Netflix Price Hikes, Hulu’s 90s TGIF Shows, Arrowverse Updates, and Tech History

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Geek. I am back. This is Steve Megatron, and

in this episode I am joined by TFG1 Mike. Yes,

hello, I am here. Yes, it's been a while since

you've been on the podcast. Yeah, I don't know

how long. Primarily because I record them by

myself anymore. Yeah. Just because, you know,

time standards being what they are. And you've

been on a... You mean time zones being what they

are. I live in the worst time zone ever now.

Yes, you chose it though. Well, it'll be easier

when she and I eventually live out in Oregon,

because at least that way I can podcast at 7

p .m. where it's 10 p .m. on the East Coast,

but anyway. Yeah, so for those that don't know,

TFG1 Mike is getting married in December. Yep.

It's nuts. Yeah, there's going to be the get

together of the GCRN as well, or part of it.

Yes, the Vstone leash comes to... I don't even

know how to... Oh, so you're going to have Michael

Wilson too? Yeah, well, you said you weren't

sure, and I'm like, okay, and we hadn't gotten

that... other info in yet about the about the

traveling so I'm like yeah okay uh hey Michael

in case Steve can't make it you're the backup

what is it uh the records always say records

don't call for backup they call for cleanup yeah

that's why you need uh Michael Wilson and myself

So yeah, a lot's happened. I've recorded, as

usual, another Future Imperfect, another All

Things Transformers, and yet another GCR and

Wars. We skipped ahead to the punchline this

week instead of doing the semi -finals, being

that the poll automatically broke down individuals

in the battle. So we're down to the two versus

two. So we'll see if it's... mutant powers or

machines that win this battle. I'm hoping for

machines, but that's just personal preference.

I'm pretty sure the mutant powers are going to

kick the machines ass. They're going to disassemble

the machines. We'll see. We'll see. Yeah, because

there is rage against the machine, but you know.

Oh, yeah. Sleep now in the fire. Come on. So

the fires of Phoenix and the rage of the machines.

Yeah, if it wasn't that. Oh, yes. If it wasn't

that purple -headed dinosaur and Optimal Optimus

would be in there, I would be like, hmm. It would

be Gorilla Radio. So yeah, that's what's been

going on as far as that is concerned. And yeah,

we're gearing up for some awesome stuff for 2018

of GCRN and kind of a little bit of a reformatting.

transforming, transcending type of a new structure

here. So you guys will get to hear that when

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I didn't get to do any last week and I kind of

did want to cover it, but didn't just because

of time purposes and I had other things on my

soapbox as well as alienating people. on children's

animation. So, in 1983, we got our first release

of Microsoft Word for DOS. Oh my god. That was

a long time ago. And it was, yeah, they gave

away a free copy of it with PC World Magazine

back in September of 83. And there was a mouse.

that came that you could use with it and These

were the five and a quarter floppies and they

had two So and it was the first time a floppy

disk was included with a magazine which later

turned into CDs and now it's just like go to

this link and download it We not send you nothing

Apparently not no and then and then of course

there's there's the October of 1983 the first

CD player which I Really didn't know that they

came out before the 90s if it weren't for the

fact that I watched the wedding singer It's supposed

to take place in the 80s. They're like yeah,

I spent 800 bucks on this CD player Yeah, Sony

was the first one to come up with that, which

is kind of fitting that they're the ones that

came up with Blu -ray. Of course. So, you know,

they're like, dude at first, ha ha. They're also

the first gaming system to have a CD, so I guess,

you know, they're just full of that. And plus

CDs and all that stuff, they were around in the

mid to late 80s as well, because I remember my

mom and I had a giant stereo system with dual

cassette, CD player and all that stuff, you know.

So, I mean, they were around. They got popular,

I would say, 89, 90, 91. That's when the whole

craze really started. And then the final... This

day in in tech history Six years and one day

ago Steve Jobs passed away Really, it's been

six years since I know it's crazy. Isn't it?

Yeah, cuz like I just watched the Apple event

I don't know a week or so ago. I know I'm a little

late and watching it but like the September event

I just watched it and the whole beginning of

it is like a whole homage to him Obviously it

would be But it's one of those things where,

wow, I can't believe it's been that long. You

know what's actually funny about that? He...

I think that his company would be doing a lot

better if he was still alive and in charge of

it. Yeah, probably so. I'm not trying to knock...

