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Hey, this is Steve Bloom, and you are listening
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to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hello and welcome
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to Altered Geek. I'm your host, Steve Megatron.
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And joining me on this adventure into geekdom
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is TFG1 Mike. Sometimes, folks, existence is
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futile. Yes. All that is guaranteed is death
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and taxes and horrible taxes and horrible insurance
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rates. Yes. Yeah. And that sounds like a funny
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Joker clip, like waiting to happen. Yeah. Like,
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you know. The men just want to watch the world
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burn. So, yeah, it's been a week since our last
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episode. Really? Has it only been a week? It
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feels like it's been a lot longer than that.
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I think it's been a week. Now you're making me
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question my sanity. I'm going to the website
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right now. I'm waiting for it to load. Load,
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damn it, load! Yeah, last one was June 2nd. Really?
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Yeah. I have rss .com pulled up so it's faster
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and I already had it on the Altered Geek profile.
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Yes, yes, yes. So I'm playing around with a new
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like a new tech gadget as it were. Okay. You
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know how El Gato has those stream decks? Yeah.
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The push button stuff with all the. Yeah. So
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I I picked up a knockoff. As it were. No, I mean,
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it's legit sold on on Amazon. It's it's an off
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brand version of the same thing. Right. That's
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of two hundred dollars or, you know, 90. I got
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it for 50. Right. And. I'm going to. More or
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less mess around with it and see what it's capable
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of, just because I've never had one. And I've
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I've kind of I've seen them. I know that they
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have capabilities of things. But I don't know
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what they do, though. Essentially, I'm. I'm buying
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this so that I can play around and test it out
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and see how well it performs. Very cool. Very
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cool. Yep. And I'm trying to figure out how to
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get video stream stuff going. And this is kind
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of a part of that endeavor. I also bought the
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DJI mic minis. Nice. Which. What's nice about
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that is it's a wireless microphone system that
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plugs into a smartphone. and you can hook it
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up to your phone, and it's crystal clear when
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you hook it up. It's those stupid mics that you
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see everybody holding with their fingers and
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talking into it. That drives me nuts. That's
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not something I plan on doing. I'm going to actually
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do what it's meant for, and that's mount it,
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put it directly on my shirt. Yeah, put it on
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your lapel. It's a lapel mic is what it is. Yeah,
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I mean, but it's wireless. And so in that regard,
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it's nice. And so I'm looking forward to playing
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around with it more in the field. And there may
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be a point I go interview the guy from Totally
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80s Pizza. Nice. Locally, because Totally 80s
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Pizza is a it's a museum. local to where i'm
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at and i've eaten there multiple times either
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for my birthday uh meal at work um pretty much
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anytime they're like where do you want to go
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to eat i'm like totally hate his pizza the the
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pizzas i mean halfway decent like it's all right
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um it's i i don't go there for the pizza because
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like quite honestly i prefer like domino's pizza
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over any other right now yeah um theirs is good
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it's just i I prefer, you know, Domino's pizza.
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That being said, what you go there for is the
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museum. Which is literally all around you. Yeah,
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I posted it on my Instagram like. A couple weeks
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ago when I went. I don't know if you saw it,
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but yeah, I think I did. Yeah, they have like
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an original Ninja Turtle. They have an original
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Optimus Prime. They have. bunch of sign stuff
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from actors from stuff from the 80s they have
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like a terminator stand -up they have uh mtv
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like old music videos playing on the tv and on
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the radio there so like literally you can watch
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like cartoon themes and like music videos of
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music from the 80s uh so it's just it's it's
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a blast to go in there because i'm sitting there
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i'm like i know this song i know this one i know
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this one and you know they have peewee herman's
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you know bike They have an ET in there. They
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have Zoltar from Big. They have an old arcade
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in there. It's cool. Definitely would recommend
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it if people come out here for this area. As
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we move on... I believe you have a few items
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that you wanted to bring up. Yes, yes. A bunch
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of news stuff. We got a whole bunch of awesome
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stuff coming out, coming up. We got a few just
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kind of mentionable news stories, and then we
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got a few in -depth news stories and other things.
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A few things that are just like, people don't
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do this. Don't take things. and run with them
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and take them out of context kind of things.
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And don't, don't write articles that are misleading.
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Don't, don't, uh, but first, uh, go back to the
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top 100 animated series. 2026 15th anniversary
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edition and check out all the episodes we have
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there. Most recent episode is 50 to 26. So check
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that out. The top 25 episode will be coming soon.
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Not going to say anything more than that on that,
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but go check out the top 100 animated series
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for 2026, the 15th anniversary edition. It's
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been a blast doing that so far in the top 25.
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As always, folks, it's going to be a slobber
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knocker. You never know what you're going to
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get. But for the top stories in geekdom, stuff
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that we've uncovered, stuff that I've been wanting
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to talk about for a little while. uh some stuff
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i found on facebook there is a one news story
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in here that's very old actually it's back for
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me i've been wanting to mention this since april
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and i my brain is just kind of slowly forgotten
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about it because the link was so far up in my
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own i have conversations with myself because
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i repeat repeat repeat myself a lot folks so
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i have my own messenger conversation with my
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own account where I just put links of stuff I
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would need to save and remember. Apparently I
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forgot about this from April, but first AFI lifetime
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achievement award, a tribute to Eddie Murphy,
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uh, Shrek teaser. So this is currently airing
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on Netflix. This special, the AFI lifetime achievement
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award to Eddie Murphy. I started watching it
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and then I stopped watching it because you weren't
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going to be able to watch the whole thing. We
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are eventually going to do an episode of studio
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2009 on this Netflix AFI special lifetime achievement
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award to Eddie Murphy, but they're getting basically
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everyone from his life and everyone he worked
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with or whatever else. Well, this little teaser
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thing, they had Mike Myers up there and Mike
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Myers was either in a Shrek mask or. whatever
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and that's how he presented his part of the thing
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i thought that was hilarious for them to do that
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i think he actually does it in the show uh obviously
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uh so that was a nice little teaser but the thing
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i've been forgetting since april is that in the
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ncis universe we are getting ncis new york ordered
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at cbs with ll cool j and scott can set to star
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So CBS has handed a series order to the new spinoff
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NCIS New York, with LL Cool J reprising his NCIS
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Los Angeles role as Sam Hanna, with Hawaii Five
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-0 alum Scott Kan also starring. It doesn't give
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any information on what Scott Kan's character
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will be. But basically, they're going to go back
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to Sam Hanna's hometown of New York City to lead
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a field office, and Sam Hanna's going to partner
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with roguish agent played by Scott Kan, helping
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lead a new team, like I mentioned, and they're
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tasked with high -stakes missions to defend one
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of the most vital cities and ports in the world.
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I have loved the NCIS universe since 2003 when
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the original NCIS debuted. I haven't watched
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all of the spinoffs. I did watch NCIS LA up until
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I think season four or five. I need to catch
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up with its 14 season run because I did really
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like those characters at the time. And I just
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I think it's a fun thing. And I'm very I was
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very invested with Sam Hanna and LL Cool J in
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that show. So that is very, very awesome. The
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so that's the the good fun thing. The thing that
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you should not do on the Internet, folks, is
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take things and twist them around. Vincent Martella,
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the voice of Phineas Flynn on Phineas and Ferb,
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posted a prom -like photo a while ago with him
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and Alison Stoner, who plays the voice of Isabella
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on the show. It was just an innocent photo of
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the two of them up against a prom -like background
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because this was back during prom season. Okay.
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So high school is a school year is ending. It's
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almost summer and Phineas and Ferb happens in
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the summertime. Everybody, every unknown website,
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every unknown, no name account on Instagram took
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this photo and captioned it as look, the voices
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for Isabella and Phineas got married in real
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life. No, they didn't. Don't do that. No, don't
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and stop. Don't twist things around. Go to the
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actual account of the person that posted the
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photo. Look at the description. Hey, just having
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a little fun here. It's a little prom photo fun.
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I just people on the Internet just. God, people
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are so dumb. So dumb, just so dumb. Speaking
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of dumb people on the internet, let's talk about
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Valnet, shall we? And their companies and things
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that are owned by Valnet, like Screen Rant. Oh
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boy, now I've made statements on this podcast
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recently that I have actively blocked most of
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Valnet's... Pages on Facebook and things like
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that. Apparently this one got through. Apparently
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I didn't block screen rant on Facebook because
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originally that's where I first saw this, but
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so coming up because skybound entertainment now
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has the transformers license. They are now going
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to reprint everything because they have the license.
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They're going to. Give us new printings and new
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additions of the stuff that IDW did and the stuff
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that, you know, all this stuff originally was
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printed at Marvel. Okay. All the, when it was
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originally new, it was all printed at Marvel
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and everything else. Then Dreamwave got it and
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Dreamwave had a short run there and everything
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else and all this and everything else. So by
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the time IDW got their hands on it, they were
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going to do, okay, we're going to reprint it.
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We're going to give it, you know, really cool,
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awesome new things and whatever else. And IDW
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lost the license and Skybound under Image Comics,
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Image Comics got it. So this is how. It just,
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it breaks my brain. It just breaks my brain.
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This is how Screen Rant, you know better than
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that. I have one. This is how Screen Rant starts
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out their article. This article is written by
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TJ Mills. who is an editor on Screen Rant's comic
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team, where she combines her lifelong passion
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for DC with her analytic background as a former
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intelligence analyst. Okay, sure. Transformers
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G1 officially returns in new series that promises
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Optimus and Megatron's true final battle. And
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the photo that they decided to use for the featured
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photo is basically the movie poster for Transformers
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the movie. It's basically Ultra Magnus, Springer,
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RC, Blur, Cup, Galvatron, etc., etc. In celebration
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of the franchise's 40th anniversary, Transformers
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is officially returning to its golden age. The
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franchise prepares to launch a new Generation
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1 set series that will revisit the most legendary
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final battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron.
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So this is not a new G1 series. What they are
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talking about here is the fact that Image Comics,
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Skybound Entertainment under Image Comics, is
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reprinting. In a new three issue series, Transformers,
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the Transformers, the movie comic. That's what
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this is. That's what this article is about. Is
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like, but the way that this read to me was that
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the way the headline reads officially returns
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in new series that promises Optimus and Megatron's
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true final battle. Now, if you just read the
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headline. Transformers G1 officially returns
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in new series that promises, like, that doesn't
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say anything to me about a comic book or anything.
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That just says to me that a new Transformers
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Generation 1 series is coming. Now, I know most
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people, general people, will just look at the
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headline and assume, oh, a new Transformers series
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is coming, and they won't even scroll down and
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see, oh, it's Image Comics, it's a new comic
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series, or it's a comic adaptation of the movie,
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which is what this is. But it's like, oh, my
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God, can you, like, make a better descriptive?
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Like, don't mislead it. Like, just say what it
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is in the title. I'm going to have field day
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with this. I'm going to let you go in a second.
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This title could have said Skybound Entertainment
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officially reprints Generation 1 film comic book
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or something. Just go. So I saw a nice little
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article. This past week that was entitled The
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End of the Click. AI overviews and search sharply
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reduce traffic. If your business depends on paid
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search, it's time to build your brand. So Google's
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AI overview, if anybody's familiar with that,
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I absolutely hate it. More so because it doesn't
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give me the option. It just kind of is in your
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face. So I've switched to DuckDuckGo as my search
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now. Because one, they don't track you. And two,
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it doesn't give you an AI thing. It just gives
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you the search. This is definitely where clickbaity
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content is going to die a very slow and painful
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death. websites are already tanking like they're
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losing year after year i've done an analysis
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on ign screen rant uh and they've been losing
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about nine to fifteen percent traffic a year
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just based on open source um like simply web
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and other services like that that uh do scans
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based on that and it's possible that it's not
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100 accurate because it's not google search console
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That being said, our traffic is increasing. Yay,
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that's good. Because one, they're not clickbaity.
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Two, it's determined based on the titling, but
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it's also determined based on the subject matter.
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And one thing we excel at is we're not a catch
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-all. We're not a website that tries to do everything.
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I've been looking at IGN and Screen Rant because
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I'm currently rebuilding the Geekcast Radio website.
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And I've been looking at all of our competition,
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trying to figure out what do I like? What do
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I not like? What do I want to try and do? What
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do I not want to try and do? What makes sense
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to tackle? What doesn't? The two of them have
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created essentially their own database, their
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own Rotten Tomatoes IMDB. And I was like, do
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I tackle this? And it's, you know, and so I'm
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I have a co -conspirator of of a co -developer
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in this whole process, which is I'm bouncing
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ideas off multiple AIs to try and figure out,
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you know, is this a smart idea or is this worth
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putting my effort into before I go down a rabbit
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hole of what I want to try and do? And it was
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like. You already excel, you know, based on all
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the metrics I fed it. It's like you already excel
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at these these other things. It's like this is
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where you're going to dominate the other sites.
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It's like, don't try and reinvent the wheel.
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Don't try and, you know, do this other stuff.
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And I'm like, yeah, good point. Like, stay focused
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on what we're good at, which is, you know, 80s
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and 90s nostalgia pretty much. And we're super
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niche in that department, which is good. But
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we also don't do clickbaity articles with like
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stupid. I mean, the phrasing on half the stuff
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that comes out of any of the Valnet sites. Yeah.
