Podcast Production, DC Films, and Healthy Eating

You're tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

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

your host, Steve Megatron. Phillips joining me

this week is... Dave, Jim, and Mike. And as I

say this, this is two weeks in a row that I've

gone without a Tuesday episode. I'm all over

the place, people. Yeah. Mike's taking the reins

while I'm taking downtime right now. Between

me and the Geek Responsibly crew, it's all purple

all the time at the GeekCast Radio Network. But

anyways, I've been prepping graphics for Optimus

Solo for a GCN Wars tournament. Which is going

to be interesting. Yes, that's going to be the

GCR wars tournament for tag teams for wrestling

Mm -hmm, and I've been putting together basically

in essence like baseball cards mm -hmm with stats

and everything else and customizing them per

Per group and so it's been a lot of fun kind

of messing with that Thankfully he gathered all

the information and all I had to do was make

it fit exactly so so yeah I've been doing that

and aside from applying for jobs and not getting

calls I've been I was recently given a large

Star Wars collection very cool and it encompasses

a lot of the stuff from the 90s and early 2000s

a lot of the Dark Horse comics a lot of the Forget

what the name of the company was but they do

the the collectible card game back in the late

90s I know what you're talking about. I have

like all of the cards Literally all of them and

I have a ton of the comics so I even have Dark

Empire Wow That was one of my favorite runs of

it. So like I'll be able to read some of these

comics before I sell them But I've been selling

some of the figures and some of the ships and

I started off with like the 12 inch line Mm -hmm,

and so far I've sold in there sold the the episode

one electronic Naboo royal starship and the episode

one like Anakin and Padme and then the IG 88

bounty hunter robot so Yeah, so this these are

gonna help me pay my bills after I Get a lot

of this stuff So I'm gonna I'm gonna list a lot

more. I got a lot of the the short figures as

well, but That's part of what I've been doing

lately. Yes aside from you know, Mware 200 mm

-hmm. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute.

You mentioned Star Wars and stuff and I now have

four Star Wars Funko pops I've got Chewie and

Han from the solo Versions that they're putting

out solo Star Wars story, so I got that I've

got old Luke from from last Jedi, which is basically

just him a cane and a white grayish white beard

as of this recording tonight I went into GameStop

and I found Young Luke with a lightsaber as a

funko pop at GameStop And his number is 266 So

there's that You know, you mentioned it we recorded

episode 200 of M wire The podcast has been going

on for nine years it started a month and ten

days after the network launched it started July

11th 2009 I've told this part of the story before

and you just grown at it the only reason why

it was July 11th other than being 7 -eleven and

Making really really bad slurpee jokes is because

at the time 7 -eleven 2009 was the next official

release date for Whatever Apple iPhone product

they were put I think it was like the iPhone

2g or 3g or something or other that year But

yeah, I've spent Again as of this recording all

day long editing Episode 200 of M wire where

you and I basically reminisce on the show What

we liked we did top ten episodes produced recorded

whatever guest hosts all that stuff Comes just

under two hour recording Because I also went

back to about six different episodes of the show

and I put in various clips from it. Like, I actually

put in the entirety of M .Y .R. Episode Zero,

which is basically just four and a half minutes

of us saying what the show was going to be about

back then in 2009. And oh my God, have we improved

over almost 10 years. Listening to some of that

audio is just groan inducing. Episode one was

you me and Steve snowball sailor from this week

in geek reviewing back to the future and Then

episode 18 .5 was me and Steve reviewing who

frame Roger rabbit in the who frame Roger rabbit

episode My audio sounds such like crap and Steve's

sounds so professional unlike What the hell was

I using in 2009? Because I'm pretty sure, I'm

pretty sure I was still using that fucking headset.

Because, sorry, because I don't think, I don't

remember getting my microphone and headphones

until 2010. And man, it's, it's crazy. The one

episode I put in that has Optimus Solo, I should

have picked a better one, but we both love the

movie Can't Hardly Wait, which is 20 years old

this year. That was back when Optimus Solo was

boss K -Dog, and he didn't have internet at the

time. So he felt like a call -in celebrity that

we actually had to, I had to call him on his

cell phone. And we all know back then. cell phone

podcast recordings were never that great. Well,

they're still not awesome. No, but it's better.

You can get Skype on your phone and it's OK.

It's whatever now. I mean, yeah, so. But just.

All day long, sitting through and editing through

and going through and putting whatever clips

I want in all. Damn, I forgot to put the self

-destruct thing at the end. Anyway, one of our

interviews from a couple years ago, I think it

was 2015, Joe Kramer, he was the composer on

Mission Impossible 5, Rogue Nation. I got him

to do some promos for us. One of them is, your

mission should you choose to accept it is to

listen to this podcast from the GeekCast Radio

Network. The other one is, this podcast from

the GeekCast Radio Network will self -destruct

in five seconds. So those are great bumpers for

beginning and ending of any of our shows, I think.

