D23 Disney News, Linkin Park, and The Muppets

You are tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

Geek. Dr. Geek. So yeah, this is it's kind of

crazy I was the funny thing was I was trying

to hit this episode before the four -year mark

Time didn't allow it's still gonna hit on the

four -year mark What is the four -year mark?

It funny thing enough it's It's I think it's

within a couple days of the Nine year mark of

ATTF You and your August premieres it just it

starts that way. I don't yeah sure Sure, it does.

It's not planned Don't lie Don't you fucking

lie? When did all things transformers? I think

it was like the third or the fourth of August

Version 1 .0. Yeah, you would have to find that

I don't know because it only I mean I Know I

know everybody hates iTunes and all that shit

But sometimes iTunes is the best thing for me

to look for the very first date I Wouldn't even

know on ATTF because Yeah, several times we're

not rebooting again I'll tell you that right

now. We've got a vision. Well, when we go to

break, I'll take a clip out of that episode.

The very first one that I can find. Okay. Of

when the show started. Of AGU or of ATTF? ATTF.

Okay. Wait, what? What? I'm going to use it for

the commercial break. Oh, okay. AGU, actually,

the four -year mark is on the fourth. August

4th. Which I'm pretty sure ATTF started on 3rd.

I could be wrong. I hate to correct you, but

according to iTunes, Altered Geek Unplugged the

Batman Superman Battles 1 hour 22 minutes in

the debut episode of the Unplugged edition of

Altered Geek August 2nd, 2013. August 9th was

Bad Embargo Trek 3 and Wars. Okay, so I guess

a little bit, but that's all right Yeah, all

you got to do is go back to the ATTF episode

where we did ATTF This is your life all of those

old clips that you're looking for the early ATTF

clips. They're all there Yeah, I put that remember

I put that episode together I'm wondering you

know what? Well, I don't have it on my computer

because it's backed up on a hard drive. I know

this is like way out there and people are like,

we don't care, play the show. We are playing

the show, we're being charismatic here, we're

remembering shit. Oh, that reminds me, I have

a new Dodd clip for you whenever anybody curses.

You mean like the three times you've done already?

Sorry, I'm counting We're not even ten minutes

in and he's already got three and they're all

different Hey, at least they're not all the same

Summer nester severity, but um Yeah, I I Yeah,

I don't know Well, this is the thing if I could

pull up the transformers network All of its because

I imported everything. But unfortunately, the

owner of that, their page is suspended for whatever

reason. And that person owes me money, so I don't

expect the site to go back up anytime soon. So

yeah, I think that the show debuted, it had been

around the same time. It was like the third or

the fourth or something. What, for HTTF? Yeah,

or yeah, in that particular year. Somebody tried

to steal the name of my show in 2011. For a blog.

I'm googling it, trying to figure it out. I could

have sworn HTTF episode one was August 9th. Because

it was a Saturday. Back in 2013. To the Tidal

Cave. Not 2013, 2008. 2008. I love Windows 10

that you can actually do time travel. Yep. Saturday,

August 9th, 2008. Yep. That's because I remember

the very... I think it came out the second though.

I don't know how we can tell. What is the...

When did Bernie Mac die? Ha ha ha ha! Oh, dude!

Not good! He... Yeah, he, um... It was August

9th. Yeah. Cause that's when he died. Yeah, see?

As horrible as that is to say. That's when it

was. Oh, that's horrible. I think I'm gonna move

on from this, um, diet tribe here. Yeah, I think

we need to get into something else. So I think

we're going to take a quick break and come back

with actual content, so we'll be right back.

So, after I've played that musical interlude,

unfortunately, and I know this episode comes

up a little bit dated, recording it to the day

it happened, but it's coming out obviously a

few days later, Linkin Park frontman Chester

Bennington has passed, as it were. which is unfortunate.

You know what the crazy thing is? July 20th is

Chris Cornell's birthday. Chris Cornell died.

Chris Cornell was the lead singer of Soundgarden,

lead singer of Audioslave, had a great solo career.

He did the Bond theme, you know my name. He also

died of hanging. But it's it's strange that that

the Chester would die of the same thing on the

guy's actual birthday On the other guy's actual

birthday. Yeah, I just Well, that's the one the

weird thing is is his close friend Chris Cornell

also died made by Yeah, that's what I'm talking

about. Yes Yes, I can't I don't understand what

Goes through someone's mind enough to do that

And I'm not saying people don't have that issue.

Yeah, because it's a serious issue that If you're

feeling that way you should get help Yep, because

it's never never the answer but um Well, we've

talked about this before when Robin Williams

passed away which Also, he hung himself as well.

That was a couple years ago. What is it with

everybody doing that? Like, why can't you just

take... I don't know. Like, OD or something.

Like, I mean, I'm not saying that either way

is bad or good, but I think it's because there's

no coming back from that. Whereas if somebody

found you early enough with drugs in your system,

they could pump you and you're good, but... Yeah,

I mean, you know, here's the thing. I've talked

about this before. When I was 14 years old I

tried bashing my head in with a lead pipe and

I tried hanging myself at the time I Was living

with my dad and my now ex -stepmother she had

physically and mentally and verbally abused me

and My mom was in no position to Come get me

All my dad had custody and I and that's how I

ended up a war of the state of Kentucky for from

95 to 99 You know suicide is not funny suicide

is very serious I want everybody out there to

know that if you've ever thought about it or

if you've ever considered it, please talk to

somebody I want everyone to know No matter how

bad you think it is, you can always talk to your

parents, a teacher, a counselor, anybody. And

if you think you can't talk to any of those people,

you can call the suicide hotline 1 -800 -273

-8255. That's 1 -800 -273 -8255. Please call

somebody because suicide is not the answer. I've

talked about this before. My mom... She her health

was declining and declining and declining and

she lost all will to really live She lost all

will to do anything for herself half the time

She was in bed the other half the time she was

sitting in a chair smoking a cigarette She would

very rarely move or walk unless she had to go

to the bathroom I was always and I'm not complaining

about when I say this I was always making her

meals bringing her stuff like that's part of

the job of taking care of your parent. But I

saw how dark my mom got. She told me on a daily

basis she wanted me to kill, she wanted me to

either let her kill herself or aid in her suicide

or whatever. And it's just not, I tried my best

to bring her up to see, to show her that there

is still positivity in the world and all this

and all that and it just would not happen. As

it happens, you know, she died of kidney failure

in the hospital, but that's a whole other story.

