The Sound-Bar Volume Crackdown and Studio Shakeups

Hey, this is Steve Bloom, and you are listening

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to Altered Geek. I'm your host, Steve Megatron,

and joining me on this adventure into geekdom

is TFG1 Mike. yo you on the mic with mike no

yes what i had to yes so we're on the mic with

a mic hey look that's a that's a 31 year old

reference that probably no one is gonna get true

that true that uh you even get it no that's what

i said when i said bad boys bad boys I, uh, I

recently, uh, watched all four of them. Love

those movies. I haven't seen all of them at all.

Like I think I've seen bits and pieces. Oh no,

I, I, yeah, no. So that's, that's a whole journey

folks. So for the longest time, I think ever

since it was, no, it was 2011, 2011 was the very

first time I got anything from La La Land records,

a long time. uh collaborators that have sent

me stuff for the longest time now since 2011

2011 i got uh green lantern the animated series

and at that time when the series was still going

even though it only had one season uh i think

no green lantern i don't know i was looking But

the show that only had one season at the time,

Thundercats 2011, La La Land Records sent me

the scores for both of those cartoon shows at

the time in 2011. I just either cold tweeted

them or cold DM'd them on Twitter at the time.

And yes, folks, I am going to say Twitter because

in 2011 it was called Twitter. But it was one

of those things where I'm like, hmm, I wonder.

yada yada yada yada yada and uh been writing

soundtrack reviews for them ever since and the

reason why i bring up bad boys is because uh

i just finished up over the last couple of months

uh writing reviews for the 30th anniversary which

was last year uh for their bad boys soundtrack

and that they released and they released bad

boys one and two And I couldn't stop myself after

I watched the first two films and I wrote up

the soundtrack review score to the first one.

And I just couldn't stop after I watched the

second one, because even though I was taking

my notes for the review for the second film.

after I watched the second film for the second

time, cause I watched the movies twice to make

sure I didn't miss anything, even though I'm

not actively talking about the movies in the,

I talk about the movie a little bit, but the

main point is the music for me when I talk about

in, in the, in the, in the music review, but

I talk about the movie a little bit. And, uh,

so after the second, I'm watching the movie for

probably the first time since it's released 23

years ago. Yeah, 2003, 2026. Yeah, 23 years ago.

God, I was 23 years old when that film was released.

Anyway, I watched Bad Boys 2 twice, wrote up

the review, started writing up the review. I

should say, I should correct myself. I started

writing up the review. And then I proceeded to

watch the film five more times. No, dude, you're

a stand. No, I get it. There's been plenty of

shows that I've had that happen. So it's one

of those things where not only did I watch Bad

Boys 2 two times to start the review, I then

watched Bad Boys. uh for life which is the third

movie and then i watched bad boys ride or die

which is the fourth movie which i remember the

third movie because i i'd watched that when it

initially released i didn't remember a lot from

ride or die because i'd only seen it i think

maybe a half i only seen like half of it like

i didn't remember the back half i don't know

which half of it i didn't remember But after

I finished watching all four, I had to go back

to Bad Boys 2 because, you know, the audience

probably doesn't remember, but you'll know how

my brain works half the time. If it's not right

in front of me, I'll forget, just immediately

forget. So I'm like, okay, I got to watch this

again. So I'm watching it. I'm also listening

to the soundtrack, not at the same time, but

I'm listening to the soundtrack and I'm taking

my notes and I'm doing this and I'm doing that

and I'm writing the thing up and I'm writing

the thing up and everything else. And I'm like,

okay, okay, I got it. I got it. I got it. That

was after probably the, in total, I watched Bad

Boys 2 seven times in 2026. I think after the

fourth time is when I finished the review. And

then I watched it three times. And I'm like,

oh. But that movie, I just, I love that movie

so much because it's just so much fun. There

wasn't, for me personally, like, you know how

people will be like nitpicking, oh, the drug

dealer this, or oh, the drug dealer that, or

oh, they left this out, or oh, they did. I didn't.

It's not just because I love the movie. After

almost 18 years of us nitpicking the hell out

of stuff, trust me, there are plenty of things

I could nitpick or point out or find wrong with

something. There isn't a thing in that movie

that I can find wrong with it. Even turning off

my, oh my God, this is so fun brain kind of thing.

Seriously. No, I get it. I mean, there's been

plenty of shows recently where I've been experiencing

that too. So it is just so fun. And I don't like,

like I said, for me to, whether it's a podcast,

whether it's a written review, whatever it is,

I watch things twice. Like when we do our movie

reviews on studio 2009, when we do our TV show

reviews, whatever it is. while TV show reviews

are a little different, but when we do our movie

reviews, whether it's true 2009, whether it's

all things, transformers, whatever it is, I usually

watch the movie twice so I can get everything

and make sure I have all my notes and come prepared

and yada, yada, yada. So that way I'm, you know,

I don't forget anything and I have everything

written down and yeah, just every, everything

about that movie. I absolutely love it. So yeah.

So that's what I've been doing. What have you

been doing? I've been working on a new website.

A lot of the plugins there. A ton of stuff, like

a bunch of new features I'm super excited about,

to be honest. There'll be a new review stuff.

The geek meter will be more integrated without

having to put the image. that will actually integrate

with different posts and we'll be able to actually

we'll be able to tie it into like when we're

reviewing um uh like let's say we're on m wire

or studio 2009 or we're you know we're reviewing

a movie or reviewing a tv show or something like

multiple of us can actually give our rating and

it'll give an average oh cool between the hosts

um it's also got a spot for uh like topic hubs

uh it's got a spot for like collections so i'll

be able to do like top 100s or like different

breakdowns of uh of the voice actors uh there'll

be like a coming soon thing for like anticipated

films uh i i was going through it earlier and

i was like hmm what could i add to this well

because like i was like there's more functionality

i could do with this like besides just movies

it's like what if what if there was like you

know limited series that we're excited about

or anime or documentaries or you know specials

or tv series uh and then we can fill those out

and put the release dates in there and then it's

like a kind of like a countdown of them yeah

so like i have uh, for the coming soon, like

anticipated films. Like I have like, you know,

toy story five, um, you know, Spider -Man and

brain. Yeah. I would even sack me, uh, legend

of the white dragon, uh, Jumanji doomsday, you

know, uh, stuff like that. Uh, nightfall. Yeah.

Uh, so I can put all of those in there. And,

uh, the beautiful thing is we have this new,

uh, basically IMDB hookup in there you can also

have you can embed the trailers in it you can

it embeds a direct link to IMDB it allows for

discussion added the discussion piece recently

we've got like our different YouTube channel

stuff integrated the wars tournaments are there

like the the like the topic hubs it's kind of

an automated breakdown in a sense like i have

to create the overall individual sections but

it automatically ties content based on keywords

oh cool so based on the tags so like if let's

say i have you know transformers so it'll have

like a franchise tier you know say transformers

um And then you can end with like properties

instead. So like, you know, franchise would be

like DC comics. And then you have like a property

sub, you know, character or sub franchise of

it is like Batman. And then like titles, like

for transformers, you'll have beast wars or for

Star Trek, it'd be the next generation or so.

