Geek Power Rankings Updated

This is Jason David Frank and you're listening

to the Geek Cash Radio Network. You are now on

the inside of what I like to call the circle

of trust. We are all connected in a great circle

of life. You know something Bert? I think you

and I are going in circles. It feels like we're

going in circles. The Circle is now complete.

When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I

am the master. Because it's a circle. Yeah, we

heard about the circle. Yeah, we're familiar

with shape. Hi, this is Chuck. This is Greg.

And this is Dan, and we are Talking in Circles,

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the podcast that's completely sick of winter.

And I think like everyone else. Today we are

going back to our geek power rankings back in

September We did the first edition of geek power

rankings where we counted down the top ten biggest

things in the world of geekdom We're gonna go

back to that today to see what's changed What's

still on that list what new what's new that needs

to be belong and see how much geekdom has changed

in the past Six months or so, but before we get

to all that how's the week been going for you

guys? This week was interesting I was pretty

busy, but I guess I should start off with some

more big news for myself. Did you join Tumblr?

No, but I think you guys might be more surprised

by this one, but I definitely think that the

world must be ending because I'm doing all these

things, but I finally got a smartphone. Oh my

God. Wow. It's the end of the world you go you

go Apple Android where'd you go? I went Android

got a got a new Motorola phone I'll be honest.

I kind of went for it because it was a cheaper

one. Yeah, but uh, it's still a really good phone.

It has a lot of It does a lot of things better

actually than some of the higher -end phones

So it's got nothing but good reviews online and

stuff. So I really like it so far nice Nice.

Did you get all your? Things updated like Facebook

and Twitter and all that. Yeah. I mean, I'm kind

of slow coming up with that stuff, but I've just

been like checking out everything and all the

different apps and stuff you can get. There's

this weird little, uh, animation thing on there

on here called windy day. It's sort of like a,

like a virtual reality thing. Like when you open

it, wherever you like turn the phone, it's like,

you're looking in that direction. You're kind

of like in this forest and. There's like a mouse

that's like chasing this hat that keeps blowing

away in the wind And you have to like follow

them at the phone and stuff, but it's like this

It's just this thing to like promote a you know

virtual reality like animations and stuff like

that But it's pretty cool man so much has changed

in the past few weeks. I know it's it's getting

scary You know life's life's getting pretty scary

here a lot of change Cool. So now when we send

you photos, you can actually see it's not just

like a pixelated like blob. This camera is so

much better than the crappy one I had on my old

phone too. And also what's good is that, you

know, I could check my Gmail really quickly so

I could respond to your guys' emails much faster

now. How about you, Greg? How's your week been

going? My week's been all right. Yeah, I used

up all my energy for my high at the beginning

of the episode. I am going downhill quick. I

was asleep before we started recording and I

woke up a little bit later than I should have

to start recording this. So I am probably sounding

really dead right now. So I'm sorry about that.

So our mission today is to be interesting enough

to keep Greg awake. So hopefully we can do that.

Good luck with that. I didn't fall asleep last

night until like 2 30 in the morning. So I think

that's the main reason I'm hoping I'm not like,

you know how at the beginning of a cold you're

kind of sleepy a lot. I'm hoping it's not a cold

because everybody else at my house has Colds

and like they've been at it for it out of it

for about two or three weeks now They've really

been fighting some crazy stuff. So crazy. My

week has been kind of it's been a mixture of

weird weird weirdness starting on Saturday I

went to the second day of the best picture showcase

at AMC theaters and like we went to it We knew

we're getting snow that day, but we're supposed

to get like three to four inches, which is not

too bad We're gonna be there all day by the time

it was over, you know, most of snow would be

plowed well The day went on that three to four

inches went to five six seven eight nine Eventually

we got ended up getting near a foot of snow and

it was kind of weird like by the third movie

They actually ended up closing the movie theater

Wow, but they kept the best picture showcase

going So it was really weird because we were

the only people in the theater in this entire

movie theater Just in this one location and there

was like three people like, you know selling

concessions and it's also next to this mall That's

like been long dying. So it looks like the mall

from dawn of the dead Mike I feel like I'm in

the apocalypse. It was so weird It's like this

seems like the world's ending and we're just

stuck in this movie theater because there's like

no one here It was like eerily quiet. It was

insane We ended up actually skipping the last

movie because I was getting so bad out and we

were driving and there were tons of cars parked

alongside what parked or look basically a bandit

alongside the road and People walking and like

oh man feel bad for some of these people. We're

going by this one section. It's like near it's

like a It's more like a suburban area. There's

like a grocery store there and stuff. And they

see this guy walking, you know, there's a few

people, but there's no side sidewalks are all

covered. So he's like walking in the road and

he's like, I really barely has a jacket on. Like,

why is that guy walking? It must be something

important. You know, we get up to him. He's like

carrying something in his hands. We get up to

him. He's got a case of beer in each hand walking

down the street and like barely having a jacket

on like that guy has priorities. So it was important.

Yeah. Nearly a foot. Snow like cars barely keeping

control literally. He's like in the road. So

kind of dangerous It was like wow the guy it

was but it was like Budweiser too. So it's like,

you know Budweiser is trying to sell the fact

in the commercial that they think they're better

than a whole bunch of these small craft breweries

now, which is insane Well, maybe Dan you should

have looked around for some cameras because maybe

they're actually filming a commercial That could

have been it, yeah. As cold as ice, 34 degrees,

whatever they say, but yeah. You will go through

12 inches of snow to get a case or two. And then

after that, but earlier this week, I ended up

driving in the work and I don't know what happened,

but I ended up blowing a tire, which sucked.

So I had to like pull over middle of 695, which

is a major highway in Baltimore and like change

it in the freezing cold, which was not fun whatsoever.

So it was, uh, I I've gotten way too good at

changing tires. I've done it so much, but, uh,

Dan's like the NASCAR pit crews. Yeah. Except

when it's really cold out and it was just like,

it was awful, but luckily it was in a good location.

could get over easily enough and there's a lot

of space like to change it and my car is really

small so that helps but really sucks though is

like my apparently I'm the only like one of three

people in my apartment my neighborhood that own

a shovel because we got all that snow like no

one knew how to shovel there was a guy I mean

one neighbor was using his the thing you know

you use to get ice that your ice scraper for

your car it's a shovel out and like It was insane

it was just people just didn't I was using a

broom I went around and I literally shoveled

for like three hours on the one Sunday to helping

people because like no one knew how to shovel

and people people By one neighbor was trying

to get out. He couldn't he was with his His family

his wife and his kid he couldn't get out of a

spot and I was trying to help him I had an extra

shovel and I gave him my extra shovel and I was

Using my shovel like trying to shove them out

What he was doing was just taking the snow that

was in this spot and putting it in the spot next

to him Like no, that's not what you you can't

you can't just make it worse for the guy next

to you I don't think he saw snow before he didn't

these people have no idea how blizzards work.

Yeah. Yeah But there were some interesting things

that happened this week, and one of the more

random short films, fan films that happened,

and a lot of people are talking about it. We

may even talk about it later for the Geek Power

Rangers, but we gotta start with it, because

it's one of the few things we all gotta watch

this week. And that is the insane Money Morphin

Power Rangers fan film that was released by Joseph

Kahn earlier this week. The same guy that did

Dirty Laundry a few years ago, and now is coming

out with this. Fan films during James Vanderbeek

with this adult gritty version of more money

more from Power Rangers I'm sure if you're listening

to this you probably saw it So I'm kind of curious

what you guys thought of this new version or

this new interpretation of the Power Rangers

Greg would you like to go first? Sure, I thought

the acting was really well done. I like James

Vanderbeek and I also liked That was her name.

