2016 Year in Review

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Unleash the Geek in you! Steve does voices, folks.

I don't do any voices. I just sound like crap.

You missed it by that much. I missed it by that

much. I can sort of mimic Don Adams. All right,

so this is the 2016 year of review. GCR, we've

had a lot of stuff. We'll have a lot of stuff

here to talk about in this podcast episode about

what the network has done and a few other things.

It's the standard year in review thing. that

we've tried to do i think the only time we have

not done one of these was i think 2013 2013 or

2014 so it's like year four yeah somewhere around

year four uh we didn't do one i had timing and

everything else but we are here and uh people

might be wondering well why do you guys do this

at the end of the year well because Even though

it's technically not the end of our year since

our anniversary comes up June 1st. It's the end

of every single year So it's the end of the fiscal

year where everyone is like, ah, the world's

gonna end resolution time. Yeah Not my Emperor

I'm sorry Oh crap, I can't even top so Everybody

knows Donald Trump is president -elect and everything

else. Presidente. Presidente. Salud. So at one

point when I went on rippedapparel .com, one

of the daily designs for the shirts and whatever

else that they make up, one of them was basically

Emperor Palpatine, but it said, not my emperor.

That was hilarious. And folks, I am actually

still in California on vacation. I am at my buddy

Doug Abel's house. He's talking about my generation.

He's off at work right now. And yeah, so I'm

still out here on vacation on California time.

And I said this before, and I'll say it again.

Man, I love being a turtle. Ha. Funny. Funny

guy. Thought it was. Yeah. Once Jen and I get

to a point where I'm actually living out here

in California, I cannot wait to be able to podcast

from here in California because it's 2 .30 right

now in the afternoon, whereas in the Eastern

time zone, in the real world, in the real time

zone, it's 5 .30 at night. You know most everyone

knows or you have known over the last seven and

a half eight years that Steve and I when we record

We're it's normally ten o 'clock Eastern time

at night. So for me if I'm out here, that's 7

p .m I can have the whole rest of the night to

do whatever the hell I want Before we get into

the year -end stuff we got to talk about Christmas

What's how was your Christmas? What did you get?

What did the wife and the kids get and all that

good stuff? Kids get Legos among other things

I Got stuff already knew I was getting it was

more so like new pair of shoes new robe because

the dog ate the old one And yes, I mean literally

ate a hole in my previous one. Oh geez So it

looked rather funny as I walk around the house

my way. It's like well and in my son had already

told me when I was getting So I already knew,

and my wife's like, you sure you don't want it?

I'm like, eh, what the heck. I'll wait. So yeah,

it didn't really bother me all that much. But

yeah, I mean, it was pretty good overall. Cool,

cool. Yeah, I got Jen. I got her a couple of

the DC superhero girl action figures. I got her

Batgirl and Harley. I made her a couple of CDs

and a few other things, and for some strange

reason Santa Claus skipped me this year. I don't

know why, but anyway. I'll tell you one thing

about staying with Doug out here. He's near San

Diego, so Southern California. And I know we

generally harp on these people even though we

know... Several that love these these certain

products, but I gotta tell you man Apple TV is

the best thing ever you say anything else you

want about Apple when it comes to iPhones and

iPods and IMAX, but the Apple TV is Easily the

coolest thing I have ever used. It's the easiest

interface for for it All I need now is just a

regular You know flat panel TV. I don't even

need an actual smart TV. I'll just get an Apple

TV and whatever else, but I He said oh you can

I'm sure you can sign in and you can have all

your stuff stream I'm like all right cool I signed

in with my Apple ID all the stuff that I have

pretty much all the stuff that I have on my home

computer is now I can access on that and it's

just amazing So there's that GCR and we've had

an interesting year seven You know we had the

content explosion earlier this month, which I

still need to finish up But that's due to technical

difficulties and other things with the 25 days

of Tooncast Beyond Christmas I think somebody

I think it was scanner 51 that said well now

that you're not doing 25 days in a row You can't

call it that you have to change the name. I'm

like, okay, whatever But yeah between October

and the time I flew out here to California in

December Recorded edited and got online almost

30 podcasts in two months Nice yeah, I'm a machine

Rage against or do what Bad name of a band just

oh yes rage against the machine This is not Gorilla

Radio, folks. All right, so if you have never

listened to one of our year -end shows before,

please go back and do so to see how far we've

come. Second of all, if you have, you'll know

the format. We go through the thank yous for

any interviews we got. We go through the new

things that happened for us on the site and on

the network in 2016. We then take a brief moment

to highlight some celebrity deaths. We do not

spend too much time on that, but 2016 has been

the year of suck when it comes to celebrity deaths.

And I understand everyone has their time and

all that. Yeah, we'll get more into that after.

We'll get into that in a bit. And then Steve

and I are basically going to run through our

top five, top 10 things. My top five favorite

albums from lawland records the soundtrack company.

I do work for and then we've got Games and cartoons

and TV shows and that kind of thing so that's

kind of what the what the format is going to

be here and Kicking it off. I've got to thank

the the six interviewees that I had this past

year in 2016 in February I had to add author

comic book author uh... artists uh... writer

ryan ferrier he does dave dave to devocacy coming

up in january uh... in twenty seventeen he did

hot damn uh... he actually i think is going to

be working on an issue of the team into universe

comic series from i d w So there's that. Also

had the singing voice of Jem in the holograms

for Jem, Jerika, Britta Phillips. Amy, Nicole

and I did that in February of this year. I then

chatted with composer Michael McQuistion and

Dr. Laura Danley in June of this year, the end

of June. Michael McQuistion is one third of Dynamic

Music's partners. It's him, Christopher Carter

and Lolita Romanis. uh... they've been done all

the dc stuff recently uh... badminton kate crusader

killing joke all that kind of stuff and you've

known them from bt s and superman and justice

league and all that uh... so it's very interesting

talking to her at him and her doctor lar danley

is the i'm not looking at this online folks i'm

gonna hope i don't screwed up i believe she's

the curator The Griffith Observatory out here

in California. It's a planetarium, so they put

on a bunch of shows out there. I do have to make

one little caveat to that interview, and I should

have fixed it back then when I did that. I had

said that she was the first ever doctor that

we've talked to here on the Geek Caster Network.

