Streaming Wars, Old Movies, & Star Trek Legacy

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Yes. So if you're listening to this episode right

around this time, you've probably heard some

of the top 100 nominees. And there's some awesomeness

coming with that as well for the listeners. But

we're also going to be pushing. further and further

as 2026 is right around the corner and we're

gearing up for the next top 100 animated series

countdown and it's the 15th anniversary of that

countdown of the first one yep yes well of the

first one we did but also the first animated

series one and that's what yeah yeah well i meant

like the series itself like the the countdowns

yep okay so it's both it's both yeah okay so

i am super excited for this not only in the evolution

of technology on the website since the initial

one but also in the fact that we've got new shows

and there's going to be a totally different top

100 because we're also limiting the nominee pool

as opposed to before where you had anything in

the thousands being chosen Yeah, we've given

you guys 250 shows to choose from. So it's going

to be much easier to make your top 100 lists

this time. It's not going to be as difficult

as it was 15 years ago. And even though there

is more choice this time, I mean, it's funny

because even though we've limited it, there is

still more choice because as you said, It's 15

years later than when that first top 100 animated

series was done specifically. And just looking

at that original list. Wowzers. Literally, wowzers,

Inspector Gadget. I'll get you, Gadget. But yeah,

no. And part of my journey into doing that is

we always say. We've said this, I don't know,

since probably 2014, 2015. Give it the five episode

rule, whatever it is, TV show, cartoon, because

I view TV. I think of a TV show cartoon as even

though a cartoon technically is shown on television.

I consider them TV show, live action, cartoon,

cartoon is animation. So I look at them two separate

categories. But we've always said at least give

it the five episode rule. So you at least watch

the first five episodes of the first season.

And my mission between now and the time we start

recording for the top 100 animated series for

2026 is to watch as much Simpsons as I possibly

can. Why would you torture yourself? Well, OK,

so it's good for a while, but then it just kind

of gets old. OK, but but I don't know that, though,

because I don't remember. The last time I actively

watched The Simpsons was somewhere around season

six or seven, which was very long ago. And I've

caught it here and there. The the stonecutters.

What was the other episode? There was an episode

like a couple of years ago. Not getting political,

but like when Trump was first elected, there

was an episode that they were like, oh, everybody

should watch this episode of The Simpsons because

it's The Simpsons and they're doing something

because of real life. Like, okay, fine, whatever.

But I haven't actively watched in years. the

whole point of me going back and watching as

much as I can up until we start production of

the next evolution, the next version, the next

edition of the top 100 animated series countdown

is to see if it is still top 10, number one or

number two worthy. Because most of the. lists

that we had back in the original top 100 animated

series our countdown and the other countdowns

we had researched i should say optimus solo had

researched at the time listed the simpsons as

the number one animated series of all time it's

15 years later they're over 700 episodes they're

still going they're over i don't even know how

many episodes that are over now So I wanted to

go back to the beginning. I wanted to go back

to my childhood, essentially, and see if the

show is truly as good as it was. And if it is

still number one of all time, number top 10 of

all time worthy. I'm only up to episode. How

I'm doing this is I'm watching it season by season,

obviously, but I'm going to watch it one season

at a time and then write a blog about that season.

I don't know how far I'll get between now and

the time we start the production on the Top 100

next year, but I'm going to do the best I can.

So far, I've only watched... Seven and a half,

eight episodes of the first season. And out of

those, let's say just for numbers sake, eight

episodes. I remember four of them vividly. I

remember four of them vividly watching them as

a child. From 89 to, well, from 1989 when I was

nine years old. Bart the Genius. which was, I

don't know which episode number it is off the

top of my head, but it's in that first nine.

Santa's Little Helper was the first episode.

There was another one. Oh, God, I'm not even

looking at my notes. I should be. But anyway,

the point is, is that I've found myself at the

end of this year. With 2025 being the year that

it's been for me, I've needed stuff to fill a

void that I just, I don't know, dude. I come

out here to my desk and I think, oh my God, I

have all this stuff I need to do. And then I

just sit here and I just zone out. I don't know

what the hell. So I've... engrossed myself in

certain shows and certain things and two of those

shows we will talk about later in the in the

episode but now this project leading up to my

own personal project leading up to the top 100

animated series gives me something to do and

something to quote unquote report on by the time

we get to the production and i will have however

many blogs written up that i'll have after the

fact so i have notes go to the notes so far i'm

having fun doing it because like i said there

are certain episodes that i absolutely remember

and then there are some episodes so far where

i'm just like i don't remember this at all and

then there are episodes where i'm like oh wow

they really tackled that issue really well like

there's a There's an episode in season one where

I was surprised, not how well they tackled the

issue, but they approached it in a way that I

didn't remember television approaching bullying

back then. It was really cool and really interesting.

I'm trying to pull up my notes here. Which episode

was this? Bart the General. Okay, yeah. Season

one, episode five, Bart the General. Do I smell

cupcakes? Do I ever. Okay, Homer, enough with

your cupcakes. So this is, and the interesting

thing about The Simpsons is some of the lines,

like I. I'm taking notes before I actually write

the blogs. So I'm taking notes on every episodes

and then every episode that I'm going to condense

all of that into whatever the season one blog

is going to be. Part of my notes is writing down

where certain lines debut or certain lines come

from and things like that. And in this episode.

Oh, my God. Bart made, no, no, no, seriously.

I'm saying this because they say it in the episode.

Oh my God. Bart made Nelson bleed. Nelson's like,

no, that's probably some of their kids' blood.

I get other kids' blood on me all the time. And

then Nelson realizes he has a bloody nose and

he turns and looks at Bart and he's like, you

made me bleed my own blood. Nobody makes me bleed

my own blood. And I'm like, oh my God. I don't,

I'm pretty sure that came from somewhere else

first. Cause I remember that line from some other

movie. Actually, no, it might've come from the

Simpsons because what I remember it from is dodgeball.