You know... You're not knocking him. You're knocking

the company. I'm not knocking the company. I'm

not knocking the dude. The dude was... He was

a legend in the tech industry, but... My distaste

for Apple aside, you know, some of their stuff

does have merit. Like I'm running a camera setup

for live streaming for church services right

now. And I ordered this camera. It was like a

Canon handheld HD camera that's good with live

streaming, can hook up HDMI. That was the key

thing was HDMI. and we bought this this broadcaster

box that hooks up to it through HDMI and through

the sound and plugs into the computer for streaming

and it only works with like a lightning port

which is in an Apple so we have to broadcast

that way and I mean I can live stream with other

methods on PC but I can't do it with that particular

camera or that setup with PC so they do serve

their purpose occasionally and a couple weeks

ago Mike Mike powers, and I talked about the

the new iPhone craze and lack thereof With the

the boiling over of certain things the funny

thing is is when we're doing these live streams

there's only one particular model year of the

iMac that is compatible with everything we need

it for oh wow it's a 2011 Of course. Because

one of the guys that's helping me with some of

the tech on the booth, he's got a 2011, so we've

had to use his laptop until we can find an alternative

for livestreaming. It's interesting. So I've

been doing that. It's the first time I've done

one of those at church since 2002 to 2004. Which

is crazy, it was that long ago. But yeah, the

technology has changed. There's a lot less of

it Compared to when I did it back then, but it's

yeah, it's still the same process applies I mean

we didn't have live streaming, but we still recorded

it and put it up over the screens and stuff So

that's kind of what we're doing here just across

screens on the internet, so Then I have fun editing

later, so Which doesn't take that long actually

it's actually kind of a Easy process so Do we

want to get into some comments for the previous

week? Before we get into some topical sure I've

been completely out of the whole comments thing

so you'll just have to run that I'll definitely

run it I don't think I've actually I Think I've

only been posting the pixels in the animation

episodes. I'm late on the pull bag like I haven't

been Between August 8th and now, I think I've

been on the site maybe 10 times, so... Sacrilege.

Yeah, I know, right? Evil. I know, right? Bad

blanchard, bad blanchard. Yeah, so I've been

working on stuff behind the scenes anyway, so

it's... I'm just... I'm a crazy person, so...

So, first of all, I've been using this hashtag,

what's geeky to you, which... Originally, the

first hashtag I came up with spelled a word I

wasn't comfortable with having in the hashtag,

so I removed that and changed it. What was the

word? You gotta tell us. I can't remember what

the entire wording was with the hashtag, but

I do remember the word that was in the middle

of it. It was sex, and I was like... Yeah, I'm

not really comfortable with that being on my

hashtag for my show so So I changed it to what's

geeky to you. I can't remember what the original

one was but But yeah, so scanner 51 commented

last week says because he just went through a

giant move to a new house and he says don't Don't

look like much soon. This will be filled with

DC, Bats and Superman, Star Wars DVDs and figures

and DC posters. And then he says that he was

able to start finally unloading, setting stuff

up, lots of stuff to do and only a quarter of

it up. And then he posted a quote unquote finished

product photo because he already wants to change

it. He says DC one side, Star Wars on the other.

And there's there's a bunch of posters DVDs a

ton of Batman and Superman action figures I can

see like the Batman animated series the Superman

stuff the Justice League a lot of the a lot of

that stuff and then there's a whole Star Wars

shelving set up so Definitely looks awesome.

I could tell where it's at in his garage Because

I see the steel beam for the garage door I'm

gonna vote for the wife. You never not bet on

the wife. Because I play Star Trek online, so

it's not leaving my site the enterprise a wins

all I even fly the enterprise a so So yeah, and

then and then the other comment we have is from

Tim Silver's saying that he liked the discussion

with Mike powers about the iPhone 8 and iPhone

X and then he still uses the iPhone 6 and Doesn't

need to constant upgrades which is kind of the

same boat as myself. I have a Galaxy S5 and I'm

fine with it, although if I upgrade it, it'll

be to the S7. Mostly because the S8 costs too

much money and I don't want to spend that and

my wife works a job where she has to use her

phone. She works this job called Shipt, which

is essentially people order their groceries online.

She gets the request in this app during her hours

of time working, shops at the Meyer Stores, which

is a local grocery chain between parts of Illinois,

Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and a couple other random

states. So she goes in there and she shops for

these people and then delivers it to their house.