I should say she's the first ever astronomer

who has a doctorate. After all, we've talked

to psychologists, to the superstars and superheroes,

Dr. Andrea Ledamendi with Brian Ward several

times as well. So we've got two doctors on our

side for GCRN. After that, I talked with Mike

Quackenbush, the director of fun over there at

Chikara Entertainment. They're a wrestling. Outfit

so that was tied in with mayhem Mike's with with

myself and Mike Dodd and Ryan the uneven flow

with GCR and and twig and then the final two

interviews for this year first one was MV Gerhard

and Matt Verbois the co -owners of La La Land

Records talked to them about La La Land Records

at San Diego Comic -Con this year and other releases

that La La Land has had and then the final interview

I had was with Neil s bulk returned to GCR and

last time I talked to him was Was 2014 I believe

He is a album producer for a lot while La La

Land Records is one of his clients But that's

mainly where I know him from is his work at La

La Land He does do other work for other soundtrack

companies, but him and Dan Goldwasser They had

worked on Dan had worked on the Beverly Hills

Cop 1 & 2 scores for La La Land and they had

both worked on the Ferris Bueller score for a

while and so I want to thank everybody Who took

the time out to talk to me this year? Thank you

so much everybody not as many interviews in 2016

2015 there was a lot I remember there was a lot

of interviews in 2015 as many this year, but

Hoping to get even more next year because next

year folks and we'll get to this down the line

But next year there's a lot of stuff that's gonna

be happening next year. Oh boy so many anniversaries

to cover So many different things going on next

year. A lot of us were kind of preoccupied with

various things this year and next year we will

as well. We'll talk about that kind of stuff

at the end to kind of tease up and everything

else. What were some of the new site additions

in 2016, sir? We had the second year of the Popcasters

of Film Fantasy League. That was kind of Kevin's

Baby they revolt and yeah, I think they had in

No, it's the in session film guys. They had the

simplistic review guys So DJ Valentine from his

simplistic reviews and a bunch of other people

basically what it is folks if you haven't looked

at it or anything it's Think of fantasy baseball

except for movies. That's what it is Pretty much

up and So yeah, they had that going on we had

the Top 50 video game countdown. Yep Which was

interesting, you know And then we had the the

GCR in awards Which in this year I might skip

in 2017. Yeah, yeah More so due to timing issues

and other things. I'd like to get done right

And I'm going to be swamped. So I just, I don't

have the time to put into it this year. Um, so

it may come back the following year where it

may be a fall thing, uh, this year, but it's

going to be, uh, it's not going to be in the

early part of 2017 for sure. We did another Top

100, which just completed. Top 100 animated characters,

yep. That is probably the most interesting out

of all the Top 100s we've done as far as where

everything fell and where the arguments came

in. I haven't followed it, so I have no idea

what's going on with it. Because I've been on

vacation and because I was doing all the pre

-production for my own stuff to get ready so

I wouldn't have to do any of it when I got out

here to California, Had listened to about maybe

a total of a half an hour Split up between like

the first four parts of it. I have not listened

to everything I want to but just When I say arguments

and back and forth, I mean the comments on the

website. I Mean I've read a few of those, you

know pertaining to some things but I just kind

of You know left it alone for the most part,

you know It's cool that it got as many comments

and as much back and forth as it did. That's

always willing to try out new things. There may

be a possibility of two different ones coming

up next year, but I'm not going to say for what.

It just kind of depends. It depends on timing

and it depends on where. One of them depends

on timing for you and I personally and it also

depends on where we are. In real life when it

comes to things that we'll talk about at the

end of the show here Yep, and then of course

I revamped the website. Yep Looks great, which

yep. It works a lot better a lot faster done

a lot of tweaks to it So yeah, there's there's

been that we've got the addition of the tag cloud

on the sidelines so now we can kind of see some

of the different most use items that pop up between

the different shows. The recent contents there,

the kind of media roulette, which is like the

different reviews kind of shows up. And then

we've got like the different tabbed areas for

all the different podcasts. There will be some

podcasts probably disappearing from this list

come next year. Yeah, there are going to be some

shows that are on their way to retirement. And

some that may not make it past the first episode.

Wait, which ones won't make it past? I'm moving

a few of the shows that, due to other circumstances,

like the Cyber Dragon Ball, we recorded the first

episode in March. Future Imperfect, that's somewhere

in the back end, although I don't think we've

recorded an episode since around that time either.

Birdman and I. So I've moved those over to AlteredGeek

.com. Oh, okay. Cool. All things Transformers

will be kind of syndicated over there. Yeah.

AGU, I am going to be moving off the website.

Okay. which I made that announcement in the previous

Altered Geek episode. So it's going to be on

AlteredGeek .com and I've gotten all the audio

so it plays finally and all the comments over

there and all that stuff set up so it's going

to function very much like GeekCastRadar .com.

Different setup, it's actually one of the older

themes I used for the website. I've just tweaked

it a little bit differently. Old school like

the old school. Yeah. Well, it was more so I

had this file sitting around and I was like,

it would make a good theme for what I'm trying

to do now. I also figured out some of the menu

issues that weren't working on the previous version

of the site, so that kind of worked out too.

Although we've had like three versions of the

site in the last two years, but I prefer the

one that's already there. So yeah, so that that's

happened Some of the number ish of the shows.

I don't have a complete number only for the fact

that You know the They don't do like you're to

date in the back end okay, but I was able to

tally some of the most downloaded Shows at particular

points during the year. Okay before you get to

that Since you mentioned the things that are

gonna be moving and changing I mentioned earlier

about some shows that are gonna be retiring next

year I'm hoping against hope again. It depends

on time and everything else my plan for 2017

when it comes to podcasting folks You're not

going to get weekly shows. You're not going to

get bi -weekly shows right off the bat. You're

going to get some of that, but not with all the

shows that I do. My plan starting in January

when I get back home is to do as much pre -production

on as many podcasts as I can. The big one next

year that's going to finish up is the Powers

of Grayskull series with myself and Optimus Solo.

It has taken us, next year will be five years

that that podcast has been going on. It took

us five years to get through Filmation, He -Man,

and She -Ra. We just wrapped up She -Ra. We've

got to still put the, I think, as of this recording,

we still have to put the Christmas episode out,

and we'll have to do the recap episode when I

get home in January. But next year, next summer,

We're going to run episode 83 to whatever it

is. I don't have the numbers right off the top

of my head. But Powers of Greyskull episode 83

is where we start the new adventures of He -Man.

And the interesting thing about this is, folks,

I am so jaded when it comes to the new adventures

of He -Man because I was a 10 -year -old at the

time in 1990 when this show came out and I thought,

oh, hey, He -Man's back. It's going to be filmation.

Yay! Looked at it and I'm like, what is this?

This is not my He -Man. It was my He -Man. I

have seen it. Optimus Solo has never seen that

series. So it's going to be very, very interesting

for people to be listening to that. So the new

Adventures arc of Powers of Grayskull will run

through summer of 2017. And then - Isn't there

a movie that ties them together? That brings

He -Man into the future? You mean the 87 movie?

The live action movie? No, there's an animated

movie. That that takes place between and it's

where he man and Skeletor end up in the future

and Skeletor meets flog Who's the leader of the

mutants from the future? I think that might be

part of new adventures. I don't know. I haven't

looked it is the new adventures I remember watching

okay, but it doesn't tie into to the film at

all Well, it has the original Skeletor from uh...

base i don't know i don't know i i have it i

have avoided everything newt here's so vehemently

because i got so scarred as you know it's kinda

like the old stable michael bay ruined my childhood

well much of my human childhood got ruined when

i was an actual child with the show but anyway

so new adventures will happen in the summer of

twenty seventeen and then we will wrap up uh...

the powers of greyskull series through episode

one twenty five When New Adventures ends in the

winter of 2017, you guys will hear our reviews

of the 2002. Is it Mike Young Productions? Yeah,

Mike Young Productions. The Cartoon Network He

-Man and the Masters of the Universe series.

So that's going to happen. It close out next

year. So we got that. The pull bag right now

is on standby until I get home. It's still on

hiatus. I don't know when I'm going to bring

the pullback back. Normally, I usually do a year

end, year ahead kind of written blog thing on

the site. And because I've been on vacation this

Christmas, I'm just not doing it right now. I

mean, come on, folks. I know Steve does a lot

of work. And we'll talk about his work on the

website and everything else here in a bit. But.

I spent two months putting 30 podcasts together.

I think I deserve a vacation for once. You know?

Also, next year, I'm hoping against hope that

TV's Mr. Neil and I can finish out and close

out Pixels and the Animation. So that show will

have been running, I think, for five or four

or five, six years, something like that. I think

we started that in 2011, 2012. Might even have

been 2010. I don't remember. No, I don't think

it was that early. I think it was right after

I started Tooncast Beyond in 2011. I don't remember.

But yeah, hopefully we'll get to pixels in the

animation next year as well. Our next arc for

that is Earthworm Jim. And then Steve, hopefully,

if time allots, we will do the Donkey Kong Country

episode. And then next year, Neil and I will

kind of run through. Quite literally pun intended,

folks. We will be running through Sonic! Because

next year is the 25th anniversary of Sonic the

Hedgehog. Now you gotta get Julia White. Get

a speed, Keen! Oh god, I would love to get Urkel.

That would get us so much attention. You gotta

get me a chili dog. Did I do that? God. Um...

Do that for when the website breaks. Huh? Yeah,

we could. Take the audio. Yeah, exactly. So that's

what's going on with Powers of Grayskull pixels

in the animation. The pullback, as I said, is

kind of on hiatus. I do want to get MWire back

up and running, so we're going to get that going.

I believe Doug and I would have already released

the Mission Impossible episode 130 of MWIRE,

or it'll be released after this once I get home.

