Star Wars Rankings, Samsung Galaxy S9, and Patreon Fees

You are tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

Geek Hello and welcome to Altered Geek I'm your

host Steve and C Phillips and as always thank

you for tuning in So what's new with you guys

this week for me? We trying out this little experiment

with Altered Geek and there'll be one that releases

after this episode actually Kind of the key element

there is I am able to record multiple 20 -minute

segments, give or take a few minutes, but as

we kind of mentioned in that first one, it's

to kind of break down the topics and hit some

of the things that are floating about and kind

of buzzworthy on the interwebs at that particular

time. That people may be going bananas over such

as the Fox Disney thing the Star Wars or You

know just fun topics like the SNES just kind

of looking for light fun topics To discuss things

with and we'll be recording more of those And

I'll kind of intersperse them throughout the

week having maybe one or two of those release

a week with one of these full -blown episodes

here so Yeah, we're on the the cusp of Christmas

In fact when the next episode of this show releases

it'll be just before New Year's so Man it's hard

to believe the year is flown by that quickly.

I'm I'm so Excited for the prospects of 2018

and for 2017 to be over with all of the massive

hatred on on social media and all of the Butthurt

over everything Not saying anything derogatory

against any particular group or people just it's

there's just been a lot of butthurt online But

yeah, it's it's been an interesting year I Saw

Star Wars as I mentioned in the the previous

episode that was released a few days ago In case

people hadn't listened to that and I think that

the film Was really well done for the most part

it did destroy everything we knew and didn't

know I have since read articles pertaining to

the film and There really isn't anything that

States what the force can or cannot do there's

there's probabilities of things for the next

film. I mean JJ could bring back Luke There was

also the thing of the Rotten Tomatoes score,

and I loathe Rotten Tomatoes even more than,

say, a movie critic. Because again, it's a culmination

of reviews. It's really no different than anything

else. But anyways, they investigated because

for some reason Star Wars fan vote was 53 % or

something in that area. Very very low audience

score and it's it's kind of surprising That Yeah,

it was 54 % that that this film intentionally

had a lower rating and in more or less What was

said is is they they had a various teams looking

into it and Just trying to make sure that the

authenticity was correct and Disney was more

or less just Meh, nobody cares like it's you

know it's our film. We don't we really don't

care what this has to say That being said How

would you rank the Star Wars films? Because that

kind of puts it into an interesting twist here

is now we've had Rogue one and we've had eight

Star Wars films. And so, for me, it's kind of

a little bit difficult to rank them because there's

various issues and good things with each film.

However, if I had to rank them, I would do this

for my top five. I would probably put... Empire

Strikes Back I would put it as my number two

and I would put Return of the Jedi as number

one only for the fact that You know you get the

Luke with the green jet lightsaber thing you

get the Emperor you get I mean essentially and

this is kind of funny is we had no backstory

of the Emperor before the prequels and And we're

getting the same you know head build up for Snoke

And there's no backstory for him. So again, it's

not really about that much different The only

difference is is the apprentice, you know kills

the boss early so I mean essentially it mirrored

return of the Jedi in that scene and then There's

there's a lot of parallels in the new stuff to

the old stuff and people are kind of forgetting

that as they're watching them and I think that

that's been a lot of the problem not to mention

that it's just People have this legend status

of Luke, and that's kind of why everybody's kind

of so upset about what happens in the film. So,

I'm gonna move to something a little bit lighter.

Anyway, well, I guess I should finish ranking

them. I would put Return of the Jedi as my number

one, Empire Strikes Back as number two, and then

Star Wars as my number three, and then I would

put probably, well, I would probably put Star

Wars as number, like... Five I would probably

put the last Jedi is my number three only for

the fact we get to see Elements of the force

that we had never seen before with Luke just

showing off his power And in kind of some of

the way that things happen with you know the

the light speeding through the Imperial Snokes

this Star Destroyer and and in various cool oddities

like that And I'd probably put The Force Awakens

at number four just because it has Han Solo and

he kind of goes out with a bang, literally. And

then my number six would be Revenge of the Sith

because you get to see the rise of Palpatine

and Vader all on that one film. And that's kind

of my favorite aspect of that film is building

them up. And I would probably put... I'm going

to put Attack of the Clones as number, like,

towards the bottom. I'll put The Phantom Menace

as my number seven. Number eight, I'll put Attack

of the Clones. And then number nine, I'll put

Rogue One. The only thing that I found to be

good in Rogue One was Vader at the end, which

made him that much more menacing going into the

Star Wars episode four. And honestly, I didn't

need the film. So I'm really wondering and I'm

hoping that the Han Solo film isn't a waste of

time, although I perceive it may be. I think

that there will be a lot of nostalgia tied to

it and a lot of love and hatred at the same time,

just based on the fact it's Han Solo. And I think

it'll do a lot better than Rogue One, honestly.

