Nine Years of the Geekcast Radio Network

Hey, this is Steve blue and you are listening

to the geek cast radio network The history of

the GCRN recorded June 1st 2018 nine years after

the network was launched by Steve Megatron and

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welcome to a very special episode of the Geekcast

Radio Network. I am one of your hosts, Optimus

Solo, and joining me today to talk about the

history of the Geekcast Radio Network is none

other than Steve Megatron Phillips. Hello. Yo.

And TFG1 Mike. Hello. Just a bunch of fuckin'

rapites. Pretty much same old different color.

So what we're here today to do is something that

has been in the works here for a little while

we knew we were you've been working on this for

about two and a half three years at this point

that i think yeah probably i mean it's only natural

uh as a history lover uh someone who went to

school for history taught history etc etc that

anything i'm involved with i'm also interested

in the history of and hey i mean now that we're

finally at the nine -year mark there is some

history of the geek cast radio network so i have

been in the back room locked in the broom closet

trying to compile data and uh go back through

files and pages and everything to gather as much

information as we can about the history of the

network. And I thought it would kind of be fun

to break that down. But before we get to that,

just in case people aren't aware of it already,

Steve or Mike, do either one of you kind of want

to set the stage as to how this whole thing began

nine years ago? Steve? I plead the fifth. It

was my fault. Oh, no. Shut up. OK, so just a

little bit of behind the scenes before we get

to the You know, seeds of the past lied buried

in the future. I originally had an awesome thought

for this entire recording. The original... That

would have been TFGN1 Mike's first awesome thought

in nine years. Good night, everybody. That's

Mike doing the dig -duck sound on his 8 -bit

microphone. It should make him better, though.

He should knock some sense in him. Well, continue,

Mike. My point is, we were going to record this

just before Memorial Day weekend 2018. Memorial

Day weekend, my wife and I hosted the Wilson

family, P. Concord Michael, his wife, and their

two children, because they have season passes

to Six Flags Great America. My thought was, Michael

and I could be live in the same room, and you

guys could be on Skype, obviously. and they would

have had the four horsemen of the GCRN all in

one place, sort of, kind of. But nine years ago,

Steve, Yeah, nine years ago, actually almost

ten, if you consider the show that started it,

is ten years old this year. Yeah, 10 years old

as of the 9th, I think, of August. Yes, you and

I just went over this like for 20 minutes two

days ago, so yeah. It was a couple more days,

but it still was funny. Whatever. Yeah, it was

kind of interesting to sit there and think about

it because I started that, All Things Transformers,

and then literally like a month later I joined

Twitter. and conversed with This Week in Geek

and of Mike the Birdman Dodd and met TFG1 Mike

on there somehow. I was searching Transformers

people and I started following everybody that

did Transformers or had it in their profile and

then communicating with everybody and it was

kind of a small close -knit group at the time

and started conversing more and I was like running

Predakine Empire at the time which was my Transformers

website that I was hosting all things transformers

on and He was like I have this idea to do a podcast

and I'm like sure and I I started editing and

doing everything else and And then I was like

you've got to learn how to do this. I don't want

to do it anymore But I learned how to do it and

I've been doing it ever since I put more hours

into editing than I do recording at this point

Yeah, I do the opposite. I spend less time editing

than I do recording. So it's more so i'm just

like it's going to be right here it was too much

time spent on it uh... so the point is folks

we put our blood sweat tears in time into this

follow the kevin will tell you later as we go

through this nine years thousands of episodes

of podcasts thousands of hours of content which

is going to let you know it's i haven't yet either

uh... I've almost done that by beating the crap

out of my PC when I've had problems. But I have

broken two headsets though. Even my one that

I have. I've broken this one too. Um, microphone

still stayed with me through most of GCRN. So

that's, that's a bonus, but I haven't, I haven't

broken a headset since tune cast days though.

I think I've been through two or two or three

of them in that first year. You'll be breaking

more as we go along next year. I actually just

figured out that my microphone that I've had

since, I don't know, uh, beginning of the first

year of GCRN, uh, that there's a headphone jack

on it. Yeah, just figured that out. My wife was

using my headset because I had a microphone,

and I had to record something simultaneously.

And I was like, oh, there's a headphone jack

in there. And I plugged it in. I was like, it

works. It was a little tinny, but it worked.

So yeah, we started the network. We started editing.

There was no website for it at the time there

was just TFG one podcast and all things transformers

on Predacon Empire and I wrote the RSS feeds

from scratch which was pure hell and Designed

the images which were at the time like 200 by

200 pot art Very archaic it was like the caveman

of this this was when iTunes had a 500 by 500

is a minimum and I was like I don't I don't really

care what you have to say iTunes and then you

know then they came out with the oh you've got

to have 800 and then a minimum of 300 so I bumped

them up to 300 and then then they were like 1400

so I bumped them up to like Whatever I think

I bumped him up to 1 ,400 then they're like 3

,000. I'm like screw you So 1 ,400 ever since

yeah, yeah, I've done 1 ,400. I'm like I'm not

doing 3 ,000 like that's just absurd But anyways,

yeah, so it was a lot of learning experience

a lot of stuff going on through behind the scenes

a lot of just Starting new ideas constantly and

then I think the idea actually kind of came to

fruition, and we actually built the site in April

of 2009. And that was MIA. Built it through April

and May. You were MIA for part of May. Half of

it. Built April and May. We launched June 1st,

2009. Yep. Yeah, and just for the record when

we're going over these statistics and whatnot

I have chosen to include Those TFG1 episodes

and the ATTF episodes that predated the network

Just because that show kind of got incorporated

into the network and continued so they are part

of the statistics I felt like it was only fair

to include those even though they were technically

somewhat of a precursor to the network. But for

all intents and purposes, it would have had the

same look and feel, although a very young and

inexperienced feel of the same type of stuff

that we were doing then in 2009. So yeah, it

wasn't until... Like you guys said, the end of

May, beginning of June, where all of a sudden

you get a GCRN episode, an MYR episode, a Tunecast

episode, et cetera, to go along with the TFG

-1 and ATTF. But those have been included in

the data. So basically, we have four sections

that we're going to go over here today. We're

going to be breaking it down a little bit by

people. kind of going people by the numbers.

So we're going to get into who we've had on the

network and some milestone type things and some

stuff like that. Then we're going to go into

some data on the actual shows, multiple categories

surrounding the show and some statistics through

there. After that we're gonna go kind of a year

-by -year look kind of like a I don't know a

network through the years kind of Timeline aspect

as we look through and I think that's gonna be

some interesting information that some of you

guys Might not be aware of but we'll kind of

get through that I'm gonna quiz you guys all

throughout this whole podcast I hope you guys

are ready for that to test your memory and your

thoughts on some things and Then the final thing

we're just gonna go over some grand numbers of

that'll be the shortest section But I have a

few grand totals for a different a few different

things that you guys are gonna be able to listen

to but we're gonna go to our first break here

and then we come back we're gonna break down

who has made the geek cast radio networks roster

over the years and who's appeared in and shows

whether it be a host a co -host a guest and that

kind of break it down by the numbers right after

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right, so thanks for sticking with us. As I said,

this first section, we're going to be going over

people by the numbers. Before I get to that,

Mike, you had said something in the intro that

I've spent some time doing this. I guess that's

an understatement and way many more hours than

it should have been because I had this thing

almost wrapped up with a bow on it. And then

For those of you that don't know, I'm obsessed

with Excel when it comes to data and stuff like

that. My file has thousands of rows and hundreds

of columns, etc. I was just about wrapped up

with it and I was curious about something, so

I sorted it. with a certain criteria on there

and didn't realize I didn't have the whole sheet

highlighted. So it effed everything up on my

whole sheet, so I had to start over. Honestly,

I think you've actually been working on this

since year two or three, since about 2011. I

don't think it's been that long. I don't think

it's been that long. I think it's been since

year five. Yeah, it's definitely been for a little

while. now i have like a master copy saved and

in reserve so anything i do can't f it up so

learn that's a beautiful that's the beautiful

thing about Google Docs, though, is like if you

mess it up, it'll show you the history of the

document of when it was saved. Right, right.

And this is going to be something that's going

to be easy for us to keep up with because now

I'm going to turn it over to everybody and they

can update it as they wish. So back to this first

section, people by the numbers. Now, it might

not be super interesting for a lot of people,

but I wanted to take the time since there has

been so many people that have been a part of

the network in various fashions that I wanted

to try to highlight at least some of them. There's

no way we could name everybody that's been on

an episode that would take way too long. But

I am going to try to name a decent amount of

them. So what I've separated this into is different

clubs. It's kind of like baseball. You have like

the 100 home run club or the 300 or 500, stuff

like that. So we're going to do something similar

to that. I have about, oh, let's see, I don't

know, 10 different clubs that we're going to

go through here. Kind of reminds me of SNL, the

five timers club. Yeah, something like that.

So our first section is going to be and we're

going to go in, you know, kind of Ascending order

is that right? Yeah, we're gonna get bigger in

each club. So and up until our grand finale So

the first club is is people that have appeared

in at least ten episodes So if you've appeared

in less than ten episodes, I'm sorry You're not

gonna get a mention on the podcast unless Mike

or Steve just randomly throw your name in there

But we're gonna kind of go through it starting

with the ten episode club So people that have

appeared in at least ten episodes we have Matthew

Stewart who is just bare just got into the club

last week with his tenth episode. We have Dan

Lamont Yeah, yep, and oh and FYI there is a slight

possibility that once Mike and Steve see this

file that they're gonna tell me that Two names

that I have as separate are the same person.

That might be a case that could happen, because

I don't have good knowledge on every single person,

and some people have used different names over

the years, so if that happens, I apologize. We

have Haji Prime, who's been in 12 episodes. We

have Eduardo, who's been in 13. Most of those

with Mike, I believe. Yeah, pretty much all of

them. Yeah. We have the late Optimus Scourge

in 13 episodes. Ados Baron in 14 episodes, Ben

Carver in 15. Surprise, he's not in, hasn't been

in more, but I guess most of them were just mass

mayhem. Toon Master Tim has been in 17 episodes,

and Sketch has been in 23. So that's the 10 episode

club. I'll give you guys a chance to respond

after this next club here, because we're going

to jump from 10 to people that have appeared

in at least 25 episodes. So it takes a little

bit more here to be in 25 episodes. You almost

have to be a co -host or just a very frequent

repeating guest. So 25 Episode Club would start

with DJ Valentine with 27 episodes. We have The

Proto Man, 29 episodes. Adolfo Shabadoo in 29

episodes. General Techno in 30 episodes. Opti

bottom us and 31 Jeremy fine or feign I don't

know I'm fine last fine in 32 episodes lupus

convoy in 35 episodes Tara Blair the rising star

in 38 episodes Sean Dedrick and 43 episodes and

Spada in 44 episodes Mike any surprises amongst

those two lists people that have been 10 episodes

or 25 episodes in Or anything you'd want to say

about any of those people we just talked about.

Yeah, I'm surprised. I miss recording with Spada.

