Income tax 2023-2024, student loan interest deduction. Get ready and some coffee so you can recognize the quacks when doing income tax preparation 2023-2024. Most of this information can be found in the Instructions for Schedule 1 section of the Form 1040 Instructions Taxure 2023, which you can find on the IRS website at irs.gov, irs.gov. Looking at the income tax formula, we're focused online to Adjustment to Income, which you might hear called above-the-line deductions or Schedule 1 deductions remembering. The first half of the income tax formula is basically a funny income statement. Most income statements having income minus expenses resulting in net income here having income minus deductions resulting in taxable income, noting deductions for taxes are good, therefore we're constantly looking to increase deductions. The primary difference between deductions being two categories, adjustments to income or above-the-line deduction versus the below-the-line deduction, the greater of either standard or itemized deductions. The above-the-line deductions or adjustments to income are not subject to that threshold that has to be cleared before they can be beneficial such as having to be above the standard deduction as is the case when we talk about the itemized deductions. This is the first page of the Form 1040 Income section where on Line 10, Adjustments to Income from Schedule 1, Line 26. This is the Schedule 1 Part 2, Adjustments to Income, our focus this time on Line 21, Student Loan Interest Deduction. Alright, so Line 21, Student Loan Interest deduction. You can take this deduction only if all the following apply. You paid interest in 2023 on a qualified student loan. So note when we think about student loan interest, how does this take place? Clearly, what is the government trying to do? Incentivize education. What actually happens? They end up subsidizing education, which increases the price of education. First, a word from our sponsor.  Like our, trust me, I'm an accountant product line. Yeah, it's paramount that you let people know that you're an accountant because apparently we're among the only ones equipped with the number crunching skills to answer society's current deep complex and nuanced questions. If you would like a commercial free experience, consider subscribing to our website at accountinginstruction.com or accountinginstruction.thinkific.com and that's why we have these very high tuition fees and whatnot. But the general idea, try to incentivize education. How? Well, when people take out loans in order to pay for education, we can give them a tax benefit on the loans once they start repaying it, giving the interest portion, which is kind of like the rent on the loan, a tax advantage standpoint where you might be able to deduct the interest. Now, quick recap of the income tax system and the types of deductions that are natural to an income tax system. In other words, if we tax income as we do in the United States for federal income tax purposes, it would make sense not to tax gross income, but rather net income, which we can see when we look at business income, such as a sole proprietorship typically reported on a Schedule C where we have income minus expenses, basically business deductions to get to net income. It would not make sense to tax the top line of the Schedule C because if you had to expend money to generate that income, then you should be taxing the net income, the bottom line of the income statement. When we think about most people that are employees, the idea there is they don't have any deductions because the employer is the one that are making the expenditures necessary in order to help them to generate the revenue. Now, when we look at interest then, how does interest fit into that scenario? Well, if you had a Schedule C type of business, you would think that if you had to take a loan to buy equipment, for example, that you used to help generate revenue, you have our paying rent on the loan in the form of interest, which is similar to paying rent on an office building to help you do business in it and generate revenue. You needed the purchasing power of the dollars upfront and therefore you're willing to pay rent on the purchasing power, which is basically interest. Therefore, you would think it would be deductible in that case. However, if you buy personal things like a personal car or credit card expenditures, you would think that those things would not be deductible if you bought personal stuff with them because it's not a business expense. You didn't need to pay the rent on the loan in order to generate the revenue. Now, the exception to that is like the home. Like when you buy a house and this is probably because for political reasons they wanted to put this in place because it looks good politically. Also, the people that are lobbyists for housing benefit from this as well in that the mortgage interest is typically deductible. So when you take a loan out in order to purchase a home, the interest on the loan could be deductible on a Schedule A. That being a little bit different because it's an itemized deduction as opposed to this adjustment to income or above the line deduction, it too probably subsidized the housing industry, which results in higher housing prices, which is basically the end result from an economic standpoint. So the same thing is happening here. We're going to take the loans out and then when you pay back the loan, then possibly you get a benefit by being able to deduct the interest on the loan this time as an above the line deduction. To do that, you would have had to have a loan that qualifies as a student loan. So then the question of course comes up, what qualifies as a student loan? All right, so filing status is any status except married filing separately. Remember that married filing separately, usually the IRS is skeptical of that filing status may limit deductions for it because they're skeptical that people will abuse the ability to file married or separate and take advantage of certain phaseouts and whatnot. So your modified adjusted gross income AGI is less than $90,000 if single head of household or qualifying surviving spouse, 185,000 if married filing jointly. So we have an AGI limitation. Remember that when we think about AGI limitations, we're thinking about basically income limitations, the idea being, well, if you get more income than that, or if you have a really high income, well then the degree that you got paid off, right? Because now you're getting a high income and you would think in that case you would be able to pay back the loans that you took, including the interest without basically a tax, you know, benefit or incentive from it would be the general idea. Also note that they usually apply it on the adjusted gross income AGI, which is the income after the income minus the above the line deductions. So