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Hello, and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm

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your host, Steve Megatron. And joining me on

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this adventure into geekdom is TFG1 Mike. Hello.

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geeky articles coming out from Mike, myself,

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and Optimus Solo. Yes, yes, absolutely. Yes,

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and lots of TV show stuff. I'm doing a lot of

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podcast writing lately, so you won't find much

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of that there, but I may branch out soon. So

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in this episode, we're back on the cusp of the

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16 year anniversary of the podcast network, the

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big one six. Somebody take away our licenses.

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We haven't even gotten them yet. Well, in two

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years we can drive, drive the Internet, that

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is. No, there's there's been some interesting

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developments while I was. Some that happened

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after I got back and some while I was on vacation.

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And a lot of it's movies, movie industry related,

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you know, between like AMC and WB and Discovery

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and things of that nature. So I think without

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further ado, we'll get into it with. The initial

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article that you posted to, which was AMC. Yeah,

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this is pretty much a nothing burger. So I started

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following Pop Culture Brian on Instagram and

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Facebook. There's this guy that does pop culture

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news and other things. And it's just a it's an

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easier way for me to consume news than to sit

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there. and read a news article kind of thing

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yeah article after article after you know just

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it's like okay get to the point yeah which is

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why i like a lot of certain youtube video shows

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and things like that on certain topics it just

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depends on what the topic is so i saw this and

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i was like oh no because i haven't been to a

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movie theater since 2018 literally the the anniversary

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re -release of transformers the movie or whatever

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it was in 2018 when karen and i went to see that

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at the time was the reason the last time we went

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to see a movie at the time and i just don't go

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to movie theaters i'm perfectly fine waiting

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like right now i would love to be able to see

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lilo and stitch i've seen and i mean lilo and

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stitch 2025 live action is pretty much not shot

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for shot but it's pretty much outside of a few

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live action plot points that they had to change

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to accommodate live action which i'm fine with

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i don't care all these people that's a whole

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other topic or whatever but oh my god all these

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people freaking out about how oh my god it's

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not the same as the animated movie from 20 something

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20 23 years ago however how long it's been get

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over it right What? The 23 years before the live

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action? Well, just the time frame. I saw things

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where people were freaking out because they changed

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the fact that... The social worker, the villain,

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the CIA agent, all that stuff. Well, and then

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they changed the fact that when they were doing

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the hide -and -seek scene, it was a cabinet instead

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of a dryer. Oh, God. yes like the original was

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a dryer and then they and then they edited it

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to look like a cabinet on disney plus which i

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agree with i agree with that change okay see

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that's the thing that's the other problem i'm

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currently having i'm current and that's another

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topic i actually want to take this over to geekcast

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radio at some point and do a show that might

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be our 350th episode of geekcast radio Might

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be a fun one to get a roundtable with DJ. Oh,

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you have no... Well, you don't even know what

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I'm going to bring up. Is this an off -air conversation

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or an on -air conversation? No, I'm just going

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to give you the headline. No, I'm just going

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to give you the headline in a nutshell. Subscription

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services and how... They are the new drug of

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the 21st century and how they guilt trip you,

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bribe you, and cajole you through 50 different

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screens before they allow you to actually cancel

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them. I have been without Disney Plus for about

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a month or so. I have been, and normally I pay

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for that annually, and I wasn't able to do the

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annual subscription this year. Once I get paid

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again, I will be buying the annual subscription

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so I don't have that problem for the next year

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or so. Same thing with YouTube Premium. The first

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time in at least, I want to say, 11 years, I

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do not have YouTube Premium currently. And I

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feel like I'm in the Stone Age of 2007. literally

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i forgot what it was like watching youtube ads

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youtube premium is absolutely love youtube premium

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and i'm not saying that to take away from the

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creators on youtube whatsoever because youtube

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does any of i forget what the the the money i

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forget what the numbers are for it but anyone

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who has a youtube premium subscription whether

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it's monthly or annually youtube creators as

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long i think i i think and i could be wrong about

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this so people can correct me as long as you

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watch enough of that creator they get a percentage

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of the youtube premium subscription that you

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pay for or something okay somehow as long as

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you pay for a youtube premium subscription somehow

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it goes back to the creators i forget what the

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actual details are on how it gets back to the

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creators but it does get back to the creators

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so that way you don't feel like you're making

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them lose out revenue by not having ads and paying

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YouTube directly for a subscription. So YouTube

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does share part of, I would have to research

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that and I'm not clicking on anything right now

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because I'm too damn lazy to do so. But I do

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remember reading that at some point. But right

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now I'm without those things and I'm slumming

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it and that's okay. So I didn't even realize

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I thought Lilo and Stitch was still in theaters.

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I didn't even realize it was on Disney Plus yet.

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Well, I don't know if it is. I just I was saying

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the animated one. Oh, the animated one. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. The animated one had the dryer scene.

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They changed it in the live. And again, the light

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from again, I've seen practically every spoiler

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and it's not a spoiler. Like I said, I've already

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talked about the changes. They made Cobra Bubbles

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an actual CIA agent instead of the social worker

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former CIA agent. They added in Tia Carrere,

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who was the original voice of Nani, as the social

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worker. That's cool. They made the original voice

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of David from the cartoon, from the animated

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film, and those... From the original 2002 film,

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they made him the boss. They made him Nani's

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boss in the live action film. Mrs. Asagawa, I'm

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probably saying that wrong. From the original

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film, the actress, the lady that voiced her in

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the original animated film, she's who plays the

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neighbor in the live action film. So like the

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lady that says. dog he's no dog this is a dog

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that lady that's in the in the trailers um so

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i like what they did with it even though i haven't

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seen all of it from all of the clips and everything

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i've seen and oh my god the way they are the

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way that all of the creators online are remixing

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some of the stitch scenes to various music tracks

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holy crap It's hilarious. They are taking the

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water gun fight scene and where he, it's not

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his slowdown. It's not when he's ready to fire

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the water at, at Lilo, but it's when he does

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the bam, bam, bam. When he does that, he does

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that in the trailer. He does that fast. People

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slow it down. So it goes. bam bam bam and they

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put oh my god i got i'm gonna end up inundating

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you with some of this stuff because it's so creative

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and so good how they're you i look i'm all in

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on lilo and stitch it's the only disney live

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action i will ever say i'm all in on i don't

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know if i would be all in on on them doing any

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sequels but I mean, the thing is literally broken

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every box office record ever at this point. It's

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heading towards a billion if it isn't already

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there now. I don't funny how that works. Yeah.

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Well, it's Disney. I don't think it's at a billion

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yet, as far as I know. But yeah, no, the so yeah,

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the the AMC thing. So the AMC thing is basically

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they're going to do a premium. ad thing before

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all of the other ads and all of the other previews

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which uh which brian uh pop culture brian uh

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already pointed out that a cinemark and and regal

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have already been doing this so it's basically

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that's why i say it's a nothing burger amc is

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just jumping on the bandwagon of the other theaters

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that have already been doing this And I know

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most people are going to say, oh, well, just

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figure out the timing of how long that ad break

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is and just, you know, buy your tickets and show

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up to the movies 30 minutes late. Well, remember

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back in the day, like they used to show, I mean,

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they only used to show commercials and extra

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trailers and things like that, but they used

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to just get to the point. Yep. But it does seem

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like they're adding more and more and more and

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more. It's been a couple of years since I've

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seen a movie in theater. Yeah. Luckily, I don't

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go to AMCA, go to like Cinemark because that's

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all that's around here. But I don't. I don't.

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And this is I mean, we've discussed movie theaters

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at Nauseam before, too. I don't miss. The movie

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theater. And I know that's kind of. Almost like.

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sacrilegious to say is a you know geek podcast

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but i don't miss the commercials i don't miss

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waiting to see the film because i mean like i'm

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counting on the film of being between this time

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this time like i don't want to spend excess time

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there yeah and then there's the other aspect

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of i i saw an article kind of along these lines

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and i can't find it right now um But it was along

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the lines of people just like the time of the

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movie theater kind of being done. Just, you know,

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at least for like our generation, our era, just

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because it's like it's easier to just watch it

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at home in the comfort of your own home, eat

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your own food. You don't have the obnoxious person.

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that or people that are making it more or less

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difficult to watch the film yep uh because they're

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noisy and obnoxious and that's kind of where

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i'm at with it like i don't miss going to the

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theaters anymore and i used to miss it so it

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it is kind of sad in that regard But I honestly,

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I haven't missed it in years. It's just been

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one of those things where it's just more convenient

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at home. And streaming's kind of created that.

