2017 Year in Review

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Network's 2017 Year in Review. I am one of your

hosts, DFG1Mike, and joining me is Steve Megatron.

Hello. Hello. Today we're going to recap moments

from 2017, and we were about six days late. Normally

I like to put this out New Year's Eve on each

year. Sadly, life has happened to me in 2017,

and... Among other people. Well, yeah, but like,

I normally don't have a life, remember? Like,

come on. Well, 2017 was a banner year for that,

absolutely. Let's see, early 2017, by my birthday,

I was, you know, destroyed from the quote -unquote

online relationship I had the year or two before.

We'll just call it the online apocalypse. Yeah,

yes. The internet apocalypse of 2016, that's

what it was. The juggernaut. The juggernaut.

Not bitch. And yeah, I've been slowing down and

slowing down on my podcasting because in August,

August 6th of 2017, I met my now wife Karen online.

We started talking. back and forth on one of

the various dating sites that are out there and

soon after we talked on the phone about a day

later we ended up spending 24 hours out of 72

on the phone with each other talking and yada

yada yada. September 8th she had come down to

Louisville to meet me for the first time and

ended up coming back here to Chicago with her

for a Short vacation and things, you know went

from there. We went back to Louisville Basically

moved me from there to here to Chicago. I am

now living in the central time zone the worst

time zone ever The fake one, right? Yeah, the

fake one fake news. That's right fake time Fake

time. Ha! That's right. It's terrible. I just

did Arnold. Yes. I will terminate the time zone.

Yes. There will be no more. I have to ice you

a few questions. That's Terminator and Ace Return,

all in one, folks. Karen and I... it's amazing

how much we have in common yet we are still very

different people at times uh... people kept saying

oh isn't that a little fast uh... well it's not

really if when it's right it's right is what

i keep telling people when they ask me that you

know it's tool time go away tim i will not be

your al borland uh... so we At this point. I'm

you know we're both like why wait why why you

know put off you know two month engagement six

month engagement or whatever so we had a It's

actually funny We met we got engaged we went

on our first date Actual date because I don't

count going out to dinner with each other as

I mean unless it's a special thing. I'd like

going to let's say McDonald's or chilies or those

aren't like date date things that's just dinner

to me. We went on our first actual date when

I was able to get comped at the Music Box Theater

here in Chicago to see the documentary King Cohen

all about the filmmaker Larry Cohen and I did

an episode of a La La Land Lounge about that

for him because La La Land Entertainment that

was their first non... music thing that they

had done and finally got to meet up with Matt

Verbois from La La Land Records, very cool meeting

him. Hits my contact over there, sends me all

the cool CD soundtrack stuff that they have.

I will be doing the CW scores soon, Matt. So

yeah, you know, I'm now married and living in

Chicago and... Get me out of Louisville! Technical

difficulties. Let's move on, shall we? We went

on a nice little mini -moon to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin,

which is really nice out there. We're actually

going on our real honeymoon in about 30 days

from when this is being recorded, so... Yay!

Life is happening! And I've really, like I said,

I've really slowed down on the podcasting because...

It's like I love it. I've always loved it But

I've always also said real life comes first and

Karen is very supportive of the podcasting and

all that and everything else and It's just one

of those things where I will try my best to work

on it during the day when she's at her at her

job and I'm here and just you know need to get

stuff done and Oh, there are just times recently

where I'm just like, I'm too tired. I don't want

to deal with this. It's still holiday time. It

was still holiday time when I was saying all

this. So, um, there are going to be plenty of

things coming that are already been recorded,

folks. Don't worry. There's gonna be plenty of

content, but I'm reevaluating how the content

for me, my content is released and produced and

all that and everything else. So how is your

2017 Steve? Lot of happen Not a lot of happening

a lot of stuff happened Just between podcasts

I've managed to double my altered geek numbers

Not that I'm talking numbers, but just you're

right the fact that I actually had consistent

content all year and then some weeks I doubled

up which actually helped And then the fact that

I've taken over Future Imperfect completely now.

It's 100 % all -grade Steve Megatron. So yeah,

I've been doing that. Among other things, been

putting out more All Things Transformers. Some

weeks, putting out as many as five podcasts in

a week, just because I'm crazy. Yeah, there's

been some reformatting. We've been rumbling some

things behind the scenes that we're working on.

That will be talked about in a future podcast

announcement. Yes. Yep, not here. Not here. We

are going to be bringing back... the majority

of things, but I don't know if that's where we

want to bring it up right now. Nah. We'll wait.

We'll wait. Yeah, that's right. Suffer, people

suffer. But we've unfortunately lost a lot of

people too this year. Yeah, 2017 was like...

