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So, obviously, it's been a little while since

an episode. mostly due to the fact that last

week we were going to record two Future Imperfects

so we could get that show kind of up and rolling

again and This this week I recorded in all things

transformers with TF2 and Mike and Alex and So

yeah, it's been a little bit of an adventure

jumping back into Hosting and producing multiple

shows again So yeah, that's that's kind of why

we haven't had a new episode and Altered geek

obviously is like my main show and I will continue

to do it even though at times I'll Kind of lose

my marbles on it and then kind of question why

I'm doing it but again, I Still enjoy it overall

So last week we kind of went off on a tirade

on a multitude of different things. Forgive me

if you hear paper rustling in the background.

I'm sitting in my car. Mostly because I'm recording

on my phone right now. There's this weird thing

I've noticed now that I've moved. I don't have

the same energy on the podcast that I did when

I was recording at night before the move. It's

something that's kind of helped hindered in a

sense. It's hindered me in the sense I can't

actually get fully all into what I'm recording.

The plus side is I figured out the daytime is

when I have that. So I may start doing some live

streaming of the podcast during like a lunch

hour, like once a week, and the same episode

would be post produced and posted on Fridays

as usual. But I was thinking... of possibly switching

the day of release and recording. I don't know

how everybody feels about that. I was kind of

thinking of moving it to Tuesday. I've noticed

that there's been a sharp decline on Thursday,

Friday, Saturday, Sunday as far as downloads

and everything else and Tuesday seems to be just

an overall better day to do this. And so I was

thinking that moving the day might help benefit

the podcast. But again, that's just that's just

an idea at this point. I'm not committing to

that yet. But that's that's kind of a thing I'm

looking towards. So anyways, last week, beautiful

crows outside. I needed some some sunlight, some

fresh air. So it actually is really nice out.

for mid -October in Colorado. It's 76 degrees.

So anyways, last week we kind of went on a tirade

and then I kind of had this multiple question

thing going on yesterday of... You know has this

show outlived its purpose? Do you still enjoy

it or are there parts of it that are kind of

annoying? You know are the ads a problem? Would

you like a new show or would you like the show

revamped to be completely new from anything done

on it before to freshen it up? I know periodically

we refresh the podcast and kind of redo the structure

and everything that's talked about and Or how

it's talked about I tried the segment thing.

It kind of just broke it up funky I'm going to

start actually strategically placing the mid

-roll so that it's not just middle of the conversation.

So I'll probably take designated breaks with

the intent of plopping that dynamic add insertion

in that exact moment and then picking it up on

the other side. So I'll probably talk a few things

here and then I'll kind of cut back and then

that way it's fair warning. And it's just better

on the ears honestly instead of having the abrupt.

