Tower of Technobabble

We prepare to kiss our collective ass goodbye in the most manly apocalypse to date, then take a look at bigfoot squatters in Motor City, and at a man who loves, active verb, automobiles, which Towerbot personally finds very distasteful and against the laws of God and Asimov. 

Show Notes:

Ben Doesn’t Understand Superheroes - Some background info on Rocket Raccoon’s creator:

http://comicsbeat.com/on-bill-mantlo-rocket-raccoon-and-guardians-of-the-galaxy/

Breaking News:

It’s the end of the world… AGAIN! (For those that Ragnarok, we salute you):

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/Blog/2014/02/17/Will-the-Ragnarok-Viking-apocalypse-happen-this-weekend/7131392661147/

I Don’t Get It

Slow ride, take it easy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/edward-smith_n_4098886.html

Bigfoot Roundup:

Bigfoot movin’ on up into the ruins of Detroit Michigan

http://cryptozoologynews.com/bigfoot-living-in-detroit-ruins-house/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bigfoot-living-in-detroit-ruins-house&utm_reader=feedly

This week, in what might be our most offensive episode to date, we install a swear jar that goes horribly wrong, discuss why a UFO cult’s idea might be a great thing or a horrible mistake, learn about bigfoot inter-species adoption, find out why Homeless Hank’s body isn’t welcomed in Arizona, and then talk about why the movie going experience has degenerated into a fate worse than Sunday dinner with your family.

Show Notes:

Business oddity: Flappy Bird!

http://www.newsweek.com/flappy-birds-creator-made-internet-gold-then-he-killed-it-228673

UFO Cult backs first clitoris restoration hospital

http://www.health24.com/Lifestyle/Woman/News/UFO-cult-backs-Africas-first-clitoris-restoration-hospital-20140210

Bigfoot Roundup

We got a tip from a listener in England:

http://cryptozoologynews.com/woman-claims-raised-baby-bigfoot/

Homeless Hank the dead Bigfoot tour cancelled in Arizona:

http://www.wfsb.com/story/24657934/bigfoot-body-on-display-in-phoenix-area

PETA says don’t kill Sasquatch … Texas says “eh, whatever”:

http://roadtrippers.kinja.com/peta-doesnt-want-you-to-kill-bigfoot-texas-doesnt-re-1515162409

Discussion Pit 

Why can’t people shut up at the movies? 

Just to prove to Ben that “Her” was a real film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The Clone Wars coming to Netflix: http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-clone-wars-final-season-the-lost-missions-to-hit-netflix-on-march-7.html

This week, we decide to stop chasing bigfoot and go back to an old favorite - chasing ghosts. Also, there might be a new science fiction museum in Washington DC. They wanted Towerbot to be part of their robot hall of fame, but he's science FACT, baby.

Show Notes:

Confirmed! House haunted by demons! Ooooooh.

 http://archive.indystar.com/article/20140125/NEWS/301250013/The-disposession-Latoya-Ammons

Confirmed! Ghost House bought by ghost hunting douche!

http://roadtrippers.kinja.com/ghost-adventures-star-buys-news-trending-demon-posses-1512615567

New Sci Fi museum proposed in Washington DC

http://www.space.com/24486-museum-of-science-fiction-crowdfunding.html

Learn more about the Sci-Fi Museum crowdsourcing and the plans for the layout:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/museum-of-science-fiction-preview-location

When Towerbot ain't happy, ain't nobody happy....

We add a new member of the tower crew to spice things up, talk about how and why aliens might walk among us, how a toilet of infamy found it’s way to New Jersey, and then try to teach us something about World War I, which isn’t hard, considering we know nothing about WWI. Open up your mind holes and prepare to be enlightened.

Show Notes:

Aliens in Vegas!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535698/Aliens-walk-theyre-refusing-share-technology-change-warring-polluting-ways-claims-former-Canadian-defense-minister.html

Nazis in the News!

Iran says US run by space nazis

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/13/iranian-news-agency-says-the-u-s-is-secretly-run-by-nazi-space-aliens-really/

Hitler’s toilet found in New Jersey

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2538526/Adolf-Hitlers-toilet-sale-good-working-order-one-infamous-owner.html

Historical Perspective

Rich fills us in on World War I, which was, apparently, important in shaping the modern world, although not important enough to, y’know, teach in school.

First world war propaganda posters:

http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/uk.htm

Daggor joins us as we learn some surprising things about Kentucky Slim, and then we take a personality test and see how we stack up against fictional characters. Spoiler alert: There’s not a Kirk in the bunch of us. We then go into why dogs are like railguns when doing their business, and why the Conduit is breaking up with bigfoot shows. Warning for the squeamish - there’s a lot of poop in those last two stories.

Show Notes:

Discussion pit:

The worst dating profile ever still manages to hook a few: 

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-i-learned-from-worst-online-dating-profile-ever/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=010914

The Tower’s Myers-Briggs personality test:

The basics: http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/

Take the test here (it’s free!): http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/register.aspx

The types, in general: http://www.truity.com/view/types

Compare to: 

Marvel Characters: http://www.elephantrobot.com/2013/11/marvel-myers-briggs.html

LOTR: http://churchm.ag/lord-of-the-rings-personality-types/

Star Wars: http://churchm.ag/star-wars-character-fits-myers-briggs-type/

And a bunch more: 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/ExamplesOfMyersBriggsPersonalitiesInStories

Science Update:

Your dog knows his north from south - do you?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2014/01/dogs-poop-in-alignment-with-earths-magnetic-field-study-finds.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=newshour

Bigfoot Roundup

Dave has absolutely had it with bigfoot shows (Hey, kids! It’s rant time!)