most of these phaseouts are based on at least the starting point of an adjusted gross income type of number. Okay, so use lines two through four of the worksheet and these instructions to figure your modified adjusted gross income. Why does it say modified? Well, they typically start with the AGI and then they modify it from there. In part, you kind of have to consider this one because the deduction is an adjustment for income, meaning it's going to be an above the line deduction, which will have an impact on adjusted gross income. So we'll have a circular reference when we try to figure out this phaseout thing if we don't make some kind of adjustment to the adjusted gross income. We'll talk more about that in the software example in a future presentation. So you or your spouse if filing jointly aren't claimed as a dependent on someone else's such as your parents 2023 tax return. So don't include any amount paid from a distribution of earnings made from a qualified tuition program. That's a QTP after 2018. To the extent that earnings are treated as tax free because they were used to pay student loan interest use the worksheet and these instructions to figure your student loan interest deduction exception publication 970 instead of the worksheet and these instructions to figure your student loan interest deduction if you file form 2555 because that you might have foreign income in that case which often complicates the calculation or 4563 or you exclude income from sources within Puerto Rico. Alright, so let's get into then what is a qualified student loan. So remember that when you take out the actual loan that means you're taking out the loan and getting the money when you're paying back the student loan that me might be at a point in time after you've already gone through school right because at that point in time now you're paying back the student loan with the interest. So you're typically thinking about someone that possibly was in school or maybe is still in school but now they're repaying the student loans but they had to be loans that were qualified student loans if you possibly can get the interest deduction. So what does that mean a qualified student loan is any loan you took out to pay the qualified higher education expenses for any of the following individuals who were eligible students. So number one yourself or your spouse. So obviously that should be fairly obvious right it was for you or the spouse number two any person who was your dependent when the loan was taken out. So somebody in essence basically on your tax return. So this is the student loan deduction worksheet. I won't go through it in detail here because in a following presentation we'll take a look at it in the tax software and see a little bit more of the calculation then three any person you could have claimed as a dependent for the year the loan was taken out except that a the person filed a joint return b the person had gross income that was equal to or more than the exemption amount for that year or 4,700 for 2023 or c you or your spouse of filing jointly could be claimed as a dependent on someone else's return. However a loan isn't a qualified student loan if any of the proceeds were used for other purposes. So clearly if it's a student loan and you took out the loan and bought a hundred thousand dollar car with it you would think well that shouldn't qualify what are we trying to subsidize there we're not trying to subsidize you buying a hundred thousand dollar car and whatnot that kind of you know so any guess the loan was was from either a related person or a person who borrowed the proceeds under a qualified employer plan or a contract purchased under such a plan for details there you can see publication 970 qualified higher education expenses so usually it's fairly straightforward higher education typically being in college but we have a bunch of other institutions that you know would be questionable as to what about a trade school or something like that and we see that the higher education seems to be going to heck in a hand basket or something so that is there any other kind of what if I have some other school that might not drive me insane that I can go into and could I get my loan and have it qualified there qualified higher education expenses generally include tuition fees room and board and related expenses such as books and supplies so these are the things that of course we spent the the money on the expenses must be for education in a degree certificate or similar program at an eligible educational institution so this so clearly an eligible educational institution usually we're thinking basically a college in that instance and again what are the types of things that you can spend it on qualified education expenses generally include tuition obviously fees that makes sense room and board that's more inclusive than some other areas of educational expenses and related expenses such as books and supplies okay and eligible educational institution includes most colleges universities and certain vocational schools so certain vocational schools are added there which so you can still keep your sanity and not let the the major colleges drive you crazy or something and possibly still get some subsidization for that so for details you can see publication 970


Let us look at an interesting aspect in aircraft conceptual design which is called as requirements capture. The words requirement capture basically mean trying to understand what the customer wants. What is requirements capture? Requirements capture aims at understanding exactly what the customer wants, not what you think the customer wants or even what the customer think the customer wants. As I mentioned, customers sometimes specify requirements without very deep thought, it is a reality. I gave an example that they may come up with requirements purely as a summation of the best features of all existing aircraft of a particular type put together, which may be almost impossible to meet or they may result in an aircraft that will become very unwieldy and you know non-optimal. So we need to have a dialogue with the customer in which we try to understand what the requirements are and what they really mean and not only that, the customer will have many, many requirements. These requirements are sometimes called as the needs and these needs have to be prioritized. The customer may want four features, but we need to know as a designer team which requirement is more important than the other and what is the relative importance of these requirements. We also need to identify the features in our design that will either help in meeting these needs in the first place and also the features that will result in the highest customer satisfaction. Sometimes you may have to provide a feature in the aircraft which may not be something that the customer has explicitly