Jenna and Bridget on Starting Geek Responsibly

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the same as always. Ever -present and omnipresent.

There you go. Joining us tonight are our new

syndicated team, Jenna and Bridget from Geek

Responsibly. Hello, ladies. Didn't they call

that stereo exactly it was in stereo not in sync

Yeah, we could be recording this podcast from

the sink, but no one will really know if that's

true or not Didn't happen yeah So, we are here

to talk to these ladies about their lovely podcast.

One that I've been screaming at through my headphones

over the last couple episodes. I'm like, it's

- We actually appreciate you doing so, because

then it puts us in our place and we know. I'm

like, it's Bebop and Rocksteady. How do you not

know this? I mean, at least through the frustration,

I'm assuming you are enjoying us talking about

the brand and shit that we talk about. Oh, of

course. To be honest - To be honest, you're the

first podcast I've listened to in probably seven

and a half years. I produce, I record, I haven't

listened to a full podcast in God knows how long.

I mean, it goes by quick for us. When we started

it, it was just kind of us recording our conversation,

wasn't it? Essentially. And then we're like,

oh shit, like an hour went by. I guess we should

save some for later. And then here we are on

episode 15 now coming out. So it's been pretty

fun. And we've been trying to not swear as much,

so we're gonna be kind of polite tonight. Jenna's

here sitting here just like frozen because I

know she just wants to like go off the wall.

Now I'll wait. Feel free, go ahead. We used to

do a show called Headshot, where it was the two

of us nothing but complaining, complaining, complaining

about anything and everything. And we did. That's

right up your alley, Mike. We should rename this,

not to Headshot, what Mike dislikes. No. Capitalist

cheese. And then Harry Potter. Podslammer. He's

like... I wish I did not invite these two. No.

I'm basically holding my head in my hands and

be like, I can't deal with this now. He's capturing

recording us right now. You know, at occasion

you'll hear him head desk. I haven't done that

in a while. Yeah, you haven't had a reason yet.

I hope I'm that reason. It's not a good thing

to wish for. I don't know. No, you gave me and

now I have to. It's like our, I think if that

happens, it's like our five minutes. It's flattering.

It's like, oh shit, we gotta go. That's it. Yeah.

We'll walk backwards. Yeah, exactly that, for

sure. Perfect. So what's on the agenda? I don't

know. We're here to talk about you guys, so.

Hey, at least we're not talking behind your racks.

We're talking to your faces. There you go. What

made you want to start the show, like, other

than just recording each other's conversations

that you were having? What was the genesis of

the idea? Ha ha, genesis. Ha ha, that's me! How

did you know that's my gamertag, actually? Yeah.

So if you want to add me onto Xbox, it's genesis.

Yeah, so now everyone can find you. Everyone.

Anyway, so yeah, you talk about it because you

were the one that twisted my arm. Yep. It was

my idea. I actually had the idea back in 2009

to start a blog. It never came to fruition. I

decided to continue holding the domain name geeksandgarders

.com forever and then I was like, you know what?

I'm gonna do a podcast and the podcast I would

like to do is kind of I'm very interested in

emotions. So I actually graduated with my Associates

within psychology and then I started doing hypnotherapy

and I wanted to connect and have like an understanding

on Us watching TV series movies and how we emotionally

connect to them and that's what the podcast was

supposed to be And then she invited me I go.

Hey, I'm really nervous on You know kind of putting

myself out there and my soul and you know, you're

just vulnerable even though people can't see

you my soul This is my baby, right? I'm trying

to create this thing and she comes on and now

it's Kind of gone to something else. So she had

good intentions. You wanted to reach out and

touch people. Wait, wait, wait. No, no. She really

had a lot of stuff that she wanted to dive into.

And then we always had conversations sitting

in the car in the parking lot, like four in the

morning. And we have these conversations that

went on for hours. Like literally hours. People

would be messaging us, asking us if we were OK.

Four hours later. So, and we would laugh like,

man, we're hilarious, we should record it. So,

you were going through, you were doing the blogging,

then you were doing the podcast, and then you

were like, I need to do my first episode, can

you sit in with me? Bro, be a bro. Like, sit

in with me, I need your help. And I'm like, I

was gonna drop you off. She actually said no.

She said no. I did, I said no a lot. I was like,

nah, you're fine. No, it's yours, it's cool,

I don't want to be a part of it. I'm like, no,

I really need you, like I'm a huge pansy. And

even when I was here, I was like, no, I'll just

kind of sit and talk shit with you and kind of

co -host. So yeah, I think the first episode,

if you listen, it is you talking about the emotional

stuff. And I'm just like, let's talk about bullshit.

And it just turned into that instead. So I kind

of ruined her whole idea, apparently. I would

still like to have that as a series within Geeks

and Garth, or Geek Podcast. Responsibly, so it's

like. this is going to be this one and it'll

just be me and then we have ours so it'll probably

go dual week or like a week like double podcast

in a week and so I'm planning to take one tv

series and break down the characters and why

we connect to them on an emotional level as well

as the tv show and that could take a couple of

episodes but as far as like geek -responsing

words at now we essentially kind of will sit

up like meet each other what 30 minutes before

bust out an outline like what do you want to

talk about like all right let's talk about this

shit and then we'll just sit and just go off

and have conversations and just have them recorded

so it's been it's been easy it's been really

easy and fun yeah I have a friend again as long

as it's fun that's really all that matters in

the end but the hard work that you have to put

into it oh man you can ask Steve will tell you

I yeah when we first started I'm like, okay,

I'm just like, we started our, which is now retired

movie, we can review where basically we sit down,

watch a movie, not to get, but you know, we watch

the movie because we're all online. He's in Michigan.

I'm in Chicago at this point. At that point when

we started it, I was in Kentucky. Um, I'm like,

okay, I'm just going to look through my entire

100 or 200 or 300 DVDs and just make an entire

list. I plotted out two years of a podcast in

a week. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He'd be crazy. Yeah.

Do you still have the DVDs? No, sadly not. They're

in somebody else's house. I have no idea. FYU

is my friend. I used to pawn so many DVDs so

I could get movie swag. Yeah, I'm crazy on the

planning side. We usually have another friend

that helps us out. As I mentioned at the beginning

of the show, Optimus Solo, he's been doing a

lot of work with us over the years. He'll create

format. I'll create the show or I'll create the

outline of the show as far as what's going to

happen when, which episode, and he'll create

a format for the show for the most part and we'll

just go through and just do it for as long as

we... Emotionally can because there are some

things that are like we had a mask review cartoon

review show He basically He basically said at

episode 14. He's like I'm out I can't do this

anymore because well mask is great in hindsight

The only great things about it are the theme

song and the opening animation the actual plots

of that show are repetitive and boring Yeah,

we watched it. That's the thing most of our cartoon

reviews. Yeah, we watch every single in the last

seven years It ends up being torture at some

points. Oh stop it. It is don't even play stop

it Are you gonna flinch if you were to listen

to the song now because even if that song comes

out like I will blast that in my car Oh, no,

I love the song the song is great. It's just

the plots of that cartoon series Yeah, it's just

the plots of that cartoon series half of them

are repetitive. They're in the same location

every single episode Then it was doing the exact

same scheme every single episode kind of a thing

So no the theme song is great I can absolutely

listen to that anytime and have fond memories

of having the play sets and the toys as a kid

and all that. Yeah, we've been doing, right now,

Steve is right, it is currently torture. Kevin

and I have been doing our Powers of Grayskull

series for the last seven years where we've reviewed

every single episode of He -Man, She -Ra, and

we're currently in the new adventures of He -Man,

and that show is garbage. The 2001, right? No,

the 1991, the one where they went to space. With

the ponytail? Yes. Oh, yeah, kind of skipped

over that. And then they revamped it again. 2002,

and it was so much better. Yeah. Yeah, I honestly

want to rewatch that because my husband's a He

-Man fanatic. We have a whole room dedicated

to He -Man action figures. I mean, wall to wall.

