2015 Year in Review

Hi, this is Christy Marks, creator of Gem and

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the GeekCast Radio Network. Hello and welcome

to geek cast radio episode 90. This is the GCR

n's 2015 year in review and Ladies and gentlemen,

it's just the dynamic duo this year. There's

no There's no party. No third leg. No fourth

leg There's there's no New Year's Eve party.

It's just a bunch of sad drunks here Yeah, I

am of course TFT Mike joining me is Steve Megatron.

Hello I'm just playing. I figured you were gonna,

I figured you were gonna pull up the Pat Butchram.

Yeah, I, if I could channel that right now, like,

that's great. I had the voice, now it's gone.

Yup. So we are here once again to recap 2015

for the Network for Geekery for what we found

interesting, fun, funny, epic failure or epic

awesomeness, whatever you want to call it. It's

been an interesting year for GCRN, hasn't it?

We've had a year. Well. Yeah, I'd say so. I mean,

quite a bit's happened. We've done a lot of events

with more to come and obviously those will be

teased later. The network has started growing

again considering last year was kind of in some

areas stagnant. Yeah, a lot of things changed

this year. A lot of things are going to be changing

next year as well. as you said we will tease

those at the at the end but it's just one of

those things where I for me this year has been

well honestly you're well huh you're well being

no no honestly this year has just been overwhelming

with just sheer awfulness honestly I know on

Facebook and Twitter and everywhere else, I see

sometimes people are like, 2015, the year that

offended everyone. And yet, nobody cared. For

me, it's ... You know this. We've been friends

for hell, almost seven, eight years now at this

point. We've been running the podcast network.

It'll be seven years next June. Hate change.

I don't mean like, you know, oh Michael chicken

Michael chickless is no longer be gonna be Ben

Grimm and no not that kind of not not movie cast

changes all those do suck but major changes in

my life and sadly They really major change in

my life pretty much altered the rest of my life

at this point and my mom had passed away this

year, so And you know how I work. I will do the

podcasting thing nine months out of the year,

usually by Halloween. I'm like, OK, I'm on big.

I'm going to cut back seriously. I'm not going

to do as content. And by that time of year, you're

you're broken. Well, you had the blue screen

and you shut down for the year. Well, OK, well,

we'll get to that in a second. I'm saying in

general, most years like last year or 2013. or

eat, you know, the last six years, the last five

years of the network, I, you know, I work my

ass off doing all this content and everything

else. I, you know, I do 10 to 20 different podcasts

at a time. And I'm not complaining about doing

those. I'm just saying that's, that's what I

do. And it's one of those things where for me.

By Halloween Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm

like, okay, I'm gonna cut back I'm gonna put

out a few things gonna do a few special things

over the holidays, but I'm not gonna do as much

kind well this year that all went to shit because

my mom passed away in May and I was like, okay

Well, I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do

now because I had roommates for five months for

the last well living in the new place now for

four months, but between May and September, so

it's roughly about four months. It's just one

of those things where I had roommates and it

was always hard trying to get recordings done

and all this and all that, so I'm like, okay,

well, I'm just gonna try to get as many interviews

as I can with as many awesome people as I can

and just, you know. work on that and I started

working on that and started cutting back on a

lot of things. A lot of things took a back seat.

We didn't start the She -Ra era of Powers of

Grayskull when I really wanted it to. I was,

even though the production was done on it, I

wasn't really editing Showtime Synergy, even

though I didn't have to record it anymore. I

just had to edit it and throw it up, but I just,

I don't know, I just, you know. It's just one

of those things so that was part of my year this

year On the upside you had your second child

yes Second child second dog because unfortunately

my my longtime buddy Sadie Beagle that we had

for seven years to the day when she passed She

was around when I started podcasting for the

most part. She was the dog that was always in

there clanging the chains during the shows in

the early days. Lots happened this year. My graphic

design has gotten better this year. You're in

the second year of altered geek. Yes second year

of altered geek nearing episode 120 now at this

point You launched a GTF version 3 .0. Yeah for

some reason I got this idea that I couldn't let

it die No, it's fine. And well, it's yeah, we'll

talk about it later. But like yeah, it's one

of those things that Starting out Kind of made

me Enjoy podcasting to begin with so right it's

hard for me to kill that show Yeah So yeah done

that been doing a lot of college courses got

double certified in superheroes In pop culture

I started writing my book Which I don't know

if I'll have like I don't know when I'll finish

it I'm not saying I won't ever finish it because

I will Right. It's figuring out When I'll get

around to it and then There's the I'm gonna start

taking a screenwriting class next year. So it

should come to fruition a little bit because

I'm gonna Use that as my basis to start out with

So yeah, I've been working on that been working

on the site been working on a lot of that stuff,

so I'm just overall Overall, it's been a good

year, but like there have been elements that

have sucked Well, yeah, I mean, that's it's just

the way most years go I got to meet Frank Wellkart

and BotCon. Yeah, that was pretty cool. Yeah,

that was pretty cool and I met Michael Wilson

and You know person Yep, so yeah We had see we

had more cinema geek stuff with Kevin Dan and

Amanda this year and Mike Dodd and I launched

mayhem mics, which is our WWE wrestling thing,

which is also featured here on the GCR GCR feed

I said remote control because of most of my podcasting

things as far as I've already stated it kind

of faded because of the, um, the, you know, my

mom dying, but I do want to get back to remote

control. I had a little bit of a brain fart with

remote control. The new TV podcast here on GCRN

was trying to figure out how much information

more specifically for CBS, ABC and NBC. Cause

I want to do these things called broadcast network

spotlights where we take one episode of the podcast.

And, uh, we talk about. the history of the networks.

Well, that kind of fizzled because there's just

so much information because CBS, ABC, and NBC

all started out as radio companies. So I'm sitting

here looking at all this and how am I going to

cram this into something where it's not sounding

like it's being read from Wikipedia, yet it's

getting the information across. But remote control

will make a comeback. We did, I think we did

do one GCR in retro this year. No, that was last

year because it was 2014. No, there were plans

for three of them this year. They just never

came to fruition. Yeah, there were plans for

three of them this year. There are actually plans

for four of them. We were going to do 1980, 1980,

1985, 1990, and 1995, but they just never came

to fruition. Showtime synergy the gem review

podcast. We pretty much wrapped it up with the

cartoon reviews with episode 22 We got 65 cartoons

reviewed in 22 episodes To cast beyond I I Was

in the middle most of this year originally this

year I was gonna do I've been planning to do

these things called 25 days of Christmas And

I've seen other podcasts do this where they'll

take you know, one or two Christmas specials

and, you know, we'll actually take 25 of them.

Actually, where I really got this from was Positively

Nerdy. Ryan, what's his last name? Damn it, I

should know this. Ryan Dross to start Joe's.

Ryan Porter is Positively Nerdy. There we go.

Ryan Porter, he did a 25 days of Christmas thing

and that's kind of where I got the idea from.

uh... but to cast the arms it's just i think

the and looking here now seeing what we had well

in a couple of the sons in in in twenty fifteen

we had um... the end of the animation direction

spotlight that that neil and i did we have the

frozen episode we have the johnny test episode

with gargoyles gravity falls toy story and in

a goofy movie to gas beyond his i'd finished

up wrapping the the new format around the podcast.

Like I've said so many times before, that second

season when we were originally doing podcast

seasons, that DreamWorks season just killed my

soul when it came to cartoons, especially some

of those later movies like Flushed Away and just

the really crappy DreamWorks stuff. But now,

with Tooncast Beyond, it's got a whole new outlook,

it's got a whole new format. For movies, it's

essentially the same, but for actual cartoon

series, we're going to be taking the remote control

TV theme here, where we're going to review them

in seasons. So, like, Thundercats 2011 Season

1 will be a podcast, and blah -de -blah -blah

-blah, and so on and so forth. I'm trying to

think what else we've got that happened this

year. Did we do a couple of wars? I'm trying

to think if there were a couple of those. I don't

remember on the wars front how many there were

actually. I don't think we did. Oh, no. Yeah,

we did. Well, it kind of... According to this,

the... Video game icons championship reveal was

January of this year. But yeah, no there was

yeah, it was last year My goal for this year

was to kind of bring And my goal for the future

obviously is to bring in some new and different

content Not just I've always you know, our bread

and butter will always be transformed Between

the two of us where you know, we're two really

big transformers fans And that's one of the reasons

why I think you can't and I and I agree you can't

let a TTF just die out I mean hiatus is are fine

That's not you know, that's not a problem at

all But you know My thing with the network is

I want to expand us to where people don't just

think, oh, it's those two Transformers fans who

just want to dip their tongue into everything

or whatever. We're trying to create an overall

geek hub here, and I think we've... I don't think

we expanded that much this year. No, we added

in session film. Right. There was... Most of

the other shows were already here. From the previous

year and There's gonna be a little tweaking of

that whole system next year I'm going to be setting

up a It is more to be to be fair to other publishers

too and it's not to like constrain people to

like Because at the time when we set up the original

partner program we had a certain set of standards

because We were getting so many emails of people

trying to add themselves to it. And while there

was a lot of good content, I didn't really want

to turn away. But at the same time, we already

had coverage. So what we're going to do next

year is, and I'm still working on this behind

the scenes, is there's going to be a directory.

of basically like an actual hub directory of

websites that they, you know, fill out the form

thing. And then all we have to do is, you know,

decide yay or nay based on content and everything

else. And it kind of, it'll be more of a even

playing field. So I mean, there, there can be

doubles in it. because of what it will be representing.

Yeah, see, with the original partner program

we were looking for individual podcasts that

were theme specific like Mark Who 42 or hell,

even Star Joe's, their shtick is they review

comics from the 80s. You know, so, you know,

you take Mark Who 42 And it's one of those things

where, okay, we have this Dr. Who podcast on

the partner program. We only need one. With the

way you're wanting to do it, you know, in the

future and having the directory, it's like, Hey,

come here to find all of your interests in one

place. And then go forth and find, you know,

go forth and, and, and, and explore those interests.

So there'll be more quantity, but there it's

going to be more quantity or quality based. and

broken down in various categories that I'm still

setting up to. So again, it'll be more of a hub.

And also because this year I've gotten emails

from people trying to apply to it that wouldn't

necessarily be something that I would put on

the site itself. Not saying that they aren't

good content because I'm sure they are. Right,

but they don't line up with what our endgame

goals are to some degree So in doing this directory

method it allows them to still get added exposure

without having to sacrifice the The the the way

that we're we're running things so also for instance,

I've had people emailed that wanted to join that

have YouTube channels and those are like a dime

a dozen like You could snot and have 50 different

ones It's it's more like skipping pennies across

the pond honestly when it comes to YouTube channels

But yeah, I get your point. So I mean I've had

like Half a dozen email me in the last three

months mm -hmm and We don't really cater to that

Yeah podcast We're audio based not video based.

Yeah, so It not that I'm against that because

I do want to try doing ultra geeks video wise,

but I just haven't I'm most of it boils down

to when I get time it's at night and I really

don't feel like being on camera because I'm sitting

in my basement freezing my ass off wearing a

robe and a plain t -shirt and generally just

Don't feel like looking halfway decent, so I

don't want to turn the camera on so I talk in

the microphone instead Yeah, the last time I

heard you talking about altered geek video thing

was you were gonna you just moved into your house

And you were gonna do a before -and -after thing

about yeah, I never happened because I got lazy

And the house is still going through renovation

We did the bathroom twice since we've lived here

which is well the first time we painted the whole

room Second time, we gutted it and then we painted

it. Oh, no. It's like we had tile put in on the

floor and we had tile put in on the bathroom.