Mm -hmm, which a lot of stores are starting to

do their own version of that But Meyer has always

been one of those places that likes to have contract

workers come in from other companies and do things

because Why pay someone there when they could

pay someone outside? to do it for a lot less

and not actually I Think it should be the other

way around if if the employees at the store are

gonna be doing all the work of doing the shopping

or whatever Oh, no, she has to go around the

store and shop Oh, okay. She physically has to

go through the store and she learned how to read

all the shelving and she has to collect it all,

go shopping, and then run it through the register.

It's kind of an interesting experience and she's

making pretty decent money at it. Looks good.

Despite the driving around and being gone majority

of the day or evenings. parts of the weekend

so it just kind of it sucks to some regards because

she's she's working but at the same time the

extra income is is helpful especially with things

breaking around the house like doors that we're

replacing because the old ones are having issues

so they're they're about to meet captain burn

it in a fire next summer so So yeah, that was

the comments. So I think I'm going to take a

quick break, come back after that with some TV

and movie news. And we're back. So what has you

the most excited out of TV at this point? Because

I know you've been kind of off the grid for a

little bit. I've been off and on well. I was

almost gonna bring it up when you're talking

about your s5 and all that But we'll talk about

that later at the end of the show. I guess I'm

very interested to see seal team which is on

CBS It's that the one with David Morianna's yep.

I figured you were gonna flock to that one of

course You follow him wherever he goes not really

I kind of try started watching bones, but I haven't

like gotten fully into that show Um, but yeah,

that's the one with David Moriannis. I want to

check that out I have to say and I'm sure a lot

of people are gonna disagree with me, but I don't

really give a flying flick Young Sheldon was

not that bad. I was actually fairly funny. It

looks so stupid to me I'm I'm so over the prequel

stuff. I understand that you're over it but The

next new episode isn't coming until November

2nd because of whatever other things, football,

CBS, because it's moving to Thursdays after Big

Bang. So just check the pilot out. No. Come on,

just give the pilot one shot. The only reason

why I say this is because it's Jim Parsons doing

the narration. Oh, I know. It's like How I Met

Your Mother with Sheldon. But it's better than

that. I'm sorry. How I Met Your Mother is not

a good show. I watched five episodes of the first

season of that show when I just could not get

into it. But this is better, because you get

to understand why Sheldon now is the way he is.

Yeah, except it's not really... It's like going

back and doing a Han Solo movie. Why do I need

a Han Solo movie when I already know who Han

Solo is? based on his presence in the present

time. I don't need a prequel to tell me. What

else? The Voice is back on Season 13. So there's

that. Let's see. This Is Us Season 2 is back.

Really good show. Anybody that wants an emotional

roller coaster every Tuesday or Thursday or whatever

it is on NBC, I've been watching that. I'm kinda

looking forward to 9JKL just a little bit, but

not much. I'm more so going back and watching

older TV considering Hulu just gave us a 90's

explosion. Yeah, that is quite interesting actually.

Yup. So Hulu has picked up, I don't know for

how long, but they now have... A lot of the TGIF

90s shows. So like Dinosaurs, Boy Meets World,

Home Improvements. Boy Meets World, Home Improvements.

What were some of the other ones you found earlier?

Full House, Step by Step, Hanging with Mr. Cooper.

Family Matters. Family Matters, yep, that's on

there too. Perfect Strangers. It started in late

perfect strangers. It's kind of like full house.

It started in the late 80s and then went into

the 90s So perfect strangers is on there But

just this whole 90s explosion for For hulu, which

I think is great Specifically when it comes to

white meets world because it's gonna make it

a hell of a lot easier for us to do that other

podcast We've been trying to do for the last

year and a half So there's that it'll be nice

to kind of go back and watch family matters and

and boy meets world on there Although I own boy

meets world and full house. So there's not It'll

yeah, I'll be able to watch those here anyway

but The home improvement thing is kind of nice

too because I I wouldn't mind going back and

watching part of that as well You know what else

they have that I didn't see listed earlier what?