There's some vintage stuff, but a lot of it's

from Mattel when they were doing the lines and

then got switched over to Four Horsemen. So we

have all those as well. Um, but I kind of wanted

to read the logic because the one thing that

I like about He -Man and a lot of those cartoons

is you don't You get the moral the story cut

and it's I know it's like kind of hoaxy and stuff

But you don't get that out of cartoons anymore.

Now, like I just feel like sometimes they're

not made As good as they used to be They're not

Why we review nostalgia, yeah We'll talk about

current events and things like that and things

in the news, but reviewing stuff That's why we

review nostalgia because a lot of the cart like

I get it cartoons are made are supposedly supposed

to be made for kids kind of a thing but we now

live in an age where Where when we all grew up

growing up we want to relive our childhood kind

of thing and the cartoons of today Just are not

like all the new Looney Tunes stuff. It's like

that's not Looney Tunes It's just, it's too weird.

But I wonder if that's also because it's not

marketing to us anymore. It's marketing to the

younger generation. True. And what they're going

to do is different. Have you not seen the Looney

Tunes? It's like all war related and like...

No. Like if you watch certain shows and like

certain episodes, it's very like that era when

it was made. Oh, you mean the old Looney Tunes?

Yeah, the classic ones was great. The classic

ones, I'm like, whoa, I can't believe they actually

put that in here. Now, I would love to sit down

and, like, I'd love to have your reaction on,

like, watching the new DuckTales, because I know

you haven't seen them yet. I haven't, actually.

And they're done very well. I used to watch DuckTales

all the time. The new one's done well, so. That's

impressive, because any time I watch anything

that's remade, I absolutely hate it. Yeah, yeah.

Well, they have a couple of theirs, I think.

A couple of their stuff's coming undercatch.

I think it's hilarious that when we're growing

up, we want to be older. And when we get older,

we want to be young. Yep, yep. I just want to

come home on a Saturday, eat cereal out of a

huge tub or a bowl. And build forts. Oh, I do

that now. Yeah, you do. That doesn't change.

We are serious about our fort building in the

house. That shit's legit. Like, that's what we

do. Blankets Berg that's what happened. It was

a couple months ago. I think yeah No blankets

Berg we need a new fort name, so if you guys

know of any forts You just make it up no pillow

forts though only blankets for me I don't have

enough material at home to do that Oh, God. If

you have too much awkward time, this is what

happens. Like, when there's awkward, like, random

pauses of silence, guaranteed Jenna will find

something to say. Hey, there you go. Well, this

is what podcasting is all about. It's great.

Yeah, exactly. Especially when you throw a monkey

wrench and things and your co -host doesn't know

you can do impressions of characters. Who do

you want to start with? I don't know. Well, start

with something. Do something. I can't just pull

them out of my hat. Yes you can. Don't fucking

lie. You know you can. What? You can totally

just pull them out. That's what she said. No,

um. Literally. No, um. Saki? This is crying.

Where the devil is my new body? Yeah, I remember

when he did that the first time I did I knew

he did other voices But I did not know he could

do Krang and I'm like wait a minute what the

hell We were doing a Ninja Turtle episode of

some sort some sort with like JT or somebody

and somebody Yeah, I did that he's like wait

what? I actually don't practice all that much.

So it's just a natural state. Yeah. It's kind

of one of those things that I had a Transformers

argument with myself in a parking lot one time.

Wait, wait, wait. What? Because I can do Beast

Wars Megatron. I can do Waspinator. I can do

Scourge. um Starscream and a few others and so

I was in and so I was sitting there arguing arguing

between characters in the parking lot because

I used to work at a car lot and that's um how

I would pass the time sometimes and I would listen

to them on my mp3 player saying specific things

or doing specific um like scenes yeah scenes

and so I would take the voice and then I would

just start doing my own scenes with it and just

seeing how fast I could jump between voices No.

I happened to one day walk past a car, and they

had their windows rolled down, and they just

looked at me, and I was like, eh? You're like,

this happened. I'm going to back away slowly.

Yes. It was a little disturbing then, but then

I started doing some of them on purpose, just

intentionally. At work. Yeah. Are you selling

cars? Did you sell cars like this? Yeah. Have

you sold a car like that? I did not sell cars.

I was the guy who cleaned them. But I would go

to the employees. So were you washing cars and

just talking to yourself? Yep. Pretty much. Awesome.

That's awesome. You're a best friend. I would

walk past you fast. If I heard it, I was like,

I'm just going to walk very fast. I would join

you. I wouldn't have anything because I can't

do any of the voices from Beast Wars. No way.

Oh yes. Megatron. Pretty damn good. I just went

to Universal Studios and Megatron totally made

fun of me. He asked if my hair was a mutation.

Oh, because it's blue right now. He goes, is

that a mutation? And then he's like, tell me

you didn't do this to yourself. And he was like

touching my hair and flinging it. I'll have to

put the video up. Interesting. Will I simply

have a penchant for intelligent conversation?

Yes! That is amazing. Yeah, I actually talked

to the voice actor doing that one time. Yeah,

we've interviewed David Kaye twice, and was it

the first time or the second? It was the first

time. I think it was the first time. And the

coolest thing about some of our interviews is

they'll actually ask us questions at times. Like

the last one? Yeah, like the last one. And, you

know, we'll obviously have to answer. At one

point during the original David Kaye interview,

we were trying to figure out a way to work. I

was trying to figure out a way to work, Steve,

to be able to work that in. And David said something

about, do either of you do impressions? And I'm

like, uh, Steve, let's go, you know, just do

it already. You're like, stage is set. Yeah,

exactly. Like, for you. Yeah, like. It's like

push him into the spotlight and get going. Yeah.

Dance monkey dance. Do it now. Yeah. That's right.

Mike does that to me a lot. Hey. Sometimes it's

spur of the moment, but sometimes I'll just throw

one in there randomly. One of the ones that I

used to do, and I used to get in trouble for

this because I would sometimes run events, and

myself and my friend that was in the booth running

the stuff that would go up on the screens, you

could hear us on occasion because we would be

going. The stairs are from us, my precious. And

so we would just be doing that and then eventually

somebody looks up and we're like, oh, we should

probably not do that. We're getting attention

now. Yeah, and not the good kind. I don't think

I have anything as far as like... Yes, you did.

You did Armstrong. Armstrong. What? When you

were singing jazz. Oh, yeah, no, there was that

one. No, the one that was dead on was your Ralph

from The Simpsons. We just found that one out

a couple weeks ago. It was probably about three

weeks ago. It was good. It was dead on. Here,

dance monkey dance. No. No, you were doing Gollum.

Yeah, but that takes a lot. That's hard for me

to do. Really? Yeah. That one's difficult. Interesting.

Your Ralph one. It didn't look like it. Didn't

look difficult. Some of the hardest ones to do,

actually, more so than animation, are real people.

Oh, for sure. I used to annoy Mike with the Charlie

Sheen one when he was going through his tiger

blood phase. Do you still do it? Adonis DNA.

Tiger blood. Tiger blood. Or I can do a Casey

Kasem, but I have to have it scripted to do the

voice. Oh, I used to listen to that all the time.

I start them off usually with, this is Casey

Kasem, and you're listening to the Top 40 Countdown.

Yeah. And so I did an impression of that for

another podcast. They were trying to do a mock

movie film award show or something. I just pulled

that out and he's like, I'm using that. I'm trying

to think of what another one is. While you're

thinking that, I wanted to ask you guys, because

you were saying that you guys had done that movie

review podcast first. How long ago was that when

you guys started that? We started it in 2009

and it ended earlier this year. Yep, and you

said when you started that you went and went

through all your DVDs and essentially set it

out for two years of how you were gonna run it

Oh, no, he set that out to like 2020. Oh Yeah

He's like, if we're still doing this by then,

I'm like, I won't be doing this show, I guarantee

you. Well, ideally what had happened was I'd

set out the first two years at the time and then

as time, like before we launched the show, I

had the first two years set. And then after we

got three or four episodes in, I'm like, okay,

let's just run down the whole list and I'll schedule

it out to whatever. Was there like a particular

order of like when you were starting these movies

were you wanting to start with something that

you had Seen like going back and rewatching it

nostalgia kind of pulling at you or were you

trying to do? Kind of it was more of like how

Like what movies do we both like like what movies

are we gonna want to sit down and actually talk

about kind of thing? Mm -hmm, so that's what

that was like Yeah, that's how that started.

