GCR – Episode 51 – Top 100 Animated Films Intro

You're listening to the Geekcast Radio Network,

a podcast. Geekcastradio .com presents The Geekcast

Radio Top 100 Animated Films Countdown Hello

and welcome to Geekcast Radio. And of course,

it wouldn't be Geekcast Radio without hitting

it two years later with a new Top 100 list. And

being that this is the latest countdown, we also

have joining our panel here... for this epic

proportion. It's myself, Steve Megatron Phillips,

with Mike TFG1 Blanchard, and Kevin Optimus Solo

Thompson, and then a newcomer to our Top 100

guild here is Dan the Movie Revolt. I like that.

Our guild. Yes. Yes, the initiations were hard

and rigored, but I got through them. I'm sorry.

I will shut my pie hole right now. The whole

point of a secret society is you don't talk about

the secret society. It's just like Fight Club.

Yeah, that's Fight Club, not the Top 100 Guild.

We're more like Munchkinland here. Yeah, the

Top 100 Guild. The Top 100 Guild, nobody knows

what the induction was. Not even the ones being

inducted in it. That's because Joker did all

the work. Bada bing. No, actually, that's because

it's Kevin. We know nothing. So let's go around

the panel and kind of, for those that are unfamiliar

with our network, being that this is broadcast

all over the place right now, or it shall be,

let's go around and kind of do a basic intro

with everybody and the shows they're on. First

of all, we should say that this is Geekcast Radio

episode 51. What? That matters not. Yes, it does.

We're here for the top 100. Let's be realistic

here. It's the top 100, yes, but it's also episode

51, which, again, for those that are new to the

network won't know either way. They're just going

to know it's the top 100. There's other stuff

if you want to listen to it. Yes. Okay, I'll

go first. Let's see. Once upon a time, you may

or may not have heard me. My initiation into

the Geekcast radio came via ToonCast Classic,

where Mike and I made a long journey through

the world of animated television series. You're

incorrect, sir. Your actual first episode was

TFG 160. I wasn't talking about my actual first

episode. I'm talking about, like, major. participation

in the network, um, outside of that. But, uh,

then that led us to, I was going to have a cool

little segue here. Um, and that led us, you know,

after we got through our team has classic and

dealing with animation series after animation

series, eventually evolved into our top 100 animated

series list, which now has evolved into our top

100 animated films lists. So it's all coming

full circle. Um, after that, uh, you may, if

you listen to the network, um, what else do I

do? Um, I was a little guest voice for Transformation

Animation Podcast. I was the voice of reason.

You were the hater. Just admit the correct term.

You were the hater. I was on Mass Mayhem, Powers

of Greyskull, Telecast, Once Upon a Time, and

most recently you may have heard me in the top

ten film lists for GCR or in the GCR Wars episodes.

Other than that, I guess that's all I have as

far as... What? NY Weekly. Oh, yeah, NY Weekly.

Currently, that's the latest records I've done,

and that's a lot of fun talking about movies.

So, yeah, I'm the movie guy, the list guy, the

cartoon guy. Don't know much about comics and

don't know much about games. Mike? No, I can

go to Dan first. All right. Throw the fresh meat

under the bus. Well, I started actually as a

lonely movie blogger for the site. I kind of

had my own little blog going, but Mike and Steve

were nice enough to let me do some re -reviews

for the site in different articles and things

of that nature. And slowly but surely, I actually

got into podcasts and mostly on MR or some geek

cast radio episodes as well. I was also on all

the genre episodes for the top movies. And most

recently, we just, like Kevin mentioned, we just

started doing MR Weekly with myself, Kevin, and

Michael Booth Powers, who you can hear on Ultra

Geek and Off the Cuff as well, which is a video

game podcast. My background, like I mentioned,

is movies. I'm not necessarily a movie... I didn't

go to movie school or anything like that. I just

watch a lot of movies, I guess. It's kind of

my foray into all geekdom. Like Kevin, I'm not

really into video games, but I have a little

bit more knowledge of superheroes and comics

and whatnot, more so maybe than an average person,

maybe not as much as Mike and Steve with all

they're doing with the pullback. But I was very

happy to kind of get into this project because

the original Top 100 cartoon series is kind of

what got me into Geekcast Radio to begin with.

