Unicron, Toys R Us, and Jeopardy Transformers Trivia

This is Optimus Prime, and you're listening to

All Things Transformers. Hello and welcome to

All Things Transformers, I'm your host Steve

Megatron Phillips, and joining me this week is...

TFG1 Mike, I'm back! Quake in your boots. Oh,

they'll be quaking in their boots at the end

of the show. I'm going to save that for the end,

cause... damn internet so there's there's been

a little bit of news since the last episode I

know it's been about a month since we've had

an episode of this show yeah I've been trying

to get Beatles Diva on for her origins but between

my schedule and her schedule we just haven't

had time to sit down and record it yet And honestly,

I didn't really think there was anything relevant

news wise to even converse about because I looked

over everything last week and it really hasn't

Changed all that much since wonder con it kind

of has my toy fair was the last time there was

something significant Yeah, yeah toy fair is

gonna pretty much suffer now that Tom Jeffrey

went bankrupt Yep, Toys R Us. Bye -bye Toys R

Us. We can talk about that then because they're

gonna begin their their liquidation sales This

week like the Toys R Us local to me is already

at 30 % off. Oh wow and It's been around there

for a long time since what was that other toy

store that used to be around before Toys R Us?

Child World. Yeah that that was around Actually

before we even got a Toys R Us in my area that

was either next door or the same exact building

Mm -hmm. We had that and then we got Toys R Us

and then we had KB Toys Which of course closed

in 2009, but funny enough They're coming back

while Toys R Us is going away and KB Toys is

like Sprinkling the news in there on like LinkedIn

and places and they're like, hey, we're coming

back Yeah, and they're like let everybody know

we're gonna, you know, basically sell all the

Toys R Us all their projected Toys for the season

and they're like some of the places they're gonna

be renting are gonna be old KB Toy locations

and Some of the places they'll probably have

are Toys R Us but it'll be it'll be kind of weird

to see KB Toys around Because I saw them as like

the younger brother to Toys R Us even though

KB Toys was around first Yeah, and then they

left first and now they're like, yeah, we're

coming back. So I wonder if Toys R Us will eventually

come back It might but I mean look at you know

McDonald's went bankrupt a few times, you know,

and McDonald's is still around You know Toys

R Us is effectively closing everything I know

they are and which is insane just like KB Toys

did but KB Toys has more or less said that They've

come to this point where they've kind of figured

out, they've looked back at their many years

and their planning and have kind of figured out

where they went wrong. They've come up with a

new business plan that would allow them to follow

a strict formula to bring back the experiences

we loved as a child, just as we've remembered

them with being competitive with brick and mortar

and online. Which I think has been kind of because

like if you looked at Toys R Us like their website

and this goes for a lot of retailers Either they're

really strong in their brick and mortar or they're

really strong online But they're not usually

on both right like if they're good in the store

their site is terrible yeah, and in vice versa

like Walmart I While I give them some kudos they

their website is is terrible because it sells

content from other retailers and most of the

stuff that's on there isn't even stuff carried

in their store. I hate that. I hate that about

Walmart .com. And then you look at Meyer, their

site, you can't even find anything that's in

the store because their site barely works and

it's basically just a glorified ad for every

week and it's sad when Kroger has better website

set up that Meyer or some of these other places

where you can actually find what you're looking

for and add it to a click list. Slight side note,

did you see the other news piece for stores kind

of thing this week? Not really. Supposedly, and

take this with a very large grain of salt. So

you want me to take it with a chunk of salt?

Pretty much, yeah. supposedly, let's see, are

Target and Kroger considering a merger? I doubt

it. I know that the company shipped, which my

wife worked for and still is kind of employed

by but hasn't done anything with in the last

like three months. They do door -to -door grocery

sale delivery. So like you go to You know your

Meyers stores or whatever like certain stores

they have they have contracts with and They they

deliver the the groceries to you so my wife did

that for a while a good five six months and Target

actually bought that company to do that. And

Amazon's got somewhat of their own, Walmart's

got somewhat of their own. They're all starting

to do it. Kroger's got one, but you have to pick

it up at the door, more or less. It's click -less.