I went through this list trying to compile this

thing and I was like, how can I cut this down

so we're not reading a death toll that goes on

for 12 pages? Yeah. It seems like we lost like

200 some odd people this year, which is just

ridiculous. But I tried to pick out some of the

most key names. Geek ones, yeah. Well, geek ones

or astronaut type people or actors or whatever.

Just people that people would, for the most part,

know. There's a few names that you wouldn't know

them necessarily by name, but you might know

something they've been associated with. First

on the list, Rodimus Prime. Which is crazy. Yeah,

Dick Gaudier. Most people will remember him as

Jaime the Robot in the TV series Get Smart, but

he was also the Season 3 voice of Rodimus Prime

in Transformers Generation 1. Which is crazy

because... No, that was Judd. Judd was at 2016.

Uh, Dick was at a BotCon before BotCon got killed

off itself in 2016. Um, like, he was at a reas

- like 2015 or 2014, I wanna say. He was at a

BotCon at the time. Uh, Miguel Ferrer, um, Bob

Morton in RoboCop. He was Owen Granger in NCIS

LA. uh... this one always like tv debt like t

actor deaths always kind of surprised me because

they've film stuff before they've passed like

it but you take lee thompson young who was on

resilient aisles who used to be who was the famous

jit jackson way back in the day of disney channel

he had died in the middle of production of season

six of uh... resilient aisles but his character

was still kind of there And that's always weirded

me out. The same thing with Miguel Ferrer when

he passed. He had still filmed stuff for NCIS

LA, and it was a little crazy. Bill Paxton. You

put Richard Hatch on here, and I know that's

Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica, but all

I can think of is the first guy that won Survivor

way back in 2000. put Got like Len Wayne create

revolver rain Yep, and June for a June for a

Neil and I did a special tune cast remembering

her Yeah, voice of Daphne on Scooby -Doo lost

a bunch of singers lost a Bunch of actors lost

home alone's dad and John heard uh... you have

her playboy mister playboy himself passed away

you know you imagine if they were still alive

right now uh... no i'm just saying with all the

allegations flying around yeah if you would be

like uh... like butter on the wall like they

would just be everybody would be after him uh...

we lost adam west adam west batman that's right

uh... sir roger more james bond is dead yeah

there's still more yeah no I know everybody always

makes or at least where I know this from where

I know this from is more so a podcast I used

to listen to it was called for your ears only

it was by Ian and Adam Ian Wilson and Adam I

forget what his last name was but anyway they

reviewed all of the Bond films at the time, a

number of years ago for Earth2 .net and their

joke always was, oh, this person isn't older

than Roger Moore, because Roger Moore just seemed

like he was going to live forever and all that,

yeah. Tom Petty from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

passed away this year too. Yep, and we lost Mike

Illich, the guy that owned the Detroit Tigers,

Red Wings, and created Little Caesars. My former

employer Yes, your former employer Yeah, that

is a little crazy. I don't miss it. I mean I

do but I don't like it's it's kind of a bittersweet

But yeah, very sad to see everybody go in in

2017 a lot of people It's always just kind of

shocking with certain ones of these like some

you could say, oh, you know We could see that

coming or whatever kind of thing But yeah, no,

it's always so so crazy A lot of TV happening

this year Which at the last half of the year

I kind of fell out of but I have been watching

a lot of stuff as well We as always are going

to do our top ten favorite TV shows, I guess

you could call it. We'll probably alternate.

So what is your number ten choice for TV, sir?

Ah, my number ten choice. Gotham. I stopped.

I stopped at the end of season three. I couldn't.

I haven't even watched season four. I don't care

enough anymore. I still like it. It's gotten

better this season and that's why it's kind of

hard for me to turn it off because they finally

made Gordon captain by rather weird circumstance,

but he's still captain. Call me when he becomes

commissioner. That'll probably be the end of

the series. Another three seasons. No! Don't!

You and your predictions, don't you fucking dare

predict this show gets three more seasons. Hell

no! It will. It will. Because they're gonna make

Batman Batman, you know? I mean, he's still,

he's a dude wearing hockey pads right now, so...

Yeah. Um... That, and he just, he's like, party

on, Garth. Um... Party on, Wayne. Yeah, so...

