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there so how are you guys doing how is the geekdom

doing like what is what is the heartbeat of geekdom

today like i feel like there's a lot going on

between Not having a lot of media, not having

a lot of movies, having some revitalization,

some continuations. I mean, this year was a lot

of. Sequel films from things back in the, you

know, 80s and some, you know, some newer ones

like Deadpool and and whatnot. But. What what

are some things that you're geeking out to today?

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So yeah, I've been busy. I've taken a vacation.

I've been doing some digging trying to figure

out what direction I want to go next. doing a

home renovation on my kitchen, which is a bigger

task than I would have imagined. We opted not

to pay a company to come in and replace cabinets

and rip out tile. We're going to pay a company

to put new tile in a new countertops. However,

my wife and I are doing on the labor and yeah,

so it's. It's going to be a long drawn out process.

Part of my office is taken up right now, which

I'm sure adds to the the soundproofing. But yeah,

it's it's been a crazy couple of months. We've

launched the new website. We've got. You know,

a lot of a lot of changes going on in Geekcast

Radio. No ads. That's that's definitely a plus.

I've been looking forward to that for quite some

time. Same thing with Mike. uh but yeah it's

it's been crazy like i'm i'm playing around with

some different like ai software trying to kind

of learn it because i work in marketing so it's

it's beneficial but it's also scary a lot of

the tools that they have nowadays on the internet

uh so i'm trying to learn the technology, but

to use it responsibly, which often is difficult.

For instance, I've got a couple of. AI songs

that I've been playing around with, I've been

using an AI generator for music, mostly because

I've been noticing this guy that and I can't

remember his channel name right now, but he.

Has AI generate kind of goofy songs and then

he plays the drums with it and kind of laughs

in the videos and I've seen those those reels

on Facebook and so it's been fun for me to watch

But it got me thinking What if I use that for

like a podcast theme well this particular software

doesn't do so hot with creating a theme Mean

you can do it without vocals, but it's still

it writes lyrics. It's got kind of a Two minute

to four minute format that it kind of uses so

it's not ideal for a podcast intro Just because

of length I'll probably throw it somewhere later

down the line of this episode just to kind of

show one of the things that One or two of the

clips that I was kind of playing around with

and whether you guys think I could chop it up

and use it for a theme for the podcast to kind

of change things up and kind of move away from

using the canned one that's been on here for

ages I Feel like I could but I don't know. I

know some people like AI is very touchy and I

would never like Replace actors with them. I

would never relate. I feel like it's crap that

we even have to worry about that like I I aspire

to be a voice actor and AI terrifies me because

somebody could basically load in all 15 years

of Our podcasts and train it And then they'll

have my cadences. They'll have my vocals. They'll

have, you know, they can steal my voice, say

whatever they want. So, I mean, it's very freaky.

Like I I wouldn't want it to replicate voice

actors. I wouldn't want it to replicate. Like

I'm I'm happy if it just sounds like some kind

of a realistic sounding dude, but not a real

dude, if that makes any sense. I don't know.