We replaced the vanity and the countertop, replaced

the mirror, replaced like, I mean, the only thing

original in that damn room at this point is the

doors and the light fixture. The fans change

like everything in that room has changed. The

toilets even change like everything is. Nothing

in that room is original and so It's yeah, we

still have two rooms that are untouched For the

sheer fact we don't know what we're doing with

them yet And that's the basement bathroom and

the upstairs living room How do you not know

what you're doing with your upstairs? We don't

have any furniture to put in it. So like we've

got actual like patio furniture sitting in there

Geez and and there's like this computer desk

slash like kind of armoire looking Setup that's

sitting in there because we don't have anything

else to put in that space and it really doesn't

serve a purpose but it's It's there more so to

fill space because we don't want the room to

look empty The only time it doesn't look empty

is when it's Christmas time because we have stuff

Place to put the little Christmas village and

then we have the tree so What else On the Site

aspects do we want to discuss Well, we had a

few major changes Well, first of all, the major

change now is the overall the entire site has

been overhauled again Yeah, that's fine whatever

um are we at version 7 .0 now or six i don't

even know where we are okay i wouldn't sure uh

the theme we had had the theme that the two of

us had pretty much liked and we're getting all

all of what we wanted out of it for for the longest

time for this year for back when you did the

major re retooling for year five um was you know

this great thing and as sadly as WordPress updates

web themes don't carry over and we've had to

upgrade and I like the new layout there are several

things we need to work on getting realigned and

fixed and whatever else but that's nothing the

listeners would need to know about but it's overall

I'm happy with it I wish we had a more visual

like a straight slider instead of this three

and three thing that the slider is where it's

like hey the first post is nice and big and then

the next two are really small and the next one's

bad that's one thing I'm just not I don't know

it's just it's just too weird for me Yeah, as

far as designing it what did you When you found

the theme that we have now, what were you really

wanting to get out of it? I Well, I mean I did

the where the sticky menu where it follows along

but it was messing with some of the Some of the

people using the site Which is unfortunate that

it was causing a problem and they sent me a screenshot

So like there's no way that I could have been

like, yeah, it's just your system. But like I

was You know, I mean it was a definite problem

like so I turned it off and it seems to have

fixed the issue I've been trying to be as good

as possible with like anytime somebody sends

me an issue with the site Fixing it and if there's

too many issues then that's like when it's grounds

to start looking for something different Yeah,

but I did manage to get the mega menu fix this

year Which was nice. So now it shows like little

previews of the stuff and it shows the different

categories When you do the the drop -down so

you can kind of see what falls under each category

Which is kind of nice and then the little icons

that go next to them Fixed a lot of other issues

that have shown up on the site as well here or

there. But I like this one for some of the aesthetics

of it. I like the old one too, don't get me wrong,

but there's some things with this one that are

a little simpler to deal with. Yep. We no longer

have the Justin Bieber basketball issue, thank

God. Oh God, that was a couple years ago. I know,

I know. What the deal with that was is I had

a bootleg plug -in that... It wasn't even just

the bootleg one a lot of other regular legit

ones of people's were getting hacked too and

I had one legit one that was You know came right

from WordPress or whatever and it it had a bug

in it because Yeah, not getting into semantics,

but it was a file that had a was renamed to be

a JPEG and it wasn't actually a JPEG it was a

Video no it was it wasn't a video file. It was

a HTML file disguised as a JPEG To execute a

YouTube video that would also execute like some

kind of a callback or something I don't I don't

know what it was, but it was ridiculous So All

right, well as I mentioned earlier my goal this

year was to get as many Interviews in as I could

because I wasn't sure at the beginning of the

year. I wasn't sure how many interviews we were

gonna get Wasn't sure who to go after because

we don't at the beginning of the year. We didn't

have a steady transformer like ATTF was there

but it wasn't you know what I mean and and Beyond

the night is kind of wrapped up and There's no

Current Transformers review show going on right

now. Mask wrapped up. The He -Man show. I still

have to get people for. But so we had 14 overall

interviews this year. The first interview was

in January with Kristy Marks. This was her third

time back. This was the truly outrageous edition.

This is the first time with her being on the

Gem Review podcast Showtime Synergy. That was

a lot of fun with Amy and Nicole. I chatted with

Elliot Rutstein from Shout Factory. So this is

our second person outside of Brian Ward from

Shout Factory. The reason why I had Elliot on

was because Shout Factory, I believe this year

or end of last year, launched their own streaming

service called Shout Factory TV. You can reach

them at shoutfactorytv .com. And honestly, it's

almost better than Netflix and Hulu combined.

Not really when it comes to Hulu and the new

shows, but... Shout Factory TV is pretty awesome.

They've got all kinds of stuff on there. You

don't have to sign up. You just go to shoutfactorytv

.com and you just watch stuff. I know there's

been a big resurgence for Mystery Science Theater

3000. If you're looking for that, Shout Factory's

got all of that stuff. Most of that stuff on

Shout Factory TV. They've just got a lot of cool

content over there. It was nice talking to Elliot.

We had the return of Ian James Corlett. This

was for pixels in the animation because he was

the voice of Mega Man in the 1994 Mega Man series.

Neil and I talked to him. Yeah, he was great

to talk to again. Were you on that one with us?

Yeah. I was on the original one too. Yeah. Back

when the network started. Yeah, it was for Beast

Unleashed. We talked to Elliot in February, talked

to Ian in April. The next one is kind of a big

deal. We got the voice of Jem, Samantha Newark,

in May of this year, chatted with her on Showtime

Synergy. Again, super fun, absolutely awesome

talking to her. I've been working with Doug Abel.

don't even know how we became friends but he

has this podcast called talking about my generation

and he essentially does what we do except it's

all it's just all in one show and he mainly focuses

on cartoons video games and movies mostly um

some tv shows but not a lot uh we had a chance

to interview eg daily who was a buttercup uh

she was dotty and peewees Big adventure, I believe.

So it was really nice talking to her. Optimus

Ollini in July talked with Neil Ross aka Springer

from the Transformers and Keith from Voltron

and all that cool stuff. Joe Reed and I talked

for the second time with editor Bobby Kernow

from IDW Publishing. We talked about all kinds

of Turtles comics. We got a little bit of teases

for the currently running Batman TMNT six -issue

miniseries that DC is doing in conjunction with

NDW. In August we had two interviews. I talked

with Pat Shand from Xenoscope Entertainment.

He is the writer on Robin Hood, Grim Fairy Tales,

and a few other things over there, but his main

series was Robin Hood. I had a blast talking

with him. Talked with a senior editor John Barber

over at IDW. We talked about transformer stuff

We talked about gem stuff all that stuff Remember

when we originally talked with Bob Skeer? Yes

That interview was two hours nine minutes and

something or other or two hours one minute and

some time It was just over two hours the final

product. We broke that record this year Amy Nicole

and I over on Showtime Synergy talked with gem

writer Kelly Thompson and Kelly gave us all kinds

of inside info on what's going on with the gem

comics from IDW. She pretty much all but told

us through the end of the year what was gonna

happen or not what was gonna happen but what

the issues and what the storylines were gonna

be coming for the gem comics that was really

cool that we talked with her. I talked with Tom

Zoller. Actually, this might be the most outside

of our John Delancey interview and outside of

the voice actor interviews. Tom is a comic writer

and illustrator, but he is the only person that

I know of that we've had on an interview that's

actually been on a live action TV game show.

It was on an episode of who wants to be a millionaire

Wow one thirty two thousand dollars But Tom Tom

Zoller is the writer and illustrator of love

and capes That was his first series his second

series which came out this year through IDW was

called long distance Absolutely love that series

if you guys have not checked out long distance

if anyone that's listening to this podcast Has

ever been in a long distance relationship? You

need to read this comic. This is a damn good

comic. It really, really is. It's just so good,

and it was so fun talking with Tom. Joe and I

finally got writer Tom Waltz, who is the head

writer over at IDW's TMNT book. We got him, talked

with him for a while. I chatted with Joe Kramer,

who is the composer and conductor for the Mission

Impossible Rogue Nation score. Very awesome talking

with Joe in that interview. I brought up in researching

him and in preparing for Mission Impossible rogue

nation I wanted to watch the original film the

1996 film and then rogue nation to compare to

almost because next year is mission ones 20th

anniversary, so wanted to compare, you know 20

years of missions and man In the original Mission

Impossible from 1996, Tom Cruise looks so damn

young. And in Rogue Nation, he looks older than

dirt. He just looks so aged. So we brought that

up. So we had Brian Ward back for, I think, the

fourth time. I think it's this, yeah, because

we did Arkham Sessions, we did, yeah, I don't

know. Brian is turned into one of these multiple

returning guest roles at this point for the interviews.

The reason why I wanted to talk with Brian and

more so had nothing to do with the fact that

he is the premier DVD producer at Shout Factory.

We did talk about that and we did talk about

the Mystery Science Theater 3000 thing that they

are doing over at Shout Factory and all that

stuff, but I wanted to talk to him because I

found out and I didn't know, I can't believe

I didn't know this. He's been a short film director

for the past 11 years. The last four shorts that

he's done are what's most indicative of the style

of what he does now. And they're really, really

good. Two out of the four are really my favorites.

One is called rerouting. The other is called

almost midnight. And it was just fun talking

with Brian again. Brian and... Brian will most

likely be back next year for a Pullback Origins

episode for the most part. I'm not sure when

that'll happen, but I'm sure Brian will come

back on. But yeah, we had 14 interviews this

year, not as much as 2014, but I love doing all

the interview stuff. I love getting all that

stuff from those people and just hearing all

the stories and everything else. people go listen

to the interviews please because thank you to

everybody who took the time out of their day

to spend with us to to get these interviews done

it was so cool all right so we talked a little

bit about it earlier but you want to bring up

the any other new additions we had for this year

Well, I know with doing the The top 100 we actually

had a lot more Interaction this year Yeah being

that we reached out to Like I think it was like

31 different places something like that. Yeah

It was it was quite interesting though just to

see How many we? Reached out to and it turned

out to be such a massive list So I mean in the

in that I was kind of surprised how well it How

well it took off But I Mean, I don't really know

of all that much more that that went on this

year that was that was kind of all that much

different. So what were the top five downloads

of the year? Still working on that one. Okay,

well, we'll come back to that. As always, we're

not going to spend a whole lot of time on this,

but we do have to bring up, I did want to find

some, my goal in the future for next year's year

in review is to kind of track the biggest news

articles. of the year. I was going to do it this

year, but it just got too late. As always, we're

going to bring up a few celebrity deaths. It's

not just because they died, but it is because

they died that we can then look back and reflect

on what kind of career or how they touched our

lives. That's really the only reason why I've

always had us do the celebrity death thing. There

are some pretty big deaths this year. As a kid,

I remember watching 60 minutes all the time sadly

Bob Simon passed away this year Sam Simon, I

don't think they're any relation but one of the

Simpsons co -creators died this year BB King

passed away James Horner Dick Van Patten Wes

Craven yeah Yvonne Craig Batgirl I love her as

Batgirl and then probably the biggest one well

two of the biggest ones Christopher Lee most

people will know him from horror and sci -fi

but most people will know him as Count Dooku

or Saruman from Lord of the Rings Or scar manga

from man with a golden gun, which is a James

Bond film So that was one of the biggest ones

and the biggest death of the year He's Living

long and prospering up there in heaven. I guess

Leonard Nimoy passed away this year, which is

unfortunate. It's just crazy And I don't want

to make light of the situation, but all as I

can think in my head as well, at least now, the

Star Trek people have to figure out other ideas

for the films. I know. I know. But no, I mean,

it's Leonard Nimoy, it's Spock, he's the voice

of Galvishon in the 86 Transformers movie. I

think... because he's always been known as Spock,

because that was his main thing there. I think

in the last five or six years, my favorite moments

of him kind of reprising that was when he was

on the Big Bang Theory as Spock, whether it was

this. Yeah. I mean whether it was the little

toy and the little toy episode or whether it

was you know Just a voice in Sheldon's head,

but yes always a huge And it's just crazy What?