wanted, but if you provide it without incurring too much cost, complexity or weight, penalty, it may lead to customer delight or satisfaction and that will help you score over the competition when you offer your design in a competitive environment. So we need to look at these features, we need to look at whether we should provide them or not. Also, there is an important activity of looking at what the competition is doing. So we need to identify where our competition is better and superior than us and hence we need to look at can we address those areas. We need to also identify the areas in which we are superior to the competition so that we know where we stand and also we need to identify areas where we will be able to go for improvement, there is enough scope for improvement. This process has to be taught to the students in an interactive fashion, merely stating these facts will not drive the message home and to do that there is an exercise which has to be done and this exercise I will illustrate through an example in a separate clip where I will talk about how requirements capture can be done and we will do a small problem and that can then become a guideline for you. So what I always advise the instructor in an aircraft design course is to conduct a mock requirements capture exercise, you play the role of a customer or what you can also do is create a team of students who will act as the customer and they will be the ones who will be interacting with the other teams who are the design teams. You could be an observer and you may channelize that discussion, you may moderate that discussion. Sometimes the faculty member becomes a customer role play role player and does it sometimes you create a team which does that job but it is a very important aspect because design teams have to be sensitized how to do back and forth with the customer and how to extract from the customer statements from the customer document what exactly the customer really wants. Thanks for your attention, we will now move to the next section.


everybody Josh hi wow I got two people come in as soon as I started I guess Sunday morning is the right thing to do hi it's me got a little video here to watch while while I'm talking I was expecting not to have any visitors but Josh came in immediately how are you Josh yeah I guess Sunday morning is the thing to do I've looked at I've noticed when I look at my when I look at the activity on my videos on the few views that my videos get most the activity is on Sunday mornings between 6 a.m. and noon Pacific time which I'm which completely baffles me but it's always been that way when I look at it for a week it's the same when I look at it for a month it's the same when I look at it for a year it's the same when I look at it for the lifetime of the channel it's more pronounced than ever Sunday morning I don't get it I don't get it at all because most people do their their internet browsing from work at least traditionally they have maybe things are certainly different now okay Josh is watching who else well whoever else it was they left so Robert Pliskins here hi Rob Josh are you still here Rob sir how you guys doing what do you want to talk about what's my favorite sci-fi novel well that's hard to say that's real hard to say yeah having having a single favorite is tough right now I'm reading a thing called unwind by Neil Schusterman I'm about three quarters of the way through it it's damn good it's one of the most frightening things I've ever read one of the most striking books I've ever read and I've read it twice which is rare for me is a library at Mount Char the name of the author escapes me at the moment I would recommend both of those library at Mount Char and unwind if you're looking for recommendations have I watched a dune 1984 yeah I saw it back in 1984 at the cinema I didn't like it a friend of mine I just graduated high school a friend of mine and I went to see it in both of us my friend had read the books and he was very excited about it but both of us found it too long and boring Robert says been a while since I was able to join one of these streams I used to have a job that allowed me to work from home on a computer but I left it all well that's too bad maybe Sunday mornings is the thing I should do I always forget that Patrick Stewart was in Dune 1984 and it had that that girl the woman playing the girl Sean was that a name Sean whatever but I didn't like her I've never liked her and Sean something rather yeah but I thought the movie was just really really boring it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me the guy I saw it with like I said he was an avid Dune reader and all through the movie he was talking about how you know things they were skipping over and things they were weren't were not including things they were changing Sean young right I've never liked her but yeah that's my take on the original Dune the the scenes with Jose Ferrer Jose Ferrer as the as the emperor I watched those scenes with him recently because because on the 50th Street channel we showed his Sereno de Bergerac movie which is tremendous and it made me think I've seen him before I know his voice so I looked up those scenes and I was like yeah that's that's it that's that's what I remember and he can it's funny to watch him in those scenes because he's obviously he's giving a tremendous performance but he's obviously you can see him his eyes going glassy as he's talking to remember all those all those ridiculous fake words that he's having to say Josh says are am I a fan of Ray Harry hasn't worked sure of course Jason and the Argonauts one of the greatest movies of all time it's been so long since I've seen that you should look up his the the experimental fairy tale cartoons that he made that he that he produced himself trying to get them sold as a as a as a short film series if you haven't seen those just search for Harryhausen and and Little Red Riding Hood and you'll start seeing all of those if you haven't already if you have let me know what you think of them they're really strange they really don't look like anything else have I seen the Valley of Guangxi of course I've seen the Valley of Guangxi hang on just a second have I seen Valley of Guangxi yes I've had this movie poster this frame movie poster for decades yeah I've seen Valley of Guangxi Joshua says I've seen the Cyclops have I love the Cyclops in Sinbad yeah Cyclops is the Cyclops is bizarre I I swear when when I saw the seventh voyage of Sinbad at the cinema Harryhausen's first Sinbad film in the 1970s I was like eight or something I was seven or eight I believed I had missed six films I truly believe that there were six Sinbad films that I had never heard of and for years and years any time we would go to a department store or a drugstore I would look at their collection of little Super 8 film reels which was the