CalArts Animation Issues, Nostalgia, Batwoman Exit, and Upload Series Review

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Hello. So this week, we're going to talk about

quite a few different topics, among them being

the Batwoman exit. Uh huh. and how nostalgia

is awesome. And when you screw with nostalgia,

you know, with redesigning something or depending

on how it's brought across, can be a good thing

or a bad thing. Yes. So with that in mind, I

think we will jump right into The first bit of

nostalgia which is blockbuster Yes blockbuster.

The last one is actually succeeding What's funny

is I wrote an article about this last year when

I worked for a tech website and At that time

another blockbuster there was another one that

was open, but it was in the process of closing

Right and it's humorous because now people go

to this blockbuster and they have like specialized

shirts and it's like the last blockbuster on

earth and You know all these other, you know,

they still get new releases They still you know

have it and people go there specifically because

it's a tourist attraction now Which honestly

is humorous in of itself But despite the fact

that coronavirus is closed everything down. They're

still holding on strong and it's in Oregon yes

yes it is it's the only one left on the planet

and it's managed to somehow stay afloat during

the global pandemic it says none of the employees

have been laid off they continue to receive paychecks

through the closing and reopening which in of

itself is amazing considering it's the last one

so it technically should be closed my question

is who owns this last blockbuster And who's rich

enough right now to be paying those employees

checks? I'm not saying anything against the fact

that it's still open. I'm not trying to be negative

about it. I'm just asking a question like who

owns it and who's paying the bills because this

blockbuster back in the day was blockbuster.

I mean, it was everywhere and Now they virtually

well, they are not just virtually are extinct.

I mean, there's one left Because they They reopen

for curbside pickup and it says that uh Customers

called them to request and pay for a film and

showed up at the store to receive a sanitized

DVD in a ziplock bag Sweet, that's cool Yeah,

I'm happy for him. I'm just curious who's paying

the bills. That's all Yeah, I I don't know I

do think that it's funny because I think they

kind of stay afloat a little bit by having all

their little specialized touristy stuff now because

of the fact that it's It's a landmark attraction

And I know that it's it's got an older clientele

in that area and that's why it stays open I believe

from what I I wrote a year ago mm -hmm so But

it's it's still funny that they're still around

And that's that's one piece of nostalgia that

didn't age well because DVD stores are pretty

much extinct other than like family video or

that Yeah, which somehow family video still open

stores, which is beyond me how that happens But

they are cheaper so As far as nostalgia that

people don't want is when you redesign the characters.

Okay, no, I need to preface this. Yes, you are

correct. However, it's when you redesign the

characters badly. Well, and I say that because

in the last three to four years, we've gotten

a lot of bad designs for animated characters

that at one time were very sophisticated and

I get that they cost more to animate although

I can't see how much more it would cost to animate

something good as it would be something bad when

they try to put as much detail into it as far

as like the movement but as far as the detail

on it itself everything is going for that steven

universe looking thing uh yeah the cal arts style

is what it's called yeah who who came up with

that I don't know but that's what I've seen Neil

call it The one ugliest like I used to hate Wallace

and Gromit because it was like it was claymation

But I would take claymation over this crap like

this this Cal art style is by far the worst thing

I've ever seen because along with it comes terrible

writing So what he's talking about folks is they

have taken it upon themselves to this is, I believe,

is it Kellogg's? I want to get this right. It

is Kellogg's, right? Yeah. Well, they did that

with Rice Krispies a few years ago, too. Yeah.

So I just wanted to make sure it wasn't like

General Mills. I wasn't confusing the companies.

So Kellogg's has taken it upon themselves to

decide that a redesign for Toucan Sam is needed.

