Star Wars, Power Rangers, and Media Censorship

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Geek. Hello and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm

your host Steve Megatron Phillips and joining

me in this episode is... Tf2 and Mike. Mike the

Birdman Dawn. So... after our very serious conversation

about collecting last week, which did very well

in the download realm. We actually got, we actually

had some comments on Twitter about that too,

so I think you do... Hey Zeus, I think his name

was? Send us a little bit of feedback? Scanner51?

Yeah. Yep. Which... I'll probably read his, we

actually got, what's amazing is Sunday was our

biggest download day for that. Well Friday was

pretty decent too. Well over like 350 on Friday,

140 on Saturday, and 460 on Sunday, so not too

shabby. so Have quite a few things that can be

brought up in this episode one of them would

be Scanner 51 Actually happen to have quite a

bit of feedback. I'm probably gonna do just a

feedback episode later this week, which I'll

probably just run through solo, but Because I

have a lot of feedback over the last few weeks

that I'm gonna go through But Skinner51, his

comments on collecting, he says, hey guys, just

wanted to say that I really enjoyed the show

on collecting that you guys did. It was great.

My history with collecting started with Hot Wheels.

He says, I got tons now that my daughter plays

with on the track I got her. I got into hardcore

collecting with what else? Star Wars toys. I

was young and still living at home, so I bought

and bought and bought. Then I got married and

then we had a kid so my Star Wars collecting

has been reduced to barely nothing. Just a few

action figures now. I go to Star Wars conventions

so I still get some stuff. I still keep the signed

ones out displayed. I still collect Batman and

Superman, DCAU stuff mainly. The main thing I

still get now are comics. I buy ones I know that

I will be able to get signed. My wife is nice

enough to let me so I can go to local cons to

do that. He's got 59 plus signed books now and

some posters and his kid who was four recently

Used the word collecting when talking about toys

from McDonald's. So guess they start younger

these days He says also I think the great ghost

needs to be brought to Gotham as that hero that

also inspires Bruce for Because we're talking

about that. I think briefly About the show so

yeah Speaking of Star Wars, I just saw on Facebook

an image. It was an image capture of a series

of tweets on Twitter. Apparently Mark Hamill's

son is having some franchise confusion. Have

you guys seen this? What? You haven't seen this?

No. Oh my God. This is beautiful. Did he find

some Star Trek figures and think they were Star

Wars? No, he says it's a caption. It's a picture

of the Enterprise where Nathan Hamill says, Happy

40th Star Wars. Star Wars 40th. Mark's like,

we need to talk, son. Franchise confusion. And

Shatner chimes in, let the boy talk. Welcome

to Starfleet, Nathan. Shatner is the man. Actually,

speaking of Star Wars, Star Wars was actually

in the news this past week. One of the biggest

guys in the collecting realm. of Star Wars is

a guy named Steve Sansweet. Turns out a buddy

of his ripped off 200 ,000 bucks worth of his

stuff this past week from Rancho Obi -Wan, I

think is what he calls his place or whatever.

Oh, I remember that guy, yeah. Yeah, they tracked

down some of his missing stuff. They tracked

down, I think it was like a rocket firing Boba

Fett, which is an incredibly rare prototype.

Item there were not very very many made at all

Um, they're able to recover that though. I think

the dude is still out the money Well, yeah, so

now there's people literally bounty hunting for

Steve Sanskrit stuff. I We did something. I don't

remember what it was. We were watching It wasn't

the people versus George Lucas. It was We were

doing something for my or GCR or something or

other and I remember watching a documentary about

Steve Sanskrit and Rancho Obi -Wan or maybe it

was maybe he was featured in a Specific stuff.

Okay. I remember I can't remember the hell I

saw him first though But yeah, that kind of sucks

that and and this is a guy that he'd known for

like 20 years Thanks for the share on that. I

saw that graphic and that's actually pretty humorous.

Hashtag franchise confusion. I know they're talking

about... about tying up the franchise after um

with episode 9 and that they're gonna kind of

put a bow on the the uh skywalker um and that's

fine that's part of the story well i know that

i know that they're supposed to sometime this

month um i don't know during one event but there

was talks that they're gonna reveal um another

uh one of those standalone movies that kind of

goes between and i personally hope that it's

um obi -wan Yeah ditto See, I don't know though

if it's gonna be an Obi -Wan movie I don't know

if I'm excited for that because honestly for

me and say what you Anybody can say what they

want about the prequels the prequels to me were

mostly Obi -Wan story It was Obi -Wan and Anakin.

So unless they're going to Tell a story of Obi

-Wan Before he became a Jedi. I'm not sure if

I stand alone I want an Obi -Wan movie but taking

place between three and four Kind of explaining,

you know, what the heck he did with that 20 year

span of time Well, they kind of cover that on

Star Wars Rebels kind of a little but they don't

really Yeah, but also at the same time if I had

another if I had another Star Wars movie having

another non Jedi one is the way I'd love to go.

I mean, yeah, we're getting the Han Solo movie.

But I just think if we had like a straight up

action movie with Boba Fett as the bounty hunter

and maybe dive into a little bit of the Mandalorian

lore, I think that could be really cool. Maybe

have it like a cool crime movie or something.

Jabba the Hutt, the movie. That would be awesome.

If you had a movie based on a hot crime family,

that could actually be really friggin' badass

if done right. Yeah, good. Like Sopranos in space.

Man, sign me the hell up. Yeah, I was just about

to say that. The only way I would be super interested

in a Boba Fett movie is if it was bloodlines.

The trade, bloodlines and... the two part trade

about him and Django. That would be the only

way that I would be interested in blood, not

bloodlines, blood ties. That's what it was. I

think so. Yeah. That's ridiculous, but it would

be kind of cool to see. But I'm saying like I

would I would for me to actually care because

before I read before I read that that two volume

series about Boba Fett, I've never cared about

Boba Fett. Ever since I was a kid, I never cared

about that guy. He was just, you know. The guy

with the cool armor. The guy with five lines.