And then it slowly started to go in random directions.

And then I still have yet to finish one episode

that's a part of a spotlight I started many,

many moons ago. But I mean, out of that, do you

guys know which one was your favorite movie?

Favorite movie to revisit and see again versus

one that you saw after? You're like, I don't

like the movie as much as I thought I did. So

Extreme's a favorite one versus one that you

disliked? Not really, I don't think. There were

quite a few that we made into 15 -minute episodes

because we realized once we sat down to record

it that we probably should not have and because

the film didn't have enough to go on. Yeah. Was

there regret? Like sitting down and having the

15 minutes, was there regret? You're like, I

really wish I didn't watch this movie again.

Or was it only sitting down, you're like, hey,

there's really not much to talk about except,

yep, it was bad. We don't recommend watching

it again. Yeah, I kind of tend not to do the

bad, like, I will only review things that I actually

like because I found through a network I had

been listening to already, earth2 .net, earth

-2 .net, they have a show over there called Tranquil

Tyraids where they basically just tear into any

movie that they want to basically, you know,

negatively review it and they just do it so well

that I'm like, okay, I'm only doing stuff that

I actually enjoy, I'm not doing... the bad review

thing. Sadly, I don't... I would have to look

and see if it's somewhere else. I actually don't

have the original MWire schedule anymore. I know...

I might have it on an external hard drive. I

might even have the original RSS feeds that I

used to hand code. That's impressive. Yeah. When

we started the network, I was editor and tech

support and RSS guy, which was totally garbage.

We used Audacity, and it was a nightmare to sync

up audio because we recorded it on our own end

and then put it together. And it was just a train

wreck. And I eventually was like, no, this isn't

going to work. And then I trained Mike how to

do it. And then eventually we got Adobe products,

and it was so much easier. And pretty much everybody

edits their own stuff now, which is beautiful.

And then the RSS feeds are pretty much automated.

So I rarely have to mess with any of that, including

for the site purposes. A lot of it, I had to

hand code that too on the early site, which,

again, was a travesty and a waste of time for

me, which has been freed up by automation. And

I love it. Kind of rounding back to the M wire.

I will say one of my favorite episodes to edit

and put together or Spotlights anyway was the

the Ace Ventura films Super troopers and the

police academy Were all some favorites that I

enjoyed editing and recording We our first three

episodes were back to the future trilogy the

naked gun trilogy and then big fat liar Oh interesting

I feel like I don't know what ours would be if

we were gonna do movies because I I mean I Ride

the nostalgia train hard. Yeah, we would do the

same thing lost boys goonies Really wonka for

sure my writing story. You guys see the monster

squad again. Mom. What's that little monsters?

Yeah, the monsters is pretty good. Howie Mandel

No, it's just interesting because like I think

I'd like to kind of revisit some of them and

kind of go through and see if they still, you

know, pull you in like they do when you're a

kid. Or, you know, kind of seeing if they stand

up test of time kind of thing. Sometimes they

don't. When we're talking about the dinosaurs,

like little, I think it was like 15 minutes,

30 minutes I used to watch with the Pizza Hut

commercials that were amazing. But when I watch,

or what was it? The cat stealing the breath.

Yeah. That still holds up. Well, that one's terrifying.

That is a terrifying one. And then when you guys

are talking about kind of like all the, I think

it's like tech stuff. Jenna has probably more

an idea of what you guys are talking about with

RS feeds, because I know nothing about any of

that. You do all the work. You do all the work.

She sets everything up. And then I just come

in and put my face to the mic, essentially. So

I love you. Thank you for doing all the work.

That's the great thing with Steve and I now at

this point, like, even if he, like, say he has

some family thing going on or whatever else,

not that he does this very often, but he'll say,

oh, can you edit this and get it up and do all

that? And I'm like, yeah, sure. I edit, I'm crazy.

I will do 20 different podcasts at the same time

over a period of time. So I will record anything

and everything, edit it all, get it all set to

go and all this and all that and everything else.

But yeah, it's it's nuts the one thing with with

movie we can review that I tried to do and we

did do every year We would do at least for at

least two or three years. We would do Christmas

stuff So the first year episodes 21 to 23 we

did a Christmas story Thank God thank god it

wasn't twenty four hours of christmas story i

like that movie but i'm sorry twenty four hours

straight of the same damn thing is too much well

and you technically get one movie one full movie

cuz you don't really pay attention to it and

all that like twenty four hours you see all at

once yeah uh... would be fun though is doing

a live commentary for twenty four hours to see

how little you care by the end of it please Don't

tempt me. If somebody paid me enough money, I

would do it. Yeah. No one could pay us enough

money to do that. I'll take their money. Yeah,

well. I'd take their money too. What I'm saying

is there's not enough money in the world to have

us do that. It's not worthwhile. Episode 22 was

the Michael Keaton Jack Frost snowman movie.

Oh, wait, no, sorry. I was thinking Jack Frost,

that horrible horror movie with the snowman.

Sorry. No, no, no. He's talking about when he

dies and he goes to... Yeah. I am picking up

what you are putting down, but at first I was

thinking that. It's Snow Dad. Exactly. It's Snow

Dad. Episode 23 was National Lampoon's Christmas

Vacation, the single greatest Christmas movie

of all time. Yep. uh... episodes seventy six

seventy seven s but do you still have this written

down that you know is are you literally remembering

we're looking at the hours i mean i'm not i'm

not i'm looking at i'm looking at the website

right now from the past episodes for twenty one

to twenty three and i i know what in my head

but seventy six seventy seven and seventy eight

i automatically know what that is that's the

santa claus one two and three because that's

how we originally did See, Mike can remember

exactly where they are. Almost. Me, I remember

absolutely nothing. I will literally record a

podcast. And lose it. And it will instantly after

recording, like after I hit the stop button,

I will forget everything I talked about. I think

we end up doing that sometimes. It's literally

unique to the point that I have to either A,

keep show notes before I start, if it's something

I have structured, or I have to have a notepad

open so that as I talk about things, I can write

it down so that when I go to write the description

later, I know what was in the episode. Yeah.

Sometimes there are some that we forget and because

we, I mean, it's more often than not that we

just kind of go on a tangent and we'll eventually,

some weird way we eventually come back to where

we were. But it takes us a while to get there.

That's what makes us friends. I know. It's pretty

good. But I actually listen to the podcast after

they are put up just to kind of go over and listen

to how we sounded, what I need to improve on.

I was definitely. And then I just continuously

laugh in my car like a psycho. And then message

her going, oh my god, I love us. Oh my god, I

love us. And I honestly was terrified to listen

to him. I didn't want to listen to myself talk.

I didn't want to listen to the podcast. You're

a loser. Because I just put it on the ether.

I'm like, there it is. I'm done. Let it be. It

is what it is kind of thing. we started out doing

that and then once i learned how to edit and

everything else i'm like i want to put every

little thing i possibly can in every little nuance

i can possibly put in here i want in here i will

like say like this specific episode which i'm

probably not putting a lot in here but we're

at basically just under an hour at this point.

I will listen through this whole thing to make

sure there's no mistakes. There's no this, there's

no that. So I listen to it as I'm editing it.

So I don't go back and listen to it after I publish

it because I know everything is exactly the right

frigging way I want it. We need a fresh course.

We spent. I'm cutting you off. I feel bad she

doesn't know about this. Tell her to shut up.

Noah's going to say we're pretty excited because

we actually are in a podcast. We're not. I'm

not. I am. Bridget is. I am representing the

team. I'm in a podcast competition for Frog Pants

Studio with Brian Ibbett. And I think I got in

because I don't know what I'm doing. And we did

applications. And she's like, you need to get

in there. It'd be awesome to learn stuff. I'm

like, cool, man. Twisting my arm took me forever

to write anything. And I pretty much wrote, like,

anything to teach. Like, hey, cool. My friend

does all the work on the podcast. I just speak

into the mic. It'd be cool to learn something.

