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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Everyone has been destroyed because of this freak.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I won't allow it.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
These babies just say this sleep steps fine, double, don't

(00:30):
do Howard doubt are alive? You're coming with me? One
stan one fall.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I we you guys so reckless?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
One stan one fall? Wait fucktion Naowe day a day
away day. Don't go let me dup right?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
We getting up?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
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always day day Yum jump jump up.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Hey, guys, what's going on? You are listening to this
weekend geek dot Net and I'm your host, Mike the Birdman,
and welcome to the fall season of this week in Geek.
But I'm not alone on this rainy September afternoon. I'm
joined by my brother Mike, and Patriot, the guy who
makes sure everything works in his household the website.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
And mine Alex the producer. And I hope things work,
is what I do. I make sure that they don't
fall apart. That's probably the best way to describe it.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
That's true. I mean, over the summer, you did manage
to build me a new computer, a microcomputer, which honestly
I kind of dig, to be honest with you. It's
taken a little getting used to. But now I'm in
Windows eleven, I'm doing all sorts of things. I've got
all my Razor RGB shit hooked up to it, all

(01:57):
my hard drives, and it's so much cooler in my apartment.
It's not like a constant heat source being.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Legitimately like five degrees cooler. Oh, just just from going
from a big honkin old tower that was, you know,
a gas guzzler essentially down to a computer that uses
you know, less than a hundred watts.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, it's kind of like I went from like a
big diesel truck to like a smart car.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
So yeah, you went from roughly you know, and not
just just the heat and power, but you went from
something that was using on average, about six hundred wats
of power to something that's using about sixty.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy, and just it's so nice.
I can actually game on this thing. I got multiple
game controllers hooked up to it now, so I'm like,
this is cool. I can actually use my computer like
it's meant to be.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I mean, indie indie two D and like like lower
end stuff because it's integrated video. But like that's come
a long way in six years, buddy.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, like it's it's pretty cool. So, yeah, guys, we
are back for our first episode of the new fall season.
We took the summer off. We were supposed to come
back last week, but I had some pretty significant dental
problems over the last couple of weeks of summer, which
delayed us coming back. I got multiple fillings, I had

(03:18):
a tooth pulled. And I knew that toothaches were no
that were like nothing in the fuck around with, I
did not know the extent of how painful that would be.
I was crawling in my skin dealing with the pain.
I was like eating or a gel.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
But you were like two seconds away from grabbing pliers
and doing it yourself.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
It was so And let me tell you, that is
a sound you never forget when they pull a tooth
out of your head. When you hear the crunch and
the snap, I'm like, oh, I know that sound. That's
from Mortal combat. That's disgusting, dude, dude.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And not to freak out people, but if anybody needs
to have like knee or hip replacements, you know, I've
mentioned on the recordings that I was helping my mom
out because she had her her knee replace. She's gonna
have to have another one, which she says, like the
other knee, probably next year because she doesn't want to
do it anytime soon. What they don't tell you, and
it's on purpose. They don't tell you what it's gonna

(04:18):
be like because generally you're awake while they do it.
They give you a local. You don't feel anything. They
put like a sheet between your vision, is your and
your knees. They smash you with a mallet like a hammer.
Oh god, it's like a sledgehammer, like straight up, you know,
straight up horror movie. And you don't feel anything. She goes,

(04:40):
but you hear a horrifying crunch and pop, and it's
while they smash your knee cap off. Jesus, that's that's
not a weird case of what they had to do
for her. That's what they always do, Esus. And because
that's how they get it off. And then and then
they when they put the new knee in, they end
up having to manually attach the the muscles and tendons

(05:04):
and everything. And that's what makes it an hour and
a half surgery. The actual removal of the knee cap
to fix it is the quickest part because they just
smash with a goddamn hammer. Oh god. And afterwards she talked,
She's like, I heard that like through my whole body.
You don't just hear it in your ears, you hear it,
you hear it in your skull like he's reverberating. And

(05:27):
she goes and then the the nurse afterwards that when
she was post off is like, yeah, that's why you know.
Internally and you can probably ask your sister in law,
they refer to uh to knee and hip surgeons as carpenters.
That's like a like a like a loving joke in
there in that, yeah, because they they're the ones that

(05:49):
smash things with hammers. Well, I mean you've I don't
know if you've seen it or an if any of
our listeners have seen it. But like I took kinesiology
and health class in grade twelve because I wanted to
get out of a gym class because of my fat ass.
But in it, we had to watch sorry, sorry, we
had to watch like childbirth and then it's like okay,

(06:10):
you know, part of facts life. And then we had
to watch open heart surgery and they they use basically
everything you think of from a horror movie to saw
out your rib cage and remove your ribcage entirely. How
else are they gonna get to the heart. You don't
think about those things till you see it, right, Yeah,
they do it. It's like like something out of a

(06:31):
cartoon or a horror that they just remove the ribcage,
get to the heart, do what they have to do,
do their you know, heart transplant or valve replacements, and
then they saw you back up and they put like
like wirre and caging in there to help it heal.
So yeah, it's not fun, it's but it's also interesting
and when you think about it, it's like, yeah, that

(06:52):
makes sense. It's just you don't really think about it
till you have to go through it. So believe me, dude.
If I can imagine how it sounds having a tooth pulled,
I have had one, but I can imagine how it sounds,
And just imagine how it sounds when you're having your
niece smash with a hammer.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's ross.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
So that's that's basically why she's like, why can't I
walk for seven weeks downstairs? They don't want me to.
It's like, well, you had somebody hit you with a sledgehammer.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, no, shit, I So yeah, guys, we are like
I said, we are back. We've had a lot of
interesting times over the summer, and I guess just to
kind of give you a very quick overview of what
I did during the summer, I actually got a chance
to work for the University of Guelph. I was a
podcast camp counselor, which was really cool. I was working
with kids from ages eight to twelve, teaching them to podcasts.

(07:45):
I had four days with them over the course I
had two classes, so I had ten kids over the
course of two weeks. One so week one in week two.
A lot of fun. Some of these kids tremendously talented.
There was one kid I wish I could remember their
name off the top of my head, but either way,

(08:07):
this kid was so talented, Alex I would have trusted
him to edit our show. He picked up on shit
so fast. And this kid was like nine.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Is a rarity in the days of everybody wanting to
be on screen as like a video YouTube, TikTok whatever star,
having somebody that interested in the audio end is really cool.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah. Like I I actually had a chance to speak
with the kid's parents and the kid. And I said
to the mom, I'm like, don't let this kid stop.
He has a real talent, a real gift. And I
heard them just as they were walking away, and the
mom was like, did you hear that You've got a talent?

(08:55):
And I was like, that is so awesome. And then
this other parent during the week, the mom and dad
came up to me and they're like, our kid just
came back from a from a camp where all they
did was play Minecraft. And he's normally very introverted, but
all he could do was talk about you the entire week.
That's a good time. Yeah. I was like, man, working

(09:18):
with kids is awesome, Like.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I have Also that's depressing that like summer camp is
playing Minecraft and like roadblocks. Yeah, even day camp, like
I remember day well, day camp was different. Day camp
was like you do you go to the gym gymnasium
at the community center at the school, You play a
bunch of sports and games, you have, you learn how

(09:41):
to make a couple of snacks together, maybe you learn
how to make like rice Krispy squares or bake some cookies,
and then you you do stuff like that right to
basically it's to wear you out for the day. But like,
I've seen that more and more, like you know, computer
camp or chess camp. I get that back in the day.
You get sent to that, and it was something like
this just sounds like a paid babysitter.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, Like these kids were really, really well behaved. There
were some behavioral problems in some of the other groups.
My group was well disciplined. They were well behaved. I
actually remember one of the other uh some other person
that I was working with, was like, Mike, how do
you keep your group so disciplined? Like treat them like adults.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
And carry.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
And it was wild, Like, Well, I taught them the
twig way. I was like, you're gonna learn to do
it how me and my brother do it. We're gonna
tell you you're live to tape. If you screw up,
wait five seconds, try again. If you don't like it,
we can take five minutes. But I want you to
try to get used to doing this live to tape
because that you may not always get a chance to

(10:44):
go back and edit. I taught them how I edit.
The one kid who was the really sharp editor, he
was doing tricks that I didn't learn until first year
radio school. Honestly, that one kid would have passed first
year radio no problem. Nice, Yeah, it was really and then.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
And then you know what, that is potentially a viable
career even if you don't want to necessarily be on camera.
There's plenty of people on YouTube and media that need editors.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, it's seriously a really good side hustle. Other than that,
my buddy Sharook that goes to the Storm Games with me,
had a chance to rent a wheelchair van and I
got a chance to go visit my old hometown. And
I got a chance to go to Soble Beach, which
I almost got on the beach because they have those

(11:31):
wheelchair accessible beach mats, but they didn't go all the
way to the pavement, so I missed going on the
beach by literally four inches. That sucked. But I had
a chance to go to the boardwalk play a bunch
of arcade games. I watch a YouTuber named arcade Matt
shout Out, and he taught me how to win at

(11:55):
claw games. I swept the boardwalk on twenty bucks. I
must have walked out shit out of stuff and that's right.
I know how to do this trick now, and it
was awesome. So I won sharook a bunch of stuffies
and then I've only been for literally two seconds. I
had the chance to go to the C and E

(12:15):
for the first time ever and it was really fun.
It was a very long day, but it was really cool.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
I haven't been and oh it's probably almost twenty years now.
But like we used to go regularly because family's all
all in the Toronto area. But also because my uncle
worked for the Toronto Star. Like not it's a paper boy,
you know, worked in the office. He was always getting
free passes because you know they used to give I
don't know if you remember that, they used to give

(12:44):
away in the paper or for kids. Remember at the
end of the year, sometimes you get like a free
baseball game or something from the Toronto Star. Like some
teachers would do that be like hey, if everybody gets
their final assignments in on time and you do you know,
you know, get like a B plus or whatever, here's
some free tickets. It's because Toronto Star used to give
up free tickets for Jay's games and for the C
and E like like nothing. Well, we used to go

(13:06):
and for anybody that's from the Toronto area that may
be listening, you'll remember how there were certain concessions and
certain event food vendors that have been there since like
the eighteen hundreds. There's a place where you could get
spaghetti and it was always a quarter.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
I know exactly where that place is. There was a
guy or there was a booth that was selling two
dollars spaghetti.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
And yeah, it's got it was. It was subsidized by
the government for like one hundred years and then sometime
about fifteen twenty years ago they stopped the subsidy and
it went from twenty five cents to a dollar, and
then I heard it just kept creeping up. But it
was literally like you would get even in the nineties,
what would be equivalent to like two dollars worth of

(13:49):
food for a quarter. Yeah, there was. It was a
little little, tiny cup of spaghetti, not a lot, but
you know, like enough that like a toddler would be
completely happy. But the idea was you would go and
you would sample a few small things and you could
get You could get that. You could go to Tiny
Tom Donuts and get like like two or three little
donuts for twenty five cents, and you could go there's

(14:12):
Tiny Tom. The spaghetti place. Uh, there was another, there
was I forget. There's a couple other places where you
could get like a little slice of pizza or like
a little hot dog, and for like three bucks you
could get like a huge plate of different things. And
obviously now with food prices the way they are in inflation,
it's you're not gonna be getting like it's gonna be

(14:34):
three or four bucks for pizza. It's gonna be three
or four bucks for this and that. Now they're not
at like state fair levels, you know, even though it
is technically like our equivalent of a state fair. Uh,
they haven't gone nuts from out of here, Like I'm
not hearing about like twelve dollars waters coming out of
there or anything.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
No, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was
going to be. Yeah, honestly, I mean, do they.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Still do the coca cola around the neck when I'm
not that I saw not used to be. You get
like a you know, like the what's the flask that
like the Saint Bernard dogs carriagh.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, I had something like that when I was in
Las Vegas like years back.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, they used to do that. It's like a like
a leader or two leaders of cola, uh, in a
plastic Coca Cola branded thing you usually had like CNE
whatever year was on it, and it had straps and
you'd wear it around your next so you'd have your
hands free while you were walking around, uh going through
the CNE. And that used to be like you pay
like a dollar or two dollars for your you know,
whatever your pop is. But if you paid like three

(15:32):
or four bucks, you'd get that thing around your neck
and it usually came with a free refill that they
would like stamp your hand for.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah. The big thing this year was Dirty SODA's. I
had a butter beer where they literally put butter in
root beer.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
They're making good. They're americanizing the event.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh dude, it was so wild. Although the coolest thing
I had was they had they'd hollow out a pineapple
or it could be whatever you want and then fill
that and you got one free refill as long as
you tag them on social media, and that was really cool.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Are they still selling like potpourri and lavender everywhere?

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yep? It was very weird.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Do you know why that is why? Here's a little
fun fact for you. What what did the CNE start
as a farm show, horse show, and livestock where they
would auction off livestock and they'd have other events. So
the reason the lavender goes back like one hundred and
fifty years or more because it was the only smell
that could cover up the ship. Ah, that's that's not

(16:36):
a joke. It was there to cover up the fact
that there were going to be like ten thousand horses there,
what I mean, So you had to have something, and
then it just sort of stuck there. And basically all
throughout the CNE there'd be these little vendors where they're
offering for like a dollar potpourri or lavender, and it's like, oh,
nice flowers. Everybody now thinks that, oh CD has all
these nice smelling, you know, potpourri stuff. It's like, yeah,

(17:00):
it had to be there back in the day.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I saw a lot of unique vendors. I didn't buy it.
I bought some Pokemon plushies for Blair. Oddly enough, I
don't think I saw a single video game vendor I bought.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I went to the Nintendo booth. I competed in the
Mario Kart World events. Okay, I literally missed placing by
eight seconds because I took a turn wrong and I
slid off a ramp, but they were surprisingly accessible. With that,
I got to see some really cool lamas. I got

(17:36):
to see some really cool stuff.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I mean years ago when Maple Leaf Gardens was still
a big thing. There used to be like WWF wrestling every.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Summer at the Rico. That's where I used to go.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
And and it was, you know, it's been you know,
changed its name many many times, right, but that was
you know, back in the and it used to be free,
like they would do like not just they do the
Rico or what. I don't even think it's called the
Kill anymore. It's it's a Coca Cola or something or
some show. I think it's Coke Center maybe whatever. It
changes its name. But for years and years and years
it was it was like the the c and the arena.

(18:10):
And then there was may believe Gardens was part of
that whole thing too, but they would do an event there.
But they used to actually sometimes set up rings like
in the open.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
There was one there, but there wasn't going on, nothing
going on at that end of the day.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
And and that would be probably in Indie, one of
the local indies would be putting that on. But back
in the.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Day, I think it was Greek Town Wrestling.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yea. They do a lot of local events. I think
at least probably monthly, I would say maybe more, and
they'll have they'll have people from a w and other
people show up. But like again back in the day,
this like the city or the province would pay the
WWF and be like, hey, put on one of your
events and they'd have Hulk Hogan or somebody show up.
And they would do a thing at the C and E.