She was on Battlestar Galactica. Katie Sakoff?

Yeah, yeah. Katie Sakoff. I thought she was really

good. Everybody else that was acting were just

OK for the most part. I really didn't understand

what was going on with the story, to be quite

honest. I'm like, what? Why is it? I don't want

to I don't want to spoil anything, but I was

like. Why is this happening to everybody like

and I didn't understand? What the dialogue that

James van der Beek and Katie Sackhoff were saying

to each other I'm like trying I was trying to

figure out what the hell they were even just

talking about I I'm not sure if I would just

wasn't making a connection or something or if

I had a stroke I could all get into why that

might have happened Okay, so yeah, but but otherwise

it was an interesting concept I thought they

went I felt like they crossed it over with Transformers

for some reason I liked the gritty post -apocalyptic

Approach for it and I've been kind of a little

sick of that because everybody's been doing post

-apocalyptic I felt like it's kind of been dying

down now I guess but if I felt like everybody

was doing post -apocalyptic, but I found it kind

of interesting concept I liked the whole taking

it from a kids show to this whole gritty feel

going on. I thought they did all right with the

costuming, but it also looked very weird. But

you can definitely tell there was giant influence

from the old Power Rangers show. That was interesting,

and they probably didn't have a lot of money

to do it too, so I thought it was pretty good

for being a YouTube video. It looked gorgeous,

though. Chuck, what did you think? It was okay.

I wasn't really crazy about it at all, to be

honest. I mean, there were good parts of it.

I spent the first few minutes thinking that James

Vanderbeek was Jason. Yeah, that's just I was

thinking too just because he kind of looks like

him Yeah, I don't know and I guess I found out

later that I guess he's rocky which was the red

ranger that came after him, right? sure But yeah,

well obviously like at the one part they sort

of talk about Jason so then you know it's not

him but yeah um so I was a little confused there

and like kind of like Greg I was kind of confused

what was going on but I did recognize like they

were talking about the Machine Empire which were

sort of the bad guys that kind of came after

like Lord Zed and all them which is probably

around the time when we all stopped watching

it I'm guessing but that was so I kind of knew

where they're coming from with that it was a

little bit of background there but um We get

it, Chuck. You're smart. You understood it all.

You're so smart, Chuck. I'm just kidding. I'll

let that go. Cause you're really tired, but no,

I'm kidding. It was, I don't know. I thought

it was kind of like, I mean, I don't mind them

going a different direction with it, but it was

so like polar opposite of Power Rangers we knew

yeah, it was just like like culture shock sort

of it's like what like Zack is like snorting

cocaine like one One one thing I think is important

when you watch this is actually reading the interview

that hip flicks did with Joseph Khan the guy

who directed it one thing to consider is Joseph

Khan never watched Power Rangers and His entire

purpose behind this like you mentioned Greg like

how everyone is going dark and gritty And like

that's like the thing and that's what he was

kind of trying to make fun of like it wasn't

meant to be serious It was meant to be more satirical

like it was not meant to be like like hey This

is great. He was trying to make it more of a

joke out of it And I don't think people I didn't

realize that until I read this article one. I

don't think it was nearly as Effective as as

a satire. It was like you like you said Chuck.

It's just so out like polar opposite of of the

I didn't know if they were playing the same characters.

It was and I was confused like you Greg I watched

it a few times so I was able to kind of better

understand what was going on and I've kind of

read about it but I think that's the most interesting

thing about it is the fact that uh The guy who

made it wasn't trying to like make wasn't trying

to do it because he loves power rangers he was

trying to do it because To kind of make a joke

of the whole Need for everything to be dark and

gritty like he made a thing about like he said

something to the effect of I almost did a movie

about About Barney making that really gritty,

but there's no there's no lawyer there to kind

of the to come out of so I did it with this It's

like, you know, there's people that talk to dinosaurs.

How can you take them that seriously? So I'll

put the article in the show notes So it gives

you a completely different insight into like

what he was trying to do So knowing it's meant

to be satirical. Does that at all change your

viewpoint of like what how it was at all Chuck?

I know you weren't really a fan of it Yeah, I

could kind of see that then like if they're sort

of making fun of that whole trend of making things

that dark. I could definitely see that. Like

everything's got to have drugs. Everything's

got to have sex. Everything's got to have like

shooting people in the head, which I admit like

I'm I sort of get sick of that stuff too all

the time because it's like every movie has to

have that in it to succeed. And that's totally

not true. Like you can do really great things

without putting those things in your movie. So

I can sort of see where that's coming from. Don't

know like I guess that the article you mentioned

sort of conflicts with some stuff that I read

cuz like Or maybe just in my mind conflicts because

like what was the producer a D Shankar or whatever

like that? Something like that his name was there

was like a an article that was talking about

Him how he put so much like heart and like belief

into the these short films that he does and the

Punisher one You know, he didn't do that for

any any sort of pitch or any money or anything

He did it because he loved it everything So I

sort of got the idea that he was doing it this

one for that reason But I guess that was totally

not right. What could have been more so, you

know the loving of the craft necessarily I mean

not that he dislikes the property more so that

I don't know Maybe that and also could be something

where the producer and the director are different

ideas of what they're trying to do but could

be I actually also heard that uh Vanderbeek got

like Credited with like as a crook a co -writer

of this. Yeah. Yeah, I heard that too That's

probably where the only references to the actual

Power Rangers came from because he probably watched

it as a kid Is that change your viewpoint at

all Greg No, cuz I was kind of seeing it that

way. I kind of felt it was oh Little bit over

the top to be a little bit humorous. So it doesn't

really change my my opinion of it Think they

did a good job with it since there for a fact

that we know that's what they're going for now

So I I thought it was pretty decent. Yeah, and

like you mentioned it did look really impressive

like the The amount of stuff you can do now with

like fan films or, you know, films for YouTube

or whatnot. It's kind of insane. They had that

one shot of the two Zords like fighting. Like

that was pretty, pretty cool. Yeah. I wish they

had a little bit more of like, I don't, I didn't

understand why they weren't calling Zords in

at all. That's probably the scene Greg where

you had the the Transformers a link right because

those two things fighting really looked like

Michael Bay's Transformers. Well, it wasn't that

it was the facts like Dan said we probably missed

the part where they after Lord Zed where they

had The machines thing because they kept saying

the machines and the the army of machines So

it was more than that than the Zords to be quite

honest, because I kind of figured they would

go a little transformery with the battles. for

what type of film it was, but it was more of

him talking about constantly saying the machines,

the machines, the machines, like, okay, what's

the machines? They just crossed it over with

like Terminator and like, you know, throw out

some Skynet references in there and stuff. Yeah,

I didn't know what the machines were. I thought

they meant the Zords. I guess that's something

else. I can't remember when I stopped watching

Power Rangers. I'm thinking. I think after the

first movie or before the second movie is about

when I stopped watching it. I can't remember.

I stopped watching probably a little bit after

Rita and Lord Zed got married. Oh, I didn't remember

that. And the plot thickens. I was watching.

I think I saw the first movie. And I watched

it up. I watched like. Quite a bit of like after

Lord Zed and Rita got married and like, you know

Zed was pretty much calling the shots But it

was secretly Rita that was sort of Like controlling

him or something like she gave him a potion to

fall in love with her But he was like, you know

sending all the monsters and stuff and then after

that I kind of lost, you know track of it and

they had some different Rangers come in and I

was like for me I just lost interest when they

started changing actors and stuff but I just

couldn't understand why actors would want to

leave that show and go on to better things. I

mean, why not just say your whole career doing

Power Rangers? Why not be tied to that your entire

life? I mean, you know, but a lot of that, a

lot of them, that was their entire life because

a lot of them actually did die in real life after

the really? Yeah. Trini's dad. Yeah, she died.