Then you're, you toggle those things and you

can actually review. like it'll say if we're

actively covering it it'll say how many articles

how many collections how many podcast episodes

uh some of it's a little wonky as far as the

podcast episodes like just because it if you

tag certain things it'll tag those like a lot

of it like if i tag all things transformers it's

going to pull everything from all things transformers

so yeah um yeah but it'll show you like links

to the podcast you can play those you can see

the articles you can you know toggle between

them so like You can search articles. You can

search podcasts. You can see which ones are active

and concluded very easily. You can see who the

hosts are. It automates from the RSS feed. So

as it updates, it updates on the site. It pulls

the artwork. It's very lightweight. So yeah,

I'm super excited for this. And then coming soon,

as things drop off, it auto updates on the homepage

like if the date passes it moves right up to

the next things on the list and it shows like

the next you know the total of five and I can

do that for like TV shows I can do it for whatever

I just added the TV show feature so I'm looking

forward to playing around with that but we're

essentially going back to our old theme very

cool but it's but it's fast Uh, I've, I've also

brought back old articles from way back when

that were wiped out. Um, some of which I had

draft because a lot of stuff's broken, uh, content

still there. Yeah. I'm kind of like, well, let's,

let's see where it goes, you know? And then,

um, so yeah, I'm, I'm super excited to see how

this, how this plays out. Uh, the new site, I,

think that it's going to be very nimble on on

that front uh it will automatically like if you're

listening to a podcast episode your device that

you're listening on if you go back to that post

and you go to listen to it on the website it

will remember where you were at oh cool that's

never happened before yeah it won't follow you

across the site so you're like clicking around

and stuff it's not gonna like do that yeah But

yeah. So. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm super excited

about how this is all going to. How it's all

going to work. But it's I'm super excited for

it. A lot of awesome stuff coming down the pipe.

Very cool. Very cool. I think without a further

ado, let's get into our topics of the night.

Yeah, we start out with puke. puke yep what's

puke box puke there's a puke face next to fox

don't pay attention to that you're the one who

put it there i know i copied and pasted it uh

my god box is paying 22 billion for roku uh the

company who's uh you know has the streaming stick

smart tv software basically a menu screen for

100 million households. They're essentially,

since they've offloaded all of their content

and Hulu, they want to own a network that houses

it without actually having to create it. So they're

essentially owning the engine on which it shall

be played all akin to a YouTube. doing none of

the work but porting it in uh so they're they're

taking on this 8 .3 billion in debt uh and then

like a bridge loan of 12 billion to pay this

uh 22 billion so uh for now to be in the roku

channel will keep operating as separate brands

although that probably won't last so at some

point one of them will fold into the other uh

because it seems like fox owns both yes uh i

thought and forgive me if i'm wrong but i thought

uh thought paramount owned it but apparently

it's not yeah it's it is owned by fox they bought

it in 2020 though 440 million yeah so honestly

i i actually like to be more than i like a lot

of these other streaming platforms even though

there's ads like it's not like annoying yep and

there's a ton of stuff yep and they don't seem

to lose licenses a lot no because it's all ad

supported they're like I get my kickback I don't

care you know so it I do find this funny though

that they sold you know Hulu and all their other

streaming stuff to Disney back in you know 2019

or whatever and then continued on through but

It'll be interesting. I'm not a fan of Roku.

I think their interface is kind of crap, and

I don't like having to own the streaming stick

or any of that stuff. I like just being able

to access a website or have an app. That being

said, I don't dislike the idea, because if nothing

else, if we get a 2B out of it, an overarching

2B instead of Roku, they won't get rid of the

brand equity of Roku. uh i so i sadly i see roku

absorbing 2b or at least having 2b as a channel

in roku yeah um so it may not totally you know

splice together but we'll we'll see yeah it's

gonna be interesting because i've had a i've

mentioned this on the show before i've had a

55 inch sharp 4k HDTV since 2018. And that is

a Roku TV. So I have Roku built into my TV. I

think I've used the Roku function on that TV

exactly twice in almost eight years. And that

was for roku exclusive content that i couldn't

see anywhere else that was like a limited series

thing i don't use roku whatsoever maybe i need

to investigate it more or something i don't know

but i mean as long as again i i say this all

the time just like I've said, which there's nothing

I can do about it now because Amazon's already,

I'm not going to get on the soapbox, but Amazon

done already screwed it up anyway with comiXology.

But if Fox does absorb Tubi, as long as they

don't mess up the Tubi, well, wait, don't they

already own them? Doesn't, yeah. Fox bought Tubi

back in 2020. Okay, so that's not a... Okay,

it's Roku. Oh, crap. So if Fox just... Okay,

so... Okay, so Fox is buying Roku. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, no. That's... If Fox buys Roku, they buy

Roku. Maybe they'll improve it. I don't know.

Maybe I, maybe I'll go on my TV and, and explore

some more and report back next episode. But Fox

didn't really change any. I didn't notice a difference

between to be before Fox bought them versus what

to be is now. And the main thing I was going

to say there was as long as the website didn't

change kind of thing, but I couldn't tell you

what, what Roku changes would be because I'm

trying to attention to Roku. So, but, uh, and

Hey, look, Fox incurring more debt, incurring

more debt since 1989 when they launched or 1980,

whenever it was. Yeah, so we'll see what happens,

but they definitely want to own the menu more

than so they can collect it. They want to be

the real estate. They don't want to actually

produce anything. They just want to own where

it sits. They want the front lawn. They don't

care about the rest of it. anyhow there are rumors

now like there hasn't been since Netflix was

trying to buy Warner Brothers now that there's

there was rumors after that fell through that

they wanted to buy Disney which I'm still thinking

that's going to be the direction things go eventually

2029 2029 let's see let's see if it works there

was rumors going around that they're going to

buy Lionsgate and some report floated that the

streamer you know was interested but no formal

offer and then netflix insists that they aren't

interested and then of course every time there's

a you know thought about it that the the shares

jump lions gate's one of the few legacy studios

still standing yep which quite honestly surprising

which goes to show you though because they don't

they do kind of a wild mix of different stuff

I think they were the ones responsible for the

Saw movies, the Hunger Games, the Twilight films.

They do a lot of Christian films. They kind of

go all over the place, which I think is to their

benefit because they don't really have tent poles

the way that Disney does. Disney and Sony and

some of these other ones have that kind of they

back themselves into a corner of like we have

to make a billion dollars per film or it's not

worth it whereas Liongate's like eh as long as

we break even or we you know we can create something

out of it you know some of them will be winners

some of them won't but we're going to pump out

movies and to that degree I appreciate it I don't

think that Netflix is going to buy them. I think

this is just I think it's a media nothing burger.

Yeah, but probably I feel like it's also to like.

Wink, wink, like build the shares, guys, start

floating ideas of stuff that we're going to buy

and then people will buy the stock more. Yeah,

there's that. And then there's the whole thing

of. We're Netflix. Oh, my God. Unless we're in

the news, we're nothing. Like, it's one of those

things where unless you're because you're so

big, unless you're in the news. Oh, my God. Unless

we're talked about. Like, look, look at me. Look

at me. Look at me. Like, oh, my God. Shut up,

Netflix. I do find that this part's funny, though.

Like years ago, years ago, NBC wasn't doing so

hot. Universal wasn't doing so hot. Yeah. Comcast

bought them. Yes. And merged them. Yes. And unlike

everything that's happened with like Warner Brothers

or Warner Brothers Discovery or Time Warner,

you know, AOL. I'm going to do that one since

it's on the same wavelength. The same wavelength.

OK. I do find it funny that. Comcast is, you

know, how Warner Brothers Discovery split themselves

apart, which honestly they were in huge debt

regardless. Anyway, both companies. Yeah, I think

what's going on here is. The media industry,

for one, is kind of unwinding like their previous

strategy of these large conglomerate empire of,

you know, TV and movie studios. I also think

that Comcast is like, what do we do? Well, yeah,

we build companies. So they rebuilt, you know,

Universal and NBC combined them, NBC, Universal,

their one company with Comcast. and then they're

going to split them off now. They're going to

separate them. But the thing that they did that

these other companies failed to do with Warner

Brothers and with all these other studios is

to send them on their way as a profitable venture.

True, yeah. They didn't poison the well and steal

from it. If anything, I think NBC and Universal

were staying afloat by Comcast subscribers. absolutely

and so like they are profitable i just think

that comcast is kind of like okay we've we've

experimented in this well we've done it well

we've you know got them very positioned as a

high acquisition target uh and they've created

this you know this all -in -one media thing but

they don't want to they basically don't want

to own both sides of it because they have the

cable they have the broadband they have you know,

the streaming they have. I feel like they're

they're kind of like we have too much in our

well right now. We need to. Yeah, float it before

like we all poison each other. Back the dump

truck up somewhere. Yeah, so. It's I feel like

this could mean. It could be a good thing for

like, you know, Universal Studios and like all

of the stuff that NBC and Universal own. I feel

like it could be an opportunity to allow them

to stand on their own two feet again and be one

of the legacy studios and not be owned by somebody

else. There's also rumors that Sony may be trying

to put their hand in the well, but they already

own like Columbia. And then do they own somebody

else or is it just Columbia? It's Columbia TriStar.