But suicide is not, it's not the answer, people.

So please, talk to somebody. Everybody's gonna

miss Chester. You know, you can say what you

will about the band, whether you like the...

rap rock genre whatever there are several songs

that lincoln park is done over the years that

i have absolutely loved you know i've i've said

this many times before i don't know if i said

this on this almost four years of altered geek.

Ever since i was a kid i always wanted to be

in radio. Obviously now we have the podcasting

thing we've had this for almost ten years now

whatever but ever since i was a kid i didn't

care about the fact that radio doesn't you don't

get paid jack shit radio. I just wanted that

environment, that dealing with those people or

hanging out with those people. In the year 2000,

when I was living in Mississippi, there was a

local rock radio station down there, 97 .9 WCPR

Rocks, and the morning show was Cruz and Rebecca,

and they were running a contest. Basically, the

prize was you could come into the studio and

hang out and see what they do and see how they

do the radio program. uh... and it basically

was say what what leer what backwards song lyric

is this and what song is it from and what it

was was was something from one uh... one step

closer lincoln parks the very first make me famous

hit uh... it was uh... shut up i'm talking to

you or whatever the line is in the song but it

was basically played backwards you had to figure

it out figure out the name of the artist name

of the song I did that, and I got to go into

the studio. They've had other hits that I like.

They've had other songs. I'll say this, Linkin

Park was never a band that I could listen to

cover to cover each album. But a lot of theirs,

like One Step Closer, In the End, Forgotten,

Papercut, A Place for My Head, To a Lesser Extent,

Crawling, which was another one of their big

hits early on, Somewhere I Belong. What I've

done new divide new divide actually was in revenge

of that well it was supposed to be in revenge

of the fallen You know the There's one now that

I noticed that I only noticed it from watching

Need for Speed a couple of years ago in the 2014

Need for Speed film They had a song in there

called roads untraveled And I absolutely love

that's my favorite Linkin Park song because it

just speaks to me so much I liked a lot of the

second album, but I remember going and seeing

Linkin Park locally. Which, funny enough, I think

the next band was... I still have the ticket

somewhere. I think the first band was like Korn.

Cool! I'd never seen them in concert before,

but then they had Linkin Park. And I'm pretty

sure Nickelback was next. maybe Nickelback or

Three Doors Down. I'm not sure which one. I saw

two different concerts that had one or the other.

I just can't remember who was in it. It may have

been the same one. I think it may have been like

an all -day type of thing or all evening thing

with four bands. So, I mean, it might have been

all four. They didn't sound the best in concert.

I will say that because like his screeching aesthetic

that Huntington does is amplified. But I still

enjoyed it for what it was, and three doors down

though, they sounded exactly like their CD. Yeah.

Okay, so here's the thing, folks. There's a huge

difference between being in a studio and having

soundproofed and having mics, and you know, I'm

not speaking to you, I'm speaking to the audience

when I'm saying this. There's a huge difference

in a recorded album track. What that the professionalism

behind that and don't get me wrong concerts are

very professional But the singers aren't gonna

most of the time they aren't gonna sound like

how they sound on the albums because it's a live

Venue, it's you know, it's supposed to be different

from the album and There are some that you know

sound great and there are some that don't sound

so great even though you still like those bands

I will say it's been 11 years since I saw Nickle

back in 2006 at Freedom Hall here in Louisville,

and Chad sounded pretty much the same. But, you

know. He was drunk during our concert, so. Oh,

don't... Okay, so we'll move on from this. He

was whipping beer bottles into the crowd. We'll

move on from this in a second folks, but I have

to tell everybody I did not go to this but I

because I'm I live in Louisville and I pay attention

to Louisville media Madonna came here She was

drunk as a skunk and she just was one of the

worst concerts in this town that this town has

ever seen But our point here folks is just you

ever really that good though Cuz we all know

her song like a virgin's a lie, but Yeah, cuz

she wanted you to justify her love Alright, so

folks on a serious note here Suicide is not the

answer talk to somebody if you feel you can't

talk to a family member a teacher a counselor

Whatever call the national suicide hotline 1

-800 -273 -8255 Chester Benningfield, may you

rest in peace sir? And the other thing too is

though, there's always somebody that's willing

to listen. Right. And help in whatever way they

can. And honestly, I would do it if somebody

needed somebody to talk to. It doesn't take that

much out of your day to sit there and converse

with somebody. Nope. And to know that somebody

cares is... Because really everyone wants to

know that. Oh, absolutely. So, moving on to some

other stuff that's... Can I bring something up

really quick that I found out about earlier?

How bad is it? It's more strange than bad. It's

actually been out for a while but they just released

a new one. So, every now and then I will go on

Comixology and I will look through various comics

to see what other franchises are out. And I found

that DC Comics has done three issues of KFC Presents.

Oh, I've seen that. The Colonel of Two Worlds,

Colonel Corpse, and the newest one just released

recently, Green Lantern versus Colonel Sanders.

Cover of Green Lantern versus Colonel Sanders.