You go to customer service, they bring you your

cart full of crap, and you just pay for it. But,

yeah, I mean, it's... I don't know if that would

actually happen. I doubt it. Here's the thing

with Toys R Us going away. bankrupt, whatever,

basically they are bankrupt and they're getting

rid of everything. Here's the thing, there's

this huge void, there's this huge vacuum for

the toy companies now, because you only have

Walmart, Target, Meyer You have these other like

specialty shops like Hot Topic and Spencer's

not really cuz who the hell's been in a Spencer's

in the last 10 or 15 years or even Hot Topic

like I mean they've kind of converted to a pop

culture store which there's a store that's more

or less called like Box lunch or something like

that and they they're basically like a giant

pop culture like what Spencer's and and Hot Topic

are doing but they're what they were doing, but

they're clean. So I can take my kids in there

and don't have to worry about them seeing a pair

of like, genitalia on something or, you know,

I don't have to worry about it. Yeah. But like,

that's the question now though. What are the

toy companies going to do? Because Toys R Us

say what we will about the stores, not the employees

specifically, but the way that the stores were

managed, that kind of a thing. was pretty much

where most toy companies had a lot of their stuff

like that was how they marketed it and outside

of having it on their own websites and whatever

else like I've been at least here in Illinois.

I've been to several targets and Walmart's and

the toy aisles are just They're abysmal looking

Yeah, not only abysmal, but their their pricing

structure is terrible The yeah, and I realize

it's partially inflation partially not but one

of my one of my key problems with The toy industry

is that the prices keep going up like the in

ultra 20 years ago Was $20 it's 60 now So like

obviously there's no way I'm going to buy something

like that for my kid like I'm not spending $60

on a toy It just not happening like I can buy

an entire playset for $100 as a kid and now you

know a place That's like $200. It's it's like

no I'm not spending that and the quality is it

is like the the aesthetics are better To some

degree and the the appearance of the figure,

but the quality control is terrible yeah, and

so it's one of those instances where I just I

don't I Don't want to waste the money like I

we buy things for our kids from yard sales because

it's secondhand it's used and it's cheap and

honestly my kids don't care long enough for me

to even warrant spending the money that it would

cost to go to a store so like that's part of

it like I and I don't even buy collectibles for

myself I'm offloading 99 % of my stuff because

I just don't have room for it and Like I said

a lot of the stuff. Yes, like I'm nostalgic to

a point like I have the masterpiece Beast Wars

Optimus Prime Primal Mm -hmm, but like the only

other masterpiece I care about is anything Megatron

related and After that like I'm I'm done with

like collecting transformers but the The void

that Toys R Us is going to make is going to hurt

Hasbro going to hurt Mattel going to hurt a lot

of these these like Mattel is already hurting

and You add this to it. Like it's just gonna

make it worse I think they lost 11 % of revenue

during the the holiday season and Hasbro lost

like eight or nine percent Which is huge considering

usually their banking during that time. Mm -hmm

And then to you know That's that's kind of where

it's good that KB Toys is coming back because

they had a lot of other exclusives that Were