Dwight Goodman said it in dodgeball to Peter

Lafleur. But if the Simpsons is where it came

from, or if the Simpsons got it from somewhere

else. I'm like, oh, my God, I remember that line

kind of kind of thing. But this is the episode

where Bart gets bullied and we see how as he's

getting bullied by Nelson, how both Homer and

Marge, how both of their approaches affect him,

where Marge is telling him to. Talk to the bully.

Do this with the bully. Try to approach the bully

in a kind way or go to the principal and tell

the school and let them know kind of thing where

Homer is like, here's what you do, kid. You go

up to him and you kick him in the nuts and you

do this and you do that and you stand up to him.

And standing up to somebody is fine, but you

don't. go up to somebody even if they're bullying

you you don't go up to them and kick them right

back in the nuts you just don't it's not gonna

work it just isn't so it's so so it's it point

is looking through my notes here not trying to

take up the whole episode with my simpsons note

taking here but uh it's it's interesting going

back through the simpsons season one is the point

So, yeah. Yeah. A lot of my favorite Simpsons

material dates back to the 90s and kind of watching

it during that time. And then the Halloween episodes

are always my favorite. Yep. Yep. Yep. Absolutely.

All right. Where are we going next? So, jumping

down into the episode from here, you had posted

a few things about the computer mattress thing.

Which, that was when Amazon had the whole debacle

with their AWS servers kind of going to crap.

But it's true, though. So, I think this is a...

This is an Instagram reel. I think it was an

Instagram reel. And it's so true. I'm all for

technology. I'm all for sleep tracking. As long

as it's on my phone, not in my bed. Yeah, my

phone can be next to my bed or next to me on

the bed. Whatever. That's fine. Or, you know,

if I had, which I don't, and I don't need one

of these, but if I had a smartwatch, you know,

that's fine. Cause obviously it's, you know,

attached to my body tracking me, but having like,

I know a lot of people, or I know some people

talk about, uh, the company eight sleep and how

their mattresses have all the tech in them in

the world to, to track your sleep and things

like that. And I think that's cool, but the AWS.

server malfunction just proves that we can't

rely on the internet sometimes. And I just want

a mattress to be in my mattress. Yeah. See, I

have a, I have a sleep number bed and technically

those are connected through the internet. Right.

But it's for specific features. Like it's for

the, the sleep tracking. Yeah. And see, we bought

ours, um, years ago. No, we bought ours like

secondhand. Oh, okay. Like a year ago. Uh, because

like, I have different sleeping needs for my

back than, uh, my wife. And it's a combined bed.

Like it's two separate beds with like a connector

on it. It's a split. Yep. Yeah. However, I like,

I have to have my, my back elevated in my feet

somewhat just so that one it's, you know, it's

blood flow, but it's also the fact that I cannot

lay flat. Right. And I, I can make it as, you

know, the bed is firmer, soft as I need to. Cause

it's, you know, it's air inside of it and whatever,

but it's controlled with a remote and all of

the features, however, like this particular,

uh, unit. of the the sleep number it's older

so the call to home feature doesn't work okay

uh for that feature plus i think you have to

register and we didn't care to do that we're

like i just need it for the you know the the

firmness setting for the you know the ability

to lift the the mattress up or you know down

or whatever and uh and so ours won't have that

issue but i know a lot of people that have theirs

connected with amazon it was going haywire like

it was crunching them getting them stuck it was

overheating because some of them heat up and

i mean mine doesn't but yeah some of them do

and i was just like how horrible would that have

been had it like burned somebody's house down

and had them trapped in it and i'm thinking how

would the bed have trapped you in the bed to

the point you couldn't have like crawled out

Um, well, so it's interesting you say that. So

my bed is a purple mattress. I think it's a purple

mattress level three. We had gotten it back in

2019. So it's eight years old now. Something

like that. Seven, eight years old, whatever.

And what we got with it was the only thing that

it really has is it's supposed to have cooling

technology because that's what I liked about

the purple mattress at the time was it had technology

in it because I need to be cool. At the time,

Karen and I were both having medical issues where

we had to sleep separately. So she got her own

mattress. I got my mattress. Basically, we were

an old married couple at. She was 40. I don't

know. She's five years older than she was five

years older than me at the time. Anyway, point

is, we each had our own things. And on mine,

I wanted the cooling technology and I wanted

an adjustable base. So for me, it's the base

that's adjustable. It's not the mat. So that's

what adjusts the mattress. Uh, and the match,

the, the adjustable base from mattress firm has

a gravity setting where if you hit the gravity

setting, the head of the bed, the, the top of

the, thing is going to come all the way up and

it's not going to like come all the way up and

over but it comes there could be a possibility

of somebody getting like if you did it in the

right way and it malfunctioned in the wrong way

whatever luckily mine is just plug and play It's

just AC power, ACDC power. So it's not as high

tech as some of the ones of today, thank God.

But there are ways that people could get trapped

where you, trust me, some of these mattresses

and mattress bases, they could be car crushers.

And it's not funny. I'm laughing, but it really,

really isn't funny because if your bed is controlled

by the Internet, you're screwed. If the Internet

goes out. Essentially makes it useless. Don't

buy a bed if it's controlled by the Internet.

Buy a bed as long as it's not controlled by the

Internet. Well, remember when I was I was it

was a number of years ago. I think it was twenty

nine. 2018 yeah 2019 where i was when during

my one of my layoffs i was writing tech articles

and we had to write one about the internet of

things yes and they had like smart toilets smart

toaster smart like and i'm like why do we need

all of these things with that are so and so you

know so -called you know smart smart it's like

we don't need everything connected to the internet

we really don't It's just more crap to go wrong

too. Yeah, absolutely. It's going to be... I

don't know if this world is going to make it

to 2505, dude. I just don't know if it's going

to make it to 2505. I don't want idiocracy to

be real, but you know, I gets it. I gets it.

So yeah. And then, and then you had this other

post. This one gets me because it is, it's another,

I think it's another. It's another. So here's

the thing, folks, like we find news in the craziest

ways nowadays. It's not just looking for articles

through Google search or through Google. Like

I use my Google feed all the time, but I verify

it to make sure it's a reputable website. And

oh, boy, are we going to talk about variety?