What if any memories do you have from any of

these people or any any part of their career

you want to talk about? Like Christopher Lee

I remember him from a lot of movies, and he's

very iconic I remember him like I said from Lord

of the Rings from Star Wars prequels He was in

that crappy Remake of a certain movie Which I

don't want to mention by name personally because

I can remember until about now but I'm getting

old, I can't remember stuff. Oh please, don't

even try. Don't even, I'm six years older than

you, don't even try. My brain can only harness

so much energy. Just don't even go. What? So

yeah, there's that, and then of course Leonard

Nimoy, everything in Star Trek, I mean he's shown

up in... Obviously the original series. He's

shown up in most movies. He's shown up in He's

You know, he's shown up in the the reboots he's

shown up in TNG It's it's just it's crazy. He's

done a lot of stuff and then You know you find

Craig the only thing I know her from his bat

girl. Yeah, that's But I mean, yeah, that's A

lot of iconic people have passed away and unfortunately,

you know, every year we're going to run into

this problem. We're going to see a lot more of

these people, you know, drop like flies, which

is unfortunate. Yeah. All right. I think we're

going to take a quick break. You're going to

hear a few musical selections. Because I'm gonna

go over my top five soundtracks of the year.

So we'll be back after this Alright folks before

I get to my top five soundtrack albums of the

year Steve has the numbers So guess what the

top five Most downloaded shows were now mind

you this is only since This is one of the other

changes we made we we have our podcast hosted

through blog talk radio Which is tremendously

freed up our bandwidth And our hosting So What's

your guess of what the top five shows are? Talking

in Circles, Cinema Geeks, Altered Geek, Showtime

Synergy, and Powers of Grayskull. Okay. Here's

the numbers. Well, the top five. The number one

show... Most downloaded. Right. TuneCast Classic.

Yeah, but this... Okay, you know what's really

funny about that, that you mentioned that? I

was actually looking at the TuneCast Classic

blog talk page because I had... This year, I

wanted to get people over to Tooncast Beyond,

so I added two episodes this year. I added the

Gargoyles episode, and I added the Goofy Movie

episode. But the crazy thing is, when I looked

at the numbers, the interview I did on November

19th of last year with John Semper Jr., where

we talked about 20 years of the Spider -Man The

Animated Series, that has archived... Well, whatever

the archive numbers are I assume it's I assume

it's downloads it has one that interview is one

thousand two hundred and thirteen downloads according

to this funny and then the gargoyles episode

For tooncast beyond which like I said, I threw

on tooncast classic to kind of get people to

come over to tooncast beyond one thousand one

hundred and thirty six for that one episode Nice.

It's just awesome. Alright, so to cast classic

is the number one still yes number two the cast

radio why we barely had any episodes i mean i'm

not at the top one hundred and it's got all those

like oh yeah it's got it's got the top one hundred

i mean outside of the top one hundred we had

We had episodes 70 something to well episode

75 was the year in review last year So we had

episode 76 to 80 well 76 to now. It's a 90. So

we had Wow, we really had almost 15 episodes

this year Wow, I didn't think GCR had that many

episodes because I know two of them were The

kind of Kickstarter for mayhem mics, but okay,

so geek cast radios number two. Okay Number three.

All things transformers. Okay. Number four. Showtime

synergy. Wow, that's cool. And number five. Power's

a gray skull. Oh, pull bag. Oh wow, I was not

expecting that. Anything anybody listen to that

show? Followed by from the command center. Which

will have a huge and actually I already made

a huge announcement about that But we'll have

another huge announcement about that coming later

on in the show All right, my top five albums.

These are soundtrack albums It's mainly from

La La Land Records because that's who I write

soundtrack reviews for Coming in at number five

is He -Man and the Masters of the Universe It

took them a few years, finally. It actually took

them 32 years to actually get the soundtrack

or so to the animated series, Filmation, He -Man

and the Master's Universe. This is two disc,

100 and something tracks. I think it's 111 total

tracks, music from the show. Absolutely love

it. It's just so cool. I wish La La Land Records

would do more 80s animated series soundtracks.

Oh God, can you imagine if they did G1, Beast

Wars, Beast... Oh God, I would love that so much.

Number four is the 1993 Tom Cruise movie, The

Firm. I have been waiting and waiting. This is

another one of those scores, just like a couple

years ago with Days of Thunder. I've just been

waiting for this score to come out because I

actually love this music So that's number four

Number three is a movie. We will be getting to

an M wire in the new year Kingsman the Secret

Service that score done by Henry Jackman and

Matthew Margeson that score is Probably the most

unique film score. I have really really heard

that isn't franchise that isn't something I would

most expect for like it isn't something that

I had you know had a huge fan base for because

the Kingsman of Secret Services adapted from

Martin LR's comic of the same name so this was

something when I listen to that score I was like

oh my god this is awesome that was yeah it was

number two the flash season one score by Blake

Neely I've been wondering if LLN Records was

going to get around to releasing the Flash music,

because Flash is two seasons in now, almost,

well, it's still in the middle of the second

season at this point. And I was really wondering,

and I am so glad they finally, oh man, just listening

to this, Blake Neely just kind of outdoes himself.

And I've written reviews and I've listened to

the first two seasons of Arrow. I still have

to write my review as of this recording for Arrow

season three's score, but the first two seasons

of Arrow, the music was so great. But with Flash,

because Flash is a somewhat brighter show than

Arrow, you have a lot more fun. instruments you

have a lot more fun musical tones and it's just

so so so cool and my number one because I just

can't stop listening to it is Joe Kramer's Mission

Impossible Rogue Nation People if you've ever

watched the Mission Impossible television series

if you even know the original theme You're gonna

want to hear this score because Joe Interspurses

the three different sections or four different

sections of the original theme Throughout his

original composition and score for this movie,

and it's just So good. You listen to that first

track, the A4400 track. A4400 is the name of

it, because I think it's the name of the plane.

You listen to track one, and by the next thing

you know, you're going to be listening to the

whole thing. It's just absolutely awesome. So

we're going to take another quick break, and

we're going to come back with my top five comics

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Alright folks, it's time for the top five Comics

and games. What is your top five video games

of the year, sir? Well my top five video games

my new couple of these might not be from this

year But I'm listing them because I've played

them this year, okay My number five is Mass Effect

3 Put this because Dodd And it is it is a good

game yeah Can't wait for the new Mass Effect

game coming out next year My number four is Deadpool

That game is everything you expect it to be and

more Difficult and you get to hear Deadpool having

inner conversation with himself in two different

voices As long as Van Wilder is one of them.

It wasn't, unfortunately, because this was before

the movie. Oh, then that bites. So, yeah, I am

psyched for that movie. My next one is Diablo

III because I recently got back into the game

and discovered that they have seasons now in

the game. Yeah, I think they were in season four

and I keep the game updated, but I never play

and then when I started playing again I was like,

oh wow, there's a lot different My next one the

number two is transformers devastation just got

that for Christmas I Really like it I've played

through the first three chapters of the game.

I have all the Autobots unlocked You only get

wheeljack Bumblebee Sideswipe, Grimlock, and

Prime. Grimlock is like Donkey Balls in the game,

but Prime is the bomb. I took down Devastator

with him. It's great. So yeah, I love that game.

Battlefield 4 is my last, my number one, just

for the sheer fact that my family provided it

for me so that I could play, and it's oddly addicting.

I'm not very good at it, but it is fun. I know

this is going to be a completely different experience

for you. You ought to check out Battlefield Vietnam.

That game was awesome way back in the day. By

2016, it'll be eight years that I've been playing

Grand Theft Auto IV. Anyway, for my top five

comics, number five is He -Man the Eternity War.

Oh, man. DC is doing what Dan Abnett and Pop

Mahon and all the artists are doing on this this

book is like filmation and 2002 and all that

stuff just come to life and it's just so so awesome

they're just doing my only gripe is the current

story arc is their their working on a struggle

between king hiss and and prince adam and that's

just kind of getting old but other than that

overall i'm really loving the eternity war number

four is transformers robots in disguise the animated

comic this is a based off of the uh... the new

cartoon network tv show uh... is just fun you

should be reading this to your kids honestly

it's just so so friggin fun uh... it's It's like

another G1 for today's standards as far as the

way the comic is. It's just so cool. Number three

is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ongoing from

IDW. Have you read this at all? Have you ever

read any of these issues from the IDW TMNT book?

Not really, but that's more so because I just

don't read all that much of anything anymore.

It's not really like anything against comics

in general. I just know yeah, I'm a lazy person

I've had a lot of school going on. So well, yeah

I'm telling you man. You need to read this book.

It is the entire thing from beginning to current

It is a complete love letter to the entire history

of TMNT This year we started out with the The

second part of Attack on Technodrome, we ended

on issue 53, which was part one of a two -part

story. We had the Casey and April miniseries

this year. We had the start of the Batman TMNT,

which thankfully the DC... Run Batman TMNT six

-issue mini -series crossover is not in continuity

with either the IDW TMNT book or DC's main Batman

stuff So it's on its own completely which is

more than fine with me, but the overall TMNT

audio There's a lot of stuff that happened this

year One of them being the supposed death of

Donatello Yeah, I well I don't want to spoil

it for anybody that hasn't read it specifically

you because it's just going to create I know

generally you don't like spoilers I don't I know

I know you don't mind the spoilers, but dude

you this is something I'm gonna have to have

you read because oh my god, it is just so So

emotionally heart -wrenching. Oh how he dies

how he? Comes back guys just so good You spoiled

it. No, I didn't. I didn't tell you how. No,

I didn't. Just told us he returns. Well, but

I didn't tell you the how and the why and the...

Because he's got mutagen blood? No. He can eat

hercules, hercules. Shut up. My number two is

Gem in the Holograms from IDW. Are you sensing

a trend here, folks? Four of my top five are

from IDW. And there's me. Well, yeah. Three of

my top five, not four. Jim and the Holograms,

new comic, it's just so amazing. Kelly Thompson,

Sophie Campbell, all the other artists that have

been on it. Emma Viseli, just kicking ass on

that book. It's basically reinventing and bringing

Jim into a new audience. And my number one is

Tom Zoller's Long Distance. Like I said, I kid

you not, I've read this book this year, these

four, because it's a four -issue miniseries.

It's now collected in trade paperback. I've read

this story at least 25 times since it's come

out. It's just that damn good. Absolutely love

it. So we're gonna take another quick break.

We're gonna come back with our top five TV shows

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podcast that you want to be listening to. It

is time to talk some TV. What are your top five

TV shows of 2015, sir? My top five, starting

off with my number five is Heroes Reborn. I actually

enjoyed the show. It was very reminiscent for

me of season one of Heroes and what it should

have been. So in that sense, I'm really happy

that it came back. And it takes place in real

time. When I say real time, I mean as if the

show had continued. So there's that and that

makes it very nice My next one is Supergirl currently

blitzing through that right now with my wife.

She actually enjoys that more than Some other

shows So yeah, there's that Then I have the blacklist

because it just it's a good show I've pretty

much dropped off that one this year. I don't

know. This season has been rough. I will give

you that. It's not even that. It's more so a

timing issue. It's really what it is. And I just

kind of because... Okay. Gunshots. Yay. Because

I no longer have cable television in my apartment.

I basically have all the stuff on streaming and

whatever else nowadays. So it's like, that one

has just been kind of one of those ones where

it's like, oh, hey, yeah, I should really catch

up on that. But I just haven't. It has nothing

to do with the content of whatever the hell's

going on in season three. I just haven't caught

up with it. But go ahead. Why is the blacklist

on your list? Because it's James Spader. Then

moving on, I have Arrow. Because why not this

it's it's arrow. It's discount Batman It you

know and this season actually been really good,

and I like the new suit I like that he's calling

himself green arrow, and I just like the premise

in general. It's getting a lot better And then

my number one is the flash Same reasons I ranked

it the way I did in the top 100 I really enjoy

the show so it's it's been really good, and I

like how cohesive it's been with the rest of

the universe and Doing its own thing so I gotta

give it props there. So yeah, that's my top five.