And I forgot to put it into MYR 200. I'm not

going back and editing that in now. I spent all

day working on this thing. But now that it's

out and now that the show is technically over,

I do still have three episodes that I want to

do with Optimus Solo. I've actually thought of

an episode that we can do later at some point.

uh... i get it but it's five yeah you still got

to do that uh... that's all you buddy that's

the good just because you know that kind of goes

with the theme of just doing it late but it would

never better late than never and you can actually

release it as a regular it was like you don't

have to back date back into where pirates for

was or whatever you can never get back to you

Anyways was like it comes out when it shows up

exactly like it could be episode 201 or 203 or

whatever it doesn't really matter but Going back

through all this stuff. I'm like damn. I kind

of want to start talking movies again. We're

not ending this show It just it just kind of

hit me cuz As I said, as of this recording, July

11th, this is the nine -year anniversary date

of MWIRE, and I published it, and I'm like, okay,

well, that's it, show's over. I'm like, damn,

I kinda wanna do more now. But I have no, oh

god, I don't have time, honestly. I really don't.

Yeah, that's the difference of life changing

on you. Right, but. Like yes, you're right. Absolutely

in not in nine years since we've since we started

that I've gotten married I've moved from Louisville

where I was living Louisville, Kentucky where

I was living for 25 years. I moved from there

to Chicago now in the Chicago suburbs Just some

of the things that were going on back then when

I was You're gonna have you're gonna end up having

an altered geek reactionary episode yourself

at some point because Sure, some of this stuff

is like, oh wow, that's that's what that happened

there Oh, wow, that's what oh wow. We were talking

about that. Like you were still at the dealership

and at the pizza place Well, yeah, I remember

I know you remember but I'm just saying I did

I mean I knew you were still there But like I

didn't remember us talking about it that much

on on M wire And just yeah, it's like almost

ten years of our lives to one podcast Okay, nine

years, but one podcast for nine years And all

the stuff we got to cover all the things we got

to talk about on the show Damn, it's The end

of an era. Yeah, that era. Well, I don't know.

I don't know. But yeah, like I kind of get it

too because like I had this goal to hit episode

300 by the anniversary date of the show. I don't

think I'm gonna hit that target. That's okay.

Just a lot of crap came up and so I've had like

two... Defer doing my Tuesday episodes lately

and I Just don't have the time. Yeah, I think

once once life gets back to normal in the fall

I think that I'll have a lot of it coming out

again, but I think that it's I mean I know that

I'll be well over 300 by the time the year ends.

Oh, yeah but Yeah, it's it's crazy when you think

about it Especially when you go back to 2013

Five years ago I Started the podcast version

in August hmm I Started the actual name six years

ago, but right as a video show and then I just

kind of foobarred it It'll eventually come back

as that I just I again like I Was planning I

was like so close to like getting a green screen

built Mm -hmm, or at least buying one that I

could mount to the back of my computer chair,

right? And then all this crap happened. So, yeah,

that was one of the things in the back burner.

The other thing is I'm not sure when the new

site is going to launch because, again, trying

to find income. So, I mean, I'm still dealing

with one particular issue on the new site. But

everything else is pretty much there. I'm also

working on a side venture of a website, the SCP

-21 studios, to where I can do freelance work

and people can order directly from the site.

That's a project I'm undertaking as well to try

and make a little income off of it. As far as

the podcast stuff, it's just... It's crazy the

amount of content we put out, even when we did

that anniversary episode on Geekcast Radio. Yep.

And looking at the transformation from the original

shows to now. Oh yeah. Some of the shows have

had their moments where they've had ups and downs.

This is one of them. This show, I mean. Not this

episode. Right, right. Although some could infer

that. But... It's kind of been this weird transformational

thing because like even going back and looking

at You know like the the old old days of this

show and just seeing how like the art changed

seeing how the The logo change because it was

altered key come plugged with like super different.

Yep font and Just the That and we were doing

like hour and a half episodes like every shot.

And now I'm like, hey, I'll do like a 30 minute

one here, 20 minute one here, like a 40 minute

one here, just depending on how long the topic

goes. Yeah. And even like the editing has changed,

everything from posting, it's changed. I got

notification today that finally Spotify has got

around to deciding to add more podcasts because

they have to manually vet all of the shows. It's

not like every other resource where you just

submit it and it goes in within a couple days.

So all of our library, at least the stuff that's

current, and that's the thing too, like the old

stuff won't be on like your iHeartRadio or Spotify

because they want shows that have at least five

episodes and have been released within the last

two weeks. Okay episode in the last two weeks

So if it's a show that hasn't had that then it

wouldn't be on there But I got like a massive

dump of emails today saying like all your shows

blah blah blah blah are gonna be on Spotify soon

Make sure you search it out, and I was like awesome.

