2nd Annual GCRN Awards Results

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Welcome to GeekCast Radio. This is episode 80.

I am one of your hosts, TF2 and Mike. Ladies

and gentlemen, it has been one year. I'm not

sure if it's one year to the day or anything

else, but it's been one year. It's been 20 episodes

since we did GeekCast Radio episode 60. In that

episode, we had the first annual GCR awards.

We are back this time around for the second annual

GCR awards. And joining me is movie role Dan.

Hello, sir. How's it going? It's going. Steve

Megatron hello hello yes and why don't you Steve

talk about and Dan as well because ladies gentlemen

I'll be upfront and honest I only filled the

ballot out I had I had a little bit of input

on what went into the awards this year but I

am NOT an awards person I care when it comes

to this is our thing but in general when it comes

to award stuff I don't I have too much other

stuff going on. Steve, why don't you walk us

through the expansion and the changes that happened

from last year to this year? Well, I will say

this. Last year, it was an experiment on our

part, and then we were trying to put what we

felt were not necessarily the most popular, but

the most diverse and memorable. variety of whatever

content it was, whether it be film, whether it

be animation, whether it be TV. And last year

we pretty much did those categories and then

GCR and podcasts. And granted there were a lot

more categories in film and TV than this year,

but we got a little bit of flack because some

shows didn't show up and so on and so forth,

but it wasn't necessarily because of you know,

the fact we didn't want to put them on there

was just the fact that we could only put so many.

And, you know, it was kind of a list that we

were trying to put together and there really

wasn't time to throw anything else in there.

Whereas this year, we went a completely different

route. Instead of having it straight voting from

the get -go, this was a fill -in -the -blank

ballot for the nominees for every category. We

slimmed it down. We added Video games we added

comics and we added podcasts or videocasts that

were non GC RN So it was kind of a different

mix and allowed us to have the same amount of

categories with or same amount of subcategories

represented but more diverse areas covered like

the having the TV animation and comics, games,

etc. So having the fill -in -the -blank method

allowed the fans, listeners, and everybody that

watches all of the shows that they watch to nominate

their own favorites without having to conform

to any kind of list that was pre -put together.

And we did that until the nominees... Stopped

coming in and then we flipped it and we we took

the top five of all those categories and made

it a drop -down selection to decide which are

you know, which ones we thought were the best

out of those given nominees and I have to say

that Think that this method seemed to work a

little better this year than doing the street

voting because then it allowed One less coding

on my behalf and to it This was actually a lot

simpler to throw together than the voting But

it also allowed for an exportable format to compile

the entire thing instead of trying to keep count

the entire time so that kind of helped and Some

of the the selections were kind of interesting

seeing how close and how far and the diversity

that was in there in some areas lack thereof.

So it definitely was interesting this time around,

and I think that people will be for the most

part pleased with the outcome. Very cool. Going

into this, Dan, did you expect anything or you...

I mean... What were you looking forward to most

seeing the new, different, expanded version of

the awards this year? Well, I guess the benefit

of that is that the nominees are not coming from

us, so no one to blame but yourselves, I guess.

No, I was interested in seeing the overall opinions

and just to see the thought process of the GCRN

listeners. And I think one of the best things

we did this year was like Steve mentioned adding

in the different awards for other podcasts and

stuff like that, which was great to see because

we got a lot of great reactions, especially from

In Session Film and Simplistic Reviews that did

a pretty awesome Battle of the Bands video that

you should check out if you haven't. That was

cool to see. That was pretty great. I loved that.

And plus it was Ferris Bueller that they were

mimicking. So it just made it that much better

for me. Yeah, I think I think simplistic reviews

probably should get their own special award for

most outstanding Promotion for their their nomination.

Definitely. It's also a great podcast So if you

have a chance to check it out, but yeah So and

the funny thing is since the awards this happened

about two and a half three weeks ago The awards

that already ended and whatever else voting was

done Since the awards in session film is the

newest syndicated member of the GC So next year

they'll be going into the the syndicated content

instead of the non GC are in content Yeah, we

drafted them into the own our own team. So yeah,

we assimilated them is what we did really So

we get it started. Yes So I have two copies of

this pulled up on my screen one That is the actual

order that the entire list went in which is what

I'm going to actually follow That way because

the Excel I haven't laid out it's just it's easier

So starting out we had the television main category

The first subcategory under that was the best

TV drama and the nominees were Boardwalk Empire

Game of Thrones Hannibal True Detective and House

of Cards It was interesting because I when we

put the categories together like the different

Different ways people assume drama. So that's

kind of it was kind of funny. So I'm curious

to see what the award actually goes to. Well,

it went to Game of Thrones. That's honestly no

surprise. With 45 votes. Interesting. How close

was it? The lowest number was seven. And the

next, the second highest number was 17. Wow,

I'm surprised True Detective didn't get more

votes, but I guess You know, it's definitely

a more It's a certain type of show that you know,

it's hard to get into for some people very heavy

material So and I know Game of Thrones has it's

pretty steady fan base And I think that's probably

the one we got most slack of last year for not

nominating was Game of Thrones So, you know,

it's it is coming back strong. I guess we're

not a not getting nominated last year. Oh Yeah

Yeah, it was kind of surprising seeing what went

into some of these categories and in here I wasn't

really surprised but I was kind of surprised

that Hannibal and House of Cards Intra Detective

didn't get more votes than it did. I was surprised

Hannibal got even a nomination because of how

low ratings they have. I love that show. But

in Port Arc Empire too because it's one that's

not necessarily talked about all that much, but

I do know it's like it's last season now, so

maybe some people had it on their hands. I was

gonna say, I thought that show ended, yeah, I

was gonna say. Yeah, it just ended not too long

ago. So moving into the best TV comedy category,

we have Big Bang Theory, Brooklyn Nine -Nine,

Parks and Rec, Silicon Valley, and Veep. Well,

we all know which one I'm voting for. The only

one you watch? Out of those, yeah. Pretty much.

That's the same thing with me. Now, let me just

say before Steve reveals the winner here, a lot

of the TV shows that are nominated in these two

categories, the previous category here and this

one here, Veep is a premium cable show, right?

Yep, it's on HBO. Yeah, see, that's the thing.

I'm not going to sit here and pay HBO fees just

to watch a show of good television. You know

what I mean? I don't know. Could always do HBO

Go. It's better than paying for cable. Of course,

usually, if you get a cable package, they give

it to you for free. Yeah, but that's what I'm

saying. Has Go become an independent thing? It's

separate, but 99 % of the time cable companies

are giving you HBO for free. Right. It will be

a separate thing in a few months. It's going

to be about five bucks a month. Oh, okay. It's

completely livable. It's like having Netflix,

but with bigger budgets. Just HBO content. I

pretty much the only network I really watch tends

to be HBO, so I'm pretty much paying for cable

to get HBO. Well, maybe you can cut your cable

bill in half and just get the $5 subscription

for when it goes by itself. Yeah, but the world's

ruled by Comcast, so that can never happen. So

who won the award? Big Bang Theory. With 49 for

the votes, and the lowest voting on this was

Silicon Valley at 5. Hmm. Do you think that's

just because it's a new show? I don't think it's

that new. It's new It just had its first season

inside the season starts in a few not that long

Probably it's also like you said a premium channel

So nobody has access to it being bang theory

has it's like the like the best rating show right

now I I personally would have probably went with

Silicon Valley or V those are both really strong

actually really like Brooklyn 99 as well It's

actually a really well done show. It's a That

I think I underestimated but when I started watching

it, it's rather funny Andy Samberg is quite good

and Andre Brower is Like genius on that show

his deadpan delivery is pretty phenomenal. So

Yeah, honestly, I probably would rank big man

theory fifth and all those in categories But

you know, I can understand why it won. It's got

its fan base I've said this before on many other

podcasts that we do here at GCN Everyone seems

to think Big Bang Theory is just supposedly a

geek show that makes fun of geek culture. It

really has. I mean, it does. It pokes fun. It

has gotten better periodically, though. Over

the seven to eight years that it's been on, it

has built its characters so well. As of this

recording, we just watched the episode where

they deal with... The fact that the actress Carol

Anne Susie who played Howard Wallowitz his mother

on the show She had passed away in real life.

So they're just now at season 8 By now it's it's

more of a character -driven show than just a

show for laughs anymore. I All right. Well, I

would have to agree to disagree. But yeah I mean,

it's character driven in like the old sitcom

way I just find its jokes are just all over taking

stereotypes and over blowing them compared to

something like I like let me Ask you Dan. When

was the last time you saw an episode? What season?

last season Okay, and I like I see what you're

saying maybe for characters if you're thinking

old -school sitcom but I would say in Silicon

Valley in its first season has more interesting

characters and because my issue with bring bang

theory is that his characters are very They're

fine. They're like old school sitcom characters.