(18:51):
And then at the one of the convention buildings they
would have all the video games basically E three, but
at the C and E. So yeah, we would we
would have booths of everything that you saw at E
three or that would show up at like a more
modern like like Games Calm or whatever. They would have
all that stuff on display, and a whole building of

(19:13):
just all the new arcade games, all the cabs that
weren't going to be out for like six months or
a year. They would do tests. They would grab like
one hundred new games and test them. They're all free play,
and you'd have lineups to wait just to play an
arcade game that you know, I was there in like
nineteen ninety three or four that wouldn't come out untill
like ninety four and ninety five.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, I saw there was a bunch of video games.
I didn't really hang around because I had my sister
Charok and I had Blair there.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah. Oh and it's not the same anymore. But still
like that, that's that's an idea. So now that you've
been there, you get to see sort of the layout
doesn't change that much, but like you can figure in
your head, oh, one of those big buildings that's probably
now showing off cars or something. Yeah, like that was
where the arcade would be, and then you'd have, oh,
there's other building would have you know this going on.
A lot of it does sort of stay the same,

(20:01):
but like, I don't know what the feel is like.
Was it packed like crazy?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
It wasn't bad. I mean I never felt crowded. And
even during when I went into the food building to
grab lunch, I had a shrimp po boy, which is
really good, and I don't know, like it felt good.
It felt busy, but I didn't feel like I was
overly crowded. I don't know whether i'd go back yearly.

(20:26):
Maybe every couple of years. I'd go back because obviously
I've had the stomach surgery and the main reason you
go this he needs for all the weird food. I
did try the deep fried pizza, which was from Pizza
Pizza this year. It was fine. The butter beer was
pretty good. Don't know if i'd pay what I paid
for it again. I think I paid ten bucks and

(20:49):
I had something else I had, like a dessert. But
it was just like, this is fine, this is.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
All my nab. You might be better off at one
point planning to go to like Winterfest instead.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, like like like I said, it was fun, it
was cool. I'm glad I went, but see in five
years sort of thing. And then I guess, lastly, for
my summer, what else did I do? I was supposed
to do more recording than what I wanted to do
this summer, so I'm going to do some of that
during the winter time. But I did record a bunch

(21:22):
with Ken, Alex, Dave and those guys. JT's coming back
to the show. I'm sending him some headphones. We finally
got his audio problem solved, and I played a bunch
of games during the summer. I didn't get a chance
to play Persona and Final Fantasy like I wanted to.
But I went back and played some games that I
didn't get a chance to beat for like a really

(21:44):
long time. And the one game I bought for myself
this summer because we didn't get it for a review
is I went back and played Metal Gear Solid three Delta,
So I bought that. That was a really good time.
I'm really glad that I did that. And in preparation
for the Mortal Kombat election, I started going back through
the new timeline, so I played Mortal Kombat nine, I

(22:05):
played Mortal Kombat X. I'm going through Mortal Kombat eleven,
and if everything goes out right, I should be done
Mortal Kombat one and Chaos Reigns in like a week
or two. And I also played in Justice God's among
Us one and two. And as a treat to myself,
I started watching Star Trek strings New Worlds, which I

(22:27):
really like. And I started watching all the DCU animated
movies I could get my hands on. Uh there's a lot.
I think I've seen like six, so I've got like
ninety more. Ago I wish I was kidding when I
said that. So that was my summer. What did you do?

Speaker 1 (22:48):
The last end of the summer was basically going back
and forth helping my mom. Basically I was a living
health for two and a half weeks. But beyond that,
it's been most catching up on on review stuff because
some of the larger games that took a longer time
were sent over the summer. There's still a few that
I've got the reviews ready but we can't talk about yet.

(23:11):
So there's that, And beyond that, it was much more
of a RESTful summer, or trying to be that much,
because the last few years has been pretty stressful different
summers and just both between family and website stuff. So
it was nice to sort of have a bit of

(23:32):
a break, to have a proper actual break. So I
prepped stuff ahead of time. Well, I had I edited
like twenty five weeks of Earth Versus Soups and then
have slowly got them scheduled to come out, and we
sort of staggered out our releases. We wanted to have,
like you said, more and more recorded and coming out,
but it came down to, you know, as long as

(23:54):
we have one or two things per week, I think
we're good.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, Like this summer, we were gonna do Lord of
the Rings between me and the boys, but it just
got so overwhelming. And normally we'd only take a month
af during the summer, and I take over August. I
really think us taking two months off because we recorded
so much in advance. I actually felt like we got

(24:19):
a proper vacation this.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Year for the most part.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah, and it really felt like came like I feel
like we're coming back, actually recharged for a change.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
I basically outside of like getting reviews recorded, because we
made sure that we still had review shows coming out,
but that was mostly here's here's the reviews we've got,
and I just only have to spend about ten minutes
recording intros and outros and then just the maintenance of
making sure that the actual episodes come out properly. That
was it. So, you know, went from probably you know,

(24:52):
twenty hours a week of work down to like one.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, Like I recorded a bunch of stuff with like
the Boys. We recorded a bunch of stuff Halloween, a
bunch of cool Evergreen episodes. I don't know when you
ever put those out, so I hope I don't refer
to something in May and it comes out in November.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
They come out when they come out.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, basically. So now I'm learning to relearn the mystical
art of radio. So don't refer to current events. But
I see a lot of.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Don't prefer to, Like if it's not a live news show,
we don't talk about live news.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, but yeah, I got a chance to watch a
lot of really good stuff over the summer too. I
went to the movies a lot this summer, which was
kind of nice. As of this recording, I just saw
The Long Walk. I'm sure that I'll come up in
one of our Loose Cannon episodes. My short review of
Visit is it's good. Mark Hamill's weirdly distracting, but he's

(25:51):
not bad, Like, don't get me wrong, but it's weird,
Like you don't need to be here, but you are,
And don't see it with a friend if they can't
be serious, because it will ruin it for you. Other
than that, it was fine. I also saw weapons. I
saw toxic Avenger me too. I think I saw mostly everything.

(26:11):
I think I saw everything that came out this summer
that was major. The only thing I didn't get a
chance to see in theaters was The Bad Guys two
Together and Yeah, everything else I saw and conjuring four sucks.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Did you see the racing movie that was actually pretty good?

Speaker 2 (26:28):
F one?

Speaker 1 (26:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I didn't get a chance to see F one. I
think I think I might have it on vod I
don't know whether I bought it or.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
It's I think it's out. Did you did you see
Naked Gun?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yes? I liked it, but I didn't love it. But
my expectations for that movie were stupid high because Naked
Gun was my comfort movie growing up, because I was
a Leslie Nielsen and Zuckerberg kid or zucker sorry not Zuckerberg,
Fuck that guy, because I used to watch Showtime up

(27:06):
in Canada and it used to be Naked Gun two
would get played a shit ton, and same with Naked
Gun thirty three and a third. And I saw almost
every Naked Gun movie in theaters except for the first one.
So I was really excited for it and I had fun.
I think Leslie or Sorry. Liam Neeson is a wonderful

(27:27):
comedic actor, and Pam Anderson surprisingly funny when you let
her go.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
She had that bit of a comeback with the Last
show Girl, which you know got Indie buzz. They're like, oh,
she can act and then they're like, oh no, she
actually gets it, like she got the comedy, probably more
than some of the other people in the movie.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, like it's funny. It's totally worth seeing. The credits
are surprisingly funny too, if you stick around and read them,
they're really funny. So yeah, I mean, ultimately we're seeing
what I said, it was a pretty good summer for movies.
I didn't see Jurassic Park in theaters just because I was.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Just MOODU movie Blue Bad. My parents enjoyed it because
they both wanted to see it, and I was like,
you sure, I'll take you both to see it and
sat down. They're like, this was great. And after I
left them like this wasn't that great, but I didn't
want to say anything to ruin their mood. And then
after like a half hour they started talking to like, wait,
why did this happen? And I'm like, because they're dumb,

(28:26):
And also that was the only way to describe it,
is they because the person who wrote it is dumb.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
I also didn't see Mission Impossible in theaters as well,
just because again I was just I was busy with something.
I know. I saw some horror movies this summer.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
But yeah, Mission Impossible is like three hours long.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, so ain't nobody got time for that? Speaking of
ain't nobody got time for that? We have been talking
for quite some time. We have a very pack show
for you to talk to. You not gonna lie. Our
first news story is going to be a little bit heavy,
but after that we're hoping going to bring up the
mood but it's something that has to be talked about.

(29:06):
And yeah, so we're gonna talk about that. Don't worry, guys,
It's not about that guy in the media, and that's
all I'm saying about it. But I do have some
personal memories with this. So anyway, guys, we're gonna take
a small break here on this week in Geek and
we're gonna do one of Alex's reviews right here, and
when we come back, we'll talk to you about what
happened in the world of geek entertainment and beyond right

(29:27):
here on this week geek dot Net. I've been Mike
the Birdman. He's been asked the producer. We'll be back
guys right after this.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Welcome. The airliner left has gone missing.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
There will come a time when she has to choose
her own path.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Got to hurry, bring that down.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Still it out.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Not my styff just sitting. Wait, there's no doubt that
something is stirring.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
There are forces in this war that your eyes cannot see.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
The shining new dawn of our beloved liberal is near
at hand. All right, Joshua, let's do this.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
I thought you'd put up more of a fight.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
You're filthy hands away from itself.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
As long as we're there to support one another, we
can overcome anything.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh, go on, dear goot, he must say, Church, let
me fight at sight.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
You go ahead and try to defeat me.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Don't ever underestimate a bracer. Alex to producer here and
I have been waiting a while for this game, and
that is Trails in the Sky, first chapter. Our friends

(31:09):
at Gung Ho Online Entertainment sent a review copy for
PlayStation five for me to check out. I have been
covering the Trail series for this week and Geek since
I joined the podcast. Was it eight years ago? Now?
I had played Trails in the Sky No, sorry, I

(31:30):
had played Trails of Cold Steel one and two before
I joined the show on my own, as I was
a big fan of JRPG's and it was the end
of the PS three's life cycle, and YadA, YadA, YadA.
They came with cool boxes at that time from with
whatever publisher had it, and I was happy with it,
and you know, I didn't know that it was part

(31:50):
of a larger series. I eventually went back and found
that Trails in the Sky had three three games that
were released previously. You know, if you go through the history.
I've talked about it on other reviews that it's a long,
gigantic epic, probably the longest epic and multi game story,
interwoven characters from multiple conflicts and countries and on this continent,

(32:15):
and it's it's just it's like watching a multi year
game of thrown style epic from all these different angles,
with the comedy and lightheartedness and you know, family and
friendship will conquer all attitude that a lot of animes
shown and type shows have. This is the first time

(32:35):
I've had a chance to really dig into the Trails
in the Sky series. The characters from it had popped
up in the previous in this, I guess my previous experiences,
but the later games and I sort of pieced together
bits and pieces of the story from that because this
is the earliest point in this long epic. Now, the

(32:58):
reason for that had been that when it came out
here and it came out on PSP, and then eventually
it went to PC. The original versions where I think
from the late nineties, late nineties or early yeah, I
think they were eventually ported to PSP. That's they felt
real dated even on PSP, and there was a whole hubbub.

(33:19):
If you want to look up something really interesting online,
look up the localization effort of Trails in the Sky.
When it first came out, the very first version of
this in North America, there was so much dialogue to
translate and it was like endless miles of text, and
the effort there is amazing, and I feel bad saying it,
but it was so difficult for me to try to
get through even the first few hours of that version

(33:40):
because there was so much reading. There wasn't like a
fast forward mode. The combat felt a little dated, especially
when you played the more modern games from Cold Steel
onward that used a new combat style, a new graphical engine.
It was much more of a modern feel and flow,
and those eventually slowly evolved on each other. Going into

(34:04):
the Trails into Daybreak, series, the most modern ones that
are running right now, where they actually incorporated the ability
to do action combat if you wanted to go quickly
out of battle, and then if you had to do
a more difficult battle, our boss battle, you would go
into command battle. And that's where other companies have started
the copycat that even dare I say metaphor Refantasio had

(34:27):
a similar style, but that really was started first in
the Trails games. Now, because of that, I was like,
I want to eventually go back and play it, and
then they announced but was it a year ago?

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Baby?

Speaker 1 (34:41):
They announced Trails in the Sky first chapter as a complete,
you know, reimagining remake in the modern graphic style and
the modern engine that you see in like Daybreak with
fully voice acted in English, which is a big plus
because the amount of dialog and stuff going on in
this game. It's a lot easier when you're fully immersed

(35:03):
and listening to it. And then you know, an overhauled script.
They've touched things up. It's mostly following the same storyline,
but also the game is going to feel shorter. The
original game everybody kept telling me was somewhere between eighty
and one hundred and twenty hours and that was because
there was a lot of reading, there was a lot
of grinding, that it was a slower moving game, and

(35:25):
in this I was able to play it in a
significantly last time. I'm not going to say exactly how
long because I don't want to give people an idea
necessarily of like, oh, I'm at the end already, because
your experience will vary because you can change the difficulty.
There's multiple difficulty levels in this game. Also, if you
beat it, you can carry forward into a new game
plus and carry certain things forward and change the difficulties.

(35:46):
There's a lot of customizations you can do. But I
will say this, the game moves at a much brisker pace.
There's the ability to fast forward and do like fast
mode like you have in the other more modern Trails games,
so you can do like mob fight and grinding a
lot quicker. You see obviously all the enemies on screen
before you you know, initiate attacks with them in combat.

(36:08):
If you played or listen to my reviews and played
in the other Trails games, this is finally bringing that
up to the standard that we're used to. You know
that we've been used to the last ten to fifteen years.
It's we're finally there now, and it makes me very
happy because I had a great time. If I have
to make any you know, little cons or complaints or anything,

(36:31):
it's the voice acting is pretty good. I felt for
some reason that the voice acting was better in the
other more recent Trails games. I don't know if it
was a different crew they were using or anything, but
I only made this note in my little notebook once,
but it was some of the characters when they're pronouncing

(36:52):
other characters' names, they sometimes say the name's wrong. And
I don't mean that like, you know, oh, from game
to game, somebody might have a different pronunciation or something.
It can happen, but I'm saying that the same character
will refer to another character that they've talked to many times,
and they'll say that person's name differently multiple times within

(37:15):
the same recording session, and that stuff that I think
that there might have been some quality control issues when
it comes to the voice directing that wasn't caught. It
ultimately doesn't really affect the game as a whole. It
was just there's a there is a little bit of
sloppy audio, like it's a little a little bit lazy

(37:35):
when it comes to that. No, there's an immense amount
of dialogue they had to record, So I'm not downplaying.
I don't want to detegrate or say anything bad about
the voice actors, just that there seemed to be a
little bit of quality control issues when it comes to
the English voice acting, and it is something that you
want to listen to, because the whole series does have
good a good script and good voice acting, and overall,
once you get over some of those that name pronunciations

(38:00):
to the characters, line delivery is pretty good. If ever,
occasionally it feels a little off, and I normally wouldn't
have noticed it, except that in all of the other
games in the franchise that's not an issue. It's always
been good. So maybe it's something that if they continue
on with this, they'll have to look and do. Maybe
I don't think it's something you can fix now, but
it was noticeable enough to me that I actually wrote

(38:23):
it down that this was happening a fair bit, that
characters were pronouncing other characters' names sporadically different like they weren't.
There wasn't a consistency in how they set each other's
name sometimes. But again, take that out The only other
complaint I might have is there were a couple of

(38:43):
the side missions that you can do for bonus points,
because it has a similar system to the more modern
ones where you do your missions for your bracers, and
you can do secret missions or extra missions tertiary missions
that then get your points. There's somewhere it arbitrarily locked
me out because I made it continued with the story

(39:04):
on forward, and usually I'm pretty good about figuring out
what order I need to do things in so I
can do every single mission. There were a couple that
were so esoteric and didn't make any sense. There were
no hints on how to fix it or make it work.
Then it just moved the story along and they were
locked out. And there were also instances where I had
reported stories in or reported missions in, and if I

(39:24):
went to the mission board, it showed that they were
still there even though I had reported them. I couldn't
do them anymore, but they didn't get removed from the
list of things to do. So these are little patches
and things that I imagine day one or within a
few weeks, it'll probably be patched out, little tiny nitpicks
here and there. As far as telling what the story is.