We're going to record it while I'm out here.

But next year, MWIRE will make a comeback. And

Tooncast Beyond, I believe Jen and I will be

doing more of those and everything else. My goal

next year is to focus on not necessarily, and

again, it's just a goal. I don't know if I'm

going to actually reach it. I want to get the

flagship show, GeekCast Radio, going a little

bit more. We still have Mayhem Mikes and La La

Lounge and everything else on there. But I want

to get some actual GCR episodes done. I'm hoping

to do some of the GCR and retro stuff as well.

I just kind of, and you're going to hoop and

holler when I say this, I've always been the

review show guy here at the network. And honestly,

after completing half of the review shows that

we've been working on for the past five or six

years, I need a break and I want to do some other

stuff. And it's like, I'm so tired of review

shows now. I still love them. I still want to

do them. And we still have plans to do a bunch

of them. But it's just one of those things where,

I mean, five years of Masters of the Universe.

Don't get me wrong. I've loved every minute of

doing that show with Kevin. But it's taken us

five years just through a filmation. So but there's

gonna be a bunch of stuff coming next year folks

And we hope everyone sticks around and listens

to it and and comments and and everything else

Nice so the numbers what do we got for whatever

numbers you get so the some of the most downloaded

shows of the year I should say Tombcast Beyond

really had a really good month Wow. Earlier this

year, with like 2 ,900 downloads of that particular

month. Cool. This is according to blog talk.

I have no idea what was played on our website,

because the files also play there. I've got another

method to kind of work in those numbers next

year. And then the poll bag. Oh boy. Had an episode

or a month or a particular release time where

it had 8 ,500 downloads. Wow. In August. That's

awesome. So I'm wondering if that was around

the time we had that Ninja Turtle cover? The

Ninja... Or maybe an interview that got sprinkled

around? In August, you said? Yeah. What was I

doing in August of this year for Pullbag? I honestly

do not remember. But, yeah. So, and then GCR

had a 2 ,500 download month, and then... That's

surprising, since we, other than, like I said,

other than La La Land Lounge and Mayhem Mikes,

we haven't... Well, it was like in March, so

it must have been the top 50. Yeah. So, but yeah,

that's as much of the numbers as I'm gonna get

it into. Awesome, awesome. What I assume we're

also gonna start Going through the celebrity

deadly. We've lost a lot of people this year

folks. It's just yeah one yesterday, too Which

we'll get into and one I just saw just before

recording this that they're in the hospital or

something something about Debbie Reynolds I just

saw on Facebook Yeah, the lady that founded Dark

Matter 2 died today. Dang. But in order of death,

as morbid as that is... That's so wrong, dude.

I mean, I copied these from another website,

50sweb .com, and this is like... This is like

the worst website address it could possibly be.

50sweb .com slash dead slash dead dash people

dash 2016. Wow. And I used this site last year

too, which is the only reason why it's still

there. And I was kind of like, that's a bit insensitive.

It should say like, I don't know, passed away

or, you know, no longer with us people of 2016,

not like double dead in a row with slashes, but.

So we start out with David Bowie. Yeah, that

was that that hit everybody really really hard

because he was an amazing musician he was a real

innovator when it came to his looks and his performances

and And he made a weird video like before he

passed like he knew he was going well. Yeah,

I actually just saw okay, so I Think it was time

life or TV guide or one of these things while

I've been out here in California with Jen and

her mom my fiance and my future mother -in -law

here. They showed something on TV, because until

I actually got out here to California, I haven't

actually watched real TV in a year and a half,

two years. But they had this special on there

about highlighting the people that have passed

in 2016 to the point of right before Christmas.

And they had showed the thing about David Bowie,

and they're like, yeah, he recorded this album.

I forget what it's called off the top. I think

it's called Black Star. I think that's what it

is. He recorded this, didn't tell anybody about

it, didn't promote it, didn't do anything, and

then basically he passed away and then the album

was released. So that was, yeah, kind of. And

then we lost Alan Rickman. Or Dr. Seaver, yeah.

And the sad thing about that is - Severus Snape.

Oh, you said Alan Rickman. I'm thinking of Alan

Thicke, that's later. Yeah, that's later. From

Harry Potter and Hans Gruber and Die Hard. Yup.

And then Abe the Goda. Yeah, Goda. He's done

a lot of voice stuff, too. And then Gary Shanling,

Doris Roberts from Everybody Loves Raymond. You

know what the funny thing is about Gary Shanling

is that... He was in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Yeah, that's... Hail Hydra. Yeah, that's... And

then... at the end of Iron Man 3. I guess I am

just a little prick. But honestly, the Marvel

Cinematic Universe is pretty much all I really

remember him from at this point. I know we had

it's the Gary Shandling show and the Gary Shandling

show and everything else, but I was too young

at the time when all that stuff came out. So

I never really paid attention to it. Well, I

mean, I have certain people on here I didn't

pay particular attention to, but I grabbed the

main names that. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, well,

what I'm saying is like, For me, where I remember

his name and seeing him was more so the Marvel

movies than what he's really known for, which

is the shows that he created. And, of course,

we lost Prince. Yeah, that was... Muhammed Ali.

Yep. Gordie Howe. Yep. Anton Yelchin, probably

the youngest of this group. Star Trek, yeah.

Yep. And he was in that Terminator... Salvation

or whatever. Fourth Terminator movie. No, he

played Salvation. He was Kyle Reese. Young Kyle

Reese. Oh, okay. You know the one that had Christian

Bale playing John Connor? Yeah. Then Gary Marshall,

producer from Happy Days and a lot of those other

shows. Kenny Baker, R2 -D2? R2, yep. Gene Wilder

from A Plethora of Things among Willy Wonka.

Florence Henderson from The Birdie Bunch. You

know what's so funny? And I don't mean funny

as in ha ha, but irony funny. She just passed

away and I'm one of those people that I just

have to watch certain things when I find them.

So I have to watch all these and I don't know

what it is, folks, and I will probably never

do any podcasts. reviews on any of these things

but I'm a sucker for the free for what used to

be ABC family the channel freeform and hallmark

channel all these Christmas movie thingamajigs

I just saw a Christmas movie on Netflix called

Naughty or Nice or Naughty and Nice or whatever

it's called that actually stars Maureen McCormick

and I'm like oh it's Marcia Marcia Marcia and

it took me until almost the end of the movie

to realize She was the lead female character's

mother. I'm like, wow, she's gotten old. Youngest

one from that show. It's been in a lot of Christmas

movies. It's like the weirdo type character.

Yeah. Then we have John Glenn, the first astronaut

to orbit the Earth. Yep. Alan Thicke. Yeah, that

was the one I was going to mention earlier when

you said Alan Rickman. That guy Alan thick he

worked almost to the day he died because as soon

as the news came of his passing I saw him in

everything he had one of those TV on TV like

sitcom stars the 80s retrospective things that

was new and whatever else and I'm like wow he

just died He was on an episode of Fuller house.

Yeah That too and I'll talk about fuller house

later when we get to our TV countdown And then

Carrie Fisher, you know princess Leia may the

force be with you And she was actually in rogue

one, yeah They motion captured her and kind of

reverse engineered her age Which was about as

apparent as Guy on the Death Star, I can't remember

his name right now, Tarkin. He was very obvious

that it wasn't that actor. Between the CG and

the voice, for having been set up to be just

before A New Hope. The Carrie Fisher one, I had

an inkling that that was going to happen based

on the fact she had a heart attack. And 2016

has been a dick to... Everyone Yeah, everybody

has been set like we've lost so many people this

year and don't get me wrong folks You know I

heard someone say this somewhere that it's like

oh, it's so sad at whatever age that they are

But you know how old was do you know off top

of your head? How old Carrie Fisher was when

she? 60 she was okay. She lived six decades she

probably worked four decades out of those six

you know cuz You know she was the third youngest

that died Wow Anton Yelchin is 27. Yep Prince

was 57 and Carrie Fisher 60 Everybody else is

in like they're like 80s 80s or 90s. Yeah. Yeah,

that's just very very sad and the crazy thing

about Carrie Fisher is She just had a huge part

in episode 8 of Star Wars, and they thankfully

wrapped the movie already, so it begs to wonder

how they're going to change the script for episode

9. Yeah, it really does. Well, the crazy thing

about her is, and I know that a lot of actors

and actresses want to be done like this, but

sometimes they are. They are typecast. And can

you think of any other non -Star Wars thing that

Carrie Fisher is in off the top of your head?