Yeah, I'm just... Yeah. I'm kinda like, eh. And,

um... No. So yeah, then then there's the the

aspect that just the way the characters are playing

out I think that a lot of it's pretty brilliantly

done, so Please tell me fish is still gone. Oh,

she's gone there. She is dead without a yeah

without a yeah, I I Love how they keep bringing

back butch, but yeah, butch rules. I love butch,

but they killed him off and made him Solomon

Grundy Oh my god, that's right. I remember seeing

that in the news. I was like, damn. But he just

woke up from his nap. And he's like, what happened

to me? So it's kind of funny. And then Nigma,

yeah, he's been put on ice before. And Penguin's

a psychopath. Professor pig pretty disgusting,

but But yeah, I mean the series has gotten better

and they're they're alluding to more fun things

in the second half Yep, my number 10 is Supergirl

She's on the low end this year because Season

3 outside of crisis on Earth X has kind of sucked

like Don't know what it is. I don't know if it's

the fact of my wife's influence because Karen's

been watching it since the beginning just as

we have but like As I'm watching it with Karen

and she's pointing out all these emo things that

Kara does and all these just Stupid things that

Kara does and says and I'm like, oh my god. Yeah,

this show is so horrible It's almost unwatchable

it's completely unwatchable Mm -hmm the The show

is my number nine. So I feel it's a good transition

point. Yes it's It's not terrible. It's gotten

better now because they they finally Managed

to thrash Supergirl to the point of death. Yeah

showing that she's not invincible and It's it's

kind of It's kind of interesting to see that

that perspective of the character plus the fact

that She was like all emo through the first half

of the season And we're getting like the legion

of superheroes From the future and whatnot, so

You know it's not terrible, but I definitely

would take the rest of the arrow verse over this

oh easily yeah, I mean hell yeah like You know,

we were wondering and kind of complaining about

how much Superman was gonna be in the show and

whatever else, and he's not been in it that much,

which is fine. It's supposed to be her show,

but like, it was better with the two of them

dealing with stuff, or like, you know, like,

just, oh my god. Alright, so you mentioned the

arrow verse my number nine is arrow arrow is

still better than Supergirl arrow season six

I believe is arrow season one and two caliber

of good at this point It's not as bad as seasons

three four and five arrow season six is back

kind of on track doing this whole team up Thing

with the whole team and everything else. I like

that I think arrow is on its way to being a much

better show at this point once again But it's

still on my low end Yeah, so my my number eight

is Kevin can wait Mm -hmm Kevin James Henley

a remedy there. They're basically King of Queens

again basically they weren't together instead

of being a married couple and she's a Nice addition

to the show because it kind of shakes things

up Mm -hmm and kind of gives it a different perspective.

There's like less of the family in it I mean

it's in there, but it's less than before It's

more of him back in the workforce So it's gotten

interesting there's there's a lot of the antics

between the two That are very King of Queens

esque Mm -hmm, which work, but I think it works

better that they're not a couple Right right

and and so yeah, I mean the show's very enjoyable

fun to watch I watched that with with Marion.

It's it's It's definitely kind of in the vein

of like last man standing for Tim Allen this

for you know Kevin James This is kind of the

same thing. Yes absolutely My number eight is

not anything you're gonna care about no The WWE

shows, Raw, Monday Night Raw, SmackDown. I'm

only bringing up this is because this year, 2018

is the 25th anniversary of Monday Night Raw,

so that's a big deal. But I've been loving that

kind of stuff. Ryan Merkley and I, Ryan the Inner

Flow Merkley and I have been doing mayhem mics

off and on throughout the year of 2017. And we're

gonna be start branching out to other things

than just the weekly shows and the pay -per -views.

We're gonna branch out to other things in the

WWE Network, but so far for 2017 I've liked both

Ryan Smackdown as well. What about you at number

eight, sir? Well, I just gave you my number seven

my number seven is Big Bang Theory I've completely

fallen off the leg like I love the Big Bang Theory,

but like I have not Actively watched since season

9. I've seen episodes here and there Season 10

and 11, but I just I don't know we're getting

closer to a more functional Cast of characters

And and I think we're getting towards Kind of

that that whole Sheldon becoming more normal

and Raj becoming more normal Yeah, which which

it's been in dire need of first quite some time

So I mean it's just gotten better, but it's it's

still heavily playing on a lot of its familiar

kind of Mary Sue type stuff like kind of you

know Yeah, the one thing I've always said about

the Big Bang Theory and it's At this point 11

years on the on the air because it was 10 years

last year 2017 but one thing I always said about

the show as the seasons progress the character

progression the character storyline and all that

really amps up like at season two or three I

never expected Sheldon and Leonard to have wives

and things like that you know at season seven

eight nine never ever expected Howard to ever

get married Um, and I never expected Raj to ever

actually talk, but now that he does, it's kinda

interesting and fun. I still love the show, it's

just, I just kinda fall off the wagon with it

a little bit. Alright, my number seven is probably

gonna be your number six, five, or four, I don't

know exactly where you've got this one, but um...

Fox's Lethal Weapon. Man, I love it, like season

one was good, I love... how they've made this

Riggs and Murtaugh their own thing while still

being able to call back to certain elements of

the film series. The one specific episode I can

think of is from season one when they do the

pool jump scene from the hotel floor, the business

or whatever it was, but basically they jump off

of a building and land into a pool, which is

what happened in Lethal Weapon 2. I love the...

