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Hello and welcome to the monumental 300th episode

of Altered Geek, which is the second podcast

to officially grasp this title close to the pull

bag. I'm your host, as always, Steve Megatron

Phillips, and joining me are the two Mikes, TFD1

and my original co -host of the podcast, Mike

Booth Ninja Powers. Hello, guys. Hello. Hello.

Yes, welcome back. It's been a while. It's been

a while. Yeah. Beginning of the summer, right,

I think? Yep, something like that. Yeah, it was

the last time I was... Last time I was on and

Not a whole lot's happened for me since then

I've started a new job, which I like a lot more

than my old one But I've just started getting

I did three I think I'm almost in my fourth month

of on -the -job training and it's just Everything

is just now kind of starting to settle like I

don't have like a Set shift yet, and I don't

have a set area that I'm going to be responsible

for And by that I guess just to say I am they

call them a signers, but it is technically I'm

a dispatcher for What is it will be the right

word well gas natural gas or like stoves and

homes and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Very cool.

Utility work dispatcher. Right now I've been

primarily helping out and telling people in Pennsylvania

and Maryland what to do. But the company I work

for also services a number of other states. And

so I don't I don't when I'm set loose and I'm

not training anymore, I don't know which which

of those states I'm going to be responsible for.

But so it's like one of those I'm one of those

guys. I don't like to be a jack of all trades.

I like to get really good at one thing. And so

I'm looking forward to getting a set shift with

a set area and getting to know everybody and

learn the areas that they actually cover a lot

more than than I do now. Now, does this mean

you'd have to move? No, no. Nope, the company

I work for is headquartered right here. All the

dispatching for all the states that we work with

or we service is all the dispatching work is

done right here in Columbus. Oh, very cool. So

it's about a 30 -minute commute to work. So I

think basically I'm taking the long way around

to getting to the point where I'm getting comfortable

enough with the job where I I'm almost to the

point where I'm comfortable enough with the job

to not need a decent decent night's sleep to

do it Which is another way of coming back around

to saying I'm hoping to be able to participate

in podcasting more But I don't I have no ETA

for that because the this job is important given

that it's the one job I was able to get after

the job that brought me down here, so I gotta

make sure I can keep it. But from everything

I've heard from where I work, from everyone that

works there, it's like you either leave or you

have to do something really, really bad to get

fired. So it's kind of, it's one of those jobs

where you have the potential to be set for basically

as long as you want to. And I want to because

yeah, I think it works out and I'm able to compartmentalize

my life. When I leave work, I'm actually done.

I'm not on call for another six hours like I

would be with my previous job. So I can come

home and I can enjoy watching my TV. I can play

some video games. They kind of sound similar

to my situation. Yeah. Which is what? Because

we haven't caught off a whole lot. I used to

work for an online broadcasting company based

out of Dallas, Texas. You're overworked and underpaid,

so you're basically on a tether. on your phone

is what I felt like because even when I wasn't

working or I would be trying to go to bed they

would be blowing up your phone and your email

and your text and the app slack and being I was

in charge of like the the radio and the podcasting

side if anything went wrong I had to answer Because

producers were part -time and they weren't around

and so like I mean yeah, I could punch in but

still it Working from home was much easier, but

It also meant that I never unplugged because

I was constantly like at at arms that I was going

to be needed at any given time and So I hate

days off because even if I took days off there

I can still get bothered Yep so it was I mean,

I enjoyed the job as a whole, and I tried to

have a lot of things accomplished and tried to

make a lot of changes that would be positive

for the company. However, they were having financial

difficulties about every quarter, and I happened

to not make the cut this particular quarter.

And so little Bertie tells me another whole team

is going away in another quarter. um but uh yeah

it's i'm sad that i don't work in media anymore

uh if that makes any sense but at the same time

i'm kind of relieved because i get my free time

back and i get to spend time with my kids more

other than uh my current job which uh i've probably

applied to about 300 plus jobs uh since my initial

layoff and some of the jobs I'd gotten interviews

for I should have slam dunked and I did get callbacks

and we just never hear from the job again which

is kind of like either they drop the ball or

they just decided that they just you know to

go in a different direction and just you know

they're like it doesn't matter which If you're

on LinkedIn at all, they're like, oh, these people

that do that, you know, even the recruiters are

saying that it's kind of like crappy of these

people to not get back to you. But yet, you know,

it's, I don't know, totally different world.

And so I work for a health food store now. This

particular person owns like a pharmacy and like

three health food stores. And I was hired to

do originally like social media and marketing.

Which is devolved into IT and Inventory because

their point -of -sale system blows It's it's

like 12 years old and maybe exaggerated a little

bit but it's it's still like it's it's super

old and it's not Time efficient in any stretch

of the mean and so I've been spending the last

month and a half trying to get a new point of

sale and like The person involved kind of drags

their feet on some of the the cost issues associated

with it plus I'm supposed to do marketing and

social media and all this other stuff around

it and they kind of want to dump their load in

Facebook and I'm like You kind of need like the

multifaceted marketing of you know, there there

is some degree of print and there is some degree

of The other social media platforms and yet it

doesn't understand any of it So it's kind of

put me in a unique situation where I have to

try and figure this out around somebody that

doesn't, they just want what they want but don't

understand anything that goes along with it.

They've had all kinds of website issues that

I'm trying to sort out because they've tried

to go the cheap route and so now it's paying

the consequences of it. So I'm trying to sort

it all out. And then so in the grand scheme of

things, I'm learning some things that I didn't

know about marketing. I'm learning, I took a

couple of things at MLive, Downtown Flint, which

were beneficial and I'm following some people

now and I've kind of beefed up my LinkedIn. So

I'm kind of trying to grow that particular social

media platform for future employment opportunities.

So yeah, I've been doing that, and then learning

a bunch of new things that may come in handy.

Plus, I'm building up a visual portfolio that

I didn't have before, which some of the things

I've applied for, they're like, oh, we need a

portfolio, and I don't necessarily have one.

So I'm like, yeah, go to GeekCast Radio, which

isn't really a good portfolio. I mean, it shows

my work, but it doesn't, like, it's not. singular

images of diverse imagery it's all kind of the

same boat and so I've been collecting all of

these marketing materials that I've been using

for their their establishment and kind of putting

them all on a web page like hey this is what

I can do so yeah it's it's not really what I

want to do there's no benefits to it at all pays

the same but it's it's yeah the It's not it's

not really where I want to be I want to be back

in media. So I'm trying to get my foot back in

the door somewhere I Don't I don't know that

I could ever I miss doing what I did like servicing

the projectors. It was fun, but 80 hours a week

was not my it became too much and I it became

it was not At the end of the day what it was

not important like the the money was not we didn't

need I didn't need to be working 80 hours a week

to live No, so it and it just became in things

have gotten so much better since I left the other

job And I have this one and I can compartmentalize

everything with we've we've started re exploring,

you know Columbus and We've started going back

to places that we went while I was working with

the other company and that we maybe tried once

and didn't really care for, but we go again and

it's different because I'm not constantly checking

the phone in my pocket to have to run out the

door or rush through dinner. That's great, being

able to just come home from work and actually

just compartmentalize, like I said. Yeah, you

know you I I leave from work I get in my truck

and I'm done like by the time I get in my truck

and I start driving home I'm I've already forgotten

about the entire day Even if it was like a particularly

bad day by the time I get to my truck It doesn't

it doesn't come home with me and I don't bring

home to work with me. Yeah, and that's That that's

how I've always been with with a job like when

I go to work like I'm at work And when I come

home, I'm at home. I never I don't I didn't like

bringing it home, you know, and having to on

the nights where I was lucky enough to get home

and and be on the couch at five o 'clock with

my wife. You know, I like I said, I still have

to check my work phone for another five hours,

you know, to see if something stupid happened

or to respond to some to some email. And it's

like, that's not. You know, but this I'm pretty

sure I covered all this earlier, but I I've gotten

back on my feet. You know and and the job's going

going well. I enjoy it and uh much happier now

than I was at the beginning of the year and yeah,

like I said long story short i'm just now getting

to the point where I Should be able to do the

job here pretty soon without needing a full night's

sleep And which means i'll hopefully be able

to record some more podcasts so cool So Yeah,

lots happened since last recording with you.

