extent I like a more yeah same

here like I'm really surprised how well Everybody

works. I mean, there's not one voice on there

that seems miscast or out of place right if Biggs

and other than crane prime Well, no. Roseanne

Barr doing that's kind of funny. She fits in.

It's funny, but she is a big blob anyway, like

with a big mouth. The only thing that I think

prevented Biggs from staying on is I think at

some point, huh? His language. Yeah, his language,

but I think it was his public fight with his

wife on Twitter that really got him the axe for

that job. Really? Yeah, I don't think so. I think

it's because he was always dropping the f -bomb

and talking about oh I'm gonna you know, it just

is a his American pie, you know kind of Really

what big of a part does he play in that he's

a fairly significant character he is but he's

not needed there Doesn't have to be in every

episode, but out of a 13 episode you'd expect

to see him like there for me at least Yeah, I

like the new season, but it's kind of wearing

on me where you go back to New York already Yeah,

well yes, and no, but they need to what they

need to do is they need to make an amalgam They

need to have an episode where we see like one

half of it is, you know The turtles training

getting ready to go back The other half is what

the hell is shredder been up to like we haven't

seen anything from shredder winner, right? Yeah

splinter, you know anything, you know, that's

really my main complaint right now and I know

they're gonna get to it because it's a 13 or

26 episode long season or whatever it is, but

it's one of those things where At this point,

I'm tired of the one -off episodes. The one -off

episodes were a thing of the 80s, dammit. Yeah,

I like how this one is maintaining a sense of

continuity. Where storytelling actually matters.

I like this one, I've only read about it. They

had the punk frogs. Yes, I've seen it. Napoleon

Dynamite as Napoleon. That's hilarious. It's

uh, it's almost like having weird Al is just

as retgar. Yeah transformers animated fire casting

for sure Clancy Brown plays Genghis and I'm not

sure I'm not sure who does Attila. I'm not sure

The the punk frogs one was really cool and I

like how they're incorporating all the the characters

and stuff like that, but it just I don't know,

man. It just seems like the story isn't moving

fast enough for me. I think it'd be cool if they

brought in the Triceratons and had them at war

with the Crane. That would be fucking awesome.

Or the Rock Soldier dudes. They've already had

them at one point though. Show us. I want the

cooler ones. I want literally the little General

Trag guy and his pointy nose buddy. What else

would be really cool to see on that show? I'm

thinking here. I'm thinking back to classic episodes

with that were really neat on the original series.

Well, I do know. At some point they'll have to

do a Venus episode. No, no, no, no. But, but

killer. It could mean something. That would be

really interesting if they did that. I could

do without her. I didn't mind her when she showed

up twice in the original cartoon. Or no, am I

thinking of the salamander? Yeah, you're trying

to think of salamander. Yeah, there was the chick

that Raphael liked. I can't remember her name.

Venus was from Dex Mutation, that's right. Yeah,

that blasphemous piece of garbage. I do know

for a fact that they are bringing in Mondo Gecko.

That's cool, I love them. They are bringing in

Mondo Gecko, and guess who's gonna voice him?

You'll never guess. Huh? Is it a skateboarder?

Um... Tony Hawk? He's no, hell no. I'm not bringing

that up. Time Cruise. Captain Planet. Uh... MRJara?

Fuck, I don't know. They are bringing in Robbie

Wriste, Michelangelo from the live -action movies

to voice Mondo Gecko. That's not bad! That's

inspiring! No, it's not bad. It's awesome. Goddamn,

I love that show. Go ahead, Steve, sorry. Oh

no, it's fine. So I think we'll move on a little

bit after that entertaining conversation about

turtles. I think we should bring up Dodds. Brush

with infamy. Yes, I can't remember when that

came about I can't remember if it was on headshot

if you were actually doing twig I Was doing twig

but Blanchard was there I think and it was a

twig after dark This was after dick Clark died

because we called the episode dick Clark's mystery

machine Oh, I can't remember why I did this but

we're talking Hey guys name a show for like me

to fuck with and I went on Wikipedia and I landed

on full house and I changed it and I think I

almost think we should read it out loud but I

think if we link it in the episode notes just

go take a look oh it's gonna be in the episode

Adam Goldberg who's the creator and writer for

the Goldberg's TV show that's funny yeah oh my

god like I've been getting favorited Retweets

all day. I actually had the the girl who played

Kimmy from the show Retweeted it too I'm gonna

read it one of her friends on Twitter had asked

me like why didn't Kimmy get a background? I'm

like, well because she was grown in a lab in

the future to go back in time from Walt Disney

Because it was the weirdest thing I could think

up like right on the spot. You only edited the

premise, right? You didn't edit the entire article.

I have plans to do a different sitcom every couple

of weeks, just to throw people off my trail.

I'm thinking about taking step -by -step, turning

it into a version of the Terminator with a nun

and a top bag of rocks. Just step -by -step chronicles.

Home Improvement's actually going to be a sword

love affair with power tools. So it'll be 50

shades of, I don't know, Binford tools. Oh my

god. 50 shades of Binford. It's going to be amazing.

And I'm also going to recast the entire thing.

So Tim Allen may be replaced by John Goodman.

Colin Taylor Thomas may be replaced by a sock

puppet. Stuff like that. So it'll be the most

amazing thing you've ever read. I figure this

may be my ticket to Hollywood vandalizing Wikipedia.

It was funny, because I think, I can't remember

if I was there or if I wasn't because I distinctly

remember you writing some of this garbage at

some point. I know you were there, Steve, when

I edited, I think it was Steve, not Steve Allen,

Robin Thicke's dad. What the hell's his name?

