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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 4 (01:05):
Hey, guys, what's going on you are listening to this
week in geek dot Net. I'm your host, Mike the Birdman,
and welcome to yet another twig Live show, the show
where we kind of cover the news of the week,
kind of give you a couple of reviews. Could be
a book, could be a video game, could be toy,
could be piece of tech.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
We don't know. More often than not, anymore than you do.
We just get stuff sent to us and we're like, hey,
you got a week, get it done.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
So anyway, I'm Mike the Birdman, but I'm not alone
this week as we I'm joined by my competriot, my brother,
the person who keeps the lights running the website up,
and most of my tech.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Not blowing up in my face.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Alex the producer.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yes, so guys, uh yeah, I'm trying to think what
to talk about this week. So last week we didn't
have a show. Alex and I were both feeling really sick.
I was just getting over COVID.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I did not get COVID. You know again, knock on
with this. I'm still the lone survivor of never getting it.
But I did start to lose my voice and I went,
ah shit, and I did whatever I could and recovered
enough by like Tuesday to Wednesday, and I was like,
all right, let's get a review show out with some
of the stuff that we were gonna be talking about

(02:13):
in the main show. But I was like, I do
not feel up to do it a whole show solo
this week, so we put it off to this week.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
So I'm glad we got a chance to come back.
I mean, I spent a lot of my week last
week just kind of recovering, watching movies, which is a
real thing, actually sleeping for a Chain's had some friends
reach out on social media. They're like, do not rush
your recovery. Just because you feel good today does not
necessarily mean you're gonna feel good later, So I'm really

(02:43):
glad I took their advice.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I did miss something really cool.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
My friendly local game store, the Dragon, where I'm one
of the dungeon masters for Dungeons and Dragons down there
was holding a signing and they had Amy Joe Johnson,
the Pink Power Ranger is launching a new comic book
set in the Power Universe, I believe, and she was
doing a signing her and I think one of the
other writers or artists on the book, and.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Fortunately they were able to get something signed for me.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Still had to pay for it, but I got my
copy of the Renegade Game Studios Power Rangers, the role
playing game. I got my core rule book signed by Amy,
and that kind of got me thinking.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I was like, I should get more of these.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
So this weekend, whether permitting my wife and my friend Kelly,
You're gonna be taking off to another comic book convention
that's fairly close to us, and they're gonna get another
Power Ranger signature for me. They're gonna get Matt Sadowski
I think his name is. I know him as Bridge
Carson from Power Rangers SPD. The Green Ranger who was

(03:51):
obsessed with Buttery Toast for some reason. But SPD was
one of the shows I actually finished during COVID. I
finished Power Engers SPD, and I finished Power Rangers RPM.
For me, it's really easy to finish a single season
of Power Rangers, like, hey, here's twenty six whatever episodes
go nuts and I'm like, all right, cool.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
So I watched that, really enjoyed it.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
So my goal inspired by one of my friends who
works on Star Trek Adventures where I freelance, Michael Dismute.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
He wrote Captain's Log.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
So what he does is every convention he goes to,
either as a fan or as a guest, he'll bring
his Captain's Log book with him, and if there's a
guest there who happens to be a Star Trek actor,
he'll get it signed. So that's where the inspiration came from.
And then so yesterday I noticed Rob Picardo Robert Piccarter,
who plays the holographic doctor on Voyager soon to be

(04:46):
Starfleet Academy, is going to Niagara Falls Comic Con in
a couple of weeks. So I was like, well, I'm
not renting a van to go, So I asked my
wife and ask my sister in law Cara, I can't go,
would you mind going for me?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Robert's gonna be there.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
I'd love for him to sign my Star Trek Adventures
Core rule book because it's the first Star Trek book
I ever worked on, and he is literally my favorite
character and my favorite actor from probably the entirety of
the show. And that's over Brent Speiner, LeVar Burton, Jerry Ryan,
even Kate kind of mulgrew. So I'm thinking to have Robert,

(05:27):
a guy who I've interviewed, be the first signature on
my book. I think that's really cool, so hopefully that'll
happen in just a couple of weeks. Other than that,
I've been playing some video games. I played a lot
of Donkey Kong Bonanza, which I think you've used. So
that was a very fun game to play while I
was sick looking forward to hundred hundred Hunting presenting that

(05:51):
or whatever, however the hell you'd say that. Yeah, Like,
I'm stupid surprised on how much fun it is. My
wife is currently playing through a review you'll here next
week on Once Upon a Katamari on the Switch too,
because that's her game, that's her jam. And Other than
that though, didn't just kind of chilling out, not doing

(06:11):
a whole lot, just recovering, taking it well, getting back
out into my community. I realized I got a lot
of work to do next year. But that's okay, that's
why I'm here. And yeah, that is basically my weekends
side of a nutshell.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
What about you?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, when I wasn't feeling too great, I did, you know,
play some of the games over the course of the
last weekend, but as far as this week, I played
Outer World too, which not for review, just for myself
because we didn't get a review copy. But there was
a lull between games of when I was reviewing and
I went, you know what, I've got game pass. It's

(06:46):
been raised in freaking money, so I may as well
use it. And I played it, and my thoughts are
it's fun. I think the story is better in the
first game. I It has done nothing to change my
views on Obsidian being a good studio, not a great studio.

(07:06):
They are biowear Light. It is a double a title
that follows the same exact game engine and formula as
a vow did this year, and the Outer World's won,
and there's nothing wrong with that. It's just they're never
going to be seen in the same light as a biowear.
But I can say this less bugs than a bethesta title.

(07:29):
So if you're somebody who if you're somebody who liked
the idea of Starfield but didn't like how blah the
game was, then try Out of World too. You don't
need to have played the first game. It's completely separate,
different part of the universe, different part of everything. Do
you remember watching Secret Level? Was it last year or

(07:52):
the year before?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah? I think it was last year.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, they did the one. One of the better episodes
of that was an Outer World's one. It was the
if you remember the boy who becomes like a test subject,
that's this whole deal for Anti something or others thing,
and he eventually has most of his body parts replaced
because he keeps having you know, disasters happened at his test. Well,

(08:17):
he shows up in the game as a little side character,
but you realize the game takes place like fifty years
later after the the the episode, because he's just the
janitor walking around and he's like balding and old. So
I thought that was kind of neat. I found some
glitches with the game when it came to some of
the missions couldn't be completed because they just fucking didn't work.

(08:39):
But that's I'd be like, oh my god, it's like Methests.
It's like no, no, no, it's like ten percent of
the bugs you find in a Bethesta game in this.
It's still rather surprising how many bugs it has and
how many issues overall it has, considering it's been in
development for like goddamn six years, and it's not a
very long game. It's like thirty hours to beat, which

(09:00):
you know, when it comes to like Bethesda or BioWare
style games, that's not that long, especially when it leans
more heavily into like the Fallout style of game where
you can just keep playing for a long long time.
But it's it's good if you've got game Pass, play it.
If you don't have game Pass and you're planning to

(09:21):
buy it for a console, wait till it's forty bucks.
That's my that's my final thought on that and my
impromptu review.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, it's one of those games I'll hopefully get around
the playing. I was gonna probably play the first game
because I've got it on the think I got it
on PlayStation.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
The first game is here's the deal. The second game
is better in quotes. When it comes to some of
the gameplay, it just feels smoother, It feels more tight
and concise. The first game has a much more interesting story.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Yeah, I mean hopefully I'll get a chance to play that.
I know we were halfway through November, if you can
believe that. I know we're gonna be getting a call
of duty at some point this week, so we'll be
diving into that, probably do our annual deep dive into
the gameplay.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
I think we just covered the game for holiday gif
Kai Latry. I don't think we did a big special
on it.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
We've done bigger specials in the past. We might have
to be honest. Without looking it up, I can't remember
if we did. Somebody will remind us, But it all
depends on what week it comes out at and that
sort of thing. So I mean we'll do We'll definitely
be doing a proper review and then maybe do a
deep dive if I think a deep dive will be
warranted if it's really good or really bad.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah, so I'm hoping it's good. I haven't heard a
lot of people in the community talk about. It seems
like Battlefield six and Red Sec are really the big
games this year.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
I feel that this is the first time in like
that I can remember since I've been part of the
podcast where COD has. It's not that it's being secretive,
they just haven't shown anything much of this. Like there
was that reveal of the main character and how it's
gonna have like mind bendy sort of stuff, but there's

(11:08):
been like very little revealed of the plot. And even then,
you know, I'm not huge into the multiplayer aspect, but
that's what the players are. You're right. I feel like
the multiplayer has been overshadowed by by Battlefield and Our Raiders, yeah,
getting all the press, but the single player has it

(11:28):
had like anything talked about at all?

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Kind of sort of not really.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
I mean, there are some outlets that had a chance
to go, like they know screen Crushed as a guy
who's local to me, Robert went out to some press
event for that a.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Few weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
I know people like exclusive Ace on YouTube have covered it,
but I don't see any of like the bigger cod YouTubers.
It's just the fact that it's not coming up on
my algorithm, says something.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, which which again that could mean that it's good.
It's just people don't focus on the single player for
that as much as I do.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah, exactly, like you and I are kind of the
weird ones where we play it for the single player.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Because and that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
And then last year's single player was. I still think
Cold War, like the one from twenty twenty had the
coolest idea where there was like the secret things you
could find, like the extra you could find the arcade machines,
and you could find like there were secrets like with
zombies and certain things you could unlock, and there was
like the secret secret ending that if you do the

(12:29):
secret ending, it fucks the world over. Uh, Like there
is that stuff that's I guess it's not canon because
obviously the world would have ended. But I do think
that last year's was the most like good single player campaign,
like solid that they might have had in a decade
or more.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Yeah, Like it's hard to make a good cod a
cod storyline game where it's not just to hear go
out to the Middle East and shoot.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Bad guys, or go shoot the Russians. Anybody who's not
from North America, go shoot in the face.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
You know, without having like the mind bendy twists and
turns with like that Cold War had, the last one
that we just played last year. The one advantage that
that had was it had the base that you could
build up. It had like like unlocking secrets in your
home and like that stuff's fun. Like having little things
like that. It's not that difficult to do. So we'll

(13:22):
see if that new one has anything like that.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Meant yeah, one hundred percent. So guys, we got a
jam pack show for you this week. We're gonna have
a review from our very own twig librarian. I'm granting
him that title, David Denoy. We're gonna be taking a
look at another book that he had a chance for review.
We were gonna have a review from me. I gave
Alex a bunch. I'm not sure which one's gonna be
using the show. That's fine, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
You don't know. You're just about to listen.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
To find out.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
And then Alex is gonna be giving us probably a
game review this week, and we'll be taking a deep
dive into whatever game he'll be covering for this week.
So we're gonna start things off with our good friend
from the Land of Milk and Honey, Toledo, not Toaledle Troy,
Ohio with David Denoyer. This is one of his review
from one of our good book friends. I think this

(14:06):
is from Titan Books. We'll be back guys right after this.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
Whoo Hey, twig listeners, this is David from Luce Cannon
Ram coming to you with another great book recommendation from
our friends at Titan Books. As I've said many times
on various episodes of Luce Cannon, I am a big,
big horror fan, especially when it comes to film novelizations
of classic horror films. In the past few years, we've

(14:30):
seen a resurgence in novelizations with special attention to older
films that never got a novelization, and that is exactly
what author Christian Francis has done with the latest release
The Descent. The official movie novelization the horrifying horror flick
of the same name from two thousand and five, directed
by Neil Marshall, is now available in a two hundred
and twenty page novelization that you don't want to miss.

(14:53):
One year after a tragic car accident took her husband
and her daughter's lives, Sarah and her five friends reunite
for a caving expedition in a remote part of the Appellations,
but things take a terrifying turn when a rock fall
leaves them trapped in a cave with bloodthirsty creatures. Now
the six women must face off against the creatures as
well as themselves in a fight for mental and physical survival.

