Our Radio Influences and Podcasting Journeys

You are tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

Geek. Hello, and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm

your host, Steve Megatron Phillips, and joining

me this week is someone who hasn't been on the

podcast for a while. I'm taking over. Yeah, you

could not tell who that was just by that voice.

I will talk like this for the rest of the show.

I'm taking over. It's scaring my cat. He's glaring

at the microphone. I'm taking over. Yes, it is

I, TF2 and Mike. Hello everybody. Hello, hello.

So yes, we are going to start our little endeavor

tonight into some of our radio broadcasting.

fans and like things that we listen to and You

know basically what's what's kind of Some of

our influences in radio I have to preface this

by saying Steve and I are six years apart in

age He is six years younger than me so Even though

he is still technically an 80s kid Don't know

some of this at least one thing that I'm going

to mention you may or may not know or remember

anything from it Yeah, I'm sure there'll be some

that I'll not heard of but I'm sure everybody

has heard this if you haven't heard of this like

what kind of Star Trek rock have you been living

under? Are you talking about Casey Kasem? No,

we'll talk about him later. No, everybody knows

that guy, but I'm Paul Harvey and this is the

rest of the story I used to love listening. I'm

not a fan of talk radio all that much at all,

but Paul Harvey I could listen to that guy all

day long Yeah, I think I know who you're talking

about and I think that a few years ago the name

wouldn't have really rung any bells, but We had

to in our Media class Kind of listened to a lot

of TV and radio hosts from like the days of yesteryear

And some of the the more prolific voices of those

mediums And so the name sounds familiar to me.

Yes, I will send you a link after the show because

I'm pretty sure even though you're only just,

you know, in your early 30s, you should know,

you should remember Paul Harvey. He actually

was, I mean, he's passed on at this point, but

it's been a number of years since he passed on,

I think. But there was something that came out

a couple of years ago where he's talking about

how people should treat policemen and things

like that. It was right all over Facebook. But

I just remember listening to the rest of the

story from Paul Harvey all the time as a kid.

Absolutely loved it. Yeah, it's there's a lot

of. People that have left their mark on things

and I don't think that talk radio for the most

part I mean you have your select people but like

Most of it. You don't really have those iconic

voices anymore No, you don't not at all and It's

it's kind of sad But yeah, it was very in that

day and age where everybody's doing it and so

it's kind of you know, the the voices are drowned

out by a lot of randomness, not only from radio,

but from the internet. Yeah, absolutely, because

there's now internet radio. Well, you have SiriusXM,

you have other forms of satellite radio, you

have internet radio, you have internet radio

streams, you have podcasts, you have traditional

radio. So, I mean, there's all these different

mediums now. Yeah, exactly like I Don't like

I'll sit like I'll say to some like somebody

will ask me. Oh you work from home. What do you

do? I say, well, I'm a pod I podcast. Oh, what's

that? And I'll basically say it's kind of like

internet radio It's not exactly but like for

the general populace that might not like, you

know, like my wife's lawyer like He's probably

not gonna know what a podcast is so well easiest

way to say what it is is it's radio on the internet

See I I define it as a pre -recorded radio show

That you can listen on demand and then that's

that's kind of like the easiest way to explain

it and at least how I see it Yeah, just just

in explaining it to people that have no idea

what I'm talking about because I've had to do

that with family recently like hey You know I

podcast What's that? And so I kind of had to

go through that dilemma a little bit in terms

of explaining it to family in our recent family

gathering that we had. And I was kind of like,

really? They haven't heard of podcasting before?

And then I kind of forget that I've been in this

bubble for so long that it's just second nature

to me at this point. Right, right. Yeah, what

was one of the ones that influenced you as a

kid? Or one of the ones that you liked from Michigan

or whatever. What's funny is I didn't really

have any that influenced me per se. I did listen

to, funny enough, radio, but I don't remember

like any iconic voices when I was a kid. I used

to record myself into a tape player and As funny

as that is, I would record myself into audio

cassettes on my tape deck and then I would play

it back as if I were a radio disc jockey. So

it was kind of entertaining to me to do that

because I do that now. Only a much grander scale

for more than an audience of one. the funny thing

was is I would do the voices and I do all that

kind of stuff and I would fake sing and some

of it you know almost as bad as the you know

depth -charged fish pants I have to resurrect

that at some point that would be hilarious you

know what dude honestly seriously we're gonna

insert it right here because I have it Dep Charge

Fish Pants! Who wants to kill Rampage for you

and for me? Dep Charge Fish Pants! Whose matter

-rate goodness is misunderstood? Dep Charge Fish

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charge fish pants That was a funny endeavor written