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Is trash. Yeah. You know. Anything, anything
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to get a click like I mean, in this this even
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in their article that you you mentioned about
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the G1 officially returns a new series that promises
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Optimus. the way that they worded this, making
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it sound like, and in the comments, people were
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talking about it too, makes it sound like there's
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a brand new G one series. Yeah. And there's not,
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and there's not, and it's not even revisiting.
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Like it's literally a comic. Yeah. And it's a,
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it's the comic adaptation of the film that has
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been reprinted once already by IDW. That was
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originally done by Marvel. It's just a reprinting
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of the animated film adaptation. That's what
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it is. It's nothing new. And look, I don't say
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that to downplay the awesomeness of the animated
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adaptation comic book. I'm I've never read it.
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Never have I read it. It's brand new. This is
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a brand new release. It's just how many times
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can you retell the same story? right no i okay
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yes i know i know the release is new what i'm
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saying is the material within the release is
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not new that's what i'm saying yeah what i'm
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saying is when it was new it was new 40 years
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ago when marvel printed it and then you know
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when idw got the license they reprinted it for
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the first time or for whatever second time whatever
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it was so they reprinted it when we started doing
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our marvel coverage and we never got back to
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it and now we will now that skybound is whatever
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whatever though i'm getting sidetracked here
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but my point is is i've never read the adaptation
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i was going to when the idw adaptation was a
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thing but now the skybound version is here i'm
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very excited for this but again like you were
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saying like i was saying the way they're they
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wrote that article at screen rant makes it sound
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like g1 is back it's a new series it's a brand
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new day Dust off your voices, Peter Cullen and
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Frank Welker. You've got jobs again. Like, no,
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that's not what this is. And no disrespect to
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Mr. Cullen or Mr. Welker. Love them to death.
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Love their work. Absolutely respect the hell
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out of both of them for what they did and what
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they continue to do when they're hired to do
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the voices. But yeah, just. These websites, Valnet
00:24:34.259 --> 00:24:37.619
has got to, out of all the media companies out
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there, Valnet has got to be burnt to the ground.
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I'm not saying anything for liable purposes,
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but I... The opinions of TSU and Mike do not
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reflect the opinions of the Geeky Axe Radio Network
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LLC. So they... Because they own... you know,
00:25:00.809 --> 00:25:04.289
as far as like their screen based content, uh,
00:25:04.470 --> 00:25:06.970
they own screen rent, they own collider, they
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own comic book resources, they own movie web.
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Yep. And then they partner with everything. Um,
00:25:13.250 --> 00:25:16.089
so they're paid shills in that, that regard.
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Uh, and then like, as far as like gaming, you
00:25:20.710 --> 00:25:25.069
know, they own the game rant gamer polygon. Yeah.
00:25:25.170 --> 00:25:30.789
Um, they, as far as like tech, how to geek. God,
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I mean, they own. They own all kinds of crap.
00:25:37.490 --> 00:25:42.230
I. I used to like and I used to respect these
00:25:42.230 --> 00:25:47.450
websites. Same. But it seems like there is rinse
00:25:47.450 --> 00:25:52.369
repeat of the same crap between all of their
00:25:52.369 --> 00:25:54.910
content. Like you're not getting a different.
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No. You're not getting a different perspective
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anymore. No. It's all the same. It might have
00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:07.000
a different title. Yep. But it literally is the
00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:10.319
same. Different titles. The websites are basically
00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:15.319
reskinned of the same design. Like they're all
00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.079
the same layout. Oh, yeah. They all use the same
00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.819
interface. It's a multi multi web setup. They
00:26:22.819 --> 00:26:24.680
all have the pop out. They all have the same.
00:26:25.760 --> 00:26:28.680
Yeah, exact layout. They might have a slightly
00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:33.240
different slant. Yeah, but they're they're essentially
00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:36.500
the same website. Same title, different featured
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image. Yeah, that's literally different color
00:26:39.579 --> 00:26:49.779
palette, different logo. Yep. So. And honestly,
00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:54.319
this is what fuels me to. Do better with our
00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:56.940
website and with what's coming for the website.
00:26:58.420 --> 00:27:04.039
I I do not want to repeat. No. What they're doing.
00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:09.480
Absolutely not. And then I especially when they
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talk Transformers or Star Trek, like I'm sure
00:27:11.700 --> 00:27:14.319
they do this with other things. I notice it like
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I notice it way more when they're their stuff
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is erroneous because I know both of those franchises
00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:23.380
in and out, especially when they talk. Star Trek
00:27:23.380 --> 00:27:30.640
or Beast Wars or. Like. For instance, Collider
00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.559
six hours ago posted its official Batman, the
00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:36.799
animated series is returning this year. That's
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not. And and so. They're. They're saying that.
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You know, it makes it sound like the TV series
00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:55.259
is coming back. It's not. It's not. So when you
00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:57.480
dig down into it, it says Upper Deck is releasing
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:00.980
a Batman Enemies of Gotham card set later, a
00:28:00.980 --> 00:28:04.200
board game later this year, inspired by Batman,
00:28:04.299 --> 00:28:08.779
the animated series. Upper Deck, like it's not
00:28:08.779 --> 00:28:13.000
even a. Yeah, it's cards. It's it's it's a it's
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.400
a board game or cards like it's not. And then
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:16.960
they go into like the history of the whole thing,
00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:20.420
and then they have their little IMDB block in
00:28:20.420 --> 00:28:28.670
there. But I go, what? That is so stupid. But
00:28:28.670 --> 00:28:30.589
I mean, it's the same thing. It's these crappy
00:28:30.589 --> 00:28:33.609
clickbaity titles. You know, it's fine if they
00:28:33.609 --> 00:28:36.390
want to. If they want to have something that's
00:28:36.390 --> 00:28:38.549
like, you know, there's one about Robert Downey
00:28:38.549 --> 00:28:41.569
Jr. with, you know, Sherlock Holmes, you know,
00:28:41.569 --> 00:28:44.190
his it's his elite action thriller deserves a
00:28:44.190 --> 00:28:48.289
sequel 15 years after its release. OK, that's
00:28:48.289 --> 00:28:52.769
that's fine. That's like, OK, I'll bite. But
00:28:52.769 --> 00:28:54.390
when you're making it sound like something is
00:28:54.390 --> 00:28:56.410
coming back from the great beyond and there's,
00:28:56.410 --> 00:28:58.849
it's not, and it's in some other medium, whether
00:28:58.849 --> 00:29:01.750
it be a game or a comic or, you know, card or,
00:29:01.769 --> 00:29:04.529
you know, something totally unrelated. Yeah.
00:29:05.269 --> 00:29:09.289
It's yeah. It's, it's so misleading. Well, like,
00:29:09.309 --> 00:29:12.490
I mean, so technically Batman, the end. Okay.
00:29:12.569 --> 00:29:15.849
Well, maybe not. Like they did do the new Batman
00:29:15.849 --> 00:29:20.440
adventures or they did do like the. the BTAS,
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:23.519
the DCAU stuff has had comics for it before,
00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.880
but like, again, like you're saying about titling,
00:29:26.980 --> 00:29:35.039
like my titles are fairly straightforward. Like
00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:45.079
take away my own branding. Okay. So for my three
00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:49.339
65 blog, if you take away my, tf2 and mike 365
00:29:49.339 --> 00:29:53.500
yada yada yada stuff bad boys 30th anniversary
00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:56.779
expanded and remastered limited edition two cd
00:29:56.779 --> 00:30:01.359
set album review plain as day you know exactly
00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:04.539
what you're getting into with that title the
00:30:04.539 --> 00:30:07.940
beginning of the article hello all welcome to
00:30:07.940 --> 00:30:10.299
my blah blah blah i'll be talking about the film
00:30:10.299 --> 00:30:14.539
score to bad boys this is the oh i need to i
00:30:14.539 --> 00:30:24.619
need to edit that actually that but the point
00:30:24.619 --> 00:30:33.700
is is that like you're saying we are not um when
00:30:33.700 --> 00:30:37.099
we write stuff or when we do stuff on geekcastradio
00:30:37.099 --> 00:30:45.140
.com we do not muck up the title or any of the
00:30:45.140 --> 00:30:52.099
writing side of it with backtalk or you know
00:30:52.099 --> 00:30:57.500
we're not over here swallowing mouthwash where
00:30:57.500 --> 00:31:03.339
we double talk to the reader or where we give
00:31:03.339 --> 00:31:07.539
you three and a half paragraphs of stuff you
00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:13.180
can read on wikipedia kind of thing well it's
00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:16.240
you know like cbr Henry Cavill's Wolverine officially
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:21.960
returns this fall. Guess what this one's for?
00:31:23.539 --> 00:31:26.660
Their MO at Valnet is anytime they say something
00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:30.779
like that, it's a product. Yeah. Anytime they
00:31:30.779 --> 00:31:33.019
say, you know, it's returned, it's officially
00:31:33.019 --> 00:31:37.059
returned or it's being continued or, you know,
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:39.500
whatever. Anytime they say something like that,
00:31:39.539 --> 00:31:41.180
it's clickbait to get you to open it because
00:31:41.180 --> 00:31:42.759
it's a product that they're going to get a kickback
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:48.180
from. This one, it's the new Marvel Legends Cavalry
00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:51.680
figure is coming out. The action figure. Yeah.
00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:58.359
And don't get me wrong. Like, it's cool. Like,
00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:02.259
I think it's neat for the fact that what it is
00:32:02.259 --> 00:32:04.759
now, what's funny is you could replace the head
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:08.480
with Hugh Jackman and you could have, you know,
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:12.380
a jacked version of of Hugh Jackman of Wolverine.
00:32:12.910 --> 00:32:17.430
you know in this look uh and it would work uh
00:32:17.430 --> 00:32:20.269
you could also take this body and use it you
00:32:20.269 --> 00:32:22.690
know if you switch the hands out use it as a
00:32:22.690 --> 00:32:28.109
demorphed uh tommy oliver you know by putting
00:32:28.109 --> 00:32:35.630
the the dino thunder yep uh head on it so i mean
00:32:35.630 --> 00:32:38.049
you could do that too i don't know like it's
00:32:38.049 --> 00:32:42.910
it's i think it's neat And I think it's cool
00:32:42.910 --> 00:32:44.630
that they've released all of those as Marvel
00:32:44.630 --> 00:32:47.789
legends. Finally. Yeah. I mean, the only one
00:32:47.789 --> 00:32:50.670
I picked up was Wolverine with Hugh Jackman's
00:32:50.670 --> 00:32:54.049
head, you know, but I didn't get the battle,
00:32:54.049 --> 00:32:56.430
the battle damage version or the, you know, the
00:32:56.430 --> 00:33:01.890
Brown and in yellow, um, just not things that
00:33:01.890 --> 00:33:04.980
I cared to get. Brown and yellow, brown and yellow,
00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.539
brown and yellow. I mean, this one's cool, too.
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.519
And I've thought about it or like X -23 or, you
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:12.220
know, a Deadpool figure. But I'm like, ultimately,
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:16.500
I'm like, don't care. I'm like, if you don't
00:33:16.500 --> 00:33:19.059
care, there's no reason to get it. Now, like
00:33:19.059 --> 00:33:21.960
Mattel, on the other hand, has these new, you
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:24.160
know, they have the DC license back from McFarlane.
00:33:25.220 --> 00:33:29.039
And if you can get like the kids edition of the
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.819
figures actually look. halfway decent like for
00:33:32.819 --> 00:33:36.859
12 bucks they're the same height as the marvel
00:33:36.859 --> 00:33:39.220
legends stuff and they come with accessories
00:33:39.220 --> 00:33:41.420
kind of like how the old ninja turtles came with
00:33:41.420 --> 00:33:44.460
them like on the the little uh like the fence
00:33:44.460 --> 00:33:48.799
thing where it stuck to them behind them like
00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:51.779
so their little accessory uh thing all of the
00:33:51.779 --> 00:33:54.200
one color thing and uh they actually clipped
00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:55.880
to like batman's belt for instance and i thought
00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:57.940
about picking one of those up i was like oh that's
00:33:57.940 --> 00:33:59.940
kind of That's kind of interesting. And I like
00:33:59.940 --> 00:34:02.720
the suit and I like the design. And it's not
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:04.400
even the collector edition of these figures.
00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:09.300
And I was like, I'm impressed for 12 bucks. You
00:34:09.300 --> 00:34:11.500
know, whereas for years we've had these ones
00:34:11.500 --> 00:34:14.360
that are barely four inches cost the same price
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:18.500
as this one that's six inches tall. And it's
00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:20.760
like fully articulated compared to those things.
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.599
And that's why the other ones were shelf warmers.
00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:33.260
So I don't know. I think we can move on. All
00:34:33.260 --> 00:34:35.139
right. We're going to head on over to nine to
00:34:35.139 --> 00:34:38.059
five Google. They've got a story about movies
00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:43.840
anywhere getting, they're adding the Lionsgate
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:47.440
films, including John wick knives out and more.
