Why All The Clickbait? And What's Coming To Netflix

Hey, this is Steve Bloom, and you are listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hello and welcome

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

And joining me on this adventure into geekdom

is TFG1 Mike. Sometimes, folks, existence is

futile. Yes. All that is guaranteed is death

and taxes and horrible taxes and horrible insurance

rates. Yes. Yeah. And that sounds like a funny

Joker clip, like waiting to happen. Yeah. Like,

you know. The men just want to watch the world

burn. So, yeah, it's been a week since our last

episode. Really? Has it only been a week? It

feels like it's been a lot longer than that.

I think it's been a week. Now you're making me

question my sanity. I'm going to the website

right now. I'm waiting for it to load. Load,

damn it, load! Yeah, last one was June 2nd. Really?

Yeah. I have rss .com pulled up so it's faster

and I already had it on the Altered Geek profile.

Yes, yes, yes. So I'm playing around with a new

like a new tech gadget as it were. Okay. You

know how El Gato has those stream decks? Yeah.

The push button stuff with all the. Yeah. So

I I picked up a knockoff. As it were. No, I mean,

it's legit sold on on Amazon. It's it's an off

brand version of the same thing. Right. That's

of two hundred dollars or, you know, 90. I got

it for 50. Right. And. I'm going to. More or

less mess around with it and see what it's capable

of, just because I've never had one. And I've

I've kind of I've seen them. I know that they

have capabilities of things. But I don't know

what they do, though. Essentially, I'm. I'm buying

this so that I can play around and test it out

and see how well it performs. Very cool. Very

cool. Yep. And I'm trying to figure out how to

get video stream stuff going. And this is kind

of a part of that endeavor. I also bought the

DJI mic minis. Nice. Which. What's nice about

that is it's a wireless microphone system that

plugs into a smartphone. and you can hook it

up to your phone, and it's crystal clear when

you hook it up. It's those stupid mics that you

see everybody holding with their fingers and

talking into it. That drives me nuts. That's

not something I plan on doing. I'm going to actually

do what it's meant for, and that's mount it,

put it directly on my shirt. Yeah, put it on

your lapel. It's a lapel mic is what it is. Yeah,

I mean, but it's wireless. And so in that regard,

it's nice. And so I'm looking forward to playing

around with it more in the field. And there may

be a point I go interview the guy from Totally

80s Pizza. Nice. Locally, because Totally 80s

Pizza is a it's a museum. local to where i'm

at and i've eaten there multiple times either

for my birthday uh meal at work um pretty much

anytime they're like where do you want to go

to eat i'm like totally hate his pizza the the

pizzas i mean halfway decent like it's all right

um it's i i don't go there for the pizza because

like quite honestly i prefer like domino's pizza

over any other right now yeah um theirs is good

it's just i I prefer, you know, Domino's pizza.

That being said, what you go there for is the

museum. Which is literally all around you. Yeah,

I posted it on my Instagram like. A couple weeks

ago when I went. I don't know if you saw it,

but yeah, I think I did. Yeah, they have like

an original Ninja Turtle. They have an original

Optimus Prime. They have. bunch of sign stuff

from actors from stuff from the 80s they have

like a terminator stand -up they have uh mtv

like old music videos playing on the tv and on

the radio there so like literally you can watch

like cartoon themes and like music videos of

music from the 80s uh so it's just it's it's

a blast to go in there because i'm sitting there

i'm like i know this song i know this one i know

this one and you know they have peewee herman's

you know bike They have an ET in there. They

have Zoltar from Big. They have an old arcade

in there. It's cool. Definitely would recommend

it if people come out here for this area. As

we move on... I believe you have a few items

that you wanted to bring up. Yes, yes. A bunch

of news stuff. We got a whole bunch of awesome

stuff coming out, coming up. We got a few just

kind of mentionable news stories, and then we

got a few in -depth news stories and other things.

A few things that are just like, people don't

do this. Don't take things. and run with them

and take them out of context kind of things.

And don't, don't write articles that are misleading.

Don't, don't, uh, but first, uh, go back to the

top 100 animated series. 2026 15th anniversary

edition and check out all the episodes we have

there. Most recent episode is 50 to 26. So check

that out. The top 25 episode will be coming soon.

Not going to say anything more than that on that,

but go check out the top 100 animated series

for 2026, the 15th anniversary edition. It's

been a blast doing that so far in the top 25.

