The 360 Degrees Of GeekCast Radio!

Hello, Nets! This is Jesse from Rock Sugar, and

you're listening to the Geek Cats Radio Network.

Keep it right here. Hello and welcome to the

360th episode of GeekCast Radio. I am one of

your hosts, TFG1Mike, and joining me as always

is Steve Megatron. Hello, sir. Hello. Holy crap,

360 episodes. It's like we've gone in a circle

or something. We're just not talking in circles.

No, that's a completely other show that... No,

no, no. No, no, no. This time around, we are

taking it back around to the beginning, but not

in the way you think. Because it is also going

to be beyond where we've come from before. So

this, I don't know, I... We've done the, I've

done the this is your life thing to death and

blah blah blah, but... We've always gone back

and looked at previous ideas and things we've

done to see if we can either redo them and do

them better, or... We've gone back and looked

at ideas to see what needs an update or what

could be updated to the point of what's something

new we could bring to this versus what we did

X number of years ago. And the whole point, hello,

360 full circle, yada, yada, yada, it's a joke.

But I went through and I... I actually went through

like the first six years out of the almost 17

that we've been online. We're three years away

from 20. God, we old. Yep, yep, yep. Yep, yep,

yep. And I found a lot of things that we did

in the beginning and a lot of things that we

kind of started as staples that. Some get a lot

of episodes. Some only got a few episodes. And

then other things were just kind of one and done.

Some things have stuck around. Some things haven't.

And we're just going to kind of go through those.

What were your initial reactions when I sent

you this whole thing? I was like, what the heck

is he sending me? That's you. Well, I mean, that's

your usual reaction. I mean, that is. But I was

like, what? What are we doing? Like, are we doing

a retrospective? It's kind of. That's kind of

what it is. Like, the Geek Top 50, we haven't

done a Geek Top 50 on here in forever. Like,

we've done, we've got, we'll talk about this

a little later, closer to the end of the show,

because that's what will be next after this.

But we've got the Top 100s and things like that.

But listening back to that Geek Top 50, I don't

know how we got through GCR Episode 5. I don't

know. how we got through that. There's a lot

of stuff. I don't know how we got through. Well,

yeah, but, uh, but that's something we could

possibly revisit. And then we started the weird.

We started the year in review series, which we

will talk about a little bit later. But we started

that with by doing a decade in review, because

by the time when we started that, it was 2009

going into 2010. So we started year in review

as decade in review because we started that in

2010. And Mike Powers was on that episode with

us. I forgot he was on that with us. There's

a lot of stuff I've forgotten. Well, yeah. Are

you going to say that with everything here? I

mean, yeah, but I mean, there's some stuff I

remember. Yeah, there's stuff I wasn't even present

for, like the Maurice LaMarche. OK, yes, you

weren't present for that. The only reason why

I saw the aftermath, though, that's that's the

point. That's why you're here. That's why it's

there. So the Maurice LaMarche interview that

he's referring to, folks, is that was a ToonCast

interview that Optimus Solo and I did. And the

only reason why I'm bringing it up is because

it literally launched us into the stratosphere

because that was the first time that we really

got some notoriety as a network. Whoops. We didn't

mean for that to happen. In the ToonCast interview

questions for voice actors, there's a question

about what is your favorite type of voice acting

to do? Because there, as most people may or may

not know, there's multiple types. There's animation,

there's video games, there's commercial voice

over stuff, there's narration, there's all kinds

of stuff. And in that interview, I think it was

Optimus that asked him that question, and he

said something to the effect of, oh, you know,

the funny thing about video games is it's you

and yourself and your voices in your head all

just in a room in one booth by yourself. He goes,

oh, yeah, I just got out of a session for playing

Mr. Freeze, and literally my jaw dropped. onto

the like hit hit my microphone dropped onto the

floor hit my keyboard on the way down to the

floor oh wait what huh only thing i could come

back with besides what huh was could you give

us a sample oh no sorry i signed uh da da da

da da nda and all this and everything else i'm

like oh crap well if he signed an nda can we

actually you know Yeah, that you actually said

that. Obviously, there's lots of different types

of voice work. Which do you prefer the most out

of cartoons, commercials, movies, video games,

or anything else? Well, I mean, you know, each

is its own animal. So even though you're in all

those situations, you're behind a microphone

with carpeting on the wall. Video games is hard

work, I'll say that. I've only done a handful,

and I'm very lucky right now. I'm about to go

in and do Mr. Freeze for Arkham Asylum 2. And,

you know, that one, games can be a tough gig

because you've got, you know, basically three

phone books full of pages of dialogue, half of

which are you dying in various situations and

length levels of pain. So, you know, it can really

be a workout for the voice. It can really be

a part. But, you know, then you know your kid

thinks you're cool because you're in the latest

Batman game. Right. That's the tradeoff. Can

you give us a little bit of Mr. Freeze's voice?

I haven't had a chance to play Arkham Asylum

yet. He's not in Arkham Asylum. He's only in

Arkham Asylum 2. Oh. To tell you the truth, I

think contractually I can't. I've got to keep

it under wraps. Okay. Okay. Yeah, but he's out

for... for blood right now, because I can't tell

you the situation, but he's actually a somewhat

sympathetic character within the framework of

the game. So, we get through the rest of the

questions, we get to the end of the interview,

and we asked him, no, we didn't ask him, but

he never said anything to us. We said, thank

you, thank you so much, Mr. LaMarche, thank you

for the time. The interview will be up this Friday.

