ATTF – Episode 25

You got the time I'm Stan Bush and I dare you

to listen to all things transformers with Steve

Megatron and TFG one Mike You're listening to

all things transformers episode 25 recorded Saturday

June 6 2009 Alright, so whenever you're ready.

In 19, 18, 17, I'm just bullshitting with you.

Yeah, that's a little long. Alright, 3, 2, 1.

Hello and welcome to All Things Transformers,

episode 25. From our hiatus and joining me this

week is Mike TFG1 from the TFG1 Podcast, hello.

How's it going? You're you're recently married

and honeymoons done and you're back and no more

hiatus and what's going on? Vacation was great.

Not nearly long enough. It was nice to be away

from the electronics for a while But glad to

be back in front of them again. Yes sitting there

Listening to podcasts on my mp3 player wishing

I could record a new episode And listen to new

ones because I'd listen to all those already.

But yeah, as of this week, I've released what

you pre -recorded of TFG1 episode 17, Tunecast

episode 0 and 1. And pretty much, I think that's

it this week that'll be released, other than

this particular episode, which should be released

tonight. Yeah, overall, that's pretty much it,

and I've been working on the Geek KSA a little

bit, just kind of trying to keep the episodes

up to date until I can get time to go back through

and do them all. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I mean, there's

been so much going on. We're a week removed from

BotCon, and there's so much going on there. I

sent... A friend of mine, she bought my reissued

AstroTrain off eBay that I was selling just because

I needed money at the time to get the actual

software, the call recorder software license.

And I also, she was going to BotCon, so I sent

her my original 1986 soundtrack of TFTM to see

if she could get it signed by Stan Bush and Vince

Ticola, since they were both going to be there.

At the time I didn't realize or I didn't remember

that weird owl was gonna be there or I would

have asked her for that too But when she got

back, she told me that weird owl it was one autograph

per person But yeah Stan and Vince both signed

my sign my CD and actually Stan personalized

it. So that was really really cool And then later

on today in 25 we have my second interview with

standing your first Talking about Oh, yes talking

about BotCon and and what his experience was

like and stuff like that There's been a lot of

stuff going on with BotCon and all kinds of Hasbro

announcements and everything else I think the

first and foremost thing animated. Yes, unfortunately

is cancelled I I accept this now, but with all

the rumors that kept going on and on, you know

before BotCon I was like until I hear Official

word I'm not believing either way, but unfortunately

it is cancelled now So I have nothing no cartoons

to watch on Saturday mornings anymore. I have

nothing to get up to or look forward to on Saturdays

so yeah, I Much didn't have squat to get up to

on Saturdays for the most part because I don't

have any of the actual channels to watch Because

I pay for the cheap channel of cable. Yes, so

I have to watch my stuff on YouTube Yeah, well,

there's always the direct downloads at TFW. Yes,

which I have them all, and I actually have them

on the site. I just need to actually put the

link in the TF animated area to download them.

Yeah. Because there's something of a lazy ass

syndrome that's going on right now with the site.

Yes, very much so. The PredaconEmpire .com I

have been slacking on, but I've been directing

all my attention to Geekcast Radio. So that's

why things are neglected. Although I do want

to add some more content to PE. I do have some

more Tori reviews, which those will be probably

slow coming because, again, I'm lazy. And B,

I got to link some things that are already uploaded

that aren't just directly linked on the site.

Yeah. I guess. For me, the biggest news out of

BotCon was the fact that we are getting more

TFA toys. They showed display pictures, people

got display pictures in display cases of Transformers

animated, I believe they are deluxes, RC, Rodimus,

Hydrodive Bumblebee, I think that's... blazing

lug nut I'm not really sure I don't know I'm

not a lug nut fan lug nut sucks it should have

been astrotrain but anyway Rodimus looks so friggin

cool yeah I know I I'm very very very tempted

to go buy that when I find that in the store

because for once it actually is a highly detailed

Rodimus yes very much so I mean the shattered

glass version of Rodimus is really really cool

and very highly detailed as well But as far as

an actual regular hot rod slash Rodimus, whatever

you want to call it, it's very detailed. I mean,

I'm looking at the vehicle mode picture I sent

you. And you can actually see the key lock in

the door handle. I mean, that's how detailed

this thing is. Oh, wow, you can. Yep. I just

like it because the car mode looks exactly like

hot rod from the G1. the robot mode for the most

part looks just like him too other than you know

slight differences because it's animated instead

of yeah the original style but it does it looks

really awesome I'm actually quite honestly probably

going to pick that one up when that comes out

I'm definitely picking that one up and as far

as RC she does look a lot like her Her show it

looks like she's show accurate. We never actually

saw an alt mode for her on the show As far as

I remember, I don't I don't know I'd have to

go back and watch but I think they They never

showed it on the show, but I think they kind

of gave her kind of her g1 ask look Oh, yeah

They gave her this like her alt mode is also

similar to one of the Yeah, yeah, I'm not really

sure The only my only thing about these two figures

is they look like they're extremely short Both

RCN and Rodimus look like they're about the size

of Soundwave and I mentioned this to somebody

on Twitter the other day and they said that Hot

Rodimus is actually about an inch and a half

taller than Soundwave but just looking at that

at that at that big shot that I sent you Of him

just looking at the way the figure is made. It

looks like he is extremely short I don't know.

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm over analyzing

it. I'm not really sure Actually, it's to be

like the same height as the like the mega or

voyage or whatever the hell they call themselves

this week Looks to be about the same height as

the box of that mmm transformed Yeah, but I think

he's a deluxe though. We don't think he's a Voyager

No, but he does appear to be that tall and it

should be noted that they're calling this thing

Rodimus minor Which I don't like I don't like

that Rodimus Prime in the show Yes, but maybe

what they're gonna. Do is hopefully they will

do this. I don't know if they will or not Maybe

they will make a Voyager class of him like there's

like there's a deluxe optimus prime. There's

a deluxe or there's a deluxe optimus There's

a Voyager optimus that there are multiple optimuses

for TFA So maybe they will do that with him as

well like dull that they'll release this as a

deluxe see how obviously it's gonna obviously

it's gonna sell everybody wants it and See what

the numbers are and then maybe they'll go back

and make a Voyager class for him, which I hope

they do You know what would be interesting to

have? If they do pick up something from this

line, they ought to focus on like the other Cybertronian,

like have Shockwave versus Rodimus Prime and

have their units and just focus on them. Like

just have a completely different show centering

around them, whereas the other ones like Optimus

and Megatron. Oh, okay, you're saying for an

actual show idea. Yeah. Yeah, I still think TFA

shattered glass would have been awesome Just

putting TFA in the shattered glass that that

would be so cool But um, yeah, I mean there's

all kinds of speculation and probably after the

movies released Revenge of the Fallen's release

they'll probably you know do something I mean

Hasbro has that deal with discovery and everything

else so I Don't know Yeah, there really isn't

Isn't that much else as far as I know, you know,

there's been a whole lot of Revenge of the Fallen

figure news There's been a whole lot of movie

news a lot of new TV spots and trailers going

up But you know, I don't know at this point.