Alright, for me, number five is Gotham. Oh, everyone

hates Gotham, but season two has gotten a lot

better. And they are actually going in a direction

that is more Batman -like even though Batman's

only still a kid. uh... because they're progressing

penguin and redler they're introducing freeze

in there no more fish mooney uh... issues in

a glass bottle so the fish tank man c -r tank

i was gonna say kinda like uh... the bottle city

of candor great it's the last thing we need is

batman versus superman on the small screen too

But no Gotham is really been kick -ass. It has

really been something that is a joy for me at

first I thought they were gonna go The Court

of Owls route with the whole they still are No,

I know, but I'm just saying the whole Theo Galavan

Galavan thing and the the name the original name

like I yeah, I really thought Asriel Right no

no no yeah, I'm just saying originally when the

whole conspiracy aspect of all that came up I

really thought that especially when the cult

came in the the religious guide the I Really

thought they were going for court of vows at

that point, but not yet Number four is girl meets

world girl meets world has um grown up a lot

in its second season Farkel's not so Farkely

anymore He's I mean, I know these kids are gonna

grow up these kids are gonna age and all that

stuff but it just I Remember for the longest

time on boy meets world minkus was always this

this, you know short statured kid and didn't

really grow up like I don't Yeah, kind of But

I don't remember seeing minkus grow up with the

rest of them Yeah, cuz he just turned off the

show until the last season like where they graduated

Yeah But girl meets world that they're they're

doing a lot of cool things on that show actually

Miko It's good. It's girl meets world is a Transformers

Prime reference now Miko is on that show is the

teacher Tanya Gennady Who is the voice of Miko

and Transformers Prime is the teacher Harper

Lee? The the the English teacher on the show

that's pretty awesome Number three as always

I gotta put it in here somewhere the Big Bang

Theory This year I wanted to write out a whole

long Blog thing of why the Big Bang Theory is

more than just making fun of geekdom people just

seeing people just see this show see like the

first two seasons and just assume that it's all

about the no this show in its nine seasons Is

all about the character growth between season

8 and season 9 season 8 last year season 9 this

year Sheldon almost asked Amy to marry him or

he was going to before she broke up I mean like

you wouldn't have that kind of character growth

from Sheldon in season 1. I mean You know Leonard

and Penny are married, but it's pretty much turned

into a couple show really it really has cuz you

got Leonard and Penny you got Howard and Bernadette

You got well you had Sheldon and Amy and you

had Raj and Emily or whoever the hell Raj is

I don't know whatever but I just I still love

the Big Bang Theory I will always love the Big

Bang Theory more so for the characters than the

what the jokes actually are so number two is

Supergirl I love this show I'm glad it's Supergirl

and not Superman and yeah, I've had a few quibbles

with them consistently showing Superman, but

I Just really dig this show. This show is really

cool. I don't even care that they Racially bit

Jimmy Olsen at this point because the actor that's

playing his man. Yeah, he's absolutely awesome

You couldn't get a better Jimmy Olsen today Just

Absolutely awesome. I love that they have Peter

Fasinelli as as Maxwell Lord Peter Fasinelli

for anyone that doesn't know he was Mike Dexter

in can't hardly wait. He was He was Van Ray in

fast lane from Fox. So It's really really cool.

I love seeing the characters on the screen. I

can't wait to see what they do with that show.

I know everyone was up in arms. Oh my god, Supergirls

is gonna be sad because it's on CBS. They're

like, but it's CBS. They don't know how to do

blah blah blah. It's turned out pretty damn good

so far. And of course, number one, just like

you, Duff Lash. I mean, how can you not? Flash

how can you not have the flashes number one?

I mean, and I know folks. We're not these Steve

and I are not the World TV travelers that most

people are we don't watch Doctor Who we don't

watch BBC America or any of that kind of stuff

and all that but I mean With the flash again

character development character building and

it's just such a cool show It really is So we're

gonna take another quick break and we're gonna

come back with our top five cartoons of the year

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honor of Grayskull, we all have the power. Alright

it is time for the top five cartoons, but Steve

only has three, so what are your three? A, B,

and C. No, um, my... I started out with number

three, so they're all my top three. They're all

my favorites. Yeah. I have TMNT, followed by

Transformers RID, which... needs to come back

with season 2 so we can get more Transformers

Prime people. And then we have Star Wars Rebels,

which has been spectacular. Yeah, I watched the

first season. I haven't watched the second season

yet. Oh, it's good. Oh, I'm sure it is. I'm sure.

I want to watch it. It's good. It's good. It's

good. Just haven't yet. For me, I do... Okay,

so... Four of these I've seen multiple episodes

of and multiple seasons Well, one of them I've

seen multiple seasons since one of them has multiple

seasons my number five choice I put it on here

because I was trying to rack my brain of what

I had four and I'm like, okay I need I need a

fifth one. So am I gonna do I had gotten when

it was free at the time. I'd gotten the premiere

of the new Guardians of the Galaxy animated series,

and I really dug that premiere, so that's making

it at number five. Even though the voice cast

is not actually the actors from the film, they're

pretty good sound -alikes. In the film, you have

Vin Diesel as Groot. In the animated series,

you have Kevin Michael Richardson as Groot. It's

pretty damn close. Did you ever watch Alvin and

the Chipmunks when you were a kid? Yeah. They

have from the same studio, from the original

studio, they have a new Nickelodeon, a new Alvin

and the Chipmunks series. I've watched several

episodes of that, really dig that. My girlfriend

Jen got me into, she's the only person that could

probably ever get me to watch this. I have not,

because of... always seeing ads for it and whatever

else and just not being into the whole supernatural

kind of scary kind of thing i was so not into

gravity falls but she got me into it and i've

seen the first season in the first episode of

the second season of gravity falls absolutely

love the show it's really really cool number

two is tmnt Season four started this year. They

went space which is what they always do in every

incarnation, but that's okay I'm still really

digging it. I've finally gotten used to Seth

Green being the voice of Leonardo DiCaprio instead

of the pie fucker Leonardo DiCaprio Bad Titanic

joke folks Leonardo instead of Jason Biggs. And

the whole space thing has always just been really,

really interesting to me with TMNT because I'm

like, okay, you know, you go to the 2003 series

and they have the little breathing apparatuses

and here they are using space suits. Because

I've actually seen like the first few episodes

of season four, but again, I haven't really kept

up with it. And my number one is the 7D. 7D from

Disney and Tom Ruger and all those guys. It's

got Bill Farmer as Doc. It's got Billy West as

Bashful. It's got Stephen Stanton as either Sleepy

or Sneezy, I forget. It's one of the two. Just

absolutely love the 7D. Its second season is

finally premiering next month in January on Disney

XD. Absolutely love the 7D. If you haven't seen

the 7D, folks, go check it out. Because it's

pretty much 30 years before they meet Snow White

and Just it's got Maurice LaMarche is grumpy.

I mean, come on this just awesome All right,

final countdown is our top ten movies we're gonna

get to that after this Top ten movies of the

year for myself and Steve. What are your top

ten, sir? My number ten is The Cobbler. It wouldn't

be a GCRN year -end show without an Adam Sandler

film. Oh, so you're not gonna put six days of

whatever the hell? The Ridiculous Six? That was

blasphemous bullshit that he put out. I don't

know what was going through his head other than

he was like, hey, I got the paycheck already.

Might as well shoot a shitty movie. Because that

was by far one of the worst movies I've ever

seen of Adam Sandler. And that's saying something.

I normally don't like his serious stuff all that

much, but I'd take any of those over watching

this because it was like two hours of my life

that I can't get back. But I watched it knowing

that it was going to be shit. because Mary watched

it and she's a huge connoisseur of Adam Sandler

stuff as well and we made it about 10 minutes

in and she's like, is this going to be how the

whole movie is? And I says, I'm pretty sure.

And she says, I don't need to see anymore. So

we turned on pixels and started watching that

instead. And when she went to sleep, I finished

Ridiculous 6. I would not recommend that movie

at all, but The Cobbler I would because it's

about a guy who owns a, you know, he's a cobbler.

He puts together shoes, you know, kind of like

the old thing with the elves and all that kind

of stuff. Well, he fixes them and his sewing

machine breaks and there's this enchanted one

in the basement and it allows you to walk in

another man's shoes. So, like, if you fix it

using this sewing machine and he puts the shoes

on, he can become that person temporarily. So.

as long as he's wearing the shoes. So he got

into a lot of funny situations in the film, and

it was pretty good. And then it shows that Dustin

Hoffman's his dad and that kind of stuff. But

he's disappeared, but he can become him by wearing

his shoes for his mom's purpose, because she's

got Alzheimer's kind of thing, just so she can

see him for one last time or whatever. So it's

a really good movie. My number nine is Hot Tub

Time Machine 2. No John Cusack, no thank you.

Yeah, it wasn't as good without John Cusack,

but I think it's because of how ridiculous this

film was. Why he didn't come back. Although he

did come back. He was in about a minute of the

movie. It was really funny how they brought them

in really quick just to say screw it. So yeah,

I thought that that was really fun. So getting

into my next one, I have home. So you finally

saw this, huh? Oh yeah, I have it. I'll talk

about that later, but what were your overall

thoughts on it? I really enjoyed it. My son enjoyed

it as well. We've been spending a lot of time

watching movies lately, so it was one that...

It was family friendly for not being a Pixar

film. It is DreamWorks, so... Well, normally

DreamWorks is not family friendly. Yeah, normally.

and next my next one is pixels I still haven't

seen that it's a Adam Sandler movie again yeah

looks like one of the worst video game movies

it's actually pretty fun and then my next one

is Tomorrowland yeah which again is based off

a Disney ride but it was refreshing to see. And

it's actually a movie George Clooney plays really

well for a grouchy old man. So yeah, we have

that. And then getting into my next film, I have

Spy. It is pretty freaking great. It's got Melissa

McCarthy in it. Jason Statham. Jason Statham.

Who is awesome? Mm -hmm He plays a parody of

himself Yeah, pretty much That's the thing with

Statham when he's not doing an Expendables role

or when he's not doing a transporter role, which

I think he's pretty much done doing the transporter

stuff But well, they pre -cast him on everything.

But the funny thing is is he was playing parodies

of all of his characters he's ever played So

it made it really Really funny Yeah Well, that's

the interesting thing about him as an actor is

when he's not doing these these big things. He's

doing He's essentially playing the same role

over, you know, you take a film like the mechanic

or a film You know, I've seen him in this kind

of loner role Whether it's like I said the transporter

role where he's he's the he's the driver whether

it's the mechanic where he's a hit man He always

ends up playing the same role and it's just kind

of funny. Yeah spy I'm so not I've tried watching

stuff with Melissa McCarthy She's probably one

of the worst women in Hollywood in my opinion

at this point not bad The the thing about that

movie that that makes it bad is the incessantly

swearing like over and over and over What's next

on your list next on my list is I'm gonna get

flack for this Terminator Genesis Yeah, I say

that because I enjoyed Terminator So it's to

me I I think it's I don't think it's that bad

of a movie But you know to each their own Could

be worse could be salvation it actually I've

watched all five of them And they're all Equally

good in their own way and the thing I get to

give salvation props for is It does something

different hmm It actually takes place in the

current time and then you have There's no time

travel the whole movie is in that time. So it's

actually really refreshing to see that. So anyways,

this film is rather good in some aspects. It

could be better, but it's still, I give it a

pass. And then we have, following that, I have

Avengers Age of Ultron. what game wouldn't have

a comic book film on there. So yeah, I have that.

I don't think I need to say anything about that

film. Yeah. So moving on from there, I have Jurassic

World. Which surprisingly wasn't that bad, but

there were a lot of stupidisms in that film.