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:52.280
So the movies anywhere service is getting a boost
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:56.119
with the addition of the Lionsgate titles, including
00:34:56.119 --> 00:34:59.840
some popular franchises. such as John Wick, The
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:03.340
Hunger Games, Knives Out, and more. Movies Anywhere,
00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:06.880
a project which syncs movies' purchases across
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:10.820
platforms such as Google TV, Amazon Prime Video,
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:15.159
Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and others, is only
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:18.360
as good as its support from studios. If Major
00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:21.659
Studio doesn't support the project, its films
00:35:21.659 --> 00:35:25.619
simply do not sync between those platforms. One
00:35:25.619 --> 00:35:29.539
of the biggest... holdouts has been lionsgate
00:35:29.539 --> 00:35:33.199
the studio behind some major films and franchises
00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:36.460
which has long withheld all of its titles for
00:35:36.460 --> 00:35:40.559
movies anywhere starting this month that's changing
00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:48.320
uh via flat panels hd 225 lionsgate films will
00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:51.800
be added 225 lionsgate films will be added to
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:55.739
movies anywhere with 100 added each month through
00:35:55.739 --> 00:35:59.940
early 2027. Deadline calls out some of the most
00:35:59.940 --> 00:36:04.340
popular films being added, including the likes
00:36:04.340 --> 00:36:08.199
of The Hunger Games and John Wick franchise,
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:13.480
as well as The Housemaid, Now You See Me, Now
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:16.760
You Don't, La La Land, Rambo, Dirty Dancing,
00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:20.949
Passion of the Christ, and Knives Out. google
00:36:20.949 --> 00:36:23.630
was briefly removed from movies anywhere during
00:36:23.630 --> 00:36:27.070
a dispute with disney which operates the project
00:36:27.070 --> 00:36:32.630
but has since returned that is very cool that
00:36:32.630 --> 00:36:36.889
lion's gate is finally being added to movies
00:36:36.889 --> 00:36:39.989
anywhere very funny as i've never heard of this
00:36:39.989 --> 00:36:43.210
before movies anywhere really you've never heard
00:36:43.210 --> 00:36:45.909
of this now oh yeah man i don't even know what
00:36:45.909 --> 00:36:49.760
it is like i've never Yeah, so basically all
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:56.159
it is is whatever you have connected to it. Like
00:36:56.159 --> 00:37:01.139
I mentioned, I have my Fandango at home thing
00:37:01.139 --> 00:37:07.360
connected to it. So if for some odd reason I
00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:11.079
don't have access to Fandango on the go, I can
00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:13.400
go to Movies Anywhere and all of the movies that
00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:17.159
I have purchased on Fandango are in Movies Anywhere.
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.320
So if you have an Apple account, if you have
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.820
Google, like I said, Google Play, whatever you
00:37:25.820 --> 00:37:30.300
purchase on those platforms, it will sync to
00:37:30.300 --> 00:37:33.199
movies anywhere and you will have that content
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:38.800
literally anywhere on your devices. It's awesome.
00:37:39.059 --> 00:37:41.119
It's so cool. The only thing I don't like about
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:44.099
these digital services is when they pack up shop.
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:48.420
I agree, but this has been around for a while.
00:37:49.610 --> 00:37:54.349
yeah i i just this is where i still i i kind
00:37:54.349 --> 00:38:00.230
of get leery about it and i'm like i'm like i
00:38:00.230 --> 00:38:02.730
think i'd rather own them at this point because
00:38:02.730 --> 00:38:09.929
like i've seen it happen way too many times but
00:38:09.929 --> 00:38:14.989
yeah i mean in the short term i think it's fine
00:38:14.989 --> 00:38:18.170
but i think in the grander scheme i think it
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:21.579
movies anywhere has been around since october
00:38:21.579 --> 00:38:26.139
of 2017 what was that other one that you had
00:38:26.139 --> 00:38:27.860
for a while and then they just packed up shop
00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:36.780
oh god uh i don't remember yeah there was one
00:38:36.780 --> 00:38:44.739
late at night yeah use brain not work i has brain
00:38:44.739 --> 00:38:50.219
no um no i mean this one's cool because i mean
00:38:50.219 --> 00:38:52.619
it does have a lot of different franchises in
00:38:52.619 --> 00:38:57.940
it um so i mean you do have that going for you
00:38:57.940 --> 00:39:02.420
yeah but i mean like i said i don't use it as
00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:07.920
much um i just i saw the story and i was like
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.119
oh very cool because like i said if i do have
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.800
like i do know i have i'm pretty sure let me
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:19.360
double check my so what it is okay it's an aggregator
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.659
yeah it's an aggregator okay so that's that's
00:39:22.659 --> 00:39:24.840
why they're around so basically if you have the
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:27.800
movie on you know prime or netflix or something
00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:30.519
else like they just pull it into one yeah well
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:34.239
i didn't understand that totally but um yeah
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:40.800
that's what i just So the thing, where is...
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:44.059
But I mean, in a sense, Amazon Prime does the
00:39:44.059 --> 00:39:48.500
same thing. True. There's just sneakier in the
00:39:48.500 --> 00:39:52.360
fact that you're like, is it on here? Is it not?
00:39:57.900 --> 00:40:02.719
Is it on here? Is it not? We don't know. We don't
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:10.219
know what you own. Wait. You own stuff? No. I
00:40:10.219 --> 00:40:12.500
don't know. I've gotten to the point where I'm
00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:18.639
like, let's see, what can I buy at this point?
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.619
Or what's worth buying, I guess. Yeah, there
00:40:22.619 --> 00:40:26.719
you go. Yeah, I have the three movie bundle set
00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:29.840
of John Wick movies, so I never bought the fourth
00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:31.900
movie, or I might have bought the fourth movie
00:40:31.900 --> 00:40:34.119
out of the bundle, but because I bought the...
00:40:34.730 --> 00:40:36.889
I had bought the three movie bundle of the wick
00:40:36.889 --> 00:40:39.769
movies before the fourth movie even was out.
00:40:39.909 --> 00:40:43.690
So I don't know if it's on movie. I'm assuming
00:40:43.690 --> 00:40:50.070
it would be on movies anywhere, but yeah. All
00:40:50.070 --> 00:40:53.389
right. Let's see. What else do we got? I think
00:40:53.389 --> 00:40:57.050
before we get to, did you watch the, the little
00:40:57.050 --> 00:41:01.210
teaser clip of the new dog movie? Yes, I did.
00:41:01.530 --> 00:41:08.070
Okay. What do you think of Scooby 2027? So I've
00:41:08.070 --> 00:41:10.829
seen people freaking the heck out over this.
00:41:12.730 --> 00:41:24.210
And. I, I don't know how I feel about it, like.
00:41:29.590 --> 00:41:34.050
I mean, it's a live action dog. I mean, and it
00:41:34.050 --> 00:41:39.889
does look like a Great Dane. Yeah. Like because
00:41:39.889 --> 00:41:42.250
it says there, you know, it that's what they
00:41:42.250 --> 00:41:45.690
look like as a puppy. Mm hmm. And then they change.
00:41:46.150 --> 00:41:56.590
Mm hmm. So. I don't know. I don't know what to
00:41:56.590 --> 00:42:00.960
think. Like, it's. It's a teaser. I like it.
00:42:00.980 --> 00:42:04.500
I like hearing what they said about it in the
00:42:04.500 --> 00:42:07.900
teaser. I might have watched a different thing
00:42:07.900 --> 00:42:10.119
where the people that are doing the research
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:14.780
for the film, that they actually went to people
00:42:14.780 --> 00:42:18.440
who train Great Danes or who breed Great Danes,
00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:20.920
where they said, yeah, it's puppies. That's what
00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:23.199
they look like. And then when they grow up, they
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:30.989
look like Scooby. in the cartoon they they kind
00:42:30.989 --> 00:42:34.010
of reversed how the animators and stuff originally
00:42:34.010 --> 00:42:36.650
reversed how all the stuff whatever whatever
00:42:36.650 --> 00:42:39.489
whatever i don't know it's weird but it's one
00:42:39.489 --> 00:42:42.809
of those things where you know what it's a scooby
00:42:42.809 --> 00:42:47.150
origin movie it is what it is it's a series isn't
00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:49.929
it oh no it's a series on netflix it's a series
00:42:49.929 --> 00:42:52.090
you're right i mean i'm gonna check it out yeah
00:42:52.090 --> 00:42:55.829
yeah same i I'm going to see if I can review
00:42:55.829 --> 00:43:00.429
this, because honestly, I think that. As somebody
00:43:00.429 --> 00:43:05.570
who wasn't a huge Scooby -Doo fan and also, you
00:43:05.570 --> 00:43:08.590
know, I haven't liked any of the live action
00:43:08.590 --> 00:43:10.949
stuff since I mean, there's been very little
00:43:10.949 --> 00:43:13.250
of it since the first two films, just because
00:43:13.250 --> 00:43:16.650
the cast was pretty good. But I think this is
00:43:16.650 --> 00:43:22.510
an opportunity to. Restart. You know, with it.
00:43:22.860 --> 00:43:25.940
I think it's also funny. It says unleashing in
00:43:25.940 --> 00:43:32.420
2027. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. That caught my attention
00:43:32.420 --> 00:43:34.679
too. I was like, anytime I see unleash, I'm like,
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:39.460
yes, you don't have the trademark on that word.
00:43:40.340 --> 00:43:50.019
Or can I? Yeah, I know. Right. It's funny. All
00:43:50.019 --> 00:43:54.289
right. Well, I think folks, I think I've saved
00:43:54.289 --> 00:43:58.329
everything I can save for now for last. We are
00:43:58.329 --> 00:44:02.210
going to go to Google and the icon packs that
00:44:02.210 --> 00:44:11.309
they released recently. And, uh, Oh boy. Oh boy.
00:44:13.449 --> 00:44:16.050
I'm just going to do a screen share with you
00:44:16.050 --> 00:44:23.159
for this. Cause yikes. So when you're ready,
00:44:23.500 --> 00:44:31.659
you just click that button there. Except the
00:44:31.659 --> 00:44:34.440
peoples can't see it. Yeah, the peoples can't
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:36.340
see it, but you can, and we can still discuss
00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:42.360
it. Okay, so this is what my phone normally looks
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:46.670
like. I have a matte black background. And throughout
00:44:46.670 --> 00:44:50.030
Google, all of Google's colors, they're purple
00:44:50.030 --> 00:44:53.210
icons because it's me and I'm black and purple.
00:44:53.809 --> 00:44:56.210
So that's what my phone normally looks like.
00:44:57.610 --> 00:45:02.329
These are the two color, the two new icons. Everyone
00:45:02.329 --> 00:45:05.690
was pissing their pants over the disco ones.
00:45:05.889 --> 00:45:08.289
They're like, oh, my God, look at that Spotify
00:45:08.289 --> 00:45:13.469
icon. That is so ugly. Oh, my God. What the hell
00:45:13.469 --> 00:45:18.239
is that? And these are sugar cookie icons that
00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:22.400
they came out with. Like, Oh my God, what in
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.300
the hell are these? What is the point? Well,
00:45:25.340 --> 00:45:30.199
the point is to give your phone more like character,
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:34.320
a different design, different character. So this
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:38.440
is my phone with the disco. That's the point
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:44.219
is to change your icons. And the reason why I
00:45:44.219 --> 00:45:46.320
clicked off and clicked onto this one is because
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:49.639
I have these in order now because I have other
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:52.900
ones here. So this is my phone with the disco
00:45:52.900 --> 00:45:58.280
ones on. These are my folders. So if you see
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:02.159
these, like social is here and that's the next
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:05.800
folder here. So I don't have multiple screens.
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:12.809
I can't do the. seven screens for all icons so
00:46:12.809 --> 00:46:18.409
i use folders so this is my i just like this
00:46:18.409 --> 00:46:25.670
is just too weird for me so like wendy kind of
00:46:25.670 --> 00:46:28.730
looks glammed up she looks all right i wouldn't
00:46:28.730 --> 00:46:32.889
even know what uber eats was doordash looks fine
00:46:32.889 --> 00:46:36.170
applebee's looks great arby's looks great they
00:46:36.170 --> 00:46:39.090
all kind of look great except for uber eats it
00:46:39.389 --> 00:46:46.030
looks really weird look at dominoes there it
00:46:46.030 --> 00:46:49.329
just looks weird like i don't know i don't understand
00:46:49.329 --> 00:46:52.170
it like i don't even know how you turn this on
00:46:52.170 --> 00:46:57.170
because i i mean i have a pixel phone yeah you
00:46:57.170 --> 00:47:01.050
have a pixel phone so you go into your settings
00:47:01.050 --> 00:47:06.369
you go into wallpaper and style you scroll down
00:47:06.369 --> 00:47:13.699
to Is it theme pack? Wallpapers. Hold on. More
00:47:13.699 --> 00:47:16.340
wallpapers. Go to more wallpapers. Is it more
00:47:16.340 --> 00:47:20.699
wallpapers? Not choose photos. Hold on. Where
00:47:20.699 --> 00:47:25.880
is it? It's in here somewhere. More notification.