Oh, God, we're going to talk about variety. OK,

so really quickly, variety. i don't know who

screwed up over there in their research but did

you see that with the gremlins that the third

movie is in production yeah but did you see what

they originally wrote about it no i did not okay

so let me see if i can pull this up on my because

i made a post about it on facebook let me see

my book anyway so the article i have uh have

here is um About streaming and whatever and how

streaming is basically cable now because you

have to have every streaming service everywhere.

And that's basically what that. that real is,

is them going through YouTube TV and Disney plus

and Hulu, which is actually owned by Disney plus

now and, and Netflix and this and that. And they

go through all the costs and all of this and

all of that and what it's actually going to cost

you to. It's more about the sports of it all

right now, because sports. specifically american

major league major league sports like nba nfl

mlb nhl specifically nfl games uh because of

blackout dates and blah blah blah and all that

it's like you need to have every single network

and all the costs that that can incur it's just

crazy but if you add up If you want to go monthly,

we can go monthly. I love annual billing. If

I can go to a streaming service and pay one fee

per year, I know everyone got all up in arms

about the Disney Plus thing, the annual billing

increasing from like, I don't know, I think.

I think it was $120. It went to $140 per year.

They're changing it to even higher. No, I know.

I know it's going to go up. I always know it's

going to go up. No, by like $100. Wait, what?

Yeah, there was an article about it the other

day. Oh, geez. Okay, well, if it's going to go

up by $100, it might not be worth it anymore.

But anyway, the point is when it went up this

last time, I was like, oh, okay, well, it's worth

it because I watch more than enough stuff on

Disney Plus right now to plus it has Hulu, plus

it has this, and plus, plus, plus, no Disney

minus. So, yeah, we have to have all of the streaming

services, which is basically cable online. So

the gremlins thing. I wrote this. I used to think

Variety was a great source of news. This just

proves it all wrong. I know everyone else has

already told Variety this, but it was Joe Dante

that directed those original films. We don't

need this. We don't need Gremlins 3. Stop this

stuff right now. Just know, don't and stop. What

they said was Gremlins 3 will open in theaters

November 19th, 2027. Chris Columbus returns as

director with Steven Spielberg executive producing.

No, that's not what's happening. Chris Columbus

did not direct the original two films. He wrote

the original. He was a writer. at the original

two like how do you get that wrong like in your

research your variety you're one of the biggest

publications in this country how do you get that

wrong like like do you people not have double

check fact checkers like do you would also think

with them being in hollywood uh -huh So because,

I mean, even Animaniacs talked about like variety

speak, you know, and stuff like that in their

their songs. But now Gremlins 3 is happening.

I know. I know it is. Yeah, it's just. Yeah,

I get that their information was wrong. Yeah,

no, that that was. Yeah, my point was not about

Gremlins 3. I still don't think we need it. But

this is where it kind of ties in, though, in

that it's definitely playing into the nostalgia.

Oh, it is. But the sad thing is, I don't have

nostalgia for Gremlins. Okay, look, my nostalgia

for Gremlins is... This is so sad and stupid.

It's Gremlins 2, and it's one line. Oh, how civilized.

It's from the brain gremlin when he says that.

And that's it. That's my only nostalgia of either

one of those movies. Yes, Gizmo is cute. Yes.

Ooh, Mogwai. Yay. Like, yeah, fine. Great. But

Billy Peltzer was a putz. Like, just. Oh, God.

I haven't watched either of those films. Maybe

I need to rewatch. I don't dislike those movies.

I have no ill will towards those movies, but

those movies, to me, are not on the same level

as Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2. Agreed. They're

not on the same level as Lethal Weapon 1, 2,

3, and 4. They're not on the same level as Die

Hard 1, 2, and 3. They're not on the same level

as something like Look Who's Talking 1 and 2.

Not even close. Like, I like Gremlins 1 and 2,

and I know everyone will say, oh, Gremlins 2,

how can you like that? That movie sucked. It

made it worse. Look, Gremlins 1 and 2. are very

similar to Ghostbusters 1 and 2. Gremlins 1 was

the more scary one. It was the more... horror

themed one same thing with ghostbusters it was

supposed to be the more scary one and then gremlins

2 and ghostbusters 2 is supposed to be the more

comedy one it wasn't as scary as the first one

because i'm sure because gremlins and ghostbusters

both came out in the same year in 1984 so by

the time they got to the sequels i'm sure all

the damn parents groups in 1980s We're like,

oh, my God, we can't take our children to these

movies, which you shouldn't have been taking

your children to see Gremlins. What's wrong with

you? Even though I saw Gremlins when I was a

kid because I was raised right to realize that

fiction is fiction. Even though the line didn't

come until. jason hall bob strike back 1999 i

forget what year that came out but when ben affleck

says fictional character like i don't know whatever

dude but like seriously i i i just don't know

like i don't even remember the ending to gremlins

2 that's how far how how long separated i am

from the last I don't remember the last time

I watched gremlins too. I remember one line.

Oh, how civilized like that's all I remember

from that movie. And I don't know if by 2027,

anyone will be ready for a gremlins three. Like

they're announcing this stuff now in 2025. So

the production starting now or starting next

year, maybe. I forget what the actual news article

said off the top of my head without looking it

up again. But, yeah, it takes two years to do

production. Okay, fine. Hopefully people are

ready for Gremlins 3 in 2027. People might be

ready now based off the excitement of the announcement.

But who the hell knows where this country is

going to be in 2027? Seriously. No, I'm not trying

to go deep or anything, but I'm being serious.