As a child of the 80s, no, it is not. But OK,

whatever. I get it. You have to appeal to kids

of this generation. It's just It's awful It's

like they show them side by side in toucan. Yeah

of the 90s looks infinitely better Yeah, and

this thing looks like My son drew it I'm sure

you do a better job. Yeah. Well, I could draw

better. I could probably draw the real toucan

Then they put like in they didn't even have like

the stripes of color. It's a gradient Yeah, and

his beak like it's literally a gradient And they're

like And I'm not trying to knock artists But

come on like it's just the artists that they're

going to now like they're going to those Tumblr

artists who get famous for one thing or maybe

not or whatever Well, it's like they had this

guy that was like, oh IGW should hire me to draw

transformers or whatever his art was the same

crap It was the same stuff and and I was like

I got into a Yeah, we did we yeah, I got into

a more of an argument with them than you did

I says they're never gonna hire you Yeah, like

they're going for sophisticated art. This is

not it Like I'm like kudos to you, but it's your

art is not up to par like animated was better

Yeah, so my wife said to me when I showed her

this she's like oh It looks like that's his girlfriend

or his wife Comparing the two designs side -by

-side The original toucan male the new toucan

female looks like his girlfriend or his wife

And I don't disagree with Karen because she's

right it it doesn't look like Classic toucan

He has style. He has movement and he has he has

Yeah, he has texture. Don't get me wrong. I like

some gradient stuff you do a lot of really great

gradient stuff with art that you've done for

us over the years and everything else, but nothing

in this instance nothing beats texture and realism

and the new toucan just looks like Like you said,

I would rather have claymation because this looks

like a One of those birds you hit with a gun

at a Circus or something or a carnival like one

of the ducks on the thing that you win a prize

for that's what this looks like to me Well, it's

funny because this article says that Froot Loops

took it to social media to announce a rebrand

of their mascot And the wording on this is hilarious.

It says let's just say that things Aren't going

as planned. The internet hates it. Almost every

comment on the announcement post makes either

makes fun of the new design or begs the brand

to bring back the old Toucan Sam we all knew

and loved. Instead of a slightly, you know, creating

a slightly different version of the classic mascot

He's taken out a completely different appearance

with a 2d design trippy color Combinations and

oversized eye and a mouth that doesn't quite

fit right as one comment put it Who designed

this a 12 year old who just learned about the

rainbow gradient and smudge tool? No, I hate

it You know and it's it's funny because Along

with the redesign free loops announced for loops

world The new TV spot below, you know, and they

shown this article features a cereal box with

the former rendition of Toucan Sam You know this

this particular version of it it says You know,

what are they gonna do next repackage the the

box and you know It it says, you know paramount

faced a similar issue a few months ago with the

the movie trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog You

know the trailer would cause near -universal

criticism and Felt that you know the internet

felt that Paramount completely ruined the design

and then the people that were like oh Just let

them design what they're gonna design. Well.

It was just it was terrible and Thankfully redesigned

it and when the movie came out the movie actually

was really good But I feel like that people would

have overlooked it if that design didn't get

swapped back with the iconic one that everybody

knows Yeah, so they're you know It the font and

everything. It's it's the Steven Universe cowlart

style and they did this with They did this with

the Thundercats Roar they've done this with She

-Ra Yeah, and and honestly like this non detailed

non textured Stuff is just Let's put it this

way like my kids every now and again will watch

something animated They go to the CGI stuff this

stuff. They would just like meh There's there's

no ambition to watch it like they would sooner

watch Something that I had watched in the 90s

because it at least had some kind of a detail

to it. Yeah. Exactly. I don't know. You know,

here's hoping it helps sell more boxes of cereal,

but I am about a box of Froot Loops and and I

know I'm not the target. I get it. They're trying

to target little kids and whatever else, because

let's face it. When I first started remembering

to see Froot Loops commercial was when I was

like five or six years old, which was 85, 86.

I mean, you weren't even born yet, but it's one

of those things where, you know, I didn't really

remember it. I didn't really catch onto it until

I was five or six years old. And once I did,

I latched onto it and I've loved it for life.

I don't know what five or six or seven year olds

are going to think of this now. Just showing

them this, not showing them the comparison between,

oh, this is the old design and here's the new

design. Just take a six, seven, eight year old,

put them in front of a TV, show them whatever

commercial with this new design and see what

they say about it. Because I would be curious

to hear what the heck a kid would think about

this. Whether they liked it or not on its own.

I had no idea. Yeah. No clue. Though something

else it's a little bit controversial and and

I'll let you get into that Is that woman and

yes why the star left and I'll read it from the

article on variety and in kind of preface it

but The actress more or less left the CW show

yeah into everyone else it's kind of a surprise

that she will not be portraying the character

in season two and It basically stemmed from an

ill fit between star and production according

to multiple sources Rose was unhappy with the

long hours required of her as the series lead

which led to friction on the set It was thus

decided by her in the network and studio Warner

Brothers television that they would part ways

Her rep the reps for all included declined to

comment Of course they did Yeah, and so it says

her time on batman marked the first TV starring

role of her career She previously appeared on

orange is the new black and other films But it's

funny because the speculation has been all over

the place as to the reason for her exit And it's

been speculated that it had something to do with

pain associated with an emergency surgery. She

underwent For two herniated discs, but which

was last year. Yeah, it was not current. Yeah,

but they're saying another source of the situation

says it had nothing to do with her health or

injury. And. You know, mention that she's had

mental health issues, there's been other issues.

So it's been renewed for a second season, so

they're going to recast. They'll recast, but

I'm wondering if they'll recast the character

or if they'll create a whole new character to

replace her. Like bring in another Batwoman or

Batgirl to replace the Batwoman character. I

think they will use... I mean, that's possible,

but I think that they will probably... Okay,

so this was Kate Kane, the only other... You

know, Cassandra Kane was Batgirl, so that can't

happen. I don't know. I don't know what they're

gonna do. All is I know is the internet is going

crazy over this and My takeaway so it's funny

that this happened now Because this was announced

what today, right? Yeah, this is when Well this

this article there was another article that was

like two ago. Yeah. Okay, so right around Wednesday,

May 20th 2020 This is when this news happened.