It was so fun recording stuff with him. Yeah,

that's a lot. Yes, DJ, you can stop hounding

us. I've already said you can have your own show.

I was going to ask Steve if there was one person

that I just listed in either the 10 episode or

25 episode club that has the biggest chance of

increasing that number exponentially. I would

say DJ. Yeah. But for more than one reason, you

know, not just because he wants his own show,

but because he's kind of our go to voice when

when we want to just have fun and have somebody

that that's informative to talk with. Right.

Those are gonna be the two largest groups. Every

group from here on is gonna get a little bit

smaller. There's gonna be one bump where it kinda

gets bigger for a second, but nobody's gonna

have, that was nine people in one of those and

10 people in the other. All the rest are gonna

be a little bit smaller. So the next jump that

we go to is people that have been in at least

50 episodes. So 50 episodes, we have Scotty Cash,

51 episodes. We have Doug Abel in 54 episodes.

Dion the Music Man in 60 episodes. Art Danner,

62. Ryan the uneven flow in 66. I had to try

to do my best TVs. Mr. Neil impersonation and

Lady rec 73 episodes Wow So those a lot of those

people are almost core at that not core isn't

like us for but like pretty much co -hosts because

I'll use Ryan on almost all the Transformers

comic stuff now. Ryan and I are pretty much doing

Mayhem Mikes. Liddy Wreck is doing the other

Transformers stuff with me for the comics and

things like that. But damn, that's a good list.

Definitely a frequent guest and sometimes co

-host in that group. How about people that have

appeared in at least 75 episodes? So that would

be Nicole Hailstorm at 86. JT from a Saskatoon

at 95 really Yeah, and Joe Reed 99 Yeah, I knew

Joe was gonna be up there I didn't know how close

he was gonna get to the 100 mark or whatever

But Joe and I have been doing the IDW TMNT comic

coverage For two or three four years now I'm

not kidding when I say this. I've said this before.

I was quoted on issue 55. If you've ever loved

the TMNT franchise, the IDW main ongoing comic

series is a love letter to TMNT. They have done

so good with that comic. It's amazing. It's just

amazing. I've had a chance to talk with Tom Walz,

the writer. I've had a chance to talk with Bobby

Kernow two or three different times who is the

editor on the book. And everything they do feels

like whether you're an 87 fan, whether you're

an old Mirage comic fan when Kevin Eastman and

Peter Laird started up, it doesn't matter. Anything

they do feels like an extension of what has already

come at the same time of getting new story, new

this, new that. The best part is I own all the

covers. Yes, you do. The interesting thing, too,

about reading some of these names off is they

also represent all kinds of different time periods

amongst GCRN's history. So we have some people

that were more, you know, in the early days.

We have some people that are more recent. So

it's kind of a good spectrum that we've gotten

here. One thing that I wanted to mention from

the three people that we just read off, JT from

Saskatoon, because he has almost been there from

the beginning. and it's interesting he's a compiled

ninety five episodes without ever being a host

or a co -host that's impressive that's a lot

of guest appearances he's he's kind of like a

pseudo canadian there isn't a lot of the host

because well like i use him on the batman beyond

coverage i've always used him on the batman beyond

comic coverage of the full bag uh... he used

to do just the facts for us on the wire and that

kind of thing he was on Yeah, he was on a lot

of the early telecast episodes, so yeah, JT,

good people, even though he lives in the wrong

country. Absolutely. It's going to get a little

bit more predictable from here on out as we enter

the upper echelon, I guess, of episode numbers,

because obviously these people, since they've

been around for more episodes, are going to be

more familiar to everybody. So the next logical

step would be the 100 Club. So these are people

that have been in at least 100 episodes. We start.

with Mr. Fridley Scent, who's been in 120, almost

exclusively, Cinema Geeks, but he has a few other

things. We also have, no coincidence, right next

to him, Hard Candy Mandy, 128 episodes. So, my

two of my co -hosts on Cinema Geeks, they're

right neck and neck with each other, battling,

I guess. From there, we go to two other co -hosts

from another show, that would be Chuck and Greg

from Talking in Circles. Chuck has been in 139

episodes, and Greg has been in 141. All right

now it gets super predictable from here on out

I think if you guys were to compile a list of

the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 names left You would probably

come pretty close to getting all of them three

of them still here in the hundred club That is

mr. Birdman Dodd who is now up to 155 episodes

Wow followed by TV's mr. Neil had a hundred and

sixty two Wow and Michael Powers a hundred and

eighty three So would you guys like to comment

on any of those names that we read off in the

100 Club? Neil before Dodd. No, Neil actually

came after Dodd. I know. He's still the lowest

of the three. So Dodd, then Neil, then Michael

Powers. Which is funny because Dodd's been around

since TFG won. Yeah. He's had a few hiatuses,

but he hasn't appeared for a while. So that's

kind of hurt his numbers, I guess, a little bit.

Yeah. He comes up occasionally when time allows.

And I guess you could say that dot has been a

co -host on certain shows maybe not like For

the entirety of the shows, you know, he's kind

of come and gone in different times But otherwise

everybody else on that list was a specific co

-host for at least one if not more shows So we're

really getting into that territory from there

We're gonna make a huge jump all the way up to

the 200 club So one person has been at least

200 episodes and that would be mr. Michael Wilson

at 205 day michael's in two hundred and five

it'll get more uh... yeah he's that we still

have like we have plans yet we still have like

forty four episodes of podcaster this local actor

left to do so uh... michael wilson as well that

guy uh... my wife and i'd just hosted him in

his family uh... this past weekend or so the

memorial day weekend uh... Where you know they

have passes to Six Flags Great America and Karen

and I our house is quite literally a Five minute

walk or a two minute drive to Great America So

like they stayed over for the weekend. It was

it was awesome hanging out with them Michael

Wilson is just you know You put Steve and I on

a mic you put the three of us You know, sorry

Kev, the guest list was a little too short. But

it has always been one of those things, whether

it's Steve and I, whether it's Steve, Kevin and

I, whether it's Steve, Kevin, Michael and I.

You put us in front of a microphone, or if you

just get us in a room like Steve said we can

sit there and talk for hours And it means it

means the most to us, but it basically basically

talk about nothing I mean we're essentially the

core for Seinfeld characters. You know I don't

know who wants to be Elaine not me, but you know

it's You don't have enough hair It's so it's

so fun recording with Michael and it's the best

thing about podcasting folks is If you can spend

two hours talking with somebody before you even

start the episode that you're supposed to start

when we like We spent an hour and a half before

we recorded TFG one podcast episode 17 because

he was dead Deathly ill he had some sort of weird

Cobra commander death cold or Starscream infected

him with something or bombshell gave him a cerebroshell

or something He sounded like crap and the biggest

joke is is that you know Oh, he made me podcast

when I was sick. I didn't make him do shit I

said, we can do this or we don't have to. We

can push it. He goes, oh, no, I'll be all right.

Listen to TFG 117 and hear how sick that man

was. It's not my fault. I didn't do it. But I

love that guy. It's been a while since I've been

able to argue Transformers with him. Oh, god.

Well, it's coming up soon again. Moving on to

the 300 episode club. Never mind, we don't have

anybody that's done 300 episodes. Alright, moving

on to the 400 episode club. We had no one that

has only done 300. One person in the 400 episode

club that would be none other than Mr. Movie

Revolt Dan at 436 episodes. So started as a fan,

started as someone who commented on episodes

and eventually amassed 436 episodes. So, I mean,

he's been in a lot of shows, he's done a lot

of things, obviously currently really pumping

out content for Comic Concierge as well as appearing

on Cinema Geeks when we put out episodes, but

Dan has been there a long time and amassed a

lot of episodes, that's for sure. Yeah, he has.

The crazy thing about him is, and Steve and I

noticed this, and I think you noticed this as

well, Kev, all the rest of us say, um, ugh, ah,

ye, ah. He says none of that. Like, he doesn't

do it at all. He's the easiest person to edit.

We're all the ones sitting there going, what

did we want to say? Yeah, exactly. No, I edit

cinema geeks. Well, we all take turns, Matt,

Dan and I. And I can tell you that I might have

them on separate channels. So I just skip past

everything that he does because I know I don't

have to edit anything out because somehow he

has trained himself or just naturally he does

not say any of those things. So he's super easy

to edit. I'm actually the worst. Because I don't

have um necessarily what I do which is terrible

for podcast editing is I extend a word so I'll

like Stall on one word as I'm thinking which

makes it impossible to edit it out or Like where

you can easily just snap it out I draw out a

word and I gotta stop doing that but Dan is super

easy to edit and I really appreciate that He's

also probably one of the most professional and

you know well spoken guys I've been around as

far as the internet community. So it's been a

joy recording with him and just listening to

some of his other stuff. Some of the stuff they

did on Talking In Circles was a lot of fun. Yeah,

it really was. Yeah. So then there were only

three people left to talk about. And it's us.

We have one member of the 500 Club that would

be myself at 582 episodes. I've done 82 episodes

since that milestone episode. Exactly. There

you go. Approaching 600 very shortly Steve you're

also approaching a milestone pretty pretty soon

You are currently if my and I tried to update

this just this last weekend to try to be as up

-to -date as possible I mean there is a chance

that something just went out that I don't have

in my data, but currently I have your tally at

985 episodes so 15 away from a thousand So that

is a huge milestone coming up. And then, Mike,

I question how you pull this off. But we're going

to skip past the thousand episode club. We're

going to skip past the 1250. We're going to skip

past the 1500. We're going to skip past the 1750.

Let's just put you in the 2000 episode club.

2011. Wow. Yeah, I was not sure what the number

was going to be. Shut up. Maybe that's maybe

that's supposed to be the year 2011. Jebby Jebby

doesn't get a turn. Sorry 2011 episodes It's

it's it's scaled down a little bit in the last

year. I will say yeah. Yeah, it's my turn Shut

up Steve may be on the pathway to try to catch

you here soon But right now you are the king

at 2011 episodes and I will never say those words

in conjunction with each other again Yes, you

will, because I'm going to play that clip over

and over and over again in every single podcast

I do from here on out. Excellent. I'm going to

put the word toilet before that. One thing, guys,

that I do before you guys comment on any of those

numbers that we've just revealed, I do want to

try to put together, and you guys might be able

to help me with this once I give you guys the

document, et cetera. I would like to put a post

together on the website that outlines every single

person that has appeared, even if it's just their

name. As a thank you to everybody that has helped

contribute to the network overall and I'm gonna

give the exact number at the end of the episode

So if you want to know exactly how many people

we featured on a at least one episode Tune in

keep listening because they I'd like to put together

a post that actually lists all of those So any

reactions to any of those numbers guys or anything

that you'd like to highlight before we take a

break I'm a little scared of Mike's number only

for the fact that I mean I knew he was like Passed

1 ,500, but I didn't realize he was that far

past it. Yeah, it makes me question his sanity

I kind of figured I was over 2 ,000. I wanted

to do a milestone episode for you I had the 2

,000 mark, but yeah You've had so many episodes

coming out this year that you passed it way faster

than I can be ready for Okay, so here's the thing.