That's awesome Yeah, I'll tell you one thing

about the back end I'm only doing I was only

doing this to make sure it worked on the site

but I've gone through the original first 20 or

so episodes of The Pull Bag from 2013 to get

the links working on the site to have the episodes

play. I had so many windows open it froze up

my computer. I did that with M -Wire trying to

get all the episodes re -uploaded onto Blog Talk

before I imported them to Spreaker. To Spreaker,

yeah. And there was like, I would say about 60

% of the shows didn't upload. And luckily I had

my external hard drive plugged in and I was like,

well, here we go. And I ended up, the funny thing

was, I did get it all working on Blog Talk fine.

The thing was, it didn't correct the issue on

the website. So what I did was, On Spreaker,

I imported from geekcastradio .com and pulled

the post in that way. And I re -uploaded all

the files to the server, to their exact location

that they would have been on the old site, and

re -imported them to Spreaker and it imported

all of the episodes and all of the actual MP3s.

And then I took the Spreaker and imported that

into the new site. So it's a lot of like... back

and forth and learning and so what you're telling

me is is I don't have to be doing all this stuff

anymore now well some of it for the old well

okay well again I was for the old shows like

if you I don't know if you did it on the old

site or the I did it on the old site I didn't

do it on the new one I'm strictly using the old

site until the new site launches okay well you

may run into an issue on the new site then but

great But I'm using the Spreaker download links,

like how we have the media verified and all that.

So, it's not like I'm using old linking for the

files, so I don't think I should have a problem

on the new site. Well, the new site's not...

When I imported, I've already imported all the

old content. Oh. So, like anything that's...

It's only going to take new stuff. Okay, this

has turned into a nightmare. So you're going

to have a lot of editing to do on the new site.

Unless I were to massively dump it and then re

-import from Spreaker selectively and then you

would lose every comment. The joys of running

a site. Yeah, not that I have a lot of comments

on my stuff anyway, but that's beside the point.

The main purpose of me going back and getting

all these correct links for Spreaker for the

current website was so that when I eventually

share like reshare a post like I'm in the middle

of Resharing because we're in the month of July.

Well hashtag Christmas in July So I'm resharing

on my on the tooncast all tunes all the time

page on Facebook The 25 days to cast beyond Christmas

we did two years ago well all of those episodes

are linked to the audio is linked to what the

server used to have so I went into Spreaker and

I grabbed each link and I put it in all 25 posts

for for the the current site so that way when

people click on it on Facebook they can actually

listen to the damn thing on the website see folks

Podcasting is hard. You can't just pick up a

microphone, record yourself, edit yourself, and

put it online. You've been doing this for 10

years at this point or more. 11. OK. I'm at 9

and 1 half or whatever. No. I'm at 10 years.

It's 9 for the network. But as of this December,

I will be 10 years of doing this. And it's a

lot of work. And it's not just because I do multiple

shows. or in this case sometimes 20 shows at

a time or whatever but it's a lot of hard work

folks and we do this for quote -unquote a hobby

quote -unquote for free well not really quote

-unquote for free we do do this for free because

we're not getting any money out of this uh not

yet anyway um but yeah uh 10 years i'm old boy

Yeah, you are old so yes, I am I'm getting there

You'll never get you'll never catch me My son

asked me today he's like How old are you and

then I says 32 and he says How old will you be

when you're 34? I says 34 And so he goes he goes

how will I be and I says you'll be 7 He goes

oh And like just like he had to stop and contemplate

it and then he's like, how old is my brother

gonna be and I'm like five and he says Will you

be old then and I says no He asked if our parents

were If cars were around when our parents were

around. Oh my god. I was like your funny kid

That's why I take great joy in opening up these

books that come up with the turn dial or the

corded telephones and the old school radios and

old school televisions with the flip knob because

I had one of those growing up. Oh yeah, me too.

The only way you could get any channel over 12

was you had to have a VCR hooked up and it was

funny. Have fun doing that to my kid like showing

him old technology and then he's like, what's

this? What's this? What does this do? Mm -hmm.

And then like I get to explain it like cassette

decks Kid had no clue what they were He's he's

like he he knows CD Yeah, he doesn't really know

if he knows DVD. He doesn't really know blu -ray

or um mp3 or flash drive or any of that but he

like he has the cd and dvd thing down and uh

like he's now he's like wanting to experiment

with our like our cameras he's like i want to

take the picture he's like i can do it and then

we're like okay so he tried taking a picture

of my wife and i earlier and he got the picture

of the floor and we were like good job like just

you know He's like I took a picture and we're

like, yeah good job, buddy Mm -hmm need to aim

a little higher, but you know, oh, yeah But yes,

it's it's funny how technology changes Yeah,

it is but yeah, like as far as the podcast stuff's

concerned like I I've gotten to this point now

where I like to automate as much as possible.