They're just all some sort of stereotype. These

are the jokes that they do It's like a show come

out in the 90s Exactly. It's like it's basically

the jokes. It's friends, but instead of making

sex jokes, they make jokes about geek culture

They're they're like a lot of the plot lines

are similar, which is fine. But I like, you know,

I personally I prefer Silicon Valley because

I think it's a little bit more interesting. I

like the more the satirical edge that Mike judge

says and I think it's a little bit more interesting

in what they do but I think you know Big Bang

Theory has its niche and it does it well, but

uh, I would I I think you know sitcoms like that

can only go so far because you're appealing to

such a broad audience but with something like

V or So like we mentioned all you're in Brooklyn

99 I think they are doing a little something

a little bit different but I would say if you

do like Big Bang Theory I would say, you know,

you probably would like Brooklyn 99 because they're

Similar type of comedy Like but it's more it's

not geek culture in Brooklyn 99. It's even more,

you know, like Almost police Academy esque and

for the modern era minus slapstick though Next

up what do we got Steve best TV sci -fi Which

is agents of shield doctor who The Flash, Orphan

Black, and Z Nation. I didn't even know Z Nation

was a thing. Yeah, it is. I didn't even think...

Wait, Flash isn't science fiction. It technically

is. Anyways, who won the award? Flash, at 38

votes. And the lowest was Z Nation at 1. It's

probably the guy who made Z Nation. That's not

surprising either. I mean it's got I would say

honestly right now I think flash is a better

show than at least this season of arrow which

has been kind of The let down but it's been pretty

strong first season for that show I Am I while

I like agents of shield it's I don't consider

it quite sci -fi enough at this point to warrant

it a sci -fi show Know they are heading in that

direction, but it's it. I don't consider it one

flash I see more of a sci -fi show and I understand,

you know doctor who and some of the other ones

are too I'm actually kind of surprised that Doctor

who people didn't vote doctor who yeah to win

because they are usually very rabid fanboys I

feel like with this recent doctor though it it

I feel like there's a little bit more apprehension

To him the Peter Capali. I feel like it's not

I don't nearly hear as much chatter about this

last season than The recent ones i'd not necessarily

that's been negative, but I know you know It's

uh, it's a different type of doctor for a lot

of people speaking as someone who doesn't watch

that show Just going based upon fan reaction.

So that could have You know, I think a lot of

people weren't or a little bit disappointed with

the last season of the show but I definitely

have to say that I'm glad flash one being a newcomer

and The fact that the show seems to be very well

written in in the the way that they are trying

to tackle everything and kind of give it a new

twist and It's I just find it very interesting

Out of all the superhero shows on right now.

I think it's my favorite I agree with that Yeah

flashes It's very refreshing. It's it's nice

to finally see After you know four or five years

as somewhat upbeat Superhero show on the CW.

I mean don't get me wrong. I love arrow but arrow

Arrow is Without Batman right arrow is bet is

the Batman esque whereas flash is more of like

of Superman it well, yeah, it's the flash but

I mean it's It's a lot more light -hearted than

arrow. Yes. There are serious moments and emotional

moments in flash but at this point in because

I've now been watching arrow as it airs and at

this point Arrow is nothing but emotional stuff

There they have built themselves not into a corner

But they have built themselves into a storyline

with everything that has happened in the first

two seasons now in season three That it is running

on all emotions and there are a couple of puns

here and there but it's a pretty damn dark show

Yeah, I think you know flash has the benefit

I feel of those the flash very much Fits into

the more CW around in a lot of ways like the

characters feel more CW ish Almost to a to its

def to its testament at some times, especially

even the musical choices I'm like clearly this

was a CW choice, which I think is why it's getting

better ratings than that of era but I like I

think you make a good point Mike that is a little

bit more upbeat and Very much especially with

recent events with the one character becoming

reporter. It does seem like it's like yeah We're

just gonna be kind of Superman, but not quite

We're gonna say that It's got that kind of tomorrow

people vibe to it of the musical choice and A

lot of how it's kind of set up It's just but

with the flash and DC Comics characters instead.

Yeah, I mean Most of it's drama is relationship

based when most of the drama Arrow is more character

based and more dealt with in more serious issues

of, you know, life and death situations, which

I think lends to the more kind of light feel

that it has, which can be, which is, you know,

good. It's an own way. It depends on what, I

guess, what your tastes are. And I think it was

really good that they didn't just start flash

by itself. The fact that arrow was its back door

and it worked well mixing the two. and having

the two different character sets kind of interact,

because throughout Flash's first season we've

had a couple of times where they've crossed over.

You know, not all of the characters from Arrow

or all of the characters from Flash, they did

that once, but Felicity from Arrow had come over

to Flash one time by herself and whatever else.

Flash is just an interesting show because it

shows you the world. I know there have been other

Flash television series. But this to me, this

is what I know from watching DC animated movies

and the DC animated universe cartoon series and

stuff like that. As far as how the characters,

how we're seeing them, it's different in Flash,

but it's still yet similar. Because I honestly

think after this past week's episode, they're

working towards doing Flashpoint. The Flashpoint

paradise. Yeah, they've clearly run into that.

And it's not a bad thing at all. It's an interesting

way to bring DC Comics fans in and say, hey,

look, if you've read this or if you've seen this

animated movie or if you've done this or done

that, you're going to get this. And the whole

aspect of time travel, who knows how many flashes

are actually going to show up in this show eventually.

So, anyway. Anyhow, moving on to the next category,

we have best action adventure. which contains

Arrow, Sherlock, Walking Dead, Blacklist, and

Game of Thrones. Wait, why is Game of Thrones

in two categories? Because the same reasons some

other shows are going to show up again in the

next two categories. Because that's what people

voted, and some of these can be considered multi

-categories. Um, with these choices, it's either

gonna come down to The Walking Dead or Game of

Thrones, probably. Because everybody except me

loves The Walking Dead. I'm not a fan of it either,

but... Thank God. Actually, it's funny. A couple

days ago... My mom said, oh my god, I'm so sick

of that zombie show. And I'm like, wait, which

one? The Walking Dead. What the hell is the point

of that show? And if my 60 -year -old mother

can't get into it, then I don't know what the

hell's wrong with this world. Yeah, I know. That's

their base, the 60 -year -old mothers. I think

that's what they're shooting for. You know what

I mean. No, not really. But who won the category?

It was scary. It was zombie people. They're not

nice. They just eat people. Yeah So anyways the

winner of this category is surprisingly arrow

Wow wait about it is 26 votes Followed closely

by Walking Dead at 20 Game of Thrones at 19 Sherlock

at 15 and blacklist at 12 Surprise blacklist

got any other than you and I Steve honestly Yeah,

I mean it's a little surprising I felt this last

season of arrow has been rather weak. I'm not

an arrow lover Honestly, I think it's a honestly

the flash and arrow to me or those shows I consider

background shows that they're better They get

the better They're much better the less I tried

to watch them or pay attention to them because

there's a lot of things in them that are kind

of ridiculous and I don't know this last season

of arrow I feel like they've just struggled in

a lot of ways especially with like the flashback

story and it's become a lot less interesting

with Less focus on the slayed character and uh,

so i've and then when they brought vinnie jones's

character in like rick and how awful awful like

that character was in that entire storyline of

the fact that you're going to remove police officers

from a Huge section of the city because of a

couple hostages which makes no logistical sense

whatsoever So yeah, I feel like you think you

mentioned it a little while ago mike where they

wrote themselves in the corner And I do feel

like they're just they're they're have a certain

No, they're going in and I'm able to kind of

get out of it and they it just seems really repetitive

at this point They have the same storylines the

same arguments over and over again about the

characters that are trying to become heroes who

aren't ready yet and that's just like to me it

needs something refreshing and I Hopefully it

like within the next few episodes will get there

You've seen this week's episode, right Steve?

No, but that doesn't matter to me this week they

work back around a slate again that's all i'll

say about it but this week they did work back

around a slate again because um thea and ollie

are on the island and i whatever i enjoy arrow

i do i don't enjoy it as much as i do the flash

or the blacklist or any other show that i'm currently

watching if i had to Put arrow on a number scale.

It's probably number eight out of ten shows that

I watch Yeah, I think on the out of the categories

we had your best action or adventure show I probably

would say Sherlock, you know what? I don't know

if you would consider that action adventure,

but they people did but it's harder to compare

since that's three episodes 90 minutes each compared

to like, you know complete series, but It's the

most consistency. I think it's been that was

the best season of Sherlock yet. So and I would

say Probably my favorite out of all those next

to Game of Thrones and walking dead and I don't

walk watch the blacklist So I couldn't say anything

about that one Next one Steve, so the next category

is best new show The nominees are the flash Gotham

last week tonight Silicon Valley and true detective

It's gonna come down to flash Because I don't

think anybody voted Gotham if they did it wasn't

enough Don't get me wrong. I I do enjoy Gotham

from what it is, but it could be so much better

than what it is I Stopped watching after the

third episode so I can't of what Gotham Gotham

You're not miss much It has gotten better, but

now that they've gotten the announcement of a

season two But now that seems like they're kind

of jumping into the constantly introducing villains

that are going to play a role later when they're

old so it's they're all kids at this point so

it's it's kind of annoying there's there's really

not much there so they're kind of throwing the

farm at it now I said this was it last week's

altered geek or a week before you know there's

a point in these later episodes here in season

one for Gotham where Penguin and the Riddler

come face to face. I would have rather had them

Do it team up then just go their separate ways,

but that didn't happen. Whatever. Who's the winner?

flash 34 Wow Go flash go followed by Gotham at

22 really last night at 15 true detective at

13 and Silicon Valley at 4 I was surprised Gotham

got as many votes as it did I Would have expected

any of the other ones to get more votes than

Gotham. Yeah, I Wouldn't went last week tonight

because I love the show but uh, it's definitely

a lot different compared to everything else on

that list So that's yeah, not surprising flash

wouldn't make sense. So All right. What's the

next award? best returning show Which is down

between arrow doctor who? Game of Thrones, Orphan

Black, and The Walking Dead. Let me guess. Arrow

won. You're a very astute man. It was either

Arrow, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, or Walking

Dead. Yeah, it was one of the four. It's one

of those five that are in there. It's just, we're

not sure which one. You should play the lottery,

Mike. I think you have a system, don't you? It'll

change. This is audio folks. So no one can see

me flipping Dan off Just like nobody can see

the nominees and the in the winners except for

me on my second monitor So so arrow did one yes

at 34 votes Followed by walking dead at 21 Game

of Thrones at 17. Dr. Who at 12 and orphan black

at 9 Wow It is an interesting selection like

I almost would Would almost say that walking

or not walking dead, but Game of Thrones probably

could have taken that Well, yeah, like cuz walking

dead has been pretty weak As far as like my wife

is concerned cuz she watches it and she said

it's been kind of meh the last season and a half

I would actually strongly disagree with that.