I'm feeling really negative about the movie.

I don't know why I just am Well, there's there's

been a lot of people that I've talked to at work

because a lot of them are pumped to see the Transformers

movie Love the first one and so they of course

come to me being the transformers expert of the

dealership And so they asked me every question

they can and like they tell me like some of the

commercials You know the trailers and stuff that

see on TV They say some of them look kind of

you know, like hokey looking and then other ones

look awesome So, I mean I kind of have a like

I'm not gonna really hold judgment for the movie

until I actually watch it and then I'll make

my review of it afterwards but I've actually

I went to Walmart earlier today and I seen that

the transformers animated section is drastically

cut down Yes, like there's barely anything there

and they had like the classics cheeto or dinobot

and then they had That was all they had at the

classics line along with the 25th anniversary

and classic 84 prime mm -hmm and They had like

they had the huge ass bumblebee like walkie -talkies,

which are retarded. They have those little kid

versions of the Transformers up there, of the

Revenge of the Fallen. They have the Voyager

-class Optimus, Starscream. All of them are starting

to show up now in the stores. And the box art

form looks freaking awesome compared to the first

movies. However, some of the figures, I don't

know. I probably won't pick up anything from

the movie line. discount when they're getting

ready to phase them out just because although

the sound wave toy in robot mode because that's

what he comes in looks pretty decent from what

I've seen but this is they they call him a triple

changer because he turns into satellite and he

turns into the the flight jet although it's just

two different panels that are different it just

looks like they stand them straight up And he

looks like his jet form and then they lay him

down and they're like, oh, he's a jet Oh, we'll

stand him up. He's a satellite Yeah, they they

probably really went cheap on that They did all

it is is one different slight change like they

just flip one panel up and there is the satellite

Yeah Yeah I think at this point the movie is

getting so much hype that Yeah, I'm reserving

judgment until I go see it, but I'm so sick of

hearing about it at this point. And usually when

I get that way about movies or TV or whatever,

I usually end up waiting two, three years to

even see the stupid thing. Which I won't, but

I'm just saying in general, um... I don't know.

Yeah, I'm gonna go see it probably opening weekend.

Yeah. seeing it in IMAX. Star Trek on the other

hand that was fucking worth it to see in IMAX.

I don't care what anybody says that was like

the most freaking awesome movie to go see in

IMAX but the Transformers movie I'm sure that'd

be freaking awesome in there as well but I'm

probably just gonna see it in theater first and

then kind of decide whether it's worth seeing

twice. Don't know I'm just I Don't actually know

how many characters are gonna be in the movie

that are currently toys I mean, I know I think

skids and mud flap are in there But there are

so many other toys that Are out that seem like

they wouldn't be able to fit them all into the

movie Yeah, there's I don't think this movie's

good I mean it's gonna be more of an action -packed

movie of course and there's gonna be a lot of

like just death and destruction for the robots

themselves because there's so many of them to

cover. So it's going to be kind of hard to focus

on individuals in this movie. Obviously they're

going to focus on Prime Bumblebee because Prime's

going to get his ass thrashed numerous times

in this movie. And Bumblebee himself is of course

the main bot that everybody kind of looks up

to in the whole series. It's mostly still gonna

be human movie. It's gonna be just a bunch of

Decepticons for the most part thrashing the Autobots

Yeah, so I have a feeling that and I'm not quite

positive on this but I could see them ending

this on kind of a cliffhanger ish Yeah, probably

so I Just want to see somebody new in the chair.

I'm tired of seeing Michael Bay. I would actually

love to see a director who is a full -on transformers

fan i would love to see that because that way

i was gonna say me i'll be the director uh...

yeah now it would end up being a beast wars movie

so we couldn't have you i mean like an overall

you know giant transformers fanboy minus the

unicorn trilogy uh... you know just because we

would get more homages and stuff like that I

don't know David K voicing Grimlock that would

be animated oh yeah that's right okay but they

could have the original do it because you know

he's still around job kind of like walkers getting

sound wave in this movie I'm really interested

to hear that more so than I am to see Megatron

return yeah because I can't remember that guy's

name but um that did Megatron oh you go waving

oh yeah that's right he does a good Megatron

for that particular body yes because somebody

actually linked it up and put Welker's voice

doing some of the same speech lines and it sounded

awesome. Yeah. As far as going back to BotCon,

it's actually funny. I asked my friend who went,

I asked her who'd she get for autographs. She

got David Kay, Weird Al, and pretty much a whole

bunch of other people. um... and i asked her

what about cullen because cullen did show up

and she goes nope couldn't they cut his line

to a hundred and twenty people i'm like what

the shit what the fuck now i know i know cullen

has been to plenty of other bot cons he was a

two thousand four he was there last year was

a two thousand seven i don't know if he was a

i can remember he was at oh six or not uh...

but and i know he's very very busy but i mean

This is BotCon for Christ's sake it happens once

a year not every year he is there. I mean, you

know, I Don't know I don't know why that they

would do that I don't know I don't know if that

was something that he requested or if it was

something that they just did I think it's just

something they just did because they know that

there would be a fucking huge line For Peter

Cohen just like weird out there'd be more people

for him You know just because he's like a bigger

artist, you know, than like Vince DiCola or something,

you know, it's just, it's just the way it is.

It's not really. Yeah. I think they just wanted

to, you know, make it so that they could things

along go across their, their little schedule

they have going and, uh, you know, not waste

the actors time or the musicians and. Yeah. Uh,

I don't know. Oh, the other thing was you couldn't,

um, You could take still shots of everything,

but you couldn't tape anything. You couldn't

videotape anything. You couldn't videotape the

panels, you couldn't videotape any of the displays,

but you could take pictures. See, now this is

what irritates me on that. If they're not going

to allow you to take video, they should, like

we discussed in a previous ATTF, fucking release

a video on DVD, even for five bucks on The BotCon

site and sell it to people so they can actually

frickin watch it exactly Because I know what

I mean, even though I wasn't there I'd still

like to see the you know panels from like Peter

Cullen and David Kay and Stan Bush and you know,

just everybody. Oh, yeah But I mean, I don't

know Yeah, right like Brian Savage is gonna listen

to us I mean even if you had okay say you okay

like okay TFW won several awards Well, no, I

know but I'm just saying supposedly they are

the official Transformers website as far as like

all Hasbro crap and everything else like that

so why not have them have permission to videotape

all the stuff and put it on their website so

at least people can see it I know I mean I I

can understand about not having you know everybody

else you know every other Joe Schmo being able

not to videotape I understand that but why not

have someone have some sort of crew there to

videotape it and then release it to TFW exactly

see I mean I'd even be happy with that just because

you know at least someone would have something

yes that they could share with the fandom exactly

it's not like we're all gonna be like oh I hate

and just tear it apart and, you know, everybody's

just curious to see it. Exactly. Because most

of us can't afford to fly across the damn country

to go see the show. Well, not even that. Most

of us can't afford to even go to the fucking

show regardless of whether you have to fly across

the country or not. I mean, hell, last year it

was in Cincinnati. I added all the cost up for

two people. It was like $1 ,200 fucking dollars.