Like, we don't know where the hell we're going

to be in 2027. Hopefully recording all the podcasts

here at the Geekast Radio Network. I think we'll

be fine. It's going to be the same thing, different

day. But no, I do find it interesting that old

movies... yes are now the streamers money makers

instead of trying to produce new stuff now i'm

not saying that some of the new stuff hasn't

been good because i've enjoyed a lot of the new

netflix originals or sequels like beverly hills

cop 4 or happy gilmore 2 um both were really

good a lot of fun uh very fitting of their universe

and kind of doing a nice update yep and i mean

i i agree with the stats that the you know the

things that studios are are kind of streaming

studios are kind of waking up and seeing what

generates return on investment like you know

netflix prime video disney plus max you know

having movies generate 50 of streaming revenue

in 2024 you know up from 27 in 2022 and then

you know their licensed library titles are now

accounting for two -thirds of all movie revenue

which is insane because movie theaters don't

get a lot of it nope plus you're talking a lot

of old stuff now if something that i really wanted

to see hit theaters you know even limited run

around me i would probably see it now i'm not

gonna lie if star trek generations or star trek

6 went to theater near me i would 100 go yeah

because i've never seen star trek 6 in the theater

and as far as i know that one hasn't re -released

i know they've done star trek 5 recently so i'm

betting on that and then generations was the

first star trek movie i ever saw in theater yeah

so i would definitely partake in that because

uh I saw it in theater the first time. It would

be nice to see it again as an adult. I was also

scarred because they killed Captain Kirk. And

then it was right around the time I was like,

I think it was like 10 or something. Yeah, maybe

it was maybe it was eight. I don't know. It came

out in 94. I think it was eight. And yeah, you

were it was funny because I had I had to have

cavities. Oh, no. Around the same time. And so

the bribe. My parents gave me to deal with the

fact that I was dealing with that and to behave.

They bought me this Star Trek communicator magazine

on Generations. I got the Captain Kirk figures

and I saw the film. Nice. And yeah, so I was

pretty enticed. I got some of the ships too,

I think, from it, but I don't fully remember

all that. uh but yeah i mean it was and i was

holding on to like the kirk figure which oddly

enough i still have uh my my first dog mangled

the face oh no i still have it i bought a newer

one over the years like i found it at a convention

for like five bucks and i bought another one

that was like not destroyed right so they're

both standing side by side in my cabinet but

it's just it's entertaining as all get up um

and my first thought was dude you could 3d print

a new face for it but the problem is is getting

the paint for the faces like i've tried printing

dragon ball z faces you know heads and like their

whole bodies and i cannot paint those worth anything

because it's just a face thing like but no i'm

i'm excited too because you know as long as nacelle

toys actually delivers on their star trek figures

they're coming out with like a ton of generations

figures and various waves and specifically the

kirk and the the vest for wave 2 which i have

pre -ordered on bbts nice again provided it comes

out because it's supposed to be the end of 2026

and wave 1 still has not released oh geez so

we'll see they've they've got grandiose plans

for five waves already and i'm like let's get

through wave one and see it actually in people's

hands before we you know jump the shark here

but but again you know back to the licensing

uh netflix reported that old you know four -year

-old films the license still pulls significant

viewership today licensing an existing studio

movie costs a fraction of producing a new original

series but delivers higher viewer retention because

people want to see it uh and then the shift is

you know dramatic that streamers are prioritizing

licensing older films over creating expensive

original content so kind of the bottom line is

you know subscribers basically just want to re

-watch you know whatever it may be on a saturday

night and licensing a studio's old movie for

5 million keeps more subscribers than spending

100 million on a new series so that kind of explains

why they're all suddenly bidding on movie catalogs

and greenlighting way fewer stuff and speaking

of which like there's some christmas movies that

come out this time of year and they're on certain

streaming platforms and my family was like they're

like i want to watch this i want to watch this

and we were going to look for it and we're like

well it's not on the platform that actually created

it it's on a totally different one like we ended

up finding it on tubi yep and i was like well

it's free so that's great yep and somehow i don't

get ads on tubi anymore uh -huh i don't know

why no like there's literally an ad break and

it's about to kick over to it and then it doesn't

yeah so I'm wondering I have settings like certain

settings for certain Wi -Fi's in my house that

block ads Oh, nice. So I think it jumps the Tubi

ads. Nice. Since I did that. And now that I'm

trying to like skirt, you know, right, right,

right. Like I, that was just a happy accident.

Cause I'm like, well, I'm sitting here with my

kids and I want all these weird ads that come

on anymore in streaming and they're repetitive

too. So it's really bad. Like Amazon prime, we

used to watch some of the freebies on there.

yeah don't get me wrong I have Amazon Prime but

yeah they still make you watch commercials if

they own you know whatever it is it's on there

and the commercials are very tone deaf to the

audience yeah and I'm like I would not I don't

want my kids watching these like so like I'm

more apt to just buy the disc and just kind of

say screw it like I bought like my family likes

to watch like full house and little house yep

and i i bought the discs did the right thing

bought them at walmart yep i'm putting them on

my computer because you know we want to watch

different devices in the house and not have to

put them in a disc absolutely but i bought it

so yeah but you know again i don't i don't necessarily

have a problem paying for a streaming service

my problem is is that if i'm going to have it

i want it to keep the programs that i watch yeah

that's not going to keep the programs that i'm

going to watch which this is basically saying

yeah then it's not like basically when all of

the stuff dries up it's like do i keep it do

i dump it do i jump ship to a different one yeah

in most cases that's where it's gonna go yeah

which is the funny you say that because honestly

every time we talk about this we've been saying

that since 2009 well every no dude every time

like when we first did that episode netflix quickster

and something else when we right before we got

you know what in that email we got our lives

uh opposition for uh unaliving yeah yeah yeah

yeah for not supporting hulu no well technically

we support them now they're they're part of disney

yeah exactly so but but the thing is it's funny

because back then it was netflix and hulu they

were they were the only two game in town you

either had one or the other you had both and

the shows would jump the the rights would jump

from either or the other and here we are 15,

16, 17 years later, it's still happening. Shows

still jump from service to service to service

sometimes. It's crazy. Yeah, so I mean, it's...

