Kevin Conroy Returns as Batman and Streaming Service Updates

Oh, yes. Hello. I'm Megatron and you're listening

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tuned in to Steve on Altered Geek. Hello and

welcome to Altered Geek. I'm your host, Steve

the Producer. Yeah, that's my new title at work,

so... So joining me in this episode is TFG1Mike.

Yes, and I'm not feeling very effing great right

now. Yeah, computer problems. Especially when

Windows is like that, to put it bluntly, it's

like that relative that comes over, eats all

your food, and leaves all their trash all over

the place. Yeah, that's Windows. And so it installs

all its stuff, and then it's like, yeah, you

clean up the boxes and the papers and all the

wrappers and all the instruction manuals, and

we're going to hit the road. We'll come back

in the next time. And that's basically what Windows

has done to Mike is leave all of its baggage

behind and not clean up after itself. First of

all, I... tried uninstalling certain programs

that it automatically thought i needed for installation

like anything to do with x -bone i'm sorry i'm

not an xbox player i've never been an xbox player

i never will be an xbox player and it has nothing

to do with the games or the whatever from microsoft

or anything like that has to do with the fact

that i was born with cerebral palsy it affects

the right side of my body I can only play video

games one -handed, and every single one of the

Xbox controllers is way too damn big for me to

use. So why, and second of all, why in the fuck

would I need anything to do with Xbox on my PC?

That makes no sense whatsoever to me. So I uninstalled

all that, I did everything else, and then the

thing popped up and said, oh, you should delete

the previous version of Windows. Well, back in

my day, back in my day, When you install the

new update or a new preview or whatever you want

to call it, it overwrote the other one. It overwrote

the old one. It used to ask you a million times,

are you sure you want to do this? Are you sure

you want to do this? Are you sure you want to

do this? And when you finally said, yes, you

got the new version, you got the new this, the

new that, and you didn't have the old version

anymore because it overwrote itself, well, apparently,

they don't do that anymore. Yep pretty much and

on top of that some things have With this new

update. I don't know if it was something I did

but I very rarely use like night mode on my computer

like I'll use it on like my phone on like Twitter

and stuff and whatever and I'll use Facebook

Messenger dark or whatever, you know dark mode

whatever on my actual PC screen Don't need that

because I just don't I'm fine with the traditional

Not necessarily super bright, but you know just

the right like the difference between night mode

and And regular mode on mine is that it turns

like the white part of the Skype window It turns

it like tan or sepia or whatever the hell it

turns it to So yeah Computer problems yay. Yeah,

so I can I can definitely understand that yep

But yeah, it's uh It's it's definitely a pain

when when things don't work right no So yeah,

I I've spent I don't know the greater part of

the last week kind of paying attention to things

going on on the interwebs One of my assignments

recently was to listen to a plethora of other

podcasts. And when I say a plethora, I mean 25.

Just kind of to see how things are going on other

competitor podcasts per se. It was interesting.

There were a number of shows that were very well

produced, very well thought together type of

programs, very clean. And then there were other

ones where people basically ripped YouTube video

music and played disc jockey with it and created

a podcast of all just music. And I mean, granted,

I think that they got permission, but still it

was... I could listen to them all on YouTube

and then there were a number of other programs

that either had really bad audio quality or they

were super boring and They made it onto this

Top 25 kids podcasts list and then the funny

thing is is like two or three of them were totally

defunct they haven't had episodes in like a year

or two and And I'm like, how are these on a July

edition of this list? Mm -hmm. It just it didn't

make sense to me and But there were a number

of shows on there that were very well produced

and and had actually won various awards where

there was Peabody Awards or YB Awards or I heart

radio which That's anybody that knows my heart

it's I hate My To preface it, my gripe with iHeart

has nothing to do with the fact that they have

podcasts or that they have a radio thing going

on. It has to do with the fact that they say

that they're the first of everything. You know,

first to have an award show for podcasters, you

know, when podcastawards .com was going on 14

years. And then, you know, there's been other

ones too, but... You know, first to have a podcast

that's broadcast on radio. Well, no, another

state in another area in Pennsylvania or one

of those states did it first. It was just...

They've been playing that I'm first game to try

and get buzz in publicity and it just doesn't

work. Well, let me tell you something. But, but,

since they launched its first ever... kid -hosted

podcast, which it says, it's not the. So I was

very, very happy to see this pop up as it's instead

of the, but still, anytime I see iHeartRadio

and podcasting news, I cringe. Yeah, their app,

because I have their app on my phone, because

I don't listen to it for the podcasts. I listen

to it for radio stations, whether that's local

here to Chicago or other radio stations, but

they have classic American Top 40 with Casey

Kasem. I listen to those every now and then,

especially if an episode from the 80s pops up

or something. Opens up and it says I heart radio

now number one for podcasting is what it says

which is again a lie because yeah Spotify and

and Apple podcasts are actually like neck and

neck for number one. I heard radio doesn't even

compute On that list they don't They may have

the largest streaming like like on the radio

platform, yeah But they don't have the largest

podcaster platform that goes to, of course, Apple

podcasts and then Spotify, which has eaten up

the market on purpose to try and dominate Apple.

And that's why to me it's like, it's hilarious

whenever I see something for iHeartRadio pop

up because I'm like, it just, it's like cringe

-worthy because. They're not the first in anything,

but they always claim it and Yep, you know Garbage

in garbage out. I guess I don't know. It's just

I don't know. I can't I Can't fathom why why?

