Listener Feedback and Real-World Star Trek Tech

You are tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

Geek. Hello and welcome to Alter Geek, the show

where pop culture and living in the modern era

collide and no topic is considered off -limits.

If it's something you're interested in, then

you're a geek too. I'm your host, Steve Megatron

Phillips, and in this episode I will be talking

on, well, listener feedback. A couple of new

additions in that territory, answering some of

that. Because I have a large backlog I've been

saving for a couple of weeks just because...

the right opportunity during the regular show

has not been really conducive to bringing it

up. So here I'm going to bring it up for deliberation.

And so yeah, that's personally what I'm going

to be talking about. The other part I'm going

to be talking about later in the show will be

some new tech that has been inspired by Star

Trek. and some of the possibilities that lie

therein. So getting right off on the feedback,

I'm going to start with Scanner 51. On the episode

that we did on adulting, he says, hey guys, as

always, I love the show. I wanted to talk about

what was brought up on that with the adulting

classes. I think something like this is a good

idea, but I think I can make it better. Before

you think I'm crazy, let me explain. I was in

high school from 97 to 2000. I took the normal

two required math classes by ninth and tenth

grade, but during 11th grade they offered an

elective year -long math class. It was basically

a math class designed to get us ready for adulthood.

The teacher taught us everything we could need

to know about post -graduation, balance checkbook,

APR interest rates for buying a car, loans, banks.

Setting up a type of spending fund, how to do

mortgage for a house, design houses to teach

square footage. It was real -world scenario.

She even taught us resumes. No finding X's or

Y's. I bought a car and a house and I think it

was because of this class I knew what to expect.

I can totally agree with that. I think in the

basis of the adulting that's happening now, I

think I have a problem more so with the term

than... like entering adulthood or something

that's more classified in that manner. But no,

I mean, everything you've mentioned about learning

right there, I don't really remember. I was taught

how to balance a checkbook in fifth grade. We

just happened to have teachers that, because

we used to have an NBD bank, which was later

bought out by like Genesee Bank or Chase Bank

One. It changed names like four times in my county.

So yeah, it was basically like a Chase bank and

they had like a, every Friday you could make

a deposit and they had bank tellers show up and

they had students be the bank tellers. So they

actually taught us how to fill out bank slips,

deposit money, and it actually went to your account.

And they taught us how to, you know, you got

cash handling experience there, you got... how

to balance a checkbook, things of that nature.

The other things I didn't get though were the

APR, the buying a house, the loans, spending

fund mortgages. I think I got square footage

in seventh grade. They had a class that was an

elective that you didn't really have a choice.

It was like... Oh, what was that class called?

It's been a long time since I've been in that

stuff. But I can't remember what it was called,

but anyways, they did a lot of the square footage

and teaching you kind of measuring of, you know,

like airplane square footage type stuff or, you

know, houses, buildings, stuff like that. So

I mean, I can't remember a lot of it, but I think

that that would be something that would be better

to get towards the end of your high school career.

Because you're gonna be entering the world and

actually having to use it and no I totally agree

with you on the The X's Y Z's all that stuff

it comes in handy if you're trying to learn it

for certain things But I have yet to really I

mean Yeah, I haven't really had any use for a

lot of it. It's not been the helpful Kind of

thing. Like, I was taking algebra in college

and luckily I was able to get out of that. I

had no idea what was going on in that. They were

like, find F -O -G and they have no numbers in

it, it's all letters. And I'm like, what am I

supposed to do? Like, it's a guessing game to

come up with the answer and I'm not good at that.

I like the exact parameters of what I'm supposed

to be doing. So yeah, I totally agree with you

there that it should be real real -world scenarios

They used to have a class called like leadership

or something that they teach you some of that

like resumes and stuff like that And then they

had some other class it was like It was like

home something it wasn't like home ec or anything

But it was it was something in that regard where

they taught you stuff. That was life skills And

I had a couple classes like that, but for my

knowledge, I think that a lot of that went away

after I graduated in 04. But yeah, he says, you

know, make it better by moving the class to high

schools, teaching what needs to be taught, teach

these kids the stuff not mid -20 -something,

you know, where things end badly. And then he

says his 12th grade year was the last year it

was offered because no one signed up. Would have

made that like a mandatory because that's kind

of something that everyone should know how to

do Regardless of how computerized things go.