On the website, we will send your manager the

link or whatever it was. And we hope to have

you on in the future. We've never had him on

since, unfortunately. And I don't think that's

because of this thing or any ill will either

way, whatever. So I interviewed, I, I edited

that because by this time I was editing the podcasts

and I edited that interview so fast. We had that

online so fast and it wasn't like, like I didn't

do anything special. I didn't. In the promotion

of it, I didn't say, oh, my God, voice actor

Maurice LaMarche breaks news of Batman villain

voiceover. I didn't do any of that. I just said,

here's the normal thing I usually say. Here's.

The latest ToonCast interview with voice actor

Maurice LaMarche, hosted by myself and Optimus

Solo, only on the GeekCast radio network, or

whatever it was that I normally say, or whatever

the normal text is that I use when I do episode

promotion. Some unknown website picked it up.

Don't even know what the unknown website was.

IGN picked it up. Keep in mind, folks. I did

all of this. I got it online. I did the promotion.

At the time, my mom and I went out grocery shopping.

All of a sudden, I get like several hundred messages

from you. And then you actually called me on

my phone. And I'm like, wow, what did I do? You're

like, I don't know. What did you do? I'm like,

I don't know. We recorded an interview with a

voice actor. We put it online. This is all. You're

like, yeah, well. the website's about to explode.

What'd you do? I'm like, I don't know. We asked

Maurice Lamarche a question and he gave us an

answer about him voicing Mr. Freeze in Arkham

city. He go, you're like, yeah, nobody knew that.

I'm like, good for us. We got an exclusive. Yeah,

it went viral. And so we had it on like IGN,

Kotaku gaming target and gadget joystick and

like a million other places. Yep. But yeah, but

when, when, when IGN picked it up, it was like,

Oh, spit. So that's why that's here is because

of your reaction to, cause you didn't know. It's

still online with IGN, uh, and gadget and Kotaku

there. Oh, gadget still has it. Nice. Uh, Kotaku

and joystick no longer exist. So their links

are gone. Gadget still has it, and Gaming Target

still has it. Nice. Very cool. And I think Gaming

Target was where I saw it first. Oh, cool. Because

somehow it got tagged or something. I don't know.

But it says, in addition to the Joker or Harley

Quinn, two more villains have been unearthed

for the upcoming Batman Arkham Asylum 2 Rocksteady

sequel to their excellent 2009 game. Adaptation

of the Batman will be adding Mr. Freeze and Talia

Al Ghul. Mr. Freeze will be played by everyone's

favorite Orson Welles impersonator, Maurice LaMarche,

best known as The Brain from Pinky and the Brain,

segments of Animaniacs. LaMarche definitely has

the gravitas needed, blah, blah, blah. He revealed

his role in the game during an interview with

the Geekcast radio network. Nice. Yeah, and then

everybody's source gaming target. So Engadget

sourced them. Right. And Talia Stanekatic leaked

hers on Twitter by accident. Yeah. But yeah.

And then it's funny because Engadget's link to

it goes to our old slash pod slash Tooncast slash.

Oh, nice. That's funny. Yeah. So I'm going to

fix those links, but, um, cause I can do that

in the backend, but, uh, and then IGN just hot

link directly to geekcastradio .com. Yeah, that's

fine. Whatever. But I still find it humorous.

Yeah. Well, it's like, Hey, you know, Oh man,

we gotta, we gotta find something else to make

us go viral here in 2026. But no, that was, and

just, even if that didn't happen oh man just

listening to that oh god just just having the

experience of getting to talk to him was so cool

again maurice lamar sure you're always welcome

here at the geekcast radio network anytime you

want to come back We did spotlight William Shatner.

And the reason why I wanted to bring this up

is this is one of those full circle moments is

because you and I have been talking about doing,

bringing back actor spotlight, but we're going

to do it on studio 2009 where we do other actors

spotlights. So that's why I brought that up.

The theater is 3d IMAX and CGI episode. That

was, I brought that one because I listened to

part of that and I'm like, Yeah, I'm just going

to sit here at home on my butt and watch 4K discs

on my 55 -inch television. Because, first of

all, let me get the 3D crap out of the way. I

have never, even when I was a child in the 80s,

I went to several 3D movies in the 80s as a kid.

I hate 3D glasses. Even back then, I literally,

literally had a huge noggin, had a huge head.

My head circumference is very large and I hated

wearing 3D glasses. They were so uncomfortable

back then. Even now, I tried it back when we

did this episode. I actually went to one 3D movie.