So I'm looking forward to going into the contest.

I'm hoping to learn the shit that you guys are

talking about that I don't even know is English.

So I'm hoping that that way I'm not such an asshole

making you do all the work. She also called it

an RS feed. But I didn't call her out on that

one. Thank you. You're a swell friend. You wanna

know how crazy we are? We spent six hours on

the Star Wars franchise. We have three episodes,

75 part one, which was the prequel, 75 part two,

which... No, 75 part one was the original trilogy,

75 part two was the prequel trilogy, and then

75 .5 was Spaceballs. So which one was it that...

I love Spaceballs! Yeah, I love space balls as

well 1 2 3 4 5 Shut up He said 1 2 3 4 5 that's

the only number that an idiot would have on their

luggage. Yep. Yep, pretty much But we were making

fun of Mike during one of the entire episodes

I'm not gonna tell the whole story because it's

just funny. Go ahead. Tell you already set it

up now You might as well do it. We were ragging

on him on Facebook Well, he posted something

about us recording the episode. And so we're

just having this kind of not very specific conversation,

but poking fun at him. And we're all laughing

hysterically. And he's the only one taking full

notice of the podcast, just actually paying,

treating it serious. And we're just cackling

on the other side. and then messaging each other

through Skype and through Facebook. And he has

no idea what's going on. And then about half

an hour later, it finally dawns on him. And it

had to do with a situation that he told us before

recording. And I think it's still screenshot

on the website. Somewhere, you probably have

it. I want to say it's still on the website.

But it was on an MWIRE episode of one of the

Star Wars. He was so mad though. It was hilarious.

And you guys were just goofing off. It was me,

Kevin, and Birdman that were on it. What's worse

is the times that my computer would screw up.

and it would like if a power surge hit it or

something or it would just stop functioning kind

of thing and I basically got kicked off the episode

and the crap that they would pull when I wasn't

there you know like okay then like Mike's not

around it's just total chaos sheer chaos pretty

much yeah I think we have some moments where

we're when we are recording and one of us is

almost more serious on whatever the subject might

be I think we had one and I was talking about,

oh shit, I don't know if it was gaming addiction

or something. I was trying to cover that and

I look over and you're on your fucking phone

and she's just texting away and I'm like, dude,

like. We're in this. Like, this is kind of serious.

No. No, no, no, no, no. What was it? No. I was

looking for something that we had previously

talked about. But we went past it. But I really

wanted, I already started. I engaged and I needed

to find whatever I was looking for. But you were

trying to talk about fitness and health and how

to still be healthy. Oh, yes. And it completely

fizzled out. Yeah. She left me out there. Let

it fizzle out. And I look over, like, comments,

Jenna. And then I was like, look what I found.

She's like, look what I found. I don't know what

the hell it was at the time. And I'm like, look,

it's so cute and shiny. I'm like, gee, damn it.

And that's what went up, because we weren't editing

at the time. Because sometimes we like to just

let it be raw. But I love you, but disappoint

me. I was like, god, man, I put all this effort

trying to sound super pro. I'm like, yes, we're

going to spread this information. And you're

just like, look, it's shiny. I'm like, damn it.

Not good. We, I will do outtakes of certain things

at certain times, but we probably don't let anything

just be raw anymore. We, we learned our lesson

with that in the early years. We still have,

I would say a good portion of ours is still on

the raw, unedited side because a lot of it is

just us shooting the shit and having a conversation.

The bloopers. Oh, you guys have never heard the

bloopers. I seriously will have to send them

to you. No, don't send them to them. That's what

you don't want to do. If you send it to anybody,

don't send it to Mike. If we send it to Mike,

he'll probably put it together in some crazy,

amazing way. If you want me to, I can. That's

not a problem. I have an outtake of Mike saying

something. Actually, I think I might. I have

her burping. I have her eating Cheetos really

close. It's not just me. Not just me. We were

making droplet noises for probably a minute straight.

Longer than we should have. Yeah. We were testing

the mic, and it was stuff like that. No. So the

one thing that I think, especially starting,

especially with you, Jenna, is I liked that we

went the raw, unedited route. Because when we

were starting the very first couple of podcasts,

Yeah, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

So you were trying to script it. Throw me under

the bus. I'm not throwing you under the bus.

I'm pushing you, shoving you lovingly into the

spotlight under a bus. You were trying to script

the beginning and she would turn the mic on and

she'd sit up straight in her chair and like scooch

in closer. And I'm watching this shit happen.

I'm like, what is this shit show that's going

on? Like, you're trying to be a lady. What is

this? Like, I don't know you anymore. It's like,

my name is Jenna. And it was just so robotic.

And so we were recording, I think, what? Was

it the fifth one? I think it was the fourth or

fifth one. She's trying to record the fifth one,

and God bless her soul, she's trying to do a

scripted one. I think I changed it after the

third one, because you were like, you've got

to stop being so ridiculous. Just, I don't know.

You went into almost like a teacher mode, where

you just, I don't know, rigid. So it was like

the third or fourth one, and you're doing your

spiel, and you're you get upset because it wasn't

exactly the tone you want. And she's like, okay.

And she starts to go hit the button to stop and

delete it. And I was like, no, we keep going.

And I just like unmuted it. And you just started

laughing like, no, this isn't happening. I'm

like, keep going, keep going. And I think after

that, we just kind of just rolled with it. Because

I think for us, I think what we have works good

being unscripted and kind of raw. I mean, we

do have an outline and we try to stick to it.

But I think especially us also being here together.

I think makes a big difference of us doing this

side by side versus trying to Skype or Skype

or do anything like not because when we're together,

it gets weird, which is what we want. That's

what we're sharing with everyone is that it gets

weird. So I think I mean, I think a lot of people

probably do, you know, the editing, but I think

there is something to be said about having someone

in front of you, someone in front of you. I think

it makes a difference if you're. if you're doing

it remotely or if you're sitting right next to

your co -host, because I've only had a few instances

where I've actually been next to a co -host.

One of them was recording a board game podcast,

and I think the other time was when I was recording

with my wife briefly, and then during Mike's

wedding was the only other time. Not not during

the actual wedding, but before the wedding although

no money if we had had Michael Wilson on to though

that would have been hilarious Yeah, they went

home at that point. I think yeah, and yeah, I

got punched numerous times that day. Of course

you did Yeah, I said things that of course you

did normally get away with yeah No After when

we were done reception was that there is after

the reception? Yeah, because that's the thing

about weddings these days like our our other

co -host longtime Producer optimist all I mentioned

him earlier he and his now wife Amanda just gotten

just got married recently and I asked him so

where are you going on the honeymoon? we're not.

I'm like, what do you mean you're not going on

honeymoon? My wife and I will be taking ours

this December, a year after we've been married,

because nowadays, this day and age, at least

unless you're Donald friggin' Trump or somebody

that has oodles of money, most people, most young

couples or whatever, middle -aged couples, whatever

you want to call us, don't take... the trick

like the traditional honeymoon thing like I remember

as a kid when my dad got remarried he and my

then stepmother went to I don't know Jamaica

or something for a week. I did that. Most people

don't do that anymore. The whole thing of, oh,

wedding, church, reception, reception hall, and

then immediately after they're going to run out

to the car and go off to wherever. I've only

seen that once. No, the wedding I shot two weeks

ago, they got out of the car and then I was packing

up my gear and she came back in. She's like,

you thought I left, didn't you? I'm like, no,

I knew you were coming back. To clean up your

shit, because that's what you have to do. But

yeah, no. I mean, a lot of the couples that I

shoot for, a lot of them are pushing their stuff

back, because they have to work, or they have

to wait for there to be a fun holiday. Sorry,

you said weddings. I was like, come on, let's

talk about that for a living. There you go. But

yeah, I mean. I don't know. So you guys do feel

like there is a difference of having someone

like side by side versus kind of over. Because

my one fear is if we're not able to be together,

if it changes the dynamic. Probably not. Probably

not. But how long have you and Mike known each

other? 10 years. And my wedding was the first

time we met in person. So doing this for 10 years,

it was easier. I mean, it was easy in person,

but it's obviously easier online. Yeah, and and

Michael Wilson that was the second time Yeah,

it's like a time. You met him. It was the first

time I'd met him. Yeah, I'd met him at BotCon

Did you run to each other and cheer the fire

style probably not no no How did you guys meet

them on Twitter of all places? Yes, I And this

is like the old hat news to some people but I

never bore of telling it. I was listening to

This Week in Geek, and they were promoting their

Twitter handles, so I joined. And I used to sit

and watch or listen to that while I would work

every Friday morning while they were on CRNC

in Canada. And I was connecting with other people

that were podcasters and Transformers fans. And

lo and behold, Mike pops up. So I was doing All

Things Transformers the beginning, like, first

four episodes or so. At that point, I had a different

co -host, and then he's like, I want to do podcasting.