It's finger licking never again And it's how

Jordan basically firing the Green Lantern ring

at the bucket of chicken These three comics will

be covered in the pull bag at some point So Maybe

I'll go into this. The Incredibles 2 They've

dropped some information on this with everything

going on with SDCC and D23 and I guess SDCC we

can talk about in like 201 Unless people really

want to hear about it in episode 200 and then

we'll cover it then but I'll be covering a little

bit of D23 stuff. So The Incredibles 2 is going

to be set one minute after the first film ends.

Yeah, I read that. That's awesome. Which is great.

Yep. And he wants to take, you know, Brad Bird

wants to take it in different directions after

that, which is cool. So I'm very stoked to see

this film when it comes out. Because I like the

first one. Yep. Now, what did you think of Cars

3? I loved Cars 3. Okay, I am probably the only

person... I will agree with you on that film.

Okay, well, wait a second here. Let me say this.

I'm probably the only person on the face of this

earth, or even in our galaxy, that somewhat enjoyed

Cars 2. Now, let me defend myself here. Yeah,

but I'm also the one that likes Ratatouille,

so... Yeah, that's true Which everyone else loves

but you yeah, I know So cars, you know came out

11 years ago It was a cool little premise. I

never really expected a sequel out of it, but

we all know Pixar at the time was big on, you

know, getting sequels done and things like that.

Cars 2, people will see as, oh, it's just Mater

and it's just this and it's just that and that's

fine. I liked it for the fact that you got Michael

Caine as like a James Bond type car, spy car

thing. It was alright. It wasn't, like, groundbreaking.

But Cars 3... Cars... Pixar... I don't know what

it is with their threes. Seriously. Toy Story

3 made me cry. Cars 3 made me cry. Their twos

are generally not very good. Toy Story 2 is okay.

It wasn't. That's what I'm saying. They're not

stellar. But their threes trump their ones. Yeah.

Because there's more there's more heart in the

third films Especially with especially with this

because you know they they use they used Unused

audio from Paul Newman, and that's how they got

him in the film because obviously he's no longer

with us for Doc Hudson Yeah, I was wondering

about that. I couldn't place whether he was a

new Yeah, what they had done was, as far as I

remember from what I read, what they, and I'm

not looking at it now, what they had done was

they had had previously unused audio from him,

from the first Cars movie, from the first couple

of Cars movies. So that's how they got the audio

that they put into Cars 3. Cars 3, I don't know

how they're gonna talk. I know Pixar has said

we're done with sequels, we're not doing sequels

anymore, yada yada yada. That's why they're doing

Toy Story 4. I know, I know. I think they're

doing ones that work, like Finding Dory wasn't...

I could tell you, anybody that can honestly give

a rip about it, like... It kind of blew over

like a ton of bricks when it came out. Yeah,

I Mean I I will say I did enjoy cars 3 a lot

and I really loved the the ending Of how everything

planned out or played out. Yeah It was very Good

for the franchise and for the get it Yeah, and

again, it was a learning tool for lightning.

You look at all three of those films. In the

first film, lightning is this brash, young rookie

who wants to take on the world, thinks he can

do anything and everything. The second movie,

okay, yes, it was mainly focused on Mater, but

there was a bit of lightning story in there and

things like that. In the third film... He's aged

progressively, the racing has changed, and he's

basically taken over Doc's role. Which again,

I love that they did that. I'm sure at some point,

whenever we can get more Tooncast Beyonds recorded,

we're going to eventually talk about the car's

stuff. I honestly do a commentary of the third

one, I liked it so much. Yeah. Which is odd.

Because I really don't like doing them. Yeah,

because you hate commentaries. It just, I don't

know, I really enjoyed the film. It wasn't one

that I sat there going, oh, come on. Although

the dancing bit was a bit much. The dancing cars.

In Cars 3? Yes. Doing the aerobics with the tires

and he's like, come on. At least he was groaning.

That made me happier. But uh, so what do you

think about the Lion King? Being redone by John

Favreau What the hell is foggy? Why is foggy

Nelson redoing Lion King? Well, I don't get that

what's what's interesting to me is that The only

voice that is the same James Earl Jones James

Earl Jones and it makes me laugh because he's

still Mufasa and nobody else is the same Yeah,

who the hell was cast as Scott? I remember hearing

somebody was cast as scar. Oh, yeah Hugh Jackman

was cast. It's not official. Oh, okay they have

Donald Glover who's been in a few things. Yeah,

he's He's actually the new what's his cat? No,

he's not a cat No, he's the new, um, uh, Lando

Calrissian in Star Wars. Oh, okay. Um, for the,

uh, the new film. But, um, so he's the new Simba.

Really? Yes. Seth Rogen is Pumbaa. Oh, gooooood.

Uh, Billy Eichner is Tumon, James Earl Jones

Mufasa, John Oliver is Zazu, which, whatever.

I'm fine with that It doesn't tell who anybody

else is though nobody else has been officially

cast yeah, but they've also Tim Burton's working

on a live -action demo and That one's gonna have

Eva Green Michael Keaton Danny DeVito and Colin

Farrell which I think it's funny Keaton DeVito

and Burton Last time they worked together So

that's the only reason I'm bringing that up because

I think it's hilarious. So yeah, that I'm not

gonna care about because it's Tim Burton. The

curiosity will be piqued because Michael Keaton

is in it. That's about where that goes. And then

of course the live -action Aladdin. They cast

the Pink Power Ranger from the new movie as Jasmine.