Oh, yeah I like to look for topics that interest

me. I mean, I've always done that. It's just

I've kind of gone to the severe end of it where

I just, I really don't look up anything unless

I really want to talk about it. Like I'll bookmark

all kinds of crap and save it for later and then

I go looking through and I'm like, yeah, I really

don't feel like talking about that anymore. And

it happens more often than not, which is why

I just don't, I don't have a lot of conversation

on some of this stuff. I've been constantly honing

my podcasting skills because I know that this

is not where it should be yet, but I'm working

on it as far as how to make a really good podcast.

tried this sooner. The information is so much

out there now that it's easier to ... Yeah, it's

easier to access it. It's easier to learn from

it. It's not just a niche thing where it's like

... Like I've said before in our history, quote

unquote, I thought podcasts were just for celebrities.

I thought it was just a celebrity Hollywood thing.

I didn't realize it could just be ... two regular

idiots talking about something because you know

you see stuff like Smodcast or whatever Chris

Hardwick and yada yada yada and like oh Okay,

well, it's a celebrity thing. That's your first

impression, and then you realize you know you

go find certain ones or find ones that are Interesting

to you to listen to and you realize hey these

are just two guys in a basement or two guys over

Skype or whatever So it kind of takes it to that

natural point of what are some shows that you

would like to kind of or concepts or subject

matter that you'd like to tackle or that you've

enjoyed listening to but haven't tackled yet

or just that you enjoy as a listener more than

wanting to podcast about it? See, that's funny.

I want to podcast about it more than I want to

listen to people about it. Like I, I specifically

said, um, I don't think I can, I don't think

I can reveal this on air, but the wrestling stuff

that GCR and has planned later this year has

the network's going to get a hell of a lot more

legitimacy with what's coming with our top 100

wrestler countdown because of stuff that I have

not been able to tell you yet. Um, but, um, I

don't. Listen to stuff. I'm producing stuff.

I'm watching stuff. I'm reading comics like right

now in the past three weeks, I've recorded 311

through 315 of the pull bag to have them out

and done by this month because next month is

autobotly august 317 to 323 and that's a crossover

with all things transformers with the pull bag

because it's transformers comics but like I would

rather talk about it than hear others' opinions

about it. I know that's bad. I often feel really

bad when I say, hey, go listen to my podcast.

But whomever I say that to, I don't listen to

a damn thing they do. Take our good buddy, DJ

Valentine, from Simplistic Reviews. I think I've

listened to a total of seven things that they've

done on their show. I've listened to a few, and

I think I've listened to about as many, but it's

not that I didn't want to. Right, it's the time

issue. Yep, exactly. And for me, and this may

have been when I started kind of struggling with

some of my podcasting and kind of just flying

off seat of my pants, because I know that I'm

not. always putting out the best quality product,

but I'm just doing it because I enjoy to do it.

And that's about it. But about, I want to say

about four years ago, before I got the management

position at the car lot, when I was physically

washing cars and doing all the runs with the

vehicles, I had an MP3 player in my ear 24 seven,

like at work, like on my way to work, like everything.

And I had so many podcasts backlogged on there.

Like I listened to a lot of your shows. I listened

to a lot of our syndicated shows that we had

at the time. I listened to a lot of other shows

that I enjoyed in general, like, you know, uh,

twit .tv related technology, uh, podcasts and,

uh, or just various interviews like Rob Paulson

stuff and everything else. So I, when I transitioned

to that management role, I couldn't have it in

my ear anymore. Because I actually had to talk

to people and it was kind of rude to have it

You know being a manager of something and you're

sitting here ignoring everyone So I didn't listen

to podcasts anymore at work and I really didn't

have time at home and then When I started working

at the media company, I worked at previously

I had to listen to their content all day And

by the end of the day, I didn't want to listen

to anybody's crap. It was not calling people's

shows crap, I'm just saying I just didn't want

to listen to anything. And if I did, I wanted

to watch a television show and have it on my

other screen and then kind of dual task and have

stuff going on on the main screen. Even when

I play games, I do it that way. I'll watch something

on one screen and then the other screen, I have

my game. It's not often I do that anymore, but

and I've been trying to listen to some podcasts

like recently the most recent stuff I've listened

to is some of the stuff that DJs put together

where I've been a featured voice for example

Here or there in those and then I'll listen to

most of those episodes and then I'm trying to

listen to a couple of various shows that have

interest me on the GCR and that I just hadn't

gotten to And then I've listened to the geek

responsibly show like all the episodes up to

this point except for like I think episode six

or seven so like it's It's been one of those

like I'm trying to get my feet back in there

and plus with being unemployed like I Don't have

time for it only because I'm busy around the

house busy applying busy like we're doing errands

We're doing like this and that and so I know

when I end up getting a new job And I say when

because I know that it's going to be a position

I'm gonna have to drive to and I know that it's

not gonna be close to home I know that it's gonna

be within in like an hour of a drive of where

I live So I will have plenty of time to listen

to podcasts once again on my drive time So, you

know it about ten episodes a week if you consider

the hour one way an hour the other way, right?