Like it's. Even some of the stuff they use to

track people for marketing. It freaks me out

with AI and so like I'm I'm kind of Interested

to see what goes down with this industry. I mean

There was already a report that chat GPT is doing

this on its own Like using people's real voices

that are plugged into it and I can imagine it's

because people are feeding it information and

going Hey, I need you to replicate this voice

and make it say what I want for my podcast or

my video rather than, you know, paying someone

to do it. I don't know. I. Same token, I like

the AI because it's a helper tool. For instance,

I had it take like I dumped our podcast themes

or review that reviews descriptions. Into AI

and I said rewrite this to be more concise and

clear because a lot of what we had for the descriptions

were written when the show was created and A

lot of it wasn't really relevant or didn't sound

all that interesting. It was like Steven Mike

discuss X Y & Z and We have fun. Yeah, like it

was basically that and I felt like it was kind

of boring, especially with the sea of podcasts

that we're dealing with now. It's you got to

stand out. You got to be professional. You got

to be clean. You got to be. And when I say clean,

I mean, like the audio has to be clear. It can't

be garbage. I know I have a verbal tick that

I'm still working on. I haven't recorded a solo

episode in so long that the arms kind of come

out, but I'll be working on that. I'm not going

to edit it out just for the sake of of getting

an episode published and uh just because it's

kind of I don't know I I like being authentic

everybody has a verbal tic everybody has an issue

so it's I'm gonna leave it I'm just going to

work on my vocabulary So I I had the the awesome

honor of being interviewed for geek cast radio

Roughly When is this episode coming out coming

out on Friday? So I had it two days ago and It

was kind of cool. I got a Press release I sent

out, you know geek cast radio been around 15

years. I taught a podcasting class at a local

boys and girls club that was actually hooked

up through my job. And they asked me and they're

like, would you want to do this? And I'm like,

well, yeah, that's awesome. I'd love to be able

to, you know, teach the next generation of kids

something about podcasting. And they were like,

great. Let's do it. And they're a group of 10

year olds. And so I had written this elaborate

PowerPoint and I had to kind of lower the vocabulary

vocabulary level so that it was a little bit

more digestible for their age group. And I was

just thinking about my own boys because one's

nine, one's eleven. You know, what would they

be able to digest and take in? So I rewrote it

and then I presented it funny enough the kids

asked a lot of good questions and There was a

lot going on in the In the presentation and then

when I finally got to the interviews that I've

done They started asking me about you know, have

you interviewed Taylor Swift? Have you interviewed

so -and -so from I can't ever remember some of

the cartoons and some of the movies that they

were talking about because there are ones that

Don't resonate with me like they're not ones

that. Are a part of my pop culture mythos like

they're not they're not my. Interest so I haven't

interviewed them but I I did tell them I was

like you know but if you if you podcast like

you may get those kind of opportunities yeah

it's you know a Taylor Swift or like a you know

like a Hugh Jackman or a Mark Hamill might be

a little bit more difficult to obtain. Than your

typical voice actor or more certain type of musician,

but you never know and That's kind of what I

told them and when I told them, you know, I interviewed

David Kay and I I can do his voice of Megatron

and I can you know I'd like to interview Mark

Hamill and I can do the Joker and I started belting

out voices then the kids lost it like they went

nuts and They they were like, can you do this

voice? Can you do this voice? And like some of

them I'd never heard before. Some of them had

been so long like they're like, can you do Dobby

from Harry Potter? And I'm like, I don't even

know what he sounds like to copy it. But the

the kids were just enthusiastic and excited and

it was it was fun. It was I never would have

thought about teaching what I know. And in kind

of passing on that information. So those those

kids got to interview me and my boss at the end

in a podcast in some of what I brought up. They

I mean, because they already had questions written

one at one of the kids asked a bunch of animal

questions, which were. Repetitive and off topic

pretty consistently, but but we gave them that

feedback. We were kind of like, you know, that's

that's kind of move on. That's you know, you've

asked this question. You know, how could you

rephrase it and ask it in a different way and

get a different answer? There was another kid

that asked really profound questions about like

our background and things like that. And it was

I was like, man, these kids are 10 and they're

they're doing all of this. It was great. So.

Yeah, I I had fun with that. And then, of course,

I've I've replaced one of my computer monitors.

My kids destroyed one years ago. That I gave

on my old computer and it was an old flat screen

Sony square monitor and it so it it looked weird

it had a had some damage on it because my kid

dropped it and So I gave him a smaller Dell monitor

that I'd gotten like a 21 inch or something widescreen

Flat panel and I bought a 32 inch Acer which

I'm not in love with Acer as far as the the screen,

but I wish I would have gotten an ASUS because

I have an ASUS monitor for 27 inch. I have a

Dell for 24 inch and I have a 32 inch Acer. And

so there's no uniformity between screens with

brightness and things like that. But I do love

having the three displays and having them big

so I can see. So like when I'm editing, I use

my 32 inch when I'm working from home. I use

my 32 inch because I can see. The editing I have

to do like I put together my first commercial

for my job and that was awesome Didn't didn't

think I could do it And then I went on vacation

and I came back and I was refreshed and I'm like,

oh, yeah I remember how to do this from my my

college courses and It it was just Kind of enlightening

to remember how to do some of those things So

I've done that I've cleaned up my office I've

kind of renovated certain things and I'm prepping

for a couple of interviews trying to Get for

the podcasts one of them is Michael Hirsch who

I'm reading a book that he wrote called animation

nation how we built a cartoon empire. I'm reading

that book currently also I've Seen Deadpool versus

Wolverine great movie a lot of gore a lot of

swearing which It comes with the territory I

I'm not a huge fan on any film that has a lot

of that gratuitously however the humor factor

in the fun factor of the movie is what I Am am

deeply happy about so those those far outweigh

those two gripes with me. I loved the story.

I loved that it just was fun and that they brought

Wolverine into the mix of things and I'll be

doing a full on review with TFG One Mic at some

point in Studio 2009 for the trilogy and Yeah,

I'm looking forward to December when the figures

for the movie come out because I have my own

quasi adventures on my shelf and my my geek cabinet.

And I'll have to do it like a breakdown of it

at some point on video just because it's. I got

a lot of fandoms in there. I got Power Rangers.

I got Dragon Ball Z. I've got Lego. I've got

Hot Wheels. I've got Batman the animated series.

I've got Beast Wars. I've got G2 Transformers.

I've got G1 Transformers. I've got 3D printing.

