Wrestling, Games, and Fan Films

Hey, this is Steve blue and you are listening

to the geek cast radio network and welcome to

Altered Geek Unlimited episode 79. I'm your host,

Steve Megatron Phillips, and joining me this

week is... Nobody. Yeah. Oh my god. Mike Squared.

Yeah, Mike Squared, there you go. So briefly,

what has been new with you two lately? Oh my

god, well the last week and a half has sucked.

If you've been following my Twitter and Facebook,

both BirdmanDod, my kitten, Dr. Wiley, got really

sick end of last week. He started having seizures

in the middle of the night. So we had to rush

him to the emergency vet office. Like, oh my

god, is my cat gonna die? So we took him to two

emergency vet visits, got some blood work drawn.

Turns out he likely has feline epilepsy. So we

got nailed by these massive vet bills. Luckily,

we've had a lot of Twig fans come forward and

help out and donate. We covered about 75 % of

his bet bills, which is grand total just under

$1 ,000. So that's pretty awesome. I'm still

accepting donations to help out, but I'll give

that information later. So luckily, we've got

some medication for him. So now he takes two

pills, or he takes one pill twice a day, and

he's just really sleepy. My wife has nicknamed

him our sack of potatoes. We just kind of carry

him around now, he doesn't really care. But he's

still cuddly, he still plays. Our other cat,

Ayla, was kind of hissing at him, but now she's

like, okay, I know who you are now, love, love,

love. Oh, now thanks to Wiley. I'm on a regular

sleep schedule and I don't know how I feel about

this. I used to go in the bed like it's midnight

sleeping time. It's 8 a .m. time to get up. I

don't think I like this anymore. It's so weird

because we have to give him a pill every day

without fail at 7 a .m. And it is such a pain

in the ass because usually Blair goes to work

and it's no big deal. That's when I usually go

to bed some days. So it's just it's been brutal.

And my wife is saying it's bedtime. I can't,

I'm podcasting. Other than that, I've been playing

a game on the Xbox One for the last few weeks.

Just finished my review of it. The game Evolve,

same team that did Left 4 Dead 1 and 2. Oh my

god, that game sucks so bad. It's just so boring.

It's a walking simulator. And the other game

I'm working on right now, The Order 1866, is

not shaping up to be too much better. You know

you're at a shitty time of the year for games

when the latest Dragon Ball game is kicking the

shit out of them. The Dragon Ball game, Xenoverse,

is fucking awesome. Xenoverse is? Oh my God,

it's so cool. See, cause I've heard, I've heard

mixed rumors on that. It's like the ultimate

Dragon Ball Z fan fiction. I mean sure it's not

the most in -depth fighting system like Budokai

or or even that Dragon Ball Z arcade game that

was making the fighting game circa a couple years

ago but still it's so legit it's so much fun

it hasn't it actually has a lot more in common

with an RPG than it does an actual fighting game

but it's so much fun I mean right now I think

Captain Ginyu is my master and I'm doing missions

for Android 17. It's so cool. I'm named after

an artichoke, because I'm a Saiyan. You're a

Raditz. It's, oh my god, it's so cool. I'm like

this Saiyan chick, and I have this awesome, like,

I can go Super Saiyan now, I can throw Destructo

Discs, I can use Frieza's Death Meteor Attack,

and what else can I do? I can do Big Bang Attack

from Vegeta. Special Beam Cannon from Piccolo.

So you can mix and match your moves, and I'm

dressed like Trunks from Dragon Ball GT. It's

really cool. I'm fucking loving every second

of it. That's good gaming right there. Next!

Mike? I think he's dead. Yeah, I feel like it.

I've been reading a bunch of comics this week.

Actually, I just found out that Marvel lied to

me, those rat bastards. So I've been collecting,

or I've been getting, subscribed to, or whatever

you want to call it, Superior Iron Man. And so

far, the first four covers of the series are

all this high -tech looking stuff. Issue number

five comes out. On it, they pay homage to Tales

of, or whatever the hell Marvel used to do. And

it says Tales of... What whatever the hell it

is. I don't freaking know It says tales of superior

iron man. I thought it was an old issue even

though it was on the new shelf I didn't see the

number five on it, and I actually asked the people.

I'm like you guys have superior iron man number

five It was right friggin there. I'm looking

at it on comicsology now. I'm like oh god. I'm

so friggin stupid I picked up Princess Leia from

Marvel. I have not read it yet. I read Darth

Vader number two What else am I reading? Let's

see here. I've got TMNT Mutanimals number one.

That was pretty awesome. Anybody that isn't reading

the IDW change your initials ongoing, you really

need to. Seriously, it is awesome from beginning

to end. Well, it hasn't ended yet, but... So

that's pretty much what I've been doing this

week. Well, aside from working on stuff behind

the scenes on the site and then working on stuff

for class and had my teeth drilled the other

day. I had a cavity filled and I had a filling

refilled because it was broke. Jaw was not able

to move very far yesterday It was quite painful

they had to give me a double shot of the anesthetic

on my bottom half of my mouth So I couldn't eat

till like 5 o 'clock It sucked So yeah, there

was that and then I Mean I've been messing with

some graphics and I've been I actually did some

voiceover for money, which was different. I mean,

it wasn't really that much different. It was

nice, the donation. I appreciate it. So I did

that and then I learned that I suck at improv.

That's what you're going to school for, you idiots!

I'm going to school for acting. Improv is a different

category of acting. It's still all acting. Yeah,

but there's a difference between doing scripted

shit and unscripted shit. You have to be able

to think on your feet, which I can when I'm sitting

in front of a computer screen, not actually tense,

but when I'm having to come up with shit on the

fly in front of people. You know what will help,

Steve? And this is a legit piece of advice. Get

yourself a Dungeons and Dragons group. Dead serious.

Try it. Because you will be so good at improv

after like a few months of playing, if you can

play like once a week for a few hours. Well the

thing is, I don't have any fucking friends that

live around here. Well, you go to a college campus,

right? Um, not really. It's not really an actual

it's a community college So there's not actually

anything where people live in there Wouldn't

that defeat the purpose of calling it a community

college if there's no one actually in the community

It's not a university. It's it's a community

college a university has dorms Community college

is the poor person edition of university. So

basically what you're saying is university people

have a life, community colleges run around with

their heads cut off. What I'm saying is university

is like somebody going to a restaurant and have

a gourmet chicken noodle soup and going to a

community college is like eating fucking ramen

noodles. Okay, so weird question because in Canada,

I guess our school systems work. Little different

do people go to classes there from eight in the

morning till whenever It's depending on when

the class it's it's all this weird tiered Class

systems that they have I mean, yeah, they're

open from 8 a .m. Till 9 p .m. You should find

out but like find out if there's like a group

like a nerd group because even community colleges

would have like a Group that'd be friendly to

nerds and you know, just literally pop up poster

on a wall So it's looking for group with your

like email address Help somebody out there must

be able to help help you hell I could run a game

for you if we wanted to do something for geek

cast radio I've read a D &D game for you Would

help you Steve I can have you fight beholders

and dragons if it'll help you out He's honestly

like doing role -playing games, but when you

get comfortable with it Improving comes so second

nature because I may throw a situation at you.

You better figure it the fuck out. You're dead

But you would have a friggin blast man Like I

said, I promise you if you can find a group or

something you should look into or maybe look

into some kind of an online game for it and then

those skills should translate. Because I know

that helped me when I did drama class back in

high school. And then now when I run my games

with terrible warriors, it's helped immensely.

So something to consider. Yes. Yeah, I mean,

I've I did what little bit of improv because

today we had to actually do that. being that

we're on spring break next week, so I don't actually

have to go anywhere. They were having us do improv

in place of doing scripted lines because we were

doing the lines from The Odd Couple for a bit

and then finally finished that last week. So

this week we were doing the improv and doing

a bunch of other kind of play type stuff and

Some of the situations it was kind of it was

kind of fucked up because usually they kind of

like they let us start a scene or pick one on

our own and Then this one guy thought he was

funny and he was in the back yelling suggestions

and the teachers like yeah Let's roll with that.

Yeah, let's roll with that. And so like when

he got up there They they kind of shafted him

for it. So So I had an interesting email earlier

this week I had iTunes email me Mike knows where

this is going As many will know I cannot stand

iTunes this has this is more of a personal issue

because one I am an I dislike Apple What's that?

Did Apple kill your family? No, I just, I dislike

Apple. I've never cared for Apple or their products

and the fact that they cost an ungodly amount

for the same shit you could get for a PC for

half the cost. I understand that there's, yes,

their operating system is better to some degree,

but I'm not a fan of their gear or their obscene

price amounts because they think they're superior.

