PC Builds, Minivan Shopping, and Creative Updates

Hello guys, this is Steve here. I'm just letting

you guys know that on This episode of the podcast

it was recorded while I was driving and so I

apologize if there's any sounds of the GPS cutting

in there, but I Cleaned up the audio and leveled

it. So other than that And in slapping an intro

out you're on it. There's really nothing else

I've done to it. So again apologize, but Plenty

of good content here, so stay tuned in. Hey,

this is Steve Bloom and you are listening to

the Geekcast Radio Network. You are tuned in

to Steve Megatron on Altered Geek. Hello and

welcome to a... Very raw and unedited altered

geek. I'm your host Steve The producer Phillips.

Yeah, I've changed the moniker. I was going by

Megatron. It's just not Don't get me wrong. I

still like the moniker, but it's not necessarily

who I am anymore I'm producer now. I'm a producer

of programming for Children's radio programming

along with all of the activities that go there

in and So that being said I am going to be doing

my first production in September and In doing

so I'll be getting to not only produce schedule

and a multitude of other roles therein But I'm

going to get to do voice acting officially that

gets on the air on the radio and on podcasts

granted i've been doing the podcast voices for

2006 i've been podcasting since 2006 that's insane

That's insane! Yeah, it's a little crazy when

you stop thinking about it. I started doing voices

in 2005, like online, for fan dubs and to get

to realize this dream and getting to do it finally,

it's just mind -boggling. Now, I did get to be

on an episode that was on a podcast online, a

part of one of the many adventures of the seasons.

in may and it aired well let's say it aired in

uh beginning of june so that's about where we

land there um so yeah it was a lot of fun being

in the booth and trying to learn all those new

uh uh things that go along with it um so yeah

a lot of things have happened a lot of a lot

of different things uh so i got After recording

the episode with TFG1 Mike This week because

I'm recording this on Friday While the episode

with TFG1 Mike came out today That episode we

recorded Monday night And then I had a glorious

time going back through it on Tuesday to remove

all of Mike's swearing with the goat sound that

goes Or whatever And just because I find it humorous

and I do that when my kids start screaming I

play that video So it's just it's it's fun and

irritating all the same time and Mike doesn't

like it neither does Dodd When I filter those

through which by the way Dodd should be back

next week If I release this this will be very

raw episode So I'm going to go back to doing

segments. And when I say that, I mean, I really

want to add some structure back to the show.

I really want to bring back the listener feedback,

the listener comments and suggestions. I really

want to do that because I thrive on the interaction.

And it seems like this past year, everybody's

life has been in some state of craziness that

For whatever reason whatever rhyme or reason

It's just it's not worked out for anybody like

Mike's situation between money and trying to

move and then his brain surgery that he had to

have my Being let go twice in the last year and

then finally landing the job of my dreams more

I'm getting to use my skills for a lot of things

I believe in and Getting to you know, basically

do radio Producing and voice acting which have

been pretty much what I've been all about the

last 15 years That's really why I started podcasting

in the first place was because of that outlet

was getting to do Radio was getting to do voices

was getting to produce and teach myself new skills

and granted. I'm still doing that with Altered

geek and and the other plethora of shows that

I've done in the past and continue to do in the

future but every job I've had has been a building

block to the one I have now and Geekcast radio

is among those and That taught me a majority

of those skills or gave me the contacts or gave

me things and the blaze did Granted I Yeah, I'm

not gonna get political. I'm just gonna leave

that alone. But anyways um i i am truly having

fun getting back into just general conversation

um we'll probably do some of the news stories

some of the you know geek news or tech or whatever

i feel like sometimes i just get in this rut

and and depending on my disposition depends on

how much work i want to put into altered geek

Granted, if I had better sound quality for driving

in the car with air conditioning on and the sound

of the road and using my microphone on my phone,

if there was a way I could do that mobily and

have good sound, I would do so. But there really

isn't an option for that. I have more of my energy

during the middle of the day, which is unfortunate

because I work. And I love that I work now, so

don't get me wrong on that, but I have more of

the energy to do the podcasting, high energy

podcasting during the day. I used to do it early

in the morning when we started GeekCast Radio,

and that was like, dogs not tired. And then I

started doing it late at night. I could do it

from like 9 .30 p .m. until like 2 a .m. easy.

