Tower of Technobabble

We have a visitor! Sean Reck of ConGlomeration 2013, Louisville's own multimedia science fiction and fantasy convention, stops by to tell us what it's all about.

Show Notes: 

ConGlomeration 2013 official site - http://www.conglomeration.info

Towerbot's new hobby leads to wacky, possibly lethal consequences on this weeks episode. Will the crew escape the Grim Reaper's icy grip, or will the show be renamed "Keeping up with Towerbot?" Only time and medical science will tell!

Show notes:

We were all so very sick.

We look at some real end of the world stuff. I mean, ghost-hunting, pope-quitting, rocks-falling-out-of-the-sky kind of situations. Towerbot also drops some existential bombs in our Ask Towerbot section, The Repeater continues to get his geek hole filled, and there's finally proof about Bigfoot. The only question is if it's crap proof.

Show Notes:

• The Belle of Louisville is haunted? The Ghost Hunter guys are coming to investigate? Good luck getting EVP readings by the highway, there, fellas!

http://fatlip.leoweekly.com/2013/02/13/whas-in-league-for-pulitzer-with-ghost-hunter-coverage/

• The Pope up and quit, yo! Prince, what you think about that?

http://prince.org/msg/7/72262

• A asteroid almost hit the Earth! And one did hit Russia! 

• The Repeater takes on the Ultimate Fantastic Four! ULTIMATE!

• In Bigfoot news, the DNA paper was finally released, and it's all official and stuff. As official as Bigfoot stuff gets, anyway.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/ketchum-sasquatch-dna-study-published/

and here's a sleepy bigfoot. Or a rug. One or the other, surely.

http://www.bigfootbuzz.net/erickson-project-matilda-footage/

We get an update on the Repeater's MySpace adventure, and then go into other outdated forms of communications. Towerbot answers a question about the tower's emergency equipment we have when our roughhousing gets too severe, and then it's the repeater's turn to get his geek hole filled.

Show Notes:

• Who's on MySpace, anyway?

http://www.quantcast.com/myspace.com

• CONSPIRACIES! MULTIPLE RANDOMLY GENERATED CONSPIRACIES!

 http://www.verifiedfacts.org

• How AOL STILL makes most of its money:

 http://gizmodo.com/5982853/aol-earns-most-of-its-money-from-subscribers

and

http://bgr.com/2013/02/09/aol-dial-up-business-income-322494/

Daggor comes by to discuss the new director of "Star Wars," along with his odd man crush on Josh Holloway. We also talk about the nature of fandom, how the bullies of "Glee" took it to the little guy, Towerbot kicks some knowledge, and the Repeater shows his social media "prowess." 

Show Notes:

• Young Justice, Green Lantern and Tron: Uprising cancelled:

 http://io9.com/5979661/powerpuff-girls-will-live-again-but-young-justice-is-dead

• Glee ripped off Jonathan Coulton:

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/jonathan-coulton-glee-song/

but he's not the only one who's been ripped….

Girls Just Want to Have Fun by Greg Laswell: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M207rZQfmKA&feature=youtu.be

and by Glee: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J00bnYkjJIQ&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

Dancing with Myself by Nouvelle Vague:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbgvAp1_DvE&feature=youtu.be

and by Glee: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWHmn7W2AjQ&feature=youtu.be

• J.J. "Dyn-o-mite!" Abrams or "Jar Jar" Abrams? Only time will tell. Here's a couple of viewpoints:

Den of Geek: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars/24233/jj-abrams-star-wars-star-trek-a-few-thoughts 

and

Author John Scalzi: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/01/26/all-right-fine-heres-what-i-think-about-jj-abrams-directing-star-wars-episode-vii/

• 3D versions of Star Wars: Eps II and III cancelled (editorial - yay! - end editorial)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/star-wars-3d-treatment-canceled_n_2568962.html

After Towerbot pushes us off the microphone to answer a couple of your burning questions, we go over some hulk-able situations, examine the sea people and ponder the beginnings of the universe by questioning whether Dino from "The Flintstones" was a real creature.

Show Notes:

• Reasons, both reasonable and ... odd, as to why David Bruce Banner hulked out in "The Incredible Hulk."

http://kennethjohnson.us/HulkOutList.html

• Dolphins are sea people!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266794/Stricken-dolphin-asked-Hawaii-diver-help-Moment-mammal-stuck-fishing-line-pushed-scuba-instructor-waited-patiently-freed.html

• Roadtrip for The Truth, before it's too late!

http://www.creationmuseum.org

Why it might be too late soon: http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-26546-creation_museum_atte.html

We examine sending your job overseas, finding true love (or something) for the low, low price of three dollars, translating the untranslatable, and looking at the new world order (or conspiracy of your choice) threat lurking in your billfold — even as we speak.

Show Notes:

US employee 'outsourced job to China': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693

Love Is Blind and Costs $3 at OKCupid: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-15/love-is-blind-and-costs-3-at-okcupid

Words and emotions with no English translation:

http://uniquelang.peiyinglin.net/01untranslatable.html and http://theweek.com/article/index/238751/14-wonderful-words-with-no-english-equivalent

Consider the dollar!

http://www.wheresgeorge.com/

and

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--j22zNY0S0Y/UHsSxPQPslI/AAAAAAAACpU/OsWVEO22RJU/s1600/ModernBillFr&Back-SM.jpg (if you don't have a dollar on you)

Who (whom?) does the government worship! Who? WHOM?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3X6Ctze0oI

We strive to be proactive and go over a list of things to plan for before they happen. Topics include babies, aliens, the Super Bowl, pumas and a host of other eventualities. Remember - it's not if. It's when. Also, a call from Bigfoot Bob!

Show Notes:

None - go out and prepare for yourself! Your guess is as good as ours, really....

We kick off our 100th episode and our third season just like you imagine we would. Completely unprepared. We look at drug dispensing daughters, Twilight piddle, why spider-man has become a mexican soap opera and the exciting case of bigfoot in a box.

Show Notes:

Daughter of The Year (and not a well-thought-out-plan);

http://gawker.com/5972860/daughter-of-the-year-puts-sleeping-pills-in-parents-milkshake-so-she-can-use-the-internet

Twilight star marks his territory:

http://gawker.com/5972803/twilight-saga-star-caught-on-camera-urinating-on-floor-at-lax

Poor, poor Peter Parker:

http://marvel.wikia.com/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_700

The Bigfoot news capper for 2012 … aka Why Does The Repeater Freaking Bother With This Sh#t?
http://www.mid-americabigfoot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8038&start=0

We kick off the new year right - being knocked out and left to Towerbot's bedside manner. Turns out, he's very binary about his biohazard emergencies: "Class 1 protocols" or "meh."

Show Notes:

Sorry - too busy being probed to have proper show notes this time.