So anyways. Roundabout way of saying this I hate

iTunes So Every time we have to deal with them

for submitting a podcast doesn't matter. There's

at least one or two shows that there's a problem

with well This time, you know, I I have this

pet peeve that they keep changing their their

pixel size for the art for the podcast To which

I when we originally started doing this they

were like 200 by 200 and it was 300 and then

I changed to 600 and then they changed it to

like 900 or something and then there was 14 hundred

and now it's like Now it's like tooth 2500 or

something now is like the new Thing which is

an obscene pixel size Anyhow when you're dealing

with some of the images when you're trying to

rebuild it to be bigger. It's a pain in the ass

because most of the art that I use is 300 by

300 because a lot of the shows are retired. 360

ended this conversation now. They contacted because

they want to feature. They're interested in featuring,

and this is a manager, editor, person for partner

relations on iTunes. They would like to feature

our podcast, Legends of the Dark Knight. But

our cover artwork was too small at 300 by 300

therefore not showing in iTunes because apparently

they've started kicking out anything It's not

large, you know the 1 ,400 pixel size now So

if it's a 300 they're starting to boot them out

of the the directory. So just as iTunes So anyways,

they said can you please update it to the minimum

required size so I rebuilt it and then I sent

it to them and so I should be hearing something

back on that soon, but So now I have to go through

and redo all the damn arts so they'll show up

in iTunes I'm pretty sure eventually So yeah,

I mean it's it's kind of a pain in the ass like

when you're having to rebuild them But if like

you're building them for the first time or redesigning

them it doesn't really matter but like if you're

trying to upscale something that was Small to

begin with it sucks, but So I had to rebuild

it anyway and scale it it was kind of crap, but

I got it to work But yeah, so that was the the

other event that took place this week On a side

now that I've talked about some of the stuff

like that Harrison Ford crashed an airplane earlier

Come on, you can't make that kind of a transition

into something that's... It's not this. Well,

I mean... He's not dead. No, he's not dead. He

just injured himself again. You know, this would

have never happened if he was in the Millennium

Falcon. But he has crashed that, which I... From

what I hear, they're using the artwork, I think,

from the Jedi Academy book where there's a falcon

crashed and people are saying that's it. Yeah,

I've seen that image to floating around it just

saw a little bit ago It says glad Ford's okay,

and it shows the Falcons pointing upward from

a golf course No, I mean he had an old like air

airplane that he was float flying and crashed

it, but he's he was rushed You know the hospital,

but he's he's Doing good, I guess golf course

at least there wasn't a lot of people around

that Thankfully, he wasn't flying something like

an f -22 Raptor or something, but you could say

he did get a hole -in -one He landed the front

end of the of the the plane right in the you

know It would be better if it was the guy saying

you missed you jackass Speaking of which they

there was also so I just saw this a little bit

ago, but Adam Sandler Bob Barker, I guess Have

a happy Gilmore reenactment Saw that but I haven't

watched it yet. Like I saw it pop up on like

Facebook I haven't seen it yet, but it was on

Comedy Central's it's gonna be on Comedy Central's

night of too many stars charity telethon It's

not an exact reenactment, but it's supposed to

be it takes place in the hospital instead of

a golf course Basically Like it says instead

of knocking Sandler out at the end for instance

Barker spews a contents of a vile marked Ebola

in his face So basically they're gonna celebrity

death match it up You know what they should do

with that They should turn that into a live -action

movie or Or honestly give the rights to it to

the robot chicken guys and just let them do it

with their style You know that would actually

be kind of cool. I do know one of the head writers

for that show I should like hey, dude, you should

poke MTV Get this going. It would be cool. I

think it would go over really well on today's

age I think so too guys like you can have like

I don't know like Lady Gaga fighting Justin Bieber

with, like, chainsaw arms or something. You could

have something really friggin' ridiculous. Having

her walk around with a friggin' meat dress and

then Bieber sickening, like, dogs on her. Like,

and, you know, here's the really screwed up thing.

I bet you a lot of celebrities would probably

come in and do their own voices as long as it

was funny. Honestly, I'd love to see a huge battle

royale against, like, Kanye West or something.

They were gonna let him finish, but they decided

to kill him instead I Was actually watching the

nostalgic critic this past week He did a review

of the Haunted Mansion from Disney and he does

this skip with his guy Malcolm and he dressed

up and the gag was like Disney miscasting certain

movies since xxx and they give the example of

like coming next summer is Disney's gargoyles

with Kanye West as Goliath and then they cast

Kevin Costner as Xanatos. With that I thought

was pretty freaking hilarious like I am Xantax

Xanatos don't care and and then Kanye West was

just being well Kanye West fucking nuts as Goliath

and I'm thinking you know I'd kind of pay to

see that with Ellen DeGeneres as the female.

As Demora? Yeah, Demora! That would be fucking

awesome! You know what's sad? I freaking remember

all their names, but I've not watched this show

in probably six, seven years. I have all the

toys. I've seen maybe five episodes. I've seen...

I didn't actually know it went on as long as

it did, but I thought there was only like two

seasons. And it goes on like a lot longer. I

thought it only had like a season, maybe two.

I thought it only had two, because that's all

I'd watched, but I think it has like six or seven.

Fuck, get the fuck out! That show was so cool,

though. And it's like the black sheep of Disney,

like they don't even acknowledge that it exists.

It sucks because Keith David did such a badass

job on that. Oh, it only was around two years.

Yeah, Gargoyles was only around two years. So

I've seen most of the two seasons then. Celebrity

Deathmatch is the one that had six seasons. But

they were like really short though, weren't they?

Well, yeah, but... I don't know. See, that's

a show that I think deserves a second chance.

I mean, even if they did it exclusively on YouTube,

they'd make their money back so fast. I mean,

Fox does that... ADHD on YouTube still where

they have the scientifically accurate theme songs

or whatever Which is disturbing as all hell some

of them are so funny like scientifically accurate

DuckTales or Ninja Turtles Those are just wrong

like Scrooge McDuck goes in the in the goal that

he just splats Speaking of duck Speaking of DuckTales,

what do we think of the new series coming in

a couple of years? I want, I hope they have a

trailer by Comic -Con or something. Like some

kind of like a teaser. It actually has me so

like actually really excited for it only because

I'll get to experience that with my kid too,

because he loves the theme song of the old one,

which unfortunately I don't think they'll keep.

I think they'll hip hop it up. As long as it

doesn't sound like that shitty quack pack version,

I'm okay. Yeah. Well, I mean, as long as they

updated, like, kind of how they did with Ninja

Turtles, then I'm fine. Because, I mean, even

the new one isn't the original, but it's true

enough to the original. I don't care. I actually

like it, so. You know what I think would be really

neat? If they had this idea of doing the Disney

universe, hear me out on this. Starts with DuckTales,

expands out the Chippendale Rescue Rangers, you

reboot Goof Troop somehow, and Darkwing Duck

exists as a show within that universe that occasionally,

if they need a filler episode across anything,

they can just do a Darkwing Duck show. So it's

like, The meta thing. It would be like the Star

Trek version show in the Ninja Turtles thing

if they need just a cut away for something. No,

no, no. You know what they should do? They should

do almost like how the Animaniacs was. Have all

shorts in it and they just have, you know, Chippendales,

they have Darkwing, they have Tailspin. They

have all of those. And then just do like... the

the thirty minute episodes and they just have

the like shorts kinda like how they did you know

animaniacs and then uh... um... the uh... haven't

taking the brain and slappy squirrel and all

those kind of things you know so cool yeah i

like that idea steve but might have a tailspin

too man well but mike having darkwing be the

show within a show that is such a disservice

to darkwing but that could be really cool because

then they could do really goofy shit and get

away with it Well, then they could have them

just come out, like, play a, uh, kind of a Fat

Albert angle where they just come out of the

TV and they're just alive. But man, like, I'm

really happy Disney's gonna give that property

another chance. Like, I'd like to see Disney

retake the animation from its heyday and bring

it back, because I think Nickelodeon and Cartoon

Network have some of the best shows right now.

Disney should, I mean... Disney's live -action

stuff, I mean, my wife watches it because she

has to because she's a teacher to know what the

kids are like talking about and all that stuff.

So I occasionally see some of it. And Disney

does have like Phineas and Ferb and all that

stuff, which is cool. Phineas and Ferb, while

I used to love that show, it's severely gone

downhill. Not in quality of the episodes, but

I never know when new episodes are on because

they never friggin advertise the show anymore.

Yeah, like, that's what I mean, like, Disney

could take it back. I mean, wait a sec, does

Disney do Gravity Falls, too? Yes. Yeah. Yeah,

like, see, they've got these cool shows, but

you never know when the hell they're on. That's

the other thing. They just... They have one episode

left of The 7D, the new seven dwarf show executive

produced by Tom Ruger. And I completely forgot

about... Dude, I'm telling you got to watch this

show find it on YouTube or something is hilarious.

It is awesome But it's one of those things where

I've been trying to get an interview for us with

with Tom Ruger and The last message you see sent

me was oh well We still have the season one finale,

but no idea when Disney's gonna air it. It's

like He basically told me the show is done. It's

ready to go. I don't get why Disney isn't doing

like right now Even even with their live -action

stuff the last girl meets world episode was in

January the next new one isn't until no the last

one was February 6th Okay, the next ones in like

March 27th is one. Yes Yeah, they're doing that

they've been doing that this year That's why

like all the shows are ending pretty much like

this month Yeah, and they've been doing they've

been airing new episodes of crap like I didn't

do it in whatever other shows that they You know

that they're still Aaron that I guess live actions

cheaper to produce As opposed to animated stuff,

which really sucks because I think Disney should

play to their strength like use their bread and

butter and You know, I mean they own all this

wonderful stuff start using it Dumping all the

money into Marvel stuff, which is cool, right?