Mean it was listed. I just didn't see it when

I looked on the on the website I'm looking on

my phone, which I'll talk about my phone here

in a minute. They have Five seasons of Saved

by the Bell Not surprising. I think that's all

the seasons of Saved by the Bell. Well, I own

that too I don't remember how long Saved by the

Bell went but yes Yeah, but boy meets world family

matters full house You know with one thing I

have not begun to watch yet because I'm just

not There's one quote -unquote superhero show

that I just don't give a rip about anymore And

I still have yet to watch Gotham season 4 episode

1. I have watched that it's actually not that

bad Okay, I was about to drop the show and then

they they managed to redeem themselves Mm -hmm,

and I was like, okay, I can see this working

Especially the sarcasm coming from Lucius Fox

Yeah, Lucius is awesome, especially like, you

know, oh you're going you're going cliff diving,

huh? Here this this armor should protect you

and it's also bulletproof and then it just kind

of leaves it like So it's it's great But yeah,

one of the other interesting things in addition

to the the whole hulu News is Netflix is raising

their prices No It says that the most popular

plan is going to be a dollar more expensive This

is they have three plans so you get 799 for the

stream in small definition on one screen It's

just one screen. If you pay $9 .99, you can stream

it in Hi -Def on two devices at once, or $11

.99, you get 4K streaming. So they're not changing

the $7 .99. And the $9 .99 is going to be $10

.99. And the $11 .99 is going to be $13 .99.

Oh, wow. Damn it. When is this change taking

effect? End of the month. You've got to be kidding

me with this Netflix increase at the end of the

month really yeah, they're It says France is

also getting an increase to Who gives a flying

fluke about France getting an increase on Netflix?

It says that October 19th. They're going to start

telling customers and email and they just announced

it today. Oh Wow, like literally today and they

They said that uh You know they're they're just

if they're more so hedging their bets because

they've spent billions of dollars on TV shows

and Production so yeah, it's they're just kind

of covering their butt. That's okay. So So if

you're if you're on the the bottom tier nothing's

going to happen to you Yeah, I'm on the middle

tier so something is gonna happen to me at least

it's a dollar Yeah, I know it's only a dollar,

but that kind of you know adds up alright, so

We're talking about Netflix raising their prices.

Now, Hulu has two beta plans that I will not

check out. I have the $11 .99 no ads, no commercials

Hulu. Enjoy unlimited access to the Hulu streaming

library, including full seasons of exclusive

series. So I pay $12 a month for Hulu. Also has

a base limited commercial plan for $7 .99 or

they have free which includes all kinds of commercials.

The next beta plan Hulu with live TV $40 a month

and then Hulu no commercials with live TV is

$43 .99. A month? Yes. What? Yes. Ridiculous.