00:47:26.619 --> 00:47:31.840
Shortcuts. Clock. Theme pack. Where is it? It's
00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:38.110
in here somewhere. Not modes. It's in the settings
00:47:38.110 --> 00:47:41.110
somewhere. Oh, let's see. I'll have to look.
00:47:41.949 --> 00:47:46.510
I wonder if it's in icons. App icon. Yeah, because
00:47:46.510 --> 00:47:51.530
all I've got is minimal or default. Wallpaper
00:47:51.530 --> 00:47:59.389
and style. That's all I have. I mean, I can create
00:47:59.389 --> 00:48:07.929
custom ones. Okay. If you do create. Because,
00:48:07.949 --> 00:48:12.610
like, I have default and minimalistic. If you
00:48:12.610 --> 00:48:17.369
do custom, then it has the disco, the scribbles,
00:48:17.389 --> 00:48:19.530
the easel, the cookies, the treasure, and the
00:48:19.530 --> 00:48:23.150
stardust. Okay. Yeah. Well, you found it, so
00:48:23.150 --> 00:48:26.610
I forget. Anyway. It's still weird. Yeah, it's
00:48:26.610 --> 00:48:30.510
still very weird. Look at the cookies. I'm like,
00:48:30.630 --> 00:48:35.289
what the hell? just on the front page of my phone.
00:48:35.369 --> 00:48:38.469
I wouldn't even, I was ready to turn these off,
00:48:38.550 --> 00:48:41.650
but I went and I'd got like, look at that. There's
00:48:41.650 --> 00:48:46.769
no way in hell. I like Facebook and, and Facebook
00:48:46.769 --> 00:48:49.989
is in messenger. The only two I recognized at
00:48:49.989 --> 00:48:54.789
first. And then this is, this is my foot. Like
00:48:54.789 --> 00:48:57.190
dominoes is the only one that kind of stayed
00:48:57.190 --> 00:49:01.530
the same. The rest of like, McDonald's, you can
00:49:01.530 --> 00:49:05.449
barely see the logo. You can actually see the
00:49:05.449 --> 00:49:10.369
Uber Eats logo this time. DoorDash, it's disappeared.
00:49:11.469 --> 00:49:17.190
It's just crazy. And that's, I basically put
00:49:17.190 --> 00:49:21.829
my phone back to what it was. I like... that
00:49:21.829 --> 00:49:26.010
Google gives us these icon packs. I think it's
00:49:26.010 --> 00:49:29.329
cool. I think it's interesting. I just think
00:49:29.329 --> 00:49:32.190
that the dis because, because the disco one is
00:49:32.190 --> 00:49:34.550
the one that, that people were all up in arms
00:49:34.550 --> 00:49:39.070
about. This is the one that, Oh my God. Cause
00:49:39.070 --> 00:49:42.369
they were really, they were really up in arms
00:49:42.369 --> 00:49:45.699
about the Spotify. Like. A couple of podcasts
00:49:45.699 --> 00:49:47.900
I listen to, they're like, oh, my God, that's
00:49:47.900 --> 00:49:51.820
Spotify disco ball. It looks like crap. And oh,
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:55.199
my God, like the Gmail thing doesn't look that
00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:58.059
half bad. The photos doesn't photos and camera
00:49:58.059 --> 00:50:00.219
doesn't look half that bad. The phone one's fine,
00:50:00.579 --> 00:50:04.539
whatever. But that Spotify thing just looks.
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:12.460
But but yeah, no, I don't know. I don't really
00:50:12.460 --> 00:50:17.360
outside of my, like, I basically keep my phone
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:22.800
like this because I'm not out here changing my
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:27.840
phone display all that much. It's utilitarian
00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:33.860
for me. It's not like, I don't know. I'm not
00:50:33.860 --> 00:50:40.159
out here like artistry drawing or, or having.
00:50:41.769 --> 00:50:47.030
I don't know. I just picked my color, set the
00:50:47.030 --> 00:50:49.010
background to matte black, and then that was
00:50:49.010 --> 00:50:55.570
it. Because I tried other photos and other colors.
00:50:55.650 --> 00:50:59.030
I even tried purple on this, and it just didn't
00:50:59.030 --> 00:51:03.070
work. I was like, I can't even see half the crap
00:51:03.070 --> 00:51:08.739
anymore. But yeah, I thought I'd... bring in
00:51:08.739 --> 00:51:11.619
some tech talk for, for a while since we talked
00:51:11.619 --> 00:51:16.360
about everything else. Um, and I've been wanting
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:22.659
to talk about that for a bit on the, uh, on the,
00:51:22.659 --> 00:51:27.840
uh, on the old podcast. Uh, what do you guys
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:30.639
think if you're Android users or I don't even
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:34.500
know what iPhone users get for icons and. and
00:51:34.500 --> 00:51:36.920
customization and whatever else but if you're
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:40.380
an android user and google and all that let us
00:51:40.380 --> 00:51:42.539
know in the comments what you guys think of the
00:51:42.539 --> 00:51:45.380
icon packs that google gives us for stuff like
00:51:45.380 --> 00:51:48.920
this and let us know about anything else that
00:51:48.920 --> 00:51:53.099
uh we've discussed tonight like i mentioned earlier
00:51:53.099 --> 00:51:55.739
steve and i at some point in the future will
00:51:55.739 --> 00:51:59.579
be watching the afi lifetime achievement award
00:51:59.579 --> 00:52:05.190
for eddie murphy because I watched like the first
00:52:05.190 --> 00:52:07.269
five or ten minutes of it it was pretty funny
00:52:07.269 --> 00:52:10.969
for the first five or ten minutes that I saw
00:52:10.969 --> 00:52:18.789
so yup yup yup I have not watched it yet yeah
00:52:18.789 --> 00:52:21.929
we will eventually there's so much other crap
00:52:21.929 --> 00:52:30.090
we gotta do before we can but yup we will so
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:38.739
I have been, like I said, working on the geek
00:52:38.739 --> 00:52:43.460
cast radio website. I also I got my hands on
00:52:43.460 --> 00:52:50.039
frequency. Yep. From Stranger Things. It's an
00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:52.159
interesting figure. It's about the same size
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:54.420
as a Voyager figure, but it's charged for the
00:52:54.420 --> 00:52:58.760
race of a leader class, which seems to be Hasbro's
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:02.460
M .O., which I mean, they did that prime to mean
00:53:02.460 --> 00:53:06.139
he was. an actual leader class though. Uh, but
00:53:06.139 --> 00:53:07.980
then they put him in as a commander cause he
00:53:07.980 --> 00:53:13.860
had that stupid trailer. Um, so there is a five
00:53:13.860 --> 00:53:17.460
millimeter peg on his shoulder that you could
00:53:17.460 --> 00:53:19.699
technically mount the, uh, the chicken cannon,
00:53:19.780 --> 00:53:24.340
which honestly kind of reminds me of like Cheetor's,
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:28.260
uh, stomach brain gun thing from the old beast
00:53:28.260 --> 00:53:32.400
wars that it kind of rotates. It looks stupid.
00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:36.840
I don't like this stupid chicken thing. The cassette's
00:53:36.840 --> 00:53:41.920
cool that goes in the stomach because it folds
00:53:41.920 --> 00:53:44.840
down and you have to lift up part of the back
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:48.639
and press it through because it kind of gets
00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:55.619
stuck. And then I like the head with the headphones
00:53:55.619 --> 00:53:57.929
on it. Kind of reminds me of Blaster a little
00:53:57.929 --> 00:53:59.929
bit. So it's kind of like a cross between Blaster
00:53:59.929 --> 00:54:05.650
and Soundwave, but in the style of a van. The
00:54:05.650 --> 00:54:08.369
arms seem kind of chintzy to me. I mean, the
00:54:08.369 --> 00:54:11.210
way the arms and the legs fold up, they kind
00:54:11.210 --> 00:54:15.909
of fold into the panels. So like in that regard,
00:54:16.090 --> 00:54:20.969
like I kind of understand it. But that seems
00:54:20.969 --> 00:54:25.409
pretty solid. The box was garbage, but. So like
00:54:25.409 --> 00:54:26.929
if you're trying to collect it with that, like
00:54:26.929 --> 00:54:29.349
they're all tore up in their suit, they're like
00:54:29.349 --> 00:54:33.389
paper thin. Like why they would do minimal cardboard
00:54:33.389 --> 00:54:34.769
on something that's supposed to be a collector
00:54:34.769 --> 00:54:40.670
item. I don't know, but. Yeah, so there's that.
00:54:40.849 --> 00:54:46.230
And then. I probably do a video of it at some
00:54:46.230 --> 00:54:51.789
point. Soon before I. Start my deconstruction.
00:54:52.909 --> 00:54:55.469
I will say there's no decals on them. It's all
00:54:55.469 --> 00:55:02.130
painted. Which I was quite surprised. Very cool.
00:55:02.329 --> 00:55:08.550
Very cool. The WSQK is painted on as well as
00:55:08.550 --> 00:55:10.789
like the Eagle and all the other stuff. And I
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was kind of looking at it. I'm like, I mean,
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it's an 80s panel van. The front end, like the
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transformation, like the robot mode looks like
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Ultimis Prime. Which is. part of why i did it
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right right um the cassette i don't think i would
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i don't think i would do anything to it i think
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i would paint over the logo of the wsqk and the
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the frequency on there and then you know put
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a gcrn logo right but i don't think i would i
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don't think i would change like the yellow of
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it just because one if i paint it it may not
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fit back in the stomach interesting it's just
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that's kind of the nature of the beast there
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yeah um but uh so there is that and then uh yeah
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i would probably paint it like the the brown
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and gold of my old uh pickup truck that i used
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to have my 80s pickup truck because i think that
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would look really good on this like the two -tone
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instead of being all blue Very cool. I think
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I can shine this guy up, make him look neat,
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and then get some Geekcast Radio decals to put
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on it somehow. Don't know how I'd get them made,
00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:42.239
but that's the realm I want to go with it. That's
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kind of the multiple things I'm working on at
00:56:44.900 --> 00:56:47.840
the present. Like I said, Geekcast Radio's new
00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:56.219
website and tons of new features. new new areas
00:56:56.219 --> 00:57:03.500
and new new functionalities and a lot of a lot
00:57:03.500 --> 00:57:09.019
of better organization for the podcast so and
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I'm trying to restore a lot of the old site as
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possible and when I say that I mean like over
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the years because of bandwidth or because of
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space or because of other things uh just not
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being optimized properly or just a bunch of crap
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i periodically made downloads of the database
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or like exported stuff from wordpress like old
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posts um which over the years have been forgotten
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and missing and so but i exported them before
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i wiped them out so the uh the goal here is to
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revive as much as humanly possible into the new
00:57:54.860 --> 00:57:58.920
site of the old site. And I've managed to clean
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out all of the old plugins and all of the old
00:58:01.739 --> 00:58:05.980
trash and, um, the way the podcasts work are
00:58:05.980 --> 00:58:08.380
totally different than any other plugin because
00:58:08.380 --> 00:58:12.820
I made it. So yeah, I'm, I'm super excited for
00:58:12.820 --> 00:58:15.659
the direction of this new site and, uh, getting
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to unveil it. I'm hoping in August. Yes. So with
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that, I think that about rounds this episode
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out of Altered Geek. Let us know how you feel
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about the various topics that we've discussed
00:58:30.099 --> 00:58:32.519
on this episode and things that you'd like to
00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:36.019
hear on the next one. Of course, you can comment
00:58:36.019 --> 00:58:39.659
on the website geekcastradio .com or on our Discord
00:58:39.659 --> 00:58:43.380
channel or on any other social platform. Just
00:58:43.380 --> 00:58:47.090
a little bit of housekeeping. Uh, if you notice
00:58:47.090 --> 00:58:50.570
some of the social channels changing, there's
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a method to the madness here. And that's a part
00:58:53.110 --> 00:58:56.590
of the new site revamp is, uh, consolidating
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titles and retitling to the GCRN. Uh, and then
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as well as, um, doing that to various social
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handles, uh, some of them are being replaced
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on the old handle of the original name, uh, redirecting
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people to the new name. But yeah, that's so if
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you're trying to find Geekcast Radio, it'll be
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the GCRN. You exist. You totally exist. So until
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next time, get altered, get geeky with the Altered
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Geeks. discussion let's dive into lore from star
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trek to transformers we're ready to soar superheroes
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clash as we spark up the flame alter geek podcast
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remember my name
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Hey, this is Steve Bloom, and you are listening
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to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hello and welcome
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to Altered Geek. I'm your host, Steve Megatron.
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And joining me on this adventure into geekdom
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is TFG1 Mike. Sometimes, folks, existence is
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futile. Yes. All that is guaranteed is death
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and taxes and horrible taxes and horrible insurance
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rates. Yes. Yeah. And that sounds like a funny
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Joker clip, like waiting to happen. Yeah. Like,
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you know. The men just want to watch the world
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burn. So, yeah, it's been a week since our last
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episode. Really? Has it only been a week? It
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feels like it's been a lot longer than that.
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I think it's been a week. Now you're making me
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question my sanity. I'm going to the website
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right now. I'm waiting for it to load. Load,
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damn it, load! Yeah, last one was June 2nd. Really?
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Yeah. I have rss .com pulled up so it's faster
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and I already had it on the Altered Geek profile.