Yeah Since we're talking about Disney I do want

to bring up the fact this the stories a little

while ago But it's from IDW's actual website.

It was a press release announcement IDW publishing

announced that they will be bringing Disney comics

to print in a number of exciting formats beginning

in April This monumental collaboration kicks

off with a multiple monthly series featuring

some of the most iconic characters of all time

Mickey Mouse Donald Duck Pluto Minnie Mouse goofy

and many more Representing acclaimed comics from

the past and today these series will highlight

the best and brightest of Disney's impressive

comic catalog Okay, so these are basically reprints

of the older Disney stuff, but idw is still you

know image comics might be the king of creator

own or or you know original idea comics but idw

is king of the media franchise or the franchises

we know and love they have everything they've

got gem coming out later this month they've got

transformers turtles all this stuff and i cannot

wait uh to actually see some of these Disney

comics that they're going to put out. I kind

of hope that it gets awesome with some of the

kind of Disney stuff, because I really like the

older Disney characters. And I kind of wouldn't

mind picking up a book that's maybe a little

bit more simple like that. You know what's weird?

I find myself being drawn to the books that are

meant for younger audiences now, and I really

don't know why. I love reading the like pony

stuff and stuff like that Are you reading Scooby

-Doo team up from DC? I don't like Scooby -Doo

You know, it's really fucked up I had a friend

of mine in high school and we were friends for

a while afterwards But it was the be -all and

end -all for her And I think the thing is, I

never saw Scooby -Doo as nothing more than a

really lazy stoner joke. Only thing I've liked

with Scooby -Doo in the last couple years, some

of his movies are actually kind of okay. And

I had a really guilty pleasure when Scooby -Doo

goes to WrestleMania, where he teams up with

John Cena and all this other stupid shit. It's

ridiculous. My wife's like, it's horrible. And

now there's this new one. I think it's called

Stone Age SmackDown or something. Yep. And I

kind of want to get it. It's going to flinch,

Thomas. You know what? I'm actually going to

see if that's available for me to get. I'm really

curious. The only reason why I ask you about

Scooby -Doo Team Up from DC is because you say

you're reading more kid -age comics and that

kind of stuff. regardless of your feelings of

scooby -doo it kinda it's a depending on which

issues you get like there's one where batman

and robin team up with them like the old scooby

-doo movies and they have to go after uh... bat

might and then coming in to save the day they

bring in scooby might no it's it's really it's

it's hilarious uh... the to previous issues seven

eight that just came out of the last few months

Set an issue seven was scooby -doo meets the

Flintstones and issue eight was scooby -doo meets

the Jetsons It's pretty awesome certain issues,

but yeah So what what what do you have or think

about the the fact that all the modern gaming

game creation programs are now free. Oh, you

mean stuff like the Unreal Engine? Yeah, the

Unreal, and then I guess Unity made theirs free

too. Honestly, I cannot wait to see what some

indie developers come out with, especially if

they remain friendly with platforms like PlayStation

and Xbox, because I know PlayStation, for example,

is very indie friendly right now. And if someone

can make something really kick ass for the Vita

to revitalize that thing, that would be neat.

Because you realize the Vita is like two years

old now? Seems like it's older. I think I want

to say it's at least two, at least. The 3DS is

four years old now. And I'm just trying to think,

like, when was the last time you really heard

about a Vita game? We really think about that

and that's terrible. That's a great handheld

No one plays it the only time I've even heard

about it. I mean, I I know of the Vita I know

what it is because I used to listen to Mike Laidman

talk about it all the time, but The only time

I hear it now in ads where it's like, you know

when they at the end when they announce whatever

game it is that's actually on whatever system

it is or Right You know or there's a cross play

ad where it's like hey you can play this on your

bs4 and you can play this on your vita too And

it's like There was a time where it was neat

when destiny had the stupid loot cave Where you

could sit there on your vita have your tv doing

whatever else you could just shoot at the loot

cave all day and gather all sorts of rare uh

Ingrams and you can do that on Your vita and

you can play other games. I think you I think

you could you could play like The last of us

remastered see the thing is I don't want to play

it that Awesome a game on that smallest screen

because you can't see what the fuck's going on

um Although there are really good games for like

there's one I played last year. It was persona

for golden Fantastic jr RPG. In fact, that's

a system seller for that for that console, but

I When I play my vita I actually play a lot of

downloadable games. My favorite one is called

Pinball Arcade, which I know, weird. But I download

old tables from the arcades I used to play at.

I've got a Star Trek, the next generation one,

which is amazing. And I play the Terminator 2

table. And it has all the authentic sound clips,

all the original animations, I think. I think

they're trying to get Adam's family, and I think

Starship troopers are supposed to come out soon.

Which means I may have to dust off my Vita and

pick those up at some point. See, those are,

like, I don't know, like, the Vita could be such

a great, great handheld if only Sony gave a shit.

When you look at the 3DS in comparison, like,

hey, here's the new Pokemon, or here's a game

from 15 years ago, like, Majora's Mask 3D just

came out a couple weeks ago, and on the new 3DS

with that little C -stick, it makes such a difference

in how that game controls, and it looks gorgeous

now. I don't know, and when you think about all

the creative tools that are now out there for

developers and indie developers, I don't know,

it almost makes me want to try my hand at game

design, just get together a team. I know some

programmers. And maybe now's the time to do it.

Just the thing is, I guess, with all the kickstarters

that don't deliver on making a game, I guess

the odds of getting funded are pretty friggin'

small. And plus, I guess half the games I want

to do are probably existing properties that have

to get the kind of rights to. But still, it's

an exciting time to be a game person right now.

I'm kind of excited for it. I'm actually gonna

download them and just kind of try them out and

see if... it's something I can figure out or

not um being that they're free it kind of is

that open window to at least give it a shot yeah

because you've got nothing to lose except time

yep pretty much and that's that's kind of why

I want to try it out and just see if it's something

I can withstand doing or not One game, it came

out on Kickstarter last year and it's actually

out there. I think they just concluded Kickstarter

for its next expansion was the Shadowrun Returns

from Catalyst Game Labs based upon the pen and

paper RPG. I know you can design your own scenarios

for that. I'd like to maybe see someone take

some of the newer tools. Make, okay, a few years

ago on the Xbox 360, I think 2000. eights i want

to say maybe 2007 they tried to do shadowrun

again as an fps and it sucked so mad so bad because

they took all the lore basically to dump on it

never worked right i'd love to see someone revisit

that as a first person shooter or and just make

it more awesome because that's a universe i don't

think i don't think it's nearly enough love like

the shattering universe it's basically Picture

Lord of the Rings like with orcs, trolls and

all that shit and people and magic. Now cross

that with cyber technology. And dragons can run

corporations and all this shit. And it's just,

it's so cool. Like when you read into the lore

of it. And I'd like to see someone maybe make

another Shadowrun game as a first person shooter

or maybe something else entirely. game boner

over here well one of the one of the things that

kind of excites me about the the unreal being

unlocked now is the uh the fact i'm a huge unreal

tournament fan and they're working on unreal

tournament 4 right now and it's free completely

free i mean right now they're in alpha beta they're

still messing with maps they actually have their

first articulated map and then they're retooling

some of the weapons and the gameplay and everything

else, but I've been playing the game since 99

when it came out, the original one, and then

Unreal 2004, and then Unreal Tournament 3, which

came out in 2007. So it's been quite a while

since they've had it. I actually just downloaded

it the other day, but I haven't had a chance

to play it yet. So I'm hoping by next week I'm

actually able to get some playtime in on it and

kind of see how it works. But I guess the other

bit of kind of interesting gaming news is the

Arkham Knight Information that's kind of popped

up that they're finally making a mature Batman

game. It's gonna be so cool I'm so I'm super

hyped for it. I'm gonna have to get it for the

PC though Just because of the fact I don't have

a ps4 or a xbox one so and i don't plan on buying

one uh so i i'm just going to get it for my pc

and play it but i'm super stoked to try that

game because i i love the arkham series and especially

with rocksteady and in command i i feel very

very confident yeah very very confident that

it's going to be a very good game Plus the story

in it has I have no idea what's gonna happen

now that Joker's not in the loop It's one of

the few games Most games I get for free, but

collection editions I don't always do this is

one of the few games a year. I'll actually pre

-order I got the Batman Batmobile edition So

I'm looking forward to displaying that the only

collector's edition for the Batman games I don't

have is the one for origins where it's the Joker's

Display and it's all lit up like like all the

different TVs That's only because I forgot to

pre -order it I Was like, oh, I'll just do it

tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow

three months later. Hey, we're sold out fuck

It looked really badass. I'm actually kind of

sad though. I've got the game just not the special

edition I don't know something about the Rocksteady

games. They always put really good effort into

their collectors editions like I Mean the first

one had the battery and the second one had the

statue the third one had the light up Joker diorama

And then this one with the Batmobile and the

company that makes it project Triforce their

stuff is phenomenal A couple of years ago, they

sent me a Gears of War replica Lancer. Things

worth like a grand. And it is one of the nicest

replicas I've ever held in my life. Made of a

really unusual material, but it's more meant

to be displayed on like a wall or something.