I forget which movie it was, but I'm like, you

know, I don't need this. So thank. god 3d is

kind of faded at this point in 2026 imax i liked

it for what it was but again in the rising cut

like every theatrical experience it's like you

can have this much experience for this much money

you want more you can have it for this you can

have it for this you can and it's just like If

a ticket's going to cost me $40 to have the best

viewing experience before snacks, I'm not paying

$40 per person. I'm just not. I'll just wait

for the 4K disc that I can buy for the same damn

price. And I know a lot of people out there are

complaining about the prices for Blu -rays and

4K discs now. I've bought several recently over

the last, I don't know, three, four, five, six,

seven, eight months lately, the last year or

so. I think the most I've spent on a 4K disc

is probably $45, $50, but that was because it

was a special edition of whatever it was. I don't

mind paying that price because, number one, like

I said, it was a special edition, but you're

essentially getting two discs in that. you're

getting the 4k disc and you're getting the Blu

-ray disc. So you, whether you have a 4k, whatever,

or if you don't, you just have Blu -ray like,

I don't mind doing that. So yeah. And the CGI

of it all, there's always going to be CGI. I

mean, there's now AI CGI. So it's like, I don't

know. Thoughts. No, I mean, I, I just saw a report

about movie theaters and the fact that under

50 % of grown adults actually go to the theater

anymore, which I kind of get. Like, I went to

the theater to see a movie a couple weeks ago,

and it was, like, based on a true story type

thing. And the movie theater was pretty stinking

dead. I mean, we got them all over the place

and a lot of them feed, you know, like, I mean,

and they were they were pretty stinking dead.

So I don't know. Like, I don't I don't see the

big spectacle and going anymore. Like, I like.

I like seeing the stuff as soon as it comes out,

and I like seeing it in the big screen and the

better, you know, having the movie theater popcorn

and all that, the experience of it. Yeah. But

my schedule doesn't allow for a lot of that.

Yeah. So therefore I never see anything in the

theater unless it's like something I go with

the family for. And there's a lot of stuff that

I would probably see that they wouldn't. So,

uh, and, and also a lot of the stuff, like I,

I gotta be honest, I'm going back with nostalgia.

So like, I'm not even like, I never got into

the 3d thing. Like I always thought it was stupid.

Yeah. Like I correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't

avatar the first one have that? I think, but

I would have to look it up. I know that it was

such a huge thing when it came out, like the

CGI. And I think it was like IMAX 3D or something.

And it was it was Avatar. And yeah, I remember

when it came out because Star Trek 2009 came

around the same time. And I saw Star Trek 2009

and IMAX and it was like, I mean, it was kind

of dead because it was the middle of the day.

Yeah. But I'd seen plenty of other things. You

go to a middle -of -the -day matinee, it's always

going to be mostly dead because it's the middle

of the day and everybody else is at work. I remember

seeing that exact theater, though, and they had

cars parked even on the grass up to the road

because there was nowhere to park just to see

that stupid Avatar movie. And I was just like,

uh, unobtainium. I still think that franchise

is stupid. I just don't have any, like, I've

seen the trailers to every single film in that

franchise. And I, like, I've said this on every

episode we've ever done talking about movies.

The whole point of trailers is it's marketing,

whether you want to watch it or not. And none

of those trailers have anything in them. None

of those movies have anything in them that's

for me. And I just avoid it. I don't have anything

negative to say about it cause I've never seen

it. So it's like, I just avoid it like the plague.

Yeah. So anyways, like I've seen it and honestly,

like I just, yeah, but I like the IMAX experience.

I like, you know, I like movies that have some

CGI. I don't like all of it. Yeah. And I, I do

like the theaters. However, like I just, I don't,

I think that a lot of this stuff, like despite

what everyone seems to think, I don't think it's

going to come back. Yeah. And the thing about

theaters is like everyone may or may not make

this argument, but I've heard this argument in

the past. We need the theaters because that's

what makes the movies the money. Look at the

year that was when we had the thing that nobody

wanted because everybody got sick and died. Everybody

was at home. We had movies at home. Everybody

purchased movies on Voodoo, Fandango, whatever

you want to call it now. It's Fandango now, but

like everybody purchased movies or everybody

rented movies or when Disney had Cruella. You

had to purchase it for $30 to be able to watch

Cruella. Like, everybody did whatever they had

to do to watch their stuff when you could not

go to a movie theater. And here we are, six,

seven years later, movie industry seems to be

semi -okay. We're still getting movies. Like,

not saying we don't outright not need theaters,

but we survived that. I'm sure we can survive

this, like we've said before in the past and

even in this episode. I think the novelty now,

the novelty now of theaters, like 40 years ago

in the 80s, 40 years ago in the 80s, 50 years

ago in the 70s, you needed them back then, and

you needed them in the 90s, in the early 2000s,

2010s, whatever. But now, here in the middle

of the 2020s? Yeah. There's a lot of things that

I'm impatient for and that I can't wait for.

But if I see a trailer for Deadpool and Wolverine

2. I'm not saying that's happening. I'm just

using that as an example. Or if I see a trailer

for insert movie here that I'm like, oh my God,

I cannot wait for this to happen. I cannot wait

to see this, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

I'm excited for it by the trailer, but at the

same time, okay, it's going to have a theatrical

run. And I love how now the marketing is exclusively

in theaters. Okay, sure. Have your theatrical

run. Make the money. Yes, I want the movie to

make the money. Don't get me wrong. I do want

the movie to make the money. And yes, I know

I'm talking in tongues over here. Brad's probably

going to notice that. And yes, Brad, I'm calling

you out. Love you, Brad. Anyway, but it's one

of those things where I will have the excitement.

But at the same time, I have so much excitement

for a bunch of things that I will. see a news

story or i'll see somebody post hey that movie

you were excited for it's now hitting media release

oh yay i can watch it at home and i don't have

to worry about which bus goes to which theater

at which time and how i'm gonna get there because

i don't drive and which bus is gonna get me home

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And I don't

have to worry about popcorn and all this and

all that and everything else. So, yeah, like

you said, nostalgia ways of looking at theaters.