I actually hosted a Star Trek event convention

at the Michigan Science Center. I saw that come

across my feed. Congratulations to you, sir.

Thank you. Yeah, they asked me to do it, and

I was like, okay. And then they said I was going

to have a co -host when I got there, about 10

minutes before the event started. They're like,

I said, so where's my co -host at? They're like,

oh, someone's host. I had some people show up

and decided that you could do it on your own.

And I was like, oh, okay. Because one, I've never

spoke in front of a large group of people. It

looked like it was gonna be a nice small group

of like, you know 10 15 people and then the longer

the trivia event went on The more people started

gathering around it. The funny thing was is the

event to go to during that entire Get together

Was the trivia event like that was like the main

event to go to Like I give them some props because

they they Tried to bring in the people but at

the same time there really wasn't a whole lot

to do the only thing that saved that That evening

was the trivia event that went from like 7 to

7 45 and then they had A couple like different

activities and they had like a bar, you know

the type thing and Because it was like a 21 and

over event and then they had the Star Trek fan

club Starfleet International, which I'm associated

with through the podcast Future Imperfect. They

had a space flight simulator program they brought

with them, and so those relate to two things

to do the entire night. I was trying to record

a live podcast there, and there's this 70 -year

-old lady that was there. She was getting hammered.

I probably should have recorded it just because

it was kind of funny. Because I had all my stuff

set up like I had my computer. I had my phone

my microphone and everything and She's just like

You know I used to watch sci -fi back when they

had strings holding the ships up, and you know

just It was just really humorous, but So I ended

up recording the trivia event from like round

two on onto the end of it And some of the the

funny stuff and then there were people That were

hardcore geeks could tell you like what episode

and everything and like could speak in Klingon

I was like, yeah, I'm not that big of a nerd

on it. But It I Found that like as big of a nerd

as you think you might be in something. So there's

always a bigger one. Yeah, and and then it makes

you kind of like It me anyways, I go I'm not

that bad. Yeah That's always the reaction I have

and never outwardly towards like somebody and

I don't mean that in a negative way But I just

kind of like I'm not that bad Okay, I kind of

felt in that boat too, but you know I mean I

wasn't knocking them in any of the means because

like I was like oh, that's that's actually really

cool And there were a lot of people that had

different various generational Starfleet uniforms

and I described them on future imperfect when

I did that episode but Because I actually recorded

like my recap on the car ride home because it

was like an hour drive home And I was like, I'm

just gonna record But Yeah, it was it was a lot

of fun and and honestly like I would I would

do another like live podcast or live event like

that again Because once I started throwing my

sarcasm and humor into it It made me so much

more at ease and and the event went that much

more smooth Just because I was having fun screwing

with people and then some of the know -it -alls

Were we're piping up and giving the answers away

and I'm like, you know If you want to win the

prize, it's probably not in your best interest

to give that answer away because they had like

giveaways from like the the Star Trek expedition

and like the IMAX and like posters and everything

and So I pulled out this app on my phone just

to just to see if anybody would would guess it

You know, because we had some hardcore nerds

there. It was a Stardate generator. So it would

show you the Stardate and the various Star Trek

timelines. And I was like, what's the Stardate

for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah? And then like

this old, that old lady like guessed the original

series one. Like she was off by like three digits.

And I was like, okay. I'm like, okay, game over.

But yeah, it was just crazy. So, do we want to

get into the comments? Sure. We're gonna do the

Reader's Digest version, because I figure these

are good topic points to bring up in a future

episode anyway. So... Scanner 51. Send us the

message specifically for Booth Ninja of wanting

a new TV. He says Samsung or Philips OLED or

QLED. He says he's got a 48 inch now looking

to expand up another 20 inches. So yeah, I know

zero about the new televisions because mine is

a 52 inch plasma. Well, I thought about this

when you sent this to me earlier today the the

only and there's I've only got two answers here

One is don't go with Samsung or Phillips Just

based on your you're paying for a name and I

I say that as someone who Wholeheartedly admits

that I am an Apple fan and I am 50 % of my purchase

of an Apple product is literally paying for the

name But don't don't go with don't go with Samsung

and the only reason I One of the reasons I say

that is because they don't support all of the

4k UHD Perks and by that, I mean they don't support

Dolby vision which is superior to HDR 10 and

just about every way imaginable If you have the

ability to watch HDR 10 content and Dolby Vision

content, it's really easy to tell. You don't

want to limit yourself because there isn't a

standard that is set with 4K, which makes it

a moving target when you're purchasing something.

Now, I would recommend if you're looking at an

LED TV, and sometimes I get flack for this, sometimes

I don't, I'm a big fan of the Vizio P Series

and they have their own, it's called the P Series

Quantum. It is a QLED display with the same abilities

as the Samsung QLED, almost the same panel. That

should be very impressive, so if QLED is the

way you want to go, I definitely recommend the

Vizio P Series Quantum because I think it starts

at $1 ,500 and they only offer it in one size,

which is 65 inches. Now, you put OLED in there,

so if you have the money to pull off an OLED,

there's no conversation. Just get an LG OLED

TV. and be done with it. The LG OLED TV support

Dolby Vision and HDR10, and it's an OLED, which

is the best thing you can get after Plasma, which

is defunct. That was my thought when I first

read this, is that if you're having the conversation

of OLED versus QLED, OLED is the way to go. If

those four letters are in your price range, Yeah,

that's where you want to go. If OLED is not,

I definitely recommend the Vizio P Series Quantum,

or even the P Series, which I have. I have the

2014, the 2016, and the 2018 P Series, and I've

never watched or seen... Sorry, that was my phone.