But I get why people wouldn't saw it because

it's still a hell of a lot better than Jurassic

Park 2 and 3. Yeah. There's no way that it could

have been worse. Well, I mean, there is, but

thankfully it wasn't. So I'm glad that that,

of all of them, to get a sequel, that's one of

them. So, then my number one, if you're a geek

and you don't put this, you're just a dick, Star

Wars The Force Awakens. What if you haven't seen

it yet? How can I put something on my list if

I have not yet seen it outside of trailer doesn't

matter just go see it Anyways so the film is

It's it's actually pretty freaking good I went

with my brother to go see it, and there are intentions

to see this again. As soon as my father -in -law

recovers from his recent surgery, I will return

to the force far, far away. All right. My top

ten. Did you have any honorable mentions at all?

I had a few, but they aren't worth mentioning.

I have one honorable mention, only because I

have to review it on Showtime Synergy. I did

see Gem of the Holograms before it got yanked.

I think it's funny that it got yanked. I feel

bad for the people that created it and that were

involved in the original inception. Jim and the

Holograms the film is an amalgamation of what

the animated series was they they try so much

to mix everything together and also they try

to modernize it for today's standards, but I

Don't know you'll I'm trying my best not to give

my full opinion of the movie because like I said

We're gonna be reviewing the whole thing on Showtime

synergy in the near future So but that's an honorable

mention number ten Justice League gods and monsters

This was an animated film from the DC original

animated movies that I was not sure I wanted

to really see because this was Bruce Tim's original

Interpretation of what he wanted the Justice

League to be when he was coming up with um I

believe that's what it was when he was coming

up with um what we have as the Justice League

Justice League Unlimited cartoon this was one

of his original ideas uh and this is like an

alternate timeline thing I liked it it was all

right it was cool but it just wasn't my kind

of Justice League movie uh number nine Justice

League Throne of Atlantis I really dug this uh

thought it was really interesting um It's essentially

the Enemy Below kind of storyline from... If

you've seen the two -parter from Justice League

Season 1, Enemy Below, it's basically Arthur

and Orm fighting over who's gonna have the kingdom,

but the interesting thing is here is the way

they write this out. This is based on the New

52 Justice League comic, so they kind of adapt

that into it, and I really dug that. James Bond,

number 24. Spectre. uh... comes in at number

eight i dug the movie but i'm kinda getting sick

of daniel cragg as james bond i want a new bonder

hey he likes being a stormtrooper now leave him

alone I mean, Spectre was good. It just wasn't

the movie that was advertised for trailers. The

way the trailers advertised Spectre was they

tried to play up this whole angle of Bond had

something to do with Spectre, or he was recruited

by Spectre, and that's not exactly at all what

the movie was whatsoever. Well, what I took from

the concept... What was specter about like overall

like I'm trying to it's Reader's Digest version.

Oh god. I don't know. Yeah, maybe no Canadian

bacon overall, it's What they're because what

they're trying to kiss Daniel Craig made this

this comment after specter came out somewhere

online where he said to some outlet or something

where he said something about he'd rather kill

himself than play bond again but he said something

more i don't know what the actual direct quote

was but it was something like he would rather

commit suicide than play james bond again so

i think what they were trying to do was tie in

his whole line so they basically connected the

previous three films to specter With all the

villains like mention like they're all part of

of of of the specter organization or all they

all were and it's I don't even know I Don't watch

the movie again. It's I Don't know. I did like

it. Like I said, I thought it was really cool

The action stuff and it was great the stuff with

Q. The new Q was great. I thought that was cool

But it's still not I'm just so ready for new

bond people number seven age of Ultron I Really

dug age of Ultron. I thought James Spader was

awesome as Ultron, but This movie just felt like

there was something it wasn't until Tony Realized

what was going on after Jarvis was supposedly

killed It wasn't until the whole bird thing a

vision that I Really got into the movie and I

know that's like almost the last half of the

film And I have to watch the movie again, but

when I went to the theater and saw it. I really

really did dig it Number six, I know you're you're

gonna have some negative things to say about

this because I know you say it's not safe for

kids And it really isn't honestly it's not about

the Indians They're not onions they're bananas

Minions that's right. Okay, so Here's the thing

about minions folks minions is a prequel It is

a prequel along the lines of Monsters University

where it butts up so nicely against what despicable

me was so you watch minions you get the origin

of the minions and By the end of the movie you

get them going with Gru and then you go in to

watch Despicable Me and bing bam boom there's

your uncle that's the origin for the minions

um I dug minions I thought it was fun because

I love the minions yeah it's not for kids it's

more for I really think the minions move Minions

movie was really for the adult fans more so than

the kids and I know a lot of parents Probably

took their kids to this movie. I don't know why

but I really dug it. It's just so cool. All is

these guys want is a boss I Know but it's just

so funny. I mean I mean Dracula that was hilarious

the poor diet the poor Tyrannosaurus Rex It's

just just hilarious Number five is home home

is awesome home is Sheldon Cooper as an alien

You know You you you have the this race of aliens

called the boov and the boov are pretty much

cowards for the most part they all want to run

away and as the film progresses you're wondering

are they going to continue to run away run away

run away run away or what what's going to happen

and their arch enemies um which is actually only

one because he's the last of his race it turns

into this really home to me is a friends or family

kind of movie Know what I mean? Like, you know,

if you don't have any blood relatives around

you a lot of friends your friends become your

family kind of thing and that's kind of what

happened with with home with with With oh and

in tip and pig and all that stuff and I just

I really dug that movie. It was just so cool

Number four is inside out. Have you seen inside

out? Yeah, I didn't really care for it though

really It was too inside out for me Okay, so

Inside Out is the latest film from Pixar. Well,

it's actually the first of two films from Pixar

this year. The other one was The Good Dinosaur,

which came out... Wasn't that impressive, that

one either. Inside Out is the better of the two,

in my personal opinion. Inside Out is all about

Riley and her emotions, and they track how different

emotions work and work together and don't work

together. I just thought it was a really, really

nice psychological look at how emotions work.

I think it's probably the deepest movie that

Pixar has ever done as far as content. And I

just overall just really dig it. I mean, plus

got Lewis Black is anger. That's awesome. That

is just awesome. Number three, Kingsman, the

Secret Service. This is by far one of if not

the best spy movies or as Samuel Jackson, the

movie said, this ain't that kind of movie. I

loved Kingsman. Kingsman was awesome. Considering

I'm not the hugest fan of anything British. All

yeah, I'm the same way which is funny because

I get a lot of British followers. Yeah But yeah

that movie was like really good I It's like and

it kept poking fun at James Bond throughout the

entire film. Yep, which was another fun point

But yeah, I mean I I definitely can't wait till

the second one, but I'm really kind of I'm kind

of sad that they killed one of the characters

in the film. See, I don't want there to be a

second one. This isn't a movie that I need to

see what happens to the to the two main male

and female characters after the end of the like...

I don't know. It's just not a movie I think needs

a sequel. But I absolutely love this entire movie.

I thought it was great. Number two, Furious 7.

Now, I know everyone's gonna do a big groan and

turn off the show for a while while I talk about

this, but Furious 7, ever since Fast and the

Furious, or Fast and Furious, Fast 4, essentially,

the fourth film in the franchise, ever since

that movie and they started setting up the story

and they really started really paying it off

in Fast 5 and obviously 6, the franchise has

become more than just... Movie about street racers

or movie about cars, you know street racing and

all that stuff It's it's more so about the characters

and fast seven because of Paul Walker's passing

last year They obviously had to reshoot a bunch

of stuff, but they they give Paul Walker's character

a really really good send -off the entire movie

I absolutely loved it the stunts in that the

action the fights all that good stuff It's just

nice seeing the character evolution of Brian

O 'Connor Paul Walker's character and seeing

how the movie and it's just so cool as a little

furious so and number one I'm gonna Be looking

out my back door here for Steve to come at me

with a lightsaber because I said I have not seen

the other movie yet Number one mission impossible

rogue nation. Hey you tree hug and hit I can't

okay Listeners, please comment on this episode

and explain to him how the hell can I put a movie

on my list that I have yet to see? If I had seen

Star Wars before we did this, I would have put

it on here somewhere. But Mission Impossible

Rogue Nation, if you've never seen a Mission

Impossible movie before, you don't have to watch

any of the previous films to watch this film.

This film, Joe Kramer is the composer and conductor,

but Christopher McCrory is the director on it.

And they wanted to make this as a sequel to the

television series, more so than a sequel to the

rest of the films. in the Tom Cruise Mission

Impossible franchise, and it really does work.

It's just such a good film. The stunts, the music,

the action. You've got Tom Cruise hanging off

of an airplane. It's just so cool. You've got

him doing all kinds of really, really awesome

stunts. The final scene and how they catch the

villain mirrors how the villain Captured Tom

in the beginning of the movie, but it's just

so cool when you and you finally see how it's

done It's got it's got Hawkeye in it. It's got

Jeremy Renner What he was also in a born movie

and that was very good either Well, I'm doing

what you do to Van Wilder with your Yeah, but

see, here's the thing. At least Jeremy Renner

can play multiple characters. Ryan Reynolds is

a one -stick pony. So is Jeremy Renner. Not really.

He plays the angry archer and everything. Not

with this, he doesn't. He does. No, he doesn't.

You haven't even seen this one. I know, I'm screwing

with you the same way you do with... I'm going

to kill you. He plays one of the... He plays

the head of the IMF, and the IMF in the movie

has to get folded into the CIA. And the head

of the CIA is Colonel Sanders. No, Alec Baldwin.

But no, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation by far

one of, if not the best action film of the year

for me. Absolutely love seeing that. Uh, we are

going to take a quick break. You're going to

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the, uh, improvisational podcast on the network.

Uh, Hunnic outcast has a clip and in session

film also sent us a clip and then you're going

to hear a couple of ads as well. And we're going

to come back and talk about the only email that

we got, uh, telling us what they liked about

us in 2015. And then we're going to tease the

2016 plans after this. coming in 2016 Steve Megachon

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I am shocked and dismayed. Well, now you can't

be both you be shocked I'll be dismayed Here

by my voice starting to get a little laryngitis

and bad allergies I took a much deserved vacay

in Orlando when I was at Island of Adventure

Universal between going on Harry Potter forbidden

journey escaped from Gringotts Space Mountain

seven dwarfs mine train Big Thunder Mountain,

Splash Mountain. My voice is shot. I do want

to take this time because I believe like last

year I'm allowed 10 minutes. Year in review.

A lot has changed from 2014 to 2015 for Hanagau

Kiss. I do miss my co -host Wyatt Jones. I'm

not too sure why he dropped off the face of the

earth, but if you're out there Wyatt, the door

is always open. I do enjoy still talking to your

friend and my friend Dane Lamont who when he

gets a chance will appear on an episode here

and there. But this year was great because I

started to do some interviews and I interviewed

an anchor by the name of Kendra Hale and we hit

it off and then she emailed me she was like what

do you have next? And I said well Mortal Kombat

X is coming out so I was going to review Mortal

Kombat and Annihilation and the TV show. She

emails me back, I'm in. Then she introduced me

to her husband Edward who wanted a guest and

we all hit it off and we started to interview

comic book writers and illustrators in the indie

market and eventually we came across Todd Davis

and he's a huge Batman fan and he liked to discuss

other things so I was like well do you want a

guest on we're talking about Arkham Knight because

that video game is coming out and we're gonna

be discussing some of the movies related to Arkham

Knight, Under the Red Hood, and Endgame, and

it was like, sure, I'll guest, and he became

a co -host. So now I have three co -hosts, so

us four musketeers are a great trio, we're quite

a duo. If you get that joke. We did have a fifth

Beatle, but unfortunately it was not working

out with that person, and we had to politely

cut ties. Not gonna get into it. Just it just

wasn't working But we did reboot and repackage

on a gal kiss. I did listen to the 2014 year

review Yeah, I don't really like listening to

the sound of my own voice. So I don't listen

to previous podcasts. I did the best that I could

on Episodes trying to work on them solo. I'm

really glad I have goes to play off of and to

talk with And the interviews that I worked on

with a lot of people when Kendra and Edward and

Todd were not around worked as well. Jason Youngboth

who worked on Weapon Brown, an independent comic

book dealing with Charlie Brown in a post -apocalyptic

world. I enjoyed interviewing Todd A. Davis,

of course, eventually became a co -host. We talked

to a couple of cosplayers, Night Mage and Chelsea's

Cosplay. as well as talking with many other indie

comic book artists and illustrators. We also

spoke with Kevin Conrad, who of course worked

on Spawn, which was great. Ideas were cooking

and booking. Now, as this year ends, we're close

to 3 ,000th downloads and 7 ,000 plays, which

is great. To eradicate confusion, we're in Season

2, as I've We decided best to reboot the podcast

and Kendra came up with some better ideas and

I decided, okay, Kendra, you're gonna be our

booker. Edward, you're gonna be working on a

few Facebook group pages, which we have the back

computer and Ed's video game news and reviews.