(39:45):
I'm not doing that. We would be here for like
two hours just to describe the story and the background
of everything. But this is a great, great starting point
because you get to know Estelle, and you get to
know Joshua, and you get to know the story of
how starts. And if they end up selling well and
they follow the path of the previous ones and to

(40:07):
remake the other two games, you'll have three games total
in this sky trilogy that they will then lead into
uh Cold Steel, which then leads into uh the sort
of the Crossbel duology, which those were remastered. But I
do think that the if they have to look at
a project after the Sky trilogy, the duology that they

(40:32):
did for the Crossbell games, they didn't get voice acting
when they re released them on modern platforms. Was it
last year or the year before? And they are rough.
Uh they're rough because there's no English dub and it's
a million miles of text. And I basically found myself
skipping through the text most of the time because they
basically knew the story of those. But those could really

(40:53):
use this kind of treatment. But that's something for you know,
a few years down the line, as it stands. This
is a really solid entry into the franchise, and this
sets up a fair amount like you'll play this and
yes there's there's probably hopefully Fingers Crossed going to be
second and third chapters done in this, but if you're

(41:15):
really unsure of where to go, this is a great
place to start because it's not as deep when it
comes to the battle system and the mechanics of everything
as we would get in the later two like parts
three and four of Cold Steel or what's in the
the into Reverie where it sort of the matches them
all up, and then the the Daybreak stuff. It doesn't

(41:36):
each game sort of adds more, and then I would
say in the Daybreak ones they kind of refined it
down to make it a little more playable. This takes
all of the things that they learned while doing the
Cold Steel and the crossbel duology and then the going
into Reverie in that it takes all the things they
learned that they then applied into Daybreak and applies this

(41:59):
into the remake of the Fame while also retaining all
the story and everything that they needed to have from
the first game and adding the battle system from Daybreak
into it. So it adds just the right amount. It's
not too difficult to get into. There's enough cool subsystems
to get you interested. But there's not a bazillion minigames
in here that you have to worry about. There's there's

(42:21):
not like fishing that there is the cooking, but it's
been refined. It's got a little sample of everything. Stuff
that gets much more deep in the later games. But
this is where it will sort of hook you in
and you get to be introduced to characters that will
somewhat recur and fully recur later on, and sets the

(42:42):
threads in motion for one of the largest and most interesting,
you know, epic j RPG stories ever told, where you know,
in a dozen games now or more, and this is
where it all started. This is where the Legend of
Heroes games diverged from their original style that they had
done back in the eighties and nineties into being this

(43:04):
epic tale. And it's a really good place to start.
I know, it's reviews that I've seen already pop up
because of the way our timing goes with our releases.
You know, some of these our reviews will come out
after other people's. I've found that they're pretty much spot on.
This is you know, in my head, it's somewhere around
a nine out of ten. We don't usually do like

(43:25):
a dedicated numbering system for reviews or like lettering system
or anything, but just know that this is a top
tier game in its franchise and it's a very good
way if you want to get started and see if
if you'll like it, you know, and you don't want
to jump in part way through like I had to
back in the day. This is a great start to

(43:45):
the franchise and it's a good fresh cot of paint
on top of what was already a pretty solid base.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
The Prime Minister of Sweden visited Washington.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
Today and my tiny little nipple went to France.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Gossip, rumors, panic in the streets.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
We're lucky this weekend geek News.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Welcome back to this week in geek Dot, and I'm
Mike the Birdman. He's out the producer. Well, it is
now time to talk about the well, the news that
has happened around the world, the what what what did
I normally call this segment, the what the hell that's
going to drive? Technically, yeah, geek news, technically no news

(44:27):
network there.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Well, yeah, back when that was for a while. There
was like a couple of years where that was the
whole show.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Yeah, I completely forgot about that. Wow, guys, gotta get
a little bit of the ring rusted off, which I
kind of feel terrible transitioning into the story, but it
kind of feels the vibe. You'll follow me.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
So.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Over the last couple of days, some news has been
making the rounds on YouTube and in the larger social
media space, and that is that Billy Hudson, otherwise known
as one of the Game Chasers, has passed away at
the age of forty four years old. He died from cancer, unfortunately.
And I'm going to read the story from dex Stero

(45:09):
and then I will give a little bit of a
personal story to share about the Game Chasers. So as
it says, Billy Hudson, best known as one of the
faces behind the retro game gaming YouTube channel The Game Chasers,
has died from cancer at forty four. Hudson co found
of The Game Chasers, a YouTube channel dedicated retro game hunting, collecting,
and documenting gaming culture. The series gained a dedicated following

(45:33):
for its mix of humor and nostalgia and camaraderie between
Hudson and Jay. The news was shared by his longtime
friend and fellow creator Jay, who posted on social media
that Hudson had quote lost his fight with cancer on Thursday,
September eighteenth. The creator asked for privacy as both Hudson
and their YouTube community grieve and just to read you

(45:53):
what it says. It is with a heavy heart and
tear field eyes that I have to make this post.
Jay said this afternoon, Billy lost his fight with cancer.
A video is being made this weekend with more details.
Please don't ask your additional information. Also, keep in mind
that this just happened in the family YouTube. Family included
is grieving in the process. I know there's a lot

(46:14):
of questions. Please let us have a moment and not
slam people. You know, you know we're his friends with questions,
me included. We are getting a ton of messages, calls,
text It's overwhelming. Billy loves each and every one of
you and appreciates the love and support you've all given him.
Hudson's death comes weeks after just after he was diagnosed
with a brain tumor in August twenty twenty five, prompting

(46:36):
him to make a post on his YouTube channel announcing
a hiatus from content. So this news hit me in
a very unique way. I was a PR rep for
a convention here in southern Ontario for a couple of

(46:56):
years known as com Bravo, and I rememberer pitching the
game Chasers, Billy Jay, Eric and a few other people
to say, Hey, I think it'd be really awesome to
have these guys up. It was in two thousand and thirteen.
In twenty fourteen, I believe, they came up and the
convention chair at the time I was like, Yeah, that
sounds like a really cool, cool idea. And they chronicled

(47:19):
their quest to Canada where someone had broken into their
car stole some of their stuff and it was an adventure,
to say the very least. One year, they came over
to my house. They filmed part of an episode at
my place, my friend Kevin and Sean and my friend

(47:41):
Jamie's place, so they bought a lot of their stuff.
I didn't have a lot to offer these guys, like, hey,
here's some extra PR crap I got. But what I
remember most about that trip is I don't even know
how this came up, but we got talking about shadow people.
It's some other shit, and it was just kind of
a goofy conversation. But meeting those guys was a real

(48:02):
trip and a real treat just to know they were
in my house. And then over the course of their career,
I sent them a go pro camera. I'm like, hey,
just give me a review in a couple of weeks.
You know you're the video guy. I don't know shit
about shit, so you do it. I got them some
microphones because I had a friend of mine at the
time who was working at Air Canada and they just

(48:25):
throw out microphones they don't know what to do with,
so I tested them. They worked fine, and Billy and Jay,
as far as I know, used those Lapel and Lavalier
mics for years. And I was thanked under my old
last name of Dodd in almost every single episode since
like twenty thirteen. It's like special thanks Mike Dodd this

(48:46):
week in geek dot Net. And it was pretty cool.
And I would always keep in contact with Billy over
the years. We just we'd exchange a few messages. I
actually got Billy in contact with Stan Bush for their
movie Adventures in Game Chasing, which was pretty cool, So like,
that's awesome. I love Stan Bush. I love these guys.

(49:06):
I'm glad they're working together. And Billy made a movie,
Adventures in Game Chasing. I sat down and watched it
the other day, and to be completely transparent, I think
it's one of the better creator created movies, like people
like James Rolf Link Caara, all that type of creator
thing movies With Billy genuine love. It's goofy. It's not

(49:29):
meant to be Oscar material. But the fact that I
don't know whether Billy went to school for this stuff,
Like he really knew how to light stuff. The audio
was good, he knew how to he knew what he
was doing. While the adventure is something clearly out of
like fucking Scooby Doo. It was fun. So I watched
that the other morning and that was kind of nice. Now,

(49:51):
the thing that makes this kind of difficult for me
is I found out on the bus Thursday evening. I'm
coming back from my radio gig at the radio station
and I do some work for CFRU, and I'm on
the bus and I go on the Facebook and I
knew Billy had been in the hospital because there were

(50:13):
the updates from his channel saying hey guys, I've some
pretty serious stuff is going on there, you know what,
He'll beat it. What's going on? My sister in law's
a nurse. Maybe I can help you, Maybe I can
think of something. Right. So I'm on the bus and
I read Jay's post and it was like getting hit
by a truck. You don't expect it. And for those

(50:36):
of you that don't know, I had another death in
the family, also from a brain tumor this summer, my
aunt Melanie, and I don't know it just it really
hit me because there's something about the Game Chasers I
always saw as their content was very fun, it was

(50:57):
very real. And one of the things I wrote on
a post on one of because Jay was asking people
to share posts and memories and pictures, and one of
the things I wrote was something along the lines of
the thing I liked most about you guys creating content
is it always seemed very genuine and very authentic to

(51:20):
the friendship and the brotherhood that you guys had. Because
I went back and watched seasons one and two in
memoriam after I watched the movie the other day, and
it's true, like it's kind of like Alex, how you
and I like when we do podcasting. You know, we're friends,
but you know, it goes deeper than that. And it

(51:41):
wasn't just two people making a YouTube show. It wasn't
just two people doing something goofy and stupid. It was
something that was genuinely fun. And when the show came out,
I remember when they used to work with people like
screw Attack. Then they went on to Retrowear, and then
these guys started getting invited to con Eensis all over
the world, and it was just so cool to see

(52:03):
how their careers had come so far from just a
couple of people wanted to do American Pickers but with
video games. And then they started spreading out the other stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
I know, you initially like and other people I knew
had mentioned you know what happened to him? And I
was seeing comments from people that weren't maybe really in
the know, like basically like who's that? And I think
some of it to take into account is that they're very,
very big within the like the collector community of the

(52:37):
millennial age kids, right. I have a feeling that they
weren't well known to the younger generation, yeah, not as much,
and also not to the older like the older generation,
like the Atari guys, you know what I mean, Like
like there's whole YouTuber like bubble of Atari and television
guys that are in their fifties and older. But for

(53:00):
people that got yeah, people that are like thirty five
to fifty, Yeah, if you were into gaming and YouTube,
but also the reality shows of the last twenty years,
that's the people that know who they were. And it

(53:20):
was kind of surprisingly. I always felt like The Game
Chasers was five years too late to get a TV show,
you know what I mean. Had they been out five
years earlier, they would have been like globally known.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
It was a discussion at some point, but I don't
recall that conversation clearly.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
I again, I don't know them personally, but I do
remember some discussion at one point, I think after they
filmed their first season, like because their show was filmed
for anybody that is listening that doesn't know to be
like a half hour reality show sort of like a
homemade Storage Wars or or American Pickers. That that style

(54:03):
that that you know, personality driven, but mixed with like
a road trip show. So a little think travel vlog
meets meets American Pickers. That's the best way to describe
it right. And at one point I thought that they
were trying to package the season to sell it at

(54:23):
you know, to to a channel, you know, maybe as
a whole package so they could put on you know,
channels do that, They'll put a show on it like
two in the morning, right if it's if it's dirt
cheap to get, and then the idea is that's your
your foot in the door. So at one point I
believe I thought that was their plan, was to package
a whole bunch of episodes and get it like a
syndicated package for it. Yeah, and they have they have,

(54:45):
like I think they have when I checked after all this,
they have ninety episodes out. I don't know if they
had a ninety first one planned or anything, but they're
not quite at that like one hundred and ten where
it's like a full syndicate package. But if you have
at least sixty five episodes, it wouldn't surprise me if
they can package it to somebody. But I think at
one point was it on tub or one of these things,

(55:06):
or were or were they syndicated on I think I
think you could get you could purchase on iTunes or
something different things too.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
I know you can purchase the seasons, or you could
at least purchase seasons one through five on Blu Ray
with extra material. Yeah, the movie is streaming for free
on on on TB and Amazon.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
That's it. That's it. The movie is there. But they
have enough that if they retooled their package, they could
probably get a package deal to put it out on
a Like, yes, YouTube is one thing, but we know
also know that discovery on YouTube is not what it
used to be. So if they could get themselves, if
they could get their whole syndicated package on to be

(55:46):
that's an extra, you know, bigger thing because it's a
smaller pond.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Yeah, like it was. It was weird just going back
and rewatching all these things and seeing myself with facial
hair was I looked terrible, But it was really cool
just to go back and just see these guys and
I don't know, like not like I'm not even fronting.

(56:10):
Whenever a new Game Chasers episode or Toy Chasers would
drop me and Blair be like, Okay, we gotta find
half an hour and let's watch this. And that was
the thing, like the thing that I like about YouTubers,
like the game Chasers and Pat the nes Punk. They
would have certain little bits of content they would do,
like if there was a new flea market madness, we

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would like, okay, cool, we're we are watching Pat today,
We're watching Pat and Frank, or we're watching Billy and Jy.
And it didn't matter whether it was toy chasers or
game chasers or just some content like okay, that was
I like tell you, it felt like appointment viewing, Like
because I knew these guys, I didn't know them as
well as I would have liked. But I would sum

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up my friendship with Billy is if I needed something,
I could call the guy for a favor. And he
was always so genuine with people. And that's what I'll
remember the most about him. He always made time for you.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
And it's it's it's it's not the kind of thing
where it's not the time for people online to be discussing, oh,
should they move should they continue on? Without you never
know how these things are going to go. They have
they have from what I just pulled up in their webit,
they have ninety episodes out if you want to check
it out. It's worth, you know, going through and highlighting
and finding some of that stuff because it's at the
very least, even if you're not into retro gaming, there's

(57:28):
enough entertainment value there without it being like over the
top silly or or it's it's nothing clickbaity about what
they did. It's just sort of you know, slice of
life stuff that is formatted like a traditional television show
on like they were doing that at a time when
YouTube people really weren't doing that.