That's almost like the ridiculous crap that Comcast

came out with with their insta -stream. I don't

know if you saw my annoyance with this. Oh Nice,

I still have it bookmarked. I don't think I even

talked about it on the podcast Comcast is rolling

out its new $18 per month TV package Mm -hmm

now now just follow me This is their hope to

bring cord never or people that never subscribed

or will never subscribe to pay TV Yeah, now it

says the stripped -down bundle of broadband delivers

channels which starts at 18 per month For the

tier of local broadcast channels now. Let me

stress this you're gonna get Fox CBS NBC CW ABC

PBS and then you know a handful of other things

that are local sprinkled in you get those for

free over the antenna right now anyway yeah additionally

you get uh if you're paying for internet like

broadband internet and they're they're they got

you locked into the 40 something dollar range

and higher you're getting cable anyway those

same stations are already stuck in your cable

package regardless if you want them or not so

It's kind of a joke to me that they're even doing

this but they're they're trying to They're trying

to grab the the the model that everybody's got

their own digital streaming service in a sense

and so they're doing this free 30 -day trial

to get new people during their beta time and

what it's Essentially trying to do is give people

a taste to get them to upgrade to their full

Xfinity X1 service, which is insanely expensive

So then they've got it, so you can get other

packages. So that's the one package. The other

package you can add on as well is it's another

$30, which is the sports and news. So you get

ESPN, CNN, Fox News. If you're not into keeping

up with lies and things that don't actually cover

sports, then just don't pay the $30. So, then

there's the $15 a month entertainment package

which includes A &E, AMC, Comedy Central, Discovery,

Food Network, TBS, TNT, USA, and then $10 for

the Kids and Family which is Cartoon Network,

Disney, MTV, Nickelodeon, TLC. I don't see how

MTV is even in the Kids and Family. There's nothing

kosher about that station. That should be in

the entertainment, like straight up. And even

Cartoon Network is questionable nowadays, as

is TLC. Yeah. And HBO or STARS are available,

and they're $15 and $12 extra, respectively,

for each. So essentially, if you want to get

all of it, you might as well just get the X1

package. Yeah. But... How much is the X1 package

for...? Well, see, if you total all this up,

you've got about... This if you get all of these

are about $77 here, and then that if you add

Cable internet you're I mean you can get all

of it kind of rolled in the same bundle anyway

for $99 so it's there purposely it's it's a numbers

game, they're trying to play but It I think that

it's the most irrelevant thing in the world if

you're not one of those people It's gonna subscribe

to all this crap. I mean you can just get Hulu

and pay the $10 a month and You get predominantly

most of this content Anyway, and then if you're

not really interested in any of it You can just

pay for broadband internet go to their website

and stream it from there or if you've got a system

like a Roku or a Some kind of a player that's

got apps on it for these different TV stations

You can watch them on there and not even have

to pay the service. I mean you just watch the

commercials so essentially it's it's They're

playing a numbers game with you, and it's it's

kind of a low blow that they're trying to Screw

with people but That's yeah, I I got so fired

up when I saw that I'm like they're selling lies

like it's there's nothing cheap about it I mean

you get the base $18 thing for free right now

It's over the air Right. Yeah so It's just crazy

So do we want to go to something a little bit

more fun like I don't have much in this realm,

but there's there's some interesting movie related

content. Sure. Did you know that that Paramount

got the rights to Sonic the Hedgehog film? Yes,

I saw that. I shared it in Tag TV's Mr. Neil

and kind of laughed at it. And Deadpool's director

is tied to this. My god, or at least he was at

the time I'm not entirely sure who's going to

I wonder if this is just gonna be one of those

things that just kind of falls away and dies

again Because Sony had it originally and it never

came to fruition. Yeah, so They've got yeah,

they've got Tim Miller signed on and Fast and

the Furious producer Neil H Moritz So if they're

gonna do speed they got the fast and furious

guy, you know, it's gonna it's gonna be super

fast so They just they just not they can't give

him nitrous though. They're gonna give them chili

dogs or power rings Please no, please make it

like the dark the dark Sonic the Hedgehog series

from the 90s, please Okay, so I'm gonna say this

now. I know you're gonna get mad but Have you

actually gone and listened to the episodes where

Neil and I review the Sad AM series? Are you

talking about the USA one? No. Well, whatever.

The dark one you're talking about, Sad AM. OK.

Go to pixels in the animation episode. 80 to

94 of that podcast. By episode 84, we're like,

how the heck is this a dark cartoon? That cartoon

has more comedy in it than anything else. The

only thing that's dark about Sad AM is the actual

setting of where they are. There's no dark humor.

There's no like. There's all these gags like

I'm like, how is this a dark Sonic? Well, it

just looks darker. That's what I'm yeah insinuating

I don't want the the light and fluffy USA Network

look So that that's essentially what I'm trying

to say. Yeah, give me Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Okay.

Yeah, but usually when everyone says dark Sonic

they mean it's supposed to be a dark and serious

and on no I just meant dark animation. Yeah but

Yeah, among other things though because I kind

of reported on the fact that you know, we've

got Various actors coming back to reprise roles

that they started out with whether it be Harrison

Ford and Blade Runner, which by the way, I watched

the first one the other night Wasn't that bad

I expected more from the end though. Mm -hmm.

I was a little I was like really I'm like this

is the end and I was like, okay So I guess we'll

see how the new one picks up on that that's out.

But Bruce Willis is they finally come out with

more information of the John McClain, you know,

1970s and present day year one movie that's been

in production. Nightmare for the last two years.

Just call it Die Hard six. So, yeah, with. With

Die Hard year one as it's being dubbed on Twitter

It's being done by the Co -creator of the underworld

franchise and director of Die Hard 4 .0 Do we

really need a Die Hard? Like you were saying

earlier, do we really need a year one Harrison

Ford or Han Solo thing? Do we really need a Die

Hard year one? I mean, essentially, Die Hard,

the original one, was Die Hard year. It was our

first introduction to him. I mean, come on, we

really need to see a young John McClane played

by Jai Courtney or whoever the hell. Well, it's

supposed to be a son from the last movie, but

you know what's funny? They're like, oh, we have

to cast this guy right and have him look like

John McClane Young. They kind of already did

that movie. Do you remember a few years ago they

had... It was a movie where... Bruce Willis was

He was essentially a like a bounty hunter of

himself from the future That had to go back to

the past and and and basically I'm trying to

look up the name of the movie right now. I wish

I would have thought of this earlier, but He

did Man because I know he's doing a reboot a

death wish right now, but which is Bronson Yeah,

he's doing literally a reboot of that. He's playing...