But there are artists over there are second to

none. I did an Arkham replica of Batman's gauntlet

holding a Batarang. And I did a replica of the

Riddler's question mark trophy as well. And it's

they're pretty friggin impressive. Like if you

can afford anything from project Triforce, they

are ridiculously worth it. They do stuff for

Mass Effect. They did like an M8 Avenger. They

did the Paladin pistol, I think, or the Prider

pistol and the Geth assault rifle. Like they're

gaming stuff. Like I said, like go look them

up guys seriously. Project Triforce, phenomenal

artists. Yeah, I They I have seen a lot of the

stuff. I don't personally get the collector's

editions But that's because I can't spare the

extra cash I just and to me give me the game

now that I wouldn't like the collector's editions

But I or like the the stuff that comes with them

because I think they're badass But I I typically

just get the the cheapest way I get the game

And also like I'm gonna play the shit when I

get it, so it's not like it's going to be a bad

investment anyway. The only thing I wouldn't

spring money for is the Kickstarter of ToeJam

and Earl. I like ToeJam and Earl. I don't know

if that's a property that's going to be as successful

as they want it to be. I don't think it's a good

property to revive, honestly. I think it needs

to stay on its 2D where it was and just leave

it alone. Does anyone even remember that series?

I'm a Genesis guy, so that's why I remember although

I'd like to see them bring bring back some other

characters like maybe Actually, you know what

I'd pay to see a Kickstarter for If they could

do a remake of it was a Genesis fighting game

They did a version for the Sega CD as well, but

it was called eternal champions If they could

bring that back and get, like, a really good

fighting game director to take it over, that'd

be bitchin'. See, I'm not really sure of any

of those old games, like, about reviving any

of them. I liked them in the past, but I - Adalto's

is coming back. They announced that this week.

Yeah, it's along with that rule of everything

that's old is new again. That'd be fuckin' awesome.

I'm sure it'll be impressive when it comes out.

I mean they do improve graphically over the years

So I mean that there is that and the story has

to be added being that they can do more than

just hopping across the screen or doing Limited

movement. Well as long as I don't botch it up

like Syndicate remake that came out a couple

years ago. That's what I'm most afraid of As

you probably have guessed Bob Barker and I haven't

spoken with each other in many years That's right.

Not since Happy Gilmore. But we know that providing

schools and services for people with autism is

too important. Absolutely. So I'm hanging out

here with Bob, helping him with his soup while

his hip heals. I do not need your help, Adam.

You told me the soup was hot, Bob. Let me help

you. That's disgusting. I'm fine, but you know

you, you are looking old. Thanks for pointing

that out. How old are you, 60? I think we're

supposed to talk about autism, Bob. You're looking

chunkier than the soup. That was a good one.

I guess doing all those movies without me took

its toll. Oh, that's what this is about. If I

had known that I had to toss your salad to be

in another one, I would have. But Rob Schneider...

Didn't send me the memo. Okay. You know what?

I think Price is right is on now. We could watch

that. Love the host. He's just so funny and not

crotchety and angry. You know what else is great

about him? Tell me. He's worked 25 years and

never had to do the wobbity -doo, waka waka woo

voice. You know, like a desperate idiot. Couldn't

be nice, could you, Bobby, huh? This soup is

too hot. Now you're gonna get it, Bobby. Oh no

no, it's not over yet. It's not, I can't let

you die on me. I'm sorry, come back and let me

finish your ass. Oh no, oh no no, no, no! Now...

Yeah! It's all over now. Deal with it. One of

us is already 91, dummy. Huh? What? I wish I

could see David Spade's face when he finds out

there won't be a grown -up's three. So Jumping

Gears I don't know if you guys have noticed the

massive influx of hatred towards the some hatred

and some liking of the Power Rangers dark version.

That was really legitimately cool. I thought

it was really neat. Obviously not a direction

you can make a movie out of, but as a short,

I thought that was really neat. You know, I don't

understand why everyone's so mad at it. What

why why people think it sucks? It's a fan film.

It's I mean, you know, it's not like they're

you know, whatever and you know It's meant for

us older fans who grew up with the property It's

not meant for kids and no one is really saying

that Saban whatever go in a direction like that

they won't because I mean if you look at dino

charge and I've seen the first at least three

episodes of the current series which is entitled

dino charge and Power Rangers has had the same

formula for 20 plus years now They're never gonna

make something like this, which it was a nice

little twist at the end I thought it was hilarious

that it was great way to basically pay homage

to all the different characters Yeah, I thought

I mean I thought it was really neat the fact

that James Vanderbeek is rocky was a nice twist

especially with like With his, like, cyborg leg,

which plays at the continuity with what happened

at the end of Power Rangers Turbo, where he fucked

up his leg. Like, I'm like, man, that's really

fucking cool! I mean, it would've been neat had

Jason David Frank actually come back as Tommy,

but I can imagine that would've pissed off Saban

something fierce. Well, the funny - Well - Go

ahead, Steve. And he didn't want anything to

- He wouldn't have wanted anything to do with

it anyway. Yeah, he's all gay, fun, and whatever.

well the funny thing about that is I actually

saw recently on his YouTube channel where he

posted about it and did a little video about

it and he basically said the same thing that

I just said that you know he likes that the you

know that it paid homage for the old fans but

it's something you know he wouldn't really necessarily

be on and it's just one of those things where

it was weird because he said he thought it was

great but And I think he even said something

to the effect of like a year ago or so before

he got in with Bat and the Sun that the guys

doing this actually approached him. So, I don't

know. That's still pretty cool, though. I mean,

all things considered, that's so friggin' badass.

I mean, and that's the same guy who did dirty

laundry for the Punisher, isn't it? Mm -hmm.

See, I'd love to see this guy do more stuff.

I want to see him do a friggin' Aliens fan film.

Oh my god. But I mean, really, how much darker

could he go? I don't know, maybe make Scooby

-Doo where they investigate Jason Voorhees or

something, I don't know. I don't know, Blue's

Clues, A Diaper, and Elf Street? I don't know.

I'm reachin' here. Do Khan right? Oh my god,

imagine if he made a Ninja Turtles fan film and

it was as bloody as the real comic book. Okay,

that would actually be pretty freaking sick if

he could pull that off. And the big bad is like

fucking Krang and like his uton form or whatever.

Ugh, someone give this guy money. Seriously,

I love when people are that talented. make stuff

like that. And it's their own money. It's like

fan film. I mean, honestly, if I won a lottery

or something, I would pay people like that. Like,

hey, I want to see X make it happen. Here's however

much you need. Put that shit out on YouTube.

If it makes money, great. If it doesn't, who

cares? Here's something legitimately really cool.

Like, oh, OK. All right. Here's our question,

I think, of the week right here. If you could

make a fan film, what would you do? Here's mine

finally the definitive answer Superman versus

Goku and Just not animated live -action. Hell

if you can get Henry Cavill to sign up Superman

and get a really cool -looking Goku looking motherfucker.

I Just want to see them battle it out for 10

minutes. That's all I'm almost like the epic

rap battle exactly Yeah, like like shit, man.

That'd be so cool Or like screw attacks death

battle if you could like Make one of those real

or something or like spawn versus Batman or something.

I don't know Sorry guys, I'm just a bit in nerd

Nirvana right now I don't know what I'd have

You know have directed if if I could choose something.

I mean, I really don't know I have such a diverse

Fan you know oriented Liking of different things

that it's kind of hard for me to even kind of

figure that out I don't know actually 15 minutes

make that shit happen. And we're talking going

back in time here, so get the young Ghostbusters

if you want. And we can have the non -baked Transformers

in this. Once again, nerd boner. Like I said,

it'd be interesting to see what people come up

with I just I can't personally think of anything

off the top of my head And or you know what we

really need to see if something you do and it

will be so easy To pull off you guys remember

that episode of Batman the animated series where

it's everybody just sitting around playing poker

Yep, do that because that would not be a huge

expense And then you just have a couple minutes

of them actually duking it out. Exactly. It's

just like a short. It would be so funny. It just

ends on, and then I threw a rock at him. That

would be so funny. It'd be interesting. Be listening.

Never know, you might see something like that

on Bat in the Sun. Oh my god, that would be so

cool. Well, Phineas and Ferb didn't make it to

ten years on the air. They got cancelled? Yep.