But um, I would say part of that too considering

when we're voting for just the fact that arrows

on TV, you know and Game of Thrones is like off

at this moment. So people may be It's been a

lot of that show. Yeah, it's not in fresh in

your minds It does seem like it's been like two

years since the last time that's been on so that

I mean that probably helps arrow the fact that

it's currently on air and Like we mentioned like

premium channels do are at a disadvantage since

you have less access to them Legally, I should

say yeah Hey, I don't have DVR or regular cable

all of mine come from an alternative to Location

I did buy a digital tuner. So that does help

me watch regular like my basic cable But you

know, this is a funny little sidetrack that makes

sense to what Steve is saying here You really

should invest in one of those rabbit TVs. I know

literally I bought these this GE $15 rabbit ear

thing that plugs in and it's a digital tuner

and it's a 25 mile radius and I actually live

smack in the middle of a bunch of different radio

or TV stations, so I get ABC, I get NBC, CBS,

Fox, and CW. Which is all the channels I watch.

And they're free. The rabbit TV I'm talking about

is from Telebrands. It's a USB. Gives you access

to over 5 ,000 free internet TV stations. So

it's computer based yeah, but the thing is you

leave your computer on and have something to

stream to your TV That's true. This is not powered.

It's just plugged in it plugged into the TV I

should say but Moving on to the next category

we have cartoons and Under the best new cartoon

we have it this top five Bojack Horseman, I've

never heard of this It's on Netflix Mike Tyson

mysteries, which just sounds like an oxymoron

Yeah, it pretty much is At Star Wars Rebels the

7b in Wally Kazam, which Wally Kazam. I've never

heard of either Getting assumed Star Trek rebels

or Star Wars Rebels one Yeah, I would have to

say probably Star Wars You would be correct Star

Wars Rebels rings in at 55 votes. I think it's

one of the highest out of any of the categories

of I think or one of the highest I should say

but With two ties below it Bojack Horseman and

Mike Tyson mysteries get 14 votes each and the

70 and Wally Kazam get two votes each What? Okay,

no, no, no, hold on folks Okay, seriously Yeah,

no one besides me and Doug Abel from talking

about my generation watch the 7d the 7d has Kevin

Michael Richardson Maurice LaMarche Billy West

Scott what does it even what does it even air

on? Disney it's on Disney and Disney XD. I don't

get either of those so I don't I don't okay and

so is where rebels I download so Here's the well,

you need to start downloading 70. Here's the

thing the 70 for them I you know I'll be the

first to admit when I first saw the title of

it without even seeing anything any images or

anything what it was supposed to be about It

being on the Disney Channel I didn't it didn't

sound like a Disney Channel show to me because

that you know Me and my old man dirty mind didn't

think of that. But anyway The 70 takes place

30 years before the seven dwarfs meet Snow White.

So it's set in a place called Jollywood. It has

Jess Harnell and Kelly Osborne as the villains

called the Glooms. And it has, you know, the

seven dwarfs and they do funny adventures and

different things and it's really, really fun.

It's executive produced by Tom Ruger. It has

him... He obviously has done Tiny Toon Adventures,

Animaniacs. Basically the entire crew from Animaniacs

is pretty much back. Randy Rogel, Sherry Stoner,

Deanna Oliver, Shay Fontana. All those people

that worked on Animaniacs are working on this.

It is an amazingly funny show for both kids and

adults. Okay then. But does it have Mike Tyson?

No. Then it's not a mystery of why it lost. Asshole.

Or Star Wars, I should say, since that one. Yes.

I figured Star Wars was going to take it. I didn't

expect the 7 -D to beat Star Wars, but I expected

the 7 -D to at least beat Wally Kazam in whatever

Netflix show that was. I've never watched Bojack

Horseman, but I've heard really good things about

it, but I've yet to partake. So what's the next

category? Yes, thank you. Best returning cartoon,

which includes Adventure Time, Archer, Bob's

Burgers, Legend of Korra, and Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles. Even though Season 3 has been

somewhat of a downer until I get back to New

York, I'm hoping Turtles won. You would be correct.

Turtles won at 41 votes, followed by Bob's Burgers

at 14, Legend of Korra and Archer tied at 13,

and Adventure Time at 6. I'm surprised Archer

and Bob's burgers didn't get more only because

I know that people kind of clamor for that I'm

honestly surprised adventure time is last and

play in last place because everyone I know on

the internet Oh adventure times great. It's so

awesome. You should watch it It's weird worse

to talk in I've never watched any of the show

so really can't say I have no idea. I only watch

turtles so Next one all right new this is one

is the video game category Okay, best new release

of 2014 Includes Borderlands the pre sequel That's

just sounds weird Mario Kart Shadow of Mordor

Super Smash Brothers Wii U Titanfall I have no

idea. I would guess either Mario Kart or Smash

Brothers, but Titanfall was pretty big. Well,

I will put this one to bed. Smash Brothers beat

it. But not by as far as you would think. Two?

No, three. But Smash Brothers won at 24, Mario

Kart 21. Shadow of Mordor is at 14 Borderlands

is at 11 and Titanfall is at 6 I'm kind of surprised

like I mean I'm really out of the world of gamers

at this point But it wasn't destiny like a huge

game. Maybe it wasn't really good But I remember

it sold like a trillion copies, but I heard it

was really good And I know a lot of people that

still play it now. It's just it was kind of I

Don't know I guess I guess they wrote that in

yeah, maybe it was just the people who visit

GCRN aren't are more into the old -school, you

know, Nintendo type of gaming so So yeah, that

was I'm glad Smash Brothers one because that's

my favorite game out of anything Nintendo right

now, but The cameos alone are great Mega Man

and a lot of the characters that showed up in

our wars tournament actually were in this game

banjo and kazooie well no not them actually it

was um whatever the guy was it the kickboxer

guy i can't remember his name oh the guy from

punch out yes lil mac yeah lil mac he was in

it too but uh they can't punch anything out he

didn't kick it um oh that was bad pun uh best

new console which kind of Teeters into you know

2013 2014, but I Did that generation basically

so the ps4 Wii U Xbox one? I Would say it's between

ps4 and Xbox one, but I don't know out of those

two one would have won because each camp has

their fan base I would think with the fact that

The two e games are your number one and two for

last category that it might be with you, but

I don't know Steve well the winner of this one

is the ps4 at 30 Huh the Xbox one took 24 the

Wii U at 20 It wasn't that like I wasn't too

bad. Actually. No wasn't too bad I thought you

know the Wii U would have gone wee -wee -wee

all the way home, but yeah 20 ain't bad So, moving

on into comics, which I know very little of.

Well, let me preface just a little bit here,

folks. Last year when we threw the awards together

and the first annual G -Sheron Awards, I didn't

feel comfortable putting anything together for

comics because I had only been doing the pull

bag for... two years at that point but I still

didn't like I was pretty much extreme even though

I usually am extremely narrow -minded but like

when I was reading comics last year I was pretty

much stuck in DC mode since then DC has pissed

me off so royally that I've pretty much expanded

my horizons on comics since then so it's gonna

be interesting here to see what wins and what

and where other things place but go ahead Steve

first award sir The first award is Best Storyline,

which contains Forever Evil, Lumberjanes, Saga,

Sex Criminals, One Weird Trick, and Transformers.

Now, next year we need to decide which Transformers

it is, because I know it means the current IDW,

but there are two books. Two very different storylines

Yeah, they were there when putting them together

there were like a Like a variety of different

ways people put it erode it so it kind of just

lumped it into one Transformers they get that

last nomination Yeah, I mean I think next year

we need to have people specify Transformers the

main ongoing which actually used to be called

robots in disguise or Transformers more than

meets the eye I would love to read Lumberjanes.

