Ghostbusters, Lord of the Rings, and Quantum Leap Revivals; Disney Acquiring 21st Century Fox

On this episode of Altered Geek, we'll be talking

about the Fox and Disney conundrum, what do Ghostbusters,

Lord of the Rings, and Quantum Leap all have

in common, and my Christmas vacation story, all

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So a little side note. I'm gonna kind of jump

around a little bit based on the the intro but

My my Christmas vacation story, I know it's not

Christmas vacation yet, but We celebrated my

son's fifth birthday this past Sunday and Today

it's Thursday. My son is actually officially

five years old today and We're having We're having

a good day Altogether and so yeah my my son Was

taking a nap on Sunday my wife ran to go do something.

I think she went to the store I'm not really

entirely sure she might have been working actually

that probably sounds about right But We were

trying to get the house all cleaned up and I

was outside because of as you know it's getting

colder with fall coming around the corner and

uh my wife more so I didn't want her to have

to deal with all the lawn stuff like putting

away the the yard furniture the the tables the

chairs um the fire pit a variety of things like

that so I put it all away I reorganized the shed

uh got out the generator because uh we In Michigan,

it's pretty commonplace to lose power if not

in the summer during a giant torrential rainstorm

than during the winter during a giant ice storm.

I have been fortunate that we've only had that

happen once since we've lived in this house.

We've also had it during the summer, so either

way, it wasn't a huge deal. But it's still better

safe than sorry, so I put that in my Florida

room and got that all ready. And then I was going

to clean out my gutters because we have two trees

that just drop leaves and we get about I would

say about 30 bags a piece So we'll end up with

maybe like 75 80 bags between the two trees of

leaves at the end of the season I mowed the lawn

a week and a half ago and mulched it and put

it in my garden so that it could break down in

there for that that aspect then my wife cleaned

up a bunch the other day, but the the Christmas

vacation moment as you can imagine has to do

with the gutters and So I got out this this extendable

ladder. I propped it up against my house Sunday

afternoon and this was about two two and a half

hours before the party was going to start and

So I I do that I climb up under the Florida room

roof and it's slippery. Mind you, it had just

rained that night, and it was starting to dry

up. Things were a little mildewy, so, excuse

me, I have the hiccups. So, I proceeded to throw

stuff off the roof and out of the gutters, and

then I about slipped, and so I was like, okay,

I should get down. So I get on the ladder. I

start going down. The ladder loses momentum.

It's rubber feet just drop out from under me

and the entire ladder Goes down I Know mind you

this drop isn't very far from my Florida room,

but if I happen to be on my house There's an

additional like three feet that I would have

dropped and so I probably would have broken my

leg But I came down. I smacked my shin on the

ladder skinned it. I was hanging from the gutter

and I managed to jump down. All the while, this

ladder comes down, bashes out the window to my

Florida room door, and glass everywhere in the

Florida room, all over the deck. My dog is standing

outside, decides that it's a good idea to come

up and see what's going on, so I have to like,

shoo her away. I have no pain other than my shin

at this point, and I drop to the porch, and so,

I go to get the dog, I go to move the ladder,

the ladder has fragments of glass in it, didn't

realize it, and, numb nuts me, I didn't go grab

my gloves, which I brought out with me, and I

put them down because I was on my phone with

my wife at the point prior to this, because she

was having to pick up some tools for me because

I'm putting in doors in my house, but I'll get

to that story after. So, I go to pick up the

ladder, not realizing it, get a chunk of glass

in the middle of my hand. Great. Bleeding gushing

so I have to get my dog before she steps on it

so I go get her so I'm bleeding I'm I clean her

feet clean my hand Grab a wad of paper towel

Masking tape my hand up Put the glove on go outside

start cleaning hour and a half later. You know

the party is gonna start so I'm like literally

20 minutes from from doing this and and yeah,

so I have to fix that window yet, but It was

just a fun adventure So yeah, that in addition

to the fact that we are putting in new hallway

doors. I had to replace the pocket door in our

bedroom to the bathroom, and that was fun, grinding

away part of the door frame so that I could fit

the door in there, and then putting the door

back together. So I've got all that set up now.

I've got the hinge in there. It locks, does everything.

Now I'm working on the bathroom door. Well...

