NES Classic, Go90, and Netflix Changes

You are tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

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

your host, Steve Megatron Phillips, and joining

me in this episode is... Dear Joe and Mike. Yes,

yes. Another week... is here. Another week and

you still don't have a job. No. As you would

notice, there was no Tuesday episode this week.

I didn't have time to record it. I was too busy

looking for jobs. Because that essentially is

my job now. Is looking for jobs. Not what I want

to spend my time doing. I would like to work.

So, yeah. I'm on week two. This is not the way

I saw things going. I did have an interview,

which... I went through two interviews and then

by the end of it I get an email saying I was

not chosen and I was like, oh, that's... That

sucks, dude. I was like, um, yeah, I wasn't really

looking forward to this at all. I was kind of

hoping that I would have gotten something, but

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Well, as of this recording, July 3rd was the

first time in 15 years that I saw a theory of

a dead man live. I had originally seen them when

I was living in Louisville, Kentucky at a place

called Jillian's. They were opening for... Three

doors down at that time. It was them and 12 stones

and both of those bands 12 stones and theory

of a dead man basically debuted the year before

in 2002 I actually know the drummer from 12 stones

He worked at a Mississippi radio station when

I was living down there at the time But it's

been up until you know July 3rd It had been about

15 years since I've seen him live absolutely

loved the band So that was super fun Karen and

I went to that the other night Fun little outdoor

show at the Great Lakes Naval Base here, so very

very cool So I've been doing that slowly, but

surely working on podcasts Optimus O and I are

Getting Masters in Space done, but we ran into

a snag episode 96 poof, it's gone. We don't know

what the hell happened to it. I don't know if

I didn't record it. I know we did it. I know

we sat down this past December and recorded it.

I think it was obviously after the wedding and

the honeymoon, the mini honeymoon that Karen

and I took, but it's not where it's supposed

to be. It's nowhere else. I did a complete search

of my computer. I even did the... the backend

type of searching that you can do on computers

and I cannot find the damn thing anywhere. So

I drove myself nuts for two days dealing with

that. And then on June 29th, the NES Classic

returned. I don't know how long ago this was,

but there was an episode of Altered Geek where

Michael Powers had mentioned that he had an extra

SNES Classic. And I'm like, oh, hey, cool. So

as soon as he said that, and he said, I'll probably

just, you know, I'll sell it eventually, or I'll

just leave it lying around, or whatever it was

that he said at the time. Soon as he said that,

I stopped the podcast, and I messaged him immediately.

I'll take it. Tell me what you want for it. So

huge thanks to Booth Ninja. I have a SNES Classic.

I've had that for, I don't know, most of this

year, I believe. I think we got it. Yeah, we

got it right out since about March or so. We

got it right as we bought the new house that

we bought. Karen's like, well, Super Nintendo's

really not my thing. I like the original NES,

and I'm like, okay, well, there's one of those

too, but who knows where you can get one now,

because that isn't the third party screwed with.

and i've never put any faith like i put less

faith i put more faith in ebay and less faith

in facebook marketplace anything else we found

one on facebook marketplace she really really

wanted it i'm like it doesn't look right First

of all, it did not come with 202 controllers.

It did not have 500 games There's something wrong

with this we get the thing home It opens up to

a screen that says Chinese or English and English

was the second language choice. Okay, whatever

After that we it's basically just a list of games

and it's 500 games and I'm like Super Mario Angry

Birds. What the hell is this? What this is a

I was super salty about the whole thing. I was

Felt like so much we paid 50 bucks, which is

fine. Whatever but It's like damn it. I wanted

the real thing and then they had announced that

hey, it's coming back. So On june twenty nine

actually june twenty eight is when i had placed

my order cuz it was like right at midnight central

time which is obviously one am eastern time but.

According to my my receipt from game stop online

i have it as june twenty eight anyway. We got

it, it took me a couple of refreshes on the site

to be able to actually select it. I got it, I

did it, and whatever, and oh man, I love that

thing. The problem for me is, I've been playing

Super Mario All -Stars for so long, it's hard

going back to Super Mario Bros. 3 when it's not

the All -Star version. But yeah, so I now have

a NES and a SNES classic, yay there. Just continually

trying to get podcast on You know house stuff

and all of that are one Karen and I's one year

anniversary is coming up As far as how long we've

been together. So that's that'll come up next

month Yeah, just try to stay sane Yeah, that's

very difficult to do. Mm -hmm. Your theme song

right now is Cypress Hill What's that? Insane

in the brain! No. Yeah. I've got too much time

on my hands. Yup. Oh, yeah, it's quite sad. I'm

not enjoying this at all. Like, I enjoy the family

interaction right now, but... Well, yeah, obviously.