You still need to know how to sign this and fill

out this paperwork Entering into my 20s my wife

and I got duped into so much junk like we Somehow

got duped into we went to some seminar for some

reason I don't even know how I think we were

because we were looking into getting married

at the time after high school and we spent I

think it was $1 ,800 on this stupid pan set and

I don't even know why we did it or how we got

pressured into it other than the fact we were

naive and young but at a principle we kept those

until probably about three months ago when we

had a purge in February having a yard sale because

we had a like 75 degree day in the middle of

like 30 degree days And so everybody showed up

like flock to our C yard sale and we sold it

but um Yeah, that it was like a principal thing

we bought it was a ton of like pots and pans

and like a Roaster and like a bunch of other

stuff and it was stuff that you could have probably

spent two hundred dollars about Those are credit

in a sense because it was a loan, but it's still

it It was the most ridiculous thing after that.

We never Jumped on anything without reading or

doing more information Then he says in an email,

and I'm thinking he was referring to the patterns

of some of the movies and the social commentary

that goes along with it, he says, what movies

are better than books? He says he's got two and

there's a pattern. His first is Watchmen. He

says, I know it's not a popular opinion, but

I love the movie of Watchmen. than most is the

ending. I really don't like space vagina ending

from the book. I like the fact that Vedic frames

docked Manhattan. It seems more believable. Little

known fact in 81, the US and the USSR signed

an agreement saying if aliens ever attacked Earth

we would work together to combat it. So that's

why it's in the book, but it's still a dumb ending.

My second is League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Again, I love this book or movie, saw it three

times, so much better than the book. The movie

is put together better than the book. I have

a special insight into the movie. I know the

man who wrote the movie. The movie suffered three

drafts and too much studio interference from

what I was told. Anyway, that's all that I came

up with at this time. Honorable mention, Batman

Under the Red Hood. The movie is better than

the book. The movie is more practical. once met

Judd Winnick he said that the book suffers from

setup that would have payoffs months down the

road. Yet when it comes to books and movies a

lot of times the books can include details the

movies just don't have time for which makes the

books that much more better or more well written

I should say because it can be elaborated on

and explained and you can actually spend more

time on things that should take time. Whereas

the movies, you have this allotted amount of

time, and yes, sometimes they hit the three,

three and a half hour mark, which I think is

a bit ridiculous for a film, but it still pales

in comparison. Yes, you can visually see it,

but I kind of like, and I haven't read a book

in a long time that has made me actually want

to read it, but... When I used to read books

and I would watch the movies, I would have my

own preconceived idea of what things should look

like, which was kind of interesting because then

it was my mind getting to create this world and

then when I get to see somebody else's vision

for it and then kind of comparing and contrasting

the things with it, it kind of turns it into

this really fun exploration, you could say, of

what is possible in that realm. So moving on

the real Grimbo on Twitter says as far as because

we mentioned the Animaniacs reboot He says it

ain't gonna be back. It's gonna be altered to

so so much That to a degree that it may as well

be called something else. That's how American

reboots work Yeah, I mean yes, and no I mean

if the original people are coming back kind of

like think of it this way like Samurai Jack That

was a nice reprisal, and it was done by the same

people, but they altered enough of it that it

made it actually better. So I'm wondering if

they could go in that route. I mean, I'm not

saying... Because it was still kind of a campy,

kind of fun show to watch, but I'm not saying

that they're gonna go, like, reboot in the sense

of, like, uh, you know, completely redoing it,

like Transformers or Powerpuff Girls or something

in that realm. but you never know. Tim Silvers,

this is from a while back, I have two from him,

he says, first of all, which one of you was clicking

their mouse like a freak during the recording?