I don't know why. Guy's too old. Yeah. So he

was in Looper. Yes. Playing, you know, they had

him and then they had Joseph Gordon -Levitt who

had a prosthetic on him to make him look like

a younger Bruce Willis. Which was actually pretty

believable. uh... so they've kind of already

done that movie if you if you really want to

consider things yes uh... so this is a really

uh... i mean i'm all for a good die hard movie

but i think that they should have done like the

olympus has fallen and just made those die hard

movies with john mcclain olympus has fallen and

white house down should have been die hard not

white house down it's the same thing it's it's

like a crappy version of olympus has fallen But

yeah, that aside. I don't know if you've been

following some of my other antics as far as tech,

but this is my subtle transition here. It's not

subtle if you have to say it's subtle. It's as

subtle as a ton of bricks falling down on a man

waiting on the sidewalk. Splat. So Windows 10

is coming out with this Fall Creators update.

I've been very vocal on Twitter about my distaste

for Microsoft trying to commandeer the Windows

update program. Yes. So what do you think's been

continuously happening since that? I don't know.

Microsoft keeps screwing stuff up. Like always.

Microsoft keeps sending Windows updates to my

computer somehow getting through and trying to

update my Windows. It's failing. It tries. It

fails every time. I've had to look up every resource

on the internet just to prevent and kill Windows

updates so that it doesn't do this to me. Because

they're trying to push this Fall Creators update

and I'm like three versions of Windows 10 outdated

by now. Because I don't want them keeping control

and deciding when it's okay to reboot and install

updates. No, I get to choose, thank you. But

they're releasing this Fall Creators update on

October 17th. With a bunch of new features and

and you know the ability to disable telemetry

and data collection and updates to privacy and

things that have been an issue since Windows

10 came out and I'm You know they come up with

like this privacy dashboard tool as Well that

you can kind of go through, but I've had fun

disabling a lot of Windows 10 and it's It keeps

trying. It's not working, but it's trying. I

think they're getting more desperate to get everybody

on the same version. So yeah, it's a little interesting

there. And then Google is coming out with their

AirPods, which is supposed to be their competition

from Apple, but they're supposed to be like universal

translators. Oh gosh. And it actually works.

I guess they used it on stage for a demo. But

the catch is you have to have the Google Pixel

2 XL. The new Pixel phone from Google to use

it. So it's supposed to have a live language

translation feature. So it can translate from

English to Swedish without a hitch and it's about

a one to two seconds after the people finish

their sentences it translates. Which is insane

when you think about it because Star Trek had

the universal translator and it was like this

thing that looked like a men in black pen of

like your memory thing and so like this is just

you know you wear the earbuds and the phone does

the translation. Kind of like the the picture

translation of signs. when you're out of the

country. So it's along the same lines, but I

thought it was kind of interesting. Yeah, so

since we're talking about this, I had to look

into in -ear headphones for, I'm back in the

smartphone lane, everybody. It's been about,

when was the last time I had an iPhone, 3GS maybe?

So that was 2008, 2009. So that's been about

nine years or so. But I have the Samsung Galaxy

S7, and I was looking into headphones for it,

Bluetooth stuff for it from when I'm out walking

the, you know, path that I walk and whatever

else. And found a pair on Amazon for about, I

don't know, nine bucks, which isn't bad. But

no, I mean, you know, people are like, how do

you live without a smartphone? It's pretty easy.

I'm at my computer all the time. It's not like

I needed to go anywhere. so but like you know

I'm I'm actually gotten to play Angry Birds Transformers

now so that was kind of cool and Super Mario

Run that's probably the funnest game on here

so far at this point of course the standard Angry

Birds stuff but yeah I mean it's weird being

in the the smartphone lane again I don't know.

We mentioned earlier about the iPhone 8 and the

iPhone X and all that and how the iPhone X is

$1 ,000 for the base thing and I'm like, oh my

god. Well really, it's not that off key too much

because most phones nowadays are exactly that

pricing to get them if you're not under a contract.