And I'm getting random things done, like, just

around the house, just things done. but it's

eating at me. Like I feel like I've been betrayed

of like the ultimate source just because like,

I don't know, it's kind of almost like this weird

ego thing, but not really. It's like a pride

thing. The fact that I was laid off, not because,

you know, I did anything wrong, but I mean. I

mean, that's comforting in that sense. Like,

I did my job well, but if I did my job that well,

why did I get laid off? Like, it just doesn't,

like, it's kind of eating at me. Like, I've,

I had like a mental snap the other day on Facebook.

I'm like, look, I was trying to keep this quiet

in hopes that I got this other job. It didn't

happen. And so I was sitting there and I'm like,

I need help. And so I've had this flood of emails

and in kind words and conversations from people

giving suggestions as far as like jobs to look

for or compromises to make. And I get it. There

may come a point where I'm going to have to just

take something to take something. And I accept

that. But for the moment, I'm not like that desperate.

I'm still trying to find a full -time job and

I'm still trying to find something in media.

If I could get a part -time job in media at this

point, I would take it. Just so I could get my

foot in the door. Because a lot of the time,

they hire part -time and then you have to work

your way into full -time. Which, like I said,

at this point, it's preferable to working at

Art Van or McDonald's or something like that.

I would much rather go into my field and work

part -time. Mm -hmm, then you know work somewhere

else like I've had people suggest you know the

post office FedEx and granted There's nothing

wrong with any of these jobs. It's just I've

got this degree, and it really kills me I'm not

using it um So like I'm trying to find work in

that so now I'm going through like trying to

find recruiters and trying to find all that stuff

so And I've been through like every job. I'm

like indeed which my my college They use this

college board thing for alumni to use. And it

links to Indeed listings under your degree. The

only problem with that is I've already applied

to all of them outside of it. So it didn't make

a difference. And the problem with applying online,

and this was something I discovered this week,

was you apply online, they get thousands of entries

for these. So it's information overload. So nobody

actually gets all of the resumes that are sent

in. However, if you go into the business that

is hiring for these positions and has it online,

they'll accept your resume, but they promptly

tell you to go apply online. So it's like a catch

22. You're kind of screwed either way. So you're

ultimately at the mercy of the machine and the

machine is broken. Yep. Just imagine though,

dude, 20 years ago, having you just hit the pavement

and do it. So at least with the online job search

things, at least you can do it from a comfort

of your own. It's easier in that sense, but it's

also more difficult because there's no face to

face, there's no personal interaction, so that

means that nobody cares who you are. That's true.

You're just another piece of paper. It's easier

to cut ties with it, whereas if you're standing

in front of the person doing the interview, it

gives you that personal interaction. I think

it's kind of a lost skill because I've done phone

interviews and I've knocked them out of the park.

The only problem is that somebody has one extra

thing on me that I don't have usually. And, you

know, I never find out why I didn't get the job,

even though the phone interviews go really well.

So it's, I don't know, it's kind of annoying

in a sense, like just because I remember applying

to physical jobs where I walked in, I filled

out an application and I handed a resume and

then I got hired. It wasn't like this big Hoopla

that you got to go through now, which is kind

of annoying so Yeah, that's what I've been doing

Yeah learning the ins and outs and and so like

in some of them they if you contact them get

a little annoyed that you're contacting them

like it's it's just You're kind of at the mercy

of the machine and like I said the machines not

fully functional But Very true. I plan to call

some that I applied for, so hopefully I get something.

There you go. So moving on to something a little

bit nicer. Well, not so nice, but still different.

When are the fireworks gonna stop, because holy

crap. I know. Oh wow, that was a big one. Yeah,

I... We actually didn't go this year. We went

and met my family, although I did have something...

not cool happen. We were swimming in a family

member's pond and it goes down like 17 feet and

I was using the water camera and then we were

messing around on the dock trying to push each

other in the water and the water camera strap

broke. And the water camera went tumbling to

the bottom of the 17 -foot pool. Oh, jeez. Or

pond. And so that's where our camera lies to

this moment. As of this afternoon, which sucks

because I got pictures of the boys' first fish

that they caught. Oh, sweet. And I was like,

oh, that's great. And then I'm like, oh, that

sucks because the camera's at the bottom of the

water and there's no way to get it back because...