I have not had a chance to yet Sex criminals

is amazing. It just is it's not for everybody

though I agree. I think yeah one thing we agree

on six criminals is a great book I'm curious

to see what one transformers at 23 That depresses

me Is that 18 saga at 15 Sex criminals at five

lumberjanes at three In other words, it probably

should go in reverse order and we would have

been all set Well, I mean saga honest I is by

far the best out of all the well I haven't read

blubbered lumberjanes, but I can't really say

to that. I like sex criminals, but I Saw good

to me is the best thing in comics, right? Well

one of the best things in comics right now. So

that's I haven't read it yet So I can't speak

for that. Like I said if we had specified Which

transformers book it was whether it was the the

regular titled transformers Which was formerly

robots in disguise or what if it was transformers

more than meets the eye Which is written by James

Roberts and done by Alex Milne on art. I could

see why that would win but Yeah, I think that's

one thing we'll need to improve on next year

for nominations. Well, it was user voted. So

I know. But when we like when you had the the

form to fill out next year, we can put on there

for best storyline or whatever else or best best

returning. Whatever. If voting transformers write

title, write subtitle or something or other.

So. All right. What's the next award? Best new

series which includes cowl deadly class miss

Marvel Punisher and Rocket raccoon I Know you

love deadly class Dan. I do like that little

class rocket raccoon is pretty good, too And

that thing sold like a trillion copies so and

rocket raccoon is pretty popular. So I don't

know is that I'm not sure it won that But Punisher's

up there, too Well Rocket raccoon took it away

at 22 bucks It's a good book. It's I it's I love

Scottie Young his art his I love his style Especially

he's got a lot of great covers. So I do like

that book I like that in class a little bit more,

but they're very different types of stories So

I could you know, it's kind of young is a good

guy. So I think he's deserving of the award So

moving on, we have the best - Wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait. Where did, where did Cowell place?

I just have to know. Twelve. Wait, what? Middle.

So it's not dead last? No, it was in the middle.

Okay, thank god. This Marvel was 18, Cowell was

at 12, Punisher at 11, and Deadly Class at 4.

One of those for me, so, you know. Not surprising,

it's a, it's a, it's not the most - Doesn't have

the name recognition a lot of a lot of the other

categories there But I think it you know, maybe

don't get its own TV series because that's the

thing comics do now You never know so The next

one is the best continuing series We have Batman's

saga sex criminals. I can't say criminals correctly

tonight. I don't know why I say criminals Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles and Uncanny Avengers. I

need to get my ends. How much have you been drinking?

I've been drinking Coca -Cola. It's just great.

So yeah. Maybe Batman because it's just a name.

I feel like people are just going with the most

popular name. So probably keep it going for this

one, too. I hope not because Batman is such a

letdown last year. Oh God all that zero year

origin story crap that made no sense Oh, we're

gonna travel six years into the new 52s past

and then anyway Less ranting more reaction. Yeah,

I'm really hoping that turtles one it was At

29 turtles one. Yes I just I actually just started

reading. I just read the first five issues of

that series. So Of the idw series. Yeah What

do you think so far? It's pretty good. Enjoy

it. It's a good time. Um I like I said, I probably

I can't it's you know, so far. It's just the

origin So it's not like, you know anything a

little anything i'm I do like the art. I I don't

know. Hopefully it gets a little bit better I

don't hate it, but it's it's good. It's enjoyable.

It's probably Uh step up for most turtles all

the old turtle stuff. Um But i don't know i'm

kind of was hoping saga would win but yeah The

turtle's book changes artists every storyline,

right? Yeah, so the next time i'm trying to think

it was first I think the next time from where

you're reading maybe issue 13 Or 19 the art will

change somewhere around there. Yeah, it's I definitely

like the you know, how they're building the mythology

of it's been kind of cool so far So i'm looking

forward to read more of it Oh, yeah, and I will

say this coming out next month. I think it's

March 18th is the IDW IDW collection volume one

for turtles which holds the first 12 issues of

the series along with the four micro series issues

for the four turtles and they are placed in the

book in story order so it will make more sense

and granted the hardcover is 50 bucks, but if

you read them in story order It's much more enjoyable

than just reading issue to issue like if I if

I read the first five issues and then I went

and read the first four Micro series it kind

of breaks it up. But if you read it in story

order, it's so much better. Anyway Next category

sir. Next one is best artist which contains Chip

Sudarsky Fiona Staples Greg Capolo Scotty young

Stewart Eminen It's probably going to come down

to Young, Capolo, or Zdarsky. It was Capolo at

27. It's well deserved. I will say that's the

one thing about the Batman title that remains

consistent to this day when Capolo is doing issues.

His art is amazing. Yeah, I don't read Batman,

but... I do like MMM stuff like he's consistent.

He does so much and uh, Fiona Staple's art for

Saga is just it's gorgeous like the color she

uses is just Uh, it's nothing else quite out

there. Like it makes the book stand out. So I

know nothing I'm only familiar with one name.

So next category next category is best writer

Which is brian cavon? Greg Rucka? That's a G

.I. Joe name, I think. Jonathan Hickman, Kyle

Higgins, and Scott Snyder. You put the double

S in there, he's probably gonna win. So, the

winner is Scott Snyder at 19. Figures. Well,

what was second? Brian K. Vaughn. Wow, that's

that's interesting he break Yvonne his like his

career lasts like 20 or so years is like Up there

with anyone like his series after series has

been pretty phenomenal. So Pretty cool and Johnson

Hickman's actual no sludge either. I pretty much

liked anything. He's done. He's actually third.

Yeah, I Don't know the other guy. So Kyle was

last, right? Oh, okay was last Wow. That's strange

to me. Well, that's strange to me that Rucka

was last because Rucka has written on a lot of

good things. He did an amazing run on Punisher.

He wrote a bunch of Batman stuff back in the

day. Yeah. But don't remind that it's from last

year. So I don't know if he had a lot of stuff

going on last year. They're ready. What do we

got next? Next we got best overall publisher,

which is Dark Horse DC IDW image and Marvel Probably

DC or image. I Think Marvel and DC are gonna

duke it out They always do you both are wrong

Wow Number one is IDW. Ah Really? Yes At 20 which

it's pretty freaking close other than one in

here You guys are right in the sense that DC

and Marvel will duke it out at 17 They tied they

tied There is no better series Images at 16 and

Dark Horses at 3 probably because they just lost

Star Wars So what does IDW have besides the Turtles?

Do they have any original titles or is it just

licensed property? G .I. Joe, Star Trek. I think

it's a lot of licensed stuff for the most part.

It's mostly licensed stuff, but that's where

they excel though. It's really where they excel.

They have Transformers, Turtles, G .I. Joe. They

just started Edward Scissorhands this year. They

do a lot of the Cartoon Network stuff. Do they

have any original titles? ones that they've created

themselves. I am not sure. They have Star Trek.

They have, coming up in March, they'll have Jamming

the Holograms. Again, it's nothing original.

I know, but I'm just saying that - I'm not saying

it's a bad thing. I mean, like, I'm reading The

Turtles and it's good, but I, you know, doing

a licensed property is hard because, you know,

there's been so many crappy ones, but I'm less

likely to read a licensed comic just because

it's been burned so much and - I'm more impressed

when someone creates like an original property,

which I think image does really well, probably

better than anyone right now. And honestly, I

think they by far are the best company when it

comes to creative content at this moment. So

I mean, I don't read a lot of stuff to be fair,

so I really can't. But based upon my experience.

I'll say this IDW mainly is that like okay DC

and Marvel they have superhero books and they

have other books that are non superhero IDW is

that company where it is all licensed property

but it's really good license for like there's

only been a few from IDW that I've read that

I have not enjoyed and you know Again, they are

playing on us from the 80s You know what we grew

up with like I you know what like I've already

listed those I guarantee I know people are skeptical

about the new upcoming gem of the holograms comic

as far as the art style But I'm pretty much say

that that's probably gonna be a hit for IDW once

it launches just because of the fan base But

hey, and you're right Dan, image is, when it

comes to create our own content, image is king

when it comes to that. So, that concludes the

comics. We move into film. Oh boy. This is where

it gets a bit dicey. You're going to see a lot

of recurring themes. Just looking at the nominees,

I think you can kind of put two and two together

to see who won some of these awards. I can honestly

say it's not my fault. All right. Starting it

out, we have best performance. There's going

to be heads rolling here, I think. Andy Serkis

and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Chris Evans

and Winter Soldier. Chris Pratt in Guardians

of the Galaxy, Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler,

and Michael Keaton in Birdman. I like the fact

that we nominated Jake Gyllenhaal, but the Oscars

did not. So our fans are smarter than the Oscars.

Well, now you hear what they're doing now. Now

they're backpedaling on stuff that they voted

on six years ago. Oh, we should have we should

have given the nominee or the win to them. That's

that's just, you know, you'll do that. That's

that's what they do. They don't know. Well, it's

expected easy. Like they said money morning quarterback.

It's easy to do that. Yeah. So anyways, the winner

of this category is Chris Pratt. Yeah, he was

good. He was definitely a star making performance

in Guardians. So he's going to ever since then,

he's getting now he's getting cast in like every

movie ever. So Jurassic Park. A few others he

yeah possible Indiana Jones, you know, so his

career is only getting bigger and the funny thing

is Batman will be voicing him in Guardians of

the Galaxy's animated series Will Friedle got

the voice of Star -Lord in the new upcoming Guardians

animated cartoon I could see that that's a good

doesn't surprise me No, it doesn't surprise me.