One year ago, I had taken a screenshot and posted

it on Facebook of when the Batwoman first look

trailer from the CW YouTube channel was posted.

And the reason why I shared this screenshot of

it is I have it at the end of the video. It has

the Batwoman title, but I'm showing the YouTube

part of it where it's like, oh, this is from

the CW network. You're subscribed. It shows the

likes and the dislikes. That video has 60k, I

don't know what it has now, but at the time of

the picture a year ago, 60 ,000 likes, 226 ,000

dislikes. My comment last year, come on people,

the CW Batwoman series is gonna be cool. 226

,000 in dislikes, really? So this came up in

my memories on Facebook. So reacting to the news,

here's my reaction to this news. People have

been hating on the CW's Batwoman series since

day one. My only gripe with the first season

was that the Alice storyline should not have

been the whole season. Have it be five or six

episodes, give it a break, have her come back

at the end of the season or something. And I

know the season was kind of hindered by the COVID

-19 thing, but we're not going to go into that.

And my other rest of my thoughts is I think Ruby

Rose was a nice unknown entity that could have

grown into the role just as Christopher Reeve

did with Superman. In all caps, I write, and

before you all get your ants twisted in your

panties, I'm not comparing Rose to the greatness

of Reeve. I'm saying that they were both unknown

actors when they got chosen for the roles that

they played. As actors, they had to not only

embody the character, but they had to fill that

character's shoes and be comfortable doing it.

You're telling me that part of her reason of

leaving is that the hours are too long? She's

fresh. She's like the only other thing I've ever

seen her in is she was the deaf assassin in John

Wick 2 So a multi -million dollar movie Was kind

of her big make -me -famous thing which she had

a role where she said nothing in You know, well,

she's a series regular on oranges the new black

Yeah, that's a Netflix show that's not a multi

-million dollar movie franchise a lot of people

watched it. I know I'm just saying my point though

is that she's even more of a fresh -faced unknown

actor than Reeve was at least Reeve You know

came from I don't know where her background is

whatever where she went to school But Reeve came

from Juilliard Reeve came from you know plays

and all of that and everything else so this day

and age young actors It's all about that instant

gratification and not wanting to put some of

the work in and it kind of sucks Because like

I said, they're either gonna recast or they're

gonna do something else Who knows? I know they

are gonna recast but who knows how they're gonna

do it They've basically introduced what blue

persuade looks like in this universe to know

yeah I and because they have Tommy Elliot hush

Looking like him, but But no, I mean like I I

mean it kind of sucks when you have like a main

show like that And she does play it pretty strongly,

but at the same time I don't yeah, I think that

the show could have been better Yeah, I actually

feel that about all of the CW shows this year

Feel like there was a lot of letdowns with a

lot of the programming this year Especially surrounding

crisis Like before and after like I haven't really

cared for the flashes storyline all season I

kind of got into it, but I don't know I gotta

watch again Batwoman and Supergirl I actually

quit watching like I had zero interest after

crisis because it just kind of was going all

over the place and Yeah, I watched it for the

first couple episodes after and then I was just

like I Don't care anymore. And so I just stopped

watching and I'm still with legends because it's

just all over the place anyway Although I'm finding

that that's a little lacking to this season.

Yeah, but I'll probably complete the flash and

legends even though legends was one I was gonna

drop a lot earlier And it's somehow still made

it to the second level Legends is still going

they're still airing episodes. They have a couple

more left. I think flash just ended and it was

It wasn't bad, but I'm not really caring for

the whole buried has to be on a timer for his

powers they have to create this new artificial

speed force and Don't know but I did find it

interesting where they're using the mirror verse

thing and it's not actually mirror master I thought

that was kind of cool, but I Don't know. I don't

want to you know say too much and spoil it for

you because you haven't seen it even though most

the time I know you don't care about spoilers,

but I do want you to at least go into it cold

and You know, whatever Um, yeah, I don't know

man. I'm just like after crisis. I'm like, okay.