Especially for me, because I like the established

characters. So yeah, anyways, I'm gonna take

a quick break and come back on the other side

with something else. We're right back. And we're

back. So, I thought it would be fun to jump into

some tech stuff. One of them I noticed the other

day was a transparent solar cell is making any

window generate electricity. Funny enough, this

comes from my home state of Michigan. another

magical innovation from this state. Michigan

State University believes transparent solar glass

windows could harvest as much energy as rooftop

solar but without the bulk. I honestly would

love this. I would replace all of my windows

to have this tap into my power system of my house

so that I could not have to pay consumers energy

so much money. because I already rake over the

coals for them now because I'm on my computer

all the time. So anyways, it's tapping into this

concept. I guess Elon Musk wants to do solar

tiles, which are for roofing, but regardless,

Michigan State University has other ideas. It

wants to generate lots of solar energy, but without

the rooftop modifications. So how can you make

it not visible? Well, they position panels over

each window and they analyze the potential and

show that by harvesting only invisible light,

these devices can provide a similar electricity

generation potential as rooftop solar while providing

additional functionality to enhance the efficiency

of buildings, automobiles, and mobile electronics.

Could you imagine the ramifications of this?

You can use this and electric cars and not have

to plug them in Just because of the the sheer

amount of light hitting the the glass you could

do this with You know your house and power everything

you could do this with with boats To charge the

batteries. I mean the the the uses for this this

particular concept are kind of limitless at this

point It's kind of insane some of this technology

that's coming out now. You could use this on

the space station. You could use this on space

shuttles, airplanes. The ability to generate

electricity based off solar energy coming to

the planet anyway through glass is just... I'm

kind of surprised it's taken this long, honestly,

but basically what you do is you add a transparent

panel over an existing window, which is easier

than installing a frame and heavy panels on a

roof, obviously. So it's almost an invisible

system, and if something goes wrong with a panel,

then the replacement will be something the homeowner

can carry out without help, which again, I like

because I am not a handy person whatsoever. I'm

still trying to get the other three doors done

to my house. I've gotten three or four installed

already. I have three more to go. I don't like

this process, but regardless, this is kind of

an interesting design and concept for solar tech

as we move forward. I can only imagine what they're

going to use this for in the future. But yeah,

the time is here again for a new phone to debut.

Yeah, the rumors are true. Samsung's Galaxy S9

will not be able to compete with the iPhone X.

I wonder what that means. It's heading into 2018.

It's gonna be... the rival to the iPhone X essentially,

but it's basically saying that even if you're

not planning to buy a new phone next year or

if you're loyal to another brand, you'll want

to pay attention to the Galaxy S9 will offer

in terms of hardware. They haven't officially

announced it. These are leaked images that kind

of debuted somewhere on the interwebs. and it'll

probably come out in March or somewhere around

that. It'll be kind of similar size and with

the regular M plus size to the S7, S8 for the

S9. Rumors suggest the smaller S9 will stick

to a 5 .8 inch display and the S9 plus will have

a 6 .2 inch which are the same size as the 8

and 8 plus. It's still gonna have the signature

curved edges on both front and back as for the

bezel is unclear. They're eliminating the chin

and stretching the screen all the way to the

bottom of the device, so no longer will you have

buttons or any of that kind of stuff at the bottom.

They had a concept artist put it together based

on some of the leaked shapes and designs that

somehow got out, which I think is hilarious that

these got out. It's reportedly going to have

a Super AMOLED display and a new modification

to it anyway with brighter colors and brightness

and I'm wondering how the battery life and I'm

wondering what kind of speeds we're going to

get with this because Qualcomm's got the Snapdragon

845 system on a chip basically which gives 30

% improved graphics performance and power efficiency,

greater security and improved wireless audio

as well as enhancements for photos and videos,

which honestly, I have the S5. The photos on

it are okay if you get it not zoomed in, not

with any movement. If you have either of those,

it blurs. It's terrible. but a regular camera

is about the same anyway, so it doesn't really

matter. You're going to have about the same effect.