You have to be able to see, and none of us could

get down there far enough. See, this is why I

don't swim in lakes, rivers, streams, ponds,

anything. It's either a pool or it's a hot tub

or nothing. And by pool, I mean in -ground, not

this above -ground crap. Yeah, well, it's technically

an in -ground pool. It's just a pond. They had

it cleaned out recently, and it's, yeah, so...

I'm a little sad that our camera's at the bottom

of the water. Plus we lost pictures from my birthday

when we went to a water park because I forgot

to bring it in the house and just dump it to

the PC. So I think my next one's going to have

Wi -Fi so it automatically dumps to my Google

Cloud when I bring it in the house. Oh wow. So,

yeah. Yeah, it's been a fun two weeks. Did you

hear they finally cast Goose's son in Top Gun

2? Who's that? I don't know, some kid. Some kid?

That's all you got? Probably. You bring it up

and you're like, hey, did you hear they cast

him? I don't know. Yeah, I've not even... Here's

some blasphemy for you. Haven't seen the first

movie all the way through what yeah You're like

you're like no, no, that's that's terrible dude

miles teller is the boy's name. I don't know

he was in the It's got the other it's got that

actress that can't act That could be any number

of people. It could be. Miles Teller was also

the dude that was Mr. Fantastic in the failed

Fantastic Four. Reboot? Yeah, the reboot. He

was in Divergent. Oh, okay. Yeah. He was in Whiplash,

though. He was really good in Whiplash. I don't

normally go for that kind of movie, but it had

J .P. Simmons in it, so it was really awesome.

But yeah, that doesn't surprise me. He's been

trying to get something better than every action

movie He's been in has kind of been To this point

so I Hope that God they changed the name of the

movie though. What is it currently called? Top

Gun maverick Like, can't you just call it Top

Gun 2? Doesn't have to be Top Gun Maverick. I

mean... Everyone's calling it Top Gun 2. I know,

but I'm looking at IMDB. Well, IMDB is not always

correct. That's obviously true. Well, but this

Yahoo article does say Top Gun Maverick. Mm -hmm.

Cruz will be running the Flight Academy while

he looks... barely changed by time in the first

promo photo that Cruz showed back in May. The

film would reflect how much the world has changed

since the original debut in 1986. Cruz and company

including Valtemur will be working amid drone

technology. Fifth generation fighters in the

end of the era of dog fighting as reboot director

revealed last fall. Yeah, so it sounds interesting.

So I'll probably watch them both like back to

back. It sounds interesting, but like, I don't

know. I kind of wish they would have announced

Meg Ryan to come back at some point because she

was Goose's mother. So that would be kind of

cool if she was back. Or she was. She would be

Goose's son's mother, obviously, because they

were together in the first film. I don't know.

I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. The other thing

that's kind of a bummer is Go 90. I was getting

ready to check for the new Prime Wars, Power

of the Primes last episode of the trilogy. Although

they'll probably do another trilogy after this,

who knows. It is run by Machinima for the most

part, produced by it. But I was looking at the

top of the page and it said 7 -30, July 30th,

Go 90 will no longer be available. And I was

like, why? And it says that it was being rolled

into Oath, Verizon's subcompany, which also owns

Yahoo and AOL. Which Oath just recently killed

Yahoo Messenger for the month of July and killed

AOL Messenger back in April. Which I didn't even

know Verizon owned them. I just knew that they

owned Yahoo and AOL. So it's kind of interesting

that they're rolling everything into this oath

product which just sounds strange and and I mean

it's all Verizon owns so like it just doesn't

make sense you know let's roll another one of

our products into another sub company instead

of keeping what we have exactly it's just I don't

know it's granted I don't I'm not all that thrilled

with the way that they're oh go 90 is set up

Like cuz it kind of jumps random episodes of

different shows Mmm, when you get done with one

this is up next and then it just jumps to another

random show like there's no What I usually do

is I will add like there are two series on there

that I absolutely love one is called relationship

status The other is called Zack and Mia and no

there has nothing to do with pornos or any Kevin

Smith kind of crap But like Just saved the series

to my favorites and then I start watching them

and it shows them in order It shows the episodes

in order. So same thing with the Prime Wars stuff

I added those three series to my favorites and

I went through what's the it's not the What's

the first one that it's? Yes, thank you return

and then Prime Wars. Yeah, so I watched all of

You Combiner Wars Played that of course. I'm

finally watching them on a smartphone again,

so But it played them all the way through in

the proper order, so I don't know what you're

doing wrong Well, no it plays the episodes in

the proper order, but when you're actually watching

said episode mm -hmm it brings up a prompt oh

At the bottom it just it picks the next show

that plays after So yeah So yeah, that'll kind

of be a little bit strange when that goes away.

