Season 1 Finale

we watch a lot of tv it's time for the telecast

brought to you by the geek cast radio network

Optimus Solo! Thank you for the final time, mouse,

chipmunk, and guy with a really deep voice. As

he said, I'm your host Optimus Solo and I would

like to say hello and welcome to the 35th episode

of the Telecast brought to you by the Geekcast

Radio Network. Today I am joined by the one and

only TFG1 Mike. Hello. That's right, I am the

fucking great one and together we will be talking

about we are talking about the entire season

one slate of the telecast. So that is what we're

doing today. We're kind of doing a wrap -up of

season one, bringing season one to a close, grand

finale, fireworks, drum rolls, all kinds of things.

We're going to be reflecting back a little bit

about season one of the telecast, looking forward

a little bit to season two of the telecast, and

some different things along the way, including

the unveiling of our theme song contest winner,

which will happen at some point during this episode.

And the only way to claim your prize is if you

listen to this episode, figure out that you win,

and do the following steps that I tell you at

that point. That is how you will claim your prize.

So if you don't listen, you don't claim your

prize. But we will reveal who won the contest.

I guess kind of starting off real quick. We'll

touch a little bit upon the journey that was

the telecast now, obviously we were doing to

cast at the time a while back and The one thing

that the kind of was triggered in my in my mind

was We're talking a whole bunch of fun stuff

about retro cartoons. We were dealing with stuff

like the classics like Anna Barbera and stuff.

We were talking about stuff that we grew up on

like Transformers and you know all the different

80s properties. We talked about some of the 90s

stuff like Animaniacs and Tiny Tunes and at one

point something similar triggered to me that

had kind of triggered in my mind years before

when I put a theme song compilation CD set together.

And I was working at Target at the time and I

had a few fellow geeks, one who ended up joining

me eventually on the GeekCast Radio Network,

Adolfo Shabadoo, and a couple other friends.

I put together a two disc CD compilation of theme

songs. One disc was all 70s and earlier cartoon

theme songs. And one disc was... 80s and 90s

theme songs. One of them ended up being longer

than the other based on the number of shows.

So I filled out the one disc with about 10 or

15 theme songs from actual live action kids shows.

Because I thought that's something that always

kind of gets left aside. We never we always talk

about cartoons and that stuff from our our childhood,

but we don't talk about the actual live action

shows. So that's why I included them on those

discs. And kind of when we were doing our journey

through the Tombcast, I was thinking the same

thing. We're talking about a whole bunch of fun

stuff from my childhood, but we're not talking

about Saved by the Bell or a variety of other

shows. So the idea was to rectify that. and not

just rectify that but set up a whole podcast

that's going to talk about retro television since

we had stuff covering cartoons we had stuff covering

toys we had stuff covering now video games now

comic books etc but i was feeling like there

was movies we were covering weren't covering

retro tv so that's where telecast came about

we plotted out about the gazillion seasons Dude,

do you even remember that night? Yes. Mike and

I plotted out stuff. I mean, I kind of came up

with a rough draft and then we kind of got talking

one night on Skype when I lived in my old apartment

when I was teaching and had a lot of spare time

because I wasn't in any type of relationship.

And we plotted out 210 episodes. 210 episodes

took us seven and a half hours on Skype. Six

seasons. and 210 episodes is what we plotted

out as the potential for what telecast could

be. Now obviously we were just starting it so

we had no idea if anybody would even like it

or how long we would stick with it or whatever

but we thought hey if ever in a perfect world

this is all the stuff we would want to cover

if we were given infinite time and opportunity.

So that's kind of where telecast came about and

of course we decided to start I decided to start

Season one as that retro kids live -action and

then we were the plan was every season to jump

to a different genre of retro TV So the first

one was going to be all the retro live -action

kids shows and as has been Throughout the idea

and the kind of evolution of telecast. It's always

been going to be centered on 80s and 90s TV With

a few glance a few ways built in to glance back

at stuff. That was a little bit older but that

wasn't kind of the focus. The core focus was

80s and 90s as that being the time where Mike

and I grew up and kind of what our bread and

butter is, I guess you could say. So that journey

began back in November of 2010, which would be

four years ago. Yes, so the very first episode

which was salute your shorts aired November 8th

2010 and as you're listening to this it is November

8th 2014 so obviously We didn't get the season

done in the same manner that we thought we would

That is an understatement because... All I could

do is laugh, dude. I'm sorry. All I could do

is laugh. The season wrap -up show was to happen

November 8th, 2011. So we missed that by three

years. It's basically supposed to be a year for

each for each season kind of how it was set up

You know, sometimes life gets in the way. I'm

not trying to make excuses. But like I said,

I lived in an apartment then I live in a house

now I was single then I am in a relationship

now I went through a period of time without a

computer without internet And the dark times

of optimus solo where I was trying to phone in

my appearances at the Cass Radio Network. And

a lot of other things have happened, other things

that we've done at the network that have kind

of taken my time. Like I said, I'm not trying

to make excuses, but there's only so many hours

in a week, and sometimes I had to dedicate my

hours to other shows or other ventures. Buying

a house obviously takes up a lot of time. Changing

careers, changing jobs takes up a good amount

of effort. And yeah, so that was kind of... the

gist of it, but we are able finally four years

later to wrap up season one and the plan is now

to venture into another season that will not

take four years. Because if it does, I will be

old and gray by the time we ever get done with

this thing. You already are. I am starting to

get gray, actually. That is very disturbing.

I'm two weeks away from my birthday. I was going

to say, the sad thing is I'm a year older than

you, and it's pretty bad when you're already

turning old and gray. And I have not had any

gray hairs yet. So how are we going to do this?

The only gray hair I ever get is in my goatee.

everyone smile have one pop up there but I guess

I'd rather have it there than on the top of my

head. I haven't seen no Grey's hit on the top

of my head. So how we're gonna do this episode

we're gonna take a quick look back at season

one kind of a trip down memory lane since it's

been four years kind of catch everybody up on

what we covered. I will reveal the listener's

choice winner at some point and then we'll kind

of take a look at all the feedback and iTunes

reviews we got and then we'll look to the future

and what season two the genre is going to be

and what some of the shows are that we're going

to cover in season two. So starting up we're

just going to go kind of a block by block look

back at season one. The first block of shows

that we covered and for those of you that aren't

familiar and haven't been following us the whole

time what we've been doing is we cover a certain

kind of loose connected, loosely connected block

of shows, and then we would put a supplemental

episode in there, and then we would kind of continue

on to another block. The first block of shows

that we covered was kind of the Nickelodeon block.