Alan Thicke. Yeah. And I only changed a single

line and it stayed there for months. In his personal

background, he goes, blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah, may also be Satan. and it stood there for

like three months. So the Full House premise

changed drastically. It says after Danny Tanner's

wife, Pam Grier, is killed in a collision by

the Pink Power Ranger. He recruits his brother

-in -law Robocop, a rock musician and a quirky

best friend, Optimus Prime, to raise his three

daughters, DJ Irvon and Doctor from Doctor Who.

in his San Francisco home. Over time, the three

men in a robot, as well as the children, bond

and become closer to one another. They also solve

mysteries in a van. Initially, Robocop is uncertain

if his life is going in the right direction after

making the life -altering decision to help raise

the girls. In Season 2, Danny becomes host of

a local TV show. His co -host, Rebecca... Rebecca

cigar face Donaldson starts and then it kind

of like starts going a little bit normal and

Then you start going like the family by the dog.

He's one of the puppies Finally Robocop and Judge

Reinold have twin sons Nikki and Alex It's horrible

And then the 8th season they decide to buy an

underground lair and fight crime. Batman and

Robin often co -star, but oddly enough Repal

does make an appearance as Commissioner Gordon.

They also fight their arch nemesis Rita Repulsa

in Doctor Octopus in a minivan disguised as a

bakery truck. You are fucking crazy, Mike. I'm

pretty fucked up. Yes, yes, you are. It's almost

as bad as the episode of GCR we recorded years

ago on Valentine's Day. Or no, it was Sweetest

Day. Yeah, I gotta go back and find that. That

was... Is that the time I found the really weird

port or not? No, no, no, no. This was me and

Steve, I think. We were talking about Valentine's

Day or Sweetie's Day or something. It was Sweetest

Day. Yeah. And Steve went and looked at the Wiki

article and someone had changed it to say something

completely different and then I went to look

at it and it was back to normal. So what it was

is we had two different versions pulled up and

they were within seconds of each other. Yeah.

Because I pulled it up first and he pulled it

up second so I actually screen capped it. while

it was still on my screen. And it basically was

saying that it involves men giving their wives

or girlfriends candy. And you can imagine the

the BJ card is put in there. Oh, yeah. I remember

one time I was checking Wikipedia and I was reading

the the the entry on Spider -Man 2, the movie.

I'm going to change it to this erotic Aunt May

fan fiction. And then I refresh the page and

it was gone. I wish I kept it because it was

fucking hilarious. Wow. Spidey does Aunt May?

No. Oh my god, do you imagine how much of a sex

-fiend Doctor Octopus could be? Did you not read

Superior Spider -Man? That's amazing just think

all those arms and all those dildos. Oh my god.

Okay. All right The galaxy are thinking of other

absurdities we should probably move into the

Honda commercials, okay? We go the other direction

after that In one way or the other, it still

fucks you over. That's what they're doing. They're

raping the 80s. Playing a card out of Mike's

book. So Honda is using GI Joe, Gem, and Skeletor

to try and sell cars because, you know, obviously

it's our generation that can purchase things

now. Well, guess what? I'm sorry to cut you off

here, but since This episode, since we started

recording this, right before we came in to do

this, I actually saw another one. They also are

using Gumby and Pokey. It's just not right. It's

just not right. But it's funny because you have

Skeletor standing here in Honda and he's like,

salutations! Did they actually get the original

voice actor? No, they did not. No. Why would

they cheap out? If they're gonna license the

character, go the extra mile and a half. I'm

sure he's not doing much right now. No, he just

went to TFCon. Exactly, he's just hanging out.

It's like getting Optimus Prime as a licensed

character and getting Gilbert Godfrey to do the

voice. Your priorities are just a little bit

fucked up. Yeah. It would be funny though having

them selling a truck and going, I am Optimus

Prime. Get in my cab and I'll drive you around.

That'd be so fucking cool. Or Megatron could

sell you guns. Technically, Megatron could just

sell himself a million times over. We'll just

go in the in the truck and it'll it'll uh, he'll

say I am kit You know, why is it mr. Feeney done

a car commercial for that matter? That makes

perfect sense He's not doing anything either

All they need him to do is sit in it. Yeah, just

sit there smile here's a cheeseburger since since

you guys brought this up I hate to bring the

show down but um this past weekend we actually

lost Glenn no no no we actually lost Glenn A

Larson creator of Knight Rider and various other

80s properties So he passed away this past weekend.

So that's that's what's going on there. But we

also lost the guy who was the main publisher

behind those choose your own adventure books.

And we also lost the guy that did the the animation

for like the old Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

type stuff, which is it's funny that you mentioned

that because we're talking about weird cartoons

like shill shit. And up here in Canada, I saw

like Maybe it's a Honda commercial, but it's

the Rankin, Bass, Rudolph people selling a car.

Yeah. They're like, don't you elves make toys?

They're like, we do all these too. Here's the

Kia Sorento or some bullshit. And the abominable

snowman's driving. You have to get, okay, that's

fucking weird. You say abominable snow. That

was the name of the dentist elf. I can't think

of his name. Um, Hermey. Hermey. He's like, and

it's the first class in safety. I'm like, what

the fuck? You said a bombable snowman all I can

think of is that old Looney Tunes short and I

will name him George and pet him and hug him

Please let me go I would buy a car from him because

he's too stupid to lie to me I know right and

it's broken and rusted But it gets really good

radio on star for a year I don't know like I'm

just like you think if they're gonna see I guess

That's the thing though, they're trying to pick

general cartoons that most of us remember. I

mean, look at this, we're not gonna have Matt

Tracker trying to sell us, like, a car, but we'll

get Skeletor. Don't even get me started on Matt

Tracker. Just don't even... I want T -Bob to

sell me a fucking iPhone. That's what I want.

Or Herbie from the Fantastic Four cartoon. That's

what I want. under the barbaric and sell me Slim

Jim's absurd marketing you know the best the

best marketing even though I've never eaten them

and I just don't like them the best marketing

Slim Jim ever had may the man rest in peace was

macho man No one will ever top that. Well, and

then after they got rid of him, they got that

scrawny dude that would go, eat me. Fuck that.