I like... having the option to still watch the

shows on you know netflix and like i i was a

big fan of you know watching star trek on netflix

and hulu i mean you can watch the kelvin universe

films on netflix and i've seen those to the point

like i just don't care like i saw me i saw them

all in the theater and i like them for what they

are but they're not they're not rewatchable Like

the old stuff. So I haven't seen Star Trek. So

we're going to get to... Okay, folks. You're

going to get a AAA podcast series from us next

year. You're going to get all things Transformers.

You're going to get Altered Geek and you're going

to get Altered Trek. Because we are doing Altered

Trek next year. Full time. We have to. Yeah,

we have to knock that out. We have to knock that

out. We also have to finish up... podcaster meets

robot that's a whole other thing point is altered

track i have seen the first two i have not seen

beyond beyond is actually better than into darkness

well i would hope so because it's done by the

guy who did fast and the furious right right

that's fine uh i would hope so because into darkness

is just but star trek 2009 that first movie oh

man i like That first movie was amazing. I saw

that in theaters. I was in theaters for that.

And I'm not even the, I'm Star Trek adjacent

over here. And I was in theaters for that in

2009. That movie, it is the second. Star Trek

film I had seen in theaters my entire life. The

first one I saw in theaters was in 1996, which

was First Contact. Nice. First Contact was the

first Star Trek movie I had ever seen in theaters,

and I am so glad that First Contact versus Generations

was the first one I had seen in theaters because

I love First Contact. And then the next one I

had seen in theaters was 2009 Star Trek. And

yeah, no, just like, yeah, I'm excited to get

to all of, all of that stuff. But what I'm most

excited about is getting, I mean, obviously I

could rewatch the 2009 Star Trek anytime, but.

As you all know, if you've heard us before, I

watch things to do them on podcasts, and I don't

want to watch it now and then watch it again

later because it's going to take us a while to

get to that. I don't want to have to have the

memory of the rewatch that I did in 2025 in 2027

when we get to it. I don't know when we're going

to get to it, but whatever. You know what I mean?

the but like and into darkness i just remember

how just wrath of khan it was it tried to be

wrath of khan and failed and i've never seen

beyond so beyond is gonna that's my whole point

in talking about all of this is beyond is gonna

be brand new for me so it's going to be so interesting

to see how they end the ended that that story

because apparently in through multiple news sources

that i've seen recently the kelvin universe is

dead they're not going back and doing a fourth

one which honestly it's been way too long plus

with anton being gone and you know the studio

screwed the pooch anyway in the third film they

didn't promote it they didn't do anything and

so it kind of just floundered even though i felt

like it was better than into darkness and into

darkness was a terrible rehash of the rash wrath

of khan yeah oh wow star trek beyond is nine

years old It is. That's why I said, I think that

it's, it's kind of, it's, it's gone beyond its

time. Now this is where, and I know we've gone

off on a Star Trek tangent. This is, this is

where the studio has the opportunity to do Star

Trek legacy, which takes place after Star Trek.

Picard has seven of nine is the captain of the

enterprise G. has Picard's son in it, Geordi's

daughter, you know, you know, and then having

a, you know, a plethora of other characters reprising

from Picard season three, it opens the door to

allowing some of the, some of the older cast

to return. Yep. If they so choose. As well as

Liam Shaw, who. is one of the friends of Terry

Metallus. He would come back as like a emergency

hologram for engineering, kind of like the holographic

doctor, but he would be for engineering specifically.

Oh, cool. And so, I mean, they've played out

the idea as if they got a series, but it seems

like Paramount doesn't want to necessarily, or

at least it didn't before Skydance bought them.

Yeah. And Skydance is very pro Trek and Tom Cruise

and everything. So we'll see. I think that this

would be their opportunity, though, to push Star

Trek Legacy and finally get something off the

ground with it before any of the people are unavailable.

And I felt like it was, you know, Picard season

three was the truest thing we've had in Trek

in quite some time. Right. So, and rather than

doing a rehash or a reboot or a prequel, just

keep the story going, man. Yeah. Just keep the

story going. Keep the films going. Like keep

them in the future. Don't keep rehashing. I think

that this would go over really well. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh man. Skydance. I. Every time. And I know that's

Tom's thing and whatever. And I'm just sitting

here thinking, I can't imagine Tom Cruise in

Star Trek. Like, I know he's not going to be

in it anywhere. At least I hope I don't think

he's going to be in it anywhere. But all I can

think of is Ethan Hunt in the background trying

to spy on somebody in Star Trek. Oh, boy. Hasta

lasagna. Don't get any on you. But, yeah, I mean.

Kind of going back to the streaming war. Yep.

I mean, it's funny because years ago, I remember

recording the Geekcast radio episode where we're

like, I want a la carte cable. I want this. I

want that. And now we're at that point where

it's a la carte and it's on a million streaming

services. Yep. And I'm sitting here going, I

don't have the budget to pay for every one of

these. So it's like, which one do I choose and

which one do I review content from? Yeah. Like

I, I like Netflix the best out of all of them.

Okay. So it's funny you say that because I recently.

So I've had a Netflix account since I don't know.

2010, 2011, whenever that was. I've had to change

it and do this and do that and make sure, re

-verify, blah, blah, blah, because I've had it

off and on over the years. I recently had it

billed through Xfinity because it was the easiest

and cheapest thing for me to do was to be able

to not have to pay any money up front, just put

it on the cable bill. Look, it's a cable service.

So I did that. And once I did that and I got

signed up and I did all the things and whatever

else and everything else. And I went through

like my list to see what was even on my list.

And I'm like, okay, I remember that. I remember

that. I love that. I love that. And then I took

a deep dive into every genre that I know I like

that they have. So action movies. uh crime drama

type you know cop drama type movie type stuff

and i went through all the movies went through

all the tv shows outside of some of the superhero

shows that are on there they started showing

me everything in like i didn't even select this

as an option But they started showing me all

the foreign drama stuff or the foreign this or

the foreign that. And I'm like, look, folks,

I can speak a little French. And that's only

because my girlfriend, you know, I learned it

because of her, not because of I want to learn

it to be able to speak it fluently to everybody

else kind of thing. And it's like, what in the

hell does Netflix have to offer to me? Literally,

outside of what's coming up, and I don't know

when you're going to publish this, hopefully

before or after November 12th. Not trying to

rush you into, I'm just saying, I'm doing this

so people know that it's coming. Or maybe it's

already been out. As I was doing this, I'm like...