I'm like, okay. And then he pretty much replaced

the other guy after that, and then started his

own podcast. You know that was an upgrade, though.

Come on now. Takeover. That was a takeover. Master

Galatron. The other guy had the war these single

words tech Texas accent. I've ever heard in my

life Well actually well what it was is I'd never

could get a hold of them again either And it

was super it was super awkward, but he also had

a problem with certain people on a transformer

site that I recruited him from Where he was kind

of harassing some people That's hard, especially

in the community like that. Because even though

it's so big, it's very small. Yeah. And so I

was like, yay, I'm good. It's like the wedding

industry. It's like what? It's like the wedding

industry. There's lots of mirrors. It's like

the book industry. And yeah, comics. Well, yeah,

comics. I was just trying to be a nerd like you.

I'm just wondering, because I know we met in

person at GameStop. That's how we bonded was

over games. And then I've got friends. We bonded

over poop, but that's a different story But like

then I have friends that I've met via Final Fantasy

11 or playing World of Warcraft and just kind

of going that route and like meeting them recently

or you know still having a long like a Long like

friendship over a decade with people that you've

never even met which is pretty awesome Yeah,

so being a nerd is cool. You know to meet people

like that Um, let's see what, uh, is there anything,

any special topics you guys want to bring up

for the show or for the podcast that you want

to announce or anything like that? Uh, I would

say the mother's episode that's going to be released

because that was hard. So Bridget kept saying

that she was, um, embarrassed or Not able to

- Not embarrassed. I said, I said once. She says

many times, once. I said I should probably say

- No, she thinks she said it once. She says it

multiple times that she could never give her

mother or her mother -in -law the podcast because

of our dirty sailor mouths. Because I'm a lady.

Such a lady. So then - Was talking to her she

was on the phone with her sister her sister overheard

that we really tell each other stories Like it's

my sister, but you're sick. No go ahead. You're

good. Here's it's my story. It's my story We're

too involved in I'm such a Yenta. It's horrible

So she's talking to her sister and her sister

over the phone I could hear it was like you're

on a podcast and then you're like, oh I could

see the shame on your face. You were like Can't

believe I just said that because I know the she's

gonna go tell mom and sure enough her mom goes

I Found out she caught no so my sister's nosy

because I gave her a little detail I was like

no no no this whatever she finds it and then

I get a call from my sister and she's like mom

wants to talk to you like So my mom's on speaker

and she's like you need to wash your mouth out

with soap Now, mind you, when she's saying this,

she's giggling, because she knows. She knows

very well that I swear a lot. But she was like,

my word. She's like, I can't have your grandmother

listen to this. And I was like, oh, it's so funny

that you just said that, because I literally

just said I wasn't going to swear so much. And

I said, I promise you, I'll make an episode for

you. And I called you up. And I said, we need

to make an episode. My mom found it. She told

me to wash my mouth out with soap. We need to

do something. This is going to be the next podcast

that comes out. And it's going to be called Word

to Your Mother. And it's the first podcast. That

we tried to not swear. No. OK. OK. She did not

swear. I was successful, and you dropped it real

early. I didn't notice. She actually told me.

And then she said she was going to tally it.

And then she put a tally in this notebook in

front of us. And I had three. It was three. But

who's counting? It was three. But yeah, so you

dropped it. You looked at me like, no, I didn't.

And I just felt like I was like, oh, you said

a bad word. That's what I felt like. But yeah,

it took so much energy not to swear. So I think

we're saying fluff instead. Yeah, we started

to get to fluff. Fluff it. Yeah, so definitely,

like, we definitely want people to hear that,

especially if they're, like, ill -gross. They

swear a lot. That's the episode to listen to,

and that's probably gonna be the only episode

to listen to, to be honest with you. But, I mean,

we tried really hard, and I think it was super

fun. So, a word to your mother. Yeah. What's

the next one that we have? That reminds me of

Mark Wahlberg. He's like, they had your mother

fool me. He says, I'm Doc. Now we're just going

off a tangent. What's the other one? No, no,

no. This is actually a good tangent, because

I'm originally from Boston, Massachusetts. I

can still... Half a yard. Shut up. You can't

do it right. We were just talking about this,

though, about walk, walk, walk. We were just

talking about that, because I know, I had to

get it out. It was already fucked up, so I'm

like, I'm going to finish it and then come back.

So they did. That was probably one of the worst.

That was perfect. I'm dying over here. Because

you should see the face. Her face was precious.

It was like, bah, bah, bah. Yes, we were just

talking about Mark Wahlberg. That's when my brain

stops and my mouth keeps going. No, we were talking

about it because it was a thing I found on YouTube.

God damn it. YouTube. YouTube. Son of a monkey.

OK. So I'm excited. Let me slow down. OK. So

it was about slang. And it was talking about

slang. And it was talking about Boston and things

that you would hear. And there was one of Mark

Wahlberg. And he was talking. And one of the

things that I I definitely listened to was he

was talking about how you steal money from your

mom's pocketbook. And not everyone knows what

a pocketbook is. And I just thought that was

interesting. So I was like, I know exactly what

he's talking about. But it was a whole bunch

of different slang terms. There was one South

African one I was listening to. Sorry, that's

my tangent. But that's essentially where I was

going with it. Yes. I love his Boston accent,

so you have to do it, Mike. I'm trying. Hold

on. You're welcome. Steve, talk. Talk. You're

an ass It may look for me nowadays because I've

I lived my first 13 years in Boston The rest

of the time I was living in Louisville, Kentucky

and now I'm in Chicago So it's kind of hard because

I have a mount an amalgamation of a Boston accent

and a southern accent I will use y 'all all the

time at this point. It's sad All right I can

still park the car in Harvard Yard, because you

remove the R and you replace it with H. You know,

we all go to Worcester, you know. you know that

kind of thing uh... where it really comes out

where where people really can hear it and steve

can attest to this i'm super super angry like

you know my entire body shaking and i am cursing

so much like i heard recordings yes i know uh...

i i i i i curse in general just because i always

have and i always will kind of thing and my mom

After a while, she didn't really care. Obviously,

once I was an adult, she didn't really care.

The funny thing is you say that you're creating

this new podcast, the Mother's Day podcast, or

whatever you're calling it, for your moms. I

had my mom on a podcast. It was the only one

we ever did. I went up to Massachusetts to get

her to bring her back down to Kentucky at the

time. And we did like a, I don't know, 20, 30,

40 minute thing of just talking about the trip

down and listening to that. And people would

be like, Oh my God, your mom talks funny. I'm

like, yeah, well that's Boston for you. Cause

she never lost the accent. She's lived in Florida.

She's lived all, all kinds of places, but she

would always go back to Boston and it never,

it never faded and anything else. And after she

passed about three years ago at this point, I

was going through her stuff. And I found a whole

list of all of the interviews that I had done

from the point that she had moved down there

to the point that she had done, like for two

and a half years. My Jason David Frank interview,

my Kevin Conroy interview. I say mine, I mean

ours, because Steve was on most of these. Jason

David Frank, Kevin Conroy, Pat Fraley. All these

people, Rob Paulson, Marisa Marsh, she wrote

down almost every single name for about two years,

kind of a thing, on a whole list. And I'm like,

damn, I didn't realize she listened to this stuff.