As always, folks, it's going to be a slobber

knocker. You never know what you're going to

get. But for the top stories in geekdom, stuff

that we've uncovered, stuff that I've been wanting

to talk about for a little while. uh some stuff

i found on facebook there is a one news story

in here that's very old actually it's back for

me i've been wanting to mention this since april

and i my brain is just kind of slowly forgotten

about it because the link was so far up in my

own i have conversations with myself because

i repeat repeat repeat myself a lot folks so

i have my own messenger conversation with my

own account where I just put links of stuff I

would need to save and remember. Apparently I

forgot about this from April, but first AFI lifetime

achievement award, a tribute to Eddie Murphy,

uh, Shrek teaser. So this is currently airing

on Netflix. This special, the AFI lifetime achievement

award to Eddie Murphy. I started watching it

and then I stopped watching it because you weren't

going to be able to watch the whole thing. We

are eventually going to do an episode of studio

2009 on this Netflix AFI special lifetime achievement

award to Eddie Murphy, but they're getting basically

everyone from his life and everyone he worked

with or whatever else. Well, this little teaser

thing, they had Mike Myers up there and Mike

Myers was either in a Shrek mask or. whatever

and that's how he presented his part of the thing

i thought that was hilarious for them to do that

i think he actually does it in the show uh obviously

uh so that was a nice little teaser but the thing

i've been forgetting since april is that in the

ncis universe we are getting ncis new york ordered

at cbs with ll cool j and scott can set to star

So CBS has handed a series order to the new spinoff

NCIS New York, with LL Cool J reprising his NCIS

Los Angeles role as Sam Hanna, with Hawaii Five

-0 alum Scott Kan also starring. It doesn't give

any information on what Scott Kan's character

will be. But basically, they're going to go back

to Sam Hanna's hometown of New York City to lead

a field office, and Sam Hanna's going to partner

with roguish agent played by Scott Kan, helping

lead a new team, like I mentioned, and they're

tasked with high -stakes missions to defend one

of the most vital cities and ports in the world.

I have loved the NCIS universe since 2003 when

the original NCIS debuted. I haven't watched

all of the spinoffs. I did watch NCIS LA up until

I think season four or five. I need to catch

up with its 14 season run because I did really

like those characters at the time. And I just

I think it's a fun thing. And I'm very I was

very invested with Sam Hanna and LL Cool J in

that show. So that is very, very awesome. The

so that's the the good fun thing. The thing that

you should not do on the Internet, folks, is

take things and twist them around. Vincent Martella,

the voice of Phineas Flynn on Phineas and Ferb,

posted a prom -like photo a while ago with him

and Alison Stoner, who plays the voice of Isabella

on the show. It was just an innocent photo of

the two of them up against a prom -like background

because this was back during prom season. Okay.

So high school is a school year is ending. It's

almost summer and Phineas and Ferb happens in

the summertime. Everybody, every unknown website,

every unknown, no name account on Instagram took

this photo and captioned it as look, the voices

for Isabella and Phineas got married in real

life. No, they didn't. Don't do that. No, don't

and stop. Don't twist things around. Go to the

actual account of the person that posted the

photo. Look at the description. Hey, just having

a little fun here. It's a little prom photo fun.

I just people on the Internet just. God, people

are so dumb. So dumb, just so dumb. Speaking

of dumb people on the internet, let's talk about

Valnet, shall we? And their companies and things

that are owned by Valnet, like Screen Rant. Oh

boy, now I've made statements on this podcast

recently that I have actively blocked most of

Valnet's... Pages on Facebook and things like

that. Apparently this one got through. Apparently

I didn't block screen rant on Facebook because

originally that's where I first saw this, but

so coming up because skybound entertainment now

has the transformers license. They are now going

to reprint everything because they have the license.

They're going to. Give us new printings and new

additions of the stuff that IDW did and the stuff

that, you know, all this stuff originally was

printed at Marvel. Okay. All the, when it was

originally new, it was all printed at Marvel

and everything else. Then Dreamwave got it and

Dreamwave had a short run there and everything

else and all this and everything else. So by

the time IDW got their hands on it, they were

going to do, okay, we're going to reprint it.

We're going to give it, you know, really cool,

awesome new things and whatever else. And IDW

lost the license and Skybound under Image Comics,

Image Comics got it. So this is how. It just,

it breaks my brain. It just breaks my brain.