It's Sony owns. Oh, God. They own a number of

studios. All right. Sony is not going to do so

hot either because they're taking off their entire

fan base by dumping discs. Yeah, we're going

to talk about that later. Yeah, I know. I'm just

I'm just saying, like, I feel like they're not

going to be a strong contender for this. I don't

see. I honestly think the Netflix will hold out

and then buy Disney. I honestly think that that's

where we're headed. I don't I don't think that

they're going to buy anybody else. I feel like

it's going to be one of these things where they

kind of dip their toe in the water of like, oh,

let's toy with this and see what happens. But.

It's it really is funny with all these different

conglomerates trying to come out of the woodwork,

you know, Skydance, you know, buying CBS Paramount

after CBS and Paramount re -merged after their

split and then. Skydance buying them and now

they want to buy you know and are supposed to

buy Warner Brothers which Warner Brothers has

passed around like a bad ex that you know can't

get rid of that even though their content library

is you know they have a lot of great franchises

in it it's just that nobody knows what to do

with it it's like we got this shiny thing but

we don't know what to do with it when we get

it but we'll take all the debt and we'll push

it off to them and then we'll sell them You know,

it's kind of like everybody's screwing Warner

Brothers. And it seems like it's always been

that way. Yeah, it pretty much has. So I'm hoping

that NBCUniversal stays away from being a purchased

company. Oh, man. legendary entertainment uh

november 28 2022 is announced legendary entertainment

reached a distribution deal with sony sony owns

sony's like disney they're like they're like

everything they just they gobble up everything

they're like a turkey a peacock that's not that's

not anyways yeah i still think it's great that

comcast is gonna split them off so that they've

got their tech company and then uh you know yeah

into two public companies you know you have comcast

going independent from nbc universal and then

both of them are going to be you know more strategic

more focused more agile and just just be a better

thing overall uh yeah because i mean it never

made sense to because Just never made any sense

to me to have it be Comcast NBC universal. Like

it, like, like you just said, Comcast is basically

here's where you get your cable internet phone

service. And then NBC universal is the, this

is where you watch all that crap. you know and

there's nothing that says that they won't still

work together it's just that right right yeah

yeah well and they're saying that comcast track

record and their proposed separation reflects

kind of their uh ability to compete and win in

rapidly changing markets and so uh they believe

that this will allow each company which will

stay public to pursue its own strategy and priorities

and invest in growth and create better shareholder

value as independent companies rather than as

one and so i i know that it's a money thing and

it's a transactional thing but it's a one it's

a tax -free spinoff to comcast shareholders and

it will happen within a year uh but the other

thing is is that uh it will allow each one to

kind of have a significant financial boost by

separating. So I think it's a good thing. It

is. Yeah, it is all, it is all of that. It is

a good thing. It's also what's keeping them in

business and what keeps them in business is also

good for their customers because heaven forbid,

if Comcast specifically NBC universal, I'm sure.

Like we've been saying about Sony and Disney

and I'm sure anyone could have, you know, somebody

would come along and buy up NBC. But Comcast

specifically, like, you know how many and I guarantee

you, as soon as I say this, I guarantee you,

if I go on Facebook after the podcast, I guarantee

you I'm going to get some. Would you like Internet

service from this no name company you've never

heard of? I guarantee you, as soon as I say this.

If Comcast goes away, I don't know of any other

internet service provider in my area other than

whatever ad I got served on Facebook a month

ago saying, here, try this logo. And I don't

even know how I got that ad because I wasn't

looking like I don't go out and I'm not one of

these people that like, I've been a loyal Comcast

customer for years. I've never. never gone and

tried to find another internet service providing

company because honestly they're the conglomerate

they're like it would be different if i moved

to a place where there wasn't comcast like if

if i moved to a town where comcast didn't have

the market share in that town like you know i

don't know wherever but uh you know i don't know

again they're doing this not only for it being

good for the company but i also think it's good

for the customer so there you go 100 agree with

you yep yep and uh from the uh the good business

deals with comcast and nbc universal to some

sad This was back in June of this year. We lost

a music mogul with a golden ear for talent. So

Clive Davis, he died at 94. This man basically...

Clive Davis, the hands -on hitmaker with the

golden ear who brought us talent such as Janis

Joplin, Whitney Houston. And Bruce Springsteen

to the world, revitalized the careers of Carlos

Santana, Rod Stewart, and Aretha Franklin. Died

back in June, he was 94. He was most recently

the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment,

speaking of Sony. Former head of labels Columbia,

Arista Records, and J Records, and a member of

the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He died at his

home in Manhattan. The rep announced he recently

had been hospitalized with an upper respiratory

infection. Through his six -decade career, the

man was in music for 60 years. The music mogul

also nurtured such acts as Billy Joel, The Grateful

Dead, Alicia Keys, Simon & Garfunkel, Jennifer

Hudson, Barry Manilow, Pink Floyd, Earth, Wind

& Fire. Get it, folks. Aerosmith. Kenny G, Christina

Aguilera, etc., etc. One said that Davis has

a weakness for the unique performer. Davis was

the recipient of five Grammys, including the

Recording Academy's Trustees Award in 2000. Each

year on the Saturday night before the Grammys

since 1976, he brought together top music executives

and artists for a party held at the Beverly Hills.

When the event was in LA, the 2021 edition was

online because of the pandemic. Talking about

his ability to identify talent, Davis told Playboy

magazine in 2013, I didn't necessarily have an

ear, but I think I developed one. Whether there

was a natural ear that was triggered, I don't

know the answer to that. But when you see a Joplin

or a Springsteen, you know. And the statistics

start and... And the statistics start mounting

and give you confidence. You think, my God, yeah,

I did say yes to Santana. This man, like I just

read in this article, six decades in music, and

all of the artists I mentioned, all hitmakers,

all, like, multi -million selling records. Artists.

Just simply amazing. Just, I mean, just wow.

Just what a career. And he was an amazing person

and he will be missed. and then go to a really

weird story. And I don't know if you watch the

YouTube video. So the way I, the way I put this

in the show notes, folks, NYC empire state buildings,

uh, get scaled the real story, but wait, here's

the TV version. So the TV version, I don't know

if you watch that. That was a YouTube video of

a, of a TV show that I love called white collar.

Uh, when this news story came out, I'm like,

wait a minute. Why are people trying to be like

Neil and Sarah from White Collar? Nobody knew

what this was at the time. They weren't sure

if it was, oh, my God, is this going to be another

9 -11? Heaven forbid, yada, yada, yada, yada,

yada. And for those that don't know. You can

technically go to the 102nd story of the Empire

State Building. There is an observation deck

up there. There is a 103rd story, but you're

not supposed to be up there. You're really not.

It's technically off limits, but there are those

people that do try to get up there, and that's

what this was, apparently. And yeah, so what

nobody knew what this was, because at first when

this happened, all his people saw was the was

the flag thing that says. When the power of love

beats the love of power. The world knows peace,

which is a quote that I believe is usually attributed

to Jimi Hendrix. that's all that people saw at

first people didn't know what it was and it turns

out what it was was these sky people whatever

i there's a documentary supposedly on netflix

of all places uh about these people who do these

daredevil things it was this couple who the the

guy proposed to the girl and They're facing all

kinds of charges, though, because there's just

certain things you're not supposed to do, even

if you are daredevils. And especially in New

York City. You do not, especially after September

11th, 2001, you just don't do this stuff. They

ended up getting arrested and all this and all

that. But, like... In 2026, I mean, even if you

have a Netflix show, even if you have all this,

even if it was just a stunt, even if you actually

did, which I know that he did propose to her

because it shows in the pictures and whatever.