Well, that's the arrow verse. What's next? I

know I was kind of done with it. Like I know

that they're gonna air a Superman show they're

gonna air I figured with the other they were

gonna do arrow in the green arrow in the canaries,

but I don't feel like that's gonna take off Just

based on the fact that we haven't heard anything

Yeah Don't know I'm probably done as far as like

the CW shows are concerned unless they bring

in a Batman show Like that's the only way I'm

gonna stay tuned in I think to anything new Yeah,

and like I've mentioned the last couple of weeks

I'm not a person that can just constantly be

On point and keep up with this all this TV stuff

Week to week so I would much rather wait until

it hits Netflix or whatever And just marathon

it at some point that way. I'm already paying

for the service I get no commercials, and I don't

have to worry about it anymore And I can watch

it on my time versus somebody else's time So

yep, so yeah that That's kind of the interesting

thing as far as like the CW stuff anyway Now

there is one instance where nostalgia can be

done, right and That is the Star Trek Captain

Pike series Mm -hmm granted. We haven't seen

anything of it concrete for the new series. However,

we've gotten tastes of it already through discovery

season 2 through the short tracks and They've

CBS All Access has ordered Star Trek strange

new worlds with Captain Pike number one and Spock

and It's still I want to say seven years before

Kirk takes command of the Enterprise Meaning

either on the Farragut or another ship more than

likely is on the Farragut As a lieutenant at

this point the same as Spock and So the the interesting

thing is is they're saying that we could possibly

see a more downgraded enterprise than what we

saw in discovery because of the fact that It

had her number of refits before Kurt got it And

a lot of the stuff still looks like hyper futuristic

compared to the original series and what they're

saying is during the It's another one of those

cannon retcon type things They're saying that

Like in the even in the series they had holographic

projectors Mm -hmm, which was never seen in any

other Star Trek besides They installed it on

the defiant in deep space nine and it was on

the enterprise II Nemesis, but that's like a

hundred years in the future compared to here

Yeah, explain with that is They had this artificial

intelligence called control which section 31

ran and it became Alive essentially and Pike

didn't trust or didn't like the the holographic

projectors. He liked the screen aspect and so

he ordered it out of the enterprise and Taken

out and and at some point he becomes fleet captain

and so I'm assuming that when that happens He

will order that the entire fleet does away with

a lot of these extra add -ons and the enterprise

also had some boosts in discovery because of

The war that was going on at the time and so

I think that they'll downsize and anyways the

the nice part about this series is Anson Mount

who plays Captain Pike brings a nice kind of

mix between Kirk and Picard Mm -hmm, which is

refreshing and honestly, he's the only reason

I stuck with Discovery season 2 And Rebecca Romaine

who plays number one Does a really good job at

filling the role that Majel Barrett had although

granted they can kind of create him from scratch

in a sense because they only had one episode

that pike and Number one were even featured in

right Somebody mentioned that What's his name

that plays ratchet? in transformers prime jeffrey

combs jeffrey combs he played uh he played uh

andorian named shran on enterprise and he played

um one of the uh orda uh and uh a farangian deep

space nine but somebody suggested he should play

the doctor around this new show because he looks

almost like the actor that played the original

doctor and He's like, well I would he says I

feel like it's past my prime to do this, you

know and Meaning that nobody's approached him

but there was like a fan that posted and I saw

when it was fresh before it went viral right

and So he's gotten picked up all over the place

and I said So what would you do about the other

two cast members that that were shown because

they have a like a Navigator and then they have

like a yeoman that were in the cage as well that

had names And he's like, I don't know. But because

I was just poking the bear to see if I could

stir some more stuff up. But so, yeah, it was

pretty cool to see that come across the news

feed last week with the strange new worlds. And

the nice thing about it is they're planning on

it's going to be, again, a USS Enterprise centered

series, which this will be the first time since

Enterprise. Or TNG honestly that have covered

the enterprise So it'll be nice to see this kind

of come back up the other nice part again is

that They're gonna be episodic Mm -hmm. They're

not gonna be serialized So you won't necessarily

have to watch every episode every episode. Yeah

So if something doesn't appeal to you, it won't

affect you ultimately. Yes, the characters evolve

gradually anyway throughout the series like any

other, you know, even TNG did that. But you won't

have to feel inclined to watch all of it. And

then they're they're trying to bring a whole

new perspective to it and have. Not only more

stories be told but have it more uplifting and

less dark and more fun and more You know more

in vain of what TNG and TOS had Yeah, so TOS

so that it's more fun and exploratory, but it's

less Down to the dumps like discovery and Picard

have been So I either way I'm really looking

forward to it. I'm glad that these actors get

to come back. So that's that's my piece on it

Very cool, very cool. Yeah, I don't know just

not I Find that my television watching whether

it's streaming or whatever it's more Need to

keep up with whatever I'm keeping up with but

I don't want to have to keep up with it on somebody

else's schedule kind of thing Yeah, I mean they

they trickle it out to There they're going to

trickle it out on CBSL access weekly just like

they do discovery Picard all that But Yeah, I'm

looking forward to it. It's one of the few series

like pretty much anything Star Trek as long as

it's like I honestly don't care about the section

31 thing that they've been talking about for

two years I don't care about lower decks, which

is like a Rick and Morty Star Trek And they're

gonna have like a Nickelodeon kids cartoon as

well. I don't care about that either, but But

this I'll pick up. I'll definitely watch this

and I hope that they don't do it wrong considering

it's the same creative team behind Discovery

and Picard. Right. So. Speaking of other television.