The guy with the cool armor, the guy that got

eaten by the Sarlacc, I didn't really give a

crap until after I read Blood Ties. It wasn't

until the Expanded Universe gave him a personality.

Yeah, exactly. So, you know, that would be the

only way I'd be interested in a Boba Fett movie.

Know I'd love to see them adapt the the current

Marvel stuff for Darth Vader That would be awesome

the Darth Vader series that Karen Gillian did

that would be cool Yeah, I'd agree or if you

could give me a war movie like that I did with

rogue one kind of but based on Republic commandos

if it could be like a band of brothers But with

clones, I'd be so down for that. That's more

of a TV show Don't know I I'm hoping that once

episode 9 is out We do go. I mean obviously they're

not gonna Disney is not going to You know not

do anything more Star Wars after episode 9, but

yeah, they need to move away They need to do

something else with the universe and not just

continually tell the Skywalker story Yeah See,

that's the only thing I care about is the Skywalker

story. I mean I like the Jedi and I like Like

I like the the films we've gotten thus far but

like I didn't need rogue one to enrich the the

stealing of the plans the only thing that was

good about that movie to in my opinion was the

end piece where they connected the two films

of Rogue one and episode four With Vader Oh,

I really enjoyed Rogue One. I found it a bit

hard to follow at times, but I liked how there

was almost no Jedi involvement. That, I think,

really sold me on it. So it was all about the...

Because I haven't seen it yet. I'm watching it

next week for the MWIRE episode we're doing.

But it's one of those things where... So, Rogue

One is essentially nothing but the military stuff.

It's just an actual movie. Yeah. With Star Wars.

Yeah, it's kind of like Gotham. It's just law

and order with Batman characters pretty much

analogy So speaking of movies since we're in

that realm Should we? Talk about Since our last

episode was about Power Rangers should we talk

about that aspect? Yes, actually so there's been

quite a lot of discussion going around is the

movie gonna get a sequel or not and if you look

at The movie stick at the box office wasn't exactly

blowing anybody away. However, though, the toy

sales may be the saving grace for this. It was

voted or not voted. It's data. It's sales data

shows it went up something like one hundred and

twenty two percent. Plus with Power Rangers Ninja

Steel airing on Nickelodeon right now, though

it's in hiatus right at this moment. There's

a good chance the toy sales could be the swing

for this and we could still see a sequel to this

even if it's lower budget I am so for this. It's

ridiculous. I Mean I saw the movie like I said

a little while ago. It was a huge fan of it a

Sequel even if lower budget would still be fantastic

The film was okay. I didn't find myself that

blown away with it It was better than I thought

it was going to be Because of the fact that they

basically used all new Rangers It's not okay.

Okay. Yes, it is. I mean all new actors for the

Rangers They didn't just bring back anybody that's

still alive that was you know, the original Rangers

from 20 years ago Well, they said it was gonna

be a reboot I think the thing that I hated the

most of it was the The kind of I don't know I

didn't like the the way that the suits Like I

don't know like how they they would morph and

then I didn't like the The bit about gold are

like or the Zord I just I hated the look of all

that so it was kind of hard for me to But I didn't

like the Cranston Zordon. Yeah And the thing

of it is is for me it wasn't really that movie

was not really about the Zords it was more so

about Them get coming to get like these are five

strangers. This is not you know Five teenagers

with attitude that we're all friends like that

like they were 25 year almost 25 years ago at

this point These are five people that barely

know each other. So I liked that part of the

story. And I think that was good. The Zords and

stuff didn't really impress me. The suits themselves,

they're Iron Man rip -offs. But it is what it

is. They're all right. But they just look like

variations of Iron Man armor to me. But it's

one of those things where the movie didn't make

me mad at all when I was watching it. It didn't.

you know that's not how that's supposed to be

here that's because it didn't rely on the legacy

of the franchise at all now if a sequel does

happen would i like to see certain legacy bits

come in sure as long as it makes sense for the

story yeah because ultimately if they do do a

sequel my guess is the bad guy's probably going

to be lord zed yep they've already kind of insinuated

that and they're going to have tommy oliver in

the next one Which could be really awesome, especially

like considering how far they're willing to go

with the redesigns Even if they had a nod to

the classic Lord Zed He could look friggin amazing

and scary which could be really awesome Yeah,

absolutely. It'll probably be them versus Lord

Zed and Serpentara if they were gonna go totally

legacy with it, which could be awesome, but Hopefully

it happens. I guess we'll have to wait and see

two or three years down the line but Actually

speaking of weird that if you guys want to watch

More of this stuff. I've been watching the the

Japanese series called Q Ranger and I just found

out they do crossover movies now with like another

Japanese series called common rider Okay, I've

heard of that. I can't they they can make a movie

on like a shoestring budget sure. It's still

them in the rubber suits and everything, but

it looks so damn cool. I watched the trailer

for it tonight and I think it comes out this

summer. Man, I wish I stuck with this Sentai

stuff years ago. What the hell have I been missing

out on for like 20 years? It's like rediscovering

a love of like a franchise. Like I didn't realize

how much of a nerd I was with this. I started

watching Power Rangers SPD today actually. I

think I like this stuff more than I like Transformers,

and I know that's blasphemy right now, but I

don't know. There's just something about this

franchise. I'm so glad I got back into it right

now. Prepare yourself for oblivion. I go through

phases of what I like more at times right now

at Star Trek. Yeah, it just depends. It depends

on what's. It depends on what I am feeling that

I want to watch or what I feel that I want to

enjoy, you know, and, you know, we all go through

these phases. Every now and then, like, actually,

just before you started doing all your PR and

Sentai stuff, Mike, I just wrapped up watching

Dino Thunder for the upteenth amount of time.