by Michael Wilson on the beast unleashed But

yeah, we We used to do that and then I remember

they used to have this thing this this disc jockey

on Banana 101 .5 in our local Flint area I used

to win all kinds of stuff on this radio station

when I got to be a teenager and an adult And

when I worked at the car lot I used to call in

because that's all I would listen to because

at the time podcasts weren't really Is getting

as mainstream as they were and I wasn't recording

them myself You're right. And then once I started

to recording them I started listening to podcasts

unless to radio plus a lot of disc jockeys that

were on there got canned and I just didn't care

for the station anymore, but I remember like

Casey Kasem's, you know, the top 40 countdown

and then Things like that, but on 101 .5, which

would not have had that because it was rock They

had this guy called Chile Walker Right Who I

think went on to somewhere in like a bigger market

like New York or something like that But he had

this thing at five o 'clock called naked trivia

Because Banana 101 .5 is basically vulgar. They

have a lot of innuendos. Innuendos and innuendos,

exactly. Yeah, they had a lot of those over the

years. Especially because their emblem is a banana.

So you can imagine where that went. So anyways,

they would do the naked trivia type thing. They

would ask questions about whatever, you know,

music, pop culture, movies. And they would, you

know, the guy would be like, are you naked? You

know, blah, blah, blah. And then ask questions

and then, you know, have them because it was

a part of the gag, you know. So it's basically

Michigan's version of Howard Stern, except not

to that extreme a point. Except he was cleaner.

Yeah, it was it was more entertaining and like

you could listen to it with with your kids and

not it wouldn't be as bad as like listening to

the Howard stir So so yeah, it was it was entertaining

and So that was one of the things that stuck

out to me and then they had other, you know DJs

that came later that I remember from that station

but And they got more vulgar as time went on

and then I remember listening to Bob and Tom

Which is can be vulgar. They have clean moments.

I haven't listened to that in years, but that's

because 101 .5 quit carrying them years ago,

which is about when I quit listening. That's

because it's basically, I forget which one, one

of them left, one of them retired or whatever,

but they still call it the Bob and Tom show,

even though either Bob or Tom, like the way I

advertise, well not advertise, but the way I,

it's the Bob and Tom -less show or it's the Tom

and Bob -less show or whatever, because it's

only one of them now and a variety of other people

that they had, like, yeah, no. Well, they had

Bob and Tom and then they had You know chick

McGee and then Christie Lee or whatever and then

yeah so now it's it's I'm trying to think Yeah,

I'm gonna look for who's on it now, but They

got Josh Arnold or something on there now I Could

it could be wrong. I don't know but I used to

listen to the thing often I think it's Bob that

left or something. Yeah, Bob that left, yeah.

Yeah, they had him retire and then he'll fill

in occasionally. They had a lot of funny skits

or songs from people who would come on the show

and they were among my favorite parody music.

Yeah, when I was a teenager and I thought they

were hilarious and I still think some of them

are hilarious like, you know, they had the mr.

Obvious Thing, you know, they would have like

a skit where somebody would be completely oblivious

to stuff, you know, like You know, hi, mr. Obvious

longtime listener first time caller and then

you know, he would say something not really stupid

and then Mr. Obvious would would kind of say

hey, I don't think it quite works that way or

exactly But yeah, I mean, there were a lot of

there were a lot of fun skits and songs and things

that would come up or impersonators of like presidents

or TV show characters, you know, like they would

parody Bill Clinton a lot. Jack Bauer, you know,

Morgan Freeman and, you know, just Larry King.

Yeah, I used to listen to it a lot, though, and

it was it was fun to me. I mean, they had. They

had a lot of between the skits they'd have some

sports stuff, which I really cared less about

and then News and then like a comedian bit, but

It was fun Those are about the extent of my my

radio Stuff and then I started getting into things

like podcasting and then and that's when the

realm was open wide Right, yeah When I started,

it was 2007, I think? Started what? Listening

to podcasts. Which ones did you start listening

to? I mean, I know you listen to Twig, to some

extent. Yeah. The very first one, and I've said

this for years, the very first one I ever listened

to, because I thought it was... Was it Earth

2? Yeah, I thought it was the cricket like I

found World's finest podcast. It's done by Michael

Sims and James Doe They have one hunt This is

where I get my 100 at like every podcast I do

has to last a hundred episodes thing because

theirs lasted one of they went through Every

single episode of the DC animated universe even

Teen Titans, even though it's not in continuity

All of the cartoons from BTIS, STAS, Batman Beyond,

Justice League, Zeta Project, Static Shock, Teen

Titans, Justice League Unlimited, all of that.