That's always going to be macho, man. Yeah, I

know. That's like his legacy. That was really

absurd. That would kind of make a weird kind

of sense. Let me see. Oh, I had a really, really

good one, but now it's gone. Black Widow, so

spanks. Oh, I think strawberry shortcake should

sell weight -loss products. I think that'd be

amazing. That's an oxymoron. Let's see what else

could be totally - That's like government works.

I know, right? Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash

sell oats. See, that works! No, they'll put them

on the box of horseshoes. Man, I guess Lucky

captured them. They're his new charms. No. They'll

have them on the Red Bull. It gives you wings!

Oh crap! You know what just occurs to me? Back

in the 80s, we had really weird licensed products.

I remember we had Ghostbusters cereal and all

that shit. Why don't we not do that anymore?

Because they put it on the shelf for two months

and then it stopped selling? Because I'd like

to know, why is there not a Doctor Who cereal?

a My Little Pony cereal. I mean, think about

it. You just have to put fucking Cheerios and

six different colored marshmallows. There's your

pony cereal. Done. Ninja Turtles. I'm sure there's

like a factory abandoned in Uganda that made

the stuff back in the 90s. We can start that

back up. They just put sugar and salt on it and

then It always surprises me when somebody comes

up and comes up with and finds a an old box of

Batman cereal because it's like dude. It's just

Captain Crunch It's stale as hell. Yeah Yeah,

I actually got that cereal I remember that I

I remember when they made that cereal for a while

there, they made too much of it. So they put

the Ninja Turtles bowls onto every cereal box

you could possibly find. I remember getting a

Bill and Ted cereal and it had a Ninja Turtles

cereal bowl on it. Way back in the day. I also

remember I also got a Bill and Ted tape case

that was the foam booth that would hold like

four cassette tapes. I thought that was pretty

badass. And you never get prizes in cereal anymore.

I remember you used to get the like, cool -ass

color -changing spoons. You get the color -changing

spoons, you got the lightsabers, you got the

color -changing cars, you got... Rings that would

glow or something. Yeah, I mean, granted it was

all dog snot anyway, but it was like the equivalent

of a McDonald's toy, but... It still was it still

was something interesting and Nowadays they're

like oh buy this box and three more to get this

promo code to possibly get this other item and

you have to also mail in the UPCs and it has

to be sent to this address and It's either that

or they they put like oops in the way Or they

put like a DVD to a TV show that nobody cares

about There was one I saw this was maybe two

years ago and it was you bought like I think

it was like Froot Loops or something and You

could get a John Cena. I think it was like one

of those slam city figures Yeah, that wouldn't

be Froot Loops. That would be Fruity Pebbles

or something like it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's

That's what it is. And I remember a couple years

ago, or no, this was this past year, it was,

hey, kids, do you have a smartphone? You can

take a picture with John Cena. And it was this

weird QR app that would put him in the picture

beside you using your phone's camera, which is

admittedly cool and creepy at the same time.

If you're really creative, you can do some really

funny things with it. But I don't know. It seems

to me like being a kid is a lot less fun. Well,

it's a lot more corporate now, and plus you don't

have Saturday morning cartoons. You don't have

any of the special branding. You barely see toys

get advertised anymore. A lot of the cartoon

channels are kind of in constant state of flux.

I mean, you look at Hub turning into Discovery

again, and then you look at ... I mean, you have

Cartoon Network, but it's not actually Cartoon

Network. bastardization version of it but I Don't

I don't know I think that they just it Markets

like assuming everybody's gonna have a smartphone

and everybody's gonna have this and that and

instead of trying to actually use their imaginations

they Are gonna be I don't know imagine any imagination

deficient So talking about cereal prizes that

don't measure up how in the hell is a child gonna

unless his unless his or her parents sit down

with him and do this him or her how's a child

gonna go online and enter a code to get a free

month of hulu fucking plus seriously this was

on a coco crispies box that i bought a week and

a half ago that this was a prize on the box and

i'm like what wait what seriously um The best

prizes I ever got out of Serial as a kid, I think

this was a mail -away thing. Yeah, it was a mail

-away. It didn't come in the box, but you collect

the UPCs, send them in, and we could get monogrammed,

stylized coffee mugs so it could have our names

on it or whatever else. And then Lucky Charms

was the one that had the coolest prize. Again,

you save the... the UPCs send them in you could

get a four leaf clover with your name on it and

it was like a real uh you know ceramic kind of

feeling thing it wasn't like plastic or anything

like that it was back when everyone wasn't afraid

to use glass for stuff i think the coolest prize

i ever saw from my childhood this was in the

90s when power of the force 2 toys were out from

i think it was still kenner at that point um

you bought two boxes of cornflakes or something,

and $5 .99 and you could get Han Solo in the

Stormtrooper disguise, or Luke. It was basically

just, here's a Stormtrooper, here's a different

head. So it was super easy to make. And I also

remember another one with Doritos. You could

send away and get a holographic Obi -Wan, which

I always thought was really cool. I'm trying

to think of, I remember, Just a lot of different

things. Like, do you guys remember Pepsi points?

I remember when you used to get Pepsi and you

could get iTunes codes. Yeah, there was a promo

before that, probably about five or six years

before it. And you'd get these things called

Pepsi points and you'd get them on 24 cases,

12 cases, and the individual two liters and seven

tens or whatever. And you could... save up and

get like cd cases wallets jackets hats and all

this they ran this one commercial and it was

a guy sitting in a harrier jet and it was i remember

that yeah for 14 million points and somebody

actually did it oh shit so they gave him like

a free day at like flight school or something

well Coca -Cola still does the points thing.

