Animaniacs Reboot and Podcast Updates

Hello, nerds! This is Jesse from Rock Sugar,

and you're listening to the GeekCast Radio Network.

Keep it right here. You're tuned in to Steve

Megatron on Altered Geek. Hello and welcome to

Altered Geek. I'm your host, Steve Megadron Phillips.

Joining me in this adventure into geekdom is

TFG1 Mike. Hello. Hello. Hello. So it is the

first and possibly last episode before the new

year. First episode after Black Friday and last

episode possibly of the year. I say possibly

because who knows? Yes, who knows? We are recording

this on Cyber Monday. Yay! We is? Yes. Today

is Cyber Monday. Ooh, Cyber Monday. No, it's

not what you think, folks. Don't call that 800

number. Yeah, since you brought that up, you

might as well bring it up. We are Animaniacs.

Pinky and the Brain tried to give you porn. I

actually called it to make sure that it was what

it was. Was it? Yes. And it was one of the poorer

ones of phone sex. Is it one of those cheap ones

that you would see those late night commercials

on Fox or something back in the 90s? Yes and

no. This is actually worse than those actually

were enticing. This was just straightforward.

I am marking this episode explicit, folks, and

there will be spoilers in this episode, potentially

regarding the Mandalorian and other things, so

you've been warned. Spoilers. I didn't even need

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was interesting they removed so in the scene

brain is trying to do his whatever spiel and

he says you can go online you can call us you

can email us you can email us whatever it is

and there's all this text around an image of

him They removed the text entirely which puts

the image out of puts the scene out of context

Then they went back in and put a different phone

number. So it isn't Well, didn't they remove

it completely so there was nothing there Right.

Yes. And then they went back and put stuff back

in there and put it back on Hulu. The logic is

mind boggling. Yes. Yes, it is. Yeah, I watched

those. And what's funny is we did that review

and I didn't even like when it was on Hulu initially,

episodes 11, 12 and 13 were not there. Yeah,

this was episode six that this was in, I think.

Yeah. When I went back and I watched him and

I was like in that show for those that haven't

seen it I'm sorry as Mike said spoiler I was

pleasantly surprised to see chicken boo and the

fact that all the other characters weren't dead

and to see Dr. Scratch and sniff yes I was very

happy to see that episode honestly those two

were my favorite out of all the Animaniacs skits

I honestly did not care for the rest of them.

and the pinky and the brain stuff. Pretty much

all of it I liked. And then all the side segments

I didn't care for either. So, I don't know. It

was a lot of fun to kind of revisit. I don't

know if they succeeded necessarily. I think the

best part about the Warner section of Animaniacs

on Hulu is Steven, I assume that was Steven Spielberg.

I'm not looking at anything. I don't know. It

might've been a voice actor, whatever. But it's

one of those things where I'm like, I liked that.

And I liked several times when Yakko was, you

know, doing his fourth wall breaking stuff. Like

the time where he's talking to you about reboots

and how, you know, the whole spiel on reboots

and how Hollywood doesn't have any original ideas

anymore and that kind of stuff. So, you know,

I like that. Know a lot of people probably think

the pinky in the brain Mind control thing was

not funny. I found it funny what I found funny

about it was Just how they did that I thought

that was really cool But overall it's probably

not something I would watch again I will attempt

to watch the second season but after that Who

knows I Don't know it just wasn't what I What

everyone is saying online and I tend to agree

with this. This is kind of my opinion too It's

got a venom to it and I know that's probably

because one of the people attached to it is from

family guy but Still it just come on. Yeah, and

I think part of the problem is that they, I think

it was too politically charged, which I'm not

saying Animaniacs hasn't done before and done

well, but it was so blatantly obvious and like

venomous. Like, and I don't, I mean, say what

you will, don't care about it. Don't care about

the politics at all. But at least they were more

inventive when they were poking fun at Bill Clinton

in the old stuff. True. Very true. I mean, and

they weren't like totally mean about it. You

know, they were just like, Bill Clinton plays

a sax and, you know, and does all this other,

you know, and they, they had little funny jabs

and whatever, but I don't know. I felt like the

show as a whole was wittier. Okay. It is not

Steven Spielberg. It is a guy named Andy milder

who plays the voice of Steven Spielberg. Hmm.

So. Whatever. What I find funny is I'm sitting

here trying to look all this up, trying to get

the information so we don't record an episode,

release it and be like, uh, I don't know what

the frig I'm talking about. And people come at

me because I don't know what the frig I'm talking

about. I looked up Steven Spielberg on IMDB and

a lot of stuff announced or in pre -production

for 2021 and 2022. The one thing, the two things

that actually pop out at me, uh, gremlins three.

And real steel to interesting choice who knows

if these things are actually going to happen

it just says he's been announced as executive

producer or producer on these things. I refuse

to believe that who frame Roger rabbit to isn't

in pre production even though it says it is for

twenty twenty two i have. I don't often. I can't

often give to other creators. You know, money's

tight for everybody, not just because of coronavirus.