Although, it kind of sucks too, like I said,

because that's the only place I know of to watch

the Transformers stuff. Yeah, I think the only

other place it's posted is the machinima website.

Which I think may be the only avenue at this

point. Had my phone in here I could check but

I don't have my phone in my office right now.

It's in the other room And as if everyone couldn't

tell I'm kind of dying between losing my voice

coughing and everything else I Don't know Life

is making me old now Yep. Yep. You're old. Yep.

Yep. Yep. I know Trust me, dude, you're you're

getting there. You're only six years behind me.

So I'm not there yet. You're close enough although

I have quite a bit of gray hair, but that's mostly

because You should be pulling all of that out

so you can start, you know getting roles as dr.

Scratch and sniff uh... and i i just i don't

even know what to do anymore uh... and uh...

uh... i'm still what like so you know you talked

about last time i was on here about summer watching

stuff and whatever else uh... i don't know i'm

pretty sure you didn't if you did it might only

been one episode then you probably never watched

again if anyone's ever watched the o c from fox

Okay, well Point is one of the stars of that

series had gone on to do another series and her

name is Rachel Billson She now has a new midseason

series. It's called take two where a TV Psychologist

police officer, whatever basically loses her

role and she has to actually become police officer

or something. It looks really cool. It looks

fun and interesting. I don't know how long it'll

last. I think it's ABC. I could be wrong. I don't

remember off the top of my head. So yeah, I've

been diving deeper into Hulu over the summer

because there's just nothing to watch, so. Yeah,

I'm not even really watching a whole lot of Television

at this point. Yeah, so yeah Yeah, I was right.

It's ABC for take two. So it's a fun little premise

kind of thing. I started watching Karen and I

started watching reverie on NBC. It's with Sarah

Shahi who played Sean person of interest That's

pretty good It's you'd actually probably like

it. It's Dealing with technology and almost virtual

reality kind of a thing and So that's fun I'm

trying to think what else like I keep up with

the news, but I don't really like Half the stuff

I'm sharing like from my Google feed on my phone

is like oh I'm gonna I want to look at this,

but I can't look at it right now I want to go

back to it, and I never go back to it. It's like

I'll share three stories within an hour, and

I'm like What was I supposed to be doing what

was I supposed to be looking at cuz just nothing

I don't know I Mean, I'm very happy with where

my life is and where Karen and I are and all

that and everything else but like I Don't pay

attention to half the crap anymore. I don't know,

you know, I just Well, there is that I mean,

you know I think that has a lot to do with it.

We just don't want to. We're old curmudgeons

at this point. Yes, we are. We've been going

to both LA Fitness and the Hunt Club Aquatic

Center here in the town that we live in. So we

basically just do the swimming stuff. We basically

just sit in the pool, sit in the hot tub or whatever.

If we're at the Aquatic Center, we move around

and things like that and whatever. Getting a

heck of a lot more exercise than I used to, so

there's that. Yeah, I'm getting a lot more exercise

too, considering 90 % of my day used to consist

of sitting in front of a desk. Oh, man. I'm learning

new things though. That's good. Yeah. I'm also

trying to build out my SCP -21 studios to try

and... do side work and trying to, as soon as

I get it done, have Mary go around and be my

manager, salesperson, to find me work. Very cool.

As, you know, for my design skills and everything

else. So, yeah, I'm building that out right now.

It's not a lot of fun to do on the back end of

the site because I'm going in the store front

and do it as well so that people can do virtual.

stuff on that but yeah it's it's something we're

messing with very cool San Diego Comic Con is

right around the corner July 19th to the 22nd

and Bleeding Cool has all of the Funko SDCC exclusives

listed Two of the ones I'm really interested

in is Stinkor and Ramman from their Masters of

the Universe Funko Pops. The Stinkor Funko Pop

is actually going to be scented like the old

toy was. That's very cool. Other things coming

out from them, they're going to do a Justice

League Flash 3 -pack. So that would be kind of

cool. They're going to do a Kyle Rayner White

Lantern thing. They're going to be doing Deadpool

as a cheerleader, okay then. And I think Marvel

Studios 10, Iron Man Mark 1, so there's that.