Nowadays, I'm like, uh, too old for this stuff.

It's just, it gets way too old too quick. And

so, and the other thing that kind of stinks about

it is I am two hours different now than about

everybody I podcast with. So if I want to record

with Dodd or Alex or granted those guys go to

bed like Uber late anyway, like two, three AM.

So me recording at nine 30, 10 o 'clock mountain

standard time to Eastern time. it's only you

know 11 30 12 o 'clock their time so it's still

not that huge of a deal but there are people

where that's way too late and I get it like powers

he's I doubt I don't know I mean it I guess it

depends on when I start recording earlier you

know if I do like an 8 30 or something at one

point and then get him on for a 10 30 record

his time I don't know like it just it's it's

difficult especially having kids so but anyways

yeah so we just went and we were going to wait

to oh wait I gotta get back to my computer story

so anyways I ordered this thing and somebody

was talking to on a hike last Friday because

I ordered it Friday we talked about it and he

said you know he said that Because I mentioned

I can get free Amazon prime trial and he says

I would have done it He says because the two

items that because I was holding off and because

two items weren't gonna get there right away

anyway, even if I had prime and the rest of them

would and He said, you know in my experience

the ones that say that they're not usually get

there before the ones that Say that they are

going to get there sooner. And so Low and behold,

he was correct. And the two items that I thought

were going to come last came first, which was

kind of a good thing because I can start working

on it a little bit. Whereas if I got all the

rest of it, it really wouldn't be possible. But

I'm kind of missing the middle component now

of how this is going to work out. So the tower,

the new tower is like an inch or two taller than

my old one. It's an inch or two longer. But the

way it's laid out in the inside, it's got an

inch gap on the inside. so that all the cords

can be run underneath the one door panel so you

don't have all the wires all over the place because

it's an open case design. The benefit with that

is that it also has hard drive bays and a bay

for my SD card reader and three external uh sata

devices so like a dvd burner or blu -ray burner

or whatever um i have a dvd burner i have an

external blu -ray burner but uh or blu -ray player

not burner but um i really didn't see a reason

to upgrade anything it all works still so until

things quit working i'm not going to worry about

it um That being said I got the case got it all

figured out. There's like little click tabs that

lock the hard drives and DVD player in place

so you don't have to screw anything in it's actually

rather nice You put the hard drives. It's got

three spots for the small form factor SATA hard

drives that it locks in place, you don't have

to worry about it, it just clicks. There's also

five bays for the thicker SATA hard drives. And

again, you run the cords behind that area so

it runs to the other part of the board and then

you flip it up over the top and then it clicks

into your motherboard. Now granted, the newer

cases, and I wasn't aware of this when I was

looking and I kinda started to notice it, but

not so much, is that you know, motherboards go

on the top of the case now, and the power supply

goes on the bottom. And I really wasn't quite

sure why. Don't get me wrong, I love that aspect

now that I've seen it, but I'm not quite sure

why the change happened other than the fan that's

internal for the power supply can actually point

down. And this particular case has a filter and

a vent at the bottom so it blows air out the

bottom. And it's got about an inch legs on it

that lift it up so that it can blow that air

out. Plus it's got the whole front. There's a

giant fan on the front, a giant fan on the back

with vents and filters so you can clean it. And

so it's very... It's very open design for airflow.

And then the top has a gap like that as well

that you can mount another fan and so on. It's

funny, I live in Loveland, Colorado. I'm driving

through Denver right now. My kids and my wife,

I'll explain where they're at in a minute. But

I'm driving by in Denver, or Aurora, Colorado,

the Amazon facility. Which, yeah, I'll get to

that in a minute too. So anyways, I got the power

supply, got the case, got those put together,

mounted. I moved my SD card reader and my DVD

burner over from my old case to my new case.