They've been doing it for years, and I know it's

a different company. I think it's different here

in Canada. I don't think we have that anymore.

We still have it, despite all the different marketing

attempts to get people to buy these cokes, whether

it be the Santa on the bottle or the share a

Coke with and then an insert name here. I actually

did find one with my name on it. Unfortunately,

by the time I realized my name was on it, I'd

already drank it all. I actually worked for a

grocery store at the time that they were doing

the iTunes points, and you could download a song

legally through iTunes. That's kind of cool.

I can download an HD quality version and the

only thing is you can only input six codes per

day. Well, I was a bagger so I also had the bottle

return responsibility. So I went through an entire

couple of tubs of bottle returns and loaded my

pockets with these lids so that I could get codes.

got so many damn songs from doing that i remember

up here in canada they have they had these popsicles

and i can't remember who made them but i know

the mascot was called popsicle pete and each

popsicle stick would have a point value on it

anywhere between five points and seventy five

some actually i think had a hundred and you send

in so many thousand When there are hundreds or

something you could get like beach towels I remember

getting a really cool hat and I think a CD player

out of it because I obviously I'm a fat kid or

eat a lot of popsicles There was another one

when Kool -Aid did this and this is how I discovered

how to vandalize cars To are certainly connected.

Do you guys remember a Nickelodeon product called

GAC? Yes Okay, it was this weird squishy thing

and it smelled either really good or fucking

disgusting I had an apple cinnamon one And I

discovered if you throw that on someone's car

when it's cold Bad things will happen. I Have

a dick as a child just so you know, I'm not so

bad now now. I'm just gonna key your car Yeah,

I remember saving up I think it was like Couple

hundred Kool -Aid points and back then it was

only like five or ten or maybe 25 you get which

by the way if someone out there in your audience

Could send me like five bucks worth of rock a

dial red Kool -Aid I'll ask you to be all winter

break because that stuff you cannot find in Canada

Just saying my body for you Yeah, I will. There's

nothing that I won't do. Terrible. But yeah,

it just seems like there's less prizes and things,

but there always seems to be like a promotion

going on in store for something, or it's on Twitter

or Facebook. Now, admittedly, I won a trip to

Las Vegas by texting someone by, you know, just

random decision one night, and it was with NOS

Energy Drink, which that was really cool. It's

not the same as sending in the UPC codes or write

in a ballot or something or go to the grocery

store and throw your name into a hat or something.

I don't know. It just seems a lot less fun now.

It's more technology and corporate driven than

it ever has been. Like you said, Mike, it's like,

what's five -year -old going to do with a fucking

Hulu Plus code? Yeah. Okay, so I found some info

on Popsicle Pete. He was a dirty peepee. Basically,

as we all know, Popsicle is a popular brand of

ice pop in the U .S. and Canada. It became generalized

trademark for any type of ice pop. In April of

1939, Popsicle Pete was introduced in the radio

program Buck Rogers in the 21st century as having

won the Typical American Boy contest. The character

told listeners that they could win presents by

sending rappers from Popsicle Products to the

manufacturer. During the 1940s, Popsicle Pete

ads were created by Woody Gelman and his partner

Ben Solomon. The ads appeared in print television

and commercials and activity books until 1995.

In 2014, Popsicle modernized Pete by including

him as a part of their original gang and releasing

comics, an original music video, and other content

on their Facebook page. so basically it's not

one single like it's not um like Klondike bars

like it's not popsicle pedis for any type of

popsicle as far as i can tell it was a uniquely

Canada thing maybe but still yeah i remember

these things and i remember at my school they

would sell popsicles on Fridays or something

And I remember watching the garbage cans very

closely, thinking, all right, there's 20 in that

garbage can, there's 20 in this one, all I need

to do is rinse them off. Although in the summer,

you're asking to get stung, so I'll have to sacrifice.

Do that, because fuck that, ain't no beach towel

worth getting stung a thousand times. And I don't

know, it just seems to be like the era of really

weird collectibles or Cool promos. Hell, do you

guys remember when Star Wars Episode 1 came out

and there was the Star Wars Pepsi cans? Oh, yeah.