only way you could get movies at home there were no VCRs no VHS tapes I would I would scour what little collections of Super 8 films they had looking for Sinbad movies of course I never saw anything I should probably hang that poster back there the the dragon in the sin in the first Sinbad movie is kind of it's kind of blah there's not much to him have I watched Spaceballs yes I did see Spaceballs Joshua I saw it once back when it first came out I didn't think it was funny I think it's strange how it's made a it's made a comeback and how people young people today think it's funny I didn't think it was funny at the time it's like all of the all of the Star Wars jokes all of the science fiction jokes all of them had been done it was all tired old stuff it was the same kind of stuff we would see on variety shows on TV it was all of it was just old old hat stuff I'm your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate I don't see I don't remember that I just saw it the one time if you want good Star Wars parody watch Hardware Wars the original Star Wars parody shot on 16 millimeter film by an amateur filmmaker and one of the funny thing you'll ever see I'm always surprised at the number of people who've never heard of Hardware Wars they call it Hardware Wars because they were using household objects for all the spaceships I who else came in someone else came in we've got someone on someone watching on Twitter hi Twitter I don't think I'm gonna be able to see your your chats on Twitter whoever's there come over to come over to twitch do I remember deliverance yes why why do you ask yes I remember deliverance that was a bizarre shift in tone I wouldn't call that science fiction of course when I was younger I saw it on network television which was very heavily edited and then in the in the 1990s or early 2000s I watched it on DVD uncensored and I was like oh my god yeah Robert deliverance is a sci-fi classic but what's his name Robert what's his name the mustache guy the actor what was his name Bert Reynolds okay that's what I was trying to think of Bert Reynolds was right he said that that would be the thing that Ned Beatty would be remembered for he was right he was absolutely right actually John Voight yeah when when I was a kid and and to this day when you say Ned Beatty the first thing I think of is the Superman movie it was Lex Luthor's henchman that's what I think of first I think of Ned Beatty yeah Robert you typing the same thing that I was just saying yeah so obviously there's a delay in the in the chat here what else you guys want to talk about I do not want to talk about deliverance anymore and baby passed way recently did he a lot of people a lot of well-known people died in the last year the movies that I've been streaming for the past year and a half all the cartoons that I've been streaming for the past year on Saturday morning it seems like every every name every celebrity name that we bring up is someone who's just died Robert says I read The Man in the High Castle recently it's good so yeah that was excellent book that was an excellent book which really surprised me because because Philip K. Dick is so inconsistent or many times people will rave about a Philip K. Dick book and I'll go read it and I'll be like yeah that's just it's just it's all over the place it doesn't make any sense but Man in the High Castle was was sharp it was dead on have I watched Forgotten Planet do you mean Forbidden Planet I assume you mean Forbidden Planet but yeah I use the the background painting for Forbidden Planet on my videos here on the think about channel heck yeah I know Forbidden Planet it's one of my favorite movies one of the most important science fiction movies of all time the as the years go by the the dialogue in that movie gets more and more more and more cringy more and more uncomfortable it's too it's too 1950s and misogynistic but yeah that was that's what you call a high concept film seeing that movie on television when I was a baby is one of my most vivid memories the the invisible monster having the big laser battle with the invisible monster yeah and seeing Robbie the robot in his second movie the invisible boy that was another vivid memory of mine and for most of my life I didn't know where those images in my head came from it was a really bad movie called the invisible boy it was unfortunately that was Robbie the robot second movie and it's not good and the fact that the boy in the picture is invisible is only like one short scene in the film it's gotten the title has nothing to do with the film in fact I forget what the move with the plot of the thing is it's worth seeing if you're a science fiction fan because since it has Robbie the robot in it it has an interesting look to it but that's it's historical value is the only value it has not a good movie for years and years I thought that the little boy in that movie was I can't think of his name now when he was when he was a boy he played the boy with the green hair which I never saw all the way through well maybe I did maybe I didn't but I thought it was the same guy and when I looked up the movie last year I was surprised it wasn't him at all it was somebody else entirely it's funny how you remember things wrong like that hi who else came in somebody else watching us on YouTube it's funny when I streamed I streamed on Thursday morning and nobody came in I couldn't I couldn't get anybody to come in and now I've got people coming in Planet of the Apes 2001 Space Odyssey were sci-fi classic were classic sci-fi movies in 1968 yes they were was Planet of the Apes 1968 hmm I would have thought it was like 70 or 71 but I think you're right I think it was 68 yeah 2001 Space Odyssey was another early memory I have a memory of seeing it on a big screen I think at a drive-in with my mother and a cousin of mine which means I would have been three maybe four and I had visions in my head from that movie all through my youth and I dreamed about them and I thought they were just my dreams I didn't know that they came from that movie Robert says a Barbarella was another sci-fi classic of 68 at least to me I saw a Barbarella once only once I haven't I haven't watched it since I remember being bad maybe I would have a different attitude toward it today I remember being bad like like Star Crash you know a really bad European made film by our producer really didn't understand science fiction have you seen Star Crash by the way if you haven't you have to truly truly bad movie I had the unfortunate experience of seeing it at the cinema I actually saw Star Crash I paid money to see Star Crash I think I saw it with one of my sisters I remember us both just saying God this is bad Robert says no Barbarella is bad but I like it the comic is the same I remember reading some of the comics and yeah they were they were kind of a mess too typical