Weird. I've never seen a TV manufacturer support...

a TV for as long as I've seen Vizio support their

TVs. I still get updates for my 2014 Vizio P

Series. Wow. And I've watched the picture quality

on all three TVs get better over time because

they keep releasing firmware. So what would be

the base price on the OLED? It depends on the

size, but I think I think a 55 inch starts at

around two. Maybe. the 65 that I usually look

at is between three and four and I Honestly believe

that an old an OLED is the next place. I'm going

I've I've bought my last Vizio p -series I don't

think it's going the picture isn't going to get

any better unless I end up going with an OLED

TV if you're a cinephile you probably want an

OLED TV but If you just want something that's

gonna look really really good and doesn't cost

a lot of money The Vizio P series is where you

want to go so It's good to know for a dude that's

still sitting with a plasma so Plasma is and

was no joke There's a couple of things that I

almost bought a plasma right before they went

out but I couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger

with 4k kind of around the corner and and it

being on its way out plus the The ones I was

looking at were outside of my price range at

the time I wanted one that didn't have a gray

screen and I didn't want There are a lot of plasmas

made at the end that had they use like a I think

the name was called pen tile Pixel arrangement

which was like it went red green blue red green

blue green red green blue green instead of red

green blue red green blue and if you I Don't

know. I don't want to say how close you'd have

to be to it But it ended up because the green

there were more green pixels than anything else

it ended up being like You could like a screen

door you could see The green lines in the display

And so I was kind of like I don't I so I just

went with I end up going with the Vizio the Vizio

P series from 2014 and I I've lucked into my

most recent one just because I bought Geeks now

funny story if you have the opportunity I've

never bought Geeks squad on anything until I

worked at Best Buy and then I bought Geeks squad

on my 2016 Physio p -series When I purchased

it on my on my way out the door to come start

my new job down here in Columbus But I I don't

know what happened. The TV is still fine Depending

on who you are. You can't you can or cannot see

it the the TV just at the beginning of I think

it was June or July it started like just If you

put up like a white test pattern or if you saw

like a blue sky, there'd be like a shadow in

the middle of the screen. If you put up a white

test pattern and ended up looking yellow like

there was heat damage. I I don't know what would

cause it, but I called up, you know, I had the

squad protection on the TV, so I called up Best

Buy and they sent a tech out to the house and

I'm like, this is great. I'm going to pull this

up and the guy is not going to be able to see

it and we're going to have to go around because.

I can see it. But sure enough, the guy came.

I threw up the white test pattern. He took one

look at the TV and he said, does it do this across

everything? I said, yes, sir. He goes, all right,

yeah, we're just going to replace the TV. I had

two options. One was they could deliver the like

model TV of the current generation, which is

the 2018 P Series. They could deliver that to

my house and take away the old one because it

was quote -unquote bad Or I could get store credit

for the price of the 2018 version and I can keep

the original TV The original TV Wasn't bad by

any stretch of the imagination So I kept it and

I took their gift card and I went and bought

the 2018 version of the TV. Oh cool. So I lucked

out my wife now uses that one as her gaming TV

and it still it still looks good But the bottom

line is if you want a nice if you want a nice

You want the best bang for your buck go with

what the Vizio p -series either? You know the

the normal p -series or the quantum That's what

you're gonna want to go with but if you're talking

about OLED You're definitely gonna want to save

up your pennies and go with an OLED TV I had

a similar situation with the treating end of

basically getting an upgrade and getting to keep

the old TV. I bought a TV at ABC warehouse years

ago and paid for the warranty, which at the time

was really stupid, but when I got to cash it

in, the sound was starting to go on the board

for the TV and it was a 42 inch plasma. And I

think that one was a Panasonic and all they had

was a Samsung when I went to go Catch it in and

they're like if you pay an extra hundred dollars

you get you know a bigger screen You know and

I was like fine take the extra hundred dollars

I'll take the you know and they're like and you

can keep the old the old TV, and I was like okay.

I'm good And then and then I just gave it away

to a friend because I was like I really don't

need Two TVs, and he was like I'm moving. I don't

have a TV, and I was like here. You can have

my old one So I mean, it worked fine. It just

at points would kind of blip out during stuff

like on one side of the TV, which was annoying.

But if you don't have a TV, I guess it's great.

So right. Well, I mean, there's ways around that,

too. Yeah, I just didn't want to deal with it.

So I could have hooked up external speakers and

it would have just been fine. I just I didn't

want to deal with it. So. But yeah, that answers

that question. His other, well, multitude of

questions that we're gonna sift through at the

moment. He says that he's getting into the DC

Universe app, but he's also, he states how it's

basically paid itself off for him because of...

Comics and all the other things on there. He

says but You know with Disney recently announcing

their service, you know Disney play no price

yet, but Said that the two articles he's read

said that the service is going to be the Netflix

killer and he believes that it won't be However,

you know even with the the debacle of of them

not having the rights to the Star Wars movies

themselves. It's still not a deal breaker with

the amount of content and things that they've

bought up over the years. Yeah, I mean, I don't

know how. OK, so when it comes to streaming services,

I don't ever really look at one as killing the

other. Although I will hands down say that Netflix

is king. Compared to other other streaming services

that I've tried but the nice thing about a streaming

service on like a cable package You're usually

not signing up for a commitment to anything Which

means you can sign up you can pay your six dollars

You can binge watch an entire season of whatever

you signed up to watch and you can immediately

cancel it You know, it's more like twelve to

twenty dollars at this point. But yeah Hmm for

what Netflix? Well, yeah, but you don't have

to pay that much it's I pay that much because

I have 4k streaming you can still get it for

like nine bucks Yeah, there's the the higher

the higher tier plans The only reason to pay

the higher tier plans is if you have multiple

people streaming at the same time and if you

have 4k If you're paying that much for Netflix

and you're not streaming it more than two times

at the same time you're paying too much But Netflix

is the one that I would never cancel. I keep

Netflix to put something on in the background

when I am doing something else. That's what I

keep it for. But I'm talking about services like

HBO. My wife and I, we just signed up again for

HBO after they finished doing Westworld Season

2. We signed up for it. We binged all of it.

I still have it because I'm slowly picking through

the movies that they added. in the downtime,

which for a streaming service and for being HBO,

I'm really, really pissed off about their streaming

service because they treat movies like crap.

They format them to fit your TV and they do it

in the most god -awful way, which is if it's

a flat or if it's a scope movie where you're

supposed to have the bars at the top and bottom,

all they do is grab the very top of the image

and stretch it to fill the top. everything at

the at the top in the bottom looks fuzzy and

out of focus and they just destroy everything

and The other thing that I've noticed or that

I've heard haven't quite seen myself because

I really wouldn't know how to tell Is they sometimes

will play the airplane edits. Oh Yeah of movies.

Yeah There was one I'm just saying like I don't

I don't notice that too much because I don't

fly and I wouldn't watch a movie on the plane

anyways, so The I don't know the two that I subscribe

to mainly is Netflix and Hulu I do Hulu for the

next day thing because that's nice. Like if I

don't want to watch Insert show name here with

commercials on my cable package. I don't mind

paying the 12 bucks a month for Hulu to watch

it next day ad free. I do that with Monday Night

Raw and SmackDown Live, whatever. I don't care.

And thankfully, Monday Night Raw is an hour and

a half versus three hours of the actual show.