There's rumors that it may have that, and then

there's rumors that it may have, for the 9 +,

might have more RAM, like 6 gigs, instead of

the 4 gigs on the small one, which I think that's

kind of sad that they're still putting that little

memory in. I think that they should put more

RAM. on Android phones because the phones don't

have enough memory to run what is on them. And

I have that problem with my current phone. I

think that they should have at least at least

four to six gigs minimum with, if not like eight.

I would think six or eight should be the benchmark

to hit at this point instead of the four gigs

or three gigs or two gigs or whatever half these

ones are doing. There's reporting that both of

them should have 64GB of storage, a micro SD

slot, and yes, a headphone jack. And then it

might include larger batteries, according to

the leak from China that it should have a 3200mAh

battery, up from the 3000mAh on the S8. But there's

no mention officially of anything, it's... Going

to have the the other pillars of the galaxy stuff

of wireless charging water and dust resistant

and fingerprint sensor which has been moved to

the back and Yeah, I'm I'm hoping that that that's

good and the camera Is a little bit bigger as

well It looks like they're gonna have that dual

camera thing that everybody's starting to do

now So we'll see how that kind of plays out as

that comes along but I don't know, I'm wondering

how that's gonna go. I hope that the price has

come down because the fact of the matter is I'm

on an S5, my wife's on an S5, they're three years

old and we're already getting close to the S9

coming out. So I'm already three phones behind

before this one and we're actually in the market

to buy a new phone and we're Android users so

we don't follow the whole Apple crowd. It's one

thing looking at the computer, I hate the iPhone.

I hate the iPhone and I hate the iPad. I hate

the interface and the devices themselves. I love

my Android phone. The only thing is is our phones

are starting to brick themselves, meaning that

it's getting harder to find cases and protectable

screens for them. And the hardware is slowing

down. The batteries are crapping out. I bought

replacement batteries. They're crapping out,

too. My wife has to use hers for her job because

she's a ship shopper. which is basically a grocery

shop for people that order stuff online at a

local grocery store, and then they take it to

their house. And so, kind of getting to that

point, I want a new phone. Battery life is very

important. It has to be Android. I'd preferably

want something speedy. But the problem is finding

something in my price range. And that's been

the difficult part because I don't want to spend

$800 to $1 ,000 or even $700 per phone when I'm

replacing two. It's one thing if I'm going to

spend $400, $500, $600 between two phones. I

don't want to replace both for $800. Or $800

a piece at that. Which makes it difficult for

me to find a new phone in this era because...

I don't like the the pay monthly thing because

you're still paying the same amount but my my

cell bill goes up and I as it is It's it's hard

living on regular bills, let alone adding an

additional 50 to 60 dollars to my cell phone

bill Just to get a new device I have looked at

other ones. Like I've looked at the ZTE brand.

I've looked at Motorola's I've looked at unlocked

because I can buy those online and then I can

just sign up for a self -service. I have AT &T

right now, but I'm tempted to move to Verizon

because not only do they have the unlimited stuff,

but their signal is better in all areas, whereas

AT &T has a lot of dead spots, especially in

Michigan when you get up north or various other

places. Because when I was on vacation this summer,

I couldn't... I couldn't make any phone calls.

I couldn't get on my phone. It was essentially

a brick while we were up there. And then my family

members that have Verizon were able to get on

their phones and make phone calls and whatnot.

But I had to get on Wi -Fi calling just to get

a cell phone call through to work while I was

there. Even though I was on vacation, I still

felt obligated to work because I'm that kind

of a person. The the call kept dropping because

the Wi -Fi wasn't all that dandy So yeah, if

anybody has any suggestions how what to look

up where to where to go some phones to look at

I'm really in the market for it right now Because

I have to get myself and my wife a new phone

and this is kind of a territory that I'm Trying

to research but I'm unfamiliar with I've kind

of stuck with Like this is my second smartphone

the galaxy s5 And I really like it. I had an

HTC Evo or 3G Evo LTE or something like that.