Oh crap. There's an ad So anyways So Brad responded

enjoying the show. It's changing formats a bit

over the last few months And while having a couple

of guesses on his great last week's episode was

a slog to listen to with retelling of school

stories chasing girls and alike There didn't

seem to be any purpose to that episode apart

from the three of us having a chat, which is

fine And I kind of agree. Part of it I've noticed,

too, is when I'm recording, and this has become

an issue since I've moved, I've noticed because

we're two hours different from where I used to

live time zone -wise. I'm in mountain standard

time now instead of eastern standard, and I would

say a good 75 % of the people I record with are

in the eastern time zone. So it kind of hinders

things a little bit because when I'm available

it's 9 p .m. Which is actually an hour earlier

than what I used to be available In Michigan

I used to be available at 10 p .m. In Michigan

which was great for the people that lived in

Central or Mountain Standard or Especially Pacific

Coast because it it drops an hour every time

you jump time zones, but The problem now is I

record at 9 o 'clock not out of want because

I'd honestly prefer to go back to the 10 o 'clock

time slot or the 930 The problem is is if I do

that and it's an hour later where TFJ1 Mike is

at So if I record it, let's say 9 mountain standard

time, it's 10 Central and then it's 11 Eastern

which means that I've pretty much Unless I start

much earlier. It's gonna kind of and I'd love

to have Mike powers back on the podcast, to be

honest, and if he's fine with that time slot,

that's great. But I know that the time slot getting

later has been an issue in the past. And the

guys from Twig are generally available anyway

around that time, at least Alex's and Birdman

Dodd. We actually were going to record two Future

Imperfects last week and he's like, I'm dog tired,

man. And he was falling asleep during the first

episode. So after we finished our discussion,

we signed him out and then started over and kind

of continued from there. But no, it's just, I

don't know, it's made it difficult to record

with other people just because of the time zone

change and everything else. So. So yeah, it's

a different dynamic. And again, I apologize for

all the sounds and driving and parking lots and

cars and everything else. It's either I have

my air conditioning running, which is just annoying,

or I just have natural sound of the surrounding

areas. So I'll figure out another dynamic soon.

I'm hoping that at some point I can start using

maybe the studio here or doing something else.

When I record, I typically don't like being in

the same room as other people or having a control

room atmosphere when I'm recording my own shows.

So anyways, yeah, I apologize for the slog of

a episode last week We kind of got off in different

tirades and it just it kind of devolved heavily

So anyways scanner 51 says the show's fine. I'm

really enjoying the three -person roundtable

aspect of the show The ads are fine. Although

the ad in the last show scared me because it

came out of nowhere He says I think segments

are not good. I like the even flow of just a

conversation. I think it works best for the show.

Let's just have some topics and see where the

show goes. Segments make it seem like you're

forced to talk about something. He's like, we're

all friends here. Let's have a conversation,

which I totally agree, man. I really enjoy having

the conversation and having the outlet to be

able to talk to you guys and kind of pick your

brain on the latest in geekdom and the latest

of everything kind of going on. There's a ton

just in general things changing whether it's

with podcasting or technology or the geek world.

I mean we're already getting confirmation of

more casting for the Matt Reeves Batman movie

now. I know it's kind of a weird subtle transition

there, but But like, you know, we've got the

Zoey Kravitz which is gonna be Catwoman. They've

got the guy that was He refused to speak and

he was like colorblind or something and eternal

or in Little Miss Sunshine the older brother

that was kind of Moody or whatever. He's gonna

be playing the Riddler. Jonah Hill's kind of

exited because it Warner Brothers took too long.

And they're still going through the casting of

everything. It's going to be an interesting film.

I'll see it. I don't have much optimism, but

I'm not going to have that judgment throw that

I usually do. Because one, I honestly don't care

about a lot of these franchise movies anymore

or any of these big companies. It seems like

they're all Not that they're getting played out

I just I feel like they're They're just kind

of milking it for all it's worth and I'm not

on the boat of like Martin Scorsese where he's

like Oh super here and they've Asian comic book

movies are garbage. They're not real cinema You

know and Kevin Smith of course defended cinema

and he's like, you know, it's a film you grew

up with or you watch with a parent or it has

some kind of an emotional nostalgic attachment

and or the franchise does and that's what draws

people and so I kind of I kind of see both spectrums

but at the same time like I don't necessarily

want to see a million rehashes of shows and I

don't want to see reboots or remakes or sequels

to things that have done and passed. There was

some kind of a joke going around of, you know,

Liam Hemsworth, or not Liam, Chris Hemsworth

and Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. doing a

Three Amigos remake. And I was like, no, I mean,

I could see them working comedically together

and, you know, writing a brand new movie, but

I don't necessarily want to see them redo the

Three Amigos. And it's not even just nostalgia.

It's just why go back and remake an old movie?

When is a remake ever really surpassed or done

better than an original when you're making it

over verbatim of the same movie basically when

when you're reinventing like you're starting

over in a franchise type thing you know you're

like for instance like the spider -man movies

where they start over and reboot They're going

for a totally different style and a totally different

storyline. It's not even a remake. It's just

another series of films so Those are even different.