That is the best theme song since the original.

Yeah, absolutely. That's a ringer on my phone.

That's how much I love it. SPD is good SPD is

very good But I'll you know, I'll go back and

I'll watch certain episodes from something like

I commented on Facebook the other day Our friend

Oh Candice Whose friends with Gary chalk she

posted a picture of her cat and I'm like fear

all scream I was like I have to now go watch

that Beast Wars two -parter. It just depends

on what What hits me at what time of the day

and what mood as far as what I want to watch

and stuff or pay attention to? Mm -hmm Yeah,

I mean I've and recently I've been watching I've

been going back and watching random episodes

of all the various Star Trek series and watching

the films Just depending on what? Strikes me

depending on the day just because I've been playing

that Star Trek Online, which I've slowed down

on quite a bit, but I'm still playing it as like

the other factions and I still am unlocking more

ships and it's still a lot of fun with a lot

to do, but it's got me reacquainted with the

series to watch a lot of it. Speaking of Star

Trek, there's this really awesome thing that'll

be coming out later on this year. I forget the

company who makes it. I think it's called Morpheus

or Morpheus. They're producing another Star Trek

RPG and it comes in a damn Borg cube. That's

cool. So it's got slots for all the rule books,

all the different dice. It's even got room for

miniatures, character sheets, pencils. I think

it's I think I think it's worth something like

500 bucks or something. It's a really nice set

I'm so so gonna kiss some ass to try and get

it for Terrible Warriors but I Need to get back

in the Star Trek is something like that would

definitely swing me right back in the direction

I know there was like a Star Trek Board game

that I've there's been two of them Because I've

played them both with a friend of mine that used

to actually live in Michigan before he moved

for a job. And I played them both. And I can't

remember what they're called right now, but I'm

trying to. I know Ryan recommended them for the

holiday gift guide this year. There's. What is

it? There's Star Trek Expeditions, which I think

I've played. It's one where you actually have

the the miniatures of the ships. Yeah, I can't

remember. I know they've got Star Trek Settlers

of Catan, which I have not played. I think it's

Fleet Captains. Or something like that. I'm getting

ready to look at the art. Yeah, I've played Fleet

Captains. That's what it is. And you build out

the universe. It's very much like Catan and how

it's like how the the pieces are set up But you

kind of build your your own crew and then they

have these stands where you have the various

starships And you know you get the the classic

Enterprise you get the Excelsior the Sovereign,

you know Enterprise E the Enterprise D the Enterprise

a the Defiant the you know, the reliant the Voyager

so I mean, there's like all kinds of stuff and

I think it's like against the Klingons and then

they have like an expansion that's for the Romulans.

Yeah. And I think there were plans on doing other

other generational ships as well but they're

like pewter ships which is kind of cool. I know

it was pricey he bought it though so he was like

hey I want to try and play it and I was like

sure. I think it's Gale Force 9 I want to say.

That makes some really good board games Speaking

of Star Trek. There was a article I saw the other

day from funny enough a Canadian designer Dave

Delisle of Dave's geeky ideas came up with a

concepts tent that resembles a Star Trek TNG

Federation shuttlecraft and it literally, he's

got the graphics printed on it and everything

and the back end opens up just like a shuttle

and the front end sticks out and it raises up

and it's got the Enterprise shuttlecraft on the

side and then the it actually looks like it but

the thrusters on the side Is where the tent actually

folds up into on both sides like in it pieces

together and it becomes like one thruster between

the two sides To actually form the you know to

put the tent away It's it's crazy Yeah, I saw

that I was like that is awesome I Would buy something

like that So So I think we'll move into the the

the film realm again Because I saw this earlier

today Sony is to provide clean versions of its

movies on home entertainment They announced that

they're releasing 24 their movies with a clean

version available at no charge for films purchased

on iTunes voodoo and Fandango now these edited

for content versions already exist on airplanes

and for broadcast and now Sony is making them

available for anyone who wants a version of the

movie that's been adapted for a wider audience.

So basically like the TV version that's you know

it's edited out the the nudity the swearing the

you know yeah extensive things that might be

on the actual thing which is I'm curious to see

how this is gonna pan out. I mean, I think it's

a good idea. I'm surprised it hasn't been done

sooner, first. The first thing I can think of

is Yippee -ki -yay, Mr. Falcon. Topic that I've

got coming up But these claim versions include

51st dates battle of the year big daddy Captain

Phillips crouching tiger hidden dragon easy a

Elysium Ghostbusters 1 & 2 Goosebumps grown -ups

Grumps to Hancock inferno moneyball pixels spider

-man 1 2 3 amazing spider -man 1 2 Stepbrothers

Talladega Knights and White House down How the

hell do you clean up step brothers? I don't know.

It's kind of like cut 45 minutes out of the movie.

Yeah, here is the director's cut, which is about

two and a half minutes long. Well, what's funny

is there's like a two hour Adam Sandler movie

on Netflix, which there are like three or four

of those in this list that I tried to edit. Like

I ripped it and then I tried to edit this movie

down. To cut out the the the nudity and the extensive

swearing and it's like a two -hour movie and

I hit it down to 45 minutes But you could still

understand the story which was hilarious Which

shows you that the story means nothing for those

movies pretty much yeah, so But yeah, it says

the weird thing about this list is that the only

R -rated movies on the list are Elysium and Step

Brothers. For the other 22, nothing prevents

an underage viewer from just buying the unedited

version and watching it. I mean, I like the idea

of them selling clean versions or at least having

them on the DVDs or Blu -rays or whatever as

an added feature. Kind of like how they include

commentary tracks. Just so that it's it's you

know if you want to watch it in front of your

family and they're younger You know you can get

away with watching the movie without having to

worry about something that you may not necessarily

want them exposed to But it also gives you the

option of the other way so like I kind of I kind

of get it But there are third party. I guess

they're doing it to circumvent the third party

companies like clear play and vid angel from

Self editing the movies So they're doing it themselves

to make the extra buck See here's my question

about this are these specific Videos going to

have a separate release so that's a clean version

on it or are they just? Re -releasing it and

they're gonna have an option on the movie like

they used to would you like full -screen or widescreen?