a little bit different because if you remember

even ten fifteen years ago, we had Walmart exclusive

Transformers for instance we had KB exclusive

Transformers we had Toys R Us exclusive which

the Toys R Us exclusive don't be wrong We're

cool, but they really they didn't really have

anything that was worth going like yay It comes

with a DVD of one episode like who cares KB had

something nice, like we had the entire Machine

Wars line, which granted was a repaint of the

G2 and the European line of Transformers, but

it still was an interesting marketing ploy to

try and do something that was a little bit different,

and it came around the time of Beast Wars, like

in 97. And so it was like a couple years after

Beast Wars had started, so it said Machine Wars

and it was in the same font and kind of really

cool looking. And we owned the entire line because

there was only like 12 figures. Right. The only

thing now for Walmart, Target, whatever toy exclusive

thing is honestly that I look at is the Funko

Pops. That's the only thing I look at when it

comes to toy exclusives from those two specific

stores. So um, but yeah Toys R Us may you rest

in peace when that was when that news was breaking

I I kept making the joke of oh Jeffrey's now

a deadbeat dad. He you know, he's the giraffe

that infregnated April with her all her giraffe

babies and everything else Because that whole

April the giraffe thing. Oh god. Anyway, I know

bad joke How about John Cena talking about Transformers

Bumblebee? Anybody care about that? Nope. Okay,

so... Speaking to Metro during an interview regarding

his latest movie, blockers actor and professional

wrestler John Cena stated that Bumblebee, the

movie, will reinvigorate the Transformers fans

while still pleasing the fans of the original

five movies. They were fans? Are there? Stop

it. Get out of my head, dude. Are there fans

of the original five movies? I'm sure there are.

Yeah, I'm sure there are, too. I mean, it's made

more than enough. D2? I don't know. Adding more,

Mr. Cena stated, I think that Travis Knight did

a fantastic job of reintroducing the look, the

feel, the storytelling of this franchise. I think

people who enjoy what Transformers was will enjoy

the movie. I think it will attract a new fan

base. I know Haley did a fantastic job. I also

know that it felt very different. I think fans

of the franchise are going to be excitingly reinvigorated

with the new look. So there's that. I mean, it's

John Cena. I like him on the WWE stuff and whatever

else and you know, he everybody has to do movie

promotion. So, you know, it's cool. Did you have

anything that you wanted to bring up? Because

the only other thing I have is the comic solicitations

for June 2018. I had, for instance, there's the

Transformers Power of the Primes Optimus Primal,

which we've actually gotten to see images of,

and it's actually quite stellar. Being that it's

probably the most show -accurate optimal optimus

we've gotten, like the one we got years ago.

Had a lot of issues with teeny tiny head big

giant body And in the the cockpit piece and then

the the shoulder cannons were Not very good because

they stuck out way too far And you couldn't you

couldn't even put them away like that was the

worst part like you couldn't put them away whatsoever

like cuz Primal didn't have them all the time

And this figure you can do that because Primal,

the regular beast form, is essentially the backpack

that plugs into the back of the Optimal Optimus

version. And so the Optimal Optimus head and

the shoulder cannons and the cockpit are a part

of the Optimus Primal figure that goes in it.