Yeah, that's Naomi Scott. Yep, and I couldn't

remember her name and then They've got Will Smith

playing the genie Which a lot of people have

been complaining about in my opinion of it is

Okay, I can see him playing because he's got

one of the most diverse acting styles Like he

can play sarcastic. He can play like crazy like,

you know Fresh Prince he can play very serious

roles. He can play, you know, just about anything

convincingly Yeah, and so I could see him doing

the some of the crazy stuff without making it

Ridiculous or kind of out of place like putting

his own spin on the genie without trying to copy

uh... robert williams but he's got his own comedic

style that it would he could fit really well

into that role see i think that the issue here

isn't so much that Will Smith is gonna try to

copy Robin Williams and my initial reaction was

and you know me long enough You know my initial

reactions are but my initial reaction was and

I said this on Facebook Robin Williams is rolling

over in his grave Okay. Now I say that half joking

and half serious because what I'm curious about

Okay. Yes, Will Smith has the job Disney obviously

that's what Disney wanted for this live -action

Aladdin I don't we don't know how he's going

to going to play it. We don't know what he's

going to do My problem is is everybody it knows

and is ingrained with the anime first and that's

why I have such an a version To well, I have

not watched any of the live -action Disney stuff

I have either but it's more so because I just

don't care about the the characters being portrayed

It's just, it's not even that. I prefer like,

I have no pro, this is the whole reason why Disney,

you know, why Walt Disney created Touchstone

Pictures so they could do more adult films. And

I get it, these are remakes of their animated

classics and whatever else. I prefer my Disney

in two different camps, animated stuff and live

action stuff. And don't mix them. Don't, again,

something we've said for almost 10 years now,

Hollywood. in general, not just Disney, come

up with original ideas. We do not need, this

year, this year alone, 2017 has been the year

of the remake or the sequel. Well, I'll get to

that in a minute because there's an upside and

a downside to this. Okay, so Walt Disney also

on their studio release schedule. This is their

2017 through 2019. They have Thor Ragnarok coming

out, Coco, which is a Pixar movie, and then The

Last Jedi. That's the last three they have for

this year. Next year, they have the Han Solo

film. They've got Wreck -It Ralph 2, which I'm

looking forward to that. Me too. They've got

Black Panther. which I'm kinda meh. Incredibles

2, looking forward to it. The Nutcracker, don't

care. Mary Poppins Returns, don't care. Okay,

so wait, wait, wait, before you go on. When I

saw that Mary Poppins Returns was on the list

on, because I saw an image on Facebook of like,

somebody took an image at SDCC of the TV monitor

thing or whatever that was. I saw Mary Poppins

Returns on there and my first thought was, Uh,

the only way I'm watching Mary Poppins Returns

is if Michael Rooker comes in and is Mr. Mary

Poppins. Because he's Mary Poppins, y 'all! Well,

what's funny is, um, Dick Van Dyke, who was in

the original film. Right. Uh, he played... In

the new one, anyway, he's playing, uh, Mr. Dawes

Jr. Okay. In the new film. In the original Mary

Poppins, which he also was in, he played Burt,

a cocky jack -of -all -trades, but he also played

Mr. Dawes Sr., which he was dressed up as. It

says that he played that character, so he's basically

playing the son. The descendant of the character

he played in the first film who was supposed

to be old in the first film And so he's actually

old here so it's it's kind of interesting to

me, but But yeah, so they've got that Ant -Man

and the Wasp I'll probably check it out, but

it's not on my high rated list I still haven't

seen Ant -Man and it's not that I don't want

to watch the movie. It's just I Have this thing

now And I've said this on the pullback. I've

said this other places. I watch things for enjoyment,

but I also watch things to talk about them on

podcasts, or I read things, or I listen to things

to talk about them on podcasts. I do not keep

up with it. Maybe we can do this as part of 200.

Maybe we can have powers on for at least part

of 200 for this. The cost of going to the movies.

Okay, we can talk about this later, but we all

know the movies are expensive as hell to go to

today, and I would just rather wait for media

release. Well, and that's the thing now is you

can actually rent movies now through your cable

provider. Yeah. Within a couple weeks of them

being in the theater, and you can rent it from

your own home for like, I think it's like $10

to $12 or something like that. And you can see

it from home and not have to actually go out,

which... But it's got that time delay, so you

still have to wait because they want maximum

revenue in the theater. But yeah, I keep up with

them. I don't necessarily watch them all. And

then there's A Wrinkle in Time, which Chris Vines

in. That's the only reason I clicked at it to

begin with. I remember reading this book in grade

school. Barely remember it. I don't remember

anything about the story. I just remember having

to read it in grade school I don't remember anything

about the story at all, but it's I remember it

was weird and Then I saw the trailer and I was

like, yep, definitely weird And then so yeah,

I'll probably check that out as well, but it's

kind of freaky they got Oprah in it She's one

of the weird time traveler things Then there's

Avengers Infinity War which I'm stoked about

Obviously, we all are yep, and then going to

2019 They have Captain Marvel interested in that

Because if it's anything as good as Wonder Woman

will be set Avengers Infinity War part 2 whatever

they're gonna title it yeah looking forward to

that Toy Story 4 and Star Wars Episode 9 The

others are all live -action of the animated versions

of Disney movies in The Lion King, Mulan, Dumbo.

They're gonna have a Frozen 2, and those four

films I care nothing for. And then there's an

untitled Disney Toon Studios movie coming out

that year. So... Yeah, full slate for Disney.

Yep. So... But yeah, I just had to get that off

my plate and then of course Fox is is working

on a Doctor Doom film Which I hope that they

could just get the costume correct for once and

the character Just get the costume to look like

the actual Doctor Doom for once but time will

tell I guess because you know it at least the

the hokey ones with everybody from the original

theater Fantastic Four with Chris Evans and Jessica

Alba and all those, at least that one, Dr. Doom

somewhat looked like his character and he wasn't

that weird green thing in the last movie. But

the thing with the franchise sequels, There was

an article in the UK that says Hollywood's obsession

with franchises is costing studios millions.

Because, again, it's the whole tent pole thing,

which my teacher I got on a large conversation

with when I went to college and it was fun to

do because studios buy tent poles when they're

out of ideas. Because it's just printing money.

And so they have Transformers 5, Despicable Me

3, Pirates 5, King Arthur, The Mummy, which have

all underperformed. I have yet to see Despicable

Me 3. I've heard it's okay, but I've heard that

it suffers the Spider -Man 3 issue with too many

plot points, too many plots in the same movie.

