Remembering Alex Trebek and Sean Connery

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So we return. Yes, we took a week off. And yeah,

didn't really have much to talk about last week.

So it was just kind of better that we just kind

of skipped it. And so this week we have some

fun and we have some not so fun. Um, and, uh,

yeah, the, the not so fun, uh, is we lost, uh,

our celebrity Jeopardy people this week. Well,

yes. Yeah, technically you're right. You're not

wrong. Um, Sean Connery, who was Celebrity Jeopardy

on various things and obviously the host of Jeopardy,

Alex Trebek, have both passed away. I actually

wrote up an article on Alex on the website at

keepcastredeo .com. You guys can head over there

to check it out. What I remember about watching

Jeopardy as a kid is my mom and I would always

watch it. It would help me like whatever clues

even though I may not have gotten the right answer.

I was still learning from watching the show from

learning what the right answer is and You know

it would help me in school, so I would watch

Jeopardy every night I used to watch Jeopardy

and Wheel of Fortune with my grandmother all

the time It's so funny out. It's not funny, but

it's ironic four months ago Alex released his

memoir, and I grabbed the audiobook and I listened

to it And I'm like oh man everybody needs to

hear this it's so He narrates it, but also it's

mainly Ken Jennings that narrates it, but Alex

comes in on certain parts Because you know he

he was getting older and obviously he everyone

knows he announced he had stage 4 pancreatic

cancer It's just really sad and I know I read

somewhere I don't remember what the source was

I remember reading somewhere that the Jeopardy

EPs have said that Alex's final show will be

on Christmas Day. They have not chosen a replacement

yet, so please, all you websites that are trying

to figure out who the replacement's going to

be, stop. Just let them come to whatever they're

gonna come to. Are there plenty of people I wish

would host it? Sure. Between Ken Jennings and

James Holzhauer and Austin Rogers, which are

three major Jeopardy contestants that I followed.

And there are plenty of other people out there

that could do it, but right now I think we need

to mourn the man's loss and not worry about how

the show is going to go on. Well, and it's not

like they can't do reruns for the time being.

True. They do that all the time. Like there's,

you know, Jeopardy goes on like summer break

and they'll show like old... Teacher tournaments

or tournament of champions or hell they might

rerun the greatest of all time tournament between

Ken Alex and Brad Ken James and Brad so there's

that you never know what they're gonna do Yeah,

I mean, it's not like they won't find the right

host for that I just hope that it's not they

don't make it stupid Because there are some shows

that they've changed and have gotten worse with

a newer rendition I told Karen I said you know

what I will watch one episode of whoever they

get for the new host and then I probably won't

watch anymore Jeopardy for me because it came

out in 84 when I was four years old but at least

it didn't I rephrased that so people oh my god

no it's oh yes I know Jeopardy was in the 60s

as well but the Alex Trebek version started in

1984 so ever since I was four years old up until

now throughout most of my life I've watched Jeopardy

every night whether whatever whomever I'm with

or whatever you know whatever whatever and there

have been times that I've dropped off on it where

I haven't watched lately in the last 10 -15 years

or so But I always knew I could go back to it

if I wanted to. And when I met Karen, she had

been watching her whole life as well, and she

still watches on a nightly basis kind of thing.

And we still watch it every now and then. I think

we currently have 26 episodes on our DVR that

we haven't watched yet. Only because we just

haven't watched them yet. I'm only bringing this

up because I think this is the coolest way to

have a Alex Trebek momento. Funco released two

Alex Trebek pops last year, or earlier this year

I think, and I have them both. One is of him

without his mustache and his older, like the

current style that he has. with a jeopardy clue

in his hand the other one is of the original

eighties with the dark gray or hair you know

black mustache with the with the mustache for

the different jeopardy color clues so absolutely

love that funco did that but yeah it's very very

sad that he is no longer with us same thing with

Sean Connery like everybody points to bond and

all that and everything else the first four movies

i think of when i think of Sean Connery Dragon

heart. Oh yeah, I forget he was the dragon. Yeah,

he was Drago. Dragon heart. God, now I'm blanking

on them. God, you'd think I would remember this

even though I just posted about it like a week

ago or so. He was in the League of Extraordinary

Gentlemen. Yep, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

He was in the, what was it like? Is it Finding

Forester or something? Yep, that's one of my

other favorites. Dragonheart, Finding Forester,

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. And what

was that fourth film? I don't remember off the

top of my head. Was he in what, The Fugitive

or something else? The Rock. He was in The Rock.