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It's fostered it. It's brought it in. It's made

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it easy to do at home. And I don't see me ever

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really going back to the theater unless there's

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something I just have to see. Yeah, I thought

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I was going to have to see Stitch on the big

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screen. I thought I was going to have to see

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Mission Impossible on the big screen. Oh, by

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the way. And I first heard this from pop culture

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Brian when he was talking about Stitch's box

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office and Mission Impossible's box office. And

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I know other people have said this, but. I need

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to use stitching impossible everywhere now because,

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Oh my God, I love that. But it's one of those

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things where I wanted to actually see both films

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in theaters. I really wanted to. And at the end

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of the day, I just couldn't. And I'm just like,

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okay, I'm not missing out on anything. Really.

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I'm missing out on sticky floors. I'm missing

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out on, on theater that probably, and I live

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in a. town that i don't even know where the nearest

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i mean i know where the nearest probably cleanest

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theater is is probably in indianapolis but i've

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lived here in anderson indiana northeast of indianapolis

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for three and a half years now almost three years

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now and i've never looked for a movie theater

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in this town so i wouldn't even know what kind

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of movie theaters or what kind of whatever in

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this town Stitch is at $772 .5 million. Oh, it's

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going to hit a billion before the end of the

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summer. I guarantee it. Not quite surprising.

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No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. None whatsoever.

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So moving on to the next one, we have Warner

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Brothers putting the kibosh on Batman Forever,

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the Schumacher cut. Why? Do they just not like

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money? Like literally? First of all, your director

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unfortunately passed away in 2020. Your lead

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actor from this film. passed away a couple of

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months ago, and it's the film's 30th anniversary!

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Why aren't you putting this out? Because they

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don't like money? Somebody just take that stupid

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cane of his and just hit me in the head with

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it over and over and over and over again. I feel

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like... I feel like whoever is at Warner's going

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back in, or if there was anybody going back and

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forth over this at Warner's, this is your brain

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on the box. This is my brain on the box. This

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is your brain, my brain, your brain, my brain.

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Does anybody else feel like a fried egg? Like,

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seriously, who the hell's brain wasn't on the

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box when they made this decision? It's 30 years

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later. I understand why initially 30 years ago

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they went for the more comic bookie. They went

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for the more jokey. They went for the more kid

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friendly because I was 15 at the time when this

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movie came out, you were nine. It's probably

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because of the reception that Batman and Batman

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returns received. Oh no, you can't, you can't

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blame that on that. No. Okay. You 30 years later,

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you cannot blame. The first two films on the

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fact that right now in 2025, they're not releasing

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the Schumacher cut. The Schumacher cut, at least

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according to this article. No, not now. I'm saying.

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No, yes. No, no, absolutely. That that's, that's

00:17:50.460 --> 00:17:53.359
what it was. Absolutely. 30 years ago. Absolutely.

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The reason why there was no Schumacher cut at

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the time, they wanted a more colorful, a more,

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but what I'm saying now is. the schumacher cut

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that was supposed to be released until wb put

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the guy bosh on it was the more psychological

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it was what does this article say it says kiva

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goldsman claimed to have seen the cut there's

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definitely about 35 percent more psychological

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realism more about guilt and shame goldman told

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the playlist whatever the playlist is i've never

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heard of that publication Joel's first cut had

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all of that, but preview audiences weren't ready

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for it. They just wanted the humor and the action,

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so a lot of it got trimmed down. Still, it was

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a cool film. If it's a cool film for the 30th

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anniversary of the damn film, release the Schumacher

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cut. We are recording this quite literally a

00:19:00.859 --> 00:19:10.299
week. literally yeah we are yeah literally a

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week before the 30th anniversary to the day june

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16th is when batman forever came out 30 years

00:19:19.099 --> 00:19:23.779
ago one week from today next monday june 16th

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is the date that batman forever came out 30 years

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ago Why won't you people release this? It's not

00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:35.859
going to hurt anybody to release this thing.

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It's not going to tarnish the film that you did

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release. It's only going to give those of us

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who care about the thing a more in -depth look

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at what was originally proposed. And like I already

00:19:50.539 --> 00:19:53.400
said in the show a few minutes ago, your lead

00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:55.539
actor is no longer with us and your director

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is no longer with us. So let us relive the original

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dream of the legacy of those people. We're not

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going to be taking children to see this cut here.

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Like, this is for adults, people. This is not

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for kids. Hell, even the original. The original

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movie was PG -13. PG -13, for those that don't

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know, is for children. who are 13 and older.

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So basically, teenagers and young adults to adulthood.

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We're not taking little Timmy at six years old

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to see this movie. But it's not going to happen,

00:20:42.259 --> 00:20:45.660
because WB just doesn't want it to happen, and

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they suck. You suck! Next. What else sucks? Well,

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I mean, I don't know if this sucks, but it's

00:21:01.089 --> 00:21:05.630
interesting. Warner Brothers' discovery to split

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into two separate public companies by 2026. This

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hurts my head. Current CEO David Zasloff will

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helm the streaming and studio company, which

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includes the movie businesses and HBO Max, while

00:21:19.529 --> 00:21:24.279
CFO Gunnar... Wyden Fels will oversee the global

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network side of things, including CNN, TBS, and

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Warner's other cable channels, and basically

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reverses the entire 2022 merger of WarnerMedia

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and Discovery Communications. So what I don't

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understand about this, if it's going into two

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separate companies, what is the second company?

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So the other one will be Discovery. and the other

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one will be Warner Brothers. It's showing in

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one of the images that I found about it, it shows

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WB will have HBO Max and WB, and then Discovery

00:22:08.589 --> 00:22:12.369
will have Discovery, CNN, OWN, ID, Food Network,

00:22:12.609 --> 00:22:22.099
TBS, TLC, HGTV, and TNT. Okay, because... But

00:22:22.099 --> 00:22:23.940
the thing about it is, is Warner Brothers has

00:22:23.940 --> 00:22:30.460
been tossed around. Yeah. It's like the. It's

00:22:30.460 --> 00:22:35.079
like the. Like the ex -girlfriend nobody wants.

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Yeah. Which is sad because of its legacy. But

00:22:39.819 --> 00:22:42.160
yeah, it is sad because of its legacy. Like,

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I mean, it was AOL Time Warner. I mean, it was

00:22:44.180 --> 00:22:47.420
Time Warner. You know, it it's it's jumped around

00:22:47.420 --> 00:22:50.789
and changed names so many times that. It's losing

00:22:50.789 --> 00:22:53.930
its relevancy. I mean, it's almost like CBS and

00:22:53.930 --> 00:22:58.849
Paramount and Viacom. Yeah. You know, Viacom

00:22:58.849 --> 00:23:01.009
had CBS and Paramount, then they split and it

00:23:01.009 --> 00:23:02.930
just became Paramount CBS. Then they merged back

00:23:02.930 --> 00:23:07.089
together and became Paramount. Yeah. It's like.

00:23:08.130 --> 00:23:11.670
Yeah. But I mean, Comcast is doing that with

00:23:11.670 --> 00:23:17.950
NBC Universal. I mean, this this part of it's

00:23:17.950 --> 00:23:21.880
like six months old, but. um they're spinning

00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:24.960
off like their cable channels the tv network

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side of it so like msnbc cnbc and like usa yeah

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like they're wanting to move move those and then

00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:39.299
keep their other stuff you know on the peacock

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service and um Yeah. So, I mean, I don't know.

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It's it's a really strange time in television

00:23:48.190 --> 00:23:50.569
history right now because it's either going streaming

00:23:50.569 --> 00:23:57.309
or dead. Yeah. Or they're just dying or floundering.

00:23:57.470 --> 00:24:03.549
Jim. So I do find it funny, though, that Warner

00:24:03.549 --> 00:24:11.480
Brothers Discovery is. Essentially. And I feel

00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:17.579
like if this doesn't take. After the split, either

00:24:17.579 --> 00:24:19.880
somebody big is going to buy them out like a

00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:24.980
Netflix or a or a Disney or a Comcast or something

00:24:24.980 --> 00:24:31.579
like that, or some of these. Are going to go

00:24:31.579 --> 00:24:34.359
away for good, and then people will just have

00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:39.579
like random buying rights of various tentpoles.

00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:44.980
yeah so speaking of tent poles here i looked

00:24:44.980 --> 00:24:47.339
at the because originally you sent me a linkedin

00:24:47.339 --> 00:24:50.940
link for this and i looked at the cnbc article

00:24:50.940 --> 00:24:55.140
that that person linked in their in their post

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so i'm on the cnbc article and i've read this

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paragraph four times in the last hour and a half

00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:06.480
In preparing for this podcast. And I'm going

00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:08.839
to read this again. Because even though you've

00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:11.619
already said it four times. I have to say it

00:25:11.619 --> 00:25:13.660
again to myself. Because I have to see if it

00:25:13.660 --> 00:25:17.799
makes sense to me. Because it. Either it's me.