They have fun with that like I'm number one Look

at me. Look at me. I'm important You know I don't

see a lot of other platforms do it like you know

Google podcasts is atrocious and yet You know

they they still hit the charts at some point

and and remarkably don't toot their own horn

at all Now I will say I will say you know that

You know as far as the the podcasts are concerned

It's kind of neck -and -neck like what's funny

about our shows are they either are Apple Core

Media which is basically like iPhones or iPads

or iPods or whatever and they break it down sequentially

based on that but majority of our shows either

come from the Apple Core Media downloads or Windows

Media Players number two And then it's usually

like iTunes is like in the top five and then

in Spotify is usually up there pretty close What's

funny is this particular week? I heard radio

is actually number three Hmm, but it still trails

behind like it's not number one like yeah, it's

not number one. It's just I don't know It's just

it just makes me laugh when I see those things

because honestly Windows media players is Predominantly

are number one. Yep Which is funny Yeah, I believe

I was on last week. I don't remember at this

point I had mentioned music talks podcast and

part -time nerds full -time dads music talks

is done by Terry Smith Who's a cool -ass Brit

guy? Who taught his show is basically you talk

about one song per every decade that you've been

alive kind of thing Part -time nerds full -time

dads is Mike Laidman formerly of Twig, along

with his buddy Chris Blonsky, basically talking

nerdy dad stuff and that kind of thing. I listen

to both of those shows through Spotify now instead

of downloading them through Apple Podcasts, iTunes,

whatever. I'm always going to call it iTunes

because thankfully, Windows platform is still

iTunes. It's not these three separate apps. Well,

for now, yeah. So but like I've been using Spotify

for those two shows. I even added the pull bag

to check the pull bag out I added a TTF to make

sure things are going right with that and I'll

add the rest of the GCR and shows at some point

my one complaint with Spotify for podcasts is

sometimes And I'm crazy. I think I said this

the last week 40 for 44 episodes the the First

entire 44 episodes of Mike and Chris's show within

five days now several times while listening on

Spotify When I would close the app or on my phone

or I would pause the show It sometimes would

kick me back to the beginning and I don't really

like that So that's the only negative I have

on Spotify for podcasts, but the rest of it,

absolutely love it. Yeah, I've used it when I

was doing the research for work. As far as listening

to all the podcasts, I predominantly used if

they didn't have a web player on their website,

which about half of them didn't, which was surprising.

I used their Apple Podcast link, which would

allow you to pull up their profile page in a

browser, and you could play it directly from

there. Or I would pull up their Spotify link,

which honestly was easier. And I perused them

that way. And then, of course, taking notes and

everything. Although I will say I did get some

awesome ideas from it, which I'll have to share

with you off air. But yeah, it was really interesting

going through and doing that, getting a plethora

of different perspectives and thought processes

behind different podcasts. And I heard, like

there were a number of different things that,

like there was another podcast they listened

to that somebody was interviewed on from work

and they were mentioning something about distribution

platforms with podcasting. Mm -hmm, and how you

know, oh, you know, there should be a Netflix

of podcasting which will never happen Because

that would require everybody to everybody would

have to pull their stuff into the same pot and

expect to get paid from it And nobody's gonna

get equal pay on that anyway Um, and plus you're

talking, if everybody has a subscription model,

then it's basically like paying for cable again,

because you're getting all these different stations.

And it's, you know, it's just like the streaming

war going on right now with video. It's, it's

never going to happen. Podcasts were free. They'll

remain that way. And, and honestly, like, yes,

there are some exceptions, but predominantly

people monetize it through dynamic ad insertion

or live reads. It's not, it's... That's partially

why I tore out the advertising on the GCRN website.

I'm not going to play that game. Yeah, it's not

getting us anything. If it's not going to do

anything for us, then why are we going to have

it on the website clogging it up? And the thing

with the dynamic ads or the live reads, I have

always felt that live reads are completely fake.

I'm not saying that they're fake. I believe that

they sound fake because Okay, say I'm you know,

we're having a nice little conversation here

about how live reads are faked And then all of

a sudden I say hey folks you want to hear more

from altered geek go to Apple podcasts Spotify

Google podcasts and Spreaker like that just doesn't

like or and honestly, I blame Kevin Smith. I

friggin blame Kevin Smith because His shows,

when I was listening to them five, 10, whatever

years ago, that dude would talk. I know that

dude can talk a lot, but that dude would talk

ads, like seven ads in the first five to 10 minutes

of his show. Like I understand he has a lot to

pimp out, but you don't have to pimp everything

out every single episode. Like that was just

a little too weird for me. I don't mind record

like recording one and inserting it somewhere

or Working it into a natural like my natural

speech pattern of a closing of a show like I

You know this and most everyone that may or may

not listen to this show and other shows that

I've done Let's know this I've always had a general

outro for every single show I've done. And I

modify that. Like for review shows, I insert

what episodes, what cartoon episodes, or whatever

is gonna come next on the next episode. But it

generally has, here's the ways you can get in

touch with us, you know, go to geekcastwriter

.com, leave us reviews, and blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah. Well, now I'm gonna work that reminder

of where people can find us. Right now I have

a... a pre -recorded ad that I used at the beginning

of the pull bag, but I'm gonna work that into

the outro from now on. I just have to remember

to actually do the outro, because the pull bag

kind of is willy -nilly with the outro sometimes,

because we have a really cool outro done by you,

so all the information is in the pre -recorded

outro. But it works. I don't know. It's like

the old Decast Radio ones that we used to do.