Because I would almost rather have one new re

-release instead of having to buy a separate

movie Just to have a clean version of it where

you have one release that has the option on it

already it says that They're planning on releasing

these 24 movies with a clean version available

at no extra charge for the films purchased on

iTunes, Vudu, and Fandango now. So if you bought

them on iTunes or any of those other two services,

you get the edited for content as well. Which

is cool. However, there is the good kind of clean

edits, which is this. And then there's the stupid

types of edits, which are the Mr. Falcons of

the world. I like to think that the technology

and the dubbing has come a long way since then.

I don't care, that's still an amazing line though.

That and the Scarface one is just as good. You

showed it to me, Dodd, and I couldn't stop laughing.

Look at the clean version of Scarface. There's

a great line. I'm not going to give you the dirty

version, but it goes, where did you get that

scar, tough guy eating pineapple? The one in

the real film is a lot more raunchy. Oh, I get

the idea. Yeah. And then there's another great

line where it's like, This town's like a great

big blank just waiting to get blanked. The TV

version, this town is like a great big chicken

ready to get plucked. Okay, that kind of makes

sense. It's still okay. It's pretty close. It's

close enough. Or there's a scene that they cut

out of the movie where it references a scene

in Vice City where the guy gets attacked with

a chainsaw. In the edited for TV version, it's

like they take a three minute scene and cut it

down to about 10 seconds. It's like, oh, well,

they certainly cut the guts out of that, literally.

So I think another really good one is Beverly

Hills Cop 2. The edited version of that is hilarious.

What did they do to it? Because I don't know

if I'd seen it. It's mostly just language and

like. Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's language and nudity

for the most part. Which they did that too in

another Eddie Murphy film, The Trading Places,

where he and Dan Aykroyd were in it. I was kind

of in shock when I saw the actual movie that

I rented because I wanted to watch the movie

at one point and I remember the TV version. And

then I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, where

did these extra scenes come from in this life?

And I was like, I didn't even know these were

in the film for like a number of years and I

was like happy in my like ignorance of the film

and Then I get to see that and I was like, yeah,

I could have done without that Yeah, but it's

like I don't remember and I'm not gonna say the

the regular version but it's like in the scene

where they walk up to the playboy mansion and

Eddie just steps over them. Well, let me just

step over you're all, you know, and it's like,

oh God, it's just so funny how they, and I love

that they did that for clean versions that they

went for the comedy more than they did just to

bleep it out. Well, I kind of wonder how they

do that now I mean do they just ask them to do

a different take now or do they bother? I think

they still do ADR I think because unless the

actor wants to do it when they're filming it

is as an alternate take And really now with what

cable channels we have most of them allow everything

unless it's SF or some other more grotesque.

Unless it's the seven dirty words, you can just...

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like, yeah, I mean, TNT will

bleep something, or sometimes they'll just blank

over it. Same thing with TBS. It doesn't matter,

though, on FX or AMC almost. FX, I know it doesn't

matter, because FX had the very first original

television series that they did back in 15 years

ago in 2002, The Shield. First... Cable provider

cable channel network that ever said the s -word

without it being bleeped Now was that after 10

o 'clock or before 10 o 'clock 10 o 'clock, okay

at 10 so The the filming amazing how far television

has come when you really kind of look at it how

things Are going now because I know there's a

channel up here in Canada. I can't remember which

one so don't quote me on this verbatim But they

want to show Game of Thrones and I'm very curious

to see how they're gonna get around Not just

the nudity in the first or in first and second

seasons how they're gonna get around some of

the language too and I remember when I was a

kid they tried to show the sopranos uncensored

and I'm water they censored rather on prime time

And I'm just watching the series for the first

time now. And I'm just like, how the hell did

they try? This must have been butchered. This

kind of stuff always surprises me when any of

the HBO shows or any of the Showtime shows end

up on actual broadcasts, but they obviously have

to bleep it out and stuff. The same thing with,

and this isn't edited for content or anything

else, it might be edited for time, but it's like,

why are... Why is anyone paying for the WWE Network

when we can wait a year or so and WrestleMania

33 will show up on NBC? It makes no damn sense

to me whatsoever. So the film in question is

none other than Back to the Future. TBS Nope

not even anything Nothing that that this was

strictly from like a politically correct Standpoint

or Okay, now I'm curious. What did they change?

It says that upon re -airing of the film some

fans of the film noticed that an important missing

or a part was missing from the the broadcast

and it was one of the major parts in the film

where Doc Brown gets killed by Libyan terrorists

after he would not agree to make a atomic bomb

so the protagonist See if you bastards can do

90. Nope. Nope. It's it's something even more

subtle and stupid It's where Marty McFly writes

the letter to Doc Brown in an attempt to save

his life when he goes back to the future kind

of thing. It says on the night that I go back

in time you will be shot by terrorists. Marty

says in the original movie, you know, please

take whatever precautions are necessary to prevent

this terrible disaster. But a lot of fans have

seemed to notice that an important word to the

plot of the movie was missing. when it reared.

And that would be the word terrorist. Oh my god.

And they dubbed it out too. So they just said

you'll be killed by Libyans? No, they just said

you will be shot. Please take whatever precautions

are necessary. Like it doesn't even say by who.

Hmm. Like not Libyan terrorists, not terrorists.