This is how Screen Rant, you know better than

that. I have one. This is how Screen Rant starts

out their article. This article is written by

TJ Mills. who is an editor on Screen Rant's comic

team, where she combines her lifelong passion

for DC with her analytic background as a former

intelligence analyst. Okay, sure. Transformers

G1 officially returns in new series that promises

Optimus and Megatron's true final battle. And

the photo that they decided to use for the featured

photo is basically the movie poster for Transformers

the movie. It's basically Ultra Magnus, Springer,

RC, Blur, Cup, Galvatron, etc., etc. In celebration

of the franchise's 40th anniversary, Transformers

is officially returning to its golden age. The

franchise prepares to launch a new Generation

1 set series that will revisit the most legendary

final battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron.

So this is not a new G1 series. What they are

talking about here is the fact that Image Comics,

Skybound Entertainment under Image Comics, is

reprinting. In a new three issue series, Transformers,

the Transformers, the movie comic. That's what

this is. That's what this article is about. Is

like, but the way that this read to me was that

the way the headline reads officially returns

in new series that promises Optimus and Megatron's

true final battle. Now, if you just read the

headline. Transformers G1 officially returns

in new series that promises, like, that doesn't

say anything to me about a comic book or anything.

That just says to me that a new Transformers

Generation 1 series is coming. Now, I know most

people, general people, will just look at the

headline and assume, oh, a new Transformers series

is coming, and they won't even scroll down and

see, oh, it's Image Comics, it's a new comic

series, or it's a comic adaptation of the movie,

which is what this is. But it's like, oh, my

God, can you, like, make a better descriptive?

Like, don't mislead it. Like, just say what it

is in the title. I'm going to have field day

with this. I'm going to let you go in a second.

This title could have said Skybound Entertainment

officially reprints Generation 1 film comic book

or something. Just go. So I saw a nice little

article. This past week that was entitled The

End of the Click. AI overviews and search sharply

reduce traffic. If your business depends on paid

search, it's time to build your brand. So Google's

AI overview, if anybody's familiar with that,

I absolutely hate it. More so because it doesn't

give me the option. It just kind of is in your

face. So I've switched to DuckDuckGo as my search

now. Because one, they don't track you. And two,

it doesn't give you an AI thing. It just gives

you the search. This is definitely where clickbaity

content is going to die a very slow and painful

death. websites are already tanking like they're

losing year after year i've done an analysis

on ign screen rant uh and they've been losing

about nine to fifteen percent traffic a year

just based on open source um like simply web

and other services like that that uh do scans

based on that and it's possible that it's not

100 accurate because it's not google search console

That being said, our traffic is increasing. Yay,

that's good. Because one, they're not clickbaity.

Two, it's determined based on the titling, but

it's also determined based on the subject matter.

And one thing we excel at is we're not a catch

-all. We're not a website that tries to do everything.

I've been looking at IGN and Screen Rant because

I'm currently rebuilding the Geekcast Radio website.

And I've been looking at all of our competition,

trying to figure out what do I like? What do

I not like? What do I want to try and do? What

do I not want to try and do? What makes sense

to tackle? What doesn't? The two of them have

created essentially their own database, their

own Rotten Tomatoes IMDB. And I was like, do

I tackle this? And it's, you know, and so I'm

I have a co -conspirator of of a co -developer

in this whole process, which is I'm bouncing

ideas off multiple AIs to try and figure out,

you know, is this a smart idea or is this worth

putting my effort into before I go down a rabbit

hole of what I want to try and do? And it was

like. You already excel, you know, based on all

the metrics I fed it. It's like you already excel

at these these other things. It's like this is

where you're going to dominate the other sites.

It's like, don't try and reinvent the wheel.

Don't try and, you know, do this other stuff.

And I'm like, yeah, good point. Like, stay focused

on what we're good at, which is, you know, 80s

and 90s nostalgia pretty much. And we're super

niche in that department, which is good. But

we also don't do clickbaity articles with like

stupid. I mean, the phrasing on half the stuff

that comes out of any of the Valnet sites. Yeah.

Is trash. Yeah. You know. Anything, anything

to get a click like I mean, in this this even

in their article that you you mentioned about

the G1 officially returns a new series that promises

Optimus. the way that they worded this, making

it sound like, and in the comments, people were

talking about it too, makes it sound like there's

a brand new G one series. Yeah. And there's not,

and there's not, and it's not even revisiting.