They went through all of it. Like, when I started

listening to them, I would listen to, like, their

episodes were two, three hours long. I would

spend all of that two or three hours listening

to them while doing other things. That kind of

stuff and I just gravitated towards towards their

their content and what they were doing I eventually

found TF wire eventually found twig And obviously,

you know you and I got introduced via Twitter

So there's that yeah, I think I think we connected

through not only Twitter, but this week Yeah

through twig. Yep Yep. Yep. Yep Which is which

is crazy and Way back in what? 2008 2007 Yeah,

something like that. I don't even know when I

started Twitter I'd have to look I started in

2008 August of 2008 same. Yeah the same time

I started all things transformers There you go,

that's crazy I started altering Transformers

in August. I started altering Geek in August.

I started Twitter in August. You can download

your Twitter archive thing. I had it somewhere.

I don't know where it is now though. I'm sure

I can get it again, yeah. I need to go in there

and do that because I think it would be interesting

to kind of go back and see what... what I've

tweeted over the years. Did they give you your

images when you do that? I don't think so. I

don't know. I'll look forward to the email where

they tell me what I get. Here's the grand prize.

So yeah, one of the things that kind of struck

me is after I kind of started listening to the

podcasting room, I listened to TF wire. I listened

to I'd kind of gotten into that in 2006 and then

started listening and then listened through 2007

where I became a host right and By far some of

the worst podcasting I've ever done Most awkward

podcast I've ever done because it was my first

solo show and right it was terrible All things

transformers was was infinitely better and even

that was terrible in version 1 .0. Yeah, just

go back, folks. You don't even have to go back

very far. Go back to the time when I had us do,

ATTF, this is your life, because I grabbed Eclipse

from ATTF version 1 .0. I'm sorry. I feel so

sorry for you having to put up with that purple

-headed orange cannon. God he sounds like this

when he talked down the show He sounds so fake

and you can tell how awkward it is between the

two of you It's just so evident like don't get

me wrong. I'm not trying to throw it I'm not

really trying to throw the guy under the bus,

but I kind of am at the same time because I don't

I sucked when I first started so Like, the first?

Well, you, funny enough, you had a lot more confidence

and a lot more of a radio persona. You know why

that is? Because you've listened to it. Dude,

I grew up on radio. They're, OK, so for anyone

that doesn't know, anyone that's been listening

to the GeekCast Radio Network, Altered Geek,

whatever, for the last nine, 10 years now almost.

Anyone that doesn't know, I'm originally from

Massachusetts. It doesn't sound it right now,

because I had been living in Kentucky for so

long. I'm now in Chicago, but living in Kentucky

for 25 years before that, I was in Massachusetts

for all of my young life. If I wasn't so congested

and nasally, I could, and I might be able to

still now. park the car in Harvard Yard. So I

still can do the Boston accent when I want to.

It comes out of me when I'm really, really mad,

and people have only ever really seen me really,

really mad on very rare occasions. I've heard

you had a couple podcast records that didn't

quite make the record. No, the cutting room floor

immediately. Yeah, they did the cutting room

floor, but they were downright. Oh, you think

it's scary. You think it's scary over a podcast,

over a microphone, over Skype. If you ever see

it in person, just run the other way. I got the

tiny glimpse of it at your wedding. No. Oh, you

didn't? Shut up. I'm throwing hot shots at you.

Uh -huh. But point is, I grew up... in the suburbs

of Boston, Massachusetts, South Shore, Massachusetts,

and the radio show back then, it's been going

on for, you know, at this point, the long show.

Back then, it was 105 .7 WVDF, Boston's 105.

They basically play, you know, classic hits.