(15:14):
Christian Francis takes you deep into the depths of one
of the all time greatest horror films to celebrate its
twentieth anniversary, presenting the story in a way you've never
experienced it. Feel the claustrophobia creep in as you join Sarah, Beth, Rebecca,
Sam and Holly making their way through the tight passages
and dark hell holes as they come face to face
with the predator, unlike anything they could have imagined. Whether

(15:37):
you're a fan of the film, horror stories, or just
looking for another excuse to fear the dark, this is
one book you won't soon forget reading, especially with its
original ending that was not shown in theaters. Find out
what secrets lurk inside of our characters as they begin
to question who they can trust and what can they
do to see the sun again as they all begin
to question who are the monsters and who are the survivors?

(15:59):
Get absorbed in the atmosphere In the Terror of the Descent,
The official movie novelization by Christian francis available now at
Titanbooks dot com.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
The Prime Minister of Sweden visited Washington today and my
tiny little nipples went to France.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Gossip rumors, panic in the streets. We're lucky this weekend,
Geek New News.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Welcome back to this wee geek dot Net.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
I'm Mike the Birdman, He's Alex the Producer, and it
is time to dive into.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
The nerd news network.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Only on this one can geek dot net.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
So our first story comes courtesy of the Nerdist dot
com and has been reported by multiple outlets.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Has of time this.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Writing, Star Trek four with the Kelvin Timeline Crew is
officially dead. Despite nearly a decade a false starts, it
seems that the adventures of Chris Pine's Captain Kirkness Enterprise
crew are indeed over. According to a report from Variety,
the new heads of Paramount definitely have more Star Trek
films planned, but they won't feature any of the players
from the JJ Abrams rebooted Kelvin.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Timeline, so no Star Trek for it. Despite several scripts
and directors attached, from Quentin Garantino to Matt Schankman, paramount
never found anything that clicked.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Here is the exact phrasing of the original report quote.
Even though this is disappointing news, it is not surprising.
The original cast was contractor for three films, and their
asking price has certainly gone up, especially with folks like
Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana now an Oscar winner.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
It doubles the budget.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
If they had returned, it would have been it would
have been a longer gap than the one between the
end of TOS.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
And Star Trek, the motion picture that surprised me.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
And to add to that, Star Trek strings New World's
already has the popular versions of Young Spock, Kirk, and Ohura,
so why you have competing versions, Especially if a New
Star Trek Year one spinoff actually happens, The hope is
to have a fresh Star Trek movie with the studios
having moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris
Pine and Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble
from the JJ Abrams reboot. I kind of would have

(17:50):
liked to have seen more in the Kelvin timeline, but
someone had postulated in another fan groups like Kelvin Timeline
isn't necessary dead if they were to move forward with
their version of the Next Generation and use Zachary Quinto
as the connective tissue between them, like because you know,
Vulcans live like a couple hundred years, so there's no

(18:13):
reason we couldn't have old Spocks show up in TG
kind of like we had old doctor.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
McCoy show up on the first episode of TNG.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I just kind of want the Kelvin stuff to be
erased from my memory.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
See, I like parts of it, I really do.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Like parts of two was so offensive to me at
how they lied to the public. M it's not about
con straight to the camera. It's not about con Yeah,
you fucking liars.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
I mean I get it because, like you and I
talked about Star Trek three in a podcast, it hasn't
been announced yet, and they spoiled the destruction of the Enterprise,
which would have been a huge emotional moment.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
It's not that this that movie should not have existed
that whole It was a remake pretending to be something else,
and the acting was not great, the direction was horrible,
the lens flares were all over the place. It was
just not a good movie. And then the third movie,
I have watched the first three minutes. That's it. I

(19:16):
refuse to watch the rest of it until we're gonna
have to watch it for the show. But like I,
everything J. J. Abrams touches turns to shit. He's got
the Minas ship touch. Everything he touches turns to shit.
Do we need to go into fucking Star Wars again
with him?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah? Like, I don't know what else they could do.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
I mean because obviously, like I mentioned, Chris Pine and
Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto, you know, their Hollywood stock
has gone up a fair chunk, maybe less so in
the terms of Zach Zachary Quinto, but he's still well liked.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
His TV shows are all of be kind of tanking. Yeah,
he's got a new or a newer TV show where
he plays like a that doesn't have the ability to
recognize people's faces. It's all hoking and and really lowest
common denominator.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Kind of TV.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
So his his he's gone there. Chris Pine has had
a couple of flops. You could. It was a critical success,
but a big financial flop of the D and D movie.
And he did some other one where he directed it
like and it was a fairly medium to high budget

(20:28):
I think somewhere between twenty and sixty million, where he
played like some sort of bum.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
I think I vaguely remember that.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, I say that without trying to be like disrespectful.
I think that's what's what he's characterized as in the movie.
And it tanked really bad too, so.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
He was he was like a less charming version of
the dude from the.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Big That's that's the idea. Yeah, and so that. I
think she's won an oscar since then? Yes, yes, so
she's on the right. Well, if not on the rise,
she's sort of coasting where she is.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
So I don't I I'm not the only one saying this.
I am done with fast trek. That's what I'd like
to call instead of people like new Truck. No, no
fast truck where everything is constantly moving really fast like
those movies never ever, from the second they start, feel

(21:23):
like you're not running throughout them. It feels like the
crew is running, the cast is running, the cameras are on,
Dolly's running, everything is spinning, everything's moving fast. Like, at
what point does your heartbreak go back to normal?

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Like, I will admit I really like the two thousand
and nine reboot, mostly because I really enjoy Carl urban
in that.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, it was great. That one was great to give
you a different idea of what Trek could be. And
then they went, let's do this over and over again forever,
including on TV, and it's like, yeah, no, if you
want to do it, give us, you know, a different
style of movie every time.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
See if they were to do if A.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
If I could redo part of the Kelvin timeline, I
would keep Star Trek two thousand and nine, leave it
as it is to the into Darkness, I would have that.
I would adapt an older episode of the original series.
I would love to redo the romulent one and really
make that more of a cat and mouse game where

(22:27):
they're literally hunting like a lone Ramulin war bird or whatever.
And they could even change it into what how the
eventually how the Rhama they neutral zone was established, like
you could have some fun.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
And they established all bad guys.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
They wouldn't because it would have to be too fast,
and it's like, uh no, give us a give us
our our dust boot hunt for in October, but they
won't do it. Yeah, and and because like that's you know,
the original Ratha con was that and most of the
other really good space battle related ones were like deliberate,
like and don't I'm terrified that what they would have

(23:05):
done with a fourth movie was put the Borg in it.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah, I'd be like, I don't know how you would
calvin ify borg. I mean, they'd have to be hyper
aggressive and fast. They you know what, I think an
abrams borg might look like more like Cyberpunk twenty seventies.
I think they'd look more like Adam Smasher and move

(23:30):
like the twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Days Later zombies.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
I think they'd move super quick and they'd look like
more body horror as opposed to cyborgs.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I can tell you exactly what they would have done,
because they would have tried to sound like they were
being clever. They would have been like, well, we went
back to the lore and look what we found. They
would have gone back to Enterprise, like from the TV
show Enterprise and been like, wait a minute, there were
those borgs that were frozen on Earth and they would
have thawed them out by accident and it would have
been in the Kelvin timeline.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah, which could be interesting, but you have to Using
the board too often is such a problem that the
end that the entire trek has had since Voyager, you
can't reuse them that often and have them still be
a threat.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
If you wanted to do one that was like like
a thing like who goes there sort of thing where
your conspiratory a but everything. If you really wanted to
go back and do something redo Conspiracy from next Gen
but put it, No, not the exact same thing, but
do the whole like slugs controlling people or or something
to that extent. If they're trying to do like a

(24:41):
Monster of the Week sort of thing, and it has
to and if it's got to be like fast paced,
because you know it's a it's it's a Kelvin movie,
which means that Jajon Abrams would have been producing it. Uh,
it has to be big, extravagant and gigantic. It would
have to be something where because they're always they're trying

(25:04):
to tie it into their own universe. Something about that
red matter shit that that old Spock brought back did
something somebody got a hold of it, and they would
have made it about the found the founder shape Shifters
using it to invade our quadrant.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
That'd be cool, you know what.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
I'd love to see them do something because they're they're
talked about they're super powerful, but you never hear anybody
talk about the Folian Assembly.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
They're like their energy beings, don't fuck with them. That's
all we really know about it.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
And I feel like we wouldn't have the technology to
deal with something like that at this point in the timeline,
so it would be like game over. So it would
like unless they're doing like, hey, it's gonna be a
next gen crossover and we and it's it's like Generations
all over again. But we get the the because they're
not going to make that New Voyages or whatever they're

(25:55):
gonna call it, remember the Card season four or whatever
the spinoff, and we're gonna do maybe.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh Star Trek Legacy or whatever they want to.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, Like, the only way it works is if you know,
we're gonna tie it all together, we're gonna have have
it opened up a you know, the red matter opens
up a rift in time space and and the the
the dominion comes through UH, and the only ship that
comes after them is the Defiant or something with warf
on it, like they you watch that, but you know

(26:26):
it would be terrible prob The problem is the premise
of this universe being the main cannon. It doesn't work
and and that's and that's the reason it didn't work.
With with UH discovering that it's just too everything moves
too fast, like physically, and then in timeline it moves
like ah, like breakneck speed. Nothing ever gets a chance

(26:49):
to breathe. Or you know Star Trek being about diplomacy,
No diplomacy ever happens in the Calvin universe or in
in the current Newer Trek TV shows. It just doesn't happen.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
So some stuff happens in Strange New Worlds, but not
as often as it should.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Straight Strange New Worlds tries it but then still gets
bogged down with the idea of the camera always has
to be moving real quick like there there isn't There
isn't anything where it's just like bam, let's have an
episode where people work out their differences. There isn't that.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, it does not happen.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
So if they're making a new movie, and I know
that there was like Tarantino was attached. Like the only
way you can make a Kelvin Universe movie still, if
you wanted to make a fourth one would be without J. J.
Abrams involvement, but have a stylistic director involved to do it.
You know who'd make a good Star Trek movie? And
I don't know, Well, I think he's probably too old.

(27:46):
But you know who would make a good one. And
who has just recently said he's done making the style
of movies that he's been making for years would be
Gambled del Toro.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Interesting pick.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
He said he's done making and horror movies after Frankenstein
came up. Now he said he's done. He wants to
explore other types of films. Have him do a thought provoking,
you know, sci fi movie, and you can involve some
sort of romance or some sort of you know, like
majestic wonder. You can do that, have somebody like him

(28:18):
do it. It doesn't have to be like, it doesn't
have to be like horrifying television, like ripping out Eachev's
eye implants and cutting people to pieces.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Yeah, Like he'd be the type of guy if he
were to pick a Monster. He would definitely do the
sol Vampire, which.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Would be really cool or or like, you know, I'm
not just and don't go back to the trope of
like having be space gods. You know, if you want
to do something from from the past, you pick up
something that I was gonna say, things that that maybe
the Orville has done better, because this is the Orville

(28:58):
has been doing stuff like that. You with social issue
you want to you want to do something, you do
a social credit movie or where it's they're they're dealing
with uh an entire space league of people where everything
is based on social credit and and uh like like
that system where you know, you do something bad, your

(29:20):
social credit goes down and then people won't even talk
to you. But you know, is a corrupt or does
how does it work? That sort of shit? You could
do stuff like that. There's there are cool things you
can do, but I just afraid if if it was
set in the Calvin timeline, it would just be another
you know, big bad monster of the week.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah. Like, I don't want anything as bombastic as JJ
is typically known for. I like the style of Strange
New Worlds.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
I'm only like eight episodes in and I really like it,
but I want something a little more deliverate. I don't
like I don't even mind some of the stuff in Discovery,
but it has to have a deeper, thought provoking.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Discovery last not carry. The last two seasons of Discovery
became unwatchable. The final season was so unwatchable to the
fact that an whole episode would go by and nothing
happened yet crazy explosions, but like no plot was forwarded
at all, And I didn't even understand how that was
possible until I realized that the last two seasons were