I can see why. Well, it doesn't even say Libyan

terrorists it just says terrorists and the paper

like I could see if it said Libyan terrorists

But it doesn't it just says terrorists Yeah,

and that's kind of yeah, they digitally erased

it though and I was kind of like Why would they

like it's not even like specifically saying,

you know, like Libyan terrorists or Islamic terrorists

or you know something in that degree where it's

like very specific just as terrorists not Like

I know earlier in the film they say Libyans But

like that was physically said by doc Yeah But

it was made in the 80s. So you kind of have to

take that with a grain of salt. Like it's not

gonna be It's not gonna be like up to the you

know, oh, oh we can't say that nowadays because

it might offend somebody You know when it was

just very vaguely saying terrorists on the thing

Yeah, it was just at that point terrorists is

just a catch -all term for general bad guy Yeah

bad guy that's doing things to try and ruin the

world like it's It's kind of like how in G .I.

Joe they say Cobra is an evil terrorist organization

bent on taking over the world. Yeah, well, and

it's like, and it's not like Doc Brown's helping

them. He's like, yeah, I sold them a, you know,

a faulty bomb with car parts or, you know, something

like to that degree. So I mean, it's, yeah, I

just, I was like, when I saw that earlier today,

I was like, why is... Why is it all of a sudden

an issue that they had to take it out? Yeah I

mean of all the things you could possibly correct

Really? Yeah, I mean there's there's so many

other like things in it like I don't know the

language That was so much worse than you know

because they they say quite a few different things

Yeah, I mean and that movie's relatively pretty

harmless all things. I mean, that's a good movie

get showed to like a Grade five or six class

relatively uncensored. Mm -hmm. Yeah. I mean,

there's only a few words that are not really

that safe for somebody under 10, but Yeah, it's

it's yeah, I would think the one thing I've still

watched it in front of my kid Yeah. I would think

the one thing, if somebody was going to be really

anal about it, about taking curse words out,

is docs multiple. Damn. Well, that's not even

that bad. Damn, damn, damn. No, no, no. I know

it's not that bad. But I'm saying if you've got

someone who was really anal about curse words

that would want to take anything out, it would

probably be that. It'd be that? And where? where

he's like, that guy's an asshole. That would

have been about the only thing. Yeah, that's

really the only bad part. And it's like so brief

that. And I think he says, shit, maybe, maybe

one. Well, I don't think he said that. I think

Biff said it. Yeah, yeah. But it gets covered

up. It never hits. It never hits the T. Like

it always was like purposely like skating that

line. Yeah. He said, shit. And then it would

just like cut out like. Oh, yeah. I don't know.

I think that's kind of a waste of time with somebody's

work. I mean, you know this is coming down from

on high. And you know someone who has to do this

is going, really? This is going to take me like

a week. And this is so not worth my time. Yeah,

and then and then they have to read re Export

a high quality version of the video. What's gonna

take the computer forever to do? But it says

that TBS did not respond to a request for comments

And then on this particular site it says everybody

go out and buy the old version and hard copy

ASAP This is I bet any new digital or hard copies

will probably have the same problem, too Then

and then somebody said below that I would argue

that this is definite proof that you can change

the past by time travel Going back changing a

1985 movie All right, so this is going to tie

in nicely. Our buddy Movie Revolt Dan is doing

a blog series on Geekcast Radio on the website

calling Movies to Show My Son. He's done several

ones. He lays out what he remembers about it,

what lessons can be taught to his son from watching

said movie, and what concerns he has about showing

it to his son at whatever age he's going to show

it to him as. And look. Is any parent going to

show their kid Robocop at age 7? No. My parents

did, but I turned out OK. No, no. OK, but I'm

saying today. I'm not saying when we were kids.

I'm not saying when we were kids. I'm saying

today. Is any parent going to show their 7, 8,

9, 10 -year -old Robocop in this day and age?

Hell no. They're not at all. But that's what

I'm saying is movies. Going backwards like if

it's a movie that's a year old or so or whatever

sure fine do it But what movie that's more than

ten years old Whatever whatever happened to movies

being an escape I know right and now everybody

has to sit there and like critically destroy

the movie like I mean Yeah, I mean I have my

opinion that Yeah, I mean like you don't need

the politically correctness or politics floating

into it Just because you have a certain perspective

that you believe in like I mean I don't There

aren't, they're supposed to be an escape. Well...

You could make the argument that movies are art,

which they definitely are. And sometimes, politics

do enter into it. But at the same time, you're

not going to look at a movie, once again, to

go back to the example of Robocop. Is there social

satire there? Absolutely. Are you there for Robo

Jesus? Yes. Yes, you are. So it depends on what

you want to walk away from it from. But Steve,

yeah, I'm with your mind. Take the politics out

of it for the most part, enjoy it for the entertainment

value. They're supposed to poke fun at society.

They're poking fun at the issues or the good

or the bad in it. They're never supposed to be

so critically analyzed that they're supposed

to just ruin it for you. Yeah, absolutely. And

that's what people have turned it into. Well,

it's like people were getting mad about... Well,

it's like people were getting mad about the Wonder

Woman thing because she's an Amazonian and she

didn't have armpit hair. Or she didn't have,

you know, or the color of her armpits. It just

doesn't look cool. And it's like, it's like people.

It's a fictitious character. Or the fact that

she speaks with an accent because that's the

way Gal Gadot is. And it's like, why is she going

to put on a certain accent that isn't her own?

Like, come on now. You want the best performance,

so let her give it. I understand. Yeah, absolutely.

I agree. But it's one of those things where do

I want Gail's Wonder Woman to sound just like

Susan Eisenberg's did in Justice League and Justice

League Unlimited? No. I want it to be her own.

If they tell her, OK, we want this certain accent

and she can do it, sure, great, fine. But you

know. Wonder Woman is not from the US folks.