It's the pullback. Okay. I cannot stop doing

like we did like Have no end point for the pullback

the pullback is probably going to be the first

GCRN podcast that hits the 1000th episode mark

of a pod like I have no end point for that show

because There's things that I keep wanting to

cover There's things I keep coming up with on

that show to cover whether it's TMNT whether

it's transformers whether it's Batman whether

it's Batman Beyond whether it's Nightwing whether

it's whatever And the pullback I don't we I think,

Steve, you said this off air, that there was

some video I sent you, and you said you looked

at the comments and something about how someone

commented, oh, you're only reviewing stuff that

actually sells or something or other. I don't

know, some YouTube show. I have no idea. And

I don't just, I don't even know. Like, talk to...

The unnamed, Ryan the Unnamed Fuller Merkley

about, you know, selling numbers for DC and Marvel.

Like, he knows some of that stuff. I don't know

any sell, I just cover what I wanna cover, what

I find interesting. And I gravitate more towards

franchises at this point than I do superheroes.

I've done a lot of independent or creator -owned

reviews as well. like uh... kyle higgins did

his his cowell series he did his adrienne's wall

series with image comics but like if a comic

speaks to me whether it's batman or whether it's

whatever what's more interesting to me is in

the five years the pull bags been on on on the

network what i have never covered i've never

covered one superman comic i've never covered

iron man i've never covered supergirl at this

point i had plans to cover supergirl with somebody

for the new fifty two series that they had they

just have never panned out and you know there

was one episode that I don't think is in our

actual numbers because it was on Radio Free Cybertron

like if there's one thing I was crazy for it

was Comic Con 2012 I sat here for six hours recording

a streamed episode of Radio Free Cybertron as

we were reacting live as the news broke out in

San Diego for Comic Con that year I think it

was either 2012 or 2011? 2011 and you told me

and I told you you're The other thing here, even

though Steve's only about 14 or 15 episodes away

from 1 ,000, he's probably going to get that

in like two weeks because of how much content

he puts out these days. So it's going to be hard

to do that milestone too, but all these are creeping

up. Him and Dan are putting out a lot of episodes

for sure lately. That's because I'm crazy and

I put out two Altered Geeks a week now. My craziness

has rubbed off on him. I try and do an Alt Things

Transformers now. frequently as much as I can.

And then future perfect. I would have three of

them out by now, but I've been waiting on God.

So I think I'm just going to move on and just

do them anyway. But yeah, I mean, it's been fun

putting out. multiple episodes of things for

sure for sure and we want you to catch Mike anyway,

so One quick amount of bonus info I guess I can

chalk it up to before we go to the break I didn't

not do this for everybody because it would have

taken way too long to do so there was no way

I could do it for everybody that's appeared on

one of those lists that I just read off but just

for the four that are past the 400 episode mark

wanted to look at how many shows we've each appeared

on so Movie revolt Dan has appeared in eight

different podcasts I have appeared in 16 different

podcasts Steve you've been on 22 different shows

and Mike you've been on 28 different shows I

usually have 20 running at the same time. It

seems like it, that's for sure. I didn't realize

I was on that many of the shows. That could consist

of one episode, like I've appeared on one episode

of Comic Concierge, I've appeared on one episode

of a couple other things, a few episodes of Pullback,

but it doesn't necessarily mean a lot of episodes,

but at least one on that show's run, so that's

some interesting information. So a little bit

closer of a gap there, Mike, you're only six

shows ahead of Steve. We're gonna try to come

up with some new shows that might can't be on

just to get the gap closer I'm just I'll just

start creating episodes of different shows Nobody

even be ones that were canceled that that just

weren't included So we're gonna have to see if

we can close that gap. With that said, we're

gonna take a break and when we come back we're

gonna get more into shows. Let's look at the

data as it comes to just the individual shows

and some of their milestones. Yummy! Alright,

thanks for sticking with us. As I said before

the break, we're gonna move on to some show data.

Show data. I don't ever know how to say that

word. I like data because it reminds me of Star

Trek The Next Generation So I have something

similar that we did with people we're gonna get

into some some clubs, I guess so This is gonna

be the most episode counts by show is the category

that we're talking about So I have three shows

that are approaching a milestone and then we're

gonna get into the actual clubs So these three

shows are approaching the 100 episode mark. We

have well two shows and one amalgamation, I guess.

First show is Pogs, which currently sits at 95

episodes. Now, before anybody says anything about

any of these episode counts, let me just quickly

say that I'm going off of hard data that is compiled

that includes unnumbered episodes, that includes

special episodes, that includes anything that

appeared on that feed. So the numbers that we

may have been going off of or saying on air may

not be accurate. These numbers are as accurate

as I can possibly get them. So Hopefully that'll

stifle some of the debates on on what number

they're actually at but I have pogs right now

in total at 95 episodes I have pixels in the

animation at 96 So one episode difference there

pogs will be shortly overtaking that though because

we have a lot of content in the coming out here

Okay. Well to be fair to pixels it was only ever

planned to be a hundred episodes and TVs Mr.

Neil had some personal issues happen over the

last couple of months and we have not been able

right as Of this point we were supposed to wrap

up pixels the animation by June 21st this year

And I right, you know, it will wrap it up when

we wrap it up I remember I always have to tell

the story talking about pixels. There was somebody

on iTunes that left a really nice review. But

he had said at one point I'm not sure you know

if you're gonna be able to get to the 100th episode

thing And I keep calling the guy out almost every

every episode passed like we're this close. We're

this close. We're we're almost here Yeah, no

my point was that pixels. Yeah, it was planned

as a hundred episode podcast Pogs originally

was planned as a 125 or 135 episode Show although

they keep making an apparently new series, so

I don't know how that's gonna work, but so Pogs

should have a longer shelf life just in general

but yeah right now they're right now they're

one episode away yeah this next one's not a show

but it might surprise you guys and that is and

by the way any interview that appeared as part

of a show was pulled out as a separate entity

and put into a group called just interviews right

are you guys surprised that we've done 97 interviews

no nine years no No, and these and interviews

I was shocked that it was that high but 97 interviews

three more interviews and we'll be at the 100

mark I guess we can have a little celebration

there From there on it goes into the 100 episode

club is what I'm calling it We have four members

and before I list off any of them just for the

purpose of this entire section and kind of the

entire GCR in history thing. I do have tune cast

tune cast beyond listed separately as well as

a combined Entity so I have them both separately

and combined just for purposes of this so I have

the original tune cast at 103 episodes I have

toy cast at a hundred and twenty two tune cast

beyond at a hundred and twenty three and Talking

in circles at a hundred and forty so those are

they all start with T and they've all had a hundred

episodes so I don't know why I had to point that

out, but... You did. So, Tooncast, Toycast, Tooncast

Beyond, and Talking in Circles all have had 100

episodes. Now let's jump to shows that have had

150 episodes. Just barely. All Things Transformers,

151. That includes version 1, 2, and 3. Alright,

so that's all of them combined would be 151 episodes.

I thought that was only fair to combine them

all. Cinema Geeks? Which also includes both weekend

at the movies and my weekly altogether a hundred

and eighty two episodes So 182 episodes of Cinema

Geeks, which I think we've been selling short

because currently our last one that we put out,

I think we called like 171 or 172. There's one

spotlight that we apparently didn't count, so

we have to update our numbers here shortly. The

flagship Geekcast Radio Network, how about this

one? This is gonna be the most weird one because

of the numbers that we're currently calling it.

I will say that... Again a little bit tricky,

but I had to take some creative license and how

I counted these out I counted mayhem mics as

a separate entity. Yeah So so that is separate.

I also counted the La La Land Lounge, I believe

us us. No, I that's included Mayhem mics is the

only one I took out. So currently the geek cast

radio network has had 187 episodes Know I know

we're promoting them as in the 90s, but we've

actually had 187 So here's an interesting one

just one episode away from another milestone

But currently as a member of the 150 episode

club M wire currently sits at 199 199 episodes

of M wire Nine years to the day. So we only have

three shows to talk about the rest of the way

and one of them like I said is I guess maybe

a cheat. We're in the 200 episode club. This

is where we get the combined tune cast. If we

combine tune cast and tune cast beyond it would

currently sit at 226 episodes. So 226 and obviously

has a reformatting coming very shortly. We also

then have Altered Geek. Currently as of my count

and I know he puts out two episodes a week So

it might be off a little bit, but I currently

have it sitting at 275 episodes of altered geek

so Approaching the 300 episode club in which

we only have one member of the 300 episode club.

That is the pull bag 306 it's so funny that that

Steve that you say that because he's like I don't

know how he gets his numbers because there's

only like 290 something listed on the feed Trust

me, you'll see this spreadsheet and you'll see

the dates and everything but oh, I'm sure yeah,

I mean Steve You only gonna need a couple more

months and you'll pass the pullback Not really

cuz auto butly august is gonna Basically, yeah

Steve catches games one episode on you every

week. So yeah, he's only 30 behind by the end

of the year I'll be over 350. That's all right.

So well, I know you won't There you go Continue

so that is the amounts right now anything to

say about any of those shows the milestones where

you're surprised at the number of episodes any

of these have Steve I'm not really surprised

by any he gets to see all the hard data on the

back end so he shouldn't be too surprised We're

definitely the farthest off on the GeekCast radio's

numbering. Well, yeah, obviously, because we

put a lot of the interviews on there. We put

a lot of specials on there at the time. Top 100s.

Top 100s. Spotlights. Spotlights, things like

that. Right. You know and like I said before

mayhem mics even though you counted it as a separate

entity I We went back and forth about should

we do it as geek cast radio should we do it as

its own thing? And even though we have the art

and all of that to do it as its own thing we

figured oh Well, we've already got geek cast

radio established. What if people want to hear

wrestling content on geek cast radio? And, you

know, Ryan and I and Dodd and a few others are,

you know, we're starting to branch out even more.

There's a bigger plan for it in the future that

includes Optimus Solo here. But... Tooncast is...

It's a... It was meant to be a 100 episode show.

I never meant to go back to it. I never meant

to do it. When I had a specific end date for

it in 2011, I had it to go two years. I was never

really going to do Tooncast Beyond. I did it,

obviously, but I'm like, oh, OK. And there's

that whole Justice League Unlimited epilogue

Batman Beyond thing. 65 years in the future kind

of a thing. So that's why Tooncast Beyond is

named what it's named. And like you said, it's

gonna be coming back, it's gonna be 10 years

of Tooncast next year and we're... It actually

might get a chance to get up there with the big

boys, the Altergeek and the Pullbag with episodes.

I mean, I don't think it'll reach that level,

but it should. It should be a real close third.

It probably will, because I'm pretty sure that

tune master Tim is not going to be able to keep

up, because we have so much planned for 10 years

of tune cast. Go ahead. What are you going to

say? No, I'm just kind of bouncing off that a

little bit something else that I did and this

will get a little bit more into a little bit

later but I also broke down each each of these

shows as well as all the other shows that we

haven't listed and broke down how many episodes

they've They've aired each year year by year.