Speaker 4 (57:48):
No.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Yeah, it's formatted to fit in a half basically for
the most part, to fit within a half half an
hour time slot.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Yeah, like it was a good time. Honestly, if you
want to help anybody out, going back and streaming old
bits content will probably help Billie's wife and family in
the future. We don't know what's gonna happen. I know
Jay said something's being worked on. It hasn't dropped as
of this recording, so when it comes up, I'm sure

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everybody will watch. I'm glad to see a lot of
tributes pour in from a happy console gamer did something,
Gamester eighty one did something, it that Eric did something,
and there'll be more tributes coming.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Yeah, you're gonna see a lot of that, and it
is you know, as sad as it is, it's also
interesting to see, you know, this happens not all the time,
but in the creator community, not just gaming. This happens,
you know, once or twice a year where somebody you know, impactful,
big passes on and you never know, you know, you
don't really know how big a channel. It's just because

(58:50):
you see like x amount of subscribers for x amount
of views, you don't really realize how many of those people,
like the percentage of them where they're they're a very
important part of their you know, their everyday life or
watching community. Because like you might have say a million
people watch your content, but you don't know that maybe

(59:11):
there's like a thousand people where like that's their favorite thing. Yeah,
like so just serious, You're going to see a lot
of that pop up. Now, you're gonna see a lot
of tributes pop up. Not everybody gets to, you know,
end their content on their own terms. You know, like
Norm has stepped away from Gaming Historian, and people were
complaining it's like, well, do you want him to keep
doing it until something happens to him? You know, you

(59:34):
don't need that he went on his own terms. This
is abrupt in sudden, which is that because I think
they were working on before he got sick. I think
they had the next episode already planned or something.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Oh yeah, like Jay and Billy had content filmed, kind
of like how Pat did so far out in advance.
Because and that's something too. That's one thing I loved
about going back watching seasons one, two three, you can
see how the rise of the video game mark it changed.
Like you can just see like you'd find five ten
dollars anyesque games. You'd find these rare games, like I

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remember when I found it?

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Was it fifteen years ago?

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Twenty ten?

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
Yeah, fifteen years Yeah, it makes sense they were there.
That's when I That is when I was leaving collecting
around ten to eleven. That's when I gave you basically
all my shit and I was like, you know what,
I could make a few hundred bucks selling it, but
you were making YouTube content and I was like, yeah,
I'll give it to this guy. But like I, the
prime time to buy was from two thousand and one

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to like two thousand and seven. You were able to
get so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Hard argued maybe twenty twelve. It's when things started the change,
when people like the game changers and the retro Hunters,
which is another fantastical with Rob I think his name
was another really good chance. There's another guy who did
a dumpster di I think it was called Tales of
Tales with Tailor, another great YouTuber.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Oh oh eight oh eight to twenty twelve was when
the creep started happening, though.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Yeah, you started getting the resellers. Like if you go
back and rewatch Pats flea market Madness, you can start
to see when the resellers start to come in when
their people are using eBay and price charting the price stuff,
which again that's your right as a seller, but don't
be a dick. And YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Basically, the best time that you could to buy this
stuff on eBay or at flea markets and sales was
like year two thousand and two thousand and five, right
before YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
It yeah, right when video stores are starting to clear
out their old stock.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
And specifically when websites switched from trying to grab credit
card numbers directly to having PayPal. Yeah, because that made
people feel safe for buying online and also in person.
Oh one oh two, you were able to grab a
ton of seventies and eighties tec and now we're not
talking just gaming. It was like computers, and like you

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could get a Commodore sixty four for ten bucks. That's
like six hundred dollars, now, you know what I mean.
Like it was it was the right time for that. So,
like like any good idea, their show came from what
they were doing in real life the previous ten years
and and and then they were at the right time.
But like when I say that they should have been

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out if it was five years earlier, if if they
had started in or not even five, if they started
in like six, if they were like an og YouTuber
mm hmm, they would have been on cable. They would
they would have they would have transitioned by twenty eleven,
they would have been on on like something yeah, oh yeah,

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or G four back in the day. It wouldn't they
would have been on something. It's just it's funny how
that timing goes. But then they still built that group
of of core you know, viewers and casual people that
were super happy with the work and for his work
will be there on YouTube forever.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Yeah. I mean, as a closing thought on this, if
there were people I would trust to do a video
legacy and tribute, it would be Pat, it would be
Norm and probably James. If we could get those people
to do a retrospective or like a mini documentary when

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the grieving has ended, I'd love to hear their thoughts.
In fact, I actually Pat posted some of his memories
with Billy how the first time they met. I think
it was like Magfast twenty thirteen, and I posted yours
was one of the ones I wanted to hear the
most because I knew how close they all were, at
least that's what it seemed like. And when I had
them all at com Bravo, it was really cool just

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to see that group. And I don't know, I wish
I'd done more in retrospect with those guys, just if anything,
just to have them on for an interview. I actually
went back to my old conversations with Billy and I
was like, I was supposed to schedule you for an interview,
but I had surgery and I just let this fall
with the wayside. But I'm grateful for the times and

(01:03:56):
the entertainment that we all shared. And I can't remember
who said it to him. I think it was Melvor
or someone had said. He literally said, that's the way
game chasing go and Billy, Yeah, that certainly seems like
something he'd say, even despite all the dumb shit that
happened and was happening to himself, he would have that

(01:04:17):
goofy sense of humor about himself. So rest in peace, Billy,
you will never be forgotten. Now to transition out of
a fairly down story, we're gonna go into something what
we would regularly cover here on the Nerd News Network. Uh,
let's talk about Batman because Batman Day just happened the

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other day. This story comes to court as you have
superhero hype dot Com. The Batman Too has a brand
new villain and major plot point revealed. Matt Reeves has
revealed new details about The Batman Part two in its direction.
In a recent discussion, the director revealed the sequels villain
will connect to Bruce Wayne's pass, outlined how the story
expands on the character beyond the count, and address speculation

(01:05:00):
about Robbin's possible inclusion. Matt reed. Matt Reeves confirmed that
The Batman Too will feature a villain tie directly the
Bruce Wayne's history. Explained that quote picking the right villain
that digs into what that does and that sort of
goes into his past in his life. That's what drove
us that discussion. I won't tell you where we ended up,
but we're super excited about it, and I will say
it's never really been done in a movie before. Reeves

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said he and co writer Matt Matt's and Tomlin studied
comics and exchanged ideas. They also drew inspiration films outside
Gotham stories to shape the direction. Reeves emphasized the sequel
will expand Bruce Wayne's character arc beyond the Batman focused
lens of the first film. He also noted that quote,
the first story is so much about the Batman, and

(01:05:44):
I always wanted in the movies to make sure that
we never lose Rob at the center of those stories.
He confirmed Kristen Sophia Falcone will not appear, but praised
her work in The Penguin. Reeves also confirmed that the
d C that the film remains a d C Elseworld's project,
separated from James Guns DCU. He also responded to guns

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interest in him directing a DCU project by saying, quote,
we haven't talked about anything like that. I want to
play out the stories that we began and arrive at
the conclusion that I'd hoped we'd arrive at from the
beginning the person. The team will reportedly begin production on
The Batman Bar two in spring twenty twenty six. Robert
Pattinson has already reviewed the scripts. I'm kind of wondering who.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
The film would be time. This is too long for.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Like twenty nineteen. I think Batman came.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Out, we're talking by the time this comes out, like
they're not going to make a third one. I think
they've already come to that conclusion that which I'd be okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
As long as it's a strong duo of movies, I'd
be fine.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
With it, because you can't go twelve years to make
three movies, not three superhero movies, not with the same
like Pattinson will will age out of The bat Man
he's supposed to be, unless the movies are taking place
four years apart, you know what I mean? Yeah, so

(01:07:08):
I this one unless the script is I think I
wouldn't be surprised if the script jumps forward that this
is not going to be This isn't going to be
like a Batman Batman Return situation where they're like a
year apart.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
I just don't know who the villain could be. Now,
I'll admit my knowledge is really light.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Is there somebody like Joe what's the name of the
guy that actually kills his parents.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Joe Cool or no, Joe Chill, which is just a
guy with a gun. I mean, we're already getting the
clay Face movie, but like that's something else.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Don't that makes sense that like he in his head
thinks it's some big elaborate crime boss and it's just
some schmuck that he finds.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
See. I think if they're going to do somebody connected
the Bruce Wayne's past again, if I'm wrong, just fucking
email us or whatever. Hush is an idea. But they've
already kind of touched upon on shit like that. And
it's not gonna be racial ghoul because we've done that
song and dance.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
We just it won't be anything supernatural. Yeah, we want
to keep so do we go with Harvey Dent?

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Like they've already kind of done that too, And that's
the thing, but.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
They have they haven't done it in this world as
like we're not talking to face like just as his friend.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Yeah, because they there was I think it was like
on Comic book dot Com they did a thing where
like Matt Reeves has ruled out these ten villains or whatever.
You could do Poison Ivy could be redone if you
did it in a very specifically grounded way. It's possible.

(01:08:45):
You're not gonna do mister Freeze because he's a little
too a little too techie. Maybe not likely Riddler we
just did, which would have been my choice if they
had to do it again. Hugo Strange, I think would
be really cool, but it's that's just a crazy psychologist
like Professor Pigg.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
You could do Egghead.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Well, there was talk of the calendar Man, but I
think that guy got ruled out pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
It's going to be somebody that can be easily adapted
into what you would think would be like a David
Fincher movie.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Yeah, like I want another detective story. That's why I
like someone like Hush.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
I think it'll be It'll probably be the Riddler again.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
That would suck, I know, but you're not wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Like they'll be a part of that in this or
or to that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
You could do Scarecrow, but they already did that with
Cillian Murphy. That's what I'm saying. Hugo Strange as possible
because he like I said, he's a guy who deduces
who Batman is.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Or is like quarter Owls type stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
That's a other possibility too, because that one like doesn't
get so deep into the supernatural until much much later.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
As I saying, like not race, is it gonna be, like,
is it gonna be a situation where he finds out
growing up that you know, you could have Harvey Dent
in it with him, and maybe Harvey there is two
face already, or he's crazy, he's dead, or maybe he's not.
Maybe he doesn't doesn't have to be too face. He
could just be Harvey Denton that dies. They don't have
to adapt every person, but reveal that like their families were,

(01:10:29):
like including his father, because you know, his father wasn't
the greatest. He wasn't the beacon that he thought he was.
You know, with the orphanages and stuff. What if they're
part of an illuminati essentially? Yeah, and like quarter.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Valves would easily work, or the League of Assassins but
minus racial ghoul.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
Well, or take away the assassins. And because they want
to keep it grounded and literally, you you make it that,
oh Bruce has passed, like, oh he's friends with these people,
and then you find out, like these kids he went
to school, to private school with, or boarding school with,
they're all starting to die and it turns out that somebody,

(01:11:08):
you know, somebody within them they're dying off, or maybe
maybe they're not dying. Something's happening to them. And then
he finds out it's because their families are all these
wealthy families connected somehow, and it's because they were pulling
the strings mm hmm. And that's how you keep it connected.
And you could have a villain or two in there,
but it's got to be somebody that can be a
powerless kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
You know who I'd like to see, but I think
they've already ruled them out. I would love to see
someone like fucking death Stroke, and I would love to
see Joe Meng Meng Meng Manganello come back for that,
but I think that's already been ruled out. That would
be fucking cool to me. If I could see him
fight another armored assassin like death Stroke, that would be

(01:11:51):
cool to me because he's just a guy with a
gun who's really fucking good. We're not gonna do dead
shot or blood sport because they're in James Gunn's universe,
which is fine. And the end Will Smith isn't coming back,
that's for fucking sure.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
No, I I think I don't know are they there?
Also begs the question do they want somebody to do
just a replication of like the whole Zodiac Killer thing,
which is what they did last time?

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
Or do they want somebody who is less troubled and
more devious?

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Yeah, Like there are like things they could easily kind
of pull from. I mean this is more of like
a JT question for sure, which maybe that's an idea
I should bring up the JT. But yeah, like I
want it to be successful. But The Batman is the
one movie I've gone back to the least outside of
The Dark Night Rises.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
It's worth watching. It's worth watching because you need to
watch it as a setup for the Penguin Show.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
Yeah, which I still need to get around to watch.
But that's like what like six episodes and it's pretty short.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
I don't know, it's six or eight something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Yeah, it's small, and it and she just.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
Won actor like it swept some of the awards it
was nominated for because it's weird. I think it was
up for if it correct me if I'm wrong. I
think it was like in the mini series category. I
think even though technically I think it's the season two show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Now, no they said, I think Colin Ferrell said there
is not going to be a season two. I think
it was like a one and Dwight, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
One and done, or if they make a new show,
it's considered separate sort of.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
Thing, right yeah, sort of like how they want to
do Gotham but it just never happened.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
And like how British shows you might have a season
two or three, but sometimes it's it's just labeled a
different thing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
Right yeah. So I mean, I don't know. I mean,
I I hope this happens and we see it before
we're all, you know, old and great.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
So I also, I really don't think that the direct
will do another like it'll be a detective thing, and
that's the idea behind it, right, it's the detective and
then the character study. I don't think it's gonna be
another serial killer murder mystery thing. I think this one's
gonna be more of a political thriller investigating. I think

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it's gonna be like there's a whole bunch of horrible
shit going on, and he has to start investigating essentially
political intrigue, which would be really cool within Gotham. Like
we're talking not just regular corruption. We're talking like there's
a money trail going to something really bad.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Yeah, and that would be fucking sick that I would dig.
So all right, So our next story comes to us
Comessy Comassy courtesy of Coming Soon Dot. This one kind
of surprised me. So the headline reads classic eighties horror
movie getting reboot from SNL Star. A classic eighties horror
movie is getting rebooted from an unlikely source. According to

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a new report from Deadline, the classic eighties slasher sleep
Away Camp is getting a remake. The rights to the
remake were recently acquired by AFA, the production company of
SNL Alum Keenan Thompson, and Johnny and Johnny Ryan Jr.
Deadline report notes that Robert Hilzick, who wrote and directed
the original we, will actually return to the remake. Hillsick
will once again write and direct the new project. The

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plot and contents, which remained completely under wraps as of now.
Originally released in nineteen eighty three, A Sleepway Camp followed
the story of a series of deaths that occurred at
Summer Camp. The movie is infamous for its twist ending,
which reveals the killer is actually demure protagonist Angela. Originally
born as Peter, She was then forced to be raised
as Angela by her eccentric aunt Martha after the real Angela,

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her sister, was killed in a boting accident. Angela then
goes on to be a camp counselor herself in later
films and racks up quite a body count two played
by Pamela Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen's daughter. The ending is named
as one of the most shocking in history and helped
the film developed a massive cult falling among queer audiences.
Sleepway Camp as a franchise whole spawned four sequels, to

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the last of which was Sleepway Camp for the Survivor
release in twenty twelve, which is a very complicated mess
of a movie. And Felicia Rose, who played Angela in
those movies, married the lead singer of the band Cky
Way back When and has had cameos in the Terrifier movies.

(01:16:23):
I hope there's no way Felicia is not gonna get
a cameo in this.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
It's not Springsteen's daughter Springsteen's sister sister. Sorry, I was
gonna I was gonna say she'd be like he would
have been like five.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
Yeah, yeah, Sorry about that. I got that confused. But
I'm okay with this, depending on what they do with it.
I love how queer audiences kind of last onto this
because that's the first time I'd ever seen that in
the movie. Hell, it was even period in a Robot
Chicken at once.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
Yeah, I mean it, it's that scene. That scene and
like signs of the Lambs good Bye Horses are probably
the ones that are repeated the most in like memes
back in the day. I feel this could be good.
Although the biggest, the biggest surprise it had and think
had going for it was that, and in the days

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of the Internet, where it's not just word of mouth
spreading you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Had to see it for yourself, it kind of loses it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
But also it kind of makes you wonder if they're
gonna do this, what way are they gonna do it,
and what kind of stupid backlash is it gonna get?
Is it good? Is it good? Are like, are there
gonna be people that are like, that's offensive to trans
people or that's not offensive, Like, there's gonna be issues
I think with it. No matter what you do, somebody's

(01:17:46):
gonna write stupid shit about it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
I mean, if they have a transact actor playing Angela,
cool again. But my thing is I don't want them
to do the same gag twice. If you can find
a way to update the gag and cool.