And so, yeah, I have that aspect done. Now, this

is the kicker. Aurora you know like Amazon in

general like we've ordered probably six times

in the last week and a half and Amazon and things

are just coming sporadically through for delivery

and it's so it's it's again funny but anyways

the motherboard the CPU fan and the the CPU fan

grease cooling grease It's gonna be the last

items that show up which is I was hoping it was

the other way around because at least then You

know, I could have the motherboard or at least

there's a slowdown ahead. Yeah, you can hear

that Driving yeah, it's such fun. So anyways

We have you know my my Processor my memory And

there's one other item that goes to the computer

and I can't remember what it is Or no, it doesn't

even go to the computer. It's something else

we ordered. Anyways, those two items are showing

up Sunday and The rest of the items Haven't even

shipped yet. So that's I'm like unless Amazon's,

you know Just not keeping up with it or it shipped

today or you know, it's hard to say I hope that

it shows up the same day. That would be beautiful,

but it probably won't Because the goal is I want

to clone my hard drive to one of my other drives

that are in the machine that's like SATA 2 or

something. Because I didn't realize the processor

that I have in my old machine, which is a Core

i3 3220 third generation processor, it has Intel

integrated graphics. There's a slowdown ahead

that machine can function Without the video card

that's in it so I can move the video card over

to the new system once I get the motherboard

I move on my hard drives and then all sudden

done But I'm gonna use the old system for the

kids so that he can learn, you know use it for

schooling and use it for everything else For

quick use for on the house, you know laptop doesn't

work or somebody's using or something whatever

It'll serve a purpose anyways, and I won't have

to get rid of it. It's it's very useful. It's

just not filling my needs anymore. So anyways,

once all these items show up, then I can put

the system together. I can have my beefy system.

I'm going to clone my hard drive. Hopefully,

I can reconfigure Windows because I know that

it locks the license to the hardware, which is

unfortunate because nothing is changing other

than... Well, actually, everything is changing.

Windows and everything on the hard drives are

not and a lot of the hardware is not other than

the motherboard processor memory and power supply

But I'm upgrading from 12 gigs of memory to 32

and so I should not have to upgrade for a very

long time. This motherboard goes up to 128, so

does the processor. I've got a Core i5 -9400F,

which is basically the 9400 minus the Intel integrated

graphics, which doesn't bother me at all, because

again, I have a video card, so. that still fulfills

the needs. So anyways, that's the system that

I'm kind of building and putting together at

the moment. I'm very excited for this thing to

come together. I've pretty much stuck with Gigabyte

for the motherboard, Intel for the processor,

Crucial for the memory. and EVGA for the power

supply, which is also the same as my graphics

card. So it's a GeForce. So anyways, that's my

complete setup for the computer. Sorry about

that. I had to pause because I was getting text

messages. Yeah, so anyways back to the story

about my wife We had opted when the house sold

to buy my computer and to buy a car. Well We

put the duck before the horse there We put we

bought the computer so that's still on its on

process Um, the house is still not sold. It was

supposed to be done July 16th. And here we are

on like August 9th, a little irritated with it,

uh, cause it's not, it's not even the people's

fault. It's like the lenders and all these, like

all the paperwork junkies, like they're the ones

that have been the problem for the last like

two and a half weeks. So because of those fools,

we're going to have to pay another month's rent

and uh, yeah which is like eight hundred dollars

and then you know utilities and everything else

so in another month of of uh there's a slowdown

ahead of insurance on the house and so again

it's very unfortunate it's very irritating and

uh we were hoping that it would be done by now

which hopefully it will i mean we're gonna We're

going to make decent bank off it. We're basically

going to liquidate all the money we've dumped

into the house in the last five years, which

will be awesome because we just bought a vehicle.

My wife and I were looking at vehicles. To me,

it doesn't honestly matter. Like I've been biking

to work for the last month and a half since we

moved to Loveland, Colorado, because I live seven

minutes driving from work and it's 20 minutes

on my bike. So I've been riding my bike, which

I got to put a new chain on that. But I've been

riding my bike to work and I've managed to luck

out. They really don't have gray days here like

Michigan or anything that not like full rainy

days like they'll have like an hour or maybe

two of rain and then it stops and it clears up

and it's hot again. So I usually wait it out

at work because within 20 minutes it'll be done

and then I can just ride home and be in peace.