Who else? But there's like a couple of them that

did seriously die after they did the show. And

also, I liked their reference to the guy who

played Billy Cranston was actually gay in real

life and he was apparently getting ridiculed

on the show. In the movie they had him coming

out and they had him on the cover of out magazine

So they had him being gay in the in the movie.

So I thought that was kind of an interesting

thing. That was kind of funny Do you know was

the one guy that they showed? very briefly, I

think he He shot somebody was that supposed to

be like bulk. Yeah, there was Balkan skull in

there. Okay, I thought so We're tired of you

guys making fun of us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

They sold them out to some cartel and they killed

or something It was pretty much like Deeks it's

like Breaking Bad meets the Power Rangers. It

was the skinniest bulk I have ever seen in my

entire life. He was on meth, you know That makes

sense then I guess at first I didn't At all.

I think it was satirical because I do have that

movie that's in the works that is supposed to

be coming out in a few years. It's supposed to

be like a live action, like full for big budget

Power Rangers movie. So I almost thought like

this was supposed to be in line with that, but

clearly it isn't. So so much so I think Sabin

is trying to get them to stop like, you know,

trying to get the movie shut down and removed

from everything. Yeah, that'll do it because

it's like you do not know how the Internet works.

It's like trying to. Yeah. Trying to stop a flood

by putting your finger on like the one on a hole

Put your gum in the crack in the dam That'll

fix it Did you happen to see did you guys happen

to see that uh, like Jason David Frank's comments

about this movie? Yeah, he wasn't a big fan of

it from what I yeah, and and I saw that before

I watched it so that sort of reinforced my Belief

that this was for real. Yeah, cuz I sort of read

what he said and he's like, you know I don't

like all the cussing and and the drugs and the

sex and all this other stuff He's like I'm more

of a pg -13 guy and like this property this power

rangers property is a very kid oriented thing

and you're just growing it up way too fast in

this one leap. And after I watched it, I'm like,

yeah, you know, he's right. Like I really agree

with him on this. And then, you know, when you

talked about your article, Dan, that's like,

okay, apparently he didn't know that. I don't

think anyone did. Satire is hard. Like it's hard

to do satire. Like really great satire tends

to be. Wow, Korn does it all the time, Dan. Can't

be that hard. That's true. I'm sure there's a

Power Rangers point out there someplace. Oh man,

I don't want to see what that Zorda looks like.

ZORDAN! ZORDAN! I think, like, satire is hard.

Usually you have to be, like, equal part... part

of the thing you're making fun of or not making

fun of, but, you know, satirizing and like also

somewhat comedic. And I don't think there were

some moments where I was like, this seems kind

of almost funny, especially the scenes with the

guy doing like drugs, like hard drugs and like,

you know, that I loved. I loved his eighties

exercise video. That's pretty funny, too. So

it was hard. Yeah. So I should have known it

was over the top, too, because like in that scene

where he's like. Dudes, you know, starting the

coke, you see the two girls making out in the

background on the bed and stuff. And I should

have known like this is way too far, like over

the top, like. Yeah, they pretty much did everything

you possibly could in your drugs You got like

mass and the dude gets like mowed down Jason

gets mowed down in a blaze of gunfire So apparently

like, you know machine guns are standard issues

for Power Rangers now That whole truck gets destroyed

by bullets, but Katie Sakoff completely fine.

I know That was weird another kind of like what

they what they did with his like like shield

thing. That's on for Tommy. Oh It's like an energy

construction. Yeah, so I think there's actually

kind of some things that get pulled out of that

that would actually you know and use maybe not

as intense because there have been a lot of fan

films for power rangers and not I don't think

any has been as High production as this but or

has james van der beek, which is crazy, which

is when I started watching it I'm like, is that

james van der beek? I was it is james van der

beek jvdb Not to be confused with jcvd You probably

could have got GCVD. You got nothing else to

do. Doing an epic split. One thing I was going

to say is the the costumes were pretty terrible.

Like, yeah, the suits looked like styrofoam,

like Halloween costumes. Well, they definitely

ultra padded that up so he could take hits. And

yeah, and like the designs weren't even straight,

like on the chest and stuff like. And they were

all kind of cool. They were all ultra -dirty

as well. Yeah. The helmets were cool, cause they

were bulletproof, that part was pretty cool.

Yeah. But, Dan, when you were talking about funny

parts, I thought when Rita revealed herself,

I was kinda laughing at that part, I'll be honest.

I was like, ah, that's Rita. Nice. Nice. This

just looked funny. I think the dubbing for her

should have been worse at the end. Yeah, it was

always really bad. Oh Man All righty. Well Enough

of the Power Rangers at least for now. So Chuck

I know you've been you've also cut up with a

real movie unlike You know, that's not just a

fan film. Well real movies a strong word You'll

see what I mean in a minute, but this is a movie

that sort of probably belonged on my list of

shame And I've sort of seen parts of it, but

I never like sat down and watched it all and

uh, that's uh, none of them escaped from New

York I will say the first one. It was pretty

cool. I enjoyed seeing uh, Levi and cleave in

there who would Greg will probably know from

some Clint Eastwood westerns and stuff So and

a gun smokes and a whole bunch of other westerns.

Yeah. Yeah, he was a big western guy back in

the day I was kind of surprised to see him in

this sort of movie. But, you know, hey, it was

1981. Everybody was trying new things. So Ernest

Borgnein was in there, kind of played his usual

self. So but I really loved the concept of it

as like New York City being one big prison. Yeah,

I thought that was pretty cool. Like, I never

really I don't think anybody's really tackled

anything like that before, but. The whole movie,

though, felt like empty. Like it just like it

was sort of a decent plot. But, you know, Kurt

Russell tried kind of to be like Clint Eastwood

in a way, like, you know, very short, like succinct

dialogue. And, you know, but it just kind of

ends up falling flat, like for some reason, like

it's but it's not really his fault. I don't think

it's I think it's more of like it's more of like

the script and just how they wrote the movie.

And the other thing is, like, they sort of try

to make him into this, like, super badass action

hero and everything, but, like, people get the

advantage on him all the time. Like, he ends

up, like, you know, in the beginning, like, he's

acting tough and they inject those things into

his neck and he gets shot in the leg by the one

guy and he almost gets the crap kicked out of

him in that... That wrestling match with that

huge guy and stuff. It just like I didn't buy

him as like this huge action hero because he

wasn't as like Untouchable as you've seen in

those those corny 80s action movies. So it was

kind of interesting but I guess I don't know.

I love snake plus can he's like one of my favorite

characters All right, I can I can see him not

like being untouchable, but I guess what I kind

of like about him. He's almost like He's like

wiry and maybe he isn't the toughest guy or the

most skilled guy in the room But he just kind

of gets the job done Yeah, like I like his attitude

for sure like and it feels like that's what they

tried to focus on more than anything like that

You know just that cocky sort of a swagger or

whatever. But yeah, I think I was a little bit

before the time he got to the invincible Iron

Man of the 1980s where like you just had one

dude take it down the entire Vietnam Army with

one gun or something like that. Yeah A little

bit more subdued before we got to that craziness.