Yeah, I'm kind of boring nowadays, folks. Yep,

you are. Yep, I am. Yeah, I mean some of these

look interesting as far as their differences

in the Funko Pops. Yep. And then they've got

like some other ones that like, Ren and Stimpy

down there at the bottom. I don't know why anyone

would ever buy a Ren and Stimpy anything anymore.

Good draw, Baba Louie. Those actually look like

Cartoon. Yep. Oh yeah, Funko always goes for

the... accurate kind of a thing. So how about

what's hitting Netflix in July? On July 1st we

have a multiple titles, Jurassic Park 1 and 3,

Menace to Society, Scooby -Doo and Scooby -Doo

2, the live -action ones. Stealth. Hey look an

Adam Sandler films fanglish and Adam Sandler

film. It's actually good unlike whatever he's

doing now Happy Gilmore That's true coming to

coming to Netflix. That's true. They've got get

smart. That's a Steve Carell movie. Yep Scream

for Van Helsing, yep, and that's crazy. That's

Hugh Jackman in there. Yes it is Oh Shameless

season 8 good we can cancel our showtime thing

on on Hulu and Karen can just watch it on there

anyway Leaving Netflix in July. Oh boy all of

the bring it on movies, which no one's gonna

No one's gonna miss those no Lethal Weapon all

of them are leaving I thought they were all on

Hulu now. That's probably where they're at now

Yeah, okay, so it's crazy that I just found this

recently obviously it was probably July 1st that

cocktail is now on Hulu So I know where that

Tom Cruise movie went Midnight in Paris is leaving

mixed signals is leaving pandemic is leaving

anyone that one that wants to watch pandemic

Go away Yeah. Ratchet and clank. Yeah. Yeah,

there's a decent amount of stuff. I don't know

about you, but I've never had Amazon. We do.

We actually just switched it because they're

like, oh, we're going to up the price. We were

paying monthly and we're now paying yearly for

Amazon prime We mainly use it for the shit the

two -day shipping than anything else But I've

looked at some of the prime video things and

I've watched some of it, but I have not like

fully dived into it. So Yeah, I I thought about

it, but I was like I Tried it out once I signed

up for it and then I was like this kind of is

not really what I was expecting Yeah So yeah,

I dumped it promptly. I mean, I've had Netflix

before and even that I wasn't quite thrilled

with or happy with. I felt like it was lacking

in some ways. Yeah. In some ways it is and in

other ways it isn't. It just depends on what

you want to watch. How about the Connors 10 possible

storylines for ABC's Roseanne -less spin -off?

I heard they're going to basically sheen her.