But. Anyways, my experience working in a car

lot for 10 years, it made it more beneficial

for Mary to pick out her own vehicle. And so

we were looking at, my stipulation was it had

to be either a Ford, a Chrysler or a GM product.

That was it. I was pretty open on it. Other than

those, you know, those I my family is all GM

workers. My brother does stuff with Chrysler.

You know, I just I prefer the big three. And

so that I'm not a big fan of like the foreign

cars like I know most the parts are made elsewhere,

but on everything. But I'm not a big fan of like

the interiors or the designs. And so to me, they're

just I just don't like them in. So I gave her

the option, you know, either a GMC Acadia, a

Traverse from Chevy or like the Buick alternative

to the Enclave and or a Dodge Grand Caravan because

she was kind of torn between an SUV or a minivan

because we run into the problem with the Equinox.

It's not quite long enough. One, we have a hard

time fitting things in it sometimes. In two,

you know, there's a lot of times we need like

a truck or, you know, a cargo van or something,

but we also would like to haul three extra people

with us. And we can't do that in the vehicle

we have right now. We barely fit an extra kid

between our kids' car seats. And so, or booster

seats, but we ended up going with the option

of the Grand Caravan as an overall. We had her

test drive a few and then, you know we're looking

online we're looking online and then finally

we find one and we found it today actually and

we kind of did a two -for -one trip go to an

air and space museum which they funny enough

had Star Trek and Star Wars stuff mentioned in

there too And they even had the X -Wing and a

Anakin's podracer in there as a full -blown built

unit signed by George Lucas and Harrison Ford,

Chewbacca, you know, Anakin and everybody, you

know, so it was kind of funny. So anyways, they...

We went to this place and... This car lot and

we did the car fax on it, you know, it was clean.

It was good They had a town in country, which

is essentially the same thing as Grand Caravan

and This Grand Caravan had 48 ,000 miles 2016

like like a red burgundy almost and It was a

old commercial vehicle that it was used for and

which is why It wasn't actually, you know, fully

beat up on miles yet. And it was a decent deal.

Like it was it was like 14 something or 15 something.

And the one thing I've noticed since leaving

the car industry, the used car industry is that

they will not haggle. No one does that anymore.

It's literally like I saw an article in Jalopnik

about it. that people just you know car dealerships

just won't move they won't budge or they'll give

you their you know the competitive price online

and then when you go in there to purchase it

you've got like two to three grand and you know

oh you got to have this extra fee and you know

this extra this and this extra that and so You

know, I've done my research on it. I kind of

knew what was coming. And so we went in there

and Mary's like, you got to do the talking because,

you know, they'll run all over her. And sometimes

I'll cave, sometimes not. Today, I was not in

one of the moods to cave. So I started having

the conversation with this guy. really weird

situation out here in Colorado as opposed to

Michigan. Michigan, they're all run on commission,

all the salespeople. In Colorado, they're all

salary. So they don't care if you buy the car

or not. I mean, granted, they're supposed to

get the units pushed, but they're not like bending

over backwards trying to squeeze extra money

out to get you to buy this vehicle. And so it's

a little different world here. very low pressure,

very like, you know, we want to please you. We

want to have you as a repeat customer, but you

know, this is our bottom line. And they'll actually

show you like, they don't even care. Like they'll,

they'll tell you exactly what they paid for it.

You know, when they got it, how old it is, you

know, whereas like in Michigan, you kind of have

to like really beat them up to get that information

here. They're just like, here it is. So this

vehicle was on the lot 142 days and We were,

you know, we knew this going in. So I was ready

to haggle. I was ready to, you know, kind of

argue with them. And I'm like, look, I'll pay

cash. I just want it for this price out the door.

My dad's done that in Michigan and it works great.

I've done it in Michigan. It works great. And

so we opted to do this. And funny enough, when

after we'd been kind of bouncing around for an

hour with the general manager, and the owner

of the place. We managed to beat him up because

it was getting up, it was like, it was gonna

be like 17 grand when all was said and done.