Like it's literally a comic. Yeah. And it's a,

it's the comic adaptation of the film that has

been reprinted once already by IDW. That was

originally done by Marvel. It's just a reprinting

of the animated film adaptation. That's what

it is. It's nothing new. And look, I don't say

that to downplay the awesomeness of the animated

adaptation comic book. I'm I've never read it.

Never have I read it. It's brand new. This is

a brand new release. It's just how many times

can you retell the same story? right no i okay

yes i know i know the release is new what i'm

saying is the material within the release is

not new that's what i'm saying yeah what i'm

saying is when it was new it was new 40 years

ago when marvel printed it and then you know

when idw got the license they reprinted it for

the first time or for whatever second time whatever

it was so they reprinted it when we started doing

our marvel coverage and we never got back to

it and now we will now that skybound is whatever

whatever though i'm getting sidetracked here

but my point is is i've never read the adaptation

i was going to when the idw adaptation was a

thing but now the skybound version is here i'm

very excited for this but again like you were

saying like i was saying the way they're they

wrote that article at screen rant makes it sound

like g1 is back it's a new series it's a brand

new day Dust off your voices, Peter Cullen and

Frank Welker. You've got jobs again. Like, no,

that's not what this is. And no disrespect to

Mr. Cullen or Mr. Welker. Love them to death.

Love their work. Absolutely respect the hell

out of both of them for what they did and what

they continue to do when they're hired to do

the voices. But yeah, just. These websites, Valnet

has got to, out of all the media companies out

there, Valnet has got to be burnt to the ground.

I'm not saying anything for liable purposes,

but I... The opinions of TSU and Mike do not

reflect the opinions of the Geeky Axe Radio Network

LLC. So they... Because they own... you know,

as far as like their screen based content, uh,

they own screen rent, they own collider, they

own comic book resources, they own movie web.

Yep. And then they partner with everything. Um,

so they're paid shills in that, that regard.

Uh, and then like, as far as like gaming, you

know, they own the game rant gamer polygon. Yeah.

Um, they, as far as like tech, how to geek. God,

I mean, they own. They own all kinds of crap.

I. I used to like and I used to respect these

websites. Same. But it seems like there is rinse

repeat of the same crap between all of their

content. Like you're not getting a different.

No. You're not getting a different perspective

anymore. No. It's all the same. It might have

a different title. Yep. But it literally is the

same. Different titles. The websites are basically

reskinned of the same design. Like they're all

the same layout. Oh, yeah. They all use the same

interface. It's a multi multi web setup. They

all have the pop out. They all have the same.

Yeah, exact layout. They might have a slightly

different slant. Yeah, but they're they're essentially

the same website. Same title, different featured

image. Yeah, that's literally different color

palette, different logo. Yep. So. And honestly,

this is what fuels me to. Do better with our

website and with what's coming for the website.

I I do not want to repeat. No. What they're doing.

Absolutely not. And then I especially when they

talk Transformers or Star Trek, like I'm sure

they do this with other things. I notice it like

I notice it way more when they're their stuff

is erroneous because I know both of those franchises

in and out, especially when they talk. Star Trek

or Beast Wars or. Like. For instance, Collider

six hours ago posted its official Batman, the

animated series is returning this year. That's

not. And and so. They're. They're saying that.

You know, it makes it sound like the TV series

is coming back. It's not. It's not. So when you

dig down into it, it says Upper Deck is releasing

a Batman Enemies of Gotham card set later, a

board game later this year, inspired by Batman,

the animated series. Upper Deck, like it's not

even a. Yeah, it's cards. It's it's it's a it's

a board game or cards like it's not. And then

they go into like the history of the whole thing,

and then they have their little IMDB block in

there. But I go, what? That is so stupid. But

I mean, it's the same thing. It's these crappy

clickbaity titles. You know, it's fine if they

want to. If they want to have something that's

like, you know, there's one about Robert Downey

Jr. with, you know, Sherlock Holmes, you know,

his it's his elite action thriller deserves a

sequel 15 years after its release. OK, that's

that's fine. That's like, OK, I'll bite. But

when you're making it sound like something is

coming back from the great beyond and there's,

it's not, and it's in some other medium, whether

it be a game or a comic or, you know, card or,

you know, something totally unrelated. Yeah.

It's yeah. It's, it's so misleading. Well, like,

I mean, so technically Batman, the end. Okay.