European science fiction comics they're really they're just really not entertaining some of them have really interesting art really interesting graphic design but European comics are just not entertaining I've never found European comics entertaining same with European animated films technically brilliant sometimes but they don't they they don't seem to know how to tell a story well these are the things these are the things that I've watched this year I didn't intend to put all Disney Marvel shit up here but those are the things that I've seen Robert says I got through the first 20 minutes of Star Crash and I didn't like it even for a so bad as good movie I love the main actress though forgetting her name Carolyn Monroe and then he says not sci-fi but have you read the 1010 comics I have not I've not read the 1010 comics and I have I've not read asterix either people always ask me about asterix and Tintin I'm like no I never I never read them I'm aware of them I was talking about 1010 with somebody with my co-host on bad Saturday morning and he described asterix as a Viking and I put out my hand I said hang on hang on because I did the same thing once I was talking with a friend of my sister's who was Canadian and I described asterix as a Viking he was like what he corrected me very swiftly asterix is a gall not a Viking he is a gall ancient France in Roman times which yes he's correct that is not a Viking asterix is a gall remember that next time asterix comes up asterisk is fine but it's more clever than funny maybe it's funny if you know French yeah you know say that kind of thing who was that woman that Argentine woman I think she's Argentinian Spanish speaking woman really gorgeous woman she was in a holy American TV shows and movies I think it was her she said one time she said I'm so smart in Spanish Raquel Welch no okay Raquel Welch maybe of Hispanic descent but she's not a Spanish speaking star she's not someone who's who's known for Spanish speaking did I read Dick Tracy comics no I never read Dick Tracy Tracy comics I've never read them I know that during the 1940s and 50s they were the most popular thing in the newspaper but no I never read Dick Tracy comics I liked the movie with with what's his name I can't think of people's names Warren Beatty no not yeah Warren Beatty the 1980s film with Warren Beatty and Madonna yeah I liked that movie it actually surprised me the final act actually took me by surprise which I did not expect I had actually gone to see the film I paid money to see the film just to see the Roger Rabbit cartoon there was a Roger Rabbit cartoon I think it was rollercoaster rabbit that they showed with Dick Tracy so I paid money just to see the Roger Rabbit cartoon and then I walked out and then years later I saw I saw the movie on cable and I was like this is good I missed a trick I don't know how much how much it had to do with the actual Dick Tracy comics but I imagine the Dick Tracy comics were really were probably these are really crazy which makes me which reminds me yeah there he is the guys that sit in in your opinion which is better critters or gremlins well I've never seen critters and I was never crazy about the gremlins movies I think those are very overrated I started to watch the first gremlins movie again a few months ago I turned it off after a few minutes it was like really amateurish the editing was was like yeah it was like an amateur did it I was really surprised how poorly made it was so yeah I just lost interest after a while since I'd seen it before I wasn't I wasn't crazy about the gremlins movies but the guys at Red Letter Media were talking about some some guys who wanted to see if they could license some old unused Marvel DC comics characters find you know find some obscure unused comics characters from Marvel DC see if they get licensed them and you know just do something with them but nothing was available since Marvel and DC these days are using every single character that has ever existed they've locked everything up and make sure that nothing is is available so they went so they went looking for comic book characters from the distant past that have fallen out of copyright to see if they could just find one to start using and they found this bizarre character named microface which I've never heard of I've heard of plenty of of of disused comics characters but I'd never heard of microface from Clue comics number one with 11 issues says after Tom Woods loses his brother to the gunfire of gangsters he promises to avenge his death and become the costume crime fighter known as microface micro as in microphone a powerful microphone he has in the helmet he designs to fight crime along with being able to project his voice and broadcast over the radio Tom also has attachments that act as a hearing amplifier and photoelectric lenses that give him something like x-ray vision for some reason yeah microface it's like Clue comics and men of mystery comics it doesn't say what year these are from Clue comics 1943 yeah World War II stuff but yeah I've never seen critters Joshua you still with me which one is critters which movie is critters because I know that there were a bunch of gremlins ripoffs was critters the one they showed on mystery science theater let's see oh okay yeah I just needed to see the picture yeah no there was a different one science fiction comedy horror film there's a web series critters a new binge premiered on shutter in March of 2019 what a waste of time Robert says I've never seen either gremlins is one of those big movies it seems like everyone but me has seen I guess they're worth seeing because there's so much there's so much cultural reference to them there they're I'm seeing I'm seeing that gremlin character in commercials now in TV commercials Robert says I actually saw Ghostbusters for the first time last week really the 1984 movie at the time that movie was really exciting it was really unusual and innovative and it was surprising I had no idea what it was actually about when I saw it and I was laughing out loud I try to watch it these days and it's just not funny anymore I don't find it funny anymore I find Bill Murray's character to be too he's he's harassing that woman Sigourney Weaver he's literally harassing her and it's not funny but yeah the that was actually not the original Ghostbusters for the original Ghostbusters you need to go to YouTube and search for Ghostbusters 1975 with Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker it's a Saturday morning children's show with the same premise a group of private investigators with a handheld ghost banishing machine yep the 84 movie I didn't think it was funny but I like the stuff about Sumerian gods yeah there are so many quotes from the movie that I still use that they've become so deeply ingrained in me you know like dogs and cats living together and