Very cool, and you can add flames to the the

the gun thing because they don't shoot anything

It's just you just pop them in there and the

the little shield pieces that go on the arms

Are a lot shorter like they were in the show

they aren't like insanely large To have that

pop -out action like they used to have and then

you get the matrix of leadership that goes in

the cockpit And primal actually turns into a

hoverboard for the beast form of primal for the

optimal optimus which is kind of reminiscent

of the transmetal form so absolutely it's very

awesome I would get it except for the fact that

I'm more interested in the Megatron that's gonna

be coming eventually for for masterpiece that

I don't want to use this particular spacing to

get this figure when I got the one I wanted so

There's that then there's the g1 soundtrack vinyl

That's all right, there's a lecture edition vinyl

records Yeah, why does it have to be I love vinyl

don't get me wrong But not releasing it in CD

or anything like that or digital specifically

doing it on purpose because vinyl has made some

kind of a resurgence for a collectible item Yeah,

so they're making it so they and they're doing

this with everything anymore, and this is it's

a little bit annoying like It's like almost when

they come up with like a VHS or a audio cassette

tape For something like Guardians of the Galaxy

the mixtape thing. Yeah So like they're gonna

have 500 Optimus Prime theme 500 Megatron and

a thousand bubble be Mm -hmm and the bubble be

one isn't even at all that like there's nothing

extravagant about any of these other than they

have the Autobot or Decepticon logo in the center

and then they have like some of the colored palette

so like they have The yellow and black for bumblebee

they have blue and red for prime and then they

have Purple and white for Megatron, and that's

that's it like it's not There they're only gonna

sell 2 ,000 of these yeah Through think geek

so there's that Also of note I mentioned a few

episodes back the that dark glass is being reconsidered

Mm -hmm as a revisit the The production crew

is really wanting to finish it Everybody's gotten

this this point where they're kind of ready and

they're they're looking at new technologies to

Essentially import the models into so we're not

using outdated software they'll still be able

to use the rigs we created but I think they're

going to use Unity or something to import it

and then re -rig the models in it and should

make it a lot easier for them. So yeah, there's

only two or three guys in there that actually

know what they're doing. I know nothing as far

as animating. It sounds like they're going to

be working on it, so I don't know how soon it's

going to come out, but it should eventually surface.

Very cool very awesome Yeah, like I said, I would

love to have that transformer soundtrack, but

unless it's digital I Don't have we don't even

have a working record player anymore. We did

we had two of them actually we had to leave them

both One was kind of broken the other one worked,

but we had to leave her my wife stereo behind

because it was one of those old Floor model every

single component you you know Record player AM

FM CD cassette we had to leave that behind sadly

when we moved Because it just would not fit Anyway

on to the comics the IDW publishing Transformers

June 2018 solicitations start out with Optimus

Prime number 20 written by John Barber art by

Kizama I'm probably butchering butchering that

name the falling part five Optimus has faced

defeat before and come back but he's never seen

anything like this Beyond life, beyond death,

only the wisdom of an old friend save him. Meanwhile,

Victorion battles Devastator and only one will

survive. Bullet notes on this issue, the return

of Bumblebee. So anyone that hasn't been reading

the IDW comics, Bumblebee's been dead for a long

time. One shall rise, one shall fall, but who

will destroy them all? So there's that. This

one is advanced solicited for a July release.

It's Transformers Optimus Prime Volume 3, John

Barber, Kizama, Priscilla Tramontano, Casey Caller,

Joanne Elefante. This collects Optimus Prime

issues 11 to 14 in the Optimus Prime First Strike

and Transformers First Strike One Shots. What

new future will the Transformers bots face with

Optimus Prime trapped on Cybertron? Embroiled

in the first strike event, the Autobots on Earth

set off to a mission to find their missing friend,

Jazz. But anti -Cybertronian humans are after

him as well, and they are armed with Cybertronian

weapons. Offered again, Optimus Prime volume

1, volume 2. Transformers Lost Light issue 19,

written by James Roberts, art by E .J. Su. Colors

by Nick Roach. Death from above. Years ago, the

crew of the Lost Light fought a demonic Cybertronian

mutant that fed on its victims' souls. Years

later, Rodimus and co. are about to discover

that only thing worse than a spark eater is an

army of spark eaters. Dun dun dun. Leads into

the biggest story in the history of the Lost

Light. So that's happening. We also have Lost

Light's Number 20 all as it says is Rodimus versus

getaway finally So there's that And the last

bit from the June 2018 solicitations transformers

the wreckers saga. This is advanced solicited

for July release Basically what this is it collects

last stand of the wreckers sins of the wreckers

and the new one -shot Requiem of the wreckers

into one giant trade So that's what that is.

Let's see. Three tales of the legendary records

from creators Nick Roach and James Roberts are

collected into this special edition. From the

prison planet of Geras 9, a mysterious siege,

the lonely exploits of kidnapped Prowl, Roach

and Roberts with artist Guido Guidi reveal traitors,

long lost secrets, and all the hard -nosed action

that made the records the legends that they are.

So if you're not reading Transformers comics

guys and gals you kind of should especially with

this next announcement that happened Over the

wonder con weekend because wonder con was this

past weekend I got this press release from IDW.