Blues Brothers, Draft Dead Fred, Sorority Row,

When Harry Met Sally. But for me, when people

mention Carrie Fisher, it's always an inclusion

of Star Wars in the character of Princess Leia.

It's never not that. That one was kind of a shock

because she had... The way the headlines read

when that news story came out was Carrie Fisher

suffers heart attack on plane from London. And

I'm like, damn. So before we move on really quick

kind of to well to move away from the death things

you had mentioned about the pull bag having 8

,500 downloads earlier this year the only two

episodes I can find on the website in August

were the after dark comic reactions with my buddy

Jesse Raz and I and then Joe Reed and I did the

review for TMNT, IDW's TMNT issues 59 60 and

one podcast but So yeah, I'm not too sure about

about the rest of that stuff Alright, where are

we going now, sir? Well, you get to do your top

five albums. Oh, yeah, that's right. Okay, so

Normally, I try to work in other Things but since

most of my stuff this year has been the soundtracks

from La La Land Records I have got my five favorite

albums That I have been listening to since they

came out during the year for for La La Land Records

Number five is Batman the Animated Series Volume

4. This completes La La Land Records releases

for the first 65 episodes of Batman the Animated

Series. Volume 1, 2, 3, and 4 is the first season

of the show for all the music. And next year,

folks, I'm only doing this here because I want

to tie it into the music thing. Steve and I will

be going through volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the

La La Land Records and reviewing each of them

on a special Legends of the Dark Knight episodes

as well. So we'll be doing that next year at

some point during 2017. Number 4 on my list is

the Legends of Tomorrow Season 1 score from Blake

Neely over at La La Land Records. I'm actually

currently having Doug... rewatch or watch through

legends of tomorrow season one and for me going

back and rewatching this like oh my god they've

come so far from this the first season I love

the first season of legends but I just forgot

about half the awesome stuff that happened in

the sea in season one so we're going through

and watching that and I every time I hear the

music on the show because I've already heard

it on the score it's like wow I just love this

even more number three is the Much anticipated,

30 years in the making, Ferris Bueller's Day

Off. Now, I know some people are going to complain

about this release because it doesn't have everything

that the movie had, but that was more of a licensing

deal. If you listen to my interview with Envy

Gerhard and Matt Robois, or the other one with

Neil S. Bulk and Dan Goldwasser, you'll hear

them talk about the licensing a little bit and

why some songs did not make it. But what I wanted

out of this soundtrack Was the film cues was

the you know the hey badda hey badda hey badda

swing badda the you know that kind of stuff and

they gave Almost everything that to me that I

wanted with that release absolutely love the

Ferris score. I can't stop listening to it Number

two is kind of a tie because they kind of tie

into each other they released these separately

originally they were gonna do a two disc set

but they released them because I guess the the

movie company. I guess Paramount wanted two separate

releases. Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2. I can listen

to Beverly Hills Cop 2 score over and over and

over and over and over again because I just love

that music so much. I can listen to both of them

over and over again, but 2 was absolutely amazing.

And my number one choice, something I have been

waiting for 15 years to happen on an actual soundtrack

album, Justice League. This was the fourth CD

set that La La Land Records put out around San

Diego Comic Con. This has, I think, 23 out of

the 26 episodes of the first two seasons of Justice

League. Amazing music from the Dynamic Music

Partners. Absolutely love it. I cannot stop listening

to it. uh... the star -crossed music the star

-crossed episode music the comfort and joy episode

music uh... just everything about that score

absolutely love it so that's my top five all

in record soundtrack albums let's get to video

games do you get some games you want to talk

about elated to actually well cuz i didn't really

play all that many video games this year uh...

we could put battlefield four on there but it's

not exactly new is it Yeah, it didn't come out

this year. It's been out for like four years.

So like, I mean, I'm really good at that game

now, but almost annoyingly so. People don't like

playing with me anymore. I play on this one server

where it's called Metro Massacre, and aside from

the title, it literally is a massacre the entire

level. I like to destroy the buildings and then

put up traps everywhere, but that's because I'm

a dick. So Telltale Games came out with a Batman

game, which had a kind of soul -shaded style

to it. Different from the Arkham games, it kind

of gives you the opportunity to play as Bruce

Wayne and Batman. With a kind of a new suit and

kind of a new, you get a different voiceover,

you get a different... They created a new villain

for it and a new mythos and you get some of the

other stuff in there and some... It's it's kind

of a unique perspective and it's in a five episode

part, right? I have yet to play it, but it's

everything I've seen on it looks interesting

I should have the I actually do have a download

for the first episode of it for free which I

need to Do so that I can play it And then of

course battlefield one came out and this was

one of those unique opportunities where I was

able to play the alpha the beta and the release.

And it turns out not everybody got the alpha.

I wasn't one of the hardcore gamers that got

it two weeks before the alpha people to play

at EA when they were doing the game thing to

announce it and everything. But the trailer for

it, for one, dominated Call of Duty. Infinite

Warfare which went like space age with it, right?

and then of course we had the alpha come out

in July and I got to play this one level over

and over and over and over and over and you got

about 12 days to play it and I did fairly well

on that learned a lot of the stuff learned a

lot of the Issues with the game some of which

are still present unfortunately But then the

beta came out in August which I had gotten before

the rest of my family as well, and then they

finally got the beta. And then there was a, you

could get it 10 days before it came out by doing

EA Access. So I did that as well, and then any

progress you made in EA Access, you get to port

over to the main game when you bought it. And

then my dad actually bought it for me for Christmas,

but he bought it for me early, like in November.

So I was able to get it and start playing it

a little bit, which is kind of nice. So I've

been playing that and it's been actually really

fun. Some of the new techniques and some of the

new things in it make it better in Battlefield

4 and then some aspects don't. I will say I am

a very good sniper. Yes, yes you are. Well, I've

gotten to the point now... Stay off those eBay's!

What's that? Stay off those eBay's! Yeah. So

I've gotten to the point now where I can run

around with a sniper, and I have just the base

sniper rifle. I don't have anything special or

unlocked. I just use a lot of the base stuff

because I don't care. Whereas in Battlefield

4, I have specific stuff, but I like the explosives

in Battlefield 4. I do like that in Battlefield

1. I play with the... They have anti -tank grenades,

dynamite, and then throwing bombs, and I like

to... load up with those. But when I'm not playing

that class I play a sniper and I have trip wires

that when they're tripped light the person on

fire. So I'm pretty much guaranteed that if I

drop them in random places in the map somebody's

gonna hit them. I don't do them in doorways because

people just detonate them. If I put them in like

the bushes somewhere or if I put them in like

hiding areas people run them over and then they

just burn to a crisp and then I get the points.