I was like, oh my God, people, come on. Like,

really? Seriously? And then there's the cool

down. You want to talk about the cool down? They're

not cool down. Countdown. No, wait a minute.

What is this? Hold on. The volume final countdown.

Yeah. No, shut up. Don't mention that. Let's

get out of here. What's wrong with you? Oh, give

you the that streaming services like Netflix

will be required to maintain the same volume

for commercials and programs under a new state

law in California. Yeah. it's streaming services

it says netflix in this one but it mentions uh

netflix and hulu specifically but it says streaming

services starting july 1st uh we're required

to keep commercial volumes at the same level

as a regular tv show which is awesome uh no more

of like the the back in the day in like the 90s

and 2000s where they're you know you're like

uh watching a cartoon and then it gets like super

low after the fact you know yeah yeah uh So,

yeah, I'm I think that that's I think that's

awesome. They should have done that a long time

ago. And honestly, I hope that the rest of the

states follow suit in this because it really

is annoying. And I'm not a big fan of a lot of

California's like lawmaking or their governor

for his lawmaking. But this particular instance,

I have to agree. because there's no reason why

i mean we're in the almost 2030 and we're dealing

with this still like uh this is this is the first

time that this you know the commercial volume

regulations you know it's not been a subject

since 2010 and it really didn't cover streaming

platforms so i hope that i hope that this you

know trickles downhill there's definitely going

to be a lot of lawmaking based on a lot of technology

coming down the pipe for various things this

is just the tip of the iceberg yes yes it is

the funny thing when you sent me this i'm like

oh my god i wish this would apply to youtube

as far as a certain show i watch on youtube now

i pay for youtube premium so i'm not worried

about ads on there but i don't know what it is

but the film production company film rise which

does all the true crime stuff they have or they

own or they produce or whatever they're the company

behind forensic files Now, Forensic Files has

been off the air for years. The original show

only had four, I say only, but the original show

had 14 seasons. Now, within those 14 seasons,

I can guarantee you almost every season has at

least out of... maybe 10 episodes per 22 or 30

or 40 episodes of the season. Cause some seasons

have 22. Some have it varied, uh, out of those

14 seasons there, the volume on that show. That

is the, I give that show out of any, I dare anyone.

I triple dog. Dare anyone listening to the sound

of my voice to find another. show in television

history in the history of television that has

the worst volume control on it and oh my god

like i love the show to death it's not the show

it's not the content of the show that i don't

like love all that but the volume like i have

to constantly figure out the volume control because

either it's on 12 or 13 and it's fine Oh, some

episodes I have to put it at 26 to hear the narrator's

voice. And I don't, and I don't hear the, the

people's voices or I have to put it all the way

down to, it is so weird, but yeah, no, this,

this, the, the, the commercial volume thing.

Oh my God. Yeah. Commercials should all be volume

leveled perfectly. No one should have a blasting

commercial at you. agreed no not at all and then

uh coming out of nerdist which ever since hardwick

left them years ago i didn't think nerdist was

still around the x -men 97 season 2 which is

out now on disney plus uh brings in several star

trek tng actors so we got gates mcfadden and

uh first episode days of the past future cyclops

jean gray follow which I will say like you can't

tell that Gates McFadden is the mother Ascani

Rachel Summers. Yeah, I mean, I've been watching

the season today and. I have to say I'm pleasantly

impressed with this season and enjoying it more

than I did season one. I'm glad that it got this

season, too. I just wish that it was less time

in between for the short amount of episode runs

that we get. uh michael dorn played uh the short

-lived bail uh i heard his voice right away yeah

there's no there's no mistaking michael dorn

no uh and then i just was thinking about it even

more recently because of uh the gargoyles clip

i used for the top 100 yeah um and then uh i

heard john delancey as pharaoh rama tut or Kang

the Conqueror which will be interesting because

Kang the Conqueror is trying to wipe out Apocalypse

and I think it's kind of apropos and fitting

that John Delancey is playing Ramatut or you

know Kang because obviously he played the omnipotent

Q and I love how they channel his actual face

into his character. Yeah, that was crazy. I don't

know. I love any time John Delancey shows up,

so I think it's awesome because he's playing

another godlike being. So I don't know. I thought

it was kind of cool. They could definitely do

like a TNG season eight if they did animated,

but. with all these actors, but they would be

kind of stupid at this point. But I still would

watch it. Of course. I don't know. I think it's

cool that these people showed up in X -Men 97.

And for those that haven't watched, there's been

a clip circulating that they changed the intro

for one episode. Yep. Just for funsies. And it

was epic. Yeah. Yeah, I'm super excited by this

series. So I definitely would impress upon people

to check it out. Absolutely, absolutely. All

right, folks. Up next, we got... We got the smartphone

stuff. We got smart. And look, I remember the

days when we actually used to be able to take

batteries out of smartphones without them exploding

on planes. Whoops. Too soon. Smartphones must

have user replaceable batteries by 2027, but

not your iPhone. Here's why. Back in 2023, the

European Commission voted on a directive that

basically said that from 2027 onward, the portable

electronic devices must have usable, replaceable

batteries. This piece of news was quickly forgotten.

But as the deadline draws near, suddenly smartphones

with removable batteries are a hot topic again.

The legislation comes into effect in February

of 2027, and there are some very important caveats

that we need to point out. So, firstly, the EU

legislation concerns only the devices sold in

the European Union. It has no power in the US

or outside the EU. However, this doesn't mean

it won't affect the electronics worldwide. Changing

the overall design of a smartphone or tablet

to accommodate this legislation is not simple,

and having two separate manufacturing processes

might end up more expensive than implementing

the change in all regions. That said, companies

could still tweak different factories to comply

with the requirements for different markets.

We've seen this with Chinese phones. and different

battery capacities for local and global markets.

Okay, so what exactly does the legislation say?

The European Commission passed a whole bunch

of new rules containing the terms and usual government

language, but the most important are the requirements.

for portable batteries to be readily removable.

Here's how the EC defines a portable battery.

Portable battery means a battery that is sealed,

weighs 5 kilograms or less, and is not designed

specifically for an industrial use and is neither

an electric vehicle battery, an LMT, like a transportation

battery, or a starting lighting and ignition

battery. So yeah, portable batteries shall be

considered readily removable by the end user

where it can be removed from a product for the

use of commercially available tools without requiring

the use of specialized tools unless provided

free of charge with the product proprietary tools.

thermal energy uh or solvents to disassemble

the product oh that's what is the mandatory requirements

for the portable battery to be readily removable

um so yeah like we were they they're gonna go

back to being able to remove our own batteries

again i i love it i i think that's great um yeah

no absolutely i mostly because i remember the

days when uh for instance i have a pixel 6a the

battery is turning to crap little by little and

honestly there's nothing wrong with these old

phones and this this kind of falls into that

right to repair thing yep um we're dealing with

these companies that are like just throw it away

just throw it away like it's like why are we

why are we creating so much digital waste like

what what is the absolute point of having so

much of this crap like i don't need it would

it be convenient to have the latest and greatest

phone yes would the hardware be great absolutely

you know they're coming out with the the pixel

11 suit and the iphone 18 and you know the razor

ultra and you know the galaxy z like i i as much

as i would love to have these things i don't

need them i would much rather have the ability

to replace just the battery because usually that's

the thing that craps out first on any of these

phones is the battery yep and it's it's funny

that you know The legislation for the EU only

concerns the devices sold there. And it has no

power in the US or outside of the EU. But logistically,

I can't see all of these phone makers creating

different versions for different regions. I mean,

they do to some extent for the satellite information.

But I feel like that's going to trickle down

here as well. And I honestly hope it does because

I would upgrade my phone strictly to have the

ability to change out. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't

see iPhones changing. Yeah. How they are, how

they do it. But I could see Android devices.