Yeah, that was about how much it was going to

cost me to, although it's only like three hours

for me, but... would have had no one to go with

so it would have kind of sucked but I mean it's

like you know I don't know it's just so weird

that for me if I was gonna go I actually added

it up I actually added up the like say say you'd

have to fly somewhere other than say to be somewhere

that you have to fly to if you add in plane cost

the hotel cost the primus package cost to get

everything all all access to the entire convention

plus food and everything else you'd and obviously

going into the dealer room and buying toys you're

gonna need close to six thousand dollars to go

to this thing to get the full experience uh...

i know michael has told me michael wilson has

told me that you know he spent a couple of grand

in the dealer room before Well, it also helps

if you have the couple of grand to spend in the

first place Well, yeah, I know I know that but

I'm just saying in in addition to $1 ,200 for

the package For the actual convention package

to get all the panels and everything else and

have access to the dealer room and all that stuff

You know in addition to that You know, you get

the hotel cost, you got the plane cost, you got

the cost of food and stuff like that, plus toys.

Yeah, you're looking at close to five, six thousand

dollars. Yeah, I could have drove, like I was

in driving distance. But I don't know, I wouldn't

have had money for the hotels or, you know, even

to pay for the, really the entrance of BotCon.

Yeah. That general I was listening to TFW's podcast

that general admission line on Sunday was horrible

line was so long That they were saying I don't

know But um, you know, I'd love to go but yeah

unless it's Unless it's somewhere fairly close

that I could drive to or that my mom could drive

to you hadn't know Maybe I'll get lucky. Maybe

the next one will be in Kentucky yeah right well

actually two thousand six was it was in lexington

uh... the uh... close enough for you yeah dawns

of i think it was dawns of futures past they

was the hours of wars yeah it was the beast wars

one so uh... yeah i was pissed i couldn't go

and i know there was a michigan one like and

i think or two know about it at the time and

i don't think i was entirely back into transformers

yeah because i kind of fell out of it for a while

yeah but uh yeah i'd love it for another one

to be here just because i could go i could drive

i wouldn't have to stay in a hotel i could just

drive from home exactly Would have just slept

in my car if I went to the Cincinnati one screw

that oh, yeah I would have been a broke -ass

person and just slept in my car But I mean now

I don't know I'm not really sure What now I know

that they offer package deals for like the hotels

offer package deals for people that are attending

conventions What I think BotCon should do is

what whatever city that it's in whatever hotel

that's going to be spot you know that they're

going to want to sponsor or whatever the hotel's

going to sponsor them i think it should be included

in the convention package you know for was it

uh... three days four nights or whatever it is

include that cost in the botcon package yeah

it would drive the price up of of each package

but at least you're not having to spend extra

Money on a hotel because you're buying it within

the botcon package. That would be awesome and

what they should do is also have the hotel ones

without the Like if you don't want like every

little you know the figures that come with the

set and you just want like the comic and you

want some of the just little You know the pins

and shirt or hat or whatever that comes with

it. You know, they should be able to give you

all that You know like a smaller package. I know

they do sometimes the smaller packages, but I

personally don't really About the toys. Yes repaints

for the most part Yeah, this year's set I did

not like it all the only thing that I want and

I still want out of this year's set is the box

the comic the pen and the certificate of authenticity

And I still haven't found it yet. I still haven't

found somebody to sell it to me or just plain

give it to me, but I mean for like First timer

like like us. I mean we've never been I would

want to be able to get everything Regardless

of of the BotCon set itself because if it's not

something I'm gonna like Then I can just put

it up on eBay and you know, whatever Well, see

I would I would fork over the money for it if

I got to actually go to one. Oh, yeah But I would

only do so on the figures if I actually like

Yeah Well, the other thing is Michael was telling

me when they went was it last year? No, not last

year the year before 2007's He said that you

know, he and his wife and at the time he just

had the one son They went and They got two packages.

They came back and sold the second package on

eBay and it pretty much paid for the trip As

far as selling the second box set because they

they sold on eBay and it pretty much paid for

the entire trip For what they got for the price

of it. So, I mean even if I mean say you and

I both You know say it was somewhere fairly close

and you and I both went we can always sell the

second package on eBay and split the cost The

experience Yeah, them them booze probably cost

a lot though, I mean we'd have to fork out some

real cash Yeah, I mean that's when When I was

thinking about doing t -shirts for the podcasts

and stuff. I was looking on the site that snowball

sent me I was like, holy crap It ended up being

like if I was to order them they don't being

like five hundred six hundred dollars for like

Ten t -shirts Wow. Yeah another site though that

Jesse uses for his TF wire shirts, that's actually

really cheap. Yeah You can buy them for like

the cost you could buy them in the store Yeah,

I probably just print off logos and you know

Yeah, go take them to my local t -shirt store

and say put them on it. Yeah, really Yep I think

other than, you know, the special All Things

Transformers slash TFG1 interview again later.

Yes. I think that's it on the BotCon section.

Yeah, BotCon's pretty much done. TFA is done.

I don't really think we have anything else to

talk about unless you want to bring up all the

pending releases for GeekCast. We have a ton

of stuff going on oh as for the The movie news

the Chevy Camaro that is bumblebee mm -hmm They're

selling those at dealerships now And you can

special order them from GM. I believe right now

even though they're in bankruptcy Yeah, but um

No, you can still get those because they're gonna

be a limited run and They're supposed to have

like the Autobot symbol on them on the outside

and on the inside It's gonna have that special

spot where they have the fog lamps because on

the normal Camaro's they don't look like that

Mm -hmm. It's a special mod to that specific

kind So I believe you can Suppose now I think

it's till the end of the month till the release

of the movie Well, I just saw the commercial

on TFW. Yeah. So, yeah. But, it would be awesome

knowing one. Yeah, it would. I've sat in the

Camaro. Fucking nice. I've never driven one.