So I don't know I'm kind of a Little bit burned

out on the superhero scene plus they're they're

going in because they've run out of things to

do with the heroes they're going in all in on

these prequels or the Villain films where they're

making the villains like the the supposed hero

or you know or not even the hero just showing

their their issues whether it's venom or carnage

or Suicide Squad or the Birds of Prey or Joker

or Honestly, I'm not gonna watch any of those

movies and I haven't the only one I've watched

is like the first Suicide Squad and and to be

honest I thought it was hot garbage the other

ones I have no interest in watching and so I'll

probably never review review those I Have zero

interest in reviewing those movies or even watching

them I watched, for instance, Endgame. Really

enjoyed that. But again, it's done. I don't necessarily

want to see... I'm kind of done with the Marvel

movies now. I mean, now that Endgame's done,

the main draw for me of that whole franchise

was Iron Man. After that, I honestly don't care

anymore and I'm not really invested. They've

written off Cap, they've written off... Iron

Man and so I really have no draw to the series

anymore, which is fine They don't have to cater

to me or cater to anybody else I realize that

they have to reinvent because not only their

actors getting old but the You know, they need

to evolve and go to different direction and so

I totally understand that But I like I said I

have zero draw to the series and they're even

technically, you know the next Thor movie They're

gonna basically write him out, too Because they're

gonna have a female Thor and so it's you're gonna

end up with all you know a female version of

the Avengers and you know Well, that's all fine

and dandy. I it's not my cup of tea. I liked

the mixed ratio of All of the team of both, you

know genders and I thought that you know, it

was really well done with that You know whether

they had enough screen time or something totally

different story, but honestly like I just It's

not a draw for me anymore. And I guess that's

kind of... I'm going back and just honestly watching

old stuff. I have no... I have no reason to go

watch anything that's new. I haven't seen a movie

in theater since the last Star Wars movie. I

don't know. The last Star Wars movie I saw in

theater was The Force Awakens. I didn't even

see The Last Jedi in theater. Yeah, so I mean

I haven't seen a movie in theater since then

and that's like going on three years Four years,

so I it doesn't honestly faze me or bother me

at this point anymore Although it's nice. They

got this really nice Dine -in theater that's

close to where I work and I thought about going

there during our production week because we're

going into another production of the audio series

that I'm producing and so they you know, we'll

be there from 9 a .m. till whenever we finish

that particular day for the, you know, eight

day span that we're doing this. And I thought

about going to see a movie, except for the fact

that there's nothing I really want to see in

the theater. I'm interested in the new Terminator

movie. I'm not interested in certain aspects

of it, but I'm interested in seeing what they

do because it's supposed to take place so many

years later and after T2. So I'm interested in

that. But I really don't. There might have been

another movie I was interested in, but I can't

recall right now. It wasn't obviously enough

to hit my radar. So. But I've been having fun

going back to Netflix and Hulu and kind of watching

things, watching old Trek films, watching the

old series. It's. It's interesting, going back

and rewatching. I am, however, interested in

the new Animaniac show that's coming out, that

all the original cast is going to be back for,

the writers, the producers, everything. What

remains to be seen is if they keep the animation.