That's what it was. Yeah, he's in a lot of stuff.

It was so cool when he popped up as other things.

Oh, that's what it was. My four favorites were

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Finding Forrester,

Dragonheart, and First Night. First Night, for

those that don't remember it, was a 90s movie.

He played King Arthur, Richard Gere was Lancelot,

and Julia Ormond was Guinevere. Nice. Yeah, very

cool. Yes, yes But they will both be missed and

I'm actually I have I am For some odd reason

on my IMDB app they're like hey, why don't you

check out IMDB TV? It's free and I'm like, oh

really it's free Okay, and it was free with ads

obviously and that's fine because i don't really

care either way and they're like oh guess what

you can watch finding forester on our thing and

i'm like oh okay cool i'll watch finding forester

on your thing so i'll watch that eventually and

uh... yeah very very cool very sad to see uh...

Sean Connery and Alex Trebek go yeah it's it's

uh... Connery was one of my favorites uh... old

-time actors and Jeopardy actually was one of

the few trivia shows I didn't mind watching because

I like to see how dumb I am Not to say that I

don't questions right because like I was watching

kind of segueing a little bit into Something

I picked up the other day. I was on Hulu and

I noticed that they revived the weakest link

Mm -hmm, and I Really didn't watch it much when

it was on the original run right and I watched

like they had a Star Trek run of it one time

when it was all like Trek trivia and they had

actors from the show and I'll have to track that

one down sometime to watch it again But they

had the original host and you know where she's

like you are the weakest thing goodbye Like really

quickly and it was just like super played out

and stupid, but it was funny So like now like

they've had another BBC host they've had an American

host It kind of fizzled out with both Jane Lynch

is actually hosting it now and She's got the

comedic chops to kind of pull it off because

in between people getting booted out like she

does the introduction where everybody's like

I'm so and so and I'm this and blah blah blah

and She's like, yeah, I kind of dozed off there.

Nobody cares and then she moves on She moves

on, starts asking the questions and then ridicules

them when they don't get enough money banked

and then uses whatever their profession is to

make a joke about something to get them off the

stage. And it's really funny because there's

a guy that's like a singing waiter or something

and he tried to butt in and he's like, When he

got voted off, he's like, so I just got served

and she says, hey, I do the jokes here. But no,

I mean, it was it was funny. I watched a couple

of them because I knew about half the questions

that were asked. And then the other half, I'm

like, I have no clue. So it was it was really

good, actually, and I enjoyed it. But I like

watching those shows because then I remember

the answer when it comes up again. But. Yeah,

it was quite funny, actually. But yeah, I don't

know. It'll be a totally different landscape.

It's like the price is right losing Bob Barker.

Although I gotta say, Drew Carey does a really

good job at it. He does fit that aesthetic and

that style really well, especially since he had

the massive weight loss. And he kind of fits

that look now. Yep, that Bob Barker kind of it

had and so I don't know. I think he does really

well with with that show, too But there's not

a lot of shows that get revived with a new host

or continue with a new host that stick pretty

close to the original Yeah I forget which Show

it is. It's I don't think it's a revived show.