tell them about the Twinkie what about the Twinkie and nice shooting techs don't look directly in the traps I looked in the trap ray just last week I was saying to my co-host on bad Saturday morning a full torso free roaming vapor I've never forgotten all that technology but yeah you should look up the original Ghostbusters Columbia pictures really screwed over filmation filmation owned the Ghostbusters the name in the franchise and Columbia really really hurt them over that yeah Bill Murray's character was just obnoxious we're supposed to root for him and hope he ends up with Sigourney Weaver yeah right that's that's the thing you can't do it anymore you still see people all over the internet typing references to that movie like there is no Dana there is only Zool Robert says I thought Ghostbusters started as an SNL sketch not to my knowledge back in the day when the movie came out I certainly would have known that I remember saying to all of my friends now keep in mind the original Ghostbusters in 1975 was my generation's thing I was 10 years old and all my friends in high school would have been 9 10 11 years old when it was on and Saturday morning and I was saying to everybody but there's already a Ghostbusters how can do how can this be Ghostbusters when there's already a Ghostbusters and all my friends are like what are you talking about some somehow my whole generation just forgot about the original Ghostbusters and I remember it vividly I've shown it on bad Saturday morning I should show it show it again you know this October we should do one episode we should do a mini marathon of original Ghostbusters and a mini marathon of original Monster Squad which was also a Saturday morning TV show in 1976 with Fred Grandy who was gopher on the loveboat and Julie Numar and Sid Hague it was a terrible show he completely deserved to be forgotten and we should do what else should we do for October for Halloween what's another horror based forgotten TV show maybe House of Frightenstein we haven't shown any frightenstein yet on bad Saturday morning do you remember the hilarious House of Frightenstein with Vincent Price do you remember that the syndicated show for kids I used to see it on Sunday mornings every episode was an hour long is a whopping hour long and not that great not not all that entertaining but something I learned in recent times is that almost every character on that show was played by one guy who would put on makeup changes clothes and change his voice it was all one guy and I had no idea I had no clue what a tour to force to do something like that and people not be able to tell look it up hilarious House of Frightenstein you'll be shocked at how bad it is and and you'll be laughing at how and how ballsy it was to make something that bad and it was really popular in syndication every everybody my age remember seeing it it was in every local market and to get Vincent Price I mean my God for a little independent syndicated show like that to actually get Vincent Price this was this would have been 1970 74 75 76 maybe a little bit later I'm gonna have to look it up hilarious House of Frightenstein 1971 oh my god 71 wow a lot earlier than I Canadian Children's television series produced by Hamilton so Ontario's independent station CHCH TV in 1971 syndicated in Canada and internationally occasionally still appears in some television markets in Canada it's available on the streaming service Crave quirky sketch comedy series that included some educational content the show's cast included Billy van Frisch Kareas guy big someone named guy big van played most of the characters on the show all 130 episodes were made in a nine-month span in 1971 130 episodes in 2018 the production company head spinner announced that it acquired licensing and merchandising rights to the series I was exploring the possibility of creating a new reboot oh no please don't in 2021 the company announced an animated version for preschoolers to be titled happy House of Frightenstein preschoolers 1971 good god I remember seeing it all through my childhood it was wow they shot everything all in one summer 130 episodes all in one summer and then ran its indication for decades wow what an accomplishment have I ever seen the 13th floor I have and guess what I did not like it is one of those movies where I didn't buy the premise the moment it started and that's you can't I can't enjoy a film when the the premise of the film when it starts with something that I don't accept is one of those things where one of those things that includes the idea that people would download the comp the the contents of their minds into a into a computer avatar they would actually their consciousness their their life itself would actually move into the avatar so if the avatar dies they die bullshit nobody would ever do that that is not how computers and virtual reality work period period that's not a concept that I'm going to accept from from from the word go Robert says I didn't think it was that good but I'm just a sucker for that simulated reality so yeah and that's another thing I mean the guy it starts off with there's this old man and his young assistant who's who's like a nephew of his or something I forget it starts off the two of them are researching virtual reality and then immediately the old scientist gets murdered and then the young man receives an urgent message for him in his dying moments this is I've discovered something terrible and I like oh guess what it is oh and am I gonna have to guess what it is do I get how many guesses do I get predictable when movies like that are so predictable and that movie was predictable from the beginning I'm just yeah just just not interested I do remember seeing it again a few years later at a friend's house and remember thinking it wasn't as bad as I remembered because I was remembering it very I had a very low opinion of it the first time I saw it so I guess whatever it was I saw the second time through it I saw some stuff worth seeing in it I guess yeah if you die in the simulation your character takes over your body in the real world that was just away for the happy ending to have yeah I've seen it's bullshit it's it's complete BS first of all not only is it not possible but secondly like I said before nobody would build a virtual reality machine that way no not one person ever would ever design a virtual reality machine that way period nobody would do that it's it's crazy and it wouldn't work anyway that's it's it's like a like the transporter in Star Trek if the the transporter in Star Trek really is tearing your molecules apart and then reassembling the same molecules at the destination it killed you the damn thing killed you and then built a and then created a what do you what do you call a reproduction of you at the other end period nobody's ever going to to create a transport mechanism