It's kind of like a classic 60s, 70s, 80s rock

station kind of a thing. At this point, it's

WROR, Boston's classic hits now, I believe. Um,

but I listened to them like all the time and

just loved everything they did. Um, because it

was just so in, it was so engaging. It was so

this, it was so that, and ever since then, I,

as a kid, I called into them. I wrote into them,

their station at the time, because it was more

80s pop. back then than what it is now. Their

station at the time carried Delilah after dark

at night. I actually quite, I kid you not, I

wish I still had it. Oh God. I wrote a letter

to Delilah when I was nine or 10. Wow. And I

got a letter back. That's crazy. Cause you know,

trying to call into the Delilah after dark show

or love, love someone tonight with Delilah, whatever

it's called now, like calling into that show

is like, it's worse than trying to win radio

station tickets. It really, really is. Cause

you never get through. Um, so yeah, between Lauren

Wally, Delilah and Casey Kasem, my radio childhood

was golden in Massachusetts. Um, When I got here

to Kentucky, because it was something my dad

and my then stepmother were doing, I started

listening to country music for the first time

ever. This is why I love a lot of the 90s country

stuff like Reba and Garth and all that kind of

stuff. What's so crazy is later in the mid 90s,

I would be in a group home kind of placement

thing. with the stepson of the morning show host

on that country station. Also, in the 90s, over

there in Louisville, Kentucky, I became friends

with one of the other morning show hosts on 99

.7 DJX, today's hit music. It was Peter B. He

was just super funny. He really, really was.

Did all kinds of bits and skits and whatever.

Hearing him was like and I would call into him

and ask him advice and things like that And actually

this is so weird and I know I've mentioned this

to you off -air He and I used to talk and I was

15 16 at the time 95 96 He and I used to talk

Melrose Place all the time because I was watching

Melrose Place as a teenager Very very cool guy.

Absolutely awesome And yeah, I mean that that

was kind of like my my young adult life and you

know childhood and all that and I found Lex and

Terry at one point because they ended up in Louisville.

They're another syndicated kind of show. They

were kind of fun kind of interesting I hadn't

when I got back here to Louisville in 22 when

the heck was that 2003 I kind of bounced around

kind of a thing I actually once I found podcasting

in 2007 2008 I kind of stopped listening to rate

like completely stopped listening to morning

shows until I Finally tuned back into 107 7 the

eagle in Louisville and listened to the Carter

man program Was him and regular Laura and it

was just just so so funny yeah, I mean I I love,

and it's one of those things where I've always

loved the aspect, the thought of being in radio.

I've never really cared about what little money

that job makes. Being in radio, you're not, unless

you are a Howard Stern, which none of us are

obviously, you're not making a lot of money.

You're not. Making tons you're doing more work

than you're making money at this point But I

just love the atmosphere. I love the thought

of it I just love that whole thing like just

being in the studio like I get to go to Several

radio station studios in my lifetime and just

hang out with morning show people and it was

just so fun Yeah, I never got to go hang out

with anybody from a radio station ever And then

the few times that I probably could have gone

with my class. You didn't go. In college. Well,

I had to work. Right. And because it scheduled

the stuff when I had to work and I'm like, I

can't, I already miss enough coming to class.

Like I don't, I don't have time. Or they went

to a television station. On a day that I could

have you know, I would have had to been gone

extended time and because of the nature of my

old job I couldn't do that in the nature of my

current job. I couldn't do that either Because

I kind of have to be ready it at all times in

case something goes wrong like I have to kind

of quality control everything and so it's Unfortunate,

I mean I would love to go through And I kind

of did when, because my current job, when I was

down there in Texas, I get to kind of tour the

radio and the video studio and I was kind of

in awe of the whole thing. And it was really

cool to see. I just wish that at some point,

and it may eventually happen, I get to actually

work in a studio recording. a show that either

gets on actual radio or on video of some kind.

Sweet. That's the end game goal here. That's

awesome, dude. Probably won't happen where I'm

at, but even if it's for GCRN, I'm content. But

yeah, I mean it's crazy the amount of Like pertaining

to radio like how? How things have changed over

the years like I find myself like I keep getting

calls from like serious XM for instance because

last year I bought a An equinox I bought a used

equinox off of somebody and you know they transferred

all the the GM warranties to us and So in the

process of doing so, you know, XM gets all your

information because you get to sign up for like

a three month trial of OnStar and blah, blah,

blah, blah. And so I have the statistics of the

vehicle sent to me. So like the oil, the engine,

the tires, blah, blah, blah with that. But I

don't I don't pay for anything. It's just a free

maintenance like statistics thing that they send

you every month. and then it bothers you about

OnStar and SiriusXM because they're all kind

of close -knit buddies and I was getting a phone

call every week for the last month from XM like

hey we noticed you don't have a heavy radio set

up and would you like to you know pay for only

this amount you can get internet radio and I'm

like I'm like I don't need to be rude about this

but I don't drive I'm like, I work at home listening

to the radio that I work for. I'm like, I don't

listen to XM, nor am I going to pay for XM. And

they're like, but it's a really good blah, blah,

blah deal. And I'm like, I'm not interested.