I've gotten to the point with the sniper rifle

to end this day tribe here Where I can no scope

people and running I can pop somebody and then

just keep going Which is interesting for sniper

rifle I've not been that good at it, but I I've

been I've been good at it since the beta came

or yeah the beta came out I've been able to do

that and it's been awesome I play the best when

I play with my family though, but that's because

we get the squad together we're just like destructive

uh... and also but i was really blown stuff up

yet my dad my brothers and then we've got like

uh... a couple other guys that are pretty good

so uh... but yeah the uh... it's it's been a

great game so moving on to top ten tv shows yeah

top ten tv shows oh boy so before we start this

i have spent it's been a long time folks since

i actually took a whole summer Because everyone

knows summer is reruns. There's nothing major

going on in the networks. I mean, yeah, we live

in an age now where all the cable networks and

things have new shows and things. But the big

networks, NBC, ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, that kind of

stuff. I had spent all summer this year in 2016

finding shows that I had previously felt that

I couldn't dedicate the time to. so yeah number

ten for me I didn't want to put in this low but

I had to because I enjoy other shows more it's

getting better season five is better than season

three and four but number ten for me is arrow

I'm loving arrow season five but Unless they

keep up with the story that they're telling now,

the previous two seasons have just kind of sucked

for me. I spent about a week and a half marathoning

every single episode of the first seven seasons

of NCIS LA at number nine. Absolutely love that

show. Think of it this way, dude. It's LL Cool

J. And Robin aka Chris O'Donnell as as naval

cops and it's just amazing love that show It

has yet to pick up on it. I think they're on

like episode 10, but number eight for me is lethal

weapon I know you're gonna talk about lethal

in a little bit, but Lethal weapon I came into

that and not really having the usual thing of

oh but that was a movie franchise why are they

doing a tv show of it and i know some people

came into that like that and I really dig the

show. I dig moments of the show. I dig the character

development that they're doing with it and trying

to it. I do not associate Mel Gibson and Danny

Glover with this version of Riggs and Murtaugh

played by Damon Wayans and Clay Crawford. I forget

what Riggs's character's name is off the top

of my head. Because they're two separate things.

And I just absolutely really enjoy that. Coming

in at number seven is Netflix's Luke Cage. I

watched Luke Cage and Jessica Jones out of order.

I don't know what it was. For me, and I've said

this before on other podcasts, if I don't already

know the character, it takes me a long time to

want to discover the character on my own. And

I had heard of Jessica Jones. but i'd never really

know anything that she had been in or i don't

remember any cartoons or blah blah blah i've

never read any of the comics but i knew luke

cage from spider -man and his amazing not his

amazing spider -man web warriors or whatever

it's ultimate spider -man whatever it's called

the the current disney xd show because i think

he appeared in the earlier seasons of that one

was called ultimate spider -man um... and things

like that so i watched that then i went back

and watched jessica jones jessica jones If you

people want a psychological trip and just complete

emotional journey, watch Jessica Jones, folks.

It's amazing. So that's my number seven and six.

Number five, I probably should have put arrow

at number five and put this at number 10. But

number five is Girl Meets World. I have loved

Girl Meets World since season one. As the story

progresses for Maya and Riley... At this point

in season 3, I'm more interested to see the reunion

episodes when they bring back the classic Boy

Meets World characters, because some of the lessons

in some of the episodes in season 3 for Riley

and Maya, I just... I still enjoy the show, but

it just... I don't know. Maybe it's because I

don't know where they're going to be taking these

characters, and I've heard rumors that season

three might be the last season. The one highlight

for me so far, to the point of their It's a Christmas

Maya episode, which is the final episode of this

year before they come back in January in 2017,

my favorite episode of season three for Girl

Meets World was Girl Meets I Do. This is where

Sean and Katie, Katie... heart it wasn't is my

his mother they fall in love and get married

so I'm very happy finally after all these years

you know seeing Sean hunter as a character played

by right writer strong actually get a happy ending

so I absolutely love that number four is a new

show for this year the 2016 2017 television series

for a season from from ABC of all places It's

called Notorious. It features Piper Parabot.

People would remember her. She was Karen Sympathy

in Rocky and Bullwinkle. She was the star in

Coyote Ugly. She was in Covert Affairs on USA

Network. She plays news producer Julia George

and it's basically a news type program, thing

like a behind the scenes. Think of, if anyone's

ever watched HBO's The Newsroom, think of that,

but it's more broadcast media style, it's not

HBO grit. But I am enjoying that. Number three,

two, and one are all the superhero stuff that

I absolutely love. Number three is Supergirl.

Really dig in Supergirl this year season two

they started off with you know the first two

or three episodes with Superman introduced him

and Everyone I remember everyone at the time.

Oh, is this gonna turn into Superman show and

take a no They're not gonna do that Supergirl

is now at the CW It's now a full Greg Berlanti

show and they're gonna you know do everything

they can they're not gonna screw it up like CBS

might have The flash the flash keeps getting

better and better at number two That whole crossover

for invasion between the four shows was just

epic and awesome And I'm really really digging

the flash. I do think the flash really overall

is the best one But my number one has to be legends

of tomorrow because legends of tomorrow season

2 has added so much to The CW superhero stuff

and they've tied everything in so nicely from

rewatching season one to going and watching the

season two episodes. I just absolutely love it.

And I have to give a shout out to the CW for

their superhero fight club 2 .0. That was awesome.

I absolutely love that little thing. I love when

they do little things like that for the superhero

shows. What about you for TV, sir? Well, for

myself, I have number 10 is Big Bang Theory.

I think I've gotten, well, I should probably

go through my honorable mentions first. I have

Supernatural, Girl Meets World, and Practical

Jokers, whose line is in any way Kevin Can Wait.

Kevin Can Wait's new for this season. It's actually

pretty good. Pretty much King of Queens -esque,

but I enjoy it. But I put the rest of them in

there because I enjoy them, but they're not like

my top 10 worthy shows this year. So I started

off with The Big Bang Theory. I enjoy the show.

I like that they're all evolving and they're

becoming more normal. But I see the legs on this

getting ready to fall out. Yeah. And being done

with Wallowitz having a child. Yeah, the baby.

So I see the show not really. I think that it

probably should wrap up. Yeah. But that's just

my opinion there. And then I have SNL. Well,

before you get to, sorry, before you get to this,

I remember season nine, the end of season nine

and how that ended and everything else, but I

have, other than like the first two or three

episodes, I just have not watched Big Bang. I

need to catch up on it, but okay. Number nine,

SNL. Because a lot of the comedy over the last

couple years has been pretty good. And then I've

enjoyed some of the stabs at people that they've

taken on certain things. Doesn't even necessarily

have to be political, just various things. Just

that was funny. I thought I heard Hillary over

that line. Um, hey, so Hey, it was a funny joke.

Um, so the So the show Has had a lot of good

good guests I especially like the one I mean

there been a lot this season but One of them

that was pretty fun that I just watched recently

was the the Tom Hanks one, right? David pumpkins

Yeah. Which was hilarious. And then Casey Affleck

actually had a good skit with Dunkin' Donuts

this past week. Yeah, I get to catch the Casey

Affleck one. I tried. I'm a wrestling fan. I

know you're not. Obviously, Mike Dodd and I and

Ryan do the wrestling. You saw the one with John

Cena. I tried watching the one with John Cena.

I got like five minutes into it, and I had to

watch something else. Not that I don't like John

doing that kind of stuff. Well, you can watch

it on NBC's website. Yeah, I mean, I've got the

whole Hulu thing and whatever else on Doug's

Apple TV, so he's got Hulu out here anyways.

That one was pretty fun too, but I think the

Casey Affleck one was a little bit better. Yeah,

I'm going to have to watch the Casey Affleck

one scene from Boston Boy. The Duncan Donuts

joke where he's doing the Boston signature accent

and actually owns the place was pretty funny.

And then of course I've got Pure Genius which

is a new show this year. I've seen that advertised.

What is that? It's about a billionaire that sold

some apps. very, very intelligent programmer,

founded this hospital in order to save people

because he believes he has this incurable disease.

And so their whole thing is about hope and about

overcoming the various odds. And you have this

doctor that's all about that and about trying

whatever thing it may be, even if it's experimental,

to try and save people. And so he gets basically

booted out of modern medicine, and they pick

him up at this hospital and make him the head

doctor of everybody else. And so basically they

come up with random ideas, whether it's using

tech or... You know artificial things or or whatever

to try and save people the most absurd way it

It's not like realistic like watching like almost

an ER or something like that, but it's I Enjoy

it because there's there's not a lot of There

are ups and downs in the episodes but for the

most part like it's pretty formulaic in the sense

that yeah, they they don't Their story progresses

between the characters, but nothing really bad

happens to the patients, right? So it's kind

of an uplifting show in a sense and you've got

various people of all different Ethnicities which

makes it work really well And it's it's interesting

and like I said the CEO of the company is like

I can't let these people die So he's just like

telling people all these things and the doctors

like you can't say things like that You can't

give people false. Hope and then he's just like

well, we're gonna do it And then, you know, they

find some miraculous way of figuring it out.