Plus. I think that movie was also a little bit

satirical as well Oh, yeah, like john carpenter

has that certain style to him that I I do enjoy

quite a bit I think that's what happens with

the third one the the sequel where it loses all

that and he does become that like unstoppable

Like war kind of really too cheesy. Yeah with

the with the sequel. Yeah talking about like

the the ending of the first one Like with the

whole tape the tape switch and everything it

just seemed like that subvert subverted the entire

like plot of the movie like it took away the

gravity of the situation because like okay, we

need this help to like prevent this nuclear like

war, but then he switches it out and I think

okay. Does that mean the war happens and everyone

annihilates each other and okay? Yeah, maybe

you're supposed to like use your imagination,

but it sort of just made your entire adventure

pretty much moot like There's no point for like

saving the president at all. That was kind of

funny. Kind of we would have seen like the scene

a little bit different ending to it. But like

the rest of the rest of the movie I really enjoyed.

Like they didn't try to overdo their special

effects or anything. Like it was just, you know,

it was shot pretty well for like what they're

trying to do. And then you get to the second

one and it's just like terrible. Wait, you don't

love the. Oh, it's not snowboarding but uh surfing

surfing. Yeah. Oh my gosh The tsunami scene jumps

onto Steve Buscemi's car like yeah What the fig?

How about when he's uh, he was in that submarine

in the beginning and that shark comes up out

of nowhere Out of the bottom. It looked like

an old like video game or something Horrible.

Yeah, but like the ending of that one was really

good though You were like the remember the hologram

thing They all thought he was really standing

there and like he used the hot like that ending

was the sort of thing I was looking for in the

first one. I'm like that was awesome So like

if he'd combine the two like you have a pretty

awesome movie Cuz like one strong in the beginning

and the other strong at the end so yeah, it's

kind of funny, but I Yeah, I do reminds me of

like Terminator 3 which like the movie itself

isn't great, but I love the ending yeah And that

sort of saves it because you're like, wow, that

was an awesome ending. And, you know, that's

what you remember when you walk away from it.

But I do agree. I do like Snake Puskin a great

deal. The lines and stuff that they gave him

are sort of memorable. And, you know, everyone's

saying, like, I thought you were dead. And, you

know, someone would always say his name and he

would always say the opposite one. You know,

he'd be like, call me Snake. Or the guy would

be like, hey, Snake, he's like, my name's Plissken.

Like that was cool. He was a good character.

And like Greg said, if they were trying to be

a little bit satirical with that, that that makes

a little bit more sense, too. But I had heard

a rumor that they were trying to do a remake

of that. Yeah, they've been talking about it

for a while They talked about doing a sequel

like a third one and I guess you don't care Russell's

too old He doesn't want to do it, but they've

been talking about doing a sequel for some time.

I'll be doing a remake for some time Yeah, I

had heard that they were in talks with Gerard

Butler to play snake pliskin Now obviously not

much has come of that since then but yeah, it's

an interesting thought to ponder Yeah, that would

be kind of cool. Yeah, he's kind of a similar

A kind of actor, I guess you would say not that

I'm saying geord butler is is good as kurt russell,

but it's kind of a similar Feel to them. Yeah

Yeah, I could I could I I think you could do

a lot worse than that and John Carpenter movies

have been remade before like the other remake

of assault and precinct precinct 13, which is

not horrible movie, but You know it has its moments,

but there's a lot of John Cooper new movies I

still need to catch up with mostly this horror

films and But yeah, and I love I love his scores,

especially for escape from New York I love the

because he does all the music himself. He's a

really underrated composer Yeah, I love that.

I love the theme song in the first one Yeah,

that's that's really awesome. Like I left I just

let the credits roll through the whole thing

Music like this is pretty cool. Actually Yeah,

he he was really almost like a renaissance man

and when came to movies, but I don't know He's

not done much lately. Unfortunately. Yeah, but

the last thing he did was not very good All right,

anything else before we take a break I'm done

All right. All right. We're gonna take a quick

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welcome back and way back when on September 23rd

We did the first edition of the geek power rankings

where we looked at the world of geekdom and try

to determine well If you were going to rank the

biggest things in geekdom, what would they be?

think of like the NFL power rankings meets the

what's trending on Twitter and kind of combining

both of those into one unique list so after doing

that and September 23rd we kind of we Got our

top ten and at that time this was our top ten

at number one was guardians of the galaxy number

two Batman and that included all the Batman stuff

Batman versus Superman and all that insanity

Destiny pop the video game pop vinyls Greg's

favorite voice star wars episode seven arrow

age of Ultron Wolverine at number eight number

nine Deadpool and at number ten Doctor Who and

Looking at this list. I think there's a few that

I would think that you know after I guess six

months or so we could we could say, you know

that their time has come and gone and I don't

think they're necessarily ones we are nearly

talking about as much as they as they once were

and I think we may want to start at the top and

say, you know Guardians of the Galaxy was huge

last year, but I think that you know That's kind

of come and gone. We've moved on which would

you guys agree of maybe saying, you know, maybe

at this moment in time that guardians of galaxy

would not be in the top 10 yeah i agree because

uh it was a really great movie there is buzz

about the second one but we're so far out that

it's it's not the the main item on the list chuck

what about you yeah i would definitely agree

with that i think it's sort of uh faded into

the shadows now as other some of the things are

taking its place all righty So looking at number

two, not saying that this would definitely be

in top 10, but are we thinking Batman has a better,

more, a bigger argument, like the, the, than

the B in the top 10, or do we think also, you

know, that was the 75th anniversary, you had

a lot of rumors going on at that time, uh, you

had the video game, well, coming out, now you're

just at a trailer drop today about the video

game, so are we thinking Batman has an argument

to be in the top 10, but the, or like Guardians

who should be out? I mean, I'm not hearing too

much Batman stuff. I heard a little bit about

the new Arkham video game that's coming out,

but I don't know. It's enough to keep it in the

top 10 per se. What about you? Yeah, I agree

with that. All I've heard about is the Arkham

video game. And I think we've moved on to other

DC characters. Other franchises that will be

coming out other than Batman. So I think he's

kind of died out All right, looking at number

three, so we're already number one and two off

the board looking at number three Destiny the

video game when we did that podcast. That's what

it was selling record -breaking amounts of copies

now not a gamer, but I went through a lot of

the gaming boards, checked out, you know, what

people are talking about. Not many talking about

Destiny. We even had the Geekcast Video Awards

and wasn't even nominated by the fans for best

video game. So are we also saying keeping the

trend going and removing Destiny as well or,

uh, Greg, I know you probably... Play more games

than in than chuck and I do you think there's

an argument for I know it's on a great deal,

but still more Yeah, I haven't played anything

in a while I I still have to update to playstation

4 because i'm still on playstation 3 but I listen

to like the indoor kids um, and I listen to a

lot of podcasts where the hosts like video games

and I've heard talk of it and they haven't really

praised it at all. It seems like something that's

a bit lackluster and they're kind of on to other

things as being a part of a technological nerd

freak out. It comes. quick and leaves quick uh

doesn't stick around for too long like technology

we're on to the next thing um so i i definitely

think that's out the window all righty move i

think this is the one that has a chance of staying

and that is the infamous pop vinyls you know

their popularity is pretty maintained Do we think

they still have, there's a good chance it would

make it? I ordered eight last night. Greg alone.

Entertainment Earth had a sale of buy three,

get the fourth free. So I got a whole bunch of

them. You took advantage of that deal twice.

Yeah, I did. Of course I did. Yeah, in my mind,

they're still around. But I think I see it a

lot more with going to conventions. And I seriously

haven't been to a convention in a while, which

I can't wait to get to a convention. I tried

to get Comic Con tickets. I missed out. Kind

of sad about that. Hopefully I could do some

other stuff. Hopefully we'll do Baltimore this

year. Maybe I could do New York at some point.