Yep. I remember when there was the... I need

shit for those. I remember when the R2 -D2 coolers

came out. I could have had one for like 50 bucks

this past summer. My stepdad got one. Right after

the movie. 7 -elevens were giving them away,

basically, trying to get rid of them. That's

ridiculous, because those things are cool looking

coolers. Well, he kept it for a number of years

until it started leaking. And then he was like,

all right, I'm done. This R2 droid's got a bad

motivator. Oh my God. My wife had a dairy. Cool

whip freezer that was given to her from I guess

one of her friends owned like a grocery store

or something and they were going out of business

and they had that hell I remember there being

a lot more Coolers that were like Pepsi and coke

everything you I don't think you see that as

much anymore. No Well, you might see it you might

see coke kind of machine type deals in like Wendy's

and stuff because they have that new freestyle

crap. Oh my god I love that stuff! I will drive

two hours to get one of those oh my god Mike

you hit the like salivate button. Speaking of

pop are you guys into the whole surge thing that

you have to buy through Amazon? They won't I

don't think they'll ship to Canada so fuck I

don't think I ever had surge back in the day

what's it taste like? Don't know. I've never

had it either. I remember having something like

I think I had jolt jolt cola Which one was supposed

to be like the so Serge was like the Mountain

Dew of your right coke, right? Yeah, so what

is Joel Joel was basically extra caffeinated

cola The idea is it had 1 .5 times the amount

of coffee or something like that. It would give

it a more acidic taste But if you got the right

jolt, it was really good, and the cans were shaped

like batteries. So when you popped the top, you

get this really unique sound of the gas releasing

from inside. Believe me, I survived on these

things in high school and college. Lived on these

things. Basically, jolt, Steve, is what Red Bull

is today. But less shitty and cola Red Bull tastes

like piss It actually tastes like a legitimate

cola just a little bit stronger. Yeah, okay But

yeah, like and I remember Joel went in a business

a couple years ago like 2009 I think and I'm

always hoping someday someone will resurrect

the brand or something like that because it was

so good And there was like a Jolt Red, there

was a Jolt Blue, I think they had other flavors

too. Oh yeah. And the days, man I miss Jolt Cola

so much, why'd you have to bring that up? There

was another one, this was like a really weird

one, I don't know whether this was Canada or

the states either. There was a drink called Orbits,

and it was a clear liquid. but it would have

these flavor bubbles floating in it and they

were like little tapioca things or something

I don't know they were like jelly or something

and there were different flavors you'd have like

a red a blue an orange and a yellow I think and

it was really it's hard to describe what this

tasted like but it was a really unique looking

beverage than it was anything else and this is

around the time they had like the weird crystal

pepsi crap Right was okay, I guess maybe I don't

remember it being that good I've seemed to remember

a Pepsi blue that was like drinking first blue

Hmm there was a sprite remix, which is really

weird It was like how would I describe this?

If someone threw up in it. Yeah, pretty much.

Anyone else sensing the need to move on? Yes.

Just saying. Alrighty, so... I guess go ahead

and... Oh! Actually, before we go to that, since

we were on the toy bandwagon... This is also

the show notes there is this image of a Life

-size model of the arc like not life -size, but

like life -size as far as the action figures

are concerned This sob is huge It's it's the

the Autobot arc the ship It's It's the one under

the miscellaneous in film that says I thought

it was cool and then realized that those frickin'

deluxes and then it shows deluxe figures, transformers

in it and they actually made this giant model

of the Ark. Is this thing for sale or just...?

No, they made it but this sucker is like intensely

detailed. And it's not like I'm just trying to

find it in my show notes right now because my

email is huge I Like it when toy companies do

that they'll go the extra mile It's not the toy

company though. It's these people that made it.

Oh, so it's like a third -party companies. I

think it's just fans Well shit, I don't know

who made it but it's They got some deluxes and

Voyager figures in it. It's just Freaking crazy

how nice it looks. It's it's the gold ship. They've

got openings like a diorama type thing where

you can actually see the the bots and their locations

and Yeah, it's doesn't light up it appears to

oh my god It looks like it literally would take

up like an entire room Exactly So go ahead blanchard,

okay, so Steve has a news item in the news here

for Guardians of the Galaxy for Chris Pratt wants

to be on agents of shield and As we started the

show when we recorded this. I notice our good

friend from One Up Your Life, Dustin Vancour,

posts something on Facebook where as of Tuesday

night, November 18th, you could go onto Android's

website or wherever Android sells music and get

the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack for free.

What? What? It's Android. Oh. For Android phones.

That's really cool. Yep. I already have it. Yeah,

I bought the CD. It's in my car. Oh, you mean

you didn't buy the cassette tape, Mike? I don't

have cassette tapes in my car, unfortunately,

but I do have them on my stereo, actually. I

don't even have a cassette player anymore, so

that to me is not worth it. I don't even think

Radio Shack sells them anymore. Think you can

still buy the combos Stereo might have it Because

you never know if you want to transfer stuff

off of tape to mp3 or whatever I remember Chris

Pratt said he would do agents of shield if the

show required it If though I can't see those

two worlds crossing at least until after Guardians

too. Right. Go where Earth are pretty goddamn

far apart. If Quill had the ability to go back

to Earth, I think he might take it. Right. If

anything, just the visit. He'd be like, where's

my mommy? It makes sense for them to bring in

like say Hawkeye though or Iron Man, even if

it was only for five minutes. I'd like to see

Downey Jr. in an entire episode. That would be

cool. And you know, it's not like he's above

doing television either. He will do it. They

probably just have it's it's either coming down

the money or they want the show to be able to

stand on its own, which is great. Yeah. But still,

having an actual Avenger on the show would be

pretty fucking awesome. I guarantee you ratings

jump. Oh, absolutely. Even even if he was just

in one episode. It wouldn't surprise me if they

do something for age of Ultron like like kind

of leading up to it There's like an episode where

they have to talk Cody, but they can't know that

it's Colson or something. Yeah Yeah I am so stoked

for Avengers. It just it's gonna be awesome.

Have you seen that extended trailer? Yes Fuck

hurry up may get here. I don't care about Star

Wars more than I do the Avengers Yeah, I I was

love and then Avengers trailers. Yep. Absolutely.

I saw it in my house I've got a 60 inch plasma

with like a 5 .1 surround sound system. I think

I just looped it for like 10 minutes Actually,

I don't care. This is so cool. I ripped the the

HD version to my flash drive and I played it

on my 50 -inch plasma and it looked nice. And

then having James Spader's voice coming out of

Ultron was just creepy. Mike, have you watched

the Blacklist at all? Not yet, but after hearing

him as Ultron, I'm getting curious. I just have

so much on my plate right now. Actually, you

know what? Maybe I'll plow through Blacklist.

During the winter break actually. It's so good.

It's like it's like It's like taking silence

of the lambs and actually making a really good

TV series out of it Yeah, except it's not a guy

that eats stuff. He's just an ex like CIA special

ops guy. See the funny thing about the Blacklist

and Age of Ultron is I saw the Blacklist first

and I knew him there first and I've known Spader

from other things that he's done but like the

Blacklist is really the one show out of all of

the stuff that he's done that I've really paid

attention to because it's a really good show.

It has its moments where it's kind of unbelievable

and kind of makes you frustrated but After seeing

him as the character Red Reddington in the blacklist

and then hearing him as Ultron, I'm like, oh

god, they couldn't have got it so more right

with having him be Ultron. It's gonna be good.