So it's a nice little evolution of kind of getting

into the network as a listener and now being

a participant. It's a nice little evolution.

And you came full circle. Yeah. Yes, exactly.

Like The Lion King, because that's a movie. Go

ahead, Mike. And we're talking about movies.

I like it. I'm TFG1 Mike. I'm pretty much on

85 % of the podcasts that we produce. Started

out with TFG1 Podcast. Steve and I became friends

over Twitter and had similar interests with Transformers.

Since then... As I said, you can pretty much

hear me on almost everything. Right now, the

most current up -to -date show that I'm doing

is The Pull Bag, which is all about comics, which

is all Steve's fault, since he made me get Death

of the Family from last year's Batman run. Other

shows, they're too numerous to name. I'm the

other co -creator of the Geekcast Radio Network.

I started out in all things Transformers, joining

with Mike into the TFG1 podcast. After that,

going into MWire, Geekcast Radio. I've been on

a good portion of all the different podcasts

on the network. Not to the extent you have, but

I've been on quite a bit of the shows. Currently,

my projects are... in The Poll Bag with Mike,

in Ultra Geek Unlimited, which is with Mike Powers

of Off the Cuff, which is kind of the random

geeky show. I've also been in GCR and Wars, which

is another fun tournament -based podcast. Not

too far off from what we're doing here, but it's

still a completely different beast. And then

Geekcast Radio, of course, is the... the flagship

where we do all of our various countdowns or

lists, which always turn out to be a great deal

of fun. I agree. I'm the list man. Yes, he is

the list man. He's the one that puts the list

together. We're the ones that send it. He's the

one that does all the math because no one else

cares or has the brainpower to do so. They do.

I just volunteer. Yes. So let's get into the

main goal and mission. or what you will of this

entire countdown, Kevin? I mean, I think it was

the next logical step after doing the Top 100

Animated Series. We had a lot of fun with that.

A lot of people participated in that. A lot of

people commented, responded, gave their feedback

from it. And so we wanted to do more of them.

We wanted to do more either top 50 or top 100

countdowns. And it just seemed like as far as

topics go and subjects go, that the next logical

step was to do animated movies since we had already

done animated series. There will be more of these

in the future, but this seemed like the next

best thing to do. So the agenda as far as the

goal of this countdown is to give a collaborative

geek viewpoint on what in the geek world could

possibly be the top 100 animated films. You know,

there's not really a lot of limits. We'll get

into rules and whatnot here in a little bit.

But just kind of a geek perspective on what are

the best animated films ever. So that's the main

goal, and to have some fun to debate these, to

weigh the pros and cons, the good and bad about

each of these films, and at the end of the day

to see which ones we're in agreement on as far

as what should rank supreme. Sounds good. Dan,

do you have anything to add on the goal? Sure.

I mean, when you look at lists, a lot of people,

there's a couple ways of looking at lists. It's

like you're trying to play that match game where

you match your favorites and you have an idea

of where they should be, and you try to make

sure that they're in those right spots. And,

yeah, there's some fun to that. But to me, I

think a really great thing about doing a list

like this is... and maybe we'll be able to talk

about some movies some people aren't aware of,

maybe some people that are even myself or other

people on the podcast aren't aware of and get

to learn about new movies or new properties and

get some firsthand experience about them. I think

that's a cool thing about lists. Usually when

I go into the list, that's what I look for, is

just learn about something I may not be aware

of. And not only learning about stuff that you're

not aware of, but on a second hand there, it

might give you reasons to revisit movies you

haven't seen in a long time, maybe some films

you haven't seen since your childhood. It might

pique some interest and make you ask yourself,

oh, they rated that movie pretty high. I haven't

seen that movie in a long time. Maybe I should

check it out again. And, you know, it sparked

discussion. You know, some of it may be a trip

down memory lane for films you've seen a long

time ago. You know, so there is some, I guess,

some nostalgic value here. But also there might

be some films, like you said, more modern films

or older films that slipped past you that you

didn't see that maybe will open your eyes to.

And, you know, discussion about this stuff is

just fun, and you usually learn something along

the way. So it's good on multiple levels. Well,

sure. So that is the goal. Go ahead. I was going

to say, do we have any kind of stats or voter

submissions? Yeah, I got some numbers for everybody.