We beat him up, got it back down under 15. And

he's like... Fine blah blah blah like he got

it like to the price. We were happy. They were

happy We ended up getting like the two key fobs

because I guess normally they don't have them

which I remember that from Michigan you take

things to an auto auction they disappear Miraculously,

so we used to take them off The cars and just

send them with like a key because most stuff

would just come up missing anyway But anyways

the The whole thing went down pretty decent they

Funny enough, though, while we were signing up

for it and making the final decision, another

family with young kids, a little bit younger

than ours, come in wanting the same exact fan.

And so the only gripes with the interior is it's

got like beige seats, which are horrible for

having kids. Like it's not a family vehicle in

that stretch of the imagination there. But it

does have the charcoal floor which was more important

to me because the floor is the thing that is

going to get murdered Gloriously with having

children or adults for that matter. I had a 1989

GMC s15 pickup Extended cab highest it Sierra

classic 4 .3 v6. Yes, I know it's a mouthful,

but I love saying it because I love that truck

Anyways, it had beige everything on the inside

and some dark brown, but mostly beige. That thing

was a travesty because not only did the heater

core break at one point and just ooze the heater

core fluid all over my carpet, which was red

or green, it was green. So it stained the carpet

a really funky color. Shortly thereafter, I spilled

an icy in the car, which was red, which again,

destroyed the carpet. So, not having a dark floor

is very, or not having a light floor is very

important. Having a dark floor is a very good

thing. And it didn't have leather, which the

majority of the ones we're looking at had leather

or a branded title, which I won't do that. I

know that there's some instances where they're

okay, but I don't know what Historically is wrong

with it because they don't exactly say that either

and usually those don't want to give you the

car facts And I'm not paying 50 bucks for it.

So So anyways Other than like a little you know

front bumper dent in it, it's not bad at all

and Super nice vehicle. I know how to use it

already. Mary's not really all that knowledgeable

with it, but she's learning and I'm teaching

her things because again, I've worked at a car

a lot. I played around with them just because

that was my job as the lot guy. And I also like

to just mess with the radios and reprogram them.

So that's the fun thing. And I know where all

the storage bins are. But it's got the stow -and

-go seating, which is really nice because you

can fold down the middle row and the back row

into the floor and you've got a cargo van. So,

for instance, if I need to go pick something

up from the store that's too big for the Equinox,

I can throw it in the back of there and it's

fine. The other instance is when you pull the

seats back up, you have a storage compartment

underneath the footing of the floor, which again

is nice because then things that normally take

up space in the back of our SUV can be hidden

under the floor and not seen unless we need them,

which... Once in a while we do, but there are

things that it would be better not to be in direct

sunlight or just not take up the space in general.

So that we're really excited about. So anyways,

that's where Mary's at with the kids, because

we drove out to Denver area together and her

and the kids are driving home currently. And

so I'm flying solo in the Equinox, which. is

basically going to be my vehicle and I'm perfectly

okay with that. I have been spending the last

like week and a half like I don't know if anybody's

getting to that stage of their life where they're

having like almost like borderline midlife crisis

like Yes, I just blew like seven hundred dollars

on a PC and we, you know, Mary got a car which

that was that was kind of needed anyway before

winter. But she's also planning on a trip to

Arizona to see our old pastor and their kids

and family and everything in September when I'm

in production. So they won't see me anyway during

that week. So they might as well go and that'll

be a nice, comfortable vehicle that they can

camp in the back of it and sleep. But the. The

thing is is like I've been looking pretty hardcore

like I I really want to find a 1989 or There

about within I don't want to get the 90 because

they changed the front grill I want like an 84

to 89 s15 pickup I'd prefer an s15. I mean I

can get the s10 and just swap out the by the

grill and swap it out. But I'd prefer to do that

because I love the decals, love the GMC logo,

I love the grill design. For a long time I had

mine mounted on the wall that I had from my wreck.

But I still have the center emblem that would

screw into the grill. I still have that aspect

of my truck. And I have the window sticker and

I have the, actually the car keys to it still.