It started with Salute Your Shorts, then we covered

The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Claris Explains

It All, Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Hey Dude.

Mike, you were on a couple of those episodes.

You did the Adventures of Pete and Pete and then

Clarice explains it all. But you are familiar

with Are You Afraid of the Dark, Hey Dude, and

Slew Your Shorts, obviously. I'm familiar with

them, but I don't care. But just looking back

at the Nickelodeon block and those shows that

we covered, what's your favorite part of retro

TV when it came to Nickelodeon live action kids

shows? What did you like? When it came to it,

it was honestly, it was SNICK. It was Saturday

Night Nick. It didn't matter. You know, my favorite

show at the time was Clarissa. I also liked The

Secret World of Alex Mack, which sadly we didn't

cover in season one. I don't know why, but whatever.

Anyway. uh... you know i like pete pete back

in the day watching it back now it's a little

strange the only cool thing about that show at

this point in time you know x number of years

later is the theme song hey sandy uh... But really

Clarissa is really where it kind of is good for

me as far as that. Like that show is so cool

and it still is today. Yeah, I remember watching

shows like Hey Dude and Sleek Your Shorts after

school or on Saturdays whenever they are just

kind of on their own. But I do remember that

that nighttime block where you had Clarissa explains

it all. Are you afraid of the dark? And a few

of those shows backed up, you know, one after

the other in that in that snick block that you're

talking about. That was Definitely something

that was very popular at the time I think a lot

of people don't can't relate to this that grew

up after us or from other generations when we

grew up basically outside of You know your Saturday

morning lineups where all the networks were showing

cartoons that you know during Saturday morning

or your For you know 3 p .m.. To 5 p .m.. Like

after school little blocks that some of the networks

would do There wasn't a gazillion channels. You

had your ABC, CBS, NBC, eventually Fox. There's

no CW or WB at this time. You had your TBS, TNT,

your USA Network, and you had Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon

was really the place to go for shows if you were

not an adult. It yeah, it pretty much was and

you know the sad thing is and we'll kind of get

to this in the other TV podcast when we get to

it, but you know I keep doing research on the

Disney Channel because I Thought the Disney Channel

started later than what it did like I don't remember

You know we mentioned this in the Mickey Mouse

Club episode. I don't remember the Disney Channel

in 1989 as a nine -year -old But that's right

around the time or close to the time when that

channel actually started. Yeah. I don't remember

that. I remember watching Nickelodeon. Yeah,

I think it was a lot to do with how Disney started

and when they started it was a lot of stuff that

kids wouldn't have been interested in. It was

more stuff that moms or families would have been

interested in showing they're really young kids.

And we were kind of past that point, but really

Nickelodeon... It was the first channel that

we kind of had that was an entire slate geared

towards kids. You had, you know, you had game

shows, you had regular, you know, sitcom type

shows, you had a whole variety of things. And

that is what everybody went to to watch TV when

they were a kid. Grown up in the 80s was Nickelodeon

that you knew you were going to see something

you like when you turned to Nickelodeon. So it

definitely was was something that it isn't anymore.

And something that doesn't exist anymore in our

day and age where there's a gazillion channels,

there's Netflix, there's, you know, whatever,

there's a gazillion ways to to obtain your media.

But back in the day, Nickelodeon was the go to

place back in the 80s. So they had a lot of good

stuff. I think my favorite show out of this song,

this selection would probably have been Hey Dude,

even though you hate it. I did kind of have a

special affinity to Are You Afraid of the Dark,

but I agree with you. Adventures of Pete and

Pete wasn't something I was huge on back then,

still not something I like a ton of. I remember

my sister being into Clish that explains it all

a lot. Salute Your Shorts was fun, but I liked

Hey Dude a little bit better. After the Nickelodeon

block, we did a supplemental episode on JT Join

Me for this one, and we talked about our... Characters

from season one that we would have picked as

as friends or people We would have wanted to

hang out with most it was called entitled our

best friends from season one So if you want to

take a look back and see which people we thought

would be cool to hang out with that was the first

supplemental episode and Then we entered a second

block of shows which we kind of which I kind

of titled the the educational School centered

shows these shows included Bill Nye the science

guy Beekman's World, Mr. Wizard's World, which

a lot of people don't remember, Reading Rainbow,

and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Now we gotta stop

on Reading Rainbow just for a second, because

recently in the last year or so, Reading Rainbow

is coming back. LeVar Burton has raised godly

amounts of money to bring that show back and

that's amazing. Yep, it'll be back on like an

internet forum type of situation there and it's

awesome that he's doing that. What was it? What's

your favorite part of the educational shows that

you watched when you were growing up? Did one

of these stand out more than the other between

Bill Nye, Beakman, Mr. Wizard, Reading Rainbow

and Mr. Rogers? Beakman always... I always thought

Beakman was on drugs. I always thought Beakman

was the guy that the D .A .R .E. police officer

told me to stay away from. I never liked Beakman's

world. I don't know what it was about that guy.

I never really cared. For some reason I hear

a lot of people, and I think it's just because

they're younger people that I'm hearing, but

a lot of people refer more to Bill Nye and then

they're like, oh, Beakman was that wannabe or

the minor version of Bill Nye. I think that's

more of an age thing. It probably is honestly

Bill Nye came a little bit later than Beakman

Okay, I'm I don't know I'm not looking at But

I didn't see either one is like superior to the

other necessarily. They're both kind of trying

to do the same thing Yeah, but in two very different

ways like Bill Nye was way more on the educational

Whereas Beakman was kind of like hey, here's

some education now We're gonna go have fun and

they were all copying the godfather of this type

of show, which was mr. Wizards Yeah, and see

I don't even remember mr. Wizard that was awesome

I Remember the guy in the sweater You know mr.

Rogers neighborhood that was and again it was

because mr. Rogers neighborhood came after Sesame

Street No, Sesame Street isn't in this block.