I really don't want to see them turn it into

some hot garbage version of the animation. like

they've done with so many other series in the

last five to ten years they've had this weird

amalgamation of just messy drawing it's not even

artistic anymore for the most part it's just

simplistic and i know that that's again everybody's

cup of tea there but i just i don't if it's that

animation that's going to throw me even if it's

the original actors and i think that while some

will Enjoy it. I think if I Think it's kind of

a 50 -50 factor here on the show if they don't

have the voice actors The show will flop like

the original ones if they don't have the animation

there You know with it. It's gonna flop if they

don't have the quality writing there. It's gonna

flop and So it's kind of thirds, but you kind

of get what I'm saying if it's not cohesive and

it's not like it similar to what it was back

when it was on the air I feel like it's gonna

fail I have I obviously understand they're going

to tweak things a little bit I mean that's like

Batman the animated series to the new adventures

of Batman and Robin where they tweaked it or

Justice League where they tweaked it there's

a difference between tweaking and all outright

just totally Changing everything and so I guess

that's kind of where I'm at if they tweak it

I'm perfectly fine with that because obviously

they're going for a different look different

era But I don't want to see it so alienated and

different in animation style that they completely

botch it So speaking of other video things and

that Kind of was watching I was going through

like some kind of a slump last night and just

kind of watching videos that would make me laugh

and And this was after recording all things transformers

I just had no energy to record this podcast and

so I I have all the energy now for the most part

I've got a stuff nose and Weathers changing so

my allergies are going with it but we I was watching

this guy called James Veach. I don't know if

you're familiar with him But he's done. He's

done like a couple of Ted talks. He's done stuff

on Conan. He's been on the Jimmy Fallon show

He's got a YouTube channel pretty funny guys

British Or at least sounds that way with kind

of a squeaky high -pitched voice When he talks

to you, and he kind of he kind of talks like

this a little bit, but anyways he His whole shtick

is he spams and pranks email spammers or people

that get the wrong email address. And so what

he does is like, for instance, there's one that

he's doing and they're trying to get him to send

money. And it was from like a fake bank or something.

So he's you know, he does his research on it

But then he'll send like images back where like

he'll doctor images to purposely like prove his

point for instance like He made up, you know,

like if you open a bank account You get a free

toaster or something and he made like a coupon

and an ad for it It's it's really hilarious how

he's just played pranking these these spammers

to the point that they tell him to stop emailing

and I've I'm kind of waiting for one of those

opportunities because I do get spammed quite

a bit on certain channels because People are

trying to sell me crap for geek cast radio, and

I've told some of them. I'm blatantly not interested

at all And so Or even like people that are wanting

to pay advertised But they're like you can tell

that they're bogus or at least like their content

is going to be bogus that they want to repost

so Watch this and I have fun with it Because

I'm waiting for that opportunity where I can

do the same thing because I think it would be

funny And it would just be something to do it'd

be like a game He's like I he's like I figure

out the game and then I play the game back So

like he'll he'll do it to the point that they

just quit emailing and he had somebody you know

I watched another comedian last night He got

a phone call that was the wrong wrong number,

and he tried to explain it this guy's like chewing

him out over the phone And so he's like, all

right, I'll play along. So he starts taking the

information they're giving and he's playing back

to the point that they ended up having a conference

call and the guy's talking in it. And then finally,

they come to the conclusion that he actually

doesn't work there. And this was after weeks

of them conversing back and forth. Just he would

do it for fun because they would just keep doing

it and so I don't know I find those things humorous

because there's very little online that Is really

all that funny anymore. There's a lot of stupid

video type things It's just it's gotten really

strange online anyway. Oh There was this really

good video though somebody posted I can't remember

if it was on Facebook Want to say it was like

Doug Abel found it or somebody but it's it's

a Like an explicit video, but there's a dead

man that pranks his family at his own funeral

by using a recording That he recorded a year

before he died because he knew he was terminally

ill To scream let me out as they put his coffin

into the ground and so as they're lowering his

coffin He's screaming let me out Yes, you I'm

in the hole right here in this box let me out

and like only the kids and the wife knew about

it so that they could laugh at the funeral instead

of cry and Everybody's just laughing like hilariously

because you know he's pranking everybody and

it's funny. It's genuinely funny and he's He

he ends it with you know him singing goodbye

And insane. Well, yeah, you can't talk to me.