(30:26):
greenlit and paid for before the season before that was done,
and they were told that they were going to be canceled,
so they basically just phoned everything in as like tax
write offs or something. I don't know. Man, it was bad,
but you can do a lot of really cool things
in the universe, and I do think that if they're
planning to reboot it, I don't think a Starfleet Academy

(30:50):
movie would be good. No, that was Remember, the thought
was years ago. It's what they were thinking of doing
at one point. I think it was even before the timeline.
That was what was at manny Coto and a couple
of other guys from like the last season of Enterprise
we're thinking of doing. We've done First Contact. We don't
need that redone. If you're going to do a movie,

(31:14):
the best movie, dude, would be a movie that cleans
up the issues with the series so far, like find
a way to maybe keep it somewhat canon, with Discovery
being far far flong in the future, and then also
clean up some of the stuff that's happened in the
previous ones, so that not like it's one complete timeline,

(31:35):
but like clean it up in such a way where
the things that the fandom is really really upset about
can be seen as splinter or alternate timelines and not.
The biggest mistake that they did was jj Abras having
old Spock in the main movie and trying to tie

(31:56):
it into the original prime timeline, because it was not
It was not well thought out except for the that
two thousand and nine movie worked in a sense, except
it was missing. It was missing the key thoughtful logic
that would have been in place, and then they branched
out from there, which was a mistake.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
M hm, So I guess star trek kelvin timeline we
knew yee, but whatever.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Moving on, to our next r We knew ye uh.
We liked having Judge dread and you. We liked having
Chris Pine, we liked the actors involved. I do think
the death knell my final thought was the death knell
for that trilogy was when Antony Elchin passed away.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, like when you've lost a crew bridge member and
they're not going to recast them, which is good.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm glad they made that call. But you need a
check off.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
You do, They're not if you put somebody else there.
That's all the vast majority of younger people would see
because he was an up and coming star at the
time and it was pretty tragic.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, not a not a great way for him to pass.
It was an unfortunate accident in his lane way with
his SUV, I believe.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
So moving on to our next story, hopefully on something
a little bit lighter. So this story comes Crutz You
of Comic book dot Com, but once again being reported
by Multii outlets that Grand Theft ot of Six has
been delayed.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Till next fall.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
So twenty twenty six, Grand Theft out of Six has
been delayed once again by Rockstar Games Must to the
frustration of fans Rockstar confirmed today so last week that
GTA six will now release on November nineteenth, twenty twenty
six to six month delay. This comes just months after
the last delay for GGA six, which pushed it back
from Fall twenty twenty five to May twenty twenty six.
Fans will have to wait a little bit long to

(33:48):
return the Vice City. Unfortunately, the delay comes as a
big shock to fans. Even though some expected something like
this might happen, not many anticipated potential delay would be
so significant, with some expecting around September or October at
the worst. However, Rockstar Games is being direct with the
fans and saying it needs this extra time to work
on GTA six in order to deliver the best possible

(34:09):
game that fans expect. This delay does give some fans
and hope that GTA six's third trailer could be right
around the corner, as the last delay was quickly followed
up with the trailer to offset the bad news. Whether
this happens again remains to be seen, but it would
help rock Star But it would help Rockstar fans keep calm.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
If they're gonna do a trailer game.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Awards, what they should do is they should do a
story trailer for Game Awards, and then for Summer Game
Fest they should do a final trailer showing off the
features or showing off what I get what I suspect
is happening with this pushback, I think we're going to

(34:46):
get a switch to version announced.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, I could see that.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Like, I know Rock's been having some problems where they
were trying, like they've been accused of union busting with
their QA and some of their developers.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
I've seen that pop up in.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
There, and they little bit they were afraid the reports
were already coming out that they were union busting and
that crunch was happening, and they were told to keep
it secret. So I feel somebody in upper management is like, nuh,
We're just going to push the game to the holiday
season and not have to deal with crunch then, because
then are if they're already getting bad press from their

(35:20):
their layoffs, We're laying people off while making the people
work longer, And it's like you should not need to
do that when your game is going to make like
sixty billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Like, although I know a lot of things got shifted
around this year, stuff got pushed back, stuff got pushed
up because people were expecting GTA to come out in
September of this year, like Borderlands four got shift got
shifted around, and Ghost of Yotai, I believe, also got pushed.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
A bunch of other stuff got pushed to like unknown
dates that they don't have dates anymore.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Yeah, so Rockstone knows the power that they have, and
like you and I both know that's gonna be game
of the year next year.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
We don't even have to play it to tell you
that's what it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
It's it. We're like, even if we don't end up
liking it as much as other people, it will be
the game of the year unless there's something really bad
with it. Because as as much as like, I still
think that Final Fantasy seven is coming out next year.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Mm hm.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
While FF seven Rebirth was my game of the year
and I think it should have been game of the
year for most people, it doesn't hold a candle to
the popularity of that game.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Yeah, Like Final Fantasy is a cultural touchstone, but it's
not as culturally relevant as Grand Theft Auto.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, that's just.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Kind of the way it is.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
And Grand Theft five has been released on systems getting
all the way back to the three sixty and PS three.
Each console generation has had their own version of it,
and there's a reason why it takes so long to
develop all these games. Like I'm looking forward to GJAS.
I think it's gonna be cool, but I don't know,
like I get it, like it's going to dominate everything

(37:01):
that I'm COD comes out in November or October typically.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
I feel that COD Microsoft as much as they know
they're going to make money off of like DLC and
sales of the games. I think Microsoft is going to
be very scared by this announcement that it's coming out
November and and specifically November nineteenth, that's the same week
that COD comes out.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah sometimes Yeah, Well we all think CODs in October.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
So I'm wondering do they take next year off?

Speaker 2 (37:35):
No, but they'll probably release in October, probably mid I
guess do.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
You think it's going to be like a a Modern
Warfare three thing where it's just like a glorified expansion
because they don't want to deal with it.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
It'll be a full game, it'll be the same intensity
that goes into it. The problem is what competes against it, Like,
unless there's a.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
New Mario results. Oh wait, what does Nintendo have.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
I'm also thinking I'm kind of dumb in this way
because I keep thinking single player people don't play cod
for the single player, and GTA will not have gt
on line at launch.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
I would say, if they're taking the time off now,
it's possible, I'd.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Be They had said previously that they weren't going to
be discontinuing GTA five online until six was ready, and
that would also mean until the drop off in money
is there. If they see from now for one year
from now, it's basically a year from now. If they
see within the year from now that the revenue starts
to drop from GTA line, that's when they'll announce that

(38:36):
the second one, the next versions coming out. Yeah, because like,
as far as single player games go, there isn't a
single player game that has ever sold as much as
GTA five.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, like they're just there.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Just isn't And like I can't think of any other
company that would have something so powerful in their portfolio
where it would even touch this.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Elder Scrolls. Elder Scrolls, but that's like three or four
years away.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
Yeah, and uh, Fallout, the next Fallout, we know it's
in early development, but we don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
When that's gonna happens further maybe that's further beyond that
because they announced elder scrolls, Like they announced the older
Scrolls at like twenty nineteen or twenty eighteen, and the
next two No, they're saying it's like in development now,
so it's like twenty eight twenty nine, like they they
they blew their load before. This is more and more

(39:27):
it's coming out that it's clear that Bethesda was looking
to be bought up, you know, by Microsoft, even before
a couple years before it happened, because they were announcing
games that they had no intention to make for the
next ten years.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
Like and it's kind of wild too because like when
they did their Fallout Day stream back on October twenty third,
people were expecting them to announce a remaster a Fallout
New Vegas, and there are rumors floating around because they're
they're always is there. It's going to be shadow dropped
when Fallout Season two comes out in just a couple
of weeks on Amazon on which I should have access

(40:01):
to that that's cool anyway, It's just like I don't
know what could even compete, Like Microsoft has nothing because
Halo's coming out on PlayStation next years.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
I thought it was like it's at least two to
three years away now because they have apparently now in
a last ditch effort at EA, shifted all of BioWare's
resources over to this. Yeah, and like they had been
they had been exploring, like not just the Veilguard. They're like, oh,
they've been doing a couple other things, or they had
had them being a support team from the No, apparently

(40:36):
it's all hands on deck and they're even having like
other support studios come help them, like they know that
as far as a single player game goes, and they
are they said, it's a single player game proper. Like
the reason they're they're going full steam ahead is because
they you know, it's end seven day, they announced that
the TV show was now in full production, which was
something that they had announced ten years ago. But it

(40:59):
had it had if I remember correctly, I can't remember
if it was that, if it was Netflix or Prime
that they had been optioning the show, and I think
one of them didn't go forward with it, and it
was around the time I believe it was when Andrameda
came out they announced that they didn't do as well

(41:20):
as they were hoping that they the first look was
turned down or something. And now it's not just that
they they've got the screenwriting done. They're in full pre production,
so they've got this big injection of like broader television
money and they have a vested interest to make sure
that a new game does well.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
Which actually is I'm really glad you kind of said that.
It says transition us into our last story this week again,
as reported on End seven Day, but outlets that says
ign were some of the first people to announce this
Massfec TV series will won't readread Shepherd's story well said,
be set after the original trilogy, Amazon's upcoming Massfect television adaptation.

(42:01):
We'll focus on an original story rather than rehashing bio
Ware's classic trilogy of video games starring Commander Shepherd.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Buioer revealed the news today.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
So that was End seven Day as part of the
annual and seven day celebration, as it hinted at what's
next for.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
The Massfect franchise.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Quote, We've partnered closely with Amazon on the series, and
we're really excited to what the talented team over there
is coming out with, said mass Effect boss Mike Gamble
wrote in a blog post, the.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Writer's room is going strong.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
We've got a lot to figure out about how it
fits it within mass fact canon where it sits. In
respect to the new game, the show will explore a
brand new story line within the universe's timeline, will be
set after the original trilogy, and won't be a redread
of Commander Shepherd's story, because after all, that's your story,
isn't it. Back in August, Amazon was spotted having listed
a Q four twenty twenty six production date for this series,

(42:46):
meaning it is still a year away from shooting. At
the time, a placeholder plot description that was shared read
like a rehash of Mass Effect once plot, though fans
have considered a straight retaelling unlikely for starters. To fans,
choice based narrative would be difficult to adapt without Alien
fans who pitched options and their playthrough starting with the
either choice of male or female Shepherd, down to which

(43:07):
alien races they choose as allies or hob in the
bed with.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
There's also the fact that when the.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
Player choose, where player choices are concerned in the Massac
series has never established a singular Canada developer Mass Effect
while developing Mass Fact Andromeda, the series fourth main video game,
The plot was set hundreds of years into the future
and in a different galaxy in order to ensure player's
MASTERC three ending choices were respected. It would be tough
for any TV series to show the same events and
not be present in the franchise's definitive vision. I don't

(43:36):
disagree with this.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
I would just like to know when is it said
after shepherds, Like are we talking hundreds of years, decades, years, whatever?
And what ending was picked?

