Introducing ToonCast

This is the inaugural episode of tune cast brought

to you by geek cast radio My name is Michael

Blanchard I will be your host as long with my

two buddies Todd and Kevin and we will be talking

to you about classic cartoons each week we will

be Discussing and not reviewing we will be discussing

and reminiscing over Several cartoons, so please

enjoy this is episode zero recorded June 5th

2009 Hello and welcome to tune cast episode zero

from the geek cast radio network My name is Michael

Blanchard from the TFG one podcast and I am joined

by Kevin Thompson, and why don't you tell our

listeners a little bit about yourself Kevin?

They they know all about me when we find out

some stuff about you, buddy. All right two years

as a history teacher and die hard history buff,

cartoon buff, Star Wars buff, everything about

it. So Tooncast is right up my alley and I'm

looking forward to it. Just got done with another

year of school. So looking forward to a summer

of cartoons. Yes, yes. And what Tooncast is going

to be all about, what had happened was this week

in Geek had done an episode about the Disney

afternoon, like Tailspin, Darkwing Duck, all

those shows, DuckTales. and another buddy of

mine on twitter uh... a trinity four and had

an idea about starting his own podcast about

classic you know cartoons that are on dvd you

know cartoons are no longer on air and you know

he and i message back and forth about on skype

several times and uh... we um... said okay let's

go ahead and do this and basically the time period

even though it's kind of gotten extended a little

bit the time period cuts off at the nineties

After anything pretty much 2000 till now will

not be covered the time period will be from the

50s to the 90s because Kevin sent me a whole

list of Hannah Barbera cartoons and everything

else so we'll be incorporating those later The

main focus is 80s and 90s stuff like He -Man,

She -Ra, Voltron, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs There

will be no Transformers coverage on this podcast

because there are other dedicated podcasts within

the Geekcast Radio Network that we have for those.

And besides, I'm pretty much burnt out on talking

Transformers. I've been doing it for almost six

months with TFG1 Podcast. You thought it wasn't

possible. Yes, I thought it wasn't possible,

but it's pretty fucking possible. So yeah, that's

what to cast is pretty much gonna be all about

Not really sure how long it's gonna run right

now. I think the schedule that we have Is up

to 30 or 40 episodes I forget what it is. Yeah

I'm sure some of those will have guest co -hosts

Kevin will be my main ghost there was supposed

to be another coast Todd from from screw attack

but uh... for some odd reason uh... he's not

here i don't know why uh... he hasn't emailed

me back anything or twirled me or anything like

that uh... if he does get in touch with me he's

more than welcome to be on the show uh... uh...

and i will probably like i said be bringing in

more guest co -hosts uh... i know episode twenty

five i have set to be the gi joe uh... retrospective

and i know steve slash megatron are uh... my

uh... Kikas radio co -founder buddy friend is

Going to be pretty much he's pretty much gonna

run that show In the email that I sent you earlier

Like with Silverhawks, you're running that show.

That's gonna be all you buddy cuz I don't remember

anything about that show There's gonna be shows

that that I either didn't watch or I didn't I

don't remember Even though they're on the episode

list uh... you know it's like take it away you

know uh... i am not opposed to delegating responsibility

he's right couple of episodes uh... i think that's

going to be one of the good things about this

to cast uh... especially for anybody that's listening

we're gonna have a pretty wide range uh... and

a pretty good variety of shows so you know there's

gonna be a little bit of something for everybody

oh yeah oh yeah but especially with The range

of of the time span even though it's nothing

There's I want to say this right off the bat

right now. There is to be no anime in this podcast.

I don't I was crazy. I don't have anything wrong

with anime, but I do okay. Okay. Well, that's

not But you know, it's just first of all, I'm

the type person that if I Now that I've gotten

into this podcasting thing, now that I'm starting

my own stuff and we have this whole network of

shows that Steve and I are doing and other people

are doing it with us, I don't want to step on

anybody else's toes. There will be absolutely

no DC animated universe coverage. on this show

until world's finest podcast has done their show

because i don't want to step on their toes and

what they're doing i mean they're taking a huge

undertaking over there at world's finest podcast

um they are reviewing every single dc animated

show from batman the animated series to justice

league teen titans all that stuff they're taking

a look at every single episode of each show uh...

right now they just released episode fifty four

uh... and that shows going to be at least another

two years uh... running they have like forty

episodes or some some close to forty eight episodes

left uh... so i don't want to step on their toes

uh... as far as they're not being any anime on

here there's another podcast over earth two dot

net an amazing podcast it's all about anime uh...

kellen scrivins is the one that does that And

that's just not my forte. I don't, I don't watch

anime. I mean, you know, it's just, it's just

not my thing. So, um, you know, that's when I

first started, you know, running around with

the idea of Tooncast, I wanted it to be specific

to certain decades, like eighties and nineties.

Um, cause those are, you know, most of the shows

that I know, I mean, hell, you know, I'm, I'm

not opposed to even covering some Nick Toons

like Doug or or or something like that so um

right well that's in the middle of this record

guess who decides to show up oh god all right

let's see if we can add him in here hello todd

you there yeah i'm sorry about that That's all

right, dude. It's no problem We've kind of already

covered it a little bit. We're just gonna continue

recording Why don't you tell everybody a little

bit about yourself? Kevin and I have pretty much

talked about the way tune cast is pretty much

gonna go I want you to give everybody a little

bit of information about yourself. We'll just

go from there That's all right, yeah Start talking

dude. We got dead air here Hi, my name is Todd.

I am pretty young. I'm a junior in high school,

about to be senior. And really, I'm just basically

tinkering and stuff, just watching a lot of cartoons,

movies, comic books, and the whole thing, video

games, a lot of video games. And just working

with a lot of video equipment and stuff like

that. Just trying to get better at that, better

at making movies, animation, stop motion. Just

working with that. It basically covered me in

a nutshell. I'm just a big geek about everything

and I want to make the stuff that I like to watch

and do. Yeah, that's cool. We've pretty much

already covered what Tooncast is going to be

and I told Kevin there are basically going to

be some episodes that I either don't remember

of whatever cartoon we're going to cover or you

know I never watched it or I don't have you know

whatever so you know you guys can Can run with

it? Even though I'll still be in on the records,

but you guys can pretty much run whatever episode

if it's something that that I don't know or it's

something that I have pretty much no knowledge

of or Really have no desire to do research on

So but yeah Todd's kind of coming in late on

this which is fine something probably came up

But that's pretty much what to cast is gonna

be and I think we're gonna wrap up this episode

zero So we can head into episode one with the

Nintendo cartoons Yeah, where is that stupid

there we go So yeah, this has been Mike and with

me has been Kevin and and Todd and this is tune

cast. So please tune in