Yes, other television. So my buddy Jesse Raz,

who has been on the pullback a couple of times

and he's done the Hot Car episodes of GCR that

we've done with Hot Car Awareness and yadda yadda

yadda. He's a... local DJ back in Louisville,

Kentucky, um, posted something from what I love

now is like, you know how we have the, like last

year it was all about, Oh, post this, this, and

this, or let's do these quizzes things. Well,

now it's all these things of, Oh, post your,

your 10 favorite albums that Influenced you or

something or post 10 favorite TV show or whatever

the hell it is so and what I also love is that

these screencaps from Twitter I see them more

so on Facebook about what? Our leadership in

this country is doing than anything else, but

this one from my buddy Jesse Raz says I read

somewhere that people with anxiety love rewatching

old TV shows and movies that they have seen millions

of times, because there is no ounce of anxiety

in wondering what the end result is. Now I know

why I prefer to rewatch them than start something

new. As I just mentioned a few moments ago, I

hate having to keep up with something as it's

happening. If it's on Netflix and all of it's

on Netflix, or if it's on Hulu and all of it's

on Hulu, I will watch it at my own pace kind

of thing. And I feel that in my bones. Like I

just can't. I would rather watch shows that I've

watched a million times already. And I've done

that. I've even mentioned that the last three

episodes of this podcast, I've mentioned numbers,

I've mentioned Dharma and Greg, I've mentioned

whatever. It's funny. I actually wanted to make

sure I did this tonight. Over the last, I think,

three weeks, I have been rewatching the Blacklist

from the beginning. Oh, wow. You're ambitious.

I've just now started. I just finished season

four tonight and I as of this recording and I

just started. I haven't even really gotten into

season five, episode one, but I just finished

season four and I'm like, oh, Mr. Kaplan, damn

it. Now, have you watched it before? I yeah,

I was watching it when I when it was. Fred when

it first started I watched the first two seasons

and I think I watched Out of the 22 or 23 episodes

of season 3 I think I watched maybe 10 or 11

of them like I think I watched like the first

nine and then I dropped off and I picked it back

up and Then I had seen like the first four episodes

of season 4 so I hadn't seen anything past episode

4 of season 4 So it was interesting to find out

everything that happens after episode four of

season four. And I have not seen any of season

five, six or the seventh season that just ended.

So five, six and seven are all fresh for me.