And honestly, I would switch from a pixel to

a Motorola if that was the difference. I love

my pixel phone. I don't love the price. Like

I could buy a Motorola. I can buy a brand new

2026 Motorola, you know, edge phone or whatever

for like 200 bucks. I can get the pixel, whatever,

you know, the current version is of the a for

like 400 and I can get the full version of whatever

it is for like eight to 900. And then I can get

the, you know, the ultra or the pro or whatever.

uh for you know like 12 i i still have like i

said my 6a my wife has a pixel 9 because her

6a like the battery turned to crap which is the

only reason she got rid of it yeah um but i i

think that this is awesome and i think it needs

to trickle downhill so that we can go back to

that because my last phone that i could do this

with that i owned i know that other ones did

it since still works like my kid still uses it

i just replaced the battery for like 10 bucks

so yeah i think this needs to be i wish this

wasn't just an eu thing i wish this was a global

thing i wish that like like yeah just no like

If the battery is the only thing that is wrong

with the phone, if the screen's not cracked,

if the phone isn't being warped, and I watch

all kinds of tech reviewers. I've mentioned many

times on here, MKBHD, Marques Brownlee. I've

mentioned on here, Mr. Who's the Boss. I've mentioned

on here, Michael Fisher, Mr. Mobile. I've mentioned

other people. But those are the mains that I

watch all the time. And I've watched. mr who's

the boss i've watched him do uh i've watched

them all do this but i've watched him do like

intense battery testing and i know other people

may be listening to this and say oh what about

um what about jury rig everything jury rig everything

or jerry rig everything uh that guy does like

extreme like his battery tests are legendary

his testing is legendary i don't know if you

ever watched his channel uh but uh i've watched

mr who's the boss do battery testing with heat

with this with that whatever and i don't ever

want to do i don't want to have my phone go through

like i don't even like I make sure my phone doesn't

get wet. I make sure my phone doesn't go through

extreme. I make sure I don't go through extreme

heat, let alone my phone. If my apartment is

not seriously, if my apartment isn't at 69 degrees

or below, then it's too hot in here. If my, if

my apartment gets above 71 degrees, it's too

hot in here. Like, no, just no. But if something

did happen to the battery or if something did

happen to my phone, then, you know, specifically

the battery, like we're talking about, like,

yeah, sure. If, you know, I think I shouldn't

have to, because here's the thing. I did, my

phone, when I upgraded from the 6 Pro to the

7 Pro, because something did happen to my phone,

it was the screen, it was not the battery. The

screen did, because I originally, when I went

from Samsung to Google in 2021, right after Karen

died, I got, so I had 2024, I think, is when

I had the, when I had to get the upgrade. 2024,

the Pixel 6 Pro died. So I had that phone for.

Three years, I think. I think that's the math

on that. So something happened to the screen.

I had to go through all this stuff with the insurance,

with the assurance or whatever phone insurance

that I had on it through Xfinity. Because that's

the interesting and cool thing about most of

these carriers or whatever, at least Xfinity.

I'm paying for mobile insurance through them,

obviously. I went through the insurance and whatever

else, but what if I could just buy a battery

from Google and have it mailed to me? It would

still probably take some time, but I still had

to, either way, I'm going to have to wait. Like

this isn't like instant transporter technology

where, oh, you bought a battery from us. We'll,

we'll put it on the transport pad and it'll be

transported to you instantaneously. It doesn't

matter. You're going to have to wait regardless,

I guess is my point. So I still had to wait for

that to arrive for a new phone. So even if I

have the right to repair my own phone, I'm still

going to have to wait. But at least I could install

the battery myself. Or, you know, I don't know.

It is what it is. But yeah, no, absolutely. We

should at least have the option to be able to

do it ourselves like we did 30 years ago. In

the late 90s with the Nokia 5120. Snake, we miss

you. And I'm not talking about you, David Hader.

Well, I thought it was funny, too. I saw a YouTube

video or maybe it was a real. I don't know. It

was showing the status of phones. Like where

they drop the Nokia phone and like it put a big

dent in the pavement. And then they picked it

up and just dusted it off. and made a phone call

and then they you know and that was for like

2000 and then for 2010 it shows uh dropping uh

the phone on the ground and all of the components

and the battery popped out and the back case

popped off you know for the cell phone you know

like how they would fall apart like they didn't

shatter they just fell apart uh and then you

just put it all back together then they show

2020 and then you drop your phone and then the

screen shatters And then they showed 2030 and

then the phone you drop it and it turns into

it does like the Infinity War thing where it

just like fades into dust. Oh, boy. And I was

just laughing because I was like, it's kind of

true. Like the old stuff was made so much better.

Like you could throw it on the ground and it

would you could pick it back up and be like,

all right, I'm still running. Running and running

and running and running. Oh, boy. All right.

So we got the. Kind of, sort of, reunion of the

Sandlot cast, but Patrick Renna is bringing the

gang back together. He and many of the original

cast members from the Sandlot are re -teaming

on a new comedy series from Renna Kyle Howard

to be produced through their Rodco Hambino Media.

The series marks the first official reunion of

the original cast since the release of the 1993

coming -of -age sports film then three decades

ago, Dugout Dads. We'll star Renna with appearances

across the season from Tom Gury, Chauncey Leopard,

Leopardi, Marty York, Brandon Quinton Adams,

and more. Of course, Danielle Fishel from Boy

Meets World will also star as Renna's wife. So

Dugout Dads is basically a new sports comedy

series that's coming out. Looks kind of cool.

In Dugout Dads, when an idealist dad, Renna,

volunteers to coach his kid's Little League team,

he discovers that the most unruly players on

the field aren't the 10 -year -olds. They are

the other coaches, parents, and sometimes himself.

Throughout the season, Coach Patrick finds himself

constantly at odds with his own advice to the

kids. Baseball is supposed to be fun. All the

characters in the series are original and not

related to the Sandlot. So, very cool. Looks

fun. yeah it could be interesting i'll uh probably

check it out just to see what what it's about

especially with the uh the fact that i've i've

burned through all of my tv shows recently absolutely

absolutely yeah no like like i said when i first

saw this i was like hey wait a minute because

you know headlines like uh uh patrick ran out

to reunite with sandlot cast on new comedy dugout

dads i was like i wonder because i'm like wait

a minute i was like my wonder and i was like

wait a minute are you telling me they're coming

back as the actual and then i read it i was like

oh no but that could still be cool that could

be fun because again so i recently I don't know

how I see some of the things I see on Facebook,

but I do. I just don't know how these things

are served up to me. Sometimes, sometimes it's

peep. Sometimes it's friends commenting on posts

that I would never normally see unless they commented

on them. Cause I don't follow the pages they

follow, but it's like, somebody was like, Oh,

what TV show do you think needs to be a reboot

rebooted now or rebooted again or reboot? And,

um, I put in all caps, uh, something about none

of them or something. I forget what it was. And

I'm like, we need new stuff for, for this generation.

This generation needs to lick. We grew up with

all the stuff that we now know, like, uh, whatever.

Anyway. All right, next up we got, let's see,

Every Big Bang Theory. This is coming from TV

Line. Every Big Bang Theory actor who will appear

in Stuart fails to save the universe. Obviously,

Kevin Sussman as Stuart, so he is the lead here.

You got Lauren Lapkus as a series regular. She

is Denise. She was introduced. In Season 11,

The Comet Polarization. Ryan Posain, who is...

What was his name? Oh, Bert Kibler. So he is

a series regular. John Ross Bowie, who is Crib

Key. He's going to be on the series. For some

odd reason, Christine Baranski is going to be

on the show. I don't know why. She was introduced

in season two's The Maternal Capacitance. As

Beverly, she appeared in 16 episodes across the

nine of the sitcom's 12 seasons. For Stuart Fails

to Save the Universe, Baranski returns to the

franchise. Whether she's reprising Beverly or

playing an alternate universe version of the

character or something else entirely remains

under wraps. Josh Reiner first appeared on The

Big Bang Theory in Season 5's The Flaming Spatula

acquisition as Comic Center employee Dale. So

there's that guy. Ryan Cartwright made his first

and only appearance on The Big Bang Theory in

Season 6's The 43. something or other, playing

Penny's community college classmate, Cole. He

returns to the franchise, and Stewart fails to

save the universe, this time as an entirely new

character. Okay. Oh boy. Penn Jillette will return.