We'll talk about that in a minute, but it's one

of those things where When I was growing up,

Massachusetts Sesame Street came on first. Mr.

Rogers came on after And you always were watching

those two shows in the morning before you, you

know, hurried off to the school bus. Um, and

Mr. Rogers neighborhoods, you know, people can

make all the jokes they want about the mailman

and everything else and all that. It was really

interesting, fun stuff. It was, it was a one

of a kind show that really did a good job, uh,

to just educating kids. Exactly. Not necessarily

in a teachy like we're going to teach you math

type thing, but just about the world and stuff

around them. Right. Then we got into another

supplemental episode. Mike joined me on this

one and that was the best parental figures from

season one of the telecast. So we talked about

which mom or dad would be the best parental figure.

So you can go back and check out, the description

says that you had some selections on your list

that are sure to leave some people speechless.

So I don't remember what those were. I don't

even remember those. We'll have to go back and

listen to that to see. Then we got into another

block, and that would be the Puppet Block, which

included things like Eureka's Castle, Today's

Special, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, and The

Muppet Show. Obviously some Jim Jim Henson influence

a lot of people don't know what today's special

is everybody that's heard of today's special

or remembers it always gets points for me Because

I was convinced for the longest time that my

sister and I were the only people that ever were

apparently watched that show Your kids castle

was another Nickelodeon show. That was interesting

But it's obviously all about Jim Henson in this

block with Sesame Street Fraggle Rock and the

Muppet Show What's your favorite part of that

block? All three all three Sesame Muppets and

because they were all three very different shows.

Sesame Street was kind of the educational thing

and nobody talked to me about Bert and Ernie.

Just don't even because that ain't true. I don't

care. I'm not trying to be anti -gay here. They

are best friends. When that story came out, It's

like, really seriously, you're gonna turn, you

know, childhood characters that people looked

up to. You're gonna try to pervert that. And

don't get me wrong, you know, people's sexual

orientation is what it is. That's fine. I don't

care. But when you sit there and try to turn

fictional characters gay or straight or whatever,

it didn't matter. They were best friends. I mean,

you know, like... I can't see any couple, whether

they're heterosexual or homosexual, I cannot

see them arguing over who has the most or the

least amount of grape juice. That's what best

friends do, damn it. You know, it's one of those

things where it's like, wow, I can't, and then

Cookie Monster. They tried to make Cookie Monster

healthy. Are you kidding? His whole point is

to eat cookies. It's in his name. And we don't

even want to get started with Elmo. I think the

best thing, and it's kind of something you pointed

out about what the Henson crew was doing there,

is that they created three shows basically in

the same type of time frame that were completely

different. Even though there's some crossover

in a way, and they're all Muppets, et cetera,

it's three very different atmospheres and kind

of feel that each of those shows brings out of

you. Which makes them distinct and was I think

was help them be able to coexist in a way in

in You know that same couple decades. So that

was impressive The something really good really

quickly. I'm sorry really quickly. Well, I don't

forget about this most recently Our buddies Dan

Greg and Chuck over on talking in circles had

their ultimate Saturday morning cartoon lineup

thing where they each made Like if they were

in charge of right television programming, right?

So they just recently did this and now they're

mad that I didn't get invited to do that Now

that well, I'm sure we can do it on to cast I

don't care it whatever anyway Since you mentioned

that and I mentioned that there, you know Sesame

Street Fraggle Rock and the Muppets are very

three very different yet similar shows the way

I'm now looking at them as a almost 35 year old

guy is Sesame Street is your morning education.

Fraggle Rock would be your after school adventure.

And The Muppet Show would take place of something

like Entertainment Tonight or something where

it would be your evening comedy for kids. And

The Muppet Show, by far, was the most adult program

out of the three. Yeah, I think that's why I

like it the most now. I probably would have picked

Sesame Street growing up, but I definitely like

a lot about the Muppet Show still. There's a

lot to like about. I'm sorry to keep interrupting

you, but there's a lot to like about Sesame Street.

I mean, and don't get me wrong, I like a lot

of the characters on Sesame Street, but my favorites

as a kid and even now are Bert and Ernie. One

of my favorite Bert and Ernie episodes or Bert

and Ernie skits or whatever you want to call

it is when they go to the tomb. Yeah, that was

a good one. I absolutely love that. It was just

so, so amazing. Okay, I'm sorry, go ahead. You

can interrupt any time. And then I rolled some

people's eyes probably because in our supplemental

episode for that block, we talked about the best

puppets of all time, in which I very much omitted

on intentionally. intentionally omitted Miss

Piggy from my list completely because of my disdain

for that character. Okay, explain to me again

why you hate her. I think it's just every bad

stereotype about women and with a dose of feminism

and a dose of pig and a just annoying voice and

personality. And Kermit deserves better. Then

we got into... our next block, which happened

to be a game show block. And in the game show

block, we talked about Guts, Legends of the Hidden

Temple, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego,

Wild and Crazy Kids, and Double Dare. What are

your thoughts about game shows from back in the

day? Oh, I liked Wheel of Fortune. Oh, sorry.

I really miss concentration. Anyway, I wasn't

too big of a fan of Doubledare. I liked the first

couple of seasons, but after a while it's like,

okay, this is getting old. But the obstacle course

at the end was awesome. Yeah, it reminded me

of American Gladiators at the time, though. It

was a kid version of American Gladiators. I love

Legends of the Hidden Temple. I thought that

was one of the cooler ones. I never saw Guts.

I never saw Wild and Crazy Kids. Probably why

I'm not on a lot of the game show block episodes

of the podcast. If I had to pick the one I watched

the most, it was Doubledare. That would seem

to be the go -to, the Michael Jordan of kids

game shows. That was where it was at. But the

one I probably enjoyed the most was Where in

the World is Carmen Sandiego. Oh, absolutely.

Not to say I didn't like I agree with you. Legends

of the Hidden Temple was awesome. I prefer that

over Guts and Wild and Crazy Kids. But Where

in the World is Carmen Sandiego is something

I always wanted to be on. I wanted to play the

bonus round in both Carmen Sandiego and Double

Dare. So I had a special place for both of those.