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
And also it's not a great idea to do the
exact opposite and have it be like a reverse reveal. Yeah,
it's like where like I don't think that the new
Sleepway camp should have anything to do whatsoever with personal identity. Yeah,
and as dumb as that's my son, Like, well then

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why are you doing it? Well kind of the thing.
The whole movie existed for that reveal initially. But you
can take the concept and do something really really good
with it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Yeah, because like some of these guys to do stuff
of this because we saw how Jordan Field did it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Just please don't don't take the low hanging.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
Fruit and make this like a shot for shot remake.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
Don't make it a conversion camp that that people murder
at because you want to make a political statement. Also,
don't don't make the take the cheap shot and go
this is a camp for trans kids and then have
the reveal be the murderers not trans or something. Yeah,
don't do something, don't do something hokey and horrible. Just

(01:19:05):
like take the core concept, work with it. Set it
as a sequel and my sequel, I mean, have it
in universe that was known that this happened at this camp,
blah blah blah blah blah, and make it like make
it like the kids tell the story of Sleepway Camp,
like you would tell the story of of Camp Crystal Lake.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
There was us.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
You make that, you make it the urban legend, and
you know, for some other reason people start gett murdered.
It has nothing to do with it. It's just that's
what people think. Oh, look at the look at They're
coming to get you. Angela's back and she's coming to
get you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
Or well, it's funny you mentioned the reboot thing because
there was something I watched last summer. I had a
conversation with a friend of the show, Enrique Kuto and Dave,
and we were talking about the Sleepowy Camp movies and
the fourth Um Slumber Party. Massacre is kind of a reboot,

(01:20:07):
but it's kind of not. They reference the events of
the Driller Killer beforehand, right, and they're like, my mother
was tortured by this lunatic and now I'm setting a trap.
I'm probably remembering parts of this wrong, but it was
really fucking clever. And the big twist in that movie

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is is like the person who rented them the cabin
is the Driller Killer's mother, is like, you killed my
son twenty years ago. Yes, he was a deranged boy,
but he didn't deserve what you did to him. And
it's this twisted revenge thing. Now with sleep Away Camp,
you mentioned the conversion gag that might have flew ten

(01:20:52):
years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Yeah, I'd say ten to fifteen years ago. That would
have been the twist and we all would have groaned
at it but then gone along with it. And I
feel like it just it's so played out that it's
kind of a waste.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
Noow, I think well, and especially we're not gonna get
too deep in the weeds because I don't want to
deal with hate mail another do you. I'm just gonna
say this, with the current political climate, especially with a
property like this, it has to be handled so carefully
because not just the writer, the director and people like
Keenan are gonna get shipped for this. It could be

(01:21:27):
it's going to be a mess, depending on how you
play this out, because again I love the franchise.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
If you're gonna do a straight remake or if you're
gonna go the conversion, you have to go full Troma
all the way beyond over the top, like make it.
You have to make it so unbelievably ridiculous that it
can't be taken as a horror or as anything other
than a like blasted parody beyond scary movie.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
Basically, it has to be like scary movie.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
You have you have to traumatize, traumatize, you know, you
have to do that. You have to You'll have to
go like, uh, you know, if you're gonna do like
a trans thing, you have to make it where it's
so beyond anything and like like it's like pull the
pants down and Harry Ball's the penis monster from Terror
Firmer comes out. You know, like you remember how they

(01:22:18):
use that penis monster in so many movies afterwards and
Trolla where it's like a giant anaconda snake thing. Yeah,
you have to make it so ridiculous that you could
never ever take it seriously. But if they try to
make like a social stance, it won't work.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
It will work now, yeah, because like we're at such
a pivotal moment in civil rights for these for this
group of people, it's very bad for them right now.
And this is one of those franchises that I know
a lot of people latch onto and I don't want
them to ruin that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
It's different because you and I just watched the trailer
for the Anaconda reboot and that went in a completely
different direction than we expected.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
You have they they're going tropic thunder goofy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Yeah, And with sleep Away Camp, you, I don't think
it lends itself to that because it always felt like
a weird The first Sleepwoy Camp is like a Friday
of the thirteenth riff, and that's fine because that's what
it was meant to be. The Sleepwoy Camp two and
three leaned into the goofy humor.

Speaker 1 (01:23:19):
Yeah. It was Friday the thirteenth plus at the time,
genuine shock value.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
Yeah, And it was clever for the time because nobody
saw it. Like one of the most memorable moments of
Sleepwoy Camp, there are two that I remember, and not
just the reveal of Angela. It was where the pedophile
cook has a pot of boiling water spilled alone and
he doesn't die, but it gets taken away and he's
horribly burned. And there's this another girl. She gets knifed

(01:23:50):
in the back and you know that really thin sheet
metal material that old showers were kind of made up
if he went to Camp Angela stabs her in the back,
drags it through the steel and through her back, and
it's so brutal because you it's almost like you feel
the impact of the knife because you know how hard

(01:24:12):
that material had to go through to.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
Go through with it. So you know, it's funny that
everybody remembers the Johnny Depp death in knightmarn Elmstreet because
it was so bloody, but everybody forgets that. I think
the creepier, more horrifying death was Kevin Bacon's in Friday
or in the Friday the thirteenth, because doesn't he gets
the right the arrow and it comes from the from

(01:24:38):
behind him, through the from the brain stem ot the neck.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
Yeah, like and like that's the thing too, Like there
were certain special effects in Sleepway Camp that really hold up,
and there's just it can be such a good story
because like the girl that played her, Felicia Rose, she
had such a vulnerability to her, where there are people
at the camp genuinely trying to look after her, people

(01:25:03):
are trying to be your friend. Her brother Ricky was like, hey, Angela,
why don't you come play baseball with us? Or there's
the boy who likes Angela at the camp and instead
the one girl says, well, Angela doesn't want anything to
do with you, why don't you come over with me?
And he's like, well, I tried, and Angela feels betrayed,
and obviously the big reveal at the end of the movie,

(01:25:25):
and there's something about that where I hope they don't
try to replicate that because that I feel and maybe
I'm over praising this movie, but I feel like that
that's a timeless performance. There's so many despite it being
a campy horror movie, pardon the pun, but it's like,
there's some really genuine moments in that movie. And I

(01:25:48):
don't know, I hope it goes over well because we
have seen some big stars do horror really well, like
Jordan Peele's stuff. Did not expect to like it as
much as I did.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
Ethan Hawk going full on in Black Phone Now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
Oh fuck that I did not expect to be as well,
and coming.

Speaker 1 (01:26:06):
Back like that's gonna be openly saying that he'll keep
doing it if they keep wanting to be in it.
He doesn't mind at this point in his career being
a horror icon.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
Yeah, I mean it's cool. I mean, honestly, if you
can do it, because we're gonna start to lose people,
like we lost Tony Todd this year. We're gonna lose. Yeah,
Robert's gonna pass at some point. We're gonna lose Kane
Hotter and et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
Ethan Hawk's got to be what fifty now, in his
fifties easily, he's at that age where he's not gonna
get the same roles he used to get, and if
he gets to have more fun doing this, Like why
do you think, like Nicholas Cage randomly will do horror
movies because they're fun. He just doesn't want to get
pigeonholed into a franchise. But if it turns out that
the franchise is good, some of these actors are willing
to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I would love to see more
fun movies from people we don't expect. Like, like I said,
we're gonna start to lose our Roberts, our Canes, Doug Bradley,
he's getting up there. We're gonna lose Pinhead. We lost
the guy that played the Tall Man, Angus scrim like
in like the early two thousand.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
I want to say, Brad Durriff's howel now he's in
like seventy something.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
Yeah, we're gonna lose Chucky at some point, Like we're
gonna need a new group of horror icons.

Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
And I'll say it right right now, Macaulay Culkin needs
to just start becoming a horror guy.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
Honestly, that wouldn't be that bad.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
He's, you know, early forties, he's like, what the forty
two or something like that. I think he's like your age, right, Yeah,
I mean, dude's got twenty five years of making horror
movies if he wants to.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Yeah, I mean, honestly, call up John Carpenter. Let's get
something going before he decides he's out of the game.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
I mean, he's got his game. He's got his game
coming out because that's what he wants to make. But
I still think there's one good Carpenter movie left in him.

Speaker 4 (01:27:49):
I hope. So.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
All right, So, our last story this week is gonna
come courtesy of Bloody Discussing dot com Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
A twenty four reportedly landing film and TV right to
the franchise. While we wait for the Friday of the
thirteenth television series Crystal Like, Deadline reports that A twenty
four is also boarding the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.

(01:28:11):
Deadline report confirms the scoop previously reported by The One
in Snyder. The rights have been up for Oxen with
multiple interested parties around Hollywood, and the site's sources have
indicated A twenty fours close to winning the film and
television rights. Deadline also reports first up will be a
series from J. T. Malner, Ray Lee and Glenn Powell,

(01:28:31):
though the latter will not star as we previously told you.
Apparently the deal. I kind of like him, like the
Running Man will be.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
His allies are too close together, and he has chick
lit teeth as my sister.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
Lissness he charged he has.

Speaker 1 (01:28:50):
He has the attitude of someone who has the charisma
he can't cash the check.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
For I'm curious to see what will happen in Running Man'.

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
He looks, but he looks like it looks like he thinks.
He looks like he thinks I deserve to be in this,
and the movie doesn't. The movies he's in joe't perform
the way he thinks that he They don't come off
as if they're like, oh, great, a Glenn Powell movie.
It's like, ah, a good movie that happens to have
him in it. That's the problem.

Speaker 4 (01:29:25):
Quote.

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
Apparently the deal hasn't closed yet, but A twenty four
has the pole position. Deadline makes sure to know. In
tonight's report, quote, another source close to the auction tells
us this is all premature, but it's clear the genre
label behind Hereditary isn't letting this one go. The outlet
also mentions that Roy Lee has expressed interest in making
another Texas Chainsaw film for Netflix, which could still happen

(01:29:47):
with A twenty four boarding the property. The rights to
the Texas Chainsaw Mascer are represented by Verve, with other
interested parties in recent months including Jordan peel, Osgoode Perkins,
and Taylor's Sheridan. It's now been three years since Netflix
premier Texas Chainsaw Massacer, a legacy sequel to Toby Hooper's
original horror classic that arrived on February eighteenth, twenty twenty two.

(01:30:09):
I still haven't seen the Netflix one. I hear it's
not great. And this is a franchise that I was
actually talking about this with Aaron. Sorry if I'm bumping
my microphone is we were gonna do a show on
this actually, and this is a little bit of Inside Baseball.
But Aaron's like, I don't like these. I'm thinking, okay,
I hear you. So I went back and me and

(01:30:31):
Liam went to go see Texas Chainsaw in theaters last
summer because it was like the fiftieth anniversary or something.
And I'm thinking, this is deeply unpleasant. But it was
nineteen seventy four. What do I expect? So I watched
Texas Chainsaw too, and I had a good time. Enrique
was friends with the director of Chainsaw three. It's okay,

(01:30:55):
I don't like it Texas Chainsaw for Matthew McConaughey, because
why not. And I like the ones from the Michael
Bays Platinum Dunes. But the more I watched this franchise
Alex like, I don't see the appeal behind Bubba who
is leatherface? Right?

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
And it was I mean when it came out, it
was a little bit of a shock. It was a
hodgepodge of taking things that had made the headlines and
then making it into one thing, right, Like, yeah, it
was was it ed Gyane or somebody at the time
that was just caught and there was like and I
think there was news stories at the time of people

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finding out that there was a family that was like
feeding people to their hogs, that sort of stuff, you know,
basically mix that with even though it was Texas, mixed
that with like rural Alabama, Virginia, Appalachia, like stereotypes, and
then they were like, let's make it. Let's make a
horror movie when you know, and also at a time

(01:31:57):
when things were not as bloody or as grizzly, and
they're like, hey, let's push the envelope. So you end
up with something that is very important to nineteen seventy
cinema but doesn't work pretty much outside of the seventies
at all.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
Yeah, Because like, again, if I'm wrong on this, please
call me on it. But I went back and when
I was watching this with Liam most of Texas chains
On nineteen seventy four. It's most of running around and screaming.
It is unpleasant to listen to, and I know that's
not the point. But when I look at Leatherface as

(01:32:32):
a villain, he's a tragic villain because he is mentally stunted.
I think that's the He has mental disabilities, and he's
abused by his brothers and the family to do whatever.
It's most often the cook character that pushes him to kill,
but he also is pretty fucked up to.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
I mean Devil's Rejects. That's basically the modern day version
of that stuff anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
Which is a better movie but also so deeply unpleasant.
But it's like I don't get. I mean, I guess
it's a guy with a face made of human skin
and he has a chainsaw. Cool, And they tried to
do something with the property with the video game, which
came out a couple of years ago, which is now
see support no longer receives any updates and is virtually

(01:33:20):
it's a dead game. I don't even know whether the
servers are up. And that tried to be Friday the
thirteenth meets Dead by Daylight and it just it sucked.
I'm sorry it sucked, and I just I never got
the appeal. Now, having leather face in Mortal Kombat X
was certainly a choice, but you know, it's Mortal Kombat.

(01:33:43):
Who gives a shit it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
I'd rather be in, like, I don't know, a segment
of Call of Duty where you like end up in
a family of deranged people. Like it fits better with
like I don't know, something supernatural. Mix it with Resident
Evil or something.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
I mean it like it works with like Mortal Kombat
in a very weird sense.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
The only way the franchise can work is if you
add supernatural elements because it's such a basic story.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Well yeah, because he has no supernatural powers. He's the
big strong guy with the chainsaw.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
It's really only gonna work if you remake it and
you do it where it's either set in the seventies
mm hmm, because in modern day you just use your
cell phone. It's over.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
Like, I mean, it's like, don't get trapped in rural
Texas at the.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
End, yeah, like, hey, don't go in there, you know. Yeah,
it's yeah, where it could work is the problem is
that it's Texas Texas chains some cigarette, like, like the
problem is that Texas the same thing, Like if you

(01:34:53):
said it in Appalaysia, like it works better if you
said it in like Eastern Europe.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
Like but the Chainsaw MA, but no, But then at
that point you know what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
It's just hostile and yeah, and if you try to
go back and watch Hostile one and two, yeah, it's
torture porn. But like there's nothing to them there. There's
like if you try to rewatch it, they're really it's
just screaming and like it was blood but Hostile ELI
was capitalizing on what happened with Saw. But Saw has
that hook, Saw has the puzzles and the mystery. There's

(01:35:26):
nothing to that, Like Texas Chainsaw Masker to me is
the laziest horror franchise ever. Ye, there's nothing to it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
The only entertaining one is Texas Chainsaw too, because it
went ridiculous. Well, Dennis Hopper.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
And and is it Bill Moseley is he in it?