Finally. I'm sorry to hear that Mike. Well, then

like I already said in this podcast, you know,

I've enjoyed the episodes that they've done,

but they've only shown us like They haven't shown

us much. I mean and it's so sporadic I'm actually

I'll actually send you this link Steve when I'm

done looking at here, but I'm actually looking

at the Disney Nickelodeon Disney XD Cartoon Network

up fronts and what's renewed what's all that

and and Canceled oh Yeah, that's obvious. It's

been renewed since the first season But yes,

it's it's already renewed series they have Nickelodeon

is three already renewed series breadwinners

Sanjay and Craig and Turtles I'm not recently

new series. Let's see now. Let's see here's from

It's not on the ending so yeah, yeah It's listed

on here active shows with new episodes remaining

and it says spongebob so My son will never see

that show It's not even that it's I've seen enough

of the end jokes and stuff that Having grown

up with a lot of these shows where there's a

lot of like watching Hey Arnold or or Rocko's

modern life and all of the inappropriate jokes

that are in them I Just I won't let my kid watch

stuff like that Because I know it's there And

Steve you and I cover two different schools of

parenting Honestly, I've raised my kid. Oh, okay

kid. We're gonna watch it any Murphy raw I want

you to be hilarious when you grow up I'm not

saying I won't let him watch Certain things but

it's gonna be stuff that If it were up to my

wife you'd watch all Disney stuff, which even

that's not all clean she's discovering Because

like my kid loves Ice Age He watched and it's

like the second film that we have. I think they

said shit in it Probably like six times or something

like that or maybe it wasn't shit maybe it was

something it was something equally bad though

And we're like, yeah, you ain't watching that

movie anymore. Unless we fast -forward past it,

because it was just dropping... I mean, he's

two years old, so obviously he's not going to

watch stuff like that, but... There's certain

things I'll let him watch, and there's certain

things I won't. It just kind of depends, but...

Don't know if it's something. I think he won't

catch the What it's aiming for yeah, then that's

one thing But then again, I I guess I can't say

much because do you know what my first word was?

Fuck Legit first word was fuck And then I guess

you know look how well I've grown up yeah, yeah

exactly I don't know. I always found that kind

of weird censoring or Watching how your kids

grow up because but but honestly it's it's the

parents job, and I think that the parents Nowadays

just kind of let shit go by the wayside. I don't

think they explain it I don't think there's nearly

enough hands on at least with you Steve your

hands on with it as Opposed to hands off with

well like I want to be able to explain it if

that's you know something that's picked up And

I don't want him like sitting there thinking

that you know something's okay, because they

said it you know and it's I Don't know I'm not

gonna like shield him and hide him from everything.

It's just I'm going to choose what age he's exposed

to it Once he's a grade school you're done. Oh,

I know I mean it depends I mean if if something

comes up I again I I just I think that a lot

of people don't get hands -on with what they're

letting their kids watch I'm not saying that

all shows should be censored or you know blocked

off or or whatever that's kind of like the individual

parents choice, but I I there's certain shows

like Turtles technically my wife doesn't like

like I'm watching that because there's fighting

but I'm sorry when you have a kid that has pent

-up energy and their only way of doing it is

by bouncing off the walls watching you know turtles

kicking ass then You know and they don't say

anything bad. It's just I mean, almost everything

you watch has some kind of fighting in it. So

I'm not even going to try and hide that, but

as long as the language is clean, or they don't

have a blatant dick joke hidden in the design

of the character. Kind of like Arnold or Rocko's

Modern Life. Speaking of kids cartoons, I was

in bed the other morning and I was just waking

up. very coming out of a very groggy sleeve and

my wife turns on the tv and kids shows are really

screwed up it was this weird talking bird and

he was making she was making these kids do this

ukrainian dance and i i i don't know i'm like

i don't remember kids programming being this

stupid i mean We're obviously too old for Barney

and Teletubbies and all that shit. We grew up

in the era of the Muppets and Sesame Street And

I don't know there's just something Kids TV is

fucking weird man Well, I will say this a lot

of the kids shows that are out now for the toddler

age are pretty freaking stupid I've I there's

some some some of them halfway decent and then

there's some that are just freaking retarded

to where I and I don't know a lot of their names

like because my son watches all kids programming

at my mom's yeah and I'm not quite sure what

all he watches I mean I know some of the shows

and like you know he watches chugging to enter

your you know Transformers rescue bots or turtles

Stuff like that. I'm fine with it's it's the

You get into some of the weird quasi Muppet live

-action But they come from like Norway and another

weird I'm not saying people there On the oral

all new regions are fucked I think I think Steve

was gonna call this one access denied I'll say

this there will never be another time in children's

programming like when we were kids never Cuz

you're never gonna just him at a romper room

and the electric company and HR puff and stuff.

That was just before us Plus you had Sesame Street

and it's heyday. You had mr. Rogers. You had

all that stuff Nowadays you're getting the To

either knockoffs of old shows that we grew up

with Where you're getting closer to the owl my

balls Which is a pair. It's it's it's a reality

show in idiocracy There were a couple shows in

Canada that I really liked and I bet some of

your listeners probably know about these They're

so local to Ontario though at least the one for

sure. It used to be called Camp Caribou And it

was just this really weird kids variety show

And I don't know, it was weirdly wholesome, but

I really, really liked it even as I got older,

because it was just weird. I don't know, it was

just really wholesome. There was also this other

one, it was called Kidio. I think we've talked

about this before, but I'm not sure. It was like

a knockoff kiss group, but they were called Kidio,

and they were like insanely happy about stuff.

They played music and weird little things. I

don't know, it was... So they're constantly high.

Oh, yeah, my wife brought up a really good one.

Bozo the Clown. And I'm talking the one from

Chicago. A really good one. I used to watch that

a lot when I was a kid. I thought that one was

so cool. I used to watch that. Oh, my God. I

wanted to be on that show so bad. My mom was

in the, like, 60s. Oh, GTFO. That's so cool.

But they knew somebody was on the station, so.

One show I like for kids because I used to like

Help babysit my friend's daughter and son all

the time. I Just thought it was cool. I really

like Dora the Explorer actually Dora Diego and

that fucking weasel swiper that guy is harsh.

I love him And then they gave Diego his own show

which was just horrible that's swiper dude man

I seriously I want to get a plush swiper because

I love that swiper no swiping and that aw man

love that guy I remember during college obviously

me my roommates Dave Pierce and everybody else

who lived in at the like twig house all some

really late -nighters waiting for footage to

render or editing or stuff like that so that

means two words sleep deprivation if you want

to experience what i'm presuming lsd is like

don't sleep for a day and a half drink nothing

but jolt cola and watch tree house or kids tv

at three o 'clock in the morning there was this

there was this one thing i can't remember what

it was but it was this little dude who i'm pretty

sure was kid rock's little buddy, that Joe C

guy, he was rapping about a tomato hat. And I

remember rolling on the floor at his girlfriend's

house at the time, talking to the dog about how

stupid the tomato hat was. Was it a killer tomato

hat? I don't think so, although the title of

The Killer Tomatoes was a wicked cartoon. I'm

surprised that hasn't come back. Yeah, and my

wife is randomly telling me this. I forgot the

dog's name was Bin Laden, not kidding. I think

it was more of an ironic name because that dog

loved everybody. That dog was stupid as shit,

but it loved everybody. This is horrible. Well,

I guess, yeah, although that's not the weirdest

pet name I've heard. My friend, Tom, who does

terrible words with me. He rescued a hamster

a few weekends ago. Unfortunately, it died because

of... I guess it just had something wrong with

it, unfortunately. But he called the hamster...

Brianne the Thunderfist. That's one of the weirder

names I've ever heard for a pet. Because you

couldn't just call the hamster Brianne. You'd

have to say the full name or the hamster would

not look at you. we're like Brianne, not looking

at us. Brianne the Thunderfist looked right at

ya. You got fuckin' A, dude. This conversation's

got all over the place. Well, to kind of bring

it back, but yet still have some sort of news

of the weird, apparently five years ago, the

guy tried to sue Applebee's for fajitas burning

him while he was praying over them. apparently

the courts just now i've said you cannot see

that will be used for praying over hot food uh...

you shouldn't have to dig into stuff sandwich

uh... people don't get hurt when they bring that

kind of stuff your cable but i guess you assume

risk you order it because i remember i got the

applebee's and chili's and all that shit and

order feeders may bring them out on these hot

skillets I'm so surprised no one has knocked

that into their crotch Well most most of the

time the the waiters or waitresses will tell

you that they're freaking hot They just came

out of the oven Then where they'll set them in

the middle of the table away from where you are

All you have to do is put your arms up on the

edge of the table and sit there and close your

eyes You don't have to lean over the food and

then fall into it It's not like trying to scan

its mind while it's sitting on your table But

you don't have to be touching it yeah, I mean

I'm really surprised you don't hear more people

get hurt by that stuff I mean you guys remember

when the woman sued McDonald's for the coffee

in the crotch. Oh, yeah Temperature is liquid

magma But still hot coffee's hot don't be a friggin

moron But there's also a point where you shouldn't

be serving per a person liquid metal But I'm

sorry if people are that stupid and in sue crazy

Yeah, the fact that the warning labels alone

that we have to put on things is ridiculous.

Well, it's really weird though because Sue someone,

that's a money pit, and you better hope you win

plus court costs. Because can you just imagine

that coming across the judge's desk for the cases

that day? Murder, rape, drug charge, fajitas.

Fill the coffee on my crotch. Yeah, well, jail,

jail, jail, probation? Fuck you. Like, come on.

don't know or there was a guy I remember this

he tried to sue EA Electronic Arts for false

advertising for Mass Effect for Mass Effect 3

saying my decisions didn't nearly matter enough

I think the case eventually got dropped although

get this we get a court case I don't know whether

this is in the states too But up here in Canada,

there's this thing called that's called the money

is mine .ca Turns out if you bought electronics

between 1999 and I think 2003 there was a price

fixing on DRAM between the companies that made

it and companies that were using it like Maybe

your PDA your video game system had it or something.