The thing with HBO and Showtime and all those

apps, I tried the HBO app for one thing. We did

an episode of mayhem mics talking about the under

the giant HBO documentary I got a free trial

the HBO go or now or whatever it was just to

see that one thing everything else on there I

Liked the content but it didn't like the way

it was displayed and it didn't like the way it

showed because it was just stupid It was just

god -awful to watch it there. Yeah, they don't

but so HBO their platform their streaming platform

is just garbage Yeah, but I I you know, I don't

know what Disney is going to be I don't know

what the DC one is But the only thing that's

on DC right now that remotely interests me would

be the Batman the animated series stuff But I

also have that pre -ordered on blu -ray. So I'm

not streaming that I will watch that Off of a

disc. Thank you very much. And to be honest with

you everything else like I will wait For Titans

to be finished Before I go and and sign up for

it and I'll binge watch the entire season because

I think that's like Hey, the one thing I like

about Netflix is that they have they They put

out a lot of content and it allows them to dump

entire seasons of shows for people to binge in

one sitting Yeah, and then you can just go watch

something else and I don't like the whole No

longer like the drip feed method of we're gonna

do one episode a week and that's what they're

doing with the DCU Isn't it? Yeah, isn't it?

I don't know they are they are Yeah, they're

they're trying to do one new episode of a TV

show every week. I And I kind of have a problem

with that too Just because like one we're in

the day and age when you know, I mean if it's

on cable That's one thing like if you're gonna

do the week to week thing I get it cable, you

know, you kind of have to do it. But if you're

in a streaming service It's really annoying like

and that's the thing I get to give Netflix kudos

on Is is the fact that they don't make you have

to go through that they they give you exactly

what you want and You know and then they have

so much other stuff on there that you know you

can kind of if you finish it Then you know there's

not really a reason to cancel for the most part

Especially with the amount of content. They're

dumping on there nowadays, but Like CBS All Access

they were trying to get people to sign up for

Star Trek Discovery and It's not To me, it's

not worth, you know waiting every week to get

an episode of it I mean it granted the first

season was because they aired I'm in Canada and

on Netflix and they had to do the drip feed because

of that but As far as I know season two Isn't

going to be on either they're just going to be

on CVS all access as well as the the after tracks

or not the after tracks But the the the truck

shorts like the truck shorts are only going to

be on CVS all access and I have a feeling a lot

of their other Extra series will be as well and

even then I I don't think it's really worth paying

for the service Sorry, I've tried okay, so just

recently because I wanted my wife and I to catch

up on NCIS Los Angeles because that out of the

three NCIS shows, that's my favorite at this

point. And I had only seen bits and pieces of

season nine, which was the last season. I'm like,

oh, OK, cool. I'll sign up for a free week of

CBS All Access. Fine. What do I care? You know,

I checked it out. They had. Every episode of

NCIS LA except episode two for some odd reason

on there They now have nothing but clips Maybe

that's because NCIS LA is returning for this

10th season kind of thing like the premiere of

the new season is coming But like why would you

remove a whole season of the last a whole show

of the last season? Before you can catch up,

you know before you see the next new season kind

of a thing. I wish CBS just kept making deals

with Hulu or Netflix or whatever When it comes

to season shows to have seasons drop on them

Another one of my favorite shows for some odd

reason CBS only has 50 of the hundred and twenty

two episodes of Nash bridges That makes no sense

to me. Why am I gonna pay? 9 .99 a month and

only have half of a television show I I don't

get it. So I went ahead and I did the free week

I went to cancel it, and they're like, oh, well,

we'll give you the next two months half off.

I'm like, OK, sure, fine, because I'm like, whatever.

I'll try it, and I'll see it if I like it more.

I'm probably not going to. But for me, when it

comes to streaming services, it's Netflix and

Hulu. I just hope that with the DC Universe app,

the deal that Warner Brothers or whoever at Warner

Time, whatever the hell, I hope the deal that

they have with Netflix for the new seasons The

next new seasons for the CW shows doesn't expire

until a couple of years, because if I can't watch

Flash or Legends or whatever without having to

subscribe to DC Universe, that's going to piss

me off. Is that going to make me cancel Netflix?

No, because there's plenty of other stuff on

Netflix, but I don't know. I think that's different

because that's a deal that Netflix has with CW,

not with - Right. So if the CW doesn't give up

those shows to Warner Brothers, then there's

no reason it shouldn't be on Netflix. I mean,

it's the same thing that people are worried about

the Marvel shows on Netflix going to Disney's

platform, and I don't see that happening. I mean,

Marvel has shows everywhere. They have shows

on Netflix. They have shows on Hulu. They have

shows here. They have shows there. goes to Disney

or not. I mean, they've got shows all over the

place. And I think Disney is just letting Marvel

do what Marvel does. I don't see a lot of the

Disney footprint on Marvel yet. No, because they

kept them there. Well, there's the big one, but

I don't want to bring that up here. No, you can't

tease that. No, I can. Disney fired gun. Oh,

well, there's that. Yeah, that was Disney. So.

But the devil's advocate here, the exact reason

about we were just talking about how you can

sign up for a service and you can binge a season

and then drop it. That is why CBS All Access

and HBO and I'm going to assume stars and Showtime

and the bigger guys and DCU. They do weekly shows

instead of dumping them all at once because they

don't they if they can drip feed an audience

Yeah, like we'll stay well Yeah, they can drip

feed the audience and get them to pay for three

months of a service to watch a show Versus someone

like me who's gonna wait three months and I'm

gonna give you your seven dollars and I'm gonna

watch all of it and then I'm gonna watch all

12 of the episodes that you made and then I'm

gonna take full advantage of every other thing

that you have on there for a month For seven

dollars, of course, that's what they're because

they don't have They don't have the content.

They don't have the money right now that you

know Netflix does to you but Disney does and

Disney does Disney's I think the only rival to

Netflix and that I mean, yeah Hulu Hulu is too

but that's because they also a lot of other television

stations have partial ownership in the network,

so that's neither here nor there. But as far

as original content, I think Netflix and Disney

are about the only ones that can rival each other

in that territory. I mean, Hulu does have original

content. They're working on producing more of

it. I haven't actually watched any of these,

but I've seen several shows pop up in my Hulu

feed saying, hey, this is a Hulu original. Check

it out now kind of a thing. um let me ask you

guys what do you think of the dc universe being

either 7 .99 a month or 75 bucks a year which

would you rather do am i getting free shipping

that's an amazon joke Well, I mean, average out

over 12 months, $7 .99 is actually $96 for the

year. So technically, $75 would be cheaper. But

they're probably locking you into those 12 months.

You can't just subscribe one month and cancel

the next, because you're paying for the whole

year. Oh, right. No. If you signed up for that

and you canceled, all it would say is, your service

is canceled on this date 12 years from now. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm like if you sign up from month to month

and you cancelled when you do that They don't

suspend. I think Hulu is the only one that will

prorate you and credit you Other services are

like you have this until the end of the month.

Yeah And I don't even know if Hulu does that

anymore. So I'm not sure because I've never unsubscribed

to it I've added stuff to it like I've added

My wife wanted to watch the last season of Shameless

because she loves that show and I'm like, okay

Sure, we'll watch it week to week or whatever

and because we only pay for Stars on our cable

package because at the time it was like eight

nine bucks a month Additional on the cable fee.

So we're like, oh sure I'll sign up for whatever

on who I'll add showtime and whatever So we paid

for that for a little while and then we just

took it off because we she finished the season

so I like that about Hulu that Hulu allows you

to either Like their packages are outrageous

Obviously, you can go the the free package and

have ads and everything else you can do $7 .99.