I don't know. Before that it was a terrible phone

and the battery life was like four hours. I sold

that on Amazon so quick for trade in money. And

I may keep this as just a... going around, turn

off the cell service to it and keep it in case

something happens to my other phone. But what

I want to do is get a brand new phone for both

of us. Like I said, I've been looking at some

Motorola phones. One, I want to make sure it's

got the modern operating system, which mine does

not have. It has 6 .1 of Android and the new

ones are 7 .1. I want to make sure battery life,

I'm going to get The most bang for my buck like

preferably I like it to last all day with like

continuous use Because then that would mean my

wife would get to do that as well But yeah, I

mean if anybody has suggestions where to look

review sites particular phones models or anything

Send them my way, please. I I'm kind of interested

in knowing what's out there and what people have

had experience with. I like some of the ZTE phones,

I like the Galaxy phones, I like the Motorola

phones. I kind of stay away from the rest of

them. Like LG I would possibly do, because I've

had LG phones before. But I've most of the time

stuck with Samsung and Motorola. I haven't had

a Motorola since the Razr, like the Flip phone.

I haven't had one since then. I miss that phone

sometimes because it reminded me of the Star

Trek communicator. That's the only thing that

has me enticed about the ZTE Axum phone where

the screen folds out is because it's a flip phone.

Other than that, I don't know how I would secure

it or keep it safe because there's really no

way you could put a case on it. So I'm going

to move on from this diatribe here. It was requested

of me recently to cover Patreon, which, I don't

know if anybody knows this, but I have a Patreon

account for AlteredGeek, as a matter of fact.

It's patreon .com slash, I want to say slash

AlteredGeek. Yeah, slash AlteredGeek. I have

some stuff on it. I absolutely have no idea how

this stupid service works. I'm trying to figure

it out. I... I feel very confused by it. I would

just as soon get... I mean, I understand why

it's in place, and I have no problems with it,

but it's one of those things I'm still trying

to learn. So... Anyways, I do have one for the

podcast, and... I eventually hope to get more

content. Next year, I really want to get back

into video. I know I keep getting to this, and

I keep saying I want to do this. Time has been

the main issue, but I think 2018 may have some

of that on my side. I may start doing even the

20 -minute podcast, maybe doing 10 -minute live

streams or something throughout the week of just

short episodes or doing AMAs. Various topics

in that essence or or even doing it on altered

geek Patreon, so I've kind of come up with Various

reward systems. I think they're pretty reasonable

that they range from like the $1 $5 10 20 50

75 and 100 and it allows me to A lot of it's

getting more contact with me, getting early release

stuff, because a lot of times I have these episodes

done before they're ever going to be released,

and then getting live stream conversations, coming

up with content, future content ideas, producing,

and having me... be a producer or help with somebody

else's content. So it's stuff like that. Anyways,

Patreon decided to change their fees. And I know

this is a little late, but that's more so because

I didn't want to cover that at that particular

time, as this was still developing. They announced

some changes in the pay, which kind of screwed

a lot of people over. and they've decided that

they're going to roll that back and fix things

in a different way, which they should have done

in the first place and include, you know, the

Patreon, uh, patron people that, like me, that

are trying, creators, that's what they're called,

uh, to, uh, help develop this system because

they, they kind of killed the one to two dollar

patron system, uh... and essentially had screwed

a lot of the creators because I'm sure a lot

of people do the one to two dollar thing because

it's not really, I mean you'd buy a pop at least

once a month and that's basically the cost for

it so it's not that big of a hurt to spend that

on a creator. So I definitely see that. I think

that it's interesting that The majority of people

have gone to services like Patreon. I have one.

It doesn't mean I fully endorse. I still think

that I would rather, honestly, I would rather

get rid of all of the ads. I really would. I

would love to get rid of all of the ads and just

have content paid by listeners and fans of the

show instead of having, I really hate breaking

up the show and including. And no, I'm not a

sponsor. And I don't have a problem with the

ones that I've done the live reads for myself,

the Loot Crate or Gamefly, because I've used

things like Gamefly before. I like the service,

because I used to do the mail -away Netflix stuff

back when that was a thing. So it's not really

any different there. If you want to sign up for

that, you can go to GameflyOffer .com slash AlteredGeek

to sign up there with my promo code to support

the show. We do get a kickback from it. It's

kind of a shameless plug, but I like what they

have. Various geeky items I myself I love getting

geeky stuff, but half the stuff in the box I

find to be a waste and I that's kind of why I

stopped pushing it as much because I myself probably

would not buy one and that's because I don't

I Don't like the the concept of I hate them the

mighty mug looking thing whatever the heck they're

called now they I Never was a fan of mighty mugs,

and I'm not a fan of those little brick, big

giant head figure things. I find them to be annoying.