And there was a ton of other game shows that

we did not cover. Which we'll get to in a little

bit, but but Nickelodeon and a couple of other

channels We're doing trying a lot of different

game shows some of them did not last very long

So that's why there were so many of them, but

we could have covered a whole slew of them But

these were probably the main I would say that

the most popular five game shows that we could

have covered And then after that we had another

supplemental episode which was all about our

favorite theme songs from season one of the telecast.

So that was Mike and I and we kind of walked

down our five favorite season one theme songs.

So that's a good episode if you want one to go

back and listen to and you can listen to a bunch

of songs in the meantime. So if you get tired

of listening to us you get some songs and us.

So it kind of works both ways. Then we got into

yet another block. And I guess you can call this

one the kids sitcom block or you can just call

it the Save by the Bell block. It was Good Morning,

Miss Bliss, Saved by the Bell, Saved by the Bell

of the College Years, Saved by the Bell of the

New Class, and California Dreams. Don't sell

California Dreams short. It was a good show with

an epic theme song, but as far as... No, I always

used to get that and the raisins mixed up. Oh

man. The California racings were so much better

than California dreams. But as far as the actual

Save by the Bell shows, I know we kind of talked

about it since you were on most of these with

me, but which version is your favorite out of

Good Morning Miss Bliss, the classic college

years, and the new class? New class can die in

a fire. The sad thing is new class is the longest

one out of all of them. That is so sad. I'm sorry,

folks. I'm about to hit my head on my desk. I

like the classic, but I found it got old a little

bit after a while. My favorite is college years

because they actually made them grow up, made

them go away from Bayside, put them in a new

environment, basically took Kelly away from Zach

for at least the first season or half of the

first season. You know, it had much more of like

another world. Was that the Disney spin or the

Cosby spinoff? No, it had that feel kind of was

just like more of an adult show or more of a

mature show, but still saved by the bell. And

I did absolutely love it back in the day. But

I say by the belly original, I can watch over

and over and over again. I don't care. I don't

care if it's nostalgia or what. I still enjoy

that show. Call me crazy. No, I mean you're right

and it is I mean it is still very very enjoyable.

I just After a while as it was airing and as

you know, even in reruns, it's like Show the

college years already. That's what I like the

most. I know I I do like say I do really enjoy

saved by the bell It had a lot of funny moments.

I mean probably one of the first kids television

programs where Men were, at least in Slater's

case, they were emasculated a lot. Because, let's

face it, Jesse was no princess. Yeah, that's

true. After the Save by the Bell Block, we did

another supplemental episode. JT and I talked

about our childhood crushes that may have been

a part of any of the Season 1 shows. We talked

about Leah Remini who was in a Saved by the Bell

episode, Clarissa herself. We talked about a

couple of the girls from Hey Dude, Jennifer Fluff

-Hughes and she was on Kids Incorporated. The

girl from the Saved by the Bell, the new class,

I can never remember her name. Tiffany Amber

Thiessen from Saved by the Bell. So we talked

about a bunch of our childhood crushes that may

have appeared in somewhere in season one. and

then we moved on to yet another block and this

one was just kind of the off the wall block I

guess you can call it that zany block it was

you can't do that on television land of the lost

the abc weekend specials hey verne it's earnest

and peewee's playhouse So that was all over the

place Obviously a lot of people don't know about

you can't do that on television But that was

one of the pioneers of Nickelodeon before Nickelodeon

became popular and it's something that has never

been able to be duplicated Such a classic show

for really showing a specific moment in television

history as far as the youth television at least

You know land of the lost that's something that

was very much in my memory banks and something

I will Remember finally from being a child. That

is something that if you remember that show finally

do not watch it Will ruin your memories? As far

as Haver and his earnest and peewees playhouse,

I know you're familiar with some of those Do

you have a preference out of those two? Pewi's

playhouse. Yeah, I mean talk about unique shows

That is again something that has and never will

be duplicated Although they have been talking

about bringing it back. I was gonna say they've

been talking over like Talking about bringing

it back and actually duplicating the success

of it is two different things Well, they kind

of did bring it back I mean kind of a little

bit because shout Factory has just released the

complete series collection for Pewi's playhouse

on DVD and Blu -ray. So there is that. So at

least they brought it back in physical media

form so people can watch all of the episodes

in one place. Right. And then, and you know,

we got to talk about that for just for a second,

because a lot of these shows, I know Clarissa

has had DVDs. I know Saved by the Bell has had

DVDs and stuff like that. But a lot of these

shows like. the You can't do that on television

I'm sure might have one or two single disc releases,

but a lot of these shows aren't on DVD I know

Sesame Street is another Muppet show is I know

Fraggle Rock is a lot of them are not but a lot

of the ones that we've covered here are not like

I would probably say 75 % of the ones that we

like the more obscure ones are not on DVD. Right.

And I think it's something where people just

didn't realize they're just kids shows at the

time, so they didn't do a great job preserving

some of them. And the other ones have some copyright

issues that you have to deal with, especially

the next block we'll get to. Before we get to

that block, the last supplemental episode we

did for the season was 30 .5, which was the most

hated characters, which Mike joined me on. So

we talked about our most hated characters from

season one. I think I might have talked about

Miss Piggy in that one. Maybe not. I think so.

And then we got to our last block, which was

the music -themed shows, which included Sharon

Lois and Bram's The Elephant Show, Mickey Mouse

Club, and Kids Incorporated. So those were kind

of the more of the music -based shows there.

There was only three of them. And those shows

definitely are hard to come by as far as getting

releases because of the music that's in them.

I don't know. Go ahead. Well, plus we said in

those episodes, we wouldn't want to watch them

again. Yeah, I mean, I don't mind the elephant

show too much. It's somewhat decent for its time.

And obviously Mickey Mouse Club and Kid Incorporated

produced a whole lot of stars like we talked

about in the episodes from Britney Spears to

Justin Timberlake to Christina Aguilera, Jennifer

Hewitt, Fergie, Ryan Gosling. So there's a lot

of people involved in those two shows that would

later become other. popular for other things.

So that's fun and it was fun dealing with all

of the music shows and then we finally got to

the point where we would get to our listeners

choice episode. The first ever GCRN show that

the listeners basically got to choose the topic

for and that'll probably be a trend going forward

but the listeners choice reveal that we just

revealed recently when that episode aired went

back to the game show block and one of the many

game shows that we didn't talk about which was

Nick arcade. Mike and I recorded that episode.