five days a week. So yeah, I mean, it's I'm kind

of looking forward to doing that again to some

extent, but not the drive itself. I wish I had

more time to sit there and mess with it. But

but yeah, like I tried doing a technology show.

It kind of fizzled out because I just I didn't

have enough meat there to really do it the way

I wanted to do it. And so I kind of just was

like, I believe that in the backward for a while.

See, that's the thing like If I don't have initial,

this is a thing I mentioned in MWIRE 200. Within

the first month of us planning that podcast,

I had that podcast, whether we got to it or not,

I had it scheduled out until 2019 or 2020. Like,

if it's something that I can sit down and spend

four and a half, five and a half, six and a half

hours crafting the next five, okay. Another perfect

example is Podcaster Meets World, which I still

need to edit episode three and we need to record

other episodes of that, but that's beside the

point. When we had that idea to do that as a

separate podcast because it only got to number

50 on the top 100 television shows countdown

here at JCRN. I spent four and a half hours planning

out what I thought at the time was going to be

the next five and a half years of our lives if

we had done it the way I initially wanted to

do it, which was episode by episode. And I know

your attention span is not going to last five

and a half years. So I whittled it down to we

do season by season, we break up the Boy Meets

World seasons into two parts, and we're gonna

have a 20 -episode limited series run on that

show. But basically, when I originally planned

that, I was super interested, I was super excited

for us to do it. I had the DVD set at the time

and everything else. DVD set's somewhere in some

box in the basement or something at this point,

I don't know. and all of that, you know, that

is something that I would want to do. If it's

something where I'm putting in the advanced prep

time in order to get it done, however long it

takes to get it done, then that is something

that I would put my time into. Can't just go

like I can come on here and we can you know,

you know five ten minutes before you can say,

okay We're gonna talk about this this and this

and this and this I'm like, okay sure fine I

can do that because this is a weekly topical

show kind of slash news show kind of a thing

but like for an actual podcast idea for a show

I can't just do Half -assed willy -nilly kind

of stuff and I think that that's kind of a strength

of yours Whereas like some of the rest of us

kind of are like, I'm bored And I'm guilty of

it from time to time and I know that it comes

across that way from time to time What I would

really like is is listener feedback letting me

know what they want Exactly. We ask all the time

and they never do anything. They don't do their

job we're giving them free content and we're

giving them interesting conversation and all

of this and all of that and i understand people

are busy and yada yada yada but like you just

said with your drive time before you got your

you know your work at home gig it's like um i'm

listening to all this stuff and i will you know

comment on it if i have something to say kind

of a thing and i understand if no one has something

to say but still if you've been listening to

a show for x number of whatever You should be

able to, and you should want to interact with

the show. It's so funny. We have a Pogs super

fan. She has listened to every episode of Pogs

at this point almost twice through. I haven't

listened to any, I'm sorry. I know, it's fine.

I don't care. It's not the point. The point is,

is that she, you know, she's like, oh, she sent

us an 11 minute voicemail over... over email

or whatever. And in the voicemail she says something

about she listens to the episodes, she goes back

and listens to our episodes multiple times and

yada yada yada. And it's amazing that somebody

would actually take the time to do that, to listen

to us talk about he -man of all things. But what's

so funny about it is, is that she says in there,

You guys are doing all this content. You're giving

us all this insight to these cartoons. The least

I could do is write an iTunes review or send

in a voicemail or whatever kind of a thing. Which

I enjoy. Going back, I was looking at some of

the early Altered Geek episodes. I'm not calling

anybody out. That's not what I'm trying to do

here in any means. I was looking at old episodes,

and this show used to get anywhere from 20 to

30 comments per episode, which gets a couple

here or there, whether it's Facebook or on the

website, primarily Facebook. Yeah, it's just

it's mind -boggling the difference, but I think

it's also the topic Yeah of the time that garners

it Because like even going back like episode

5 of alter geek geek snacks There's like 40 some

on comments on there So like it's it's it's interesting

to see I mean, granted, that wasn't just geek

snacks, it was stuff about, you know, the initial

news of Batflak. Because the first show started

with a suggestion from a listener of saying,

hey, did you know they're casting a new Batman?