The doors all come in a specific size. They're

either 28 inches wide by 80 inches tall and my

bathroom door needs to be 79 and a half tall

by 28 and 5 8s wide Yes, very specific there

or it won't fit in the door frame. So I've been

spending the last three days grinding away at

the door very carefully with a reciprocating

saw, which is what I used for part of the door

frame on the other door, because I cannot cut

straight worth anything with a table saw. I had

a hard enough time doing it with laminate flooring.

I cannot do it on a large pile of wood. So I

sat there and I was cutting this door and then

I eventually just got out the electric sander

and grinded away the rest to smooth it out. Now

I have to cut the door hinges and put the thing

in, and yeah, it's fun. And then I get to figure

out the other three, four doors in the house,

which I wasn't wanting to do. So yeah, there's

that, and I've been just trying to learn a lot

of stuff with that, and then of course next week,

I will probably not have... Granted, we didn't

do a Legends of the Brave and the Bold this week.

We won't have another one next week, and it's

hit or miss. I might have an All Things Transformers,

and I know I'll have a Future Imperfect. I'll

have a Future Imperfect for sure. All Things

Transformers kind of depends on what goes on.

I may do that on the fly. I'm not sure. And then

AlterGeek I will record later on. Probably Thursday

night, I'm not sure. Regardless of what happens,

I will be in Texas next week for Business for

Work, which they're flying me down. We're having

a big pow -wow for next year's radio network

endeavors. So I'm having fun with planning for

that. So yeah, just a lot going on. crazy, you

know, life, all that fun stuff. So I think I'm

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little bit on Fox and Disney... a little bit

later. I kind of want to cover the what Ghostbusters,

Lord of the Rings, and Quantum Leap have in common.

And it's kind of what you think in that scenario.

The whole thing is that, one, they're all getting

revivals. Yes, that's right. Brand new television

series revivals, for that matter. Starting off

with Ghostbusters, We're getting an animated

series coming in 2018 and it's called Ghostbusters

Ecto Force. I have a feeling this is going to

be very much in the vein of extreme Ghostbusters

from the 90s because everything seems to be force

of something nowadays. That's just what it seems

like. There's no information on this thing yet,

no information on who's in it, no description,

but it's being put out by Sony Pictures Home

Entertainment and Sony Pictures Animation. So

I don't know how new or old this information

is, but I guess we're still waiting to see what's

going on with that. There was news of it last

year, and there seems to be more news kind of

popping up now, which is a little bit odd that

it's been dead silent. But I think that if they're

gonna do it, I think that pretty much the only

way it's gonna happen is animated, just because

the film's bombed so bad. Now granted, I don't

know why a lot of these things keep popping up,

especially when they're old news, but I saw one

that said something and it was dated this year.

Most of what I'm finding is from last year, but

I kind of wonder if this is actually going to

happen, just because of how bad the film bombed.

But the general consensus is that It was supposed

to continue the cinematic universe, focusing

on a new generation of Ghostbusters in the year

2050, who capture ghosts around the world and

help from local teams of Ghostbusters and new

gear and younger skewing thing being spearheaded

by Ivan Reitman and his production company Ghost

Corps. So I don't know if this is actually going

to happen. but it sounds very extreme Ghostbusters

sounding, so I guess time will tell on that.

The other thing is, is Quantum Leap and Lord

of the Rings are both getting talks of revivals,

and Quantum Leap more or less had a thing from

the creator Donald Belisario reuniting with Baccala

during a panel He says I just finished writing

a quantum leap feature. I don't know what's going

to happen with it, but I did write it So the

original series was on NBC from 89 to 93 It would

not surprise me if this came back and if they

did a revival It also would not surprise me a

Baccala came back for it because what else is

he doing right now? but if they're gonna go this

route, they're almost better off doing like the

next generation of quantum leapers and in going

a different route so I don't know it's it's kind

of an interesting interesting concept I didn't

really watch it all that much back in the day

I don't really have much love for it per se but

this is the decade of the revivals so I mean

we have Fuller House we have Roseanne coming

back we've got we had boy meets girl or girl

meets world out, we have Star Trek, we have just,

I mean there's a variety of things out there

that are just revivals of old stuff and so it's

not surprising that this is on the table because

it seems like everything from the 80s is coming

back in some capacity. So they kind of mentioned

that Sean Astin was asked to weigh in on Amazon's

potential Lord of the Rings TV show and There's

talks like they were trying to ask him if it

was gonna be like a Continuation if it was gonna

if he was gonna play Samwise again, and he's

kind of like no I kind of you know He kind of

is waiting to see Somebody else take on the role

at this this point in time But he says he's carrying

the Samwise banner for the Peter Jackson version

and the Amazon thing didn't even occur to him.