Maybe it would have been a better show today

or with a different host, but we gave it kudos

for what it was trying to do. And we also want

to thank all the people that voted for the listener's

choice. We had, what was it? Secret World of

Alex Mack? Is that a show? You got votes welcome

freshmen Nick arcade some other game shows finders

keepers. What would you do video power? A lot

of different shows got votes. I think we had

I don't know 15 or 20 people vote on that at

least so Nick arcade became the first listeners

choice episode and I don't think that was a bad

choice. I was the one that I at least remembered

from my childhood So I didn't mind talking about

that one And it kind of fit in with the whole

Block of what season the the overall theme of

season, right? I mean I mean that that you know,

you could have easily switched out wild and crazy

kids I did want to take a quick second to thank

all the people that did join me and and help

make season one possible I don't mind writing

solo every once in a while and I did that on

probably three or four different episodes But

it's always fun to talk with somebody that if

they can remember the show. So, you know, obviously,

Mike, you were in a good majority of the show,

so I appreciate your help with season one. I

have no lie. Steve Megatron Phillips helped out

on a bunch of shows. JT from Saskatoon helped

out on a ton of shows. He has seen just about

as many obscure shows as I have. So he does live

in Canada. I really enjoyed JT being on the show.

Tara, the rising star. Was obviously on a bunch

of episodes Let's see. Who else did I have Chris

from Stapleton from chicken pot pod? He joined

me on The Today special show the lost episode

of season one and then I also had a glade Packer

was on the show He was on one of the supplemental

muppet shows or the best puppet shows So yeah,

thanks to all those guys for joining me and girls

girl guys and girl um and hopefully we can just

uh open up even even have a more diverse group

going forward into uh season two and beyond so

it's always good to hear from different people

and that was one of the keys going into telecast

that i wanted uh a lot of different voices heard

so nobody would get tired of uh me and mike yapping

at each other like we we tend to do on all our

other shows all right hold on wait a second here

wait a second here You recently have done a history

project on the GeekCast Radio Network. You told

me that I was in 85 % of the entirety of the

network content when it comes to podcasts. It

would have been more if I would have let you

in on all the telecast episodes. Well, but it

wasn't even that. There are some that I just,

like Guts. I don't remember Guts. That was the

point. I'm not going to sit here and be on a

show that I don't know and I don't want to talk

about. But at the same time... I haven't had,

you know, a lot of complaints of, oh, why don't

you go away? Why don't you stop podcasting? You

know, so it's, you know, I know you were, but

I'm just saying that it's like, you know. The

biggest thing for us as we do go through the

telecast is finding people that enjoy the show

or at least are willing to watch a few episodes

or, you know, do some research on the show so

they can give an opinion on it. And that's why

we have a pretty good rotation of people and

voices. So that's good. Overall, I think the

best thing about Telecast from my standpoint

is just being able to kind of take a personal

trip down memory lane. And not doing it alone,

doing it with some friends, doing it with some

new people that I've met along the way, and doing

it with the listeners and getting in on their

comments. You know, we have had a bunch of comments

on the different posts, the episode posts at

Geocast Radio Network. So that was good. So my

favorite thing is probably just the reaction

that Telecast got from the listeners. And not

only the reaction from the listeners, but the

reaction while I was doing something fun, while

I was just taking a trip down memory lane and

reliving some of the things I liked from my childhood.

So that's probably my favorite thing. And I think

the best thing about Telecast is being able to

do something fun and get a good reaction out

of the listeners. Yeah, I can agree with that

mine was probably some of you know just talking

about some of my favorite shows yeah you know

I said recently on a Most recent altered geek

episode Steve myself and Birdman Dodd from this

week geek .net sat down and we just had An all

-out no holds barred geek discussion on anything

and everything and it was you know we talked

about a little bit of the network stuff and you

know how podcasting is kind of you know influenced

us and it evolved us over the time that all of

us have been doing it and for me what it is is

you know pick a topic that we all enjoy and want

to talk about and Find the time, sit down, and

talk about it. Find the time to get all of us

to get online, no matter who it is. Whether it's

me and you, whether it's me and Steve, whoever

it is, it doesn't matter. And we sit there for

half hour, hour, hour and a half, whatever, and

just have a discussion. I've said this many times

in my overall six years of podcasting. I do the

podcasting, I do the records, and all that stuff

for myself. If people gravitate to it, if people

enjoy it, that's great. But I do it for my own

enjoyment overall. Right. And I think that's

what you have to do if you're going to be doing

it at all. Otherwise, there's really no point.

Yeah. Just like most things you do, you should

get some enjoyment out of it regardless. But

that's why I was saying I think like the best

or at least my favorite part of this was being

able to do something that I like. and do something

that I was getting enjoyment, but at the same

time, something that was getting a lot of feedback

from the listeners and a lot of positive feedback.

And then kind of gives us a good transition right

into, I wanted to kind of go down a little bit

about the iTunes feedback that we have gotten.

Steve Megatron there had given us a site that

you could go to that you could actually pull

up iTunes from different countries for specific

shows. something that we had never been able

to do before. Before we were obviously limited

to just seeing what the US viewers and listeners

were saying. So I did a lookup of the iTunes

reviews for Telecast from outside the US and

inside the US. So there's been a couple that

we were never able to talk about on air. Okay,

so I want to give those people a chance since

we never got a shout out But just for the record

as far as iTunes goes in the u .s. We have it's

either 25 or 35 reviews It no, it's 25 ratings

17 20s 25 ratings. That's what I meant and We

are holding a five -star rating Yes through all

of those 20 plus ratings and through all the

reviews. So we're staying pretty steady with

five stars. In fact There's only been Two Total

people that have written a review this is worldwide

only two people that have written a review that

have not given us a five -star rating and They

both gave us a four Right. So I mean that type

of feedbacks excellent. Oh, absolutely Real quick.