They're going to, you know, Charlie Harper her,

yeah. Do we really need the Connors? Like, do

we really need this family again? I don't think

so, but I do think that the only beneficial part

of having the show is John Goodman having him

in the show because I feel like that dude gets

shafted more often than not on television. Oh

yeah. So yeah, I think that he kind of deserves

to get the limelight in the show considering

she killed him off in the last series. Yep. So

it's about time he gets his revenge. Yep. How

about your buddy and mine? Ace Ventura the mask

did we talk about this? I don't remember if we

talked about this or not Jim Carey is going to

be playing the Sonic villain Robotnik aka Eggman

That's kind of fitting. I don't think I don't

see it. I don't see it in if it was animated

maybe but I'm good with it. I'm really good with

it. I Because I like anything Jim Carrey does

I I'm like I What is that movie? It's it's a

remake but he's in it It's like one of my favorite

like Jim Carrey movies, but it's it's even more

Important to me right now just because of the

significance of it The number 23 no, it's Fun

with dick and Jane. Oh, yeah, okay Because it's

about a dude that works in a high profile company

gets laid off Yeah company goes under shortly

thereafter And then he like sticks it to him

by the end of the movie, but I like it more so

just because the fact that it's a Jim Carrey

movie and it's funny, but there's the other part

of it. Not that I have any ill will against my

previous employer, because I don't, but it resonates

with me of the part where he gets laid off unwittingly,

and then he's going to job interviews and it's

just failing miserably. And that's kind of like

the same boat I see this time right now. So it

resonates with me right now on that. So just

for that, I feel like I have to go back and watch

it. Wow. Speaking of going back and watching

things, how about the futuristic Taco Bell from

Demolition Man is coming to San Diego Comic -Con

this year? What's the significance of that? It

was the only restaurant to survive whatever apocalypse

happened in the movie Demolition Man. So, Taco

Bell was open late and therefore wiped out the

rest of the fast food industry? Okay, so in the

movie, there was... I haven't seen the movie

in like... Okay, well I'm telling you in the

movie there apparently was franchise wars and

Taco Bell was the only one to survive it well

There's going to be a demolition man Taco Bell

pop -up restaurant in San Diego during comic

-con for the film's 25th anniversary And it will

come complete with nacho fries if you're going

to comic -con this should be a fun little experience

But if there's a long ass line to get into Taco

Bell food you can forget it It sounds like you've

got like a drumming crew behind you like I know

giving you your own theme song Hey, there you

go. That works which which just sounds awesome

In the background it's just great So I've been

having fun watching the reports on this particular

show, Reboot the Guardian Code, and I've kind

of followed that on this podcast through the

announcements and through everything else, but

having watched the first half, the first season,

this is like the second half of the first season,

they're calling it season two, but it's the second

half first season, because the first half was

10 episodes, second half's 10 episodes. Where

they melded they almost pulled the Tron and Melded

tried to meld the original reboot with like a

bunch of other series Essentially using the reboot

name in a bastardization version of the show

The cliches and the the writing is horrendous

because it's so predictable It's it's almost

like belittling and disgusting because I Acknowledge

the fact that it's made for kids now, but if

kids are that stupid And I say that with with

the utmost kindness because When we were kids

we were giving a lot more intelligent storylines

Oh, yeah, then what they're giving kids now,

which I feel is a disservice to modern age kids

unless they really are Unable to put two and

two together then that's pretty sad Because I

sat there in the first episode and I put together

the fact that the sorcerer is the main character's

dad and They revealed in the last episode of

the series or a season or thereabouts the second

last maybe that The lead character runs into

the sorcerer and then says dad and then he has

a glitch out moment and then recognizes him says

his name and then glitches back to the sorcerer

and runs off and uh they reveal that the dad

was killed in some lab explosion and what happened

is there's a bio uh basically generator type

thing so like essentially what happened is he

created his own version of clue Oh interesting

the dad did like he the program when it Duplicated

him it when he cloned himself in the the software

he was infected by dark code and During the explosion

the real dad was killed and so this alternate

version was 3d printed into a real -life persona

And so therefore was trying to demolish the internet

from then on and he resurrected megabyte which

explains why he knew how to access the original

show to get megabyte out of mainframe and so

like it's I Called it. I didn't call the exact

thing that happened But I knew that it was his

dad from the get -go like it was just too obvious

mmm, and so like it was just it's I don't know,

some of the writing is really bad. I'm still

waiting to see the second half, but this is just

stuff that I've seen people talking about in

the forums that I've been in. And the funny thing

is that the reviews on this show are unbearably

bad. Unless it's done by somebody directly tied

to the production. Which is the other way, it

has five stars. Like everybody else is giving

it one to two stars out of five and anybody that's

in the actual production Or tied to the company

in some way gives it a five out of five They

don't utilize their their social media properly

their marketing campaign is terrible Netflix

recently announced that they're doing away with

the the rating the review system for shows So

like you used to be able to write contributed

reviews to Netflix shows And it says that they've

been sending out emails now saying that This

message here of you contributed a review on Netflix

within the last year We wanted to let you know

that this feature will be retired on June 30th

due to declining usage We appreciate you taking

time to write a review all of your reviews will

be available at Netflix comm slash reviews through

July 30th In other words, they're gonna delete

it all by the end of it. So It's yeah It's just

kind of funny like these whole star ratings and

like the review system that they're just not

doing it anymore because Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB

are the kind of the go -to numbers to go to and

I think they were trying to capitalize on that

before Yeah, even though I find both inaccurate

Mainly Rotten Tomatoes, but that's because I

see it as, I mean, we've talked about this ad

nauseam before, but I see the critic reviews

as total garbage compared to the general audience

reviews. Because it's usually polar opposite.

Yeah, the Rotten Tomatoes system is like, hey,

Rotten Tomatoes feels like this is a 28 % whereas

the users on Rotten Tomatoes feel like this is

a 77 % or whatever it is. I don't know. I've

done iTunes reviews before for albums and for

movies and for podcasts and things like that.