But yeah, I haven't really heard much talk of

pop finals I'm not really sure what's going on

in that world they just had the toy fair and

there was I saw Funko tweet out all the stuff

that was going on at toy fair thing and there

seemed to like they had a lot of stuff coming

out so I wouldn't say pop finals necessarily

but maybe if we could change that to Funko themselves

because they have the reaction figures they have

a whole bunch of different lines coming out now

so so maybe if we change it from Pop Vinyl to

the main company of Funko. It could stay. Chuck,

do you agree with that or what? Yeah, I would

agree with that, because I was going to bring

up the Toy Fair thing, too, where they sort of

revealed a lot of their stuff. And, you know,

you could sort of see the the pulse of that sort

of spike again, so to speak. So it was funny

because the other day I was in Poison Rust and

I was looking at. One of the funko reaction figures

it was of a snake pluskin. So yeah, they just

came out with us. Yeah So, uh, they also came

out with the fifth element ones, which i'd be

really interested into because uh, That's got

kind of a cult status in my heart Nice very cool.

All right, so we definitely have funko listed

as a possibility Moving down the list from last

time After that was Star Wars episode 7, you

know, we had things released it was in the ethos

at Star Wars and I'm similar to Funko This is

my idea changing this from Star Wars to episode

7 just to Star Wars with Marvel getting the Star

Wars license and how those comics have kind of

exploded in popularity again At least sales wise

that I know the overall quality has been some

people said is dipped but it's You know Darth

Vader comic out was huge setting what records

so I don't know What is what are the thought

process is there? Do we agree maybe changing

it from episode 7 just Star Wars and seeing I

could see Changed it to Star Wars because I've

been seeing that the the Darth Vader comic is

pretty popular. So I Think you're kind of alluding

to that. So I could definitely see that Yeah,

I could see you doing that. Yeah, I don't think

the movie is quite as revered as it once was,

as many people salivating about it. There hasn't

been much mentioned, but I definitely think between

the comics and a little bit of the movie that

it can stay as just Star Wars. I think with the

movie that there's a lot of speculation going

on because like Abrams like isn't really releasing

any information Everybody sort of just waiting

and anticipation like what is happening in this

room? Yeah, we just had that one trailer and

that was kind of like it I think Yeah And you

know what's probably gonna happen is like when

this is released. That's when the next trailer

is gonna come out and Alright moving down the

list again to arrow and when we did this that

was right before arrow Was released but it was

still huge and that was when arrow was supposed

to come out On netflix, but it didn't and it

caused an uproar which was the first time that's

ever happened But now it's in its season, you

know going strong Questionably, but uh, i'm thinking

this one has to be, you know chuck coming from

you I would assume that we'd have to at least

include this someplace Um, i'm gonna go with

a surprise and say no, I I think it could probably

drop off the top 10 What what is happening? You

know, I am a totally different sort of smart

phone thing on Arrow. Chuck is very upset that

they haven't sponsored us yet. No, I just let

me propose a countermeasure. So I'm not completely

turned my back on the on these WB franchises.

I say we we possibly substitute the flash instead

of Arrow. Because I think right now I've seen

Chuck doing this when he said I'm like he's gonna

try and insert flash in in its place Yeah, I'm

just you know, I'm taking out X and putting it

why that's all you know But I think like I think

we talked a little bit about this last week,

too But you know arrows kind of dropped off just

a little bit Maybe a lot bit for some people

Mean it's sort of getting good now, but I could

definitely see like the first half of the season

was pretty slow but the flash is like really

stirring up a lot of new fans like people are

asking questions about him and you know, what's

what's What was he like in the comics and who's

this flash guy? And I'm seeing like a lot of

positive flash stuff. I don't know maybe Maybe

I'm alone in that but maybe at least the bottom

ten. I would think we could stick them in there

Greg I know you haven't watched the flash but

I you know, I know you're kind of at least aware

of the reaction to it Yeah from from what Chuck

is saying Chuck has the the superior stance because

of his superior knowledge Yeah in his outlook

on all things flash and arrow so I'm gonna concede

to whatever Chuck says on this topic Yeah, I

would not 100 % agree because I like you said

check I think flat like I think there's almost

a unanimous opinion that flash is maybe not unanimous

that's kind of strong but a lot of talk about

flash and a lot of people are really I don't

know if the ratings are insane and Much better

than arrow and it's sustained that and I think

it's been pretty solid. So I agree I think it

I think actually I might have been say it's higher

than you know bottom top ten I think it has arguably

in the top in the top five. Okay Considering

its rating and then its overall fan reaction.

So and the fact that it did pretty well in the

key cast radio or so and for some reason a lot

of people seem to love Grant Gustin, so It's

from you know, yes, and he had a singing scene

on the flash So, you know, maybe they brought

some fans there with the crossover My wife was

not a fan. She's like they have to act like you

can't sing and you know, we can It's kind of

funny though because you know the guy who plays

the police detective like it's like, you know,

it's her good father He was original cast member

original originally on the For rent, you know,

he was in the first cast rent. So he's also a

really good singer So I'm just waiting for some

musical episode of flash flash dance All right

moving on to the next one and Similar to Star

Wars. This was also about a movie that hasn't

come out yet but I think there's maybe a little

bit more argument with it coming out sooner and

We're getting more information on this a trailer

or poster was just revealed recently and that

is each of Ultron That was number seven last

year. Do we still think it it is going it remains

within the stop? I would think so That every

step of the way is when we get a little bit closer

we get something else We get a little bit closer.

We get something else so they keep feeding us

and keeping us interested and then also something

else that maybe we think about putting on is

like a subscription subscription I had the word

and I just lost it a subscription based platform

for things so they have like the Marvel collector

core and they have it based around Age of Ultron

coming out so they have different things like

the Iron Man Hulkbuster Funko pop vinyl coming

out for that so and that's also another good

reason for Funko is because they're one of the

the main partners with Marvel in in that venture

So I think we could include it and then also

include subscription based I don't know like

Loot Crate is a native nature box and you hear

it on a lot of podcasts advertising these subscription

based Japan platforms Yeah, that actually was

on my list of one to talk about to Greg that

you brought up like the loot crate and the description

the subscription boxes that have kind of exploded

in the past year where you're getting You know

Marvel's doing their own now and it seems like

it's like every little thing has their little

box Yeah, because there's there's also a grooming

one that I've seen an advertisement for that

on TV use it was an ad which Yeah, there's there's

a dollar shave. There's there's another one that

I just saw too It's got you can get stuff for

a man type of box You can get a woman type of

box and there's like this neon sign behind them.

I forget what the Apparently it wasn't a great

commercial because I don't remember the name

of the The company the dollar shave commercials

are freaking hilarious They taste the old guy

Alright, so we have a drill ultron definitely

staying and we have collector sets you I'm guessing

Chuck you agree with that that? Collector sets

month monthly subscription boxes. I guess we

would call them or belong in the Possibility

of them being in the top ten for geek I could

see that I guess I'll defer to you guys on that

because I definitely think you know more about

them than me at this point because I haven't

really been following that sort of thing. But

yeah, I would I'll defer to you guys and then

I'll agree also in the age of Ultron, because

it just seems like, you know, the poster released

and the anticipation is really building with

that. So we're like less than two months away

here. Alrighty next on the list number eight

last time was Wolverine. That's when the death

of Wolverine was occurring and That was a huge

almost, you know main national news real news

Are we thinking this one could be taken off since

that story has come and gone? The reboot of Marvel

Universe is occurring and you know, he's dead.