See, and I heard that as well and I skipped it,

but Pirates 5 was actually really good. It was

actually came out. I wasn't even sure if that

had come out yet or not pirates five Yeah, yeah,

it was it was better than the last three Which

it was it felt like I was watching the first

movie all over again, and they wrapped up the

whole will will Turner Plot line which means

I got to do an M wire on Pirates five since I

did the last four I did the first three on a

row and then that fourth one came out like a

year or two two years later and then So yeah,

I'll have to do that. And then there's King Arthur,

which is a remake of a remake of a remake of

a remake. Same thing with Mummy. The Mummy I

saw that was terrible. It was like watching Mission

Impossible meets the Brendan Frazier Mummy movie

meets like the museum. No, it was like meeting

like the worst like B film that you could find

and just smashing it together. It would be like

that. Time Cruise Mummy should be on Mystery

Science Theater. It's so bad. And The Transformers

the last night actually was bad, but not as bad

as I thought. So, it wasn't terrible. Yeah, I've

only seen the first hour and 30 minutes of it.

I... But yeah, so I mean overall like... all

these tent pole movies. I mean, they try to make

Baywatch something again and that bombed and

then they made... Let me ask you, I don't remember

if we've talked about this or not, but have you

seen the trailer for Jumanji, the Rock Jumanji?

I'm actually excited for that. The first thing

I thought of was Captain N because they all get

sucked into the TV. They wanted to go a different

route because they didn't want to retread over...

The Robin Williams movie. This is actually a

real sequel. Yeah, but it doesn't it takes place

like because, you know, remember they threw the

board game, the game in the water. Yeah. Well,

it washed up on a shore somewhere. And then,

yeah, it ended up in the basement of a school.

Yeah. I mean, I don't mind it. All I'm saying

is when I saw the trailer and I saw them get

sucked into the TV. The first thing I thought

of was Kevin Keen, Captain and the Game Master,

because that's what happens to him in his intro.

He gets sucked into the TV. That would be an

interesting movie to see them make today. Captain

and the Game Master? You bet your butt it would

be. And you know who should play it? Matt Hill.

No, I meant for live action. If they were going

to do animated, I would be inclined to agree

with you. However, if they're gonna do an animated

version or not. No animated live action. I think

that they should use the new spider -man Tom

Holland. Yeah, that could work because he's got

the snarky and he's got the look I think he could

play it really well Yeah, that could work. So

Yeah, I I would definitely be down for that If

they they came out with that it would be I don't

know. It'd be something different. So Again be

pretty fun So should I move to some of the other

more fun movies that are coming out this year?

Since I keep track, I have a tracker thing at

the bottom of alteredgeek .com, which I should

probably add to GeekCastRadio. You probably should.

And then attach them to the tags of other movies,

but that's neither here nor there. That's whatever

you want to do. So we got the next movies coming

out that I'm actually like pumped for like Blade

Runner and which I have never seen the original.

I probably shouldn't. I haven't either, yeah.

Maybe that would be a fun experiment for M -Wire.

Yep. Before it comes out doing the first one

and then doing the second one shortly thereafter.

Kind of like how we did Tron, yeah. And we've

done Kingsman and I'm looking forward to the

second one. I always shared that and I never

watched it. I'm gonna go back and watch it I

I saw the original the first trailer trailer

the second trailer so much better Okay, I was

gonna be like the first one only better Kind

of like the Thor Ragnarok, which I'm also excited

for, and Justice League, and Last Jedi, and Jumanji,

and then Super Troopers if that ever comes out.

When is that coming out? When is Super Troopers

2 coming out people? Because they did that, not

Patreon, they did that Kickstarter like last

year or two years ago or something. Well they

did it, yeah I remember they did it a few years

ago because I was like, okay. I mean that's obviously

gonna be rated R and it's yeah. Well, yeah, and

it's gonna be They're saying it's supposed to

come out this year Even though they took everybody's

money two years ago. Yeah, and then they they

shot the movie Well, it says it says that um,

they had a small test segment shot of the film

And they began full production in August of 2016.

And then they also had a bunch of other people

join the cast that were pretty high profile in

September of 2016. And then that was the last

news article was in September of 2016. There's

literally been nothing else, because it was just

casting news. Yeah, and I'm like, what happened

to this? I'm kind of sad because I'm like...

I liked the first movie, even though it was like

a cult classic. And they updated it January 3rd,

2017. They've got Linda Carter back as the governor.

They've got Rob Lowe in it. They've got Brian

Cox back in it. They've got a bunch of other...

I mean, they got most of the original cast back

that was from the... Original, yeah. Yeah, that

was worth bringing back. And so, I don't know,

I'm still waiting to hear something. Maybe I

should reach out to them. That would be kind

of cool. Maybe I can get an answer. I should

do that. Yes, you should. Good bookmark it. But

contact them. So I guess we'll hear back from

that in a couple weeks. I'll give my results

And then yeah the Kingsman I'm looking forward

to the Blade Runner like I said, and then of

course, there's a new there's a Mega Man movie

in the works Which I just saw like yesterday.