I got Star Trek. Various levels of it. G .I.

Joe. Marvel. So there's there's a ton of stuff

in this cabinet and. I'm super. Geeky about certain

things, you know of each one of those franchises

and the memorabilia that comes with it But yeah,

I recently Put together my Avengers like a black

widow. I have iron man. I have Toby McGuire spider

-man. I have ant -man I have Batman the animated

series Basically new adventures Batman from the

DC collectibles. I'm waiting on Wolverine, the

Hugh Jackman costumed yellow suit that comes

out in December for Marvel Legends to add to

that. I've got a Captain America coming at some

point. But yeah, I've. I've been busy, I've been

I've been keeping busy with a lot of stuff, made

a couple of custom figures. Yeah, it's it's been

crazy. I've. been meaning to get back to my 3d

printing i've been meaning to to kind of break

down some of that so yeah just more or less this

is a giant life dump of of stuff and i've seen

a couple of interesting things online uh first

of all paramount in sky dance merging uh paramount

television studios has shut down so we still

have cbs tv studios which I'm not sure what the

breakdown is of these things, but there's. Yeah,

it's a weird time in media. It really is. I saw

a fun post by Guinness Book of World Records

about a guy with his video game collection set.

He sets a world record connecting four hundred

and forty four consoles to a single TV, which

I didn't know that that would be humanly possible.

Like I didn't even know there were that many.

variations, but it's it's it's kind of cool with

that. There's a bunch of new movies coming out

that sound interesting. Tron Aries, for one,

is one that I'm looking forward to. I just wish

that they were connecting some of the dots from

Legacy, but I'm happy to get a third one. It's

just funny. It's taken them like 40 years to

do it. We're getting an Incredibles three, which

I'm not sure if we really need. We're getting

a Mandalorian and Grogu film. We're getting a

Toy Story five. I don't know, man, I just. I

feel like we're out of ideas. I really do. Where

there's a lot of continuation franchises anymore,

so. It's it's getting more difficult. To really

care about some of the pop culture coming out.

The the the main one I'm kind of interested in

it is like I said like the Wolverine figure because

I've We've got Hugh Jackman playing the character

the longest I I have my own theories about the

Justice or the Avengers doomsday film In secret

wars of who they're gonna bring in I I has theories

but time will tell on that as well I haven't

seen that new Batman the the caped crusader or

whatever the the show is that's on Amazon Prime

done by perused him. That's kind of a new iteration

of Like btas I know I know he has like similar

Styles and designs and it's supposed to be like

year one Batman like his first couple weeks or

something on the job So I'm interested to see

what they do with it. I don't like some of the

creative choices, but I didn't write it. I don't

really care. And ultimately, I still have my

my favorite, which is BTAS. So it doesn't matter.

Yeah, there's like I said, just tons of tons

of different stuff going on in geek culture.

A lot of. speculation on things a lot of changes

a lot of Stuff like that getting new Power Ranger

toys next year from playmates. We're getting

You know new Star Trek series we're getting I

mean there's a bunch of stuff that came out with

comic -con Looking forward to this new Transformers

film that's coming out, which I wish I could

see early, but I'll be one of the guys watching

it later. I'll be fine I did see an interesting

theory about Dr. Doom, about the new Marvel theory,

which I kind of coined something similar. They

said a new Marvel theory proposes the idea that

a non Robert Downey Jr. Dr. Doom will escape

the Fantastic Four universe with his consciousness

traveling the multiverse. before ultimately landing

on Tony Stark's dead body. In the comics, Doom

once transferred his brain into a dead Wolverine.

And so they're speculating that he could have

gone into Tony Stark. I had a different theory

on the Twitters and mine more so when I caught

that news, my speculation was. pretty much that

Robert Downey Jr. will be either the infamous

Iron Man variant and still be Tony Stark, but

be one from another universe or version resurrected

from endgame with the scarring, which kind of

plays into that. And I had this theory at the

end of Jan, July. I said there will be some tomfoolery

afoot and he'll get revived either by his nanite

suit Injections or another method to fight the

Avengers both past and present in the mutants

Lineup will be probably Deadpool Wolverine Jackman

spider -man Toby or Andrew Thor Hulk Captain

America is probably both Hawkeye strange Electra

etc and in Hawkeye, but yeah, I I'm typically

right when I guess stuff, but I'm unsure where

we're going. But yeah, so I'm going to end this

episode. I don't have a whole lot of updates

here to go on. I do have a plethora of ideas

that I want to kind of pull the strings for,

but this is kind of like an update episode to

kind of let people know, hey, This the show's

not dead. It's there are plans to kind of revitalize

it. Do you guys want the general feedback brought

back into the show, like the Q &A stuff, the

listener comments and questions brought into

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We're still growing. We're still kind of going

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