That would be me. And he says, were you playing

a game or something? Man, that was a lot of clicking,

it was very annoying. Other than that glaring

issue, I enjoyed the show. Yeah, I didn't realize

that the mouse was that loud where it was picking

up in the audio. I also didn't realize that this

particular call recorder we use now, because

it's not Pamela where it separates the audio

tracks from the Skype. This other one is called

MP3 Skype Recorder and it unfortunately picks

up if any of us are watching anything or playing

anything on our computers. Any sound effect that

comes up will be on the record. and I didn't

realize that until I went to edit the last episode

and I saw well actually I realized it when I

did the one with the where I was playing Star

Trek online I got in a battle and I couldn't

get out of it because unfortunately I was in

the middle of it when we started recording and

what happened is I was in the middle of some

fight somewhere and you are basically one ship

against like ten and I had to destroy them all

otherwise it won't let me it'll make me start

the whole mission over If I quit and so I was

almost at the end there when I started recording

so I was finishing it I've not done that mistake

again and played the game while we've been recording

because I realized that it was in the recording

and which was before you commented, but yeah

I've not done that again because I annoyed myself

with it and the editing so he says what fall

TV shows are you looking forward to I Think Blanchard

and I kind of touched on that a little bit. I'm

mostly looking forward to The superhero shows

I haven't really found And I'm looking forward

to that Seth MacFarlane Star Trek knockoff But

I'm not looking forward to really anything that's

coming out that's new which is kind of unfortunate,

but I most of the shows I watch I've kind of

got this little bubble now that I stay in and

I haven't really decided to exit that bubble

But you never know if Blanchard or some people

give me some you know good reviews and stuff

coming out in the fall Maybe I'll I'll jump into

that So he says, as of June, I am dropping cable

TV. We have had a promotional price for two years

and that's ending. Our bill is going up $40 a

month. So yeah, we switched to a local phone

company's DSL at 15 to 20 megabytes a second,

which is plenty for our needs. We already have

Netflix and Amazon Prime. We have had Hulu before

and I signed up because they were offering me

30 days for free. We watch one show on HBO and

that's the one thing we really struggle with

paying for as it's $15 a month. So when I'm looking

forward to watching House of Cards, new season

just dropped on Netflix, so I'll be watching

that. Also Luke Cage, I have had that on my watch

list for a while now. I also want to watch The

Pacific, which is on Amazon, and I have Band

of Brothers, which is an excellent series. So

I look forward to The Pacific. Other than that,

we'll see. He says, I'm watching some animated

content, too. Right now I'm finishing Robotech

and I want to finish DBZ. I watched Kai, but

now that I have the Final 2 Blu -rays available

to complete the Boo Saga and whatever else is

in there, I want to watch the new season of King

Julien on Netflix. That King Julien's funny from

Madagascar. And Fun, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

is now on Amazon, so I watch that. Or I want

to watch that. There's plenty to watch, so dropping

cables isn't a problem for us. There are a few

things we may miss, like... like I don't see

the Walking Dead available on Hulu and the Flash

and Arrow aren't on Hulu, but I'm pretty much

done with them after this season. At the very

least, I can wait until they hit Netflix or make

the decision to watch them any longer. Yeah,

I mean, the CWTV content, you can pretty much

watch them on their app for free, or you can

watch them on their website for free, like a

couple days after it airs, so it's not a big

deal if you wanted to just watch it that way.

Yeah, the commercials kind of suck, but it's

still free. That's why I bought a portable computer

for my TV so that I don't necessarily have to

actually pay for the channels. I can watch them

from their stations. So either way, it's cable,

but I'm not paying the extra. They're still getting

the ad revenue. So I'm still supporting them.

It's just a different avenue because the cable

companies jip people more than they should. Speaking

of which, I recently switched from Comcast to

AT &T. Now my new Comcast, I had 30 megabytes

or 25 megabytes a second. And then they have

their power boost. I was paying $59 a month for

that crap It was 40 when I started actually when

I first started getting Comcast here I was paying

35 month and I was getting 50 megabytes then

that promo ended and then they bumped us to 45

and I was getting 75 with 10 channels and Then

they changed it because it was it went up to

59 and I got bumped back down to 25 because otherwise

cost was gonna kill me and then They went to

They went to it was gonna go up next month actually

to $79 for that 25 megabytes and I was like no

way and an AT &T guy happened to be going door

-to -door last month and I He stopped by my house

and I was thinking about it and it's 40 bucks

a month and I get 50 megabyte internet Which

is about on par. It's because it's DSL. It's

about on par with the 25 that Comcast was given

speed wise It's a little bit faster, but I still

notice hiccups here or there. Luckily, my ethernet

networking through my walls works out pretty

well. I've got that set up now. I'm going to

be with that for a year, and then I'll go back

to Comcast afterward, and maybe they'll have

a decent special. that I can get for, you know,

$29 .99, which they pretty much do for new people.