They won't let me yet. I was like, please let

me drive it. Take it on the expressway. I want

to try it out. I bet you I could get it over

like 150 miles an hour. Probably. I don't know.

Shouldn't do that. I don't need a ticket. No.

I just got all the six that I accumulated from

high school off my record, finally. God. You

know what they're all for? Speeding? I had a

wreck. I had a wreck. That was one. Two, improper

turn in the construction zone. And the other

four, speeding. That's funny. But anyways, back

to the Transformers subject. Yes, what other

news do we have? Um, you can get advance tickets

for Revenge of the Fallen, which are on sale

now. Yeah, huh. Yeah, I don't know. I'd just

rather just go to the theater the day of the

show. Doesn't really matter to me, advance tickets

or whatever. Cuz knowing me knowing me I end

up losing the damn things and I end up paying

like what? Six twelve dollars for two or three

tickets true, you know, my mom and I and somebody

else to go but bottom really I'd end up fucking

losing them so I'm probably gonna wait anywhere.

I don't really care to pre -order it. Yes. It's

gonna be one of those movies that After a week

or two, you're gonna be able to get in there

real easy anyhow Yeah Of course that's with any

movie but Yeah, and I believe I think that's

all the news I've got Yeah, there's there's been

more in toy news on TFW more recently than anything

else I mean that they did show the the three

new TV spots They did have videos for the like

I said the the Camaro commercial and but the

rest of it's pretty much toy news and who gives

a shit about the toys because i don't think out

of all the toy reviews i've seen i'm glad the

people that like the movie line have them that's

that's great but for me first of all i'm up to

my ass and bills right now to the point where

i'm pretty much selling almost everything i own

other than the computer and a couple other things

because i can't get you know the price that i

want but i mean You know, uh, just, uh, the movie

line just doesn't interest me at all. Yeah, I,

uh, I'm pretty much in crunch mode on money right

now. I don't have any fucking money and it sucks

because I see shit I want to buy. I can't afford

it. Wait, you didn't have any money before the

wedding. You don't have any money after the wedding

either. Jesus Christ It's called lots and lots

of paying off the bills Yes, yes, it sucks. Yes,

I'm sure it does But after I finally get them

paid off I will be able to Spend money again.

But anyways, yeah, I'll probably actually buy

some real podcasting equipment Yeah, I so need

a new headset I like this one, but um yeah, maybe

we should set up a donation PayPal account Yeah,

we do definitely should That's so funny That's

pretty much all the news we got, other than GeekCast

news. Yeah, which we will be talking about in

Episode 2. Yes, which will be coming up. Of GeekCast

Radio, yes. Yes, that should be coming up. We're

probably going to record that. Soon. I don't

know when. Probably after this, but we don't

know. Yeah, who knows? Seeing as how we have

time between now and the time we're supposed

to call Stan, so I figure we can do something.

I don't know, whatever. Yes, so I think Going

to close 25 out yay on 25 episodes Yes, who would

have thought who would have thought that this

would have gone 25 episodes I thought I would

have been passed that by now, but it's cuz I

skipped weeks and because I do every other week

instead of every week and If I was doing every

week, I would still be past TFW right now. Yeah,

exactly Not that we're trying to start a podcast

war either, but yeah, he's right And I don't

know only going to a little forum talk in the

the multiple title changes for the kill Springer

thread The beatdown of Springer and then it changed

The beatdown of Springer part two and now it's

destruction of Springer. Yes And then the thread

will probably end up closing it's it's just it's

just weird it is probably the longest thread

on the entire forum that page has more than the

actual RPG that used to be on the site. It has

23 pages and at this current time it has... Like

a hundred and something posts? No, not even close.

Two hundred and twenty one. Wow, holy crap. Yes.

And just to think, this all started with my rage

against that little green bastard. Fucking homewrecker.

Anyhow. But Springer is trying to, as he did

see, that we used to have a RPG on the site.

Yes. Similar to TCA's Warzone. It's called Battle

Protocol. It's been inactive since pretty much

six months into this new site design, which was

07, very beginning. So pretty much all the people

that were playing it kind of left since the previous

version of the site, and then other ones tried

to come back, and then it just kind of got old.

Anybody that's willing to join up for it is willing

to do so I'm just posting the forum Springer

has a section called in the members hangout RPG

Which doesn't always involve the destruction

of Springer? That's the name of the post interested

in playing a Character for the show or not for

this show but for that For the thread. Yes for

the thread. Yes, then go ahead and let us know

I would join back up of course because I would

have to moderate it. And anybody that wants to

be a war moderator or come up with a story or

whatever is willing to do that as well. So I

guess I'll just wait until that hits enough people

before I decide to do anything specific with

it. Yeah, yeah. Because I had not, I mean I left

everything intact but I made it hidden so you

can't find any of the stuff. Just because. It's

so dead. Yes Yeah, I mean since you've been on

vacation or since when you were on vacation the

forums have been kind of They've gone back to

their dead and selves a little bit I mean there

there is some posts, but it wasn't like that

first couple of weeks About a month and a half

ago where there was just an explosion of posts

I mean, I go on there all the time and there's

just not, it's gone back to very low activity.

uh... i would like to mention i will mention

this in the cast radio episode that now that

i've learned how to take a screenshots of stuff

with my power dvd application i will be taking

screenshots of everything that we discuss eventually

uh... there will be a screenshots the thread

for uh... turncast uh... and all the other podcasts

uh... that's pretty much all that's been going

on with me as far as doing extra stuff I'm thinking

as well that I'm going to link the Predacon Empire

forums to Geetcast. And in doing so, I'm going

to create a new skin for the forums specifically

for Geetcast. Cool. And I'm going to condense

and combine areas that are Transformers related

because some of it's redundant. Yes. Some of

it, I mean, we do have the sections for each

show. and we have like the general discussion

and the members hang out and the newbie gathering

and all those type areas which are just generic

anyway that are on any forum but some of the

areas will be combined so that it can be more

of a broader forum than what it is at this point.

Yeah, very much. So actually it's funny that

you mentioned that when you were doing when I

asked you to add extra Threads or extra areas

for the podcasting network, which is what it

was called at the time because you hadn't renamed

it I did you I just now noticed last night that

you've renamed it geek cast radio network When

you did a couple weeks ago. Well, I just now

noticed it so Pay attention shut up But I was

hoping you would just add separate sections for

each one. Not just GeekCast Radio and then within

that MY or IntuneCast, but it's fine the way

it is. I mean, it doesn't really matter. Well,

the GeekCast one is just for GeekCast and then

the other two are in there as well. Yeah. And

the other three, because they're transfered.