You can do $11 .99 You can do you can add on

various things like Showtime and HBO at whatever

price that those are like I think the Showtime

when we added it on it was an additional nine

bucks So we were paying like 23 something at

the time for the three months that we had it

but they also allow you to add like live news

and sports and things. So again, the whole cord

cutting thing, but still having an actual option

to watch what you would watch on a cable package,

I think is cool that Hulu does that. But you're

right about Netflix, about dropping the whole

seasons. Cause that's again, we live in a binge

watching era right now. Yeah, and that whole

that cord cutting thing the the Hulu live the

YouTube TV the direct TV now That stuff is an

entirely different topic. Oh, yeah, but I feel

like that stuff is very very fastly Or very quickly

if you will becoming a regular cable package

and people are gonna turn against that as well

like It's those are getting out of hand way faster

than I thought they would yeah I yeah, that's

without going too deep into it. I don't I wouldn't

subscribe to them just because it's just another

fee that you have to pay Well, I I have YouTube

TV so my my all of my services Are split the

cost of all of my streaming services are split

with my parents They cut the cord completely

at the beginning of the year and I set them up

with everything and they all have their own separate

accounts on all of my, on Hulu and HBO and YouTube

TV. So like my bill, my packages are all cut

in half because I share it with my parents. So

I have access to YouTube TV. I've never watched

a live thing on there. I went to the on -demand

section and watched the latest season of The

Walking Dead. And then they and then they pulled

it when I had three episodes left and I was like

Why would you pull it and now it just showed

up on Netflix? So I'll finish it there But they

keep raising the price on it. All of them keep

raising their prices by five dollars every couple

of months it seems and They're just and and for

your five dollars They're throwing in another

handful of channels that you're never going to

watch but it's not like they you still don't

get you still can't buy like Package at the original

price with the original channels. Yeah, it's

there. They're slowly turning it into this It's

all or nothing the way that cable is and nobody

wants that But that's like I said, that's a topic

for like another thing here, but the going back

to Scanner 51's comment here about you know,

the the Disney app not being a Netflix killer

And his only his only argument for it not being

a Netflix killer are the fact that they won't

own or they don't have the rights to 10 of their

movies. Given that they're Star Wars movies,

I get that that might be like an alarm for some

people. But I also feel like those people that

are saying that they don't have those 10 movies

also already own those 10 movies. And wouldn't

be signing up. for Disney Play to watch those

movies. And you can't tell me that a Star Wars

TV show that's in development by Jon Favreau

isn't going to get all the mad money. Oh, yeah,

it most definitely will. Like it will make up

for not having those 10 Star Wars movies. Oh,

yeah. Along along with the pantheon of everything

else that Disney has under its umbrella, which

Now includes Fox. So, you know, it's there's

no reason. There's no reason it won't be a success.

It's going to come down to price. And for me,

more so than price, it's really going to come

down to the quality of the service, the quality

of their service, because it ends up being another

HBO. After that, like, I really think I think

Disney needs to come to play the way that they

did during like when Blu Ray. was just hitting

its stride and they were the Go to studio to

show you how blu -rays needed to be authored.

I Really think that they need to step up to the

plate and rival Netflix in that manner I think

that's why it's taking them so long to do it.

I think it's because they are gonna reinvent

the space But they need to they need to do it

Netflix is done and they need to support as many

standards as they possibly can across the board

Unlike other people on other other streaming

platforms, which really are You know all their

content is You know of a lesser quality I'm excited

to see what it is. The DC you one doesn't really

interest me because I now maybe you guys can

answer me this I thought Netflix got Young Justice

season 3 they were going to but then Warner and

DC came out with DC you But yeah, wasn't it?

That seems kind of shady because it wasn't it

really only revived because of its success on

Netflix. I could have sworn it was yeah the thing

with the DC Universe app is that It I've downloaded

it on my phone. I haven't subscribed for a free

trial or anything like that yet. I don't know

if I ever will From what I've read, from what

I've seen, from screen caps I've seen of people

using it, what I like about it is that it's giving

us various older content that we may not have.

I know some people, like Steve, have DVDs up

to the ceiling kind of a thing. Well, I'm saying

someone like you, even though you only used to

at this point, even I used to have DVDs all the

way up to the ceiling. Kind of a thing, but the

cool thing with DCU for me is like being able

to go on there and watch all four seasons of

Lois and Clark, the new adventures of Superman

or going on there to see Superman one, two, three

or four or like that kind of a thing. What I

think is cool that they're doing is they're also,

I don't know how this works because I haven't

looked at it, but Offering comics on an app outside

of comics ology like yes, I know Marvel has their

unlimited thing and DC had some sort of other

comics app that they used but I've only ever

used comics ology for app for comics so having

the ability of viewing DC comics on their Exclusive

app for one low price, even though they switched

the comics out. I think that's kind of cool No

other streaming service has really done that

Don't know well No one's done I mean the only

way that Marvel could do that is if they did

a Marvel app like they yeah and packaged it in

all of their TV show like DC is in you know a

unique space to do that, but it's not Marvel

just hasn't done it in one app marbles Like you

said even DC had their own app and they just

merged it into this they're into their streaming

service It's it's not that no one's done it.

I just think it's like no one's put it in one

place Right because Marvel has it that's just

not under one banner. Yeah Yeah, I don't know

I mean I'm Perfectly fine with what I have right

now with Netflix Hulu and my Xfinity package

that we have I mean, I don't Sure, two months

at half the price of what ad -free CBS All Access

is. Ad -free CBS All Access is 10 bucks a month.

So half of that for two months, that's fine for

me. We'll check it out. We'll use it a little

bit. And then after two months, we'll cancel

it. But I've always been fine, even before. I

met my wife and we have a TV package and all

that. You know, all I was doing when I was single

was watching Netflix and Hulu. I didn't have

a TV back when I was living in Kentucky kind

of a thing and I watched everything on the computer.

So doesn't really matter to me either way. I

think there are certain advantages to each of

the apps. The thing with the Disney one is it's

again, like you guys said, it's going to come

down to price. It really, really is price. how

the app functions and all of that. Like when

you guys were talking about that earlier, I pulled

up the the current Disney Now app on my phone.

And if the Disney Play app functions the way

the Disney Now app does, I think it'll work.

But who knows what's going to happen until it

actually hits? Does it? Since Disney bought Fox.

Don't they have the largest share of Hulu now,

too? They do. They do. Yeah. So now that's a

conflict of interest right there. So, yeah, we'll

see how that plays out. They may have to either

a you may either see them fold Hulu into their

thing or or see them possibly sell part of it

off. But I more so see them merging it. There

was a story I saw the other day about how Comcast

had bought sky and how that was gonna affect

hulu, but I haven't seen anything about Comcast

bought sky because Disney couldn't legally own

it as a part of the deal Mmm as a part of the

Fox deal so Fox had to sell it to someone else

and Comcast was originally trying to get all

of Fox yeah and Disney was really the the Pony

that that Fox was going after anyway Plus they

they backed up the money truck But yeah, I mean

it's it was it was kind of a More so that they

just couldn't legally own it That's why Comcast

bought it So I think we'll move on to the last

topic and then and then kind of Call it a night.

And this is about podcasting. So, Scanner51 says,

the question for the show that he has is, when

did we start holding podcasts really high standards?

Is podcasting going to go the way of regular

radio? Will there be a fear of if your podcast

gets too big, someone might dig stuff up on you?