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
Yeah? Yeah, he plays chop Top and he's fucking entertaining, so.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
And and and almost all of like the media and
like memes and not just mean like extra media or
like gaming references. Almost everything comes from the second movie.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
Yeah, Like when I think of memes from Texas Chainsaw,
I think of the girl getting grabbed as she runs
outside Texas Chainsaw. I'm the lord of a harvest. Bring
it down, bring it down, chop tops, weirdness, stretch working
at the radio station, and the chili made from people,

(01:36:26):
and that's it. Like Texas Chainsaw three outside I think
the guy who drive it was Jeff Burr, I want
to say. And it's it's a fine sequel, right, Texas
Chainsaw four. The only thing people remember is it's the
weird one with Matthew McConaughey, which.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
Is it's the same thing with like how Halloween. It's like,
oh you remember that that really bad one that happened
to have Paul rudding it when he looked the same
as he does now.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's strange with like horror movies, cause
like this is probably a topic for a loose canon,
like what do you do to make a horror franchise endure?

Speaker 1 (01:37:05):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:37:05):
The Texas chain Saw comics, I understand, are quite interesting
because I used to collect some of them, and there
was even a Jason versus leather Face one which I
think leather Face is gonna get his ass kicked. But
it's like, I don't know, like these characters, I don't
know what you do. And now with modern horror movies,
the only icon that come out recently is Art the Clown,

(01:37:28):
and Damian Leon said, we're going to get a new
terrifier next year and it's going to be three hours.
I don't know, man, I like Art the Clown, I
don't know if I can put a three hours of
him ripping people in half and doing other shit. I mean,
that's cool, but I don't need a special effects real
to be that long. I also don't need lore that
rival's Lord of the Rings. So I don't know. I mean,

(01:37:48):
I think horror is in a very interesting place. I mean,
we're living in a golden age of it, really, But
I don't know what you do with some of these
legacy properties. So that's what I got.

Speaker 1 (01:37:59):
The only thing you can do with leather Face is
put him in movies with other other like villains that
people know about. Yeah, like versus Chucky. You could realistically
do that, or not even that. Like, if you want
to make it more interesting, you you have you do

(01:38:21):
like a retelling of the original movie. But at the end,
like where he's like you think the person's gonna survive,
there's gonna be one person that leaves. He just fucking
kills them. But the movie just doesn't end, and it
just has him sitting there like you know, he's gonna
process their scanner, do whatever. But then like out of
like the backpack of the person that he kills, a

(01:38:43):
thing falls out and you have him pick it up
and you and you just have him start playing with it,
and the camera like pans down to reveal he's playing
with the box from Hell Raiser.

Speaker 2 (01:38:52):
Okay, that would be cool. The lament configuration falls, Yeah,
so it that.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
That's how it ends, is he's like, what's that? You
think it's a Rubik's cube, But then he's playing with
it and he's not mentally capably plays with it, and
that's how it ends. Like you realize it's like he's
gonna either become a cenobite or they're tying the worlds
together somehow.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
That would be cool. I would honestly watch that because
I know there was a conversation recently where they were
talking with I think the director or maybe the woman
who played the new Pinhead if she'd come back, cause
the Hulu hell Raisers not that bad. I actually rather
enjoyed it. So yeah, that's maybe a conversation. I hope

(01:39:32):
they have. I'd like to see that happen, because I
don't need a guy running down the laneway with a chainsaw.
We've been there, we've seen that gag. Give me something new.
So anyway, we're gonna take another break here on this
week and geek before we break into the nerd or
into the weird news. Here on this week geek dot net,
we're gonna do one of my reviews here. We'll probably

(01:39:53):
take a look to go to Cybertron today we're gonna
take a look at the Age of the Prime's four
pack our friends over at Hasbro with some redecos and
a new mold in there. So we will be back
right here on this we can geek dot Net. He's
been Alex, I've been Mike. We'll be back guys right
after this. Hey, guys, this is Mike the Birdman here.
I'm here to talk to you about something really neat

(01:40:14):
we got sent over for review from our friends over
at Hasbro. I'm going to be talking about the Transformers
Age of the Primes four pack, which you can find
at retail right now in Canada at eb Games. I
have seen it in the wild. I think this you
can get in the States through Target, I want to
say it, but I know you can get it over

(01:40:35):
on Hasbro Pulse as well. So what this is this
is usually a pack of recolors and retools. You get
Ultra Magnus based upon the Optimus Prime that was released
in the Deluxe Scale last year, a retool of Studio
Series eighty six Bumblebee done as Bumper and I think
this is the first time that figure has been released

(01:40:56):
properly in like thirty something years from what I've heard.
You also get one of the last Headmasters from the
Decepticon side known as Horrible Lovely Pond name, and a
recolor of Motor Master and Optimist Prime from Transformers animated
recolored into Nemesis Prime. Honestly, in terms of retools and recolors,

(01:41:21):
this is actually kind of cool. The Ultra Magnus looks
like the Inner White Robot. If you have the original
g one Ultra Magnus toy, that's pretty cool. I'm really
hoping someone or has with themselves do the ultra magnets
add on armor with this as the internal bot, that

(01:41:42):
would be sick. This is the first time since I
was a kid i've had a white optimist prime. No way,
that's not true. I had the Transformers red version a
couple of years ago, which I really wish that line
had continued. I really liked it. No, it's really cool.
You get the energy on ax Is dual blasters. That's

(01:42:04):
nat love it. No notes, perfect Bumper did not expect this.
It's basically a bumblebee with a retooled head with his
blue visor. I think this looks cool. I've always been
a fan of this mold.

Speaker 5 (01:42:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
Bumper has shown up a few times in the IBW comics.
I want to say, I think he showed up in
the Dreamway of Do not quote me on that one. Uh,
but it's cool. I think it looks great. Yeah, No
notes again, looks awesome. Horrible, this is okay. I love

(01:42:39):
goofy Decepticon crap. I'm especially a big fan of the
head masters. Do not know why. I think it's cool.
He turns into like a mechanical bowl. It's goofy. It's stupid,
but I love those weird Decepticon teams like like Target
Masters and Horror Masters and UConn's and all that weird shit.

(01:43:02):
I love it. Horrible was the main reason I wanted this,
and it's weirdly enough, this is the figure I think
that will be the most desirable out of this because
I think Slither. I can't remember the name of the
guy from the last four pack, but he was the
guy who had like his GAT the only way I
can really describe it was in the last pack. And

(01:43:26):
this is the figure I've seen go for a lot
on the secondary market. I've seen a lot of people
locally on Facebook. They're selling off the rest of the
figures from this pack and they're keeping this one. And
anybody who does sell this, they're commanding premium prices where
you might as well just go out and buy the
pack yourself. That's how much he's going for right now.

(01:43:47):
I think it's cool. Amazing facial sculpt on him. I
love it. He's got dual blasters. The alt mode looks ridiculous,
as you would expect. Amazing. Now, the unexpected coolness out
of this is the Nemesis Prime. The animated Optimist Prime
is something I got on a whim. A couple of
years ago, and I got motor Master for like a

(01:44:10):
Christmas gift or something from my friend Jen, and I
liked the mold and when I saw it recolored into
the Nemesis Prime colors, I thought, okay, sure getting it
in hand, he looks amazing in vehicle or in bot mode.
Like seriously, that black and that kind of sea foam

(01:44:35):
green just pop like, it looks amazingly cool. If I
did have a note on this, I wish he came
with like a different weapon than just the acts that
Motor Master and Prime got. It would have been cool
to give him like a gun or something or something
to show him that he is Nemesis Prime. But ultimately,

(01:44:58):
for what these packs typically are, I think this is
all winners. Like seriously, that Deluxe Optimus Prime, wonderful figure
Studio series, Bumblebee as Bumper, that's awesome, horrible, It's a Headmaster,
what more do you want? Seriously, and Nemesis Prime Animated
Prime one of the best molds in my opinion to

(01:45:18):
come out in the last couple of years. And to
see them retool this or not retool us, to recolor
this into Nemesis Prime, it's awesome, I said, I don't
typically love recolors as much, but this really changed my mind.
I really think he's one of the stars of this pack.

(01:45:40):
So seriously, I really think this is cool. I'm excited
to see what else they can do, to see what
other figures could potentially come in these other four packs.
I'm hoping we maybe get like outback from like Braun
or something. I think that'd be pretty cool. I'm trying
to think of like if there's like any other mini

(01:46:01):
bots they could do, or maybe if there's like any
other blank cons I've missed, or blank Masters. But no, seriously,
this was pretty cool. So if you see this Transformers
Age of the Primes four pack, I really don't think
you're gonna go wrong with this. Oh crazy, don't mind
if I do Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together,

(01:46:25):
Masistaria and Welcome back to this week in geek Net.
I'm Mike haes Alex. It's time to get weird, all right, guys,
So let's talk about some of the strangest and most
unusual stories we were able to dig up around the
Internet this week, and our first story comes courtesy of
mashable dot Com, LimeWire says it has bought Firefessel and

(01:46:46):
asks obvious question, what could possibly go wrong? That's the
question posed by LimeWire, the file sharing service turned NFT
marketplace turned file sharing service once again after announcing it
has acquired the infamous Fire Festival. According to a press
release from LimeWire this week last week, as of this recording,

(01:47:06):
the company has purchased a firefesial brand after becoming the
winning bid in a competitive bidding process that included actor
Ryan Reynolds creative agency, Maximum effort.

Speaker 4 (01:47:17):
Quote.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
Fire has become a symbol of hype gone wrong, but
it also made history, said CEO of LimeWire Julian I
can't pronounce his last name, Zetemeyer, in the press release.
We're not bringing the festival back. We're bringing the brand
and mean back to life, this time with real experiences
and without the cheese sandwiches. Firefessel was a twenty seventeen

(01:47:38):
music festival created by Billy McFarlane, the founder and CEO
of Fire Media, and rapper Ja Rule. The event was
supposed to be a high end experience, with tickets priced
from five hundred dollars to as much as twelve thousand.
How are the Fire offesieral quickly went viral as attendees
shared their horrific experiences. The event was poorly organized, many
music acts advertised to perform did not show up, and

(01:47:59):
promised gourmet food turned out to be cheese sandwiches. Fire
Festival was a failure, but somehow, thanks to the Internet,
succeeded as a meme, and Limeware appears to be leaning
in on that quote. We're not here to repeat the mistakes.
We're here to own the meme and to do it right,
said LimeWire COO Marcus Feistel in a release. Fire has
become a symbol of everything that can go on now.
It is our chance to show what happens when you

(01:48:21):
pair cultural relevance with real execution. Limear says it plans
on creating real life experiences for the quote re envisioned
for Fire that are quote bold, self aware, impossible to
ignore under the Fire Festival name. The company has even
set up a website Firefestival dot link, where those who
are interested can join a wait list for more information.

(01:48:41):
It seems fitting that Limewere acquired fire Fessel as the
brand went through a similar quote reimagining Fountain in two thousand.
Limear is best known for its peer to peer file
sharing service like Napster, before shutting down in twenty ten
following court battles with the Recording Industry Association of America.
LimeWire brand was then revived in twenty twenty two as

(01:49:02):
an NFT marketplace by a pair of Austrian entrepreneurs without
any ties to your original service. As a publication, Limewire's
website shows the companies looking to pivot back to file
sharing service. The site also advertises a cryptocurrency token connected
to the service as well. Congrats to LimeWire on their
winning bid for fire Festival. I look forward to the
attending their first event, which will bring which I will

(01:49:24):
be bringing my own palate of water, Ryan Reynolds said
in a statement included in the LimeWire press release. Seems
like an I think they paid two hundred and something
thousand for the branding for this according to eBay. Why
why now it's weird? There was now. I did try

(01:49:46):
to get a fire Festival hat on eBay a couple
of years ago because they were liquidating to get all
their assets right, and I think you could get a
hat for like fifty bucks. And it would have been
just a weird little piece of meme history, right, But
this is weird because I don't get what they're going
to do. I mean, maybe if they did stuff in

(01:50:08):
conjunction with like maybe south By Southwest Pac, Like, it
has to be nerd pop culture, it has to be,
but it has to be the right sort of thing.
So if you had like a fire Festival pop up
event at like, like I said, events like south By
Southwest Coachella, and I don't know, maybe fire Festival sponsors

(01:50:33):
part of like one of the big city marathons or something.
Maybe you've got something there, But I don't see how
that's worth two hundred thousand dollars. I don't, So this
is weird at best. Ryan Reynolds, I guaranteed would have
done something weird with it. So that's cool, I guess sure,

(01:50:57):
But it's just it's not my bag. But I would
much have to have a LimeWire or a fucking live
wire hat. That'd be kind of cool because that was
my preferred it was. LimeWire and Kazah were my favorite
peer to peers. But again, just such a bizarre pairing

(01:51:19):
that I really don't get what the objective is here,
Like even if you went with San Diego Comic Con,
that's not cheap to buy into, and they're not buying
out hall h to run a fucking meme thing, I mean,
and they're not gonna be able to it, Like I
don't know how into certain weird meme cultures you're into, Alex,

(01:51:41):
But it's not like they're gonna run their own version
of Dashcon where they're just gonna run something just to
get some headlines, because that can be more damaging to
the brand to like, hey, we rented a ball pit
firefit courtesy of dash Coon, Like they're not gonna, like
what do you do this? Like you can't just replay

(01:52:02):
the greatest hits? Right because Billy McFarland I think is
still in jail, and I think he's already like he
gotten shipped for something. I'm not one hundred percent sure
on that, but everybody associated with Firefaster has went down
a very dark path and hasn't worked out too fucking
good for them. So again, I just I don't see
where this goes. I don't see how this is worth

(01:52:24):
a quarter of a million dollars, So good luck, I guess, Yeah,
fucking weirdos. Onto my next story. This Yeah, like I said,
I just I don't know what you do with it.
This next story comes courtesy of Unexplained dash Mysteries dot com.
Real life conjuring house is up for auction this Halloween.

(01:52:47):
How perfect uh? The infamous farmhouse that the activity that
occurred there inspired the Conjuring movie franchise. For the third
time since twenty nineteen, the remote Rhode Island farmhouse, which
was the scene of a notorious real life haunting that
plagued the parent family for years, is about to go
up for sale. The story goes that a witch had
cursed the property, dooming anyone who'd lived there. The house

(01:53:07):
has changed hands several times over the years, with the
Heinzen family buying it in twenty nineteen, then just two
years later a developer taking over the intention of opening
it to the public. Now it is set to be
sold yet again at an auction that will take place
on October thirty first. This antique farmhouse has become famous
for historical paranormal zetings and activity. The listing states one

(01:53:29):
interesting element of the sales that this is whether or
not the building's haunted reputation will be seen as a
good or bad thing by potential buyers. On one hand,
anyone interested in the paranormal or using the farmhouse for
paranormal events and meetups will certainly find it a positive point,
whereas anyone simply looking for somewhere to live who doesn't
want people coming to look at the home or sorry
to come look at the house, will probably consider its

(01:53:50):
fame a negative factor. One thing for sure is that
whoever does buy it will likely be forking out quote SAMAS.
The last time that changed hands, it sold for a
whopping one point five million dollars. I was actually watching
a video on YouTube about this that showed the interior
and they were gonna renovate this farmhouse. They're gonna do
some to it to bring it more up into modern standards.