I don't like how they kind of gouge people that

have been with the company and been loyal to

them for a while, but I guess loyalty in business

and customers isn't really there when it comes

to a service and giving quality service for the

price. So yeah, I just, I don't really support

cable companies in that aspect. He says, what

words annoy you? My bad. That one has always

annoyed me for some reason. It's a lazy way to

say, I'm sorry, my mistake. Selfie isn't a word

I find myself using, but it doesn't annoy me

that much. Adulting I see as a humorous meme

that will soon fade. I kind of agree with you

on the adulting. I think that it's more of a

humorous meme. It doesn't bother me as much as

selfie. Selfie I just find annoying. From the

moment it was, oh I'm gonna take a selfie and

then they do the duck face thing. Like it's...

It just drives me nuts. It's just say I'm going

to take a picture of myself. It's a lazy way

of saying that too, I guess. But no, I totally

agree. My bad is kind of a lazy way of saying

it. Sorry, it's my fault. What would you like

to hear more about in future episodes? I miss

the tech talk, computers, home automation, TV

tech. So if you get a chance to talk more about

those things, I would be interested. Thanks for

the contact. Keep it coming. Funny you should

mention that. I'm going to be talking some tech

today. I've been trying to sprinkle more tech,

and not just because of your email I received

a few weeks back, or feedback, but because I

kind of miss talking about it too. And I kind

of got a little bit haywire on the pop culture

aspect, and I kind of want to circle back around

to the other stuff. So, feedback from time travel.

by fancy film editing episode. He says, I am

enjoying the content, guys. Good podcast. I just

wanted to comment briefly on politics and TV

and movies. No disrespect, but pop culture often

reflects the politics and therefore cultures

of the times, which I agree, it does. I just

don't like where there's the glaring dump of

it, you could say, of politics in my TV and films.

basically the rabid kind like I understand it's

it's it's a kind of a commentary of life when

you watch it but it's also I mean I guess I can

see your point too though he says you know this

is across many art forms including music comics

TV and movies not every form of art has take

the approach of providing a social commentary

We can't have movies that reflect the political

concerns of the times, yet they do not necessarily

draw you out of the film. Likewise, we can have

films that are just good popcorn entertainment

that provide an escape. It's OK to have both.

And I like that, too. I like some that you just

shut your brain off and you just enjoy it. And

then I like the stuff that, you know, you have

to think about. But I don't necessarily like

when it's it's directly. Our political landscape

is so rabid at this point. I don't want to see

that hit our pop culture media. And so I guess

that's where my concern lies. It's not necessarily

that it's making a commentary of it, but I think

that's where I have the problem. He says, a lot

of sci -fi focuses a lot on the current social.

technological issues and challenges to tell a

story. So I was surprised to see a discussion

that aimed to keep politics and social media

or social culture out of film and media. I just,

like I said, I just wanted to see less of the...

I understand it has to be there because that's

part of life, but I don't want to see it become

like the rabid kind of crazy commentary that

we've had in the past or in... this current time

anyway. So I'm going to take a quick break. I'm

going to come back after that and get back with

more feedback, get the iTunes feedback, and then

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into the feedback, so Peter Faith says, come

on now, let's not act like our generation is

not guilty of creating our own words. This was

on the word feedback where I was with Blanchard

bashing made -up words. He says, we're the people

that began things like LOL and other tech speak.

Well, I mean, it was, yeah, I mean, I guess we

did create all that back in the 90s with the

instant messaging and Yahoo, AOL, ICQ, MSN, all

those big chat forums. And he says, was Google

a verb prior to the 2000s? No, no, it wasn't.

Kawabunga wasn't something people said until

the 80s or 90s. Yep, because Ninja Turtles. All

generations have their own vocabulary that they

create, which, yeah, I guess I failed to see

that too. I just, I think it's because I'm getting

old and I find the younger generation stuff really

annoying at this point because it's not as creative

as some of the things that we came up with when

we were younger. I guess that's that's kind of

where it is, but I think that it's just because

I'm getting old and a lot of the The younger

generation stuff is just real touchy to me at

this point. So... Yeah, I guess that all generations

do create their own vocabulary. He says, for

Fall TV, I have no idea. I don't pay attention

to it unless I start seeing actual previews.