And we were like, really? And it was like 15

minutes before the episode started, so we're

like, hey, we've got our topic. I've got a list

of different things that I'm doing as far as

topic ideas, but I'm also trying to do current

things that people are interested in that are

in the trending and in the news, because then

it actually means something, and it's kind of

current. Get more in in with the Episodes themselves

like get more involved get more listening interaction

get more In general like I'm just kind of Wanting

that that conversation that it seems like we're

lacking at certain times, right? But yeah, so

and then as far as shows that I really enjoy

Listening to geek responsibly, honestly brings

back memories of the early GCRN. Sweet, that's

awesome. Because it was like totally unfiltered,

calling BS on certain situations and you know,

kind of messing around with the scenarios of

stuff going on in geek news and geek culture

and it's kind of funny listening to it because

I'm like, they fit perfectly. Exactly because

we are exactly the same mentality on a lot of

it very fired up and It's it's great. So Yeah,

I mean I kind of missed some of those old like

fired up days but at the same time like I'm I'm

like I'm a different person now, so it doesn't

really Resonate the same way. I enjoyed listening

to it still but it doesn't Right. You know, it's

not like the early days of All Things Transformers.

Yeah. Bernie Mac died, so yeah, um, and then

moving on. Oh my, okay, so I know this isn't

All Things Transformers, but um, have you seen

the trailers to Bumblebee? Yeah, it's awesome.

And they used Bernie Mac in it. I'm like, oh

my god, it's been 10 years since he died, or

11 years since he died, or whatever. But the

funny thing is, the Bumblebee movie actually

looks good. Yeah. They don't have so much Robo

Kibble. Yes, they kept some of the holdovers

of Michael Bay, and it's a soft reboot in the

80s, and they have Starscream and Bumblebee in

it, but they actually resemble an actual G1 Transformer.

They don't look like Robo Kibble messes, and

that's what I think I like about it. Plus, it

looks like there's an actual story there, and

so it's that much more enticing to me. This is

a totally different topic. Obviously, yes. Well,

not even the Transformer aspect, but the fact

that fans throw torrential temper tantrums over

movies. I have my gripes, but there's a level

of gripe that's just... annoying and it kind

of boils down to the fact that people attack

these movies these directors these writers these

organizations because they have headcanon which

Mike Powers was so on point to mention yes when

something doesn't line up with the headcanon

then you just kind of lose it I was having fun

reading some stuff between Movie Revolt Dan and

DJ and some other people on social media today.

They ended up talking to this John Golson guy.

He's a writer for Movies .com, Fandango, etc.

But he started posting things about movies. Basically

calling the the criticisms of the movies like

just purposely in ingest Like Indiana Jones doesn't

do anything Like literally the movie goes on

without him and it happens the exact same way

It's just it was a big extra long expedition

for the guy to do absolutely nothing in the end

because they got what was coming to them and

and then he says like Star Wars sucks because

the Luke I know would have stopped everything

and killed Darth Vader immediately for what he

did to Obi -Wan and then he goes He goes a step

further and he's like Empire Strikes Back sucks

because it is out of character for Han Solo to

not throw as many Imperials directly into the

carbonite machine as he could And then he says

Return of the Jedi sucks because Palpatine could

have sensed Lando's assault and force choked

him to death before even getting close to the

second Death Star Mm -hmm, and so like it's just

I don't know it's it's it's funny to read stuff

like that. So like you know That's even with

the you know Star Wars stuff or like Incredibles

or any of these movies that people are Throwing

a hissy fit about I did see Ant -Man and the

Wasp which was actually pretty good I haven't

seen that yet, but we did go hilarious. I'm sure

it is I haven't even seen the first Ant -Man

yet I need to catch it on Netflix. That's the

thing like you know Paul Rudd is like the selling

point for that because you have Michael Douglas

yeah just being his kind of Michael Douglas self

yeah and and then you get Paul Rudd being Paul

Rudd and like he's he's just throwing in the

comedy and so it's just very entertaining to

watch absolutely Karen and I did go see Incredibles

2 in the theater and that movie oh my god like

What 14 year wait like seriously it felt like

It felt like it was 2006 or something like it

felt like 14 years has not passed since the first

film came out I Just absolutely loved the story

that they told I that movie is like breaking

so many records like it's They didn't do the

superhero landing Okay. Well, it was something

that the guy that was the head of Pixar didn't

want to do. He's like, we will not do the superhero

landing. Yeah. But no, that movie was pretty

good. I was kind of surprised on some of the

direction it took, but at the same time, I saw

the villain coming from a mile away, which could

just be the fact that I'm older and it's not...

It's difficult to detect. I mean, I even watched

Reboot the Guardian Code. Oh, God, here we go.

More Reboot stuff. Tim, turn the show off! Um,

but, no, I'm not going into spoilers. I know,

I know, I know. But I saw the villain and the

revelation of the villain coming a mile away.