(01:54:11):
And yeah, on one hand, this would be interesting if
it went to a paranormal person, like I know, comedian
Matt Rife just bought the Warrens Paranormal Museum with the
real life Annabelle Doll and everything, And I know one
of the caretakers of the animal of the Annabelle Doll

(01:54:33):
passed away this summer under strange circumstances. But if you
get someone like.

Speaker 1 (01:54:41):
This, because that's what we need.

Speaker 2 (01:54:43):
Yeah, but you don't need someone like the Ghost Adventures
guy like Zach Beggans buying this place up, because then
it turns into a circus and whatever. But on the
other hand, if you're just looking for a place to live,
and let's just forsake of argument, let's say this place
is haunted the high Hell, I don't want to deal
with a witch while I'm making spaghetti dinner or whatever,

(01:55:04):
or causing horrible nightmares or Christ knows what else.

Speaker 1 (01:55:07):
This is a spaghetti witch, that makes it better.

Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
Yeah, exactly. If that's her curse, then cool, it's just
too garlicky, in which case it'll least keep away vampires.
It's interesting, I mean, how some of these paranormal houses
will go on the market and whatnot, and sometimes people
report stuff still happening afterwards, But the fact for it
to change hands after two years not gonna lie. That's

(01:55:31):
a little suss. But at the same time, maybe the
markets just changed, maybe they knew the Conjuring movie was
coming out, or maybe again they saw that comedian Matt
Rife just buy the Warren's old place and that was
quite a paranormal collection to pick up for a relatively
cheap price considering. So I don't know, because the Warrens

(01:55:56):
are controversial figures, and that's I think kind of putting
it lightly as much, which as people like ed Lorraine
Warren as portrayed by Vera Formilia and Patrick Wilson in
real life, they had some people who didn't like them
very much. And if there are tons of documentaries on
YouTube you can watch and I just saw the Conjuring

(01:56:18):
last Rites was supposedly based on the one case they
couldn't solve the real story behind. That's a lot less
cool and obviously played up for drama. And again those
movies live and die on the vine by having Vera
and Patrick associated so much so that HBL Max has

(01:56:38):
now said, hey, we want to Conjuring TV series. Okay, cool,
but how are you not just going to turn in
the supernatural with big movie stars?

Speaker 1 (01:56:46):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
So, with this property, whoever buys it, I can't imagine
that many people coming by the property because I know
with the Conjuring or sorry, with the Warren's Supernatural Library thing, right,
eventually it had to get closed down because the county
is like you're not licensed for this. This is a

(01:57:09):
safety issue. We can have people just coming and going
all the time and eventually that that put up like
no trespassing signs, and during COVID it was closed off
to the public. Before they started traveling with the Annabelle
doll with supposedly ed Lorraine was like, could you please
not so, you know, just making the creepy doll angry

(01:57:30):
what you want to believe or not, I don't know.
There's an interesting story behind the Annabelle Doll, to say
the very least, but I don't know. I mean, I
wouldn't buy a spooky haunted house that has a history
of something this severe. If a ghost just knocks on
the walls and opens the door, sure, but creepy nightmare witch.

(01:57:53):
I can do without that, and especially at one point
five million dollars in this market. Is the witch? Yeah,
I think you're paying for the witch. I think maybe
the nice property, but still you're paying for an element
you can't see, Like does the rich pay wint pay rent?

(01:58:13):
Like it's kind of I don't know. I said, I'm
kind of on your kind of wavelength with like this
kind of a story because you're like you're buying the
property for the history that may or may not be real.
And if it is real, why would you invite that
into your life and pay over a million dollars for it?
And if it's not, you've just invited every fucking Luki

(01:58:35):
lou in the neighborhood who wants to come on onto
your property, right, because you know you're gonna get people asking, hey,
can I investigate your house? Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:58:46):
And like yeah, I mean, and it's fun for a
little bit until that becomes your everyday life.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
Yeah, And like what do you do? Like because one
of the aspects of paranormal investigation, and like when I
used to do it, is you don't charge for it, right,
Like if you have to travel somewhere, yeah, like Hey,
I'm coming from out of the city, could you cover
my gas? Could you, I don't know, buy me McDonald's

(01:59:14):
or something? Sure? Right, But to ask someone to cover
across state lines to come over with a full video team,
I mean it's different if it's like Discovery Channel asking
to use your house. But if it's just ordinary people
on like YouTube and stuff like that, like that must
get exhausting.

Speaker 1 (01:59:32):
And they have to plan it around another trip they're
already doing.

Speaker 2 (01:59:35):
True And think about this, because you're more business minded
than me. What if mister YouTuber falls down the stairs,
is that covered under insurance?

Speaker 1 (01:59:45):
Nope?

Speaker 2 (01:59:46):
Yeah, because like again it's like, is your house home
or is it an entertainment venue? Did you sign anything?
And again, I know I'm getting really deep into the
weeds here on this, but that's something to really kind
of think about, because again, if you do something like this,
did you just open your did you just open yourself
up to a load of liability because you wanted to

(02:00:09):
be cool? And sure, you about the house for a
million dollars, but if so and so falls down the
stairs and breaks their leg and can't walk properly again, Uh,
that million dollars doesn't mean fuck all. You're gonna get
sued for a lot more than that because you I
don't know, it's stupid. I'm annoyed.

Speaker 1 (02:00:29):
Moving on.

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
Last story this week. This comes from you. I haven't
even looked at it yet, so I'm terrified.

Speaker 1 (02:00:36):
M Let's see, it wasn't a whole lot of weird
outside of political stuff which I didn't want to cover.

Speaker 2 (02:00:43):
Yeah, exactly, I am not jumping into that fire today.
I do that in my professional life. I'm good. This
story comes courtesy of the BBC. Okay, it can't be
that bad. Naked and high flight attendant quote let himself down.
A British Airways flight attendant who has found naked and
high on drugs and a play toilet during a transatlantic
flight was told by the judge quote he let himself down.

(02:01:04):
Hayden Pentecost, forty one, was given a six month prison
sentence suspended for a year. Judge Hannah Duncan told him,
you don't need to tell me just how serious this
offense was. It would have been frightening for any passengers
to see you in that position. You really let yourself down.
He was ordered to complete eighty hours of unpaid work
and pay one hundred and fifty pounds in costs after
admitting a after performing an aviation function while impaired on drugs.

(02:01:30):
Alesworth Crown Court heard how Pentecost was due to work
on the flight from San Francisco to London Heathrow in May.
Before the journey, he told colleagues he was suffering stomach
cramps but insisted he was fit for duty. Cabin manager
co workers laid him found him at bottom of the stairs,
quote dishevel, pale, sweaty, and erratic. He locked himself in
a bathroom where he immerged he was completely naked and

(02:01:50):
oblivious to the fact that he had no clothes on.
Prosecution Barrister Natasha Lake said a colleague struggled to make
sense of what he was saying before addressing him and
moving him to a freeze. The captain was alerted and
after speaking with Penteclass, called for medical professionals on board.
He was later he was found to have dilated pupils,
was unable to answer what year it was or who

(02:02:12):
the US President was, and drank fifteen to twenty bottles
of water during the flight. The court was told his
behavior was quote a huge distraction for the captain and crew,
though no passengers were aware of his condition. The flight
landed at Heathrow, where paramedics met the aircraft and took
Pentecost to Hillington Hospital. A blood sample was later showed
he had methan fetamine and and famamine, and a system

(02:02:33):
was later dismissed from his job. Miss Lake said the
offense cured a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment, but
there were no sentencing guidelines to assist because the case
was quite unique. She told the course that Pentecass had
failed to complete the pre flight safety chucks and that
his colleagues had to manage the ten and a half
hour long flight without his assistant. John Harrison, defending, said
Pentecos lost a career he quote very much valued, and

(02:02:56):
came before the court and manned without the professional without
the profess that he sought to relapse. After that he
went to develop after COVID. Judd said there was a
great deal of mitigation in his case, including his previous
good character and immediately guilty plea that his behavior had
not been aggressive or confrontational. See reduced his sentence from
twelve months to nine due to mitigation, and then six

(02:03:18):
months before for his early plea before suspending it for
twelve months. British Airways has been approached for comment and
that's where the story ends. You'd be surprised.

Speaker 1 (02:03:29):
It sounds like an always sunny Philadelphia sort of. Yeah, Hey,
let's become flight attendants and then do a lot of myth.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
I mean, I know some people who work in the
airline industry, and I know those transatlantic flights can be
a thing like really long, really boring, but sometimes they're
really exciting too.

Speaker 1 (02:03:52):
But people will take I can understand taking a little caffeine,
obviously caffeine, but there are maybe prescriptions you could have
that would have an amphetamine in it, but not meth.
But yeah, you know, like and not just like caffeine pills.
You know, obviously you know, gas station caffeine pills are
probably gonna have crazy shit in't it. But like, there
are prescriptions you could take, but not with meth. And

(02:04:14):
it sounds like this probably would have happened if the
person happened to have a prescription and was taking too
many anyway, No, this sounds like MOFO said he had
a tummy ache, but in reality he was rolling on meth. Yeah,
and then showed up for work and probably drank some
coffee and then just had a full crash out, like

(02:04:37):
a full blown like meth paranoia attack.

Speaker 2 (02:04:41):
Yeah. I mean, I know that kind of job can
be incredibly stressful, and it sometimes it leads to a
certain type of person following in that career. And I'm
not painting the entire profession with a brush, but I.

Speaker 1 (02:04:57):
Get it, I do, But well, it sky it's high
stress and back in the day when it was you know,
quote unquote only women that were you know, flight attendants
back in the day. What you would have replace meth
and amphetamines overdoses with women that were having issues, Like
with diet pills, you'd have stewart, you'd have stewardess's pass

(02:05:20):
out from taking too many diet pills and stuff. So
every every job, every field has their issues. Is just
I can see why this would have happened based on
the fact that, like, there are people that if you're
a flight attendant, you might be a flight I know
they do it in shifts right for long flights, Yeah,
but like think about it, there are some flights that

(02:05:42):
are like twenty three hours NonStop. Oh yeah, and when
you're doing that, you're doing it in eight to twelve
hour shifts right as an attendant, so you're probably trying
to sleep. There are cases where you might if you're
short staffed, some of these guys might have just been like,
fuck it, I'm going to take a bunch of happy
pill and stay up going for I'll stay up for

(02:06:03):
thirty hours and then rest onance we get to our destination.

Speaker 2 (02:06:05):
Yeah, because like I've heard stories of people that I
know personally saying yeah, like I'm a long distance truck
driver and people.

Speaker 1 (02:06:14):
To keep buddy the truck stop pills which have whatever
in it. When I worked for that company that made
the software for truck drivers, like they're telling me like, yeah,
you know legal, like legally they have to take a break,
and then they don't because the companies back and then
you know, they were like, don't log those hours, but
we need you to do it anyway. That sort of shit,

(02:06:35):
you know, the stuff that led to like Tracy Morgan
getting hit by that Walmart driver. Yeah, where they're like,
hasn't slept in two days? Well yeah, because they those
trucking companies and that they'll feed you a whole bunch
of pills. Not anymore, you know, because now they're now
they're all tracked with what they do. Were like they
tracked the motion of the vehicle, not just the hours logged, right,

(02:06:55):
but like that was that was the thing. Like ask
any long hall driver man, like their daily life is
a form not meth but like it's amphetamines and caffeine.
That's what they do to do their their long like
not a short haul driver like the ones that drive
from like you know, they're picking up some shit at Ottawa,
they're driving down to Mexico. Those dudes, yes, they legally

(02:07:18):
have to take their eight hour break and they can
only you know, stop the vehicle in a certain time.
But back in the day, they would be rolling on
like thirty hours straight of driving.

Speaker 2 (02:07:26):
Yeah, And I knew a guy I went to high
school with, and I'm like, dude, how do you do it?
It's like, don't ask.

Speaker 1 (02:07:32):
I'm like, yeah, it's literally meth like or or you know,
or a legal form of it. You know, you get
like a regular amphetamine or you find or are they
those dudes, they'll find things like hey, if I take
this over the countermed with this over the countermed, the
reaction is an amphetamine.

Speaker 2 (02:07:52):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (02:07:53):
You get that sort of stuff happening. So I thought
that's what the story was gonna be, But it turns
out it's or like just a meth thing.

Speaker 2 (02:08:01):
Yeah. I mean, I hope the guy gets the help
that he need. I'm on him for saying, hey, I
messed up. I plead guilty.

Speaker 1 (02:08:09):
No we don't. We didn't get to see we didn't
get to see his teeth either. But you wouldn't be
a flight attendant if you had meth rot already going on.
But if you look at his picture, you know he's
coming out of the court case. He's not been a
regular user for a long time, you can tell.

Speaker 4 (02:08:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:08:27):
So, hopefully they nip this in the bud before it
gets too bad.

Speaker 2 (02:08:30):
Yeah, exactly. I hope this guy's able to make a
full recovery in in whatever career he chooses.

Speaker 1 (02:08:37):
Matt, You imagine you're on a flight. You're already nervous
in a flight, and your flight attendant's just not coming,
not coming, and you go looking for him, and then
he's just curled up and like sweating and naked.

Speaker 2 (02:08:48):
He's like, oh no, Like, dude, are you good?

Speaker 1 (02:08:53):
No? And he like, my first reaction would not have
been meth or drugs. It would have been which in
light meal did you eat? Like, because because I am
worried about the shellfish, Like that's well.

Speaker 2 (02:09:06):
Yeah, and that's not unreasonable to be like, what did
you eat?

Speaker 1 (02:09:10):
Yeah, that's that In my innocent brain, my first thought is, oh, no,
did he have an allergic reaction to some of the food.

Speaker 2 (02:09:17):
Yeah, because like you're not gonna automatically think drugs or whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:09:21):
It's just then and then my second reaction is, you know, Okay,
maybe it's meth.

Speaker 2 (02:09:27):
Yeah, just yikes. So yeah, that's that's all we got
this week for the uh for the weird news you're
on This week in geek dot Net, we're gonna hear
one more review from me. I'm actually gonna be taking
a look at a movie I got from our friends
over at Warner Brothers Home Entertainment. We're gonna be looking
at the original Conjuring, released back in twenty thirteen on

(02:09:49):
four K. We'll be back guys right after this, only
on this weekend geek dot Net. Hey guys, this is
Mike the Birdman here, and once again I'm here with
a review from our friends from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment.
I'm gonna be talking about the four K Ultra HD
and a digital code of the original Conjuring movie. This
is the movie that started the franchise that follows Lorraine

(02:10:12):
and Ed Warren, a pair of demonologists who are out
there helping everyday people solve problems against the supernatural, and
this is probably one of their most famous cases. But
this is the movie that launched a franchise and will
soon launch a television series which I'm not entirely sure
how I feel about this. I mean, if Patrick and

(02:10:33):
Vera come back, cool, Are they going to commit to
a television schedule. I don't know. I'm not their agents,
but that would be pretty cool, especially if they did
it on Hbox. So anyway, what do I think about this? Well,
if you've seen the original twenty thirteen movie, this is outstanding.
It's probably one of the scariest movies. And I could

(02:10:54):
say that as a horror movie affessionado and I love Supernatural.
I'm a big ghost hunting person. I've done it in
my personal and professional life, and this was just It's
a wonderfully atmospheric movie. Do not want to spoil it,
but if you really want to set yourself up for
success in the atmosphere of something like this, watch this

(02:11:17):
at home alone in the dark with the sound cranked.
You're gonna have a fantastic time with this. Now to
talk about the four K Ultra HD Blu Ray itself,
it looks and sounds fantastic from what I understand. I
don't have the original two thousand and thirteen Blu Ray anymore,
but from what I've been able to read, they brought
over the original audio into this four K release. That's fine.