you know where I was like you know and I would

I would modulate my voice and you're listening

to Geekcast radio on the Geekcast radio network

you know and then just um which honestly was

a lot of fun and granted I had to do it in audacity

just to get the effect I was looking for at the

time because sound booths didn't have it now

I can't I can do it in audition um But still,

it's just, I don't know, it's really funny to

sit there and do that. I might try that again,

like, soon. But yeah, I mean, it's a little different,

you know? Having it pre -recorded for certain

aspects like that But I definitely think that

it resonates better having it come from the host

Especially if it's something that you can tell

that they're not faking like they're passionate

about whatever they're promoting You know, it's

not just a general ad is I guess what I'm saying

Because you can smell it a mile away Yeah, and

so yeah, I mean it's It's it's it's a different

monster. I would I would just say All together,

but yeah, I don't know I'm I'm kind of Exploring

different options as far as that's concerned

what it will say is Even on the website it was

brought to my attention. There was way too much

crap on the episode or the the podcast page Like

the the current design of you know trying to

find things on that page like there was the giant

banner And then there was the you know So I'm

going through them, and I'm trying to and I'm

having problems doing it, but I'm trying to create

a drop -down under each podcast Granted I have

the code. I know it works. It just won't work

on WordPress So it's finding another maneuver

and trying to figure out how to word it to get

a plugin that does what I'm trying to do or that

specific add -in. But I'm trying to do it so

that people can scroll down and select the download

source that they're looking for instead of having

to have a plethora of just links all over the

place with different avenues. It's just I don't

know a lot of sites do that or do something similar

So that's I guess kind of where I'm I'm heading

with it On the site, yep, so But yeah, so Something

cool that happened this week. Mm -hmm. Would

you like to Do this since the internet exploded

when it happened. Oh my god He forever will be

the Batman Finally Kevin Conroy gets to play

an older version of Bruce Wayne in live -action

crisis on infinite earths will feature Kevin

Conroy as old man Bruce Wayne. I cannot wait

for this. And just as a little side note, there's

supposed rumors going around that Rosenbaum is

coming back as Lex. At some point, it's not confirmed

by anybody. I've seen images, like screencaps

of Rosenbaum tweeting Cryer, like, do you know

anything about this? I know as about as much

as you do, which is nothing kind of thing. So

I don't... Think like until, you know, we have

an actual like comic book resources was the first

place I saw the Kevin Conroy news besides Kevin

Conroy himself tweeting it out and sharing it

on Facebook. But that is going to be epic. Now,

I know everyone under the sun on the Internet

has been like, oh, but Michael Keaton would make

great old man Bruce for a Batman Beyond movie.

He absolutely would. But we're getting old man

Bruce Kevin Conroy. the CW DC universe and I

think that what they're doing with this crisis

on infinite earths I think is their way of not

only sending off arrow which has set this whole

thing in motion but in honoring every iteration

of DC television and even some of the films all

the way back to the 60s Yeah, because even Burt

Ward's gonna be in it. Mm -hmm on an undisclosed

role. Yep. I'm I'm betting Commissioner Gordon,

but Okay, sure I Mean that's that's I mean, honestly

that would be where I could see him playing or

or He could be playing an old, you know, like

a Dark Knight Returns version of Robin Like in

a sense. Yeah. Yeah, very true. So, I mean, it's

just it's just yeah But I don't know I'm kind

of excited for it and I love the fact that they're

getting Conroy and there's like You know Mark

Campbell's already been in it in the arrow verse

as the trickster Although it would have been

nice to see the other iteration Maybe against

this version, but it'll be kind of cool to see

him play old man Bruce and What would be really

cool is because it's supposed to be a future

version of him if they got turning Guinness Yeah,

because they're talking about setting in motion

two new CW shows yep because arrows gonna be

going away they will only have Supergirl flash

legends and bad woman however Chris Williams

aka black lightning is supposed to be appearing

in crisis. So I suppose this is where they're

gonna say Oh black lightning's been a part of

the CW Berlanti verse the whole time I don't

have a problem with that. I have yet to watch

any of black lightning I want to it's just I'm

so busy and whatever else you mentioned Mark

Hamill my first thought was oh boy so You know

how I am what you do Yes. When I find certain

things in that happen during podcast recordings

that I can exploit. Oh, of course. Well, in a

couple of weeks on The Pull Bag, episode 366,

we are going to be reviewing the 2015 Darth Vader

volumes one and two from Marvel, which were written

by Ciaran Gillian with art by Salvador Larocca.

I have Ryan the Unevenflow Merkley doing this

with me. So we go to record I've read both volumes

he said he's read both volumes we get on the

recording Mike you kind of might want to stop

this like okay. Why what's going on of course?

I hadn't stopped the recording are you kidding

me? Of course not exactly I have so many hours

of blackmail for everybody If I ever need money,

you people are getting blackmailed really hard.

But the point is that he's like, I read the Charles

Soule 2017. He read the wrong comic, essentially.

And I'm like, oh, OK, well, I guess we can do

this another night. He's like, I'm so sorry.