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Yes, yes, yes. So I'm playing around with a new
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like a new tech gadget as it were. Okay. You
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know how El Gato has those stream decks? Yeah.
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The push button stuff with all the. Yeah. So
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I I picked up a knockoff. As it were. No, I mean,
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it's legit sold on on Amazon. It's it's an off
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brand version of the same thing. Right. That's
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of two hundred dollars or, you know, 90. I got
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it for 50. Right. And. I'm going to. More or
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less mess around with it and see what it's capable
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of, just because I've never had one. And I've
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I've kind of I've seen them. I know that they
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have capabilities of things. But I don't know
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what they do, though. Essentially, I'm. I'm buying
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this so that I can play around and test it out
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and see how well it performs. Very cool. Very
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cool. Yep. And I'm trying to figure out how to
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get video stream stuff going. And this is kind
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of a part of that endeavor. I also bought the
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DJI mic minis. Nice. Which. What's nice about
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that is it's a wireless microphone system that
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plugs into a smartphone. and you can hook it
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up to your phone, and it's crystal clear when
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you hook it up. It's those stupid mics that you
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see everybody holding with their fingers and
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talking into it. That drives me nuts. That's
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not something I plan on doing. I'm going to actually
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do what it's meant for, and that's mount it,
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put it directly on my shirt. Yeah, put it on
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your lapel. It's a lapel mic is what it is. Yeah,
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I mean, but it's wireless. And so in that regard,
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it's nice. And so I'm looking forward to playing
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around with it more in the field. And there may
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be a point I go interview the guy from Totally
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80s Pizza. Nice. Locally, because Totally 80s
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Pizza is a it's a museum. local to where i'm
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at and i've eaten there multiple times either
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for my birthday uh meal at work um pretty much
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anytime they're like where do you want to go
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to eat i'm like totally hate his pizza the the
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pizzas i mean halfway decent like it's all right
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um it's i i don't go there for the pizza because
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like quite honestly i prefer like domino's pizza
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over any other right now yeah um theirs is good
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it's just i I prefer, you know, Domino's pizza.
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That being said, what you go there for is the
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museum. Which is literally all around you. Yeah,
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I posted it on my Instagram like. A couple weeks
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ago when I went. I don't know if you saw it,
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but yeah, I think I did. Yeah, they have like
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an original Ninja Turtle. They have an original
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Optimus Prime. They have. bunch of sign stuff
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from actors from stuff from the 80s they have
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like a terminator stand -up they have uh mtv
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like old music videos playing on the tv and on
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the radio there so like literally you can watch
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like cartoon themes and like music videos of
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music from the 80s uh so it's just it's it's
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a blast to go in there because i'm sitting there
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i'm like i know this song i know this one i know
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this one and you know they have peewee herman's
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you know bike They have an ET in there. They
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have Zoltar from Big. They have an old arcade
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in there. It's cool. Definitely would recommend
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it if people come out here for this area. As
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we move on... I believe you have a few items
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that you wanted to bring up. Yes, yes. A bunch
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of news stuff. We got a whole bunch of awesome
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stuff coming out, coming up. We got a few just
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kind of mentionable news stories, and then we
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got a few in -depth news stories and other things.
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A few things that are just like, people don't
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do this. Don't take things. and run with them
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and take them out of context kind of things.
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And don't, don't write articles that are misleading.
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Don't, don't, uh, but first, uh, go back to the
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top 100 animated series. 2026 15th anniversary
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edition and check out all the episodes we have
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there. Most recent episode is 50 to 26. So check
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that out. The top 25 episode will be coming soon.
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Not going to say anything more than that on that,
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but go check out the top 100 animated series
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for 2026, the 15th anniversary edition. It's
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been a blast doing that so far in the top 25.
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As always, folks, it's going to be a slobber
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knocker. You never know what you're going to
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get. But for the top stories in geekdom, stuff
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that we've uncovered, stuff that I've been wanting
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to talk about for a little while. uh some stuff
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i found on facebook there is a one news story
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in here that's very old actually it's back for
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me i've been wanting to mention this since april
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and i my brain is just kind of slowly forgotten
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about it because the link was so far up in my
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own i have conversations with myself because
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i repeat repeat repeat myself a lot folks so
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i have my own messenger conversation with my
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own account where I just put links of stuff I
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would need to save and remember. Apparently I
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forgot about this from April, but first AFI lifetime
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achievement award, a tribute to Eddie Murphy,
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uh, Shrek teaser. So this is currently airing
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on Netflix. This special, the AFI lifetime achievement
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award to Eddie Murphy. I started watching it
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and then I stopped watching it because you weren't
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going to be able to watch the whole thing. We
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are eventually going to do an episode of studio
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2009 on this Netflix AFI special lifetime achievement
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award to Eddie Murphy, but they're getting basically
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everyone from his life and everyone he worked
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with or whatever else. Well, this little teaser
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thing, they had Mike Myers up there and Mike
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Myers was either in a Shrek mask or. whatever
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and that's how he presented his part of the thing
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i thought that was hilarious for them to do that
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i think he actually does it in the show uh obviously
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uh so that was a nice little teaser but the thing
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i've been forgetting since april is that in the
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ncis universe we are getting ncis new york ordered
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at cbs with ll cool j and scott can set to star
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So CBS has handed a series order to the new spinoff
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NCIS New York, with LL Cool J reprising his NCIS
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Los Angeles role as Sam Hanna, with Hawaii Five
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-0 alum Scott Kan also starring. It doesn't give
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any information on what Scott Kan's character
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will be. But basically, they're going to go back
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to Sam Hanna's hometown of New York City to lead
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a field office, and Sam Hanna's going to partner
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with roguish agent played by Scott Kan, helping
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lead a new team, like I mentioned, and they're
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tasked with high -stakes missions to defend one
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of the most vital cities and ports in the world.
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I have loved the NCIS universe since 2003 when
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the original NCIS debuted. I haven't watched
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all of the spinoffs. I did watch NCIS LA up until
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I think season four or five. I need to catch
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up with its 14 season run because I did really
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like those characters at the time. And I just
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I think it's a fun thing. And I'm very I was
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very invested with Sam Hanna and LL Cool J in
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that show. So that is very, very awesome. The
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so that's the the good fun thing. The thing that
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you should not do on the Internet, folks, is
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take things and twist them around. Vincent Martella,
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the voice of Phineas Flynn on Phineas and Ferb,
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posted a prom -like photo a while ago with him
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and Alison Stoner, who plays the voice of Isabella
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on the show. It was just an innocent photo of
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the two of them up against a prom -like background
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because this was back during prom season. Okay.
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So high school is a school year is ending. It's
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almost summer and Phineas and Ferb happens in
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the summertime. Everybody, every unknown website,
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every unknown, no name account on Instagram took
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this photo and captioned it as look, the voices
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for Isabella and Phineas got married in real
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life. No, they didn't. Don't do that. No, don't
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and stop. Don't twist things around. Go to the
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actual account of the person that posted the
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photo. Look at the description. Hey, just having
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a little fun here. It's a little prom photo fun.
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I just people on the Internet just. God, people
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are so dumb. So dumb, just so dumb. Speaking
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of dumb people on the internet, let's talk about
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Valnet, shall we? And their companies and things
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that are owned by Valnet, like Screen Rant. Oh
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boy, now I've made statements on this podcast
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recently that I have actively blocked most of
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Valnet's... Pages on Facebook and things like
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that. Apparently this one got through. Apparently
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I didn't block screen rant on Facebook because
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originally that's where I first saw this, but
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so coming up because skybound entertainment now
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has the transformers license. They are now going
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to reprint everything because they have the license.
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They're going to. Give us new printings and new
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additions of the stuff that IDW did and the stuff
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that, you know, all this stuff originally was
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printed at Marvel. Okay. All the, when it was
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originally new, it was all printed at Marvel
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and everything else. Then Dreamwave got it and
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Dreamwave had a short run there and everything
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else and all this and everything else. So by
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the time IDW got their hands on it, they were
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going to do, okay, we're going to reprint it.
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We're going to give it, you know, really cool,
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awesome new things and whatever else. And IDW
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lost the license and Skybound under Image Comics,
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Image Comics got it. So this is how. It just,
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it breaks my brain. It just breaks my brain.
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This is how Screen Rant, you know better than
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that. I have one. This is how Screen Rant starts
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out their article. This article is written by
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TJ Mills. who is an editor on Screen Rant's comic
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team, where she combines her lifelong passion
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for DC with her analytic background as a former
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intelligence analyst. Okay, sure. Transformers
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G1 officially returns in new series that promises
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Optimus and Megatron's true final battle. And
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the photo that they decided to use for the featured
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photo is basically the movie poster for Transformers
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the movie. It's basically Ultra Magnus, Springer,
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RC, Blur, Cup, Galvatron, etc., etc. In celebration
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of the franchise's 40th anniversary, Transformers
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is officially returning to its golden age. The
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franchise prepares to launch a new Generation
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1 set series that will revisit the most legendary
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final battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron.
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So this is not a new G1 series. What they are
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talking about here is the fact that Image Comics,
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Skybound Entertainment under Image Comics, is
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reprinting. In a new three issue series, Transformers,
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the Transformers, the movie comic. That's what
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this is. That's what this article is about. Is
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like, but the way that this read to me was that
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the way the headline reads officially returns
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in new series that promises Optimus and Megatron's
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true final battle. Now, if you just read the
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headline. Transformers G1 officially returns
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in new series that promises, like, that doesn't
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say anything to me about a comic book or anything.
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That just says to me that a new Transformers
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Generation 1 series is coming. Now, I know most
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people, general people, will just look at the
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headline and assume, oh, a new Transformers series
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is coming, and they won't even scroll down and
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see, oh, it's Image Comics, it's a new comic
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series, or it's a comic adaptation of the movie,
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which is what this is. But it's like, oh, my
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God, can you, like, make a better descriptive?
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Like, don't mislead it. Like, just say what it
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is in the title. I'm going to have field day
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with this. I'm going to let you go in a second.
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This title could have said Skybound Entertainment
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officially reprints Generation 1 film comic book
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or something. Just go. So I saw a nice little
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article. This past week that was entitled The
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End of the Click. AI overviews and search sharply
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reduce traffic. If your business depends on paid
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search, it's time to build your brand. So Google's
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AI overview, if anybody's familiar with that,
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I absolutely hate it. More so because it doesn't
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give me the option. It just kind of is in your
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face. So I've switched to DuckDuckGo as my search
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now. Because one, they don't track you. And two,
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it doesn't give you an AI thing. It just gives
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you the search. This is definitely where clickbaity
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content is going to die a very slow and painful
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death. websites are already tanking like they're
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losing year after year i've done an analysis
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on ign screen rant uh and they've been losing
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about nine to fifteen percent traffic a year
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just based on open source um like simply web
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and other services like that that uh do scans
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based on that and it's possible that it's not
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100 accurate because it's not google search console
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That being said, our traffic is increasing. Yay,
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that's good. Because one, they're not clickbaity.
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Two, it's determined based on the titling, but
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it's also determined based on the subject matter.
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And one thing we excel at is we're not a catch
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-all. We're not a website that tries to do everything.
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I've been looking at IGN and Screen Rant because
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I'm currently rebuilding the Geekcast Radio website.
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And I've been looking at all of our competition,
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trying to figure out what do I like? What do
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I not like? What do I want to try and do? What
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do I not want to try and do? What makes sense
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to tackle? What doesn't? The two of them have
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created essentially their own database, their
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own Rotten Tomatoes IMDB. And I was like, do
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I tackle this? And it's, you know, and so I'm
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I have a co -conspirator of of a co -developer
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in this whole process, which is I'm bouncing
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ideas off multiple AIs to try and figure out,
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you know, is this a smart idea or is this worth
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putting my effort into before I go down a rabbit
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hole of what I want to try and do? And it was
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like. You already excel, you know, based on all
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the metrics I fed it. It's like you already excel
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at these these other things. It's like this is
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where you're going to dominate the other sites.
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It's like, don't try and reinvent the wheel.
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Don't try and, you know, do this other stuff.
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And I'm like, yeah, good point. Like, stay focused
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on what we're good at, which is, you know, 80s
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and 90s nostalgia pretty much. And we're super
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niche in that department, which is good. But
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we also don't do clickbaity articles with like
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stupid. I mean, the phrasing on half the stuff
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that comes out of any of the Valnet sites. Yeah.
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Is trash. Yeah. You know. Anything, anything
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to get a click like I mean, in this this even
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in their article that you you mentioned about
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the G1 officially returns a new series that promises
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Optimus. the way that they worded this, making
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it sound like, and in the comments, people were
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talking about it too, makes it sound like there's
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a brand new G one series. Yeah. And there's not,
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and there's not, and it's not even revisiting.
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Like it's literally a comic. Yeah. And it's a,
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it's the comic adaptation of the film that has
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been reprinted once already by IDW. That was
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originally done by Marvel. It's just a reprinting
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of the animated film adaptation. That's what
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it is. It's nothing new. And look, I don't say
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that to downplay the awesomeness of the animated
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adaptation comic book. I'm I've never read it.