I'm not gonna read through all 19 reviews because

that would take a long time But I wanted to at

least give a shout out to the couple outside

the US. We had one from Canada. And that was

left by Alex R. 1987. And it was entitled Awesome

Trip Down Memory Lane. And the review read, this

show is an awesome trip down memory lane. Some

of these shows I never watched, but this is a

great show to listen to and learn about all of

them. So thank you, Alex, from Canada. I think

that's Alex Ricci, honestly. He's one of the,

I think that's who that is, he's one of the Twig

listeners and he gravitated over towards us once,

I think after I'd been on Nerd News Network over

at Twig for a while. Gotcha. And the other one

actually came to us from Australia. And that

was from a user named Big Bad Booty Daddy. With

a bunch of zeros and ones and stuff so it's not

all the letters anyway Also a five -star review

and he's his title was I wish I was a teenager

again And the review read that the geek cast

crew have created another entertaining podcast

The pot this podcast will take you back to those

favorite kids shows you enjoyed in your childhood

After listening to this podcast you start to

appreciate how great children's programming really

was back in the day I love listening to the guys

give their personal opinions, but I most enjoy

the fun facts given towards the end of each show.

I am really hoping the guys decide to review

other more family type shows such as Blossom,

Parker Lewis Can't Lose, and The Wonder Years.

Please give this podcast a go and give the guys

a high rating in which they thoroughly deserve.

Don't know how kid -friendly Parker Lewis is

but but so not just five stars here in the u

.s. Both a five -star reading from Canada and

Australia here Among all the u .s. Ones which

we read for the most part as they happen throughout

the the course of season one So that's awesome

Like I said, that's part of what what makes this

fun is getting that much positive feedback and

unanimous feedback. For a long time, I believe

when we did our year and, you know, review shows

at the network that telecast for a long time

was one of the highest rating shows we had. Not

trying to toot my own horn, but That was fun.

Obviously now it's probably would be taken over

by some of the new, I guess the new style of

shows that we've been doing with Talking in Circles

and Altered Geek and some of that type of stuff,

Off the Cuff maybe. And well, Weekend at the

Movies Existed, that show as well. You mean It's

Dead? I don't know. We'll have to see. It's Dead,

Chip. It's Dead. We're giving it all she gots.

I can't give it no more, Captain! We'll have

to see now that those shows are all going and

kind of full -fledged and have somewhat of a

following when season two kicks off, if we get

any of that following back or what exactly happens.

But we're going to take a quick break now that

I mentioned season two before we unveil the theme

song contest winner and before we unveil what's

coming in season two. So we'll be right back.

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for sticking with us Real quick before we get

on to what the future is for telecast Which we've

somewhat teased in a couple different blogs,

but we haven't given away all of the information

yet So before we get to that we do have one last

piece of business to take care of and that would

be unveiling the winner of the theme song contest

that we had going throughout season one. If you're

not familiar, obviously at the end of every episode

of Telecast season one, there was a mashup of

theme song clips that included all of the season

one shows except for one. And the contest was

who could give me the order that all of those

theme songs appeared and what show was missing.

We had actually about... 10 to 15 people submit

Responses and there were a few of them that were

correct. There were some that were wrong but

there was a few that were correct and We took

the ones that were correct kind of drew drew

out of a hat to see who the winner would be and

the winner of the theme song contest was Someone

by the name of Jalen Jade The Jade Geek. I don't

know anything else about him Or her I assume

it's a him but they correctly identified the

entire order of all of the shows and they did

Also, give us the show that was missing which

was saved by the bell the new class Kind of a

trick there. Yeah, that's a little I believe

it's signed as Jeff from Salt Lake City, Utah.

So Jalen Jade the Jade geek or Jeff. I don't

know how he's gonna Be referred to but he is

the winner of the theme song contest and if you

would like to claim his prize Which I guess I

can reveal as well The prize will be helpful.

Well, I know a lot of the shows are not available

on DVD but Jeff is able to select any show from

season one that is available on DVD and one of

the season sets of that DVD from that show will

be sent to him. So if he could pick season one

of safe, I think it's a two -pack for save by

the bell But it would be like seasons one and

two of save by the bell season one of hey, dude

Season one of the Muppet show whatever he wants

and will be sent to him in Salt Lake City, Utah

the only trick is he had to be listening to the

show to know that he won and He has to obviously

send me another email giving the contact information

so that I can actually have an address to ship

it to. So if you're listening and you know you

won, reply to me once again at the same email.

If you can't find the email, just send me a tweet

at optimistsolo and I will take care of you.

All right. Getting into season two, I'm going

to give you a quick chance first because there

is going to be some stuff that's happening between

season one and season two in whatever we want

to call the off season. So there will be some

stuff happening that we kind of tease to in the

blog about the future of TV podcasts at the Geek

Cast Radio Network. So I'm going to let Mike

talk about that first and then I will give you

the reveal of what genre we will be covering

in season two of the telecast and some ideas

of what shows to expect that will be coming.

So Mike, what's happening in the off season?

All right. Well, you know, I get tired of waiting

and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting

to talk about TV. I really, really did. So it's

so now he doesn't care. What I said, and then

your chair broke, so now you don't care. Shut

the hell up. Inside joke. Shut up. Jerk face.

I mean, cause wars. So it took me about a year.

All is I. Between March of 2013 and September,

October of 2014, I had this idea that I wanted

to do a new TV podcast where the main focus would

be current television for the most part. The

only idea I had was I wanted Steve Megatron,

who does all of our art for the podcast, the

banners, the website, all that stuff, does amazing

work. I wanted him to make us a giant GCRN remote

control. And I figured, oh, hey, I can just call

it remote control. So remote control has launched.

It is the new TV podcast. It is a podcast where

we cover anything from 2000 to whatever it now

is. You know, in your left hand, you could have

a bunch of episodes of the telecast, which is

pretty much anything from 1999 to, say, 1950,

for example, you know, anything backwards in

time. Remote control is anything forwards in

time from 2000 and now. And throughout this process,

Kevin and I kind of got back together and said,

hey, why don't we try doing collaboration and

working on stuff? Like, where this really came

from is that Steve Megatron and I really wanted

to go talk about Boy Meets World. And Kevin's

like, oh no, that happened in the 90s. It has

to be on telecast. I'm like, oh, it ended in

2000. It can still. And that's where we kind

of got where we're going to do crossovers. But

remote control is a completely different animal

than what the telecast is. That was my goal.