I'm a disabled person living on disability, sadly,

and most of the jobs I can do, I can't get paid

for them. Because Social Security would be like,

wait a minute here, you're not supposed to be

doing that. You're not supposed to be getting

paid for that. So when I am able to... Give to

other creators. It has to be something I'm absolutely

stoked about and I mentioned on altered geek

a while ago about popkill by Jimmy Palmiotti

and Dave Johnson At the time they were doing

their Kickstarter for the second issue which

in that you could there was a level that you

could Donate to that would get you the first

issue as well because you obviously missed out

on it the first time So I have the first two

issues Couple of days ago. I forget when it was

but I woke up one morning and I got an email

from Kickstarter Hey, guess what? Paul Monty

and Johnson's pop kill issues three and four

finale is now on kicks. I'm like Click So I'm

only spending ten dollars so it ten dollars for

the two digital editions But I'm trying to promote

this campaign that like they made their funding

in one day The thing has 24 days left, but they

made their funding within one day. It's that

popular. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very cool. And it

will be covered on the pull bag once it's released.

The other Kickstarter that I pledged to immediately,

because it's just, I'm like, holy crap, they're

back. So 11 years ago, back in 2010, I forget

if it was Michael Wilson or if it was our good

buddy Pia who's been on YouTube for Pia. He told

me about this new mashup band called Rock Sugar

and he told me that The voice of Wacko, Jess

Harnell, is the lead singer. I interviewed Jess

on GeekCast Radio Network. The interview's somewhere,

I'll put it in the show notes, whatever. It's

from 2010 for this specific reason, and we actually

still have a promo from Jess Harnell. Hey, this

is Jesse from Rock Sugar! You're listening to

whatever. Keep it right here. It's such a cool

promo. It'll probably be at the beginning of

this episode of Altered Geek. Haven't heard anything

about Rock Sugar since then until now. Their

first album was called Reimaginator and it's

13 tracks mashing up metal songs with pop lyrics.

So stuff like, um, uh, praying for a sweet weekend.

is a compilation of living on a prayer and working

for the weekend by Loverboy. Don't Stop the Sandman

is Journey's Don't Stop Believing mixed with

Metallica's Enter Sandman. It's so cool and so

fun. Well, they have announced and it is currently

ongoing. The Reinventinator, second album from

Rock Sugar. It's on Kickstarter right now. They

also made their funding within the first day.

It's got 31 days to go The interesting thing

about this is they can't actually sell the music

and they've been banned from iTunes They've been

banned from Spotify. They've been banned from

all these places So in order to get the music

for free You spend I think I spent $30 total

you spend $30. They give you an album coin And

they send you a mess of the reason why it's thirty

is actually twenty five dollar pledge reason

why it's thirty dollars is because they're sending

you this album coin that has a QR code for the

album. And they're sending you a mask. With their

you know band logo on it. I already had the first

album i actually just. Add my computer put it

into spotify from through local files so i listen

to rock sugar again and i cannot wait. For this

thing to happen. I can I'm so stoked I'm hoping

we can get Jess and Chuck back on for a new interview

Chuck Duran Most people will know Chuck from

Veo Buzz Weekly with his I believe It's either

his girlfriend or his wife. It's one of the two

Stacy J Aswad, but Veo Buzz Weekly We talked

to them a couple years ago. I think I did I forget

if you you and You and maybe somebody else it

wasn't me Yeah, cuz I get all of their, or more

or less they follow me on social media and I

follow them and occasionally I watch something

or pay attention to it, but kind of depends on

time. But yeah, I mean, they do some great content.

Yeah, they do. It was just me that interviewed

them. It was back in 2012. They actually have

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Let's go again. Let's start again. So that's,

that's what I've been doing. I've also, um, because

of what has happened in the Mandalorian season

two, I'm going to say again, folks, spoilers

in case, but I'm not trying to actually spoil

it because the news was out about this a long

time ago. Rosario Dawson is playing Ahsoka Tano.