Will there be an effort or of... or something

of not getting too big, basically just getting

in trouble for digging a giant hole for things

you said a long time ago. I think for myself,

I think since I've had a social, like a present,

it sounds like common sense, right? I feel like

there are people that Got on the social media

train when it took off and we've talked about

the beginning of social media, you know in reference

to toxic fandom and and stuff like that and I

brought up back, you know in 2007 is when I feel

like that when when that started to take off

with the transformer movie Was the first time

I ever really remember seeing it, but I feel

like Personally myself Since I started to try

to even you know with Facebook and Twitter and

then when I started to try to become a podcaster

I'm very conscious about the way that I speak

and what I tweet and what I share because like

that is it your that is a record of You're putting

yourself out there and that's what people are

going to see that's what people are going to

try to search through if they're going to Try

to find out more information about who you are

or anything like that And I that's the way I

always treated is like you don't I think I think

that even comes from Like a kid what writing

stuff down like you don't write something down

that you don't want somebody else to see And

I've just treated social media that way and and

and podcasting like I don't share my thoughts

on a podcast that I don't you know 100 % stand

by I don't try I I I believe I mean I'm not perfect

but I believe with with the shows that I've done

and with the with the guests I've had and with

you guys I've tried to personally I've tried

to keep myself like above board and not make

too many off -color remarks that could damage

me later. But if I have, I also like to think

that the content that I've helped create, and

this doesn't really mean too much now after the

events of the summer, but you start to think

that the content that you've helped create might

help if you've made one off -color remark. But

I don't believe that I have. in either in a tweet

or a Facebook post or even in a podcast form.

So I'm not really too worried about someone going

through stuff to try to knock me down a peg.

But then again, I'm not the one here in this

record that of the three of us, I've never gotten

a show to 300 episodes. Mean the fact that I

had in nine and a half years. I have just under

2 ,500 podcasts under my belt I didn't think

the number was that large, but I tend to record

a lot of crap And for me it's like It's like

the old the way I look at it is it's the old

Popeye standard I am who I am if you don't like

it You don't have to listen to it. You don't

have to pay attention to me kind of a thing.

I do podcasting for myself. Do I crave and want

the listener feedback and commenting? And absolutely

everyone does. If you put something out there,

you want people to recognize it or you want people

to take a listen to it and give a little feedback

or whatever. Everybody wants that. Or is everybody

going to get that? No. I mean, I'm a perfect

example. Steve may tell me a thousand times a

day that the pull bag or whatever other show

I do doesn't have to be that, has 900 downloads

this week or has a thousand downloads this week.

That still doesn't reflect to me that, hey, yeah,

people are listening, but if I ask in an episode,

hey, what was your opinion of this comic? And

no one comments on the episode or no one sends

an email or no one does anything like that. Kind

of a thing. It makes me think that no one is

listening regardless of the numbers Like no one's

really paying attention. Am I still gonna do

it because no one's paying attention Sure, because

I love talking to you guys. I love talking to

the other people I talk with You know, that's

the whole point for me for podcasting is I love

doing it and I don't know If I could actually

mentally survive without actually doing it and

there's been a few weeks and a few months lately

that where I'm like Yeah, I really don't want

to do that. Or like I mentioned at the beginning

of this podcast, the episode that DJ Valentine

and I recorded on Flash Season 1 and Arrow Season

3 of Remote Control, we recorded that like two

weeks ago. I love doing the recording. The editing

on the other part, that's a whole other gambit.

I have to do my editing early in the morning.

If I don't, it won't get done until the next

day or the next week or the next month. Well,

yeah, but you you know you say that you do it

for yourself But like I think what the the comment

is is like, you know when you're recording something

you're not In social media and when you're recording

you're not the person that You know, you're not

you're not the person you are when you're sitting

on the couch with your wife You have to admit

that kind of am I mean like I said I am who I

am. I'm not gonna apologize for that. I'm not

gonna, you know. So you're not conscious of making

off -hand off -color remarks? Of course I am.

I make them on purpose. That's the whole point

is to go for the funny. Okay. That's just the

way it is. I'm tired of pulling. I've pulled

punches for years and I'm tired of it. When I

started podcasting I'm like I am who I am if

I curse I curse if I don't I don't I mean there

are certain things Yes, that I absolutely will

not say or things like that. There are certain

things I stay away from however in a podcast

if a joke comes up about Whatever I'm gonna make

it, you know, like Steve and I do the Michael

Bay, you know Shoot my wallet that you know,

you know shoot for the wallet thing every time

a Transformers movie is made kind of a thing

Obviously we can't do that now. Thank God because

Bumblebee is actually being made by by somebody

else Or so the trailers lead you to believe Every

piece of information I've seen says it's Travis

Knight. So yes by Michael Bay Yeah, it is being

produced by Michael Bay, but he's not in the

director's chair same thing with the two turtles

movies He wasn't in the director's chair on those

he was in the producers chair. That's because

his company did it. I Know yeah, but that's also

because but people still slam him for those movies

like and he's not in the chair No, see I don't

slam him for the First movie maybe but I slam

the director more than whoever's in the director's

chair. That's who I'm slamming I don't like because

Michael Bay's company produced those two movies.

I don't care The second one I felt was better

than the first one But still it was a new thing

that it was a reboot that they were trying to

do and they had to start somewhere So what about

you Steve? Do you are you more conscious and

like the way that you? Like the way that you

tweet and you post things and the way that you

record, you know your shows Are you more conscious

about? those things and you would be talking

with a group of friends, waiting in line at a

movie? I've kind of got this, I'm kind of in

tune with the same person now. When I first started

podcasting, however, there was almost, and this

kind of harkens back to when I was a kid and

I had first done my first Transformers and Dragon

Ball Z websites. I had almost like a dual personality,

like a me that everybody knew and then a me online.

And that kind of traversed into the beginning

of podcasting. And I don't think it was until

about the last like four or five years where

they've reintegrated into each other, as it were,

because my written self, like my social media

posting, Even a couple years ago, I used to post

political banter or my thoughts. Now, not saying

I don't still have those thoughts, I just don't

voice them with anybody because I just don't

want the conflict. And so it's one of those internal

monologue things at that point. And even with

the podcast, when I first started out, I'm sure

everybody's familiar with Headshot. That was

my soapbox to more or less say everything that

I felt and was irritated with. Then, looking

back on it, I was like, when I removed them because

of space issues in the website, I was like, these

are never going to see the light of day again.

I know that some people still have them on their

computers. but I won't intentionally put them

back out on the internet because some of the

stuff I said I don't necessarily agree with anymore

and probably wasn't kosher and I would get into

a kind of Young stupid fit of rage and not really

think straight and so that's that's kind of why

they aren't back out there But like my my social

media posting like on Twitter specifically I've

always posted in the same context like since

I started the account through now There's very

little swearing if any I usually use the word

crap As my go -to word And because it's pretty

safe like it's a load of crap, you know or all

like initial it with like BS or something but

Because I was I was going through my my tweets

I did like that search history and I was like,

I wonder if I have anything that's like off color

in my tweets and I went through and I did a search

and and Pulled up all these tweets and there

was nothing that was really off color or anything

that I wouldn't still say now So I didn't feel

like that was a different personality from what

I portray in life I just I kind of have toned

down the the personal opinions department as

far as My my beliefs or politics or any of that

kind of stuff just because or or even like on

Some of the shows that are coming out that are

being reinvented. I just it's it's I don't want

to contribute to the toxicity of everything And

so I've kind of reintegrated that version of

myself into just who I am. And so the old me

from the beginning of the network probably would

have said a lot of off -color things. And then

as I got older, I realized that, yeah, that's

not really what I want to be known for. And it

had nothing to do with all of the stuff that

goes on in social media now with, you know, people

making off -color jokes or anything like that.