I didn't want to just make the same podcast twice.

and that wouldn't be fair to Kevin. So Remote

Control, I introduced something called Season

Passes, where we watch an entire season of a

television show, take notes, whatever, and then

sit down, record the episode, and talk about

the entire season of a show in one podcast. Some

of those are going to be crossovers with the

telecast, stuff like some of my favorites, Nash

Bridges, Boy Meets World, um like angel uh uh

what else what else crossed over uh now and again

uh from cbs which actually only had one season

but either way um so that's what's gonna happen

i also i i had asked kevin like in like the eighth

hour of that original Meeting to get the six

seasons the 210 episodes of the telecast. I asked

him. What about game shows? He's like, yeah Whatever

I think that's what you said. I don't As I was

going through remote control The regular remote

control episodes are going to be network discussions.

So the first six are the year the first five

are going to be all about One episode each for

ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and the CW. So those will

be the overall discussion, general discussion

kind of episodes, but I came up with this thing

called the Game Show Grotto. And really where

I got the whole grotto thing was that I cannot

lie about this. It was the Playboy Mansion. So

the game show grotto is basically where we're

going to talk about game shows, stuff like Wheel

of Fortune, Jeopardy, Concentration, Hollywood

Squares, $25 ,000 Pyramid, Let's Make a Deal,

Family Feud, Name That Tune, Scrabble, The Price

is Right, Sale of the Century, Pressure Luck,

aka Whammy. Some of these, not all of them, some

of them that started, like, take Jeopardy, started

in 1984. The incarnation that I know started

in 1984. I know there was an incarnation before

that in the 60s, but let's face it, Alex Trebek

made that show when it is, and he still does.

So that episode, and the same thing with Real

Fortune, those would be one podcast on both feeds

for telecast and remote control. basically put

on both feeds. Whereas anything after will be

just put on remote controls feed and where in

anything retro will be just put on telecast feed.

And then we're also going to be stealing part

of Mike's idea since he was stealing some stuff

from us. We're also stealing one of his ideas

because I liked it and that is the season passes.

We will be doing a few season pass episodes for

telecast as well. We obviously won't be doing

pilot premieres or finale is like remote controllers

because we can't because that doesn't make any

sense But we can do the season pass episode so

if there's an episode that we kind of do the

brief overview on telecast that we myself and

somebody else want to take a deeper look at or

You know two people want to take a deeper look

at we will do some season pass episodes for The

retro shows on telecast as well. So you'll see

right season passes on both Podcasts, can I give

an example? Yes There's an episode coming up

in in season 2 I'm not gonna say what the show

is episode 47 of season 2 is one of my favorite

action television shows of all time We will after

we do the general discussion episode in episode

47 We may at some point down the line not right

away, but down the line. We may go through the

four seasons of that show at some point. Season

one would be one podcast, season two would be

another, so on and so forth. So just taking season

one of Telecast, for example, like let's say

Save by the Bell. Or Clarissa, but yeah. We did

the overview, we did the quick look at the who

is who and what they're doing now and interesting

trivia about it, et cetera, and our general thoughts

down memory lane about that. But if Save by the

Bell, for example, two people really wanted to

look at, then we could each watch all of season

one and then we would have one podcast where

we just kind of recap all of season one highlights,

lowlights, what we liked, what we didn't like,

general thoughts on that season. So that's kind

of how that would work. It's just a more of an

in -depth look with specific examples from episodes,

whereas these overview episodes, the general

episodes, you know, the host might have only

rewatched, you know, somewhere between three

to six episodes or something just to kind of

catch back up on it. Whereas the season pass

episodes, you'll watch an entire season. So exactly

that is how that's gonna work. So in the offseason

you will get the game show grotto and you'll

hear all about these classic game shows and that

will fill up the feed and give you some more

content as we prepare for season two of the telecast.

You might also get a couple season pass episodes

based on some of the season one content that

we did talk about. So we might get some test

season pass episodes along with the game show

grotto. So you'll have plenty of stuff still

being put into that feed during the off season.

Then we will get to season two and Lot of different

people have asked me what season 2 will cover

a lot of different people have asked if telecast

will cover this show that show or the other We

do plan on covering most shows that have been

mentioned, but we're doing them in order We're

doing them based on genres because that's what

I want to do and the second genre that we will

be covering We have titled season 2 the action

block. So season 2 will be all about action shows

from back in the 80s 90s, etc There will be one

other new thing that is introduced in season

two that will continue through the lifetime of

the telecast, something that we did not do in

season one. So I will give you a inside look

as to what that will be. So not only. What that

kid is that kid is so smelly. So so not only

will we have the the regular season two episodes,

the action block, which will consist of such

things as I'm just giving you a kind of a snippet

here. Hawaii Five -O, Magnum P .I., the A -Team

Miami Vice, my favorite show of all time, MacGyver.

21 Jump Street. Let's see here. Walker Texas

Ranger. Nash Bridges. Yeah, Nash Bridges. NYPD

Blue. Law and Order. So those are some of the

types of shows that you will see during season

two. Not all of them. There will actually be,

we had 35 episodes in season one. Season two

will consist of 37 episodes. So we'll have 37

different episodes. One of them will be the listener's

choice. One of them will be the wrap up. So we

have 35 different shows that we're covering.

The new thing that we're introducing also in

season two, for those people that are thinking

that some of their favorite shows are going to

be left out. We are doing something called rerun

episodes. So as we were watching TV in the 80s

and 90s, we were watching all these new shows,

you know, like I said, like when MacGyver was

brand new or when Hawaii Five -O was brand new.

But as happens when you watch TV, sometimes you

do get exposure to shows that are only being

aired in reruns. So even though they weren't

airing live in the 80s or 90s, we are having

rerun episodes where we can talk about stuff

that we might have seen even though it wasn't

live. I will run down the entire slate of season

two reruns right now for you. So if you're an

old school classic TV fan you're in luck because

we will be covering rerun episodes on the following.

Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Dragnet, Mission Impossible,

Starsky, and Hutch. All right so those are the

main ones that we'll be covering during season

two. And then of course there will be the Listener's

Choice episode which we'll lay out the rules

as season two opens. So that is what we're covering

in the action block. You can expect some tweaks

in the format a little bit. You can expect a

new theme song. You can expect maybe another

contest along the way, and we will still bring

back supplemental episodes. I'm not going to

tell you what they consist of, but we will have

some supplemental episodes throughout the action

block. Mike, thoughts or comments on season two?