Well, maybe not. Like they did do the new Batman

adventures or they did do like the. the BTAS,

the DCAU stuff has had comics for it before,

but like, again, like you're saying about titling,

like my titles are fairly straightforward. Like

take away my own branding. Okay. So for my three

65 blog, if you take away my, tf2 and mike 365

yada yada yada stuff bad boys 30th anniversary

expanded and remastered limited edition two cd

set album review plain as day you know exactly

what you're getting into with that title the

beginning of the article hello all welcome to

my blah blah blah i'll be talking about the film

score to bad boys this is the oh i need to i

need to edit that actually that but the point

is is that like you're saying we are not um when

we write stuff or when we do stuff on geekcastradio

.com we do not muck up the title or any of the

writing side of it with backtalk or you know

we're not over here swallowing mouthwash where

we double talk to the reader or where we give

you three and a half paragraphs of stuff you

can read on wikipedia kind of thing well it's

you know like cbr Henry Cavill's Wolverine officially

returns this fall. Guess what this one's for?

Their MO at Valnet is anytime they say something

like that, it's a product. Yeah. Anytime they

say, you know, it's returned, it's officially

returned or it's being continued or, you know,

whatever. Anytime they say something like that,

it's clickbait to get you to open it because

it's a product that they're going to get a kickback

from. This one, it's the new Marvel Legends Cavalry

figure is coming out. The action figure. Yeah.

And don't get me wrong. Like, it's cool. Like,

I think it's neat for the fact that what it is

now, what's funny is you could replace the head

with Hugh Jackman and you could have, you know,

a jacked version of of Hugh Jackman of Wolverine.

you know in this look uh and it would work uh

you could also take this body and use it you

know if you switch the hands out use it as a

demorphed uh tommy oliver you know by putting

the the dino thunder yep uh head on it so i mean

you could do that too i don't know like it's

it's i think it's neat And I think it's cool

that they've released all of those as Marvel

legends. Finally. Yeah. I mean, the only one

I picked up was Wolverine with Hugh Jackman's

head, you know, but I didn't get the battle,

the battle damage version or the, you know, the

Brown and in yellow, um, just not things that

I cared to get. Brown and yellow, brown and yellow,

brown and yellow. I mean, this one's cool, too.

And I've thought about it or like X -23 or, you

know, a Deadpool figure. But I'm like, ultimately,

I'm like, don't care. I'm like, if you don't

care, there's no reason to get it. Now, like

Mattel, on the other hand, has these new, you

know, they have the DC license back from McFarlane.

And if you can get like the kids edition of the

figures actually look. halfway decent like for

12 bucks they're the same height as the marvel

legends stuff and they come with accessories

kind of like how the old ninja turtles came with

them like on the the little uh like the fence

thing where it stuck to them behind them like

so their little accessory uh thing all of the

one color thing and uh they actually clipped

to like batman's belt for instance and i thought

about picking one of those up i was like oh that's

kind of That's kind of interesting. And I like

the suit and I like the design. And it's not

even the collector edition of these figures.

And I was like, I'm impressed for 12 bucks. You

know, whereas for years we've had these ones

that are barely four inches cost the same price

as this one that's six inches tall. And it's

like fully articulated compared to those things.

And that's why the other ones were shelf warmers.

So I don't know. I think we can move on. All

right. We're going to head on over to nine to

five Google. They've got a story about movies

anywhere getting, they're adding the Lionsgate

films, including John wick knives out and more.

So the movies anywhere service is getting a boost

with the addition of the Lionsgate titles, including

some popular franchises. such as John Wick, The

Hunger Games, Knives Out, and more. Movies Anywhere,

a project which syncs movies' purchases across

platforms such as Google TV, Amazon Prime Video,

Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and others, is only

as good as its support from studios. If Major

Studio doesn't support the project, its films

simply do not sync between those platforms. One

of the biggest... holdouts has been lionsgate

the studio behind some major films and franchises

which has long withheld all of its titles for

movies anywhere starting this month that's changing

uh via flat panels hd 225 lionsgate films will

be added 225 lionsgate films will be added to

movies anywhere with 100 added each month through

early 2027. Deadline calls out some of the most

popular films being added, including the likes

of The Hunger Games and John Wick franchise,

as well as The Housemaid, Now You See Me, Now

You Don't, La La Land, Rambo, Dirty Dancing,

Passion of the Christ, and Knives Out. google

was briefly removed from movies anywhere during

a dispute with disney which operates the project

but has since returned that is very cool that

lion's gate is finally being added to movies

anywhere very funny as i've never heard of this

before movies anywhere really you've never heard

of this now oh yeah man i don't even know what

it is like i've never Yeah, so basically all

it is is whatever you have connected to it. Like

I mentioned, I have my Fandango at home thing

connected to it. So if for some odd reason I

don't have access to Fandango on the go, I can

go to Movies Anywhere and all of the movies that

I have purchased on Fandango are in Movies Anywhere.