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Never have I read it. It's brand new. This is
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a brand new release. It's just how many times
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can you retell the same story? right no i okay
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yes i know i know the release is new what i'm
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saying is the material within the release is
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not new that's what i'm saying yeah what i'm
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saying is when it was new it was new 40 years
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ago when marvel printed it and then you know
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when idw got the license they reprinted it for
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the first time or for whatever second time whatever
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it was so they reprinted it when we started doing
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our marvel coverage and we never got back to
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it and now we will now that skybound is whatever
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whatever though i'm getting sidetracked here
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but my point is is i've never read the adaptation
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i was going to when the idw adaptation was a
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thing but now the skybound version is here i'm
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very excited for this but again like you were
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saying like i was saying the way they're they
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wrote that article at screen rant makes it sound
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like g1 is back it's a new series it's a brand
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new day Dust off your voices, Peter Cullen and
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Frank Welker. You've got jobs again. Like, no,
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that's not what this is. And no disrespect to
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Mr. Cullen or Mr. Welker. Love them to death.
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Love their work. Absolutely respect the hell
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out of both of them for what they did and what
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they continue to do when they're hired to do
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the voices. But yeah, just. These websites, Valnet
00:24:34.259 --> 00:24:37.619
has got to, out of all the media companies out
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there, Valnet has got to be burnt to the ground.
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I'm not saying anything for liable purposes,
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but I... The opinions of TSU and Mike do not
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reflect the opinions of the Geeky Axe Radio Network
00:24:54.700 --> 00:25:00.769
LLC. So they... Because they own... you know,
00:25:00.809 --> 00:25:04.289
as far as like their screen based content, uh,
00:25:04.470 --> 00:25:06.970
they own screen rent, they own collider, they
00:25:06.970 --> 00:25:09.410
own comic book resources, they own movie web.
00:25:09.650 --> 00:25:13.109
Yep. And then they partner with everything. Um,
00:25:13.250 --> 00:25:16.089
so they're paid shills in that, that regard.
00:25:16.730 --> 00:25:20.710
Uh, and then like, as far as like gaming, you
00:25:20.710 --> 00:25:25.069
know, they own the game rant gamer polygon. Yeah.
00:25:25.170 --> 00:25:30.789
Um, they, as far as like tech, how to geek. God,
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I mean, they own. They own all kinds of crap.
00:25:37.490 --> 00:25:42.230
I. I used to like and I used to respect these
00:25:42.230 --> 00:25:47.450
websites. Same. But it seems like there is rinse
00:25:47.450 --> 00:25:52.369
repeat of the same crap between all of their
00:25:52.369 --> 00:25:54.910
content. Like you're not getting a different.
00:25:55.150 --> 00:25:58.720
No. You're not getting a different perspective
00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:03.180
anymore. No. It's all the same. It might have
00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:07.000
a different title. Yep. But it literally is the
00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:10.319
same. Different titles. The websites are basically
00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:15.319
reskinned of the same design. Like they're all
00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.079
the same layout. Oh, yeah. They all use the same
00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.819
interface. It's a multi multi web setup. They
00:26:22.819 --> 00:26:24.680
all have the pop out. They all have the same.
00:26:25.760 --> 00:26:28.680
Yeah, exact layout. They might have a slightly
00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:33.240
different slant. Yeah, but they're they're essentially
00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:36.500
the same website. Same title, different featured
00:26:36.500 --> 00:26:39.579
image. Yeah, that's literally different color
00:26:39.579 --> 00:26:49.779
palette, different logo. Yep. So. And honestly,
00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:54.319
this is what fuels me to. Do better with our
00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:56.940
website and with what's coming for the website.
00:26:58.420 --> 00:27:04.039
I I do not want to repeat. No. What they're doing.
00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:09.480
Absolutely not. And then I especially when they
00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:11.700
talk Transformers or Star Trek, like I'm sure
00:27:11.700 --> 00:27:14.319
they do this with other things. I notice it like
00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:17.660
I notice it way more when they're their stuff
00:27:17.660 --> 00:27:20.480
is erroneous because I know both of those franchises
00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:23.380
in and out, especially when they talk. Star Trek
00:27:23.380 --> 00:27:30.640
or Beast Wars or. Like. For instance, Collider
00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.559
six hours ago posted its official Batman, the
00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:36.799
animated series is returning this year. That's
00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:47.539
not. And and so. They're. They're saying that.
00:27:49.220 --> 00:27:51.480
You know, it makes it sound like the TV series
00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:55.259
is coming back. It's not. It's not. So when you
00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:57.480
dig down into it, it says Upper Deck is releasing
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:00.980
a Batman Enemies of Gotham card set later, a
00:28:00.980 --> 00:28:04.200
board game later this year, inspired by Batman,
00:28:04.299 --> 00:28:08.779
the animated series. Upper Deck, like it's not
00:28:08.779 --> 00:28:13.000
even a. Yeah, it's cards. It's it's it's a it's
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.400
a board game or cards like it's not. And then
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:16.960
they go into like the history of the whole thing,
00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:20.420
and then they have their little IMDB block in
00:28:20.420 --> 00:28:28.670
there. But I go, what? That is so stupid. But
00:28:28.670 --> 00:28:30.589
I mean, it's the same thing. It's these crappy
00:28:30.589 --> 00:28:33.609
clickbaity titles. You know, it's fine if they
00:28:33.609 --> 00:28:36.390
want to. If they want to have something that's
00:28:36.390 --> 00:28:38.549
like, you know, there's one about Robert Downey
00:28:38.549 --> 00:28:41.569
Jr. with, you know, Sherlock Holmes, you know,
00:28:41.569 --> 00:28:44.190
his it's his elite action thriller deserves a
00:28:44.190 --> 00:28:48.289
sequel 15 years after its release. OK, that's
00:28:48.289 --> 00:28:52.769
that's fine. That's like, OK, I'll bite. But
00:28:52.769 --> 00:28:54.390
when you're making it sound like something is
00:28:54.390 --> 00:28:56.410
coming back from the great beyond and there's,
00:28:56.410 --> 00:28:58.849
it's not, and it's in some other medium, whether
00:28:58.849 --> 00:29:01.750
it be a game or a comic or, you know, card or,
00:29:01.769 --> 00:29:04.529
you know, something totally unrelated. Yeah.
00:29:05.269 --> 00:29:09.289
It's yeah. It's, it's so misleading. Well, like,
00:29:09.309 --> 00:29:12.490
I mean, so technically Batman, the end. Okay.
00:29:12.569 --> 00:29:15.849
Well, maybe not. Like they did do the new Batman
00:29:15.849 --> 00:29:20.440
adventures or they did do like the. the BTAS,
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:23.519
the DCAU stuff has had comics for it before,
00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.880
but like, again, like you're saying about titling,
00:29:26.980 --> 00:29:35.039
like my titles are fairly straightforward. Like
00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:45.079
take away my own branding. Okay. So for my three
00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:49.339
65 blog, if you take away my, tf2 and mike 365
00:29:49.339 --> 00:29:53.500
yada yada yada stuff bad boys 30th anniversary
00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:56.779
expanded and remastered limited edition two cd
00:29:56.779 --> 00:30:01.359
set album review plain as day you know exactly
00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:04.539
what you're getting into with that title the
00:30:04.539 --> 00:30:07.940
beginning of the article hello all welcome to
00:30:07.940 --> 00:30:10.299
my blah blah blah i'll be talking about the film
00:30:10.299 --> 00:30:14.539
score to bad boys this is the oh i need to i
00:30:14.539 --> 00:30:24.619
need to edit that actually that but the point
00:30:24.619 --> 00:30:33.700
is is that like you're saying we are not um when
00:30:33.700 --> 00:30:37.099
we write stuff or when we do stuff on geekcastradio
00:30:37.099 --> 00:30:45.140
.com we do not muck up the title or any of the
00:30:45.140 --> 00:30:52.099
writing side of it with backtalk or you know
00:30:52.099 --> 00:30:57.500
we're not over here swallowing mouthwash where
00:30:57.500 --> 00:31:03.339
we double talk to the reader or where we give
00:31:03.339 --> 00:31:07.539
you three and a half paragraphs of stuff you
00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:13.180
can read on wikipedia kind of thing well it's
00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:16.240
you know like cbr Henry Cavill's Wolverine officially
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:21.960
returns this fall. Guess what this one's for?
00:31:23.539 --> 00:31:26.660
Their MO at Valnet is anytime they say something
00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:30.779
like that, it's a product. Yeah. Anytime they
00:31:30.779 --> 00:31:33.019
say, you know, it's returned, it's officially
00:31:33.019 --> 00:31:37.059
returned or it's being continued or, you know,
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:39.500
whatever. Anytime they say something like that,
00:31:39.539 --> 00:31:41.180
it's clickbait to get you to open it because
00:31:41.180 --> 00:31:42.759
it's a product that they're going to get a kickback
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:48.180
from. This one, it's the new Marvel Legends Cavalry
00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:51.680
figure is coming out. The action figure. Yeah.
00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:58.359
And don't get me wrong. Like, it's cool. Like,
00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:02.259
I think it's neat for the fact that what it is
00:32:02.259 --> 00:32:04.759
now, what's funny is you could replace the head
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:08.480
with Hugh Jackman and you could have, you know,
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:12.380
a jacked version of of Hugh Jackman of Wolverine.
00:32:12.910 --> 00:32:17.430
you know in this look uh and it would work uh
00:32:17.430 --> 00:32:20.269
you could also take this body and use it you
00:32:20.269 --> 00:32:22.690
know if you switch the hands out use it as a
00:32:22.690 --> 00:32:28.109
demorphed uh tommy oliver you know by putting
00:32:28.109 --> 00:32:35.630
the the dino thunder yep uh head on it so i mean
00:32:35.630 --> 00:32:38.049
you could do that too i don't know like it's
00:32:38.049 --> 00:32:42.910
it's i think it's neat And I think it's cool
00:32:42.910 --> 00:32:44.630
that they've released all of those as Marvel
00:32:44.630 --> 00:32:47.789
legends. Finally. Yeah. I mean, the only one
00:32:47.789 --> 00:32:50.670
I picked up was Wolverine with Hugh Jackman's
00:32:50.670 --> 00:32:54.049
head, you know, but I didn't get the battle,
00:32:54.049 --> 00:32:56.430
the battle damage version or the, you know, the
00:32:56.430 --> 00:33:01.890
Brown and in yellow, um, just not things that
00:33:01.890 --> 00:33:04.980
I cared to get. Brown and yellow, brown and yellow,
00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.539
brown and yellow. I mean, this one's cool, too.
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.519
And I've thought about it or like X -23 or, you
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:12.220
know, a Deadpool figure. But I'm like, ultimately,
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:16.500
I'm like, don't care. I'm like, if you don't
00:33:16.500 --> 00:33:19.059
care, there's no reason to get it. Now, like
00:33:19.059 --> 00:33:21.960
Mattel, on the other hand, has these new, you
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:24.160
know, they have the DC license back from McFarlane.
00:33:25.220 --> 00:33:29.039
And if you can get like the kids edition of the
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.819
figures actually look. halfway decent like for
00:33:32.819 --> 00:33:36.859
12 bucks they're the same height as the marvel
00:33:36.859 --> 00:33:39.220
legends stuff and they come with accessories
00:33:39.220 --> 00:33:41.420
kind of like how the old ninja turtles came with
00:33:41.420 --> 00:33:44.460
them like on the the little uh like the fence
00:33:44.460 --> 00:33:48.799
thing where it stuck to them behind them like
00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:51.779
so their little accessory uh thing all of the
00:33:51.779 --> 00:33:54.200
one color thing and uh they actually clipped
00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:55.880
to like batman's belt for instance and i thought
00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:57.940
about picking one of those up i was like oh that's
00:33:57.940 --> 00:33:59.940
kind of That's kind of interesting. And I like
00:33:59.940 --> 00:34:02.720
the suit and I like the design. And it's not
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:04.400
even the collector edition of these figures.
00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:09.300
And I was like, I'm impressed for 12 bucks. You
00:34:09.300 --> 00:34:11.500
know, whereas for years we've had these ones
00:34:11.500 --> 00:34:14.360
that are barely four inches cost the same price
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:18.500
as this one that's six inches tall. And it's
00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:20.760
like fully articulated compared to those things.
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.599
And that's why the other ones were shelf warmers.
00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:33.260
So I don't know. I think we can move on. All
00:34:33.260 --> 00:34:35.139
right. We're going to head on over to nine to
00:34:35.139 --> 00:34:38.059
five Google. They've got a story about movies
00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:43.840
anywhere getting, they're adding the Lionsgate
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:47.440
films, including John wick knives out and more.