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Here's here, Okay, here's my thoughts. One before this was announced,
I thought, if you were going to do a movie
or TV show, the smartest thing would have been first
contact in the First Turian War. Yeah, that's what That's
what I thought it like. The first episode would have
been like almost like Stargate. They discover like they're like,

(44:08):
we're we're you know, where we're we're running out of
resources on Earth where you know our different you know,
are different militaries, and that they're sort of being aligned together,
but they're not one unified force yet, and they're like
there's a space race to Mars. Blah blah blah blah, blah,
and we get there and they're like, oh fuck, what
is this? And then they see that they see the

(44:31):
gate relates, so like this looks indecipherable. And then they
look at this at the you know, the science of
like wait a minute, it's kind of like the how
we made the universal what is it the Golden discs
we set up in the space like on the voyager,
like you know what, it looks like it's made to
be discovered, you know, like they realize that it's not
just like highly advanced tech. It's highly advanced tech made

(44:52):
to be discovered. They're like, okay, we find it, and
then you know, we zapped through and at the end
of the first episode, you know, there's that incident. I
forget the name of the incident. I played the game
multiple times, but there's the incident where they they I
think it's they put the colony there and they encounter
the Turians for the first time and bam, things go
bad real quick.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, it does not end up well for us. There's
a huge misunderstanding.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
First contact war lasts I want to say less more
than a year, but less than ten. And eventually we
meet the other citadel races, the sorry, helped broker a piece.
We discover the care on mass really just outside of Pluto,
like do.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Like an eight episode series and the and you could
have done it where like the first season is the
Turian War, the Terran conflict, and then you end that
season with like it sort of like jumps forward. It's
the end of it, blah blah blah blah. There's heroes
and whatever that happened, and it just ends with with
Earth's first delegation to the Citadel, And you could and

(45:57):
then you could have just been like game and then
it's to be continued in Mass Effect trilogy, you know,
like the you could have done that as like a
prequel to the games, but since they're not going there,
my thought process is the fact that it's happening after
there's two things you can do. One do you said
it hundreds of years in the future in parallel with
Andromeda where things have recovered a significant point in our

(46:20):
galaxy spoiler alert for what is Oh god, it's almost
a ten year old game now, isn't it. It is
it's over ten years old for Mass Effect three. You
know how at the end, like I'm going to assume
at the end that the canon ending is the ending
where Shepherd lives, because it's been confirmed that the new

(46:43):
game stars le AA going on a mission to find
Shepherd or do something to that extent. At least it's
what they hinted that unless they massively change things, right, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
Would guess they'd go with the destroy ending as well.
That means we lose Edy and the Guath. Yeah, that
does take them off the board.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
So it also see what will happen?

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Yeah, I would say so if you did that, you
know the three endings. There was the one where you synergize,
where you become one with where where bio, bio and
technological beings are merged into one. There is the control
one where you control the cycles but you essentially it
was more and more people ran into it that it
was hinted at. That's what the uh, that's what they

(47:31):
wanted you to do, like as in they as in
the forces that be, because it would start the cycle
all over again of the reapers. Even though you say, oh,
I'm in control, you're not in control once you become
one of them. And then the third option obviously was destroy.
And if you do destroy, well, I mean the fourth
option is to attack the overseer thing and then the

(47:52):
world ends. But if you do, if you have everything,
it was, readiness had to be in a hundred percent,
loyalties have all had to be at one hundred percent
for everybody. Uh, and then if you chose to just
do the destroy at the very end, you'd get another
glimpse of Commander Shepherd's Like, was it Expander Shepherd's hand

(48:14):
reaching out from under the ground and then you heard
like breathing in the hand twitch.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, So so that that was the ending there. And
like you said, Edie's gone, but here's if you really
wanted you could keep eat. All you have to do
is be like it's gone, but backed up data or something,
you know, like a local version that isn't you know,
isn't it it doesn't have the networking ability. They could
go full on Battlestar Galactica, where a lot of the tech,

(48:42):
you know, some tech survived because they just aren't networked anymore.
Everything is isolated.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yeah, Like there are possibilities for that.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
Like my suggestion for the series was set it between
like if you want to keep established cannon and if
you want to set it in a familiar but unknown timeline.
You set it between mass Effect two and three. Shepherds
in jail, not a problem. All the squad mates are
off doing their own thing, not a problem. Just set

(49:11):
it there. I mean Paragon Lost, which was the anime movie,
kind of tried to do something like this to a
moderate degree of success. I thought it was fine. But
no one cares about James Vega as a character. No,
it's just and that's no shade against Freddy Prince Junior.
I really enjoy James Mega as a character.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
But the thing is.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
He's okay. He's way better in Dragon Age Inquisition as
the Iron Bowl, the Star Wars, the Gigantic menacing but
also super gig member of your team.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Yeah, and it's just like there could be.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
But the problem is again setting it in after two
and three or between two and three is what happens
to the council. What did you do with the Putarians
that were going to ah the asteroid into the earth.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
There's so many smart things that are just left up
in the air. Smart move is This is where my
thought is with it. They'll want to align it where
you'll want to play the game, because it's part of
what the marketing is. I think that in the new
game if because this extends to that, I think in
the new game, you know the ours are. I think
you're a new I don't think that you're going to

(50:24):
be uh a spect I think you're going to be
somebody assigned to a research team that is trying not
you don't want to recover the reap attack or anything
because of of what that can imply. But you're maybe
part of a of a of a team that is
trying to put together new alliances now that the the

(50:46):
way everything was run has been shattered and the Earth
and the planets are all stuck together. I think the
idea is you're going to be relay like mass effect,
relaying locally within areas, and the ideas you're trying to
hot wire the old real A system to get it online,
but not using the old tech. The ideas you're merging
the technologies of all the people's and you're slowly hop

(51:07):
skipping your way around to reconnect all the disparate communities
and all the different friggin colonies that have been basically
shut off from Earth and from all the other planets.
Like you know, a sorry Prime there area was so
expansive there's entire pockets that are like cut off permanently.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Yeah, Like it would be interesting to go back to
Fesia after like a couple hundred years what happened because
they got hit by the Reapers fucking hard.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
Yeah, Like we thought London was bad, London wasn't bad.
We fucked up the Reapers when they by the time
they got to Earth, like we're doing the final assault,
the Reapers are like you realize that most of the
other planets in the in the like the Alliance, they're
all some of them are kind of fucked and there's

(51:55):
like you see there's like twenty Reapers that showed up
and they fucked up the planet. We got enough tech
by the end of the third game, we had prepared
enough that the Reapers got so scared they sent everything
at us and we still fucked them up. Yeah, So,
like it would be interesting to show Earth and show
like London because it was London and some of the

(52:16):
major centers, but specifically London was like the main headquarters.
I forget, there wasn't a direct reason I think why
in the game they just chose London, I guess for
fun whatever, But that was the epicenter of where the
Reapers had landed, so it'd be interesting to see like
the after effects of like are you is there gonna
be like reaper husks that are like gone. They could

(52:37):
tie it into Andromeda because Andramaa had some weird stuff
going on with it. But anyway, what I'm what I
wanted to get at is I think where it's going
to take place is within Leara's age timeline before she goes.
You know what, do they all go crazy when they
get old?

Speaker 2 (52:56):
I think it was no.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
Once you reach a thousand years old, you become a
mate triarch and then I think that's pretty much it.
Your life ends not too long after that. So they
live about a thousand years, so.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
It's gonna be within the next I'd say within the
next one hundred years of when it ends, because it'll
be the rebuild. But also I think that you might
see Lara show, but you might not. The show I
think should be Earth based because they're gonna want to
ge people that have never played the games. They don't
want to just aliens they have no idea about. I
think it's going to be a little Star trek Ye,

(53:29):
but it's going to be like the it's a rank
tag team of survivalists that are uncovering stuff, and there
might be some leftover like cultists and people that worship
the Reapers. Like, there's gonna be stuff that happens after
disasters where there's some agents that are not working in
the best interest, Like who knows who was like that? Yeah,

(53:53):
who knows? In a weird pocket outside of you know,
with that we're underground protected from electromataic Paul, how many
of them were affected by the Elusive Man and their
mind controls? You know what I mean, There's gonna be
stuff like that in there. But also the biggest question
I have for this if it takes place in the
same timeline, then it takes place a little bit in
the future, and the new game is doing all this

(54:14):
what happened to Tally? Because Tally's on the friggin' I
forget whose ship was she on going towards and Drameda
at the very end of Andromeda. Yeah, Like, because if
you beat the game and did like one hundred percent,
and you remember that, you could go down into the
crashed landing and you could listen to an audio thing

(54:35):
and you realize is Tally talking about how there's something
that's gone wrong with their ship. They don't know what's
going on, and it was lost in space.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
Yeah, and they do cover that in a novel which
was meant to be the DLC for Andromeda, but it's
a novel, which means it's Chiosity is always in question,
especially like if I've learned anything from working on Star Trek.
The one rule I've learned, if it's on the screen,
it's canon until they say it's not exactly Well, comic

(55:04):
books are considered beta canon, which means it's as canon
as they want it to be.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
If they don't like it, they can just throw it
out out the.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
Airlock, and even if it happens in the show, it
wouldn't necessarily be canon until it's reflected in the game. Yeah, right,
so I question like they could incorporate something there. I
forget how long her people live. I know it's longer
than humans, or close to it.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
I want to say at at least seventy five, at
most three fifty.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Because we know their immune systems are rough and that's
why they have their suits. But because of their suits
basically breathing pure air, like they don't get exposed to
things that make them sick unless there's a containment rupture,
so she could live a very long time. I believe
the Turians have a very similar length of life to humans.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Yeah, yep, they live.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
I think, so, you know, like depending on how far
in the future this is, Tally could probably still be there.
And I would hope that they in the either the
new game or or the show.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Because because Krogan lived like five hundred years.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Yeah, he's a son of a bitch. So but I
mean it's not just him war Chief whatever his name
is from the first game, oh Rex.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Yeah, and there's a question too, was the Jeniphace cured?

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Yeah, that'll be addressed. We know that none of the
Solarians will be around that we knew, Yeah, because they.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Only live like at most fifty years. They're very short
lived species.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Yeah, It's like thirty is considered old age for them.
So that's why I like like when with Morden we
got his ending, especially if he did the final DLC
where you're in your apartment and you hear him and
he sings the song that was really good that maybe
cry Man. So they'll he'll be gone, They'll they'll be gone.
But specifically obviously the smart choice was the area because

(57:04):
they live so long and she would still look in
the sound young in a in a future game. So
we'll see how it goes. What I would like, like
when they make the show, how interesting would it be
if the show takes place on that the arc that
was that was going out to andrama that that tally

(57:26):
was on, but it doesn't end up going there, like
the whole does that? Like they could change the history,
but like the ideas, they're on the ship and they
have to divert it for some sort of disastrous reason
and that's why there's a mixture of races on the
ship and blah blah blah. There's a lot of things
you can do. I just hope they don't fuck it up.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Yeah, same here.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
Like, I think we're in an interesting era of video
game adaptations. And I know we've talked about this on
the show and through other podcasts before. The Last of
Us is a good standard for what can be done
with an adaptation while changing stuff most people are okay with.
Even Season two of the Last of Us, which adapted

(58:05):
part of the Last of Us Part two Fallout, was
a fantastic visual repetition and nailed the vibe while respecting
the cannon. The Witcher nailed the look and up until
the last season, and even now that there's a shadow
spinoff that we thought was canceled just got dropped on Netflix.
I've heard not people don't like it, and even people

(58:27):
involved in the show like, well, if you don't like it,
just go play the games, like a, well, that's great.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
That's a nice way to say, you know, don't watch
our one hundred and fifty million dollars show.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
Yeah, and then you get stuff like Castlevania Urcane.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
You've got really.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
Good adaptations out there, and even Cyberpunk Netrunner. Uh, I
think that's what it was called, nails the look and
vibe of the thing without impacting canosity too much. Yeah,
that's just one of those things they're gonna have. They're
going to have to be at bare minimum as good
as Last of Us. Okay, and it's gonna look at

(59:02):
least as good as Fallout.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Do you know? My final thought is what they should
do here. It's instead of you know how we were
talking about Star Trek before and Starfleet Academy, this should
be the beginning. The very first episode should be about
a new recruit going through military school. You know in
that first episode they're going to join not the Specter
or anything else, Like they're gonna be Alliance Military, Alliance Military.