I'm not trying to copy the beginning of episode

24, but... Three that are separate from it are

still into the category of pks radio, but they

are also along with the transformers. So that's

why they're yeah Yeah I Don't know either we

have episode zeros up for every show that doesn't

have node one at this point though as well, so

Yes, I am still If somebody would buy any of

my crap on eBay I could actually go out and get

the the Beast Wars sets, but nobody's buying

it Dammit you bastards but Yeah, I at this point.

I'm not even sure when we're gonna start beast

unleashed Oh, yeah, eventually no, I'm not saying

you know my original goal anyway was the the

end of the year anyway was December so I mean

you know if it doesn't happen till then that's

fine if it does happen before then that's fine

too I just I really really have to watch my money

the next couple months because it's it's just

outrageous maybe we can get a sponsorship and

yes maybe we could Maybe we could actually get

paying jobs at a certain other geek website,

but yeah, we're not gonna go at your aunt. I'm

I Won't hear anything until July but Yeah, I

probably won't hear squat until then either But

you know hey, I just tell them about tune cast

real quick, okay? Let's see tune cast we have

episode 0 up where Kevin Todd and myself actually

episode 0 Todd came in late He I guess had a

family emergency or something and we weren't

sure where he was So Kevin and I just kind of

went ahead and discussed the what the premise

of the show is going to be And then in episode

one, we covered the Nintendo tunes, the Nintendo

cartoons that ran on NBC and various other syndicated

networks from 1989 to 1995 with Kevin, Todd,

myself, and our special guest, co -host Dion,

my Knight Rider buddy. Yeah, coming up next,

actually Sunday, tomorrow, we're going to be

recording episode two, which is all about Animaniacs.

um... and then sometime next week we're going

to be recording episode three uh... which will

be the tiny tune adventures i should have thought

about this before i did that though because seeing

as how animaniacs and tiny tunes it's basically

the same people doing those series and i should

have put tiny tunes first because tiny tunes

came before animaniacs but i didn't think about

it at the time uh... so yeah episode three will

be tiny tunes episode two will be animaniacs

Tunecast will be released every Wednesday. Yes,

and along with it the TFG -1 will be released

every Friday as usual and when the beast unleash

comes out it will replace the spot that TFG -1

had. Yes. ATTF will be Saturdays and GCR I believe

will be coming on either Saturday or Sunday whichever

we get it out. Yeah, also M wire when it eventually

starts in July will be Saturdays or well I'm

aiming for Saturdays. Yeah We've got so much

content we've got you know content coming out

of the ass over the next few months Yes, metaphorically

speaking of course Yes uh... so i really don't

have anything else well i guess all will wrap

this up real quick and uh... we'll see you in

a little bit for the interview of our epic and

awesome stan bush grungy ha ha nice exactly ha

ha ha alright this is uh... steve slash megatron

signing off for part one Episode 25 and this

is TFG1 Mike doing it as well Hello and welcome

to this special clip of all things transformers

episode 25 Today Steve and I have an awesome

awesome privilege right now We are interviewing

Stan Bush the creator behind dare and the touch

from the transformers 1986 film Hello, Stan.

How are you? It's going First of all, I gotta

get this out of the way. A friend of mine, I

had sold her a Transformers toy, and I had also,

I knew she was going to BotCon, so I sent her

my original Transformers 86 CD soundtrack to

see if she could get it signed, and I have to

thank you so much for signing it. Oh my god,

she hasn't sent it back to me yet, but she took

a picture of it and... You just have no idea

how much geeking out I've done overseeing this

and I just want to thank you for signing it so

much. Oh, hey, my pleasure. Yeah, no problem.

That is just so awesome and as soon as I get

it back from her, I'm going out and I'm buying

a glass display case and it will stay in there

forever. So, basically the reason for this interview,

we wanted to talk to Stan. We are one week removed

from BotCon and we wanted to talk to him about

his BotCon experience and kind of catching up

with him and seeing what's going on with the

new version of The Touch and the new album and

stuff like that. Stan, the first question I have

for you is, how was BotCon? Oh, it was completely

awesome. We had so much fun. There were a bunch

of people, some of which, some of whom I've seen

before at previous bot cons, but it was just

an awesome experience. I met a lot of nice people

and, you know, talked to a lot of wonderful people

from all over the, really all over the globe.

I mean, there were people from the UK and one

or two people from Australia, so it was really

cool. Yeah, BotCon is very internationally known.

I mean the Transformers fandom is is all over

the world And it's just ever -spreading So what's

your first question for him Steve? What was your

BotCon experience like and How much stuff did

you see? How much stuff did I what did you see?

Well, it was it was great the There were some

really cool costumes, you know, some robots walking

around. Some of them were homemade and one of

them was a bumblebee, which you may have seen

in the news. It was a very elaborate costume

that this guy wore. But as far as the convention

itself, it was wonderful. I had a table and a

lot of people came by and met me and so forth.

Vince DiCola and I, we did a panel together Friday

morning at at like ten and that was great. It

always blows me away how people, how much people

say nice things and really are into my music

and have heard my album, the new album in this

life particularly. It just blows me away because

they know that I'm about more than just a touch

and dare although they are wonderful songs. But

the other cool thing that I did was at the, you

probably know and maybe you're planning to bring

this up in a few minutes, but the Guitar Hero

thing, of course the launch for Guitar Hero The

Touch came out and that was last week as well

with BotCon and Activision had a booth there

and they had a Guitar Hero World Tour set up

and I was playing The Touch with, along with

fans. It was really funny. It was very cool.

Now, we do actually have a question about that

a little bit later on down the line here. Sure,

yeah, we can come back. Yeah, we'll just come

back with that. Were you happy with the fan interaction

at BotCon? I mean, was there anything like totally

off the wall that just made you like, just kind

of like shudder or was it mostly, majority of

it just positive stuff? It was all extremely

positive. uh... i gotta admit i had uh... put

a music video up uh... like two or three weeks

ago and they got slammed pretty good by uh...

as far as the comments because it was a totally

new uh... new version of the touch which we did

call the touch uh... sam theme with uh... a video

with clips from the movie of and anyway it was

a totally new version that with sort of modern

and uh... there were there were comments uh...

i mean out of fifty thousand people less than

three hundred comments and and uh... most of

the three hundred were bad but you know it's

one of those things were you anything anytime

you try something new you know some people are

gonna it's going to rub them the wrong way and

you've got a kind of you know But anyway, I was

a little apprehensive about maybe getting comments

about that, but I had none. Everybody was extremely

positive and supportive. It was great. That's

cool. What's your next question there, Steve?

Did you stop by the dealer room at all to check

out any of the toys? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I looked

at the guy actually at the table next to me.