I'm like, dude, it's fine. It's no big deal.

It's not that big of a deal. And I told him,

I said, we'll just use it as a false start. So

when I edited episode 366, I told him, I said,

I'll put a record scratch in or something afterwards

and we'll continue on. I put the record scratch

that I use for everything. I then put, ooh, technical

difficulties. Let's move on, shall we? Right

after that, I put something from Darth Vader

himself. It was either impressive, most impressive,

or something. So basically, Joker Luke. And his

dad are talking to each other in an episode of

my podcast Because that's just how you were well,

yeah I don't know. I don't know. It's just I'm

like, ooh, this would be kind of cool. Because

again, it's a review episode of Darth Vader comics

that feature that character. And I'm like, well,

I have to have Darth Vader stuff in here somewhere,

whether it's a quote, whether it's this, whether

it's that. And then the flub happened. And I'm

like, oh, great. Well, the only technical difficulties

thing I have is the Joker from, I think, Wild

Cards. JLU Wild Cards is when that that happened.

I'm like, oh, okay, I'll use that too. And then

I've completely remembered it at the time that

I was like, all right, that's Luke Skywalker.

Oh, that's going to be so ironic. Not like, you

know, flying your Chardonnay or rain on your

wedding day ironic, but actually cool ironic.

90s jokes. But yeah, so I mean that's that that

was kind of like the highlight of the internet

Yes this weekend Just from from seeing that Yeah,

of course they've got like Star Trek lower decks

Which there's news on that which I'm kind of

indifferent don't really care Something I didn't

I did see that it's some Actually pretty cool

gear. I don't know if you've heard of it, but

Elgato gaming They have this thing called a stream

deck I don't know if you've heard of it, but

But anyways they they specialize in in like digital

streamers And they have like these these multiple

Push button devices and in some of them they

have you can control them with your phone too

but you can you can basically control your your

stream by pushing buttons on this this little

desk mounted device instead of having to like

if you're like people that are streaming games

or they're in the middle of something or a conversation

or whatever they don't have to click anything

on their screen for it. They can switch between

different visuals or different aspects just by

using it. It's kind of a neat feature, honestly,

and I was thinking of ways to apply that to podcasting

if I had one. Of course, I don't, but it still

would be a kind of a neat concept. uh... to try

uh... but yeah i uh... i thought that uh... one

it's expensive side that's one reason i don't

have one because they have like uh... a six -button

one they have like a twelve and twenty -four

or something uh... but it's but it allows you

to add you know different things on different

screens and control you know the chat conversations

or whatever Either way, it works really cool,

as far as I've seen. I am excited though, because

I'm going to have a new computer in the next

week. Sweet! Yes. It's going to be an Intel Core

i5, 6 -core processor, 32 gig of RAM, a 750 -watt

power supply, because I have a 550 right now,

and unfortunately... Does not support all of

my USB items Especially if they put them in plug

them into the front of the the tower it will

blip out one of them and It's not and it's not

USB 3 .0. It's 2 .0. So it's like It's ancient.

Yeah. Well my computer is a 2012 I want to say

yet 2012 2013 I bought it right around the time

I went back to college Man, it's a long time

ago. But anyways, I mean it still works good,

but majority of the hardware I'll be able to

cobble together for the new tower, but I'm buying

a new case too, so it'll hold. It's got like

little clips that you can clip all your hard

drives and other things in there rather easily.

So I'll be able to use my video card again, my

hard drives, all that, you know, my DVD burner.

It's gonna have Wi -Fi built into the back of

it, so in case there's an instance where... I'm

not close enough to a cord, corded area anyway,

I can use it. And then it's got 10 USB ports

in the back. I think four of them are 2 .0, I

think four of them are 3 .0, one's 3 .1 and one's

a USB -C, so I can plug my phone in the back.

So it's gonna be a monster when I get it. So

I'm super pumped. It's gonna be a beast, man.

Beast. Very true. Very cool. So, yeah, those

are some of the big things going on right now.