It's some new show, but Chris Hardwick hosts

it And Karen watches it every now and then and

I'm like, eh. I thought they canceled him a while

ago. They were supposed to, but... Yeah, evidently

didn't stick. Hollywood doesn't eat their own

for very long. So, yeah, I don't know. I quit

caring about the guy when Nerdist turned to be

kind of a crap factory. Yeah. You know it pumps

out crap, and you know yep. Oh, yeah Kind of

like IGN Here we go Not to say we don't put out

our own garbage too, but oh please there are

plenty of episodes recently within the last year

that I just I Suck what what's funny is a lot

of our content that gets published to YouTube

gets flagged. Oh No, what does it get flagged

for? Because you know YouTube has that stupid

new rule about oh if it's not child safe Oh,

yeah, that's why I don't post to YouTube. Well,

I do because it's additional, you know reviews

and and Posts and whatnot, but Yeah, I I Find

it interesting anyway Yeah, most modern things

get flagged pretty badly just because, oh, YouTube

has these laws. We're not allowed to do this

anymore. We're not allowed to do this. We're

not allowed to do this. Yeah, so. Yup, it's crazy.

I mean, I understand that they're trying to protect

children and whatever, but like... There are

just some things that aren't flagged, and it's

like, really? You're not gonna flag that? You're

not gonna this? You're not gonna that? I remember

when it was first announced about the whole thing,

and like, I went through my entire channel to

make sure everything was, you know, flagged not

for kids. Because, I mean, I don't do risque

YouTube content, and that's why I'm so glad about

how I'm not YouTube famous at all, and not that

I want to be famous at all, ever, but it's nice

to be noticed, and... Thank you to those who

do notice and do watch and do listen and whatever

else but Yeah, no I have I'm so like I see so

many stressful things with with with YouTube

And the stuff that people have to deal with because

of it. It's just crazy. Yeah, we Yeah, it's just

funny and Some of the things that happen So while

we're on the the crap train podcasting I just

came back. I'm supposed to shit. I'm supposed

to save it from the shit storm. Come on. It doesn't

work that way Yeah, like I'm the fucking great

one. Don't you get it? Yeah, nobody cares what

you think though Ain't that the dang truth? Got

that right So So yeah Wondery for those that

are Unaware Wondery CEO who built a podcasting

powerhouse vows to fight federal corruption charges

If you don't know who he is it's Hernan Lopez

And he's a former TV executive and He believed

Basically he his idea for for the startup was

as he heard like the true crime podcast serial

And kind of got involved and this is four years

after its launch wondering has grown into one

of the nation's largest podcast publishers drawing

a claim for producing compelling audio programs

based on real -life stories. Some of them have

even been developed into TV shows. What's funny

is the businesses at a crossroads is exploring

a possible sale during a period of rapid consolidation

in the podcast industry. If you've not been watching

the podcast industry, it seems like everything

is getting bought up. I hate when articles make

you pay to read them Silly. Yeah, so Spotify

is buying up crap left and right So that being

said it's not surprised that they're trying to

sell this But Lopez the CEO of the company is

also facing a legal battle that has clouded basically

the future Of that company because he's among

two former Fox TV executives charged with money

laundering and wire fraud Over over alleging

alleged bribes involving broadcasting rights

to the World Cup and other high -profile soccer

tournaments He has pleaded not guilty to the

charges filed in March, but Yeah He thinks that

he'll be fine if he ever goes before a jury but

Hard to say They said that they have not changed

his role and he's not stepping down It clouded

a lot of people's judgment when he was trying

to be a part of the The indie podcast Organization,

I forget what the name of it is that present

but He was trying to you know him and a bunch

of other radio people were trying to be seated

on the throne Which everybody was like no, no

not interested until he was not there So yeah

Between Spotify I hurt media and serious XM buying

podcast businesses to beef up their platforms

like for instance Spotify bought gimlet and a

multitude of other things and so I'm not a big

fan of the consolidation monkey Yeah, that's

not good and Especially one of them being The

I hurt media Yeah, I realized that it's no this

is the funny thing. They follow me on Twitter.