She doesn't have to speak with an American accent

Yeah, so I mean it I don't know it just really

bothers me when I see that that kind of junk

jump into the movies like yeah I'm critical of

some movies and I say I don't like them because

you know they may not hold up to the Whatever

the original incarnation was which may be true

And usually is but at the same time. That's just

my opinion And it doesn't necessarily like detract

from what you know like for instance. We just

had that conversation about the Power Rangers

movie I didn't particularly care for it, but

I didn't hate it either and so like either were

aspects I liked and there were aspects I didn't

like and you know Dodd you've liked the movie

overall So I mean like again. I mean, it's it's

finding common ground on it and and not learning

to attack each other's opinion And that's kind

of what films have gotten to be anymore yeah

it's basically movies are all politicking now

and it's taking some of the fun out of going

to the movies now it's taking the fun out of

like everything pretty much like media wise because

there's always somebody critically analyzing

it because they get butt hurt and can't get over

it i honestly can say i do not remember the last

movie i went to the theater and saw ghostbusters

was mine last one i saw in theaters i mean i

i really don't Might have been fast seven maybe

But I just I don't go to the movies anymore.

I can wait or I can Yeah Yeah, I mean I don't

I particularly don't care to Really go to the

theater anymore because one usually have that

one person that's like rustling the bags and

making a big ruckus while they're trying to dig

through on their like Food that they brought

in Mm -hmm and where they sit there and they

talk and then the last movie we went Mind you

it was like I think we went and saw the shack

my wife and I did it was the last time I went

to the theater I probably will be the next time

I go to the theater will probably be be during

One episode. Star Wars? Yeah. But everything

else I'll probably see when I see it at home.

But that was the last movie I went and saw and

there was this one person that they were on their

phone like for 10 minutes during the movie. I

was like, you gotta be kidding me. We talked

about this on, oh my god. It's so funny you're

bringing this up. We talked about this a couple

weeks ago on Nerd News about the guy who sued

his date. for texting during Guardians of the

Galaxy. That's funny, actually. You ruined it.

I couldn't watch the world end. See, I check

my phone during the movies, but I always turn

down my brightness, and if I can't resolve it

within five seconds, it's not that important.

Well, see, I don't even answer my phone in the

theater. I won't answer it, but I'll check stuff.

Yeah, I mean, I'll check stuff if somebody texts

me and says, hey, you know, need... call ASAP

then you know that's one thing but like if they

don't then I'll just respond in text and say

I'll catch you in an hour and a half or two hours

so but yeah now that we've we've kind of sunk

that boat so we need a bigger boat we need a

bigger boat Animaniacs reboot is being developed

by Steven Spielberg, AmblinTV and Warner Brothers

Yep. The first and only thing I will say about

this topic is until I see Tom Ruger, who is the

executive producer who is listed as co -creator

of it, until I see him on Facebook post that

it's actually happening, I do not believe that

this is going to happen. It's everywhere, dude.

I know it's everywhere, and that's fine. They'll

have a panel at Comic -Con you watch. And that's

fine if there's going to be a panel at Comic

-Con, and that's news. the fact that this kind

of came out of oh well Steven Spielberg wants

to redo it or wants to reboot it or until I see

an actual press release of it actually happening

I'm not going to believe it well either way Steven

Spielberg I would believe over anything anyways

um so If they're gonna do this they need to bring

back like, you know pinky in the brain They need

to bring back the you know, yacko -wacko dot

and dr. Scratch and now And they need the original

voice cast No, would you still want it to be

All ages with some jokes for us always is for

us. Yeah, that's I don't want the the Ren and

Stippy renovation to a show No, if they have

a little more close to Rick and Morty, I might

be okay How it was already raunchy, yeah, I'm

gonna say I mean, how can you get fingerprints?

Yeah, like fingerprints. Um, no, you know, you

can't get more raunchy than that Think they could

I mean if you really want to push the envelope

with it But yeah, I don't want red and stupid

or like they did the planets of the universe

and then whack whack I was like, what about your

anus? Good night everybody Yeah, I guess part

of the charm was being able to have humor for

everybody Well, and see the thing is is they

they disguised it well enough it got past the

sensors Yeah, which was the big joke of tiny

tunes So yeah, I mean I'm I'm all for if they

reboot it With you know Tom Ruger and in the

original voice cast And having the original songs

and music Because that was as long as the writing

is Todd Knox, too I'd like preferably to see

everyone that had something to do with why it

was great return Yeah Or people we know that

are great now yeah and so I'd love to see Dan

Harmon contribute to it or some of the people

who write on MST 3k maybe but ultimately yeah

bring back the original writers if they're still

writing or bring back people you know that can

write really good comedy yep so anyway I'm down

I'm down with it too so it also in the animation

realm So Dragon Ball Super has had its first

female Super Saiyan. I have not seen that yet,

but I have seen the image and Looks interesting.

Yeah, she's basically Broly, but with boobs and

I'm okay with this Because Broly wasn't technically

canon but because he happened only in the movies

but Still I'm excited for this Dragon Ball Super.