I would rather get an actual action figure out

of the deal or something to that regard. Now

if it were like a Star Trek box and like every

month you got something different from Star Trek,

like a bunch of stuff, comics, shirts, you know,

the badges, the com badges or some of the gear

or other little little gadgetry from the show

like I would be down for that but I just I think

that you know yeah I got a keychain and I got

some big money mug looking thing and then the

rest of it's good and and yeah you got a sticker

you know I just I don't I don't go for that and

that's why I don't really promote any of it so

that's kind of my honest opinion on it all I

I kind of feel that way with with advertising.

I don't like inundating people with it and I

know that it gets annoying especially in this

day and age when everybody's trying to make money

online and with their own content and their own

shows and that's kind of part of what bit Patreon

a little bit is because they kind of assumed

that they were going to just change the platform

and forget that the platform is their creators

and they having done these changes had to roll

them back because It negatively impacted people's

money and people were like well I'll just move

all my stuff over here and you know kind of quit

doing it over in this area because I've been

hosed and so It's it's it's a very touchy area

in the the digital medium But with with the age

of having to have multiple sources of income

just to survive I kind of I kind of see it That

that you're just kind of trying whatever you

can so I personally won't say or do a live read

for something I would not pay for myself so that's

just that again that's why I do the gamefly offer

and I've kind of skimped on the other because

I just I would do that I just don't I don't buy

games anymore but the movie aspect is part of

what What gets me? I don't have a console. It's

more so that. If I had a console, I would still

use it. Because I get bored a lot. And it's also

good if you have no video store around you. I

have one, like quarter of a mile from my house,

so... That's kind of my gist on the Patreon thing.

So moving to the newest iteration of YouTube.

I mean, I should say... video service, Amazon

is developing their own service called Amazon

Tube. Oh man, somebody's trying to hurt YouTube.

So in September, Google blocked users of Amazon's

touchscreen smart speaker, the Amazon show, from

seeing YouTube videos extending years long jousting

over access to rivals products. YouTube reappeared

on the Amazon show in early December, apparently

due to a workaround on Amazon's part involving

the web version of Google -owned YouTube. Google

wasn't happy about this, and on December 5th,

once again, pull the plug, so no more YouTube

on either the Echo Show, Smart Speaker, and the

Fire Stick TV, which streams web to television

sets. That's pretty stupid. So anyways, amidst

all that, December 5th, Amazon filed to get trademarks

for two rather telling items, Amazon Tube and

OpenTube. I don't know what OpenTube is, but

I know what AmazonTube is. So anyways, because

of that, the trademark filing was first noticed

by somebody last Tuesday, and so the filings

description included a few things that sounded

awful light like YouTube, such as providing non

-downloadable pre -recorded audio, visual, and

audio -visual works via wireless networks on

a variety of topics of general interest. So this

may be another platform people may want to start

paying attention to as it develops, as it were,

because YouTube, with all of its regulations

and everything going with it, I think that eventually

people are going to start finding other channels

to go to, such as Amazon Tube, to get off of

that platform. Anyways, earlier in the month,

DomainNameWire noted that Amazon had registered

the URLs AlexaOpenTube .com and AmazonAlexatube

.com and AmazonOpenTube .com. I wonder where

those are going to go when they get that done.