So if you have an Apple account, if you have

Google, like I said, Google Play, whatever you

purchase on those platforms, it will sync to

movies anywhere and you will have that content

literally anywhere on your devices. It's awesome.

It's so cool. The only thing I don't like about

these digital services is when they pack up shop.

I agree, but this has been around for a while.

yeah i i just this is where i still i i kind

of get leery about it and i'm like i'm like i

think i'd rather own them at this point because

like i've seen it happen way too many times but

yeah i mean in the short term i think it's fine

but i think in the grander scheme i think it

movies anywhere has been around since october

of 2017 what was that other one that you had

for a while and then they just packed up shop

oh god uh i don't remember yeah there was one

late at night yeah use brain not work i has brain

no um no i mean this one's cool because i mean

it does have a lot of different franchises in

it um so i mean you do have that going for you

yeah but i mean like i said i don't use it as

much um i just i saw the story and i was like

oh very cool because like i said if i do have

like i do know i have i'm pretty sure let me

double check my so what it is okay it's an aggregator

yeah it's an aggregator okay so that's that's

why they're around so basically if you have the

movie on you know prime or netflix or something

else like they just pull it into one yeah well

i didn't understand that totally but um yeah

that's what i just So the thing, where is...

But I mean, in a sense, Amazon Prime does the

same thing. True. There's just sneakier in the

fact that you're like, is it on here? Is it not?

Is it on here? Is it not? We don't know. We don't

know what you own. Wait. You own stuff? No. I

don't know. I've gotten to the point where I'm

like, let's see, what can I buy at this point?

Or what's worth buying, I guess. Yeah, there

you go. Yeah, I have the three movie bundle set

of John Wick movies, so I never bought the fourth

movie, or I might have bought the fourth movie

out of the bundle, but because I bought the...

I had bought the three movie bundle of the wick

movies before the fourth movie even was out.

So I don't know if it's on movie. I'm assuming

it would be on movies anywhere, but yeah. All

right. Let's see. What else do we got? I think

before we get to, did you watch the, the little

teaser clip of the new dog movie? Yes, I did.

Okay. What do you think of Scooby 2027? So I've

seen people freaking the heck out over this.

And. I, I don't know how I feel about it, like.

I mean, it's a live action dog. I mean, and it

does look like a Great Dane. Yeah. Like because

it says there, you know, it that's what they

look like as a puppy. Mm hmm. And then they change.

Mm hmm. So. I don't know. I don't know what to

think. Like, it's. It's a teaser. I like it.

I like hearing what they said about it in the

teaser. I might have watched a different thing

where the people that are doing the research

for the film, that they actually went to people

who train Great Danes or who breed Great Danes,

where they said, yeah, it's puppies. That's what

they look like. And then when they grow up, they

look like Scooby. in the cartoon they they kind

of reversed how the animators and stuff originally

reversed how all the stuff whatever whatever

whatever i don't know it's weird but it's one

of those things where you know what it's a scooby

origin movie it is what it is it's a series isn't

it oh no it's a series on netflix it's a series

you're right i mean i'm gonna check it out yeah

yeah same i I'm going to see if I can review

this, because honestly, I think that. As somebody

who wasn't a huge Scooby -Doo fan and also, you

know, I haven't liked any of the live action

stuff since I mean, there's been very little

of it since the first two films, just because

the cast was pretty good. But I think this is

an opportunity to. Restart. You know, with it.

I think it's also funny. It says unleashing in

2027. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. That caught my attention

too. I was like, anytime I see unleash, I'm like,

yes, you don't have the trademark on that word.

Or can I? Yeah, I know. Right. It's funny. All

right. Well, I think folks, I think I've saved

everything I can save for now for last. We are

going to go to Google and the icon packs that

they released recently. And, uh, Oh boy. Oh boy.