I don't listen to the radio. And then they did

it again to me. It got more frequent. So instead

of like once a week, they called me. last week

they called me like twice and I was like no no

no this games done they called me and I says

you know not to cut you off but I'm not interested

take me off your list I don't listen to the radio

I work for radio I don't drive so I have no need

for your service exactly which was funny to me

so But yeah, I mean I don't even know I I know

nobody around that actually listens to the radio

like at least locally to me or internet radio

for that matter like everybody either a listens

to you know, their CDs or flash drives with pre

downloaded content to it or or podcasts like

I really don't know anybody that listens to traditional

radio or or Sirius XM and I think that that's

that's kind of a Tell of where we're at in society

now Yeah Yeah, Karen Karen listens to serious.

She she has and I've been like trying to convince

her to Upgrade a little bit so I can kind of

check it out and I know I could do like a 30

-day free trial thing on my own But what's the

point if she's already if we're already paying

for it. I might as well You know like what boggles

my mind is like in order for her subscription

to have the uh the app or whatever like to be

able to stream online we have to upgrade the

subscription like seriously really that's ridiculous

that's just sad yeah everything is pretty much

paid now yeah pay us or we hold the content hostage

yeah pretty much But yeah, I don't know. I've

and I kind of have this argument with people

constantly about, you know, whether they listen

to the radio or listen to a podcast or because

nowadays you can you can connect your phone to

your to your car. Right. And Bluetooth it and

connect to an app in your car or half the time

the cars nowadays connect to the Internet and

you can do it from the car and not even need

your phone. If you pay for data in your phone

or in your car and You can stream from like Stitcher

or Pandora or Various other you know Google Play

you know all these other podcast directories,

and so you you really don't I don't know of anybody

like I even When I was still working in that

job I would listen to Podcasts because that's

that's what was available to me and that's what

i cared about more so than hearing the same 20

songs on the radio and then hearing somebody

you know that i didn't care to hear and i i could

fine tune it to content i want exactly yeah yeah

see for me it's like like now that we've been

doing this almost nine years nine years in june

for gcrn like All my time is either whatever

my wife and I are doing or trying to get at least

one or two podcasts. But even before Karen and

I met, all of my time was editing podcasts, recording

podcasts, getting content done for the site.

I haven't actually listened to a podcast outside

of editing stuff in probably five years or more.

Like it's not that I don't want to listen to

people's stuff. I just don't have the time Yeah,

I and that's kind of the same as me like I have

enough time to quality control and listen to

the stuff That my employer puts out, right? but

I don't actually have time to To listen to much

else even though there are times that I'd like

to. And I feel so bad half the time when it's

like we're asking people to listen to the stuff

that we're doing, yet we barely listen to anything

anybody else does. I was listening to the Arkham

sessions, I was listening to a bunch of other

things, like I said 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. Since

about 2014, I just don't anymore. It's not that

I don't want to support those people. I would

love, you know, I will. If I see Brian or Drea

put up a link about the newest Arkham Sessions

or whatever, it doesn't have to be that podcast.

Any podcast that I've, you know, had contact

with for years now, sure, I'll promote their

stuff, but do I have time to listen to it? Sadly,

I don't, and it sucks because it's a double -edged

sword of, oh, well, You want me to listen to

your stuff, but I'm not listening to your you

know, it's it's so weird to me Yeah, I totally

agree with you there I'm so It is probably wrong

I I should be you know interacting more with

You know listening to other people's podcasts

and I've been trying to actually kind of get

back into some listening to them because There

are times when I play video games and really

I don't want to listen to the sounds in the game

I enjoy playing the game. I just I've heard them

so many times I just I'd much rather like I'll

save my TV shows and binge watch them like on

my other monitor and right and play my game on

my big screen and so I mean, it's it's much nicer

in that capacity, but I also feel like To some

extent we almost have to listen to new ones because

if we don't Our content gets stale because we

don't get new ideas to inflex into our own shows

Yeah, that's true like I mean I'm not saying

like binge listen to a ton of podcasts. Right,

but a podcast here or there kind of thing. Like,

I just listened to, okay, so I take this back.