(59:27):
And the first episode it opens up with like it
opens up with this great CGI thing for like the
first minute, and it shows like the It literally shows
like Reapers that goes like the bong sound and it
just has like London being fucking destroyed and shit. And
then you're like, oh, this shit's going on, blah blah blah,
blast and blah blah, and then just a huge explosion

(59:49):
and then it turns off and you realize it's a screen.
It zooms out and it's a history lesson of what happened,
what happened fifty years ago.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
Yeah, it could even be narrated by David or Lance Hendrickson.
So you can either have Anderson or Hack like, this
is the account of the Reaper War, AND's anders is gone.
So yeah, but that's not to say he couldn't have
recorded something.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Yeah, I think if he's if he's still alive when
it happens, hopefully his health is good. It should be
Hacket like maybe like this is this, This concludes, This
concludes your first history lesson from you know, hack it
out and that's how it ends. And it zooms out
and you're like, you're seeing a soldier there and whoever
the new characters being like holy shit. It's like, you know,

(01:00:33):
a teen or in their twenties or whatever, just going
to military school and they have to learn the history
of what happened. But when it zooms out, what it
shows is the Earth Alliance or the whatever. The military
school zooms out and there's other races attending Earth School.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Yeah, that'd be cool, because a Solarian of Bolus whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Because a fuck ton we're stranded in our in our
our solar system when the gates went off.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Yeah, or survivors from the Citadel.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Survivors whoever was able to jump in before the gates
the system is destroyed. Guess what, You're part of Earth now?

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Yeah, that's great. I like that. Yeah, Like I want
this to be successful.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
I just hope it's handled with care, cared with respect.

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
My end seven day wish is will you please make
a t t RPG and will you let me work
on it?

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Can that be great?

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
My mine is, you know what, at this point, can
you remaster and rama to take out some of the
tedium of some of the like some of the exploration
took longer than it should have. You don't drive fast enough.
Certain things that happened. Could you clean it up and
then maybe give us that DLC piece if we since

(01:01:52):
we know you're several years away from the new game.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Yeah, like, that's what I'd love to see too, just
to give us something.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
I've even heard rumors they might be bringing back the multiplayer,
and if that's the case, just give me my old
Mass Effect three account back because I had one of
the best in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
I was armed in a fucking teeth, I had all
my guns maxed out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
I hated that multiplayer. It was too it was too difficult.
It's like, it's like, you need to do this to
get your readiness up. Didn't they nerve it a little
bit so you didn't need to play the multiplayer to
get the Oh yeah, oh it was sorry. It was
with the Trilogy remake or Trilogy remaster, they removed the
They removed the need because you used to have to
play the multiplayer, and then because oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

(01:02:38):
you remember how the final part of the game, like
the Final Assault, you couldn't get the best ending unless
galactic readiness worldwide was at a certain level, and the
worldwide was tied to how many people kept playing and
winning the online game.

Speaker 4 (01:02:55):
I don't remember that specifically, because I could always get
the best ending very consistently.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Also play the multiplayer a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
There was something about keeping the like the reason, one
of the reasons they had to remove the multiplayer was
it was tied into some of the game's mechanics.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
Yeah, because it basically meant you could get a certain percentage,
and I think it was something small, it was like
five percent, but five percent still means a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
It was to get over that, to get over that hump,
to get to one hundred. I think when it first
launched they had to make a pat or two because
people they realized that, hey, the servers aren't going to
be online forever.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Yeah, and like I used to play that online with
a lot of people, but it was also really buggy.
You had to think you there was a glitch you
could do where you would get out of specter wreck packs,
you could get missiles which could kill like Juggernauts.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
And other big fuck you enemies, and you could spam
it infinitely.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
But then you know, you still would need to use
your guns to finish the objectives in each level, and.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
They were not sorious for having it so that to
get your platinum trophy, you had to be like in
the top tier best on the online too, because you
had to beat like a level or something on the
hardest difficulty, you know how hard The easiest online mode
was with the bots.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Oh yeah, like me, I had a squad of about
five people and we would play up and we'd be
doing call outs and commands.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
That's how you used to spend a lot of.

Speaker 4 (01:04:25):
My sundays in early twig days was playing Massive Victory
with my friend Link, my friend Tiffany, and I think
we used to play with a guy named Oh our
friend Pat who does the radio stuff for me, and
I think our friend Patrick used to play with us.
But it's a good time. I'd like to see it
come back, but I doubt it will, at least in its.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Old form, But we'll wait and see.

Speaker 4 (01:04:49):
So that's gonna do it for this edition of the
NERD News Network, only on this net. We're going to
take another break here on the show. We last heard
Dave do his review. Now we're gonna listen to something
that Alex did, so we'll be back guys right after this.
Only on this we can geek dot Net with the
weird news right here on your favorite podcast on the
Citadel is this Who can geek dot Net?

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
I'm not Commander Shepherd, but we'll be back right after this.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Alex the producer here and our friends over at Razor
asked if I would like to check out one of
their newest collaborations they've done, this time with Valve and
counter Strike two. They have a new counter Strike two
collection where a bunch of their popular items are now
rebadged and branded with new colors and silk screened with

(01:05:38):
brand new designs to look like the dragon Lore skin
from from counter Strike two. And it's a really cool
you know. I'll go into the details of the actual
devices as we go, but I was sent the Huntsman
V three Pro ten key list. What's that it's the
medium sized keyboard. They have one that is a sixty
percent keyboard. Tho are the ones you see a lot

(01:05:59):
of wireless smaller key boards being But this is the
same as a regular full size just doesn't have the
number pad and stuff, which I usually do like to
have when I'm doing business type stuff because I'm an
old calculatory kind of guy. But in this case, for
a gaming keyboard, it's a good uh you know, middle ground.
And in this particular case, I always sent this one

(01:06:20):
and it has uh you know, the a gold and
like sort of deep reddish looking hue to it with
really really neat color scheme. I think that suits it
quite well even if you're not a Counterstrike fan, if
you're just looking for a cool keyboard. But interestingly, here,

(01:06:41):
what they're doing with these collaborations is they're taking basically
like their best seller best quality releases, and then they're
getting you know, branded color scheme swaps and that sort
of thing. And and we've covered some of their products
in the past, and I found that when they do
make a collaboration, you has really high quality when it
comes to the artwork as to go along with the

(01:07:05):
build quality that we usually see. Now for this keyboard,
there is a a like palm rest and that has
the dragon symbol and has the skin on it. It
looks really cool on its own too. So I've had
this keyboard for about a week now and it's given
me enough time to really, you know, see how it feels.

(01:07:25):
I know we've talked about previous keyboards to them in
the past, and just to do some quick ones over.
Uh they have their optical switches in it that they're
you know, their their custom ones for their they're they're
calling their Razor analogue optical switch generation to switches in it.
Uh So for the non like competitive gamer, what that

(01:07:46):
means is with optical switches, you tend to have more accuracy.
It can register more keystrokes, quicker, less latency, all that
fun stuff. It does have durabil involved with it. It's
much higher than what you get with some of the
entry level key switches that you see and like really

(01:08:06):
lower end even sometimes medium and third parties that make them,
but they tend to not want to put the better
quality optical switches in and in this case, obviously with Razor,
they have their own custom ones, which is awesome. It
has rapid trigger mode, which for FPS games like counter
Strike you're.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Able to.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Hum Basically you can quickly reset the key and do
some MACROI type stuff with it, which is neat. I'm
not gonna go too deep into that because you know,
we're not doing esports gaming. This is more of an
overview overall. The idea there being that the key strokes
and just the overall ill quality is that that it

(01:08:53):
won't stick. It's it's registered quickly, low latency. Same with
it has the ability to make some on board adjustments.
You can adjust your actuation points for basically, where does
it detect. Because it's an optical switch, it can detect
when it's halfway down, all the way down. You can

(01:09:13):
do stuff like that. In between for having rapid trigger
technology they call it, there is snaptap toggle they call
which is when you hit the function button and the
left shift, the keyboard will talg in between razors snap
on or snaptap on or snaptap off. When it's activated,
the assigned snaptap keys, which is A and D by default,

(01:09:36):
will light up while the back light will backlet for
a few seconds. The keys will then light up red
back light when it's deactivated, and you can do a
bunch of stuff with that. There is a cheat sheet
that they included for me with all the different on
board adjustments that you can you can do and it
is it's like the old gaming keyboards back like twenty

(01:09:56):
five years ago when they used to come with a
whole sheet. It was like here, so you do this
function plus this. Everything is customizable, so I don't need
to go onto that too much with you. As far
as other features that are involved, is for anybody, not
just gamers. This is where it's going to be interesting.
Is they have multifunction digital dials and dedicated control buttons.

(01:10:18):
So you know, on a media keyboard sometimes it'll have
like a dedicated volume up and volume down, or it'll
have dedicated play pause, fast forward that sort of buttons. Here,
they're multifunction, meaning you can program them to do whatever
you want. So there is a digital dial with a
mute key. The defaults to volume, but you can change
it for different things. I could see people using this

(01:10:39):
to like scrub through video editing even because you could
do that. You can set the macro to it. You
can adjust it so that turning it right will scrub
right or scrub left, backwards and forwards in a timeline.
There's things you could do here that aren't just for gaming.
So that's what I'm going to be messing around with
and seeing what I can do with it too. I
do like that it's a big volume knob or big
actuator button. On there, so you can just turn it

(01:10:59):
and it feels chunky and good. There are multifunction buttons.
Pressing one of them will play pause, pressing twice next track,
pressing thrice three times for previous. That that's one dedicated button.
Then there is a button that is a macro button
that defaults to Xbox Game Bar when you've logged into Xbox.

(01:11:22):
There the third or the second macro button is a
default for Windows Task View. Obviously, you can customize it
however you want, but those are neat. What is also
cool with it is that there's modifier keys. So what
that does Basically when it's activated, the right shift function

(01:11:43):
as an up arrow when tapped right control as right
as right arrow, menu key as down, and uh what else,
your right key alt is left arrow. When these keys
are held down, they function normally with their original function.
They can be held and basically the idea is tapping

(01:12:05):
a key will do one thing, holding a key does
something else. That's it was sort of a roundabut way
of saying that. The idea there being that depending on
if you're like, if you're like right handed left handed,
it can change how your layouts and how you want
things done that way. There's a bunch of other macro

(01:12:26):
sittings you can do, but the real there's a lot
of there's a lot of stats with this. Realistically, what
you have here is a really good gaming keyboard that
also happens to have a lot of cool functionality when
it comes to macro buttons for media, business, whatever purposes
you want, plus having the super awesome slick design on it,

(01:12:49):
that golden red design layout. Even if you're not a
fan of FPS shooters or you just want something cool
for your place, definitely consider that maybe for holidays as
a gift. Might see it pop up in our holiday
gift Guy. We'll see, especially if there's any deals going
on for it. But it's priced. Depending on your region,

(01:13:09):
pricing will be a little different, but it's priced I
would say at a medium of like really good value
for the money without being so expensive that it, you know,
goes into a whole new tier breaking the bank. I
think if you're building yourself, like your first or a
gaming system or gaming system set up that you want
for your for streaming or for playing, you know, it's

(01:13:31):
something you might want to consider. It is definitely not
the cheapest out there, but You're getting a lot of
more advanced features and higher build quality. So that's what
takes it up. You know, you're not getting one hundred
dollars keyboard, You're you're in a different class altogether with this,
but you're also not paying for like a six hundred
dollars custom crazy thing. You're right in that sweet spot.

(01:13:52):
So if you're looking to do a new build for
this holiday season, maybe consider this. Otherwise, keep an eye
on it if you see a big sale come like
Black Friday or Canada during Boxing Week. If you have
some extra Christmas money to burn, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Crazy, don't mind it by do human sacrifice.

Speaker 6 (01:14:11):
Dogs and cats living together, Passistaria.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Welcome back to this we can geek dot net. I
am Mike the Birdman. He's outs the producer.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
Oh it's time, kids, It's time to go down the
weirdest and strangest things that have happened.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
On this planet. I'm so sorry. This is the weird
news only on this one dot net.