Jillette returns to the franchise, this time

seemingly playing himself in one of the series'

post -apocalyptic alternate realities. Of course,

he's going to play himself. I don't think he

would play anybody else. Ricky Lindholm made

her Big Bang Theory debut in Season 2's Cooper

Nowitzki theorem. In the trailer for Stuart Fells

Save the Universe, she returns to the franchise

again, whether she's reprising Ramona or playing

an alternate universe version of the character,

or something else is entirely... Up to whatever.

Joshua Walina first appeared on Big Bang as the

oft -mentioned President Siebert. So we don't

know if President Siebert is going to be... Oh,

wait a minute. He serves the franchise seemingly

as a member of the United States Army. The full

extent of his role remains under wraps. And then

Teller, I'm assuming Teller is going to... appear

as himself just like pad why wouldn't he and

then we have mr star trek himself sheldon's mortal

enemy which is the last one no he was he was

i know but he's a weenie oh my god but anyway

him and him and takai are just whiners i i can't

stand either one of them so what oh well both

of them both of them complain and try and rage

bait other actors and stuff they were trying

to like do that to the rock recently and i'm

like dude just leave him alone okay but it's

like they it's like those two like fight for

relevance okay but in the context of the big

bang theory he was sheldon oh yeah okay That's

fine. I'm just putting it into context of the

Big Bang Theory universe. At the time, he was

Sheldon's mortal enemy. As revealed in the HBO

Max sizzle reel, Wheaton resurfaces and Stewart

fails to save the universe. He appears inside

Stewart's comic book store, seemingly firing

an energy blast at Stewart and Krimke, suggesting

he is some sort of wizard. or at least hails

from one of the show's more magical alternate

realities. I am really interested about this

show. I'm really digging it. I think it's fun.

I think it's interesting, especially after all

of the seasons of Young Sheldon that we've had,

especially after the two seasons of Georgie and

Mandy's first marriage that we've had. I'm interested

to see how fun this is going to be. So this is

I'm I'm on board. It's 10 episode season. It

looks like. Yeah. It's not bad. It's not bad.

I mean, it's better than the six and eight episode

stuff. We should at least get back to 13. Oh,

well, we're going to talk about. Some episode

numbers here in a minute. I have the vibe that

this is going to get canceled. Steve Megatron's

calling it now, folks. He's already calling for

Stewart's cancellation. I think it'll make it

season at this season. It might hit a second.

I think people will give this one a shot just

because of its attachment to Big Bang Theory.

I think it'll get canceled before the end of

the second season. It'll be like a... I think

it'll be like Starfleet Academy, but more fun.

Yeah. And honestly, when I watched the trailer,

because I didn't see the HBO Max sizzle reel.

I only saw the actual trailer that was on YouTube.

I think I sent you the trailer. I don't know.

Whatever. Anyway, the point is, when I watched

the trailer, I was like, okay, I'm interested.

I think this could be fun. But I don't think

like. These are all side characters from the

Big Bang Theory. So my theory and the reason

I say it's going to get canceled is exactly your

point. They're all side characters that ultimately

in the grand scheme of the Big Bang Theory didn't

matter. They were just filler characters other

than possibly Stewart. And then Kripke and Wheat.

Because they had more of a profound part between

the comic book store, between the irritation

to Sheldon. The other ones just were there. And

the other nail in the coffin, I believe, for

this is going to be the fact that you have to

have HBO Max. And I don't see people just signing

up to watch this. Yeah. So if it was on cable

or if it was on like a Netflix or a Hulu, I could

see it for sure going somewhere. But because

it's paywalled and it's all tertiary characters,

it's going to flop hard. It's going to be that.

That's the same reason, like why a lot of these

other revivals or continuations or other programs

keep flopping is because like they're either

behind a paywall. They're poorly done. They're

with characters nobody knows. They don't follow

the mythos of whatever they came from. Like it.

Yeah. So I think it's going to flop. I think

it'll be by the second season at most. And the

sad thing is, is that when I watched the trailer.

The first thing I thought of all time, I was

watching it and I blame you. I'm like. this is

just dimension hopping idiocracy. Yep. Which

is, I honestly, I don't want it. I mean, again,

I, I don't know. Like they did something interesting

with Sheldon. They took him younger. They showed

all the stories that we ever heard about Sheldon

and Meemaw and Sheldon's mom and Texas over the

12 seasons of The Big Bang Theory. All those

stories and whatever, whatever, whatever. They

took us back and they showed us that. They then

took us to, okay, here's Sheldon's older brother.

Sheldon's older older brother him and his wife

yada yada yada and I think that's okay that's

fine I actually like Georgie and Mandy's first

marriage I think it's a good show I because again

it's within that yeah that range you're invested

with those yeah exactly because they came directly

from young Sheldon right and you still see young

Sheldon on Georgie and Mandy uh so that's fine

but i think at this point and i don't i really

don't want to say this but i think they i don't

know i i'm not looking at this up directly i'll

have to look it up later or something or other

i don't know if it's chuck lorry still doing

all of this it is i don't it is yep Are you factually

Big Bang Theory? Yeah, I know who he is. I just

wasn't sure. You know how things happen if, you

know, passes it off or whatever. Wasn't sure.

But. But, yeah, no. Hey, as long as it's still

him doing it, that's fine. But I think at this

point, maybe he should. Move on to something

else. Like, just... Yep, it is. Like... What

the hell? Oh, okay. Yeah, it is still him. Okay,

well... Chuck, buddy? I don't know. Yeah, what's

up, Chuck? I don't know. I just don't know there,

because yikes. But yeah, so that's that. Speaking

of other TV things that... Oh boy, so you mentioned

really quickly, I want to bring this up since

it's... I didn't bring this up at the top, but

I'll bring this up now since it ties into the

next story. I have recently been rewatching,

actually not even rewatching, kind of watching

for the first time, NCIS Los Angeles, which was

the second series in the franchise. It debuted

in 2009. The series has 14 seasons, and it basically

is pretty much 24 episodes per season. So this

ties into our episode talk a second ago, about

10 or 8 or whatever. man i forgot how good like

because i've kind of been reblogging not reblogging

but i i started an ncisla thread on twitter as

i'm watching through the show and i'm only up

to like season two episode four at this point

but when i was blogging through season one i

was like i got to season 12 and i'm like wow

i'm halfway through the show or through the first

season took me like i don't know six days to

get through half of that first season i was like

oh it took me six days to get through half this

show the first season of it and i miss long seasons

i really miss like and i'm talking about tv seasons

and i'm talking about live action tv seasons

specifically i'm not talking about animated series

that's a whole other deal whole other thing And

then I thought to myself, hmm, 24, 12, 10, 8,

where do we draw the line at what is an actual

season of television? For me, it is a... You

can only call a season of television no less

than 13 episodes. If it's anything lower than

13, I don't see it as a, as a season of television.

10 episodes is a extended series, extended miniseries,

anything less than 10. It's a miniseries to me.