Here’s a pretty good take on it (“The show’s format is part competition, part investigation and entirely stupid.”)

http://herald-review.com/blogs/decaturade/spike-s-million-dollar-bigfoot-bounty/article_13b98eb4-7cc0-11e3-bb78-0019bb2963f4.html

If you simply must have the actual link, and watch full episodes, knock yourself out (preferably before watching the show):

http://www.spike.com/shows/bigfoot-bounty

This week, on the tower of technobabble, We discuss just how funky a bot can be, go into some time travel conundrums, and then revisit the Dyatlov Pass incident and its surprising revelations. Then, we end up revisiting how Homeless Hank, the Bigfoot corpse, might have gotten a new lease on life. Or maybe its just another scam in a long line of scams. Probably that.

Show Notes:

Historical Perspectives - Return to the Dyatlov Pass

Just What Did Slaughter Nine Hikers in Siberia in 1959?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401175/Dyatlov-Pass-Indicent-slaughtered-hikers-Siberias-Death-Mountain-1959.html

“Dead Mountain” by Donnie Eichar

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1452112746/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d4_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0JR9S1JYXV12FPE1XD4M&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846

Mysterious Universe podcast with “Dead Mountain” author Donnie Eichar

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/11/10-18-mu-podcast/

Infrasound (not to be confused with “Brown Noise”)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

How to make a vortex:

http://toweroftechnobabble.com/tower/vortex.jpg

Various photos of the Dyatlov Pass Hikers:

http://therealevidenceoftheparanormal.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-dyatlov-pass-accident-attack.html

Bigfoot Roundup:

Homeless Hank Lives! (although he’s dead). And he’s going on tour! Unless he doesn’t!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/05/bigfoot-hunter-rick-dyer-creature-image_n_4538307.html

’10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty' Judges Skeptical of Hunter's New Claims (and we’re skeptical of the 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty, but that’s for next week):

http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/-10-million-dollar-bigfoot-bounty--judges-skeptical-of-hunter-s-new-claims-004013134.html

A Summary of the Latest Bigfoot kerfuffle:

http://blog.roadtrippers.com/uncovering-the-dirty-secrets-behind-the-latest-dead-bigfoot-story/

Why this guy might not be above reproach (from 2008): 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080820-bigfoot-body.html

And, finally, The Repeater’s photo essay:

http://toweroftechnobabble.com/tower/hankfaces.jpg

We kick off our fourth season in style, talking about dumb things that that creepy guy from the Transformers films did and said, two of the three of us buy into Google’s line that google expanding into the field of robotics is a good thing, and then we round it out with the controversial decision by Amazon to not sell any more Bigfoot porn. Porn for Bigfoots or porn featuring Bigfoots, you may ask? Well, stay tuned….

Show Notes:

Shia LaBeouf is no damned good

http://gawker.com/shia-labeouf-fucks-up-gets-caught-plagiarizing-again-1484814448

and

http://comicsbeat.com/update-troubles-and-plagiarism-charges-grow-for-labeouf-as-clowes-contemplates-legal-action/

and

http://defamer.gawker.com/shia-labeouf-keeps-plagiarizing-plagiarizing-and-plag-1486865137/@cordjefferson?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gawker%2Ffull+%28Gawker%29

and

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/shia-labeouf-takes-air-apology-writer-article-1.1564263

and (wow, this just keeps going)

http://www.mhpbooks.com/shia-labeouf-is-a-serial-plagiarist-who-ripped-off-daniel-clowes-robert-mcnamara-and-melville-house-author-benoit-duteurtre/

Related (in it’s hate for Mr. The Beef): Amzing UK broadcaster Mark Kermode gives the best Michael Bay/Transformers 3 rant ever:

 http://youtu.be/fwkL53bH0PI

Um, what’s Google up to?

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/16/technology/google-boston-dynamics-robots/

BIGFOOT ROUNDUP:  Bigfoot LOVE….denied.

http://www.businessinsider.com/monster-porn-amazon-crackdown-sex-fantasy-bigfoot-2013-12

We try to teach The Repeater the true meaning of Christmas, but alcohol and a menacing robot get in the way. You know, same as every year.

it’s our big season three finale, and we’ve taken out all the stops. Seriously, there are no stops whatsoever. Daggor joins us, and we begin by examining lies told in country music, veer into dangerous emerging animal behaviors, examine some of the unexpected heroes in the fight against snakes, ponder why the unicorns actually died out, and then end it all with another round of Chick Lit theater.

Show Notes: 

Science Update: Animals are scaring Ben:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2013/11/30/tool-use-in-crocs-and-gators/

and

http://www.livescience.com/41706-thousands-of-dead-mice-parachuted-into-guam.html

Ben also doesn’t get Christmas ornaments (well, some of them, anyway):

http://www.bronners.com/

The Legend of the Unicorn:

http://www.bronners.com/product/legend-of-the-unicorn-glass-ornament.do?sortby=ourPicks&refType=&from=Search

Chick Theater:

Our Chick Theater players this time will be presenting the classic “Angels?”

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0034/0034_01.asp