I'm gonna get into that in a little bit But part

of it that we're gonna get into now is what I've

called shows with the most years active And what

I mean by that is I only counted a year active

if a show produced at least ten or more episodes

in that year, all right? So a show had to produce

at least 10 episodes in that calendar year to

be considered active in that year, all right?

I know you could have said 12, because that would

have been at least once a month, but I put it

at 10, just a nice round number. So this is how

it breaks down for shows with the most years

active. We have a five -way tie for shows that

have been active for five years. Now, also, some

of this probably does not include 2018, just

for the record. Only six months in, of course

it wouldn't count. Right, so some of these might

be off by a year if they've already technically

probably produced ten episodes this year. So

five shows that have been active for five years.

We have Bull Bag. We have Pixels and Animation.

We have Powers of Greyskull. Cinema Geeks and

Altered Geek. Wow. So technically all five of

those have been have produced at least 10 or

more episodes in five years. Some of them will

be six real shortly. One episode or one episode

one show that's been active for six years somehow.

That is Tooncast Beyond. Has managed to have

six years where it had ten episodes might only

had just by the limit but Then we have a two

-way tie for shows that have been active for

eight years That would be the geek cast radio

network flagship and all things transformers

Eight years that each of those shows has produced

at least ten episodes then we have a cheat tune

cast combined if you combine both to cast they've

been active for nine years so crossover a little

bit because two of them were simultaneously broadcasting

one of the years so that's where how it gets

to nine years um and the only one i guess by

itself that has actually been active for nine

years m wire yep pretty much so at least 10 episodes

in nine different calendar years any surprises

there mike no it's not really not really Lot

of longevity there. Oh, yeah So, you know the

five -way tie thing. I think it's just funny

Right, and if you combine two casts that that

will very shortly probably take over MYR since

MYR only has one episode left But the rest are

all pretty much active, except for there's a

limited shelf life on both Pogs and Pixels. But

other than that, they're all active shows, so

they're gonna increase those numbers as well.

Yeah, because after Pogs and Pixels, like I said

earlier, Toon Master Tim's not gonna be able

to keep up, because from here on out, I don't

know if I've said this on air before, I don't

know if Steve has ever mentioned it when he's

done, I know recently he's been talking about

year 10 behind the scenes stuff with the website

on Altered Geek, but... Basically, after Pixels

and Pogs ends, we are not doing any more individual

cartoon review shows. We are, but they're not

going to be separate. They're all going to be

under the Tooncast banner. Right. And that whole

thing will be revealed at a later date. But yeah,

Pogs and Pixels are going to be the final cartoon

-specific review shows that are their own show

outside of a flagship portion of the network.

Well, and the the finish of Pauka. Oh, yeah,

that too. Yeah, so all right Let's go a little

bit kind of the same but a little bit different

and the date is gonna be a tiny bit different

But now I did something that was shows with the

most years from the first aired episode to the

most recent aired episode So they might not have

been active every year in between that but I'm

talking about shows that have been around for

the longest So from the first time they aired

an episode until the last time they've aired

an episode I'm gonna run through this very fairly

quick Cinema geeks has been around and I did

not get crunch of numbers to the exact week or

day or whatever So these are somewhat rounded

figures cinema geeks four years and eight months

pull bag five years and two months Toycast five

years and six months pixels five years and eight

months altered geek five years and ten months

Then we have Legends, kind of. Six years and

three months. Future Imperfect, six years, five

months. Tooncast Beyond, six years, six months.

Pogs, six years, seven months. Tooncast Combined,

well, we'll save that for a second. GCRN Wars,

seven years, seven months. MWIRE, eight years,

six months. Tooncast Combined, nine years. GCRN,

nine years. All things transformer is nine years

nine months So unless there's a lost episode

that I'm missing on one of those those are the

amount of time that those have been around From

act from first episode to last yeah, that makes

sense because we're three months away from the

10 -year anniversary Yep, I hold the record for

the oldest show The oldest show record in this

show if if I had recorded Week every episode,

you know an episode every week of all things

transformers. I would have been at 520 I Like

it I like it. All right. I'm gonna have three

categories in a row here for you that are specific

about iTunes All right, so I mean piled some

iTunes data Just in case people were curious

so I have the first one's gonna be the most iTunes

reviews Seconds gonna be the most iTunes ratings

and then we're gonna go down a breakdown of ratings

for each show We'll do this fairly quickly, but

most iTunes reviews From bottom to top and I

only picked like the ones that had a significant

number here Tooncast Beyond has had eight reviews

Cinema Geeks has had nine Pogs has had nine pull

bag has had ten reviews all things transformers

11 altered geek has had 12 the flagship has had

13 telecast has had 17 m wire 18 tune cast original

35 if you combine tune cast it would be 43 and

from the command center 46 That is the shows

with the most reviews. Mike, why does From the

Command Center have so many reviews? Power Rangers.

Because it's Power Rangers. I know you hate Power

Rangers, but here's the thing. It's morphin'

time, man. Shut up. Go play with your rubber

ducky, Megatron. Ah, yes. Causing problems on

the podcast, as always. I wish that there were

more. No, there's no surprises, but I do wish

there were more. We ask every episode. And as

I mentioned earlier, and I'm not trying to harp

on this, nine years. thousands of podcasts thousands

of hours of audio content just I I guarantee

you if somehow Steve had some magical piece of

software that he could remove every additional

clip and it was just our audio as we're talking

it would still be thousands of hours of content

and here's the thing yeah we say oh it's free

content you know you know whatever but it's one

of those things where If you like something if

you're a silent listener that's great, but we

ask every time we record an episode Please interact

with us send us an email tweet at us leave an

iTunes review if you don't use iTunes fine Don't

do that send us an email, but if you're using

iTunes It's not like they're charging you to

and by they I mean iTunes and Apple not us because

we're not charging for this stuff obviously yet

No. To be 100 % fair though, I listen to a lot

of podcasts and I have written hardly any reviews.

I should be blamed to blame as well. Right, but

see, here's the thing. I've listened to a bunch

of podcasts, not recently, because I produce

more than I listen to at this point, but it's

one of those things where when I was just listening,

if I liked the show or if I didn't like the show,

I would write a review saying good and bad points.

I wouldn't just sit there and write, oh you guys

suck or oh you guys were wrong or oh blah blah

blah blah blah uh... you know i would actually

articulate myself you know whatever but here's

the thing about the itunes reviews it takes less

than five minutes to write something like hey

guys loved your show hey guys you know i i like

your show but i disagree with this or i disagree

with that steve isn't but i a m constantly checking

for new itunes reviews well as the as the as

he has already said i you know he hates itunes

but well for the record there's reasons behind

that right yeah i don't like itunes either but

it is still the standard for podcasts as far

as you know now for now for like reviews and

popularity and that type of stuff. But two things

that I will mention. Number one, this is only

based on US data. So if we have Canadian listeners,

you know, or, you know, listeners in Europe or

different things like that, it's not going to

be included in here. So our numbers would probably

be higher because I know last time I checked,

I came from a show that was checking, I had like

an Australian, a Canadian, England, multiple

reviews in all those countries. So that would

bump the numbers. If you're just going on the

US numbers and you're just looking at these shows,

which there were other shows that had less than

eight reviews. But if you're just adding up the

ones I just rattled off, that's over 200 reviews.

If you figure that out, I believe that's almost

two per month across the network. So we're still

getting at least two reviews every month. across

the network on at least one of the various shows

so it's not like absolutely we're not getting

something so another thing go ahead oh i was

going to say that the other thing is there's

both reviews and ratings and obviously reviews

takes more time because you actually have to

write a sentence or two so the ratings are even

higher than that Yeah. So we have a good representation

there. Go ahead and share your thoughts. The

thing about the reviews on iTunes and why from

the Command Center, which is our Power Rangers

review series, why it has 46 is because whether

you like it or not, whether you watched it or

not, whatever, it's another one of those 25 years

old this year. August 28th is the 25th anniversary

of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers when it debuted

in 1993. You know, you look at Transformers,

you look at Batman, you look at anything that

is older than that, or whatever, and it's still

the same thing. It's a legacy thing, and it's,

you know, say what you will about the concept

of the show. Characters like Tommy Oliver, like

Jason Scott Lee, or Lee Scott, or whatever Jason's

name was. last thing was on the show, like Billy

Cranston, like this, like that. You know, these

characters have touched people's lives over the

years, and the franchise is still going. Who

the heck knows what they're gonna do now, now

that Hasbro bought them? Yeah. Mighty Morphin

Transformers? Oh, stop, stop it. Stop it. Oh,

Lord. I would be angry at some of those. Not

warranted, but I would be anyway. All right,

let's go with the ratings, because it's easier

for someone to leave just a simple rating. I'm

going to go with the top six shows as far as

ratings goes. We have All Things Transformers,

which has had 20 ratings. We have The Flagship

Show, which has had 24. Telecast had 26. M -Wire

has 30 ratings. From the Command Center, not

in first when it comes to ratings. 61 ratings

for From the Command Center. And then King of

the Ratings would be Tooncast, the original,

with 76 ratings. Or if you want to combine both

tunecasts, it would be at 91. So a lot more radians

than reviews, clearly almost double in every

category. So any surprises there, Microsoft?

Not really. No. Like I said, just a nice order

to whether it's in iTunes. If it's in iTunes,

great, because I love seeing those now. I remember

when we first started, I was. I took some of

the negative iTunes reviews super personally.

Way too seriously. Way too seriously. Now I'm

like, okay, that's your opinion. I always have

tried to, I don't think there's been a single

review for one of my shows that I haven't read.

Oh no, see, that's the thing. Again, this is

- We read them. We just used to be very vicious

with them. Yeah, take it back. I don't know if

I read all the telecast ones, but I know we've

read all the cinema geek ones and and pogs We've

read most of those. Yeah, see here's here's the

thing. This goes back to my history with podcasting

You know, yes, Mike the Birdman Doug. Yes this

week in geek, but before I found them I found

Michael David Sims in earth -2 .net and his shows

and what he was doing. And basically either at

the end of the show, at the beginning of the

show that he would do, he and James Doe were

doing World's Finest Podcast or whatever other

show that I would listen to on there, either

at the beginning or the end, they would have

a feedback section and they would either play

voicemails that people sent in or they would

read iTunes reviews or they would read emails.

So that's where I got that from. Or I'm like,

OK, if you're going to sit there and write a

review for us on iTunes, it's only fair that

I or we or whomever read it on air so people

know that, hey, people are interacting. People

are telling us what they like and what they don't

like about a show or what they wish we would

focus on and focus more and focus less on. so

you know i mean that's the thing about reading

feedback on air it's you know basically thanking

the listener for taking the time to do the feedback

Yeah, and one thing I've always tried to stress

is I don't mind if it's positive or negative

I just want the feedback so tell me what you

like tell me what you don't like so I don't mind

reading the negatives The other thing that I

did with iTunes is last thing I did with iTunes

is we're gonna have a breakdown of Which shows

are in which category so my we're gonna start

from the worst and go to the best So we have

no shows that are less than three and a half

stars I don't know if you can get less than three

and a half I'm supposed you can have one star

rating Yeah, you can have one star rating or

a half star or whatever so our lowest show overall

this is for the life of the network so people

even though the shows may have ended people can

still go on itunes still leave ratings still

leave reviews etc etc so we only have two shows

that are at a three and a half star rating overall

everything else is above that the two shows at

the three and a half star level would be legends

of the dark night and the tfg podcast so those

are two yeah those are the two at the three and

a half star rating then we move up to the four

star rating shows we have four of those we have

the secret origins Toycast, Tooncast, and Tooncast

Beyond. So those are our four star rating shows.