And I love the show. It's just like I said, I

couldn't keep up with it. So but I've been marathoning

that I did that other things. I did that recently

as well with the blacklist. So I can be caught

up to where they would be for this current season,

although I haven't watched the comic based episodes

yet. The one where they kind of go regular episode

and then comic based. I am looking forward to

catching that, though. So. I specifically set

it for my DVR so I could see it eventually, but

it is what it is. I'm sure the seventh season

will show up on Netflix at some point here soon,

now that it's over. I don't know when. I don't

think it's on there yet. Actually, I'm pretty

sure it's not. But what are your thoughts about,

you know, going back to, and I know generally

what your thoughts are on it, but for the people

that don't know, Going back versus starting something

new I find nostalgia is easier Just because the

entry point is not as jarring Like even introduced

to the franchise before or whatever it may be

or the show you generally know what episodes

you can skip Yep, if you've seen it and you know,

which ones are feel good You know which ones

you you know, if you you have a certain disposition

at a certain time, you know, which one is going

to hit that that particular feeling that you're

looking for But also like I Occasionally when

I've just burnt out and I don't want to do anything

I'll watch like I'll blitz through a bunch of

old Star Trek even though I've seen them all

before at some point I'll watch some that I really

enjoy sometimes like and just purposely skip

ones that I've not seen before Which is very

few at this point But because my goal is I go

through Netflix and then I look for any and now

at this point that don't have a You know the

the bar that shows that they've been played Mm

-hmm But no, I mean I go through for the most

part and I'll watch those and if I feel like

every now and again I'll watch a movie that I've

haven't watched in some time, but For the most

part like I'll what I want to go to show that's

easy that I Don't necessarily have to worry about

Or I can have it as background noise. I always

turn on Star Trek It may be one of the the main

four old ones, but it's always a track Yeah Yeah

for me It depends on what I'm trying to do. If

I'm trying to rely and this is, and I know I've

talked about this before, but again, folks, I

repeat myself a lot. It depends on what I'm trying

to do. If I'm trying to relax and watch something

and pay attention to it, I have to either be

sitting at my computer, which I currently don't

have cause it's in storage. That's whatever,

or I'll be, you know, or Karen and I will be

laying in bed or something or sitting up or whatever

we're doing. And we'll watch it and we'll pay

attention to it. If I'm by myself and she's either

sleeping or working or whatever, because she

has she's doing some part time stuff from home,

you know, like my watch through the blacklist,

I cannot lay on my side and watch it because

I know as soon as I lay on my side, I will fall

asleep. So if I want to pay attention to it and

figure it out and whatever, I have to be laying

on my stomach. you know my face in my phone watching

it and I don't mind watching on my phone I actually

prefer it half the time because I'm so used to

it at this point uh I still like watching on

you know on the computer or on television and

things like that but the only new thing is two

new things and I know I've mentioned these before

I want Karen and I to eventually check out You

on Netflix, which is with Penn Badgley and a

bunch of other people. But Penn Badgley was the

gossip guy, or I should say the gossip girl,

back in the day. So that's a series on Netflix

that I want to check out at some point. And because

it's a series on Netflix that has all the episodes,

as I already mentioned, I can watch it whenever

I want. The other one that just started, it actually

just... Uploaded all its episodes is the Amazon

Prime original series called upload This is we've

watched five out of the ten episodes currently

and it is just hilarious instead of actually

going to You know regular dying like going into

a coffin or being cremated or whatever you go

to upload They basically upload your consciousness

into this digital heaven Sadly, there is a bit

of violence in it because after your consciousness

or your being is uploaded, they basically decapitate

you. So there is a little bit of gore and guts

and whatever, but it's a good series, though.

It really, really is. It's a very interesting

series. It's only 10 episodes. So it isn't like

that's the thing comparing something that's like

on Netflix or Amazon Prime, that's 10 episodes

or 13 episodes. to the four seasons of 21, 22,

or 23 episodes that I've seen of the Blacklist

in the last three weeks, I can easily watch a

Netflix or Amazon Prime or Hulu or whatever series

more than I can watch a regular 22 episodes season

of whatever show it is. Yeah, I can see that.

Yeah, but it's... It's actually pretty interesting.

Yeah, I find nostalgic and I kind of agree with

the statement of, you know, things are, you know,

you don't have the anxiety that comes along with

watching a show because you already know the

outcome. Which, again, I totally agree. So, yeah,

I mean, it's not that jarring or anything, and

there's not that much investment really. So,

even as far as that is concerned, you pretty

much know what you're gonna be able to, you know,

what you're gonna get. Absolutely. For those

that may be interested and have Amazon Prime

and want to check out upload, here's the description

from Amazon Prime. Emmy -winning Greg Daniels

from The Office, Parks and Rec comes a hilarious

new sci -fi comedy. In the future, people can

upload their consciousness to a luxurious digital

afterlife. When a party boy Nathan gets uploaded

into a virtual resort, he meets the down -to

-earth Nora, who starts as his customer service,

quote -unquote, Angel, but becomes so much more

as she helps him find friendship, love, and purpose.

Okay, so first of all for us Probably for you

more than for me. I forgot but this the guy that

stars is Nathan Robbie Amell Okay, so it's Ronnie

from you know flash and whatever arrow and all

that It's interesting It's a fun. It's a fun

little series that has ten episodes you don't

have to do too much with it and There are moments

that will shock you and there are moments that

will just have you laughing on the floor like

a hyena Yeah, I I wouldn't be opposed to that

so Yep But yeah, so what are what are some nostalgia

shows that you kind of go to that are kind of?

more or less comfort food. Oh, boy. It's gonna

be a long podcast, folks. He just asked me that

question, and I have like 200 shows on my list,

but I'll try to keep it short. Just shows for

me that I love. Night Rider, Airwolf 18, my three

80s action shows that I absolutely love. Nash

Bridges from the 90s. Dharma and Greg whenever

I need to laugh I watch Dharma and Greg because

that show is absolutely hilarious Jenna Elfman

and Thomas Gibson absolutely kill it I've seen

numbers. I don't know how many times and I'm

not a math guy at all and watching watching Bernard

from yep watching watching David Krumholz from

Santa Claus watching him be a math professor

and explaining math in a real -world perspective

just Absolutely love that I know that he's kind

of humorous and his stuff there. Mm -hmm And

that also has Judd Judd Judd Hirsch in it from

Taxi and from Independence Day. Independence

Day, he played the father to James, not James,

Jeff Goldblum's character. Law and Order, Criminal

Intent, I can watch over and over and over again.

What I find is some of these like Law and Order,

Criminal Intent and some of these other, and

that's not a true crime show, but like true crime

stuff like I mentioned before on ID. Apparently,

it helps me sleep or it helps me at least get

sleep. And I know I've talked about this before,

but Karen and I have seen every single episode

of Forensic Files. So I can put Forensic Files

on my phone in the background and just let it

play. And Peter Thomas, the narrator, will just

lull me to sleep with his dussel tones. So, you

know, that's a thing. Yeah, I mean, there's just

so much TV from the past that I absolutely love.