Again, I missed the truck. I wish that when I

traded it in 08 that instead of trading it for

a grand, I would have kept it in some sort of

storage somewhere and then fixed it up later

because now I'm like deeply regretting it and

wishing that I could have the truck back so I

could fix it and repair it and drive it because

I love the compact light duty trucks that they

had back in the 80s, the S trucks, the S10s,

the S15s. Because everything out now is like

mid -size, like the Colorado and the Canyon were

the logical replacements for the S10 and the

Sonoma, which replaced the S15. And the problem

with it is that they're huge. Like, even when

they came out with the ones, you know, the earlier

version of the Canyon and the Colorado, yeah,

they were nice. And I liked it. I liked the Canyon

just because it had some of that that flair of

the 80s truck. And honestly, I might try doing

that, but I don't quite like it as much. I love

the metal and the boxiness to the the 89 that

I had. And it just seems like the earlier canyons

in Colorado had like cheap plastic. never know

i might go that route try and find a canyon that

i like but um yeah the the current colorados

and canyons while i do like them there's a slowdown

ahead while i do like them i would not i don't

think i'd buy them because they're the same price

as like a full -size silverado or sierra and

in honestly i wish gm would come out with um

a new a new version of the S10 and the S15. I

know they use the S10 name in like South America

and Europe and other countries and everything

instead of the Colorado name, but I really wish

that they made like a slightly updated, like,

you know, keeping true to that old look and that

old, you know, the lighting style. and the grill

style and you know just I know I'm just being

overly nostalgic and like wishy -washy on it

and I should just get with the times and buy

a new truck but and I realized they don't make

any of the parts anymore too but I wish that

they'd They, you know, there was a way I could

find them. I've been looking online on like cars

.com and everywhere else, trying to find, you

know, a reasonably priced S10 or S15. I've seen

them as high as like 35 ,000, which is just nuts.

There's a slowdown ahead. And I've seen them

as low as like $400. And those are generally

like complete dumps, but. The thing is, is I'm

wanting the digital cluster that I had. I'm wanting

like because it was just really cool. They like

everything was digital. It was it was awesome.

Which mine started going bad a little bit before

I got rid of it, among other things that were

breaking that I didn't want to fix. But I didn't

really have the know how either. Now I think

I would do it just as something to do because

I would enjoy it and getting to drive it. And

it's in Colorado, too, so nothing out here really

rusts out like. You have to worry more about

hail damaging your vehicles or somebody re -rending

you than you do Your vehicle rusting out like

they don't use salt out here. They don't you

know, like the great lakes area does in surrounding

states because you know, they don't get the ice

is bad and everything falls out here, but So

I see a lot more they ask trucks out here now

that i'm out here Some are rusted some are but

it's again. It's it's one of those things that

i'm just very passionate about and I guess that

that's kind of where I'm at you know in my life

of where I'm wondering if I'm having like a midlife

crisis and it's It's just strange for me like

I'm not wanting like a Lamborghini or Corvette

or you know go sleep with another woman or anything

like that My my intense passion is like my nostalgia

like I'm like I want a brand new computer that

does everything I want for now in the foreseeable

future And I want my old truck back like that's

literally all I want like I don't even care I

Think if I could get a Canyon and I could have

it Two -tone painted like my old truck Just as

a nostalgia touch to it. I think that would be

really cool. But I again, that would require

money and I don't have that. So again, just something

fun I like to think about from time to time.

I did have a transformer drawn by. I can't remember

his name now. He drew a copy of. He does like

he's done art for IDW like. for Transformers

covers and everything too. I can't remember the

name but he was doing it around tax time one

year and I had him draw Ultimus Prime which is

my version of Optimus like his clone that's you

know using the body of my old 89 truck and I

still use it for the ATTF mascot. It's Megatron's

fusion cannon and he's got you know kind of a

prime look to him with my old truck which is

just awesome. And so anyways, yeah, I'm very

much on the nostalgia train with my old truck

and really wanting it or wanting one like it.

And that's kind of my midlife crisis thing. I'm

like, I don't care about anything else. I just

want this. I just want this truck. I'm sure.