Yep. We're still trying to sell our house. Me

too. All of that. Mine should be finalized this

week. I know I'm a lazy good for nothing, but

it's one of those things where I talked to my

real estate agent this morning or real estate

agent this morning and she's like, yeah, most

of the time people kind of procrastinate, procrastinate,

procrastinate on, you know, when the cooler weather

comes around, they're like, oh, I need to buy

a house. Now I understand because I am not, I

am the last person that likes heat at all. you

know, humid or dry or whatever heat is not a

friend of mine. I can survive in the cold more

than I can in the heat. But if you have a nice

sunny summer day and you want to go see a potential

house that you might buy, you should really do

that. Like don't wait until the weather gets

cooler or until the middle of winter when we're

having to shovel the porch off so you can get

in the house to see it kind of a thing. and it's

just it's super frustrating we've had and my

wife says it and I trust my wife and the real

estate agents say it we've had nine showings

in 90 days that to me is not enough like maybe

20 showings in 90 days would be cool but like

I don't know So that's still going on. As I already

mentioned earlier, I'm editing the pull bag like

crazy. I'm still editing and publishing Masters

of Grayskull, which is our fourth and final series

in the Powers of Grayskull series for the He

-Man stuff on GCRN. As of this recording, I edited

about seven podcasts for the pull bag within

a day and a half. Wow. Well, gotta get it done,

so. Gotta post them all. Yeah, gotta post them

all. Oh, that was lame. Not that either one of

us ever have any interest in a Pokemon podcast,

but if anyone ever wants to do a Pokemon podcast

on our network, it has to be called Gotta Post

Them All. Got a pokeball I Still can't believe

people are playing Pokemon go There was funny

enough there was somebody I used to work with

at the health food store that played Pokemon

go Yeah, I I just yeah, I've never I could never

get into it I I Understand why in general most

people? the general audience would play it because

it promotes exercise. I get that. But since Pokemon

Go came out in the two years that it was super

popular, I had seen more negative news stories

about playing video games, hanging off of cliffs

and things like that, trying to find these imaginary

creatures. And I'm like, there's exercise and

then there's stupidity. Which coin do you find

yourself on people and most of the stories I

saw were negative stupid people trying to Catch

an imaginary character while nearly killing themselves

Yeah, I Yeah, I I don't even know like there

were Like she was talking about having to go

to you know different parking lots and different

places to park you know to get access to these

And I'm just like, no, no. I'm like, yeah, I

don't care about a game that much to sit there

and go through all that. Especially when you'd

have to slow down and go catch one along the

side of the road or something. It's just like,

it's a hazard. I mean, again, I understand promoting

healthy living. I understand promoting getting

exercise. And I understand if they have these

little events or meetups or whatever, like in

the park or something, and everybody's walking

around a park, where it's, okay, it's not always

safe, because, you know, you've got, you know,

mass shootings and this and that and the other

thing and everything else, which are horrible,

by the way. You know, but at least you're not,

you know, leaning off the edge of a cliff in

San Diego. That was the big story, the big negative

story I saw about catching Poke whatever, Pokemon,

Poke what, you know, poke me in the eye, poke

my eye out kind of thing. And so changing gears

just slightly and I'm not going to dwell on this

because it's a very sore subject right now. But

I think we need to at least bring it up and I'm

gonna bring it up in this light Your kids are

how old now? four and six Okay My buddy Jesse

Raz who is a morning show host in Louisville,

Kentucky on mono six nine play I've done several

plays done several podcasts with me on the pull

bag and things like that He did our hot car awareness

thing for GCR We've had again as of this recording.

We've had two mass shootings this week in the

United States one in El Paso, Texas and one in

Dayton, Ohio and Jesse's biggest thing was my

kid is only three years old. I Know I'm going

to eventually have to tell him about these types

of things, but I don't want to and how do you

deal with that? Kind of a thing. Mm -hmm How

are you guys gonna like I mean cuz that It I'm

like is this 1999 is this Columbine all over

again because that's what those like the news

of the shootings coming out That's what that

reminded me of Yes, I mean it's It's something

I'll broach with my kids like when they get a

little bit bigger and can you know Understand

it But to be honest, right now, it just doesn't

make sense to burden their minds with this. Because

it does suck. It's not a fun thing for anybody

to have to deal with, because it's just not right.

I get both sides of the argument. I do. As far

as owning a gun and everything else. It's not

even it's not even the fact that people have

them because the idiots that are going around

doing this this You know heinous action Are gonna

do it regardless if it's against the law or not.

So all these people that are saying oh gun safety

all this You know granted You know, they already

have stringent things the people that own them

legally are not the ones that are doing this

It's right. Yeah, it's always these people that

are gonna do this regardless or they obtain it

in some other fashion and It's So, I mean and

I'm not for or against either side like I get

it but at the same time like they They Need to

make them less accessible to the people that,

I mean, and I don't know how you would even go

about that. Cause like there's, there's, there's

cases where, you know, people are going to still

come upon these things regardless of what happens.

So I don't know. It's either way, it's, it's

a horrible thing that you have to worry about.

You know, it's, it's almost as bad as like all

the trafficking stuff that happens too. the abductions

and all these other things that you hear about

all of it's all of it's rotten so jesse made

this post yesterday when this happened again

as of this recording uh he made it public so

i'm just gonna read this I had another parental

first over the weekend. I had to find a way to

have a conversation with my wife about the two

mass shootings in a way that my three -year -old

wouldn't pick up on. That means trying to avoid

words like dead, shoot, gun, injured, gunman,

terrorist, because honestly I think three is

too young. Try and explain something quite honestly.