(02:11:40):
I never found any real problems with it in the
first place, so totally cool, Totally fine with it. And
in terms of picture quality, I'm watching this on an
Xbox Series X and a Amazon Fire TV, and I
do have one hundred and twenty hurts on mine. I

(02:12:00):
think it looks really good personally. Blacks are nice and
rich and deep colors seem appropriate. Nothing seems overly blown out.
I don't recall a lot of noise or anything in it,
so again, I think it looks fine, but I am
also not a digital expert in that regard. Now, in
terms of special features, all the legacy stuff has been

(02:12:21):
brought over, and there are two new special features to
kind of look back at the franchise and whatever basically
typical stuff you'd see in like an ePK, I would
say nothing is particularly deep, but also not bad either.
It kind of does give you insight into the franchise,
into the characters and what happened on that investigation with

(02:12:42):
the Warrens. Overall, it's entertaining, but don't go into this
expecting a History Channel episode on Ed and Lorraine Warren.
That's not what this is overall, considering when this was released,
this is a fantastic addition to give someone since we're
so close to Halloween and the spooky season. Honestly, this

(02:13:05):
is an easy buy if they ever do a complete
Conjuring series box set. I hope we get an enhanced
version of this at some point, but overall, no notes,
this is pretty awesome. You should pick this up today.
Once again. That was my review of The Conjuring on
four K Ultra HD. A review copy was provided to
us from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment. Could we break you

(02:13:26):
into the wall so we don't have to smell you
when we come in to watch TV? Welcome back to
this we can geek dot net. You guys got a
super sized show today, all things considered, we got a
lot to talk about, some pretty heavy stuff on the
beginning of the show. So, like I said, rest in peace,
Billy Hudson from The Game Chasers. That's the way Game

(02:13:48):
Chasing go, and I'm glad your content will live on
forever and best wishes to your family in this most
troubling time. Beyond that, though, yeah, we had a pretty
good show. We had a very long discussion. I'm surprised
how in the weeds we got with certain pieces, and
I guess just I kind of give you guys kind

(02:14:09):
of a programming update. So me and Alex we're hoping
going to be doing a lot of regular shows between
now and the end of the year. That is the goal.
We feel healthy, we feel good. That would for luck.
I have pre recorded a bunch of stuff. We do
have a lot of stuff for Halloween. Me and the
boys are working on the Resident Evil franchise. As of

(02:14:31):
right now, we've got the first three done, We've got
stuff recorded, or we're planning on doing the last three
Resident Evil movies. Alex pitched me a very interesting idea
for Halloween, which I think looks ridiculously funny, so we'll
probably end up doing that. I have been in contact
with Enrique Kuto and James Rolf about our annual Halloween special.

(02:14:54):
We did change up the subject because honestly, scheduling kind
of got in the way. But I think this be
a little bit more fun because I want to hear
about what two people who love horror, what are their
Halloweens like? And we're gonna be sharing Halloween memories, what
makes it special to us? And just kind of a
celebration of all things spooky. So it'll be nice to

(02:15:15):
hear from Hen and James about what they were like,
because I know these guys have been around the horror
community for as long as they can remember. In fact,
Enrique just got inducted into the Horror Host Hall of
Fame just just a little while ago, and James literally
just as of this recording, he just released his first

(02:15:35):
novella about a horror like a horror themed A bunch
of teenagers go to an abandoned amusement park, Hilarity ensues.
So yeah, it's just I think it should be a
fairly fun one. I know we've got some other stuff
kind of planned out. I know we were talking doing
something about John Carpenter at some point, I know me,

(02:15:57):
Alex and Aaron were in the middle doing probably some
evergreen content. So we have stuff ready for Christmas break.
I know our Lord of the Rings thing got pushed.
We're gonna record those between now and Christmas, so you
guys have something over the Christmas holidays between me, Ken,
Adam and Dave and Yeah, we've just got a lot

(02:16:19):
of cool stuff that we're pre recording. But there'll always
be something. As Alex said, week to week, there's always
something there. I know, me and JT. He had some
problems with his microphone, so it took us all summer
to get that figured out. But now he needs a
new pair of headphones. I found some in the back
room of my play so I'm gonna send them a
bunch of headphones and like here, here's three pairs. Something

(02:16:42):
is bound to work. Please, Because Marvel Zombies comes out
on Wednesday, which I'm actually really looking forward to, please
don't suck. And I know you, me and Ken wanted
to do some prototype stuff after Tokyo Game Show, which
I think is this week, right, so on Thursday.

Speaker 1 (02:17:02):
Yeah, the idea is, let's do a round up catching
up on you know, the game press stuff that's happened
since Summer Game Fest in Midsummer, and give us an
idea of what things are going to be like going
into the fall and winter season, and then you know,
we might have a discussion in between on something, but
it'll probably be the last of the prototypes until we

(02:17:25):
do our like end of year discussion stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:17:28):
I kind of want to talk about Mortal Kombat as
a franchise, but I think I'm the only one that
knows a lot of it.

Speaker 1 (02:17:36):
I mean, I know the movies, I know the games
through the through Ultimate three, and then beyond that, it's
it's it's not what I know a lot of it.

Speaker 2 (02:17:44):
Yeah, I know. Actually, I guess a preview for next year.
Literally the day the movie got pushed, we recorded Mortal
Kombat one, Mortal Kombat two, and Mortal Kombat twenty twenty one,
so that's pre recorded for next year, which again just
kind of annoyed me because we're like, really, I was

(02:18:05):
looking forward to that next month, you asshole. Yeah. Yeah,
but you know what if taking it back after the
test screening to do some additional stuff, cool. You know what,
if it's gonna make a better movie. If you are
putting to put that much trust that it's gonna do
well on Memorial Day weekend, then that's a pretty good

(02:18:28):
sign to me. Like, you're not just putting it in
the October. If it does well, it does well. No,
you're putting it against the Super Mario movie and something
else pretty big. Uh. Grogu and the Mandalorian just got
announced today for that weekend, sus. But you know, we'll

(02:18:49):
see what happened. So maybe it'll be fun.

Speaker 1 (02:18:51):
I will gets moved.

Speaker 2 (02:18:54):
Yeah, honestly, I think they should put that first weekend
of July personally, but I guess because wars Now.

Speaker 1 (02:19:02):
I'm actually thinking they end up moving it up to
like Easter.

Speaker 2 (02:19:07):
I could see then it be competing against Mario, would
it not?

Speaker 1 (02:19:11):
I have what else does Warner have or to compete against,
uh Disney there, because like it all depends on those
two companies. Basically, yeah, I don't know, you know, we
don't know what Paramount is going to be doing now

(02:19:32):
that they're with the new owners, how they're gonna shift
things around. Universal has Mario, Yeah, that's their obviously their
big one for that probably that quarter.

Speaker 2 (02:19:43):
So here's next year or Spider.

Speaker 1 (02:19:47):
I will check right now while we're talking, because the
reason I bring that up is it's basically we don't
know what that Warner is in talks to like be
purchased by Netflix and as of this recording and a
few other companies like and even Skydants is looking It's
like I don't think the like, I don't think the
Americans are going to allow I'm a monopolization of of

(02:20:09):
Paramount being bought by Skidants and then also buying Warner.
I just doubt that that's gonna happen, But that that
is the question, like what where does Disney want to
put it? The only real competition they're going to have
is maybe something big from Warner. So like, if I
look right now at you know, twenty twenty six, it's

(02:20:31):
heartedly it still feels like the future, it really does.
Let me see movie release schedule, movie release schedule, we'll
see list of films for that year. So if we
can look where would we think maybe March April is
what I was saying. Right right now, We've got there's

(02:20:58):
a paramount movie from Tray Parker coming out. Who knows
what it's gonna be. But right now twentieth Century Studios,
which is you know, Marvel, Disney whatever. They have Dog
Stars coming, which is a really Scott movie. Really Scott's
movies have been sucky for the last like fifteen years.

(02:21:19):
So there's that at the end of March. And then
for what we've have confirmed for April so far is
Mario is April third ready or not? Two? Is the
tenth and that's search Light, the Warner Brothers Mummy movie.

Speaker 2 (02:21:41):
Okay, I didn't even know that was a thing.

Speaker 1 (02:21:43):
Neither did I. But it's a Blumhouse production with the okay,
so it should be okay. Yeah. So, and that's on
the seventeenth, and then Lionsgate has something to the end,
but it's not a big deal. And then in May
we've got Mortal Kombat too on the fifteenth, yep, and
Mandalorian and Grogu is the twenty second. So if they're

(02:22:08):
gonna move it earlier, let me see what comes out
after that. Masters the Universe on June fifth. Bielberg has
something on the twelfth, Scary Movie on the twelfth, Toy
Story five on the nineteenth, and Supergirl in twenty sixth.
There's gonna be stuff that like fills in the gaps,
but if they were gonna go I don't know, man, Yeah,

(02:22:31):
they might keep it there. I think it's really gonna
depend on because Warner that's a week gap between Mortal Kombat.
There's not as much of an overlap, but May is
pretty empty right now. There's gonna be one or two
other pictures, probably big ones that come then if anything

(02:22:54):
remotely that could overlap with it comes out, like if
there's a sci fi or fantasy big thing from from
Warner or even Sony. If they put something out, they
won't want to keep Mandalorian there on the twenty second,
Like I mean for us it's May two four, a weekend.
They might do it here. It's happened before too. Where
was it a Marvel movie? I think it was Marvel.

(02:23:16):
Where we got the movie like five days before the
Americans did.

Speaker 2 (02:23:21):
Was it Thunderbolts?

Speaker 1 (02:23:23):
It was something? It was a summer movie. Yeah, there
was one or two of them, and I believe it
was it was I think it was Warner, and I
think it was Marvel specifically. Where the Canadian release date
and Ken'll probably know, Yeah, the Canadian release date, Like
we watched it on a Wednesday, and then it didn't premiere,

(02:23:43):
not that Friday. It was the next Friday in the States,
and weirdly like it wasn't like the rest of the
world got it before American like we were the only
country that did. And I don't know why because it
wasn't a holiday weekend for us. So like that, I
remember being like, why why do we have this first?
And I remember whatever it was we went and saw
it was like in the last couple of years it

(02:24:03):
happened so they could shift things around, but yeah, it
didn't mean to derail it, but there's not. That's also
kind of depressing that this is what our blockbuster that
we know about is coming from. You know, May and
June is really MK. I think they moved MK there
because they had nothing Like Animal Friends is two weeks

(02:24:25):
earlier from them. But is anybody gonna watch that? Does
anybody know what that is? Ryan Reynolds, Vince Vaughan. It's
gonna be a cartoon probably right, like and Devil Wears
Proud Of two from twentieth century like May is looking empty,
same except for Grogu and Moral Kombat. June is Masters
the Universe, which is probably gonna be terrible but could

(02:24:46):
be awesome. It's probably gonna be terrible. A Steven Spielberg
film that we don't know what it is yet. It
just says untitled Scary Movie six, which is gonna have
its smaller audience Toy Story five, which will be the
real te If Toy Story five doesn't hit expectations, Disney's
in real trouble because they've been having some real trouble

(02:25:07):
with already. But like Toy Story is the can't miss,
can't you know it's the guaranteed hit usually right, and
then Supergirl in the twenty six and then what we
have so far for July is Minions three. That'll make
a but load of money because Minions. Yeah, I thought
I saw Tommy was so movie. It's not. Tommy was
so thank God called Shiver. There's the Moana live action movie,

(02:25:34):
which nobody asked for or once I'm curious. But the Odyssey,
the Christopher Nolan Odyssey movie. Okay, that'll be interesting, it'll
be you'd be probably eventing. It's the first movie ever
filmed entirely in Imax, like entirely, not not in Imax format,
in for Imax, in actual Imax cameras, like with their

(02:25:55):
film because there is a distinction for anybody listening. Almost
all the movies you see in Imax are either reformatted
for Imax they call it, or there they'll say filmed
for Imax, which is it has a they have a
minimum ratio Mini them like, it has to be this
type of camera that's approved and it has to be

(02:26:16):
this type of film. This though, is filmed in Imax
meaning Imax cameras. Imax films everything from start to finish,
the whole tool chain, which has never ever been done.
So it'll be an interesting thing to see if you
can especially watch it in a proper imax. Evil Dead
Burn is that really an Evil Dead movie? Not that

(02:26:39):
I've heard of, but is a third standalone entry after
Evil Dead Rise twenty twenty three? What the fuck? Okay?
And then Spider Man Brandon Day. So that's gonna be
an interesting in July, and then you know August. Right now,
they have only got an Insidious sequel because there's always
something like that Coyote versus Acme. Wasn't that the one

(02:27:01):
that was canceled and brought back? Yep?

Speaker 2 (02:27:03):
But now it's like next to August or something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:27:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:27:06):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:27:07):
And then we've got for September Clay Faces in September.
It's not even a summer movie. Yeah, so Resident Evil
and that sort of stuff. So like there's a little
bit of everything. But if you notice, like all this
hubbub with movie studios shuffling around the bankruptcy of Paramount

(02:27:28):
and everything, all we're having about four or five months
where we don't really know what's coming and what's good. So,
you know, long story short, there's gonna be more shifting
around and things that you might have thought would have
been a medium budget movie with a small audience is
maybe going to have to be put into whenever they
have like large holiday weekends that you would never think

(02:27:51):
of normally, Like you're right, I would not think of
Mortal Kombat as something you open your summer movies with.

Speaker 2 (02:27:57):
Yeah, I mean, I guess we'll have to wait and
see what happens with that.

Speaker 1 (02:28:01):
Yeah, man, So I mean if it's good, If it's good,
it'll be great. But if it's not, who knows. Man.

Speaker 2 (02:28:07):
Yeah, So away, guys, that's gonna do it for us
here at this week in Geekly, I said, we'll have
more content coming out on the site very soon. This
week we will always have Earth versus Soup. I'm sure
I probably have a loose cannon in there from me
and the boys, and yeah, lots of good.

Speaker 1 (02:28:21):
Stuffs as of this week, specifically for this week's programming,
we have a loose cannon. It's the weird al discussion
you guys had.

Speaker 2 (02:28:28):
Oh wow, yeah, so that's when marinating.

Speaker 1 (02:28:31):
But it's been cooking. It's good, it's been cooking. We've
got that. And as far as Earth Versus Soup. We
also have Earth Soup episodes two seventy five Invisible Agent
from nineteen forty two, Ready to go awesome?

Speaker 2 (02:28:42):
All right, cool? So me and Alex will be back
next week bearing any major disasters and looking forward to
hearing from everybody. So once again, if you want to
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find us on Blue Sky. We are always around, looking
forward to chat with you and yeah, good times had

(02:29:06):
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(02:29:28):
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