I don't know. So I see a miniseries is like six

to eight episodes. Agreed. I see. I think we

need to go back to the 13 episode thing. I feel

like, too, we need to get away from having serialized

everything. Like I miss having, you know, yeah,

have a have a like two parter or three parter,

you know, arc have an overarching arc across,

you know, the season like Strange New Worlds

kind of does. I don't necessarily like if I hate

an episode. I don't want to feel like I have

to watch it again to get the entire gist of the

season. Like I can go back. That's why I go back

and watch old Star Trek or watch old Batman,

the animated series or old Justice League or

old, you know, any of these old shows. I can

just pick up a random episode and watch the ones

I like. And it doesn't impact the overall story

because it's a message in a bottle. It's, you

know, you have your start, your middle, your

end. That's it. Like I can I can legitimately

sit down. It's like watching a mini movie in

the limited time I have. It's not the expectation

that I'm walking into the Marvel Cinematic Universe

at the beginning of Captain America and they

won't let me leave until Doomsday or Secret Wars,

you know, and then they're like, oh, wait, here's

this other series. Oh, wait, here's this. It's

like it's kind of why I've stopped doing like

collaborative like DC Comics or Marvel or whatever,

because like they. tend to jump ship to too many

different issues to try and get the gist of the

whole story and it's like i don't have the mental

capacity or the need to collect everything to

find out where it lands uh it's like i would

much rather have a message in a bottle stuff

stayed self -contained i i feel like we're at

this this pinnacle now of television and i get

it like they're they're doing lower season or

an episode count so that they can pump them out

and then be like all right you've subscribed

It's like maybe have a plan going into this and

do like classic television did to where, you

know, I mean, yeah, we had anywhere from 13 to

26 episodes a season on any given show. And we

had the next season within like six to eight

months instead of like a year, two years, three

years down the road after it airs into where,

you know, I saw an article about Netflix fighting

this exact issue. of unable to keep people subscribed

because like they they dip out after the first

season of a show and then they they cancel their

subscription and they go do something else and

then they never come back for the second third

or fourth season if there's some you know they

come along but it's like dude you you waited

a year or two years to come out with the next

one and you did six to eight episodes it's like

i'm not invested enough to care yeah it's like

it's like when we got the war for cybertron stuff

I think I could have overlooked. I don't think

I could have overlooked the poor voice acting

and the poor voice direction, but I could have

gotten the gist of the story a little bit better

had they had longer to go. Yeah, give us give

us 10 episodes at least, you know, at the minimum,

give us 13. That would be ideal. Ended on a three

parter, you know, do you do like what they used

to do? Like, I mean, it's just. It made more

sense and I got more invested, whereas like the

stuff now I'm like a lot of it's like rinse,

repeat, throw away, don't care. The only the

only shows I've seen recently. That I've had

a different opinion about that, I'm like, OK,

like I loved what I watched. And I'm ready for

more. And they gave eight episodes of both these

shows. Is Spider Noir. Absolutely love that show.

Great. Basically, a master class on how to do

a superhero TV show and have fun with it because

I've watched it three times all the way through.

I watched it all the way in color. I watched

it all the way in the projected way. Then I've

watched it in the recommended way of doing it.

The black and white, the color, the black and

white, the color. So I've thoroughly enjoyed

that. I've also gotten a review and I can say

that because this because this episode is coming

out after the release date of it. I watched the

new Little House on the Prairie. Oh, OK. Cool.

On Netflix and it's coming out or it came out.

July 9th. At like. 1 a .m. my time and. what

i enjoyed about that was yes it's a more dramatized

more of an update it follows the books like the

original show with michael landon does not follow

the books like it follows loot very very loosely

and then it's it's like in a fictional town that

never existed and then uh all these things that

they changed because michael landon wanted to

change it and the studio wanted to change it

and it had nothing to do with how good like it

following any of the books So this new one actually

follows the books like there's a few things sprinkled

in, but it also ties into history of where it

exists in time. Right. And kind of plays along

with that. And so it's it's historically accurate

and accurate to the books, give or take a few

little things that I noticed. But it's both of

those. I thoroughly enjoyed it. And I actually

had my family watching that with me. uh, as fans

of the original and as people that read the original

books and, uh, they were like, okay, this is

awesome. They're like, I really liked this. Like,

like they, they watched part of the old show

earlier today. And like, uh, cause I have it

on DVD and, uh, that's a whole nother episode.

We'll have to talk about, about, uh, DVD and

blu -ray collections. Oh yeah. Physical media.

Cause I have jumped back into that bandwagon

pretty hard. Um, I because there's so many discounts

now where you can get so many bundles of stuff

for cheap. Whereas back when I was collecting

the first time, it wasn't. Well, like I just

got Mask of the Phantasm in 4K like for 17 or

something. Nice. But I'm not going off in too

far in a tangent here, but I got it. I got it

for that because I mean, I could have bought

the. you know the ultimate companion of like

uh batman animated films uh for like 30 bucks

but i was like i don't care enough about a lot

of them and mask of the phantasm holds a special

place in my heart being the first film i ever

saw in theater and then having in 4k is like

having theater quality so i'm like i'm like And

then the box art's beautiful, so I was like,

I gots to do it. It'll look nice next to my Transformers

the movie 4K. And then I got Justice League Unlimited

Blu -ray. Justice League regular Blu -ray. I

still have to get Beyond and Animated Series.

There's not a Return of the Joker Blu -ray yet.

which i'm a little surprised no it uh it comes

in um batman beyond blu -ray does yeah i'll have

to look again because like i looked in the store

and i didn't see it on the disc uh i'll have

to research it for you later because i have it

it when it um i don't know if it does now but

when it there's a whole other top is a whole

other topic for yeah yeah um but yeah so i so

i did that and then like they had the toby mcguire

spider -man films uh free pack for like nine

bucks and i was like boom so yeah i'm like super

super geeked on all of that i'm like and then

like i can get superman the animated series for

on dvd for like 15 i can get you know um there's

there's just so many so many awesome uh things

you can get right now so very cool very cool

yeah So I'm, I'm super geeked anyways, to say,

say the least. That is awesome. Very cool. But

yeah, as far as TV shows, I would say 13 to 26

episodes is kind of a necessity. Yeah, absolutely.

And it just, it's one of those things where I

just can't, I don't know. I, I just can't do.

Anything lower. So going over to TV line again,

tvline .com. NCIS shocker. That's what they say.

Michael Weatherly featuring a returning as Tony

Dinozzo for season long arc. Brace yourselves,

NCIS fans. An old friend is rejoining the team.

Michael Weatherly is returning to the hit CBS

procedural next season, reprising his role as

Tony DiNozzo in a season -long arc. TV Line has

learned Weatherly confirmed the news in a video

posted to the show's official Instagram, laughing

and saying, I'll see you in the fall. NCIS returns

this fall for season 24, airing Tuesdays at 8

p .m. ahead of new spinoff NCIS New York. Weatherly

was an original cast member when NCIS debuted

on CBS back in 2003. He left the show in the

season 13 episode Family First, with Tony resigning

from the team to raise the daughter, Tali, he

shared with fellow agent Ziva David. Weatherly

later returned as Tony in season 21 for the funeral

of beloved medical examiner Donald Ducky Mallard,

played by the late David McCollum. They then

went on to do NCIS Tony and Ziva. But will Tony

be the team's new director? So that's the reason

why I'm bringing this up. So Tony's return brings

up one big question, though. Is he taking over

for the late Leon Vance as the team's new director?

Vance was killed off in the show's Milestone

500th episode last season. With co -star Rocky

Carroll leaving the series after 18 years, Vance's

death left a void that has yet to be filled on

the show, and the show's cast and crew hinted

that someone we already knew might come in to

fill his shoes. My preference? I'd like to see

a familiar face. Brian Dietzen, who plays Jimmy,

told TV Line at the annual CBS Fest in Los Angeles,

especially with all the tumult of losing director

vance i'd like i would like to see a familiar

face there so that we kind of know what our bearings

are ncis showrunner steven d binder admitted

that they were considering a number of options

for the new director we're going to keep our

ear to the ground and if a casting opportunity

comes our way we're going to take it he added

now if we can find a way to have a director who's

also Really involved in the cases somehow. That

might be interesting. Dun, dun, dun. And again,

one of the only reasons why I'm even bringing

this up is because, number one, I have just rediscovered.

I've always loved this franchise, but I've never

really, like, it's just the last time I remember

really watching NCIS, the core show, the main

show, the show that started it all back in 2003.

is when I had the first five seasons on DVD,

which I think was back in 2007, 2008. And like

I mentioned earlier, I've been re -watching NCIS

LA. But yeah. It's very interesting. Say the

least, as far as that goes. And then the last

thing I have is something that just makes me

go, huh? I don't understand that. Like, no, dude,

like, okay. There are certain things that, that

I see and I'm just like, what? And I'm like,

what, what, what? Okay. So. When you think of

websites and what they're called and just, just

think of the name of the website and okay. So

good housekeeping. Okay. Good housekeeping. Hold

on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Don't,

don't, don't jump the gun on me here because

you know, good housekeeping, uh, good housekeeping

.com. What to buy? Home and decor, food and recipes,

holidays and gatherings. Okay, they do have a

section for entertainment and pop culture. Okay,

fine. But, like, when you hear the name Good

Housekeeping, goodhousekeeping .com, you don't

think 50 movies from the 80s that you totally

forgot about. And let me be clear about this.