Damn, Mom, you cool. Yeah. That's right. That's

awesome. And the crazy thing is, for the last

week, it's so weird. I feel like my mom is haunting

me right now because for the last two and a half

weeks, everywhere I go, I can smell nothing but

cigarette smoke. I don't know why. Mike, where

you at? She probably is. I get that because my

dad had passed, oh gosh, I want to say 2009,

but there's still moments where he'll change

my radio station. Like I'll be listening to something

and all of a sudden it starts playing reggae

and that was like what he did, like all the time.

And I'm like, damn it. So like, it's just, they

always check in. So yeah, she's haunting you.

That's just what parents do. Just try and see

that you're still hanging out. Like, what are

you doing? Checking in. Okay, bye. You're like,

thanks for scaring the shit out of me. Thanks

for that. Well, the whole thing about selling,

not selling, but smelling cigarette smoke. Yeah,

that's a no for me because I can't. Just I can't

deal with any kind of smoke cigarette smoke weed

black and I can't deal with any of that crap

I'd sooner kill myself I learned my all of my

language from my mother you know I've seen your

mom So I have a horrific Wisconsin accent when

I am Talking really loud when I'm angry. You're

always talking loud. Yes, that's true Talking

really loud, angry, and extremely drunk. And

then if you get me in front of my family, we're

all talking like that. And I didn't really...

I thought you were all very aggressive to each

other. But they all love each other, but I'm

like, whoa, this is intense. Shut the fuck up,

mom! Yeah, it's like one of those. But then I

talked to my aunt the other day, and she's like,

oh, don't you know, I just got a new job, and

I was just driving down to Menards to get...

And I was like, whoa, dang. Like, that's bad.

I sounded like that. I had to try and change

it. So I only have a couple of words that aren't,

you know, like I still utilize, like bag and

bagel, and that people make bagels. It's a bagel.

Oh, slap you in the face. No. It's a bagel. It's

a bagel. You are wrong. It's like basil on Basil

Street or whatever. Oh my god. So then I started

getting like I think I was out at a party or

something and somebody's like, holy crap You

sound like Sarah Palin So I started doing this

whole thing that I wanted to be like it's when

Tina Fey started acting like Sarah Palin So I

did this whole act on Sarah Palin So people even

get to the point where they're like you got to

do that on a phone call when I'm at work And

I'm like, I don't think I could But I'm like,

don't you know, you vote for John McCain, OK?

You read my book, and so bad. It's interesting.

I was going to ask you, Mike, since you've been

kind of traveling all over the place, do you

feel like when you're back home or in certain

places that your accent gets stronger when you're

around people, or is it only when you're like

angry cheeky angry no it's only like how i'm

talking right now is my everyday voice it's only

when i'm angry like really like i have to get

really angry like to the point where i'm gonna

basically throw my head through a wall angry

kind of thing that it really really comes out

yeah i like like i said before basically where

my whole body ends up vibrating that's how angry

i have to get for it to really really come out

I yeah, that's I so I grew up in upstate New

York So there isn't really like if I say New

York everyone assumes the city So there's not

really I don't really have an accent, but then

with the Mark Wahlberg Berg that shit She's having

a tough time with this name man So this is the

hard part is I will randomly my my voice just

wants to do some weird shit So if I'm around

someone with a heavy accent, I weirdly start

mimicking it and I try Oh, I try not to. And

I'm like, oh, I'm making an ass out of myself

where you kind of mimic how they speak. Which

is not good. I did that in an acting class once.

We had to do it. An accident? No, it was completely

an accident. I didn't intend on mimicking this

guy, but it was made for a very hilarious improv

moment. Was that in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume

2? Were you Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pratt?

No. But it was almost like that. We had an improv

moment in our class. And it was basically whoever

was there before you, before the teacher called

you. And that was the one that controlled the

scene. And it was a African -American individual.

With a very urban accent and Being I used to

work for Little Caesars And would answer the

phone and I would get people periodically and

I would change my voice to deal with disgruntled

people I have used some of those voices and manager

um yeah i used to and i'll get i'll circle back

around to that in a second but oh my gosh during

the improv moment i didn't want to go up there

i hate improv because i don't i don't do well

under that like so it was more of a panic moment

yeah and he started you know like hey y 'all

you know kind of like getting into the um that

whole thing and Super ghetto sounding and how

he was portraying it and he was referring to

me was his son and so like without missing a

beat like I It's something snapped and I was

like right on the same Wavelength and and talking

to him just as ghetto as he was to me and it

was and like in the class like You could say

things that were vulgar and it didn't matter

because the teachers like you're gonna get offended

in this class If you don't like it leave Yeah,

like the first day and so like half the class

left and then the rest of us were still there

damn um but it was hilarious because nobody knew

that that was going to come out of my mouth and

it actually got worse when i did a joker monologue

later on um was it like pin drop like everyone's

like holy shit that's happening because there's

like heat ledger no i did mark hamill oh even

better yeah they like the whole class was like

like and the teacher of course made me do it

like six times in front of him because he was

like i need a little bit more inflection here

and here and i'm like i'm telling you dude like

this is this is what i got like but uh yeah i

i used the megatron voice periodically when i

was at um uh little caesars and i'd answer the

phone and i would answer the phone with really

because they they wanted you to answer with your

name and i'm like they're ordering a pizza they

don't need to know my name And it used to irritate

me. And so because I was a teenager and rebel

at that time, I just didn't care. Some of that's

changed. But I would pick up the phone and I'd

say, my name is Stave. And so they thought I

would say Dave. So when somebody would be mad

at me, it's something I would say. It sounds

like Beavis in butt head. I used to do Beavis.

I have braces too. Sorry, continue. So I used

to do that a lot, too. But he I would get customers

periodically that were not satisfied with with

everything. And so I would I would put it on

hold. I'd take it back up and I would go, oh,

yes. What would you like me to do today? You

know, and they would just like totally they would

think there was a different person like I could

just change the inflection or the tone in my

voice. And they were like, oh, it's a manager

call. And I had all the codes anyway, so I would

just go in and do what I needed to do. And I

would do that at McDonald's when I worked there,

too. I didn't have the phones, but I would be

on the line cooking the food. And the managers

would always irritate me. And my co -workers

thought it was hilarious because depending on

the manager, I had a different voice I would

use. So some of them, I would go, it's me, Mario,

and wah -hah, or something like that. I hope

that you did the wah -hah when you flipped burgers.

As you flipped them. I would do that at some

of the points, like when I do like eggs or something

just to mess with them, and then my coworkers

would laugh, and then I would do Gollum and Yoda,

and I would do Megatron. And just mock them and

they would give me these like dirty looks but

they wouldn't do anything because I wasn't actually

being derogatory about it Yeah, but I was using

a character voice where it was kind of insulting

them, but I wasn't doing it directly just like

Like sneak attack. Yeah, and so they were like,

okay I see what you're doing and the funny thing

is is they would give you your your reviews and

in at work when You least expected it so like

it was supposed to be like a surprise like we're

giving you a you know review or a write -up or

whatever But if you called them out on it Like

right as they're walking towards you or like

earlier in the day The the rule was as it's supposed

to be a surprise so they would they would not

do it That just reminds me like if that someone's

walking up with that face like I'm gonna fucking

review you and you're literally screaming Swiper

no swiping and then they can't do anything Caught

you like can't do it now, huh? And then you walk

backwards like air gunning them like you never

get a review like the whole time you work there

I feel pretty close You just go no and you just

walk away. Yeah, no I love the accents and the

stuff and sometimes it gets me in trouble. Honestly,

it doesn't get me in trouble when I'm with clients

because sometimes when you're kind of engaging

them, not necessarily accent, but if you're mimicking

like body movements and stuff, it's a good way

for people to kind of open up to you. But one

thing is I love accents and we've mentioned this

in the podcast of my love for Spike from Buffy,

which is just love is still strong but my husband

can do a ton of different accents and I love

when we go out in public and I'll make him do

different accents and I'm like no you have to

I want everyone to believe that this is what

you actually sound like so we'll go out and I'll

have him ordering drinks his family is from South

Africa so I like to have him do that one or like

Australian or something like that or like really

horrible punk like British Which is a lot of

fun, but I just like having us go out and like,

all right, I want you to do this tonight and

I want you to order drinks and just kind of hold

on to it. It's weird for play or something. No,

no, no, no. It's just fun because then people

it's because like it's a lot. Well, if we go

there, well, he's a ginger, which is fun, too.