If you remember from the animated series countdown,

we had a number of people that submitted lists

and collaborated with us. The number grew for,

we didn't think it was, but Dan put a lot of

legwork in, and we have a lot of contributors

this time. So, so far, I know we've only done

two countdowns, but this, I guess, will be the

reigning supreme here as far as the record of

most contributors up to this point. We had 20

individuals or groups or networks or podcasts

submit lists for our countdown. And in total,

the number of votes cast for our thing here is

over 1 ,750 as far as individual votes. And when

you break it down into, obviously, you know,

certain movies will appear on multiple lists.

Overall, there were 350 movies that at least

received one vote. Wow. So from 350, we are giving

you those that ranked in the top 100 during our

countdown. So obviously that means 250 are left

off. So that is a massive number. And all of

these are basically going to be records because

as far as the votes go and the number of contributors.

We are also spanning... Nine different decades

as far as when these movies were released. So

we are darn near coming up on 100 years worth

of movies. Not quite there because we need a

little bit more time. But if you're just going

by decades that are represented, we have nine

different decades. Obviously, a number of different

companies. There's going to be some diversity

on this list, which I think is a good thing.

But just the sheer number of movies, 350 movies

that were voted on, is pretty impressive in my

mind. Outside of that, I don't want to give too

much away, but I will say as far as some things

that you may have remembered from the last countdown

and kind of how we did the breakdown, we've listened

to the feedback, and I'm going to have some additional

information this time as we go through. Should

we do like a little how it works thing? Yeah.

Yes. So what have we changed and learned and

implemented for this round that's different from

the last time we did the top 100 that you think

we improved it this time around? Well, first

of all, just in kind of... Preface to that decision,

for those that didn't see the animated series

countdown or haven't tuned into that, I guess

you couldn't really see it unless you watched

our YouTube videos. But those who listened to

that know a little bit. But for those that didn't,

how this works is basically, I guess I am the

holder of all the secrets here. I'm the only

one that knows the actual countdown, and I've

compiled all the votes, and we'll talk about

that in a minute. On my computer, the top 100

and all the other information, all the ones that

didn't make it, all the rankings, etc. Nobody

else knows that. So when we do these records,

basically what happens is they are live reactions,

I guess is the best way to put it. Whoever is

on the record, I basically drop into our conversation

window information as we get to each one. You

get genuine reactions from the panel as far as

when a movie is showing up at a certain part.

Now, one thing that has changed, and that's the

reason I kind of bring that up, is based on your

feedback from the last countdown, some people

were interested in some other information and

some other ways that you could possibly rank

things, et cetera. So with each movie that we

discuss and that is dropped into the conversation

as it is revealed, there will be a number of

pieces of information that you will get. First

of all, you'll obviously get the name of the

movie, the year that was released, the company

that produced it. We're also going to include

the Rotten Tomatoes score currently for that

movie. We're going to reveal its ranking, obviously.

That's kind of self -explanatory. We're going

to reveal how many lists the movie appeared on

amongst the 20 submitted. We will reveal its

points as far as where it's ranking. And there

will also be an average ranking. And what I mean

by that is, let's say we have a movie that is

only on five of the lists. but all of them rank

it number one. All right, so I would reveal to

you that even though it was only on five lists,

it did have an average ranking of, you know,

one, the top spot, which would be impossible.

So you'll get an idea of not just how it ranked

amongst the 20, but of those people that did

vote for it. How did they rank it? So we kind

of have two different gauges of how that movie

ranks. And I'll also have the highest the movie

was ranked amongst any of the lists. So you're

going to be getting a lot of information as far

as different ways that it could be viewed. We're

going on straight point value, which means that

the 20 people that submitted lists, they submitted

lists basically of 100 movies, with a few exceptions

that did 50 or 75, but most people did 100. And

how we do that is we just rank them 1 through

100. So if you rank something the best movie

of all time, it gets 100 points. If you rank

something second, it gets 99. all the way down

to 1. And then all of that is tabulated and calculated

and summed up so that each movie has an actual

point total. So that means that the highest point

total a movie could have for those mathematicians

out there is 2 ,000. Since there was 20 lists,

if all 20 people ranked something number 1, it

would have 2 ,000 points. So all the movies ranked

will be ranked somewhere between 1 and 2 ,000.

if that makes sense. So that's one change as

far as the information that you're going to be

getting and kind of to be able to gauge where

the movie falls in that 1 to 2 ,000 ranking and

its average placement and its highest placement.