I Hurt radio. I hurt media whatever they follow

me on Twitter Don't say nice things about them

very often And they still follow you yes, but

it's the the funny thing I find in that whole

scenario is They they always talk to be the first

or the best or the biggest or the number one

in everything when it comes to podcasting right

And they're not they're not yeah They're yeah,

and so Even you know, they say that I heard media's

position is number one America's number one commercial

podcast publisher Debatable but they also say

their America's number one audio company so that

again debatable But on October 23rd they They

bought or acquired Vox nest Which you know has

They have the best -in -class provider of podcast

analytics enterprise publishing tools programmatic

integration targeting ads And then it says through

VoxNest, they'll be able to provide podcast advertisers

with additional targetable inventory at scale

by allowing the effective and efficient monetization

across an entire range of podcast inventory,

which they basically bought the access to. And

if you're not familiar with what VoxNest is,

they own Spreaker and Blogtalk Radio. They're

the parent company because last year they formed

It was last year, the year before, Spreaker and

Blogtalk Radio, because they're owned by the

same people. Right, they merged. Well, Blogtalk

got bought out by Spreaker. And then they formed

a parent company called Voxnest, and then it

still operates independently. And then, so they

have all their publisher solutions and advertising

and everything else and that. And then now iHeartMedia

has them. And I can't stand the CEO of I hurt

media because he's a pompous fool and I Mean,

he's a smart shrewd businessman, but he's he's

a fool as far as like, oh, we're number one We're

the best we're the blah blah blah. It's like

if you were the best. Why are you laying off

so many people? Like they announced this stuff

and then and then I I hear like the very next

day. Oh, they're having mass layoffs It's like

what what is your problem? Like if you're buying

a company or acquiring it, it's like weird Like

I'm like I need to have other options in case

something goes belly -up a speaker Yeah, just

in case yeah. Yeah, so like I am actively looking

because I don't know Right the health of the

network with I heart in charge so Yeah Yeah,

although that could explain why Spreaker's like

oh you have to put five ads for That probably

is probably where it came from because Yeah,

I heart media is a greedy money -hungry company

and Spreaker wasn't before Yeah It's just it's

all kinds of craziness. Everything is changing

and you don't know like I'm just getting back

into the whole podcasting thing and I feel like

I have podcast amnesia so and I'm probably gonna

end up writing a whole article on podcast amnesia,

but Three years ago in the middle of our Phineas

and Ferb review podcast podcast organization

without a cool acronym We Michael Wilson and

I were doing Shows daily not recording them,

but we were pre recording when I was releasing

them daily because the whole point of me doing

a Phineas and Ferb podcast is there were 104

days of summer 104 episodes daily releases and

we could get our Phineas and Ferb review show

done Well at some point life happened. I got

married. I got divorced and whatever So episode

60, which is our Phineas and Ferb season 2 countdown

episode, has been languishing in the editing

bay for three years. I have just now, even though

that episode has been the bane of my existence

to edit, I spent the last week and a half fixing

everything in that episode the only thing Michael

and I have to do now is record a new intro and

outro for it because the damn thing is three

years old I'm not releasing it without recording

a primer for people but yeah I have like I've

forgotten so because I haven't edited in a year

like I almost forgot how to use the razor in

an audition like literally I'm like which button

is it oh it's this one over here Oh, don't do

that. Oh, don't do it. Like, oh my god, it's

just, it's crazy. So everything is, and people

are like, oh well, the lockdown and the virus

and the this and the that and the whatever. You

know what? A podcast, at least for me specifically

as a podcast editor, I'm doing the same thing

I would be doing if we weren't on lockdown. But

honestly, I miss lockdown because it seems like

the world is trying to get back to that. fast

-paced everything must change on a daily basis

on an hourly or minute by minute basis and I

just want to slow down even though I'm speeding

back up on my podcast stuff because I haven't

done it in so long but like the rest of the stuff

it's like please put on the brakes people so