Then we have a big group in the four and a half

star rating. So let me just rattle these off

real quick. We have The Pull Bag, The Beast Unleashed,

TAP. transformers animation and god bless it

transformers animation animated podcast what

do we call that damn okay okay stop it is transformation

animation podcast do you not get this yes that's

a mouthful it's not really showtime synergy pixels

in the animation and wire mass mayhem somehow

uh geek cast radio flagship show from the command

center and all things transformers are all at

a four and a half star rating so that's pretty

good So that is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

shows that we've done that are at a four and

a half star rating. We actually have 1, 2, 3,

4, 5, 6, 7, 8 shows that are still holding strong

with a five star rating. Those would be Talking

in Circles, GCRN Wars, Powers of Grayskull, Pauka.

Included off the cuff and for a while it was

on our network. Then we have cinema geeks telecast

and altered geek What I love about this is that?

Yeah, what I love about that is Pauca has five

star review has five star rating has zero review

That's true Steve any surprise there from across

the spectrum from three and a half all the way

up to five Yes, I know like I've read all the

comments, but I don't necessarily pay attention

to the the ratings Just because I don't really

know that many people that actually pay attention

to them Just being serious, but I'm kind of surprised

to that That altered geek is still at a five

considering I had one or two people go, boo,

on me in the comments. I think one thing, though,

that you can see out of that, especially with

the five -star rating shows, are those are ones

that we have. You can probably see a different

level of enthusiasm and dedication and time spent

on some of those. Even kind of going into the

four and a half star ratings to like I think

those are ones that we've just had a better way

of ironing it out Really putting the thought

into it because you have alter geek which is

your baby? You know cinema geeks and telecasts

have been stuck to that I put in a lot of time

obviously Dan put in a lot of time into talking

in circles Mike's put a lot of time in with me

and pogs You know he spent a lot of time on Pauca

so and then kind of going into the four and a

half star ratings we wouldn't be surprised where

we have something like the pull bag or or all

things transformers from the Command Center Showtime

Synergy, some of those things that we've just

kind of spent more time on, I think, to really

iron it out. Tooncast, I get where that's a four

-star rating, because that was early on, and

we had to iron out a lot of different things.

So it was more of a kind of up and down experience.

And obviously, like TFG1 podcast was the first

one ever. So Mike was very new at it. So that's

not his fault necessarily. That's one of the

lower rating ones. That's just a sign of something

that came early on in the days. So I think it

kind of is somewhat accurate of the kind of content

we put out. So. And how far we've come in nearly

a decade. Yeah, absolutely. So I just have one

more bonus thing here before we go to our next

break. And this is not going to be complete data.

This is the one section of the entire episode

that is going to be going off of incomplete data

because we just don't have access to all of it

over the years. We've changed websites, servers,

et cetera, et cetera. So to get actual information

on episodes, comments would be hard. So I have

what I can do and you're gonna see a lot of the

earlier on shows are gonna pay the price because

we don't have that data But what I've tried to

compile is episodes with the most comments to

see kind of if we had a record from the data

that we have So does anybody want to take a guess

at which episode has received the most website

comments the top 100s? I mean, that's the first

top 100. Yeah the for the top nine episodes for

comments are all top 100s. So the number one

episode, as of the data we can go off of, is

the top 100 part two of the top 100 television

shows from November of 2015 with 284 comments.

I think that's because everybody got pissed at

the initial of where Flash played. And then we

all attacked each other. Yeah, it's 284 comments

back on that part two. But interestingly, all

four parts of the top 100 TV shows are the top

four commented episodes of all time based on

the data that we have. So 284 comments on part

two, 238 part one, 232 part three, 222 part four.

Then it goes into our top 100 animated films

is actually the next five. So. We had anywhere

from 144 comments up to 170 comments on the top

100 animated films countdown. So those two countdowns

received the most website traffic as far as commenting

goes. Interestingly enough, and I have to go

back and check this episode out to see why there

was this many comments. The next four episodes

are all cinema geeks episodes. And one of them

is episode zero got 93 comments. I don't know

why episode. 0 has 93 comments, but I'll have

to double check that. Episode 1, 90 comments.

Episode 4, 88 comments. And episode 9, 88 comments.

Then we go into the top 50 countdown that we

did at 83 episodes. Then two more Cinema Geeks

episodes. Then an MWIRE special. And that would

have been episode about the Films of Summer of

2013 recap. Yep. So 80 comments on that episode.

uh... and then we have another one of the top

fifty than two more cities episodes than the

first annual peace because radio word show got

seventy four comments and then a talking in circles

episode had seventy two comments obviously we

can't go back and then see some of the comments

on the earlier podcast uh... earlier editions

of maybe i'm watching cast uh... and and the

lake but uh... i don't think there's any surprise

that the top one hundred dominates the comments

i don't know that's always been our biggest commenting

because So the mark to beat is 284. 284. Good

night everybody. Alright, so we're gonna take

another break. When we come back we're gonna

do a timeline. We're gonna do like a Wonder Years,

year by year flip through the years of GeekCast

Raider Network. What a crap. Steve's scared folks.

Stay tuned. I'm going to ask you one question.

Who lives in a colony under the sea? Depth Charge

Fish Pants. Who wants to kill Rampage for you

and for me? Depth Charge Fish Pants. Whose bad

every goodness is misunderstood? Depth Charge

Fish Pants. Who sounds like Batman and Clint

Eastwood? Depth Charge Fish Pants. Depth Charge

Fish Pants. Depth Charge Fish Pants. All right,

I feel like getting the save by the bell game

together and singing a song about through the

years. Anyways, I think they did that in one

of their last episodes. I could be wrong. And

all I can think of is the college years theme

song. There we go. There we go. So one thing

that I thought might be interesting is to see

kind of how the network has gone year by year.

And the first piece of data we're going to go

with that is total episodes produced by the network

each year. All right. Wow. So total episodes

produced by the network each. You're starting

unofficially with 2008 with the pre network episodes

So I guess it does count into does that doesn't

count but 2008 had 12 whole episodes So 12 episodes

in 2008 then let's start with the official episodes

in 2009 First before I do any of this stuff.

Does anybody have a guess as to like how many

episodes we typically would average on a year?

How much 50 or more Okay, I think that's an easy

answer. I think at least a hundred But I think

in the middle years, I think we were cranking

out some serious numbers. That was gonna be the

other thing I was gonna ask you guys. Do you

have a guess as to which year we produced the

most episodes? 2014 I want to see 2013 or 2014,

but it could be possibly 2015. I'm gonna go with

2015. All right, let's see how it works out here

2009 Just getting started guys. We're just getting

started 189 episodes in 2009 2010 we produced

over 100 more episodes 2010 we were up to 290

so 290 podcast came out in 2010 2011 the One

of the only years though. Well, maybe not one

of the only years but a rare down year actually

I don't know what happened in 2011, but we went

back down lowest episode count outside of the

12 that we counted in 2008 2011 went down to

180 so To review that 2009 10 and 11 189 100

or 290 then back to 180. All right 2012 back

up to 261 2013 an all -time high for the network

Up to that point and that would be 295 episodes.

So 295 episodes in 2013 First time we broke 300

in 2014. We didn't just break 300 we broke 400

2014 443 podcasts More than one a day so well

over more than one a day for 2014 2015 a slight

decline actually but still respectable 330 podcast

in 2015 a Slight bump up in 2016 by 19 episodes.

So we went from 330 up to 349 in 2016 Then the

first time in Three years that we didn't break

the 300 episode mark would have been last year

where we came in just too shy 298 so to review

that from 2012 on 261 295 443 330 349 298 this

far thus far in 2018 we have already produced

156 episodes through halfway so we should break

the 300 mark once again in 2018 unless something

tragic happens so Mike You had the right guess

2014 443 episodes react to all this number data.

That's been thrown at you I know you're gonna

say this later, but I want to know the overall

network count for everything at this point Yeah,

obviously last part of the show I'm gonna reveal

the total shows that have aired the total episodes

that have aired and the total people that have

appeared That's gonna be the last section. Yeah,

cuz like if I've done 2011 episodes then Obviously

we're over No, like I don't know what it is like

certain years I got gung -ho about doing all

interviews or as many interviews as I could I

used to get gung -ho about having each new year

break the last year's interviews record I kind

of stopped doing that Right You know 2014 was

a convergence of a lot of things too because

I believe at that time I had full access to the

internet and was single Yeah, so I was producing

more content whereas in 2011 and 12 I didn't

have internet For a good chunk of at least one

or two of those years. Yeah That's why 2011 probably

was such a drop -off back down to 180 where 2010

was 2009 and 10 we were we were producing a lot

of stuff. So yeah, but one year that we used

more than there was days in the year There you

go, Steve thoughts We're going to do it again

this year. Make the goal of 365. That's my personal

goal now. I've got to produce more content. 156

times 2, that would be 312. So we've got to come

up with about 40 episodes. Chicago! I have multiple

podcasts. There was weeks. I was putting out

six episodes a week. when we had wars and everything

else. There's a clip somewhere and I'll have

to find it. Actually, no, I was going to put

it at one of the end of the Pogs episodes where

Kevin's like, I have six recordings to do this

week. I'm like, don't try to be me. Don't do

that. Seriously, what the hell's wrong with you?

You can't replace me and record more than I can.

No. Yeah, but yeah, I'm hoping that we break

that number again though and and I'm hoping that

with the reveal of the new site at a unspecified

certain date that Will will end up boosting comments

boosting Losing everything. Yeah boosting everything

because everything will be returning to the site.

Whereas a lot of shows are missing yeah uh...

my goal for ten years of gc r and decade of decadence

next year is we in total for the network we produce

at least a thousand podcasts jesus for ten years

we need more help we have to enlist some people

to somehow triple our hiring exactly dj's show

dj's show would be on the hour every hour We

produce a lot of short shows. Every break would

be a new show. OK, that's interesting. You mentioned

that really quick before you move on. You mentioned

that. Mike's thinking again. I shut up. I used

to love doing the longer production shows recording

wise and whatever else. And now I'm like. get

it done, get it over with, so I can edit it and

get it online. Like, specifically, more so with

Masters in Space section of Pogs, I'm like, these

need to be 20 minutes or less. Because this show,

this New Adventures of He -Man is just horrible,

horrible, horrible. Whereas, you know, Steve

is now like, oh. I want to do more shows in one

week than I normally do. Well, if we ever get

to the point where Tooncast is producing six

episodes a week, we'll be on our way. Oh, yeah,

because it will be. All right. Another thing

I wanted to do kind of in this year by year thing,

and I thought this might be the most fun part

that we do here because I'm going to really kind

of quiz you guys a little bit and have a little

bit of data coming here. But I have a year by

year breakdown. And what we're going to do is

we're going to look at, I've already given you

how many episodes each year produced. But now

we're going to look at it from a show standpoint

and which show or shows have produced the most

episodes in each year. So this will also kind

of give you a little bit of a timeline of which

shows were most active and kind of as time progresses

how that has changed. So I'm going to give you

the year which shows produced the most episodes

and how many of those shows were new debuts to

that year and quiz you a little bit along the

way. Starting in 2008 Any guesses as to which

show produced the most episodes in 2008 guys?