Whatever There's actually a huge like 80 million

dollar lawsuit and you can claim part of it.

Although you have to have receipts and shit,

but if you don't, you can just claim up to like

20 bucks. So, I guess - Yeah, I don't have any

receipts from that long ago. Yeah, I was about

to say, man, if I'd thought about this, cause

they're like, how many things do you owe? Or

like, you know, especially like if you're like

big business, you can claim so much of it. So,

if I could have proved it, I would have got 40

bucks, but hey, you know what, it's 20 bucks,

that's a pizza. I'm okay with that. But yeah,

stupid lawsuits are something I like to pay attention

to, because sometimes you see some really dumb

ones, or you'll see these really ridiculous petitions

to the White House. I remember two specifically.

The one where people petitioned the Obama administration

to create the Death Star, which admittedly would

have been awesome. Did you see the one, I mean,

yeah, I know you saw this one, where they tried

to petition to get the enterprise made. Yeah,

or to get Justin Bieber thrown out of the country.

I was in favor of that. Oh god, oh fuck, I don't

want him either. We need to exile him to Antarctica

or something. They don't want him either. They

should give him to the state of Osama Bin Laden.

Are we talking about Obama? No, I'm talking about

Bieber. Nobody wants him. That could be said

for the other person, too. But you have to be

careful. This is American airwaves. It's so weird,

though, that people have the money and the time

to waste in the courts to do this stuff. Like,

guys, I think Bill Shatner said it best. Get

a life. Yeah, exactly like seriously someone

a lawyer at the sit there and listen to somebody

Say, okay. So let me get this straight. You want

to sue the coffee place or serving you hot coffee?

That you ordered knowing you were getting hot

coffee. Yes Jane you ignorant slut I still I

still remember the Seinfeld episode with Kramer

about the hot coffee. That's hilarious. Well,

there was another thing. I don't think this ever

went to court, but it got Subway kind of heated

up about it, where they were like, your footlongs

aren't actually a footlong. Yeah, like I remember

people took like pictures. onto like Imgur or

whatever the hell it was and like look this is

bullshit and we complain that we don't have enough

money and yet you can go to a lawyer have them

draw up papers petition the court to sue people

over sandwiches and the death star and fajitas

this is the land of the free indeed i love your

country Nobody said they were smart. Yeah. I'm

trying to think if we have any really stupid

ones in Canada that I got to go off the top of

my head. Not really. Oh, I'm sure there's some.

Someone probably knows something out there. But

yeah, you always hear the really, really dumb

lawsuits. You know what? That's the kind of law

I wish I could practice. Just the most ridiculous

things possible. And then you punch them in the

face. While dressed in a Starfleet uniform. Just

make sure you're not in a red shirt. Nope. I'm

Science Division. But yeah, like, I don't know.

Actually, you know what? You don't hear about

people doing that anymore. Showing up to jury

duty as like weird costume characters anymore.

Someone needs to bring that back. If I ever get

called for it, I'm dressing as a character. I'm

gonna come wearing Batman uniform or something.

There's a guy in Toronto, uh, he's literally

called Toronto Batman. Yep. I would love for

him to get called for fucking jury duty. Because

he would show up in the Batman costume. And then

they would, they would say, uh, it's, it's against

the law. I am the law. No, he'd have to be in

a Judge Dredd costume for that. No. Yeah. So,

Mike, how far away from Toronto are you now?

About an hour and a half, give or take. Depends

on the weather. How often do you get down there?

Or up there, or whatever? Depends on what's going

on. During the summer, once or twice a month.

During the winter, almost never. Are you going

to try this summer to go to the newly opened

Wahlburgers in Toronto? I'm damn right. We have

this awesome show up here. It's kind of like

our version. of diners, drive -ins, and dives.

It's called You've Gotta Eat Here, and it's hosted

by this guy named John Catucci. I interviewed

him last year. There are so many awesome food

places that are so bad for you, yet so friggin'

awesome. There is one place in Toronto that serves

nothing but grilled cheese sandwiches, but they

are the most weird and intense ones you've ever

had, or there's this really awesome pizza place.

In Toronto, I think it's called Mike's Pizza

or something. It's in Scarborough. But you can

have like Ninja Turtle Pizza. They'll make it

for you. And one of the ones I really want to

try, because it looks disgusting yet awesome,

is the poutine pizza. Oh, jeez. I'm thinking,

but here's the weird thing. Pizza Hut already

does that, which is really fucking strange. There's

one place out in Calgary. It's a hot dog place.

But you can have peanut butter, jelly, and Captain

Crunch on a hot dog. It's supposed to be really

good. And I'm really kind of curious to try this

shit at home. Because clearly I have no respect

for my stomach. But yeah, like there's just so

many weird things that us up here in Canada have.

Like Toronto Batman, he's a national treasure.

I really wish he got more involved during the

Rob Ford thing though. That would've been awesome

if he tried to bring Rob Ford to like justice

or something. Which, okay, there's something

stupid I just thought of. This past week, that

friggin' idiot started auctioning off his clothes

from the crack scandal. His tie that he wore

when he admitted that he smoked crack sold for

$16 ,000. Hey, he's gonna pay for that addiction.

I guess so, right? Jeez. Although I'm really

- He needs a new table in his office. I'm really

sad I didn't get one of the Rob Ford bobbleheads,

though. I really wanted to get one, because I

have a giant stuffed Rob Ford plushie that someone

made for me last year. What is your obsession

with this guy? I love him, because he's such

an idiot. The best part about my Rob Ford plushie

is he has a - Mayor McCheese tie. I love it.

Someone gave him little shoes, little dress shoes,

and a suit and everything. And he's got the Rob

Ford cracked out face so much. Although now we

have a different mayor who's named John Tory,

I think it is. And now Toronto politics are 10

times less interesting. Although Ralph Ford still

sits on council in his original ward. Okay, and

he'll say something really dumb, so. Toronto's

not as interesting as it once was. I don't see

our mayor going on Jimmy Kimmel anytime soon.

That makes me sad. So okay, here's a question

for you guys. Do you guys have any weird local

characters like a Toronto Batman that hang out

in your respective towns or near you? Now, here

in Louisville, Kentucky, we have all these designer

horses for the friggin' derby. They made them,

I don't know, about 10, 15 years ago, and they

placed them all over town. You can see them,

you know, whenever you pass through in certain

areas of town. Yeah, here it's all about the

damn derby. All this stuff all this hullabaloo

this giant ass fireworks show for a two and a

half minute horse race Yeah, well since here's

the thing when I moved here in 93 and was just

you know Never been here before wherever else

when I moved here to Kentucky. It was like oh,

it was great You know I was getting into we were

going to chuck wagons and all this and all that

and everything else And it's just one of those

things where now it's like oh my god all this

all this money that they're spending even though

they make a lot of it back but all this money

that they're spending for just a two and a half

minute horse race I just don't care that's like

some people saying that's like some people saying

to me oh baseball is boring you can fall asleep

well I love baseball I just don't get horse racing

because I'm not one of those gambling types so

you know I'm not like Homer Simpson just you

know plowing the track looking for a Santa's

little helper always kind of weirds me out just

the fact that so many people can spend so much

money in that you can make so much but it's super

competitive and it's all about breeding and everything

actually one of our uh a friend of our family

up here uh i think they've sold horses to people

that race it in the kentucky derby but i i just

never saw how you can make a huge television

broadcast out of it like you said it's a two

and a half minute race i mean sure you can have

analysis before and afterwards Well, they have

races. He ran better than the other guy. I mean,

they have races all day long. I mean, it's not...

The only part of it that's really televised is

the before and... The only part that matters,

basically. Right, yeah. But if you go out to

Churchill Downs, you can get out there at like

10 o 'clock in the morning on that first Saturday

in May, and it's an all -day event. Derby parties.

You know, people that have derby parties here.

It's an all -day event. The day before, we have

Oaks Day on... Friday before but I just in my

old age now I just don't care anymore about it

like I get it I haven't been to one and honestly

I haven't been to one since I was in high school

or no no actually I think take that back I haven't

been one since I was in middle school we should

go to one and try the really weird food thing

because I imagine it's probably like a state

fair right Yeah, the Kentucky Derby party, Steve.

Yeah, they have mid juleps and all this and all

that and everything else. And most of the Kentucky

Derby parties I went to when I was 14, 15, 16

was it was just a regular party except they were

watching the races on TV. I mean, that's right.

It's the same thing. That's the kind of thing

you have to be at the track for. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. they do curling up here in canada that's

a big deal with their determinant hearts that

all that sort of shit so that tiki each of their

own i guess although if anybody there's a golf

party i seriously question your sanity i don't

know if where steve lives in michigan right now

i don't know if this town has anything with the

only i know that michigan has as far as like

a Like a reality celebrity is they have hardcore

porn in Detroit. We have a lot of famous people

like Kid Rock and people like that that are from

Detroit area. Supposedly he's a really cool guy,

Kid Rock. I remember he came out and visited

a fan a few months ago. He just wrote him and

just showed up at his bar just hung out with

him. Well, he's actually doing a concert later

this summer and he he wanted to make sure that

the tickets were cheap for people to go to it

So he made sure that the tickets are like 20

bucks a person. That's really cool He's still

coming out with stuff, but I mean at least he's

you know, very fan oriented which is Yeah, you

can tell he gives a rat's ass and you can tell

he's from Michigan because he knows everybody's

poor The closest thing we come to a celebrity

is, I believe, I could have this wrong. I'd have

to look it up, but I believe Johnny Depp was

born in Owensboro, Kentucky. I think. I don't

remember. There was one of these damn celebrities.