The character progression of rigs. I think that's

going well. I'm just waiting for him to eventually

get with the doctor What's -her -name Jordana

Brewster there? So yeah lethal weapon, what do

you got for your next one? Well for for my next

one I have arrow Because the season has gotten

better Than some of the previous ones, you know

and it's also the fact that it's the originator

of the entire universe and then the fact that

they've been shaking things up continuously with

the show. Some of it's expected, some of it's

just kind of baggage in a sense, but all together

it's not bad. I would say that it's vastly improved

over the last couple seasons. Yeah, absolutely

it has. My next one is Chicago PD. This is basically

Dick Wolf. This is his Chicago series. This is

the second TV series in the Chicago one. First

one was Chicago Fire and Chicago PD and Chicago

Med. They tried to do Chicago Justice, but that

didn't last too long. I like this show. I think

it's great. Jason Bay, he is the main character.

He's got a voice that just, wow. Absolutely brilliant.

It's got good characters, good storylines, so

I enjoyed watching that this year. Moving on

to number five, what do you got? Well, this one's

probably going to give me a little bit of flack,

but I can pull this one off. And it's Star Trek

Discovery. Why? This should be number ten. Come

on. I have my reasons. for either side of it.

While I do like some of the technology and some

of the designs and some of the grittiness and

whatnot, some of the storylines, it's not terrible.

But it's. It needs a lot of work like there's

a lot of plot holes a lot of issues with it and

a lot of things that need to be addressed of

why things are with the way they are and this

technology is as advanced as it is and yet later

on some of this stuff doesn't even exist or Things

are constantly contradicted in other elements

of Trek even though this is supposed to have

been written by Trek fans who are on the payroll

of CBS. And if you check any of the reviewers

that are some of the elite that were invited

to the CBS premieres, they're all like, oh, bro,

this is the show and the show's awesome and.

And then they're just spouting off all of that.

As much as I'm not a proponent for Rotten Tomatoes,

if you look at the Rotten Tomatoes scores for

the critics versus the fans, the fans have this

as an overwhelming bomb as Rotten. Yeah, and

when comparing it to the orville the fans have

this have the orville is like very very fresh

like in the top of their their tier there and

the critics have that as the bomb and to me that's

kind of funny because Like I've never put much

stock in it But the fact that the fans are clamoring

that one is better over the other and one is

doing Star Trek more properly than Star Trek

itself And if you want to hear any of my opinions

on Star Trek discovery go check out future imperfect

And you can hear all my thoughts on that whole

series as a whole Over the last like 15 episodes

or so As I rip it apart and try to find what's

good in it It may take me a while through my

rants, but you'll hear it But yeah, that's I

mean, it's not terrible and I'm glad that there's

a Star Trek series I'm sad that it's on CBS all

-access because I Have found other methods to

watch it Where it does not live on my computer

And I still stream it it's just not through CBS,

and so we'll leave it at that yep Absolutely

all right my number five is gonna be Chicago

fire I watched the first season of this show,

but I hadn't watched it since. I'm currently

watching the fourth season with Karen, my wife,

and I enjoy it. I think it's fun. I think it's

funny. It's got some great great character building

moments. I want to eventually go back and watch

all of the seasons That's one of my big plans

I should probably save this for later, but I

am going to be bringing back remote control this

year in 2018 our TV power one of our other TV

podcasts because our other TV podcast is in the

Twilight Zone right now, so there's that So yeah,

I will be doing Chicago five Watching more Chicago

fire. I'm loving so far what I'm seeing and how

The the characters and the storylines are done

on that one number four for you, sir My number

four is Lethal weapon Just because it's awesome.

I'm loving the portrayals that for one. I'm a

big fan of Damon Wayans Anyway, so major pain

and everything so oh yeah I'm a big fan of his

and then the way that these guys play Riggs and

Murtaugh is just hilarious and the way that the

other actors play into this whole series is even

more hilarious and I love how they pull like

lines from the movies periodically, so it's tasteful

and pull characters from it, but it's not like

As overwhelming as catching it all in a two -hour

block. Yeah uh... who they got forgets was amazing

you know who that guy is but like he's he's from

uh... what's that stupid police show that was

on comedy central for a while reno nine one yeah

he was on that he was on the do that he was the

do that were the shorts and then he he also was

in uh... it was a a remake of uh... series in

a movie and play I cannot for the life of me

remember it even though I did it in college the

very play that And it had the other guy from

friends in it Matthew Perry was in it with him

Which is funny. I can't remember this guy's name

but They you know, he was in that he's like the

neat freak the clean guy in that and then Matthew

Perry's like the slob which when I did it in

class I was the slob character and the other

guy had to be the neat freak which was perfect

for me because like I'm like I can play the dick

character like much easier than I can play that.