I'm this up. We're starting with the softball

here Be probably all ATTF for TFG one ding ding

ding ding ding. Oh, no, you got to pick one all

things transformers. Yeah With nine episodes

in 2008 that was the high mark that will be the

lowest mark out of all the years obviously So

let's move on to 2009. I don't think you guys

are gonna get this one Would anybody like to

take a stab in the dark as to which podcast produced

the most episodes on the network in 2009? I'll

give you Eight guesses to cast not correct Toy

cast toy cast is correct Wow got that on the

second guest Steve's first guess. I like it toy

cast 36 episodes in 2009. That was the highest

of the network followed by Tooncast at 32. It's

a little easier when you remember doing the RSS

feed for Mike every day in front of the website.

Does anybody have a guess who came in third in

2009 behind Toycast and Tooncast? M -Wire? This

is the first year. Not M -Wire. No, Keycast Radio.

Nope. Telecast. It was not a show that debuted

in 2009. Oh, TFG1. Nope. Nope. ATTF. ATTF beats

TFG1 by 2. Well, and TFG1 was only meant to be

a sp - again. I win again. Yeah, you win. Yeah,

uh -huh. Okay, Charlie. Go away now. I'm waiting.

Come on now. You know you want to say it. I have

no idea what you're even saying. Charlie, get

your tiger blood in line. Oh. Oh, God. ATTF had

30 episodes. TFV1 had 28. Then the aforementioned

M -Wire at 27. Then Headshot. At 11? Or 8? 25.

What? 25. Yeah, I knew there were more than that.

God, I can't believe we did 25. And then we complained

a lot. Yeah, we did. We still do. And then the

flagship at 7. So we had debuts that year of

all of them except for ATTF and TFG. So Toycast,

Tooncast, MWIRE, Headshot, and Geekcast Radio.

Those were the highest. I don't include anything

that's less than five, I think. If you produced

less than five episodes, you're not included

in this. Sorry. Let's move on to 2010. Give you

guys a chance here. Who produced the most episodes

in 2010? That would have to be either MWIRE or

Tooncast. Tooncast. It is very close. There are

three shows that were within three episodes of

each other. Starting with M -Wire, with a grand

total of 57 episodes. That's more than one week.

57 episodes for M -Wire, followed by dropping

from first the year before down to second. Toycast,

55 episodes, then Tooncast at 54. Mike, gotta

guess what comes next. It was a debut show for

that year. Beast Unleashed at 28, then All Things

Transformers at 23, and then rounding up the

back end, we had Secret Origins, the Geekcast

Radio, Headshot, and Telecast, all with more

than five episodes that year. So three shows

making their debut that year. That would have

been Beast Unleashed, Secret Origins, and Telecast

in 2010, out of that group. Let's move to 2011

you guys will never get this but remember this

is one of the the lower producing years This

was when we drop back down to a hundred and eighty

2011 which show produced the most episodes you're

not gonna get it Well tune cast was ending so

it couldn't be that said the most episodes. Yeah

2011 yeah 2011 yeah Nope, no if you have five

more guesses Because I think it killed the show

and then I brought it back with v2. Yeah around

GCR probably that's in the top three Telecast

it is telecast Telecast had 24 episodes in 2011.

That'll be the lowest leader on the whole group

So smallest amount so yeah, I need to talk about

2011 since we're on it That was our first top

100. Yeah, it was Yeah, that's not what I'm gonna

talk about That's probably why gas radio is in

the top three that year because it was that third

with 20 probably Um, 2011, I believe I could

be wrong, but I think it was July 28th. I'd have

to go back and look at the obituary. Optimus

Scrooge, Optimus Scrooge died that year. Damn

it. I could not continue Toycast with, I just

couldn't. Right. Right so toy gas dropped a little

bit as obviously was first in 2009 and second

in 2010 Dropped all the way down to about seventh

and 2011. So the top three you guys Good. It

was him peak on court Michael to a lesser extent

General Techno and GD protoman Yeah Yeah, it

was yeah, it was protoman Michael Wilson Optimus

Scourge myself that basically we were Basically

what we were doing was getting multiple like

we would have different crews for different episodes

kind of a thing And it was always Optimus Scourge

and proto man with me and after Gary died I just

I basically retired the show because he passed

I did not feel I still do not feel Good enough

to bring that back Just yeah, I could bring it

back to you know say hey. This is a memory of

Gary. It's been You know seven years since he

passed kind of a thing, but I'm not going to

it's just I just didn't feel comfortable because

there was a point there that he and I Stopped

speak. There's a point in the in the in toy cast

if you go back and you listen to it He's on like

the first 30 something episodes of whatever it

is, but like episode Zero to episode 30 or 33

or 34 at the time and I've always said this and

I will say this until we never Until we get to

a point where we stop doing this. I don't make

podcasts for children I want to curse if I want

to curse I'm gonna curse and I'm gonna label

it explicit. I don't always it's not a me labeling

a podcast explicit has nothing to do with me

saying SDF whatever a you know it has nothing

to do with that it has to do with you know content

you know listening to the stuff of michael wilson

on on three of the finished for sure we came

up with in u and do's and don'ts because there

are certain things that will say they have nothing

to do with cursing but is such a wrong thing

to say is that you and don't so that's why i

use the explicit tag it's not just because i

want to say like i said damn hell whatever uh...

so at one point One of optimusgurge's kids, their

mother let them listen to the show because he

was on there and apparently we cursed and she

didn't like it. And that basically, at the time,

I'm not saying now, she and I are, you know,

we're friends on Facebook and whatever, as far

as I know, we're cool, we don't interact all

that much, but... Whenever I bring up. Oh, you

know thinking of Gary or whatever you know she

obviously likes her comments or whatever so like

at the time she didn't like it or whatever and

we just he and I just kind of fell off and I

just felt so bad about it and We made up like

a few months or the end of the like Before he

died we made up we got we get we got back on

to positive terms with each other and once he

died I was like Oh God, I just, I can't continue

this in good faith. It's just not right. It just

isn't, it's not. So. So there was one other show

that we didn't mention. There were four shows

that debuted that year and one of them was in

the top three. Any guesses? 2011, top three,

along with Telecast and the Geekcast Radio Flagship.

Wouldn't be Tunedcast Beyond, but that was the

year it debuted. It debuted, but it was not in

the top three. East Unleashed. TESA. Nope, it

would have been 22 episodes there. All the rest

were less than 20 episodes. You had ATTF, MYR,

Tooncast, Toycast, from the Command Center, all

from 10 to 20 episodes. So that's 2011, the down

year. Then 2012, we had a big year, partially

due to seven new shows debuting, which was the

most that we've had. Since 2009 and again, we're

only counting shows that aired at least five

episodes. So 2012 seven debuts just like 2009

any guesses to the leader in 2012 Mike I Asked

you because you were the host It's probably to

cast beyond and it's tuned cast beyond 45 episodes

45 episodes of tuned cast beyond followed by

the first time in the top two the flagship show

39 episodes in 2012 so GCR had a boost that year

up to 39 I think that might be the most that

it's ever had in one year if I was to do the

data Followed by M wire at 29 episodes Seven

shows out of the seven shows that debuted that

were in there. We have Beyond the night mass

mayhem future imperfect Let's see XRG pogs Altered

geek. I might have named him. I can't remember.

Let's move on to 2013 2013 the first time we

had the winner. I don't know and why I had 57

episodes in 2010 This is the the first time we've

also had a winner above 50 episodes again So

2013 what show had more than 50 episodes Mike

It was it was a show that debuted 2013 well the

pull bag. Yes the pull bag 58 58 episodes Followed

by off -the -cuff 31 episodes then geek cast

radio flagship still standing strong in the top

three 26 episodes My 25 beyond the night 25 altered

geek 21 and from the command center and pixels

both at 20 Other shows that debuted that year

would have been wars cinema geeks and pixels

so 2014 our first repeater back -to -back year

winner pull bag pull bags gonna be winning a

lot because it's Maybe not as much as you think

Pull bag in 2014 also has the record for the

most episodes ever produced by one show in one

calendar year That would be 93 episodes in 2014

93 episodes almost two per week in 2014 Steve

any guess as to who was second in 2014? Hmm 2014

I'm gonna go with Tooncast Beyond? Nope. I asked

you for a reason Steve Altered geek yeah, technically

a tie altered geek and talking in circles both

had 50 episodes in 2014 That would have been

followed by the cinema geeks at 28 pixels at

26 and the geek cast radio network at 23 There

was a secret to the the madness of the early

alter geek I was trying to keep my number above

talking in circles So you guys ended up tying

in 2014 at least and then we had two new shows

that debuted that year which would have been

Let's see, which ones were those? Mayhem and

Pixels Talking in circles was the other one and

yeah talking in circles and mass mayhem. All

right 2015. Mike, do you think you had three

in a row? I don't know. I do a lot of pull bags,

so probably. Three time repeat champions, the

trifecta, the trilogy, whatever you want to call

it, the hat trick. 2015, the number one show

was pull bag with 60 episodes. Steve, you know

who was in second? Altered geek yes alter geek

at 47 You beat to talking to circles that time

by four episodes and beat cinema geeks by one

episode So it was pull bag 60 alter geek 47 cinema

geeks 46 talking in circles 43 and then Mike

Showtime synergy at 24 cool. So that's that yeah

the show time synergy stuff We were producing

that in 2014, because at the time, Lady Wreck

was pregnant with her third child. Oh my god,

the recordings for that show. The stuff that

didn't make the actual episodes. And we usually

put most everything in anyway. The new ones that

year would have been Showtime Synergy and Mayhem

Mikes in 2015 that had at least five episodes

or more. Mayhem Mikes barely had five. Mike?

2016 is it a 4p? No, I don't know. I don't think

so because I think I slowed down a bit then You

are correct the winner in 2016 would be altered

geek. Holy crap With 52 episodes, one per week

in 2016. So that was the most that you had done

up to that point, because you had did 50 in 2014,

47, and then up to 52 in 2016. So you guys just

flip -flop, pull back second in 2016 with 46,

followed by Pauka at 44, Cinema Geeks at 41,

Talking in Circles 39, Tooncast Beyond 33, and

Pogs 29. So that was the most that we had had

at all that high. as far as like the 29 mark.