So we'll be giving you all that. So that's a

little bit of a change. Another change is the,

kind of alluded to earlier, the number of people

that is involved in this, I think has really

given us a diverse pool of contributors. Whereas

that may have been one of the critiques against

us somewhat in the animated series list because

we had a lot of fans of, obviously, Western animation

compared to anime. So hopefully we'll give a

little bit more of a fair shake to anime. I don't

want to say, though, that hardcore anime fans

will probably always find problems with any listing

that we do. Just because there is a good portion

of us that don't have exposure to a lot of the

anime films, TV shows, etc. So that caveat is

out there. And Dan, you kind of have a better

idea of geographically or age -wise the body

of people that it's involved with, possibly.

Can you speak a little bit to the diversity or

the variety of people that are involved? Sure.

I mean, there are a huge variety of different

podcasts and anything from podcasts or movie

blogs and the age and the geography. I think

that youngest, I believe, is around 19 or so.

The oldest, I believe, mid -40s and mid -50s.

So there's a pretty big range there. Most of

the organizations that we're working with are

located in the United States. There was one that

I believe was outside in the United Kingdom.

Most of them, and the people that are contributing

are a combination of A, like movie critics and

movie bloggers, some actual animators, some actual

people who have had some experience with some

of the major animated companies or come from

a background that's more of the technical side.

Some people are just big fans of movies, and

even some more general fans as well. So it's

a really hodgepodge of everyone, really. You

have really hardcore experts to just general

fans, which I think is a good mixture of everything.

And there are a good amount of anime fans out

there. I didn't get, there aren't any... specific

anime podcast that we went to. I tried not to

when I was reaching out to people to pick like

any people who are dedicated to one type of animation

because that could skew things. Like if I went

to a Disney podcast or Pixar podcast, obviously,

you know, kind of know where their allegiance

lies. So I try to spread the love to people who

are kind of more general. So we didn't have any.

uh biases or at least we try to eliminate them

as much as possible so hopefully with this wide

range of people participating we'll get a list

that's really unpredictable and a lot of fun

to go over yeah and um another thing for people

that don't know how this works so basically we

will do this in chunks of 20 so that has not

changed um from the top 100 animated series so

In our next episode, we'll give you the first

20, 100 through 81, and then we'll do 80 through

61, et cetera, until we get down to the one,

and then we will do a wrap -up show kind of to

sum everything up and kind of our overall reactions

on the list in its entirety. And another thing

that we'll be doing as we go along, we'll be

keeping track of which companies are most represented,

which decades or years are most represented.

thing that will be interesting, I think, to look

for as we go through this countdown, which is

something that we really didn't have, that wouldn't

have been applicable in our Top 100 Animated

Series list, is how sequels, prequels, third

versions, fourth versions of films fare in our

Top 100 list, and how many of those get in there.

So we'll be keeping track of that as well. as

well as the anime films and, like you said, the

different companies, Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks,

whatever. So we'll be keeping track of all that,

and that'll be more something that we kind of

discuss in the wrap -up part. Mike, anything

you want to talk about as far as this time around

and what people should be aware about? It's going

to be interesting. You know, it's going to be

something completely different, as we've already

said, as far as what we're actually ranking.

It's going to be really interesting to see if

a sequel or a prequel ranks above an original.

I know Kevin's going to have a lot to say if

Lion King 2 ranks above Lion King. I'm not saying

that it would, but I'm just saying that Kevin

hates all Disney sequels, so that's at least

one of his biases. Well, and the other thing

that will be interesting once we're all said

and done, and this is something that we'll be

discussing, like I said, a little bit in the...

wrap up um well two things uh one that you made

me think of there is basically once we're done

we could break this down and and kind of take

a look at how did we rank you know all of the

whatever, the DreamWorks films. You know, what

was the top -ranking DreamWorks film, second,

third, fourth? What was the top -ranking Disney

film, second, third, fourth, Pixar, et cetera?

So we'll be able to kind of discuss that a little

bit. Yeah, that'll make the wrap -up more interesting,

too. And the other thing that we'll do in the

wrap -up is, you know, we're not trying to bash

any list this time around. In particular, there

wasn't, like, a terrible list out there that

kind of prodded us to do this like there was

with the animated series list. So another...