Kendra has her Facebook group page on anime and

Todd, of course, has his comic book, The Adventures

of Adam and Steve. We're taking a small break

when we come back in 2016. We have a few ideas

before March because as you know Batman vs Superman

will be coming out and we are going to be working

on The Watchmen, the book, the movie, the spin

-off comics Of course, we've got Marvel's Civil

War and Age of Apocalypse and then we have DC's

Batman vs Superman as I discussed as well as

Suicide Squad, but then this fall Because we

were stoked that Don Booth is working on a Dragon's

Lair movie, and it's gonna be hand -drawn animation.

Don Booth is back. We decided for this fall,

for November, December, we're gonna be discussing

Don Booth's films such as American Tale, Land

Before Time, Rock -A -Doodle, Titan -A -E. Don

brought up an interesting point about Christmas

and families. We decided to discuss The Godfather.

I don't know if we'll do the saga. Because, you

know, that movie and that series is huge, but

I'm sure we'll be able to find some strength.

I know that I've stated before what I want to

do with podcasting solo, but now that I have

this great group of people, I think Hunter Gal

casts this transition from a hobby to a well

-oiled machine, and it's just gonna get better

and better, especially when we go back to interviewing.

I was hoping to secure Neil Adams as I met him

at a convention. Unfortunately he's not responded

to my email so I don't want to bombard and harass

him. I do apologize for all the posts and promises

that I made on the Facebook page. Things just

happened. We did have some ideas for podcasts

but things just happened. A lot of schedule conflicts.

I now found out I'm gonna be working in a hospital.

I did have to give up writing on geekcastradio

.com for the Gotham walking dead and I was going

to write a review for the Evil Dead TV show but

because of me going back to school as a nurse

and me working as a nurse in a hospital it was

either what I had to give up and I just had to

give up you know doing some freelance writing

right now and I'm not giving up on a gal cast

not on a long shot we will be trying our best

not to announce things too quickly if things

are not on the feed it was either just I had

to take him down for a while for more room or

just schedule conflicts and there will be some

ideas that we will be bringing back and not do

this in future if that makes any sense but I

thank the fans I'm glad that we're on GeekHistory

.network I enjoy working with Mike, Steve and

I hope one day since there was a top 100 lift

I did bring up a top 100 for video games I know

what my number one is going to be. I know it's

not Batman. It's actually going to be a Mario

Brothers game. I guess from another place, from

another time. Until then, I thank my co -hosts.

I thank the fans, listeners. I thank the staff

at Geekest Radio Network. And as my voice is

going, Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. You have

filthy animals. and keep the change. Hi I'm JD

Duran and I'm Brendan Cassidy and we are in session

film and we are going to be talking about the

year in film, the year of 2015. Now, Brendan

and I are not going to be talking about our top

10 or our favorite films of the year. We are

going to be doing that in a few weeks on our

show. Right. So you can stay tuned for that,

but we can still talk about the year in film,

Brendan. And I don't know about you. I thought

it was a pretty good year as it usually is, I

think. And the one thing that has stood out to

me and we've talked about this before in our

show is that was a really strong year for female

performances, especially. There were so many

great movies with great female leads and also

supporting characters as well. I mean, of course,

the standout Charlize Theron, Amy Schumer, Jennifer

Lawrence, so many, the list goes on and on. And

you also can't even forget, and I feel like we've

forgotten this on the last few shows. But Inside

Out has some great female vocal performances

that you also can't leave out. That's a very

good point, which I feel like it was kind of...

I guess the opposite of last year because last

year was very male -centric in many ways so it's

nice to kind of see the tables turned because

and even looking back when I got to do my guest

spot with a you know with the cinema geek specifically

when we talked about with me personally on that

show we talked about the top my our top 10 favorite

actors of the half -decade so far. We even look,

I didn't do actresses, but looking back on it

and how I would have probably done it versus

actors versus actresses, I feel like it's been

more male -centric for the past couple years,

so it's very nice to see a lot of female dominance

in the acting category this year, and it has

been incredibly strong, and we've got a lot of

newcomers coming in, one of the big ones being

Alicia Vikander, who's now nominated twice this

year at the Golden Globe so far, and rightfully

so. But a lot of great examples within that as

well. It's really great to see it is great You

know another one that I particularly like and

I know you were mixed on the film But I loved

Michael Monroe from it follows I think was a

big standout sure very new to me the actresses

from tangerine oh very very Certainly make that

film. I just loved them They were fantastic and

a performance that no one is really talking about

much, but I think was very was Margot Robbie

in Z for Zachariah, a wonderful performance that

has kind of been lost in the shuffle, but very

good. And I'll still argue, people can say what

they want about the film, but Dakota Johnson

in 50 Shades of Grey was very, very good despite

the final product. Oh, yeah, I completely agree

and even if you're looking at actresses that

are still kind of at the point that they're still

very well known within this Within this time

right now, like you look at Circe Ronan in Brooklyn

who yes Well, I'm a bit more mixed on the film

than most pretty much everyone else on the planet

apparently But she is fantastic in that movie

She really shows that she is now fully growing

up into a beautiful adult actress and it really

shows in this film and then you look at someone

like Brie Larson who is one of the favorites

looking at a film like room and how definitely

coming into a room when we kind of know her for

more of the We've seen her in 21. Yeah, we saw

her we saw her in short term short term 12 and

she was great in that film absolutely ago But

man, it's great to see a lot of these actresses

that are really bringing a new form of their

A -game here, so they are not going to be typecasted

in the future. So that's really great to see

too. Yeah, absolutely. I also cannot forget Emily

Blunt in Sicario. Also one of those not getting

a lot of love, but very, very good. Don't get

me started on that. Definitely. Kerry Mulligan

had a few from this year that was really fantastic.

Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria is one

of the best of the year regarding female performances

in my mind. Nina Haas from Phoenix. And of all

the surprises this year, I think the one that

really pulled on me the most was Amy Schumer

in Trainwreck. Just a legit performance. I honestly

hope she gets nominated at the Oscars too. I

could see it happening and it would totally be

deserved. I completely agree. And let's not forget

the fact that she also wrote that film. She did.

And maybe kind of transitioning a little bit

from that. I think this has been a great year

for just kind of joyful and fun movies in general,

whether it be comedy or just having a fun experience

at the movies as well. And I think that's a great

segue. At least when you look back on 2014 as

a specific comparable, which had a very strong

summer as far as quality, it didn't really get

a lot of attention. It had a very weak box office

performance at the same time. but I feel like

this year was a very fun experience as far as

the movies overall were concerned it was really

a competitive streak going on and you know train

wreck being the kind of movie what it is I felt

like despite what it was it added to that in

its own way it was a very it was a very you know

enjoyable time at the movies in a very surprising

film and that's another segue a lot of great

surprises overall this year that I don't think

I can say about a lot of other films as I know

this half decade so far you're right though there's

been some really great surprises there the summer

was maybe not as good as it was last year but

from a box office standpoint people were definitely

going to the movies this year Jurassic World

breaking the record before Star Wars broke it

again surprises with Jurassic I know Wow crazy

that that record was both broken twice in one

year but Fury 7 which was slightly before summer

but still killed the box office as well and then

later on in the year Star Wars it's crazy to

have another year with Star Wars coming out and

that was also a lot of fun and regarding the

scripts that you're talking about I think Star

Wars has one of the better scripts of the year

for me so yeah yeah and that's another thing

I liked as well if we're gonna keep segueing

into different topics is that when you look at

a lot of these great I guess commercial and blockbuster

films that really came out you know that were

fun and entertaining they didn't talk down to

people they really took them seriously in their

own way and I think Star Wars The Force Awakens

is a great example of that because it's a film

that is very thematically rich and you know you

look at a film like Mad Max Fury Road as well

which is a very it's a you know an epic blockbuster

film but it also took itself seriously and it's

a film that does have a lot to say underneath

as well so it's also a great year that I feel

like didn't really talk down to any of the audience

that was going to see these great films. It treated

us like we were intelligent for once. Yeah, absolutely.

And because of that, there's a very good chance

that Star Wars and Mad Max Fury Road could be

nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. Absolutely.

Both big, big budget films that deserve that

recognition. And that would be a lot of fun to

see. It'd be a good change of pace, especially

from last year when we had all those Oscar baby

films that are nominated. that wasn't quite great,

but it'd be interesting. That happens every year.

That happens every year, but it'd be nice to

see a good change of pace with those two films

in that list. Last thing before we get out of

here, Brendan, is we cannot talk about 2015 and

not talk about Pixar. They had not just one,

but two movies come out this year, and one of

them is top tier. Pixar is back, baby. Yeah.

Yeah, I completely, completely agree. And a lot

of people might make the argument that, well,

The Good Dinosaur also came out this year, and

that was mediocre Pixar as well. But you have

to take into consideration the history and the

trouble that that film had. So the quality of

that film itself, knowing that history behind

it, that still shows that Pixar knows how to

manipulate and create a great film, even despite

a troubled history like that. Maybe it wasn't

a great film, but I don't think that's a great

argument to say, like, oh, Pixar still ha - had

a quote unquote, eh, kind of film this year,

but you're absolutely right about Inside Out.

Inside Out shows that they still know what they

are doing as far as leading the charge in commercial

and, you know, American animation. And taking

their story seriously, it's fun, it's heartfelt,

it's thematically rich, it says a lot, and it

takes us back to what we loved about films like

Wally and Up and Ratatouille, you know, the masterpieces

of that period, and it's absolutely there. Absolutely.

so refreshing and so exciting to see Pixar back

on that level. I love that film so much. We'll

have more to say about that. We'll have more

to say about 2015 again in a few weeks when we

do our Incession Film Awards and our top 10 films

of 2015. If you want to listen to that and more

about our show, go to InSessionFilm .com. You'll

see all the details there on how to listen to

the show, how to follow us on social media and

interact with us on a daily basis. Thanks for

listening. Thanks to Geekcast Radio. We'll see

you guys soon on the InSessionFilm podcast. These

are just the original flavor. That's exciting.

And we have two kinds of cheese dips. Joanne,

I hate to tell you this, but we're here for another

reason. What's that? Well, we were going to have

Sean's intervention, but his mom couldn't show

up. So Joanna they want us to talk about our

favorite things from 2015 what TV shows movies

music Here, I'll give you an example. Kate, what's

your favorite show that you discovered in 2015?

My favorite show that I've discovered was just

recently, as in yesterday. This is December right

now. Yes, December 2015. There's a little show

called The X -Files. Oh my god, you somehow got

a hold of the new episodes from next year? What?

The new episodes of The X -Files that are coming

out next year. There's what? No, these were like...

Like Windows DOS like computer versions of what

are you talking about? Because that sounds more

intriguing than what I'm Sean explained. Yeah,

so Kate the show you're watching is from the

early to mid 90s. Yes Not 2015. No, but it's...

But in 2015. Well, 2016. Well, yeah, yeah, technically

2016. But announced in 2015. I will be reunited

with Fox Mulder. Oh my god. What? Spoilers for

the new season. Joanna Howell will be reunited.