Ahsoka Tano debuted in Clone Wars. Yes. And then

again in Rebels. And then again in Rebels. And

this takes place after episode six. After Return

of the Jedi. Yes. Yes. So I had only ever watched

Clone Wars briefly. I've only ever seen, I think,

the first two episodes of Rebels. This is why

I love having Disney Plus now, because I can

watch all of it. And I think I'm up to season

one, episode four or five of Clone Wars. I'm

loving it. It's so fun. It's so good. So that's

what I've been up to Yeah, I've been watching

the Mandalorian. I've been watching Star Trek

Discovery Trained wreck as it is. I Yeah, I still

enjoy it So, yeah, it's it's definitely a mess

To put it bluntly But I honestly won't not watch

it because it's Star Trek. Right. You're a diehard

and you have to at least watch it to keep up

and everything like that. I mean, yeah, other

than that, I'm just trying to get back into this

podcasting thing. I've already screwed up at

least 10 times. Michael Wilson and I are recording

our Phineas and Ferb episodes and stuff for that

show. Already lost one recording. Don't know

where it is. It's gone. I just told him the night

and he's like, find it. I'm like, I've searched

every search term I can search. It's gone. So

we have to re -record episode 64. We just released

episode 61 and 62. Now originally the Phineas

and Ferb show which is entitled the podcast organization

without a cool acronym. The reason why it's called

that is because in Phineas and Ferb people who

are listening to this have never seen it. The

agency that Agent P slash Perry the Platypus

works for is the organization without a cool

acronym. So that's why it's Pauka. Originally

this show was supposed to be 104 days within

one year back in 2016 2017 and life happened

between 2017 and now and obviously for the last

year I haven't had my computer so Yeah, we're

starting that back up again and doing that I'm

getting back into the pull bag. We're about to

JT and I are about to embark on a scooby comic

adventure because we're gonna do I know you and

I did the first issue of Scooby -Doo Team Up

way back when. Well, earlier this year, I believe,

Comixology put all eight volumes of Scooby -Doo

Team Up, the trade paperbacks, all eight of them

for free. And I'm like, click, click, click,

click, click. I'm like, free comics? Yes, please.

Thank you very much. So we're gonna be doing

that we're gonna be doing some Batman stuff In

March of next year the pull bag celebrates eight

years. I believe seven years eight years. Oh

Something whatever it is something like that

But yeah, I'm just trying to shake off this podcast

rust cuz man it itches I Bet it does podcast.

Just no pleasing some people. No, not really.

So yeah, I mean, you know, trying to find out,

you know, find stuff to do and figure out what

to do with certain shows and how certain like

We recorded the Animaniacs episode, it should

have been episode 233, not 231, because Optimus

Solo and I a year ago recorded the first episode

of Scooby -Doo Guess Who as episode 231. So now

I have to release that as episode 233 with a

bumper around it. I just keep screwing up. I'm

the worst podcaster in the history of podcasting.

Cosmic Rust. Yeah, it itches a lot. Uh, what

else we got going on? We're going to have a new

website soon, sometime next year, I guess, or

whenever. So that's going on. Something in the

neighborhood. Yeah. Yeah. Um, as well as a new

logo for the podcast. New design, I should say.

We have that now. We should debut that now with

episode 380. You're fired. You think I'd be able

to fill time, but I'm rusty. Yeah, think. So

yeah, there's a lot on the horizon with new website.

We should debut the new Altered Geek stuff in

this episode. That's my personal opinion, but

if you don't want to, that's fine. No, it's not.

Well, the year's almost over. It's not almost

over. Yes, it is. It's almost over. We got 32

days left. It doesn't matter. It doesn't count

yet. I still need a new theme song. Yeah. What

are we currently using? I don't even know. It's

whatever, uh, Booth Ninja gave me originally,

I think, and then I just slapped John Bailey

over the top of it. Oh, that's right. Okay. I

need a new jingle. Somebody call Joey Gladstone,

folks. No. I don't want it. Ooh. Technical difficulties.

Let's move on, shall we? Oh, that Joker. Yes,

that's right, folks. Technical difficulties.

Plagues me. Plagues you. Yes, plagues me. I'm

a plague. I am a podcast plague on society. I'm

horrible. So this has been Altered Geek episode

380. You have 20 episodes till you get to 400.

That's what she said. We want to make sure that

we say thank you to everyone who has listened.

We know the last couple of episodes have not

been the greatest, thanks to me. Um, it's my

fault. I'm just going to take the blame. Yes.

I'm just, I'm just saying, Hey, I'm taking the,

you know what, but it's one of those things where

honestly, and you said this to me off air, you're

not sure where to take the show. I'm not sure

where we take the show either because now we've

got studio lined up and I want to do, I want

us to do stuff for that. And most of this review

stuff or talking point stuff that isn't news

that we did here, we're starting to do over there.

That is true. We want to say thank you to everyone

who has listened over the years to Altered Geek.

We want to say, you know, we hope everyone has

a socially distanced, safe holiday season. Be

safe out there everybody. And we are trying our

best to bring you content that you will enjoy

here at the GeekCast Radio Network. We are trying

our best to give you a reason to smile because

let's face it. Everybody's been 2020'd. Oh, man.

Yeah. So for 2021, we have some plans for some

things. We've got a new top 100 that we're planning

on, maybe two. Some website renovations, some

things that will be a little bit easier on people

on mobile, as well as desktop. I particularly

was testing a new feature of one of the themes

that I was looking at. It can play from the website

even with your screen off, which is a big thing.

Most sites don't let you do that anymore. So

that's something I've been messing around with

too. And I'm going back to the drawing board

with this show just to try and refocus it. So

should see some significant changes next year.

Absolutely. So until next time, we have been

DFJ and Mike. and Steve Megatron Phillips. So

until next time, get altered, get geeky with

the Altered Geeks.