He said that he told Kyle Anderson on some interview

he did for Strangers Things that... He's been

saying for 15 years that maybe like 12 years

after Lord of the Rings came out that it would

get remade. People would be like, oh, no, it'll

never get remade. It's a classic. They could

never top it. And he's like, no, it'll get remade.

It's a massive story. The characters are so beloved

and, you know, it's Hollywood. So everything

is old and it's new again. That's why they're

talking about rebooting Harry Potter at this

point. So it doesn't surprise me at all. At all.

So getting to the kind of elephant in the room

here. I kind of want to touch on this and this

is the whole thing with with Fox and Disney There's

so many possibilities that could go on with this

from good to bad to ugly We'll start off with

the kind of good The good would be if Fox relinquished

control of all of their properties that were

that were very serious This would be a huge benefit

for Disney Disney would not only regain Almost

almost the rest of their their Marvel library

with the Fantastic Four the X -Men But they would

be able to open up after Avengers 4 with an entirely

different universe and focusing on bringing the

mutants in bringing the All these other iterations

of of Marvel characters into the mix and and

retiring some of the older characters and bringing

in these new ones You know and that would allow

them to recast like Wolverine and some of these

other characters and kind of do them all right

Not saying Wolverine wasn't good because he was

but I'm saying like the other X films That would

also allow Disney to put all of that content

on their streaming app And it would allow Marvel

to bring back some of those comics pertaining

to the Fox properties. So that would just leave

Sony on the table for the other Marvel properties.

That would also be good for Fox because they

would get to focus on what they're good at. Sports

and news, and that's about it. I mean, they have

their occasional, they're good at the other stuff,

but for the most part, they're better at the

other two. And when you think about it, the bad

for it would be you would almost have this huge

conglomerate in Disney that nobody could topple.

At least until people get bored of them. Because

you would have the rest of the Marvel Universe

to play with. And you would have, you know, they

would own essentially the Simpsons, they would

own like the Orville, they'd own like... Basically

anything that Fox owns you can see the Firefly

revival happen Which could be a good thing for

those that that followed it, so I guess I could

get filed under good But the bad thing would

be Disney would be overrun with all of this extra

property now I don't think that any other studio

is going to buy them up I think Disney this is

too good of a deal for Disney to pass up. I think

this will be something that sticks on the table

And I think that it will eventually happen I

just don't know how soon because if you remember

Fox was marketing around to different studios

prior to this Such as like Warner Brothers and

and some other ones so we could see some different

things happen in the next Year or two I'm predicting

Disney buys them just because of these talks

because I can't see Disney letting rip some other

company take this but it is a high dollar amount

for 20 billion dollars so they'd have to make

a lot of that money back the other thing is for

the the kind of ugly on it is you really won't

see anything new you'd have this huge playground

and essentially it would be difficult for I don't

see a lot of the properties getting made. I see

a lot of the stuff getting shelved. I see a lot

of the current storylines getting shelved and

completely rebooted. You could possibly see Deadpool

go away. You could possibly see like the Simpsons

go away. You could possibly see a lot of that

stuff go away just because Disney would not want

to keep funneling money into all these productions.

Another good thing that could be filed under

too is the the Star Wars a new hope which is

actually owned by Fox would be owned by Marvel

or not Marvel Disney and Lucasfilm again So that

that would be a good thing. I don't know. There's

a lot of ups and downs with this whole situation

and It's kind of kind of all over the place It

makes it really really difficult to gauge What

they could do with this and that's just because

Yeah, the whole thing with 20th 21st Century

Fox and in Disney it's just One I think it would

hurt Netflix a lot Already the shares are slipping

after the news for Netflix and that's just because

Disney is going to be putting its own streaming

service in 2019 so If 21st century Fox's materials

got put on that streaming service Netflix would

be done unless they they had their own a majority

of their own content to go from Because if they're

streaming other people's content, nobody's gonna

sign up for it Based on that alone. I personally

don't care much of what Netflix has At this point

because I just don't watch a lot of it But that's

neither here nor there. I don't know, what do

you guys think about this whole situation? What

are some things that you could see being the

good bed and the ugly of Disney buying 21st Century

Fox's entertainment division? I really would

like to know what everyone's thoughts are on

that. Even though it's stalled, it could still

happen. And that's the plus side. If you're a

follower of M. Night Shyamalan, whatever his

name is, the guy that directed Unbreakable and

Signs, he's working on this film called Glass,

which takes place 20 years after Unbreakable.