Yeah and I guess 20th Century Fox has been trying

to secure the rights for it for over two years

and then That only happened earlier this year

And yeah, they're it's it's gonna be done by

Two directors known for doing the third and fourth

paranormal activity And then their last film

was nerve They've done a lot of crappy movies

obviously people directing and so I'm not enthusiastic

about how that's gonna turn out but yeah I don't

know, I would be more excited to see Mega Man

X than the original Mega Man because we've gotten

the original Mega Man. Yeah, because Mega Man

X is a futuristic story. It is a dystopian future,

but it's not really. You look at that original

game, those worlds were beautiful even though

they were run by villains. that story of having

to, you know, live up to the name and this, that

would make a better movie than the original Mega

Man game would. Oh, definitely. So, our good

buddy at Nightbeat on Twitter, Ryan, the name

Flo Merkley, mentioned this to me when I was

recording something with him before we recorded

this, about... SDCC and the Rodimus Prime Hasbro

figure. I actually like these Power of the Primes

figures that they have now, because you can turn

Rodimus into Hot Rod. Yeah, but it... His alt

mode looks like crap to me. It looks like it

was put together... worse than a single wide

trailer in a trailer park. Not that there's anything

wrong with trailer parks. His robot mode just

looks blocky as all hell. You look at his chest

and it looks like his chest plate does not belong

on his body. Well, they're almost going the Power

Master route. Yeah, I kinda see that, but...

He doesn't look like Power Master. You put original

Power Master Prime up against this thing. Power

Master Prime dwarfs over it. But, you know, you

look at the pictures that our good buddy OptiBotamus

on Facebook slash TeamBotamus put up of this

thing. And the back of him is all open because

he has two different spoilers, because like you

said, you can switch between Hot Rod and Rotomus

Prime. but there isn't really like they don't

even show him in hot rod mode in vehicle or robot

and you see right through the back of him to

the front of him and I don't like the figure

I'm sorry if people like it fine good for him

whatever as a die -hard hot rod Rodimus fanboy

I don't like this well I never said I was gonna

buy it but no I said it was kind of cool I just

you know I yeah it's something different No,

we are like different different man different

So with that we'll take a quick break come back

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show. And we're back. So, speaking of things

that are a little, uh, button -pushing, you could

say, um, the internet kinda lost its crap the

other day because Dr. Who and BBC decided to

make the 13th Doctor a female. Yup. Which has

in turn started a plethora of things in the vein

of saying for instance Chris Hemsworth decided

that You know he could say He believes that the

next James Bond should be a female Yeah, to which

I've heard people on both sides of the fence

there Complaining of why it would be Good idea

to not do it and why it's kind of Kind of a An

okay thing if they can keep the character without

being You know altered too much you could say

yeah Which I could care less because I've not

watched any of the James Bond movies prior So

it doesn't affect me one iota. Yeah, I could

care less either way. However that being said

If they're gonna go that route and they are gonna

you know, I know it's just speculation and people

just run in their mouth Which is typical of internet

culture anymore. Just everybody going hey I Think

that this sounds like a good idea because I'm

an actor and I just I really want to have people

listen to me Mean how many times have we joked

and we're joking when we say this and this is

one of the reasons why I don't report on Actors

saying things on social media Well, okay, but

yeah, but how many blows it on a proportion into

a clickbait article, which we'll talk about soon

Yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute. Okay.

Okay, but how many times since we've been podcasting

in the last almost decade or more have we not

reported on news or an actor saying something

about, you know, I'd really like a role in the

new James Bond movie. That's an actor just asking

for a job. That's not a news item. That's not

them saying, hey, I got this job. You know, that's

them, I don't want to say begging for a role,

but that's them basically putting themselves

out there saying, hey, I'd like to do this, you

know, because everybody wants to work. And it's

also getting the public. To agree to it because

if the public is like hey, yeah, I think he's

right then they're more likely to get it because

Studios tend to go where the money is and if

people have enough people back it Then they'll

be like, hey, let's do it So it's like Nike just

do it that's right for the monies So you talked

about things that push our buttons before we

get into clickbait. Well, before I get into the

clickbait part of it, the thing I was going to

mention about the whole thing with the Chris

Evans thing is that I was listening to some people

earlier today. Chris Helmsworth, not Evans. That's

what I meant. That's okay, there's too many purses

in the universe is you get Chris Pine Chris Evans

You know Chris Hemsworth one too many steves

and not any of them are real. Yeah, that's that's

like that That thing that the two steves on a

plane or the the steves on a plane thing that

somebody did the image of and then I inserted

myself With an actual Steve Yeah, so you should

put that you should put that image in the post

it actually is going to be I already made the

post ahead of time, so I knew I was going to

bring it up. Before we get too negative talking

about things that push our buttons and all that

and the click bait and things like that, one

last thing I want to mention from SDCC because

I just now saw it on Facebook. Tara Strong posted

three hours ago. Favorite thing shut up favorite

thing about cosplay folks asking for my pick

and having no idea. It's me hashtag SDCC 2017

hashtag batgirl Wow, she looks good in the batgirl

costume. Yeah, she went as Harley Quinn last

year. Yeah, yeah It's the it's the black and

gold black and yellow batgirl costume because

that's what she had in New adventures cuz that's

when she voiced batgirl Absolutely love that

but yeah, I mean The thing that drives me nuts

about This particular conversation was it was

said that you know What are they gonna do change

Thor into a female next and blah blah blah, and

I'm like well I'm sitting there listening to

this and I'm like actually they did that A year

ago like two years ago like they they It's not

the same Thor, but they, you know, just the same

kind of route that they've turned Iron Man into,

you know, Riri. And then they've turned Captain

America to, you know, a black guy, you know,

in the comics and everything. So, I mean, they've

all changed it. It's not, you know, they're just

trying something new because comics just aren't

selling like they used to. So in that that regard

I I thought it was kind of humorous and I was

like I Listened quite often and I scream at my

monitor Frequently So I'll just leave that there

but yeah, and speaking of clickbait Maybe you

should start that off since that was your oh

Okay, so I was I wasn't able to find that it's

been too long. This was a couple of this might

have been a week ago or more And I have now unfollowed

Screen Rant, Combook Resources, a whole bunch

of stuff on Facebook. Look, I know I need to

keep up with the news and all that stuff and

everything else, but if Combook Resources can't

put out actual news articles that are not clickbaity,

they put out something that said something about

Who are the best Spider -Man? Who's the best

Spider -Man in the last 15 years? And the whole

comments section blew up. Basically, everybody's

saying, Tobey Maguire's the best, no matter what,

yada, yada, yada. And my position is, 15 years

ago, when we didn't, right before, 16 years ago,

right before we didn't have a Spider -Man movie

yet, in 2002, when we got the first full -length

Spider -Man movie, classic Spider -Man, it was

great. He was great because he was the only one.