Absolutely love it. Modern day necessity. Not

so much. Other than the fact that I want the

movie to make the money. Even though I'm not

giving them the money up front. Oh, boy. And

I love IMAX. IMAX was always cool, but 3D is

useless. I concur. Yeah. All right. Moving on.

We got two spotlights here. I'm going to get

the one spotlight out of the way. You, you, I

don't think, I think I'm more, I don't know.

We've, you and I have never really talked about

this, but how music inclined are you? Like, do

you listen often or like, what's your background?

So I do listen to quite a bit of music, but I

don't. So like I have a whole like plethora of

like 90s and millennials, you know, nostalgia

music that I listen to. I listen to a ton of

Weird Al. Right. Probably more than anything

else. I listen to parody music. I listen to Stan

Bush or. There's a couple of country bands. There's

a couple of, you know, Christian bands. There's

a couple of, uh, like we have our, uh, oh my,

the, the ones that, uh, they do the, the mixtures

of the songs. I'm blanking on the name. Oh, having

me blanking on it too. Yeah. Jess Harnell's band.

Oh, rock sugar. Yeah. Rock sugar. I, yeah, I

was like actor. Um, I was like, I know I can

connect the dots here. Uh, but yeah, so I mean

like, uh, so like I listened to them occasionally.

I listened to, I mean, you know, Foo Fighters,

Metallica, you know, Days of the New, Stand,

Breaking Benjamin, Old Lincoln Park. disturbed

you know like a lot of these older like 90s sounding

bands and then there's other ones that too that

don't have like the hard rock sound that that

i've listened to you know so and i there was

quite a few i was like i don't i don't even know

who does the song i just i i know i like it you

just like the song yeah yeah so like there was

like collective soul and there was you know um

i i would have to look at my my music archive

but uh but yeah they're like there there was

a ton of a ton of like these old old bands and

and i listened to like also you know soundtrack

stuff like the spider -man one and two soundtrack

transformers the movie soundtrack yeah you know

and so i mean i i listened to quite a lot of

music but i don't necessarily like love music

enough to like discuss a lot of it like unless

it's like a weird al like i'm i'm physically

going to see weird al in concert later this year

yay uh my boss bought the tickets for christmas

and then my kids are going with us too um so

like so like that's that's a highlight because

i haven't seen him since the year 2000 and like

clio michigan which was like 200 person, you

know, nice amphitheater. And I'm like, Oh, he's

small time here. And now he's like playing at

the red rocks and that's right. Which is like

red rocks is huge. Yeah. It's the cream of the

crop here. Um, that's right. So, but I mean,

so I listened to them. I listened to like creed,

like ever clear incubus matchbox, 20, uh, sound

garden, seven, Mary three, three doors down,

you know, stone temple pilots. Uh, yeah like

so there's there's a lot of like i now if you

were going to do like a 90s spotlight of like

touching on like some of the main radio plays

of yeah these type stuff like i'd be all over

that because i'm like oh i remember that one

oh i remember that one oh i remember that one

you know well so it'd be more it would be more

fun for me in that that regard because like i

literally was like one day like i've been watching

a lot of like millennial joke uh it like reels

and shorts and stuff. And I find them very funny

because I am a millennial and, but I'm an elder

millennial. So it's even funnier because I'm

like, I'm, I'm close enough to like Gen X that

I'm not Gen X, but there's like this weird time

span that's called Zennial. That's kind of the

mix between, um, uh, either way. Like, I love

the comedy of it, but a lot of them are playing

like old nineties music. And so this, that was

kind of like, Oh, I remember this. Um, Yeah.

And then so I started going down a rabbit hole

of like, oh, that's, you know, millennial playlist.

And so then I'm seeing all these like, you know,

songs that I was like, I remember this one. I

didn't know who did it, but I remember this one,

you know, you know, Red Hot Chili Peppers and,

you know, stuff, all these different bands that

like some of them Weird Al's copied. So yeah,

funnier there. But then like some of them are

just, you know. uh you know pearl jam and some

other stuff my boss talks about some of these

bands too but uh And I've I've just had a lot

of fun looking them up and listening and kind

of going, oh, yeah, these are, you know, that's

great. And then some of them I'm like, oh, yeah,

these were songs I remember hearing back in that

decade. And I absolutely despise them. There's

quite a few on both sides. So it's like so I

mean, yeah, I mean, I do get into music. I just

I don't I think that it has to like resonate

or has to bring back some kind of a memory for

me to care. Yeah. And like for me, like parodies,

you know, Bob Rivers, Weird Al. Twisted Christmas.

Oh, yeah. So, I mean, like any any time I have

those type of situations, like I used to listen

to Bob and Tom show when I was growing up and

they used to have like either some of the Bob

Rivers stuff or they used to have like parody

music on there or things that they made up or,

you know, just funny songs. And. I remember sitting

there with an audio cassette recording it. Yeah,

I'll have to check my files. But I have both

CDs. I know I have both physical copies of the

CDs. I have Twisted Christmas and I have more

Twisted Christmas. There were two Twisted Christmas

CDs from Bob Rivers. So I'll have to check my

actual digital files. But if I don't have them

already on my computer, I'll... We'll figure

that out later. But yeah, no, Bob River is absolutely

hilarious. The restroom door said gentlemen.