I know I mentioned a couple weeks ago I had watched

through Beast Machines again. I watched through

select episodes of Transformers Generation 1.

I needed to do both of those again. Yeah. Just

because it's been a while. But I do... Like I

said, Star Trek is pretty much my go -to, but

I do occasionally try new shows. Not very often,

but... Unless it's something that instantly appeals

to me, and this is what I've been saying for

years and people say, oh, you shouldn't judge

it, Pike. And I know I've said this on this show

and other shows on GCRN. The whole point of a

trailer, whether it's for film, a television

show, whatever, specifically film and TV. The

whole point of it is to either get you to want

to see it or get you to I can wait or I'm not

that's not for me kind of thing. I heard people

talking about you on Netflix and I watched I

think maybe the first five or 10 minutes of the

first episode and I'm like, oh, this is really

interesting. I should point this out to my wife

to see if she would like it and We haven't started

watching the rest of it yet But you know, it's

one of those things where if somebody points

it out to me, I'll check it out Or if somebody

said that's kind of like how how I found upload

a buddy of mine on Facebook posted about it And

I'm like, oh hmm, that sounds interesting. I'll

check it out You know, but if it's too much if

it's over saturation of of of media or of advertising

for it it's like no I'll wait I'll wait until

this train has has has left the station and come

back again and check it out later when no one

else is paying attention to it in other words

you don't jump on the hype train not a lot of

times I don't unless it's a property you're already

enjoying and then you're like I'll hop on this

right or unless it's a concept that I think could

be cool So yeah Yeah Yeah, that reminds me I

need to revisit Beast Machines It's been a while

since I've watched that Yeah, that's that's pretty

much the entire episode this week So if you guys

have some nostalgia shows that you really enjoy

and would like to let us know what they are Or

shows that just You've seen him a million times.

There's no anxiety with it. You don't have to

worry about it. It's just kind of like a guilty

pleasure show Let us know you can email us feedback

at geek cast radio comm you can let me know on

the Twitter sphere at SCP 21 and of course on

the Facebook page That's right and speaking of

geek cast radio We're getting close to that 11

year mark, aren't we? Yes, yes, we are Some some

new things are being planned out Won't be rolled

out all at once, but they're in the works There's

a lot of things that are realistic Gonna kind

of go back to our core a little bit I don't even

remember us having a core, but no, I know I know

what you're saying. Yeah But but yeah, we're

gonna make things a little bit easier as far

as the websites concerned and As far as features

and all these other ideas that we have floating

about some new graphics some new design elements

that you'll rather enjoy once we reveal them,

so Yep, my categories Yes your categories, so

I posted this May 17th At that time we were I

think two weeks away from the 11 year anniversary,

which is June 1st 2020 That is the geek cast

radio networks 11 year anniversary and all that

time which podcast of ours have you listened

to and which do you still listen to our goal

has always been to in all caps entertain you

and Have in all caps fun while doing it We here

at the GCR and always want to unleash the geek

in you and give you the best podcasts we can.

Thank you to all the listeners, fans, friends,

and all you other people. Thank you to all the

geeks and geek cats that have recorded podcasts

with us. Thank you to everyone who has allowed

us to interview them. We have some feedback from

this, not a lot, but some on that post that I

wrote. A super fan and good friend, Mike Carvalho.

Hope I'm pronouncing his name, right? It's Mike

you can send hate mail to tfg1 Mike at gmail

.com Yep, or you know you can send money to that

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and Mike at gmail .com for PayPal and any other

transactions you'd like to send anyway? Radio

calm that's right also longtime supporter super

fan Brad Mull He goes on and says, thank you

for 11 years of great content. The library has

decreased a bit on my iPod mainly because of

a lot of the recap shows are over with. But The

Beast Unleashed will always be my fave and I

relisten to some episodes from time to time.

A lot comes down to personal preference. Since

cutting the cable, I don't watch wrestling anymore

and I've noticed most of the GCRN episodes are

wrestler related or comic related, so I don't

listen to much there. My number one weekly listen

now is obviously Altered Geek and Future Imperfect

when apps are released. And a whole thread. Came

of this and I replied to Brad said you should

read comics. There's something there for everyone

and then listen to the pull bag Our good buddy

exactly our good buddy Jeremy Fane says it's

always legends of the dark knight pull bag and

tune cast for me Michael Wilson has to rear his

ugly head People still listen to beast unleashed

I'm like It's the ultimate Beast Wars Beast Machines

podcast. Well, it's not every day you get a lot

of voice actors, a lot of creators, and you get

a dude that can imitate Megatron and Waspinator

in the same show. Yep. And then our good friend,

longtime co -host only did a few things with

this terrace from Canada says, glad to have been

a part of it and gave me so much insight and

experience. Hope to come back one day and record

again. Anyone that has already recorded with

us that You know, we still are in contact with

anyone is available as long as you're available

or we're available Anyone can always come back.