What's that? This is more of an evolution. from

what we started two years ago. Right. And people

wanting us to do more of these, and it's going

to take us a couple of years each time around.

Well, we're getting better at it, so maybe we'll

be able to pump them out faster. But one thing

that we'll also be able to do in the wrap -up

is look at our list and do some kind of compare

and contrast to the different lists that are

out there. IGN has a list. IMDB has a list. Dan,

what were some of the other ones that we've looked

at? Total film, AFI, only top 10. There aren't

many top 100 animated lists out there, so that's

one thing I think we're doing that's a little

bit different, because there isn't a huge amount,

but there are a good amount, like you mentioned.

Probably the most notable one is probably that

the total film has a pretty extensive... And

that's something, too, like you said, the reason

why I wanted to do 100 again, because for some

topics, like I said, we might not do top 100

for all. topics that we tackle. Maybe we'll have

some top 50s, etc. But for movies, I think another

bonus of doing Top 100 is what you kind of talked

about in that previous discussion as far as it

gives us a lot more time to tackle different

movies that would be lost in, you know, anytime

someone does like a top 10 animated films of

all time, to me that's almost pointless because

you really don't get to to delve into the world

of animated films. You don't get to discuss a

lot of films that would be lost in that type

of listing. So when we're doing 100, we're really

going to get to talk about a variety of films

that hopefully a wide range of people can relate

to one or two or three in every set of 10 that

we do. And one thing that's interesting, I think,

with animation, just doing research, and as I

was putting together my list, I don't know if

any of you noticed this as well. There is not

a lot of universal consent, straightforward opinion

when it comes to what are the best animated films.

I feel like every list is widely different. And

it's hard to, I think with this animated series,

you have an idea. But with movies, I think it's...

I see some movies that are ranked number one

in some spots and then in other lists are not

even in the top ten. So I have no idea what's

going to be on our list. Another thing that we

get, especially spanning nine different decades,

we're going to get a variety of different styles

and types of animation. We're going to get animated

films that have music in them, animated films

that don't. Maybe that will be an interesting

discussion to have in the wrap -up as far as

how did films with music and more musicals have

– do compared to some of the other ones. The

different types of stories, the sequels versus

the originals. So there's a lot of different

things that we can kind of compare and contrast

because in nine decades worth of time there's

been a lot of differences in all the films that

have been released. So that'll be interesting

to kind of look at too. I didn't go over yet

some of the rules as far as what people were

given when creating this list now there wasn't

really honestly there wasn't a whole lot of limitations

and a whole lot of rules um particularly we i

really just said number one like we always try

to do and i know this is an impossible task but

this isn't technically supposed to be in the

people that submitted the list their opinion

what are the best Animated films, not what are

your personal favorites or your guilty pleasures

or, you know, your favorite film when you were

five. But overall, when you're looking at the

whole body of animated film, what rises to the

top? So that was obviously the task. Houston,

we have a problem. OK, so people might be wondering

when. will I hear this top 100 animated series

or animated series? Wow. That was two years ago.

When will I hear this top 100 animated films

countdown? The countdown will run episode 51

through 57 of geek cast radio. It will air every

Friday from October 18th through November 29th.

So over the next seven weeks, you're going to

get the Top 100 Animated Films Countdown. What

are the rules, Kev? You know, we had a whole

set of rules for the animated series listing.

I really didn't give an extensive list of rules

for this countdown. I didn't feel like it was

totally necessary, but there are a few, and some

people might have some issues with it. But first

and foremost, obviously, this is supposed to

be about, I was asking people, the 20 people

that contributed list. This was supposed to be

about, in their ideas, in the whole body of animated

film, what are the best films? Not what are your

personal favorites, not which one do you have

guilty pleasure for, not what was your favorite

film when you were five, or what film did you

have the toys of, but try to eliminate, I know

it's impossible, but try to eliminate as much

bias as possible and give us the best animated

films. So that was kind of the purpose. statement

as you were supposed to be thinking about when

you created your list. Outside of that, there

was really only two rules that I remember discussing.

Number one, the film must have been released

in America at some point, and the film must have

been released in English. At some point, I believe

those were the only two that I really gave out.