Yeah. We're chipmunks roasting on an open fire.

Yeah. I have a disc somewhere like of like and

they're just ones that I remember. And I can

I can play my hand here. Back when LimeWire and

Kazaa were a thing. Oh, yeah. I ripped a lot

of these. Some of them I still have. Some of

them don't. Some of them I've like I've actually

bought CDs of over the years or like the digital,

you know, CD stuff. But I, you know, I had fun

getting all of these different songs, you know,

had Bob and Tom music, you know, wiper blades

and trauma to the groin and. you know, all these

funny songs. So like that, that's always kind

of resonated, resonated with me. Is it like,

is it one that, that makes me laugh or is it

one that I would sing to at the top of my lungs

in my car? Yep. Um, when I was a teenager and

driving like a moron, like that's, that's literally

where it goes. Like that's like, that's where

it goes. That's right. So the reason why I bring

all of this up is because in 2011, from 2011

to 2012, we did a giant music spotlight that

ran from GCR episode 30 all the way up to 35

with special episodes in between there. And two

that you should check out. I don't think you

were on these. I'm actually. Pretty damn sure

you weren't. I know you weren't on one of them

because I just looked at it. And I'm looking

to see if you were on the other one. I don't

think you were. No, it was me, JT, and Double

D. So me, JT, and Double D, David, Double D,

Dennis, we did do GCR episode 32, Music Spotlight,

the 90s. And then the next episode, we did a

special episode, Top 10 Artists or Bands of the

90s. send you those links off when we're done

with the show and you can go back and listen

to those and maybe leave comments on geekastro

.com to let us know if we were right or not,

even though it's been, Oh God, 2012 is when we

released those. But yeah, that's cause. So when

we did that back in 20, let me, now that I revealed

those two episodes, I can actually go to this

third page and see when this actually started.

Yeah. Geek cast radio, episode 30 music spotlight

sixties and seventies that first aired November

1st, 2011. So in 2011, I know exactly where I

was. I was at the point where people kept confusing

us with an actual radio station that played actual

music. I kept having people commenting to me

and messaging me on Twitter and tweeting at me

and DMing me and everything else saying, I thought

you were part of an actual radio station. I thought

Geekcast Radio, because it's called Geekcast

Radio, was an actual... I'm like, no, it's not.

We're a podcast network. We sometimes talk about

music, but not often. Would you like to beg for

your lives? It sometimes helps, but not often.

Oh, boy. Anyway, so, yeah, on November 11th of

2011, I was like, okay, let's figure this out.

And originally, it was only going to be those.

episode 30 to 35. And then I was like, Ooh, what

about artists spotlights? And that's how those

special episodes and the, and the top tens came

in. Cause I have, we did, uh, all the numbered

episodes I think are the decades. And then all

the special episodes are either artists or countdowns

of said decades. And we did all the way up to,

I think the, 2000s. I don't think we did the

2010s. I think we stopped at the 2000s at the

time. And I bring that up because that to me

was just a hilariously fun time with everyone

that was on any of those episodes. It was a way

for me to get my music bug out because I am musically

inclined. I've always been musically inclined.

From 2006 to now, the last 20 years. I was buying

those buck 29 downloads. Every song I was buying

those nine 99 albums on iTunes in 2006, 2000.

I was bought any song, any artists, any, anything.

I can go back on my iTunes library right now.

I can go on my files for iTunes and look in my.

itunes media library files right now there's

so much itunes files on my like dude it's like

over 1200 whatever but when i made the switch

to spotify in 2017 In iTunes back then, I had

this list called Faves. F -A -V -E -S. And I

recreated it in Spotify. Because Spotify, because

it's streaming, all you have to do is just add

songs. And I basically have the exact same stuff

in the exact same place. But on Spotify, what

I use for my music specifically is I use their

Recently Played tab. And right now, I have my

faves list. I have two albums that I have to

write reviews for La La Land Records. I have

my On Repeat, which is what they have for you.

I have this Go Go Go playlist, which is... All

of the upbeat music that I use to basically get

myself out of bed in the morning. Music is my

coffee, essentially, because I don't drink coffee.

So I need something that will literally, not

necessarily like electronica, but something close

to that. The new EP from Blackstone Cherry. The

20th anniversary of A Theory of a Dead Man album.

The podcast stuff that I listen to. Uh, you just

mentioned three doors down. We recently lost

lead singer, Brad Arnold. He finally, unfortunately

passed away due to his, his illness there. So

I created a playlist, my favorite three doors

down songs, which I plan to do a blog post on.

I then have all of my, I have Batman forever.

Cause last year was the 30th anniversary of that.

I then have all of the currently released from

Dynamic Music Partners, all of their current

releases for Batman Beyond Volume 1 and Volumes

2 and 3, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited

Volume 1 and Volume 2, so all the superhero stuff.

Stan's new album. Born to Battle, Stan Bush's

new album, the soundtrack for The Rip, which

we will be doing an episode of the Studio 2009

on for that movie. Music just, it's always, if

I'm not watching something for the podcast, if

I'm not editing, if I'm not doing anything, I'm

probably listening to music. Even when I'm sleeping,

well, sleeping I need audio books, but that's

beside the point. But, yeah, no, just absolutely

music fuels me. It really, really does. So, yeah.