The Transformers bots face their greatest enemy

ever in this summer's event series, Transformers

Unicron. The first chapter launches on Free Comic

Book Day, Saturday, May 5th, 2018 with issue

number zero. The fate of all worlds are at stake,

as the world -eating menace Unicron has set his

sights on Cybertron, home of the Transformers

robots and next -in -line Earth. A bi -weekly

six -issue event titled Transformers Unicron

arrives this July and will bring about the end

of the Transformers universe as we know it, as

Optimus Prime gathers his defenses against this

monstrous threat. It might be too little too

late. Veteran Transformers creators John Barber

and Alex Milne are joined by colorist Sebastian

Chang to tell the epic conclusion to the current

Transformers comic book universe. Transformers

Unicron is a culmination of the years of Transformers

comics I've been part of. uh... and the conclusion

of one of the longest continued narrative in

transformers history said barber the story of

heroism and face of impossible laws reckoning

for an entire universe i couldn't be luckier

than to have alex right here with me on this

if you know alex you know nobody puts more into

the transformers than he does and nowhere before

has he drawn drama action and apathos in scale

Tying it all together is the incredible palette

of Sebastian Chang. We've never held back before

our Transformers comics, but this time we're

pushing ourselves and each other harder than

ever. Transformers Unicron is basically a grand

finale to the past 12 years of Transformers comics

at IDW and to really celebrate that and to celebrate

the people who have made it such an amazing ride.

We're getting some amazing beloved artists to

contribute. to what I'm sure will be a biggest

literally Transformer story ever, said David

Marriott, associate editor. This is an event

years in the making and one that only works because

of the years fans and creators have invested

in the comic. The action kicks off on Free Comic

Book Day, May 5th, with the zero issue by the

series creative team available for free at comic

shops across the country. Don't miss the world

-ending first chapter of the summer's cataclysmic

event. So yeah transformers unicorn a couple

of questions here if this is the end of the current

Trans like if this is the big end all be all

final storyline what's IDW gonna do next with

transformers because they had When I started

with IDW and Transformers, it was read the death

of Optimus Prime and then you can go in one of

two directions or both. You can go to Robots

in Disguise, which is set on Cybertron, or you

can go to the Lost Light, which is Rodimus and

company out in space. Those each lasted for 57

issues. They rebranded Mother Meets the Eye to

Lost Light and the Transformers to Optimus Prime.

Well, according to this what I'm seeing here

is that they're going to now rebrand again and

relaunch For a new number one. I'm pretty sure

the story and all of that will continue obviously

but I don't know in what way or what had IDW's

quote -unquote relaunches are better than Two

other companies I know of at least So they don't

just relaunch to relaunch Just to get that number

one sales thing so but very exciting times to

be Transformers comics fans folks Yeah, I'm still

waiting out these two words comic that I'll actually

care about It's like honestly, I don't I don't

care about Transformers comics anymore Last time

I cared about them, they got cancelled too. Or

like, stuck out. I liked Dreamwave. And granted,

that's because the owner was a douche. I was

more involved in the storyline and the art of

Dreamwave than I am in this current run. Of what

I've seen like I've collected some of the early

stuff of IDW's. I didn't care for it. I I honestly

like just I don't know I found it too rough and

I Mean, I know that that's the time and that's

the way everything's going but I I just it wasn't

for me So I've just kind of stayed out of comics

mm -hmm the last like six years it's been kind

of like I, you know, I fell out of the Transformers

comics for a while, but I've gotten back in.

I don't keep up with it, like, issue by issue,

but I keep up with it by trade. Obviously, did

Autobotly April and August last year on the pull

bag, and gonna do Autobotly August again this

year, since... August has five Wednesdays and

I think three Saturdays. You're basically gonna

get a Double dose of the pullback all August

long for Transformers and they'll also be featured

over here on HTTF as well I mean, I'm really

digging it. Sometimes I can't get into it, but

other times I can for the most part So who knows,

you know, I mean Unicron in the comics. I don't

remember the last time that happened. I know

it Okay, well I never read Dreamwave so they

they had him getting ready to come up in the

regular Transformers line, and then they had

him in Energon and Armada show up mm -hmm, so

I Was I was very involved with with Dreamwave.