00:25:18.180 --> 00:25:21.960
Or it's written poorly. And I can't tell. So

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I'm going to do this again. And I'm sorry. But

00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:29.880
I have to. WBD. Will separate into a streaming

00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:33.859
and studios company. Which will include. It's

00:25:33.859 --> 00:25:36.319
movie properties and streaming services, HBO

00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:38.160
Max, which they still haven't changed the name

00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:44.200
back to yet. And a global networks company. OK.

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See, I think I either read that too fast or.

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Because that just kind of jumbled all together

00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:57.220
to me the first 40 times I read that this paragraph.

00:25:58.339 --> 00:26:02.599
That the global networks companies part of it

00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:04.880
was like. Oh, isn't that all the same thing?

00:26:05.259 --> 00:26:08.980
No, it's not, obviously. Duh, Mike. I'm dumb.

00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:12.640
My brain no work so well no more, everybody.

00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:17.220
Why should I be a podcast? I quit. I retire.

00:26:17.660 --> 00:26:27.079
Good night, everybody. Anyhow. Serious. No, seriously,

00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:30.450
dude. I'm serious. I've been trying to figure

00:26:30.450 --> 00:26:32.670
out what you're talking about, like with the

00:26:32.670 --> 00:26:35.630
two company thing for 40 minutes. And I'm like,

00:26:35.670 --> 00:26:41.890
what is he talking about? Oh, God damn it. Pretty

00:26:41.890 --> 00:26:53.029
much. I don't know, man. And it's all because

00:26:53.029 --> 00:26:56.349
he wants to consolidate and everybody's consolidating

00:26:56.349 --> 00:26:59.460
now. Everybody wants to cut down or cut loose

00:26:59.460 --> 00:27:02.259
or cut this or cut. Everything is merge this,

00:27:02.339 --> 00:27:05.140
merge that four or five years ago or however

00:27:05.140 --> 00:27:07.140
the hell long it's been. And now everybody's

00:27:07.140 --> 00:27:10.319
like, cut the fat, cut the fat, cut the fat,

00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:13.900
cut the fat, cut the fat. And it's like, but

00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:17.059
you're still going to have the same thing just

00:27:17.059 --> 00:27:28.119
in two different. So moving to the main topic

00:27:28.119 --> 00:27:31.480
here. Yes, main topic. Yeah, since those are

00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:35.519
some interesting geek news in our top three,

00:27:35.579 --> 00:27:38.680
or the, as we used to call it, the 10 -minute

00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:43.720
blitz. Yes, the 10 -minute blitz. Geek collection

00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:49.019
habits. Yes. Which this is far more entertaining.

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:55.579
Yes, but you completely ignored. My reference.

00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:59.259
I didn't catch your reference. Are you serious?

00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:03.000
I don't even know if it registered. It probably

00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:08.319
didn't at this time of night, but we didn't have

00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:12.740
a topic section in the script, so I went and

00:28:12.740 --> 00:28:15.599
I made a topic section for the script, and I'm

00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.779
like, oh, interesting, because you had mentioned

00:28:18.779 --> 00:28:25.420
something about topics and geekdom. Mm hmm. G

00:28:25.420 --> 00:28:29.519
.O .T. My G .O .T. is better than the actual

00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:33.779
G .O .T. Geekdom of topics. The top date, the

00:28:33.779 --> 00:28:38.619
topics of our geekdom. Or you could do togs like

00:28:38.619 --> 00:28:42.700
pogs. No, I had to explain what those were to

00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:45.680
my kids recently, and they were on. It was like,

00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:47.539
I don't know if it was on Boy Meets World or

00:28:47.539 --> 00:28:49.859
something else like. Probably. It was probably

00:28:49.859 --> 00:28:52.180
Boy Meets World. Yeah, I think it was a Boy Meets

00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:54.380
World episode. My kid was like, what is pogs?

00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:57.960
And I'm like, well, it's these things that, you

00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:02.960
know, my heart hurts so much. I'm like, I'm so

00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:12.579
old. But no, I. For one, I've been enjoying like.

00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:16.839
Recollecting again as an adult, plus I've got

00:29:16.839 --> 00:29:23.089
a 3D printer. Which makes it even nicer. So I

00:29:23.089 --> 00:29:25.569
can print things. You don't need to collect things.

00:29:25.650 --> 00:29:28.569
You can just collect print files and print them.

00:29:28.650 --> 00:29:32.470
Print the shit yourself. If they exist. Yes.

00:29:32.509 --> 00:29:34.710
Well, that's what I'm saying. You can just collect

00:29:34.710 --> 00:29:37.430
the print files and print it yourself. If it

00:29:37.430 --> 00:29:43.430
exists. Yeah. But yeah, I. So like I, I've recently

00:29:43.430 --> 00:29:47.269
printed multiple like Dragon Ball Super or Dragon

00:29:47.269 --> 00:29:50.490
Ball GT figures. just because one they don't

00:29:50.490 --> 00:29:54.829
either they don't have a figure of them or they're

00:29:54.829 --> 00:29:59.210
so obscenely priced that it's like oh this isn't

00:29:59.210 --> 00:30:01.289
worth it and it's like do i need them to move

00:30:01.289 --> 00:30:03.750
not really i mean the ones that do it's nice

00:30:03.750 --> 00:30:07.410
um i mean for the most part i don't repose them

00:30:07.410 --> 00:30:13.210
but there are there are times where i do um typically

00:30:13.210 --> 00:30:15.309
when i run out of room and i have to reshuffle

00:30:15.309 --> 00:30:20.019
my geek collection which I need to take a new

00:30:20.019 --> 00:30:22.019
picture of mine just so that I can put it in

00:30:22.019 --> 00:30:26.519
this episode post. Yes. I have like I have a

00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:28.259
Beast Machines Megatron that I still have yet

00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:30.380
to finish printing or not printing a painting.

00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:34.240
It's it's more so I have to figure out what I

00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.859
want to do with it. Yeah. And how much detail

00:30:36.859 --> 00:30:39.119
because I'm not unhappy with it where it's at

00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:41.079
to where I would leave it alone. But at the same

00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:42.960
time, I'm like, I should probably put a little

00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:46.680
bit more work into them. But I've printed, like,

00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:49.099
starships. I've printed, like, captain's chairs.

00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:54.039
I've printed, like, for my Power Rangers, like,

00:30:54.099 --> 00:30:56.079
the pedestals for the heads, like, for their

00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:00.259
helmets to go on. And I've printed risers in

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:02.420
my cabinet so that I can actually see all of

00:31:02.420 --> 00:31:06.900
the figures. Yep. And I've printed some morphers

00:31:06.900 --> 00:31:09.599
and some, you know, Star Trek badges, heads for

00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:13.640
Transformers and add -ons for them and so on

00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:19.339
and so forth. stasis pod parts and um so like

00:31:19.339 --> 00:31:24.700
my my collecting habits have kind of been if

00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:28.440
it had this strong resonance with my childhood

00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:35.460
and then part of it is like oh shiny oh shiny

00:31:35.460 --> 00:31:38.779
you know it's like it's like oh new version of

00:31:38.779 --> 00:31:42.990
something i used to have but it's better kind

00:31:42.990 --> 00:31:45.309
of like the uh the trans metals you know the

00:31:45.309 --> 00:31:49.170
trans art trans metals or the uh um you know

00:31:49.170 --> 00:31:52.069
the the lightning collection transformer or net

00:31:52.069 --> 00:31:55.789
transformers power rangers and then um you know

00:31:55.789 --> 00:31:58.089
like oh we don't have an optimal megatron well

00:31:58.089 --> 00:32:00.170
i'll just 3d print ahead and put it on optimal

00:32:00.170 --> 00:32:05.750
um so i mean i've i've had a lot of fun with

00:32:05.750 --> 00:32:09.130
those aspects as well of like just kind of trying

00:32:09.130 --> 00:32:15.839
to reclaim like things i had back then or things

00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:18.680
that i was like i'm too poor i don't have it

00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:23.660
yeah um because i mean that was part of it too

00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:27.900
is like i i just i legitimately didn't have um

00:32:27.900 --> 00:32:32.920
the income to purchase some of these things yeah

00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:38.019
exactly and then it just made me remember like

00:32:38.430 --> 00:32:41.210
Toys R Us and KB Toys when I used to go in there

00:32:41.210 --> 00:32:49.430
and window shop. Yep, absolutely. What kind of

00:32:49.430 --> 00:32:51.730
prompted the idea, though, was I saw your you

00:32:51.730 --> 00:32:54.650
were like, I'm redoing my collection here, my

00:32:54.650 --> 00:32:57.910
display case. No, no. And I was like, I was like,

00:32:58.049 --> 00:32:59.809
oh, that's kind of neat. Like, I didn't think

00:32:59.809 --> 00:33:01.869
about like, you know, like the Funkos like fit

00:33:01.869 --> 00:33:05.240
perfectly in those shelving units. and absolutely

00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:09.440
these are basically mainstay from walmart they're