Marvel has, like we've discussed previously on

the show, they have the upper hand in terms of

hype for their movies. Yep. Like, it's gonna

be, like, it's a good time to be a nerd right

now. It really is. Like, the golden age has finally

arrived. Now we can all stop being dicks to each

other, that'll be the best. Yes. Where else are

we going, Steve? Um, in our epic journey of crazy

proportions? Yes. I could talk about something

kinda fucked up that happened this past week.

You guys wanna hear something really weird about

the whole gaming sphere? So this past week, or

last week rather, Assassin's Creed Unity came

out, right? It's the first next -gen version

of that series, PS4, Xbox One, PC. And normally

with game reviews, you get a review copy about

a week, maybe two weeks out. You can publish

your review of it maybe two or three days beforehand,

right, to kind of generate hype for it. It works

out good for you. You get the hits works out

good for the publisher. It gives them hype. It's

press They wouldn't allow you to publish Any

review of that game till till till 9 a .m. Pacific

time. Oh Wow was available at midnight, which

means technically for 12 hours Didn't say shit

about Game when it came out was utterly broken

like people aces were disappearing we were crab

people i had a dancing npc which was really weird

and just all sorts of errors that made the game

i wouldn't say unplayable but for the vast majority

of players they encountered basically what the

hell is wrong with this game and people had accused

ubisoft of weaponizing oh no of review embargo

and i'm not a conspiracy theorist Yes, you are.

What they said is, it was to allow the game's

public servers to have people in it so journalists

like myself can experience the world more populated,

which in PR speak, that makes a fair degree of

sense. But people were wondering, is it because

they didn't believe in it? And Assassin's Creed

Rogue, which is the game available for 360 and

PS3, wasn't sent out for review at all until

day of. So it's a really weird time to be a game

journalist. The fact that they would hold that

back until day of release. Now, it happened before

with Destiny. You couldn't review that game because

it didn't turn the servers on until the day before

launch. Right. A little bit weird in and of itself,

considering it's such a huge game. Don't know

just I found that really kind of weird that Ubisoft

in my opinion. They've been a fairly decent company

Yeah, they've had some stumbles recently but

to hold reviewers hostage like that I found that

really strange and I have a pretty good relationship

with Ubisoft I really kind of I really wanted

to question that like guys. Why are you doing

this? but Now, they even issued a statement to

BBC. They said, we're aware of this. We're going

to work with our partners in the gaming press.

So there's a bigger transparency. We're going

to have more public betas and alphas so people

like you can get involved in the process and

spot bugs for us. And that's the job of a QA

team, in my opinion. Like, that's testers. That's

what you're paid to do. Yeah, it's like, what?

Yeah, like, how do you miss someone's face disappearing

in, like, cutscenes or someone doing the crab

walk? That's not normal. Friggin' reminds me

of, uh, reminds me of that Jeff Dunham, one of

the Jeff Dunham specials, where Peanut's like,

the elephant just disappeared. It just disappeared.

I don't know, it's so weird. Like I said, I can't

believe how much gaming press has been in the

media in the last three months, better or worse.

And I don't know, just review embargoes. I've

never come across that for movies, or at least

if I do, it's remarkably rare. Like say Paramount

sends you a Blu -ray or something here. You can

talk about whatever the fuck you feel like. Yeah,

I find it depends on the company, like... I've

never had a Shelt Factory one, for example. Yeah.

Never had one review embarked. No Power Rangers

last year or two years ago. The thing with Shelt

Factory, I think, is not only do they want the

PR out there, like... As soon as possible, but

I think they also because they send it so close

to the deadline anyway. It doesn't matter Well,

I can speak from experience on this because I've

gotten several things from shop factory I know

Steve's over there grumbling under his breath

When they sent me the mask and the gym complete

series DVD sets I Asked Tom Chen my contact.

I said hey Tom, you know what? You know, when

is it okay to publish this kind of stuff? You

know, do you guys have any embargoes? He said

you could do it a week before the release or

something like that, which is fine I know IDW

publishing when they do previews or when they

do when they do Review copies because IDW makes

all their shit public. Honestly, seriously, I've

seen them tweet out not necessarily their FTP

login, but like an actual press release of what's

coming out. And it says on there, you know, it's

embargoed until the Tuesday before release. So

the only company that I've had a problem with

anything as far as embargoes is DC. I got one

preview. from batman beyond two point oh from

dc comics and i'm very grateful that they allowed

me to do this but the contact person there asked

me not to publish it until a day night a m of

the day before the the comic was to come out

i mean it just it's like i wanted to publish

it on thursday instead of a friday and the comic

comes out it did come out was running on saturday

so i don't know i just Every time I deal with

DC, and I'm not sitting here trying to shoot

myself in the foot, but DC is the strangest company

to deal with in anything. I think BBC, whenever

they sent me that huge Doctor Who set a while

ago, they wanted me to do it for Christmas. Which

made a lot of sense, because they wanted, obviously,

smooth units. Right. That's about the only weird

review embargo. I know when I deal with another

company called, I think it's... Dynamite comics

they ask you not to post anything until Tuesday

because comics come out on Wednesday. Well, yeah,

and that's That's not so bad but like DC like

she asked me a specific time of of the day to

it's It's like your your your your 12 -hour thing

and I'm like, it's a digital comic What does

it matter what time it comes out on the day before

the release? Don't know I guess it might have

to do with how they gather their sources. So

when they do they're like Review of who's covering

stuff they can all gather it at once. Maybe it's

a simplicity I don't know because I've often

wondered that too. Like why does this matter?

I mean see 1201 I get but I hold courage until

10 a .m. Pacific time What the fuck do you care?