But when we go somewhere and he's talking regularly,

like it's just regularly. What is that word now?

Shut the fuck up. It took me forever to learn

to say learn to say Mitsubishi because I can't

say it quickly Mitsubishi Mishabishi Ugh, anyway.

It stinks. It's a whole, now it's gonna be a

whole episode of like, what can't Bridget say?

Everything, literally everything. You said Megalovania.

Megalovania. Anyway, so they treat him differently

depending on how he sounds. That's what I was

fucking getting at if you weren't such an asshole.

losing her mind I think we all are at this point

yeah I can't speak very well so I make him do

it so I think I actually put on my Instagram

poor English skills and I don't know if people

think it's because they don't know I know English

is like oh I do I'm just really bad at it it's

just how it is and it yeah so there's that I'm

really bad at math aren't we all I mean math

is just the devil I'm good at money, but I'm

bad at math, for sure. I'll count on my fingers

still. It's bad. Doing timelines, six hour timelines,

and I will count out six on my fingers like an

idiot. And I have to joke and tell the couples,

oh, I'm good at taking photos. Don't worry about

it. I actually have that issue too. So there's

this thing going around work, and it's called

Behind the Green Glass Door. Has anybody heard

of it? No. I've never heard of that. So it's

really irritating me, because I think I'm the

only one at work that doesn't understand it.

And they won't tell me the answer. So they'll

say that they're like, they'll give examples

of what is behind the green glass door and what

isn't. And you have to figure out, like, it's

a riddle. What's in the box? Pretty much. Like,

is the cat dead or is it alive? No, I'm just

kidding. That's a whole thing. Yeah, I know.

Secondly, it's both. They were literally saying,

so there's trees but no leaves. there's you know

like and they keep going and all these people

start chiming in and then so I was like okay

well I want to try it too like I can't understand

it I don't understand the riddle yeah so I'm

like is there there is their heart but no blood

and they're like no it's the other way and I'm

like what the fuck is this game so I just went

home I just went home and I still haven't like

I refuse to Google it Because I'm super upset,

and I want to figure it out, and I have not.

It's been three days. OK, now she's off that

tangent. The last thing I wanted to talk about

with accents was that Mark can be an asshole,

and he'll get me stuck in it. And that's why

I was going to ask you guys, if you're around

family, do you get stuck in that accent? Because

sometimes I'll go heavy as Jersey for no reason.

And I can't get out of it for like an hour. It's

bad. I'm not around my family a lot. They all

live back up in Massachusetts. Some live in Florida,

others live other places. So the last time we

were all together was when my grandmother died

back in 2007. So yeah, when I'm around my family,

it does come out more. But I'm not around them

that much, so. You seem to get stuck when you're

with your family, Jenna. You get stuck. You get...

You get thick like with constant You get like

thick and then you'll you'll be stuck in it for

a while So I'll talk to you and you're it's still

there. Yeah What happened? Oh, I just talked

to my aunt Come on the phone with me and then

it'll be I'm like, are you aware that you're

talking this way? No, why don't you point these

things out? No, because I like when you talk

like that. I just let it roll as long as I can.

I let it happen. I'm like, yes, keep going. That's

embarrassing. And Steven, is there any ones that

if people got you started that you would get

stuck in as far as accent -wise? Or voices. Or

voices, yeah. Did he die? Mike, what did you

do? Steve, wake up. Steve, Steve. That would

be my microphone. Yeah, he has microphone problems

these days. Steve, are you still there? Steve,

it's okay. I got my headgear. Are you still there?

I'm still here. People are gonna kill us for

that. What's that? Her retard accent there. What?

That was Dan's sister. It's headgear. There's

nothing wrong with Hulu. I know, but remember

our emails? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had an email.

Oh my god. When was this? This is, what, five,

ten years ago? No, no. He pops up about every

other year. Really? Okay, so... This will kind

of be the last thing, and we'll kind of wrap

up. We'll get you all where we can reach everybody

and all that. Well, before that, there's really

not any voices that I can get stuck in, although

I will mimic people if I hear them say certain

things. And there will be phrases that I will

repeat that people will say. And I don't have

any from my family. But if I'm out in public

and I hear somebody like there's this guy at

work that I really want to try and pick up on

because nobody can He's kind of the bane of the

existence of everybody there I don't I don't

have to deal with him, but he is a royal pain

like He really uses the system at the the rules

of the establishment Against it like he'll buy

stuff and then he'll return it and then he'll

like He's just he's a total waste of time. So

We we have I want to learn his his voice and

how things work because then I can Call the people

at work and that's what them but Yeah, I've done

things with you. Yes But I used to do a voice

from a guy at the dealership And he was really

old and he sounded real gravely when he talked

to you like this. And it's really hard to keep

doing. But I talked to the general manager at

the dealership that I used to work at in that

voice because I was sitting on his computer doing

IT work and he wasn't at his desk. I think he

was outside and the general manager was just

talking to me like. You know giving the appointments

doing this and that on the phone and i'm just

you know carrying out and my co -workers are

just laughing around me and the other sales people

are just laughing and and then I I get close

to the end of the call and i'm and then uh i'm

like you know this is me right and then she's

like what and I says it's me and then she's like

oh you suck and then so like So she's like hang

up the phone and then I'll call and save him

a voicemail. I was like, okay I did that to my

wife's boss to once but She put me up to it telling

you this. Yeah my time Well, she scripted something

out for me one time and I called in is Billy

Bob Thornton's sling blade I like them taters

How do them checking accounts work at your place

and and so I would I would do that at the end

of everything and like just kind of get it as

like ghetto as I could and then And and I went

in one day to go deposit checks at my wife's

bank and I was meeting her there and and I I

did the voice and her boss is like it was you

It was like two weeks later and I was like But

yeah, that's it's I just like to do it occasionally

like just to screw with people because it's funny

and I did it at the Star Trek event I hosted

a couple weeks ago I Did well I did a Scotty

impression Because it was a question about the

enterprise and I was like no bloody a B, C, or

D. And then the whole crowd has lost it. Got

super comfortable after that, though. So, over

the years that we've been doing this, every now

and then we'd get this email from this person

who was a huge Hulu supporter and basically hated

Netflix. And this person quite literally did

like... You guys are saying you don't know how

to talk like you don't know how to say regular

or Mark Wahlberg or any of that. I like this

person dies but it's clearly just me. This person

this person could not spell for anything they

actually spelled Netflix. No I'm pretty sure

you weren't as you didn't. Threaten us with death

if we didn't start promoting Hulu And we weren't

getting paid to promote We're not we're not paid

to say like if we if Hulu or Netflix or Amazon

or Disney No one's paying us to say these names,

right? They should be but they're not But it's

one of those things where this person has the

worst spelling and grammar I have ever seen even

worse than me. They spelled out Netflix any T

FL I CKS Oh My gosh, did they watch Netflix?

Because the logo comes up on the screen. They

were so pro -Hulu that they didn't care. I had

to reverse engineer their email, find out where

it came from, and Google them. And then I had

to I found them on several other forums and then

they were like hardcore bashing like certain

types of like video gamers as well. And I was

like, I started reporting them everywhere. Like

I was like, OK, this dude's like total pain.