I don't understand myself Sadly the day will

come when I will have to explain this to him

and hear about all the safe shooter drills You

know and he goes on to talk about more of how

he's frustrated as a parent and things like that

it's just You know our good buddy booth ninja

Mike powers said on Twitter, you know that He

does this is one of the reasons that you know,

he doesn't want to have kids or like the world

that we currently live in Is not the world we

grew up in it is so it has changed so much Since

we were kids and I'm not discounting anything

that happened when we were kids because I'm sure

the same violence the same violence has been

around forever But you know It's just It's just

crazy And I wish there was like When I when I

shared these these articles of these of these

two shootings. I'm like We need to stop killing

each other It's only gonna happen once people

stop acting like fools like and that's It's just

everything the world isn't like in this weird

State of flux where just everything is just totally

screwed up Mm -hmm, so Yeah, I don't know it's

Again, it's it's crazy Mm -hmm should never be

an issue to be honest, but But it is Sadly it

is So Something fun that happened earlier this

week somebody is not really fun, but Somebody

was listening to an old archive version of one

of our podcasts Mm -hmm and was like hey, there's

an episode missing Which is a legitimate You

know complaint Because you know over the years

we've lost a number of episodes So what's funny

about it is I happen to have all of them Like

all of the shows archived with the exception

of there was one particular show that I did not

at the time and that was team bottom us And which

I now have so right Which reminds me, I have

to move it to my external drive. I don't want

it on my main hard drive. But yeah, I mean, I

gotta figure out where it's at now. But yeah,

I mean, it's kind of funny to go back and revisit

old programming. Yes, yeah, so I I now have all

of team bottom us What year did that even come

out? Team bottom us was 2012 or no somewhere

around 2010. I thought okay But anyways, I archived

all the old show so like I have TFG one which

was 2009 ATTF version one which went through

2010 Headshot that'll never see the light of

day I will not release that show again. I know

some people still haven't, but I will never release

that again. So to anybody that hasn't, just consider

yourself lucky. I'm saving these for posterity

sake, but I'm never going to put these online

again. All 41 episodes of it. We did 41 episodes

of that thing. Yeah, I rebooted it as 2 .0, but

it's still like it didn't matter. It was the

same conversation. That's right. Yeah, that's

right. The Beast Unleashed, 2010. War Stories,

which was very short -lived at one episode, even

though I did like 14 on TFWIRE. No, I did 15

on TFWIRE, which I have those archived too, which

I'm sure eventually Jesse will get to those on

his new site. Secret origins 2011 tune cast classic

at 2011 I have nothing from the the Beyond era.

I don't think I'm here Which well I might I don't

know I'm not gonna I'm in the archive folder

then there's the transformation animation One

episode of tabletop you know eventually was stolen

by I forget the name of the site, but Will Wheaton

hosts it now. Tabletop enthusiast, he stole your

name. It's not the enthusiast, but it's tabletop

or something, but yeah, they have it over there.

It's just funny. The name's swiped. So we can

now sue Will Wheaton. I proclaim Will Wheaton

is an enemy of the GCRN. I don't think it works

that way. Yes, I am turning into Sheldon Cooper,

ladies and gentlemen. We dad So all right 2012

we had toy cast which never actually hit episode

100 Yes, it went over a hundred episodes, but

it never actually hit episode 100 Yeah, I know

2014 ATTF v2 Beyond the night in 2014 from the

command center 2014 legends of the dark night

2014 mass mayhem 2014 well that started then

Which Yeah, I should move that out of the archive

folder and put it in the current. What was the

episode that was even missing from Beyond the

Night? Oh, from Beyond the Night? It was episode

21. Because the post itself, there is no post.

Like, it doesn't exist. Like, I could have sworn

either you or I created it because I was looking

on the website and I'm like, okay, so the post

must be here somewhere. It must be here. I'm

looking. Like, I have two file folders myself

because again, we went through name changes,

we went through hosting changes, things like

that. So it changes on iTunes when you go to

download it. So this is back when I was downloading

the stuff. And I look in one, nothing. I look

in the other, nothing. I'm like, frig. Dang it,

where is this thing? And then I go look on the

website and I'm like, episode 20, episode 22.

Where the hell is episode 21? Oh, damn it. So

I did find it. And of course, Dion the music.

Well, that's good. That's good. I just have to

upload it now. Which is the fun part. If you

want, just throw it in drive and I'll do it in

the morning. I'm not in any rush to get it done,

because I have to do the post up. Well, yeah.

I meant I uploaded it to Spreaker. Oh, okay.

So it's up there. It just has to be published

and redated. Oh, that's funny. That's funny.

You know how we used to embed the images in the

files? Yep. Yeah, it's got the original Beyond

the Night logo. It's the only one, too. Like,

the rest of them have the rest of the podcast

feed one. That one does not. I was like, I haven't

seen that logo in since the 200 by 200 days.

It's crazy. There are now 50 episodes in that

podcast. so technically there's gonna eventually

be 51 because we never actually did episode 50

of the show but yeah so that one's up now yeah

we did telecast which has never revived despite

attempts off the cuff Showtime synergy and then

team bottomists of course so Yeah, it's crazy

going through the archives of just old content.

And then going through the current folder, you

know, there's like Cinema Geeks and Future Imperfect,

GCR. Yeah, and what's sad is a lot of these shows,

like one, I need to move them into the archive

folder, some of these programs. And then two,

like some of them never got past episode one.

Yep, it was usually because I was waiting on

co -host and then it just never panned out Yeah

the Podcaster meets world got I think three episodes

I Will eventually finish that at some point,

but I Don't know when Life is too much in flux

right now my my fluxes I have been capacitated

at this point. Capacitated? Yes, that's right.

You heard me right. I said capacitated. So...

Yeah, so it's, I don't know, it's just funny

going back, looking at some of this stuff. Eventually,

I think I'm going to go back and revisit some

old episodes, like just to see what was said

and then do like some kind of a commentary on

them. I've gone back to some old episodes at

certain times and I'm like God we sound so young

And then there's Ryan Ryan for the last X number

of years as he just sounds the same he doesn't

age I Love him like without Ryan the pullback

would be where it is currently because he's the

one guy like I've asked him to do Iron Man, the

current Iron Man series. I've asked him to do

some Spider -Man stuff. It's not just Transformers

that we're doing, even though that's the crux

of what we're doing currently. Like we just did,

you know, we just finished recording the Star

Wars thing. So like Ryan essentially is my go

-to host at this point. So. Your go -to host.