I'm on the East Coast Yeah And I guess since

I brought up DC should we talk about the other

DC thing Steve or did you want to go somewhere

else? No, you go ahead and bring it up so DC

is converging this April while they move to California

they are putting all current books on hold to

do this giant convergence event where they converge

the old universe and the new 52 into one universe

I Don't know my question is are they gonna bring

Nightwing back and stop with this whole grace

and stuff I honestly don't know what the hell

the point is And then Marvel's doing something

next summer too, with like, here we're just gonna

throw everything into a blender. I don't think

comics know what they're doing anymore. Why are

you comics drunk? So I have, via DC's website,

this was published on 1111. Convergence week

one, Stephanie Brown, Wally West, and Oracle

return to comics. Last week we announced Convergence,

the massively multi -versal crossover event that

kicks off in April of 2015. Well, bit by bit

we're learning more about it. Today, CBR and

io9 announced the first week of miniseries complete

with creative teams and very intriguing imagery.

Set in the pre -Flashpoint DC universe, these

miniseries offers us glimpse of heroes from not

too long ago including Stephanie Brown's Batgirl,

Wally West's Flash, Renee Montoya's Question,

Barbara Gordon's Oracle, and classic suited Harley

Quinn. Longtime fans will also want to take note

of the creative teams which include many of the

same writers and artists who made these versions

of the characters famous Can you say Greg Rucka?

And it shows I'll actually Shoot Steve the link

for the show notes. It shows you the various

titles and whatever else I think the only one

that really interests me Well, the only two that

really yeah The only two that really interest

me is the Batgirl one. It was written by Alyssa

Kitwini and the Nightwing Oracle. Nightwing Oracle

is going to be written by Gail Simone. So those

are really the only two that interest me the

rest. Like I am so not, and I'm really not trying

to spew hate at all, but... the at this point

in my comic reading i'm more interested in original

stories or creator on titles like uh... kyle

higgins cowell from image comics or uh... sex

criminals by matt fraction uh... you know i mean

i still like the transformers comics ready to

view i love the turtles comics ready to view

have you read been reading that ongoing mike

no unfortunately not actually i i i i don't wait

a couple more trades and I'll just buy a bunch

oh my god it's so good it is so good we are right

now in the story we are almost at issue 40 and

they are starting the next storyline called attack

on technodrome so it is going to be amazing but

yeah so Apparently DC is putting all of their

main titles on hold for two months so they can

move to California. Honestly, I thought they

already friggin moved to California. Yeah, so

did I. I thought like at least a good chunk of

it went over. And why would they even need to

put the books on hold? Just deal with your shit

now. Why bother disrupting the operation? I don't

know. It's DC. I guess anything to sell books,

I guess. Yeah, pretty much. You know a good reason

for the brick and mortar comic book shops, so

that's true True, but I don't know for myself.

I only really follow comics your properties that

I give a shit about I mean I read ponies I read

Mass Effect Robocop and Maybe the odd Marvel

title if it's like a really small like kind of

limited series. I'll pick it up Like, you have

to know a ship time, now this convergence crap?

Yeah. Now, here, learn an entirely new continuity!

You think you knew us before? Haha! Wrong! Well,

they have this, um... They have the weekly series

going on right now. Three weekly series. Batman

Eternal, Futures End, and Worlds End. Batman

Eternal doesn't end until March of 2015. Yet,

in the main Batman ongoing, in issue 35 to 40,

or whatever it's supposed to be... They're doing

this multi -part arc called Endgame, where the

Joker comes back. But the events of this arc

take place after the end of Eternal, which hasn't

even happened yet! That's right. Use your hate.

Let it flow through you. Thank you. Yeah, uh,

so... at this point like i said i'm more interested

in searching out you know i obviously turtles

i'm all you know again i'm gonna stick with that

obviously i'm lovingly that but that series written

by tom waltz kevin eastman about the kernel and

art by various amazing artists that series has

been consistently great for the two or three

years it's been going It really has. There's

never been a misstep or there have been little

nitpicks that I've had with it, but like, overall,

there hasn't been a story where I've just had

to slam the book down and walk away. It's so

great. So, yeah. Where are we going next, Steve?

Before we close it out, do you guys, any of you

guys listen to Honest Trailers? No. Most times,

yeah. You do? Yep. Okay, um Do you have any favorites

of them? Honest true. I think my favorite was

for the fault in our stars recently Or aka cancer

sucks the movie He just made a lot of really

funny points during that one I think trailer

for the Hunger Games. I really liked Any of the

Transformers ones are generally pretty funny,

too. But yeah, I'd say probably my favorite would

be The Fault in our Stars, but I like it whenever

he collaborates with the CinemaSins guy. He's

my favorite. I really love the honest trailers.

For one, most of the time it hits them right

on the head. with how bad these movies are. For

instance, I love the ones where it bashes Star

Trek. Or Lens Flares! And then they literally

play Lens Flares. So yeah, I mean, I love that.

I love the fact that they changed, you know,

like with Transformers 4, they rag on the fact

that it's supposed to be in China. And then half

of the things are in Chinese? Well, it says that

it's supposed to be in China, but every shot

is from Chicago. Like during that part. That's

funny. You see the Willis Tower. And then they

cut to the other half of the trailer and it's

all like... It's just it's hilarious But um,

yeah, it wasn't really a point in that other

than Other than to bring up the fact that I like

turtles, basically, you just had your moment

there. Yep. I was like, due to the here and there

Check out the CinemaSins guy, though. If he wants

some hilarious stuff, he points out shit in your

favorite movies. You're like, hey, wait a second.

That didn't make any fucking sense. It's almost

like the Showing whether, like, John McClane

would survive Die Hard. Yes, I love it when he

does that. Or he did one for, like, Home Alone.