Will Friedle always gets the lead role of whoever

it is in an animated series. Batman, Lion -O.

That's what I mean. I'm curious. Where did Jake

Gyllenhaal fall on that list? Actually, he was

in the middle at 17. Who was the last one? Chris

Evans. Yeah, I could see that. Really? Come on.

It's probably because it's similar to the same

performance he gave in last two films. He's good

in it, but you know, it's I think that was better

than His performance in some of the other movies

that he's appeared in of Captain America Related

material, but I don't think that it was anything.

I do I do agree with Chris Pratt winning and

Guardians only for the fact that yeah, it was

such a fresh kind of light -hearted tone To the

character and and to the you know, I think it

was the first fun character. We've had since

kind of like the early Tony Stark So it's it

was kind of refreshing again to kind of go back

to that Yeah, so definitely right I would I mean

Jake like it's weird comparing that to Jake Gyllenhaal,

which is such a different performance But that

that was my personal favorite performance of

the year So i'm kind of glad it got as many votes

as it did because I know it's not nearly The

behemoth that guardians of the galaxy was So

moving on to the next one. We have best animated

film which almost could have gone under the other

category, but it works here, too We have Big

Hero 6, How to Train Your Dragon 2, The Tale

of Princess... Cayuga. Cayuga. Thank you. The

Box Trolls and the Lego Movie. I'm hoping Big

Hero 6 won. It's the Lego Movie. It was a good

movie But it didn't win We have Lego movie nice

as the winner at 54 votes Very well, I would

say it is by far not by far. It's actually been

a really great year for animation But I would

say yeah, it is I would vote it as the best I

can make a film of the year I will say it was

almost a damn near blowout in this That's not

surprising The second was Big Hero 6 at 27, which

is half. Just put that into perspective. And

then How to Train Your Dragon was in the middle

at 7. Wow, I'm surprised How to Train Your Dragon

didn't get more. I am surprised that too, considering

it's getting a sequel. So they're doing How to

Train Your Dragon 3? Yes. Supposed to be a coming

-of -age. Well, they set it up for the for that

was the plan when they meet the second one So

I it it definitely deserves it. I mean I would

say compared to them something like Shrek 3 I'm

more excited for a how to train your dragon 3.

Yeah, I have to agree So if dragon 2 got 7 what

did box trolls get 1 or a half point? Yeah Yeah,

I like box trolls, but it's uh, it's definitely

that I would probably put it Last in that list.

I haven't seen Princess Kaga yet, but I've heard

amazing things about it. Yeah, you got one. Yeah

Surprising so moving on to the next category.

We had best comic book film Which Captain America

the Winter Soldier Guardians of the Galaxy Snowpiercer

the amazing spider -man 2 and x -men days of

future past I did not know that snow piercer

was a comic Space up a French graphic novel ah

that explains a lot the movie was good But it's

say it's either gonna well, it's probably gonna

be guardians, but I kind of hope it's x -men

You would be right in the first guess and wrong

Yeah, your hopes have been smashed The Guardians

destroyed it at 42, followed by Cap, too, at

30. X -Men Days of Future Past at 13, Snowpiercer

at 4, and Amazing Spider -Man at 3. I can't believe

X -Men only got 13. That's crazy. It's a strong

year for comic book movies. I like Guardians,

but I think Cap is a more complete movie than

Guardians. Voted for cap, but yeah, I can understand

the love of Guardians. It's got a lot going for

it Yeah, I voted cap too for best comic book

film just because it was just I thought it was

better in that sense like not saying I didn't

like Guardians because I did but it's I just

I liked the overall package better Mm -hmm. I

agree. I think it it has I think Guardians biggest

element is a narrative where captain I I wouldn't

say it has no weak spots, but it's more of a,

you know, it has great action, great character

development. It pushes the universe forward a

little bit ways, but I mean, Guardians, it definitely

has that fresh take and it has a great sense

of humor and it's art, it's production design

and art design are phenomenal. So definitely

I can understand why it's such a popular movie.

So the winner here is... Obviously Guardians

of the Galaxy. So alrighty. So what do we got

next? Best overall film which has Birdman, Guardians

of the Galaxy, Captain America 2, Interstellar,

and Snowpiercer. I think we can, you know, read

the tea leaves and figure out which one this

is gonna be. Yeah. Guardians hands down. Again,

you are correct. At 43 votes, Guardians won this

category. Followed by Cap2 at 23, Birdman at

14, Interstellar at 8, and Snowpiercer at 4.

Whoa, wait a minute here. I know now Optimus

Solo is going to be ravaging us in the comments

or doing his rant in the comments about Birdman

getting more votes than Snowpiercer. That doesn't

surprise me, but I'm more surprised that it got

more votes than Interstellar because I know like

Nolan has this I I know understand why it wasn't

as unanimously accepted as most Nolan movies

are but I'm I'm surprised it out did that one,

but hey It's probably gonna be winning the Academy

Award on Sunday. So No surprise. Yeah. All right.

What do we got up next? We got next is best special

effects Again we have some returning entries

Captain America 2 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,

Guardians of the Galaxy, Interstellar, and X

-Men Days of Future Past. I will say some of

these are kind of neck and neck. This one, I

think there's room for an upset because I do

think, I think Dawn should win by far, but maybe

I could see Guardians pulling it out because

it's, you know, keep it going. Yeah, I'd agree

with that, but I'd also throw x -men in there

Maybe just for the time in a bottle sequence

with Quicksilver. That's true. It's good point.

That was a good part of the movie so We get down

to the nitty -gritty here it is again Guardians

of the Galaxy Yeah I do like its look I do love

its bright colors and it's like use of like nebula

to kind of design its world. So but I think if

you look at Achievement wise when it comes to

special effects, there's a dawn of the planet

apes is a More impressive achievement. I mean

when your entire When half or not 80 % of your

cast is CGI creations and you can make it work

I think that's a little bit more more impressive

to me Well Yeah, it was kind of surprising anyway.

But yeah, it was followed closely by Interstellar

at 33. It was so close. I was actually rooting

for something to beat Guardians. Interstellar

beat Planet of the Apes? There's something wrong

with that. Planet of the Apes was at 19. Cap

2 was at 11. X -Men was at 8 the thing is I think

cap 2 should have been the bottom one here because

there's not as much special effects and that

is there is everything else that we've shown

Right. Yeah, I agree. I mean interstellar its

special effects are I mean that's probably one

of the best thing and that's going for it is

it's it's it's a special effects are really good

too, so I like so I'm not too surprised but it

yeah, that's kind of kind of crazy that beat

the on maybe That's interesting at least Matthew

McConaughey wasn't driving for the Lincoln in

the movie No, he was driving. He's driving a

pickup. Yep. It wasn't a Lincoln I am referencing

the bad Jim Carrey parody of and he was not squishing

boogers So yes and deciding whether he was gonna

eat him I did like the celebrity Jeopardy clip

on SNL where he showed up on on there and did

his own voiceover and everything That was a good

time. That was great so Moving on, we have Best

Drama. This is the first time that we don't see

Guardians or Captues show up. No, they couldn't

fit in this category. Because they're not dramas,

technically. I don't know. But anyways, we have

Birdman, Boyhood, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler and

Whiplash. All films except for one I have not

seen. They're all good. Like them all Boyhood

is probably my favorite out of all of them and

then not fault very closely that well nightcrawlers

really good too and Whiplash is a good time.

I yeah, they're all pretty strong I would probably

rank Fox catcher as the weakest of the bunch,

but I'm curious to hear who won Birdman yeah,

it's not surprising. It's not 37 You know, it's

if you think about the geek cast radio crowd

It makes sense why birdman would win I think

maybe even people who didn't see it Just thought

it was a comic book movie and just brought it

out of the habit Have you seen birdman? That's

the other one i've watched I didn't particularly

care for it, but I gave it a shot I would assume

you and Mike would not like Birdman. I have not

seen any of these films in this category, hence

why I haven't said anything. I tried watching

it with my wife. She's like, this isn't very

good. It's definitely an acquired taste. Anyhow,

any other comments before we move on? No. What

was second? Nightcrawler. Or no, not Nightcrawler.

Whiplash, sorry. Oh, really? That's surprising.

That was at 19. Yeah. I think it helps the fact

that Birdman was out a little bit. Well, I think

that just came out on DVD. Very cool. So, best

comedy? It's between 22 Jump Street, Horrible

Bosses 2, The Neighbors, The Grand Budapest Hotel,

and The Trip to Italy. Probably 22 Jump Street

or Neighbors Yeah Well, your first guess was

correct 22 Jump Street took it away at 38 votes

The lowest was horrible bosses too Really? Which

I was quite surprised about What was was Neighbors

second? Neighbors was actually 10 Grand Budapest

Hotel was 15 and trip to italy was also 10. So

it was kind of tied for the middle I'm surprised

trip to italy got that many votes. That's kind

of crazy to me. But uh, yeah, I like 22 jump

street. It's definitely uh that That franchise

is a lot better than it should be. Uh, I thought

those movies should be awful, but chris lord

and whatnot. They've done a good job of kind

of making Interesting satire about uh action

comedy. It's good to see us getting good action

comedies again I'm glad that Grand Budapest Hotel

did as well as it did because that that to me

was the funniest movie of last year, but But

yeah, I mean it was it was pretty interesting.