00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:13.259
three shelved shelving units and basically because

00:33:13.259 --> 00:33:17.279
the thing with funko pops folks is they don't

00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:22.000
transform they don't move okay well sometimes

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:26.079
the arms might move or the head might move no

00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:28.799
the arms no the arms don't move the head moves

00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.799
but right left to right other than that most

00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:38.069
of the time they don't move And the great thing

00:33:38.069 --> 00:33:41.230
about the Funko Pops is easiest toy to get in

00:33:41.230 --> 00:33:43.250
and out of the box. You don't have to destroy

00:33:43.250 --> 00:33:46.849
the box. You don't have to throw away the boxes

00:33:46.849 --> 00:33:49.190
if you don't want to. You can put it right back

00:33:49.190 --> 00:33:52.470
in and it doesn't affect the value as long as

00:33:52.470 --> 00:33:55.069
you don't hit the box up against the side of

00:33:55.069 --> 00:33:56.829
a desk or anything. As long as you don't put

00:33:56.829 --> 00:34:01.390
a crease in the box or put a... cut an edge in

00:34:01.390 --> 00:34:03.049
the box you know what i mean like as long as

00:34:03.049 --> 00:34:05.730
you don't actually damage the box opening the

00:34:05.730 --> 00:34:10.530
box itself to take it out to take a photo and

00:34:10.530 --> 00:34:15.489
put it right back in a box is not gonna deteriorate

00:34:15.489 --> 00:34:18.210
the thing's value of anything so that's one of

00:34:18.210 --> 00:34:20.090
the reasons why i love the funko pops is they're

00:34:20.090 --> 00:34:23.309
the easiest toys for me to open in and out of

00:34:23.309 --> 00:34:25.909
the box and not have to worry about it and when

00:34:25.909 --> 00:34:28.889
i was and not to i'll let you finish in a second

00:34:28.889 --> 00:34:31.909
but when i sent you that photo it was more about

00:34:31.909 --> 00:34:36.550
yeah i'm kind of figuring this out as i go i

00:34:36.550 --> 00:34:38.510
don't know what i'm doing with it but i'm like

00:34:38.510 --> 00:34:44.389
i'm going to end up paying you for a a uh arc

00:34:44.389 --> 00:34:49.489
optimus prime 3d printed command chair at some

00:34:49.489 --> 00:34:52.750
point before the end of the year because i need

00:34:52.750 --> 00:34:57.789
matching chair And I need matching matrix too,

00:34:57.849 --> 00:35:00.050
but the center of that matrix has to be blue.

00:35:00.650 --> 00:35:03.610
You can't futz it and just make it all orange.

00:35:05.530 --> 00:35:10.429
Well, yeah, that, I mean, I, well, I would have

00:35:10.429 --> 00:35:11.889
done more with the other one, but you were kind

00:35:11.889 --> 00:35:15.769
of like, that's fine. That was fine. But I'm

00:35:15.769 --> 00:35:18.570
saying like for the Autobot matrix, it has to

00:35:18.570 --> 00:35:21.789
be special. The Decepticon matrix, it didn't

00:35:21.789 --> 00:35:29.659
work anyway. It was fake. But yeah, no. But yeah,

00:35:29.699 --> 00:35:33.139
no, folks. Once you see the post, you folks,

00:35:33.260 --> 00:35:35.099
if you're listening to the sound of my voice

00:35:35.099 --> 00:35:37.519
right now, y 'all better go over to geekcastradio

00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:39.619
.com and look at this episode's post because

00:35:39.619 --> 00:35:41.219
the pictures he's going to put in that post,

00:35:41.579 --> 00:35:46.079
I don't even know what else new he's going to

00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:49.719
do to his display. He's got light up cabinets.

00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:52.460
He's got robots in there that actually function.

00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:55.019
He's got robot clean. He's got Rosie the robot.

00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:58.880
She cleans his shelves for him every time. I

00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:02.260
do not have Rosie the robot. Yes, you do. No,

00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:07.519
I don't. Thanks for listening to this podcast.

00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:22.260
mike's gonna die now yeah yep yep but uh no i

00:36:22.260 --> 00:36:28.199
mean i've i've i've been just kind of building

00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:31.559
up the the collection more or less like just

00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:36.429
having fun with it and um A couple of years ago,

00:36:36.489 --> 00:36:41.090
I didn't have squat left. Like this is all stuff

00:36:41.090 --> 00:36:43.630
that I've accumulated in the last like seven

00:36:43.630 --> 00:36:50.869
years. Um, give or take, uh, there's very little

00:36:50.869 --> 00:36:53.710
left of my original collection in there. Like

00:36:53.710 --> 00:36:57.769
it's funny because some of the things I reacquired,

00:36:57.809 --> 00:37:04.690
like the, um, like I have a, uh, the McFarlane

00:37:04.690 --> 00:37:11.409
Batman, um, the, uh, thrilling 30 figures. I

00:37:11.409 --> 00:37:14.610
had all those, the, uh, the one Megatron that's

00:37:14.610 --> 00:37:16.949
when they did the 10th anniversary and it looked

00:37:16.949 --> 00:37:21.010
like kind of a mix of trans metal and not like

00:37:21.010 --> 00:37:24.730
the robo version of like Megatron folks. Let

00:37:24.730 --> 00:37:30.510
me tell you next year in 2026, I guarantee you.

00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:33.260
We're probably going to end up doing an episode

00:37:33.260 --> 00:37:36.300
a week for all things Transformers leading up

00:37:36.300 --> 00:37:38.840
to whenever the hell we get a 30th anniversary

00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:45.820
Megatron because he's going to be fucking whoring

00:37:45.820 --> 00:37:49.800
out himself for Megatron. I guarantee you. You're

00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:56.239
going to be like. I have my obsessions, but I'm

00:37:56.239 --> 00:37:58.860
kind of over my obsessions at this point, and

00:37:58.860 --> 00:38:01.360
we'll talk about that here in a minute, but I

00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:06.500
can't imagine what next year is going to be like

00:38:06.500 --> 00:38:08.820
for Beast Wars because... If they do anything.

00:38:09.300 --> 00:38:12.280
Oh, yeah, they better. They better, but they

00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:16.480
won't. Revive the brand. Like, if Beast Wars

00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:22.840
didn't happen, we wouldn't be here. Like... Like...

00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:27.940
They better do something. They better do something

00:38:27.940 --> 00:38:33.639
big. I hope so. I really do. I hope that they

00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:40.079
honestly do a Beast Machines Megatron. Yeah,

00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:45.099
that would be nice. Like a legit one, or if nothing

00:38:45.099 --> 00:38:53.360
else, the Days of Future Past Megatron. But again,

00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:58.400
I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know

00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:00.320
either. But let me tell you, folks, whatever

00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.900
does or doesn't happen next year, he's going

00:39:02.900 --> 00:39:04.780
to be difficult to live with because next year

00:39:04.780 --> 00:39:07.579
is the 30th anniversary of Beast Wars. And now

00:39:07.579 --> 00:39:11.619
they may do a trans metal Megatron akin to their

00:39:11.619 --> 00:39:17.840
dragon. You got the dragon, didn't you? I did.

00:39:18.099 --> 00:39:22.000
And I also repainted it. Of course you did. And

00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:26.320
I got a third -party head for it. Of course you

00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:29.360
did. Because it had, well, it had robots in disguise

00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:33.079
Megatron head. Yeah, that's true. And I was looking

00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:35.260
at it, and I was like, this is not the correct

00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:39.219
head. Yep. No, and it looked nothing like him.

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:44.820
And then, I mean, looking back at it, now I can

00:39:44.820 --> 00:39:51.000
3D print the head for it. Well, yeah. you there

00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:54.320
are versions of it out there that i've seen some

00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:56.539
though there's like this one version that somebody

00:39:56.539 --> 00:39:59.340
did for an optimal megatron and it looks like

00:39:59.340 --> 00:40:04.480
they plucked it out of the cartoon yep um but

00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:09.039
same thing with with uh you know the the transmittal

00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:12.099
2 megatron like i've seen that one too and um

00:40:12.099 --> 00:40:20.519
i legitimately I mean, I like the one I have

00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:22.940
on it, but I mean, if the other option was available,

00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:26.000
I would have gotten that at that time. But no,

00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:31.079
I've really enjoyed just kind of rebuilding my

00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:33.539
Megatron collection and I have Masterpiece and

00:40:33.539 --> 00:40:40.639
I have I have like the IDW Megatron. Yep. Which

00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:46.280
I 3D printed. Yep. So that makes him cool too.