The first podcast episode I listened to in five

or six years now was movie role Dan's new show

Comic Concierge here on the GCRN. I have nothing

to do with the show, folks. It's all Dan. So,

but I listened to him and DJ talk Gotham Central

because I've been wanting to cover Gotham Central

on the pull bag for, well, since the pull bag

started. five years ago and I just if the timing

hasn't been right or whatever and it just hasn't

happened then I want to see what Dan was gonna

how his format was and how they talked about

the comic because at some point later this year

Dan and I are gonna do a pullback comic concierge

crossover so like I wanted to be able to listen

to that so I knew what to expect from it kind

of a thing but other than that like outside just

Just don't have time anymore And people are like,

oh, but you could make the time Yeah, I could

make the time but then at some point my wife's

gonna get not that she would but you know Whatever

like I don't have as much time as I used to I

do when I don't Yeah, I know how that goes man.

Yeah. Well, I know well, you know Karen is fully

supportive of the of the endeavor and everything

else but At the same time, it's like there are

24 hours in the day and if I spend five or six

or seven of those doing podcast stuff, whether

it's prep work, whether it's, you know, prep

recording, whatever, plus whatever she and I

are doing, plus, you know, eating, showering,

whatever, you know, it's like there's only so

much time. Like if we had 48 hour days, maybe

I could work something in there, but. Sadly,

not really sadly, but we don't have 48 hour days.

Yeah, I think I would not want that. No, not

really. You know what's really funny when I think

the first radio interaction I had outside of

winning stuff over the phone where somebody actually

contacted me and talked back with me was Dodd.

Oh, really? Yeah. And looking at my Twitter archives.

It was I I was reading it. I was like man. I

don't even remember how like our conversation

started and And then I'm reading my Twitter archive,

and I'm like oh now I remember I was like I was

waiting for him to get time to contact me So

Some things aren't that different but He's better

at it now, but it was it was just humorous I

was like, this lowly podcaster, like, this radio

guy, he said he'd talk to me and he hasn't yet.

I was like, lies, betrayal. Or as Mushu would

say in Mulan, decide on you, decide on your cow.

I think of that whenever somebody gets offended

on something, but yeah. It's crazy and then and

then looking at our journey, you know through

podcasting and because of radio And the crazy

thing is folks we've talked about this so many

damn time It never gets old No, it doesn't because

half the people that might be listening now weren't

listening two or three or four years ago and

you know, I Yeah, it's it's funny. I set up my

first key cast radio email back in in June of

2009 You know nine years ago in a couple of months

and first and I was only recording three podcasts

a week And I was acting like it was a big deal

ATTF GCR and TFG one yeah, I was like I was like

yeah I've got three podcasts coming out this

week, and then like a couple months ago I was

like I've got five or six podcasts coming out

this week You know, I've got the awards. I've

got legends. I've got all things Transformers.

I've got Altered Geek. I've got or no, like a

double or triple shot of Altered Geek. Future

Imperfect. I'm like, what else is coming out?

Yeah, you tried to pull a me. Well, you can't

you can't imitate me. You can't. I burned out

very quickly, but it's also but it's also because

I had a lack of time and then I was kind of like,

I really don't want to talk. I was like, I just

want to relax and sit on arse and play video

games. I don't even want to record anything.

I was pushing it to record Altered Geek during

those times and I was like, that I can do. The

other shows I'm like, I'll record them when I

figure out what I want to talk about. Yeah, exactly.

And at this point now, Legends is gonna be coming

under remote control for the CW stuff, so...

Yeah, so that's folded. All things Transformers,

I'm gonna do that as content is needed. It's

not a... Yeah, and I still have the Origins episodes

for that as well, so... And then Future Imperfect,

that's, again, whatever content's relevant to

it, until the show comes back, and then I'm gonna

review them week by week by week. Yeah. And then

the Internet Pathfinder, it's... I did the first

three or four and then I kind of... You did the

first three. The TIP four is still sitting in

the drafts, trust me. Yep. I know. So anyways,

it fizzled out more so because I was having a

hard time not blending with this show. And so...

until I figure out what I want to do. It's going

to sit on the back burner for a little bit. But

I do intend on going back to that one because

I enjoyed it. See, here's the thing I've learned

and I've learned this. I should have known this

from the beginning. Remember how I said when

we were starting out, I want every show to be

separate. Everything needs to be individualized.