And I wanted to run a car fax on it like the

other day or just like a VIN check or just to

see where it's at or if it's in the junkyard

or, you know, when the last time it had an oil

change, if it's still driving. Just because I'm

nosy and I still have the like I said the car

keys to it or one of the sets and then I still

have The window sticker that my grandpa gave

me and it's got the the VIN on it and the truck

was like sixteen Sixteen thousand eight hundred

dollars or somewhere in that neighborhood. I

don't know if you go through my tweets on Twitter

you'll find the the image of it, but I didn't

want to pay the fifty bucks to try and find it

because more than likely it's probably in a junkyard

now which saddens me. But it had like the rally

wheels. It had, you know, it was decked out.

It had power locks, power windows, and for an

89, that's pretty awesome. So, yeah, that's enough

me gushing about vehicles. Like I'm sure I just

bored the crap out of everybody on here. Did

have fun though when I found the art for the

last episode Somebody did that up on Instagram

and it was of Kevin Conroy is like old man Bruce

and I guess he's gonna be playing the kingdom

come Bruce Wayne and they might be pulling Batman

from another universe or another multiverse earth

Which I thought was kind of interesting as well

And Yeah, so Lot lot going on a lot of a lot

of different stuff It's it's definitely gonna

be different this this next year and I'm looking

forward to seeing what voices I do in Discovery

Mountain, which is the show that I'm on and So

Yeah, I because I'm redoing the audition process

and I'm trying different things out it's I sent

in like a general demo of voices that I can do

and You know like the Joker or Megatron or stars

at the golem Smeagre or Wows of Malta or Kermit

the Frog or is the snack bar still open Jay Jay

Sherman John Lovitz or Casey Kasem Other rocking

24 radio. I'm just throwing phrases in there.

Nothing actually is being said. So yeah, I'm

just having fun messing around with that, like

sending those in. This is Deckard Kane. I protect

the Herodrim from Diablo. Yeah, anyways. You

can tell I played way too many video games I

would sit there and listen to Kevin Conroy and

Mark Hamill doing their lines over and over and

the Batman Arkham City games and the Arkham universe

and You know the Diablo games listening to Deckard

Cain I'm Deckard Cain Diablo is a pain in my

rear Yeah, so there's a number of other voices

I can do to that I'm just not breaking out right

now because my voice is hoarse. I've been talking

non -stop for a while and it's just, yeah. So

anyways, those are some of the things going on

as far as me and life and geekdoms and whatnot.

I did see something really awesome though where

you can take a Garmin. GPS because the actually

or the van that we bought you know some of them

come with a Garmin GPS and then some of them

don't but I found this program it's a voice studio

and somebody mentioned on Twitter about two weeks

ago two three weeks ago that, you know, could

you imagine, and I know I told this story already,

but David Kay doing Vsports Megatron on your

GPS, you know, letting you know, you know, you're

going in the wrong direction. And I saw this

and I thought, this is beautiful because what

I'm going to do is I'm going to download this

studio on my computer. I'm going to be buying

a GPS, a Garmin GPS, because we lose our signal

of our maps while we're in the mountains. Our

satellite, you know, part of the phone just dies.

And so we have literally no way of getting to

and from the mountains. And it's kind of frightening

when you don't know where you're going. So you

either have to follow somebody that knows where

they're going or yeah. Anyways, yeah, I'm going

to record. For the Garmin, myself doing Megatron's

voice. In half a mile, turn left onto Colorado

60 West. And, um, you know, like, uh, you know,

oh yes, turn left. Turn left ahead, Maximal.

Um, or, or, uh. Take the next left onto Colorado

60 West. Or just some of the other phrases like

it's just it'll be fun. I don't know it gives

you like ways to record certain lines and So

yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm gonna gonna

mess around with it And then just kind of see

what happens Because I I really like that idea

of being able to do my own GPS voices and So

I could do impressions like I could do it. I

could do like a variety of different voices.