Your go -to host. Oh God. Yeah, go to host he's

a go -to host. Yeah Yeah, so it was kind of funny

that I had that episode so I Wasn't you know,

I wasn't 100 % sure but that just goes to show

you that if the fans don't have it I do there

you go Did you see the thing about Disney Plus

being offered as a hulu add -on? Really? Yes

When is this happening? You're like all excited

now Yeah, it says, they're getting ready to enter

the streaming game in a big splashy way this

November with the launch of Disney+. The service

is meant to be a direct competitor to Netflix

and will feature a ton of high -dollar original

programming such as The Mandalorian, a live -action

Lady and the Tramp remake, and a slate of Marvel

TV shows. It says that, um... To further assert

their dominance over the industry, it's been

revealed that Hulu will be offering Disney Plus

as an add -on, which means the service will be

even more accessible to potential subscribers,

but also means consumers have an important choice

to make. Yeah, so it was confirmed by Hulu's

senior vice president of originals during their

TCAs. And yeah, it says that they already offer

premium add -ons such as HBO and CBS All Access.

So it's kind of funny that they're gonna do this

because I think Disney actually owns a big chunk

of Hulu now that they own Fox. And they already

own agency. Disney, okay, so I forget what it

is. Yeah, Disney now has controlling interest

of Hulu. I forget who owned Hulu originally.

I want to say Comcast has a big stake in it too,

like for their NBC content. But yeah, I know

Disney Plus is going to be like $6 .99 a month

at launch. And again, there's no knowledge of

if there's going to be a discount by bundling

with Hulu. I would assume so But It's Disney

and they also were the same ones that would gouge

you on the same movie every couple of years For

a different edition of it just so that they could

get an extra $20 out of you for the DVD or the

VHS tape Because it's like oh, it's not the regular

edition. It's special edition. Oh, no, it's gold

edition silver edition platinum edition Diamond

collector's edition super spectacular Yeah, so

I mean it's just I don't know they're just it

wouldn't surprise me that's all I guess I'm trying

to say there But I did think that it was kind

of interesting that they're gonna actually go

that route And of course I saw somebody posted

seriously someone needs to hire David Kay to

record GPS navigation is Megatron And and they

posted the the picture of transmetal Holding

the duck going squeak and then it goes in 200

meters turn right. Yes Yeah, and then There's

a, this particular person on Twitter says, even

if I had nowhere in particular to go, I just

take random drives here and there just to listen

to Megatron's directions. And then David Kaye

just has the hilarious laugh thing. And people

are like, do it, do it now. Recalculating route,

because you missed your turn, dolt. How positively

maximal of you. years Yeah, so if it wasn't the

fact that it's David Kay, I'm like dude you should

be making money at this I Know if it wasn't David

Kay, I would try I know I know I mean, you know,

but I mean it's one of those things where The

Hulu thing so I currently play pay not play pay

$11 .99 a month for no ads Now here in Illinois

that gets taxed to Instead of just being straight

Ellen 1199, but no tax it gets taxed up to I

pay 1306 a month We had done a showtime Add -on

which was at the time it was 899. It is now 1099

a month for showtime. It is 1499 a month for

HBO 999 a month for Cinemax $8 .99 a month for

stars. Then you can do enhanced cloud DVR and

limited screens bundle for $14 .98 a month. They

do have a bunch of other add -ons. Unlimited

screens for a month entertainment add -on Espanol

add -on so at some point Disney Plus is going

to show up in these premium add -on things and

Hopefully it's not too much when Disney Plus

first got announced. I'm like ooh You know what

I want to do. I just want to pay for the year

because Whatever the I think it was like 60 70

or 80 bucks for the year for the entire year

With all the content that I know that it's going

to have at launch, I'm like, ooh, sure. I haven't

done that yet. I'm probably not going to do that.

If it's a Hulu add on, I'll try it there first.

Yeah, and I could see people doing that. To be

honest, like it's. It's not a bad deal if that's

what you're looking for in programming. I honestly

like for me, I. I honestly, like, a lot of the

stuff that's on streaming is just, at this point,

I watch Nostalgia. That's, to be honest, that's

all I do. Like, I don't watch anything new. So

I mentioned this to my wife the other night because

I tried to show her the episode of The Suite

Life on Deck where George Takei is a guest star.

Oh my. Yes, exactly. She's like, this show is

horrible. Why are you a 40 year old man watching

this? So, I don't know. I watched it, you know,

back when I was younger. And that show came out

in like 2005, I think, 20. Yeah. Well, whatever.

So whenever it was, 2005, 2007, whatever. So

I was still old at that point. Honestly, I told

her this morning, I said, you know, the reason

why I watch a lot of the Disney Channel stuff

or why I used to because currently their shows.

It's mainly because, yeah, I grew up, well, I

was a kid and then I had to move to Kentucky

with my dad. And I basically had to grow up really

fast. By the age of 15, I was in state's custody.