Oh We can't do that. No You know, it's just It's

easier for me to turn off the emotions and just

be a dick on that. So it It's it's a fun play

anyway that that this guy was involved with but

yeah, they picked him perfectly He's he plays

that spastic character really well Yep, absolutely

My next number number four will be superior doughnuts

is another comedy series. I Love this show if

you watch this never even heard of really you've

never heard of superior doughnuts Oh my god,

so is it's getting no. It's a it's a comedy series

on CBS. I believe It's probably why I don't watch

a lot of standard television unless it's My my

go -to series Yeah, no, it's a it's a comedy

series in line with like big bang and things

like that But it's not it's for all generations.

It's not just for like the the Big bang Theory

TV series generation kind of thing Yes, it is

on CBS. It stars Judd Hirsch Jermaine Fowler

Katie Seagal Anna Baryshnikov Darren Sills Evans

Diane Guerrero They've got a bunch of guest stars,

but basically Judd Hirsch if anyone remembers

the TV series Dear John, or hell, he was in Taxi,

also, you know, 1975's Taxi. He was the, he was,

what's his name? Goldblum's dad in Independence

Day, so that guy. But basically it takes place

in a Chicago -based donut shop, and yeah, very,

very funny show. Very cool, very funny. Alright,

number, whatever for you now. Number three. Yeah,

there's that This one would be Legends of tomorrow

I'll talk about that later. Yeah, it's probably

your number one I just blow the wind right out

of the sails there. Um So anyways Legends of

Tomorrow, I find to be very, very fun. And then

the fact that they're just kind of, you know,

they're dealing with the Thai police, and they're

like, eh, screw you guys, I'm going home. And

then they've managed to change things up with

the big crossover event, kind of throwing the

second half of season three into a tailspin,

kind of trying to re -figure things out. And

then bringing back more Arrowverse villains from

The Great Beyond and returning them to - Damien

Dark. Yes. So it's been a very enjoyable ride.

I don't feel like I'm trying to get through the

show as much as I do through Supergirl or Arrow.

And so for that reason, it's overall just a lot

more fun and a lot less - baggage. I mean, you

have it, but it's a lot less mess to deal with.

So I've really been enjoying the way the show's

been progressing. Absolutely. My number three

is the drama series on CBS called Bull starring

Michael Weatherly, who used to be agent Tony

Dinozzo on NCIS. uh... bull is a jason bull doctors

and was a trial science is also a psychologist

basically is focusing on trial science how juries

are picked that kind of thing it's just a really

fun fun series and i just love michael weatherly

ever since he played in those on and says this

is basically didn't know so but as a psychologist

kind of a thing and it's really fun it's really

interesting uh... it's one of my favorite shows

of the year to this point What do you have for

your next number, sir? Number two for you. Well,

it's the flash. Why are you copying me? Yeah,

we both have the flash at number two, folks.

We did not look at each other's lists at all.

So the flash. The flash. The bears. So yeah,

it's it's ramped up its game. It's gotten more

fun. You've got not emo Berry you've got you

know a different dynamic. You've got some characters

missing You got some characters that have powers

that are now back in the fold. You've got You

know the chamber of the wells you've got a stronger

villain that's not a speedster so there's just

a lot going for it Yep this time around and then

the way that they spun the Second half of the

season The way it's gonna progress when it picks

up that's gonna be a lot of fun, too. So Absolutely,

what I love about the flash season four is as

you said, it's not a state another speedster

villain. It's somebody different It's somebody

interesting very very cool It's the thinker who

i don't think i've ever heard of him but i've

heard of him he's a he's a flash villain yeah

and i mean most people most you know general

fans gorilla garad or zoom or reverse flash or

whatever i understand he is a flash villain i

just haven't Haven't read a lot of flash stuff

for haven't known a lot of other flash universe

for a while So but I absolutely love it. I think

it's fun I love how Barry's really come into

his own now. We're finally past the point of

him He does still learn new things with his powers

But we're past the point of anybody teaching

him anything like directly like first two seasons

It was Wells Eabard whatever teaching him stuff

season three kind of the same thing season four

He's kind of come into his own with the team

and everything else and they're developing Caitlyn

and Cisco and all that. But I absolutely love

The Flash. Before we get to our number ones,

folks, just have to say, because I was going

to be on this episode of Ultra Geek, but just

stuff happened that I just could not be with

Powers and Steve, Crisis on Earth X is by far

the best crossover they've done. Oh, yeah. It

absolutely is. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, we

did that on Legends. Yeah. And it was just, that

crossover was what I was hoping for the first

time around. Absolutely. Very, very cool. Did

you know something interesting about that crossover

that used the song twice? Not in the crossover,

but in the universe twice now? What one? The

song that Supergirl sings at the wedding. Barry

sung to Iris like at the end of season three

or something or other Hmm yeah, yeah Yeah, I

don't pay that close of attention to when they're

singing I don't care much for the singing bits

on the shows like I like the background music

Yeah, I just I tune out the rest. No, I it's

very Barry's only done it twice in the force

in the four seasons Um, I just dig it because

I was never a fan of Glee, but just knowing that's

where Grant came from kind of a thing, like that's

why I always pay attention to that and dig it.