I owned everything and then I I think I still

have a few cool, but All right, so the cataclysmic

thing I mentioned at the beginning of the show

let's get to that but let me ask you first Steve

have you and I'm pretty sure you have but I'm

pretty sure you don't watch it at this point

now I'm sure you've seen Jeopardy before right

yeah I've watched it from time to time and like

I mean it's not something I go out of my way

to watch but if it was something that was on

and and I got intrigued by a question I would

sit there and watch it Right. Well, my wife Karen

eventually wants to be on the show so we watch

because she's in training So there's that on

the season 34 episode 137 this aired March 20th

2018 the category was geek confusion The one

of the questions was Kardashians are reality

TV stars Cardassians are an alien culture in

this sci -fi universe. Star Trek Deep Space Nine

and Star Trek The Next Generation. They accepted

what is Star Trek. It is true. It's in multiple

series. Yeah. So they accepted the what is Star

Trek as an acceptable question answer thing.

Next question, or the other question that was

in more to the point of this podcast, Metatron.

is an Archangel of Jewish myth, this Transformers

bad guy could be turned into a toy gun. Okay,

now before we answer, because we all know it,

at least anyone that listens to this show should

freaking know it if they don't. Before we answer,

even if you're looking at Metatron, there's two

tells here. One, if you've watched Supernatural,

you would know who that is. Because that was

a character played by Booker of... Revenge of

the Nerds. And two, if you replace one letter,

it becomes the name of the character in question.

Exactly. For those of you who don't watch Supernatural

Metatron, you would have seen him played by Alan

Rickman in Dogma. So obviously the answer is

Megatron. My original post on Facebook says,

the guy who originally rang in on the TF, on

the Transformers answer, said Optimus Prime.

My reaction? Uh, what? And I have the audio to

prove this, and we'll play it in a minute here,

folks. But yeah, like, seriously. And I didn't

even remember the guy's name at the time when

I wrote the post. I've gone back and looked and

saw what it was at this point. The guy's name

was AJ. I don't know. I have no clue. When I

made this post on Facebook with pictures of both

of these clues from screen caps, I had said I

was feeling perplexed with Kevin Thompson, Steven

C. Phillips, Amy Morgan, you know, all our Transformers

fans, and I included Michael Dodd in that because

Birdman is a Transformers fan just like we are.

Well, some guy named Andy Saunders... just went

on a tear saying how dare I make fun of or mock

somebody on Jeopardy. Okay, well, first of all,

actually, you know what, I'm gonna boil this

down to what Optimus Solo said. What Optimus

Solo said or what was the other guy that we're

friends with? Alex? No, he was, isn't he from

RFC? Oh. Ender, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Ender, yeah,

yeah, yeah. Very eloquently. Yeah, kind of. Yeah,

Ender's response was, so basically, you know,

this Andy Saunders guy basically says, your definition

of fun clearly differs from mine. I fail to see

how mocking people is fun. Well, first of all,

here's the thing. We all sit at home and participate

at home with Jeopardy. We all mock the TV. We

all mock the TV. It's not just me. Good old Ender

from Radio Free Cybertron says, I guess it must

be hard to see how anything is fun from up there

on that high ass horse. Back in reality, mocking

people is tons of fun. For instance, it's time

for the Daily Double. Pew pew pew pew pew. This

sanctimonious jackass should keep his holier

than thou mouth shut. Now, that's Ender. And

that's Ender, unfiltered as he always is, and

that's amazing. But Optinus Solo did it... Diplomatically.

Yeah. Kind of how we would probably do it. My

issue is this, if you're auditioned to an Ender

Beyond a Game show, talent competition, or other

public competition, you know that you're in front

of the public eye. You assume the risk of saying

or doing something that may make you look foolish

in some people's eyes. You take that risk, so

you can't turn around and be butthurt if someone

has some innocent fun at the situation at hand.