That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven

shows that produce 29 episodes or more. So that

was good. The only show that debuted that year

that was five episodes or more would have been

Pauka. All right, Steve, did you do back -to

-back? Is 2017 your year as well? I think so.

Yeah, because obviously I cut back extremely

in 2017. 2017, the winner, Altered Geek at 58

episodes. 58 episodes for altered geek followed

by Pull bag. No, just kidding cinema geeks 41

episodes pull bag 40 episodes I beat you by one

episode last year bastard And then pixels at

28 no debut shows in 2017 that had five or more

episodes First time all first time since the

inception of the network that we had a year that

we did not have a debut Yeah, so and the only

year because we've already had one in 2018. Yeah,

any any guesses? I know we're only halfway through

any guesses as to who's leading the pack in 2018

Steve me it is so if this continues We will have

the the hat trick from the pull bag followed

immediately by a hat trick from alter geek So

right now you are sitting and this may not be

up to date eyes of this last week right now Steve

I have you sitting at 43 episodes for this year

already So you are on pace to maybe beat the

pull bag's all -time record of 93. Not really.

I'm hoping. You're not gonna happen. If he doubled

his content, and June's not over, this is a six

month, so we're not technically at the halfway

mark. So even if he doubled what he's done already,

he would be at 86. That would only put him seven

behind of the pull bag at 93. And this month's

not over. I can make it happen. So right now

this is the this is the standings as of 2018

as of you know, June 1 or whatever it is Altered

geek 43 comic concierge at 27 cinema geeks 15

Mayhem mics and future imperfect at 12 pogs at

11 whole bag 9 geek cast radio 9 and remote control

8 So that is where we're at half the halfway

mark. So right now it's looking like Altergeek

will pull off the hat trick. But I thought it

was interesting, you know, if you go back all

the way back to 2009 -10, we have Toycast and

Tooncast dominating things. We have, you know,

flashes of Transformers with the beast unleashed

and then tap. Um the transition of tune cast

beyond telecast with a brief moment and then

we kind of get into the pullback era 2013 to

2015 really the strongest years and then the

alter geek era You know right behind it. Um,

and now comic concierge kind of joining the group

But uh any reflection steve as you've kind of

heard these numbers and which shows have produced

the most year by year I'm surprised the ones

that have done a repeat year after year I was

really surprised that mine got up there a couple

times. Wasn't surprised by Mike's at all. I was

surprised it was the pull bag. I wasn't though.

After the pull bag debuted I was not surprised

because as I've said I've poured almost all of

my energy into that one show at this point since

it debuted for the last five years. Since Altered

Geeks come out I've poured all of my time into

that primarily. For whatever reason I've tried

to murder and take out back all things Transformers

multiple times and it Comes back, right? It's

like the transformer that never dies, you know

like prime So Yeah, I mean it's it's it's kind

of surprising that that podcast is doing so well

and then as far as numbers wise and Coming coming

into it pretty strong I the goal was to to go

well over I think I hit 200 episodes like just

at the beginning of the year and or thereabouts

right um and and the goal is to hit well over

390 end of the year so nice nice just to recap

the leader year by year toy cast m wire telecast

tune cast beyond pull bag pull bag pull bag ultra

geek ultra geek ultra geek all right um also

year by year podcasts that produced at least

20 or more episodes six of them in 2009 five

of them in 2010 three in 2011 and 12 like eight

in 2013 seven in 2014 four one two three four

five in 2015 seven in 2016 four in 2017 and already

two in 2018 as far as debuts we debuted seven

shows in 2009 three shows in 2010 four in 2011

back up to seven in 2012 five in 2013, two in

both 2014 and 2015, one in 2016, zero in 2017,

and already at least one in 2018. I don't have

the official count though for that year yet.

All right, that does it. Wait, wait, shouldn't

it be two for 2018? I said I haven't compiled

the data for you. I knew Comic Concierge. No,

yeah, Comic Concierge, but it was either... Well,

we technically did debut it last year. Podcaster

meets world. Episode zero was last year, I think.

Right, but this only consists of a podcast that

had at least five episodes. Oh, okay. Counted.

Because a lot of shows haven't made it past that

mark. So alright, we're gonna take a quick break,

but when we come back, we got the grand finale

We got total shows total podcast episodes and

total people. So stay tuned Here's something

you may have missed while helping us find the

pixels in the animation. I Mean we're getting

into he -man territory here. They're not even

like telling a story They're skipping right to

the to the moral message at the end. Mm -hmm

pretty much You know, you said earlier that this

is really not dark at all, and they call this

the Dark Sonic. The underground city was lighter

and brighter than anything that may have been

dark in Robotnik's town. I can't even talk tonight.

Robotropolis, or whatever it's called. Because

really, again... Oh my god, I can't believe you

mentioned him. Oh, you shouldn't have done that

because now you're really gonna hate this. Sonic

the Hedgehog is essentially She -Ra, Princess

of Power. What? Not fucking kidding, dude. You

got Robotnik who rules the place in a very dark,

Fright Zone looking thing. You've got Sonic and

his band of merry men in... A place called Knothole

Forest, aka the Whispering Woods. I mean, the

only thing Sonic is missing is a white horse

that turns into a unicorn with his magic ring.

And a little elf kid raccoon -looking thing hiding

in the background. That's what Tails... Oh my

god, Tails is Lukey! Oh fuck. Oh no. Yeah, he's

barely in it anyway, so... Oh fuck! I just gave

myself a heart attack, holy shit! Oh, goodnight

everybody. That's right! We got a juice, but

check us out on geekcastradio .com and help us

find the pixels in the animation. Alright, if

you've listened to us this long... You apparently

do not have an aversion to numbers and hearing

numbers and statistics. So I applaud you all.

But we are at the time we're going to do our

grand finale. That is our total shows, our total

episodes and our total people. The only number

that may not be accurate is the total people.

I do need Mike and Steve to look at our list

of all the people to tell me if I have somebody

listed under two different names. So that is

the only number that might be actually lower

than what we're about to say. But I don't think

I tried my best. So I don't think it's going

to go down too far. Let's start with total shows.

These are not counting the four shows that currently

only have one episode. So those four shows were

dequeued out of the list. So outside of those

four shows not counting, total shows that the

network has produced would be 33. 33 different

podcasts that have appeared on the network. 37

if you count those shows with only one episode.

All right, total people to appear on the network.

Don't know if you guys would have a guest or

not But I'm just gonna give you the number total

people as of this point to appear on the network

in any one single episode not counting interview

guests not counting interview guests 139 people

Wow So we have 139 people to thank in some way

shape or form that have either been a guest a

Co -host a host or a set of we specifically named

anybody that appeared in ten or more episodes

But there's a bunch of others that appeared in

ten or less. So 139 people and that it has been

growing every week because Dan's been having

some guests and different things So what do you

guys think of that number 139 people have helped

us out. That's awesome. That is awesome I yeah,

I figured it was it was above 100 just because

we've had nine years and there have been people

that have come and gone and and Guested multiple

times or people that have co -hosted or got you

know, just guest hosted on particular shows,

but Yeah, I I didn't think it was that high but

it was still I knew it was gonna be up that way

That definitely puts the network and get cast

radio network because that is a large network

of people right there And the thing with me is

and I've said this before off air on air Once

I have somebody on something. I don't ever really

change that like I have JT for the Batman Beyond

Rebirth coverage in the pull bag. I have Ryan

for part of the Transformers coverage. I have

we call ourselves Team Angel, but Amy, Nicole,

and Heather and I, because I'm technically the

Charlie to their angels, you know, we do all

the other Transformers -type stuff comic -wise

on the pullback. So, like, Kevin has the Back

to the Future stuff on the pullback, so like...

i've always liked starting something and finishing

something with the same person so having multiple

especially with the top of hundreds having multiple

yeses that we've had on those like that's i think

really what outside of what dance to the comic

concierge that's really would probably put that

number of his we had so many of those Yeah, and

like I said, we will have a post on the website

at some point that is an outline in all 139 of

those individuals Mike your challenge is to make

a Facebook post that tags all 130 You'll have

to get me all the names first, right? Right.

All right. So the moment of truth total podcast

episodes on the network total episodes We've

produced in the time from the inception up until

this last week That total would be two thousand

eight hundred three hmm two thousand eight hundred

and three episodes if you figure each one of

those is at least an hour that's a lot of hours

of content folks I didn't do the math I didn't

figure out what that would be let's say that

we're gonna say that each one's an hour and a

half how about that so if we do that at each

one at an hour and a half that is enough content

to play from beginning to end for over a hundred

and seventy five days and i've only missed seven

hundred ninety two episodes problem the problem

no it's really not so we we congratulate those

seven hundred ninety whatever episodes to keep

from keeping my copy record uh... well he but

i got my own episode of cinema geeks i wasn't

expecting that so uh... hello That doesn't count

in the total. Yes, it does. No, that wasn't a

real episode. Not in continuity. Not in continuity.

So you would have to listen around the clock

24 hours a day for 175 plus days to hear all

of our content. And by then, we'd have more.

Exactly. And by then, hopefully, we'll get up

to the one year mark where you can listen to

our network for an entire year nonstop around

the clock. So that's a set. OK, so 175 days.

You could listen to it if you, like he said,

if you listen to it. That is, hold on, that is

if every episode was an hour and a half. Right

exactly if they were but they're not but let's

just say they all are you could get through the

entire network history in 175 days that's pretty

much almost half of a year because 365 divided

by well 365 divided by 2 is 182 .5. Yeah, it's

less than that so yeah Very cool. And if you

just want to listen to them and then sleep for

half the days, then you can get Google Earth.

Exactly. But if you really want to hear them

talking in your ear all night, then, you know.

If anybody would like to request a copy of the

790 episodes they can listen to without hearing

Mike's voice, just contact me, Optimus Solo,

on Twitter. I'm going to knock you out. Steve,

any comments on the total episode count or anything

else that we've talked about today? I almost

was going to throw out some absurd number, like

5 ,662 or something. We will hit 3 ,000 this

year. That's awesome. Or we should. I mean, 200

episodes the rest of the year, guys. Can we do

that? Oh, yeah. I think so. Cross network. I

mean, the pull bag alone can do that. Well, I

always think an alter geek might do that. So

we have to put out 197 episodes from here until

the end of the year to hit 3 ,000. So maybe a

celebration, Christmas celebration of some sort.

So, Mike, any comments overall? This whole history

lesson has come to an end. Anything you learned

or anything you'd like to hear about? No, this

has just been amazing. This has just been really,

really cool looking at this stuff. Don't ask

me ever to do something like this again. I didn't

ask you to do it in the first place! You did

it on your own, you jackass! I have that type

of morbid mentality. I did it on my own. Yes,

you do. Exactly. That's almost like Michael Wilson

showing up for a record when he's sick. Who made

you do it? Nobody. At least now it's all compiled

up to this point. So now even if I had to do

one year at a time, it would be much easier than

trying to do 90 questions at a time. Plus tracking

down the hours of inquiring of, hey, Do you happen

to have this episode archived? Steve a lot like

and and Mike because we had to figure out some

phantom episodes that either didn't exist in

certain areas Didn't have dates didn't have guests

and there was a lot of basically I have a spreadsheet

with 140 people across the top and then 2 ,800

episodes going down And then I have a grid in

which I have to log every person that appeared

in every single episode. So there's lots of ones

everywhere. I put a one next to every person

for an episode they appeared in, and then I keep

track at the top, totaling up each person's subtotal.