I do find it kind of interesting that there's

nothing there, so they may own it, but there's

nothing on it yet. None of the means Amazon is

planning on creating a competitor to YouTube,

but I find it interesting that they may do so

So this may be something people want to keep

an eye on as this progresses and I'll have fun

covering this because I think it's interesting

so Yeah, and then of course The days may be coming

to an end of sharing passwords to stream free

TV This would suck So a report came that a crackdown

on password sharing is coming thanks to cable

TV providers losing billions of dollars to streaming

freeloaders. Now what they don't tell you is

is people aren't doing this and using somebody

else's service anyway. What's going to happen

is they're just going to pirate it. So at least

it's through like a legal medium and they're

getting like some of the advertiser dollars or

whatnot, but it's not They're not stealing, I

mean, it kind of is stealing, but it's not stealing,

in a sense, because they're not keeping it, they're

not downloading it. It's a moral gray area. So,

leaving the charge against password sharing is

Charter Communications, who's reportedly railed

against password sharing at a recent industry

conference, and to illustrate the problem, has

claimed that a single account has been used to

play 30 ,000 simultaneous streams. No, that's

ridiculous. Yeah, I can see that. But like if

you're letting like one or two people log in

that's one thing like it 30 ,000 that's yeah,

you know, they're stealing it there but In an

effort to reduce the number of stream squatters

Charter is reportedly asking Viacom Which operates

popular channels like Comedy Central and MTV

to reduce the number of allowed simultaneous

streams and force more frequent logins for paid

users according to Bloomberg so Yeah, they wouldn't

comment, obviously. And then ESPN has already

reduced the number of simultaneous streams from

its app from 10 to 5. And yeah, you're just going

to see... I can see if they go down to five or

six simultaneous logins. That's kind of legit

there, because you may have multiple people in

your house anyway. But yeah, if you're having

10 plus people logging into your account, yeah,

you know somebody is bootlicking off you. Some

companies have talked about cutting it down to

three. I don't know. What do you guys think about

this? I think this is kind of interesting that

they're starting to kind of crack down on this.

What's happening is people are they're speaking

with their wallets in a sense because a lot of

these services cost too much money and there's

too many of them out there and so people are

looking for the cheapest viable option and with

as poor as the millennial generation is It's

kind of makes sense because it's costing cable

companies 3 .5 billion a year on this this issue

That figure could nearly rise to about 10 billion

over the next three years so It's kind of interesting.

I don't have cable TV. I don't even have Netflix

I don't have a use for it, and I watch Hulu,

but if I didn't watch Hulu I would Probably not

be watching too much of anything so Unless I

found a website that does it, and you can watch

it on there, and that's about it. That's why

I watch YouTube a lot of the time, if I don't

have cable. But I also have a lot of my own library

of content that I have physical media for, which

is kind of good in that sense, is you own it

already. So, I don't know, kind of a different

world here. So I'm gonna take a quick break,

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support the show. So listener feedback, we kind

of have not really a lot of it. On the last episode

that we did, the Windows 10 vMac with some of

the Disney concept and Star Trek Tarantino and

Ready Player One and Jurassic World 2, Brad Mull

says, wait, what part of Jurassic Park 3 with

the Raptors do you think was from the books?

There was no Jurassic Park 3 novel. Yeah, he

told me off -air that he knew that. It was more

so he kind of was referencing some other stuff.

Can't really answer all the way for that one

because I didn't have him... Fully go into detail,

but our 20 minutes of Star Wars the last Jedi

these altered geek off -the -cuff Episode that

we released on Wednesday Brad also says nice

work guys I'll try and stay spoiler -free here,

and I agree with Michael a lot of fans issues

are from fans headcanon or knowing about the

expanded universe That's now been removed from

Canon first issue with Snoke and no backstory.

What did we know about the Emperor during the

original trilogy? We're retreating a lot of the

same beats as the original trilogy. Here yet,

fans are having issues with it. As for Rey's

abilities with the lightsaber? Well, she seems

to close her eyes and get that ability in The

Force Awakens when she fought Ren at the end.

So yeah, I mean, it's a little odd, but it's

kind of, even Yoda kind of alluded to the fact

that, you know, you don't need the text, you've

got The Force, so as long as you trust in The

Force and you reach for it and kind of... use

its essence, you get to use it, and so that's

kind of what happens. And then I made a comment

on Twitter, which I thought was quite humorous,

kind of regarding the Legends of the Brave and

the Bold episode. Michael Draconis says, unfortunately

I know who that woman is, because we weren't

sure if... We were of Hawk and Dove we were talking

about in that episode for the chick with the

computer virus She's more or less like an ISIS

type thing. She's Not not the terrorist organization

like she's the the Egyptian God ISIS type of

a thing This is what they're doing with legends

and So I open up this can of worms about The

Last Jedi, I know that this is kind of heavy

-centric on that a little bit, despite having

an episode on it already, but it's still relevant.