And then like their friends started emailing

me, which is basically them. And then they both

tag, you know, would attack me in the email for

a while. And then. And they would go like directly

to my like Steve at geek cast radio like not

even to the feedback No, they would just come

right to me and I would just I was nice to him

to begin with and I'm like, okay I'll take the

nice approach because I can tell something's

not right and Then the emails got more venomous

and I was like, you know what your dick quit

emailing me like And yeah, so I mean it was it

was just funny but every few years we get that

email Which means we're do we're do yeah, yeah,

it's been about a year and a half And the crazy

stupid thing is at this point now we're more

you know than Netflix I use both Right now I'm

rewatching for the upteenth time person of interest

on Netflix But I use Hulu for day at like I'm

not gonna sit there through commercials watching

lethal weapon I would rather watch free on on

Hulu I am no longer watching the three -and -a

-half or three -hour Monday Night Raw. I'd rather

watch the hour -and -a -half cut -down thing

that Hulu puts out or whatever kind of thing.

It's just easier watching it the next day than

having to watch it, watching it on real TV. Yep.

I've not watched wrestling in years. I love wrestling.

I don't even know whose face or heel anymore.

But I got into wrestling. Ray Mysterio Jr., Little

Ray Ray. My favorite. I met him in person and

I lost my shit, dude. I met him in person. I

walked up. I used to wear whiteout contacts when

he was wrestling. This is super awkward. Don't

give it away. So I wore whiteout contacts, like,

every week. And I'd go to school like that, and

people were like, whoa, she's a freak. Like,

in the snow, she would wear jeans with sandals,

because she wanted to be cool like that. I was

a whole different kind of person back then. But

anyway, so he was coming to my small town, and

I was so freaked out. I had his DVD. I had the

619 sweatshirt. I didn't do the contacts, because

I wanted to see the real me. And I walk in there,

and I go to hand him my DVD. And he's like, cool

sweatshirt. And I'm like, ugh. I ran out. I couldn't

even, like, I couldn't say anything. I was like,

weird. Weird she couldn't speak. Oh, yeah. Which

is, yeah. So I have it signed. But yeah, no,

sorry. Raymond's here. You said raw. And I was

like, oh, Rest of Line, I forgot. It's amazing.

Yeah, that was basically, like, the whole thing

with, like, Frank Walker for me. But I go in

with a GCR in shirt, and I'm just like. Like

it was super awkward because they were just kind

of like shoveling people through like so it was

like So I got a photo with them. Thanks to Michael

Wilson, but Yeah, and then it was it was kind

of the same thing when I met John Bailey in person

epic voice guy Because I'd been doing fan dubs

with him for years, but the funny thing was is

like I go up to him and I'm like, hey, blah,

blah, blah. And he's like, and I was with my

brothers and he's like, I feel like I'm playing

character select on Grand Theft Auto because

we all look very similar. Yeah. Even though there's

like years between us. And so like I'm the tallest

and then my middle brother's like, he's the shortest.

And then my other brother's like scruffy, like

in the face. And so it kind of between the heights.

And so he was just like, You know, just poking

fun at us in his Christopher Walken voice. Oh,

great. Which would have been funny if I had it

recorded. Yes. Exactly. They would ask if you

did. Yeah, that's a voice I still want to learn

how to do, but... Hard one. Even celebrities

that try to do it, I hear a lot of people have

a hard time with Christopher Walken's accent.

If you want to call it an accent. A way of speech,

a way of life, if you will. Yeah, exactly All

right. I think we're gonna wrap this one up.

Where can the people listen to you guys besides

on geekcastradio .com? Yeah, we have it on geekresponsibly

.com. There's also iTunes, Spotify This is her

professional voice, by the way. Hold on, let

me set it up straight. I am special. Google Play.

And gee golly, everyone likes me. Go for it.

Fat guy in a little coat. All right. She's getting

it out. All right. So it's Spotify, iTunes. Google

Play. Yeah. Geekresponsibly .com and Geekcast

Radio. Boom. Awesome. Where can the people interact

with you online? Twitter, Facebook, all that

stuff, if you want to give it out. Yeah, definitely.

Actually, to also add to the other one, I'm pretty

sure it's on YouTube as well, but I'd have to

check what that is. And we will be putting video

here shortly because now I got this nifty, awesome

webcam that we've been recording this last episode

and doing stupid stuff and just making sure that

it works. But for social media, I am on Facebook,

Instagram, as well as Twitter. Most of them are

I am Jenna Clark. or geeks and garters. And for

mine, it's easiest way to get to me is Instagram

at Bridget Levy and then Twitter, but I don't

know how that works yet. She literally does not

know how to tweet. She's like, then she yells

at me because she's I was like, well, yeah, you

barely have friends. That's why no one's liking

any of your stuff and you don't know how to use

it. She's like, well, you didn't like it. Thanks,

friend. So I went and liked it. Yeah, I'm not

sure how that works, but people start I don't

know tweeting me on that. I'll tweet back. I

don't know how I'll figure it out. They tweet.

Yes, they tweet. I can shoot a wedding, but I

don't know how technology works. I'm good with

Nikon, but rather than that, I'm like, meh. So

that's Bridget underscore Levy. Yes. No, it's

not. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. See, I don't even

know where to handle. Gosh. Hot mess. Turn her

off now. Now she wishes I wasn't here because

she'd mute my mic. She's like, no. I try muting

them all the time. Yeah, it doesn't work. It's

like having the big break on the passenger side.

Like, oh my god, when does this stop? This train

wreck never stops. I just want to hang out with

both of you. We should be posting the next one

when? Tonight. Oh, shit. Tonight. Sweet. Awesome.

Have a listen. So it's there for the morning.

And for the whole weekend, you guys can word

to your mother. Word to your mother. Word. I

just want a whole podcast of Steve's voice. Dear

friends, today is the day the clown cried. Yes,

yes, yes. And he cries not for the passing of

one man, but for the death of the dream. The

dream that he would someday taste ultimate victory

over his hated enemy. You need to make them read

children books. Yeah. As Joker, yes. My boys

don't particularly care for that. They want to

hear that. I do. The people want to hear it.

Exactly. I should do that. Let me do that one.

Can you imagine, can you imagine the Joker ridding

Berenstain Bears? That's what I want. I believe

it's on the bicycle. We need to have him record

them. At least for a Halloween special, you have

to have some, like, cat in the hat. Like, just

some random shit. One fish, two fish. Do that.

And seriously, like, put it on your Patreon.

People have to pay for that. That's amazing I

seriously will pay put it up for five dollars

everybody will do it one fish two fish I Want

his commentary through my World of Warcraft game

Oh god. We need to do a playthrough. Do you guys

play video games? Or is it just us? I play video

games. I used to. I used to. I just watch them

a lot now. Mike doesn't like them. No, I like

them, I just - He watches video games. Mike's

gonna murder me. He doesn't like video games.

I play the Ness and the SNES classic at this

point, that's about it. The little one, like

the little - not the raspberry, but - The new

ones. The ones that are actually, yeah, the ones

that are actually official by Nintendo. My cat

spread smells like cat food. And scene. Yeah,

exactly. And scene. Mike and us. You guys isn't

funny anymore. It's literally a mirror. It's

like, I'm Mike and you're Steve. That's what

this conversation is just about. Steve's my best

friend. I choose you. Oh no, okay, we gotta end

this shit on Pokemon references No Jar Jar no

no go away Jar Jar you're bad. I did at work.

I did that voice and they were like no i am uh...

at tf2 and mike on twitter he is at as cp twenty

one on twitter visit the cast radio dot com coming

up next week uh... it's probably gonna be me

introducing the episode of the jesse and ryan

those guys are going to talk about board games

in episode one eighty nine and then we might

take off the rest of the month because i'm going

to basically convince and bribe and cajole steve

to do their idea of uh... redfish bluefish episode

190 so episode 190 is gonna be our Halloween

Halloween smorgasbord people need to send me

suggestions of books to read on my Twitter at

SCP -21 yes yep I'm already gonna send them right

now I've got tons I'm gonna send them as pictures

even so you can get the right one with the cover

this is the one I want you to do Very cool. Very

cool. Oh boy. Alright, unleash the geek in you

and we will catch you next time here on GeekCast

Radio. How dare you speak for me, insolent worm.

Shut up and go play with your rubber ducky. No.

You are the puppet.