Right now, there's only two things on Netflix

that I will watch all of the time. That is The

Atom Project, and that is Six Underground. I

haven't opened that app for anything. There's

nothing on there for me. There's nothing in there

that makes me want to go back and re -watch any

of it. Until I go on to YouTube one morning.

And I see Netflix's YouTube channel has uploaded

an official trailer for Being Eddie, the new

Eddie Murphy documentary. And I'm like, okay,

Netflix, I got you. All right. Yeah. Okay. Podcast

time. Coming November 12th, or maybe it already

has gone by. But Being Eddie, the new Eddie Murphy

documentary. Oh, God, I cannot wait to watch

that this week. or last week or i've i've been

watching it what do you mean you oh you bet that's

right yeah uh it's been interesting so far what

i've seen of it when you say you've been watching

it you've been watching it in five second clips

before the self -destruct no no no i've been

actually watching it okay uh i just haven't gotten

through all of it yet okay but yeah um but yeah

like i i feel like i feel like streaming is hitting

this point where you're either going to have

to charge like an astronomical amount it's good

or it's going to get a ton of commercials or

they're going to end up consolidating yeah well

the consolidation is kind of underway because

people are looking to buy what is it wb discovery

Like that whole bid, that whole bidding war thing

with who's going to buy them. It, it changes

every frigging week. This, this is going to buy

them. That's going to buy them. Nope. This one's

going to buy them. Nobody's going to buy them.

We don't know who's going to buy them. Like it's

a never, I don't make fun of mental illness.

I try my best not to because I have mental illnesses,

but literally it's like a schizophrenic's worst

nightmare as to who the hell is going to save

Warner Brothers Discovery and who is going to

bring them into the fold, whether it's going

to be Skydance Paramount, whether it's, can you

imagine if it would be, I don't think it's going

to be Disney, but oh my God, that would be. I

know, I know. But if it was, that would be a

monopoly upon a monopoly upon a monopoly. You

talk about passing go and collecting $200 million.

Holy crap. So I think if anybody's going to buy

them right now, I think it's going to be Netflix.

They're the only ones that don't own a traditional.

True. like amazon owns what is it mgm yep and

then you know comcast has nbc and universal so

nbc universal you know disney's bought up like

pixar lucasfilm fox 20th century fox you know

all kinds of other littler ones new line cinema

which was part of fox So, I mean, they've got

a they've got a boatload, too. And then Sony

has Columbia. I forgot about Sony. So you've

got all these other platforms. I. I know Netflix,

they've they've kind of will they won't they

with it. And I think because a lot of the WB

stuff does really well on Netflix, I think they'll

buy them. And I know that they've already met

with the. the lawyers on it and they're they're

currently looking into it kind of like how sky

dance did with uh cbs paramount and i know cbs

paramount sky dance you know whatever they want

to call themselves this week i think it's still

just paramount and sky dance company kind of

like how you know mgm is an amazon company and

columbia sony company so i think well paramount

wants them i don't think they'll let that go

through because they're already a legacy studio

skydance bought paramount and cbs and so i don't

foresee that i see netflix getting it out of

any of these groups which would be beneficial

just because of that now the other monkey wrench

that goes into that is whoever buys wonder brothers

can also decide to reboot this the dc comics

universe dc studios once again which means we'll

end up with another incomplete, you know, universe

of just doing movies for no reason. Yeah. So

I'm, I'm really hoping whoever takes over whatever

direction they go, that they actually just let

us get like an entire, you know, DCU for once.

Yeah. Instead of, you know, having what's been

going on with them where, Oh, we get a couple

of films and then we reboot. We get a couple

of films where you reboot. Like I'm rewatching

the dark night trilogy right now. just for fun

and it hits differently now than what it did

when i saw it like i enjoyed it when i saw it

but i actually get it and like really enjoy it

like i hated batman begins when it came out yeah

between the bat suit and just everything else

and then i didn't like aspects of the dark knight

rises and i really didn't like the dark or the

dark night rises. I didn't like, uh, the dark

night I liked and I'm, I'm starting the dark

night rises now and I have a better appreciation

for it other than the fact that the music and

sound and the vocals and the dark night rises

are, well, we have the Batman. Yeah. Uh, so I,

I don't know. Like, it'd be nice to at least

just get another trilogy of something and kind

of leave it alone and put it to bed for a while

and then start over. Yeah, I didn't. And I've

also got another appreciation for like Man of

Steel compared to what I did years ago. And I've

seen the new Superman movie, so I have something

to compare. I mean, I've seen the Christopher

Reeve stuff and that stuff's still great. Yeah,

but. out of these newer renditions like i like

man of steel for some of the aspects it brought

and then i like some of the aspects of the new

superman movie and some of it i find annoying

and like i yeah i have grapes with each one but

i have positives with each and i think you know

mixing them together you have kind of a better

superman but you know that kind of plays into

that screen rant article i sent you earlier about

you know the definitive version being you know

the the DCAU Superman the animated series yep

and the reason why that to to screen rants I

forget who wrote that article but to their to

their opinion and to ours is because that was

done by Bruce Tim and and the DCAU team and all

of that and they At the time in Superman the

Animated Series' 30th anniversary next year,

not to say that James Gunn doesn't care, not

to say that Zack Snyder didn't care, but they

have their own vision of how to tell the story.