Now, along the way, we did discuss that in order

to qualify as one of the animated films that

a majority of the film had to be animated. So

you're not going to see stuff like Mary Poppins

that has little animated segments. You're not

going to see the Muppet movies. Those are not

animated. You're not going to see stuff like

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam. Those types

of things, we deemed they had too much live action

to include them in a grouping of what otherwise

would be 100 % animation. With most of the other

films, it's just not really fair to do that.

Outside of that, was there any rules, Dan, that

we discussed? I know we kind of had some conversations

back and forth over the forums and email. Am

I missing anything? No, that was pretty much

it. I mean, I guess this is more of a rule of

what we can include. This includes all types

of animation from claymation, computer generation,

CGI, stop animation, stop motion animation. So

that, I mean, that was. Just in case people are

wondering, it's all included. If it's animation,

it's available. Also, you didn't have to be released

in theaters. As long as it was not made for TV,

so if it was straight to DVD, think of something

like the Marvel and DC animated movies. A lot

of the Scooby -Doo movies and stuff like that.

Yeah. Those are eligible for this list. It just

couldn't be a TV series or a made -for -TV movie.

But that's pretty much all the rules that we

really gave. And that's probably why we have

such a vast body of movies getting to vote on.

Like I said, 350 different films that at least

one person thought was worthy of a top 100 nod.

So, yeah, there wasn't a lot of rules. People

were basically free to find whatever films they

thought were worthy and put them in without having

to worry that they would be eliminated. So, yeah,

so those are the rules. Mike? As far as the anime

inclusion and all that, like Kevin just said,

the two main rules were it had to have been released

sometime in the United States and it had to be

in English. We fully acknowledge that there are

foreign language films and anime films that may

not have been eligible for the list that are

fantastic films or worthy of being included.

But again, we try to do a better job this time

around, but some of the disclaimers that we use

for the animated series list are still relevant,

and we realize that we're not capable of giving

them... kind of their just dues. So we don't

want to include them and just get lambasted for

not having them rank where they should because

we can't give them a credible ranking because

a lot of us haven't seen some of them. Exactly.

But I'm sure, and I know at least one contributor

had found a lot of English language. Well, I

think what we can say is that those that do make

it on their countdown, people might have problems

with where. But I think it's safe to say that

if they do fall in the top 100, that that's probably

the best of the best as far as anime films go.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it'll make it easier, too,

as far as the anime is concerned. The reason

why some of the ones that aren't released here

won't be on it is because it's not available

to the wide public. Right. So it's another one

of those cases, like you guys said, that if it

shows up, it deserves to be here based on the

fact that it's an American dub of it. And we

fully acknowledge that it might not rank where

most people that are more familiar with anime

would rank them. But like I said, we don't want

to do an injustice by just including all anime

because a lot of them probably wouldn't fall

on the list that should. So what are ways to

interact with us during the countdown? There's

going to be a couple different ways. There's,

of course, the voicemail line, which we will

use for the wrap -up episode like we did last

time, where people can kind of get their vocals

in there, which will be 502 -526 -5821. There's

also... A couple other written ways that you

can get a hold of us. You can email us feedback

at geekcastradio .com, one of the other methods

we didn't have last time. The forums and episode

post at geekcastradio .com. We will be, for those

that are interested, there is on the main page

a couple different links to the forum post. There's

actually one directly to the forum post for discussion.

of the top 100. And, uh, of course there's episode,

uh, commenting areas under each post where you

can kind of say what you liked, didn't like under,

you know, each episode as it's displayed. Uh,

you can visit the Facebook fan page, uh, by searching

geek kiss radio network. Uh, mostly you can do

that to kind of find out when they're going to

be released and kind of, uh, to keep up to date

with it. But, uh, I would save more of the interaction

specifically for the episode post of the forum.

You can also interact with us on Twitter at GeekCastRadio,

hashtag Top100Films. And also there will be ways

for you to interact throughout. Steve's been

doing a great job with different poll questions

on the site, and we'll find ways to incorporate

that as well as we release different episodes.

to give you another option to contribute and

to voice certain opinions. Yes. Regarding the

website real quick too, if you go onto the website,

there is a contributors tab there that lists

all the people that put in lists for, you know,

for this project. And there's links there to

their websites, to their podcasts, to their blogs,

all that great stuff. So definitely check that

out. You know, if you're in the market and looking

for some new things to listen to or read, A lot

of great options if you're interested in anything.