He was the one that went and did it and whatever

else. At the time, 15 years ago, I liked Tobey

Maguire as Peter Parker and Spider -Man. 15 years

later now, I can't stand Maguire as Peter Parker.

I like him as Spider -Man when he's in the suit,

but I can't stand him as Peter Parker because

I think he's too geeky. Yeah, I mean, I watched

the movies, you know... back back then and I

saw them in theater and it was kind of they were

good back then but now just to go back and watch

them they're not there they don't hold up okay

okay spider -man 1 the original it does The three,

okay, Spider -Man 3, everybody can argue about

that all day long. The first two are all right.

They're okay. They're good. Do they hold up to

today's standards of comic book movies? No, they

don't. None of them do. None of the original

three hold in their own vein before the Marvel

Cinematic Universe came around six years after

the first Spider -Man movie. It might have been

fine. Fifteen years later, we've had so many

that the comic book genre for films and the superhero

genre for films has broadened so much. And then

you got Garfield in The Amazing Spider -Man 1

and 2. And say what you will about the plot of

Amazing Spider -Man 1 and 2. I liked Garfield

at the time because of several things. Mechanical

web shooters. I felt he was more snarky and more

quippy as Spider -Man and Peter Parker. And just.

I just enjoyed a different Peter Parker. Now,

I have yet to see Spider -Man Homecoming as of

this recording. I'm probably going to watch it

after we're done with the recording, but I have

yet to see it. But everything I've seen leading

up to all the trailers, all that stuff, all the

interviews I've seen with Tom Holland at various

conventions and things like that, my contention

is he's the best Spider -Man right now. And that's

kind of how they all go. It's like... Yeah. Oh,

that's the best Batman for now. You know, I mean,

it's just they all go on in cycles of, you know,

filmmaking. So, I mean, it's all relative. So

we'll see. We'll see. But yeah. And then, of

course, we've had the information about Kermit

the Frog having been fired for being a douche.

so And what I've heard is from the Henson's and

from Disney is The actor that played Come with

a frog Steve Whitmire. It was a complete dirtbag

and a drama queen Whether that's true or not

They obviously had to have a reason because think

about it too though you've seen all those like

digital shorts that they had without Kermit for

like the longest time. Yeah. Which was probably

because the guy couldn't be worked with very

well. Yeah. Okay, look. And so, like, he's complaining

about it now and they're having to recast him,

which, hey, um, they could call either me or

Neil. We'd like a job, please. I have to learn

how to operate a puppet, but... You know, I got

one where I stick my hand in him. Oh, no. So

I already. Yeah. So this is new news to you,

but I've already talked about this on nerd news

over over on Twig about the fact that the guy

got fired and the fact that, well, I need to

update the story when we record next week about

that. Henson has now said something. The fact

that Henson said he should have fired him back

in 1994 or whenever. At this point in time, for

me, it's not about the fact that the guy got

fired. It's about the fact that Kermit the Frog

is going to have a different voice for the first

time in nearly 30 years. 1990 was 27 years ago

when Jim Henson passed away and Steve Whitmire

took over. Now, a lot of people, not me, but

a lot of people noticed the change. I, for some

odd reason, didn't notice the change. Well, I

wasn't old enough to notice the change, but there

is, I can definitely hear it now when I watch

older and newer stuff, but I guess even the actor

was such a pessimistic dick that he altered part

of how Kermit the Frog sounds. Well, not how

he sounds, but how his mannerisms are, because

he would just refuse to do it. if they didn't

rewrite parts of the movie for them or the content.

No, granted the ABC show I think was complete

garbage that came out. There are only a couple

of lines from Kermit in that that I actually

enjoy. The reason why I think the ABC show did

not work is for one simple reason. You cannot

take something and call it the Muppets or the

Muppet Show and have it centered on one Muppet.

You center it on the group. Look at Muppets in

Space, the Gonzo movie. Not a lot of people like

that movie. Not a lot of us do. With the Muppets

from 2011, the television show from ABC, they

put Miss Piggy as the Conan of the Muppets. Would

rather watch Conan than watch her do a late -night

show and I can't stand that guy There are certain

Moments in the first couple of episodes of that

show that I like Kermit's quotes But other than

that, I I just I started I stopped watching the

show after like the sixth episode or so. I Know

I just couldn't just couldn't handle it my worry

now I know there's plenty of sun you know i know

there's plenty of sound of likes in hollywood

like you already said give you were neil a job

or help give it to you both have neil run the

puppeting and you do the voice or vice versa

doesn't matter it's one of those things where.

My worry is whoever they get even though they

could find a sound like what if they don't want

to find a sound like what if they want kermit's

voice to be different that's my issue. My my

boat too is like you'd never know Yeah, and and

I don't really want to hear a new Kermit He's

he's he's kind of been you know And then wouldn't

that mess with continuity though with like yes

And yes, you know cuz Kermit used to you know

kind of be that guy that just kind of show up

and well yeah cuz I forget what I forget which

one is which but Kermit and Fozzie were also

Bert and Ernie. Oh That makes sense You know,

I hope that they keep the voice I think yeah,

I think if I'm remembering this correctly, I

think Bert and Kermit were the same voice and

then Fozzie and Ernie were the same voice And

again, it was all Jim Henson at the time So,

you know I Don't know it's at first I was sad

about it then I was kind of worried about it

and we'll just have to wait and see and let's

face it Ever since Muppets most wanted Disney

has mishandled the Muppets the whole damn time

The only thing for the Muppets I see them putting

out is those Muppet moment of the week with Deadly

or Deadly or whatever his name is. And then they

cut to a Muppet saying whatever the little quote

that they say. So Disney is not doing anything

with the Muppets right now and it sucks that

they're not. While I'm hopeful that they'll figure

something out, like, it's just kind of, you know...