Alright, number one for you, sir, what do you

got? The Orville. And you might be wondering

why I have a Seth MacFarlane show. And the answer

is simple. He won his guested in Star Trek But

he's also written and I saw this this video he

made in college or in high school Replicating

Star Trek like with really like cringe -worthy

effects, but he did it was really good for what

it was And They They gave it kind of this, you

know, he loves Star Trek is my point and he wrote

Probably the closest thing to a Star Trek series.

We're ever going to get again Just because of

The fact it feels like I'm watching the next

generation and To me that is All the reason in

the world to watch it So if you're not on board

with discovery Or even if you are it's it's the

closest like it might as well have been a Star

Trek series Like there's a lot more comedy and

a lot less there's very much the ramifications

the social issues the The kind of sciency dialogue

the kind of the ships and everything In a lot

of the ways things play out they have you know

obviously their own version into Klingons and

have their own Versions of like most of the TNG

crew like it's basically like a carbon copy of

like TNG in the vein of who the characters are

in the type of aliens there But it's very fun.

I don't feel like I'm sitting there trying to

power on through the episode and then They kind

of put a button on either side of the episode

at the end. So you're not Having like this overarching

seasonal Episode Which is kind of nice and Then

you get I Mean, there's still the the the arc

is still there regardless, but but it's not so

in your face It's not so in your face and it's

not trying to push as hard on I'm trying to fit

in continuity like Discovery. Whereas Discovery,

I don't really see how it fits into the original

continuity. I think I would have felt better

if they would have just completely rebooted and

then had nothing from the original and just started

from scratch and then just called it Star Trek.

Because that's basically what they've done to

us, just throwing in bits of nostalgia. And with

the whole thing on the Orville, It's Star Trek

without the name Right, and that's what I really

enjoy about it Like they've they've had the whole

social media, you know planet Kind of talk of

how people you know Oh you you bumped me or you

didn't give me your your seat or your seat to

a pregnant lady and they record you and put you

in social media and then you and then, you know,

you go on this social media site and everybody

just beats you to death with words and, you know,

thumbs down to you and everything else, which

is the only thing that social media doesn't have

is the thumbs down, but YouTube does. But yeah,

it's funny just because it's a lot lighter tone,

a lot lighter graphically than Star Trek and

yet it still accomplishes the same goal. absolutely

and my number one well he spoiled it but legends

of tomorrow this series is just so fun it really

is plus Blake Neely's music and it is pretty

much ramped up for season 3 like when they did

Justice Society of America meeting the justice

society oh my god that just such cool music the

characters are getting better and better with

each season as i said a moment ago the crossover

crisis on earth x was by far the best crossover

ever they've done and it's also the saddest because

this is where we lose dr martin stein as firestorm

as one half of firestorm because victor garber

wanted to go off and do plays and broadway and

things like that which i Like the way they did

it but still But yes legends of tomorrow has

really ramped up I've loved all three seasons

of the show, but it's getting so good Absolutely

all right I did not watch a lot of cartoons this

year. You only have two cartoon series that you've

listed in the top five cartoons So what are your

two cartoon series? Star Trek or Star Wars. Yes,

Star Trek Star Wars rebels and Transformers robots

in disguise Rebels there's really no explanation.

It's just really good robots in disguise. It's

not really good, but it's Transformers so And

it's better than the Prime Wars trilogy of Combiner

Wars, Titan Wars. So much better than that. Even

though it's geared towards a kid, I fear for

the next wave of Transformers fans, because Transformers

Evergreen or Cyberverse, which is next, totally

unrelated to everything that's out right now,

but... It's gonna be very kiddish even though

they're already gonna have a Rescue bots jr.

Or rescue bots like go to school or something

stupid like that rescue bots Academy whatever

for kids and and so this one's gonna be for the

the 812 so there'll be nothing for I Mean you

could technically argue that the prime wars trilogy

is here towards us, but it's garbage. So Yeah

Think I stopped watching I didn't really watch

any of rescue bots itself, but I stopped watching

Transformers Ridge 2015 like after the First

season I just I want to go back to it, but I

just have no time right now Alright, now we get

into our top 10 movies once again. I'm not trying

to phone this in folks I literally saw very few.