Joanna's in it? If I'm watching this crap and

Joanna shows up. I'm gonna realize a lifelong

dream. What was that what say you know, I like

that stuff that you saw it's like So stuff like

well, maybe that's covered supernatural you discovered

supernatural that show was on this year Why do

you join a why do you like supernatural? Because

I love anything that has to do with Sexy guys

fighting monsters. Yes. Yes ever since Ever since

the Hardy Boyz Nancy Drew mysteries with Sean

Cassidy and David Cassidy so So if Sean and I

go out and fight monsters start watching us two

sexy guys fight monsters, okay That's all I need

let's let's give it a shot Okay. Sean, there's

a monster over there. Where's Fox Molder? Wait

a minute. Where's Dean? It's getting hot in here.

I need to take my shirt off. Fox? Dean? You don't

need Sam and Dean. You have Josh and Sean. That's

a Geek Cash t -shirt right there. Now the back

says plus Kate. I think anything you do in life...

What? Kate? It is a party. I think anything you

do in life... That you can do with a hot partner

who you can call by his last name, like Mulder,

is much better. Conroy and Blair, there you go.

That's not Mulder. It's not like Mulder. No.

No, it's ethnic. Irish -British. You never saw

it coming. We sound like an 1800s detective team.

Oh my god, I've got a great idea for a show!

Well, then you need those big pipes. You could

be like a modern -day... We have to smoke before

we ever make a decision. Opium. Who killed this

man? Hold on. Kate, you could be like our handmaiden.

You could be like our handmaiden. Oh my gosh.

Like you do our sheets. We could call it like

Sweeney Josh. Sweeney Josh. You're on the back

of the t -shirt now. What was your favorite show

this year? Well, I don't know if it counts as

a new show, but a new season. It's kind of a

new show because I am a Fargo person. The first

season was amazing. Absolutely. The second season

is definitely a slow burn, but very good. So

you really have to concentrate on it. And by

the time this airs, it will have probably ended.

And I don't know if I'm going to be in with the

ending or not, but you never know. What's the

name of the show? Mine? Fargo. Oh, Fargo. Yeah,

like the movie. And there's great little references

to the movie, which are awesome. So you have

to be like a huge fan of it to catch, but it's

awesome. Um, no, I predict in the X -Files of

92 that I want and the past episode that I could

easily Wikipedia, but I'm not going to. No, don't

do it. Better girl. Better girl. Stay strong.

That, um, I predict that there's truth and they're

going to look for it. It gets crazy when Sam

from Quantileap leaps into Mulder for the whole

season. Oh man. Oh, we hit a spark with Joanna.

No, I'm trying to find a book that I want to

talk about. Oh no, smart people. Geek cast radio,

not nerd cast radio. They wouldn't take us. No,

it's about when Teddy Roosevelt was on the police

force in New York. Who told me about this? Did

you tell me about this? just now but there's

this great story it was like the the alienist

it was the first time they did profiling of a

killer of a serial killer and it's like one of

the first times that they did it you know kind

of how that developed and Roosevelt was in the

story because he was one of the police officers

in it and it was awesome it's a great book I

didn't know that was a thing. And my phone just

died. Listeners, that's your book pick of 2015.

Even though it's not older than that. They don't

know. It's new to them. Okay. If it's on Amazon

and it comes to your house and no one's ever

read it before, it's new. It's new. Unless you

buy it used. Then it's not new. But it's new

to you. And that's news you can use. Yep. Right.

My favorite TV show? Daredevil. Kate, you should

watch it. It's a heartwarming story about a blind

man. Can I tell you, we watched, I think, roundabouts

the first three minutes, and then I went, nah.

And then we found X -Files. And you wonder why

you're on the back of the t -shirt for Geek Cat

Radio Network. Oh, sorry, guys. Tell them how

much you love Daredevil. Jennifer Garner was

great. Oh, my god. What did it do? Is that bad

or good? Oh, my god. I can't tell sometimes if

it's a good look or a bad one. What do you think

go with your guy probably bad does it offend

you cuz he's blind the same blind people shouldn't

have TV shows take a stand team I Am pro vision

impaired individuals having television programs

with Jennifer Garner That's Jennifer See, I like

Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence is cool.

This is pro -Jennifer Lawrence, anti -Jennifer

Lawrence. Why are we against Jennifer? Because

she left Ben. What did Ben do? Become Batman.

What about Jennifer Tilly? Why doesn't anyone

talk about her? Jennifer Tilly. It's not Jennifer

Aniston. She needs a new show. She needs something.

I could make such a joke right now. We are explicit

on iTunes, but I don't know if this show we're

guessing on is explicit on iTunes. I said it

and they went, no, come back. Can't take it back.

Can't take it with you either. Yeah, some of

the things you can't take back and take with

you. Kate, what's your new year's resolution

this year? I want to drink more water. And then

turn into wine? Yeah. Nice. Gonna be Jesus. I'm

just gonna drink the wine. She's drinking the

wine. She's on the record, she's just gonna drink

the wine. Sean? For a transformation. I'm doing

what everybody else does, try to go to the gym,

see if I can get it to last till March, and go

from there. Yeah. What's your resolution? Yeah,

what's your resolution? To put more pressure

on Sean for him to make me go to the gym with

him. That's what you can do to Mike. I will give

you $10 if you go into the gym. If you give me

$10 every time I go to the gym. Wait, stop it.

Stop. Stop. I am a man that enjoys a good proposition.

I am all ears. Not every time you go to the gym.

You two walk to the gym with your workout clothes

and blast the My Two Dads theme song. And get

a video of that. $10. I will not even let Josh

answer. Challenge accepted. All right. I need

a video. We want a little selfie stick. Lovely

or or let's up the any you go with us. Yeah Can

I be the girl? Expect new video content from

smearing next year live breaking news Joanna

will be back on an episode. Yeah, we talked about

for so long, but Kate's been busy watching Mulder

It's true so do I He had that sex addiction for

like ten years. Oh, you know what? I am sad about

that. You know, because I love Fox Mulder so

much, but the fact that David Duchovny... But

David Duchovny had one, not Fox Mulder. Right,

no. Josh, can I tell you there's a thing called

characters? What? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you just

blew his mind. Why did you do that? Never mind,

I take it back. Are you insane? Don't ever watch

the series called California. No, because that's

about the sex. Yes. About the sex? Yeah. Oh my

god, I got this great new segment for next year.

Kate's California Cation Corner. No. She talks.

All with K's. All with K's. We're Smear Ding's

little guest spot. Congrats to the people at

Geek Cast Radio for another fantastic year. I'm

Josh. As always, Sean. I'm Kate. Joanna. Happy

New Year, guys. Holler. All with K's. Sounds

like Smear Ding, Connick Outkast, and In Session

Film all had great years this year. We are back,

and as I said, we got one email from superfan

Tim Silvers. People will most remember him from

the GCRN Wars episode, Thundercats vs. Silverhawks,

and he was on the second half of Mass Mayhem

with me. I've got a few plans for Tim in the

future, depending on scheduling, but why don't

you take it away with what Tim had to say about

his favorite moments of GCRN in 2015? He says,

hi, my favorite moments? include the top 100

TV shows. I love the top 100s including the previous

top 100 animated list. This time I was fortunate

to be a contributor overall. I thought it was

a good list and the discussions were a lot more

fun on the record as well as the fan discussions

on the website. The return of Powers of Grayskull

podcast, Kevin and Mike are an awesome pairing.

The He -Man series review was a lot of fun. She

-Ra wasn't a show I watched growing up so I was

eager to dive into the series and see how it

compares to Key Man. He also goes on to say,

remote control. I always look forward to the

fall preview discussions that let me know what

shows to watch out for in the fall. Plus, I like

hearing about the finales and show summaries

and thoughts. I enjoyed the Daredevil series

on Netflix this year and the discussion on the

podcast. Altered Geek. It has become one of my

favorite weekly podcasts. Steve sometimes goes

solo, which I don't mind. But bring in other

guests like BoothNinja, Mike, or others and you

get fun discussions of varying degrees on topics

of lawnmowers, tech, movies, games, et cetera.

And it's like sitting around with your buddies

having a great time being geeks. Wait a minute,

wait a minute. Who the hell was talking about

lawnmowers? It was me in Powers One episode.

Oh, OK. I'm talking about lawnmowers. It was

great. OK. And then it goes on to... He goes

on to say that Tooncast Beyond, Tooncast was

what got me hooked on GCRN. I jumped on board

around episode 70 something and went back to

listen to all the previous shows. I've also listened

to Off the Cuff and Talking in Circles, which

are entertaining as well. Thanks for a great

2015. I look forward to the coming year and a

great GCRN content. Tim. Sadly Off the Cuff decided

to retire their show this year, but I have plans

to incorporate them into a new show that Steve

and I are going to be doing in 2016. We have

plans! Yes, Waspinator, we have plans. Waspinator

says plans are good! All right, so 2016, new

podcasts that will be coming. You want to take

the first two since they're yours? Yeah. I'm

going to do the side of Dragon Ball. That show

is going to be about Dragon Ball Z. It's, oddly

enough, it's named after one of my old websites

of Dragon Ball. And what the idea for that show

is is... Instead of going through and doing seasons

season runs or doing Every few you know every

episode we do five episodes or something like

that. We're gonna go by saga So like you'll have

the Saiyan saga the Vegeta saga the Namek saga

You know and so on until you know it goes through

GT will not be covered Dragon Ball will not be

covered initially It's just gonna be Dragon Ball

Z or possibly Dragon Ball Z And then Dragon Ball

Super, once that starts airing. And then also

the Dragon Ball Z films. All 15 of them, I believe.

Good luck with that. I like them. I used to be

a huge Dragon Ball Z fan back in the day. There's

that. Rebooting mainframe, the concept for that

still applies, just waiting to, it's more so

been issues with my timing, so I'm hoping that

that gets to come to fruition this year with

a new reboot of Reboot coming. So yeah, I'm hoping

that that comes to play this year. Take it away.

All right, so I've got three shows I've got two

shows coming they're gonna be One's gonna be

myself and Steve the other is gonna be myself

and Michael Wilson And the third show is gonna

be Steve and I along with a bunch of other people

as well Maybe we'll play preview of the pot art

in the episode post it depends maybe we'll be

nice I don't know just yet. Maybe we'll just

say you have to wait. One of them still needs

pot art made, so. Which one? But anyway, Pauka.

So these three shows, one of them is going to

be kind of a limited engagement because I know

how Steve's brain works and I know going through

a set. Steve gets burnt out grid E. Yeah. It's

going to be a limited engagement kind of thing.

We're going to produce 10 episodes of the show.

We're going to take 10 weeks, produce 10 episodes.

We're going to then release those over a period

of time. And then we're going to take that time

and take a break and work on other things next

year. So it's going to be a sporadic kind of

release. It's not going to be a strict weekly.

It's not going to be a strict biweekly or monthly.

It's going to be whenever we get them done and

produced and edited and online, that's when they're

going to happen. Actually comes out of the top

100 TV shows countdown And it comes out of number

50 on that on that series actually One of the

listeners scanner 51 on Twitter actually already

guessed it We are going to be doing a show called

Podcasters Meet World. It's going to be a Boy

Meets World and Girl Meets World review podcast.

Instead of having to worry about dealing with

how to cover Boy Meets World in telecast or remote

control, I said, screw it, Steve and I are just

gonna create a whole new podcast and we're just

gonna be a Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World

podcast. I've worked, it took me... Four and

a half hours one afternoon to work out the schedule

to get through all seven seasons of boy meets

world It's gonna take us 70 podcast episodes

And the way I've set this up and the way Steve

and I are gonna run it is as I said We're gonna

record for ten weeks We're gonna take time to

edit each episode and then release them sporadically

that way we can take The next ten weeks or the

next two or three months off you guys have content

still while we're on, basically while we're off

and not producing the show, the content will

be released. So you'll have season one, which

is episode one through episode 10 of the podcast

and so on and so forth. We're gonna review every

single episode of Boy Meets World and Girl Meets

World. Girl Meets World's second season just

wrapped recently. Season three is coming. I don't

know exactly when, but I do know it's coming.