The thing is, the person in question probably

isn't even upset. It's a crazed fan that is trying

to be upset on his behalf. Yeesh, this guy must

hate hidden camera shows and America's Funniest

Home Videos. How dare we get a chuckle at their

expenses? And then he says, Andy Saunders, relax,

dude. The only way that this guy even saw my

thing, and supposedly, because I looked into

him, supposedly he runs a Jeopardy fan podcast

or something or other. I don't know. Which Alex

then made the comment. Alex Richie, like, yeah,

yeah, good old at, yeah, good old at Turner Treasure

on Twitter. Yeah, like, I can't think of anything

more boring than a Jeopardy podcast, other than,

you know, watching paint dry podcast, or listening

to paint dry podcast, yeah. But here's the thing,

like, This guy wouldn't have even seen this if

I hadn't tagged Dodd. I'm not saying it's Mike's

fault I'm just saying like that's the only quote

-unquote mutual friend that we have in common

is Dodd from twig This thing went on this whole

back and forth went on for like 12 and a half

hours and the fact like sorry but the fact that

I still get likes or ha ha's on it is beyond

amusing to me that I mean it's essentially dead

at this point but I mean it's just crazy I think

he blocked everybody in there I think he did

because it kind of just stopped abruptly yeah

and in the commentary about you know what everybody

was saying was just quite humorous In of itself.

Mm -hmm. So yeah Yeah, I I just I Like seriously,

I can be passionate about stuff and I love jeopardy.

I've loved jeopardy since I was a kid But like

seriously being that anal about You know Mocking

a and it wasn't even like what like everybody

else said the guy probably didn't even like AJ

probably never even saw it It's just some crazed

fan doing the doing this and whatever like did

I insult the guy's intelligence? No, I had a

reaction to his answer What like um How do you

like how do you not know that like and I even

asked you know later, you know, how many people

Generally, especially now, since the last 10

years of Transformers movies, how many people

don't know that Optimus Prime is the good guy

and Megatron is the bad guy? Most people should

know that. Because of Michael Bay. Yeah, I'm

not even sure. I don't know, dude. So, yay. you

know, get another thing that kinda sorta, oh,

and the best part about this, and this is the

last thing I'll say on this, but the best part

about this was one of his other comments was

like, you better not say anything about my friend

on your podcast. Like, mother flipper, this is

America. I still have freedom of speech, damn

it. Sorry. Well, we do for now. Everybody gets

butthurt over somebody's opinion, so it's, that's

why there's so much discord in the world. That's

very true. Which I do briefly talk about in Altered

Geek. About the toxicity of everything and in

turn causing to fall out of fandoms because just

tired of hearing it. So, yeah. I don't even,

like, outside of my, and I know this might be

close -minded, but outside of my circle of friends,

I don't interact with the fandoms that I love.

It's not that I interact with them per se. I

kind of stay away from them to some degree, but

I'm aware of things in those areas. I'm enough

involved that I know what's going on and I can

have a conversation about it, but I kind of stay

distant enough that I don't have to Fight with

anyone I don't want to have to just it is not

even trying to defend my opinion or anything

like that. I just I honestly don't Want to have

the discord or irritation In my life like at

this point. I've got more than I care to Take

care of at this point that I really just don't

want to mess with it Yeah, you keep saying discord

and I'm waiting for John Delancey to show up.

I Think of discord I think of I think of that

other Skype alternative Yeah, so I think we should

probably close it out. Yep. We kind of veered

off the whole thing, but yeah. You can get ahold

of him on Twitter at TFJU and Mike. And I'm at

SCP 21. So until next time, transform and roll

out. Deep confusion 800. Metatron is an archangel

of Jewish myth. This transformer's bad guy could

be turned into a toy gun. AJ. Who is Optimus

Prime? No. Lisa John Lisa who's Megatron? Yes

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