I'll say. Go ahead, Steve. Veronica Mars was

born here in Michigan. Justin Bell was born near

you? Yeah. That's cool. She was born in Michigan.

Tim Allen was born in Michigan. So was Rob Paulson.

Yes, actually not that far from where I hail

from Yeah, obviously Toronto has their own fair

share of weirdos and also famous people The the

only face who I've ever run into is I ran to

hockey players on the subway and well, that's

no big deal Although, I know Guillermo del Toro,

the really big director, lives in Toronto. I

want to say, I know George Romero lives there.

He's the director of The Night of the Living

Dead and all that shit. Mabole lives, I think,

in Oakville or something. Like a suburb or a

close to. Plus you guys have, you know, the great

one. Yeah, Graske lives in, or his parents live

near Brantford, I think. Oh Elton John has a

house like an hour from us Him and his husband

they spend like the summers there I think Michael's

Sarah actually doesn't live too far or used to

live not too far from us Which I think is pretty

kick -ass. He actually has been into the comic

store that I hang out at And oh, um, I can think

of two famous people from from around here The

wrestlers Edge and Christian are from here. And

Edge was actually in our comic book store a couple

months ago, which was pretty awesome. Oh, good,

I'm Adam Copeland. I think that's pretty neat.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Actually, there's one more for us here in Kentucky.

They're Extreme Southern Rockers, Blackstone

Cherry is from Kentucky. God I haven't heard

of those guys like friggin ever. Are you serious?

They just released a new album last year To be

fair I'm looking up you on Wikipedia right now

to see like who are your famous people Jennifer

Lawrence apparently According according to IMDb

most popular people born in Kentucky USA Jennifer

Lawrence Johnny Depp Josh Hutcherson George Clooney

Jennifer Carpenter Sean Young Maggie Lawson Michael

Shannon aka Zod from Man of Steel Oh, yeah, that's

right Chris Hardwick Actually off the top of

my head Steve you may know the answer this did

they put up the robocop statue in Detroit like

last summer I believe they Did? Is it still there?

But I'm not 100 % on that. I'm pretty sure we

reported something about that. Yeah. I just don't

remember. And that's just because that was going

to be my mecha. I wanted to make Knoegerman's

a Robocop. I still have to, like, this summer.

Yeah. Last they said it says to be unveiled and

then... Ah, here it is. Detroit unveils RoboCop

statue for RoboCop Day. But this was in 2014.

This is the latest I can find an article for

it. Any of our listeners are in Detroit. Can

someone, like, snap a picture of this thing?

They cancelled the RoboCop statue's debut. Oh,

why? Yeah, that's... I was trying, that's why

I didn't see anything about it actually posted

up. It was cast in bronze though, they do have

pictures of the bronze statue, just never actually

got put up. Is there a reason why? It doesn't

say. Someone needs, this needs to be out in front

of my apartment. So... Robocop aside, I would

say probably even though we have a lot of Robocop

aside, I will say we have a lot of famous people

that have been born here in Kentucky, but probably

the most famous one Muhammad Ali I'm trying to

remember um this past weekend some wrestler bought

a house. I want to say in Kentucky. I'm not sure

I think it was Lana and Rusev actually bought

a house near you. Yeah, why? Send them back to

Russia where they belong. Oh, are you kidding,

man? That Lana chick is... I can't stand them.

Oh, that's all I gotta say. Oh, a kung fu. Their

whole gimmick is... It wasn't even the right

racist joke either. I know. When I perfect cloning,

there will be many clones of her. Thankfully

loyal to me. Maybe a few of him as like a bodyguard,

but still many clones of her. Oh And this this

podcast I don't even know how much the Steve's

gonna leave in but this podcast has run super

long But I'll bring this up since I saw this

tonight Well, actually it happened this past

Monday on raw. I missed it, but I saw the recap

on smack. Oh No, that's that's this that's the

student it's just one of the stupidest things

that we don't use ever done but the most so that's

the stupidest thing they've ever done well and

where it came back i'm saying in will in reagan

at a show that's the stupidest thing they've

ever done in my opinion uh... but uh... the fact

that bray Wyatt is challenging the undertaker

the undertaker don't get me wrong the man is

a legend I absolutely love his performances over

the time that he put in the WWE and the time

he put in wrestling. But the man is old as sin.

He just got defeated last year by Brock Lesnar.

Do we really need the Undertaker back at WrestleMania?

I think his final match really should have been

either Lesnar or against Sting, all things considered.

The Bray Wyatt thing, it's kind of a neat angle

and I like how they're giving Bray Wyatt a push.

The thing is though, I don't think - That this

should be his sendoff. I mean, I can't remember

who said it I think it was in one of those WWE

documentaries, but they say you start out on

top you go out on your back and At least having

Lesnar defeat the Undertaker to be the one in

21 and one that's fine But to now have him face

some face Bray Wyatt as his final defeat that's

not cool You have a fight sting that matters

Triple H vs. Sting, I could give a shit less.

I'd rather see him fight the Undertaker. Well,

what about this? Have it a triple threat. Triple

H vs. Undertaker vs. Sting. That would be a nice

send -off for him. It may not be so bad. Hell,

they're even talking about Batista's final match

will probably be next year. There's a bunch of

people leaving. Hell, they were even talking

about having Ray Mysterio have one more, but

he wasn't interested in doing it. Yeah, I was

gonna say, I haven't seen Rey. I haven't seen

Rey in at least a year and a half or more. Oh

yeah, the last time he did it was just before

last year's WrestleMania or just after. Yeah,

and Sin Cara has pretty much taken up his kind

of slot. Not necessarily replacing him, I'm saying,

the character of Sin Cara, which I haven't even

seen him lately. Oh, he's been jobbing to wait,

Barrett. Oh, that's true. And he's just kind

of there, you know, sing Kara, hey, do you need

a win? Yes, well, guess you're fighting tonight.

I mean, it doesn't against the guy. He's a fine

performer and he does try, but I feel bad for

anybody who's stuck on the low card or mid card

because man, they get screwed. The low card and

the mid card matches, it's like that's when I

have to fast like. Fast forward the stuff. I

just can't and because those are the matches

that last the longest to me at least they seem

like they last the longest and it's like, oh

my god To see some people that are genuinely

talented have to get squashed True the other

people look powerful. I mean one of my favorite

guys Is a guy named arm truth. I love that guy.

He's so much fun to watch But he gets his ass

kicked. I think come on, man The only thing good

about that that threesome is Yeah is El Torito

I Love the whole thing with horn swoggling El

Torito. That was amazing. They need to do that

more often Last year at WrestleMania where they

had They had the three midgets from WWE dressing

as Jerry Lawler and all those guys. It was like

a mini WrestleMania. They've had like little

tables of shit. I thought that was fucking brilliant.

I had so much fun with that. We're probably boring

the crap out of Steve. I know, I know. I'll say

one last thing. We should just do a wrestling

podcast at some point. Yeah, I have plans. You

don't need like Vancourt. Yeah, I have plans

for it. I'll say one thing about the Jon Stewart

bit. The best part was when he kicked him in

the nuts. Yep, he's like, how do I get ball marks

off my shoe? That's pretty clever, though. I'm

kind of glad they gave him something like that.

And the fact that Jon Stewart responded to him,

that's great. Kind of an odd choice, but much

better than Larry the Cable Guy. Although I'd

like to see someone fight Stephen Colbert. I

want to see Stephen Colbert interview Bray Wyatt.

That will never happen. You know why? You know

why that'll never happen? Why? CBS and The Late

Show. He is replacing Letterman. CBS would never

let, I don't think CBS would ever let him do

that now. That sucks. I think that'd be one hell

of a funny interview, because Colbert would totally

play it straight. Pretty well, try hard, not

the lab. That's what I love about Colbert. Funny

as hell. Late Night's gonna be so different without

him and Jon Stewart. Well, you'll still have...

Yeah, but they won't be in their traditional

things. I mean, because Jon Stewart's done. Yeah,

but I mean, with Colbert, you'll still have him

on Late Night. It's just a different version

of Late Night. Yeah. And let's face it, as we

already talked about a couple weeks ago, the

new late night hosts have pretty much taken over

the classic shows and made it their own, so I'm

pretty sure that Colbert is gonna take the late

show and make it his own, so... Yeah, it'll be

good, it'll be good. Um, anything else to talk

about, guys, since we have run the full gamut

of God knows what? Um... The other thing I was

trying to get to was the Dragon Ball Z movie.

Oh, what is it called? The Light of Hope or whatever

it is? No, this one is the Resurrection of F.