00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:54.480
And then So, I mean, yeah, I mean, it's. It's

00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:56.019
definitely one of those things like I've got

00:40:56.019 --> 00:40:59.300
my Star Trek, I've got my G1, I've got select

00:40:59.300 --> 00:41:03.340
G2. And when I say select G2, I mean, I got J

00:41:03.340 --> 00:41:08.619
axis with the. And again, this is like one of

00:41:08.619 --> 00:41:11.579
those things where I customize them based on

00:41:11.579 --> 00:41:14.920
appearance and the need. I could have painted

00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:18.260
him, but I also opted to do the repro labels.

00:41:18.989 --> 00:41:23.349
Yeah. And retro labels are awesome. They really

00:41:23.349 --> 00:41:27.090
are. I mean, it added some nice, you know, shiny

00:41:27.090 --> 00:41:30.849
aspects to them that I really wasn't going to

00:41:30.849 --> 00:41:36.349
do. I could have done it with G2 Megatron, the

00:41:36.349 --> 00:41:41.510
tank War for Cybertron, you know, select series.

00:41:42.750 --> 00:41:46.929
Yep, yep. But I opted instead to get the upgraded

00:41:46.929 --> 00:41:51.750
chest. where it juts out like the actual original

00:41:51.750 --> 00:41:57.570
G2 figure did. Very cool, very cool. And then

00:41:57.570 --> 00:42:00.849
I 3D printed his shoulder cannon and other stuff.

00:42:00.929 --> 00:42:02.610
I mean, it doesn't transform with all of that

00:42:02.610 --> 00:42:05.710
on there, but it could with some of it, but I

00:42:05.710 --> 00:42:10.329
don't ever transform them. And I turned my War

00:42:10.329 --> 00:42:14.809
for Cybertron Netflix Optimus Prime into G2.

00:42:16.590 --> 00:42:19.949
Because it fits more that G2 aesthetic. Right.

00:42:20.489 --> 00:42:28.010
Then. Then the. Like. For instance, I'm getting

00:42:28.010 --> 00:42:32.570
the. Knockoff Studio Series 86 Optimus Prime.

00:42:33.789 --> 00:42:40.269
Right. Because he. Looks like Optimus Prime.

00:42:42.630 --> 00:42:49.170
So I'm I'm super stoked for that one. And I don't

00:42:49.170 --> 00:42:56.670
know if I'll ever transform it per se. But. I'm

00:42:56.670 --> 00:42:58.469
excited for it, plus it doesn't come with a trailer.

00:42:59.889 --> 00:43:02.429
Which has been my beef with every Optimus Prime

00:43:02.429 --> 00:43:07.929
that's come out in the last like. Decade. But

00:43:07.929 --> 00:43:11.230
we figured out tonight through the magic of video

00:43:11.230 --> 00:43:13.769
and me showing you comparisons and you showing

00:43:13.769 --> 00:43:20.070
me photo comparisons. of why you don't want the

00:43:20.070 --> 00:43:23.550
actual thing so it is nothing to do with the

00:43:23.550 --> 00:43:27.809
trailer folks it's they put season one optimus

00:43:27.809 --> 00:43:33.050
prime's head on ss86 the coloring of ss86 optimus

00:43:33.050 --> 00:43:36.449
prime's head is a light blue from season one

00:43:36.449 --> 00:43:39.489
of the cartoon it is not the dark metallic blue

00:43:39.489 --> 00:43:44.559
that he has in the movie So that's what Steve's

00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:48.579
real hang up is for SS 86 prime from Hasbro.

00:43:48.820 --> 00:43:50.760
It isn't the fact that it comes with the damn

00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.960
trailer. It was the color, but it was just the

00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:59.179
wrong head. Like the design. It wasn't, wasn't

00:43:59.179 --> 00:44:02.719
right. Like for the film. And I think like, I

00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:05.400
mean, do I have room for the trailer? No. Could

00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:07.380
I have put it in there and had prime stand on

00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:11.139
top of it? Certainly. I could have had my Autobot

00:44:11.139 --> 00:44:14.179
sitting on top of it going, you know, haha, Decepticons.

00:44:14.340 --> 00:44:18.619
That's right. I have the high ground. You could

00:44:18.619 --> 00:44:23.579
have had Thrust popping out of the back of the

00:44:23.579 --> 00:44:27.380
trailer like Optimus ran him right through. I

00:44:27.380 --> 00:44:30.820
don't think you have Thrust, but, you know, Thrust

00:44:30.820 --> 00:44:35.000
was the one he ran over. No. i think i got star

00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:38.179
screen like still like legacy but yeah but the

00:44:38.179 --> 00:44:45.559
point that yeah but um but no i mean like i but

00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:47.960
i i mean i but it's amazing the stuff that is

00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:52.920
out now oh absolutely compared to way back when

00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:57.059
because like i remember like i just remember

00:44:57.539 --> 00:45:00.219
We were just happy to have the toys. Yeah, I

00:45:00.219 --> 00:45:02.019
mean, we were just happy back then just to have

00:45:02.019 --> 00:45:05.400
it. But nowadays, it's like, oh, I can get show

00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.400
accuracy? Oh, I can get this add -on kit or this

00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:12.880
upgrade kit? Oh, I can get Prime? Yeah, and that's

00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:17.079
all thanks to third -party people. But it's sad

00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:20.199
it takes a third -party to do it. I understand

00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:23.340
that, but... I mean, I'm happy for it. Don't

00:45:23.340 --> 00:45:25.039
get me wrong. I'm like, no, no, no, no. I know.

00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:27.860
I know. But the thing about the third party community

00:45:27.860 --> 00:45:32.719
and the third party section is that they're also

00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:38.500
fans. Like, I'm sure if you were to present yourself

00:45:38.500 --> 00:45:43.320
to Hasbro with your either your stasis pod or

00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:47.519
your cloak Megatron that you 3D printed or whatever.

00:45:48.509 --> 00:45:50.889
they would look at that and be like, oh, it is

00:45:50.889 --> 00:45:53.489
feasible. We could do this. We might not financially

00:45:53.489 --> 00:45:56.530
be able to do it, but it is possible in the future

00:45:56.530 --> 00:46:00.030
that we could do this kind of thing. And it takes

00:46:00.030 --> 00:46:04.389
fans to tell these companies, hey, look, this

00:46:04.389 --> 00:46:08.030
is what we want. We give you money, you give

00:46:08.030 --> 00:46:12.510
us stuff. I remember that quote. That's right.

00:46:12.610 --> 00:46:14.869
It's not mine. It's Ender's, but it ain't mine.

00:46:15.210 --> 00:46:18.869
But I quote it all the time. And it's a good

00:46:18.869 --> 00:46:26.670
quote. It is, it is. But I mean, like I, I'm

00:46:26.670 --> 00:46:29.670
thankful for these, these 3d artists that make

00:46:29.670 --> 00:46:32.829
these things like these designs. Cause like I've

00:46:32.829 --> 00:46:35.869
got, I've got a stasis pod. I've got captain

00:46:35.869 --> 00:46:41.349
Kirk's command chair. I've got, I've got like

00:46:41.349 --> 00:46:49.150
all these different, all these different, figure

00:46:49.150 --> 00:46:51.710
design things i've got starships that like the

00:46:51.710 --> 00:46:55.469
enterprise e and then i got the enterprise um

00:46:55.469 --> 00:46:59.050
the original one i've got the enterprise g from

00:46:59.050 --> 00:47:02.869
a card i've got you know i used to have the xenizer

00:47:02.869 --> 00:47:08.170
morphers and now i have them again because i

00:47:08.170 --> 00:47:13.849
3d printed them and um i have the classic morpher

00:47:13.849 --> 00:47:16.590
which i've never owned although with playmates

00:47:16.590 --> 00:47:20.130
designing their own um if those ever hit store

00:47:20.130 --> 00:47:23.510
yeah they're gonna be like 20 bucks i'll probably

00:47:23.510 --> 00:47:29.269
get one at that price um but you know at the

00:47:29.269 --> 00:47:35.269
same time it's like it's almost cheaper for the

00:47:35.269 --> 00:47:40.150
hobbyists to take over the toy industry yeah

00:47:40.150 --> 00:47:42.730
where we're kind of at right now which is really

00:47:42.730 --> 00:47:52.869
weird yeah it's Very strange. Very, very strange.