Because I think in that episode we also talked

Fall TV. Which... Yeah, I've already mentioned

that ad nauseam. King of Kong says... Not really

a fall show I think but black lightning looks

great Super happy will make up for the loss of

flash during the summer. So that makes me happy.

I agree. I'm I have no like Doubt in my mind

that that show is gonna be actually pretty well

written and pretty good I really do look forward

to seeing what happens in that And I definitely

will give it a shot, whether it's in the Arrow

universe or not. I think that it will turn out

very well. And it will be cool to see a DC superhero

that is not white, to say the least. But not

that I don't like all of them. I like pretty

much every character I come across in the DC

universe. Marvel, I'm very touchy. but DC there's

there's very few that I dislike unless they're

just like a third fourth tier fifth tier character

which I think Black Lightning is like a like

a second tier level character so I think that

he'll do very well because a lot of the the Arrowverse

are second level and third level characters other

than Flash himself who is a first level Yeah,

the rest of them I definitely see. I like how

the Arrowverse and all of the CW DC shows kind

of propel these characters that would have otherwise

not gotten the attention and kind of done the

opposite of what Marvel's done, which I think

is why they're successful. They didn't take like,

you know, Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, Green

Lantern... Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, and turn

them into series, they made the other characters

the prime characters, which is kind of nice.

He says also he'd love to... Oh, next feedback.

Brad Mull says, while I also thought the story

was going for uploading our DNA, on the episode

where I talked about Microsoft cataloging information

in DNA strands, I... partially was going off

the headline on that when I read it and then

I realized that it wasn't actually that but I

did think it was going for uploading our DNA

which I was like man that would be really crazy

waking up in like an Android body that had our

DNA look like us and had our brain so he says

if I wake up in a hundred years time in an alien

torture lab I'll be very annoyed he says as far

as movies that he wants to see in Star Wars Rome

I'd also love to see an Obi -Wan prequel film

with Old Man Kenobi I definitely can second that.

Jason Lukin says, I don't know how to put it,

but what TV show changed the show up by going

in a new direction or premise? Now, this was

from Facebook. He says, not just changing actors

or because of real life death, like Eight Simple

Rules, or got rid of a character like... Two

and a half men, but the concept of the show changed

there were only a few I can think of He says

the Torkelsens almost home Valerie the Hogan

family the facts of life Charles in charge Sabrina

the Teenage Witch You could almost argue Boy

Meets World did that in a sense because they

started off like it was it was very kind of you

know Lesson II and teaching of you know younger

kid generation then they went to the high school

and then they kind of Then they went to college

and like everything went out the window like

it was just all kinds of all over the place and

I think to me that would be like the ultimate

one but I can't really think of any like off

top of my head that I've watched that have done

that. You could almost argue that Star Trek Deep

Space Nine kind of went a new direction in a

sense because it became a battle of just personalities

and moving on and kind of growing as people and

then they turn into like this giant war epic

in the later seasons and so you can kind of see

it in that sense but I don't know I mean I would

be interested to hear what people think on that

that's definitely an interesting topic that I

may have to revisit and do a little bit more

research on because that's That's probably one

of the most difficult questions I've been asked

in a while and that's saying a lot. So definitely

we'll revisit that one. So getting into iTunes

feedback. I haven't had this in, I don't know,

like two years, but I'm very, very, very, very

thankful for my iTunes reviewers. I got a five

star by Radical Watcher. on May 19th saying,

fun podcast that is if you want to get caught

up on geek stories going on around the world

of pop culture. So thank you very much for that.

And Eric Hutch08 on May 10th gave me a five star

saying, I am altered. One of the few one person

shows I can listen to. I do enjoy when other

guests are on as well. Highly recommend. So thank

you too. And yeah, so I'm going to be definitely

splitting it up more having... Some with just

myself and some with hosts. We actually have

an episode coming up on bullying That is gonna

be with myself TF2 and Mike and Michael Dodd,

which if you remember back in 2012 Yeah, 2012.

We had an episode on bullying on heat cast radio.