And they have Sam Jackson returning as Elijah

Price. who served as Bruce Willis's mentor of

sorts and in David Dunne so The the movie split

apparently takes place Before that as a part

of his kind of creepy universe So they have Sam

Jackson essentially in the same type of suit

although older as his villain glass and the the

film glass is Kind of a sequel to unbreakable

and split which I didn't even know split was

even a part of the same universe, but Yeah, they

Apparently have The They have they have Sam Jackson's

character basically playing against Bruce Willis's

son in the film and that's I think because Bruce

Willis Didn't want to come back or won't come

back or or something to that degree. I don't

know I'm kind of intrigued by it because I did

enjoy Unbreakable But I'm not sure I'm gonna

care when this comes out I might check it out

just because of curiosity sake but that's That's

that's kind of something that's kind of out there

So I'm going to take another quick break right

here and come back after the other side with

some other content. As you know, I love talking

tech. And what gets my jollies about tech right

now is they had the Business Insider UK on Twitter

interviewing Sophia, the artificially intelligent

robot. who previously said she wanted to destroy

humans. It was kind of interesting to watch the

interview with the Business Insider interviewer

against this robot talking and it would hold

kind of conversations, but at the same time,

it was a little bit confused or delayed, which

is understandable because again, it's a machine.

But it was making cognitive choices in its AI

as to whether or how to answer those said questions.

I don't know how I feel about AI robots. I really

don't. We're getting too creepily on the iRobot

stage here, and I don't know how I feel about

it. Although... If you're one of those creepy

men in Hollywood, this may be the way to go for

you. You could prey on a robot until they gain

that AI sentience and a female robot is against

the law. I'm not condoning that sick behavior.

I'm just saying that if you feel like you gotta

be a douche, you might as well use a robot because

you're gonna get hosed otherwise. Yeah, I...

It's just mind -boggling, the crap that's deflating

in Hollywood right now. I'm not even going there.

There's too many other resources out there covering

that whole diatribe. I'd rather stay clear of

it. And then, of course, aside from the AI robots,

we have Twitter doing a new change, which is

the longer 280 -character tweets, which I ask

why. I get that it's longer than a text message

used to be, like a text message used to be 140

characters so naturally Twitter was the same

way and now they've got 280 characters which

I've seen people abuse it already so far with

just random gibberish or drawing a picture of

a sword or filling it out asking why I've seen

people doing the reverse and acting like oh they

cut me down to 70 70 characters or you know something

to that degree which For how much crap is out

there? I think 140 characters was plenty and

just to deflate it to 280 is a little bit insane,

but I Guess they've got to evolve to some degree

although. I have no idea I actually have no idea

what Twitter's function actually is other than

the fact It's like an instant rapid -fire newsfeed,

and that's basically what I use it for and I

use it for a news feed slash instant messenger

feed, and that's pretty much how I sit on Twitter

now. It's not even that I follow a lot of it,

but I think that a lot of the stuff on Twitter

is garbage, especially with the way that people

conduct themselves but I don't I don't know how

I really don't understand it as much as I think

I do I just use it I don't really know how to

describe it I enjoy it much more than I enjoy

Facebook though I will say that changing gears

a little bit. Do you guys remember when I asked

the question of what would you do if there was

an IMDB for podcasters and then there was like

the IMPD or something to that degree that was

out not that long ago actually. Well there actually

is another service called Podchaser which is

essentially the same thing But you get to claim

your podcast in the feed, and it's got categories,

custom URLs, feed refreshes. And it takes it

from your iTunes feed. So if you're hosted with

Blog Talk Radio, your only issue there is going

to be the fact that Blog Talk Radio has their

email and not yours. So you're going to have

fun claiming it there because that's not ...

They pull it from your iTunes, which ... I don't

know if it's the best source to pull it from.

