Geeks in Space

RobChrisRob set aside their lifelong rivalry, and overcame incredibly insignificant technical dificulties to talk about the kinda controversy connected to Hasbro changing the license on the decades old OGL gaming license, the impact of Ukrainian Beavers on the russian invasion, the bionic bonus thumb thats gonna revolutionize... something? The first Gen V trailer dropped, an educational video Physics that looks pretty awesome, Carnival Row gets a second season, Dr Z retires from NASA, Polar Bear Husbandry, and what's on the twitter auction block this week?

RobChrisRob return from deep space holiday vacations to discuss matters of modest importance including Cyberbullying Moms, Twitter banning & unbanning users for mentioning Mastadon, AI Image Generators trying to generate Mickey Mice to force legal actions, Nolan's Oppenheimer trailer, the Finalmouse keyboard, South Park creators funding their deep fake studio, Painting mars by numbers in the 60s, the fading of cash leading to a decline in bank robberies, Ice Age cave painting mystery solved, Swearing an Oath of a Superman comic, Christmas Horror Movies, and the $11k alexa equipped toilet. For reasons.

RobChrisRob started off by talking about Twitter Woes, from the auction sale of their office kitchen, to banning, unbanning, and rebanning the guy who posted the public FAA records for Elon's jet, to banning reporters and people who put mastadon contact info in their accounts... we unironically enjoyed the barbie trailer and then we talked about the Orion Splashdown, the Soyuz capsule leaking coolant at the ISS, a whole slew of changes at the DCU, a tipless propeller, then we used Chat GPT to write Slashdot stories and make jokes about the scientists that discovered a snake clitorism Trump's NFT, and a berlin lobby aquarium that burst.

RobChrisRob returned to the air to discuss Neuromancer getting produced for ApleTV, Huawei Phones apparently automatically deleting protest videos, Stable Diffusion generating an entire 250 page Radio Shack catalog from 1987, the latest Transformers trailer, Measuring Hate Speech on Twitter, the Xiaomi robot drummer, a christmas tree ornament that runs Doom, the decline of Shark Week, a slew of Satellite stories (big ones, laser ones, government ones), generating electricity from Snow, and the Paralympian that Canada offered to Euthanize instead of giving her a stairlift.

RobChrisRob used advanced streaming technology to dive deep into news from around the internet like the Rats that may or may not have eated 581kg of weed, the miami stadium that signed a 19 year contract to be named after FTX, the SF Police want killer robots on their squad, Artemis did a bunch of damage to the launchpad, Gorgeous AI generated artwork for a Jodorowsky Tron that never was, using GPS interaction with the ionosphere to detect a north korean ICBM, the lady suing kraft because it takes to long to microwave her Macaroni, Albert Pyun the director of Nemesis & Cyborg died but managed to get a Red Light Media retrospective episode of his work which was really nice, and finally some crypto bros built a half million dollar elon goat statue in hopes that sempai will notice them... then we sorta went off on Elon & Twitter for awhile cuz yikes.

RobChrisRob talked a bit about plant based oysters, porting Quake to the Apple Watch for no particular reason, the the ancient scholar who handcrafted and 800 page book to record every color he could, Bob Iger returning to a Disney that he left in much better shape than he finds it, Mercedes charging $1200 subscription to unlock full speed in a car you bought, the Orion capsule swinging by the far side of the moon, Microsoft is unsurprisingly gonna be shoving more ads into Windows 11, DVD sales have surpassed Blu-Ray sales as people seem to be ok with super low resolution for media that is available cheaply and offline, Amazon is scaling back Alexa after announcing that it is losing billions of dollars a year, a French Alps village is demolishing its ski lift because climate change has killed the local snowfall, Belgium lacks the capacity to burn the giant amounts of cocaine it has seized, the Qatar WEorld Cup Apps are privacy nightmares and should not be used by anyone, a tiny meteorite was recovered hours after being photographed falling from the sky which turns out is incredibly rare... also Letterkenny Season 11 has a new trailer, Andor has an 'Old' one, and I really liked this weeks Rick & Morty.

RobChrisRob spent some time schadenfreude'ing about Twitter, discussed tiktoks rise and utility, genetically modified air purifying plants, the launch of Artemis at long last, the criminal who tunnels under ATMs, the 'Austin Li Paradox' vs the Streisand Effect, Adam Savage's visit to the Smithsonian for a date with the original enterprise model, the Mario soundtrack rendered with electricity, and Cable Company shenanigans.

Rob & Chris were joined by surprise sub Miles Ward to talk about matters geek and small starting with a web page that degrades a jpeg with every image, a brief discussion about y2k and the inevitable y38, we talked about doom rendered with emojis, using a wrist mounted camera to recreate full body capture, a new Zealand testicular cancer checking booth that is about as funny as you might think, the latest Shazam 2 trailer, The Crown, and climate change.

RobChrisRob aligned their chakras to talk about new ads showing up in Windows 11, who could imagine that annoying people? Next we talked a little about the layoffs at Facebook, and that led us into a talking about a slew of troubles going down at Facebook. We talked about the breakthrough addition of lady crash test dummies because unbelievably, nobody did that already... we talked about recreating classic computer screens from Alien, Jurassic Park, Wargames and other classic films, KFC doing an embarassing oopsy, the CIA disguise expert working to help disfigured people, Hellraiser Puzzleboxes as a stem learning tool, Young Einstein, Wakanda Forever, and Jenni Nicholson's 4 hour video on the Evermore Theme Park which was unsurprisingly another great watch.

RobChrisRob do their thing live, today starting off with a few serious notes on the Microsoft/Github lawsuit regarding using AI tools to generate new code from github repos without concern for licensing, we talked about the D&D movie getting delayed, Westworld getting Cancelled, the VR Headset that can kill you for real, competitive cornhole cheating scanadals, the US Air Force drawing a big wang over the Mediterranean sea, a fellow who made pair of C64s into an accordian... and then a whole lot of glowing place for the new Weird Al movie that one of us didn't even bother seeing.