like that no one would ever do that if there ever is if someone ever does create instantaneous teleportation like that what they'll do is create a door create a wormhole door that you step through and yeah he says that was just a way for the happy ending to happen speaking of the happy ending I think I think it was pretty obvious that there that he was still in a simulation because you remember he was sitting in that to he was sitting in that beautiful apartment in the future like the year 2500 or whatever it was and he was sitting there reading a morning newspaper and the headline was said something like world crime at all time low and I was like oh come on this is this is a fantasy world crime at all time low is the headline yeah that's a fantasy well here's here's me streaming again about science fiction and just trash talking every every movie and every book that comes up someone came in on twitch who's here it was actually 2024 no kidding so when I saw it the first time it would have been like it would have been almost 30 years away good lord yeah they didn't make it far enough in the future it has to be that's one thing you have to do like they do the Star Trek make it like hundreds of years in the future because then you get stuck with a with a with a far-flung distant future movie that set in 1994 or something like I always thought that the the original Jetson series was set in the year 2000 I always thought it was supposed to be in the year 2000 which in 1962 or 1964 would have seemed like a long way away but I've been told recently that was actually set in 2064 which is 100 years in the future for what was made but still I could possibly live to see 2064 I doubt it but it's actually it's conceivably reachable I guarantee you there won't be any skypad apartments and ironically we're about to get self-driving cars not flying cars but self-driving cars the Jetson said flying cars but they didn't have self-driving cars the the entire theme song of the Jetsons is about George Jetson driving his own flying car yeah we will have sentient household robots we'll definitely have those in 2062 if there's anybody alive in 2062 that's actually quite possible that there won't be Robert says do you think we'll ever have flying cars it seems in practical it does seem impractical I think practical flying cars will be invented whether or not they'll become commonly used like they are in in the Jetsons or in the back of the future is very doubtful it seems to me they would just be too dangerous but actually when the self-driving cars become perfected I've heard people speculating that self-driving cars will become mandatory once they're perfected because they'll be so much safer and I have to admit yeah they'll be safer in which case self-driving cars even though they would be individually owned cars would basically be public transportation because did you notice last week that Elon Musk said that he decided to go ahead and make to go ahead and make a humanoid a humanoid AI robot because he'd already made robots that that the the Tesla cars are basically rolling AI robots did you see where he said that last week he basically admitted that what people are actually buying from him are robots that he controls because he does control those cars he can take control of those cars any moment but they've already caught a Tesla doing making changes the cars programing and having the cars do things without people being aware of them so he's yeah he's on his way to having a Skynet the his his worldwide army of sentient robots and then he's gonna become King of Mars he's gonna fly to Mars and become King of Mars that's what he's after that's what he really wants Robert says I didn't read that but that's interesting point yeah it's a damn interesting point and people just flew right over people's heads did you see that weird-ass rocket launch this morning a company called Astra that's trying to that's in the running to make independently owned rocket business they had the strangest launch I've ever seen you need to look it up it was it was on the internet within minutes of the launch happening is the weirdest thing I've ever seen it's just your standard-looking rocket says I'm not heard of Astra I hadn't heard of it either but apparently they've been working on this for years it started to take off and then instead of instead of launching straight up it started to tilt and then it and then it it started to tilt and then it hovered sideways and it cut like a ditch in the grass because it was because it left the launch pad it hovered sideways and then slowly started to push itself into the sky and took off and the people the the people describing the launch the Astra employees talking on the headsets acted like nothing was wrong they said okay we're headed to orbit and when you're watching it you're thinking no that thing's not gonna get the orbit it just used half its fuel to keep from falling over and of course it didn't make it to it gets it you know it got up into the sky and then the and then the lady on the radio says we have had we have had an anomaly I'm like no kidding no kidding it's the weirdest launch I've ever seen and it was actually really educational because no it wasn't manned nobody's nobody's launching manned rockets nobody's doing that yet they'll start doing it but they're not doing it yet but Scott Manley already made a video about it he made a video about it immediately and uploaded it if you don't watch Scott Manley on YouTube you should watch Scott Manley he he he scrutinizes every rocket launch and he talked about what was happening he said at the beginning of launch you could see there's an explosion to the right side they lost one of one of the engines there has five engines on it and one of the one of the engines blew up so the other four engines had to really quickly compensate to keep the rocket standing and then slowly push their way up into the sky which is pretty amazing when you think about it that even though there was a catastrophic a catastrophic loss of an engine the damn thing stayed upright and flew into the sky weird thing who came in got three people watching two people on YouTube one person on twitch I'm talking to Robert who else is here and what do you want to talk about those of you who came in what do you want to talk about what science fiction are you reading what are you watching I've been streaming for almost an hour and talking with Robert here Josh was here earlier I don't know what happened him I haven't I haven't watched my captain zero video I was expecting to have no visitors so I was just gonna watch watch an old TV show it's a 841 here on the US West Coast and here are some of the things I was prepared to talk about there's some of the things I've seen recently have you seen any that that new Marvel animated series called what if they're really strange I'm