I guess I got like common sense and just kind

of started doing it on my own before it could

become a problem. And I was told my family, in

this kind of bit, a couple of them hired is,

you know, don't post anything on social media

you don't want used against you because that's

quite possibly the easiest way for somebody to

find out if you've, you know... said something

that's not kosher and I had a couple relatives

get canned from relatively good jobs because

of some of their off -color either sarcastic

remarks or spiteful words and then it threw their

life through a whirlwind so I just I don't necessarily

agree with people that just post whatever they

feel like online it just kind of shows your true

colors if you're sitting there screaming to the

ether out there. I know it's kind of a roundabout

way of saying everything, but... And again, like

I said, it's more so like, yes, do I have common

sense up the wazoo? Am I going to sit here and

insult people because they don't like something

I like? No. Am I going to sit here and make full

-on off -color jokes? No. I very rarely... in

the 10 years that I've podcasted brought any

kind of politics to any of my podcasts. I don't

do the politicking thing online at all. I mean,

I share one video from a Saturday Night Live

skit. That's not saying, without even making

a comment about it, I'm not saying anything.

I just found the Saturday Night Live skit funny.

That was it. That kind of a thing. But, you know,

for me, it's like I grew up where most of my

family did not pull any punches. We all cursed.

We all did this. We all did that. Yada, yada,

yada. So that's who I am. I have no difference.

Just because online I'm called TFG1 Mike. There's

no difference between the TFG1 persona and who

I am. I am all of it in one. And I'm kind of

the same boat now I just back then like the beginning

the network it was kind of a I was still trying

to I don't know figure out my personality since

forever, but Yeah, it's it's The like the last

five years or so I'd say it's been pretty much

the same Across the board like I don't like anything

I would say here I would say you know whether

I'm sitting next to my wife or not I mean it's

worth you know, I'm next to family or anybody

that just wants to have a casual conversation

about anything that I would talk about on these

shows, I would have no problem with it. And there's

one, you know, since we're talking about all

this, going through my Facebook memories as of

October 1st, five years ago, I love encouraging

Stephen C. Phillips to do evil, evil things.

Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha. I have no idea what I

talked you into doing. At that time, it was probably

some sort of graphical image or something. It

was a graphic, I'm sure. Probably, I'm sure it

was. I wonder if it was the Maddie collector

black hole. That's what it was. Yup. That's exactly

what it was. I love Facebook memories. I do too.

That's my favorite thing on Facebook right now.

A lot of the time right now, if I post anything

on Facebook, it's because I want to tag it for

that day. So it just gets added to it when I

go and look at it next year. I'll see, this is

when I got an iPhone or this is when Apple did

their, when I said this about that. That's why

I post on Facebook now. I'm really curious about

that search feature that you brought up Steve

for Twitter because I think Twitter could really

benefit from that timeline thing too. Yeah, I

because I've made some some kind of funny jokes

on on some of my tweets back then and I wonder

if I got one of these pulled up But yeah, I made

some like really funny funny conversations on

Twitter or predictions even and I've gone back

and seen them on there and just thought it was

like hilarious just because It was so long ago

I don't know I I would love to see like a timeline

feature just to go back like a time machine of

Contents to having to do a manual search Isn't

that what moments is for now or am I mistaken

in that? I don't know. I don't do a lot of Twitter

anymore. I'm more Facebook than Twitter these

days. I can't I So, I'm in a love -hate relationship

with Twitter right now. So, I have never used

their official app, ever. I don't use the website.

When I first started tweeting, I used an app

that was developed for the iPhone called Tweety.

My cat came in here. Sorry, guys. It's okay.

I use an app called Tweety, which was basically

just, it was Twitter at its most pure. And it

was amazing. Then the guy made Tweety2 and I

bought that. That's right, I paid for a Twitter

client. And I bought that and I used that. And

then Twitter bought that client to make into

their own. And they destroyed it. Like, hands

down destroyed it. And then I found out about

a new Twitter client that I've been using for

almost over five years now, I think. It's called

Tweetbot. I don't know if they have it for any

other platform than iOS, but it was really good.

They added features like the ability to mute

keywords and hashtags long before Twitter ever

did. That's one of the things I really liked

about it, and they had a really slick, really

clean interface. It was just your timeline, just

the people you're following, and it was just

really slick. Well, I'm sure you guys all heard

about this. Was it like last month sometime Twitter

got rid of a bunch of their APIs? Yeah, and They

basically castrated the tweet bot app. Oh So

they lost a whole bunch of their features Like

I used to get push notifications like when people

would at me or direct message me like immediately

Now they only send them out like once every five

minutes. Oh Wow, because that's as often as they

can get the information and they have it Twitter

hasn't offered third -party apps another way

of you know accessing that information so the

app is basically you know, like it's annoying

because like I can get in like a direct message

chat or like a tweet storm with somebody and

I'll be you know commenting and it's like I'll

be done with the comment and then five minutes

later I'll get like every notification that we

had in that conversation. So it'll be like, oh,

they said something and it's like, no, it's the

stuff that I already read five minutes ago. And

I tried the official, sorry, Mike, I tried the

official Twitter app just to see how usable that

was. It's not, it's garbage. I couldn't find

my timeline. Yeah. It was here's what you've

missed. Here's who you might want to follow this

might interest you but none of it was who I was

following the only reason why I use the official

Twitter app is because Nowadays I have a Samsung

Galaxy s9 back in the day I used to have whatever

current iPhone was out in 2008 2009 whatever

it was and back then I used Twitterific And then

Twitter bought them and screwed that up and whatever

else right now nowadays. I only use the official

tweet app Twitter app for Mentions notifications

and DMS. I don't use it for my Twitter timeline

at all. I use tweet deck on my computer for that

And that's pretty much all I use for Twitter

and like I said before Am more on Facebook now

than I am on Twitter like it's just it's Kind

of astonishing to me how much more I use face

like right now in the ten years that I've been

on Twitter I have a hundred nine thousand six

hundred and eighteen tweets The last thing I

tweeted was to my wife three hours ago. It was

a funny dog video before that everything was

three hours ago and it's basically messages back

and forth trying to set something up or 10 hours

ago I retweeted Legends of Tomorrow's new poster

thing. Whereas you look at my Facebook and it's

like every 20 minutes, every 45 minutes, every

couple of hours. I just find Facebook more user

friendly than Twitter nowadays. that cat is really

mad at you he's not mad at me both cats are getting

ready to fight each other I've had them muted

for the last while you were talking I love it

when cats fight it's actually funny but because

you get to watch them like duke it out they're

like wop wop wop wop wop my cats do that quite

often actually so I'm gonna just read a couple

of the nice feedbacks we've gotten for The the

podcast itself Skinner 51 says as you know, I'm

an avid listener to the show I frequently write

into the show with feedback and that is what

I love about the show the interaction we get

So that is one thing we need to keep going with

the show. I also love the live shows Hope you

get more of those. I love live interaction the

best great show 200 300 more and then he says

As far as episode 300, he doesn't remember when

he found the GCRN, but thinks it was through

Tooncast, but not sure. But this show is great

and the network is great too. And Brad mentions,

who's also an avid listener to the show. Because

on the last podcast, I mentioned how some podcast

networks, or not podcast networks, but just companies

that have podcasting canceled their podcasts,

like BuzzFeed or some of the other bigger...