So, yeah, we had the music spotlight from 2011

to 2012. Not necessarily saying I'm going to

revisit that or anything because you can't put

music in podcasts anymore, folks, because if

you don't own it, you can't put it in there.

Oh, my God. Yeah, I can't believe we got away

with that. We got away with it for quite some

time. Yep. But, yeah, not no more. Not no more.

Well, because Spotify specifically will. Oh,

yeah. Or like that. What's that meme? Not in

my house. Yeah, not in my house. I don't think

so. YouTube does it too now. Yeah, YouTube. To

the extent. Yep. So. Yeah, it's crazy. And then

we had, I mentioned earlier the year in review

with a decade in review, but we've been doing

year in review stuff for a while. I think we

haven't done one for every year because I know

we skipped a few there. We skipped quite a few,

I think. Yeah, probably. But I know we started

it in 2010. We did one for 2011. And then where'd

we go? Went a bunch of places. Okay, so we did...

Yeah, so like I said, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014.

We skipped 2013. 13's an unlucky number, apparently.

15, 16, we skipped 17, we did 18, and then we

skipped all the way to 25. So we skipped from...

2018 to 2025. So last year. We will be doing

one this year, folks. But basically this was

just us looking back, not necessarily on the

networks here, but just looking back on the year

as a whole. But it also gives us a chance to

look back on how many podcasts we've been able

to produce, what content we did produce, what

we liked, what we didn't. Not necessarily what

we didn't like about the content we produced,

but I don't know, just sometimes like, hey, what

was this episode like? Or what do we remember

about this? Or what was the highest peak here

kind of thing? And then we sometimes will bring

in like, this is our top five things we watched

or top five things we listened to. this is the

craziest thing we saw something happen on social

media this is the dumbest thing we saw happen

in the real world this year kind of thing and

it's usually always so fun doing the year in

review stuff so so yeah absolutely not gonna

spend a whole lot of time on this but this is

all your fault it was but i did get it for free

so like Wait a minute. How'd you get this for

free? So... Maybe I didn't. I don't know. They

mailed me this. Oh, that's right! They mailed

you 13? Yes. Oh, that's right. It came with a

mask and everything. Oh, they mailed... Oh, that's

right. They mailed you the... Okay. You still

have that? No. I don't have a lot of stuff anymore.

Yeah, same. But truthfully, while it was decent

at the time, it never fully recovered from it.

I mean, I'm just saying that as like... Did they

mail you a Joker mask? Oh yeah, it came with

the comic. It was like in a cardboard insert

and everything. Okay, so it was like the Court

of Owls mask I had then, probably. Wow, okay.

Cool. Interesting. So yes, folks, we were talking

about comics, because music and comics, reading

and music, it's all about reading and music around

here. But yeah, folks, it's all his fault. uh

dcrn comic coverage batman death of the family

the one thing the only thing that led us to the

bull bag because i remember at the end of episode

at the end of the special episode that had batman

17 the very end of it as soon as i hit the stop

button The first thing you said, okay, you got

to find something else to put these comics in.

They can't exist here on geek cast radio anymore.

You got to do something else. If you're going

to continue this, I'm like, okay, fine. Give

me some, give me, let's workshop it. Let's brainstorm

it. Let's figure it out. And we went into research

mode and figured out names. and things and did

some artwork and did some templates and did some

research. We looked on iTunes. We looked everywhere

for names and whatever. No, I will say, I will

say this. Yeah. It sucks. Like no other to try

and do, uh, to do a, a new podcast. Yes, it does.

Specifically because every blasted name you can

think of is taken nowadays. Yeah. Luckily back

then it wasn't as bad as it is today. But, but

nowadays it's, it's terrible. Cause like my wife

and I are doing our own like separate podcast

and, uh, it's, it's been fun trying to find a

name that's not taken. Oh, so, so you started

another new one. Yeah, we decided to do one that's

more like generic and less like it's not about

necessarily health. It can cover that, but it's

not. It's like more of a two married people.

Oh, OK. Discussing topics. Yeah. Like kind of

a catch all. So like, you know, we want to talk

about like hiking or we want to talk about, you

know, the animals or like media or whatever it

can. Very cool. You know. Very cool, very cool.

Yeah, the research for a podcast, and that's

why I'm glad we have the 40 shows that we do

have, because we do have at least two that are

catch -all with this, with Geekcast Radio, mainly

catch -all media if we really want it to be.

altered geek can be catch -all but it's tailored

to you it's to your specific whatever you want

it to be but it is essentially news most of the

time studio 2009 could technically be catch -all

but it's also specifically tailored to whatever

we want to watch and review um so we do have

a lot of that kind of stuff and we don't really

like within studio 2009 i can do all kinds of

like spotlights and like we're going to do the

actress spotlight. And, um, I'm actually, I actually

just thought of doing a whole, um, a whole book

series, a series of books about something with

somebody recently here. I was a detective series

of books that came out years ago, but anyway,

but yeah, no, that's awesome. Back in 2012, we

were doing comic book reviews here on Geekcast

Radio. And Steve, at the end of it, was like,

okay, we got to workshop this. And Mike Booth

Ninja 81 Powers gave us the name for The Pull

Bag. And on March 5th, 2013, the audio podcast

The Pull Bag came online. And here we are, 13

years later, 580 episodes. We got 20 to go to

600. Longest episodic running show on the network.

Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, concurrently running.