not sure that I'm pleased with them yeah I'm looking up that Astro rocket video right now yeah there's plenty of videos for you to look at just on the the thumbnails of these videos you can tell something wrong it's just the weirdest thing Robert says I'm not into superheroes I've only seen five Marvel movies yeah well I I always tell people to avoid to avoid paying for those movies to see them to you know pirate them or download them or see them see them however you can which I haven't paid to see any of these things I've been downloading them online from Torrance and I'm I don't have any problem admitting it either the reason I tell people not to pay for them is because Disney and Marvel don't pay the creators the people who wrote and the writers and artists who created these characters back in the 60s and 70s they don't pay them they've never paid them a cent they'll spend millions of dollars on attorneys to make sure they don't get paid ever and I just I just can't tolerate that that's just not acceptable to me I have to admit though they've made they've made really entertaining movies surprisingly entertaining DC comics on the other hand the ones that made the the Suicide Squad movies and the Shazam movie and of course the Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman movies they've been very good about paying the creators oddly enough one of the two big names in comics back in the 1980s they were they pioneered uh creator contracts if you can believe it looking back on that I still can't believe it but they did they did it and I have to applaud that even though their movies are terrible Robert says one thing I dislike about Marvel is that they don't take themselves seriously enough I find it hard to get invested when the characters are constantly joking I disagree with you if taking them too seriously would actually be well you'd end up with Batman vs Superman you'd end up with a movie like that an awful movie like that humor is fine but it has to be in the right place the new Suicide Squad movie I saw it and I liked it it had a over-the-top supervillain a classic old-school DC comics supervillain from Justice League early Justice League days which was surprising and mostly the movie worked I thought it was and it was funny every time I've seen every time I've seen that actress who plays Harley Quinn what's that actress's name but every time I've seen her play Harley Quinn she makes me laugh out loud and that's hard to make me do that's that birds of prey movie that she was in a couple years ago there were parts of that movie that were hilariously funny what is that actress's name and why can't I never think of people's names Margot Robbie her performance as Harley Quinn is inconsistent at times but she makes me laugh and that wrestler who played the peacekeeper what's that guy's name Idris Elba as a dead shot and that wrestler who played the peacekeeper he was hilariously funny he was perfect he was he yeah his performance was perfect what's that actor's name that wrestler damn it anyway let's talk about something else who else is watching somebody else is watching somebody on Twitch I'm looking at these clue comics with the microface that's the funniest thing microface he has a microphone on his mask he calls himself microface okay so the headliner of clue comics was a character called boy king boy king he's he's a boy superhero dressed up like a king with a crown and an ermine cape and he's supposed to be a superhero upside downtown featuring nightmare and sleepy what gee it must be reigning featuring stupid manny stupid manny oh god whoever was writing this stuff was was really struggling boy king and microface and boy king has a giant he has a stone golem giant oh these are dumb these are the worst looking comics how have I never seen these before boy king you gotta be kidding oh here he is punching a nazi okay parents you'll say these comics are the best I have got to download some of these and look at this is the boy king this is hell's kitchen keep out save me boy king a character named zippo what the hell oh god this is this dumbest looking things okay uh who's still here robert you still here is anybody else here I mean I've had an okay time talking with you but I've been on for more than an hour the boy king finds his long lost twin brother the biggest gangster in hell's kitchen boy king I need to look up the origin of boy king oh perfect looks like uh Alex Ross oh you are kidding they used boy king in the in dynamite comics who who is this the truth okay characters named truth and dare okay he's stupid okay prince david was the first in line to the throne of your peon nation of swiss lakia when their kingdom was invaded by nazis he and his entire family were put in front of a firing squad though the rest of his family died the prince survived though only narrowly his father also clung to life long enough to tell his son that the invasion had been predicted centuries earlier by nostradamus and had created a mechanical giant that would only have a single master the person who activated it by screwing a bolt into its head he had brought the giant to swiss lakia and buried it there leaving the giant secret with swiss lakian kings determined to fight the invaders the boy king reactivates the giant slew the nazi who had ordered his family's execution temporarily drove the nazis out fearing the nazis would soon return and his people would die in the reprisals the boy king evacuated all who wished to leave towing them behind the colossus as it waded across the sea there he planned to uh there he planned to allow to advise him to there's a word missing there where to deploy the giant so as to best aid the war effort meanwhile he hung around discovering his long lost twin brother now a gang leader in hell's kitchen and fighting old enemies from his homeland boy king formed a team of sidekicks of characters who have fallen into the public domain to oppose their former mentors together with davie okay this is from the inheritors something called the inheritors dynamic boy domino kitten yank and doodle sparky ace eaglet captain battle jr through the hell are these ridiculous boy king my ass uh roberts has had to step away for a second okay it was just me reading about boy king i don't know how i miss this boy king oh god this this is this is terrible these writers back in the day these comic writers who was just cranking out and just cranking out comics just just typing out the first whatever they could think of off the tops of their heads and not even wow all right well i think i'm done i've been streaming for an hour and 10 minutes and i've i've been talking this whole time thanks for being here uh thanks for for listening i'm sorry more people didn't come in uh i'll try to stream again this week certainly next uh sunday yeah nice talking to you too robert see you next time