I could do like Southern's and stuff and You

know just whatever I mean, I'll just I'm gonna

have fun with it. I'm gonna do Megatron for sure

I might do the Joker, but it might kill my voice

But yeah, so that that'll be entertaining and

fun. I just discovered that anyway So I'm trying

to figure out if there's a way to do it for like

the phone app version of it I know you can do

it for the actual Garmin itself I want to do

it for the phone app if that's possible because

then I can make it super simple But yeah, there's

just a lot of stuff going on a lot of stuff changing

geek cast radio comm we're gonna be doing some

more revamp particularly going to be revamping

some of the subsections like where you click

on these shows yeah the option for specific shows

will I'm going to condense it a little bit on

those but I'm also going to create a kind of

a one -stop shop for shows to have I'm going

to redo the subscribe page too thanks to a plug

-in by Hank Davis from TPE Network. There's one

where it allows you to have the subscription

links for all of your different programs and

it associates it with the actual logo of the

company and so I'm gonna have it set up for all

the shows that way because the grid that I have

on there, one, it's getting rather long and two,

It's just easier if you can find the show you're

looking for in that. But I'm also going to put

those in the pages for that program. And so yeah,

I'm going to be doing a little bit of revamp

on some of those things. There's also a nice

little feature that I'm going to try out as far

as like recording feedback and uploading. But

yeah, so some big things are... to change in

and try new things out. I'm honestly not sure

where majority of our programs have gone. I know

everybody's had a lot of life issues the last

year so I don't know. You know we were supposed

to do a top 100 wrestling which never came to

fruition. They were supposed to be like there

hasn't been a cinematic geeks in like four months.

There hasn't been you know Comic Concierge in

like over a year. There hasn't been well controlled

like at least six months. Future Imperfect, it's

been like four. So yeah, there's been a lot of

different things kind of going up and down, up

and down. We're gonna refocus and kind of move

in on certain core programs and kind of drop

the rest permanently because it just seems like

we're beating our heads against a brick wall

trying to keep some of these open. Telecast,

that's been a constant thorn since 2011 when

it ended the first time. We've had eight years

of people asking, when's it going to come back

to the point that people finally quit asking.

It was a great show, but it just, yeah, unfortunately

it just never came back. But yeah, so Altered

Geek, I'm pretty much going to go in a different

route. I'm going to kind of retrace some of its

past. I'm going to talk about some of the more

or less hot topics of geekdom along with you

know, maybe like a short tech segment of like

a how -to or something along with a featured

topic and some other things. Maybe short interviews

if I can fit those in the episodes. Just, you

know, little things to kind of spruce it up a

little bit. It's been in tender need of some

TLC and, you know, doing like maybe like a short

scripted like one to two minute thing because

I can honestly probably devote the time to that.

Instead of trying to do like a plethora of things

But again, it just kind of depends. I I found

that life has been rather difficult different

the last year and a half so some of the things

I'd planned originally are not happening and

so Yeah So anyways, I think that about rounds

this episode of altered geek up this little quick

a raw episode of it where there's really not

much to go on, but I don't know, I just felt

like being a little open and a little transparent

on some of the things, some of the things that

are in plan, some of the things that we're looking

forward to, some things I'm geeking out to right

now. I know that Altered Geek's kinda a little

bit all over the place, especially this last

year. I did enjoy doing the interview episodes.

I'm going to probably start scheduling those

again for the fall and trying to come up with

a different basket of interested parties or going

back through my original catalog to find people

that submitted that I didn't get a chance to

interview, that I have the episodes, that I did

the episodes, you know. for already and so And

I might actually start bringing on some other

Other geeks and other fans of the show just so

we can have some some mixed up stuff On the program

and if people would love to send emails with

either feedback or comment on the website or

hit me up on social media Those are all great

ways to interact with the program. I read everything

And If people love to leave feedback on iTunes,

I know right now some of this stuff is a little

bit like on the up and down and just kind of

all over the place, so it's a little bit difficult

to rate it properly. But I would really welcome

constructive criticism sent via email. But yeah,

you can interact with the show in those ways,

please do so, please subscribe and whatever your

favorite RSS distribution platform is, whether

it be Apple Podcasts or Spotify, iHeartRadio,

TuneIn, Google Podcasts, whatever. One of the

interesting things about Google Podcasts is now

they're gonna start, you can Google a podcast

and it will pull up, or the topic nature, and

it will pull up podcasts related to it in the

search feed. and people can play it from there.

So that's another interesting thing that you

can look forward to. Maybe something will pop

up in there at some point. But yeah, a lot of

things coming down the pipe for GeekCast radio

content. So until next time, get altered, get

geeky with the Altered Geeks.