00:47:53.110 --> 00:47:54.969
I mean, I'm almost to the point where it's like,

00:47:55.050 --> 00:48:00.150
oh, I don't really need all of these. You know,

00:48:00.190 --> 00:48:03.469
I mean, I don't need any of it, but but it's

00:48:03.469 --> 00:48:05.750
like I can almost just like, oh, they don't have

00:48:05.750 --> 00:48:09.090
it. I'll I'll find somebody who made a file and

00:48:09.090 --> 00:48:13.690
printed myself like it's like. As long as it

00:48:13.690 --> 00:48:17.800
exists, like I didn't want to buy a. 20 year

00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:23.199
old version of Dragon Ball GT Vegeta but I bought

00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:29.000
a 3D print file that I can get a more show accurate

00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:33.920
version of the same character which I was like

00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:39.980
I'm more apt to do that because I want more of

00:48:39.980 --> 00:48:42.960
the show accuracy like I don't I'm not one of

00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:44.860
those like it's the same reason like I don't

00:48:44.860 --> 00:48:48.329
have anything against Funkos yeah i don't personally

00:48:48.329 --> 00:48:50.429
care for them but it's because they just don't

00:48:50.429 --> 00:48:54.550
resonate with me and what my version of standards

00:48:54.550 --> 00:48:57.550
are like for you you're like i'm never going

00:48:57.550 --> 00:48:59.309
to pose them i'm never going to transform them

00:48:59.309 --> 00:49:02.429
it doesn't matter to me like i just want i just

00:49:02.429 --> 00:49:04.590
want character yeah that's the coolest thing

00:49:04.590 --> 00:49:07.730
about them is whatever pose that funko decides

00:49:07.730 --> 00:49:10.230
to put them in that's the pose they're in there

00:49:10.230 --> 00:49:12.469
i mean like i said outside of their head turning

00:49:12.469 --> 00:49:16.159
left or right There is no real pose. Whatever

00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:20.239
Funko decides to do, that's what is done. Like

00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:22.420
literally right now, as we're talking about this,

00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:26.539
I'm looking at upcoming releases for Red Turbo

00:49:26.539 --> 00:49:32.559
Ranger, Red Zeo Ranger, and I cannot believe

00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:37.000
they're doing this, but I need it. I have to

00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:45.980
have it. Damn it, Mike, don't cry. They're doing

00:49:45.980 --> 00:49:50.900
the Black Dino Thunder Ranger. They're doing

00:49:50.900 --> 00:49:53.980
Tommy from... Yes, they're doing Tommy from Dino

00:49:53.980 --> 00:49:57.860
Thunder. Helmet or no helmet? Helmet. Of course,

00:49:57.940 --> 00:50:04.260
helmet. Yeah, no. And if they ever do a chase

00:50:04.260 --> 00:50:07.980
of this thing, it better be the invisible version,

00:50:08.179 --> 00:50:12.380
because damn. that would be cool as hell that

00:50:12.380 --> 00:50:16.360
would be an awesome chase for this for the for

00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:20.380
the dino thunder thing but yeah there uh i'm

00:50:20.380 --> 00:50:24.800
about to uh send this to you right now so you

00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:28.460
can see it i got lucky when i was collecting

00:50:28.460 --> 00:50:31.860
the legacy collection uh -huh and you got the

00:50:31.860 --> 00:50:35.059
dino thunder i got the dino thunder but what's

00:50:35.059 --> 00:50:37.840
funny is i didn't have to wait for it I was doing

00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:40.599
my well, I was doing my rounds at work and like.

00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:47.519
A lot of our locations are by Walmarts. And.

00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:53.599
I was like. I just got up here. It's lunchtime.

00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:59.219
Let's go hit up Walmart. And I went in there

00:50:59.219 --> 00:51:02.920
and I think it was like in August or something

00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:08.639
of whatever year it was. And. um it was in wyoming

00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:14.260
i mean i'm in colorado but yeah i stopped at

00:51:14.260 --> 00:51:16.300
the wyoming one because it's literally like right

00:51:16.300 --> 00:51:20.820
next door to a location yep and um i was like

00:51:20.820 --> 00:51:27.800
okay let's uh let's see and i saw it and i was

00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:30.880
like do i want it do i not want it because like

00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:34.940
at the time i was like i was like I'm, I'm really

00:51:34.940 --> 00:51:37.840
like, I don't need it. Like I was, I was really

00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:41.820
heavily weighing it. And then I saw that the

00:51:41.820 --> 00:51:43.460
master morpher was about to come out and this

00:51:43.460 --> 00:51:46.019
was like the next month and I can get my hands

00:51:46.019 --> 00:51:47.739
on master morpher. And I'm like, well, what better

00:51:47.739 --> 00:51:58.820
way to achieve the goal than to, um, just collect

00:51:58.820 --> 00:52:02.230
what I could. And I was like, I want, If I can't

00:52:02.230 --> 00:52:03.949
get the Master Morpher, I want all the Tommies.

00:52:04.550 --> 00:52:10.510
Yep. And so I got my hands on Zeo Red from like

00:52:10.510 --> 00:52:16.190
BBTS. And then that was the last one. I got Dino

00:52:16.190 --> 00:52:20.690
Thunder Black at the Walmart. But the funny thing

00:52:20.690 --> 00:52:23.469
is, I didn't get it up. I didn't get it the first

00:52:23.469 --> 00:52:27.889
time I saw it. Oh, no. I got it. I went up a

00:52:27.889 --> 00:52:31.409
month and a half later. Oh no. And I was like,

00:52:31.469 --> 00:52:34.050
I wonder if it's still going to be there. And

00:52:34.050 --> 00:52:36.130
I went up there and sure enough, it was still

00:52:36.130 --> 00:52:41.909
on the shelf. And I was like, yoink. Yoink. And

00:52:41.909 --> 00:52:45.289
then, um, and then I saw that everywhere it was

00:52:45.289 --> 00:52:47.670
selling out, but it was like, it literally had

00:52:47.670 --> 00:52:51.449
come out like two months prior and everybody

00:52:51.449 --> 00:52:53.090
was trying to get their hands on it, but it was

00:52:53.090 --> 00:52:55.710
just not available. And I'm like, I just happened

00:52:55.710 --> 00:53:03.820
upon it by accident. lucky me and so um but yeah

00:53:03.820 --> 00:53:06.139
i mean i can i can relate to it i like that one

00:53:06.139 --> 00:53:09.539
specifically because it gave me the adult tommy

00:53:09.539 --> 00:53:14.599
head with the spiked hair yep and i in turn did

00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:19.099
not put that on the uh um the black dino ranger

00:53:19.099 --> 00:53:24.400
i put that on the green ranger because my my

00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.139
green ranger it came with the you know the the

00:53:27.139 --> 00:53:30.650
evil you know like after because i got the remaster

00:53:30.650 --> 00:53:33.869
one that didn't come with the shield which i

00:53:33.869 --> 00:53:36.869
was a little bummed about and then um so i ended

00:53:36.869 --> 00:53:41.230
up getting the that and then i 3d printed the

00:53:41.230 --> 00:53:44.710
dragon shield nice for the green ranger and the

00:53:44.710 --> 00:53:47.730
red ranger and then i printed a silver one for

00:53:47.730 --> 00:53:51.130
the black ranger because i was like oh it looks

00:53:51.130 --> 00:53:58.119
nice um but no i mean i've and that's kind of

00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:00.179
the thing with with the collecting it's like

00:54:00.179 --> 00:54:05.199
and you know this as well as i do i get all in

00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:10.719
um to the point like when tron legacy came out

00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:13.960
i was like do i need the disc no i don't need

00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:16.280
the disc now i could 3d print the disc if i really

00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:19.460
want it but i don't care anymore now when tron

00:54:19.460 --> 00:54:21.739
aries comes out i may change my tune and just

00:54:21.739 --> 00:54:26.280
3d print one anyway but um Right now I've been

00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:31.179
relegated to like Dragon Ball related stuff in

00:54:31.179 --> 00:54:36.860
Transformers and I'm waiting on like a new Cobra

00:54:36.860 --> 00:54:45.019
Commander for the Deke series. Battle Armor,

00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:52.039
like the full seven inch figure. Yes. So I'm,

00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:54.340
I'm super excited for that one. But, and then

00:54:54.340 --> 00:54:56.679
there's like a, and it also seems like every

00:54:56.679 --> 00:55:00.840
time I get going on my geek collection, um, the

00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:04.639
companies come out with more stuff. They come

00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:09.880
out with stuff after, you know, um, cause like

00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:14.920
I, I made my own custom captain Kirk from generations

00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:20.699
with the vest and to sell toys is making. you

00:55:20.699 --> 00:55:23.099
know the same exact stinking figure but it's

00:55:23.099 --> 00:55:26.739
gonna be accurate and i'm and i'm like well they

00:55:26.739 --> 00:55:31.659
yeah they've got me i'm not gonna not get it

00:55:31.659 --> 00:55:37.719
um so it'll it'll be fun either way but i just

00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:39.420
thought it was funny i'm like yeah of course

00:55:39.420 --> 00:55:42.699
they're they're they get the license they're

00:55:42.699 --> 00:55:44.400
gonna do it justice and then i'm gonna be like

00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:51.179
i gotta get it of course But that's kind of,

00:55:51.199 --> 00:55:53.960
again, the beauty of the geek collections nowadays.