Everything needs to have its own thing. Well...

Now, almost nine, 10 years later, Tooncast is

coming back. Tooncast Classic, Tooncast whatever

is coming back. We're folding every cartoon review

show that we want to do in the future into Tooncast.

No more separate cartoon review shows. It's all

going to be under one banner. It'll just be set

up like GCR presents, how La La Land Lounge and

Mayhem Mike and Retro. Not necessarily but kind

of I honestly think because you know I know you

wanted Internet Pathfinder to be its own thing,

but because you just said just now in this episode

that you tend to try not to have to bleed into

the area of Altered Geek, it should just be like

a monthly segment on Altered Geek. Like it could

be like the Internet Pathfinder. What you should

do with AG is each four weeks in a month, four

Wednesdays, four Fridays, whatever. One main

topic a week. from tech, from movies, from TV,

from animation, from whatever, and you focus

on that overall topic for that week, and that

way you can still do all your interests under

one show without having to feel like, oh crap,

I can't do this show because I don't even have

enough energy, I don't have this, I don't have

the interest, I don't have that, yeah. All things

Transformers, I don't feel bad about having its

own feed. Oh, no, no, no, that's yeah. Well,

that's obvious. No, I'm saying like internet

Pathfinder and all of that like obviously future

imperfect is specifically Star Trek a GTF a specific

specifically trance like yeah No, but I'm saying

like the tech stuff the general movie stuff the

general whatever stuff you want to talk about

like yeah, it should all be under Like you know

not necessarily segments, but it should all be

under the banner of altered geek. I think I don't

know Altered movies. Yay. No. Altering movie

ideas. Yeah. Altered movies. Yeah. Yay. I did

altered tech for a while. That was Internet Pathfinder

pre -Internet Pathfinder. Yeah. But yeah, so

I mean, it's funny going back anyways and looking

at these old Twitter conversations about, you

know, looking at the... just finish the about

page on geekcastradio .com and I'm like sitting

here going it's never changed it's going to it's

well I get an update in like 2010 or 2011 and

then it's not been touched since like the information

in that page has not been touched since it's

going to be touched for the new site it's gonna

be touched It just sounds wrong. Boobies! So

yeah, and I've kind of alluded to this kind of

on Twitter, speaking of which, that I'm working

on some things with the website, but I'm not

going to tell anybody what it is, so you just

have to wait. Because I don't want to be one

of those, uh, moments where I'm like, uh, something,

some idea I had didn't come to fruition. Uh,

plus I'm just going to say that there's, there's

going to be some, uh, significant changes to

cast radio. Um, not only aesthetically, but how

it functions and there's actually going to be

a plan. A plan. Oh no, you hate those. Yes, I

hate those but I think it's warranted in this

situation. Yeah kind of is so Man Although I

will tell you this I found some people I used

to follow and talk to you on Twitter Just by

going back to my old Tweets and I'm like, oh,

they're still they're still alive. They're still

on Twitter. I Was like man, I don't remember

some of these people. And then I'm like, I remember

these people. So. Yeah, I don't use Twitter as

much as I used to anymore. Like I use it to promote

the podcast and maybe to interact with like Tune

Master Tim or a couple other people that we've

hosted with before. But like I use Facebook more

than anything else nowadays to actually do interactions.

I don't know what it is. I just. I don't know.

It's like, you know, the annoying orange got

ahold of Twitter and it's just ruined now. Are

you sure it's not going to be great again? No,

Twitter will never be great again. It'll be great

-ing, but it won't be great again. Oh, so you

mean it'll be like Facebook. It'll eat your soul

and sell it to everyone else. Well, you know

That's what Twitter does yeah very true But yeah,

so I think that about wraps it up. So what are

you guys's some of your guys's early? Experiences

with radio and in kind of as you grew up and

up till now like what what are some things that

stand out to you guys of what? You've really

enjoyed in the the radio podcasting realm over

the past several decades of how it's changed,

how you've followed it. It'd be interesting to

see what you guys think about the whole transformation

of this medium as it's progressed over the years.

Absolutely. Anything else you'd like to add,

sir? There's a ton of stuff coming. That's all

I can say. There's just... That's what she said.

That's not what she said. Until next time, get

Altered Geeky with the Altered Geeks. With the

Fraltered Geeks.