And it just seems to me that Bruce Timm and his

team did the best job of doing that at the time

in 1996 and it just feels like the best superman

stories that were ever told well and you have

paul dini too and he's kind of the creative genius

behind a lot of that as well like bruce tim was

the animator and you know the main guy but but

paul dini was the guy that had some of the most

inventive thought provoking storylines and characters

and so i i feel like while yes snyder and gunn

each had their own rendition and version of superman

and i think there's plenty of room for all these

different renditions because i mean look at the

comics we've got a million of them oh yeah but

i feel like they they were striving to tell a

different version or a different type of story

with them whereas we got more of the traditional

but along with some evolution in the dcau which

we can discuss that in another episode at some

point in the future but um like again like i

was watching that i was watching justice league

i was watching you know a lot batman beyond those

were all on netflix for a while and then little

by little they've all left and So, I mean, it's

it's highly frustrating if you just want, you

know, to stay on the one platform. We don't want

to have to keep shuffling. And I get like it's

kind of nice in some regards where it's like,

oh, you get you stay there long enough. You'll

see different stuff appear or you'll see different

stuff come back. And yeah, I'm I'm not opposed

to that. It's just sometimes I just want to turn

it on and turn on a show and have this background

noise and watch, you know. interim with some

of it and enjoy it for what it is and I don't

want to have to buy another platform and I don't

love everything that Paramount has I like the

Star Trek material but beyond that I don't foresee

watching much else and same thing with like you

know the HBO Max or you know whatever else that

they've got over there like I would watch the

DCAU and pretty much nothing else Oh, the funny

thing about Paramount right now for me is I started

watching, but... They have the NCIS stuff. So

I'll watch that. My big thing right now is the

NCIS origins. So it's the story of Mark Harmon's

character from the original series, but it's

his origin before he became Leroy Jethro Gibbs,

the main character of the original NCIS. So it's

that, but. I kept seeing various clips of I Love

Lucy on Instagram. And I'm like, hmm, I wonder

where that show is streaming. Let's find out.

You can stream all of I Love Lucy on Paramount+.

Okay, cool. And I started watching I Love Lucy.

I'm like 10 minutes into the first episode. And

I'm laughing my ass off because it's just hilarious.

When it comes to the DCAU stuff. back when they

were announced i think this was 2019 maybe 2018

i immediately and it was because it was it came

with a funko pop uh version of batman beyond

i have the batman beyond blu -ray set so i have

the physical media but it came with a digital

code that i could have that i could put into

voodoo now fandango so i have both the physical

and digital stuff and funny enough that i was

i restarted watching batman beyond i think i'm

up to like the fourth or fifth episode right

now nice so i'm not actively actively watching

that because the simpsons is taking all my time

currently on the watching for animation but uh

It's in the rotation. It's in the rotation. Speaking

of what we are watching, I wanted to bring up

two shows that I have completely binged. One

is currently still going on and the other has

ended, I think, two years ago. I think I have

to double check that. But the one that's currently

still going on is called High Potential. It is

American crime drama television series created

by Drew Goddard. It is not the same Drew Goddard

that I thought it was. I thought it was the same

Drew Goddard that did the Masters of the Universe

movie in 1987. I think that was Gary Goddard,

maybe. High potential follows Morgan Guillory,

a single mother of three who works as a cleaner

at the Los Angeles Police Department. Morgan

has an IQ of 160, classifying her as a high potential

intellectual, HPI. When she unexpectedly solves

a complex case using her unorthodox thinking

and keen observational skills, she is recruited

as a civilian consultant for the LAPD's Major

Crimes Division. This show is, and the only reason

why I know this show, I have to give a shout

out to my buddy. I don't know him that well.

We're Facebook friends, but I've read a lot of

his articles on Decider and other websites. But

Will Harris, Will had shared one of their posts

or one of their photos or whatever. And I saw

it and I'm like, what is that? And I went to

the High Potential Facebook page and I'm like,

ooh. okay i must now find this and watch all

of it ended up binge watching the entire first

season all 13 episodes i'm like okay best new

show for me uh started last year in 2024 with

the first season we're in the middle of season

two right now they just did their season two

fall finale on a cliffhanger but uh it's an interesting

way to do a like you have these crime drama cop

procedurals that basically a dime a dozen you

can throw a dime you'll get 10 of them kind of

thing or 12 technically a dozen is 12 i should

say but this one just seems different and i like

it a lot and it's it's funny as hell it's so

comical with with like her world and how the

police world is and just I'm just loving how

that's going. So I'm watching that currently.

And then the other series that I just finished,

again, I'm kind of glad I waited on us, or we

waited on doing this. It ran from 2018 to 2023,

so it ended two years ago. A Million Little Things

is an American family drama television series

created by DJ Nash for ABC. The premise of this

is in Boston. Yes, you can park your car. A tight

-knit circle of friends is shocked after a member

of the group unexpectedly dies by suicide. The

friends realize that they need to finally start

living life as they cope with their loss. The

title is a reference to the saying, friendship

isn't a big thing, it's a million little things.

Karen tried to get me to watch this in 2018 when

it debuted, and because Boston, and I'm originally

from Boston, and it's how they bond is over the

fact that they have season tickets to the Boston

Bruins and everything else, and they all wear

Bruins jerseys, and it's a whole Boston thing

and everything else, and I just wasn't. in the

right frame of mind to ever watch it and then

she and i got too busy living life and everything

else and i don't know this thing just after the

first season of high potential and waiting on

whenever the second season started i was like

okay what's what's the next show i need to and

this is before we started the the top 100 uh

nominee reveals okay, what's the next show I

need to be binge watching? And then I had seen

this and I'm like, okay, all right, I'll give

it a shot. It, I don't know if we could, I don't

know if technically, how is he? Yeah. See, he's

not even listed as the, the head. I mean, is

he, where, where, where is, where is Ron? Oh,

he's not even. Listed in the main cast? Really?

Recurring. Wow. Okay. So this show centers around

John Dixon is the main guy that brings all the

friends together. And he is played by Ron Livingston.

Yes, that Ron Livingston. Peter from Office Space.

which kind of shocked me because I hadn't seen

Ron Livingston do anything since Office Space,

honestly. And so that kind of drug me in. And

it's a good show. As of this recording, I have

finished watching the entire series. I plan on

writing a blog post up about it, about the whole

show. Originally, I was going to write five separate

ones about each season. Now I'm just going to

write one whole one discussing each season in

the whole thing. But it's a really good character

-driven show. It's on the same level as This

Is Us emotionally, as far as being so emotionally

charged. and dealing with different emotions

and things like that. But I like these characters

a lot more than a lot of the characters that

came through. This is us. So, so yeah, that's,

that's what I've been watching. What have you

been watching? I mean, I really haven't been

watching all that much television. Uh, I've been

watching a lot of old stuff. Like we've been

watching full house. My kids have been enjoying

it. Like we started it over from season one.