I mean, it's Luke Skywalker said no one's ever

really gone. I Know bad. Well, that's kind of

heartbreaking considering Our good friend optimus

skirt you started toy cast with me he did pass

away but yeah He could be with you in spirit.

Exactly. As long as he doesn't haunt the toys

you play with. I don't know what Gary would think

of Funko Pops. I honestly don't know because

they weren't really a thing when we were recording

the show. Like they were around, I think, obviously,

because Funko's been around for like 20 years.

But I was not. I was on my Mighty Mugs kick back

then because Mighty Mugs were super popular.

Um, and I think funko was doing like wacky wobblers

I don't I don't think the pops had taken off

yet back in 20 2009 2010 2011 Um, but anyway,

I I just you know Anyone that we have recorded

with in the past that we still continue to record

with or reach out to Is always more than welcome

to come back to the show. Anytime anyone has

anything to say michael powers As long as we

all have time for it, we would love to have you

back on the show. Yep Cuz we all know I suck

at this podcasting thing and we need better hosts

You mean insights insight No, I'm out of sight

see ya Yeah, poof I got snapped away I was the

one percent that got snapped away when when that

idiot snapped his fingers Oh, we all know that

that doesn't happen. Besides, did you see what

I posted to Jeremy? Oh, where was this? On his

Facebook. So he made he made this was this was

kind of funny because he made a comment about

This is my two thoughts on the HBO Max Justice

League Snyder cut. It's one It's an excuse to

get HBO Max and add another subscription service

to your debt to you I don't know how and why

not a bad thing Disney Marvel got to build a

Marvel cinematic universe, but He says but they

did it the bastards did it. Yeah, and Disney

Marvel got lucky WB is just throwing character

ideas to a wall and here we go it took individual

films, sequels, and major plot to bring the Avengers

together and go up against Thanos. Darkseid is

no Thanos, and the Anti -Life Equation is no

Infinity Gauntlet. Just let it die. Ben moved

on. Shazam is not teaming up with the League.

Wonder Woman is adequate, but nothing great.

Same as Aquaman. Watch them once and once only,

and I'm kind of super -heroed out. Thoughts.

And one of his... Friends on there goes on the

dark side topic He is in fit infinitely more

dangerous than Thanos need proof read final crisis

anything that occurs there is just because he

showed up not because he had to do collect some

rocks to make him powerful and and it was kind

of humorous and then Somebody says Thanos is

weaker because he's always trying to impress

the female personification of death dark side

loves no one Yeah. Then you post the image of...

And then I post these memes, because I collect

anything with Star Trek related. And honestly,

I collect memes anyway. But it shows Thanos with

the Infinity Gauntlet and all the stones. This

is, once I've gotten the Infinity Gauntlet and

collected all six Infinity Stones, I'll finally

be able to shape reality with just a snap of

my fingers. And then below it, it's a picture

of Q. Lower life forms are so amusing. And then

he snaps his finger. And then there was another

one because I've got there's like six of them

with Q There's one with Thanos on the bridge

of the Enterprise and says Your federation is

spread through the galaxy like a cancer consuming

all in its path Your replicators produce so much

for your own kind while you allow entire planets

within your reach to starve and die because of

your cruel prime directive. I am here to end

your plague and begin galactic healing. I will

eradicate your entire federation with simply

a snap of my... And then you see the queue flash

like he's gone. And it says in the queue sitting

there next to Wesley, I'm sorry, but I just couldn't

let him babble on anymore. Not everyone needs

19 movies and a pretty glove to learn the Donald

old parlor trick. It snaps his finger, you know?

Yes. I find those amusing. Yeah, absolutely.

The first commenter, Edward Hale, is a longtime

friend of Jeremy's now, Edward and his wife Kendra.

I actually just became friends with them on Facebook

because I have all these new connections that

I want to record with and bring on to the network

as co -hosts and whatever, just guest spots and

whatever. So I'm trying to be more... Social

on social media But more social yes anti -social

anti -social anti So yeah Quick before we get

out of here and this will probably be the last

thing because I'd really in six days I really

don't think they're gonna hit 500 grand I will

give one final update for Legend of the White

Dragon Kickstarter. They hit the $300 ,000 mark,

which means a comic book prequel series will

be made. So that's going to be cool. I think

that's it. I think that's all I got. That's all

I've got for this episode anyways. Yep. So let

us know, folks. Shoot us an email. Send us messages

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