00:55:54.059 --> 00:55:59.460
It's like, I'm older, I collect what I want,

00:55:59.619 --> 00:56:05.239
and then you get either the better renditions

00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:09.820
that the companies produce or somebody's 3D printing

00:56:09.820 --> 00:56:15.440
exactly what you're looking for. Exactly. Absolutely.

00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:20.289
Yep, yep. As for me, I don't collect anything

00:56:20.289 --> 00:56:24.250
anymore. What are even collections? Nobody knows.

00:56:25.170 --> 00:56:29.230
No, I've really been slowing down in the last

00:56:29.230 --> 00:56:33.929
few years. I did the math. I started recollecting

00:56:33.929 --> 00:56:37.269
stuff in 2017, so it's been eight years since

00:56:37.269 --> 00:56:41.070
I started doing the Funko collecting stuff. I've

00:56:41.070 --> 00:56:44.730
sold stuff. I've bought stuff. I've kept most

00:56:44.730 --> 00:56:48.260
of the stuff that I've... absolutely felt that

00:56:48.260 --> 00:56:52.019
I absolutely could not part with kind of thing.

00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:53.880
But there have been plenty of things where I'm

00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:57.619
like, Ooh, I don't need that anymore. I have

00:56:57.619 --> 00:57:00.840
no real attachment to that anymore. I'm okay.

00:57:00.860 --> 00:57:05.619
Letting that go or, Hey, I have to pay this bill

00:57:05.619 --> 00:57:07.659
or, Hey, I have to do this or I have to do that.

00:57:07.659 --> 00:57:14.480
And it's like, eh, sacrifices must be made. Whatever

00:57:14.480 --> 00:57:19.000
it is, what it is. Uh, and my thing with the

00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:23.179
Funko pop collecting has always been, it has

00:57:23.179 --> 00:57:29.019
to be a character or it has to be a show or a

00:57:29.019 --> 00:57:36.559
cartoon or a movie or a comic or something that

00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:42.519
like, you're not gonna see me go out and buy.

00:57:43.389 --> 00:57:45.949
the entirety of the Game of Thrones Funko Pop

00:57:45.949 --> 00:57:49.869
set. Not that I could. Those things are just...

00:57:49.869 --> 00:57:54.329
The value on those are just... It's out of my

00:57:54.329 --> 00:57:56.389
reach. Not that I would anyway, because I have

00:57:56.389 --> 00:57:58.869
no interest. But it's one of those things where

00:57:58.869 --> 00:58:04.610
you're not going to see me with... I'm trying

00:58:04.610 --> 00:58:08.889
to think. It's a different character that I don't

00:58:08.889 --> 00:58:19.940
care about. God. I don't know. Like, you're not

00:58:19.940 --> 00:58:27.300
going to see me with a Mr. Bean or what's his

00:58:27.300 --> 00:58:32.420
nuts from the office, Dwight or Michael Scott

00:58:32.420 --> 00:58:35.639
or whatever. Like, you're not going to see any

00:58:35.639 --> 00:58:40.550
of that. Like, right now, the two. Biggest parts

00:58:40.550 --> 00:58:44.530
of the collection are... Ow. That was my finger.

00:58:45.449 --> 00:58:51.110
Stupid desk. Ugh. Yes, folks, can you tell I'm

00:58:51.110 --> 00:58:55.050
having problems this time? Well, not like any

00:58:55.050 --> 00:58:59.710
other time. I'd say the two biggest franchises

00:58:59.710 --> 00:59:01.789
I currently have are Transformers and Turtles.

00:59:02.980 --> 00:59:05.460
He -Man would probably be a third if I still

00:59:05.460 --> 00:59:07.659
had a third of my He -Man collection that I used

00:59:07.659 --> 00:59:10.079
to have for the Funko Pops, but that would be

00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:14.639
a close third for those. But Transformers and

00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:16.860
Turtles has been the two biggest ones that I've

00:59:16.860 --> 00:59:20.219
tried to keep up with. I don't have all the Turtles

00:59:20.219 --> 00:59:26.000
stuff, but I do have the black and white chases

00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:28.440
for the comic versions of the Turtles, because

00:59:28.440 --> 00:59:30.559
those were the ones I wanted, because if I was

00:59:30.559 --> 00:59:33.750
going to be comic accurate, I wanted it to be

00:59:33.750 --> 00:59:37.530
the black and white chases. Funny story about

00:59:37.530 --> 00:59:43.170
that, about going after what you want. This is

00:59:43.170 --> 00:59:45.289
a couple of years ago now, so this isn't anything

00:59:45.289 --> 00:59:49.190
current. This is a couple of years ago. Have

00:59:49.190 --> 00:59:54.130
you ever been to a whatnot auction? No. Don't.

00:59:55.010 --> 00:59:59.900
Just don't even let yourself be tempted. And

00:59:59.900 --> 01:00:02.219
I'm not saying that because whatnot is bad. I'm

01:00:02.219 --> 01:00:05.039
not saying that to like, if you ever want to

01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:07.440
try it, sure. Fine. Go ahead. Here's somebody's

01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:10.840
$15, whatever code to do, whatever you want with

01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:14.360
whatever. Cause that's what people do that do.

01:00:14.420 --> 01:00:16.739
What not auctions is like here, here's my code

01:00:16.739 --> 01:00:19.159
to do whatever. And that's fine. I'm not, not

01:00:19.159 --> 01:00:22.019
making fun of whatnot folks. I'm not, I'm just

01:00:22.019 --> 01:00:27.719
kind of saying out of my mouth. Yeah. Yeah. I'm

01:00:27.719 --> 01:00:33.139
not whatnot. But I used to be because my thing

01:00:33.139 --> 01:00:37.300
is, if I'm. As long as I as long as everything's

01:00:37.300 --> 01:00:39.840
paid for and I have extra funds to spend and

01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:44.800
I want to help the people that I watch on YouTube

01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:47.599
that are Funko Pop creators like Slapshot Pops

01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:50.440
or the Poppin Duo or this person or that person

01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:54.039
or whomever, they run whatnot auctions. They

01:00:54.039 --> 01:00:59.110
sell they buy and sell Funko Pops. And, you know,

01:00:59.210 --> 01:01:03.690
through them and through other people, I've found

01:01:03.690 --> 01:01:06.929
others and whatever. And I was in a whatnot auction

01:01:06.929 --> 01:01:11.170
one night and I just so happened to be in a whatnot

01:01:11.170 --> 01:01:15.670
auction that had the entire set of the chases

01:01:15.670 --> 01:01:20.909
of the TMNT line of the comic line of the black

01:01:20.909 --> 01:01:24.449
and white chases. And I had already bought like

01:01:24.449 --> 01:01:28.369
three of them. I think there's six in the set.

01:01:29.530 --> 01:01:35.789
Yeah, because it's 131 to 136. I think that's

01:01:35.789 --> 01:01:39.170
right. I guess I could just look over at my shelf

01:01:39.170 --> 01:01:43.030
and figure it out. Yeah, there's six in the set.

01:01:44.190 --> 01:01:47.750
So I had half the set. I got down to the final

01:01:47.750 --> 01:01:52.730
two. And everybody in the auction realized, finally,

01:01:52.730 --> 01:01:56.699
after like an hour and a half. Oh! Mike really

01:01:56.699 --> 01:02:00.300
must want these. We're going to now make him

01:02:00.300 --> 01:02:09.340
pay for the final two. I would have to look at

01:02:09.340 --> 01:02:12.340
my phone and I would have to look at the whatnot

01:02:12.340 --> 01:02:15.739
records on my phone to tell you. Maybe I can

01:02:15.739 --> 01:02:18.480
tell you folks next time in the next episode

01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:23.000
of. uh got here on ag or whatever we're gonna

01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:26.260
do this for geek topics geeks of topics or geekdom

01:02:26.260 --> 01:02:30.800
of topics uh but uh i think for one of these

01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:36.340
things i ended up spending close to 75 80 90

01:02:36.340 --> 01:02:41.659
dollars i mean i can see that i mean that's okay

01:02:41.659 --> 01:02:45.000
and again i don't want to say that that's not

01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:49.090
normal I don't think that was normal back then