Speaker 4 (01:14:30):
All right, So, our first story comes courtesy of CNBC,
but has been reported by multiple outlets. DC sandwich thrower
Sean Dunn found not guilty of assaulting a federal agent.
A federal jurlly in Washington, DC on Thursday found former
Department of Justice paralegal Shawn Dunn not guilty of assaulting
a federal agent whom he thrown a subway.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
Sandwich at in August.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
Dun's acquittal was after just several hours of deliberation, was
the latest rebuke to the DOJ in the case. US
Attorney for DC, Janine Piro. Prosecutors previously failed to get
a grand jury in DC to indict the thirty seven
year old on a felony assault charge. Pure's office then
filed a misdemeanor charge against him, which went to trial

(01:15:14):
this week. Jurors began deliberation on Wednesday. Done was charged
in connection with tossing a sandwich and a Customs and
Border Protection officer Greg Lamour on.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
October or on August tenth along the U Street night
Life Corridor and Washington Lairmore and other federal authorities were
deployed in DC as President Donald Trump in response to
what the President claimed was rampant crime in the capital city.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
Quote, fuck you, you fucking fascist, Why are you here?
I don't want you in my city. Done allegedly shouted
at the group of federal officers, Oh yeah, before hurling
the sandwich at one of them. Done was fired by
the DOJ by the DOJ where he worked in the
Criminal Division's International Affairs section after his arrest. DUNCE attorney

(01:16:01):
Sabrina Schwarf said during closing arguments on Wednesday that the
confrontation was the quote of the result of strongly held
feelings against immigration enforcement.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
NBC News reported.

Speaker 4 (01:16:12):
Schwarf also told jurors that you are the ones impacted
by the executive orders issued by Trump, which put federal
and law enforcement officers on the streets of DC. NBC reported,
you are the ones impacted by the executive orders. There
was it remains a huge law enforcement presence in the district,
Scharff said. The defending attorney also argued that the sandwich
did not impede Officer Lamore's duties that night. A foot

(01:16:35):
long from subway could not and certainly did not inflict
bodily harm. NBC reported. Scharf also noted that Laramar also
received is.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
The argument that a foot log couldn't hurt you, or
shouldn't hurt you because it's not really food.

Speaker 4 (01:16:50):
Yeah, oh, it gets weirderor because I've got some extra
stuffs that have been following the story for a while.
Shroff also know that Larimore received quote two gag gifts
from co workers, a plush sandwich in a patch featuring
a cartoon done throwing the sandwich with the words felony
foot long. According to the outlet, if someone assaulted you,
If someone offended you, would you keep a memento of

(01:17:11):
their assault? Would you stick it to your lunch box
and carry it with you day in and day out?
She asked, Now it's funny, so obviously they bring up
this guy had a plush foot long in his cubicle.
He also had a morale patch that said felony foot long.
One of the one of the closing arguments from the

(01:17:32):
defense was or sorry from the prosecution was I could
smell the onions, I could smell the mustard, and the
sandwich exploded. And then in cross examination they're like, because
they showed the sandwich on the ground, still wrapped in
its wrapper, props off to the subway sandwich artists who
wrapped that fucker tight, And they're like, does this look

(01:17:52):
explode it to you? I can't comment on the state
of the sandwich or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
It was so dump.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
Do you know what tho felony foot long sounds like
a porno?

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
It really does.

Speaker 4 (01:18:06):
And it got so goofy too, because like this woman,
Janine Piro, she's a former Fox News contributor, and she
did this whole fucking thing on TikTok and YouTube. She's like,
you know where you can stick the subway foot long?
You can stick it where the sundout shine. And then
she does like the fucking arms crossed, like she's some

(01:18:28):
kind of fucking social media bad It's like, you're a
fucking clown.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
You see this? They're they're prosecuting. Did we ever hear
what happened to the guy that threw his shoes at.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
At President?

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
What's this?

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Fuck? George w A couple of times.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
I can't recall what happened with him, but I.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Think exactly because it didn't ultimately matter. Yeah, nobody got hurt.
And at the same time, you should you shouldn't do
that to the president. But you know, I want to
make that very clear. You should not do that is
a that is a quick way to get shot.

Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
But well, yeah, and it's funny because there's a line
in law enforcement where you can get a grand jury
to indict a ham sandwich and this point, no, you
couldn't because they tried to get a grand jury multiple
times and no judge would take the case. There was
not enough people from the community would say yeah, I'll
indict him.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
They couldn't do it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
And this woman had to result from a felling to
a misdemeanor, which is like, well, fuck nothing because you're
finding fucking because.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Nobody got hurt. It wasn't like he wasn't like he
was throwing cans of habitat pea soup which weighed like
two pounds that yeah, his head, and.

Speaker 4 (01:19:43):
He wasn't throwing like ghost pepper. So there wasn't even
the allege. You couldn't say, oh, he threw a noxious substance.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
Yeah, like for instance, if he had filled a bucket
with like vinegar and toss it in somebody's face, you
know there's there's harm involved in that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
But like I was because you remember that that video.
I think there's a video of it of Bush. Somebody
threw a shoot him and then the second he grabs,
somebody grabs the other shoe and goes throat and he
dodges it and goes ah, oh, yes, Like I mean
that that was class people like that is so disrespectful.
That's crazy. Guess what if the person was arrested, we
didn't hear about them because it was it wasn't a

(01:20:19):
big deal. It was a big deal in that somebody
thought they could get away with it. But like that
was to the president And this is like, I mean,
how many cops on a daily basis that have to
go through areas of town where there is the unhoused
have things thrown at them. That's much worse than that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
Oh yeah, like I knew, Like I know quite a
few people in law enforcement and stuff like that, and
I've heard some horror stories, Like I know in Toronto
for a little while, there was a person who was
throwing buckets of diarrhea.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
Yeah, like that's a bio hazard. You could legitimately get
sick from that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
With this, I know, one of the quotes that came
out of the trial, I might be paraphrasing this a
little bit, was like you're telling me a subway sandwich
is dangerous against a bullet proof vest a person who's
wearing a plate carrier.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
I'm somehow doubting this.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
This ain't no, This isn't a quiz Nos toasted sub
that you could put somebody's eye out with.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
Yeah, it's like, it's so dumb.

Speaker 4 (01:21:17):
And the fact that it took this woman so long
to get this and this is something that the administration
wanted to hang their hat on. And the fact that
currently in the United States they had the big no
King's protests on October eighteenth, and you know, the biggest
threat to freedom was guys and inflatable dinosaur costumes. You

(01:21:39):
have to really wonder the current state of politics. Now,
we're not gonna get too much more into this, Like
my final word on this is gonna be I'm glad
this guy was found guilty not guilty of assault because
it's a fucking sandwich. While you shouldn't do stuff like that,
you should not assault any officer. But if you see
bad shit happening, obviously report it, make sure people.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
Know about it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
Because obviously, with what's going on in multiple cities across
the United States right now, with the ice and overstepping
of boundaries, we shall say it's not a.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
Good time to be out there.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
But you know, had this happened a little bit differently,
this could have turned out very bad.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
Like like you said, point, I'm just happy that they
didn't just go dur.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
Shooting me on them. Yeah, like he could have been.

Speaker 4 (01:22:29):
This could have gone very differently, but because it was
so ridiculous, a guy in fucking flip flops throwing a
fucking cold cut combo at someone didn't end up with
someone getting a faceful of lead.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
You never know.

Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
And there's and now that they're basically recruiting new ice
people from not great places and they're getting low recruitment
quotas because they can't pass the physical just.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
Like guys just lucky that it wasn't you know, a
Wendy's four by four or or like a double whopper
with extra cheese and bacon, because that's that would have
had some f to it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
See.

Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
I think he's lucky that it wasn't covering ghost peppers
or something, because then you could probably slap the no,
I mean not really.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
The only the only way that this could have well
a in a sane world. The only way this could
have been charged is if the sandwich was thrown and
the officer had been allergic to something on it and
had a bad reaction. Yeah, but you know it also
it also didn't explode.

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
Yeah, exactly like the evidence. They're like, I could smell
the mushroom. I could smell the mustard and the onions,
and you said it exploded.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
No you didn't. You're a fucking liar.

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
So anyway, thank you Sean Dunn for your service and
making ally footlongs a.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
Thing realistically where you can get charged for assault. You know,
one is if it's like canned good, because it's a
weapon at that point, it's not really food. But if
it's a prepared food substance. Only if it's like hot,
super chilly, if you're like if you throw or like,
for instance, if the officer was being assaulted with hot coffee,

(01:24:06):
like a cup of coffee was just being tossed, then
I could totally see it because that is causing scalding liquid.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
Yeah yeah, so yeah, I guess Sean Dunn, thank you
for your service. It was It wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
It wasn't even a hot like if you go to
like Jersey mics or if you go to like Firehouse ups,
if it was one of them hot sandwiches, you'd be
like furn my face. I could see a cold cut combo. Yeah, No,
it was more dangerous that it's more dangerous getting one
of them bond me from the from the the Vietnamese
deli downtown because those are crusted breads like that would

(01:24:42):
hurt way more exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:24:45):
So our next story comes courtesy of Reuters, and this
one says, Japan deploys troops to combat deadly wave.

Speaker 2 (01:24:50):
Of bear attacks. So you're paying that bear patrol tax
at the Simpsons, That's.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
What I thought bear tax. Overlooks at this. Doesn't he
get it off of his paycheck?

Speaker 4 (01:25:04):
Yeah, because he's like, we're here, we're queer, we don't
want any more bears or something.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
It was something so goofy and stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
So Japan has deployed troops to the country's rugged north
on Wednesday to help trap after local after sorry Wednesday
after to help trap bears after local authorities and said
besieged communities we're struggling to cope with the unprecedented wave
of attacks. The operation began in Kunzo, a small town

(01:25:32):
nestled along forested mountains that have seen a sharp rise
in bear sittings for weeks. Residents have been urged to
avoid thick woods and stay indoors after dark.

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
To keep the bears foraging near their homes for food.
There is a lost opportunity here. But because it's Reuters
and we know that, that's like it's like the AP
news pure news. They're not really they don't do any editorializing.
They should have said bear siege, not besieged.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
Quote.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
Even if it's just temporary, the sdf's help is a
big relief, said Yashihiro Kikatata, who oversees the town's bear department.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
That's all thing.

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
I used to think bears would always run away when
they heard noise, but now they actually come toward you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
They're truly frightening animals.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
He had it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:14):
There have been more than one hundred bear attacks, with
a record twelve people killed across Japan since April.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
According to the Ministry of the Environment.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
Jesus is more than all of Canada, and we've got
like we have more bears than any other country in
the world.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
Oh yeah, so two thirds of those deaths awry.

Speaker 4 (01:26:31):
Of those where in Akitita Prefecture, where Kunzu is located.
Nearby aiwat In Akita Authority say bear sidings have jumped
sixfold this year to more than eight thousand, and attacks
are on track to set a new record, prompting its
governor to request help from the Self Defense Force last week.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
Quote the townspeople feel.

Speaker 4 (01:26:50):
Danger every day, sat Knzuno mar Shinji Sasamoto said after
meeting with fifteen or so soldiers who rolled in the
town in an army truck and jeeps equipped with body
armor and lart and a large map. I get this obviously,
with bears seeing their natural environment threatened, Yes, they're going
to go to alternate places for food and so many tarbes.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
It's an island with not that much space, and there's
more people than ever. But like what surprised me was
twelve people killed since in the last six months.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
Yeah, since in April. That's insane.

Speaker 1 (01:27:24):
We have what one bear killing every few years in Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
It might be a little higher than that, but it's
definitely not as high as that. In months.