But it's it's been pretty interesting so far.

And then, of course, I have Gotham. I can't.

I know you're going to talk about that, but I

just could not put that on my list this year.

It's so up and down for season three. It's it's

up and down. And I've had fun with it. And I'll

see where they go by the end of the season. I'm

not quite sure where it's going to go. But if

it goes down, I'll quit watching. If it stays,

I've heard rumors that the Joker's going to show

up. The young actor that they killed off earlier

on and are reviving miraculously. Yes. So yeah,

we'll see. I have hopes for the show, but not

high hopes. So we'll see what goes on. And then

I have Arrow. I have enjoyed this season better

than I have in the last two seasons. Right. So

therefore, I have higher hopes in that sense

of this show than I did in season three or four.

Yeah. And plus, like you said, the invasion thing

kind of helps. well okay so let's talk about

this issue and then some of the and some of the

flashpoint well we'll get into it when i get

towards my number one about the invasion well

no i just want to talk about invasion concerning

arrow they planned this so perfectly they start

season five they work up to arrows one hundredth

episode and make that part three of invasion

and they do all this you know stuff where they

bring almost everybody back. And it's just such

a nice way to have a, because think about it

this way, Arrow's been on air for five years,

and most television shows, usually around the

five -year mark, is when you hit your 100th episode

of a television show. And I think they just pulled

that off so, so well. But continue. Yeah, so

the show's done really well, and they've got

a nice little twist coming. over from The Flash,

which The Flash has heavily influenced the show,

which is actually kind of helpful this season.

And when it comes back from mid -season, there's

going to be another effect from last season of

The Flash coming back into play. So that should

be interesting. And then we have Last Man Standing.

Love the crap and the jokes that... they get

away with on the show. I cannot say anything

other than that. For risk of, you know... So

yeah, I'm uh... We're an explicit network! Yeah,

I mean well, I don't want to enter that territory

He talks politics and then he talks about like

the the millennial view on being politically

correct and I happen to be very Incorrect. Yes.

Well, I I don't I'm not saying I'm I enjoy being

politically incorrect. I enjoy That he can say

what he wants to say and being politically, you

know incorrect basically I don't feel like everybody

should have to play the PC card to say what they

want to say, because people can't just take it

for what it is and act like they have to be offended

for everything. So, in that sense, I agree with

him. So, yeah, I'm going to leave that where

that's at, but I enjoy the show. Then I have

Legends of Tomorrow. I really like the show,

however, I'm waiting to see what this Legion

of Doom thing is going to play out, and I'm also

waiting to see what they're going to do with

RIP Hunter, because It's been way too long since

he's been in the show. He's stuck in 1987. Yeah.

He's shooting He -Man. Stop. Don't even go there.

It looked like he was shooting Masters of the

Universe when he was closing it off. But it was

actually supposed to be the story of him ending

up in some timeline being shot at. Either that

or he's doing like... Like free Jack or something

like that or yeah Doing one of those movies.

They'll figure some way around it, but uh and

then I have lethal weapon for my number three

Because you haven't had a chance to really talk

in depth on this I I really enjoy the show. It's

I think it's really well written. I love the

actors that play in the parts Damon Wayne's is

easily like one of the draws for me, but the

other actor The rigs character yeah Yeah, plays

it really well. And it gives almost a different

touch that Mel Gibson didn't give. Right. Because

he's not just like manic, but like he's got this

kind of like sly, like whatever. Yeah. You know,

whereas Mel Gibson's was like almost like crazed.

Yep. So in this sense, I like this version better.

The one episode that really freaked me out was

the episode where they were walking, or it ends

with them with the beers on the roof when he

was walking on the roof of the building. That's

the only negative thing I'll say about that show.

But go ahead. Well, you've got to figure that

Damon Wayans did jump out the window that episode.

That's true. It landed a pool. Yeah, that's true.

So yeah, I really enjoyed that show. It's been

one of my favorite new shows that I've been watching.

Then we have Supergirl, which has upped its game

this season. Between the Superman, between the

Invasion, between just everything, it's just

gotten better. And then there's still another

crossover with The Flash, which speaking of,

is my number one. Again, yeah, I think the crossover

with flash is gonna be the musical crossover

because the two of them used to be on glee I

wonder if it's gonna be mits mitzi plex or whatever

that oh Miss yes, Pedelec. Yeah good. Yeah, I

don't know I wonder if that's gonna be because

that one's gonna show up in Supergirl So I wonder

if that's how the flash is gonna get Shanghai

because I think that that's basically like a

trickster for Yeah, miss yes Pedelec. He's a

character from the fifth dimension and his goal

generally is he comes to earth because he wants

to challenge Superman to a game of wits and that

kind of thing. That's generally how his character

has been portrayed in comics and in media and

things like that. I don't know if they're gonna

do it like they did in Lois and Clark or Smallville

where he's an actual human. I think it was in

Smallville, Lois and Clark. I'm trying to think

which one it was one of the two shows had him

in there, but it was um It was it was wheezy

and and George. It was the Jeffersons Working

as as the carrot. I don't know what was it was

Howie Mandel. That was a different episode. Let's

say Howie Mandel came in in Lois and Clark and

was Mizzias Pidlick and It was interesting and

fun, but really for Supergirl I hope they CG

it up and get Gilbert Godfrey to return to do

the voice because he did the character in Superman

the Animated Series and it was hilarious. Absolutely

loved it. Yeah, so I'm thinking that's what's

going to happen. In The Flash, I've enjoyed that

and some of the random twists that have come

from his Flashpoint experiment and then where

they're going to take it from there. Although

they keep making the main bad of Speedster, but

that's really about the only way they could go

with this show. Yeah, the speed god. I'm just

glad at this point, at the end of Invasion, we

got over the whole Cisco is pissed at him thing.

I'm glad. Yeah, because everybody did the same

thing as Barry. Everybody screwed up the timeline.

Yeah, I'm glad they resolved all that crap now,

because if we were going to go through the whole

season with Cisco being pissed at him, I would

have been mad. Because Cisco was the reason why

Barry was being hunted in the first place. Yep.

And then you had Stein, of course, creating his

own in a previous episode of Legends. So they're

all like, oh crap, we altered the timeline. Yep.

Pray that I don't altered any further That was

fun, um, so yeah, that's that's my top ten. All

right Now we're gonna talk about cartoons. This

was hard for me because I'm sitting here make

like the The TV shows is easy for me to make

a list. The movies are easy for me to make a

list because I only make a list of the movies

I actually saw. The cartoons, same thing. I only

came up with four. I could not come up with a

fifth cartoon. So number four, Transformers RID.

It's slowly getting better season by season.

I think now that they've added Starscream into

this season 2 .5 or whatever it is, especially

that Steve Bloom is doing the voice still. Absolutely

awesome. Love RID. Turtles. Turtles is. Slowly,

not slowly in a bad way, but just slowly, slowly

building their story. They've already been to

space and everything else and I just love how

they are taking their time to work through every

inch of the turtles mythos that has been over

the last 30 plus years. Number two, Milo Murphy's

Law. This is a new series on Disney XD starring

your favorite weird Al Yankovic. And this is

actually from the creators of Phineas and Ferb,

Dan Pavanmire and Jeff Swampy Marsh. I just am

loving this show. It's so fun. And we'll have

a special Tooncast Beyond podcast organized on

a cool acronym crossover episode at some point

talking about Milo Murphy. My number one, sadly

my number one ended this year. I think it got

cancelled or they decided to end it, I'm not

sure, but the 70. I still love the 70 from Tom

Ruger and all those guys and just absolutely

awesome. What about you for cartoons? What have

you been watching this year for cartoons? I watched

the Milo Murphy episodes, first two, which again,

I'll rewatch before we review. TMNT, I just caught

up on that, Super Shredder, waiting to see what

they're going to do next season with that whole

storyline. And then I have Transformers Red,

because I've enjoyed the cameos, and I have a

feeling Soundwave's going to come back. And Megatron.