I use FeedBurner for everything still, which

I know is technically a no -no in the podcast

universe because you technically have a problem

if you got to redirect it. My thing with using

it is not for the statistics, not for any of

the other stuff. It's because I can go in on

a whim, I can submit the FeedBurner URL, and

if I need to change the hosting location of the

feed, which I've done on occasion. It's very

adaptable. And so, because I used to hand write

all of the RSS feeds on GeekCast Radio and then

I eventually had WordPress self -contain create

them. And then I moved on to BlogTalk Radio,

which compiles them now and I use those now.

So when I submit them, I do it as a feed burner

URL and I don't have to change them anywhere

other than there. And then it's automatically

updated at all the different resources, which

is what I love about it because it's a one hit

done service. So the other thing that's kind

of a pain is when you change the image and it's

pulling from the feed burner one, even if you

change it on your website or on a specific feed

somewhere, it's pulling from the feed burner

one. So it's... or sometimes from Blog Talk,

so it's a little weird in that area. But yeah,

Podchaser, I just found this last week, and it's

kind of interesting. You can search by episodes.

You can review individual episodes and comment

on the individual episodes on there. They don't

go by single podcasts. They go by the episodes

themselves. So it's a little bit different of

a resource. than what you're used to. And you

can actually join their Slack community to discuss,

to give feedback and discuss upcoming features.

So it's a little bit different in that operation

of itself, as opposed to others like that. So

yeah, I've not been playing a lot of games lately,

but... There have been some small things going

on in that world There's the the battlefield

1 DLC map which has has been released There's

the Xbox one X which I think is so ridiculous

of a name Why would you call it like it's bad

enough? We had the Xbox then we had the Xbox

360, okay? You just made a big circle. It's still

the Xbox. Then you have the Xbox One, which was

baffling enough. Now they have the Xbox One X.

I have no words for the naming schemes of Microsoft.

I would prefer they just went in order, but...

Anyways, it's basically Microsoft's attempt...

at getting us into the 4K territory. This is

the mid -cycle between the PlayStation 4 Pro

and the Xbox One X, which are basically the only

selling points, really, that's the difference

between the old ones and the new ones is you

get 4K resolution in the high dynamic range color.

And... So if you've owned a TV that is 4K HDR

for a while, you're wondering what the Xbox One

X would do for you on 1080p displays. They're

kind of expecting that about 70 other titles

will have the enhancements right around the console's

launch, which it's already launched November

7th. I don't really know how I feel about it

like It's got kind of like a Like almost a VCR

style to it This this box and so I don't really

know what the purpose is of it, but it's Aside

from being a console the the box includes a wireless

controller with two Duracell batteries and HDMI

2 .0 cable Power cable a 14 -day Xbox live gold

membership a one -month trial of subscription

for Xbox game pass The unit contains a one terabyte

hard drive and only seven hundred and eighty

point nine gigabyte of is accessible to users

Which I think is a bit crap like I don't know

what takes Like two hundred and twenty point

two gigabytes up But that's that's kind of strange

And then they they have it so you can copy your

games and apps to an external hard drive And

then copy them off that drive into the new console

Or you can connect both Xbox's to your home network

and transfer data directly between them So I

Mean, I guess it's kind of cool. I I've kind

of given up on the game console Wars I've gone

back to PC strictly. It's just cheaper and it's

easier for me. I don't really have any games

or reasons to switch to another console. If I'm

going to spend $500, I'm just going to have to

create my PC. And at this point, there's not

even a purpose in doing that. There's not enough

out there that I really want to play at this

point. But, I guess if you want one of these

new, you know, 60 frames per second type of consoles,

then, you know, go for it. But, you know, it's...

not really gonna help you all that much graphically

compared to the old stuff at least it doesn't

appear to be so and then of course you can upgrade

you know enhance it enhances older games if it

allows it but again that's it's just kind of

another gimmick for a mid console release before

the next console comes out so yeah we bundled

a couple of little specials here you know have

at it so And I don't know who remembers This

was kind of a battle going on a while ago about

a company that wanted to patent podcasting It

kind of a refresher here there was a company

called personal audio LLC which keeps coming

back with the claim it invented podcasting which

I Would argue is utter malarkey specifically

because they just seem greedy. It says that the

company started October 2nd, 1996, and they filed

a patent, essentially. It says an audio program

and message distribution system in which a host

system organizes and transmits program segments

to client subscriber locations. And it says that

another one, an audio program and message distribution

system in which a host system organizes and transmits

program segment to client subscriber locations.