Okay. And, they, they get a kick out of it to

the point they're enjoying watching it. Um, we're

about five episodes in at this point. And then

we've been watching pretty much just movies.

Uh, I've been watching the dark night trilogy,

the being Eddie. trying to think what else I

think I've watched the new Superman movie I watched

the Man of Steel I watched Justice League or

not Justice League Batman v Superman but I think

I only made it through like halfway and I forgot

what I was watching and I moved on to the Dark

Knight I'll probably make it back there eventually

but more so I just I forgot. And then as far

as like animated stuff, I've been watching stuff

to kind of prep for the top 100. Like I started

watching Naruto. I've been watching Dragon Ball

Super just for fun. And then just been trying

to kind of watch some of the other shows that

are in the top 100 so that I can be prepared

at least when they kind of come up. and uh yeah

so i mean that's that's pretty much been it outside

of trying to gather movie news and uh figure

out when i'm starting m wire and how i want to

start it and what episode and what i want to

cover in the first one but i'm almost there i've

got some of it narrowed down very cool very cool

but Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much it. I haven't

been doing a whole heck of a lot because I've

been trying to edit and get back into the swing

of things with getting the nominees episode up

and then work and life. My wife and kid got to

go see a concert the other day. They really,

like, mercy me. okay cool cool i can only imagine

guy um they're coming out with a new movie in

the spring or late winter february and it's i

can only imagine too and it's kind of takes place

later and a lot of the same actors coming back

anyways they went to the concert on thursday

and they bought some like crappy seats in the

back oh no and of the arena that's like 10 minutes

from our house and a radio station so this is

all comes full circle i was about to be hired

by a radio station around the same time i got

hired at the car wash i technically was hired

by both oh however the radio station was also

45 minute drive one way if traffic was good oh

and yeah that was part of it part of it was i

just was like i don't want to drive that far

and then they couldn't guarantee that i was going

to get to work from home two to three days a

week and work, work from the office like two

to three days. And I was like, okay, like if

you can, like, I'm just going to pick somewhere

close that I, you know, have some more flexibility.

And the funny thing is the car wash was the better

option, uh, just because they're, they, they

care about their employees and things like that.

Uh, whereas this, this, uh, radio station right

off the bat showed me that they didn't care during

the interview process. And I was like, well,

that's an answer, you know, that I'm, Not going

to have to deal with. And anyways, so they bought

out an AM station. They were trying to redo it

into a, you know, modern station. And they made

it, funny enough, the number is 101 .5, which

was a rock station in Flint. Here it's a Christian

rock station. So it's funny. Anyways, I used

to win crap on 101 .5 all the time back in Flint.

Well, they went to the booth at the arena, which

I found out later was the same company that I

was supposed to get hired by. And they won front

row seat tickets. Nice. So they literally were

about six, seven feet from the band. And there

was nobody in front of them but the band. But

the band, yeah. So my wife and youngest had the

time of their life that evening. That's awesome.

So. Very cool, very cool. Yeah. Outside of that,

I got to my work computer. I brought it home

to work last Wednesday. And Windows decided to

take a massive dump. And I was stuck at the perpetual

blue screen of death, which I let you know about,

but tried everything I know to restore it. I

had a boot, flash drive, and everything. Could

not restore this drive. The only option was to

do a PC reset. Which, you know, it sends it back

to factory. Yeah. Which, don't get me wrong,

it had some bloat. on it like it was old it i

mean it's two and a half years old so it was

probably due however i did not really want to

have to go through all that so luckily i backed

it up two days before a lot of my stuff saved

in the cloud when i'm editing but i had to put

all my software back on one of which i had to

call a company to have installed because the

pay the the company that does our point of sale

does not let people do it themselves like they

have to configure it to authorize the machine

to access it so that was interesting too but

anyways i wiped it out i got it all kind of restored

i made sure i didn't add things on there i didn't

need and then uh the only thing i lost were my

bookmarks which was not a whole terrible thing

i backed them up this time since i added all

of them back that i could find and all of my

logins but yeah it took me like a day to get

back up and running for my work pc so now i'm

like behind on everything oh no but the what

what was the most astounding part of it the video

card is a 120 8 megabyte video card oh boy which

which megabyte megabyte uh -huh not gigabyte

megabyte my my home desktop uh not my main machine

because it's a geforce nvidia card my other one

came with an integrated intel graphics processor

of one gig and that was in 2011 yeah so i was

a little amazed that the this laptop had 128

megabyte which seems wrong yeah but but at the

same time like because i mean it does run stuff

it just it doesn't handle a whole lot as far

as memory on i mean it's a 24 gig memory on the

computer but it's like the video card is not

very good so it takes forever to spit anything

out or to you know encode or whatever and so

i i'm in hopes i i get a new computer soon for

work but um and then my son got a his first smartphone

first price for him no he got a motorola is it

a razor no it's it's a hundred dollar motorola

it's the moto g 2024 edition or something and

it i mean for what he needs it for it works i

mean i have everything heavily locked down parental

mode which if people want to hear about that

i'll go into more detail on it but uh for the

most part i i have two different sets of apps

that prevent him from doing anything he shouldn't

yep and um yeah so he he has that now which he

can take to school and he can you know use it

to let me know where he's at yep and he's figured

out how to use it pretty decently because i i

mean i gave my old galaxy s five years ago and

it just for play like it still worked like it

just it wasn't hooked up to its cell service

this one is right and then um yeah he's he's

enjoying that so it's been a it's been a week

Yeah, it really, really has. It's been a long

week. It's going to be a long week. So anyways,

I think that about rounds this episode out. Yep.

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