How many times Harry and Marv would die during

the trilogy of movies or whatever. I think Harry

died the least. Marv, I think, died 14 times

over. I think John McClane would have died five

times in the course of the first Die Hard. I

don't know if it was these guys that did this

but I remember a while ago I pointed it out I

don't remember I might have been oh god We ended

nerd news. I don't know well when we ended version

one for nerd news, but Somebody put out there

a slow -motion capture of the kitchen scene from

Home Alone Where Peter McAllister actually throws

Kevin's ticket away? No, I had never noticed

that as as a kid watching the movie that the

ticket was actually in the net the red napkins

and all that stuff It's crazy He's like, if you

kid, get out of here. I'm actually just going

through my list of YouTube channels right now,

seeing what I like, if we're just going to recommend

stuff. There's one channel I really like, and

I've only recently become a fan. They're called

Toy Pizza. They review different series of action

figures in a video podcast format. They've done

one. Aliens toys. I did one recently on like

haloed ones. I thought was actually pretty kick

-ass There's another guy like his name is pixel

Dan. Yeah They really he's like knows him. Oh,

yeah. I've podcasted with him before I Would

very much like to work with him at some point.

Yeah, yeah He's had a lot of setbacks lately.

Oh, yeah, like like a flood and his kid getting

sick and everything Yeah, yeah, there's one channel

on YouTube and I don't know how to describe this

guy other than he takes He does let's plays of

video games or he'll take an infomercial and

read dub it. His name is penguin zero or penguins

zero I think his name is critical and He'll take

like an infomercial there the one he did that

got me hooked on his channel It was this infomercial

for this egg separator. And he was like, hey

there, do you want to murder your own fucking

eggs? Do you want to goddamn annihilate them?

Well, here, look at this. Put your titties in

my hand. And it's just, he's doing really weird

voiceovers. It is the funniest shit I've ever

seen in my life. And another one for, I think

it was this stupid horse video game. It was him

just talking over it, and at one point you have

to pick whether you want to be a stallion, a

mare, or a unicorn. You know, there's either

male, female, or whatever the fuck a unicorn

is. He's like, what the hell's a gelding? Do

I have like a dick and a pussy? And you see,

is that what I have? It's so funny because he's

so rude, but he has this complete... Okay, think

of Ryan from Twig if he could be more deadpan.

There's no way. Is that possible? If Ryan was

more deadpan, he would be the Charlie Brown adult.

That's what this guy is. This guy is a vulgar

Charlie Brown. It's hilarious. Oh my god. It's

hilarious. I Will have to send you the link Steve

because people need to subscribe to this guy

because he's so funny So I think that about rounds

it out this week, yep We did kind of talk a little

bit about you know, the fantastic four thing

last week and then the whole Doctor Doom thing.

But most people were like, I don't get why people

are so up in arms with Fantastic Four movies,

rumors, and what's the worst thing that could

happen? We could have another bad Fantastic Four

movie. See, I still maintain that I enjoy the

first two. I don't mind them, but they're not

great. Well, they're better than Electra. Electra

is the worst Marvel franchise film. Having a

better, severe food poisoning is better than

Electra. Yeah. You know, the Fantastic Four movies,

the reason why I give them a pass is because

of who plays Johnny and Ben, because Michael

Chiklis as Ben Grimm the thing, and future Captain

America, Chris Evans. as Johnny Storm really

nailed those classic Marvel characters. I think

those movies were well cast. They were. They

really were. The scripts sucked. Yeah, much like,

well, Wolverine Origins. Wolverine Origins, I

don't think they knew the story they wanted to

tell despite the fact it's an origin story, but

blank blank. Yeah. It's like an x -men movie

without the x -men. Yeah kind of here. Here's

Wolverine and shitty fake -looking CG claws Yeah

Deadpool that isn't Deadpool So hopefully when

the Deadpool movie comes out it will not suck

because I hope my old will be an awesome Deadpool

He was the first time until they they cut his

mouth. Oh, yeah yeah no yep they're like hey

right fuck you we're gonna take away the only

thing that defines you other than your six -pack

abs yeah hate you Lisa could have done was said

you know his his flesh falling off he'd be like

oh god damn it they screwed it up so I think

that about rounds it out this week unless you

guys have anything else. Well, I hate to end

the show on a down note, but I saw an article

on Facebook as we were recording. Apparently,

according to Tracy Morgan's lawyer, he may never

be the Tracy Morgan he once was due to the brain

injury he suffered from his... I believe it was

a car accident? Yeah, when he got into... He

was in by an MTA bus. We got hit by the Walmart.

Yeah, yeah Yeah It just they gave him a deep

discount. That's just oh Come on now. Not the

Black Friday so early. Oh Okay, close it out

Steve. I can't I can't believe you just said

that you asshole We ran over that topic Those

poor little Chinese kids that knitted those sweaters,

you know, Oh Christ Get altered get geeky. We'll

catch you next time with no, I close it up bitch

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Are you talking about that? He's now my my new

My new nemesis. Fuck Judge Reinhold. It's Tracy

Horton. Oh god. I'm gonna kill Michael Blanchard.

I gotta get him while he's down. Wait a second,

why is he gonna kill me? It's the Canadian he

needs to kill. He's gonna kill one of us, he's

gonna kill you. No, I don't think so. Hey, he

is gonna make you suffer for... Oh, fuck, I don't

know. Hell, I wasn't the one that... I think

something knickled back. No, I don't think so.

I don't think he cares. You don't know that.

The brain injury may have turned him into like

a drained psycho killer. He will never be the

same. The Tracey Morgan massacre. Oh, we're going

to hell. The Tracey Morgan massacre. Um, so thank

you for joining us. That's why you gotta call

this show the Tracey Morgan Massacre. We should

come up with a mock. A couple of mock movie concepts

next episode. Oh god. Tracy Morgan is in a sex

comedy with Doctor Octopus. No, I was gonna do

one better. Oh really? Jurassic Park. Get over

here, dinosaur! I love it. Get altered, get geeky

with the Altered Geeks. See you next time. Get

that out of your mouth, Dodd. Oh, sorry.