What's that? He did once already. Yeah, I think

he's going to come back with a new body. There's

been a toy release. Ooh, interesting. So he's

a truck. Oh, damn it. No truck. Make him a monkey.

No. And then Star Wars Rebels, which has been

insanely great. And the nice part about that

is. They're they're Darth Maul still in it Cool,

so they're leading they had Ezra and Darth Maul

do like a mind meld type thing with the the Jedi

and the Sith holocrons where they merged them

and They each got a piece of the puzzle and then

they rejoined to do it again and Basically brought

them to the point of twin sons Tatooine yeah

and because Darth Maul has this vendetta against

Obi -Wan, knows that Obi -Wan's on Tatooine,

so I have a feeling Obi -Wan's gonna show up

in Rebels. I'll be it briefly. They probably

will because, well they may not. They may get

Arnold Taylor. Yeah, James Arnold Taylor, yeah.

They might get him to do it again because he's

been doing it. in the past on Clone Wars. And

they had Leia show up at one point in Rebels

and Lando. So I'm thinking we're going to see

Obi -Wan show up in the show, which will be kind

of nice. And I think that they'll end Darth Maul

unless they're playing the card. That he's gonna

be Snoke if they're gonna play that card because

rebels is cannon. Yeah. Yeah, I Made it through.

I think the first ten episodes of season one

of rebels. I've just never gone back to it I

want to That's pretty much my response to all

the Star Wars cartoons that have come out in

the last ten years or so But I do want to go

back and catch up on rebels and I will eventually

I just I gotta find the time to do it It's it's

really good actually Oh, no. Yeah, I know it

is very good. I'm not saying it isn't, but it's...

Rebels for Star Wars is like what Earth's Mightiest

Heroes was for The Avengers for me. I still have

not gone back and watched the Earth's Mightiest

Heroes Avengers cartoon either, so it's just...

It's a whole timing issue. But yeah, no, just

everything I've seen out of Rebels looks absolutely

amazing. But, um... Yep, so that's the, uh, the

cartoons. Alright, let's get into movies. Uh,

again, only movies I saw, so, you know, I have

eight instead of ten. So, number eight, Star

Trek Beyond. I saw this movie, but I don't remember

a damn thing that happened to it. It was the

most original story that they could have had,

given the circumstances. Yeah. Um, and it takes

place during the Federation War. Oh, right. Um,

part of it. The villain is from the Federation

War. I had to watch the movie twice to kind of

get the gist of what was going on. Yeah. But

it was. And I might as well get this out of the

way now. It was my number one. Oh, just because

we're bringing it up. And it. What I enjoyed

about it is, is you got the feel of Star Trek

again. Right. With a little bit of a modern take

obviously and then you've got they're pulling

from history because one of the fallen ships

because Again, they pulled the Enterprise original

Enterprise being destroyed and Enterprise a rising,

you know being built Just like Star Trek 3 &

4 in that sense But they had them commandeer

in old ship from before the NX -01, so before

Star Trek Enterprise took place. Oh wow. It's

one of the prototype ships from before that during

the war and this was one of the remaining ships

and the Enterprise crew with JLA fixed the ship.

Wow. And it's been hollow emitters like all over

it protecting it for years so the bad guys didn't

know where it was even though it was their ship.

originally and so the they were able to take

out the villains and then it you know it so it

was kind of nice in that regard so I mean they

it was it was a nice nod yeah number seven for

me is Suicide Squad I enjoyed Suicide Squad.

It was probably the first Will Smith movie I've

enjoyed in the first and last ten years. I mainly

enjoyed Suicide Squad for the Batfleck cameo

and the Joker and Harley thing. The rest of it,

the ending was a little stupid, but I enjoy Suicide

Squad overall as a movie better than BVS. So

BVS is not even anywhere on my list. Number six,

TMNT 2. It was better than TMNT 1. Bebop and

Rocksteady stole the show. Absolutely love that.

Number five, I put Zootopia. I wasn't sure what

I was going to expect out of Zootopia, other

than seeing the constant trailers with its stupid

sloth character. But it works, and it whatever.

And I really dug Zootopia. I thought it was fun.

Number four. is the Mark with a Mouth Deadpool.

I have seen Deadpool so many times because Jen

loves that movie, and I enjoy it too. I think

it's a really, really fun comic book film. I'm

really surprised that it actually got made because

most of these companies that are not Marvel,

some of them don't know how to make a good comic

book movie. uh... number three is born jason

born uh... i really did enjoy i'm glad matt damons

back in the role a lot of action a lot of interest

a lot of intrigue uh... i'm glad they did not

have to put it at it my biggest complaint with

uh... legacy was they tried to place it at the

same time as ultimate the events of ultimatum

and that's why he'd like to see what would born

I'm glad that they kept it in its own thing and

I thought it was a very natural story for the

for the character and for the franchise Number

two is now you see me too. I love the first film.

I very much enjoyed the second film I know there

are rumors or news stories somewhere that there

they have plans for a third one But after the

second one, I almost think they don't need a

third one, but I really did enjoy it and number

one for me Best superhero movie of the year Captain

America Civil War. I just Right before we recorded

this just finished rewatching Civil War because

it's now on Netflix and just absolutely Enjoyed

the hell out of that movie. What about you? What

are your top ten movies for the year? Um, I have

Jason Bourne is my number ten. Yeah, I Enjoyed

it, but he didn't have enough dialogue It was

just it was like watching a porn movie with you

know Matt Damon in it, but not really saying

much Which was fine, I mean I expected that but

I didn't I thought that there could have been

a little bit more in what they were doing but

And then they had Nikki get killed. Yeah Then

now you see me too was my other movie because

I just I like the first one and then the second

one kind of enlightened and grew the world more

and showed everyone their true potential and

then kind of left it open for a third. Yeah.

I put God's Not Dead 2 on there just because

I've been watching some of those type movies

and what's funny is like Kevin Sorbo is like

in a lot of these religious movies now. Just

wait. Surprisingly. Just wait folks. Mel Gibson

is going to get him for the Passion of the Christ

2. And then I put Captain America Civil War.

obvious reasons. BBS I enjoyed it more only for

the fact that it's Batman and then the fact that

I'm just kind of some of the Marvel stuff I mean

I almost gave Captain America the head the lead

up because of Spider -Man right yeah but I don't

like angsty Marvel I like fun Marvel and Marvel's

gotten too dark and so like in that Regard like

DC. I expect to be dark Marvel not so much. Yeah,

and then I put Deadpool obvious reasons hacksaw

rich. It's another quasi Religious, but it's

it's also a true story cool takes place during

World War two the conscientious conscientious

objector Desmond Oz Because he's some davenous

doesn't want to pull the gun So they let him

go into the battle without it and then he ends

up saving like close to 100 people on his own

And then my number three is sully another true

story It was like a few years ago is like two

three years ago where the pilot crashed in the

bay by New York. And they said that he should

have made it back to the runway, but there was

no possible way he could have made it to the

runway without crashing and killing everybody

on the ship. So he made it into the bay and nobody

would die. So, yeah. Then I have Rogue One, obvious

reasons, even though it's like a prequel to...

Episode four like directly butting up against

episode four The saving grace for it for me is

the end and it makes Vader that much more of

a Substantial villain going into episode four

Well, that's cool Like hardcore substantial So

that was probably one of the best scenes in the

whole movie and you get to see the Death Star

obviously and And then Star Trek Beyond, my number

one, so. Yeah, it's just one of those things,

folks. I watch more TV now than I do movies.

I will catch movies and things like that. I don't

know. I just, I don't know. So we got, what is

it, favorite moments and epic fails of the year?