Until then, we'll just have to wait to find out

who's going to be up Kermit's butt next. Oh,

dude! Moving on! Well, because the guy was, you

know, he was an a -hole, so it was from what

I've heard. But I hope not. I mean, I hope the

guy is just, you know... He just had issues,

maybe. Or got too big for his britches. That's

usually what happens. So that aside so Mary and

I are trying to learn how to play guitar Okay

Just we bought she bought one on like Craigslist

type of thing not actually Craigslist. It's like

Like Facebook list. Yeah, it's like Facebook

sale sites for local sales stuff and She bought

it for like 30 bucks, but it's I guess it's a

name brand. It's pretty good Les Paul No, it's

it's Gibson. No, it starts with an E. It's it's

made in America though. That's that's all I know

Okay so It's I'd have to look Okay, don't don't

oh it's on my phone. I should I took a picture

of it earlier Like what kind is it? What kind

of strings are on it? But like I'm like I have

no idea mom I'm like, we just got it. It's Epiphone.

Oh, I've never heard of that. I'm not all that.

They've been around since 1873. Okay, that's

fine. I've just never heard of it. Yeah, I've

never heard of it either. If it were like Gibson

or, you know, like Fender or something, like

I would have known right away. But yeah, I have

no idea. So anyways, we're trying... to We're

trying to Learn how to play this and it's not

voting well so far, but we've only had it like

a couple days so I Definitely need to get a Guitar

pick Because I cannot I can't use my fingers

because I fat finger the cords, so it kind of

sucks, but my wife has gotten the grasp of it

better than I can, which is not surprising because

she's very good at picking stuff up and learning.

Marry the mom Phillips the new rocker for GCRN,

right? You wish So but yeah, I mean it's it's

um It's uh, it's it's been a process I'll just

say so Peek on caught Michael and I have been

pre recording a lot of the podcast the Phineas

and Ferb podcast stuff We're up to pre recorded

up to episode 54. We just released episode 51.

So I've been not necessarily releasing them daily

I've been kind of releasing them every couple

of days so we can still have a buffer but we

just recorded the summer belongs to you special

and In that, it's basically Phineas and Ferb

and their friends want to go around the world.

It's the longest day of summer. They want to

go around the world in 40 hours. In the episode,

as they're coming back home to Danville, there's

an annual substitute teacher convention in the

park, and they're in a super giant paper airplane.

Michael's wife is a teacher. I had to explain

that. I'm like, your wife is a teacher. How do

you not get the fact that those were substitute

teachers and it was a paper airplane? Well, in

my defense, she's a principal now. It doesn't

matter. She was an educator. She's still an educator.

Your wife is... So funny. I have a blast doing

that show. God. So, yeah, I mean... Yeah, as

far as Phineas and Ferb, I have no idea. I've

watched very minimal of that. Now the Milo Murphy,

that's more my pacing. Well, that's because it's

Weird Al. Yeah, I like the voice. A lot of it

has to do with that. I'm very biased. If it's

Weird Al, he's like gold. We I had planned for

the three of us to talk about Milo Murphy, but

You know, California and all the other bull crap

that happened last year. So we are still going

to talk about it in between Episode 60 and 61

because episode 60 of the Phineas and Ferb show

is the season to wrap up and episode 61 is the

Season 3 starts, so we'll do it at some point

later this summer. So, yay! Yay! And then, of

course, we're working on the next Top 100, so...

Yeah. So, we'll see what happens there. Yup.

I don't really know if I have anything else on

my plate. I think, you know... I think that's

about it. We've talked about a lot of stuff.

SDCC, Doctor Who, death of Linkin Park's lead

singer. Once again, folks, suicide is not the

answer. Please talk to somebody. Remember, it's

not an option. Just take it off your table. It's

not for dinner. I'm trying to make a lighter

joke on it. Yeah, but it's it's I mean, it's

not a laughing matter, but still it no Yeah,

I mean, you know, and I'm not trying to drag

show down here I just want people to know, you

know, there are options. There are options. I'll

give the number again I've given it several times

throughout this episode 1 -800 -273 -8255 the

national suicide hotline if you can't find somebody

to talk to in your family your school Policeman

anybody call the suicide hotline if you're having

suicidal thoughts So I Wonder who Hasbro is going

to get for their licensed theme songs for the

next four Transformers movies now that you know

I don't know. I mean, Nickelback was in 3 with

Burn It To The Ground, so... So it was not far

off from what the movie did. I guess not, no.

So... So yeah, I mean... Join us next time for

episode 200 first podcast on the GC RN that reaches

200 podcast episodes What yours it's going to

know it will okay, so As of this recording, I

just recorded, or I will have already recorded

the pullback episode 150. I'm 50 away from 200.

I guarantee you, I will race you to 300 for the

pullback. Yeah, because I do a weekly show and

you do like 50. Yeah, I know, right? I'm going

to beat you. Yeah, so I mean if there's anything

you guys want to have brought up on the next

episode on episode 200 I'm planning on doing

it as a live show So I haven't figured out what

day I'm gonna air it yet And it probably won't

be it may or may not be next to it same week

as this episode. I'm not sure But I definitely

want to Have fan interaction of any kind so I

mean if you guys want to you know email mp3s

in if you want to send an email Do you want to

send any comments questions suggestions of topics?

Definitely be open to that And then kind of just

seeing where things go from there And I'll of

course have things to bring up as well Regardless

if you know nobody shows up, and I'm sitting

there talking to myself live, then I guess that's

how it will be, but we'll see. Yeah, we'll see.

So until next time, get altered, get geeky with

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