I mean, as far as longevity. Yeah. As far as

number count, not necessarily. Obviously, ATTF

is the longest because it's been here the longest.

It predates the network. Yeah, exactly. I'm saying

number -wise as far as the episode count, not

the year count. But no, the pullback, I didn't

know. We didn't know at the beginning. Neither

one of us did who was going to take the reins,

and then you just had to show me that damn Joker

cover. Yep. And that run, that story arc, man,

that freaking story arc was so cool. It was dark.

It was dark, but it was good. I liked that more

than I liked the Court of Owls, because I had

to go backwards. I didn't read the Court of Owls

first. I read that first. And I went back, and

then I went forward after that, and I'm just

like, okay. And I think we finished, I think

we read up to, I think Ryan, Ryan, the uneven

flow. And I read up to volume seven or eight,

maybe just a volume seven. I forget how far we

got, but I know I didn't finish the Snyder run

on new 52 Batman. It got terrible. I don't know.

Like I didn't, I don't know. It is what it is.

But the pull bag has got literally anything and

everything you could possibly. It doesn't have

anything and everything, but I wanted it to have

so much variety that you could look every which

way and you could find at least something for

yourself. We've got TMNT. We've got Turtle. We

got TMNT. We got Transformers. We got DC. We

got Marvel stuff. And I wanted to do stuff that

we didn't, that you weren't going to find everywhere

else. And the funny thing, I say that now, and

I just did the research on this. I always say

to people that the pull bag resists what every

other comic book podcast has ever done. We didn't

just want to do the dark night returns. I'm a

dumb ass. We did it one year after the damn podcast

started in episode 71. I just found that out

like a week ago and I'm like, are you kidding

me? Oh my God. I'm such a liar. Like I thought

we did that years after the show started. It

turns out we did it a year later in episode 71.

Either way, it's done. It's whatever. Uh, I think

my favorite part of the pull bag is what Joe

Reed and I have done with IDW turtles. I mean,

I love it all, but like, We have covered almost

all of it. We've covered the entire main run

up to this point. Well, at least up to the point

that we are now currently, even though the main

run finished and they've restarted. But we're

currently up to volume 8 damage done, I believe.

It's either volume 7 or volume 8. I think it's

volume 8. Uh, we've got volume eight and volume

nine. So damage done. And once, uh, once and

always, uh, or first last and always, or something,

whatever, or the last trades called, I forget.

Cause we, we do it in trade over there, but the

150th issues in that, and that comic book, man,

that's been 12 years. Practically the entire,

we started that January 22nd of 2014. So a year

after the show started 12 years of my life where

almost every issue, something in every trade

has wrenched my heart out with turtles. No turtles

media has ever like, yeah, the first movies,

maybe a couple of things in the second movie.

A little bit heart -wrenching, but nothing else

in Turtles media ever has taken me through the

emotions that that comic that IDW has made has

done. And once we finish that, we'll start the

new stuff that they currently have going on.

So 580 episodes of The Pull Bag, 20 to go to

600, like I mentioned before. And then we have

Wars and Retro. Oh, my God. Retro is fairly short.

It only has three episodes currently. Retro started

in 2012. I believe this was an Optimus Solo idea.

I want to give credit where credit is due. It

might have been yours and his together. I don't

remember off the top of my head. I don't think

I came up with Retro unless that was an idea

that spawned out of just the fact I liked the

word. Probably, but I think it was something

you both came up with. I think he had the...

I think he had the guts for it. He had the innards.

He had the format. He had the designs for it.

Maybe you had the name, or maybe you all both

came up with the name. I don't remember. I don't

remember. It was so long ago. Yeah, it was January

24th, 2012. 1987 was the first episode. 2002

was the second. And 1984 was the third. Funny

thing is, between 2002 and 1984, 2002 was April

17th of 2012. 84 was December 26th of 2014. And

we were going to bring it back last year. life

and time and everything gotten away last year

hopefully we can bring retro back this year and

then there's gcr and wars which started out as

one thing and then turned into something completely

different yeah it was like a one episode difference

yeah started off as like it was supposed to be

more of a discussion like round table based version

of headshot only not as vulgar That's literally

what it was supposed to be. Yeah. And then we

ended up going a totally different direction.

Yep. So we started out in August of 2010 with

Dirty Government and Healthcare Horrors, which...

Not much has changed. I was going to say, coming

360 around to those topics, not much has changed.

And then in September of 2011, we released episode

two, which was Flintstones versus Jetsons. So

we basically took two franchises and pitted them

against each other. And that's kind of what Wars

has become ever since then. We've done Thundercats

versus Silverhawks, Star Trek versus Star Wars,

Die Hard versus Lethal Weapon. We've done several

tournaments. We've done the 80s cartoon villains.

We've done the, I think, 90s cartoons villains.

Ninjas vs. Pirates. That was an episode. We did

the video game icons. So we did that. Where's

the... Didn't we do the 90s villains? Yeah, we

did. There it is. I thought I was... I remember

making the bracket. Yeah, you made awesome brackets

for these things. Yeah, we did the 90s villains,

and then we did the wrestling tag teams. And

the wrestling tag teams was the last one we did,

which was in 2018. But it's a nice different

premise, especially for us. Especially back when

we started it in the early days, because... Again,

we wanted to do something different. We didn't

just want to do another show, another topic,

another this, another that. And between Wars

and Retro, two very different things on top of

everything else we were already doing. Because

by that time, we had MWire going full force.