No, I never understood the Netflix review things

like does anybody really read any of those really

like you're what like Okay, perfect example I'm

actually gonna open my Netflix right now on my

computer. Okay Why would anyone on Netflix be

looking at reviews of let's say Arrow season

one or What's something older I have in my queue

here? White collar from USA Network or... The

original, okay, here you go. Original Ghostbusters

film. Why would anyone read a review I write

on Netflix on the original Ghostbusters film

when they can just either watch the film themselves

and either like it or dislike it or they've already

seen the film like I have a million times and

already know that they enjoy it. Like, I understand

the star rating or the thumbs up or whatever

it is that Netflix has currently. Okay, I'm looking

at a show that isn't in my queue, so. I'm looking

at Criminal Minds. They have a thumbs up now.

The star ratings are essentially gone right now

on my Netflix. It's just the thumbs up that's

all that's there. I don't know. Makes no sense

to me. None of it does. I understand Rotten Tomatoes

and Metacritic and whatever because that's...

How movies get popular and don't get popular

but other than that it's like Why do you need

a video service to have a rating system? When

you're only gonna put stuff in the queue that

you actually want to watch like I don't put Just

cuz something's new on Netflix. I don't just

put it in my queue Just because that makes no

sense Yeah, I I used to add stuff that I thought

I would watch at some point. But yeah, it just

kind of depended. Yeah. I don't know. And I use

Netflix still. I use it for shows that aren't

anywhere else other than there kind of a thing.

Like I said, the CW shows right now are there,

so that's the place I get those. I use a bunch

of stuff, like I use my Xfinity account for most

of the stuff, I use Hulu, I use Amazon Prime.

Sadly, I don't know if I can even use Go 90 to

watch any of their original programming anymore

after the end of this month, but you know. Because

that's the thing. Like you were mentioning earlier

about the Go 90 shutdown and oath, you know,

whatever. It's like, so what happens to the Go

90 programming? Is it going to be completely

gone? Or is oath going to just have it to have

it without making new content for whatever shows

I enjoy? Like, I hate that crap. I really, really

hate that crap. It's like, give us an answer.

Like, I know I should wait since that news just

kind of dropped recently. to see what's going

to happen with it, but it's like, no, if you're

going to be shutting it down, tell us what's

going to happen with the content that's already

there. Yeah, I totally agree with you. I don't

know, it's kind of crazy. Yeah, the whole thing's

crazy. But yeah, it's funny because they... They

kind of made this this whole thing of I'm trying

to find where I had it Mostly because I lost

the link But they said that that Netflix is kind

of The the top I think they had like 20 or 39

percent of the the market now over cable Wow,

which is which is just crazy Yeah, which is just

friggin insane because like I Had it they said

it's more popular than Than cable at this point

Okay, I can understand it being more popular

than cable simply because hello if you pay for

a subscription It's ad free I get that or whatever

like I mean even some of the Hulu stuff and I

pay for Hulu There is like one little Like network

ad in the beginning, but that's not really an

ad. It's just though Logo kind of a thing, but

it's one of those things where I understand why

people think it's more popular Because cable

you still have commercials. It's it's broadcast

TV It's cable television wherever you want to

call it and yes if you DVR something you can

fast forward the Kate the the commercials and

all that but I don't know, but even Netflix,

some of the shows that you watch on there, you

cannot fast forward them. I've never not been

able to fast forward Netflix. Some of their original

content you cannot. Okay, the original content

maybe, but like I just mentioned a couple shows,

like White Collar from USA. uh... breaking bad

from a m c whenever i was watching those i was

able to first like you're right probably the

original content you probably can't because it's

netflix's original content and they want you

to actually watch it but i don't subscribe to

netflix for their original content i'm not saying

that it's bad or whatever The Voltron's great,

a couple of the other shows I've checked out

on there are great, but I subscribe to Netflix

to have the CW shows, to have movies like Thor

Ragnarok, which I never saw in theaters, to finally

be able to see The Last Jedi, Star Wars The Last

Jedi, which we talked about whenever it was that

I was on here last. You know, I don't subscribe

to Netflix for their original content. Just like

I don't pay for Hulu for its original content.