All these websites, any websites, geek culture,

any culture, all these damn web. The narrative

of these websites. Insert this of whatever it

is from whichever decade you you totally forgot

about. No, we didn't. I know we modern Internet.

Like, OK, go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to

say the amount of stupid clickbait, like absolutely

stupid clickbait. That's one of the things I'm

trying to combat with the new site, because every

one of these social media posts and all of the

comments on all of these posts are like, like

Batman, the animated series is coming back. And

it's like, no, it's not. the board game or a

comic like there's it's like get your facts straight

like we know that it's not coming back because

it doesn't have kevin conroy plus bruce tim's

already moved on he's got you know the the the

current uh amazon batman series which is going

to season two soon um but i mean like it's just

I wish that they would stop, but it's going to

be beautiful when the cards come crashing down

because pretty quick here, we're going to end

up with a situation where the AI doesn't recommend

them anymore. Yeah, I hope that happens. Well,

the way that it's changing and because it's so

epically dynamic. it's so dynamic now at this

point that if you're not asking a question and

answering it and you're just using clickbait

and your article does not back it up it puts

it at a lower scale and so therefore it will

not recommend it again so in essence they're

burning their own bridge little by little and

so I'm it's It's like the wedding singer joke.

They're losing their minds. And I'm reaping all

the benefits. And then the curtain goes away.

That's how I feel about the whole situation because

it's literally what they're doing. They're self

-destructing on themselves at this point. And

in that regard, I'm kind of excited for it. It's

horrible to say. But I'm kind of excited for

it because it means that us little guys will

start getting in, you know, back on the top of

the Internet scale and have, you know, the credibility

that we should have had. It was kind of taken

by these dumpster fires. So I don't know, man,

I'm I'm kind of kind of hoping this crash and

burns in there against them. Yeah, but. It still

shouldn't come to this. Like, it's sad. Like,

I absolutely hate the fact that we have clickbait.

Yeah. As much as we do. Like, there's so many

articles, especially when it comes to, like,

Star Trek, Batman, Transformers. I lose my collective

crap when I see any of them. Because I'm like,

I can tell it's bogus. just by the title. Yeah,

absolutely. And the crazy thing about this list

is the number one that they put on here about

movies from the eighties that you totally forgot

about the movie that is going to be 40 years

old next year that I absolutely love that. I

grew up loving the movie that. The kingpin started

out his superhero career on when he played Thor.

Adventures 1987's Adventures in Babysitting.

I never forgot that movie. I love that freaking

movie. E .T. Who the hell forgot about E .T.?

The birds. The gremlins. No one forgot. That

you don't feed them after midnight. Howard the

Duck. I know of like every one of these movies.

I know. I'm picking out the ones that. Yeah.

Party in Pink. War Games. The Goonies. The Princess

Bride. Trading Places. Yeah. Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters.

Money Pit. Overboard. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

The best Thanksgiving movie. The only commercial

Thanksgiving movie that's out there. Revenge

of the Nerds. Short Circuit. Short Circuit is

40 years old this year. You mean to tell me that

that movie is one of the most forgotten movies

of the 80s? Terminator. Weird Science. Footloose.

Highlander. Dirty Dancing. Beetlejuice. Labyrinth,

Wall Street, Risky Business, Fast Time at Ridgemont

High, Christmas Story, Ferris Bueller, Neverending

Story. Ferris Bueller is a movie that people

totally forgot about. How can you forget about

Christmas Story? They play it for 24 hours in

a single day in every friggin' year! Well, let's

go down a rabbit hole. Now, mind you, this article

is from 2019. I don't care. I know. So. This

this is this is the hilarious thing. The lady

that wrote this. I'm such a. I didn't even realize

it was from 2019, folks, because I saw this on

my Google feed. Why Google is sharing articles

from 2019 with me is beyond me. Because nothing

recent is worth Google sharing at this point.

I'm just saying, man. So this lady writes for

Country Living Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Yahoo,

you know, journalism stuff, Southern Living,

Pioneer Women. The lady's older than us. It's

like, who forgot about it? It's like, who are

you? Who are you, you know, marketing this to?

Yeah, if you're marketing it to Gen Z, they're

not going to know what half these movies are.

They're like, oh, those are before the Internet.

I don't know what that is. Yeah, that's, you

know, if you're like, I mean, even Gen Alpha,

like some of them haven't or Gen Beta haven't

even. Gen Alpha and Beta for sure haven't seen

any of these. unless their parent was a millennial

or Gen X. But yeah, I, yeah. She's, she's definitely

like a content writer that writes a lot of crap.

I mean, and I'm not knocking her writing. I'm

saying like a lot of the crap that they have

writers. Cause I've done this. I've done tech

writing. Yeah. They, cannibalize the header no

matter what you put in there like the editor

for the website they change it and then they

give you your topic and your assignment and then

even if you have zero knowledge of it they're

like write an article and that's your assignment

don't care if you've never used it like they

assigned me like literally an article to write

about an iPad or an iPhone and I'm like I literally

have barely touched an iPhone or an iPad for

less than 10 minutes like at that point like

I've used them a little bit since then because

like my wife has an iPad and like but otherwise

like at that point I'd never even used like a

Mac so yeah it was like you're you're having

me write something I have no knowledge about

so it's disingenuous from the start and then

they wanted me to write one on podcasting which

was hilarious because i was supposed to peddle

a product and i was like but your product is

crap yeah your product's crap and i was like

and i know for a fact about podcasting because

i'm doing it right now yeah exactly right as

you're you're emailing me i'm doing it yeah yeah

so i mean i wrote i wrote a you know this this

article back in 2019 and like some a lot of these

and when it was during my unemployed time and

so like i don't fault the writer i fault the

publication um Because the publication is the

problem. Like, they're the one... Like, this

woman has written over almost 5 ,000 articles.

Oh my god. Yeah. It's a lot of stuff. But they

get paid by the writing. And, you know... But...

My issue is you end up with situations where

it's totally disingenuous. Even... just writing

half these articles but it's again the publications

it's the same reason i have a problem with anything

valnet creates because it's all clickbait it's

all trash um because they have people that are

have no knowledge on any of it that are writing

these articles and so i you know i'm sure there's

some that have knowledge on it but the way that

they're written sounds disingenuous and kind

of crap like which is something that like, I

look at the integrity of what we do here. Like

it's always raw. It's always authentic. We may

be pulling crap out of our butt half the time,

you know, and, but we'll admit it. And we're

like, Hey, you know, we goofed like whatever

it's, but we're not like huddling it. Like, yeah,

we know everything. No, we don't know everything.

It's half the time. We don't know anything. And

you're getting like raw from a fan of something

like. commenting about it or writing about it

like you're not getting some and crap yeah like

me me going down that list and reacting to it

folks you're like that's a raw reaction like

like what the hell are you people doing why are

you writing this this way like but yeah so That,

I think, is everything. I think so, too. I think

so. We'll have to do the top 50 movies from the

90s that you totally forgot. You know what? You

know, I have an idea. I'm not saying it on the

air. We'll discuss it on air. Yeah, I have an

idea. I have an idea. why because yeah my idea

is sway because all those articles they are shwarbage

yes yes they are oh okay good for a second there

i'm like come on dude what we have some other

topics that are about disc based things that

we'll discuss on the next episode because yes

next episode it's uh physical versus the digital

yep so we'll discuss that and be next content

libraries yes yeah oh boy content libraries it's

round one fight them's fine words that's right

that was fighting words um so yeah so anyways

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