Oh, man. It could be really awesome or really

stupid. I'm really excited for it, though. It

looks cool. Although Frieza looks like an Oscar

statue. It's supposed to be his his uh Super

free freeza five mode I'm thinking dude Goku

kicked your ass trunks kicked your ass Goku was

Super Saiyan God mode You're fucked. Well, they're

gonna still have Lord Beerus. Oh, yeah the weird

cat dude. Yeah It should be cool. He's well,

and he's he's supposed to be not as powerful

as freeza. I guess yeah Which is kind of beyond

me how that's even possible But which all of

it freeze I think was one of the better villains

from that series Which is why he's getting his

own new movie I I think he had some of the best

personality, but I really did like sell I just

think the cell games dragged out entirely too

long Although I really did like Android 17 and

18 but Seventeen did get the Super Seven Android

Teen movie or whatever, or he came back in GT

or something. Yeah, they mixed them and it became

like Super Seventeen or something weird. Yeah,

like they came back from hell or something, which

kind of sucks that he never became a good guy.

Actually, I've actually hung out with that voice

actor, Chuck Huber, who voices him. He also voices

Garlic Jr. I was in Texas a couple years ago,

and I'm like, holy shit, you're Android 17? And

he's like, yes, I am. And it was really cool.

I had lunch with him, and I met the guy that

voices Raditz, too, Justin Cook. That's kind

of cool. Yeah, it was really weird. Just like,

oh my god, I'm growing up with you guys. This

is so fucking cool. And another random Dragon

Ball Z story. I'm friends with Sean Schemmel,

who voices Goku. A couple months ago I interviewed

Christopher Sabat, who voices Vegeta and Piccolo.

And Sean was upset that I didn't interview him

at the same time. So he's in the background as

Goku calling me out. A whole time, and I'm trying

hard not to be distracted by it. He's like, hey!

Dad! He's like, hi kids, I'm Goku! My dad's an

asshole! Oh Sean, I love you. Like seriously,

that guy, I remember the first time I ever met

Sean Chambl, stole my microphone, ran away with

it, and my recording equipment came back 10 minutes

later and my mic, it just filled with a gibberish

of him just running around as Arnold Schwarzenegger,

Christopher Walken, and other random people.

Maybe Bruce Campbell should have done that too,

so you'd notice him. Yeah, you know, me and my

nice hat. He's like, who the hell are you, Don?

But yeah, like Dragon Ball Z, I'm actually surprised

how much it's been a part of my life. Like I

remember borrowing taped episodes off my friend

when I aired on YTV in Canada in the afternoon,

like once a week. So I'd have to wait for like

a month or two for enough episodes to be there

to actually kind of give a shit. This is before

they edited it. Edited it into Kai. They cut

out all the filler episodes. Oh My god, I'm so

looking forward to this. I don't although I haven't

seen battle of the gods in a while One that just

came out. So I've I've watched it recently. I

really enjoy it I really hope that they they

like localized this one fast Because I love to

see them. I love voice cast that God now is great

Although I do miss Kyle Iberra as the Dragon

Ball Z announcer, but he's still Ox King. He's

still Gohan, I think. It just makes me sad that

when they change out the voices. Well, it's weird.

I remember growing up with Ian Corralettes. As

Goku. As Goku. And then when Sean Shemwell took

over, I remember for like a year, dude, I hated

it. Oh, I did too. And then once I got you something,

man, I can't picture anybody else as Goku. And

then when they changed from Brian Drummond as

Vegeta out and gave it to Chris Sabbath, I didn't

like it either. Now I can't picture anybody else

saying it, although Brian Drummond does the best

over 9 ,000 though. And everybody, I remember

even when Krillin's voice changed, but now I

really like his new voice too. I don't know,

it's so funny how sometimes you hate a change

in a voice actor. But then after a while, you

can't picture anything else. And it's really

weird when you have these people as friends.

Like, I've been friends with Kyle A -Bear for

years. And when you hear him say really weird

things in the Dragon Ball Z voice or his Gohan,

it's really utterly bizarre. The sort of stuff

that's like after hours and only meant for you.

Or hearing like other anime characters like order

drinks or stuff like that. Like, um, how's that

guy? Vic Mignola? The guy who's the voice of,

like, everything. And then, like, Kim and, like,

Steve Bloom hearing them order drinks and shit

is really weird. Hey, Fetcher's in voice acting.

I don't know. There you go. But, uh, yeah, like,

Resurrection of F. I hope we get it. I hope even

if we get a subtitled version in theater, I really

hope it happens sooner as opposed to later. I'm

super pumped for it because I love the whole

dynamic of Frieza against Goku and then plus

they're actually gonna have Krillin fight, Master

Roshi fight, like everybody. It's gonna be so

cool. God I love Dragon Ball Z. And they're changing

all their uniforms too. I'm excited to see what

they're gonna do with the new character designs.

In Oscar's Frieza. You know, it really sucks

that they fucked up the Dragon Ball movie from

a couple years ago, Evolution. How they just

completely miscast everybody. Pretty much. It

was terrible. It's a guilty pleasure for me.

I will admit, I do like, I think it's Emily Blunt.

I think that's the name. Who plays Bulma. I do

like her. I don't think that was Emily Blunt.

I think that was Emmy Rossum. That's it. That's

it. That's it. I was wrong. The only reason I

know that is because my wife likes Phantom of

the Opera and she's the singing chicken. I had

no idea. I know the guy that played Goku is Justin

Chatwin, who was like, I think he was Tom Cruise's

son in War of the World, I think. Yep. Which,

how can you whitewash a role like that? That

sucked. Although the guy that played grandpa

Gohan was okay. Master Roshi was funny as hell

cast with XiaoYunFat. There's a live -action

fan version of Dragon Ball Z where it takes place

where Trunks is a kid and Gohan's training him

and you know the whole part where the androids

Yeah, and that's the new one that's on YouTube

right now, right? Yeah. Light of Hope. Yep. That

looks pretty cool. I watched it. It was pretty

good. That would have see that would be a great

thing you could adapt Fairly easily to the screen,

but I guess there's so much backstory and I guess

Raditz and Vegeta and Napa technically is more

interesting But you know Android 17 18 you don't

have to do anything special just make them really

really powerful Okay, that's it. Well, and then

they the way that they did the sound effects

in the motion It just it it was like watching

the show just live -action Think that thing may

work live -action if you do it like they did

the kind of YouTube series obviously Step it

up a notch There's one anime adaption coming

out in a few years the ghost in the shell That

should be pretty cool. I don't know how I feel

about Scarlett Johansson being the major because

Once again, you're whitewashing a role. I think

an Asian actress could do it and be really fucking

awesome at it But I guess that's neither here

nor there. I wonder whatever happened to the

Cowboy Bebop movie they were talking about for

like 10 years. I know Keanu Reeves wanted to

play Spike and he's way too old for it now. I'm

actually really surprised we've never gotten

a live -action Gundam movie. Oh, give it a couple

years. I'm sure we'll see it. Well, there was

one I remember seeing trailers for but it was

for Patlabor, which is this robot police force

thing where they drive these mechs called labors

and They built Alfons who is like the big mech

It's just what the mechs named. It's not sentient

or anything They built like a scale replica and

it's meant to be in the movie the trailer. I

think I think it's still available on YouTube

I don't know whether the movies come out though

I know there's a live action attack on Titan.

I don't know whether it's out, but it looked

really freaking cool from what I remember. I

think they're doing a live action, you know,

or there's like a stage play, and then slowly

releasing cast photos. It looks really cool.

Honestly, I'm surprised Sailor Moon has never

been adapted. I know there was a live action

TV show at one point. They even wanted to make

one over here in America. I know that's floating

around on YouTube and it looks really fucking

dumb. Like I'm talking like beyond the pale and

stupid. I'm trying to think of what other animes

that really work live action. Well I guess that

could be one of the questions too we can just

ask and wait and see what happens next week.

You know like what what anime do you think could

work live action if they did it right? death

well I guess it is live action because I did

a couple live action movies although the CGI

on Ryuk is something special. You can tell how

much I'm impressed. So anything else for this

episode guys? The one thing I'd love to see I

don't think it'll ever happen Because it would

require Square and Disney to really work together.

They aren't going to make Kingdom Hearts. Damn

it. I would love to see. That would be so awesome.

That would be so awesome. Maybe they made that

into a TV show or something. Oh my god, the possibilities.

As long as I get Cloud, I'm happy. That's what

I want. But yeah, I'd love to hear what people

have to say. Like, because we got a lot of really

cool responses. I know one guy said he'd love

to see Mass Effect as a TV series. Let me tell

you, I would give my left testicle to be the

executive producer on that. No, you wouldn't.

Yes, I would. My god, I would cast Mark Mir,

the voice of Shepard, because when he cosplays

as Shepard, it's goddamn impressive. About the

armor he's got the guns Well if you're a producer

voice actor Trying to think what I undergo a

sex change to helm a show no you wouldn't I could

learn to love myself Really bad people by saying

that I'm not making fun of people with the whole

gender thing. I'm just saying you know what I

mean? I Guess the only thing I really have to

mention is If you guys want to help out with

dr. Wiley's bet bills, I could use a little bit

more help I'm not if you can I'm not saying you

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If you can't, that's fine too. I'm just glad

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