He had a whole table, a bunch of Generation 1

stuff. Yeah, I looked around at the toys. I got

to say, I don't know as much about the toys probably

as you guys do, or as most fans do. But anyway,

I saw there were new things. As you probably

know, there are two new toys that contain the

touch that Hasbro just came out with as well.

Oh, what are those? I knew you were going to

ask that. I'll tell you what I can find out right

now while we're talking. We can just keep talking

about something else and I'll tell you in a couple

of minutes after I find an email that has the

toys. Oh, that's cool. The next question is,

can you give us some more details on the new

album, like maybe a title, how many songs will

be on it, when an eventual release date may be?

Probably two -thirds of the way finished with

the album. So far, what seems like the best title

song is a song called Dream the Dream. It's a

wonderful song, very uplifting and positive.

It's so funny how the Touch and Dare have kind

of helped get me into this niche of writing these,

you know, go for it, believe in yourself kind

of songs. I just love that stuff. It's like an

inspirational kind of... Anyway, so we're looking

at probably end of summer on the release, I expect.

We should be done recording by middle of summer

and then it'll take a month or two to get it

out. That's very, very cool. Yeah. The new album's

coming out great. It's so funny because In This

Life was such a great album. I mean, I don't

mean to toot my horn, but it got... album of

the year and all these wonderful critics loving

it and all the stuff all around the world and

I was worried about about following it you know

you always think oh man I can't I can never get

that anything that good again but exactly yeah

but so far it's coming out great now has there

been a set track number has it Do you have like,

is it gonna be 10 songs, 12 songs? I mean, do

you already have that? 11 or 12, yeah, I imagine.

That's cool. Yeah. All right, next. Can't wait

to hear it. Yeah, yeah, I can't wait to hear

it either. Oh, thank you. I wish I could give

you guys some kind of preview, but I don't have

anything mixed yet, except that one new version

of the Touch, the Touch Sam theme. Yeah. That's

the only so far. You know that I have that that

I could send you or play you but I didn't send

you an edited version of it Yes, yes coming out.

I decided to go ahead and release it as a single

on iTunes So it'll be up on iTunes in a few weeks

like three weeks or so Now is this going to be

the edited version or is this going to be the

full version that was in the video version? Okay

Yeah, that's cool. It'll probably be a bonus

track on the new album as well That's that's

really cool All right next question Steve Were

you shocked at all? The fan reaction to the new

touch Let's see I had a rough couple of days

honestly So did my video director guy my friend

Art he he and I were you know talking on the

phone quite a bit over over two or three days

there when when the a lot of the comments were

coming in because we were both, oh sorry, my

dog, we were both a little bit surprised by the

reaction. But like I say, it's one of those things

where you just have to look at the numbers and

I think out of 50 ,000 people, less than 300

comments, okay, most of those bad or negative.

Yeah, the rest of them are all positive. Yeah,

and you look at the numbers and... and realize

that most of the people who write in are people

that are going to have some problem with it or

whatever. Yeah, I mean me personally I see what

you're going for and I love the way and I don't

know maybe you can kind of clarify this the way

I've been describing the way you did your own

sound the way you did your voice is more of a

slow southern style rock I don't know if that's

accurate or not to be saying but The only thing

that I really wasn't keen on was the rap chorus.

Honestly, that's the thing that got slammed the

most was the rap. And that was totally new for

me. I'd never done anything like that. And I

know that's something that plays to the younger

kids anyway. Do you know what the circumstances

for the touch not being in the Revenge of the

Fallen soundtrack? I really don't know. Honestly,

I have not heard a thing. It was submitted, both

the original Touch and the new one, version two,

to Paramount and to Michael Bay. So it's one

of those things. It's very political. Warner

Brothers pays millions for the soundtrack rights,

and so it's kind of a foregone conclusion almost

that they're going to use Linkin Park and these

other Warner Brothers bands. Like I say, I have

nothing against Linkin Park. I think they're

a very good band and I loved their first single

years ago, the big breakout song. But it's one

of those things where you just do what you do

and be grateful for what is happening and just

being on the periphery of all of this has really

helped my career because honestly... Most people,

most fans, most real Transformers fans, the touch

and dare are the real anthems anyway. They're

the real, considered the anthem of all the Transformers

whole thing. And even if it isn't in the film,

it's still a great song and people identify that

with the Transformers. So, you know what I'm

saying? It's like, okay, that's cool. In fact,

it was gonna be in the movie two years ago and

it was all set. I had all the paperwork and everything.

And then like two weeks before it came out, Michael

Bay, I guess, decided all of a sudden that he

wasn't going to put it in there. He cut that

scene or whatever. Yeah, the the next question

actually kind of goes into that. What was your

reaction to it not getting on the soundtrack

for a second time? And were you given a reason

why not? And I know you just already answered

that you weren't told why not. But I mean, what

was your reaction from them? I have not heard

anything definitive one way or the other. But

like I say, if. They had filled out the paperwork,

so I guess as a slight possibility they could

sneak it in, but in fact the music supervisor

for the last film, they were going to put it

in as an Easter egg in the DVD release. There's

always that possibility and also the soundtrack

for the third movie, the third film later on.

It's one of those things where... Just you know

do your best and and whatever happens happens.

You know it's like I've got a great career and

a lot of wonderful fans that that you know really

get into my music so I can't complain you know

it's one of those things you just do what you

do and Where the where the chips fall you know

kind of thing yeah, and the next question Steve

What are some upcoming things for you in the

near future? besides the newest album well Let's

see, I'm gonna be at Comic -Con. Let's see, that'll

be in San Diego, of course, end of July. I'll

probably do another promotion for Guitar Hero

with Activision. I'm also discussing the possibility

of doing a concert. As you know, my band played

at BotCon for the Paramount party. Saturday night

at BotCon and that was on the Paramount New York

set and it was great. The band was just smoking

and Vince and I both played. Anyway, I talked

to Activision about having another show, another

concert at Comic -Con, so we'll see if that materializes.