We're still around Star Wars' release. So I looked

up the footage and spoilers for The Last Jedi,

and yes, keeping knowledge to myself, but I do

it to focus on the film and alleviate the high

expectations so I can see a film and just enjoy

it. I still plan to see it. though in its entirety,

but not happy with some of it. And Optimus Solo

goes, I don't understand this thought process.

I would never recommend somebody to follow this

process. And I said, it's not something everyone

would do. I did it with The Force Awakens and

still love the film. Makes no merit on the film

to me. I still watch it as a whole and can judge

it like it was meant to be. It more so helps

me to fill in gaps I'd miss watching it the first

time so that I can take in the entirety of the

story. And then I said I remember the details

better granted I've mostly done this with Star

Trek and Star Wars because I'm going to love

them anyway, which is true. I'm very very centric

on that and It's just interesting to to think

about and in reference to your question Scanner

51 we we will be talking because this is the

Friday edition of Altered Geek, the full episode,

as it were, where I'll more than likely fly solo

and give my thoughts on things and kind of have

a little bit of the newsy conversation. But he

says, do you think with the Disney -Fox deal

that Universal will give up the Florida rights?

See, that never came up in our conversation,

so that'll be interesting to talk about now.

I think that eventually what'll happen is it'll

be kind of like the whole... I think that that

we may see things kind of revert like I know

Disney had a lot of Marvel At Universal, I don't

know if Universal removed it right away or remember

if they did I haven't been to Universal since

I was a teenager. So I don't remember Honestly,

like I remember the Hulk ride and the you know,

the X -Men kind of jumping out for a live show

and you know the spider -man Tower thing, tower

drop. I remember all that, but I don't remember

anything else about that. I think that what'll

happen is Universal will give up the rights.

I think they'll find some other franchise to

tackle, which will be interesting because Six

Flags has DC, so I'm not sure what tentpole they

would even get. I think they have Transformers.

So I think that that's going for him. They could

have, you know, Harry Potter. They could have

some other Warner Brothers properties. The kiddie

pool is getting a little small at this point,

so it's gonna be kind of fun to figure out where

certain entities can go at this point. And then

regarding the Gotham in Lucifer, I don't think

those will go to CW right away. I think those

will stay on Fox. I think that that'll be something

that either A, Disney decides at some point,

hey, we're not gonna fund this anymore because

we don't want it, or B, they'll keep it going

because of the following. And as we mentioned,

and we will mention in the next episode, which

kind of has a rocky start, I'll warn you, where

we talk about the Fox -Disney deal. And then

we talk about the streaming ramifications, which

I'm sure we'll get more in depth with next week

Since there was a article released after we recorded

that But I think that what'll happen is Disney

will keep it around for a little while and it

will kind of We'll have to wait and see I don't

see those going over to To CW though, they don't

really fit that aesthetic or that clientele of

age, and I don't see it going well over there.

There's not a lot of young eye candy, as it were,

which is what CW kind of thrives on. So I don't

see it going over there anyway. If anything,

I think it would go to like, if Fox doesn't keep

it, you may see it go to like NBC. But then again

It's just kind of a hard place to judge it at

this point So they may keep it just a dip into

DC TV Because really they have no other Avenue

So if there's anything you guys want us to talk

about on the 20 -minute show or this one for

that matter Just let us know on social media

the email list you get a hold of me on on Twitter

at SCP 21 or by using the hashtag what's geeky

to you and let me know what's geeky to you guys.

Let me know some of your geeky Christmas stuff

that you're getting or that you get on Christmas

Day when everybody's off from work, myself included.

Looking forward to the day with family and friends

and I have a friend coming from Wisconsin that

I haven't seen in... Almost a year. I mean he

stayed here last Christmas. So I mean that's

I think he may have came He came another time

a year, too. I can't remember when but he he

was here Had to been last Christmas. I don't

think I've seen him since then Which is crazy.

But anyways, he he's he's lived in Wisconsin

for a while and I used to work with him when

I worked the car lot and it's kind of It's always

fun to catch up with them, but then it's You're

like man so much time has passed because people

either change a little bit or you know it's it's

just It I have this this funny thing is this

his name is Mike as well and I think I counted

I have eight friends named Mike Which is an irregularity

with me. I've always had friends named Mike,

so it's not a surprise there so but yeah, we

tried to start the Tabletop Podcast a few years

ago, and then he he moved Consequently after

that well I actually lost his job first, and

then he got another job, and then he moved so

but Yeah, it'll be fun to see him again, it's

been a while. So, gonna play some board games,

that's something that I always look forward to.