I have not seen Justice League. I have not seen

Star Wars I have not seen Thor. I haven't even

seen Logan yet I have not seen Kingsman even

though I plan on doing so I have not seen Spider

-Man Homecoming Wonder Woman any of that stuff.

So the movies I did see last year Cars 3 Despicable

Me 3 Guardians 2 and Transformers 5 They're in

reverse order so Transformers 5 was the worst

of the four Guardians 2 was very well done I

enjoyed Despicable Me 3 more than that though

and Cars 3 is by far the best out of them all

for me on my list What about you sir? What what

are all the movies you saw this year last year

well? Counting them. Well, my honorable mentions.

I'll say I had the last night Resident Evil Blade

Runner 2049 downsizing The Shack and Guardians

of the Galaxy volume 2 downsizing is is I expected

so much more out of that But yeah, those those

films were all good and then I had for my number

10 Wonder Woman number 9 spider -man homecoming

cars 3 for number 8 Pirates of the Caribbean,

Dead Man Tell No Tales, number seven. It's kind

of my guilty pleasure movie. Pirates of the Caribbean

in general. Number six, Kingsman, The Golden

Circle. Number five, Justice League. Number four,

Jumanji, Welcome to the Jungle. It may not seem

like it's fun, but it's a lot of fun to watch.

I actually enjoy that much more than I did the

original, which is really kind of sad to say,

but it's because When you're a kid and every

the only thing that's ever on is Jumanji There's

never a reason to want to go back and watch it

But yeah, that'll be a fun one to go back and

do like a movie feature type thing later on Then

there's I have Star Wars the last Jedi Logan

and Thor Ragnarok So I did see one other one

this year though in the very beginning of the

year. Triple X, Return of Xander Cage. I liked

that a lot. I thought that was funny. It was

cheesy as hell and also Fast 8. I saw Fast 8

or Furious 8 or The Fate of the Furious or whatever

they're calling it. So I did like those movies

as well. Do we have any favorite moments or epic

fails of the year Steve? Hmm Not really sure

As far as the epic fails or moments of the year

epic fails is probably the Downfall of social

media Yeah, just everybody being venomous and

evil to each other yeah social media has really

increased the Hate the hate and the cyber bullying

thing like we just talked about this Again in

2017 funny that died You me and Dustin talked

about this back in 2012. Yep. We talked about

it last year That is only going to get worse

and yet and even the beginning of last year It

wasn't necessarily as bad, but the last six months

has been terrible and even when I revisited that

in Altered Geek. Because I took part of that

2012 conversation, edited it down, and reused

it, and then talked about it again. I mean, the

concept still applies. It's still a problem.

Yeah, it's a very big problem. It kind of goes

with that saying of don't have anything nice,

don't say anything at all. And that goes all

the way down to People that are, you know, normal

people all the way up to people in high positions.

People should eloquently and creatively say what

they're trying to say without trying to be a

dick. And that's just common courtesy. Like,

it almost makes you want it. And this is kind

of where I've come back to watching a lot of

older stuff. We were watching... Lot of old television

my wife and I because we're watching like Like

Family Matters Full House, you know step -by

-step of Boy Meets World a lot of those shows

where they actually had values Yeah, and how

to teach people and then you watch the stuff

now and it's just blatant disrespect for everybody

and you know, there were repercussions for it

in those shows and Even though some of it was

still trying to push the envelope at the time

because it was late 80s early 90s But it's just

a general lack of respect for people. And it

kind of boils down to the fact that people are

just raised into that element and just aren't

brought away from it. So I'm kind of wishing

that we as a society would kind of go beyond

that. And if you don't agree with something,

Great, but don't sit there and belittle other

people over it like I have a blatant disrespect

for Star Trek discovery, but I don't hate any

of the people associated with the property like

Because you know, they're doing their job. They

that's what they love there. They're getting

to do what they love there you know, it's it's

It's not my job as somebody to sit there and

say that they're Evil individuals for ruining

cannon or something like that, you know, it's

it's it's again It kind of plays to that head

cannon that everybody was having the issue with

with the last Jedi Yeah of people just in general

Disliking something because it doesn't fit their

mental Issue with what they've come up with over

the the waiting and so that's that's kind of

the Kind of the boat that everybody's kind of

in is everybody has led to their own conclusions

instead of Trying to be well informed before

opening said mouth and that's and that's social

media as a whole like it's just it's a cesspool

like I can't even with with the whole social

media thing. It's It's society it's just society

screwed people just need to you know Go back

in time 50 years and then we'll be alright as

far as as far as how people talked at least I'm

not saying as far as like rights or anything

because you know, we've got more now than we've

ever had and But yeah, it's it's just crazy people

just need to take a respect class Yeah, absolutely

There are just certain things that you may want

to say in your head or you may want to say them

out loud But you also need to understand and

know that there are certain things that just

should not be said There's a lot of things. I'd

like to say I just keep it in my head because

otherwise I don't trouble. Yeah, absolutely same

here Okay favorite moments out of the year meeting

Karen obviously falling in love getting married

that kind of stuff that should go out saying

but well favorite moment I would say getting

to have the beast unleashed in person. Yes, absolutely.