Like I said seeing what what won Through through

that anyway I personally liked horrible bosses

too, but I also like 22 jump Street because it

keeps poking fun at itself Not taking itself

seriously, but it gets funnier because it's not

trying hard To do what it's trying to do. Yeah,

that was my like I like the first one better

because I thought it's a little bit more interesting

things to say especially regarding like the youth

culture of today The jokes were so much better

in the second one. I Don't know in some areas

the issue I had I felt it was a little bit Like

you mentioned with like poking fun at being a

sequel. I thought those jokes were a little bit

too on the nose and too repetitive where I think

the There's more variety last time. I don't disagree

that there's sharp jokes in it. I do think it's

funny, but uh I haven't seen horrible bosses

too though. So I can't really comment on that

one. I didn't really like the first horrible

bosses though. I thought it was Trying to go

for dark humor, but didn't have any edge to it.

So this one definitely had more of that in there

All right, that's good to hear but uh, I apparently

don't have a funny bone in my body because I

don't think i've seen any of these Wow, you're

just sad strange little man. Yeah, I don't think

he'd like any of them honestly But maybe that's

bosses too. I don't know. Yeah, he might best

sci -fi movie We see the return of two or three

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Godzilla Guardians

of the Galaxy interstellar and under the skin

Kevin's favorite movie I can tell you right now.

I didn't win. I There'd be no way in hell. It

would win now with the gatecaps ready across

it is tied with one that it's surprising it got

so low votes, but It's guardians that won hands

down Yeah Yeah 52 votes for Guardians of the

Galaxy followed closely by interstellar at 21

Which is half or under half and then you've done

at the Planet of the Apes at 11 Godzilla's tied

at 3 with undead skin Yeah, I could see that

I could understand why that would happen Already

what's last the action adventure? Yes This one

is the first time Guardians doesn't show up at

the same time Captain America shows up Which

is actually nice. That's the only reason Captain

America is going to win. So wait a second here.

You just told us Cap is going to win without

even giving us the nominees. I did that on purpose.

Because the others are so low in this one, it's

almost a blowout. Expendables 3 has four votes.

John Wick has 14. The Hunger Games has 10, and

The Raid 2 has 7. Captain America has 60. That's

a beat down. Not too surprising. The Raid 2,

if you don't like martial arts films or subtitles,

you're not going to like that. John Wick, I think,

it was... Maybe went under the radar for a little

bit Hunger Games, I'm surprised it did not do

better. Maybe people will don't consider it an

action movie though. Maybe that's why and Especially

the last one had very little action and then

I don't forget the other one that was nominated

But yeah, I'm glad Captain America won something

because I didn't think it deserves at least one

award Yeah, I I was kind of sad I didn't win

more than one but I'm glad at least it was represented

somewhere So I am definitely glad to see that

that happened But yeah, we're done with the film

and we're moving into the GCR in part So the

the the content that has to do with original

stuff So, yes, the core podcasts are as follows.

Altered Geek, Geekcast Radio, Talking in Circles,

The Pull Bag, and Weekend at the Movies. I would

assume Altered Geek or Weekend at the Movies.

I don't even know if Weekend at the Movies should

even be eligible considering... Sorry, Kevin.

I didn't mean to do that. Liar. So anyways, so

that I'm not throwing any more buses at people

Geekcast radio one Interesting with 35 votes

That's that's pretty interesting because we don't

get a lot of We don't get a lot of feedback for

you. Yes radio. Honestly, it's because it's so

flawless. It doesn't need it I'm joking. That's

probably true, actually, but, you know. All right.

Yeah, that was so funny. Followed closely by

Talking in Circles at 19, Altered Geek at 17,

The Pullback at 11, and Weekend at the Movies

at 9. So, yeah, I was kind of surprised at how

that came down. I could see people just voting

Geek Hearts Radio, though, thinking it's just

a, like, A collection of all of them like I'll

just feel for getting cash radio because that's

the entire network. So that could be I Don't

know but uh review good I guess it makes sense

since it's at least one that's like everyone's

been on and the network for the most part. So

Yeah, that makes sense. And we've had the awards

or not the awards. We haven't had the awards

We've had some of the specials. We've had the

the highlights of all the different syndicated

partners and then we've had the the top 100s

on there, so I can see that. Plus the interviews

like Dynamic Music Partners and Mad Mel Madigan

and Stan Bush and Johnson and Virginia. Yeah,

but some of those fall under other categories,

too. So that's right. Well, I'm looking at them

in the GCR category. Either way, just before

you move on, I just want to say GCR for 2014

began the year with episode 58 2014 geek films.

And obviously, it ended the year with the Year

in Review Show for 2014. So we've had a lot of

interesting content on GCR. I'm actually surprised

that Talking in Circles didn't win because Talking

in Circles, that's the show that gets all the

comments. Well, the thing is, is Talking in Circles,

too, also gets the highest views on the website.

So why did you vote for us then? I voted for

me, so... I'm biased. I voted for myself. Which

one of you? Because there's like three of you

on the podcast, right? I mean, Altered Geek or

Geek Cast Radio? I voted for Altered Geek. I

was very biased. I voted for the pullback and

that didn't get any votes, so... It's still beat

me out of movies Thank God, I mean I put two

and a half years of content into it. I'm sorry

Kevin Maybe this maybe this will just motivate

Kevin for next year's awards Show like I mean

I can't say they are recording one episode as

we're doing this so you should see right So don't

throw them under the bus too hard Only the first

bus So review shows is next. And we have two

retired shows in this category as well, but they

were active. All Things Transformers from the

Command Center, Future Imperfect, Pixels in the

Animation, and Powers of Grayskull. I'd have

to say ATTF. It's the longest -running show for

the network. Although it does have the most subscriptions

out of all of those, it did not win. Sorry. It's

fine. I'll survive. So, any guesses on the winner?

I have no idea. Okay. It was Powers of Grayskull

at 24. All right, all 24 of you people that voted

go over to iTunes and leave us iTunes reviews

We've been like that this show is so fun to do

but at this point in the podcast Lifespan since

we've kind of changed the format around as far

as it's originally That show was going that series

was going to have four individual podcasts because

we're in total We're reviewing all four Masters

of the universe cartoons Filmation he managed

Shira the new adventures and the two thousand

two series of masters universe uh... now that

we're not doing that it's just going to be one

feed one entire show hundred twenty five episodes

long uh... this isn't an advertisement no it

isn't and just saying that since the format has

changed i am so dying to get to the sheer cartoons

as i'm so sick of watching Filmation He -Man

at this point. It feels like I've been reviewing

Filmation He -Man for three years. Oh boy. But

yay, Powers of Grayskull won! And it was followed

second by Alt -Things Transformers at 16, from

the Command Center at 15, Pixels and the Animation

at 15, Future Imperfect at 6. I don't care, I

still got on the board three times. So, moving

on to our syndicated partners. I am on none of

these. Geek Scholars Movie News, Markhu42's Hooniverse,

Punisher Body Count, Star Joe's, and What's On

Joe Mind. I will say last year, Markhu42's Hooniverse

blew away everybody else, but I think they blew

their wad on the nominees section. Not on the

actual voting Yeah, so they got on the ballot

they didn't win oh Wow Defending champions are

defeated ladies and gentlemen Yep, sadly it happened

and the globe goes to what's on Joe mind really

yes Interesting Yep, they won with 30 votes,

followed by Geek Scholars at 16, Starjoes at

15, Markhu at 14, and Punisher at 13. Man, Dan

and Jake gotta step up next year. Well, we've

got in session film now, so I feel sorry for

anybody else. Wow. Yeah. So any other comments

on that? No, I don't I mean interesting mark

who 42 didn't win considering last year So but

yeah, I mean they're all good shows I mean, that's

the good thing if you don't listen to them, I

would definitely about going out and checking

them out Congrats to Gary Mike Justin and Chuck

All right, so moving on we have our newest category

of the non GC RN content Will say that this was

quite an interesting stage because I had no idea

when the blue hell was going on the entire time

Meaning it changed consistently through the entire

voting process I didn't know what was going to

happen what wasn't going to happen who was going

to be blown away What I mean, it was just constant

flux So getting into the first subcategory of

this we have favorite review podcast such video

podcast and we have the nominees how did this

get made and session film simplistic reviews

the arkham sessions and the greatest movie ever

podcast i'm gonna say in session one but i'm

hoping the arkham sessions did what are your

thoughts dan Well, I have not listened to Arkham

or the greatest movie one, but I I can't say

which one I want the one because I feel like

that'd be like picking your favorite kid because

I'm a big fan of both simplistic and in -session

film So if either of those when would be happy

and I do love how does this get made? That's

one of my favorite podcasts, which is especially

their live episodes We talked a lot about it

on talking circles, but it's a good it's a good

time. Just cut them in thirds So We have this

it's pretty close in this one. We have in session

film winning at 25 Nice well deserved JD Durant

is like one of the hardest men working in podcasting

today. So he definitely deserves the award Followed

second by How did this get made I could see that

that's good Third the Arkham Sessions fourth

simplistic reviews and fifth the greatest movie

ever podcast I Was I was kind of pulling a little

bit for simplistic considering the awesome video

they did so I know they may have not have won

this category But I think they win something.