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
Maybe we don't get a hundred bear attacks a year,
even in the last decade. I can't think of a
hundred bear attacks in Canada. I think you're more likely
to be attacked by a moose, yes, oh much more.
And yet you know, we have more bears, we have
more variety of bears. We have way more dangerous bears,
way like people think there's they're like Australia has like

(01:27:59):
the dangerous animals, poisonous, yes, lots of poisonous and like
lizardy type stuff all around the world. Like specifically, the
bears that live here are the most dangerous bears by far.
You're right. Grizzly kodiaks, black bears, black bears, they look cute,
they are not brown bears, black bears, grizzlies. Polar bear

(01:28:21):
is obviously the being, you know, the marauding. The polar
bears pull whales onto the land to kill them. They
drag them out of the icy water a whale.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Yeah, Like, I've heard stories about polar bears.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
Even my grandmother before she passed, used to tell me
stories about the bears up in Churchill, Manitoba that would
just hang around the dump and there was the rule
is if you were in the city of in the
town of Churchill, sorry, you don't leave your doors locked.
And people like why because if you're running from a bear,
you need a place to fucking go.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
And Alberta that the farther nurthy go. There's areas where
if you go to like like a bar that also
has like a hotel that they'll have ropes tied. They're
like beyond this is bear area. Don't go past the rope. Yeah,
And it's like why It's like because if the bear
comes within the rope, they're within line of sight where
we can shoot it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Like it's it's pretty crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:29:18):
I mean, obviously, if you're going to any type of
exploration back in the woods, you need to have yourself
about you. Now, I go back on the trails here
in Guelf, there are no bears that I've ever seen,
but I've seen coyotes and I've seen foxes.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
I was gonna say, where we're located, you have to
go for a bear sighting to be a regular occurrence,
you have to go for about one hundred kilometers north.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
Yeah, Like there might be might be some in the
woods here, but not that many.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
You basically have to hit Algonquin Park before you hit
like real bear country.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:29:53):
Like when I grew up, because I grew up in
a place called Owen Sound Area.

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
Which is about an hour north of here, maybe a little.

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
Yeah, yeah, And we would get bears pretty consistently back
in the swamps and there, and even on my home
reservation of.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Nema Shimmoning.

Speaker 4 (01:30:10):
There was always like, hey there's a bear around, keep
your dogs and cats inside, don't go outside after dark.
Mind your business. But yeah, the further north you go,
you start running in the bears, you start running into moose. Yes,
there are wolves, but wolf attacks on people are so
remarkably few.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
We're for our American listeners. Now, we're fairly south, Like
we're talking about Alberta and Saskatchewan, the Prairies, they're way
farther north than we are. Like even Ontario goes pretty
far north, but they're even farther north. If you look
at a map, if you pull it out, we're actually
below a bunch of the states. Technically, you know in

(01:30:47):
how far we are up until you hit like two
to three hours farther north of where we are. The
bears that you're gonna find are gonna be brown, brown bears,
and black bears, more black bears than anything. And they're
the smaller, more cute looking bears. When you start hitting
like the north and the northwest areas of Canada and
you start getting grizzlies and kodiaks, and those are the

(01:31:10):
big monstrous suckers that you see in movies whenever they
do that. And for you to know polar bears, you'd
have to be like to get to where polar bears
can come to human areas, there's not a lot of
actual roads that take either they're usually in the areas
you have to fly into or or in the winter

(01:31:31):
you can drive there on the ice roads where you
drive over top of the frozen lakes. That like, we're
never really at risk anywhere where there's a populated city,
Like you will never see a polar bear wander into
a major city in Canada because there aren't any major
cities that are north enough for that. I mean you
could maybe argue like yellow Knife, none of it. Yeah, yeah,

(01:31:53):
yellow Knife and none of them. But yeah, but for
the most part, yeah, like just.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
Not a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:31:57):
You're right, none of it. Like if yeah, if the Caluit,
you know, which is the farthest north like city city
in quotes, I mean they have guns, they would know
if a polar bear was coming.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Yeah, like they are ready for it. So hopefully this
city of Kunzo will have less problems in the future.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
Also, now I need a j RPG uh where you're
playing as the bear patrol.

Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
I love it all right, And our last story of
this week is actually a local story and someone had
alerted this to me on Blue Sky, but Alex found
the local article article excuse me for the.

Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
For the national news on Global So this is being recorded.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
By globalnews dot CA. A thief makes off with eighty
thousand dollars in whipped cream during Ontario in Ontario.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
Trip What is it with Gwelph and butter hece and
and like like maple syrup and Dildo's maple syrup, Tilto's
butter like something about Gwelt, the Gwelph, the Upper Grand
Strict and then the Waterloo Regional District here something about
this high value random commodity heist seemed to be happening

(01:33:09):
a fair bit.

Speaker 4 (01:33:10):
Yeah, so Gwelf police are looking for a suspect allegedly
whipped up to a creamy heist earlier this week. So
just before eleven am Wednesday, police say a manager from
a business on speed Vall Avenue report a trailer had
been stolen earlier in the morning, and approximately four thirty
am on October twentieth, a white Wabash refrigerated trailer was
hooked up in towed away the trailer was loaded with

(01:33:32):
about thirty pounds of Gayly branded whip cream worth about
eighty thousand dollars. A ses description was not available. It's
not clear where the trailer was last spotted and it
was towed way. Information an investigation that is ongoing. Anyone
with information is asked.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
To call police.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
Speed Veil Avenue twenty thousand dollars. Refrigerated truck sounds like
a restaurant or maybe a grocery.

Speaker 1 (01:33:54):
Now, this sounds like a delivery guy was making his
rounds to drop like instead of I think a full
truck that would go to like a major grocery store
like you know Soby's or Superstar. They have their own
gigantic transport trucks that they use. Right, this sounds like
this is the Gayly says that the whole thing was

(01:34:15):
just palid to that. This is the guy who's hired
by the gay Lead distributor or themselves, and he's going
to every convenience store and giving them a case when
they order it, making his rounds all across the city.
So you've seen that where you go to a convenience
store and it'd be like probably the most common is
when you see the Freedo lay truck. You know, it's

(01:34:36):
usually a short, little box truck, like like the smallest
moving truck you can imagine, right, and they just go
to all the convenience stores and load up the chip shells.
I think that this was a smaller version of that,
and he basically their their job is the logistics. They
then they hook up. They're like, who, who what are
we shipping today? Oh, it's dairy products. Well go to
here's your list of like thirty five stores. You got

(01:34:58):
to go to that sort of thing. Now, it obviously
wasn't toad for being in the wrong spot, like otherwise
the police would have, you know, been like, oh we
told the wrong thing, Sorry about that, or here's you're
fine for parking in the wrong zone. Like somebody had
to know, Like I do you think they wanted the
trailer or do you think they wanted the product?

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
I don't know, trying to move something like that. The
only thing that would be useful that would.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
To be smaller grocery stores, smaller restaurants and like maybe
home bakers.

Speaker 1 (01:35:32):
We know the butter, the butter and specifically g or ghee.
It was highly speculated and they haven't announced it, But
those heists were people stealing it to sell to Indian
restaurants as the price of butter went up. That was
what was all over the news, like you know, and
again they kept saying spect it like they're not sure,

(01:35:53):
but they said it was the only way that you
could unload that amount of butter because they use it
to make clarify butter or ghee, which is what you
in most Indian cooking. And it's not like you could
sell Like the butter couldn't have been sold at regular
grocery stores because the lot numbers and bin numbers would
be known and the police would be checking at all
the stores to see where'd you get your product from.

(01:36:14):
So it would have to be a restaurant that was
going to use it. Well, in this case, it's not
like any restaurants use a ton of whipped cream? Who
does like that amount of whipped cream?

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
Like I don't know, yeah, Like I'm honestly kind of
thinking here, like where could this go? Like I said,
restaurants is the only thing I could possibly think of, Like,
but this.

Speaker 1 (01:36:36):
Whipped cream, it expires, even in the can, it expires,
like unless unless it was it's gayly so it's not
the cool whip. It's not something you can keep it
a freezer and then slowly use over the course of
like one hundred goddamn years with eight thirty pounds of
that stuff. So I'm wondering, is it that or was
it to steal the trailer itself this time?

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
Yeah, and then the can then they just happened. They
get these pals of shit. I guarantee you, how are
you going to get rid of something like that?

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
I think where they're going to move it?

Speaker 1 (01:37:08):
And you can't dump it and burn it because they're
compressed air, it'll explode. So yeah, almost what they have
to do is they have to find a spot to
dump them, probably in the winter where they're not gonna
you know, where it's not gonna smell bad. They'll have
to find a secluded area, dump it and hose them
down so that no fingerprints get on it. Because like
I have a feeling it's it's if it was butter.

(01:37:30):
Butters can be frozen transported. You can't freeze the cans
of gaily that stuff. You just can't do it. And
it has an expiry date. So I think this was
an Uh. I don't know if it was opportunistic. I
think this was a theft for the UH, for the
trailer itself. And I also don't think this is an
inside job for insurance.

Speaker 4 (01:37:51):
Yeah, like goof has had a lot of crimes of
opportunity in the last couple months.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
I know there's been.

Speaker 4 (01:37:59):
Like I said, golf is a weird history with like
stuff getting stolen off truck. Like I said, we've talked
about butter being stolen maple syrup, but there was a
truck full of sex toys. So somebody is clearly targeting
these yards where they see like, Okay, that's just sitting there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
Can I get away with it?

Speaker 4 (01:38:17):
And if you see someone hauling away a trailer, unless
you know that trailer doesn't belong to them, you're not
going to question them like, oh that's.

Speaker 1 (01:38:26):
Nobody questions somebody just hooking up a trailer. Yeah he's
the delivery guy. You either think one he's the guy
that was delivering it, or two it was delivered and
he's hauling it away.

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
Yeah, Like there's just that's just how it is. So
I mean, I doubt we'll get any real resolution to this.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
I really don't think.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
So it's been it's been barely a week unless it's
part of Unless it turns out it's part of a
ring of thefts. Like you remember how all those trucks
are being stolen and then ended up in uh in
Saudi Arabia and they just did remember they stopped them
going on the trains or something to Montreal, blah blah
blah blah. And I think the RCMP just did the

(01:39:06):
thing where they arrested like hundreds of people in that
that theft ring. So unless this is tied to that,
But it's an odd thing to steal. I think it's
I think it's a But again, how did you What
are you gonna do with the damn trailer? You're gonna
have to strip it, take off the VIN numbers like
all this stuff for it. It doesn't make any sense
to me unless it's somebody like is it drug related

(01:39:29):
and they want to buy it because they want to
sell it and get their drug money, Like it's such
an odd thing to steal.

Speaker 4 (01:39:35):
Yeah, Like it's just it must be they just want
the trailer. Hell, they could even take it for scrap
metal and melt it down or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
So sucks. But I guess the bandits have got away
with more whipped.

Speaker 1 (01:39:49):
Or maybe did they think it was butter in there,
because that butter has been stolen. It's like several times
it's been butter in this region.

Speaker 4 (01:39:58):
Yeah, like, which means could be going to one of
the manufacturing facilities.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
Probably not. Actually wait a second, that I think I
know where this was stolen from.

Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
It said speed Veil. We have a gay Leap plant
right on the corner right by the park. Yeah, this
was someone who just came in, saw the trailer and
probably just bounced.

Speaker 1 (01:40:19):
So okay, because because Gaily they also make butter. Yeah,
this is where my thought process is, is this tied
to the butter thefts and there and they thought they
were stealing something with butter in it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:31):
Yeah, Like there's this, hm, weird stuff. I mean, I
guess we'll find out.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
Like I said, wellf is a weird history recently, Like
I know, we didn't talk about this because it's so
hyper local and it's not really weird, but someone walked
into my local EB games and ripped off like ten
thousand dollars or something worth of switch To and Pokemon
stuff recently.

Speaker 1 (01:40:55):
So now they would they walk behind the counter just
grab it all?

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
No, they asked the employee to go in the back
and for something, and the employee didn't think much of it.
And yeah, I don't know whatever happened, because I know
exactly the EB games that this happened at. And I
really hope the person who I think it could be
didn't get fired because they're really nice. But at the
same time, nice doesn't stop you from doing dumb things.

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
Oh wait, they left the person unattended, or they let
the person go back there.

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
Okay, so they were unattended and by the time they
got back after a few minutes, they'd filled it back
back and ran.

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
So that's pretty bold considering it's all on camera. And yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
So there it is. All right, So we got one
more review coming up before us, and I do believe
it's me this time. Yeah, who will be doing one
of my reviews?