So, let's see favorite moments obviously me being

out here in California with my fiance. That's

probably my favorite moment of the year. I have

really enjoyed a lot of the Screwed up podcasting

sessions I've had because it just frustrates

the hell out of me when I screw something up

or when something doesn't get recorded and whatever

else and The whole time OptimaSoul and I recorded

two or three episodes in a row of the Myths of

Aetheria show, part of Powers of Grayskull, we

had some awesome, awesome outtakes from him.

Like stuff I've never heard him say before. And

sadly, it's all lost now. What about you, favorite

moments of the year before we get to the epic

fails? Probably getting the new job. Yeah, that's

awesome for you so Really excited about that

and then some of the changes going into the new

year with that. So Yeah, very cool. All right

epic fails. I wasn't sure It's very rare that

when we do these year -end shows that I have

stuff written down throughout the year of an

epic fail, but This year the epic fail kind of

comes right on the heels of New Year's Eve New

Year's Day New Year's Eve 2016 New Year's Day

2017 because as of this recording right before

I saw a news article on Facebook Saying that

apparently Betty white needs to be saved from

2016 Some of these people yeah, have you seen

I just saw that I just saw that so what this

is folks is apparently Some guy some stranger

not even her publicist or anybody Betty white

must be protected from twenty sixteen so this

man started a campaign somebody started a go

fund me to save Betty White from dying it doesn't

even say if she's ill or anything else I don't

know she's not he just wants money huh it's not

she's not he just wanted money yeah see look

folks I've started you know fundraising campaigns

and things like that for myself since my mom

died and things like that but that's because

my mom actually died I would never start something

like this just because I want money. That's just

stupid as hell. That has to be the worst fail

of the year, but do you have any for yourself?

Yeah, there's a lot of fails this year. Okay,

go ahead. Well, I mean, between social media

and the level of stupidity on the media's behalf,

fake news, like... just I don't know the the

internet is just full of retard this year yeah

there's just no other yeah there's just no other

way around saying it all right shall we get into

the 2017 plans then sure all right so Steve and

I We've been Steve myself Steve and I both got

my head at this shit Shut up trying to figure

out how to say this as the co -creators of the

GCI and Steve and I have been working our asses

off along with everyone else that we You know

have here at the network optimus solo movie revolt

and everybody that has worked with us over the

last seven and a half eight years we've been

working our asses off folks and up until about

a year year and a half ago you know I was pretty

much taking care of my mom and everything else

really had no real semblance of a life uh...

well now that's obviously changed you know I'm

engaged to be married and everything else and

eventually I'll be moving out here to California

and supposedly that's supposed to happen at some

point in 2017 as I said at the beginning of this

episode My goal for 2017 when it comes to podcasting

is to do a lot of pre -production and get everything

ready to go in case I go on vacation again or

whatever else and things like that. But my ultimate

goal eventually is to be out here in California

with Jen. And then 2018, we have not set this

in stone yet, but supposedly 2018 we'll be walking

down the aisle at some point, which... I have

to fly Steve up to California to be my best man.

So there's that So that's going on there personally

for me so when it comes to podcasting I don't

know right now what's going to happen I know

we've got certain things that we want to do certain

things that we're gonna get planned as Steve

said to the beginning we're not doing the awards

right away because of things going on with his

end that he'll talk about in a moment, but I

know that I want to do more Tooncast Beyonds.

I know that I'm going to be bringing Amwire back

probably on a monthly basis. Maybe, maybe. I

know we're going to, like I said, we're going

to release the Mission Impossible episode with

Doug and myself and that and whatever else. The

pull bag, again. I've bought comics once in 2016

between twice between January and June I bought

comics once in February around my birthday this

year from June to about October I had not bought

any comics on Comixology so I still have comics

on there that we can review and talk about and

whatever else but I just It's not that I'm losing

interest in doing the pullback It's just I've

been doing so much this year that I had to kind

of cut that back just a little bit um... steven

i will be doing more all things transformers

we will be doing more origins we will be doing

more regular episodes we're going to announce

here now that uh... any and all transformers

review podcast that you guys have heard us advertising

for the past four or five years like the tfg

two podcast or the transformers prime time podcast

I had talked to Steve earlier before I went on

vacation about folding those into basically just

making them banners under ATTF. So the Transformers

Review podcast will happen eventually. They're

just not going to happen as a separate feed.

They will be on all things Transformers. Let's

see what else, what else, what else? Hopefully

myself, Steve, and maybe if she wants to, his

wife Mary will be doing the Podcaster Meets World

thing this year. Again, it's all going to depend

on what Steve and I in our real lives are actually

doing and where we are. So yeah, what have you

got going on? Well... I want to attempt to do

the Cyber Dragon Ball. Don't know if that's going

to happen. Time will tell. We should be doing

a podcast or meets world. Yep. Like I said, AlteredGeek

will be moving to alteredgeek .com. Right. So

there is that. Not sure what I'm gonna do from

there, but I'm I'm working on a couple new things

that I think could be interesting And then You

know this I can't really think of anything else

like as far as like GCR and stuffs concerned

what we might have or might not have. Yeah, it's

all up in the air right now, folks, for what

our content, when Steve and I's content is going

to be. I will say, because they're not here and

I have not received any replies on Facebook yet,

I will say you guys can still listen to the Cinema

Geeks and Talking in Circles. Cinema Geeks pretty

much is our movie podcast, current, past movie

podcast. They do everything, Optimus Solo, Movie

Revolt, Hard Candy Mandy, all those guys over

there, Fridley Cent. uh... i know they've got

their video game series going on as part of what

they're doing and they've got the regular episodes

where they can recap the weekend talk about movies

they've watched things like that talking circles

that's a smorgasbord of stuff folks go there

listen to dan chuck and greg there they're just

amazing so check them out as well uh... I will

be, you know, when I get home to Kentucky, I

will be finishing up the production and editing

and whatever else on the 25 days to Gatsby on

Christmas. I'll get the Christmas special out

for the Pogs episode and whatever else and all

that stuff. So, yeah, 2017, folks, you're gonna

have content from GCRN, but it's gonna be sporadic

at best. So we're just telling you now, because...

place at the beginning of this we've been doing

this for seven and a half eight years i know

for the most part audience loves us there's a

few people that you know wish we were dead and

loving it but uh... you know uh... i know most

of you that are listening to this enjoy what

we do and and support us in any way that you

can whether it's listening whether it's commenting

if you donate or if you don't donate it doesn't

matter to us We're still gonna do it because

we still enjoy it, but because Steve and I have

life changes that are gonna be happening, he's

actually, me, I don't know when I'm moving, because

I don't know, I'm waiting for all that to take

place and events to occur and things like that,

but him, because of his job, Steve's moving to

Texas. When are you moving to Texas? March, April,

May, June? August. August, there you go. More

so because of, I gotta sell my house first. Right,

yeah, yeah. So that's part of it. But yeah, the

gist of it is I have to be down there to work.

And that's going to be a whole new adventure

for you because you've been living in Michigan

your whole life. Yep. I vacationed elsewhere.

I understand you've vacationed elsewhere, but

I'm saying that you've never actually lived in

another state. Right now. Yeah, see So Again,

we want to thank everybody who has listened to

us this year We want to thank everyone who's

listened to us over the last seven and a half

eight years We will have a lot more content coming.

Just be patient with us folks, please Any any

final words you want to dole out there mr. Megatron?

No, just unleash the geek in you absolutely a

couple of notes folks the voicemail line because

of holidays and whatever else the voicemail line

is now dead I did not renew it this year I will

be renewing it it'll be a different number next

time I do a podcast we've had that number for

the entire run of the network and I wish I could

have kept it but just financially couldn't do

it so the vacation, the trip, and having money

to be on vacation was more important. So we will

have a new voicemail number coming soon. Again,

you can email us feedback at geekcastreo .com

for any of the shows. Just put whatever show

that you want to talk to in the subject line

and then write your email. Thank you to everyone

who has interacted with us. It's been amazing,

and we will still be giving you... the geeky

content we've always given you. So yeah, Steve

said Unleash the Geek in You and we will catch

you next time!