We had everything else going full force. HHF

was on autopilot. Tell the autopilot he deserves

a raise. You know, all that good stuff and everything

else. And folks, you never know when you're going

to meet your co -hosts or where. Yeah. Well,

because honestly, I never thought I just always

thought it was going to be behind the screen.

You never know. But. It was December 6th, 2017.

Nine years in the making at the time. SCP -21

and TF2 and Mike live in person. So Steve was

the only choice. And, of course, we flew him

out because that was the only right thing to

do. But we flew him out from Colorado. Were you

in? Wait. Michigan. You were in Michigan. You're

still in Michigan then. That's right. Wow. God,

time flies. I am too old for this shit. Yeah,

you're in Michigan still. We flew you out from

Michigan to Chicago because at the time, Karen

and I were going to be married. And the only

person in the world was going to be my best man.

So, yeah. So Steve and I met for the first time

in person nine years after we created the Geekcast

Radio Network. In person was pretty much the

same thing that you hear right now on the podcast,

folks. There's no difference. It was funny because

it was slightly awkward to begin with. A little

bit, yeah. Because we were like, how do we...

How do we do this without a screen? How do we

do this without a screen and a microphone? Yeah.

And then it kind of just, it was like, okay,

I'm good. Yeah, we're good. Yep. But yeah, it

was kind of funny. I think that's the same time

I met Michael Wilson in person, too. Probably.

And then I saw him again at BotCon. Yep. And

then he introduced me to, like, everybody. Yeah.

He was like, oh, hey, come see this person. Come

see this person. And I was like, oh, yeah. Yeah,

that's the way Michael is. because you know once

you know at least one person at a at a convention

they're gonna you know take you around to meet

everybody especially if they already know everybody

else well and it was beneficial too because he

was like i have an extra ticket to see frank

walker yeah he was like i sell it to you and

i was like i was like for sure yeah yeah i went

with my brothers to that convention so that was

And then I met John Bailey in person and all

the other people I used to do fan dubs with Frank

Todaro and. Very nice. Very nice. Yeah. Yeah.

That's so cool. So cool. But yeah, folks, three

60 podcasting ain't easy. It takes time. It takes

effort. It takes everything you got. You can't

do it overnight. It like I'm. Honestly surprised

that it's taken us 2009, 2026, like 17 years

to get to 360. But again, we've always used this.

We've never used geek cast radio as we must put

everything here. We must every episode. We must

have an episode a week. We must have. Daily content.

Oh, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. My philosophy

has always been quality over quantity. Right.

So, like, that's why, like, ATTF, even though

it's been around, it's one of the longest running

Transformers podcasts. Yeah. It doesn't have,

like, the episode count of, like, TFW at WTF

or something like that. Yeah. Like, TF Radio

was around before everybody. Well, yeah, 99.

Hands down. But I think I've officially, like,

passed everything that TF Wire did. Well, yeah.

I think three times over, though. I think they

stopped in, like, the 100 -something range. Yeah,

but that's okay, though. I mean, that's not,

you know. But that's where I got my start. So,

I mean, that was kind of, you know. Yeah. And

the thing is, I agree with you. Quality over

quantity. But my thing is, everything I do, I

want it to be the best quality I can make it.

So with me, I'm essentially a machine. I want

to be pumping out the quality, not as fast, but

as much as I possibly can. And because I generally

do this all the time anyway, I have nothing but

time. So as long as I can schedule whoever I

can schedule to do whatever I need to be doing,

and as long as I do the editing correctly and

make it sound the best I can make it, it's not

necessarily this specific podcast, not Geekcast

Radio. But it has been, since day one, my dream

to have at least one of our shows be a daily

show. And there's only been one time so far,

and that time is going to come up here again

soon, hopefully. But Studio 2009, at the end

of last year, throughout partially the beginning

of this year, I was able to take that show daily.

And the only reason why I did it was because

I put different arts in every time. Because I

can... Luckily, now that you gave me a template

and you showed me how to do the stuff on my own,

I can do it on my own with the art. Just because,

I don't know. I don't even know if people want

daily content from us, and that's fine. But it's

just one of those things where that was, out

of all the goals I've ever wanted out of podcasting,

out of everything I've learned in the last 17,

almost 18 years that I've been doing it. A daily

thing just seemed like something I always wanted

to be able to accomplish. And the only other

than some of the things that I wanted to be able

to get out before the end of last year, the only

thing I really take daily is the Columbo files

because I view that as it's a TV show, even though

it's not a TV show. It's a review show of a television

show. And it's like, oh, Episodes Daily. Yay!

I don't know. It's just something silly and stupid

that I've got in the back of my brain. I look

at it as an email newsletter without having to

get emails every single day. Anything else you

would like to say, sir? No, it's been interesting

to see how far the network has progressed over

the years and just the evolution of the network.

I think we've evolved quite well for the most

part. I think we've all done an excellent job

with it. Optimus Solo and Comic Con Siege are

doing a good job over there on Cinema Geeks.

I think that what you and I are doing on all

the stuff that we work on, we're doing a good

job. I think that all the stuff that we have

planned for the future is going to be interesting,

and I hope that everyone listening will continue

to listen, and hopefully they'll... Always enjoy

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