Well, they don't even do contracts, so forgive

me for that, but I find it ridiculous that You

know we're dealing with this this you know age

where you know either pay full price you pay

a monthly subscription fee to have your phone

Like I just I don't I don't understand it I Don't

like it Yeah, and then there are the people that

will pay like The full price of the phone just

to have the phone without having to do the plan

thing like $650 or $750 or $850 just to automatically

own the phone and I'm like, oh my god It's so

crazy So so crazy, but no, I like the s7. It's

a nice little phone My fiance, Karen, has the

same thing as I do. We found this case called

the Snug, where it's a black, blue, or red, or

goldish -brown leather kind of case. It's almost

like a wallet. You don't even need your wallet

anymore because you can put all your major cards

and ID and everything else in this one side of

it and fold it up. it's got a magnet lock on

it and all of that so very very very cool and

it pretty much once you fold it up to the point

of not having the screen you know not being able

to touch the actual screen it looks like a wallet

it's a phone but it's a wallet all in one it's

awesome so yeah nice yep so uh do we want to

take a quick break and then go into the superhero

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we're back. So, probably make this brief. just

for time purposes this week. Are you excited

for the CW crossover event? I haven't even heard

what the next one is going to be. Oh, you haven't?

Oh, okay. Well, it's going to be... I know the

shows are coming back, but I did not know exactly.

Well, let me catch you up. It's going to be Crisis

on Earth 10. Oh, Lord. And so, the evil doppelgangers

of the Arrowverse people will be coming from

Earth 10 where the Nazis won World War II. Oh

boy. And they're going to crash Barry and Iris'

wedding. Oh lord. And so the heroes of Earth

10 will be the Freedom Fighters, the Rey, an

animated series set on Earth 10, and starting

the Rey will be another show that's there, but

they're going to have various of those freedom

fighters and then various villains that are basically

polar opposite of the... Flash, Green Arrow,

Black Canary, Supergirl, and various other characters.

So they had this comic mock -up of the whole

thing that's online. It's going to be November

27th and 28th on the CW. Arrow will air on a

special night Monday at 9... 7 -8 Central following

Supergirl while the other DC shows will remain

in their regular So yeah, so it'll be Supergirl

and Arrow on Monday and then flash and legends

on Tuesday Yeah, so it'll be a four part crossover

actual four part crossover between all four.

So Yes, kind of like invasion was a four part

crossover So speaking of superhero news When

are you releasing this episode? So four days

from the 6th of October, October 10th, La La

Land Records will save you and scare you. October

10th, 2017, La La Land Records is releasing The

Flash Season 3, DC's Legends of Tomorrow Season

2, Arrow Season 5, and Supergirl Season 2 scores,

all done by Blake Neely, as well as Friday the

13th Parts 2 and 3 2 CD set. But here's the thing,

Flash, Legends, Arrows, Supergirls, Soundtracks,

yes, cannot wait to hear all that stuff. Especially

Legends Season 2, I'm so stoked to hear that

music, because I hope that they throw in the

fight from the very first episode. There was

this music cue the very first episode. That was

just such a good battle theme and I hope that's

in there So yeah superhero stuff. I am so ready

for the superhero shows to be back Like I mentioned

earlier Have not watched law and order featuring

Batman at all Don't even really care about Gotham

anymore, but no, but oh, it's gonna get good.

We're in two weeks. We're getting Solomon Grundy

Yeah, he was born on a Monday. Well, you know

who it is, right? No, did you watch the end of

season three? Yes. It's Butch. They found out

his name is Solomon Grundy. Oh, that makes sense.

And so, because he's dead, yeah. And then they've

got a couple other twists in the initial return.

Did you know Carl Lumbly is going to be playing

Martian Manhunter's dad? What? In Supergirl?

Yeah. Oh, okay. Never mind. Yeah, the actual

John Jones. Yes. Yeah, I know who he is he's

John Jones from Justice League. Yeah. Yeah, so

he's gonna be okay. Cool. Yeah, he's gonna be

coming to to earth Sweet yeah, so that's gonna

be awesome. I was pretty stoked it to hear that

So among other things like Danny Trejo is gonna

be called breacher on the flash one of the villains

Which is kind of funny that you've got this guy

that's pretty good at playing villains in movies

coming to TV Yep, and then yeah one of his biggest

roles came 20 years ago this year Yeah, yeah

was He was Johnny 23 and con air nice And then

and then Tom welling apparently wants to appear

on the flash as Clark Kent Like as daddy have

a Clark can't know but Clark Kent is on the other

earth Okay, so he wants to be this universe is

the arrow versus Clark Kent, you know what I'm

gonna say to you Tom Welling Suit up or shut

up. Well, I said he wants to I guess it's just

getting them to do it Mm -hmm. He wants to join

up with the show where he actually gets to wear

the suit And be this universe's Superman That

would be cool. So That would actually be kind

of cool to actually tie smallville into this.