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:52.280
So the movies anywhere service is getting a boost
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:56.119
with the addition of the Lionsgate titles, including
00:34:56.119 --> 00:34:59.840
some popular franchises. such as John Wick, The
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:03.340
Hunger Games, Knives Out, and more. Movies Anywhere,
00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:06.880
a project which syncs movies' purchases across
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:10.820
platforms such as Google TV, Amazon Prime Video,
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:15.159
Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and others, is only
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:18.360
as good as its support from studios. If Major
00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:21.659
Studio doesn't support the project, its films
00:35:21.659 --> 00:35:25.619
simply do not sync between those platforms. One
00:35:25.619 --> 00:35:29.539
of the biggest... holdouts has been lionsgate
00:35:29.539 --> 00:35:33.199
the studio behind some major films and franchises
00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:36.460
which has long withheld all of its titles for
00:35:36.460 --> 00:35:40.559
movies anywhere starting this month that's changing
00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:48.320
uh via flat panels hd 225 lionsgate films will
00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:51.800
be added 225 lionsgate films will be added to
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:55.739
movies anywhere with 100 added each month through
00:35:55.739 --> 00:35:59.940
early 2027. Deadline calls out some of the most
00:35:59.940 --> 00:36:04.340
popular films being added, including the likes
00:36:04.340 --> 00:36:08.199
of The Hunger Games and John Wick franchise,
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:13.480
as well as The Housemaid, Now You See Me, Now
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:16.760
You Don't, La La Land, Rambo, Dirty Dancing,
00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:20.949
Passion of the Christ, and Knives Out. google
00:36:20.949 --> 00:36:23.630
was briefly removed from movies anywhere during
00:36:23.630 --> 00:36:27.070
a dispute with disney which operates the project
00:36:27.070 --> 00:36:32.630
but has since returned that is very cool that
00:36:32.630 --> 00:36:36.889
lion's gate is finally being added to movies
00:36:36.889 --> 00:36:39.989
anywhere very funny as i've never heard of this
00:36:39.989 --> 00:36:43.210
before movies anywhere really you've never heard
00:36:43.210 --> 00:36:45.909
of this now oh yeah man i don't even know what
00:36:45.909 --> 00:36:49.760
it is like i've never Yeah, so basically all
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:56.159
it is is whatever you have connected to it. Like
00:36:56.159 --> 00:37:01.139
I mentioned, I have my Fandango at home thing
00:37:01.139 --> 00:37:07.360
connected to it. So if for some odd reason I
00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:11.079
don't have access to Fandango on the go, I can
00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:13.400
go to Movies Anywhere and all of the movies that
00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:17.159
I have purchased on Fandango are in Movies Anywhere.
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.320
So if you have an Apple account, if you have
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.820
Google, like I said, Google Play, whatever you
00:37:25.820 --> 00:37:30.300
purchase on those platforms, it will sync to
00:37:30.300 --> 00:37:33.199
movies anywhere and you will have that content
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:38.800
literally anywhere on your devices. It's awesome.
00:37:39.059 --> 00:37:41.119
It's so cool. The only thing I don't like about
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:44.099
these digital services is when they pack up shop.
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:48.420
I agree, but this has been around for a while.
00:37:49.610 --> 00:37:54.349
yeah i i just this is where i still i i kind
00:37:54.349 --> 00:38:00.230
of get leery about it and i'm like i'm like i
00:38:00.230 --> 00:38:02.730
think i'd rather own them at this point because
00:38:02.730 --> 00:38:09.929
like i've seen it happen way too many times but
00:38:09.929 --> 00:38:14.989
yeah i mean in the short term i think it's fine
00:38:14.989 --> 00:38:18.170
but i think in the grander scheme i think it
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:21.579
movies anywhere has been around since october
00:38:21.579 --> 00:38:26.139
of 2017 what was that other one that you had
00:38:26.139 --> 00:38:27.860
for a while and then they just packed up shop
00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:36.780
oh god uh i don't remember yeah there was one
00:38:36.780 --> 00:38:44.739
late at night yeah use brain not work i has brain
00:38:44.739 --> 00:38:50.219
no um no i mean this one's cool because i mean
00:38:50.219 --> 00:38:52.619
it does have a lot of different franchises in
00:38:52.619 --> 00:38:57.940
it um so i mean you do have that going for you
00:38:57.940 --> 00:39:02.420
yeah but i mean like i said i don't use it as
00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:07.920
much um i just i saw the story and i was like
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.119
oh very cool because like i said if i do have
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.800
like i do know i have i'm pretty sure let me
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:19.360
double check my so what it is okay it's an aggregator
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.659
yeah it's an aggregator okay so that's that's
00:39:22.659 --> 00:39:24.840
why they're around so basically if you have the
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:27.800
movie on you know prime or netflix or something
00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:30.519
else like they just pull it into one yeah well
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:34.239
i didn't understand that totally but um yeah
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:40.800
that's what i just So the thing, where is...
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:44.059
But I mean, in a sense, Amazon Prime does the
00:39:44.059 --> 00:39:48.500
same thing. True. There's just sneakier in the
00:39:48.500 --> 00:39:52.360
fact that you're like, is it on here? Is it not?
00:39:57.900 --> 00:40:02.719
Is it on here? Is it not? We don't know. We don't
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:10.219
know what you own. Wait. You own stuff? No. I
00:40:10.219 --> 00:40:12.500
don't know. I've gotten to the point where I'm
00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:18.639
like, let's see, what can I buy at this point?
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.619
Or what's worth buying, I guess. Yeah, there
00:40:22.619 --> 00:40:26.719
you go. Yeah, I have the three movie bundle set
00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:29.840
of John Wick movies, so I never bought the fourth
00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:31.900
movie, or I might have bought the fourth movie
00:40:31.900 --> 00:40:34.119
out of the bundle, but because I bought the...
00:40:34.730 --> 00:40:36.889
I had bought the three movie bundle of the wick
00:40:36.889 --> 00:40:39.769
movies before the fourth movie even was out.
00:40:39.909 --> 00:40:43.690
So I don't know if it's on movie. I'm assuming
00:40:43.690 --> 00:40:50.070
it would be on movies anywhere, but yeah. All
00:40:50.070 --> 00:40:53.389
right. Let's see. What else do we got? I think
00:40:53.389 --> 00:40:57.050
before we get to, did you watch the, the little
00:40:57.050 --> 00:41:01.210
teaser clip of the new dog movie? Yes, I did.
00:41:01.530 --> 00:41:08.070
Okay. What do you think of Scooby 2027? So I've
00:41:08.070 --> 00:41:10.829
seen people freaking the heck out over this.
00:41:12.730 --> 00:41:24.210
And. I, I don't know how I feel about it, like.
00:41:29.590 --> 00:41:34.050
I mean, it's a live action dog. I mean, and it
00:41:34.050 --> 00:41:39.889
does look like a Great Dane. Yeah. Like because
00:41:39.889 --> 00:41:42.250
it says there, you know, it that's what they
00:41:42.250 --> 00:41:45.690
look like as a puppy. Mm hmm. And then they change.
00:41:46.150 --> 00:41:56.590
Mm hmm. So. I don't know. I don't know what to
00:41:56.590 --> 00:42:00.960
think. Like, it's. It's a teaser. I like it.
00:42:00.980 --> 00:42:04.500
I like hearing what they said about it in the
00:42:04.500 --> 00:42:07.900
teaser. I might have watched a different thing
00:42:07.900 --> 00:42:10.119
where the people that are doing the research
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:14.780
for the film, that they actually went to people
00:42:14.780 --> 00:42:18.440
who train Great Danes or who breed Great Danes,
00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:20.920
where they said, yeah, it's puppies. That's what
00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:23.199
they look like. And then when they grow up, they
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:30.989
look like Scooby. in the cartoon they they kind
00:42:30.989 --> 00:42:34.010
of reversed how the animators and stuff originally
00:42:34.010 --> 00:42:36.650
reversed how all the stuff whatever whatever
00:42:36.650 --> 00:42:39.489
whatever i don't know it's weird but it's one
00:42:39.489 --> 00:42:42.809
of those things where you know what it's a scooby
00:42:42.809 --> 00:42:47.150
origin movie it is what it is it's a series isn't
00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:49.929
it oh no it's a series on netflix it's a series
00:42:49.929 --> 00:42:52.090
you're right i mean i'm gonna check it out yeah
00:42:52.090 --> 00:42:55.829
yeah same i I'm going to see if I can review
00:42:55.829 --> 00:43:00.429
this, because honestly, I think that. As somebody
00:43:00.429 --> 00:43:05.570
who wasn't a huge Scooby -Doo fan and also, you
00:43:05.570 --> 00:43:08.590
know, I haven't liked any of the live action
00:43:08.590 --> 00:43:10.949
stuff since I mean, there's been very little
00:43:10.949 --> 00:43:13.250
of it since the first two films, just because
00:43:13.250 --> 00:43:16.650
the cast was pretty good. But I think this is
00:43:16.650 --> 00:43:22.510
an opportunity to. Restart. You know, with it.
00:43:22.860 --> 00:43:25.940
I think it's also funny. It says unleashing in
00:43:25.940 --> 00:43:32.420
2027. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. That caught my attention
00:43:32.420 --> 00:43:34.679
too. I was like, anytime I see unleash, I'm like,
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:39.460
yes, you don't have the trademark on that word.
00:43:40.340 --> 00:43:50.019
Or can I? Yeah, I know. Right. It's funny. All
00:43:50.019 --> 00:43:54.289
right. Well, I think folks, I think I've saved
00:43:54.289 --> 00:43:58.329
everything I can save for now for last. We are
00:43:58.329 --> 00:44:02.210
going to go to Google and the icon packs that
00:44:02.210 --> 00:44:11.309
they released recently. And, uh, Oh boy. Oh boy.
00:44:13.449 --> 00:44:16.050
I'm just going to do a screen share with you
00:44:16.050 --> 00:44:23.159
for this. Cause yikes. So when you're ready,
00:44:23.500 --> 00:44:31.659
you just click that button there. Except the
00:44:31.659 --> 00:44:34.440
peoples can't see it. Yeah, the peoples can't
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:36.340
see it, but you can, and we can still discuss
00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:42.360
it. Okay, so this is what my phone normally looks
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:46.670
like. I have a matte black background. And throughout
00:44:46.670 --> 00:44:50.030
Google, all of Google's colors, they're purple
00:44:50.030 --> 00:44:53.210
icons because it's me and I'm black and purple.
00:44:53.809 --> 00:44:56.210
So that's what my phone normally looks like.
00:44:57.610 --> 00:45:02.329
These are the two color, the two new icons. Everyone
00:45:02.329 --> 00:45:05.690
was pissing their pants over the disco ones.
00:45:05.889 --> 00:45:08.289
They're like, oh, my God, look at that Spotify
00:45:08.289 --> 00:45:13.469
icon. That is so ugly. Oh, my God. What the hell
00:45:13.469 --> 00:45:18.239
is that? And these are sugar cookie icons that
00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:22.400
they came out with. Like, Oh my God, what in
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.300
the hell are these? What is the point? Well,
00:45:25.340 --> 00:45:30.199
the point is to give your phone more like character,
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:34.320
a different design, different character. So this
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:38.440
is my phone with the disco. That's the point
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:44.219
is to change your icons. And the reason why I
00:45:44.219 --> 00:45:46.320
clicked off and clicked onto this one is because
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:49.639
I have these in order now because I have other
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:52.900
ones here. So this is my phone with the disco
00:45:52.900 --> 00:45:58.280
ones on. These are my folders. So if you see
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:02.159
these, like social is here and that's the next
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:05.800
folder here. So I don't have multiple screens.
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:12.809
I can't do the. seven screens for all icons so
00:46:12.809 --> 00:46:18.409
i use folders so this is my i just like this
00:46:18.409 --> 00:46:25.670
is just too weird for me so like wendy kind of
00:46:25.670 --> 00:46:28.730
looks glammed up she looks all right i wouldn't
00:46:28.730 --> 00:46:32.889
even know what uber eats was doordash looks fine
00:46:32.889 --> 00:46:36.170
applebee's looks great arby's looks great they
00:46:36.170 --> 00:46:39.090
all kind of look great except for uber eats it
00:46:39.389 --> 00:46:46.030
looks really weird look at dominoes there it
00:46:46.030 --> 00:46:49.329
just looks weird like i don't know i don't understand
00:46:49.329 --> 00:46:52.170
it like i don't even know how you turn this on
00:46:52.170 --> 00:46:57.170
because i i mean i have a pixel phone yeah you
00:46:57.170 --> 00:47:01.050
have a pixel phone so you go into your settings
00:47:01.050 --> 00:47:06.369
you go into wallpaper and style you scroll down
00:47:06.369 --> 00:47:13.699
to Is it theme pack? Wallpapers. Hold on. More
00:47:13.699 --> 00:47:16.340
wallpapers. Go to more wallpapers. Is it more
00:47:16.340 --> 00:47:20.699
wallpapers? Not choose photos. Hold on. Where
00:47:20.699 --> 00:47:25.880
is it? It's in here somewhere. More notification.
00:47:26.619 --> 00:47:31.840
Shortcuts. Clock. Theme pack. Where is it? It's
00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:38.110
in here somewhere. Not modes. It's in the settings
00:47:38.110 --> 00:47:41.110
somewhere. Oh, let's see. I'll have to look.