So people aren't talking about so I don't know

what what's that? What are you guys thinking

for this one? I'm just gonna go agreed All right,

so we're moving taking Wolverine off the list

And that's number nine was Deadpool. I'm also

thinking we could probably take Deadpool off

or there's been some Casting rumors, so I think

that might Maybe keep it in the same spot. That's

like number nine, wasn't it? Yes. Yeah, so it

might be there might be just a little bit outside

the top 10 depending on what's going on So I

might keep that I will agree on that one, but

the I did want to mention that story about the

Hugh Jackman. He wants to play him till he dies

now, which which is pretty freaking awesome.

You know, maybe not enough to keep him in the

top 10, but it's pretty awesome headline in and

of itself. I can't imagine a 70 year old Hugh

Jackman playing Wolverine. That's pretty awesome.

But. Hey open yeah, you know, they might be able

to do that eventually, you know, because jeremy

runner They could have a guy with a gray beard

or something. You know, I think they're supposed

to be coming out with another old man logan comic

by the way That I would or I think it's supposed

to be he's supposed to be involved in battle

world or whatever. That is They should have some

like some different characters in it though.

That'd be pretty cool. Yeah All righty last number

10 last Time was Doctor Who and I that I'm thinking

we could maybe remove. I know that the doctors

Doesn't seem like this the past Doctor Who season

was as Popular as it once yeah, plus we had Peter

Capaldi coming into the role So there was a lot

of intrigue about whether how he was gonna do

in the role and everything and he's he's now

Firmly established even though I haven't seen

him yet as the doctor I think the only bit of

news to come out of that would be the companion.

I am drawing a blank. I am so sorry. People are

probably yelling at their computers right now

or listening devices coming up with the name,

but she was going to come out halfway through

the season, but then decided to stay. So there

was a little something going on there, but I

don't think it was too big of interest. Interesting.

All right. And okay. So now we like if we Look

at what we have now so far. We have six possibilities

from with the addition of fun co Star Wars the

flash age of Ultron Monthly collector slats and

possibility of Deadpool So now the question is

what new has been coming out that we could possibly

add in here And I wanted to start with one we

just talked about and that is the Power Rangers

movie that just And I mean right now I think

this is the biggest thing not I'm not saying

this would be number one in the power rankings

Because it's not just like today or this week

But I think this definitely belongs in the top

ten because it it's what everyone's talking about.

It's huge You know, you have you know potential

lawsuits to start It's every geek website has

this as one of their top story. So I do think

it does belong here someplace I don't know what

you guys Don't know. I think once it dies down

a little bit. It'll be kind of a flash in the

pan But we could definitely leave it as an option

Chuck what do you think? Yeah, I definitely agree

with what Greg said But if we're if we're doing

a cross section as of right now, I I would say

it has to be in the discussion at least All right,

so at least write it down as a maybe for now.

Is there anything else that you guys could think

of that I know? Greg you already brought up the

monthly subscriptions and chuck anything and

you mentioned flash anything else we are thinking

that You know, it should be you know, that's

kind of popular in the world of geek. I had uh,

I had three ideas I hope I don't step on anybody's

toes here. But um, it's a podcast. We're through

skype I step on everybody's jokes. That's a bad

joke. That might go down as a history of one

of the worst jokes and talking in circles, which

is an achievement, especially by myself. I missed

it, so it doesn't matter. I guess the first one

I'd propose would be Supergirl. Talking about

the Supergirl TV show. They've been doing some

casting. They have some... some lot of news coming

out there. And I, I really should have looked

this up. Maybe, maybe Greg or look her up or

can look up who they got to play Supergirl. But

she was also on Glee. I know that much because

that's what they had to do. I don't remember

her name, but I did see. I don't know how I got

to it, but there was definitely something where

they're like, oh, and here's Supergirl and here's

a picture of her naked. I don't know how I got

to it. I don't know. I think you're definitely

bringing up a good point. You know, there's a

lot of casting there. I think if it would be

probably be in the bottom 10 because. I don't

know if Supergirl has a huge audience to begin

with, but I could see its popularity. And the

fact that it's not on CW, which is a weird thing

to say, the fact that it's not on CW. Her name

is Melissa Benoit, I guess it is, because it's

got a random S in there for some reason. But

I think it's this Melissa Benoit, B -E -N -O

-I -S -T. Interesting. She's cute. Think I know

I could see the possibility. I would say bottom

ten. I don't know Greg. What do you think? Yeah,

I'd say we could do bottom ten for right now.

I would like her on top of It's an even worse

job Okay, a good old -fashioned old batch okay

quick counterpoint, which probably won't make

a difference, but what about the The headline

that they're looking for a Superman to appear

in the show. I just saw that as I was looking

her up. I did see that and they create a bit

of a buzz there. Yeah, and they might do cyborg

bat, you know, Superman, and there might be some

possibility of crossover. So that would be pretty

huge if Superman came to TV like in that, you

know, that would be pretty cool. I'm guessing

it'd probably be more like just Clark Kent. I

don't know if they'd. Have on there, but who

knows if they have the rates of Supergirl they

could probably do Superman pretty easily Yeah,

that makes it just worse for me But I definitely

think it that at least gives it more credibility

Nice All right, you should get another one. I

did and I think you guys will agree with this

one a little bit more maybe I would say daredevil

Yes We had a trailer come out a few weeks ago.

A lot of things coming out about the Netflix

show. Even generating some discussion and some

distaste about the costume and some arguments

and stuff. Something that sort of buzzes right

now. Yeah, and they're yeah, and they're just

released like a interview with him So 100 % agree

regarding daredevil that definitely bling belongs

on the top ten It was I had on my list as well

to discuss for today When I thought you might

bring up Chuck, which I thought I was surprised

you didn't but I think You have to include it

because it is one of the it's the biggest show

on TV right now That isn't based on a comic and

that's The Walking Dead Okay, is it gets Better

ratings than anything on cable. Uh, you know

It's almost unanimously talked about like I go

on facebook on a sunday night. I know it's gonna

be talked about I go to any geek website. It's

gonna be the top review Of that day. So I think

it is probably the most talked about tv show

at this moment. That's at least currently on

So I don't know what you guys think about that.

What's it called walking dead? I don't think

ever heard it. Yeah, the the wall though. They

kept it. Yeah. Yeah. Unlike Facebook, they kept

it. Oh, yeah. I don't think I've ever heard of

that. Oh, OK. No, I would agree with that. I

think especially since like you're getting into

like towards the end of the season now and like

things are going to be happening, like I'm presuming

they're going to leave you in a big cliffhanger

again. So I can see that going in the top 10

there, maybe. All righty. And Greg, what about

you? Do you agree? Sure, I haven't really been

keeping up on it, so I'll rely on your two opinions.

What's the last season you watched? Probably

three, I don't know. Okay, all right, interesting.

I know the last few episodes people haven't...

It was going really strong there for a while,

but then, like, I think the last two have kind

of... People didn't love it's gonna go in a different

direction if it goes based upon the comics soon

So i'm kind of curious how it goes out, but I

definitely think it's really still talked about

um, this one i'm not sure about uh, there's not

much upon it, but an image was released and it

became like kind of a Hugely debated topic and

that was aquaman. I don't know if you guys saw

the first image of the new aquaman by Jason Yeah,

I was actually gonna bring that one up possibly

Yeah that That was quite a stir with the image,

but it's almost seemed like it's sort of faded

already Kind of like a cool Beard What's wrong

with beard Stan? Nothing I I have not shaved

since last Sunday, so I Yeah, uh, it was funny.

I saw someone post it. It was pretty cool image

of the aquaman poster next to like a comic book

cover that looked like almost identical from

like the 2000s or 90s. So Definitely, uh, they're

definitely going with that look. They're definitely

pulling off Definitely pulling off a badass look

for aquaman, but uh whether or not they can change

the the public perception that character will

say Yeah, yeah another one I was thinking we

were talking about the world of comics and to

me This is one of the bigger comic book stories

that have happened in the last few years So I

think it does belong in the top ten and that's

the you know, the secret wars Marvel possible

reboot that's occurring that I still mean You

know having huge ramifications of how Marvel

is gonna be going So I and I know there's been

a lot of people who've hated the idea of some

people like us like we talked about it a few

episodes ago So we won't go in great detail.