01:02:49.090 --> 01:02:53.849
for this specific line, even though it was a

01:02:53.849 --> 01:02:57.090
black and white chase. These, I believe, had

01:02:57.090 --> 01:02:59.849
just come out or maybe come out like six months

01:02:59.849 --> 01:03:02.869
previous to when this happened. So they were

01:03:02.869 --> 01:03:06.769
fairly new. It wasn't like it was a grail from

01:03:06.769 --> 01:03:15.599
like 2013 or something. This was. fairly new

01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:18.500
and i understand chases are rare and this that

01:03:18.500 --> 01:03:20.900
thing and everything else but like i'm used to

01:03:20.900 --> 01:03:25.199
spending two three hundred dollars for five or

01:03:25.199 --> 01:03:29.980
six like okay perfect example did i i think i

01:03:29.980 --> 01:03:32.719
if i forget which episode of all things transformers

01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:34.980
it is because this is altered geek and we've

01:03:34.980 --> 01:03:37.639
kind of mixed and matched the two here tonight

01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:42.039
but when i talked about the transformers nfts

01:03:42.039 --> 01:03:45.900
that i bought for my buddy the ultra magnus and

01:03:45.900 --> 01:03:49.639
the cheetor and the rc and the blitzwing the

01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:54.480
newest the wave 2 wave for that yep i think in

01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:58.920
total i paid him 350 for four funko pops i know

01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:02.679
some people have shelled out 350 for one funko

01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:05.599
pop depending on how limited it is or depending

01:04:05.599 --> 01:04:09.059
on how much of a con exclusive it might have

01:04:09.059 --> 01:04:12.889
been so I'm not sitting here saying that people

01:04:12.889 --> 01:04:16.210
won't pay more for these things. I'm just saying

01:04:16.210 --> 01:04:18.789
in my experience of trying to get this thing,

01:04:19.050 --> 01:04:22.530
the experience that I had that night was like,

01:04:22.690 --> 01:04:27.429
oh, Mike's getting all the turtle chases. We're

01:04:27.429 --> 01:04:32.809
going to make Mike pay in the end. And it is

01:04:32.809 --> 01:04:39.250
what it is. But hey, I got him. So. That's how

01:04:39.250 --> 01:04:40.989
I felt when I was trying to do the Power Rangers.

01:04:41.789 --> 01:04:47.289
Just because they were kind of selling out everywhere.

01:04:48.230 --> 01:04:50.530
I'll tell you what, to get your hands on the

01:04:50.530 --> 01:04:54.329
Legacy Collection Green Ranger or Red Ranger,

01:04:54.510 --> 01:05:02.750
the remaster, was not easy. In fact, the remaster

01:05:02.750 --> 01:05:07.719
Red Ranger, everywhere I tried, would sell out

01:05:07.719 --> 01:05:12.019
um actually hasbro had discontinued the line

01:05:12.019 --> 01:05:18.340
right around release and so pretty much anybody

01:05:18.340 --> 01:05:23.800
that had pre -ordered it wasn't getting it um

01:05:23.800 --> 01:05:27.139
like i had it at bbts and the date kept changing

01:05:27.139 --> 01:05:29.699
it kept changing kept changing and i was like

01:05:29.699 --> 01:05:32.539
i am not gonna end up with this and then i tried

01:05:32.539 --> 01:05:36.670
ordering it from like from uh like ally express

01:05:36.670 --> 01:05:46.949
and other places and it was not working um and

01:05:46.949 --> 01:05:51.670
so i ended up getting from bbts um i ended up

01:05:51.670 --> 01:05:55.510
getting the regular jason figure right without

01:05:55.510 --> 01:05:59.070
the dragon armor which that was the reason i

01:05:59.070 --> 01:06:00.710
was getting the other one was to get the dragon

01:06:00.710 --> 01:06:03.329
armor which i was like it's kind of a crappy

01:06:03.329 --> 01:06:07.139
way that hasbro did that yeah they shouldn't

01:06:07.139 --> 01:06:10.679
have done that they did it so they could resell

01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:13.059
the same figures over again well yeah i know

01:06:13.059 --> 01:06:14.920
but i'm saying they shouldn't have done that

01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:19.619
no um so anyways i so i got that one and then

01:06:19.619 --> 01:06:24.340
i was like uh i i just got the 3d printer at

01:06:24.340 --> 01:06:28.800
some point near to that um and i found the file

01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:34.139
somebody had made one and i was like okay this

01:06:34.139 --> 01:06:37.329
is this is going to be good you know i'll see

01:06:37.329 --> 01:06:39.309
how it turns out and my old printer printed it

01:06:39.309 --> 01:06:43.010
like garbage like it did not come out at all

01:06:43.010 --> 01:06:47.130
but it was also like the file like and that's

01:06:47.130 --> 01:06:49.150
something i've had to learn um some of the files

01:06:49.150 --> 01:06:52.730
are not optimized correctly right and they print

01:06:52.730 --> 01:06:56.570
like trash oh no and then you get other ones

01:06:56.570 --> 01:06:59.969
that are made really well and they print really

01:06:59.969 --> 01:07:02.730
well without any you know supports or any any

01:07:02.730 --> 01:07:10.179
additional need Um, and so I, I experimented

01:07:10.179 --> 01:07:11.940
with that thing. Like I tried cutting it in half

01:07:11.940 --> 01:07:14.679
and gluing it together and I tried, you know,

01:07:14.679 --> 01:07:19.360
all these other methods and eventually got it

01:07:19.360 --> 01:07:24.219
at a weird angle, like almost like kind of cockeyed.

01:07:24.260 --> 01:07:28.239
And then it, it printed perfectly with my, my

01:07:28.239 --> 01:07:30.519
gold filament. So I didn't even have to paint

01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:36.280
it. Um, and then, I was like, OK, this works.

01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:40.340
Let's print another one. And so that's how I

01:07:40.340 --> 01:07:42.940
ended up with it. But and it does fit the figures,

01:07:43.079 --> 01:07:45.679
which was nice, but it was it was still not fun

01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:48.619
to have to go through that process. But I mean,

01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:51.980
I've. Like the stasis pod, that was like a holy

01:07:51.980 --> 01:07:54.599
grail figure, you know, thing when I was a kid

01:07:54.599 --> 01:07:58.219
and. I had my hands on one. Does it fit like

01:07:58.219 --> 01:08:00.340
some of the figures? No, I mean, it fits a deluxe

01:08:00.340 --> 01:08:06.900
or a basic or. you know, modern deluxe and a

01:08:06.900 --> 01:08:10.059
core class, but it doesn't fit anything bigger

01:08:10.059 --> 01:08:13.300
than that unless I printed it larger. Yeah. But

01:08:13.300 --> 01:08:19.220
again, it's still, I'm not unhappy. Yeah, absolutely.

01:08:19.420 --> 01:08:23.840
But yeah, I mean, geek collecting has certainly

01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:31.399
changed quite a bit. Absolutely. It has. holy

01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:35.579
crap has it definitely has so my question to

01:08:35.579 --> 01:08:37.619
the listeners would be what are you some of your

01:08:37.619 --> 01:08:40.439
like kind of like holy grail geek items what

01:08:40.439 --> 01:08:42.039
are some things that you were able to like maybe

01:08:42.039 --> 01:08:46.420
get from you know third party or from 3d printing

01:08:46.420 --> 01:08:51.760
or kit bashing or or just things that you've

01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:55.500
managed to find at you know auctions or you know

01:08:55.500 --> 01:08:58.760
just other places because I'd be kind of interested

01:08:58.760 --> 01:09:03.430
to hear what what people's experience were trying

01:09:03.430 --> 01:09:07.270
to obtain, you know, these figures that they've,

01:09:07.270 --> 01:09:10.949
they've been hunting for to complete their collections.

01:09:12.029 --> 01:09:17.449
Absolutely. And remember folks, nobody needs

01:09:17.449 --> 01:09:22.869
a collection intervention. I mean, Mike is right.

01:09:25.369 --> 01:09:32.739
Worst show ever. I'm glad I don't, I've not actually

01:09:32.739 --> 01:09:35.239
seen that. Are you serious? You've never seen,

01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:39.439
they're like geek collectors, like, hold on,

01:09:39.539 --> 01:09:42.859
let me, I'll, we'll, we'll dig it up after the

01:09:42.859 --> 01:09:45.699
show, but yeah, let us know what you guys, what,

01:09:45.819 --> 01:09:47.520
what you guys are enjoying and what you guys

01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:50.600
think. You can let us know on our, either our

01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:53.560
Facebook page or on geekcastradio .com. You can

01:09:53.560 --> 01:09:56.619
send us an email feedback at geekcastradio .com

01:09:56.619 --> 01:10:01.789
and let us know what you think there. So I think

01:10:01.789 --> 01:10:06.170
that about does it for this episode. Yep. So

01:10:06.170 --> 01:10:10.270
until next time, get altered, get geeky with

01:10:10.270 --> 01:10:36.680
the Altered Geeks.