I pay for it so I can see Whatever shows I'm

watching ad free. Yeah, and you know not on Television

and there are a lot of stuff that I watch on

on it on on Xfinity So it's not like I'm never

watching commercials But that's why I subscribe

to Netflix and Hulu is for stuff that you know

I can go on Netflix right now and I can watch

Mortal Kombat from 1995 You know, that's what

I pay for Netflix for So yep, they It's funny

enough because they say Netflix has and they

did this this survey between 18 to 34 year olds

Netflix has thirty nine point seven percent of

the market YouTube has 17 Basic cable twelve

point six other is eight point seven Hulu has

seven point six broadcast seven point five premium

cable three point five and Amazon video three

point four Which is kind of an interesting set

of numbers when you think about it. Yeah, but

that's the 18 to 34 market. How about the 35

to 40 or the 35 to 55? See, that's the thing

I would be interested in seeing. That's the real

problem I have with a lot of these ratings and

how they come up with how things are popular

or not now. They're basically targeting, which

they should be. I'm not saying they shouldn't

be, but the basic target market. is eighteen

to thirty four well i haven't been thirty four

in forever at this point so like i'm not even

there yet i know yeah uh... yeah you're still

in the target range in the target range that

doesn't mean that i'd like netflix no no i don't

like cable more though yeah but see like for

me it's not just about solely not it's about

any of the television things like saying, oh,

this is the 18 to 34 market. This is the, you

know, like when the hub was around, oh, we're

marketing to six to 12 year olds or we're doing

this or we're doing that. Well, I'm sorry. No

current six to 12 year old right now. Any child

that's anywhere from the ages of six to 12 years

of age right now is going to know nothing about

Alf or Family Ties or Cosby Show or whatever.

Unless their parents show them like, you know

what when when the hub was around my biggest

thing besides Transformers Prime on their network

was Being able to watch all the old shows that

I used to be able to watch when I was a kid Which

you know Alf was a big staple there for four

years. So I Don't know. It's it's all just frustrating

and it's nuts and it's whatever like how about

seeing numbers for like I just said the the 35

to 59 market or whatever like you know that that

can you know whatever kind of market I don't

know no I totally get it I just yeah it's it's

it's just kind of mind -boggling Yeah, this information

like there's there's a lot missing as well. So

I mean it's kind of well obviously Yeah, yeah,

and it's like, you know how the kids today are

like, oh let's Netflix and chill Well, you know

old people can do that too folks. It's not just

kids that are saying that yeah You have to Netflix

and cheer get off my lawn, yeah So I don't know,

is there anything else we want to cover? I think

we've taken this train wreck down the tracks

long enough. I don't even think Doc Brown could

save this one. We have to go back to the future.

Next Saturday night, I'm sending you back to

the future. I guess I could bring up one other

thing as of this recording. We have recorded

MWIRE 200 and that show will be slowly retired

because there will be a few bonus episodes here

and there, but movie we can review the movie

podcast that you and I started nine years ago

with the GCRN is coming to an end. So we recorded

that. Yeah, it's sad. It's OK. Yeah, it's. It's

one less thing we have to do. That is true. That

is true. I'm sorry, folks. Thank you to everyone

who ever listened to M -Wire. I said it on that

episode, I'll say it here. Anyone that ever checked

out Movie Week in Review, anyone that ever listened

to almost every episode, thank you so much. Yes,

thank you, thank you, thank you, and I'm sorry

at the same time. Hey, did you know? That we

should record in all things transformers next

week Okay, why I just recorded one this week

with Beatles diva. You should record one with

me. There's there's some interesting news No,

yes, we know Megatron's three hundred and fifteen

dollars. No, that's not it They've got information

on cyber verse. Oh, yeah, I saw oh no I saw the

article about who was going to be in the show

and the fact that Hot Rod is in the picture,

but I did not actually... Prime, Bumblebee, Windblade,

Wheeljack, Ratchet, Grimlock, Hot Rod, Prowl,

and Blur, and then Decepticons, Megatron, Starscream,

Thundercracker, who hasn't been in a show in

decades, Shadowstriker, Shockwave, whatever,

they must have lost the Shockwave name, Slipstream,

Soundwave, and Acidstorm. Hmm acid storm must

be in place of like sky warp Maybe because it's

another seeker just a different version mmm So

yeah, it's it's a little crazy plus and we aren't

good I was gonna say plus the toys have started

coming out for it, but Yeah, we should probably

wait until after comic -con because who knows

what the hell they're gonna announce a comic

-con when these comic -con July 19th to the 22nd,

I said it at the beginning of this episode. Yes,

my brain is fried. I know. It's, yeah. I've said

Megatron is not so sensitive. He needs work,

people. Send him work. He can do voices, he can

do web design, he can do whatever. Just start

paying the man. The man needs money. That's right.

The man has a family. That's right. The man's

going crazy. That's right. If people pay me,

I'll record more. Exactly. Ah, man. It's time

to call it a night. So until next time, get altered,

get geeky with the Altered Geeks.