But does that belong in the top ten the Marvel?

secret wars reboot I think you Maybe have to

put it in there because it's like the marveille

inverse is coming to an end. I know like haven't

been paying a whole lot of attention to like

the stories coming out because It's a lot of

just like It's a lot of fluff right now kind

of just sort of trying to make the sell with

it it seems like they're really trying to you

know push the concept of it and stuff, but There's

definitely a lot coming out about it and you

know people are talking about what's going to

happen and how things are gonna go down, so All

right, I'll at least write it down for now Already

what else we have listed here. So we talked about

that one How about this trailer was came out

a few we talked about this a few weeks ago as

well This almost already came and died already.

So this might not belong but the fantastic 4

trailer in that movie Any part I know it's mostly

been negative Reaction by fans, but does that

belong here Greg? Do you think I don't know I

feel like It is getting a lot of reaction, but

I feel like I'm basing more my opinion on My

opinion of the movie itself because I don't really

care. I Seriously don't that's kind of this that's

this almost the yeah the reaction I'm getting

from a lot of people but there is a lot of talk

about it. So maybe it's a possibility Maybe my

opinion is just skewing Chuck any any any thoughts

on this one? I would say I would say it kind

of seems like it's faded off already Yeah, I

get there wasn't really anything to supplement

it. So like that came after it so All righty

Just a few more than we can get this one created

and that is agent Carter it just gave its last

episode You know, I definitely feel like it's

gotten much more positive reaction than agents

of shield and Greg I know you weren't keeping

up there. I Saw it on demand and I watch nice

the second to last one and then I watched the

last one So I am don't say anything I thought

it was actually pretty decent how they did everything.

Definitely a shocker towards the end, which I

think would get people talking. I'm not sure

how it's doing out in the... The worlds of people

are talking about it or not, but I definitely

thought it was a so this is this is the opposite

of our last discussion here. So so I think it

can maybe skew in the top 10 a little bit, but

since it's kind of over now, I think it's going

to tie off quickly. So the ratings haven't been

hugely fantastic. They've been good, but not

great. Nothing really. Not even you know, probably

level of the flash. So that's has it going against

it But I don't know Chuck. Have you been keeping

up with it as well? I have I I did not see the

very last episode yet I was busy for whatever

reason but and I meant to watch it tonight or

tomorrow so but I I'm really really enjoying

agent Carter like Way more than agents of shield.

I just think it's it's done so much better like

just the plot is like ridiculous like it gets

pretty thick at times and it's really enjoyable

and like Greg said the some twists and stuff

in there towards the end so and they do really

make a good they do put a nice little end cap

on her whole being a woman and not being appreciated

kind of thing yeah cool all right so we'll we'll

at least put it here for now and see and see

how it goes And last one I'm and I just when

I know probably has no shop But I just I just

want to talk about it because it's good news

and I think it's when we actually talked about

during seagull reboot in the story way back when

And that's news that tug tails is coming back

saw that in 2017 You know, I know it didn't get

a huge buzz, but you know, I thought it was kind

of cool So thought I would just throw it out

there And weirdly so it's like inspector gadget

and a few other shows are coming out on Netflix,

which is kind of weird But the new inspector

gadget on Netflix looks super creepy All right,

so I think I think we're good on The amount we

actually have a good amount here that kind of

whittled down so to me the question now becomes

all right now we got to try to order this and

A few of the ones we have listed to me come out

their heads and not heads of shoulders, but certainly

a little bit more prominent than others and the

ones that i think are rather strong are the walking

dead considering how popular it is flash considering

how popular it is and its overall reaction and

age of ultron just considering the fact it's

really soon news about it and like you know we

get one little thing and it becomes a huge story

so do you guys agree that these kind of belong

in the top top three or are there other ones

that maybe should go here maybe star wars for

example I'm gonna go with age of Ultron is number

one and in my mindset. Um, but he the other ones

I guess so Yeah, I would agree with those in

the top three I think star wars is right there.

I think we might have to Put that in the top

five. I would also put daredevil pretty high

Yeah, yeah So what do we think in his number

one when number one's the age of Ultron? Do we

think or the flash or walking dead or wait to

me? It's between Walking Dead and Age of Ultron

for number one. I'm thinking Age of Ultron number

one just because I feel like the last two episodes

of Walking Dead have, I think, you know, you've

had some negative reaction towards them. Okay.

So not hugely, but I think that maybe would knock

it down just a peg or two considering like, you

know, AJ electron is just, uh, you know, it seems

to be heading up a lot of your possibilities

that have seemed to be happening and a lot of

buzz about what it's going to lead to is what

I should say. Yeah, that's. So I can, yeah, I

could see you doing that, like, you know, age

of Ultron and maybe walking dead and flash. Okay.

So number one, age of Ultron number two, walking

dead, then the flash. And then we thinking Daredevil

would be next or Star Wars? I would think Daredevil

then Star Wars. I think there's definitely more

coming out about Daredevil because J .J. Abrams

has such a tight reign over what's coming out

on Star Wars. And our last thing was it's still

kind of going through the zeitgeist design of

the the one lightsaber with the weird hilts to

it Yeah, I guess if we considered the comics

though with that Maybe do anything or do you

still think daredevil? Yeah, I guess that she

got multifaceted. Yeah, I guess you have a good

point there death Chuck. What do you think? Yeah,

I'm thinking Star Wars 4 daredevil 5 maybe Listen

to Dan right there. So Actually, I think number

five. I have a new idea a new trending topic

I think it should be that I am on Twitter and

have a smartphone That's a that's a pretty trending

topic, you know, it's pretty high up there Well,

I figured like that's that's unanimous number

one. So why even right it goes without saying

so It's kind of like we're starting at number

two, but we're just calling it one. So yeah Yeah

All right Okay, so we have five more. I'm thinking

next looking at the list here There's a few that

jump out to me one collectors monthly collector

sets that we've talked about. There's they're

kind of expanding fun co like with with toy fair

recently that released a huge amount of stuff

and Possibly the Marvel reboot as well. Those

three to me kind of Seem to be the ones out of

the list that have the biggest potential any

any thoughts on that? anything that Any out of

those are the ones left that you think should

go next here and what was that? What was the

first one you said out of those? I? Mentioned

Funko the monthly collector sets and the Marvel

reboot slash secret war story, okay? I don't

know. How do you guys feel about the the Marvel

reboot at six? I'm I'm liking it there Be i'm

also honestly i'm thinking maybe uh, maybe funko

since Funko just happened more recently and like

the news for the reboot has gone on a little

bit longer. So It's maybe died down a little

bit and it hasn't started yet because we're kind

of we're kind of like an eye of the storm here

But funko has just released all those new action

figures like you mentioned and a little bit more,

uh Relevant at least right now. Yeah, I could

see that Greg, what do you think her? concur

alrighty, so let's go fun co number six and then

at number seven the Marvel reboot number eight

then would be the subscription and then so we

have two more nine and ten and Once we have left

we mentioned Deadpool is still on the board the

Power Rangers fan film Supergirl and agent Carter

Are the ones we all mentioned so far. So We have

three there and two spots any out of agent carter

super girl on the power ranger fan film Which

one should be taken off? I think we can take

off super girl. I'm gonna turn on my own suggestion

I'm gonna say agent carter since it's essentially

over we could take that one off as well Well,

we need to at least have two of them because

we have daredevil We're sorry. Oh, yeah. Okay.