But at any rate, I will be at Comic -Con, so

I'll probably be doing some stuff with Activision

as well. some other booths, you know, with my

CDs and autographs and that kind of thing, you

know, just making appearances and so forth. Very

cool. Actually, I believe it's been announced

that, I remember last time I talked to you, I

had mentioned the Transformers Matrix of Leadership

Complete Series Collector's Edition. DVD set

it's been announced that it will go on sale at

comic -con So if you wanted to I believe it's

a hundred and forty dollars for the whole thing

If you wanted to you could go to comic -con and

pick that up and you can actually watch the old

cartoons I don't know if that's something you'd

want to spend hundred forty dollars on but that

the set just looks amazing They've remastered

all the cartoons. They've added a whole bunch

of bonus features in there from the original

voice cast and stuff like that So that may be

something you might want to look into when you're

at comic -con Shout Factory Shout Factory You

can go to I don't know if you have a pen and

paper write this down You can go to transformerscollectorset

.com to look at the information Are you working

on anything else with Activision for Guitar Hero

kind of like it Could we see Dare in Guitar Hero

or Till All Are One or something like that? Well,

that would be awesome. As far as I know, I haven't

been approached about any other track at the

moment. It's really cool how that whole thing

came about, though. I guess you may have heard

several months ago, I guess it was in the fall,

Kotaku started a petition drive. The to get to

get the touch on guitar hero pretty cool. Yeah,

we actually are Steve actually through Mike and

Mike and this at this week in geek Steve actually

put the link on Predacon Empire comms homepage

That's Steve's website his transformers website

and we had it on there for a while until until

we got the news that it actually got in So that's

just awesome that that that happened. It was

a very cool It's one of those things where when

enough fans get behind something, just like getting

Peter Cullen to be the voice of Optimus Prime,

they can bring about things if they want it to

happen. That's something else I just thought

of just now. While you were at BotCon, did you

get to mingle with any of the other stars like

Peter Cullen or any of the other Transformers

voice actors? Did you get to hang out with any

of them? Yeah, Weird Al was there and I had known

him from before because we were both on the same

record label way back, Scotty Brothers. Weird

Al was there and Peter Cullen and also Tyrese

and Weird Al. They all had very positive things

to say about me and my show at BotCon and about

the new version of The Touch as well. Links that

I can send you I'll email those to you if you

want to post them on your website or whatever

for people to see Okay, sure. Yeah, that'd be

great Yeah, I'll go ahead and send that out right

away. That's cool Now I this is funny. This is

another thing you just popped in my head when

the 20th anniversary DVD release of Transformers

the movie came out there is original Original

theatrical trailer on there a couple of TV spots

and it's funny the only two people that they

advertise In the movie as far as music is you

and weird Al they advertise the touch dare and

dare to be stupid by weird Al They don't they

don't mention Vince DiCola at all. I don't know

Yeah, I'm not really sure why they didn't but

it's like but it's like the original 1986 trailers

where it's like The Transformers movie featuring

new music from Stan Bush and Weird Al Yankovic.

It's like, wow. They completely glossed over

the composer. What the heck? Yeah, that's strange.

Yeah, because Vince did, you know, he did three

-fourths of the music on there. Yeah, he did.

Yeah, he did about, I think, six out of the ten

tracks, plus he had the additional bonus tracks

on the new version, the edition. Plus, Vince

co -wrote Dare, so. Yeah, Vince is awesome. I'd

love to get an interview with him. Oh, he's a

buddy of mine. I'll send you his email, okay?

Cool. I'm sure he won't mind. Yeah, he's a good

friend. I was the one who contacted him about

performing at BotCon and everything. Yeah, when

you and I did our first interview and you mentioned,

because I didn't know, I just knew that you were

going to be there. and you mentioned he goes

uh... he said well yeah uh... this is going to

be performing with me on my my mouth just my

judges dropped to the floor i was like oh i still

want to go so good he's like uh... he's one of

the guy you know like you picture the piano pianist

who's been playing since he was four you know

you know he's like world he's like uh... what

virtuoso is what he is you know he's like he's

that good you know anyway it was it was an honor

to share the stage with him he's a friend too

you know good guy yeah the last question that

we have is will you be touring in the US or around

the world at all for the new album when it eventually

releases yeah I'm sure I will I probably will

go over to Europe and do some shows last album

I did shows in in Germany, and I was supposed

to do some stuff in the UK, but there was a problem

with my not having a work permit, which was not

really my fault, but it happened, and anyway,

I'm gonna make sure that stuff falls straight

before I take over. Wow. Yeah, I'll be doing

that, and I'm gonna be doing shows around LA,

too, and we, like I say, the band, we... My band

performed at BotCon at Paramount and like the

band is just slamming. It's really really great

band So the guitar player that produced the album

Holder Fath, he's amazing. So anyway, yeah, we

will be performing and So I'll have to just if

people want to check my website, you know, stanbush

.com they can find out, you know, what's happening,

right? Right. That's just totally awesome. Yeah,

cuz I I'd love to actually go see you in concert.

Oh, well, thank you. I would, too. I mean, I'm

hoping. I've got a friend that I worked with

years ago who turns out he's one of the biggest

concert agents in LA, and I hadn't thought about

the guy in years, but he's like best friends

with the guy that used to manage me. Anyway,

I talked to him already, and I picked up a guitar

endorsement last week with Greg Bennett Guitars.

I should mention that. because they're great

guitars. When I was in Florida two weeks ago,

I played at Jaycon performed down there in Orlando

for the Japanese anime convention. There was

a local band that played with me there and that

was a really good show. It's cool to be performing

all over, starting to perform in different areas

of the country. It's funny because I realized

that a lot of people that... They grew up listening

to or watching the Transformers movie know who

I am. They remember that song or the Touch and

Dare, those songs. It's very cool to know that

I have fans in this country. It used to be it

was more Europe and Japan. It's starting to spread.

The internet helps too. The internet is a very

big tool. Absolutely. And I know I mentioned

this to you in the last interview about like

social media and stuff like that And I know you

don't have a whole lot of time I'm not really

trying to coax you into doing this but twitter

.com. It's you can use it from your cell phone

I mean that there are I know you have iPhone

there are Applications for iPhone that you can

use and it's kind of like it's a social media

thing kind of like myspace But it's instantaneous

and you can make all kinds of friends on there

and you don't It's not something you actually

have to keep up with, but if you wanted to update

Transformers fans or whatever on new stuff or

if you just want to rant and rave, a lot of us

on Twitter do that. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it's

one of those things where I have, of course,

my MySpace page and that has some of my music

on there and information about me, but all these

new things have come along like Twitter and Facebook

and all these. i really just don't have time

to even you know do what i do already yeah but

i don't know there's another thing yeah after

a while you just think oh no more yeah i missed

the stone age no computers no internet be better

today when we talk on the phone uh... actually

if if if there wasn't The modern technology that

we have we wouldn't be able to record what we're

recording right now because Steve and I are on

a Application called Skype. It's kind of like

a messenger slash chat voice chat thing and it

allows you to call Regular landline and cell

phones so if that we didn't have that we wouldn't

get this interview from you Anywhere just for

the new album are just going to be like amazing.