oh boy what a world what a world yes uh... steve

and i finally if you guys uh... go back to the

last episode we released the nine year uh...

in the making episode uh... steve and i finally

get to meet in person michael wilson and i and

steve finally get to meet in person so all three

of us that picture will be in this post uh...

very very cool very very awesome and fun uh...

not a lot of epic fails of the year i'm sure

there are plenty out there but i'll let impractical

jokers or whatever true t .v. series tackle that

uh... i think we're going to take a break here

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GCR in 2017 year in review folks I know it's

kind of been a short slash long short one long

to shorten the whatever uh... we're gonna give

you a small teasing of what we're coming up in

twenty eighteen but as i said there's gonna be

a whole other podcast laying out what's gonna

be happening with gcr in in twenty eighteen new

podcasts this year this year steve mhm supposedly

well there'll be a few yes uh... there'll be

a lot of retiring and a lot of uh... renewing

So I was getting a total refresh some of them

getting a slight refresh as you've noticed like

altered geek myself and Michael Powers because

We're now recording on Wednesdays we're doing

a triple shot of 20 some odd minute episodes

anywhere from 20 to 28 minutes episodes of just

one topic and running it through the Through

the ringer and and then releasing them, you know

Tuesday Thursday and then having the full show

on Friday Which I hope people like and if not,

I'll stop doing it But I just figured give people

something different because then I can do the

news and feedback in the Friday show And then

all things transformers will be getting a similar

aside from doing the The profiling of Transformers

fans, as we get time with that. But I'm doing

more of the new stuff, more of the coverage of

Titans and elements they're in. And in future

Imperfect, I'm going to adopt a similar format.

It's going to be kind of broken up more. I mean,

there's going to be a lot of revamping across

the board for GCRN content over the next. a couple

months. Also, we'll be coming back with the GCRN

awards in a couple weeks. That'll be starting

back up again. Yes, yes it will. Powers of Grayskull

series, Optimus Soul and I are on to the new

adventures of He -Man, which is by far the worst

cartoon in the 90s ever produced, in my opinion.

It's even worse than any of the Sonic cartoons.

Including Underground and Underground's bad.

Hey, they're making a new She -Ra show for Netflix.

Yeah, I know I saw that. She -Ra! Just wait,

He -Man will be there next. At least they'll

do it right and not cancel it, like Cartoon Network.

Yeah, true. So we're slogging our way through

new adventures. The goal for Power is a Grey

Skull series is that the show will end December

31st, 2018. So that's the goal. Have all 125

episodes out to everybody then. Steve and I will

eventually be starting Podcaster Meets World,

which is our Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World

show. Celebrating 25 years since Boy Meets World,

because it's been 25 years since that show premiered

in 1993. So that's what's going on there. We've

got like Steve said a bunch of the stuff that

will give you guys a full rundown with another

podcast we did do Top 100 villains fictional

villains countdown this past year, which was

a wild success and most By far it was very entertaining,

but I have to say that my with the stuff within

the top or the last episode the top 25 I was

pleasantly surprised of the fact that a lot of

mine were kind of pretty close to where I pegged

them for. Well, yeah, I mean, you got your number

one, so. I'm a predictor of sorts. I like to

predict things. He's a Nostra dumbass, folks,

is what he is. Jerk. Listen to my 2018 predictions

podcast for Altered Geek. That'll tell you some

of my predictions and then people have to call

me out on it if I'm right. Or if he's wrong that's

always good to Empower just has a number in there

too, so that'll be fun cool all right there will

be more of the cast radio main episodes as well

coming in twenty eighteen or so they're doing

more mayhem myself to be doing more lol and lounges

and things like that she shares also become the

test bed for new podcast it will be launching

kind of thing so those are the coming out what

those are yet gc earn presents will be more so

you're gonna see a lot more of testing of new

shows you see a lot more uh... uh... kind of

gauging of interests and and you'll still have

some general deep topics on it as well but um...

it's also going to be the house of the top fifty

countdown removing gc r and wars uh... as a whole

as a uh... subsidiary underneath the cast radio

just like mayhem mics and uh... gc r and retro

which may or may not return this year it uh...

I hope so. That's a Kevin thing. Kevin and I

have to deal with that. We're going to have GCRN

Wars episodes and tournament come back, the top

50 countdown, and then the top 100 again will

make a resurgence this fall. uh... it's it's

gonna be uh... a pretty loaded here for for the

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