Blaze. No, they're still doing theirs. Oh, they

are. Yeah, they just don't... I don't know how

to do it. Adding Patreon and other nonsense clubs

to the waters makes us feel more important than

what we actually are. And the truth of the matter

is, if you have 100 downloads of a show, you

might get two comments or leave feedback. A lack

of feedback isn't a sign of a stagnant show,

so don't feel you need to carry every... Or change

every 50 episodes the current format is great

20 minute shows focusing. Well, this one's a

little bit longer, but It's episode 300. Yes.

I mean it has to be longer Yes, 20 minute shows

focusing on a specific topic or fine Maybe once

a month do a longer show or a longer hour show

covering more topics. You didn't get to There's

new sites out there that will get news first.

There's no point competing We we listeners are

here for for me and the guests and says, your

opinions are what we like to hear, not how fast

you can flip a show. So anyway, some of my thoughts,

grain of salt should be used here and so on.

So yes, thank you to everyone who sent in content

suggestions as well as the awesome feedback.

And yeah, not sure what I'm gonna do for post

episode 300, but. Like I said, I'm gonna probably

take a week or two off just to kind of mull it

over and kind of think But yeah, it's it's been

crazy doing 300 episodes and I purposely doubled

up episodes this year so that I could hit 300

This year instead of next year So yeah, I think

I'm gonna go back to one episode a week just

because it'll be easier time -wise for everyone

involved Mm -hmm, so Like I put a lot of pressure

on myself To get whatever shows I'm doing out

like take the pull bag for example There are

some usually when there are five Wednesdays in

a month Sometimes I will do Wednesdays and Saturdays

just to keep the content going for reviews and

things like that But it's one of those things

where Want to do so much with that I want to

talk about so many different comics with that

show and scheduling and whatever else and I get

it everybody else has a life and Everything else

and there are times where I don't feel like recording

or can't record or whatever But it's one of those

things where if you say it like from the very

beginning I've said, you know, I've always had

an open relationship or an open friendship with

whatever listeners I get And if I can't produce

something, I'll record an update, little update

thing saying, hey, show's going to be on hiatus

for a while, or I need to step away, or I need

to focus on real life. I've said this for 10

years. Real life comes before podcasting. So

I don't know. It's just one of those crazy, crazy

things. So anything you guys want to pimp out

before we leave? I think if you I don't know

maybe I don't know if you guys have seen it or

not Or if you guys have talked about it on another

show But I just got done watching Dragon Prince

I have not seen it yet It was fantastic, but

it's right up my alley And it's made by the people

that made my absolute favorite show on the planet

so And it also got my friends and I I my wife

watched it and then I had Joe Reed just got him

to watch it He's enjoying it. And then I got

my other friend John to watch it and now we're

all going to sit down and play a pen and paper

RPG Because the when I say it's right in my wheelhouse,

there's a there's a pen and paper RPG that we

used to play About 14 years ago. It was called

exalted. Yeah, you get the dice out and the character

sheets and everything and I remember hearing

about that game. Yeah, there's This show you

watch this show and I made a joke with my buddy

John because he was also really into exalted

along with me But I made a joke with him. I said

this is the show where they they do that thing

where it's like The names and faces have been

changed, but the situations are real. Yeah Like

as I was like, this is exalted. This is 99 %

exalted except the names and the faces have been

changed. And so he's like, I'm going to check

it out. And so now we're now we're gearing up

and I've got, you know, Joe Joe's ordering books

and got Ali making a character. And so we're

looking we're looking forward to that. But yeah,

Dragon Prince, if you like Voltron, if you like

to avatar the last Airbender or Cora, I don't.

I don't know how you could not like Dragon Prince.

It's got a really interesting art style. I don't

want to say too much about it. I like the art

style. It takes a second to get going, but it's

interesting because it feels like frames of animation

are missing. And I really don't know how to explain

it other than that. It's not like it doesn't

it's animation that doesn't run at 30 frames

I don't even think it runs at 24 frames because

that's film. I think it runs at something less

than that But it looks it looks great So that's

that's that's all I've got to plug to and if

you have a ps4 I highly recommend playing the

spider -man game if you're not already. It's

funny. You're here I mentioned this on tune.

I think it was 298 I used to watch you all the

time on Twitch doing playthroughs, like when

you were doing Tomb Raider, the original 2014

game or whatever. And I'm like, oh, everyone's

talking about Spider -Man. Well, I don't have

a PS4. I can't play Spider -Man. So I just searched

out Spider -Man playthrough or whatever on YouTube.

And I found this guy, the Rad Brad on YouTube.

And I watched. All of like all as soon as he

was dropping his videos. I watched it all so

I basically have seen the whole game I love that

game. I'm so glad that you're bringing white

spider into the comics with spider getting I

haven't My my downfall is I haven't played the

game in about a week very it's a very Like it's

I have I have a weird love -hate relationship

with the game right now, okay? So but that's

that's for you know, a future episode if I'm

on it and spider -man is still relevant Spider

-man will always be relevant So My basic premise

is the music in the game is annoying and They

also did not need to reinvent the combat system

they this the type of combat in the game was

perfected almost a decade ago and They didn't

need to reinvent it I think they I don't think

they reinvented it. I think they kind of copied

the Arkham Knight Arkham Asylum right right They

perfected it a decade ago in this game changed

it for no reason oh And it only you only notice

it when you have the controller in your hand

if you're watching it It looks identical, but

when the controllers in your hand they changed

it and they changed it in the most annoying ways

possible All right, so that's it but That that's

and when I say that it's literally something

is is is just nitpicky as instead of it being

what was it on Xbox? It was why and on PlayStation

it was triangle to do the counter like counter

is now circle or was it be I think so it's like

why why every game uses the top button as counter?

Why? Like why would you change that? So is this

like you so you sit down to play it and you feel

like it's gonna be this one type of game and

it's not that and I also I'm not gonna lie. I

died a whole lot in the frickin tutorial. Oh,

no Because that game is stupid and it cheats

You've heard it here folks well, so when you're

trying to counter Again, unlike that man when

you're trying to counter you don't every guy

that you're fighting can queue up on you But

you're only gonna counter Whatever the last guy

was that queued up on you. Oh Meaning somebody

else is going to punch you despite the fact that

you countered You don't counter all of them.

You only counter the guy that's about to like

hit you regardless of how close everybody else

is It's already queued up to kick your butt Wow,

that's crazy So more with Mike Booth ninja powers

on spider -man on ps4 next time or whenever the

heck we end up doing that Yeah, so thank you

for joining me guys on episode 300 absolutely

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