I'm just going to do a screen share with you

for this. Cause yikes. So when you're ready,

you just click that button there. Except the

peoples can't see it. Yeah, the peoples can't

see it, but you can, and we can still discuss

it. Okay, so this is what my phone normally looks

like. I have a matte black background. And throughout

Google, all of Google's colors, they're purple

icons because it's me and I'm black and purple.

So that's what my phone normally looks like.

These are the two color, the two new icons. Everyone

was pissing their pants over the disco ones.

They're like, oh, my God, look at that Spotify

icon. That is so ugly. Oh, my God. What the hell

is that? And these are sugar cookie icons that

they came out with. Like, Oh my God, what in

the hell are these? What is the point? Well,

the point is to give your phone more like character,

a different design, different character. So this

is my phone with the disco. That's the point

is to change your icons. And the reason why I

clicked off and clicked onto this one is because

I have these in order now because I have other

ones here. So this is my phone with the disco

ones on. These are my folders. So if you see

these, like social is here and that's the next

folder here. So I don't have multiple screens.

I can't do the. seven screens for all icons so

i use folders so this is my i just like this

is just too weird for me so like wendy kind of

looks glammed up she looks all right i wouldn't

even know what uber eats was doordash looks fine

applebee's looks great arby's looks great they

all kind of look great except for uber eats it

looks really weird look at dominoes there it

just looks weird like i don't know i don't understand

it like i don't even know how you turn this on

because i i mean i have a pixel phone yeah you

have a pixel phone so you go into your settings

you go into wallpaper and style you scroll down

to Is it theme pack? Wallpapers. Hold on. More

wallpapers. Go to more wallpapers. Is it more

wallpapers? Not choose photos. Hold on. Where

is it? It's in here somewhere. More notification.

Shortcuts. Clock. Theme pack. Where is it? It's

in here somewhere. Not modes. It's in the settings

somewhere. Oh, let's see. I'll have to look.

I wonder if it's in icons. App icon. Yeah, because

all I've got is minimal or default. Wallpaper

and style. That's all I have. I mean, I can create

custom ones. Okay. If you do create. Because,

like, I have default and minimalistic. If you

do custom, then it has the disco, the scribbles,

the easel, the cookies, the treasure, and the

stardust. Okay. Yeah. Well, you found it, so

I forget. Anyway. It's still weird. Yeah, it's

still very weird. Look at the cookies. I'm like,

what the hell? just on the front page of my phone.

I wouldn't even, I was ready to turn these off,

but I went and I'd got like, look at that. There's

no way in hell. I like Facebook and, and Facebook

is in messenger. The only two I recognized at

first. And then this is, this is my foot. Like

dominoes is the only one that kind of stayed

the same. The rest of like, McDonald's, you can

barely see the logo. You can actually see the

Uber Eats logo this time. DoorDash, it's disappeared.

It's just crazy. And that's, I basically put

my phone back to what it was. I like... that

Google gives us these icon packs. I think it's

cool. I think it's interesting. I just think

that the dis because, because the disco one is

the one that, that people were all up in arms

about. This is the one that, Oh my God. Cause

they were really, they were really up in arms

about the Spotify. Like. A couple of podcasts

I listen to, they're like, oh, my God, that's

Spotify disco ball. It looks like crap. And oh,

my God, like the Gmail thing doesn't look that

half bad. The photos doesn't photos and camera

doesn't look half that bad. The phone one's fine,

whatever. But that Spotify thing just looks.

But but yeah, no, I don't know. I don't really

outside of my, like, I basically keep my phone

like this because I'm not out here changing my

phone display all that much. It's utilitarian

for me. It's not like, I don't know. I'm not

out here like artistry drawing or, or having.

I don't know. I just picked my color, set the

background to matte black, and then that was

it. Because I tried other photos and other colors.