However, it would kind of create continuity issues

with What came before? No, see like smallville

is its own thing But if they just if they just

had him playing the character the character and

it's it's still separate from smallville then

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Yeah, that's like Like you were saying, it's

supposed to be this Earth's Earth -1 or whatever

the Flash Arrow Earth is, I don't know. You know,

it's supposed to be their Clark Kent Superman,

but it still could be the actor that portrayed

him in another series without it having to tie

the two series together. But, yeah, he said that,

oh, I'm willing to go to the Flash and I have

a few ideas on how it can happen if the network

asks me. In fact, I think I can make it happen.

I guess he's gonna... Approach them. So I think

that would be kind of cool to have have him join

up with the Arrowverse the only gripe I would

have is If they do that we need a stinking Batman

on television. No, we don't. Yes, we do Then

the only problem is it'll never happen because

of Gotham, that's the only problem you never

know you never know They could technically breach

into Gotham to and pull that Batman I Wouldn't

like it, but they could do that But he was already

hinted at in Supergirl's world yeah, and he was

already been hinted at in the arrow verse too,

so I Mean all of season three was Batman Yeah,

I would rather they actually had Batman come

in there and tell arrow like hey, this is how

it's actually done You know what would be really

funny? So they get Tom Welling to be Earth 1

Superman Clark Kent. You've got Amel as Earth

1 Arrow Oliver Queen. Have the Earth 2 doppelganger

of Arrow be Justin Hartley? Because he was Arrow

in Smallville! That would be funny actually for

Earth 10. Yes, absolutely. So yeah, that would

actually be kind of cool. I'm actually going

back through the Flash right now. The new Flash

suit actually looks awesome for Season 4 by the

way. Yeah, I'm actually going back through it

and I'm in like the middle of Season 2 at this

point so I forgot about a lot of the moments

that happened in Season 1 and Season 2. I just

dropped this to you and you'll have to watch

this after we... Conclude but okay the CW released

a ad to promote the Arrowverse shows with a big

belly burger Mm -hmm, and it's actually pretty

humorous the way they cut it all up using parts

from the show Yeah, did you see the oh? Where

is it there was this is a while ago. They're

like 1199 each, but there was a big belly burger

glass That was released a while ago. I don't

remember exactly where it is I would have to

search for it and let you know after the show

because I'm not seeing it here in my favorites

Right off the bat So but yeah, very very cool.

Yeah, I'll have to watch that promo after we

finish But yeah, I mean that's that's pretty

much all the the pertinent news I had for the

week. There's always a lot going on in superhero

land, which eventually I'll move all of this

superhero talk to another show and kind of just

more so go purely topical. I do have some topical

stuff that I have down. I figure this would be

a good refresher and a return to the fold of

Altered Geek for you. absolutely so what have

you got going on sir before we we close it off

so much layman's terms then what's the ring thing

reading wedding dress tux flying a Megatron you

know it's funny we've looked at several purple

tuxes and she's almost I've almost got her to

agree yeah so moving here to Chicago Illinois

the you know all that going on and everything

else and just getting settled into a new city

and all of that and several friends of ours specifically

one Canadian jerk -off has like I'm surprised

there's not violence every day in your city or

this or your American cities blah blah blah yeah

no there's not There is violence every day, but

we're not exploding with it. The area of Chicago

that I live in now, it's a very safe, very family

-friendly neighborhood. I live on the north side,

so north side rules, south side can whatever.

It's one of those things where it's just, you

know, life is happening and it's changing and

just got to get used to it. So life moves pretty

fast if you don't stop to look around in a while.

Yes. Thank you, Ferris. The sad thing is it's

good, but I won't have my actual big desk for

a little while until we get a different place

because Lugging that thing up the flights of

stairs. Yeah, no so But yeah, that's what's going

on with me I'm kind of trying to find a balance

between life and podcasting now and all that

and a balance in the force Yes, thank you. I'm

just full of puns. I'll be here all week Try

the veal! No, don't, really. So. Yes. So alright,

it was great having you back on the episodes.

I'm still gonna be doing some rotation with various

hosts. I have some other ideas as far as content.

I have some topics that are planned. I just have

to get the right people for these certain topics.

Or the right sized panels. That's what she said.

So until next time, get altered, get geeky with

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