It was like somewhere in like the 20s or 30s

number numbering and It was with Dustin Vancouver

on there with us and it was the same topic, but

a lot has changed in five years. So there's a

lot more depth to talking about that now than

there was five years ago. And I think that social

media has perpetrated a lot of that change in

that area. So be sure to stay tuned to that.

That's definitely gonna be an interesting topic

when we... when we get into that. So I'm going

to switch gears. I'm going to take a quick break

and go into the tech that is awesome, that is

from the future, that is Star Trek. And we're

back. So one of the things that I was going to

do was talk about Star Trek tech that's in the

modern era. It was kind of interesting because

as I was going through this I noticed something

that there is a documentary called Making Star

Trek and it came out by the Smithsonian a few

years, actually it was a year ago. It must have

been sometime last year, I'm not really sure,

I just caught it. It's been interesting. I was

watching the technology that came from Star Trek

that was revolutionary and never heard of, thought

to be near impossible, and then... Watching this

documentary and seeing what people have actually

accomplished is crazy. I knew they had the transparent

aluminum. I covered that on Altered Geek probably

in the first year of the show. I knew that they'd

made the lasers. That was kind of common knowledge

prior. They haven't quite made it small enough

to be mobile, but they have created it. There

is that warp drive is still out of our reach

deflectors and shielding and stuff like that

still out of our reach They've managed to do

kind of transportation of molecules and very

very very very very very very small stuff I Think

that they're working on like replicator technology

They actually do have, and I covered this in

Future Imperfect in I think second year of Altered

Geek, there was a contest to create the world's

first working tricorder. And they've succeeded.

It's kind of amazing actually. So the dream of

the compact all -in -one medical scanner is said

to be decades away, or centuries, I think decades.

But two startups have built limited tricorders

that they hope will eventually reach patients

who could use them to monitor health conditions.

In some ways, the devices are far smarter than

the one envisioned in the TV and movie series.

Dynamical Biomarkers Group and a startup that

dubbed itself Final Frontier Medical Devices,

a nod to the Star Trek title sequence, have created

what they call first -generation tricorders that

employ machine learning and artificial intelligence

to make a medical diagnosis. In Star Trek, the

tricorder obviously is the tool for getting everything,

information, whether it's the doctor or scientific

stuff, it reads everything. And obviously they

have different ones that are made for different

purposes in the show, but this device and the

one made by dynamical biomarkers provide information

people can use while keeping track of their condition.

Any doctor wouldn't necessarily have to interpret

it. It says that the people obviously were fans

of the show growing up. Final Frontier renamed

itself Bezel Leaf Technologies, and they won

the $2 .5 million first prize in the non -profit

X -Prize Foundation's tri -quarter contest, which

was sponsored by Qualcomm. The $10 million five

-year long contest concluded in April after drawing

some 300 entrants. That's insane. But the Bezel

Leaf Tricorder is a code name Dexter, is a six

piece tricorder with a chest sensor, a wrist

sensor, a blood pressure unit, a spirometer to

measure air capacity and lungs, a round thermometer,

stethoscope, and a iPad Mini. So yeah, there

was a second prize for the dynamical biomarkers,

Deep Q kit, which includes a digital stethoscope,

wireless instruments for blood. urine, breath,

and glucose tests, any smartphone that receives

the data over a Bluetooth connection. It says

both devices are designed to diagnose 10 conditions

including middle ear infections, sleep apnea,

atrial fibrillation, chronic obstructive pulmonary

disease, pneumonia, diabetes, leukocytosis, urinary

tract infections, the absence of conditions.

The device can monitor blood pressure, heart

rate, respiration, body temp, and oxygen saturation.

Dexter also looks for mononucleosis, whooping

cough, and hypertension while the Deep Q can

detect melanoma, shingles, and hypertension.

Both face years of trials and field testing before

they gain food and drug administration approval.

I think that's awesome because... I was planning

on covering more in this episode, however, because

of some unforeseen circumstances, I have to unfortunately

cut this episode a little short. There's another

episode coming on Wednesday and I will have everything

else I plan to have on this episode, including

some geeky news and some tech, in the next episode.

after the one that's recorded after this one

since I recorded this one partially first and

then the other one and then never got the time

to actually come back to it so yeah so anyways

until next time get altered geeky with the altered

geeks