I even tried purple on this, and it just didn't

work. I was like, I can't even see half the crap

anymore. But yeah, I thought I'd... bring in

some tech talk for, for a while since we talked

about everything else. Um, and I've been wanting

to talk about that for a bit on the, uh, on the,

uh, on the old podcast. Uh, what do you guys

think if you're Android users or I don't even

know what iPhone users get for icons and. and

customization and whatever else but if you're

an android user and google and all that let us

know in the comments what you guys think of the

icon packs that google gives us for stuff like

this and let us know about anything else that

uh we've discussed tonight like i mentioned earlier

steve and i at some point in the future will

be watching the afi lifetime achievement award

for eddie murphy because I watched like the first

five or ten minutes of it it was pretty funny

for the first five or ten minutes that I saw

so yup yup yup I have not watched it yet yeah

we will eventually there's so much other crap

we gotta do before we can but yup we will so

I have been, like I said, working on the geek

cast radio website. I also I got my hands on

frequency. Yep. From Stranger Things. It's an

interesting figure. It's about the same size

as a Voyager figure, but it's charged for the

race of a leader class, which seems to be Hasbro's

M .O., which I mean, they did that prime to mean

he was. an actual leader class though. Uh, but

then they put him in as a commander cause he

had that stupid trailer. Um, so there is a five

millimeter peg on his shoulder that you could

technically mount the, uh, the chicken cannon,

which honestly kind of reminds me of like Cheetor's,

uh, stomach brain gun thing from the old beast

wars that it kind of rotates. It looks stupid.

I don't like this stupid chicken thing. The cassette's

cool that goes in the stomach because it folds

down and you have to lift up part of the back

and press it through because it kind of gets

stuck. And then I like the head with the headphones

on it. Kind of reminds me of Blaster a little

bit. So it's kind of like a cross between Blaster

and Soundwave, but in the style of a van. The

arms seem kind of chintzy to me. I mean, the

way the arms and the legs fold up, they kind

of fold into the panels. So like in that regard,

like I kind of understand it. But that seems

pretty solid. The box was garbage, but. So like

if you're trying to collect it with that, like

they're all tore up in their suit, they're like

paper thin. Like why they would do minimal cardboard

on something that's supposed to be a collector

item. I don't know, but. Yeah, so there's that.

And then. I probably do a video of it at some

point. Soon before I. Start my deconstruction.

I will say there's no decals on them. It's all

painted. Which I was quite surprised. Very cool.

Very cool. The WSQK is painted on as well as

like the Eagle and all the other stuff. And I

was kind of looking at it. I'm like, I mean,

it's an 80s panel van. The front end, like the

transformation, like the robot mode looks like

Ultimis Prime. Which is. part of why i did it

right right um the cassette i don't think i would

i don't think i would do anything to it i think

i would paint over the logo of the wsqk and the

the frequency on there and then you know put

a gcrn logo right but i don't think i would i

don't think i would change like the yellow of

it just because one if i paint it it may not

fit back in the stomach interesting it's just

that's kind of the nature of the beast there

yeah um but uh so there is that and then uh yeah

i would probably paint it like the the brown

and gold of my old uh pickup truck that i used

to have my 80s pickup truck because i think that

would look really good on this like the two -tone

instead of being all blue Very cool. I think

I can shine this guy up, make him look neat,

and then get some Geekcast Radio decals to put

on it somehow. Don't know how I'd get them made,

but that's the realm I want to go with it. That's

kind of the multiple things I'm working on at

the present. Like I said, Geekcast Radio's new

website and tons of new features. new new areas

and new new functionalities and a lot of a lot

of better organization for the podcast so and

I'm trying to restore a lot of the old site as

possible and when I say that I mean like over

the years because of bandwidth or because of

space or because of other things uh just not

being optimized properly or just a bunch of crap

i periodically made downloads of the database

or like exported stuff from wordpress like old

posts um which over the years have been forgotten

and missing and so but i exported them before

i wiped them out so the uh the goal here is to

revive as much as humanly possible into the new

site of the old site. And I've managed to clean

out all of the old plugins and all of the old

trash and, um, the way the podcasts work are

totally different than any other plugin because

I made it. So yeah, I'm, I'm super excited for

the direction of this new site and, uh, getting

to unveil it. I'm hoping in August. Yes. So with

that, I think that about rounds this episode

out of Altered Geek. Let us know how you feel

about the various topics that we've discussed

on this episode and things that you'd like to

hear on the next one. Of course, you can comment

on the website geekcastradio .com or on our Discord

channel or on any other social platform. Just

a little bit of housekeeping. Uh, if you notice

some of the social channels changing, there's

a method to the madness here. And that's a part

of the new site revamp is, uh, consolidating

titles and retitling to the GCRN. Uh, and then

as well as, um, doing that to various social

handles, uh, some of them are being replaced

on the old handle of the original name, uh, redirecting

people to the new name. But yeah, that's so if

you're trying to find Geekcast Radio, it'll be

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