It's been a lot of up and down from what I've

watched of it I'm watching some of it on the

Funimation site. I'm also watching some of it

when it comes up on YouTube when it's subtitled

literally that day So my knowledge of the story

is Pretty much pieced together with duct tape

and tube crackers. Well at this point the beginning

of it is pretty much the The the the movie where

Lord Beerus fights Goku And that's all I've seen

so far of what they've chopped up and like maybe

a little bit more but Yeah, I'm still waiting

to see where they've dubbed the rest of it But

yeah, I mean I'm looking forward to seeing what

they do with this it's I think it's funny the

character's name is cauliflower Like cauliflower,

I love how they keep it the vegetable theme for

all of the characters names Yeah, I've always

thought their naming schemes have almost always

been really really clever You get the nap namekians

are generally like musical instruments you get

the sands that are typically a vegetable of some

kind And then you've got I never thought the

most badass name would be Vegeta and it's literally

a ripoff of Vegetable. Yep, never thought. Yep

day in my life. That'd be so bad Or like or like

piccolo is the actual piccolo and then Kakarot

is carrot carrot Yeah, like geez or nap as a

type of lettuce That's so I mean, it's it's it's

actually kind of ingenious they just shortened

Let it you know different vegetable names to

come up with the characters and You know like

Bulma and and Chi Chi are actually they mean

other stuff. I think they're like underwear underwear

Yeah, and then there's pan and there's bra and

then mr. Briefs Most most of Bulma's family is

named after a kind of underwear or bottom cover

It's so stupid and yet the action on that show

is about as manly as you could possibly get I

know it's one of my favorite It's my favorite

anime so it's it's actually kind of funny, but

I Have this guide that actually had all of the

information about the characters like where their

names came from It's it's yeah, it's just funny

and I saw this this this actually a funny graphic

and it had to do with everybody turning super

Saiyan and It says Goku it says I did it to protect

Vegeta says I did it to never be left behind

Gohan says I did it to end the violence Trunks

says I did it to bring a better future and then

it's got young Trunks and go hot Goteng and it

says we did it for the walls Yeah, it's it's

just it's just funny But yeah, I just I had to

bring that up because I think it's kind of an

interesting development that they did that And

then of course there's this this Alexa type robot

thing called the woogie That I heard about today

Which is supposed to be like a proactive conversational

robot that keeps your child engaged in their

learning Which essentially makes me think that

it's a parent replacement tool And well, and

that's kind of what I was hearing on the radio

today too is because it's got an AI component

that gives your children a personalized learning

experience And it says the the more your child

talks to woogie the smarter he becomes And it's

like, well, yeah, I can talk to my kid, too,

and he gets smarter just by listening to me,

so like... Just... The whole concept, I'm like,

oh, okay, so you're trying to replace me with

a robot. Like, I just, I don't know where I...

Because it says you can get, oh, games, quizzes,

riddles, interactive stories, blah blah blah.

And it's like... Yeah, I can read them a book

and I can play Legos with them and do the same

exact thing like Like I'm attempting to teach

my kid how to count and had to how to build the

creations that won't fall apart by doing Legos

and He's getting grasping the concept and getting

really good at it but like to me like doing a

Little interactive thing like this. My kid would

not only get bored of it. He would chuck it across

the room I just, I don't know how I feel about

a robot trying to replace me. Yeah, I don't know

how I feel about Skynet raising the next generation.

So, yeah, no. Yeah, this teacher would be even

more dependent on electronics. This generation

after us already steers it through phones more

than we do. And we weren't even raised with it.

We just kind of, we... As we became adults, it

was like the norm then, and we're like, ooh,

electronic, shiny stuff. And crickets. Sorry,

got a gasp for a second. Yeah, I'm too engrossed

in the fact that the Starbucks guy who hated

the rainbow cups is back complaining about the

McDonald's fry boxes. What? Did they do the...

Rainbow fry boxes just on the back of the box.

It's one section. It's the back of the large

fry box It's only for one weekend this coming

weekend, which is the gay pride celebration in

the national The rainbow fry boxes are a fun

way to show our support of the LG BT community

Yes, yeah using one of McDonald's most iconic

and great nice about items However, these fry

boxes are small potatoes in the grand scheme

of our commitment to this community They'll only

be available this weekend to honor both the pride

parade and Sunday's national equality march So

basically what you're saying is if you don't

like the the gay parade don't buy french fries

on the weekend Well, what I'm saying is that...

Or ask for it in a paper bag? Well, no, the headline

of the article is McDonald's debuts rainbow fry

boxes for DC Pride and that Starbucks guy is

pissed because at the bottom of the article it

says... Joshua Fuerstein, the former televangelist

who flipped out over Starbucks' plain white holiday

cup, is up to his old tricks. Another fast food

franchise has gone gay. Disgusting, McDonald's

released their rainbow fries today in honor of

gay pride. Fuerstein shouted on his Facebook

page, I'm tired of corporations trying to influence

our families like this. Share this and let people

know to stop eating at McDonald's, plus their

food is crap, really. Man, of all the things

this guy can get pissed about, Jesus. I know.

Well, like, I mean, 2017, it's never been more

accepted than it has been at any other time in

history. Dude, you've lost. Get over it. Well,

it's like, my personal opinion, I don't have

anything against them. I don't support it. It's

not something I believe in, but like, you know,

if that's what they believe, then, you know,

good for them. You don't believe in gay people,

or what? I love how your press secretary, Sean

Spicey, or Spicey himself, says a select amount

of people knows exactly what the president meant.

You mean a typo? It's okay. People make mistakes.

It was meant to say coverage, not cofeefe. It

sounds like a wicked cup of coffee or something

like that. But man, the best part about that

was how quickly the internet grabbed a hold of

that. Like there was like cofeefe the barbarian

and cofeefe the wizard. It was ridiculous. It

was like, you summoned me? Like, yes, we have

a great orb in the Middle East, which must be

captured. And it was just so... It was ridiculous,

and it went on for like 12 hours, people just

making these Ko -fi -fi memes. It went on for

like two days. It was ridiculous. I couldn't

believe how funny some of them were, too. You

know, at some point, some video game developer

is using that as a cheat code to get into a game

that's like God Mode or something. It'll be the

next Duke Nukem game. It'll be the next Konami

Code up, up, down, down. I think that's so funny

if someone did that. I think that'd be great

because it's easy to remember. You could almost

type that in on like an old style controller.

Oh my god. I want Koo -fee -fee. Unlimited ammo.

Oh my god, you know what you could do? There

are certain codes in games which turns the game's

dialogue stupid. If you turned on Koo -fee -fee

mode, he speaks only in Trumpisms. Oh no. So

anyways, Kinda sidestepping that, talking about

something that has to do with Russians. Battlefield

1 has a new expansion coming out. And it's gonna

have a female character to choose from. Oh! Yeah.