Like, from the very beginning. If it's not Megabyte,

screw it. Well, Megabyte's in it. Megabyte's

in it, but it's not the real Megabyte, because

Tony's dead. Well, funny enough, the only two

characters that are true to form... the show

like writing wise is hexadecimal and megabyte

and the actor that replaced Tony J does actually

a pretty passable job and the the writing and

the persona of both of those characters are About

the only saving grace of the show But the sorcerer

I saw his revelation in his backstory a mile

away from like the very beginning the very first

episode really so and really after that I saw

a lot of it coming and it kind of it comes to

full circle by the end of the series even though

they left it open for a season like another season

I don't know if it's going to go that direction

but like I said it's I find that a lot of these

these writing points have gotten to be too predictable

Whereas like I think that's why the last Jedi

was such a huge colossal like slap in the face

as far as like Star Wars fans are concerned Because

watching that if you didn't catch the the moment

of Luke tossing the lightsaber As like basically

like everything you know about this is wrong

like you know your your version of Canon You

know we're throwing this out the back window

like Luke did the lightsaber at the very beginning.

It's That's pretty much how the rest of the film

was so like everything you thought was gonna

happen didn't and so It was totally unpredictable

and that was what made that that episode that

all the more controversial is because You couldn't

guess in it There was no way to really know what

was going on at any given point until it revealed

itself and I think that Say what you will about

the story whether you liked it or hated it And

I did find certain parts of the plot but you

know questionable, but The the fact that his

writing was so on point that you couldn't figure

out the story Right means that He propelled it

to somewhere else that it would not have gone

otherwise. Otherwise, it would have just been

basically a retread of something else. So like

that's and I think that's kind of the weakness

of a lot of modern shows is that they there's

really no new ground to cover. So they just rehash

and it's and they make it like the most simplistic

cliched. villains or revelations in the story

that otherwise would have been better if they'd

done a different direction. Very true. I don't

know. We always say, and we've said this for

years, stop rebooting, stop doing this, stop

doing that. I, like I said on the last Altergeek

I was on, and like I said wherever else it was

that I said this, I enjoyed The Last Jedi. Like,

I was underwhelmed with The Force Awakens. The

Force Awakens is a good Star Wars movie, but

it's not the best Star Wars movie. Last Jedi

was, because of events of real life, it was obviously

Leia's last film or whatever, and... Thought

they wrapped up Whatever story that they're telling

with the older cast fine. I thought that the

movie was interesting I saw a story recently

the I think the other day Billy Dee is coming

back for episode 9. Yep, so Yep, and then they've

got Joaquin Phoenix playing the Joker and the

origin movie which I think's actually If it's

a choice between Leto and Phoenix, I think Phoenix

will be a better Joker. Oh, yeah Because he's

kind of halfway to crazy anyway, so I mean not

that Leto isn't but Leto's is so far in the Garbage

can for me that I just I can't see past The the

ways they made his character. It just it strikes

me bad like I'm more in favor of the Joaquin

Phoenix version at this point. There you go.

So. And who knows? I mean, I haven't even seen

Justice League yet. I have zero interest to see

it right now. I'm waiting for the Snyder cut

because apparently there's one in the works and

Snyder's planning on doing it himself despite

Warner Brothers. Yeah, who knows? He's been revealing.

footage and images from the origin from his cut

for some time now and he's funding it himself

so I think that that's actually gonna be kind

of funny when that does come out because I think

I think it'll be just like that Superman 2 the

two different versions yeah yeah the Donner cut

yeah and so I think you're gonna have you know

the Warner Brothers and then you're gonna have

the Snyder cut And then the Snyder cut is going

to be the default one that everybody likes. Because

the other cut was terrible. See, the crazy thing

is, I'm one of those people that I actually prefer

the Lester cut of Superman 2. I don't like the

Donner cut of Superman 2. But anyway, that's

neither here nor there. Neither here nor there

on that, but in me saying that before I wasn't

a huge fan of Snyder, I wish that they would

have just... let him do what he wanted to do

and just left him alone because the film having

Joss Whedon come in was a total failure. But

it's Warner Brothers and it's DC Comics and especially

with DC they have to you know micromanage everything.

Well we'll see how that works out for them with

AT &T owning the business now. Yeah that's true.

AT &T is going to totally change HBO as well.

Oh wow yeah that's true. Alright, so maybe final

topic for this week. I've been trying my best

to start being more healthy I'm not switching

to tofu or any of that kind of stuff But I'm

slowly changing my eating habits since Karen

and I bought the house that we currently live

in I'm doing more outside work and things like

that and whatever else I'm not like cutting the

grass or anything, but I'm outside more than

I was 11 months ago With this is I'm not totally

cutting soda out of my diet, but I'm cutting

back Extremely and I'm drinking more of various

other things and we found this stuff in one of

the grocery stores here It's called by BAI People

have probably seen this recently on TV because

Justin Timberlake does the commercials for them

It's crazy, but it's basically water mixed with

juice. It's some sort of anti -oxidant infusion

kind of thing. The best way I can explain it,

think of V8 but it actually tastes good instead

of tasting like vegetables. It tastes fruity.