I'm dead. I'm in the box here You know, I'm just

kind of turning it into a funny moment But again,

it's it's just one of those things that's that's

Funny and there's very little of it around anymore

because everybody's so hate -filled and so like

upset about everything but Yeah, and then with

the Disney acquisition of all the 20th century

Fox things with them re -releasing everything

or with new logos because Disney was going through

this this whole thing on Disney plus on Twitter

dropping every image of every show that they're

going to have Including the new stuff, but it

was funny because they had 20 They had Disney

on everything even if it was a 20th century Fox

thing that the logo was gone when it says Disney

So it kind of makes the Simpsons Disney now Disney's

Simpsons, you know But anyways, it was really,

really funny because people are like, it's super

weird, questionable to see the Disney logo on

the 20th Century Fox stuff, though worth noting

they've done this in -house before, too, most

notably with Nightmare Before Christmas, which

is a Touchstone release, but then got rebranded

to Disney later on. But yeah, I don't know. There's

there's a lot going on in the the movie world

The only thing that bothers me with it is you

know how For the most part these days Hollywood

seems to take anything that was once popular

and then force a remake out of it Because you

know, they don't seem to learn their lesson either

because most of these remakes fail miserably

But they still come out with them. It's like

create something new just stop We've seen enough

of the same stuff. I get like if you want to

have a franchise of something Don't remake it

if you if you absolutely feel you need to do

something reboot it Yeah, but it's still gonna

suck because it's not the original and people

are gonna always hold it to that original film

Even if the original sucks by today's standards

people are still going to hold that candle to

that old content So you're better off just creating

something brand new and starting over which let's

face it. There's not much that I mean there is

but Nobody pays attention to it, which I think

is because we focus so heavily on the nostalgia

Yeah, everybody has their own favorite shows.

Everybody has their favorite nostalgic items,

but ultimately it's They're trying to make a

buck and it's obvious it's it's really obvious

so it's kind of unfortunate, but it's Again,

very obvious. So I'm thinking about, in a future

episode, reading my Transformers fan dub. I don't

know if anybody would be interested in hearing

that. Or fan, not fan dub, fan fiction that I

wrote years ago. Like basically, it would be

like a tack on, or like an extra episode or something,

or maybe on all things Transformers, but... It's

it's an idea. I've had for a while. I have a

plethora of other things whether it be for voice

actors or You know production side of things

because in in you know extroverted introvert

Variety of other things anyways, I I don't want

to bore everybody with it They like I said, there's

a lot That I could talk about but i feel like

this episode has run its course and i don't want

to bore anybody um and and again like i'm feeling

like i'll be more passionate next week anyway

i just i really wanted to get out an episode

it's been a week two weeks uh since an episode

and um i had a few things that were kind of interesting

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there's there's a ton we could talk about ad

nauseum I could talk about voice acting and the

fun with that Cannot wait for season 12 of the

Discovery Mountain podcast Mostly because I get

to hear what the end production sounds like of

me talking to myself It's it's not even like

an ego thing or a pride thing. It's just I'm

just curious how it sounds what takes the director

used because I did some multiple times he does

multiple takes of everybody so it's not like

a I screwed up moment but I'm interested genuinely

to see what they do with it and how it sounds

when it's all complete but I also played two

other characters in another episode which is

kind of like a Bible scene where they have characters

talking But season 13 I'm gonna try and play

double duty again, too It just kind of depends

after we get everybody in studio I'm gonna attempt

to play three more Bible characters and play

my one regular character that I have and the

other one that I have in the main Storyline that

I did in season 12 He'll probably be back in

like 14 or 15 of seasons, but It's a lot of fun

to go in the booth. I I was nervous as all get

up to begin with and getting in there and actually

doing it. It's so much fun to get to actually

voice act in a real production that goes on.

They've got a couple hundred radio stations that

this program goes airs on. Uh, and then also

it's on all the podcast platforms. So it's, it's

really cool to, to be a part of something like

that. Uh, that's got far reach. Um, So yeah,

maybe when some of the produced content comes

out I'll slap a clip in the episode too so that

People can kind of hear a little bit of what

it sounds like It's very interesting. It's it's

literally the only show that my kids will listen

to That they tell us to shut our mouths because

we will talk You know when you're trying to get

a point across and you're talking or you're listening

to something the kids won't be quiet and then

The other way around works for This audio program

so it's really cool That they have to use their

imagination and can't just watch a screen not

saying that they don't occasionally watch things

but It's it's kind of that mentality of keeping

them using that imagination So Anyways, thank

you guys for listening, and as always, get altered,

get geeky, with the Altered Geeks. See you next

time!