The expansion is called in the name of the Tsar.

This is the first Russian women's battalion of

death represented by the Russian scout class.

And it's one of the several female Russian units

formed in the wake of the February Revolution

that saw the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II, last

emperor of Russia, for the 1917. So it's a little

interesting. And then the other aspect about

Battlefield 1 is they've EA's announced that

premium friends Is a new feature that enables

Battlefield 1 premium pass owners to play pass

exclusive multiplayer maps with their non pass

owning pals And it's going through another round

of testing this weekend And EA plans to reveal

more information During the pre EA EA play event

or e3 EA play event um which is kind of cool

because uh i mean i have premium pass but that

means that if somebody doesn't have it they can

still play the game with me for the main uh nico

bellic story computer kept telling me that um

was not compatible it was probably for a 32 -bit

system yeah in which case you'd have to download

the newest version because i had that same problem

with uh You had to play Grand Theft Auto V, man.

At some point One of the best games I've ever

played speaking of video games. I Forgot to bring

this up a long time ago Steve. Did you ever beat

the walking dead? Do I owe you 20 bucks? I'm

a richer man for having $20 Which I still have

to do that thing with Blanchard when money allows

it but I'm not in any rush so you can just save

up You'll get hungry one day. I am in no rush.

Your only savior will be Harry Potter. No. I

would rather gnaw off my own arm. Soon. No. Not,

not, no. Nope. Actually, I don't think the older

geek -listers know about this. Oh, God. So, in

a nutshell, Mike has refused for years to watch

the Harry Potter movies, and that's okay. Really?

But I want to challenge, yeah. So I want to challenge

you guys. That's $80. That's not cheap. No, it's

not. And I will do it eventually. But that's

the thing. It's like, and the reason why I've

never watched the movies is because I've just

had no interest in watching them. You know, I've

told this story before and I think I think I

could have sworn we talked about this part of

it on Read the Game of Thrones books, but I have

the audiobooks but even so that's a 30 -hour

slog Whereas I pose I can watch a season and

get ten hours and I get the basic gist of what's

going on I'm still entertained as hell so Maybe

that's almost a topic for one day here on altered

geek talk about books versus movies and cultural

importance because you look at You don't see

many people talking about Lord of the Rings these

days, but those books are still wrote and I think

JRR Tolkien just put out a new book like like

a hundred years after his death or something

It was an unfinished book that I guess they just

found or something. Well, his son like his grandson

finished it Yeah, so I'd be very curious to talk

about that because you look at books and movies

that are culturally important and I think Harry

Potter definitely enters into the conversation

In terms of fantasy is Game of Thrones gonna

be important. I Want to say yes I can see others

saying no, but in terms of what a song and ice

and fire has accomplished. I don't know It does

add a lot to the fantasy genre, but then again,

I'm more sci -fi than I am fantasy You'd have

to ask someone like Ryan the uneven flow to explain

it more because he's read them Whereas I've only

read The Hobbit from Tolkien and Lord of the

Rings, but I've seen all the movies with the

exception of the Hobbit trilogy So, I don't know

that's almost something there to talk about because

you There's a lot of things that get lost in

translation, because hell, even The Godfather

was based upon a book by Mario Puzo, and a lot

of people, I think, if I remember correctly,

say the movie's better than the book. So, I don't

know. There's a conversation for us at some point.

I'd love to hear what our listeners think. What

movie's better than the book, or what do you

think is culturally relevant? Because there may

be some real gems out there. Stuff that I've

never heard of, that's for sure. And I am not

afraid to admit that I am ignorant of what I

do not know. And I always want to know more.

So please, if you know something that I don't

tell me. Make fireland toys to make Star Trek

discovery merchandise. So they're gonna be making

STDs, yay! I've got such a fear. For Star Trek

discover all ran Wilson who's gonna be playing

Harry mud is gonna be in nine episodes of the

series That's almost every single episode pretty

much. There's like 13 It'll have an after show

It's It'll have an after it'll have an after

show hosted by Chris Hardwick and it'll be called

talking trick Because I think some shows benefit

from having the after show Trek I kind of wonder

if it'll just get bogged down in little details

Whereas walking and talking dead and all that

have the intensity. I don't see us getting the

intensity from Star Trek discovery as opposed

to a say a character death on walking dead. You

know what I mean? It seems very episodic Rez

walking dead can easily have an unemotional episode

week to week Which it hasn't because even I've

fallen out of this season So, I don't know hell

there's another show for us to talk about walking

dead the comics versus the show Yeah has certainly

gotten slow. Yeah, I don't watch either I gave

up I mean my wife Blair kind of gave up halfway

through season 7 Because nothing was happening

and it was all it just became too much. I think

after a while I Know the main plot of walking

dead has nothing to do with zombies But I know

there are zombies in that show and I just don't

care. I've never seen the show interest in the

show whatsoever you also said the same thing

about about breaking bad too well that's a little

different than then the fact that there are zombies

and i don't care about zombies the breaking bad

thing is a little bit different than all i'm

ever saying to you is be willing to expand your

horizons nope i don't do horror so guys Please

email us and give us feedback, because like I

said, I'd love to hear what you guys think about

some of the things that we've talked about tonight,

ranging from more serious topics to the absurd.

So from cultural censorship to Kofifi to what's

something better than the book or the movie?

Let us know. And Steve, what's that address for

feedback? Feedback at altergeek .com. So talk

to us on Twitter. You can reach the three of

us. I'm at Birdman Dodd. So definitely thanks

to, what was it? What was his Twitter handle?

Scanner 51. Scanner 51, be sure to respond to

me at Birdman Dodd. I'm literally awake all the

time. So any people want to get a hold of you,

Steve? At SCP -21. And I am at TFG1 Mike. So,

yay! Yay, so until next time, get AlternateGeekGeeky

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