So I was in like group homes and other things

like that. And not that I really didn't have

time to watch anything, but I didn't have the

normal teenager childhood that everyone else

had. so it's like again like you just mentioned

you're more about the nostalgia of it all and

i don't care if at age 23 i was watching the

2003 turtles because that show rocked even though

it's not a disney show but the point is is that

watched cartoons as a kid you're gonna watch

cartoons as an adult as long as they're good

ones true and not no cartoon network originals

Cartoon Network's not been relevant in years

To be honest they haven't I know everyone loves

Steven Universe I know everyone loved Adventure

Time and Regular Show and all that and I I've

tried I haven't tried Steven Universe I'm not

a fan of the animation from what I've seen I've

tried Regular Show and I've tried Adventure Time

And I just don't care. I don't dislike it. I

don't hate it. I'm not against it. If somebody

likes it, that's a friend of mine, sure, fine.

You like what you want to like. Let me not care

about what I want to not care about. Pretty much.

Yeah, I just, yeah, I don't honestly... I don't

like a lot of the modern animation. I find it

really annoying. And I'm not saying that... You

know 90s animation was all that better all that

much better, but it's it's now it's still like

Predominantly we had more like realistic looking

Animation compared to the travesties that are

out now And I just can't sit through it and just

it irritates me like I just something about it

just drives me nuts I can't And I guess it's

kind of you know the point to I'm a grown man

I don't watch any of that stuff anymore like

majority of it and It's it kind of falls falls

under the you know my time is past for animation

Mm -hmm, so I just watch the old stuff because

that's the only thing I can get a kick out of

anymore on it. Although I will say I'm really

looking forward to season 12 of the program that

I'm involved with. Very cool. Which will start,

we actually start production in mid September

and I should be doing some voices. I didn't have

time to do a proper demo reel. So lo and behold,

I always have one ready. You know, just years

of things collected. And so I cleaned it up and

I put, just for range purposes, some of the stuff

and I sent it over and they're like, you have

good range. They're like, we can use this. And

I'm like, yes, please do. Because I I enjoy voice

acting so I just haven't had a chance to do it

lately and I told DJ I'm like hey if you need

a voice He's like I would forgot about you man

like good like good Because yeah, I need to get

my feet wet again in Anna in voiceover It may

not be animation, but and by the way, did you

know that there's a something? Did you know there's

a law in certain states that you cannot do an

impersonation of an actor either living or dead?

Oh Geez is that in Colorado now? No Nope. Well,

that's good Scott for you there They there's

certain states that you're not allowed to impersonate

a living actor Because you can get sued in those

states and then there's there's It's mostly for

like endorsement things so like if you're doing

a commercial That's when you're really not allowed

to do it. I think if you're doing it like an

animation like type of thing I think you're safe.

I think it's just if you're trying to sell a

product like oh you know I tried this pair of

diapers or blah blah blah or something or you

know took this medicine and it kills somebody

you know that you can get sued kind of thing

um so yeah you're not allowed to do that but

if you're doing it for just like animation purposes

it makes it kind of sound like you can do that

uh in those states no granted Colorado doesn't

have this rule neither does Michigan uh but there

are states like Ohio you're not allowed to do

an impersonation of an actor that's died For

anywhere from 50 to 100 years Which basically

means you can never do it in that state You know

or you have to get permission from their estate

So yeah, it's it's it's a really weird beast

that we're kind of in nowadays like be between

You know scripted content between podcasts between

you know radio between music between you know

voices You know it seems like everybody's out

to get somebody And so you have to just play

it extra safe Yep, so yeah, it's just it's just

weird in general Trying to see if there's anything

else I Think we've covered the gambit. I mean

from computer issues to mass shootings to podcast

stuff, I mean Last thing we could probably bring

up is the fact that the president blames video

games for the shootings and that's not What's

funny is that it was the other side of the coin

that was doing that? Several years ago and you

know before he got an office the others the other

side of the political spectrum was saying that

and now they've all reversed course because You

know, it's it's just I don't know. It's it's

just it's weird and I could be wrong about them

reversing course I think I think he's siding

with them now, but It honestly doesn't it's like

saying rock music causes you to go out and shoot

somebody and it doesn't or weird L causes you

to just go out and say weird things in public

or sing a parody. You can't blame somebody else

or something that has no actual merit. Video

games are not alive. They don't force anybody

to do anything. Yeah, there are ratings on things

and people don't follow them and people are not

doing what they should be doing. And that's the

thing too with And that goes with even social

media. There's no moral compass left anymore.

And that's just people in general. That has nothing

to do with what you do or what you watch or what

you play. It's just people just have no moral

compass. And the thing of it is, it's like that

old saying, guns don't kill Autobots. you kill

Autobots, or guns don't kill people, you kill,

people kill people. And that's really what it

is. And do I think there should be, at least

for those who are irresponsible with guns, not

responsible gun owners, if you do own a gun,

great, if you don't, whatever, I'm one of those

non -gun owners, because I'd end up shooting

myself in the foot. most likely. I don't know,

it's just a loaded bag of garbage and bringing

politics into it really distracts from the actual

issue at hand. Oh yeah, and it happens like that

all the time. So yeah, I think we've covered

everything that from every not necessarily every

walk of life but you know a lot of stuff this

week and some of the happiest and biggest news

obviously is Kevin Conroy live action Bruce Wayne

yeah about time that's right because honestly

like I'm I'm good with him taking on the role

If if it were the only other person it should

be is Keaton Yeah for that old the old Bruce

the old Bruce. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah So So how

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me at SCP -21 or at AlteredGeek. They can find

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