I can't wait because I gotta say I can't wait

to see what you give up with for a new theme

song because I'm sorry I wanted to kill all three

of those damn characters I could by the time

season one ended I wanted to shoot the mouse

the chipmunk and the guy with the really deep

voice because I just could not stay in that theme

song after a while luckily for you I have made

it my goal for every season coming forward to

try to annoy you in different ways so I'm gonna

try to get worse so I'm not going to try to get

worse, but I am going to try to annoy you with

them. So we'll see what I come up with. I have

a whole off season to come up with it. What I

am kind of more excited for, I mean, I'm excited

for a lot of these discussions in the action

block. What I'm kind of a little bit more excited

for, specifically to my, one of my all time favorite

cop shows, I already mentioned it, Nash Bridges.

This month, as we're recording this, actually

10 days from when this episode airs, November

18th, 2014, Nash Bridges, the complete series,

finally, seasons four through six, along with

one through three, are going to be released on

DVD. So what I'm really excited about is doing

season passes for Telecast. That's really what

I'm... Definitely some of those happening. I

don't even care if I have to do... Well, I don't

know if I'll do the MacGyver ones or not, or

if I'll eventually do a MacGyver podcast or whatever.

But but there's a bunch of these that I actually

already own on DVD, so I will definitely be doing

those. And there will be an entire slate of season

two episodes and the whole kind of rundown made

as a blog during the offseason, probably as soon

as season one is completely done. I will put

a blog up there that gives you. a whole rundown

of all 37 episodes of Season 2 and what to expect.

So you can pick out your favorite ones and kind

of have a radar on for when those may be coming

up in the schedule because they're all numbered,

they're all in the order, so it's all good. All

right, anything else sir? Nope, that's it. Alrighty

then, so... I would like to thank TFG1 Mike for

being with me today as we wrapped up Season 1,

and of course I would like to thank you, the

listener, for joining us here on the telecast.

If you want to leave us feedback on the show,

your thoughts on Season 1 or your thoughts on

what you're hoping for in Season 2, something

you want to see come back, something you want

to see go away, any types of changes you may

want, now is the time to let your voice be heard

so that we can make some tweaks based on your

feedback for Season 2. If you don't speak, we

won't change anything. except for what I want

to change. All right. Wait a second here. I know

it's your show, but come on now. So you can do

that by going to this episode's posts. Go to

GeekCastRadio .com, find the season one wrap

up post, and make comments on that page so that

I can get your feedback. You can also continue

to rate our show and leave us feedback in iTunes.

Like we talked about, we have five star ratings

going on. We would love to get more voices on

iTunes as well. You can also keep up to date

with all things GeekCast related by becoming

a fan of us on Facebook. Mike will keep you up

to date. He'll give you a post there on when

the different things during the offseason are

happening, when the blog goes up for season two,

when season two is going to begin, if we're doing

any season passes, he'll put all of that on Facebook.

So if you become a fan of us on Facebook, you

will stay in the loop. All right. So I guess

that does it for now. Real quick, what's your

Twitter in case people want it? Do you have your

own mic? I mean in case and mine's optimus solo.

So mr Theme song contest winner You can tweet

me an optimus solo if you also have feedback

and you don't want to go to the web page You

can you can tweet me or figure out a way to send

me some email I'll give you that through a direct

message possibly. Alright, so that does it for

now We hope we succeeded in entertaining you

informing you and most importantly Unleashing

the geeking you on this episode of the telecast

and we hope that you will tune in for our next

episode When we will begin season two and we

also hope that you'll tune in during the offseason

to the game show grotto for now I'm your host

optimus solo with Do you have to remind and we

will see you next time on the telecast? There's

your stuff Ted Guys, I can't believe this is

happening. It's such a drag. Hey, hey, it's not

that bad. It's only summer school. And it's not

like it'll be forever. You go home, pass a few

courses before you know it, you'll be back at

the bar none. Yeah, I just can't help but think

that in a little while I'll just be another computer

chip in Mr. Ernst's file of former employees.

I'm sure gonna miss you. Me too. Yeah, it's not

gonna be the same without our good old Ted. Ted,

come on, let's go. Yeah, I'll be there in a second,

Mr. Ernst. Okay, Ted. Come on. Well, guys, I

hate long goodbyes. See you. See ya. Bye. Ted?

I, um, I just wanted to... I'm gonna miss you.

I'll be back, okay? there's something I have

to do. Yeah. Now what? Well, I gotta say goodbye

to Gertrude. So say goodbye. Yeah, well, I'd

like to do it with a song. A song? Yeah, yeah,

I've written out the lyrics here. It's called

Goodbye to Gertrude. And I wrote it myself. And

I'd like it if you'd all sing along with me.

Oh, of course. I'll sing with you, Sam. Oh, dear

friend, I'd be proud to sing with you. Gertrude.

It's the least I can do. Great. Oh, brother,

a song to a car. Gertrude, old girl, my heart's

in a whirl. Cause these goodbyes are hard to

come by. We'll try not to cry as we say goodbye.

Stop singing, Jody. I don't think I want to buy

a car from a man who wouldn't sing goodbye to

my old Gertrude. Gertrude, old girl, my heart's

in a whirl. Because these goodbyes are hard to

come by We'll try not to cry as we say goodbye

While you're more than a car, you're like a friend

And that's why I hate to see this long road end

While we've traveled through blizzards, through

fog and through ice And we've criss -crossed

this whole country once or twice We got only

one ticket in all of those years From that big

traffic jam when I jammed your gears Gertrude,

old girl, my heart's in a whirl Cause these goodbyes

are hard to come by We'll try not to cry as we

say goodbye Remember the time that I forgot your

break And you almost drifted right into the lake

You waited at the church For me and my bride

You gave the new Mrs. Crenshaw her very first

ride All of those memories go back such a long

way They make this goodbye so hard to say Gertrude,

old girl, my heart's in a whirl Cause these goodbyes

are hard to come by We'll try not to cry as we

say we'll