much change at once is not a good thing change

is a good thing because you learn and you grow

and everything else but like so much at once

not good The one good thing about the pandemic

so far is I can pretty much tell that People

have finally listened to the the meme of for

the love of God stop sharing links when we got

this covered Because I don't see we got this

covered calm on a lot of stuff anymore Well,

I think it's because people are just tired of

seeing their crap pop up Yeah Yeah, I just Yeah

A huge fan of theirs. No. I don't want to go

down that road. That's why I said just not a

huge fan of theirs. Yep. Leave it at that. What

are we watching? You mentioned all the game show

stuff. What the heck am I watching? The Voice

is back on. I'm kind of watching that, paying

attention to it slightly. Are there any TV shows

that are... have been out or coming out that

I'm excited about. I don't know. I keep checking

Netflix's Coming Soon section to see if they

have a new trailer for Earthrise, for Transformers

War for Cybertron trilogy Earthrise. Oh, so they're

going to have another trailer? no i'm saying

i keep looking to see to see it because the thing

with netflix is if you go to their uh... go to

their app which i'm doing right now on my phone

and you go there coming soon thing you'll say

oh coming tuesday oh part one coming december

fourth uh... part that you know so it tells you

when the things are going to be on the service

so i'm just going to say scroll through there

every other week or so now to see when we get

a date for Transformers Earthrise for the next

part of the War for Cybertron trilogy and so

far, uh, nothing's popping up. I was hoping we

would get Earthrise before the end of 2020 because

we need something positive in 2020. Yeah, we

need something positive. I don't know what it

is yet, but... Yeah, I don't know either. I...

Yes. Animaniacs. Animaniacs. I'm waiting for

that. That is something positive. And it's fun

and it's zany to the max. Yep. Yes. I am looking

forward to that. I know I brought it up last

time, but yeah. Yeah. It's going to be really

cool. I understand that I'm perfectly fine with

the characters that they're not allowing to be

in it. Whatever. much as I would love to see

an updated version of Minerva mink and who's

the other one that's not gonna be there There

was another one that they said wasn't gonna be

there But anyway, like for various reasons. Yeah,

I mean whatever yacko wacko dot pinky in the

brain Good feathers are gonna be there. I think

Oh, I know what it was. It wasn't wasn't Animaniacs.

It was Tiny Tunes apparently Oh Myra's not gonna

be in the new Tiny Tunes. Really? That's what

I thought. I thought I saw that I thought you

pointed that out to me. No, we were talking about

it I did not know that I I could be completely

wrong. I don't know. I would have to look it

up To see if it's actually factually correct,

which it probably isn't because let's face it.

I'm I've got podcast rust And it's really really

itchy Tiny Toons returning Tiny Toon Looniversity

Two seasons straight to series and Cartoon Network

and HBO Max Show will be set in Acme Luniversity

the institution where the tiny tunes earn their

tune degrees and teaching staffs been getting

laughs Yeah This is of course the looney tunes

will be there It doesn't say anything about Noel

Myra hmm Like I said, I probably read it wrong

or something I just know that there's two characters

from upcoming shows that are not gonna be there

because of reasons hmm I don't remember interesting

yes what else is going on yeah so I'll tell you

man like not being able to sit at the desk and

do the stuff and whatever for a year It's really

hard to sit at the desk and do the stuff. I'm

really pacing myself here. At the same time,

I'm like, gonna get it done, gonna get it done,

gonna get it done. I guess it's like I always

say, hopefully the audience will still be there

when you get back. Well, evidently they are.

Let's hope. But, yeah, so... Like I said, I've

just been having fun watching old shows Funny

enough my wife and I watched I Love Lucy Mm -hmm,

just because it's on Hulu. We were like, hmm,

let's try this out. And then we're like, yeah,

this isn't half bad Yeah, and I get to start

writing scripts for the program I produce now

Yeah, so I just have to figure out what I'm going

to write. So I'm looking towards old shows for

inspiration. That's awesome, dude. technical

difficulties let's move on shall we all right

so i think that about rounds this episode out

sorry if it was a little boring on this episode

but uh send us some suggestions and comments

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