It's funny because I'm reaching for like a more

I'm trying to get more like lyrics that are very

meaningful Like this one really uplifting like

this will be your time and it's called your time

and another one that Is brand new that I haven't

even done the vocal yet. It's if this is all

there is it's about you know, somebody questioning

is is like beliefs and all that stuff and it's

like I don't know, with the title song from the

last album, In This Life, it kind of has a thing

like that where I need something to believe in.

It's not corny at all. It's a very cool way to

look at it. It's just about believing in yourself

and keeping it real and that kind of thing. I'm

just trying to get away from just writing simple

dumb love songs. Was gonna say yes, sometimes

those end up being number one hits. I mean, yeah,

it's Usually when I do when I listen to an album

Like whoever it may be, you know, I would like

I mean perfect example for me is Nickelback.

I'm a huge fan of theirs and They will Don't

release a single and then radio will play it

so much that people get burnt out on it I will

listen to the whole album first and I will pick

out myself what I think the singles should be

and You know at the I don't know. It's just something

weird that I do because I tend to not listen

to I listen to the rare tracks for the most part

on most of the the artists that I That I listen

to because it's some of them are so much better

than the singles sometimes do Do you have the

In This Life album? Yep. There's a song on there

called Southern Rain which is my favorite song.

It's kind of an unplugged track and it's about

growing up in the south and how great it is when

it rains down there and also it's about going

back to your childhood and all that kind of stuff.

It's a wonderful song. I was just wondering if

you remember that one. It's been a while since

I've listened to the whole album, but I will

go back to it and all Very cool If you had a

chance and like I said, this is these aren't

even written down questions. It's just stuff

that's popping into my head what would uh...

the nineteen eighty six version of the touch

if you did it acoustically what would that sound

like i mean do you do you have any idea do you

think maybe that could happen is maybe an easter

egg on the new album that's an idea yeah i thought

about doing an unplugged that would be really

cool yeah that that would sound really really

awesome just kinda like have the uh... the the

background of the music uh... just on on an acoustic

guitar, but more of a slowed down, not so up.

Yeah, it wouldn't have to be as high either,

you know, because you can sing down a little

lower. Yeah, what a concept. Yeah, people tell

me, oh, you always sing so high. It's kind of

an 80s thing, I guess. A lot of guys nowadays

don't sing up there, you know, although it's

coming back, I think, starting to be more rock

stuff, you know. Do you have any other questions

that you thought of, Steve? No. I think that's

it. Yeah, that's great. It's really great talking

to you guys. Like I say, people can find out

by checking in thestandbush .com and also the

MySpace. You can just click on that link and

there will be announcements about things coming

up. It's all good. Yes, it is. All right. Well,

We would like, oh, we also have to thank you

for the wonderful promos you did. Yes. Both are

just awesome. Oh, thanks. We will be using those

general promos for almost every show. Oh, that's

great. We're going to use the heck out of those

things. Yeah, that's one of the things I learned

how to do sound editing, you know, and so it's

kind of fun to put those things together. I wish

I had more time to do that kind of stuff, because

it is nice to have. Yeah, that's very, very cool.

All right. Well, appreciate the support, guys.

And if I can do anything for you. And again,

I will send you those links. OK. You can post

those or whatever. Yeah, I also have to tell

you I don't know if you ever listen to that link

I sent you for episode 16 of the TF doing podcast

but the reception from listening to that even

though people complain that it was a four -hour

episode of the podcast the reception as far as

uh... as far as me interviewing you for the first

time was like who might like it i i i like so

many emails from people saying oh my god i had

a fan gas and when you interviewed stan bush

i can't believe you got to do that and everything

else and i'm like you had a fan gas and what

do you think i felt uh... really appreciate stuff

like that you guys it just uh... it means a lot

well it's an honor to speak to you man i mean

your music's awesome and yeah it's just good

talking to you Well, I appreciate it. It's my

pleasure. I'll be talking to you soon. Just give

me a call if you need anything. Alright, thanks

a lot, Stan. Take care now. Bye. Hello and welcome

back to All Things Transformers. I am your main

host, Steve slash Megatron, and... I am... Yes,

TFG1 Mike, and we just finished and you just

heard an interview with us and Stan Bush. the

master behind the uh the touch i was gonna say

the dare the touch and dare on the tftm 86 soundtrack

um that was just so awesome yes yes um and stan

did give us permission to use a edited version

of the touch sam's theme which you will hear

as the closing of this 25th episode of all things

transformers um He also sent us promos, which

is super, super cool, which we'll be using along

in this episode as well as more episodes of ATTF

and TF1. Wow. I'm just like still in shock. Like

starstruck over here. Yeah, that was definitely

awesome what he did. Yeah. That was just super

awesome. And we must... we must give stan a uh...

words arson yet will we gotta use a huge because

while i mean he's got to be the most accessible

person as far as celebrity that i mean granted

he's he's my first interview in my second interview

but i mean you know me emailing them back and

forth he's very cool he's very you know easy

to talk to uh... it's just super super awesome

yes and i don't think i can say you know enough

good things about the man uh... and you know

i've heard other transformers fans on twitter

and in places like that sales dan bush and uh...

who really cares he's only got two songs no if

you actually go and and and and look at and do

research on the guy he's he's got more than just

the touch and there even you know twenty five

years of of music yeah awesome yeah i mean i

mean that you know in the interview i see you

know he asked me if i had heard um... uh... the

southern rain and i honestly i haven't listened

to his old album in a while uh... and i told

him that but i am going to go back after we finish

this and and and listen to it again uh... it's

just so awesome We do not have a title for his

new album yet, but he told us that there will

be about 13 tracks 12 or 13 tracks maybe 11 He's

not sure yet. He's still mixing it The touch

he's gonna Sam's theme he's gonna release as

a single in iTunes Eventually next maybe down

the line maybe late July As you heard in the

interview, he will be attending comic -con Which

is awesome in itself. I think it's really cool

that that he's doing that um not a lot of people

that you would think would go to comic -con that

actually go to it um but they do sometimes um

but yeah that was just super super awesome so

i think i am going to stop talking on on attf

25 because if i talk anymore it's gonna make

me sound like i'm kissing the guy's ass because

wow it it's just super awesome that's all i can

say Yes, it was great considering I've never

had the pleasure of Interviewing anyone before

so yes, this was Steve's we popped Steve's interviewing

cherry on this call So that was just I can't

say it enough super super awesome. I don't know

what else to you I think it's the only word I

can use at this point And I did thank him even

though I have not gotten it back from my friend

yet I did thank him so much for autographing

my CD that that was so awesome of him Yes, yes

Yes, so this has been ATTF 25 IMTF G1 Mike with

Steve Slash Megatron and we will see you in I

don't know when whenever the next release we

do is Yes, see you folks I'll be listening to

all things transformers till all are one. This

is Stan Bush signing off