It sounds like the distribution platforms, not

the podcast themselves. But it says the one patent

was... granted March 6, 2001, and the other on

March 24, 2009. However, they're claiming that

they own podcasting, in and of itself, not the

distribution platforms. I don't know how you

could patent something you didn't actually physically

make, or that... You like I just I don't see

how that even works, but It looks like back in

August a three -judge panel of US Court of Appeals

rendered the organization's patent invalid and

looked like that was kind of the end But they

weren't quite finished the organization's lawyers

argued that this three -judge review process

violated their constitutional right to a jury

trial So this week the appeals court rejected

this argument without comment These lawsuits

have been going for years back in 2015. The core

of their claim that the organization invented

podcasting, the podcast that should have to pay

it licensing fees, was invalidated after the

Electronic Frontier Foundation stepped in. The

EFF showed that podcast style shows existed well

before personal audio LLC's patent. That's not

to say this patent trolling is truly dead. because

it could still appear in the Supreme Court, but

it's kind of unlikely at this point. I think

these people are garbage. There's no way everybody

in the internet is going to pay them to have

their podcasts. We'll just call it something

else. It's a radio show. There's other ways of

doing the same thing. I think that this is the

most garbage thing. That they they could have

In their comments somebody puts I invented commenting

on news articles Everyone should pay me a royalty

not only for reading this comment, but for making

any other comments $10 per post is suggested.

Thanks And then somebody else says I invented

responding to comments. I want 40 % of your profits

I I know this is this is just the kind of stupidity.

That's that's kind of going on I think that this

company is just trying to come up with a way

to make money, honestly. They're seriously a

patent troll, which they're trying to sue any

podcaster. It doesn't matter who they are. There

have been podcasts around since the internet

debuted. They're just being significant trolls

about it. I guess when they received their initial

patent or their licensing, they were hoping to

get their licensing money from big name podcasters

such as like Adam Carolla and CNN. And then they

won some lawsuit against CBS where they became

a scourge of the industry. And then the US patents

officials dealt them their first blow by. quashing

some of their core claims of its patent. I don't

know, I think this is the biggest trolling of

the internet of podcasting that could be possible

and I love the fact that they're trying to get

this whole thing to basically screw everyone

on the internet, literally everyone. What I find

even funnier though is the United States Court

of Appeals for the Federal Circuit With the personal

audio LLC against the EFF Fought and essentially

it was ordered that the petition for the panel

rehearing is denied the petition for rehearing

Yeah The mandate for the court will issue on

November 8 2017. I think this is just a big giant

trolling situation where they're trying to control

the free speech, control all the mediums. I don't

know, what are your guys' thoughts on that? What

would you do if somebody was trying to tell you

you gotta pony up some money to be a podcaster?

I personally would fight it, but that's just

my situation. I would come up with some other

method of doing this exact same show without

necessarily doing in the same method to where

I'd have to pay them. I think that there would

also be a union coalition of podcasters at some

point, but That's neither here nor there And

then like I talked about the the hologram billboards

last week there's McDonald's is is having new

digital billboards that are Showing up in traffic.

So if you're in the UK They have out -of -home

campaign combines online and physical data their

billboards change depending on how bad the traffic

is. So like, if you're driving through a particular

bit of traffic, McDonald's says stuck in a jam,

there's a light at the end of the tunnel, and

then it's got a picture of McDonald's. Or, you

know, basically different methods of trying to

get you to pick up food. Yeah, it's very interesting.

that they would do this. And then there's another

one where it's in the front of a building and

it's got somebody Googling Big Mac and it's got

a picture of a Big Mac with a McDonald's thing

looking like an app on the building. And then

there's a lot of the stuck at the end of the

tunnel, stuck in a jam thing. I don't know, I

think it's kind of a genius because it kind of

makes you think a little bit more than the regular

ad billboards. I ignore billboards, but that's

just... because I don't pay attention to them,

I'm trying to pay attention to traffic. I don't

know, what are some things you guys want to hear

next week on the show or some things that are

geeky to you? I am fishing for comments and questions

for next week. I might do a live stream on YouTube

next week for my hotel room late at night and

I would of course tweet that out at scp21 or

at alteredgeek. So if you want to see me online,

just kind of let me know what you guys want to

do and I'll try to be online, try and answer

some questions and have a nice podcast to go

out for you. So until next time, get altered,

get geeky with the Altered Geeks.