So it is madness. Yeah, that would most definitely

be a shattered grid. Yeah, no. I mean, it's one

of those things where I wasn't sure what the

numbers were going to be. I knew my episode numbers

were high. The fact that I've only not been on

792 out of the 2800. We applaud the 792. Fuck

you. We've got to go back and see if those 792

are the top rated iTunes shows. I'm just kidding.

Did you have any, well you said 97 interviews,

right? I have 97 interviews listed unless I missed

one that just happened this year. That's very

cool. According to my data and we kind of debated

this a little bit over Over on the milestone

episode that we did on what the first interview

was because my data has that The first episode

the first interview that we ever did was still

the Larry Kenny episode So I gotta go back because

I have Larry Kenny then David Kay then Gary Chalk.

Yeah Okay. Yeah, cuz Larry Kenny was the first

tune cast interview Right, so Larry Kenney took

place on September of 2009 and then December

of 2009 we got both David Kay and Gary Chalk.

The only three interviews from 2009. But yeah,

I have all of them listed there as well in a

section, including I think we've done one so

far this year. And I just have to thank all of

those people because they took the time out to

let us ask them questions and everything else.

And we got one of them in trouble. I do think

about that every day because I'm like I feel

horrible because I'm like if we ever asked him

back he'd be like hell no This is the brain,

and you're listening to the GeekCast radio network.

Yes. Maurice? That's April 16th, Maurice LaMarche.

Okay, so no one can feel more horrible about

that than me. I refuse to allow you, Steve, to

feel more horrible about that than me. This is

the thing. This is how I discovered, because

I didn't even listen to the interview. You guys

were just like, yeah, we're going to talk to

Maurice LaMarche, and I was like, oh, okay, have

fun with that, and then... I was sitting down

at my computer. I remember sitting at my dad's

house at the time. And I'm looking at the website.

And then I'm like, what just happened? Because

I'm looking at not only the download, but then

I googled. something i think i was looking at

arkham city it was arkham city mister freeze

is what basically mister freeze i looked at arkham

city and all of a sudden i think it gets radio

pop -up my right you're right well i a m like

oh i remember this like it was yesterday and

i don't have to say something but here's the

thing kevin we we still do we will do this in

the future we get more voice actors on to cast

but to cast All tunes all the time, but whatever

it's we had a series of questions for the interviews

We always do one of the questions that he put

in there was what type of voice acting Do you

prefer to do or something along the lines you

said animation? uh... video game and something

else and marisa's answer was well the funny thing

about video games is is you're in a booth by

yourself talking to yourself and anyone to just

we didn't even ask him we we he wanted to say

something about i'd just finished a session as

mister freeze in batman arkham city and i was

like Oh, can you do the voice for us? Because

why not ask that? If you're going to offer that

information, he's like, yes, no, I can't. And

then me being how gung -ho I was and kind of

still am about getting interviews online almost

immediately, I edited the interview and everything

else at that time. Posted it. Posted it. and

went out with my mom at the time it did something

else and i i'm getting like emails and emails

and emails from the management saying this this

this is this and then i saw the little the little

article that was originally posted that i g and

picked it up and when i g and picked it up and

well yeah but like when they picked it up i'm

like all my god i'd like holy crap i actually

called jeff danis because jeff danis say i think

still is or might not be but At the time Maurice

was with probably got him fired. No, I didn't

get him fired I actually called the Jeff Danish

agency or whatever DPM I called them and I'm

like, I'm sorry. We didn't know and I even I

tweeted it Maurice I messaged Marie I'm like,

I'm sorry, you know, would you like me to go

back and edit it and whatever he's like Well,

it's out there now, but like seriously, I thought

the guy thought the brain was going to come and

hunt me down and take over my world or something

because You don't piss off the brain. Well, one

thing is I had no idea that that was even significant

piece of information when we were doing the interview

Like I didn't realize that that I did knowledge

or you know this that yeah and two I don't know

why but I actually remember exactly where I was

at the same time when that was going on because

I was like running on a treadmill that I had

in the basement and all of a sudden my phone

is getting blown up and I'm trying to run and

check my phone at the same time and I think I

actually had to stop and like I don't know if

we called each other we talked to each other

online or something I was like what is going

on right now? What is happening in the world?

because it was totally unexpected. We were just

going about our day like normal, not thinking

anything of it, and then all of a sudden it was

like, hey, this was a big deal. And it's because

of that one interview that I ask every time before

we are off a call with anybody, is there something

you want cut out because of that? You don't want

that press again? Oh, we'll get this. Well, the

press was awesome. get this though okay so get

this is came about with you know yeah exactly

here's the thing like i get a message from a

good buddy of mine he runs uh... saturday morning

rewind is uh... tim nidale uh... tim had done

an interview with jim cummings recently at like

the third four thirties he's talked to jim cummings

like a thousand times exaggerating but he's talked

to a multiple times but like me withstand bush

kind of a thing uh... and jim like the new ducktales

thing just premiered in jim was saying stuff

about you know to just ask the question about

dark week dot could mention that jim gave him

this answer he actually get cease and desist

emails from disney's lawyers and he messages

me and says now i know what you went through

with the marisa marsh thing To be fair, number

one, that was only the seventh interview we had

ever done as a network, so we were fairly new

in the game, still trying to figure things out,

so I'll give us a pass on that one. Absolutely,

and Maurice LaMarche, he's a wonderful guy. Like

I said, I was afraid the brain was going to come

destroy my world. No, he's not that kind of a

guy. I do, and I have had wants and needs and

plans to have him back on the network, and I'm

fairly sure he would come back. Yeah. Because

what I'd like to do, and I don't think this is

going to happen, but my one wish for this year

before this year is over, I want to get him and

Rob on for 25 years of Animaniacs. We'll see.

So who knows? So maybe one day that I will actually

compile all the hours for every episode, but

I don't. I won't get the actual total hours.

The funny thing is I can actually get that information

from my new... Our new host. It will tell me

the total episodes and it will tell me the total

hours. There you go. Your work's done for you,

Kev. Excellent, because that would have been

a pain in the butt. All right. Last comments

before we close this show out. Steve, anything

you learned or anything you want to say before

we get off the show or anything that you want

to tease, I guess, for the fans? I'm very awestruck

in the amount of detail. and thankful for the

hard work that you put in for this over the multiple

years that we've been like, hey, what's going

on with this? Well, that's because I kept wanting

to do more. I kept wanting to add other aspects

of it. I'm like, no, I need time to compile this.

Now I need time to compile this. And then when

I lost all the information, not lost it, but

f'd it all up, because basically what happened

was is when I sorted it wrong, without highlighting

everything. What it did is it effed up everybody's

total counts and which episodes they appeared

on. And I didn't discover it right away. And

then all of a sudden I'm looking at it and I'm

like, I know that person never appeared on that

show. I'm like, what the hell just happened?

So that's what took the longest. But continue.

But yeah. And then just thankful for all the

people that that guested on the shows or hosted

with us or or just, you know, showed up to have

fun and. Really really excited that that we've

made it nine years that we've done as many episodes

that we're gonna break the 3 ,000 hopefully by

the end of the year and the fact that Some big

things are coming to the website very soon I'm

I'm trying to learn some new new things and tweak

some final things on the website and hopefully

the summer the new site will be out and I guarantee

people will enjoy this month much more than any

of the other sites we've done because it's cleaner

you can actually find crap all the old shows

will be on there and then there's a bunch of

ways to keep connected so yeah it's and all the

audio players will work So there is that. And

there's like a little mini history lesson on

each of the shows that's kind of being put into

effect. So I think that this new version of the

site will be very user -friendly. Plus, there's

plans to make exclusive material, a la like an

ad -free experience, because there's ads on the

site, like on the site themselves. So there's

a possibility some other things like that and

exclusive content that may be Behind a wall of

some kind All right, Mike anything you'd like

to say in closing thoughts. Um Thank you to everybody

whether host fan friend interviewer II Just everybody.

Thank you for being there for us. We're still

gonna be here. We're not going anywhere I'm going

to die with a microphone in my mouth probably.

Most likely. His tombstone is going to say, TFG

and Mike, we slew him well and there will be

a microphone picture on there. Mike drop. No.

Yeah. The next three episodes of GCR. video games

with steve kevin and i toys with steven i and

then episode ninety nine or whatever uh... the

nine biggest news items of the nineties with

uh... kevin and i so it's going to be interesting

for that uh... mayhem mics as i said earlier

is still going strong we're at thirty nine episodes

uh... You know, the show has evolved over the

last three years that we've been doing it and

it's going to evolve even more this year. Like

we said earlier, MWIRE final episode, episode

200 is coming July 11th. We, Kevin and I are

going to be in super long rest of the year planning

for ten years of Tooncast starting June 1st of

next year. the pull bag is still going strong

uh... just to show everybody like how different

the pull bag is from every other comic podcast

out there as far as what we cover in june i've

got i hate fairyland volume 3 with movie revolt

dan he man thundercats the uh... dc crossover

6 issue miniseries with Adas Baron. The Funko

Universe one -shot that IDW did, Doug Abel will

be, I think that's Doug's first pullback episode.

So that includes Funko versions of Ghostbusters,

TMNT, X -Files, Strawberry Shortcake, and Judge

Dredd. And then JT is gonna take Steve's place

with the Xenoscope stuff. We're gonna do the

10th anniversary one -shots. and then july we've

got the flash season zero with dane lamont cowell

volume two with dane nightwing the new order

with steve and then batman beyond with jt and

i so there's a lot of changes and there's a lot

of varying things on the pull bag um i'm actually

in trying to plan this this is the first time

I've said this live on air I'm trying to plan

five different live episodes I just did my first

live it was a live it was a four -minute segment

but Free Comic Book Day was May 4th this year

And I went to my local comic shop here in in

Grace Lake, Illinois And it was Jay's comics

and I spoke with the owner and the guy that does

the promotions for about four and a half minutes

So episode 306 was free comic book day episode

and that was the first live broadcast I've ever

done in nine years. I have plans to do five other

ones later this year I'm not sure if they're

gonna get done or not, but those would essentially

be streamed live on Spreaker All right, so lots

of stuff to look forward to real quickly guys,

how can people reach out to you on Twitter Steve?

Well, as always they can find me at SCP 21 or

at altered geek Mike At TFG and Mike on Twitter

and God knows whatever other show handles we

have and if for some reason Some ungodly reason,

you need more data, you need more history, or

you need more statistics. You got a question

about something we talked about, then you can

reach me at Optimus Solo, and I may or may not

answer you. I promise I'll answer you. So that

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