They've got a variety of things. They've got

things that are basically like carbonated pop.

Right. So they've got like the... Except this

is just the juice. This is the regular buy. I

don't do any of that carbonated stuff. I do carbonated.

I like carbonated. I mean, I'll drink juice,

too, but... Not with juice. I can't. Like, I've

tried... It reminds me of Fago. Oh, God. I used

to drink Fago. It's a Michigan drink. Primarily.

But they have, you know, a number of sparkling

antioxidant infusions. And then they have super

teas, and then they have... cocoa fusions that

they call it or coconut fusion drinks. And then

the anti -accident water. So I've been drinking

mainly the Maui Mango. Tastes really good. I

like it. I've tried the pomegranate one. I'm

drinking not as much water as I should, but I'm

drinking more water. I'm basically drinking more

juices, water, and obviously milk and that kind

of stuff now. I'm slowly changing my diet, eating

more fruits and that kind of thing. Yay, trying

to get healthy. The rest of my household is vegan.

I am not. I know you're not I mean I am when

it comes to the things that are made in the house

if it's something that's brought in from the

outside like chicken I won't eat the crap out

of that chicken but I mean I've grown to like

or enjoy some of the foods like some of the foods

I'm still like barf but and Mary knows it but

we still do eat real food like and I say real

food meaning like just regular stuff that everybody

else on occasion it's just that we have to limit

the amount because it's all bad for you like

everything's bad for you unless you like go the

extra route and make it yourself like there's

so much crap in everything like especially like

high fructose corn syrup which is my best friend

when I drink Coca -Cola That's like my one thing

that I just can't give up at the moment. Even

though I probably should. It's probably turning

my insides into jello. Or like a raisin. But

yeah, I mean, we eat so much healthy food. Like

our idea of like sweets or like we get, you know,

grapes, watermelon. Apples like all that kind

of stuff, which is we just bought a watermelon

the other day and we just cut it open this morning

and actually I had like there ain't nothing better

than a fresh watermelon or like Well, like the

same day we bought that we I also bought some

cantaloupe chunks and Don't ever buy fruit chunks

folks. Like just don't it's not worth it. It's

just no but just buy the whole fruit Exactly.

Chop it yourself. Exactly. Chop, chop, chop it

up. But yeah, like Mary bought the other day

like four watermelons. Oh my God. They were on

sale. They were like $1 .99, which around here,

normally they're like seven bucks. Right. And

we get some really good ones from like our Meyer

store that's local here. And so like we went

through four watermelons as a family within like,

I think it was five days six days because like

we we eat the crap out of like fruit right but

yes I mean like the the whole thing with with

eating healthier is definitely something we've

been trying to do over the last year especially

with the boys having all the allergies yeah and

for me it's just it's more of a mindset thing

like For me, it's more mindset and it's also

more portion control like that's because at 300

and something pounds a Little you know seven

grapes aren't gonna fill me up You know kind

of a thing. So that's my other issue. But again,

I'm moving more I'm doing more I'm physically

exerting my like Every single day at this point

unless I'm absolutely Sick or something which

I very rarely get sick. I'm not outside You know

I am if I'm not outside at least once a day.

There's something wrong with me You know kind

of a thing and I think I've lost like five pounds

in the Almost three and a half months. We've

been here in this house Thank you, but that that

to me is like I'm not expecting to shave a hundred

pounds in three months, but like Ten pounds maybe

fifteen pounds, maybe twenty pounds like with

all the stuff that I have been doing It's like

give me a break already Yeah, anyway I get it

Like I know I understand it's a it's basically

a tortoise thing. It's a it's a slow and steady

race It's it's not gonna you know, but the other

thing is I'm not just getting outside We've been

going to LA Fitness and using the pool and swell

like me and swimming. I that's the exercise I

can do All the time like I can actually do a

whole bunch of crazy stuff underwater as long

as I'm wearing an actual mask And whatever so

we've been doing that we've been going to the

local Aquatic Center So I'm getting more than

just being outside walking around or like you

know like jogging or something so At the same

time. It's like yeah, I'm just now changing my

eating habits It's taken me three and a half

months to finally get a word or whatever, but

it's like Hurry up already No, I'll be happy

if I can get down to at least 200 or 250 I Keep

thinking of just going through and just doing

liposuction, but that'll never work That too

so now that we've run the show into the ground

Yeah, so I think that about calls it a night.

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