If you're interested in Geek Hacks Radio, there's

no reason why you wouldn't be interested in what

they have to offer as well. Dan, are you able

to give us a quick rundown of the contributors

so they get some? Yeah, no doubt. I can go ahead

and do that now. There are some names you're

probably familiar with that did participate in

the last list. Of course, with Kevin and your

work with BehindTheVoiceActors .com, they provide

some lists along with This Week in Geek. and

the movie podcast of the Super Weekend Gate,

which is Movie Madness. Animation and aficionados,

those that listen to Pixels Animation will be

familiar with TV's Mr. Nate Neal that works with

Mike on that podcast. There's also the website

jakestake .com that is a combination of a lot

of different TV, movie news, a great kind of...

Please to go to for reviews and a bunch of different

stuff about pop culture. There's the podcast

Geek Fights, which just recently ended, actually.

But they have a huge library of different debate

topics. pick in the tournament style type of

format. Well, they'll pick two topics or something

like the best war movie or the Star Wars or Star

Trek or the best monster movie. Tons and tons

of different topics all available on their website

or their iTunes subscription. There is the blog,

also the podcast, Pop Addled. They are actually

kind of new. They just recently started within

the last year or so. So you can get on the ground

floor with them. Again, they're very geek -centered,

TV, video games, comics, a lot of great stuff

there. There is the Rotoscopers, which is a website

dedicated completely to animation news. And within

that, too, is the Animation Addicts Podcast,

which is the official podcast of that website

that does reviews and news. As well about all

different types of movies. That are animated.

Some other small screensaver. Which is I believe

the UK. Person who is providing. Who does movie

blogs. And reviews on his website. Similarly

to us. There are the super geeks. I guess they

are. Again they are a podcast. And they have.

A dedication to a lot of geeky topics. Anything

there that you can think of. Comics, movies,

television shows, you know, you can get the idea.

And kind of rounding this out, there's T -Busy

Movie Reviews, again, another movie blogger.

And then there's the 21 Network, which is an

entire network of podcasts, similarly to Geekast

Radio, that put together an entire list for us.

And there's a number of different podcasts on

that network that there's like the 21 Podcast,

Cooncast, which is... about again tv comics and

games uh inside the force all about star wars

uh popular fantastic fanatics which is about

uh just fandoms in general and uh in the comics

which is about comics and lastly they have a

sports podcast as well so and sorry there was

a lot there but you can tell there's a huge amount

of people uh i didn't want to give too much but

you can check out their stuff on the site get

an idea of what they're into. So you can see

that we are branching out as much as possible.

And I would really, really like to thank all

the people that did help because it does become

time consuming putting together a list like this.

And it takes a lot of work and they're really

gracious enough to do this for us. So really

appreciate that. So if you're appreciating this

podcast, do them a favor, check out their stuff,

subscribe, you know, do their iTunes reviews,

all that great stuff. Show them, you know, love

and tell them that Geekcast Radio sent you. There

you go. Yes. So, yeah, I hope that this episode

pretty much rounds out all the information you'll

need through the epicness of this new Top 100

Animated Film Countdown. Notice we aren't using

the all -time tag. Yeah, no, that was Kevin's

fault last time. Well, that was kind of all of

us, and then we realized that that was part of

our... folly of last time. Yeah, that's what

really kind of knocked us down. But again, as

we said, last time we were trying to basically

prove IGN being a fraud. Now you've gone and

done it. Hey. I know. Go back and listen to the

original Top 100 Animated Series list. Listen

in the very first episode, the introduction to

that countdown. And we discussed the entire reason

why we started these countdowns, and it was because

of the fact that in podcast form, we can explain

why films or why animated series are ranked where

they're ranked versus putting one number on 100

different pages. Which makes sense. Yes. So I

think that about wraps it up, unless you guys

have anything else. No, if you have any questions

or whatever, let us know before that first episode

airs. Go to the site, leave us some comments,

and prepare yourself for the beginning of an

epic countdown. Yes, the countdown begins. This

episode will be out October 18th, 20 to 80, or

not 20 to 81. Wow, I'm jumping ahead. And that

was a total backwards count, 100 to 81. That's

why you're not in charge of the math. Shut up.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly my point. Episode 52 will

air October 25th, so let the countdown begin.

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