I don't know. Oh the creativity alone was just

was just Stunning I don't even know like how

It was just impressive what they did. Yeah So

I mean it's a good podcast too. So it's if you

like you cast radio stuff You will definitely

like simplistic review stuff because they kind

of cover similar content So I got that kind of

vibe when I listen to their watch their video

But I have not actually had a chance to really

catch up on any podcast And I would say in session

film is very like if you're into like film talk

It's one of the one of the better film podcasts

out there. So I can't speak to the other ones.

I have not seen them. But yeah, I definitely

think it in session film deserves it and Congrats

to them and you know, all the people that were

nominated. I will say about the Arkham Sessions.

It's Brian Ward from Shout Factory and dr. Andrea

Letamendi. She is a Psychologist psychotherapist.

I don't know her exact title. They basically

go through one episode of Batman the Animated

Series per podcast and they look at it psychologically

and she approaches it from a clinical standpoint.

So basically she and Brian do everything Steve

and I didn't do on Legends of the Dark Knight

and they approach it more of like, because Brian

will ask her for certain episodes or certain

villains, okay, if this part, like if Two -Face

had these, you know, these... Dissociative identity

disorders if someone in real life, you know one

of your patients, how would you treat that? So

it is a very good fun interesting show and I

will say Arkham They are probably the most unique

Batman the animated series review show I've ever

heard But you know grats to end session Yeah

Yep, I I definitely agree So uh... moving on

to the next category we have favorite podcast

slash video podcast and the nominees earth two

dash net or at earth dash two dot net the show

i know mike was part of the reason uh... married

to the games nerdist serial and wtf with mark

marion I stopped listening to Nerdist a year

and a half ago. I listen to Nerdist here and

there, depending on who's on. I tend to listen

mostly to the Hostful episodes, but the ETF with

Mark Maron is awesome. If you like comedy, that

is. a great show to listen to in especially they

they did like this link ranking of the best podcast

episodes ever and That his episode with Louis

CK was ranked number one Deservingly so and they

just re -aired it not too long ago. And it's

if you at all like stand -up comedy It's a must

listen and I know cereal was like the biggest

podcast ever this year so much so that there

was an SNL parody So i'm curious to see who won

that because I know that's a variety of different

fan bases compared to that of keycast radio Uh,

well I will say that nerdist won Yeah, I could

definitely see that at 40 What was second place?

Uh wtf at 19 Yeah, nervous has I mean, it's got

its fandom. It's got a huge following and Chris

Hardwick is like everywhere on TV He's got like

18 television shows. I know he's got the the

at midnight. He's got the walking dead. You're

talking dead. I mean But I I'm not a I'm not

a huge nerdist fan I I more so have listened

to a couple of the podcasts in the past based

on the voice actor or the actor that's been on

and then I've I Mostly just watch nerdist news

and that's it I don't really watch anything from

Nerdist, other Nerdist news and maybe some of

their original shorts that come out, but I don't

really pay any attention to them other than that.

I don't know. Same here. I don't know. I like

Nerdist a lot. I think it's that podcast is responsible

for a great deal for increasing the popularity

of podcasts. So and I think it, you know, the

guests that he gets and his interview style is

quite good. I guess I tend to enjoy it mostly

when the Jonah Ray Matt Matt Myra and him are

together and doesn't happen as much anymore So

I do kind of miss that but uh, yeah, I used to

listen to every episode But now it's hard to

keep up with it. So I tend to Depending on the

guest so I tend to stick away, you know If I

knew the person I'm interested in it like he

had a pretty good episode recently with Jeff

Bridges Because he's always an interesting guy

to hear talk I'll say about Nerdist, you know,

congratulations, but at the same time, one of

the reasons why I stopped listening, I know I'm

someone that repeats stories, but I try not to

repeat them every single podcast episode I do.

And that was the thing I noticed with Chris Hardwick

is it doesn't matter what guest he has on, almost

every single episode I listened to a year and

a half ago, he basically told at least one of

the same stories he told in the previous podcast

episode, and I just couldn't listen to it anymore.

I'm interested because I don't really notice

that and I've listened to and I started listening

to it. Well, it's It's mainly well, I started

listening to it. I don't know what episode number

it was, but it was um The Rob Paulson and Maurice

LaMarche interview we did. Yeah Like I said,

it was about a year and a half ago or so or something

like that I forget and it's basically when he's

talking to people about comedy His opinion is

his opinion. That's all well fine and good But

when you say the same thing about comedy and

you add nothing new to the conversation every

single episode Yeah, i'm gone So I don't know.

I don't notice that I would say like you would

we would be as guilty of that as anyone Not every

single episode. Yes, we I am very I'll I admit

that Mike is very guilty Shut the hell up. I

did it in this episode No, I don't think so.

I'm pretty sure you did Yeah, well with powers

of grayskull. Yeah, but I do that all the time

with all the shows I do but that's like show

specific but like All right, what's the next

category we're throwing you around in the bus

Mike Nobody can see the middle finger. I'm giving

both of them. It's a magic All we hear is a sad

strange little man You don't have our pity though.

Favorite video podcast network? In the nominees,

earth -2 .net, again Mike, Earwolf, I don't know

if they spelled it wrong. Earwolf. Yeah, okay.

A lot of people spelled it wrong, I guess. Earwolf.

Yeah, that's where Squire Brothers and... Comedy

bang bang. I think you're on there and a few

others podcast one screen junkies and Nerdist

Probably gonna say nerds again, huh? It's gonna

come down to screen junkies and Nerdist. I Was

actually hoping one would win where one didn't

and so on but anyways The winner is Nerdist at

33 They do go ahead. Oh you go ahead They do

have a pretty strong network of different shows

like indoor kids and uh make uh making getting

weird with uh Oh, I forget the name of the dude,

but uh, yeah, they have a pretty strong network

overall chewing It's pretty funny. So I could

see why there's a variety of like shows that

they have I kind of some of their shows I watch

are like the and science or whatever. Uh See,

I don't I don't really watch any online content

I don't I find YouTube shows used to be often

pretty awful so well I typically usually watch

them when I'm editing or I'm doing something

on my computer, but One I'm at home because I

have two monitors or I'll watch them in one screen

while I'm playing a game in the other It's more

so background noise, and I kind of pay attention

to some of it, but um I also watch a lot of it

when I'm at work and I have a small window open

with that While I'm maybe filing paperwork and

doing stuff. So it's again background noise,

but I kind of pay attention to it So I kind of

like some of their video stuff it just depends

I'm more of a screen junkies fan. What is screen

junkies? They do the honest trailers Oh, yeah

Which is the number one reason why I started

following them and then they I watch all they're

like They have some geek fights on Sundays, which

is like a podcast But it's a video version and

it is pretty freakin hilarious the guests that

they get out and they argue for an hour It's

it's actually and they come up with really good

reasons and in their guys on there They're like

me like Mike like you like Kevin. I mean, it's

so sitting there watching this I'm imagining

us arguing about the same crap and coming out

with the same outcome and and they have like

a guy that that shares it and and basically Has

to weigh the options of the the reasonings that

people gave On movies like one of them they did

recently had a They were arguing one guy was

arguing why the Hobbit was crap Yeah, well We're

comparing it to so they're comparing it to a

different film that came out around the same

time or something and they were saying Because

this guy was just saying it sucked But he really

wasn't giving any actual explanation why it sucked.