00:47:41.949 --> 00:47:46.510
I wonder if it's in icons. App icon. Yeah, because
00:47:46.510 --> 00:47:51.530
all I've got is minimal or default. Wallpaper
00:47:51.530 --> 00:47:59.389
and style. That's all I have. I mean, I can create
00:47:59.389 --> 00:48:07.929
custom ones. Okay. If you do create. Because,
00:48:07.949 --> 00:48:12.610
like, I have default and minimalistic. If you
00:48:12.610 --> 00:48:17.369
do custom, then it has the disco, the scribbles,
00:48:17.389 --> 00:48:19.530
the easel, the cookies, the treasure, and the
00:48:19.530 --> 00:48:23.150
stardust. Okay. Yeah. Well, you found it, so
00:48:23.150 --> 00:48:26.610
I forget. Anyway. It's still weird. Yeah, it's
00:48:26.610 --> 00:48:30.510
still very weird. Look at the cookies. I'm like,
00:48:30.630 --> 00:48:35.289
what the hell? just on the front page of my phone.
00:48:35.369 --> 00:48:38.469
I wouldn't even, I was ready to turn these off,
00:48:38.550 --> 00:48:41.650
but I went and I'd got like, look at that. There's
00:48:41.650 --> 00:48:46.769
no way in hell. I like Facebook and, and Facebook
00:48:46.769 --> 00:48:49.989
is in messenger. The only two I recognized at
00:48:49.989 --> 00:48:54.789
first. And then this is, this is my foot. Like
00:48:54.789 --> 00:48:57.190
dominoes is the only one that kind of stayed
00:48:57.190 --> 00:49:01.530
the same. The rest of like, McDonald's, you can
00:49:01.530 --> 00:49:05.449
barely see the logo. You can actually see the
00:49:05.449 --> 00:49:10.369
Uber Eats logo this time. DoorDash, it's disappeared.
00:49:11.469 --> 00:49:17.190
It's just crazy. And that's, I basically put
00:49:17.190 --> 00:49:21.829
my phone back to what it was. I like... that
00:49:21.829 --> 00:49:26.010
Google gives us these icon packs. I think it's
00:49:26.010 --> 00:49:29.329
cool. I think it's interesting. I just think
00:49:29.329 --> 00:49:32.190
that the dis because, because the disco one is
00:49:32.190 --> 00:49:34.550
the one that, that people were all up in arms
00:49:34.550 --> 00:49:39.070
about. This is the one that, Oh my God. Cause
00:49:39.070 --> 00:49:42.369
they were really, they were really up in arms
00:49:42.369 --> 00:49:45.699
about the Spotify. Like. A couple of podcasts
00:49:45.699 --> 00:49:47.900
I listen to, they're like, oh, my God, that's
00:49:47.900 --> 00:49:51.820
Spotify disco ball. It looks like crap. And oh,
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:55.199
my God, like the Gmail thing doesn't look that
00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:58.059
half bad. The photos doesn't photos and camera
00:49:58.059 --> 00:50:00.219
doesn't look half that bad. The phone one's fine,
00:50:00.579 --> 00:50:04.539
whatever. But that Spotify thing just looks.
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:12.460
But but yeah, no, I don't know. I don't really
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outside of my, like, I basically keep my phone
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like this because I'm not out here changing my
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phone display all that much. It's utilitarian
00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:33.860
for me. It's not like, I don't know. I'm not
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out here like artistry drawing or, or having.
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I don't know. I just picked my color, set the
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background to matte black, and then that was
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it. Because I tried other photos and other colors.
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I even tried purple on this, and it just didn't
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work. I was like, I can't even see half the crap
00:51:03.070 --> 00:51:08.739
anymore. But yeah, I thought I'd... bring in
00:51:08.739 --> 00:51:11.619
some tech talk for, for a while since we talked
00:51:11.619 --> 00:51:16.360
about everything else. Um, and I've been wanting
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:22.659
to talk about that for a bit on the, uh, on the,
00:51:22.659 --> 00:51:27.840
uh, on the old podcast. Uh, what do you guys
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:30.639
think if you're Android users or I don't even
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:34.500
know what iPhone users get for icons and. and
00:51:34.500 --> 00:51:36.920
customization and whatever else but if you're
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:40.380
an android user and google and all that let us
00:51:40.380 --> 00:51:42.539
know in the comments what you guys think of the
00:51:42.539 --> 00:51:45.380
icon packs that google gives us for stuff like
00:51:45.380 --> 00:51:48.920
this and let us know about anything else that
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uh we've discussed tonight like i mentioned earlier
00:51:53.099 --> 00:51:55.739
steve and i at some point in the future will
00:51:55.739 --> 00:51:59.579
be watching the afi lifetime achievement award
00:51:59.579 --> 00:52:05.190
for eddie murphy because I watched like the first
00:52:05.190 --> 00:52:07.269
five or ten minutes of it it was pretty funny
00:52:07.269 --> 00:52:10.969
for the first five or ten minutes that I saw
00:52:10.969 --> 00:52:18.789
so yup yup yup I have not watched it yet yeah
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we will eventually there's so much other crap
00:52:21.929 --> 00:52:30.090
we gotta do before we can but yup we will so
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:38.739
I have been, like I said, working on the geek
00:52:38.739 --> 00:52:43.460
cast radio website. I also I got my hands on
00:52:43.460 --> 00:52:50.039
frequency. Yep. From Stranger Things. It's an
00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:52.159
interesting figure. It's about the same size
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:54.420
as a Voyager figure, but it's charged for the
00:52:54.420 --> 00:52:58.760
race of a leader class, which seems to be Hasbro's
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:02.460
M .O., which I mean, they did that prime to mean
00:53:02.460 --> 00:53:06.139
he was. an actual leader class though. Uh, but
00:53:06.139 --> 00:53:07.980
then they put him in as a commander cause he
00:53:07.980 --> 00:53:13.860
had that stupid trailer. Um, so there is a five
00:53:13.860 --> 00:53:17.460
millimeter peg on his shoulder that you could
00:53:17.460 --> 00:53:19.699
technically mount the, uh, the chicken cannon,
00:53:19.780 --> 00:53:24.340
which honestly kind of reminds me of like Cheetor's,
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:28.260
uh, stomach brain gun thing from the old beast
00:53:28.260 --> 00:53:32.400
wars that it kind of rotates. It looks stupid.
00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:36.840
I don't like this stupid chicken thing. The cassette's
00:53:36.840 --> 00:53:41.920
cool that goes in the stomach because it folds
00:53:41.920 --> 00:53:44.840
down and you have to lift up part of the back
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:48.639
and press it through because it kind of gets
00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:55.619
stuck. And then I like the head with the headphones
00:53:55.619 --> 00:53:57.929
on it. Kind of reminds me of Blaster a little
00:53:57.929 --> 00:53:59.929
bit. So it's kind of like a cross between Blaster
00:53:59.929 --> 00:54:05.650
and Soundwave, but in the style of a van. The
00:54:05.650 --> 00:54:08.369
arms seem kind of chintzy to me. I mean, the
00:54:08.369 --> 00:54:11.210
way the arms and the legs fold up, they kind
00:54:11.210 --> 00:54:15.909
of fold into the panels. So like in that regard,
00:54:16.090 --> 00:54:20.969
like I kind of understand it. But that seems
00:54:20.969 --> 00:54:25.409
pretty solid. The box was garbage, but. So like
00:54:25.409 --> 00:54:26.929
if you're trying to collect it with that, like
00:54:26.929 --> 00:54:29.349
they're all tore up in their suit, they're like
00:54:29.349 --> 00:54:33.389
paper thin. Like why they would do minimal cardboard
00:54:33.389 --> 00:54:34.769
on something that's supposed to be a collector
00:54:34.769 --> 00:54:40.670
item. I don't know, but. Yeah, so there's that.
00:54:40.849 --> 00:54:46.230
And then. I probably do a video of it at some
00:54:46.230 --> 00:54:51.789
point. Soon before I. Start my deconstruction.
00:54:52.909 --> 00:54:55.469
I will say there's no decals on them. It's all
00:54:55.469 --> 00:55:02.130
painted. Which I was quite surprised. Very cool.
00:55:02.329 --> 00:55:08.550
Very cool. The WSQK is painted on as well as
00:55:08.550 --> 00:55:10.789
like the Eagle and all the other stuff. And I
00:55:10.789 --> 00:55:11.949
was kind of looking at it. I'm like, I mean,
00:55:11.949 --> 00:55:14.809
it's an 80s panel van. The front end, like the
00:55:14.809 --> 00:55:17.469
transformation, like the robot mode looks like
00:55:17.469 --> 00:55:22.989
Ultimis Prime. Which is. part of why i did it
00:55:22.989 --> 00:55:26.969
right right um the cassette i don't think i would
00:55:26.969 --> 00:55:28.969
i don't think i would do anything to it i think
00:55:28.969 --> 00:55:35.829
i would paint over the logo of the wsqk and the
00:55:35.829 --> 00:55:39.170
the frequency on there and then you know put
00:55:39.170 --> 00:55:44.329
a gcrn logo right but i don't think i would i
00:55:44.329 --> 00:55:46.369
don't think i would change like the yellow of
00:55:46.369 --> 00:55:49.550
it just because one if i paint it it may not
00:55:49.550 --> 00:55:54.489
fit back in the stomach interesting it's just
00:55:54.489 --> 00:55:56.349
that's kind of the nature of the beast there
00:55:56.349 --> 00:56:03.989
yeah um but uh so there is that and then uh yeah
00:56:03.989 --> 00:56:06.570
i would probably paint it like the the brown
00:56:06.570 --> 00:56:11.530
and gold of my old uh pickup truck that i used
00:56:11.530 --> 00:56:14.550
to have my 80s pickup truck because i think that
00:56:14.550 --> 00:56:16.550
would look really good on this like the two -tone
00:56:16.550 --> 00:56:23.360
instead of being all blue Very cool. I think
00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:25.500
I can shine this guy up, make him look neat,
00:56:25.639 --> 00:56:29.039
and then get some Geekcast Radio decals to put
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:31.699
on it somehow. Don't know how I'd get them made,
00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:42.239
but that's the realm I want to go with it. That's
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:44.900
kind of the multiple things I'm working on at
00:56:44.900 --> 00:56:47.840
the present. Like I said, Geekcast Radio's new
00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:56.219
website and tons of new features. new new areas
00:56:56.219 --> 00:57:03.500
and new new functionalities and a lot of a lot
00:57:03.500 --> 00:57:09.019
of better organization for the podcast so and
00:57:09.019 --> 00:57:12.119
I'm trying to restore a lot of the old site as
00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:16.420
possible and when I say that I mean like over
00:57:16.420 --> 00:57:19.199
the years because of bandwidth or because of
00:57:19.610 --> 00:57:23.329
space or because of other things uh just not
00:57:23.329 --> 00:57:25.929
being optimized properly or just a bunch of crap
00:57:25.929 --> 00:57:30.510
i periodically made downloads of the database
00:57:30.510 --> 00:57:33.250
or like exported stuff from wordpress like old
00:57:33.250 --> 00:57:37.610
posts um which over the years have been forgotten
00:57:37.610 --> 00:57:43.769
and missing and so but i exported them before
00:57:43.769 --> 00:57:49.059
i wiped them out so the uh the goal here is to
00:57:49.059 --> 00:57:54.860
revive as much as humanly possible into the new
00:57:54.860 --> 00:57:58.920
site of the old site. And I've managed to clean
00:57:58.920 --> 00:58:01.739
out all of the old plugins and all of the old
00:58:01.739 --> 00:58:05.980
trash and, um, the way the podcasts work are
00:58:05.980 --> 00:58:08.380
totally different than any other plugin because
00:58:08.380 --> 00:58:12.820
I made it. So yeah, I'm, I'm super excited for
00:58:12.820 --> 00:58:15.659
the direction of this new site and, uh, getting
00:58:15.659 --> 00:58:21.380
to unveil it. I'm hoping in August. Yes. So with
00:58:21.380 --> 00:58:23.360
that, I think that about rounds this episode
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:28.159
out of Altered Geek. Let us know how you feel
00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:30.099
about the various topics that we've discussed
00:58:30.099 --> 00:58:32.519
on this episode and things that you'd like to
00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:36.019
hear on the next one. Of course, you can comment
00:58:36.019 --> 00:58:39.659
on the website geekcastradio .com or on our Discord
00:58:39.659 --> 00:58:43.380
channel or on any other social platform. Just
00:58:43.380 --> 00:58:47.090
a little bit of housekeeping. Uh, if you notice
00:58:47.090 --> 00:58:50.570
some of the social channels changing, there's
00:58:50.570 --> 00:58:53.110
a method to the madness here. And that's a part
00:58:53.110 --> 00:58:56.590
of the new site revamp is, uh, consolidating
00:58:56.590 --> 00:59:01.570
titles and retitling to the GCRN. Uh, and then
00:59:01.570 --> 00:59:05.510
as well as, um, doing that to various social
00:59:05.510 --> 00:59:07.909
handles, uh, some of them are being replaced
00:59:07.909 --> 00:59:13.369
on the old handle of the original name, uh, redirecting
00:59:13.369 --> 00:59:18.000
people to the new name. But yeah, that's so if
00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:19.840
you're trying to find Geekcast Radio, it'll be
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:26.559
the GCRN. You exist. You totally exist. So until
00:59:26.559 --> 00:59:30.980
next time, get altered, get geeky with the Altered
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