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
So what Alex picks is gonna spin the wheel of choice,
see what it lands on. But you're gonna listen to it.
So we'll be back guys right after this to close
up the show right here on this week and geek
dot Net, Hey, guys, it's Mike the Birdman back again
and I'm here to talk about something we got from
our friends over at Titan Books.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
I'm gonna be talking about Dar Trek three, The Searcher Spock.

Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
The making of the classic film by John Tinturo and
Maria Jose Tinturo as well. I'm pretty sure I messed
up your names, so I do apologize. But it's kind
of funny that I'm reviewing this now as at this recording,
we've literally just recorded something regarding Star Trek three The
Searcher spot And this is the first time I've had
I had a chance to watch the movie, probably since

(01:42:23):
we reviewed it when we got our four K sets
from Paramount a while ago. And having flipped through this
book and looking at all the sources that were consulted
for this book, and then going into the podcast record
with a lot of this knowledge, I am really impressed
by how much this goes over. The thing that really

(01:42:47):
kind of caught my attention is, obviously I'm a prop guy.
I checked that out right away. I wanted to see
what some of the comments were from Christopher Lloyd and
Robin George. One thing I didn't expect to find here
was common on the test screenings and comments from the
Red Carpet premiere, like there's a story where I think
Robin George talks about bringing his brother and I'm sorry

(01:43:09):
her brother and his wife to the premiere. Christopher Lloyd's like, man,
it would have been awesome if I could have been
in like the fourth one, but I'm dead. And you know,
you get to see like a little picture of ILM
drew something for their artists to show up again.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
That's cool.

Speaker 4 (01:43:23):
I didn't know Taco Bell did stuff. I didn't know
Urdle did action figures for this. And because this was
like the eighties, everyone had like a record read along
and listen along.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
I had those books and stuff like that. It was
so cool to see that. But there's just so much
love and care.

Speaker 4 (01:43:40):
This literally feels like Okuda levels of meticulousness to put
this tome together.

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
And this book is about almost.

Speaker 4 (01:43:49):
Two hundred pages, like one hundred and eighty something, and
it's meaty. You could bludgeon Annousegain to death with this thing,
which is kind of neat. You do see some shots
of the Excelsior, which is really cool. You do see
some shots of Space doc and just there's a lot

(01:44:11):
to digest here, Like if you're willing to sit down
and really absorb this, then go watch the movie, and
then go back and reread some of this.

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
You're gonna notice a lot of little things.

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
And it's something I've learned about doing the podcast, specifically
with Aaron, who also works with me on the Star
Trek IP. We're both freelance writers for the Star Trek
role playing game, and I've really started to gain an
appreciation for this era of Star Trek but also this
era of filmmaking, specifically by talking with people like Ken

(01:44:44):
and David Denoyer, people who are film affection autos. You
really see the love that goes up in every frame.
And now that I'm a writer myself, I get to
see the love that gets put down.

Speaker 2 (01:44:56):
Between every paragraph.

Speaker 4 (01:44:59):
Everything you research, every time you quote somebody, there's something
new to learn, you're bringing back a memory, so it
lives on eternal in the printed page. And this Star
Trek three, the Searcher Spot the making of the classic
film really encapsulates that. And I hope we'll see more
books like this. I would love to see something like

(01:45:20):
this done for Star Trek first contact. If it exists,
please let me know. But no, seriously, this is amazing.
If you are a fan of I think this was
Leonard Nimoy's first directorial debut. If I'm recalling this fact correctly,
I'm recording this really late at night, but not seriously.

Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
You're gonna love this book. It's such a good read.
There's so much.

Speaker 4 (01:45:43):
Not just information character, and I think that's why I
like it more than other making of books, because it
really gives you that sense of you're here reliving what
this film is, is and was and for forever shall
be in Trek Cannon, in Trek lore, and in Trek fandom,

(01:46:09):
and those are three very distinct things to me.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
I think it's special.

Speaker 4 (01:46:14):
I do so if you have a Trekkie in your life,
and if they're a big fan of the original series,
in the original six motion pictures, then I really think
this is gonna be a wonderful gift for them, and
you two can sit down and learn how doctor McCoy
has to deal with uh Spock's Katra, get it reunited

(01:46:35):
with his body and money, I got.

Speaker 2 (01:46:39):
Ship you need. I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:41):
So, yeah, you should be checking out this book from
Titan Books. That's Star Trek three The Searchers Bok The
Making of the classic film by John Tinturo and Maria
Jose Tenturo.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
It's outstanding. I'm sorry if I got your name strong
but stale. Seriously, you should check this out from our
friends over at Titan Books.

Speaker 5 (01:46:57):
Those magnificent color mee kooky, but something very odd is
going on around here.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
You're not allowed to talk anymore and welcome back to
this who can keep done that big Thanks to everybody
who allows us to entertain you for yet another week
here on the show.

Speaker 4 (01:47:12):
Like I said, Me and Alex are both feeling pretty good,
so you should be back next week. We're doing a
lot of recording, at least Me and the Boys, which
is Dave and Ken and Adam. We're recording a bunch
of loose cannons and rams. You'll be hearing those in
the coming weeks. Me and Aaron and Alex are also
recording some additional stuff you'll hear during the holidays. We're

(01:47:35):
starting to get some of the big stuff that we're
planning to do on the summer. Me and the Boys
are starting to work out that you'll hear it probably
during Christmas, leading up to our Christmas hiatus that we
take off typically from after our Game Awards content until
the end of January. We take about a month and
a half off just to recharge, so we're doing Lord
of the Rings right there. We'll at least get the

(01:47:57):
Big Three done.

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
If we do the Hobbit trilogy, we'll see, so we're
hoping to get that done in the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:48:04):
Recorded some really fun stuff in the last little bit.
I'm really I really hope you guys will like it.
So Alex has been holding back in some of our
evergreen content so he can just release it. So some
of the stuff you may be hearing we might have
recorded months ago, but I hope I kept it as
evergreen as I could, so if I fuck up, that's
on me, which is fine. In terms of programming this week,

(01:48:28):
I know we're supposed to receive our cod codes, so
we'll be working on that at some points. We have
a bunch of reviews for holiday gift guid. I got
a bunch of movies that Warner Brothers sent over to me,
so I'll be taking a look at those. I am
putting together a holiday gift guide that will be separate
from the other one. We'll be taking a look at

(01:48:50):
some tt RPG stuff because if if I was real,
I could fill my entire holiday gift guide with TT
for RPG stuff. So I'm gonna try to limit my
main holiday gift guide to three items, but I'll talk
about some of the stuff I've received through the year
through like Renegade and Free League and Modifious and stuff
like that. I'll talk about all those in the Holiday

(01:49:11):
Gift Guide. You should hear that the week before, so
I'm promise. I'm gonna promise ish around December fifth or sixth,
you'll see it and you'll be able to order stuff
through most major retailers or through the companies directly themselves.
What do we got coming up programming this week, Alex?

Speaker 1 (01:49:28):
We will have in the coming week one of those
like Evergreen episodes you mentioned. This is the loose canon
you guys did on the Goofy movie double feature.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
Oh that was a lot of fun. We recorded that
during the summer, not too long after the documentary came out.
Because this year is the thirtieth anniversary of that movie,
I do believe, and it's one of my favorites. So huge,
huge bucket of win right there.

Speaker 1 (01:49:53):
And from Earth Versus Soup, there's aban Costello Meet the
Mummy like that, and depending on scheduling, will have another
review show, probably out with some previews stuff, because as
we get closer and closer to to Black Friday and
all that, we've got a bunch of items that have
come in for us to check out that some are
probably going to be going on sale with Black Friday,
so we'll want to make sure we have some reviews

(01:50:13):
out of them first before we mentioned them on whatever
program you have there. As far as Black Friday stuff,
when is Black Friday? That is a very good question.
Is is it the twenty eighth?

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
That's kind of what I'm thinking if it was going
to be anything.

Speaker 1 (01:50:28):
Yeah, the week at Black Friday, we'll have a quick
show where if there's any big deals, we'll mention the
deals as well as maybe feature some reviews or talk
about some of the stuff that we've been sent that
some companies have sent us, you know for Gift Guide,
but also they've said, hey, by the way, these are
going to have Black Friday deals, and in that case,
you know, we'll review them. So if you know, we

(01:50:49):
like them, we'll mention that, and then of course you know,
if we do like them, we'll want to talk about them.
We'll put them on the show there that comes before
the regular gift guide, which is you know, comes to
the first week or so of December, and then we
do like a last minute's gift guide for anything because
in the past, and especially this year, because this is
a second year where we've had a strike in the
postal service, things are slowly starting to come in now,

(01:51:12):
but sometimes things don't come in for the gift guide
before the gift guide is recorded. And if that's the
case and it's a small or easy enough thing to
pick up, we usually do like a sort of final
little programming thing. It's like last minute gifts, pick them
up now, that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:51:28):
Mm hmm. And then the final thing I want to
say is me and Liam.

Speaker 4 (01:51:32):
You might remember from our Terrible Warriors Stargate series that
we ran a couple of years ago. Me and Liam
are doing the Gwelph Santa Clause Parade run here in Gwelp.

Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
We're going to be doing something.

Speaker 4 (01:51:47):
I'll be doing something in my wheelchair on December sixth
Liam's might be dressing up in a full Alien kit.
Because we called our team the bug Stompers after the
drop ship in Alien. We had set out to raise
four hundred and twenty six dollars. As of this recording,
we have raised four hundred and fifty five. We did

(01:52:09):
that in less than twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (01:52:10):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
So that kind of blew me away.

Speaker 4 (01:52:13):
So I'm sending Alex the link to this, which will
be put out on our socials. You can find me
on Blue Sky for this, but it'll be on the
website until after the event.

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
I'd love to do more with this. If we could
double that, that'd be awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:52:27):
Do not expect it, but it all goes to help
out nonprofits in our region. I think this is I
think this is in support of Big Brothers and Big Sisters,
which is an organization that I really like.

Speaker 2 (01:52:38):
So yeah, so that was really awesome. Liam sent me
a message in the middle of the night.

Speaker 4 (01:52:42):
Mike, I don't know what you did, but look at
these emails and I'm thinking, oh shit, what what did
I break?

Speaker 1 (01:52:49):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:52:51):
And we had all these donations.

Speaker 4 (01:52:53):
In fact, one of them I don't know who sent
this out, had said thank you for making podcast camp
in for my kid.

Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
So that's pretty awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:53:04):
So once again, that'll be on Saturday, December six, We'll
be doing the Santa Claus parade run here in Guelf.

Speaker 2 (01:53:11):
I'll try and take some pictures. Oh, definitely.

Speaker 4 (01:53:15):
I'm doing a Santa hat, so there's supposed to be
a Santa suit in my size. Good luck, but I
can definitely wear a hat.

Speaker 1 (01:53:23):
You could probably get by with like a red blanket
because it's gonna be cold. Yeah, we should. You should
think you should have Blair. It might be too late.
I don't know what it is, but have Blair make
you a Santa stocking for your stump.

Speaker 2 (01:53:37):
Yes, I should totally do that. So yeah, we're gonna
be doing something with Aliens on that day.

Speaker 4 (01:53:43):
In terms of the bug Stompers, Hopefully, like I said,
we'll be able to do some more stuff with that, So.

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
If you can and have the capacity to donate, that
would be wonderful.

Speaker 4 (01:53:52):
I just sent out the link right now that'll be
available on most episode posts between now and December six.

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
So that's gonna do it for for us here on
this week in Geek.

Speaker 4 (01:54:01):
We will be back next Monday with more great content
with what happened around the geek world. We do have
a review show planned for later on this week, as
well as what Alex mentioned with Evergreen Shows and Earth
versus soup.

Speaker 1 (01:54:14):
So until next time, we have been Alex the Producer.

Speaker 4 (01:54:18):
I've been Mike the Birdman, saying, be excellent to each other,
looking forward to seeing you around the interwebs, and until
next time, just take care of each other and happy
early holidays.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 4 (01:54:28):
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you
even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.

Speaker 6 (01:54:39):
Thanks for listening to this episode of This Week in Geek.
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Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
Lower your shields and surrender your listenership. We would be
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