Going into, really the only TV news I have, Prison

Break is going to be coming back for its sixth

season. And that makes me happy because I like

the show. It was leaked through a... Instagram

image by Dominic Purcell, Heatwave on Legends

of Tomorrow and The Flash, respectively, and

Captain Cold, aka Wentworth Miller, who plays

Michael Schofield in the show, opposite of his

brother Dominic Purcell, Heatwave, Lincoln Burroughs.

They may have found something to go... Back to.

And it's kind of funny because Wentworth Miller

is actually going to be wrapping up his run on

Legends and back for one more episode of The

Flash and then he's done unless a good story

comes along. And we'll still have Heatwave over

there. But yeah, I'm kind of excited. I love

the show. I think it's really well written. I

like the direction that they've taken it. And

the last season was a little rough. I'll admit,

each season's got a little bit different and

a little rougher, but I don't hate it or dislike

it. There was a season that should have ended

a lot faster than it did, but I kind of wish

I could blitz it all at once, because that's

what I've done with the original on Netflix when

I had it, but it'll be one of those things that

kind of comes out. And it's a Fox property, so

if... Disney can milk their money out of it.

tough grab, and we explain that in the episode,

I'm not going to spoil it, otherwise there's

no point listening. But I could see Lethal Weapon

and Prison Break crossing over, that would be

kind of a cool concept. But anyways, if it's

been pitched to the network, and it's going to

start filming soon apparently, it's in the works,

and if it launches in April of 2018 to mirror

the release date of Season 5 revival, then they'll

have to work soon. But you'll probably see a

lot of the same characters return to some more

or less degrees. So, I don't know, how are you

guys gonna be celebrating the holidays? What

do you guys do for your Christmas adventures?

This year, instead of going to my in -laws on

Christmas Eve and everywhere else on Christmas,

we're hitting all three houses on Christmas Eve.

Starting with my dad's and then going to my mom's

and then going to my in -laws and then home.

And then Christmas day we're going to be doing

some kind of community service type stuff. We've

been starting to do that the past year or two.

Kind of giving, you know, whether it be cookies

or hot chocolate out to people out in the cold.

Like, you know, Salvation Army people ringing

the bells or stuff like that. Just stuff to be

a decent human being. And the smiles that come

across these people's faces like it's just It

just shows you that People still do have you

know they get the most sour look on their face

And then to see you give them something just

out of kindness not expecting any kind of return

Is it is just priceless? Speaking of which I

probably after the new year will be giving away

or selling some geeky material. I've got some

movie posters, I've got some books, some DVDs

and some action figures and I will be compiling

a list of those and possibly post them in an

episode on my altered geek page as a notes thing

or my somewhere. Anyways, it'll be posted somewhere,

and I'm going to sell them. I may have a list

just on Twitter, and then just have people just

DM me and say, hey, I want this. Because I honestly,

I gotta offload some more crap, and if it can

go to a good geek home, then more power to the

geek that wants it. So, anyways, I hope everybody

has a great Christmas, and we'll catch you next

week after the... The second altered geek episode

which will come out on Tuesday The next one will

be out on Thursday, and then we'll have one out

on the full episode Edition on Friday, and then

so you can expect to a week. They'll be Tuesdays

Thursdays and Fridays Why the weird dates well?

That's the open slots on the geek cast radio

schedule For the the 20 minute shows and then

the the full show will be here as always so Until

next time, get altered, get geeky with the Altered

Geeks. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna

have the hap -hap -happiest Christmas since Bing

Crosby tap -danced with Dan A** in K. And when

Santa squeezes his fat white a** down that chimney

night, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of

a**holes this side of the nuthouse. Where's the

Tylenol? Oh, the weather outside is frightful.

But the fire is so delightful. And sense we've

no place to go. Make it so, make it so, make

it so. Man, it doesn't show signs of stopping.

And I brought me some tea, a grey hot. The lights

turned way down low. Make it so, make it so,

make it so. When we finally kiss, goodnight.

How I hate going out in the storm. But if you

- Really? Shut up, Wesley! All the way home,

I'll be warm. Oh, the fire is slowly dying. And

my dear, we're still goodbyin'. But as long as

you love me so, make it so. Make it so. Make

it so.