So that's gonna be awesome and that's gonna be

really, really interesting. As I mentioned earlier,

Off the Cuff did retire this year. I have been

planning, and I don't talk about certain things

a lot of times, I don't know, it's just - Because

we always have plans. Well, I always have plans

and I've been planning, and I'll say this right

now, I still have plans to do the Two Transformers

podcast, Transformers, Primetime, and TFG2, but

I'm just not mentally ready. There will be plenty

of room for Mike, Art, Joe, and Shaunzy to come

on this new show. I had actually plotted out

this show about four years ago as of this recording,

2011 or so. Back then it was called GCR and Gamers

and Steve has always had his video game name

of Extreme Retro Gaming. Extreme Retro Gaming

is coming back, it's going to be all new, except

it's not an X, it's an ERG, it's ERG. My original

idea is - Hear the frustration. Yeah, ERG. uh...

uh... my original ideas from when i came up with

uh... gc and gamers are going to be incorporated

basically i've got the schedule here and i'll

just i'll just tell you folks really quickly

uh... steve is going to be handling video game

news episodes every two weeks He's also gonna

do something special on Saturdays the rest of

the episodes for the most part I'll be handling

with with him as co -host if he wants to be on

the topics, but we're gonna do topics like We're

gonna do a game system spotlight and take you

through the history of video games system by

system in the later episodes we have Like we

have the dawn of mainstream gaming episode 30

to 35 where we're gonna talk about like Pac -Man

and pitfall and Donkey Kong and punch -out and

that kind of thing we're gonna talk about mascots

like Alex Kidd and Sonic the Hedgehog and Crash

Bandicoot and Star Fox and Kirby and all that

kind of stuff So this is going to be fun. It's

going to be able to allow GCRN to have a video

game podcast again. And it's going to be something

Steve and I both will be working on. Anything

you want to say about ERG? No, nothing that you

haven't already mentioned. OK. The fourth. uh...

podcast uh... early well actually fifth and final

podcast will be a second review podcast for twenty

sixteen this one will also be done a lot of pre

-production and then released uh... michael wilson

is going to be returning to the network and we're

going to be doing a face infer but review podcast

uh... this one is called polka podcast organization

without a cool acronym now the reason why it's

called that is because if anyone is that's listening

to this is watch face infer you'll know the agency

that agent p a k period platypus uh... works

for is called alka organization without cool

acronyms i had to work podcast uh... in in there

somewhere uh... so that's gonna be extremely

fun uh... for for michael wilson and i to do

uh... we will also have this is not new stuff

uh... but we also have and wires road to episode

one hundred and fifty Once we get to 150, we're

gonna take some time off and put the show on

hiatus. I have a plan for when the show comes

back that we're gonna do double features by year

starting with the 80s. So just to give everybody

a little preview here, how this is going to work

is, okay, so episode, all right. Episode 145,

for example, of MWIRE is gonna be our Fast and

the Furious franchise discussion, okay? Episode

147 to 149 are gonna be our Back to the Future

one, two, and three commentaries. Episode 150

is gonna be seven years, because we're actually

gonna, hopefully we can get all these recorded

before July of next year. Episode 150 is gonna

be seven years of movies. an overall discussion

on the podcast history, talking about some of

our favorite episodes that we did. At the end,

we will tease NWIRE's eventual return. So as

I said, we're gonna do double features. So episode

151 will be two films from 1980. Episode 152

will be two films. Basically, it's four films

in one month from one year in the past. So like

say... Because I know you'll be more interested

in these like say when we get to the episode

170 is where we get to the 90s of M wire so Episode

170 is gonna be weekend at Bernie's one and two

Episode 171 is gonna be kindergarten cop and

Dick Tracy Episode 173 curly sue and drop dead

Fred from 1991 Episode 175 is gonna be a special

episode where we talk about good fellas You know

so you get the point now these double features

do not necessarily mean that Steve and I are

gonna do both episodes It's probably gonna be

me on both, but it might not like Let's see Okay,

take take it take episode 171 for example, we're

gonna do kindergarten cop and Dick Tracy I don't

know how much of an interest you have in Dick

Tracy. Zero. Okay, so Steve might be on the Kindergarten

Cop review. Steve will be on Kindergarten Cop.

Not Kindergarten Cop 2. You know what? No. You

know what I mean though. So Steve will be on

half of the episode when I'll get somebody else

for the other half for the other movie. So it's

gonna lead M -Wire to have more of a voice and

more voices to come in. So it's gonna be pretty

awesome. The eventual goal for MWIRE is to get

it to 200 episodes, not just next year because

they said 150 will take some breath. MWIRE is

going to go on for a while, folks, but the way

it's going to work after 150, it's going to be

a lot more interesting because you're going to

have a lot more voices on the show. Tooncast

Beyond is going to come back in full force. I

already have the first well, the next five episodes

or so planned out. Episode 63 will start off

in the new year with Steve and I reviewing the

first season of the 2003 TMNT cartoon. Episode

64 will be myself and someone else doing, for

the first time ever on the GCRN, we will have

My Little Pony coverage. We're gonna review My

Little Pony Friendship is Magic Season 1. not

sure who the coast is going to be on that episode

65 my girl jen and i are going to do inside out

episode 66 steve and i are going to talk about

star wars cartoon parodies episode 67 jen's going

to come back and do inside out with me and then

after that who knows so that's what's going on

with m wire and tune cast beyond as i already

said powers of greyskull will continue with our

she were reviews and all that good stuff i'm

sure you've got plenty of stuff coming up with

altered geek What other, something about new

podcast voting, you want to tell people about

that? Well, this is only going to affect one

particular thing. We're going to have another

Top 100 this year. We're going to have two GCR

and wars, one run by myself, one run by Optimus

Solo. Originally, we're going to be two Top 100s.

But since talking about it, we kind of decided

against that. And this one would be too much

to gather. But we're going to start off the year

with the GCR in awards, of course, as usual.

First full week of January, we're going to have

the voting pop -up on the site where you get

to make your nominations, as per usual the last

two years we did this. And then after three weeks,

I'm going to close that and then get the top

fives of each category together for voting. And

then once those are done, we'll record a podcast

and have the printed results afterward of how

everything ranked. And again, that's completely

like fan voted. There's nothing that has to do

with us whatsoever. Right. So it's always kind

of fun to see what pops up and what doesn't Following

that the awards will be a G sarin wars, which

I'm going to do the top I Think it was the it's

gonna be the 90s 90s villains tournament. I've

had this planned out for three years uh... ways

to tell me that you all should be really shocked

because i'm the one that plans shit steve doesn't

plan a lot of stuff. Steve plans shit if he wants

to do it bad enough. That's how it works. No,

after we did the top the top uh... you know the

eighties villains uh... and this is animated

just to let everyone know this is animated after

we did the eighties villains tournament uh...

i was like i want to do the nineties uh... because

Reasons here 90s. Um, yeah. Well, I was an 80s

and 90s kid So like both of them resonate with

me, but I was like a mid to late 80s kid Yeah

and then all 90s pretty much so it's gonna resonate

with me a little bit more but uh So yeah, that's

that's what's gonna come up and then we're gonna

do the top 50 countdown Which is the debut of

this particular event? It will run, you know

half the time of the top 100 the catch there

is there will be two sets of lists this one will

be voted completely different than any other

thing on the site this is going to have a staff

vote and a listener vote interesting a fan vote

so what what it will account to is it's going

to be the top 50 video game franchise countdown

And I didn't franchise because if you're gonna

do video games you're gonna end up with like

three alos You're gonna end up with like two

Arkham's you're gonna end up with you know three

battlefields And it just didn't make any damn

sense Yeah, so we're going to weigh them based

on the merit of the entire franchise as a whole

even if there is like a turd in the entire franchise

somewhere or a couple of them in that franchise

it's gonna be based on the overall or the strength

of some of the stronger ones in there. And it's

OK if you mention some of those in there, but

if you vote for one of them, it's going to be

automatically for that franchise. So there's

no need to put Halo 3 or Halo 4 or Battlefield

3 or 4 or whatever, because either way, you're

voting for that franchise. That just makes it

easier because of the vast amount of video games

there are and trying to pinpoint what console

and whatever. It just makes it easier. So anyways,

there's going to be a fan vote that is completely

fan driven. And then there's going to be the

staff vote. And the staff vote is going to be

all internal anyway. And it's going to more or

less be based on basically how we do a top 100

of it. It's just going to, when we're recording

it though, it's going to take place with the

listener rankings, not the staff rankings. and

then we'll tell where our ranking listed compared

to where things fell on the listener one. It

sounds more complicated than it needs to be,

but anyways, it's gonna be completely driven

by you, the fans, and not us, so we'll play the

backseat on this one more or less. I'm actually

kind of curious to see what comes up because

some of us are gamers. Some of us are more so

than others and some of us, you know, are more,

you know, we have our set games and that's it.

And which is fine. But again, it's it'll be nice

to have that nice mixture of everybody's input

on that. And I'm not going to reveal what the

top 100 is going to be. That's no that's going

to be fun to find out later. And then there'll

be another GCR on Wars towards the end of the

year, too, which I'm not going to say anything

about. So there'll be some hidden content towards

the end of the year. There will be monthly spotlights

based on certain events or films that come out

in certain months, so be sure to look for those.

But yeah, that's pretty much all that's going

to be out this year. There's going to be a lot

of new stuff, a lot of new features, a lot of

new fun stuff to get on. If you guys have any

suggestions for stuff you'd like to see on the

website or... done in the shows in general or

specific shows or whatever, please feel free

to just let us know either through the social

media or through feedback at geekcastradio .com,

always open for suggestions. I know this is a

very long episode to listen through, so just

let us know. Yep, absolutely. For the pull okay,

so I'll give people a little bit of a hint for

the pull bag I meant to do it earlier when I

was talking about my own two cast beyond but

the pull bag starting in January We're gonna

have several episodes We're gonna have giant

size episode 122 123 which is gonna be Batman

Beyond the 2015 Series by Dan Juergens and Bernard

Chang we're gonna do this first six issues of

that We're going to do Angry Birds Transformers.

We're going to do the new James Bond 007 comic.

We're going to do D4VE, the original series,

and D4VE number two. Joe Reed and I will come

back and do TMNT issues 51 and 52. And then,

as I said earlier, with Tooncast Classic, with

Tooncast Beyond, doing My Little Pony Friendship

is Magic season one. The pull bag for the first

time ever will get into IDW's my little pony

comics We're gonna do ponytails volume one and

volume two is two episodes. We're gonna do the

fiend ship is magic Trade paperback, which is

a spotlight on all the villains and then we're

gonna do friendship is magic volumes and friends

forever volumes one and two one two trades one

podcast, so That's what's what's going on with

the pull bag for the first part of the year We've

got so much other stuff coming for the pull bag

as well For geek cast radio the podcast specifically.

I just had this idea today before we started

recording I just told Steve about it. I haven't

really had a chance to write anything down about

it It's just a an idea that's in my head Starting

next year at some point. I don't know when Hopefully

before our seventh anniversary on June 1st. I

want to do nine podcasts episode 91 to 99 Where

it'll be the top? Favorite will most like least

liked whatever it's basically gonna be a numbered

list of nine things from the 90s So each episode

will be nine different things that we either

liked didn't like or remember from the decade

of the 90s So that's gonna be the next nine episodes

of the GCR podcast may have mics We do have some

stuff coming up. We kind of got burnt out here

at the end of the year with WWE because they're

just not, it's just gone downhill folks. But

Mike and I, along with Ryan the Uneven Flo Merkley,

we will be back next year doing some sort of

WWE reviews or content with Mayhem Mikes. I think

that pretty much does it, Steve. Alrighty. So,

how can the people get a hold of you on the Twitters?

At TF2 and Mike. And I'm at SCP -21. So, thank

you for listening to the 2015 GCRN Year In Show.

We hope you enjoyed this run back from the past

year and look forward to all the awesome content

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