He just was kind of reiterating it that it sucked

In as many different terms as he could without

actually describing why that's so most online

criticism So the other people were just ripping

him apart on it like, you know So exactly why

is this movie bad? So it was it was it was fun

to watch anyway A lot of their stuff's kind of

like that That's probably why I enjoy them so

much. It's like a long wars episode But yeah,

so I enjoy them they got 17 votes your wolf got

18 Podcast one got 12 and earth -2 got five Moving

on to our I believe it's second to the last category

we have favorite YouTube channel and Then there

were four nominees for this one and for the next

one I have to say there were not five Yeah, it

was hard narrowing it down, I think. So anyways,

the nominees were The Warp Zone, Geeks Not Nerds,

Josh Lewis Reviews, and Optibotomus. And your

thoughts? Yeah, I have no idea. I don't know

what any of them are. Don't know and I told Paul

about this. I don't even know if he actually

promoted it, so I'm not even sure He tends not

to pay attention to most stuff that he's mentioned

in But I don't know who won um I'm Happy about

the winner of this one the warp zone At 30 votes

and these guys do if you're unfamiliar with them

they do original videos a lot of the time they

do acapella of TV show theme songs like you know

Darkwing Duck or Transformers and they have the

six of these guys and in the wind like these

little separate windows kind of like Brady Bunch

style doing like they're part of the acapella

thing doing the musical instruments and then

they also do various skits they do like pop culture

song parodies but using like video games or Game

of Thrones or The Hobbit or just whatever as

like the they completely redo the video and the

song so it's related to whatever that topic is

and I honestly think it's pretty good and so

much so that when I play games I have their playlist

on loop on the other screen For the music part

and in their skits are actually really good,

you know They did the whole Star Wars lightsaber

explanation and everything on there recently

and among other things But yeah, there's just

ton of good stuff over there to watch And then

Optibotamus was number two at 28 Cool Which those

are the only two that I know about this entire

round section right here Geeks not nerds got

18 and Josh Lewis reviews got four. I've never

heard of him I have no idea. I have yeah Octobonimus

I know but that's because he's had previous affiliation

with us. Yeah, I don't I'm off Octobonimus is

pretty much a toy reviewer. He's he's one of

the iconic toy reviews on YouTube. He's in the

same league as like Pixel Dan and Sean Long and

that kind of thing. Speaking French to me. Okay,

but I'm telling the audience, I'm telling the

listeners, you know, in case any of them don't

know. But anyway, next category. The final category,

which I was surprised by the winnings in this

one. Favorite YouTube series. We have epic rap

battles of history Honest trailers dirtest bowling

Okay. Now, wait a minute here. Hold on. It's

Chris Hardwick's all -star celebrity bowling

is what it's actually called Yeah, well the the

fan is bowling. Okay. Well, I'm just saying what

the actual title of I'm just calling it by whatever

they put in the camera People are like what the

hell is this there were there are a few that

were like Chris Hardwick's and there was a few

that were Nerdist It was just easier to put in

artists. I think people can understand He owns

it and then there's toy world order Gonna assume

it's nervous maybe I don't know Probably so it

was almost a TV show until they fell through

That fell through really? When did they say that?

I don't know, a couple months ago. Oh, because

the last news article I found on Google was like

from last year when they said it was coming.

AMC decided to move away from like reality TV

shows and focus more on good shows. Good. Less

crap, more good stuff. That's actually written.

Toy World Order 1. Wow. I was quite upset. Honest

trailers oh yeah, because I'm sorry I I don't

have any ill will against toy world order, but

I think the honest trailers do the geek movie

universe a fan service that is well deserved

Because they beat the shit out of movies that

are actually bad Yes, yeah mighty with Honest

trailers actually I don't mind them nearly as

much as like everything that's wrong with new

ones that are I think are just awful um, I you

know, I think our trailers are at least funny,

but I feel like it's systemic of the each the

lack of ability to actually critique stuff becomes

a geek culture and it's nitpicking and not an

actual discussion so I tend to not like Those

type of things because it's it's generic criticism

Like in you building yourself up by tearing so

much someone else is down So I tend not to like

Honest trailers or everything you're wrong with

I think honest trailers at least it's funny and

it won't recognize when They too can are having

difficulty even making fun of something like

with our guardian of the galaxy Honest trailer,

which was pretty good. But I don't know I I just

I take I like real movie criticism and I feel

like stuff like that just gets promotes more

so the generic Conversations that tend to happen

over nitpicks and things that aren't that important.

Well, I will say that the light like they're

screen junkies Geek fights or whatever they they

actually discuss what's wrong with it and argue

it back and forth. Whereas the honest trailers

is It's not it's not it's not a design to be

movie criticism. It's designed to be more Emetic

and whatnot, which is fine. My issue more so

is the way that people then use it as like like

as Ammunition for real or evidence that a movie

isn't good. It's like just watch the honest trailer

You'll see how bad the movie is, which I don't

think is true. I I use them as ammunition as

well I will say that because I'm not gonna say

I don't But The way I see it is is all the movies

that actually deserve the criticism Are the ones

they made the trailer for? Yeah, um, for instance

dumb and dumber two They just did that Yeah,

I mean we agree with it and then like all the

transformers films Um, yeah, I mean, I don't

i'm not saying I think they're they're their

issues are wrong Per se and yeah, you can make

fun of them. My number two is not it's not that

hard. Uh, so I just like I don't disagree that

the stuff they say is incorrect. I just think

it it's usually paper -thin arguments It's just

like this the obvious things I like if I'm gonna

have a discussion about a movie I'd rather listen

to something like film spotting or like in session

film and I think it's a good piece of entertainment

but I don't think people should look at it as

a piece of evidence of the quality of a movie

even if it is picking on something like Twilight

or something like that because it's I mean they

kind of I'm not saying they're bad. I just saying

that I think people misuse them and tend to I

Don't know I wouldn't more so what you're saying

is don't use it as your sole Informative place

for the film if you're going there for humor.

That's yeah If you're going if you're going to

have a good laugh or have fun or you know, make

fun of a movie That's fine. I think that's good.

Great. You know, they've they're certainly really

funny people and their videos are well put together

But my issue is more so not with them, but people

who try to say, like, hey, I want to tell you

a movie's bad, and I'm going to tell you that

by showing you the honest trailer, which happens

way too much. Like, I use them for the fact that

I usually have the same nitpicks about the films,

but it depends on the film. Like, some of them

I don't care. Yeah, I mean. It's a laugh. But

like the Star Trek films, I use those as ammunition.

Like, for a movie like that. Those are the only

two that I actually use as ammunition. Yeah,

like a movie like Dumb and Dumber too. You're

not gonna have a really just get this There's

not much to talk about besides in the fix. Well,

yeah, so But yeah, I mean, I definitely could

I wouldn't be upset if they won but What what

is Toy World Order? Toy World Order comes from

the minds of Jason DeVall and Dave Draper. They

did have two other members when they first started.

It came out of Jason and Dave leaving popculturenetwork

.com and it's basically them talking about toys

and doing video reviews of toys and doing little

skits and stuff like that. It's really funny.

The funniest part about it is Jason Duvall has

this puppet that Pixel Dan had given him... Jason

Duvall and Pixel Dan earlier are childhood friends.

So they grew up together and Dan had given him,

I think, this gray muppet -looking puppet years

and years and years ago. So one point when they

were doing a show together a few years ago called

That New Toy Smell... Jason brought the puppet

in and that's how that kind of started and it

kind of progressed now Dave Draper operates and

does the voice of the puppet and the puppet interacts

with Jason it's easily the best non Hollywood

special effects show because pretty much you

see the puppet and you see Jason you never see

where Dave is I mean, obviously you can look

at the video and figure out where he is, but

you never actually see Dave's hand or anything

like that. And it's really, really cool and funny.

I'll have to send you a couple of links specifically

with the puppet videos, Dan, so you can check

it out. But they do toy reviews. They do a weekly

podcast called Dave and Deval's Toys and Collectibles.

And they just, you know, talk about toys and

the art of toys and toy collecting and going

to auctions and that kind of stuff. It's really

funny, funny and amazing stuff. It really is.

And they've built up a huge fan base. Cool. So,

yeah. Yeah. Is that it? Yeah, actually. As surprising

as that is, that's it. So what did you guys think

overall? Well, I think it definitely, you saw

a lot of trends. You can definitely tell what

people are interested in when it comes to gas

radio, a lot of Game of Thrones and Guardians

of the Galaxy, it seems, and Arrow. You think?

A little bit. Yeah, I mean, it was, I think I

always hope for more diversity when it comes

to this type of stuff, but you can kind of see

why and, you know. We were just going based upon

what the fan said. So it's kind of cool knowing

that it was all them and we were just the we

were just the messengers here Yep, we were we

were the ones that spit out the info and kind

of commented But I am definitely looking forward

to seeing the comments on the website. Oh Yeah,

I am definitely looking forward to seeing that

and seeing what kind of reactions there are and

and seeing What people think what people think

should have won what they think shouldn't have

won what they think should have shown up it's

just Just in general just looking forward to

seeing the comments because I'd like to have

an actual discussion on there definitely Steve

let me ask you. Do you have the overall number

of votes total? for everything um Because I'm

curious how many total people we got to actually

vote all together No, I don't. Nope, I don't

have the total. Dang. All right. So yeah, that's

the second annual GCN Awards. We're obviously

going to have the third annual one next year.

As Steve said, it's going to be interesting to

see what people say in the comments on this episode

post. Coming up on GCR, I'm not sure what we're

gonna do. I have a few ideas. Optimus Solo has

a few ideas. We're gonna mix them in. I will

say right now, coming up this summer, episode

90 to 96 will be the GCRN Top 100 Favorite Video

Games Countdown. So that's coming up this summer.

Which means we the back end of that need to get

going But anyway, that's what's coming up this

summer for GCR in between that we I'm thinking

of doing a couple of wrestling episodes here

and there I'm thinking of doing a couple of Probably

different stuff well, yeah, but I'm thinking

Wrestling we may do us another separate sports

section. We may do We might do a couple of top

tens here and there. I'm not sure just yet, but

all that's coming up on ye cast radio Dan where

can the people interact with you online? Oh,

well, I'm at on Twitter at movie revolt and you

know We have some stuff coming up with talking

in circles and I would say that there is I know

Kevin and I and Him and his crew as well have

a lot coming out for weekend at the movies this

year a lot of different things planned list wise

and There's a lot of things already in the works

that I've already come out with the professional

film League of things I can't think of top of

my head PCFL or whatever. But yeah, there's a

lot coming out there should be a lot more content

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