You're right. I'm an idiot So that would leave

us Deadpool in the Power Ranger fan film So I'm

thinking Power Ranger fan film at 9 and then

Deadpool at 10. I'm thinking number 9 Deadpool

collector sets number 10 Or do we so would be

what did we just would be bumped up to 8 then?

Wait, no, no, no. I'm sorry. We did use that

already. I haven't been keeping track Anything

down. All right, so I'll for those keeping track.

This is what we have so far age ultron at number

one walking dead at number two the flash at number

three at number four Star Wars number five daredevil

number six Funko number seven the Marvel cinema

Marvel comic book reboot slash secret war storyline

Number eight the monthly subscription services.

So we have nine and ten and right now we have

Deadpool on the board Agent Carter and the Power

Rangers fan film So you said get rid of Agent

Carter so that would leave us Deadpool and the

Power Rangers fan film if we feel comfortable

Yeah, I think Deadpool then the Power Rangers

Chuck yeah, I guess Craig knows way more about

Deadpool than I do so If he's saying it's up

there that I believe well, I think there's a

lot with the the casting news and everything

going on Yeah, didn't they release them a picture

of the mask or something to you. Oh, no, I didn't

see that You can yeah, they Ryan Mills tweeted

tweeted that and it said Colossus might be part

of it No, Daniel cut more it back as Colossus

that would be a different guy Which I think I'm

okay. Yeah, they gave him like zero lines in

any of the x -men movies. It's just kind of sad

All right, so that was this edition of the power

rinker geek power rankings And just to go over

that real quick. Like I said number one age of

Ultron number two walking dead three the flash

star wars next and then at number uh five daredevil

number six fun code number seven the marvel reboot

slash secret war story eight the monthly subscriptions

nine deadpool and ten power ranger fan film and

just looking at the last one we did so we had

a few drop off guardians of the galaxy came off

completely batman came off completely destiny

came off completely uh star wars moved from number

five to number Four, huge jump up there. Arrow

came off completely, but was replaced by Flash,

which came to number three. Age of Ultron moved

from number seven to number one, and Wolverine

dropped off completely. Deadpool stayed exactly

where he was at number nine. By the way, the

mask looks amazing. Yeah, it does look pretty

cool. So yeah, so he said it right where he was

at number 9 and at number 10 Doctor Who got kicked

off But Power Rangers took its spot So little

movement going on some stayed on some some kind

of stayed on but in different forms as they would

say So alright, let us know what you think what

ones like we got wrong What we should have included

but didn't ones that are too high too low And

we'll get to all the different ways in contact

with us at the end of the show Alright, so that's

it for geek power rankings and each week we like

to end each episode with a letter We're gonna

do a little bit thing different this week We've

done this twice before and then do it a third

time if you go to don't even reply comm there

these great interactions between people on Craigslist,

you know the tagline or emails from an asshole

and this week we're gonna be doing glorious master

translator and this is in response to an ad that

was put out there that when needed a Japanese

translator to help them with certain directions

they had for a problem So they sent out that

ad and then Greg trucks gonna be being playing

the person that responds to that ad Greg will

be playing Scott the person who wrote the ad

and I'll be playing a third Fictional third party

that comes in to make things even more complicated.

So Chuck whenever you're ready, we can get this

thing going Hi, you need Japanese translate I

Chan I help you with translate Hey Chan, so okay.

Here's the deal My CD player suddenly stopped

working, and I can't figure out why. For some

reason, the only manual I have is entirely in

Japanese. I took a pic of the page. I'm pretty

sure it's the troubleshooting part. Can you see

if it says anything about no sound coming from

the output? Okay, I find three things may help

you. Failure of sound from device. Skipping of

disc for poor sound. Sound volume low very much.

What does it say for the failure of sound one?

Hello and thank you for choose Glorious Master

CD player. Apologies many for trouble of product.

To fix failure of the sound, follow step. One,

unplug Glorious Master CD player. Two, plug Glorious

Master CD player back in. I hope this help. That

doesn't help me at all. Is that all it says?

Oh no, very sorry. There are more steps to help

you. Here. Try play CD again. If you fail banishing

of audio demon, you failure. Much dishonor of

family name. Suggest immediate death by... I

hope you banish audio demon. Much luck. What

the fuck? Does it really say that? I just translate

what you give. No way it says that. What kind

of useless manual is this? How is that supposed

to help anyone? Very sorry, audio demon, big

problem with many CD player. I have sword, much

sharp, good for seppuku. You won't borrow. What

the fuck are you talking about? An audio demon?

This is BS. Are you screwing with me? Did I send

the wrong page? I think this is the table of

contents. Can you look at this and tell me which

page is the troubleshooting one? Then I'll send

you that one? That no table of content. That

sushi takeout menu. Try number 16, spicy salmon

roll. Much delicious. Okay, buddy. Thanks for

nothing, you jackass. Later, from another email

account. Hey there. I saw your ad and I think

I can help. I majored in Japanese in college,

speak it fluently, and lived in Miyazaki for

two years. Mike. Thanks so much, Mike. I was

talking to someone else for help, but I don't

know what his problem was, dude. Dude kept sending

me all this BS. Anyway, my CD player isn't working

and the manual is only in Japanese. So, I need

help reading the troubleshooting part. I think

the attached pictures, the table contents? Could

you see if it says what page the troubleshooting

part is on, and then I'll send you that? You

sent me a sushi takeout menu. Are you sure you

have the right documents? What the fuck? I don't

know what is going on. It has pictures of the

CD player on the front, and then this is the

next page. Why would they put a sushi menu in

here? Japanese instructional manuals are not

like the American manuals you used to. They often

include advertisements, and I guess, in this

case, a sushi menu. Looking at it in a closer,

it says, thank you for purchasing the Glorious

Master CD player. Why not order sushi while you

enjoy your music? Well, that is dumb. Whatever.

I think this page is the troubleshooting part

because of the tables. Am I right? Do you see

anything about there not being any sound? Yes,

this is the right page. It says unplug it and

plug it back in. Yeah, I did that. Nothing. Is

that it? Well, you're not going to want to hear

this, but it's a CD player is possessed by the

Amanda Coo or audio demon. You should light three

candles and play to Ben Ziton, the god of music.

Mike? Scott? You there? Were you able to banish

the demon? Scott? And that's where it ends. We'll

never know if he banished that audio demon. I

wonder if the guy ever bothered to reply to him,

ever. I was like, dad, what is this? I think

he realized at that point that everybody's just

effing with him, so he's like, screw this. Alrighty.

Well, there are lots of ways in which you can

contact us. You can email us at feedbackiggycatharido

.com or live at talkingincircles .com. You can

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My Twitter name is at heroicagechuck. I am at

thecreateforge or Emily Ratajkowski. Look her

up. Just because. Or Emily Radikowski, sorry,

I always include the J for some reason. You know,

makes it longer. And I am at Movie Revolt, and

we're also on Twitter and Facebook and Talking

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But the best way you can get in contact with

us is typically by commenting on the episode

post by going to geekcastradio .com or nerdly

.co .uk. Anyways, that'll be it for us for this

week. We'll be back next week. Same time, same

channel, same podcast feed. But for now, this

has been Chuck. This has been Greg, or a Manajuku.

And this has been Dan, and we've been talking

in circles. We'll see you next week. God bless

you, Greg. Thank you. You have cold going around

this house. Yeah. Is it when you get one of those

audio demons? Yeah. I'm always getting those

audio demons. We thought it was the NSA that

one time, but it was definitely those audio demons.